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07-05-16-CornellChron-MakingUSFederalRuleMakingAccessible.txt 07-06-19-TechDaily-GovernmentUnderutilizatioOfInternetIsPolitical.txt 07-06-23-AP-CheatingIncresesWithOnlineCourses.txt 07-07-15-CITMedia-CitizenJournalismHasALongWayToGo.txt 07-07-19-SJMerc-YouTubeVideosToBeUsedToQuestionPresidentialCandidates.txt 07-07-21-NYT-AccessibilityNotOnlyHurdleInVotingSystemOverhaul.txt ==========> 00-05-00-CACM-UniversalUsability.txt========== Universal usability Ben Shneiderman May 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 5 Pushing human-computer interaction research to empower every citizen. I feel...an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings. —Thomas Jefferson, ==========> 00-11-00-CACM-AnInternetToSupportDemocracy.txt========== Viewpoint: an Internet of democracy Steven Clift November 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 11 Engaging the fundamental structure of the Internet with an eye toward making it a real democracy network. On a park bench outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, I sit with my laptop. Ah, the wonders and hype of modern technology. It was here the U.S. ==========> 00-11-00-CommACM-MakingTheInternetARealDemocracyNetwork.txt========== Viewpoint: an Internet of democracy Steven Clift November 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 11 Engaging the fundamental structure of the Internet with an eye toward making it a real democracy network. On a park bench outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, I sit with my laptop. Ah, the wonders and hype of modern technology. It was here the U.S. ==========> 01-01-00-CACM-AStrategicPerspectiveOfElectronicDemocracy.txt========== A strategic perspective of electronic democracy Richard T. Watson, Bryan Mundy January 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 1 There is a well-acknowledged precept that democracy requires an informed citizenry. Information creates trust and is the mechanism for ensuring that politicians serve the electorate [2]. Democracy is effective when there is an unimpeded flow of information between citizens and government and there is a high level of authentic citizen participation in the political process. We ==========> 01-01-00-CACM-DemocracyInAnITFramedSociety.txt========== Democracy in an IT-framed society: introduction Åke Grönlund January 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 1 Interest in the use of computers for improving a democracy widely considered decayed seems to be increasing with the growing use of the Internet. Indeed, a recent AltaVista search for "electronic democracy" yielded well over 5,000 pages. Much of this material discusses projects trying to make an impact on democratic practices. ==========> 01-04-00-CACM-TheFutureOfTheInternetDigitalDivide.txt========== The future of the internet digital divide Kilnam Chon March 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 3 Technologically, Internet capacity will continue to increase into the foreseeable future. The available bandwidth, storage capacity, and processing capacity will grow from the current gigabits, gigabytes, and billions of instructions per second to tera-, peta-, exa-, zeta-measured amounts. The bandwidth available with deployment of dense wavelength wide division ==========> 01-11-05-RollCall-E-Congress.txt========== November 05, 2001 E-Congress: Possible? Yes. Likely? No. By Amy Keller As lawmakers and their staffs cope with disruptions related to the anthrax scare on Capitol Hill and warnings of potential terrorist attacks, some in Washington are pondering the idea of creating a so-called "virtual Congress" as an alternative to legislating in the flesh. ==========> 01-12-00-CACM-PublishingEducationalMaterialsOnTheInternet.txt========== Internet Publishing and Transformation of Knowledge Processes J. Leon Zhao, Vincent H. Resh December 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 12 Surveying the transition from conventional to Internet-based publishing mechanisms. Internet publishing provides a new way of knowledge delivery to educational institutions [9]. Several conceptual models and frameworks have been proposed ==========> 01-12-00-MITTechRev-UIMetaphors.txt========== The Next Computer Interface Technology Review, December 2001 By Claire Tristram The desktop metaphor was a brilliant innovation—30 years ago. Now it's an unmanageable mess, and the search is on for a better way to handle information. "The desktop is dead," declares David Gelernter. Gelernter is referring to the "desktop metaphor"—the term frequently used for the hierarchical system of ==========> 02-01-21-Ubiquity-EGovernment.txt========== Observations from the Trenches of Electronic Government By Gord Jenkins Infrastructure, political mandate, and internal organization influence how a country manages e-government. One author discovered seven common themes among five different e-government implementations. The following observations are based on my experience in electronic government (e-gov) while living and working in Sweden, ==========> 02-02-04-Ubiquity-Badre-UIs.txt========== Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context By Albert N. Badre Optimizing the user experience should be the ultimate aim of the Web usability designer. Chapter 1: Human Computer Interaction for the Web The billboards loomed over America's highways and byways, ==========> 02-03-07-SJMerc-HomeNetAccessStats.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2811195.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 07, 2002 Report: Half a billion people have home Internet access HONG KONG (Reuters) - Nearly half a billion people around the world had access to the Internet from their homes by the end of last year, Nielsen/NetRatings said on Thursday. The Internet measurement firm said some 498 million people could surf the web ==========> 02-03-12-Ubiquity-EGovernment-2.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/g_jenkins_2.html Lessons From the Trenches of E-Gov: Part 2 By Gordon Jenkins For the countries that have it, e-government is helpful but has yet to fulfill its potential. Introduction ==========> 02-04-00-CACM-MakingTheComputerAccessibleToMentallyRetardedAdults.txt========== Virtual extension: Making the computer accessible to mentally retarded adults Gretchen L. Robertson, Deborah Hix April 2002 Communications of the ACM, Volume 45 Issue 4 ABSTRACT Little research has been conducted on how to teach computer skills to developmentally disabled adults. A head counselor at a home for mentally retarded adults, who served as the inspiration for this article, was an ==========> 02-04-08-EWeek-EGovTechChallenges.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D709%2526a%253D25089,00.asp April 8, 2002 eGov Challenges Tech By John Taschek The U.S. Government is going electronic but may be setting policy ahead of available technology. A series of initiatives, most of them passed during the Clinton administration, mandates that government agencies—and the hundreds of ==========> 02-04-18-WashPost-DigtialDivideStillExists.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176000.html Larry Irving: Digital Divide Lives, Few People Care By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 18 Apr 2002, 9:14 PM CST The digital divide still is very much alive, but U.S. corporations and the federal government have unfairly abdicated their roles in helping to bring the Internet to U.S. citizens regardless of their race or class, said former U.S. ==========> 02-05-00-CACM-BalancingAccessToScientificDataAndPriviledgedAccess.txt========== Controlled publication of digital scientific data John J. Helly, T. Todd Elvins, Don Sutton, David Martinez, Scott E. Miller, Steward Pickett, Aaron M. Ellison May 2002 Communications of the ACM, Volume 45 Issue 5 How to balance free and open access to scientific data with privileged access to new results by authors while protecting them from being scooped by competing interpretations of their own data. ==========> 02-05-24-BBBriefings-BBTelecomAct-.txt========== Subject: Broadband Briefings: The Bells' Future Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:53:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Audrie Krause Published by NetAction Issue No. 24 May 24, 2002 Two Takes On Bridging the Digital Divide Two bills that take dramatically different approaches to bridging the digital divide were introduced recently in the U.S. Senate. Both ==========> 02-05-30-SJMerc-BushAdminCutsAccess-DigDivide.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3366306.htm Posted on Thu, May. 30, 2002 Consumer groups attack Bush administrations position on Internet digital divide WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is wrong to declare that the digital divide is narrowing and should focus on expanding Internet access for the poor and less educated in their homes, leading consumer groups said ==========> 02-06-03-ERCIM-UI4ALL-Workshop.txt========== 7th ERCIM WORKSHOP "USER INTERFACES FOR ALL" 23 - 25 October 2002 http://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/workshop2002 Paris (Chantilly), France Golf Hotel de Mont Griffon, R.D. 909 - 95270 Luzarches http://www.golfhotelparis.com ==========> 02-06-21-Wired-AccessibilityProgress.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53376,00.html Tech Access Law: Slow Progress By Kendra Mayfield 2:00 a.m. June 21, 2002 PDT A year ago, a new law introduced strict technological accessibility standards to make government websites, as well as major commercial hardware and software products, more accessible to federal workers and other users with disabilities. ==========> 02-07-11-SJMerc-BroadbandWidensDigitalDivide.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3641835.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 11, 2002 Study: As more use broadband, digital divide widens By Sam Diaz Mercury News John Hong has been high-speed surfing the Web for more than three years, first as a subscriber of ISDN services and now as a subscriber of DSL. ==========> 02-08-14-SJMerc-PDA-likeComputerClosesDigitalDivide.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3866244.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 14, 2002 Mike Langberg: Simple computer helps close digital divide By Mike Langberg Mercury News I've always been a digital-divide cynic, suspecting all the talk about transforming the lives of poor people through Internet access to be self-serving narcissism from Silicon Valley technologists seeking a ==========> 02-09-02-AP-LawsuitChargesATTIgnoredMinorities.txt========== Associated Press Suit Alleges AT&T Ignored Minorities Fri Aug 30,11:51 PM ET By JILL BARTON, AP Business Writer 09/03/02 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A lawsuit against AT&T Broadband alleges the company intentionally denied high-speed Internet access to minority and poor neighborhoods and overcharged other customers for services. ==========> 02-09-11-Mercuri-ProblemsWithTouchscreenVotingMachines.txt========== http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.24.html#subj1 Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator Volume 22: Issue 24 Weds 11 September 2002 Florida Primary 2002: Back to the Future Rebecca Mercuri Florida Primary 2002: Back to the Future "Rebecca Mercuri" ==========> 02-11-21-WashPost-DOEShutsDownFreeWebInfoSearchSite.