Let's amend the US Constitution! With the issue of homosexual marriage getting so much attention in the United States, President George Bush has said he will support an amendment to the United States Constitution defining marriage to be between only one man and only one woman. This has sparked a national debate on the issue of constitutional amendments, their place in modern politics, and what is or is not an appropriate use of the constitutional process. Whether you agree with Bush's stance on the issue of homosexual marriage or not, the fact that the constitutional process is being discussed by citizens across the From CNET News.com on February 29, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Almost Half of Internet Users are Writers, Not Just Readers A new report from the Pew Internet Project says that "44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world." From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 29, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

Lantos on the Patriot Act Despite the fact that his district overwhelmingly opposes the "Patriot Act," Congressman Lantos was one of the key Democrats pushing the Act through Congress. His two opponents, Ro Khanna and Maad Abu-Ghazalah, support the repeal of the Act. In this clip, the Patriot Act is discussed. A short clip from Maad (who was great and funny but a bit wild in his views), then Lantos, and then Ro, and then Lantos getting angry. The audience was not happy, and Ro showed he had grown tired of the personal attacks by this incumbent. From Lessig Blog on February 29, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Weblogs & RSS as VLEs Too cool! 'Bout exactly a year ago this was why I started blogging (well, what I wanted to say, forst up)... from Stephen comes a pretty funky higher ed weblog I 'aint seen yet, Auricle, and a much better explanation of why weblogs & RSS can work it as VLEs. "Here then is the basis for a distributed, not centralised, information and learning object system. " Which has taken me all year to figure out! --> From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 29, 2004 at 8:49 p.m..

Mamas, Don't Let Your Programmers Be Web Designers No, Willie Nelson did not pen this song, but I think Alan Cooper may have been an influence ;-) And this old song has been eating a lot of my time and productivity this week. But here is the moral first- Programmers are brilliant, intelligent people in their areas of expertise, but for the most part (ducking to avoid the lobbed rotten vegetables), they should never be allowed to lead or do web design for use by any normal humans (e.g. potential site visitors). From cogdogblog on February 29, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..

Another Bush Lie? Looks Like It Rocky Mountain News: Bush pledged to back ban in Nov., Musgrave aide says. President Bush pledged to Rep. Marilyn Musgrave that he would support her proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage three months before he made Tuesday's public pronouncement, according to Musgrave's top aide. The White House has said Bush made the decision only after officials in San Francisco and New Mexico presided over same-sex marriages. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 29, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..

Dutch Gov't Wants to Shutdown Pirate Radio Before It Can be Legalized On May 23, The Dutch government auctioned off radio frequencies to the highest bidders as part of their new Zerobase Radio Frequency Policy. As a result only the biggest, most commercially and mainstream oriented stations are able to exploit Dutch radio frequencies for the eight year term of the licenses. The auction was preceded by "Project Etherflits" in March -- a crackdown on pirate radio stations which are technically illegal but were previously tolerated. Studio equipment was confiscated and large fines imposed on the operators. Most stations have now been forced off the air. T From kuro5hin.org on February 29, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

What to Do with Your $13.86 Been wondering what to do with that CD price-fixing settlement check burning a hole in your pocket? A few options: [X] - Buy a CD...just part of one to be precise, since they're so overpriced. [X] - Buy some iTunes...of songs I probably already own and that I can't play both at home and work on my player of choice. [!] - Donate it to From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on February 29, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Review of the Operation of the Universal Service Obligation and Customer Service Guarantee Dept. of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts [last updated: 1 March 2004] From ALIA inquiry watch on February 29, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..

Back and full of p & v I'm just returning to Saskatoon from Penn State, where I spent three days meeting with several colleagues. We've formed an informal inquiry group (think tank) to consider the state and future of the field of instructional design and technology. What... From Rick's Café Canadien on February 29, 2004 at 7:50 p.m..

Send the RIAA's Money to the EFF $13.89 for Overpriced CDs "I got my check yesterday from the California Attorney General's Office -- a payment for my claim in the class action lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of 43 states on behalf of those who've bought music CDs. The check in the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation settlement came to a tidy $13.89." [JD's New Media Musings] From The Shifted Librarian on February 29, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

Notable + Quotable Via Dan Fingerman, a member of Mount and Stoelker law firm, on the size of statutory damages authorized by the Copyright Act: "Hmmm...what did Disney pay to get that?" Cardozo cyberlaw professor Susan Crawford: "[During] the last 25 years o From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on February 29, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Discovering the iceberg of knowledge work: A weblog case Finished. Submitted. Happy :) Discovering the iceberg of knowledge work: A weblog case (.pdf), paper accepted for OKLC04 (earlier title - What's in it for me? Using weblogs to understand knowledge workers)The term knowledge work has been used for decades, but to date there is not much understanding what knowledge workers do and how this work can be improved. This p From Mathemagenic on February 29, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