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17568-2002Nov20.html Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure From Pay Sites By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 21, 2002; Page E01 The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet site that catalogued government and academic science research, in response to corporate complaints that it ==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt========== Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues By TechNews.com Staff Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes ==========> 03-01-00-CACM-AnIntroductionToDigitalGovernment.txt========== Digital government: Introduction Gary Marchionini, Hanan Samet, Larry Brandt January 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 1 Indeed, digital government is a global phenomenon and public servants around the world are adopting novel ways to leverage IT to better serve their constituents. This special section focuses on efforts by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address the challenge of helping government agencies adopt and adapt the fruits of basic research to the practical problems of government ==========> 03-01-00-CACM-DigitalGovernment-ITResearchInnovationAndEGovernment.txt========== Digital government: IT research, innovation, and e-government William L. Scherlis, Jon Eisenberg January 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 1 The study process began with a close examination of two important domains of government IT, crisis management, and federal statistics. Workshops brought together domain experts with IT researchers. A number of research opportunities were identified in each area, and a number of challenges were identified relating to processes of innovation and deployment [1, 3]. The study committee ==========> 03-01-00-CACM-ITResearchAndInnovationInEGovernment.txt========== Digital government: IT research, innovation, and e-government William L. Scherlis, Jon Eisenberg January 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 1 Over the past few years, the basic outline of an e-government vision has emerged, and government has taken promising steps to deploy e-government services. Much remains to be done, however, both in implementing e-government services and in developing new technologies and concepts, if the e-government vision is to be broadly realized. A recent study by the National Research ==========> 03-01-26-ADT-MirrorWorlds-Gelernter-DesktopNotUsefulForInfoOrganizing.txt========== http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7187 Software innovator David Gelernter says the desktop is obsolete By Jack Vaughan [January 28, 2003 - ADT's Programmers Report] - David Gelernter's Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc. recently announced the beta version of software aimed at vastly improving the end user's computer experience. Under development since Mirror Worlds was formed in 1997, and now available free for download, Scopeware Vision Professional is a visual information management system that ==========> 03-02-06-NYT-WiFiToBeUsedInRuralFrance.txt========== New York Times February 6, 2003 Wi-Fi as Savior? France's Farm Dwellers Hope So By KRISTEN HINMAN PARIS NEAR Sillé-le-Guillaume, a rural patch of western France, Ginette Sybille moves some 8,000 fowls, 150 swine and 120 head of cattle on and off her 395-acre farm each year. She conducts most of her business with slaughterhouses in the region, but each time an animal changes hands, Mrs. Sybille has to register the transaction online with the government. ==========> 03-02-22-BusinessWeek-Raskin-NewInterface-CommandLineWithVisibility.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2003/tc20030122_7027.htm JANUARY 22, 2003 BYTE OF THE APPLE By Alex Salkever THE Key to User-Friendly Computers? Jef Raskin, who helped design Apple's classic user interface, is working on a new system, THE, that could be a big improvement ==========> 03-03-09-SJMerc-BlogsSuccessHeraldsBigFuture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5354264.htm Posted on Sun, Mar. 09, 2003 Success of Weblogs Heralds Big Future MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - The online diaries known as Weblogs, or "blogs," seemed like a lot of inconsequential chatter when they surfaced a few years ago. ==========> 03-03-13-ALA-S609RestoreFOIAWouldEliminateSomeExemptions.txt========== Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:11:10 -0500 From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" To: ALA Washington Office Newsline Subject: [ALA-WO:802] SENATE INTRODUCES RESTORE FOIA ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 12, Number 22 March 13, 2003 In This Issue: Senators Introduce the Restore Freedom of Information ==========> 03-03-24-InfoWeek-CompaniesBringingEmailToFactoryWorkers.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030321S0009 E-Mail For Everyone March 24, 2003 Companies are experimenting with low-cost, stripped-down E-mail that all employees--from bank tellers to factory workers--can access By Tony Kontzer Ken Mitchell, a shift manager at Mannington Mills Inc.'s commercial flooring plant, relies on E-mail to ==========> 03-03-30-SJMerc-SpeedAndAccuracyLimitSpeechRecognition.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/5065162.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 30, 2003 Speech-recognition software an impediment to work By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Like many a veteran computer user, I've been talking to my PC for years. For once, I'd like it to respond. ==========> 03-04-00-WUSTL-WebAccessForTheVisuallyImpaired.txt========== http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/142.html Blind and visually impaired Web users offered taste of multimedia future By Liam Otten St. Louis, Mo., April 2003 - Blind and visually impaired Web users can experience some of the Internet's increasingly expansive potential thanks to a group of senior design students at Washington University in St. Louis. ==========> 03-04-17-SJMerc-WhiteHouseCreatesEgovernmentOffice.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5654418.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 17, 2003 E-government office set up in White House By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Efforts to make Uncle Sam more accessible to citizens online will get a boost today with the creation of an Office of Electronic Government within the White House. ==========> 03-04-17-USAToday-WiFiGivesDevelopingNationsInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/iraq/2003-04-16-wifi_x.htm Posted 4/17/2003 8:28 AM Wi-Fi could let Iraq skip steps to leap into broadband By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — When Iraq is rebuilt, an emerging wireless Internet technology may let it avoid the broadband woes that have plagued the USA for years. ==========> 03-04-21-SJMerc-AskTheWhiteHouseWebsiteMainlyForPR.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5680998.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003 `Ask the White House' makes Internet debut By Bob Kemper Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON -The Bush administration, which has developed an array of communications strategies that bypass the traditional White House press corps, now has a new Internet feature that allows ==========> 03-04-21-SJMerc-FCCPlansStricterRulesOnE-RateNetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5680997.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003 FCC plans stricter rules on 'e-rate' Net-access program By Jube Shiver Jr. Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to tighten rules for the third time on a program that provides Subsidized Internet access to schools and libraries, but has been ==========> 03-05-00-ACMInteractions-DesigningUserInterfacesForQuadriplegicPeople.txt========== Research alert: Designing human-computer interfaces for quadriplegic people Constantine E. Steriadis, Philip Constantinou May 2003 interactions, Volume 10 Issue 3 Computer and system manufacturers often say that designing applications for users with disabilities is not cost-effective. Most computer systems are designed for users who are not disabled; therefore, systems that address disabled users need special interfaces in order to be accessible. In this paper we present a method for developing human-computer interfaces for quadriplegic ==========> 03-05-18-SJMerc-DG-SKoreanCitizenReportersChangingJournalism.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5889390.htm Posted on Sun, May. 18, 2003 Dan Gillmor: A new brand of journalism is taking root in South Korea By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist SEOUL - Lee Bong-Ryul has a day job as an engineer at a semiconductor company. In his spare time, he's helping to shape tomorrow's journalism. ==========> 03-05-19-EWeek-WebAccessForTheImpaired.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1090387,00.asp May 19, 2003 Web Access for All By Debra Donston The economy, war, the economy, security patches, the economy, natural and unnatural disasters, the economy, SARS—there are dozens of reasons why Web accessibility may not be high on organizations' priority lists right now (did we mention the ==========> 03-05-23-UMD-EVotingSystemUsabilityIssues.txt========== ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/2002-23html/2002-23 .html Electronic Voting System Usability Issues Benjamin B. Bederson, Bongshin Lee, Robert M. Sherman Human-Computer Interaction Lab Computer Science Department, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 ABSTRACT ==========> 03-06-00-CACM-RethinkingTheDigitalDivide.txt========== Rethinking the digital divide Fay Cobb Payton June 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 6 African-American students are all too aware that the digital divide is not merely about Internet access. Rather, it involves access to the social networks that ease the path to success in high-tech careers. When industry analyst Forrester Research announced study findings several years ==========> 03-06-30-SJMerc-OnLinePublicRecordsTooAccessible.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6201466.htm Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2003 Are public court records too public in cyberspace? DAVID KRAVETS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - Courthouses have long been considered stodgy institutions, foreign to the public they serve. The Internet has made them a little less detached, offering the ability to pay tickets, attend traffic school, even ==========> 03-07-00-ACMInteractions-WhatDoUserInterfaceDesignersThinkAboutProtectingTheirDesigns.txt========== Fast forward: What do UI designers think about protecting their designs? Aaron Marcus July 2003 interactions, Volume 10 Issue 4 As more and more computer-based products and services become available to global markets, intellectual property (IP) protection of user interfaces (UIs) appears likely to become more challenging. IP protection for UIs was once a hot topic in the CHI community and a CHI 1989 plenary panel debated the topic. Professor Pamela Samuelson, chair of that panel and now a teacher of IP ==========> 03-07-24-CSMon-InternetProjForPoorAttractsRich.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0724/p16s01-stin.html from the July 24, 2003 edition Internet project for poor attracts rich By Andrea Amighetti and Nicholas Reader | Special to The Christian Science Monitor SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA – Just putting computers in front of those who need them is not enough. First, they must want them. That is the lesson of Little Intelligent Communities (LINCOS), the world's first pilot information and ==========> 03-08-00-SciAmerican-TechNotAnswerToDigitalDivide.txt========== # "Demystifying the Digital Divide" Scientific American (08/03) Vol. 289, No. 2, P. 42; Warschauer, Mark A widely-shared view of a "digital divide"--a gaping socioeconomic chasm between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not--fosters technological determinism, which assumes technology's very presence will lead to social change. Mark Warschauer of the University of California, Irvine, writes that failed attempts to improve people's lives by merely distributing technology to needy areas are a testament to the flaws in this reasoning. He observes that many people access and use technology ==========> 03-08-20-ACMUbiquity-OnlineLearning.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i25_downes.html Public Policy, Research and Online Learning By Stephen Downes E-learning is more than a new way of doing the old thing. Its outcomes can't be measured by the traditional process. I recently attended a meeting of planners and policy analysts here in Ottawa and so I have some thoughts fresh in my mind. ==========> 03-08-28-ALA-GroupDemandsDHSAllowPublicInput.txt========== ALA Demands Public Voice on Proposal to Restrict Access to Public Information ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 12, Number 76 August 28, 2003 In This Issue: ALA and Other Groups Demand Public Voice On Rules that Could Restrict Access to Public Information Deemed "Sensitive" On August 26, 2003, seventy-five organizations representing librarians, ==========> 03-09-00-ACMInteractions-HumanComputerInteractionAndTheScienceOfWebShopping.txt========== HCI and the Web: Books and mortar: the science of Web shopping William Hudson September 2003 interactions, Volume 10 Issue 5 One of the Web's best-known booksellers appears to have become bored with the idea of selling books. The trickle of products other than books has burgeoned into a torrent flooding from its pages. In the early days, paddling among CDs and DVDs when trying to find books was not a particular problem. Few categories overlapped, so by searching for a few words in the title, you could usually ==========> 03-09-08-SJMerc-CiscoFundsVoiceMailForPoor.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6719943.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 08, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Cisco to fund voice mail for poor By John Boudreau Mercury News Imagine trying to survive in Silicon Valley without a phone. After all, this is a region where a home phone, at least one cell phone and a ==========> 03-09-16-ACMUbiquity-IsChildInternetAccessARisk.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i29_shoniregun.html Is Child Internet Access a Questionable Risk? By Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun and Andrew Anderson The unlimited and pervasive use of the Internet by young people raises many concerns about child safety. What solutions are available and why aren't they being used? ==========> 03-09-25-Salon-PublicAccessWebcams.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/09/25/webcams/index_np.html We are all paparazzi now In an age of increasing corporate and government surveillance, publicly accessible webcams give us a chance to do some watching of our own. By Katharine Mieszkowski Sept. 25, 2003 | On a weekday in September, the webcam trained on Heritage Square in Flagstaff, Ariz., typically gets 300 to 400 visitors from cities like ==========> 03-09-28-SJMerc-DG-InternetHasGoodGuysAndBadGuys.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/6881523.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 28, 2003 story:PUB_DESC In the Wild West of the Internet, there are good guys and bad guys By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Several weeks ago, a friend, David Weinberger, and I launched a small, non-commercial Web site. We called it ``WordPirates'' (www.wordpirates.com), the purpose of which was to remind people how some good words in our language ==========> 03-10-31-TechRev-AcceleratedDemocracyProjToMonitorUsers.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_wolman103103.asp Computer-Enabled Democracy? Technology's role in selecting public officials needn't be limited to the voting machines. But you let a software agent tell you who to vote for? By David Wolman October 31, 2003 What might happen when technology becomes more intertwined with voting? The question goes beyond the much discussed issue of whether to adopt computerized ==========> 03-11-04-FourMiLab-Walker-GovtAndMediaCanControlInternet.txt========== http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle. by John Walker September 13th, 2003 Revision 4 -- November 4th, 2003 imprimatur 1. The formula (=`let it be printed'), signed by an official licenser of the press, authorizing the printing of a book; hence as sb. an ==========> 03-11-10-CUU2003-ConfOnUniversalUsability.txt========== Call for papers CUU 2003 We invite submissions (due May 12, 2003) for the second ACM Conference on Universal Usability, to be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 10 - 11, 2003. We seek work in any area whose aim is to enable the widest range of users to successfully use technology for information, communications, entertainment, education, e-commerce, civic systems and government services . Challenges include the diversity of users (experts and novices, old and ==========> 03-11-10-InfoWeek-SpamFiltersConflictWithAccessToGovernment.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16000625 State Affairs: Filters Conflict With Government Openness Nov. 10, 2003 By Larry Kahaner Government agencies got a bit of a free ride from spammers, who worried that the government might go after them if they blasted their workers' in-boxes. No more. Now the public sector faces a similar onslaught, yet it needs to allow unrestricted, large-scale public E-mail access while filtering out junk ==========> 03-11-25-BusWeek-TaxCreditForPoorToGetBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2003/tc20031125_7224_tc047.htm NOVEMBER 25, 2003 NOTHING BUT NET By Alex Salkever Bridging the Digital Divide, Cheaply A tax credit to give the poor broadband access to the Net would spur the economy and improve millions of now-unwired lives ==========> 03-12-00-Syllabus-DigitalTrendsFor2004.txt========== http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8574 Syllabus Magazine Tracking the Digital Puck into 2004 Kenneth C. Green "Legend has it that when Wayne Gretsky was asked why he was so successful as a hockey player he responded by saying that he always tried to skate to where the puck was going to be, not to where it was. ==========> 03-12-00-TechRev-NewStandardsPromotesSharingOnlineEducationSoftware.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/atwood1203.asp?p=1 Opening Up Online Education New standards will make sharing online education software easy and inexpensive. By Sally Atwood December 2003/January 2004 Say “online education” and most people imagine taking an occasional professional development course via the Web or studying at a dedicated ==========> 03-12-04-SJMerc-BadStatsExaggerateDigitalDivide.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7415751.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 04, 2003 U.N.: Flawed statistics exaggerate size of digital divide GENEVA (AP) - The extent of the technology gap between richer and poorer nations may be smaller than believed because of flawed statistics on Internet use, the U.N. communications agency said Thursday. The annual study by the International Telecommunication Union came a week ==========> 03-12-11-SJMerc-InternetSummitParticipantsAskToSeeTheMoney.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7469780.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 11, 2003 Net summit participants ask: Where's the money? GENEVA (AP) - Delegates to a U.N. summit this week argued that spreading information technology more equitably can hasten cures for such developing world ills as poverty, AIDS, poor education and high child mortality. Their stated goal is to get the Internet, telephones and other communications ==========> 03-12-18-SJMerc-USFSDecidesToLookAtMassEmails.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7519918.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 18, 2003 Forest Service shifts e-mail plan FEDERAL AGENCY DROPS PROPOSAL TO IGNORE BULK MESSAGES FROM LOBBYING GROUPS By Paul Rogers Mercury News In a victory for groups that use the Internet to lobby the government, the U.S. Forest Service has decided to drop a proposal to ignore mass e-mails from ==========> 04-01-00-Discover-InternetMayPermitTruePopulism.txt========== http://www.discover.com/issues/jan-04/departments/emerging-technology/ Emerging Technology Internet-Era Democracy Can the World Wide Web give ordinary people a shot at true populism? By Steven Johnson DISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 01 | January 2004 | Technology Presidential campaigning is being swept into a new era by the Internet, which is emerging as a political power tool. Howard Dean, for example, has risen from ==========> 04-01-00-TechRev-WirelessDevicesAidDisabledAccessToInfo.txt========== # "Wireless for the Disabled" Technology Review (01/04) Vol. 106, No. 10, P. 64; Lok, Corie A team led by Georgia Institute of Technology computer scientist John Peifer wants to enhance the lives of disabled people by designing wireless assistive technologies out of affordable off-the-shelf components. The prototype system devised by Georgia Tech researcher Jack Wood is a wearable captioning device for the hearing-disabled that would allow users to follow dialogue in movies, conferences, or lectures in real time through the wireless transmission of captions to a personal digital assistant (PDA). The user can read the text off ==========> 04-01-07-IndepDig-ComputersWillBeEverywhere.txt========== http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=478649 The ultimate global network Within 20 years computers will be everywhere, and they'll all be talking to each other. Daunting? Not if we're prepared, says a group of British scientists. Richard Sarson reports 07 January 2004 You may think that computers have taken over most aspects of your life. But you ain't seen nothing yet. It's predicted that in 20 years' time, "there will be ==========> 04-01-13-SJMerc-AsianCOuntriesToPoolTechResources.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7700283.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 13, 2004 Asian nations vow to use computers, Internet to combat poverty HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Technology ministers ended a summit Tuesday by pledging to pool their resources to beef up computer and Internet usage as a way to end poverty, illiteracy and other social ills in Asia. The ministers from 32 mostly Asian countries said at the meeting in the ==========> 04-01-21-UCBerkeley-ExpertsSayDODInternetVotingProgramNotSecure.txt========== http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/01/21_vote.shtml Internet voting system set for upcoming elections not secure, computer experts say Jan. 21, 2004 By Sarah Yang, Media Relations, and Phil Sneiderman, The Johns Hopkins University | 21 January 2004 BERKELEY – A federally funded online absentee voting system scheduled to debut in less than two weeks has security vulnerabilities that could jeopardize voter ==========> 04-01-25-SJMerc-DG-Wikipedia-VolunteerEncyclopediaMarks200000thEntry.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7793099.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 25, 2004 Online reference to reach milestone By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Sometime in the next few days or weeks, one of the world's most comprehensive online reference sites will publish its 200,000th article. More accurately, one of the site's contributors will publish the article. ==========> 04-02-10-SJMerc-DeanMagrAdvisesAgainstReleaeingEmailAddresses.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7918933.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 10, 2004 Former Dean campaign manager counsels against e-mail address release SAN DIEGO (AP) - If Howard Dean ends his presidential bid, his former campaign manager has a piece of advice: think twice about giving the Democratic Party the e-mail addresses of supporters. Joe Trippi, credited with making the Internet a powerful tool for the former ==========> 04-02-10-SJMerc-DG-DeanCampaignUsedNetEffectively.