Studium fundamentale Die Universität Witten/Herdecke entwickelt völlig neues Fortbildungsprogramm für Führungskräfte aus der Wirtschaft [...] Den Anfang machte das Bochumer Maschinenbauunternehmen Eickhoff, wo inzwischen alle Führungskräfte nach dem Modell des Studium fundamentale geschult werden. Gerade hat der Betrieb den Vertrag mit der Uni verlängert. Nach dem dortigen Erfolg haben inzwischen auch andere Unternehmen Kurse in Witten gebucht. Da kann es schon mal passieren, dass der Wittener Uni From BildungsBlog on February 29, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

Preliminary report on my project I realize the silence has been deafening this week on the weblog. I apologize; an injury is acting up and causing me some difficulty with typing. I am hoping that the rest I gave it this week will allow me to get back to posting with more regularity this week. From Holly's Research Journal on February 29, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Ihr Weg zu uns Anfahrtsskizzen auf der Homepage, die nicht wirklich selbst gezeichnet wurden, sind ein gutes Geschäft - für Rechtsanwälte, berichtet Heise.... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 29, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

The Old Guard is Getting Scared When stories like this start appearing, you know that the old guard is getting nervous. In PR parlance we call it "depositioning." The art of trying to shift attention away from the competition and to your position when the other... From Kolabora.com on February 29, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..

The Cutting Room Floor Doc reminds me that CBS's Sunday Morning show was going to run a piece today about the Net and politics, but has postponed it. Doc says he was told he'd be in the segment. I was also interview but haven't been told I'm in it, so I assume I'm on the virtual cutting room floor. Given the number of people I've interviewed a great length and never put into columns, I can't complain. Good journalism often involves getting 10x the amount of mat From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 29, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

Federal Progress on Low-Power FM, but Questions on VoIP Congress and the Federal Communications Commission, in particular, are looking into some of the most fundamental aspects of how we will communicate with each other in coming years and decades. Their decisions will affect consumers and businesses in major ways. We need to pay attention. Let's look at two matters: low-powered community radio and Internet phone calling. Other, bigger issues are bubbling in the capital as well, b From PEDABLOGUE on February 29, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

USA: Verfassungsänderung verlangt US-Präsident George W. Bush will die Ehe als ausschließliche Verbindung zwischen Mann und Frau in der Verfassung festschreiben. Der Kongress... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 29, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

Jay, Design Curmudgeon I decided it was time to upgrade Eudora, my email client, so I surfed over to Qualcomm's site. See the network chart over the gray grid top right? That little dude is in continual motion, sort of like the Visual Theaaurus or Inxight except without... From Internet Time Blog on February 29, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

Queryster I've taken a quick pass through Queryster.com, and I'm impressed. It's a metasearch site developed by a small team headed up by Jeff Kang. From an email from Jeff: It's a team effort (a developer friend and myself) that made the Queryster Search Network. The objective is to make Web search easier and more fun. Also it would serve as a showcase for what we can do technically. We hope to turn our skills into a website development business. Queryster has been online for two months now, and recently we have received a few positive feedbacks and suggestions for... From Joho the Blog on February 29, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

Meaningful NDA In response to my griping about the Corbis NDA, Paul points to to one of his non-chron bloggish entries. Excerpt: When I'm at an early stage in developing a new business plan, I just write the following at the top of the plan: "Confidentiality: Paul asks that you not show or tell anyone this idea without first calling him at 781-648-1500 to ask his OK. If you tell one person you trust, they will tell one person they trust, and so on. If this idea gets out too early, Paul's business could be ruined. Thanks." This "NDA" actually builds trust... From Joho the Blog on February 29, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

Muy cerca AULA 2004 con interesantes novedades La XII edición de Aula 2004, una de las ferias de formación más completa, abrirá sus puertas en Madrid el próximo 10 de marzo. Este año,... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on February 29, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Teabags Everyone knows that if you leave teabag in your cap you'll get tea that is too strong to drink. This makes me wondering why nobody invented teabags with less tea? Just too much tea drinking while trying to finish the paper :))) From Mathemagenic on February 29, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Creativity Always Builds on the Past Creative Commons had a contest to produce a short video that clearly communicates its mission: to give creators a legal, hassle-free way to introduce shades of grey to an otherwise black-and-white copyright regime. Check out Justin Cone's winning entry: Building on the Past. Not only does it effectively convey CC's message, the medium From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on February 29, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Lyceum Endlich denkt auch mal einer an die verstaubten Bibliothekare: "In this paper (6 S. PDF) we discuss the use of... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 29, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