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7917762.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 10, 2004 Trippi's bet on Net will pay off far into the future By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist SAN DIEGO - Maybe Howard Dean's campaign troops didn't overthrow generations of political tradition, says Joe Trippi, who was recently deposed as Dean's presidential campaign manager. And maybe they didn't reclaim America from a ==========> 04-02-25-EU-BarrierFreeAccessToTheInfoSociety.txt========== http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=SPEECH/0 4/96|0|RAPID&lg=EN&display= EU Institutions press releases Mr Erkki Liikanen Member of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise and the Information Society "Barrier free access to the Information Society" Conference on access to the Information Society for deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people Brussels, 25th February 2004 DN: SPEECH/04/96 Date: 25/02/2004 ==========> 04-02-26-ChNewsAsia-IndianInstituteDevelopsSWForBlindNetUsers.txt========== http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/72776/1/.html Visually-impaired can now 'surf' Internet thanks to Indian software 26 February 2004 1143 hrs (SST) NEW DELHI : An education institute in India has developed a software that allows the visually-impaired to surf the Internet, and over a hundred blind children who have tried it gave it the thumbs up. The software may just be making its mark in other countries as well. ==========> 04-02-26-SJMerc-LibrariesNarrowDigitalDivide.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8046531.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 26, 2004 Report: Public libraries narrow the digital divide SEATTLE (AP) - Build libraries and they will come -- and surf. Public libraries have helped narrow the digital divide by providing free access to computers and the Internet, according to a report released Wednesday at the Public Library Association 10th National Conference, which ends Saturday. ==========> 04-03-04-SJMerc-OnlineCrimeReportingASuccessInFinland.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8106482.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 04, 2004 Online crime reports are a success in Finland HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - A police Web site allowing Internet-savvy Finns to report crimes has been a huge success, with some 23,000 reports filed in 12 months, the government said Thursday. The Interior Ministry opened the site on March 1, 2003, ``purely to improve our ==========> 04-03-16-BusWeek-AppleImplemetingScreenReaderForVisionImpaired.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040316_6454_tc056.htm MARCH 16, 2004 BYTE OF THE APPLE By Alex Salkever Finally, Apple Speaks to the Blind It's building innovative screen-reading technology into OS X. That's essential for the visually impaired -- and a smart business move ==========> 04-03-19-SJMerc-WebsiteAllowsUsersToSeeNeighborsPoliticalDonations.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8229893.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 19, 2004 Web site lets you see neighbors' campaign donations NEW YORK (AP) - It's snooping on the neighbors with a political edge, courtesy of a new Web site. Just type your address and ZIP code into the ``Neighbor Search'' tool at fundrace.org, and you'll get a list of what your neighbors gave to any of the presidential candidates last year -- and how much. ==========> 04-03-30-InvestBusDaily-BlackScholarsTackleDigitalDivideProblem.txt========== # "Black Scholars Tackle Digital Divide Problem" Investor's Business Daily (03/30/04) P. A7; Riley, Sheila Bridging the gap between those who have computer access and those who do not is one of the goals of the nonprofit Institute for African American E-Culture, which was founded in 2001 to establish a robust online black community. "There's a need in the context of the digital divide to create a vibrant 'e-culture,'" maintains Boston University electrical and computing engineering professor Roscoe Giles, who leads the institute. He adds that providing computer access to underserved minorities is only part of the solution; equally ==========> 04-04-00-ACMUbiquity-YourUnreasonableExpectationsForPrivacy.txt========== Your (un)reasonable expectations for privacy Eric Salveggio April 2004 Ubiquity, Volume 5 Issue 9 While law enforcement adapts to the challenges of the electronic era, expectations of privacy diminish As Americans, we have become so immune to the fact that we are awarded an immense amount of privacy that we are shocked, numbed, and even angered when we ==========> 04-04-15-CSMon-Weblogs-TheBloggingScene.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0415/p14s02-stin.html from the April 15, 2004 Blogs: Here to stay - with changes By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor They're hip. Influential. Out there. By one estimate, there are 2 million of them posted on the Internet around the world talking about everything from knitting patterns to the war in Iraq. But as blogs - or personal weblogs - move into the limelight, they're also coming under closer scrutiny. And the ==========> 04-04-16-PublicTechNet-MostWebsitesNotAccessibleToDisabledPeople.txt========== http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&si d=870 DRC investigation finds public websites ‘impossible’ for disabled people Date: Apr 16, 2004 - 06:50 AM Public Technology Net Many disabled people find it impossible to book a holiday, open a bank account or buy theatre tickets online, an investigation by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) into web access has shown. It’s important reading for those ==========> 04-04-19-FedCompWeek-USGovtWebsitesNotAllAccessible.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0419/feat-access-04-19-04.asp Making government accessible — online Accessibility is the law, but feds find it is easier said than done BY Sara Michael April 19, 2004 Federal COmputer Week Federal Computer Week recently partnered with San Francisco-based SSB Technologies Inc. to evaluate the degree to which a select sampling of the Bush ==========> 04-04-21-OnlineJourRev-IsTheNetPolarizingUSPoliticalDialog.txt========== http://ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1082521278.php Is the Net Polarizing U.S. Political Dialogue? The Internet is seething with political vitriol, with so many partisan message boards, niche political sites and Weblogs. But the public's taste for ideological journalism might be more for theater than for closing itself to opposing viewpoints. Mark Glaser OnLine Journalism Review Posted: 2004-04-21 ==========> 04-04-27-SJMerc-IndianaCountyToUseWebForK-8SummerSchool.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8532113.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 27, 2004 Indiana County OKs Web for Summer School Associated Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. - Whitley County students won't have to leave home to take summer school classes this year - they can learn over the Internet. The change will allow students in kindergarten through eighth grade to work at ==========> 04-05-17-InfoWeek-ReimbursementABigIssueInTelemedicine.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300885 E-Health On The Horizon Better broadband connections, aging baby boomers, and a lack of nurses are increasing the use of remote medical care, diagnosis, and monitoring By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek May 17, 2004 In the Boston area, home health-care nurses use digital cameras to take photos of patients' skin wounds and surgery incisions. The nurses transmit those ==========> 04-05-24-SJMerc-RoboDocMakesVirtualPatientVisits.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8747510.htm Posted on Mon, May. 24, 2004 Robo-doc allows physicians to make virtual patient visits MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - Doctor, is that you? It's Dr. John Shaver's voice and face -- but it sure isn't him. It's actually a robot, controlled by the Mission Hospital surgeon and used to visit patients as part of the hospital's pilot plan to integrate technology and ==========> 04-05-30-SJMerc-DG-WebBasedHumanitarianProjectsForIraq.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8797929.htm Posted on Sun, May. 30, 2004 Americans on both sides of war debate use the Web to sow friendship in Iraq By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Marc Danziger, a.k.a. the ``Armed Liberal'' Web logger, supported the war in Iraq. Britt Blaser, a Howard Dean campaign adviser, did not. ==========> 04-06-00-CACM-SuccessfulEGovernmentInSingapore.txt========== Successful e-government in Singapore Weiling Ke, Kwok Kee Wei June 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 6 Rapid advances in technology and the advent of the Internet have redefined public expectations of the government and its services. Prompted by demands for a more responsive government, leaders in the public sector have been grappling with how to best use new technologies to deliver services to the people. Government use of technology, particularly Web-based Internet applications, to ==========> 04-06-14-ALA-SafeActWouldDecreaseAvailabilityOfTransportationData.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 37 June 14, 2004 In This Issue: URGENT: Please Contact Members About SAFE Act! We are writing to ask you to call your Member of Congress if she or he is on the list of conferees a the end of this message. The conference committee will meet this week, so immediate action is needed. An access-to-information issue has arisen quite rapidly in the past ==========> 04-06-28-PubIntegrity-ForeignAgentRegistrationDatabaseCouldVanish.txt========== http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=332&%3bsid=100 Foreign Lobbyist Database Could Vanish Justice Department claims merely copying its foreign agents database could destroy it By Kevin Bogardus WASHINGTON, June 28, 2004 — Justice Department officials say a huge database that serves as the public's lone window on lobbying activities by foreign governments has been allowed to decay to a point they cannot even make a copy ==========> 04-06-29-SJMerc-ForeignAgentRegistrationDatabaseCouldVanish.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9040525.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 29, 2004 Government denies request for lobbyist list, citing fragile database WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is offering a novel reason for denying a request seeking the Justice Department's database on foreign lobbyists: Copying the information would bring down the computer system. ``Implementing such a request risks a crash that cannot be fixed and could ==========> 04-07-00-ACMInteractions-InclusiveDesign-AccessibilityGuidelinesOnlyPartOfThePicture.txt========== HCI and the Web: Inclusive design: accessibility guidelines only part of the picture William Hudson July 2004 interactions, Volume 11 Issue 4 City University, London1, recently completed its accessibility survey of 1,000 U.K. Web sites on behalf of the UK's Disability Rights Commission. It is probably the largest of its kind ever undertaken, but sadly the results are no surprise—certainly not to anyone who has ever tried to navigate a Web site ==========> 04-07-05-OpenSecrets-IndustriesSupportingSenHatch.txt========== http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?CID=N00009869&cycle=2004 ORRIN G. HATCH (R-UT) Top Industries The top industries supporting Orrin G. Hatch are: 1 Lawyers/Law Firms $451,751 2 Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $437,574 3 Insurance $282,246 4 Securities & Investment $190,941 ==========> 04-07-08-SJMerc-SanJosePoliceCallInforNowOnLine.