Queryster: Simplifies Seach By Aggregating Search Results "Queryster is a great tool for searching multiple search engines. Simply type in your search term and select your preferred search engine. The cool thing about. If you want to carry out another query on another search engine, just click your choice and hit return. The intitial selection is for 10 search engines, though you can customise this from a list of 25." You can use Queryster both to get search results from different search engines while comparing them and also to rapidly check if your site is included in major search engines databases. An advanced search page allows to submit queries a From Robin Good's Latest News on February 29, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

News for Today, Mar 1 Welcome to March. Here's some start-of-the-day news items: Windows &amp .NET Magazine have a brief review of Active Directory. winnetmag.com. Take away points: (1) AD hasn't lived up to adoption expectations, (2) "as long as you plan your AD infrastructure... From Kolabora.com on February 29, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

Photo Blogs Merci à MediaTic pour son entrée sur l'expo de 9 photoblogueurs. Allez jeter un oeil à celui des stations abandonnées du métro New Yorkais. Une merveille! From miss-information.net on February 29, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

How To Measure The Link Popularity Of Any Web Site If you want to measure the "link popularity" of your Web site against similar ones in the same "industry" there is nothing better than the online Link Popularity Check by Marketleap. This free online facility allows you to input the URL of your Web site while providing you back with a precise report of the total number of inbound links as measured across all of the major search engines. You can compare your site with three personally selected competitors in addition to pre-selected list of the popular destinations on the Web. Results are well From Robin Good's Latest News on February 29, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

Anonymous Surfing: How To Hide Your IP Do you want to obtain maximum privacy while surfing certain online destinations? The "IP Address Changer" allows you to change your IP anytime by routing your Internet traffic through overseas servers. A small dropdown box appears on your Internet Explorer toolbar with a list of 15 foreign countries. Select one and your IP address will change so that you appear to be located as if your browsing session was originating from that country. Yes, there is nothing wrong with trying to keep your IP address private for the right reasons. If there is any question, you should consult with a legal From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 29, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

OA for cultural heritage archives Klaus Graf, Open Access für Archivalien, Archivalia, February 17, 2004. Reflections on OA for cultural heritage archives, including reflections on copyright issues. Read the original German or Google's English. From FOS News on February 29, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning REVIEW - This Bears' Guide presents more than 350 programs for aspiring teachers and working educators.... From Adult/Continuing Education on February 29, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Edit CSS Mozilla/Firefox Plug-in Russell Beattie Notebook Russell Beattie points to a very nice Mozilla/Firefox extension... It allows you to edit your web page's CSS in the left sidebar and watch the change in realtime in the browser pane. I installed this on Firefox and it works very well. Just call it from the Sidebar submenu and the CSS of the page that is currrently in the browser window shows up in a pane to the left. Start to edit the CSS and see the changes instantly. This is great for experimenting on the fly.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 29, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

A Verilog Introduction for Hackers Designing your own chips, the silicon variety. That's something you do with millions, if not billions of dollars of equipment and large fabrication plants under ultraclean conditions. Well, isn't it? Actually, no. You can design your own chips at home with a PC using no more than about $50 of equipment and I'm going to tell you how with the absolute minimum of effort. From kuro5hin.org on February 29, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Off to Toronto for 2 weeks I will be in Toronto for two weeks working with a client. My plan is to keep posting but it may be a bit light... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on February 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Haïti No oil ... no one did anything, Aristide just left the country... From miss-information.net on February 29, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Will the Government Cancel Best Start? - My Letter to Premier Binns In this time of financial crisis, many aspects of the healthcare system on PEI are being reviewed. Best Start, a community-based program that assesses the parenting environment for all new borns on PEI and which offers in-home support for new... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on February 29, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Online Konjugator Die WWW-Version von Verbix erlaubt das zuverlässige Konjugieren von Verben in mehr als 100 Sprachen,- einschließlich Esperanto und Klingon! In... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 29, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Hardware glitch causes AIM to twitch - Jim Hu, CNET News.com America Online confirmed that a "hardware glitch" resulted in periodic outages for its popular AOL Instant Messenger service. AIM, one of the Web's most popular instant messaging (IM) products, started experiencing problems before 2 p.m. PST Friday, a From Techno-News Blog on February 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Search Beyond Google - Wade Roush, Technology Review Google reigns supreme as the search engine of choice"but for how long? A pack of startups"and Microsoft"are developing technologies to find what you want, faster.... The good news for Internet surfers is that competition will make search utilities an e From Techno-News Blog on February 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

The Party Won't Stop at Google - Reuters For the starry-eyed computer engineers who attended a flashy Google recruitment party outside Los Angeles on Thursday night, it was as though the Internet bubble never burst. The leading search-engine company drew some 200 prospective recruits to its From Techno-News Blog on February 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