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9104917.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 08, 2004 Police Web site links S.J. residents to crime data By Crystal Carreon Mercury News San Jose police on Wednesday unveiled a new Web site that gives residents of the country's 11th-largest city an unprecedented way of measuring crime in their neighborhood. ==========> 04-08-04-CNETNews-ERateFraudAndWasteToGetMoreAudits.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5296417.html Feds back wiretap rules for Internet By Declan McCullagh and Ben Charny CNET News.com August 4, 2004, 3:49 PM PT Broadband providers and Internet phone services must comply with wiretapping requirements designed for the traditional phone network, the Federal Communications Commission said in a preliminary decision Wednesday. ==========> 04-08-20-SJMerc-CalifCLoseToPuttingSexOffenderDataOnInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9452959.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 20, 2004 California close to putting sex offender data on Net By Yomi S. Wronge and Ann E. Marimow Mercury News After years of failed efforts, state leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping and controversial revamp of California's Megan's Law that would make information about convicted sex offenders throughout the state available on the ==========> 04-08-25-ALA-SenatorsQuestionUSDOJAboutDestroyingDepositoryDocs.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 58 August 25, 2004 In This Issue: Senators question DOJ regarding order to destroy depository library documents On August 24, 2004, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Representative John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote Attorney General ==========> 04-08-25-ZDNet-KDEDevelopersWorkingOnAccessibility.txt========== http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39164598,00.htm KDE developers focus on accessibility Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK August 25, 2004, 17:35 BST KDE'S developers have unveiled plans to increase accessibility for people with disabilities in the next release of their Linux desktop software ==========> 04-09-14-ALA-SenatePassesFOIAExemptionForSatelliteImagesAndMaps.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 63 September 14, 2004 In This Issue: Message to Congress: Drop Proposed Broad FOIA Exemption The Senate has approved a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 that adds a new exemption under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This exemption would restrict public access to unclassified satellite images and related data, such as ==========> 04-09-28-CNETNews-ElderlyNeedMoreAccessibleInternet.txt========== http://news.com.com/Internet+fails+to+shine+for+silver+surfers/2100-1046_3-53852 20.html Internet fails to shine for 'silver surfers' By Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified September 28, 2004, 10:00 AM PDT WALTHAM, Mass.--The problem with Harvey Bingham is that he's not your typical senior citizen. ==========> 04-10-03-Wired-DisabledVotersLikeEVotingForAccess.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65206,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7 E-Voting Fans: The Disabled Associated Press 03:30 PM Oct. 03, 2004 PT COLLEGE PARK, Maryland -- This November, Eileen Rivera Ley, 41, will vote by herself for the first time. Blind voters in Maryland and several other states will use electronic voting machines equipped with technology that allows the disabled to vote independently. ==========> 04-10-20-ChinaDaily-ComputingAccesiblityInChinaJustBeginning.txt========== http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/20/content_383854.htm Accessibility opens a new world Xu Xiaodan 2004-10-20 05:50 In Beijing and other major cities in China, building facilities to improve accessibility for the disabled has made a casual walk or a visit to a public toilet much more convenient. ==========> 04-11-01-ALA-CommentsDueOnNIHProposalOnPublicAccessToResearch.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 86 November 1, 2004 In This Issue: Action Alert: Comments due Nov. 16 to NIH on proposal on public access to research On September 3, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a proposed plan to make research articles based on NIH funding available to the public free of charge. These articles would be publicly ==========> 04-11-03-SJMerc-DG-InternetChangingPoliticalCampaigns.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10086652.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 03, 2004 The Internet changing some political rules By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist In January, congressional candidate Ben Chandler was running in a special election to fill a vacant seat from Kentucky. His campaign manager spent a couple of thousand dollars advertising on some political Weblogs, hoping to ==========> 04-11-15-ALA-ActionNeededOnNIHProposalOnPublicAccessToResearch.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 93 November 15, 2004 In This Issue: Reminder: Action Needed Now - Comments due Nov. 16 to NIH on proposal on public access to research On September 3, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a proposed plan to make research articles based on NIH funding available to the public free of charge. These articles would be publicly ==========> 04-12-00-CACM-WebAccessibilityAndCorporateAmerica.txt========== Cyberaccess: web accessibility and corporate America Eleanor T. Loiacono December 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 12 Many corporate Web sites contain barriers to accessibility. Fortunately, removing these obstacles will prove both relatively simple and beneficial. People with disabilities have embraced the Web as a tool for finding and purchasing goods and services at a rate exceeding few other groups. By one ==========> 04-12-02-InfoSocTech-3DForVirtualMuseums.txt========== http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Feat ures/ID/73130 An added dimension for virtual museums 2 Dec 2004 Information Society Technologies Culture vultures enjoy exploring museum collections online. New 3D technology promises to make their experience richer still. With a mouse click, people can manipulate valuable objects as if they were in their own hands. ==========> 04-12-07-ITMgmt-InfoNotFreeButReadilyAvailableAsAuthorized.txt========== http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3444671 Locking Up All of That 'Free Information' December 7, 2004 By Drew Robb IT Management ''Information wants to be free.'' This has become an oft-repeated mantra of the open source movement. ==========> 04-12-14-DetFreePress-GoogleToDigitizeUMichLibraryBooks.txt========== http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend14e_20041214.htm MIKE WENDLAND: U-M's entire library to be put on Google BY MIKE WENDLAND DETROIT FREE PRESS COLUMNIST December 14, 2004 Google, the ubiquitous Internet search engine, is taking the University of Michigan's library from Ann Arbor to the world. ==========> 04-12-14-NYT-GoogleToDigitizeMillionsOfBooks.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1103 148191-IW9iJO8//tABZnYKFp38+Q December 14, 2004 Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database By JOHN MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital ==========> 04-12-14-SJMerc-GoogleLibraryProjectCouldLeadToCommercialization.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10416638.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 14, 2004 Does Google move augur commercialization of libraries? SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The Internet company that famously promised to ``do no evil'' is on a new mission to digitize the collections of some of the nation's leading research institutions and establish a massive online reading room. But Google Inc.'s ambitious effort could herald the beginning of the ==========> 04-12-14-SJMerc-GoogleToDigitizeMillionsOfBooks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10414874.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 14, 2004 Google to digitize millions of books UNIVERSITIES JOINING IN EFFORT By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Google is launching an ambitious effort to make digital copies of some of the world's largest university library collections and will incorporate the texts ==========> 04-12-17-EDNMag-ElderlyAndDisabledStayTechConnected.txt========== http://www.edn.com/article/CA486571.html The human touch keeps the elderly and disabled technology-connected By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor -- 12/17/2004 EDN Magazine AT A GLANCE * Broadband-Internet access with communications hardware and software enables housebound individuals to keep in touch. ==========> 05-01-18-NJersey-GoogleToDigitizeMillionsOfBooks.txt========== # "Google Joins Effort to Put Millions of Books Online" NorthJersey.com (01/18/05); Kladko, Brian Initiatives to digitize books and make them accessible online for public consumption have generally kept a low profile, but Google has significantly boosted awareness with the recent announcement of its Google Print project, which aims to convert millions of printed works to electronic form. However, lesser-hyped nonprofit efforts such as Carnegie Mellon University's Universal Library and Project Gutenberg are designed to keep the digitized material unrestricted. "Our objective is to ultimately take the works of man...digitize ==========> 05-01-24-SJMerc-BlogsChallengeTraditionalMedia.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10722818.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 24, 2005 Memo to media establishment: Ignore blogs at your peril By Frank Bajak AP Technology Editor San Jose Mercury CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The managing editor of The New York Times threw down the gauntlet as she stared across a big O-shaped table at the prophets of blogging. ==========> 05-01-24-SJMerc-PewSurvey-SearchEngineImportanceGrows.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10720929.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 24, 2005 Search engines' use in daily life grows SURVEY: USERS ARE UNCLEAR ON SITES' PRACTICES By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Although Internet search engines have become fixtures in our daily lives, most searchers say they could revert to other ways of finding information if they ==========> 05-01-28-AsiaTimes-LinuxBridgingIndiaDgitalDivide.txt========== http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GA28Df06.html Jan 28, 2005 Bridging India's digital divide with Linux By Ranjit Devraj Asia Times NEW DELHI - Anyone who doubts the power of Linux needs only to get hold of a nifty, hand-held device that the Indian army plans to give soldiers in its million-strong army. It is unlikely that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, ever ==========> 05-02-00-CACM-EGovernmentUsabilityForOlderAdults.txt========== Technical opinion: E-government usability for older adults Shirley Ann Becker February 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 2 Electronic government offers unprecedented opportunities for citizens to access online resources. Indeed, e-government resources enter our homes, libraries, community centers, and offices via the Internet providing information on healthcare, taxation, registration, housing, education, social services, veterans' benefits, aging, and much more. These virtual government resources ==========> 05-02-17-TheGuardian-PlansForCheapComputersForDevelopingWorld.txt========== http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1415713,00.html Bridging the digital divide A $100 laptop aims to bring equal technology opportunities to children in the developing world. Clint Witchalls investigates Thursday February 17, 2005 The Guardian The British charity Citizens Online has an ambitious goal - they would like all schoolchildren in the UK to have their own laptop by 2010. Massachusetts ==========> 05-03-09-NYT-JAMASaysITNotLikelyToTransformMedicine.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/technology/09compute.html?oref=login March 9, 2005 Doctors' Journal Says Computing Is No Panacea By STEVE LOHR NY Times The Bush administration and many health experts have declared that the nation's health care system needs to move quickly from paper records and prescriptions into the computer age. Modern information technology, they insist, can deliver ==========> 05-03-16-SJMerc-FCCCriticizedForPoorERateOversight.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11151555.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 16, 2005 Report criticizes oversight of 'E-rate' program BEN FELLER Associated Press WASHINGTON - A multibillion-dollar program that links schools and libraries to the Internet has weak federal oversight, congressional auditors have found. ==========> 05-03-21-SJMerc-FedsPushForOnlineMedicalRecords.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11193466.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 21, 2005 Feds push to get medical records online By Barbara Feder Ostrov Mercury News Anne Perlman is in the vanguard of patients using computers to manage their medical care. She goes online to schedule an appointment with her doctor at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, update her vaccination record, even review ==========> 05-04-04-SJMerc-DistanceLearningGrowingInPublicSchools.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11308247.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 04, 2005 Web lets schools offer more courses STUDENTS CAN STUDY SPECIALTIES ONLINE By Maya Suryaraman Mercury News Amos Song, a junior at John F. Kennedy High School in Fremont, is taking advanced placement calculus. But neither his teacher nor his fellow students ==========> 05-04-13-SJMerc-Murdoch-NewspapersMustEmbraceInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11385696.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 13, 2005 News Corp. CEO urges newspaper editors to embrace Internet San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Rupert Murdoch urged newspaper editors Wednesday to embrace the Internet, saying print news executives have ``sat by and watched'' as a new generation of digital consumers has turned away from newspapers. ==========> 05-04-15-SJMerc-InternetGrowthThreatensNewspapers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11405786.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 15, 2005 Internet's growth, innovation threatens newspapers San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Craig Newmark already has tormented newspapers by creating a Web site where anyone can post ads at little or no cost, capturing an ever-growing share of the classified advertising market that had been one of the industry's most dependable sources of revenue. ==========> 05-04-18-SJMerc-AreBlogsJournalism.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11426073.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 18, 2005 Blogs as news? Let readers decide DEBATE OVER FUTURE OF JOURNALISM CONFUSES THE MESSAGE WITH MEDIUM By Richard Craig San Jose Mercury News Blogs are the best thing that's ever happened to journalism. Or they're going to kill it. One or the other. ==========> 05-04-19-BBC-QueensUnivBelfastProjectToAssistVisuallyImpairedOnTheWeb.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4457793.stm Project to open internet to blind A three-year project to improve blind access to the internet has started at Queen's University in Belfast. BBC Published: 2005/04/19 05:48:39 GMT Researchers at the university are working to devise ways to guide the blind and visually impaired through the web, as part of the Enabled initiative. ==========> 05-04-22-SJMerc-DigitalCommonsWouldHelpTackleGlobalProblems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11464690.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 22, 2005 On the Web, everything except sharing CREATING A DIGITAL COMMONS FOR DATA WOULD HELP US TACKLE GLOBAL PROBLEMS By Geoffrey C. Bowker San Jose Mercury News It's all out there on the Web, isn't it? Just go to Google and you can find the poem ``On the Road to Mandalay'' by Rudyard Kipling, innumerable blogs ==========> 05-04-22-SJMerc-DigitalDivideReplacedWithKnowledgeDivide.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11462175.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 22, 2005 Developing world needs knowledge more than hardware, speakers say By K. Oanh Ha Mercury News Is the digital divide dead? Yes, concluded speakers at a Santa Clara University symposium Thursday where ==========> 05-04-26-SJMerc-IBMDevelopsMedicalRecordsSharingSystem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11492841.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 26, 2005 Goal of IBM project: Let doctors, patients, hospitals share e-data By Therese Poletti Mercury News IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose announced Monday that it is developing a test system to share electronic medical records and other health data among doctors, patients and hospitals. ==========> 05-04-29-WashPost-BringingLowCostInternetToTheWorld.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801673. html Bringing the Internet To the Whole World By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 29, 2005; E01 Over dinner on a spring night in 2000, Hector de Jesus Ruiz, the new chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., popped an unexpected question to one ==========> 05-05-00-PublicCIO-DigitalRevolution-HowToMaintainAnAccountOfGovtActivities.txt========== http://www.public-cio.com/story.php?id=2005.04.29-93834 The digital revolution raises difficult new questions about how to maintain a complete account of government activities. By Merrill Douglas May 2005 When future generations look back on our nation's history, the 25 years leading to the present day will appear a bit sketchy, said Timothy Slavin, director of the Delaware Public Archives and president of the National Association of ==========> 05-05-05-SJMerc-EULeadersProposeEuropeanDigitalLibrary.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11572482.htm Posted on Thu, May. 05, 2005 Fearing for legacy, Europeans to counter Google book digitizing PARIS (AP) - The world according to Google? San Jose Mercury News Europeans have long bemoaned the influence of Hollywood movies on their culture. Now plans by Google Inc. to create a massive digital library have triggered such strong fears in Europe about Anglo-American cultural dominance ==========> 05-05-10-SJMerc-DocumentsAboutE-RateViolationsSought.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11611293.htm Posted on Tue, May. 10, 2005 Avaya gets subpoena for info tied to E-Rate program San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- Avaya Inc. said Tuesday it received a subpoena to produce documents related to the government's investigation of violations of the federal E-Rate program, which dispenses subsidies for Internet and telecom services to schools and libraries. ==========> 05-06-27-GovtCompNews-GovernmentOverwhelmedWithElectronicInput.txt========== http://www.gcn.com/24_16/tech-report/36163-1.html 06/27/05; Vol. 24 No. 16 E-Government run amok! By Joab Jackson GCN Staff In the first half of 2004, when the Environmental Protection Agency solicited public feedback for a proposed rule that would limit mercury output from power plants, it received almost 540,000 comments over the Internet. A staff of 15 ==========> 05-06-29-NYT-WebContentByAndForTheMasses.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/29content.html June 29, 2005 Web Content by and for the Masses By JOHN MARKOFF NY Times SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 - When Caterina Fake arrives at the end of a plane flight, she snaps a photo of the baggage carousel with her camera phone to assure her mother, who views the photo on a Web page minutes later, that she ==========> 05-07-05-SJMerc-TechFirmsSeekPortableStandardForMedicalData.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12058064.htm Posted on Tue, Jul. 05, 2005 The push toward smarter medical care TECH FIRMS SEEK STANDARD FOR PORTABLE DIGITAL DATA By Esther Landhuis Mercury News As the federal government's push for digitized medical records gains momentum -- a move advocates say will cut costs and save lives -- information technology ==========> 05-09-00-ACMeLearn-StudentPrivacyIssuesEthicsAndGuestLecturerIssueInOnlineCourses.txt========== Feature: Student privacy issues, ethics, and solving the guest lecturer dilemma in online courses Virgil E. Varvel September 2005 eLearn, Volume 2005 Issue 9 In an era where our privacy seems to be slowly dwindling---when our email can be viewed by our employers and cameras sit perched on street corners---some strongholds of privacy do remain. And, perhaps surprisingly, one such stronghold carries over to the online realm. While your face may be on camera ==========> 05-10-00-CACM-CurrentPracticesOfLeadingEGovernmentCountries.txt========== Current practices of leading e-government countries Sang M. Lee, Xin Tan, Silvana Trimi October 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 10 The pervasive adoption of the Internet since the 1990s has stimulated businesses to embrace e-commerce. In the public sector, e-government has emerged and grown enormously as well. Indeed, the development of e-government has clearly mirrored the development of e-commerce. ==========> 05-10-00-CACM-WhyTheInternetIsBadForDemocracy.txt========== The digital society: Why the Internet is bad for democracy Eli M. Noam October 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 10 The Internet is not simply a set of interconnected links and protocols—it is also a construct of the imagination, an inkblot test into which everyone projects their desires, fears, and fantasies. Some see enlightenment and education. Others see pornography and gambling. Some see sharing and collaboration. Others see spam and viruses. Yet when it comes to the impact on ==========> 05-10-04-SJMerc-FrenchWebsiteLetsConsumersSignUpClassActionLawsuits.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12815154.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 04, 2005 Online lawsuits fire up French class action debate Mercury News PARIS (AP) - Attorney Jean-Marc Goldnadel knew he was going to make waves when he launched classaction.fr -- a French Web site that lets users sign up to lawsuits online for as little as 12 euros ($14.50). ==========> 05-10-21-PCMag-MSResearchInniativesToEncourageTechInDevelopingCountries.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1875418,00.asp Microsoft Research Inspires Worldwide Digital Inclusion 10.21.05 PC Magazine By Bary Alyssa Johnson In a bid to combat the widespread global technology gap, Microsoft Research, a division of Microsoft Corp., announced Friday two initiatives designed to encourage computer research and technological uptake in developing countries. ==========> 05-11-00-ACMInteractions-HumanComputerInterfacesAndPublicPolicy.txt========== Fresh: Policy at the interface: HCI and public policy Jonathan Lazar, Jeff Johnson, Harry Hochheiser November 2005 interactions, Volume 12 Issue 6 Designing user interfaces to technology is a political act. It is political because it influences—sometimes even determines—what people can and cannot do. For example, since the days of Mosaic, Web browsers have included an option for viewing the HTML source for a Web page. Including this feature was arguably a political and public-policy decision: It created a more open and inclusive Web. ==========> 05-11-12-Wired-NarrowingTheDigitalDivide.