School systems keep up with high-tech communications - Callie Clark, Southeast Missourian Improvements in technology in local school districts also mean improved communication, and in some cases, new capabilities. The Cape Girardeau School District is in the process of installing a fiber-based, wide-area network, also called a WAN system. From Educational Technology on February 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Students turn detective on new key skills website - Public Technology Some top-secret designs have been stolen from a fictitious mobile phone manufacturing company called Symtel. The guilty party is one of 25 employees working in the company - all featured on a new educational web site aimed at students. The task is to From Educational Technology on February 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Students, teachers discuss benefits of online learning program - Chris Pagano, Southeast Missourian Criminal justice instructor Linda Keena at first was skeptical about teaching her service and community class online last fall at Southeast Missouri State University. She preferred her students to be physically there. But one advantage Keena discovered From Online Learning Update on February 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Pushing the Envelope: Online University for Asia - Wong Wei Kong, Business Times Asia As the first CEO of Asia's first e-university, Mukesh Aghi, wants to bring higher education to more people at a lower cost by maximising the full potential of the Internet. NO boundaries. That's what Mukesh Aghi is seeking to achieve as he sets out to From Online Learning Update on February 29, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Huit ans d'histoire du Web ComScore ressort ses chiffres et compare les Media Metrix de janvier 1996 à ceux de janvier 2004. Les changements observés sont importants! From miss-information.net on February 29, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Nuit blanche à Montréal À suivre tout au long de la journée, Les Pensées de Zénon. From miss-information.net on February 29, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

SCO vs. IBM Nachdem IBM nicht widersprochen hat, hat der zuständige Richter die Klageänderung (4 S. PDF) im Verfahren SCO gegen IBM akzeptiert.... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 29, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

WiredSafety WiredSafetyhttp://www.wiredsafety.org/The Internet has afforded hundreds of millions of people the opportunity to access thousands of sites on almost every topic imaginable, and has created a myriad of new employment opportunities, interest groups, and cybercommunities. Regrettably, not every person merging onto the information superhighway is there for such laudable reasons. Stepping into the fray of n'er-do wells is the WiredSafety website, headed by Perry Aftab, an international cyberspace privacy and security From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 29, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

What's up with blogging, and why should you care? What's up with blogging, and why should you care? by Dan Farberhttp://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/What_is_up_with_blogging.htmlWhat's all the fuss about blogging? It looks and smells mostly like writing, self-expression conveyed in a chronological format that invites comments and the inclusion of a variety of media types and links, similar to a Web page or e-newsletter. In fact, blogs (weB LOG) provide a way for non-programmers or HTML jo From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 29, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Factors Affecting Internet Development Factors Affecting Internet Development: An Asian Survey by Hao Xiaoming and Chow Seet Kayhttp://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/hao/index.htmlThis study examined the relationship between the Internet development and various social, economic and political factors that are hypothesized to affect the Internet growth. Using secondary data for 28 sampled Asian countries, this study tested seven hypotheses about the impact of various factors on Internet growth. The findings show that the In From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 29, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Out of the Vault and Onto the Web Out of the Vault and Onto the Webhttp://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4369611 Hewlett-Packard has won a bid to create a digital archive of every issue of Time magazine ever published -- more than 4,000 issues dating back to 1923. The archive will be available on Time's Web site at no charge. "This to us represents on of the more noteworthy points where people will soon, I think, understand (that) more and more content that's been hidden in a From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 29, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Comprehensive Risk Analysis and Management Network (CRN) Comprehensive Risk Analysis and Management Network (CRN)http://www.isn.ethz.ch/crn/The Center for Security Studies at the ETH Zurich maintains the Comprehensive Risk Analysis and Management Network CRN " a complementary service to the International Relations and Security Network ISN. The current project partners are listed in the about section of this site. The CRN is an electronic platform for promoting the risk From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 29, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Academic Resources Academic Resourceshttp://www.AcademicResources.Blogspot.com/Articles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports, and Literature Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1540-1995 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 55 Pages .pdf Format - Table of Contents:Research SourcesReference SourcesSearch Engine SourcesDirectory and Database SourcesArticles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports and Literature URLsArticles, Abstracts, Doc From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 29, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Teachers reach far-flung students via Net - David Josar, Stars and Stripes European edition Patch High School teacher Jim Heffernan, a 26-year Department of Defense Dependents Schools veteran, isn From Online Learning Update on February 29, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Gibson blacklisted Mel Gibson's Passion may very well cost him roles and directing jobs. From miss-information.net on February 29, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Streit um Kommentar Der Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV) hat sich am Freitag mit der Journalistin Gabriele Lesser über einen Kommentar (deutsch | polnisch)... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 29, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..

Großer Lauschangriff In einem Interview mit der Berliner Zeitung kritisiert der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar die seit 1998 geltende Regelung zum Abhören von... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 29, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..

Goodbye Radio, it's been great Because of the baby's birth in April, I have to move my always on server which is running Windows and is in the baby's room to colo (Peer 1, naturally!). I don't think it's right to force the baby to listen to the whine of my white box server. So here's what's going to happen.