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69561,00.html?tw=wn_3culthead Narrowing the Digital Divide Associated Press Wired 12:36 PM Nov. 12, 2005 PT An African-led initiative that will use high-speed internet connections to treat AIDS patients in Burundi and Burkina Faso offers inspiration for those working to bridge the world's digital divide. ==========> 05-11-28-SJMerc-SanJoseCampaignFundsReportsToBeOnline.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13275917.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 28, 2005 S.J. campaigns to file online FUNDRAISING REPORTS WILL BE EASILY ACCESSIBLE ON WEB By Phil Yost Mercury News With the fundraising season for San Jose elections fast approaching, the city is on the verge of finally casting aside paper documents in favor of using the ==========> 05-12-00-IEEEIntelSys-CustomizedDeliveryOfGovernmentWebServices.txt========== http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc 6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2006/01&file=x6bou.xml&xsl =article.xsl& From IEEE Intelligent Systems Web Systems Customized Delivery of E-Government Web Services December 2005 Brahim Medjahed • University of Michigan, Dearborn Athman Bouguettaya • Virginia Tech ==========> 05-12-05-StanfordCIS-SeminarOnElectronicGovernment.txt========== The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) and The Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) The Citoyen of Electronic Government Christoph Engemann CIS Fellow Monday December 5, 2005 Electronic Government is the attempt of a fundamental reform of the means of operation of a nation state. The still largely paper based bureaucracy's of public administrations attempt to move to an IT-Infrastructure akin to the ==========> 06-01-00-ACMInteractions-BookRev-AccessByDesign.txt========== Books: Review of "Access by Design by Sarah Horton", New Riders, 2005, ISBN: 032131140X, $24.99 Robert Douglass January 2006 interactions, Volume 13 Issue 1 Sensitivity to accessibility issues is a key issue for many of us in the interface design field. There is growing demand from government and corporate clients to design accessible sites not just to comply with the law, but for the specific purpose of marketing products and services directly to the disabled ==========> 06-01-22-CanadaPress-UsersQuicklyDecideWebsiteWorth.txt========== http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=2d91544e-4e2c-41bb-9652-03 305b5c26b4&k=28577 Web surfers decide a site's worth in fraction of a second: study Angela Pacienza, Canadian Press Published: Sunday, January 22, 2006 TORONTO (CP) - Graphic designers have long known the importance of good looks for things like ad copy and book covers. ==========> 06-02-00-ACMeLearn-EducationalsThingsBetterDoneOverTheInternet.txt========== Feature: 13 (educational) things i'd rather do over the internet Grandon Gill February 2006 eLearn, Volume 2006 Issue 2 A recent article in eLearn's sister publication, Communications of the ACM (CACM), engaged readers with the foreboding title "The Internet Education Bandwagon: Look Before You Leap" [10]. The body of the article contained many statements that were equally ominous—such as the conclusions section, which began: "Loss of education quality as a result of Internet delivery is the major ==========> 06-02-27-StanfordCIS-WhenCitizenOnlineMediaAndBigMediaCollide.txt========== The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) and The Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) When citizens media and big media collide J.D Lasica Author, "Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation" Monday, February 27, 2006 In recent years we've seen the emergence of new grassroots media forms: text blogging, podcasting, Webcasting, video blogging, and digital photography as ==========> 06-03-00-ACMInteractions-HowToOVercomeTheDigitalDivide.txt========== interactions Volume 13, Number 3 (2006), Pages 16-17 Forum: under development: Voices across the digital divide Matt Jones In this Under Development column, Matt Jones reports on an exciting new initiative funded by the UK government to create a design repository for researchers working on HCI projects in the developing world. —Gary Marsden ==========> 06-03-00-ACMInteractions-HumanComputerInteractionAndCognitiveDisabilities.txt========== interactions Volume 13, Number 3 (2006), Pages 14-15 Forum: connections: HCI and cognitive disabilities Clayton Lewis Considering different user groups is a central principle of user-centered design. In this Connections column, Clayton Lewis discusses aspects of the cognitively disabled as an important group of users. —Manfred Tscheligi ==========> 06-03-02-GregLinden-GooglePorposesPersonalSearchToGatherAllWorldsInfo.txt========== http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/03/in-world-with-infinite-storage.html#11414142 8492964055 Geeking with Greg Exploring the future of personalized information Thursday, March 02, 2006 In a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power Google is hosting an analyst day today. I found skimming the 94 slide presentation (PPT, PDF alternative) to be interesting and worthwhile. ==========> 06-04-11-AP-SenatorsPushForDirectElectronicTaxFiling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14318188.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 11, 2006 Senators push for direct electronic tax filing WASHINGTON (AP) - The IRS wants taxpayers to file electronically. But sending returns over the Internet requires many people to use a paid preparer or tax-preparation software, adding an extra fee to their tax bill. The two senators who sit atop the Finance Committee, Chairman Charles Grassley, ==========> 06-05-00-ACMInteractions-UserInterfacesAndCognitiveDisabilities.txt========== Forum: connections: HCI and cognitive disabilities Clayton Lewis May 2006 interactions, Volume 13 Issue 3 Considering different user groups is a central principle of user-centered design. In this Connections column, Clayton Lewis discusses aspects of the cognitively disabled as an important group of users. —Manfred Tscheligi ==========> 06-05-01-NYT-IntelToOfferLowCostComputerWithWirelessAccess.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/technology/02chip.html?ex=1146715200&en=34a4a3 f07ea93370&ei=5087%0A May 2, 2006 Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access By JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 — Aiming to help close the so-called digital divide, the Intel Corporation plans to announce a design for a sub-$400 educational laptop ==========> 06-05-08-CompWorld-TargetWebsiteSuedOverAccessibility.txt========== http://app001.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,111219,00. html Accessibility Issue Comes to a Head Target lawsuit could be a test case; new wave of apps concerns blind users News Story by Carol Sliwa MAY 08, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Bruce Sexton Jr. wants to be able to access the same Web content that anyone else can. Because he can't, he now finds himself at the center of a potentially precedent-setting legal fight over Web site ==========> 06-05-14-NYT-GoogleBookScanningProceeds.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin May 14, 2006 Scan This Book! By KEVIN KELLY The New York Times Correction Appended In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech ==========> 06-05-30-Edge-HazardsOfTheNewOnlineCollectivism.txt========== http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html Edge 183 — May 30, 2006 The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it? The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism [5.30.06] By Jaron Lanier An Edge Original Essay The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly. And that is part of the ==========> 06-06-02--AP-EBookProjectGivesFreeAccessToBooks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14727375.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 02, 2006 E-book project to give free access to 300,000 volumes CHICAGO (AP) - Electronic book devotees may want to set aside some extra screen time this summer, as two nonprofits are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online. Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library plan to make ``a third of a million'' ==========> 06-06-12-CompWorld-NewTechnologiesMakeToMakeEmailMoreProductive.txt========== http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=11 1503 The Future of E-mail Technologies emerging from R&D labs will make e-mail more productive and give it new roles in the next few years. Gary Anthes June 12, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Your company scans incoming e-mail for viruses and outgoing messages for confidential information. Your spam filter snags most ==========> 06-07-25-AusIT-TrialOfEVotingForBlindVotersRecommended.txt========== http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19899956%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00. html Blind to lead way in e-voting Chris Jenkins, JULY 25, 2006 AUSTRALIANS could use electronic voting systems in next year's federal election if a proposed trial goes ahead. The proposal arises from a report by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters on the 2004 federal election, published in October. ==========> 06-07-31-SJMerc-NoGenderDifferenceInInternetAbilities.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15163972.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 31, 2006 Internet raises gender gap By Mike Langberg, Mercury News Who's better at using the Internet, men or women? Most men would nominate themselves, and most women would agree -- even in situations where it's clear their actual abilities are the same. ==========> 06-08-25-SJMerc-PoliticalGroupsCreateMisleadingWebsiteURLs.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15361597.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 25, 2006 Political campaigns duel over domain-name tricks PROP. 87 BACKERS CREATE PHONY SITES TO THWART RIVALS By Mary Anne Ostrom, Mercury News Call it a case of cyberantics with a cause. The dueling camps over Proposition 87, the November initiative that would impose a fee on oil extracted in California, have been duking it out all week over control of Web site domain ==========> 06-09-05-AP-DigitalDivideStillSeparatesStudents.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/15444856.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 05, 2006 Digital divide still separates students BEN FELLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone. ==========> 06-09-07-AP-PhiladelphiaHighTechHighSchoolOpens.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15463748.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 07, 2006 The Philadelphia experiment: Microsoft-designed school opens DEBORAH YAO, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has famously called high schools "obsolete" and warned about their effect on U.S. competitiveness. Now, his company has a chance to prove that it can help fix the woes of public education. ==========> 06-09-08-CompWorld-SuitAgainstTargetWebSiteDiscriminationAgainstBlindCanProceed.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9003129 Court: Accessibility lawsuit against Target can proceed The suit claims that the retailer's Web site discriminates against blind patrons Carol Sliwa and Linda Rosencrance September 08, 2006 (Computerworld) -- A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against Minneapolis-based Target Corp. by the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) regarding the accessibility of the ==========> 06-09-08-PhilaInq-PhiladelphiaHighTechHighSchoolOpens.txt========== http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/phila delphia_county/philadelphia/15469414.htm Posted on Fri, Sep. 08, 2006 High-tech high Phila.’s School of the Future opens with laptops, smart cards, and almost no books. By Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Philadelphia's $63 million "School of the Future" - built under the guidance of ==========> 06-09-25-ACMUbiquity-OverviewOfWebBasedBookCollections.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i37_books.html Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection ACM Ubiquity, 9/25/2006 Brian F. Lavoie and Roger C. Schonfeld Print collections will likely undergo significant transformation as libraries continue to reshape themselves in the networked digital age. Some transformations will occur at the local level to meet the particular needs and requirements of a single institution and its users. However, it is likely that ==========> 06-10-01-AP-OnlineJournalsThreatenTraditionalPeerReviewedSystem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15658505.htm Posted on Sun, Oct. 01, 2006 Online journals threaten traditional scientific peer-review system LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research can now pursue another path to fame by taking their research straight to the public online. Instead of having a group of hand-picked scholars review research in secret ==========> 06-10-16-AuburnUniv-ResearchersToTestSystemForVOtersWithDisabilities.txt========== http://www.ocm.auburn.edu/news_releases/elec.html AU RESEARCHERS TO TEST ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR VOTERS WITH DISABILITIES Auburn University, 10/16/06 AU RESEARCHERS TO TEST ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR VOTERS WITH DISABILITIES AUBURN - Researchers in the Auburn University Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering have partnered with Indiana University, the AU Center for Governmental Services and IBM to develop Prime III, an advanced electronic voting system that enables people with certain disabilities to vote in ==========> 06-10-31-PhilaInq-NewspaperWebVisitRiseAsCirculationFalls.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15891496.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 31, 2006 Web sites are good news for newspapers AS CIRCULATION CONTINUES FALL, WEB VISITS RISE By Joseph N. DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper circulation continued to drop during the spring and summer, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations' yearly sales report for printed newspapers during the six months that ended Sept. 30. ==========> 06-11-00-ACMQueue-WebcamsAndAudioouldMakeVideoconferencingAvailableToMultipleCaregivers.txt========== Better Health Care Through Technology ACM Queue vol. 4, no. 9 - November 2006 by Mache Creeger, Emergent Technology Associates Installing Webcams and audio in the home would make videoconferencing available to multiple caregivers. Leveraging technology to support aging relatives in their homes is a cost-efficient way to maintain health and happiness and extend life. As the technology expert for my extended family, it has fallen to me to architect the ==========> 06-11-20-AP-StudyDaysInternetOnlyBehindTVForScienceNews.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16060921.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 20, 2006 Study: Internet ranks behind only TV for science news NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet ranks behind only television as the leading source for science news and information, but most users won't blindly trust what they read online, a new study finds. The Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a report Monday that 20 ==========> 06-11-29-AP-StudyShowsParentsConcernOverAmountOfTimeChildrenUseInternet-2.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16122076.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 29, 2006 1 in 5 parents say kids online too much, ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press NEW YORK - One in five American parents believe their kids are spending too much time on the Internet, though most say the online activities haven't affected grades either way. In a study to be released Wednesday by the University of Southern California, ==========> 06-11-29-AP-StudyShowsParentsConcernOverAmountOfTimeChildrenUseInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16120733.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 29, 2006 Study sees growth in Net use, parental concern NEW YORK (AP) - One in five American parents believe their kids are spending too much time on the Internet, though most say the online activities haven't affected grades either way. In a study to be released Wednesday by the University of Southern California, ==========> 06-11-30-AP-GatesFoundationAnnouncesInternetAccessGrantsInEasternEuropeAndAfrica.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16132309.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 30, 2006 Gates Foundation announces grants to aid Internet access in Eastern Europe, Botswana SEATTLE (AP) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will expand its program to give people access to the Internet in libraries and other public places to two Eastern European countries and the African nation of Botswana. ==========> 06-12-20-TechDaily-GroupFormedToAddressFutureOnOnlineLibraries.txt========== http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1206/122006tdpm1.htm December 20, 2006, Group formed to address future of libraries in Internet era By Aliya Sternstein, National Journal's Technology Daily With reference materials easily accessible online, modern public libraries are now more like coffeehouse meeting places with Internet access than book lenders. But libraries and librarians still serve a purpose, say officials from the Library of Congress, academia and the Web search industry, and they have formed an advisory group on cyber-age bibliography. ==========> 06-12-28-SJMerc-NewstrustAndDiggTakeDifferentApproachesToReviewingNews.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16336593.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 28, 2006 Web news opposites NEWSTRUST AND DIGG: TWO VISIONS OF WHAT ONLINE READERS WANT By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News Two years ago, the inspiration for creating a Web site for news junkies hit two men with vastly different ambitions. One hoped to make boat-loads of money. The other dreamed of enriching American democracy by identifying trusted news ==========> 07-01-00-IEEESpectrum-RobSinclair-AccessibleComputing.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4811 IEEE Spectrum, Jan. 2007 The Enabler, By Prachi Patel-Predd An engineer works to make computers usable by all In fifth grade, while Rob Sinclair was tutoring children with learning disabilities, he discovered a lesson that would shape his career. “I started to understand that there were people who learned in different ways,” he says, “that people with different abilities had completely different ==========> 07-01-18-MediaNews-InternetgrowsAsPoliticalForce-ShiftAwayFromTraditionalMediaContinues.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16489247.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 18, 2007 Internet as political force grows, poll finds SHIFT AWAY FROM TV, PAPERS CONTINUES By Frank Davies, MediaNews Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Candidates and those who run their campaigns have known for some time how the Internet has energized politics and reshuffled the old rules of how office-seekers, the media and the public operate. A survey released ==========> 07-01-21-AP-VideoGameCreatorsAddPoliticsToGames.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16515216.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 21, 2007, Creators put politics into video games GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press ATLANTA - Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games - and replaces it with opinion. The Georgia Institute of Technology professor creates games - or "playable editorial cartoons," as he calls them - that are packed with political messages. ==========> 07-01-26-SJMerc-SenClintonUSesInternetToolsToEstablishContactWithVoters.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16553005.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 26, 2007 WEB-SAVVY CAMPAIGNING SEN. CLINTON TAPS INTO INTERNET TOOLS TO TALK WITH VOTERS, GET MESSAGE OUT By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News Sen. Hillary Clinton signaled that hers would be an Internet-savvy presidential campaign by announcing her candidacy with a video posted on her Web site and e-mails to supporters. Throughout the week, she has been hosting live video ==========> 07-01-31-AP-NavajoCollegeWorkingWithUCSDOnWirelessNetworkForReservation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16590463.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 31, 2007 Navajo officials have high hopes for wireless grid ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Navajo officials have a vision that one day students on the vast reservation can do school work on laptops during bus rides home and that making a phone call won't mean walking miles to the nearest chapter house. The vision starts on the eastern edge of the reservation in New Mexico through ==========> 07-02-14-DemosOrg-AReportOnTechnologyForAccessibleVotingSystems.txt========== http://demos.org/pub1312.cfm Improving Access to Voting A Report on the Technology for Accessible Voting Systems February 14, 2007, By Noel Runyan, Demos.Org Improving Access to Voting is a new report by technology expert Noel Runyan, published by Demos and Voter Action, that finds that state voting systems are widely noncompliant with federal ADA and HAVA access requirements for voters with disabilities. Twenty percent of U.S. adults with disabilities -- more than ==========> 07-02-19-MediaNews-CandidatesFindPlussesAndMinusesUsingInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16732852.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 19, 2007 Candidates find both opportunity, minefield on Web By Frank Davies, MediaNews Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - For candidates embracing the brave new world of online politics, the Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away. The 2008 presidential campaign is revving up earlier than ever, and candidates ==========> 07-02-26-InvestBusDaily-UCBerkeleySpinoffMayBeKeyToBridgingDigitalDivide.txt========== http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&artnum=3&issue=2007 0226 Group Might Be The Key To Bridging Digital Divide, BY TONY KONTZER FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, Posted 2/26/2007 For years, some of the best minds from the worlds of technology and economic development have worked to solve the digital divide that separates technology haves from the have-nots. ==========> 07-03-00-IEEEInetComp-IsEGovenmentReadyForPrimeTime.txt========== http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc 6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2007/04&file=w2pub.xml&xsl =article.xsl& From IEEE Internet Computing, Mar./Apr. 2007 Is E-Government Ready for Prime Time? Stephen Ruth and Soogwan Doh • George Mason University This issue of IEEE Internet Computing ?marks the debut of a new department—Public Policy—which will feature short articles about the public ==========> 07-03-12-AP-StudySaysMostUSFederalAgenciesFailToProvideWebAccessToRecords.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16886085.htm Associated Press, Posted on Mon, Mar. 12, 2007 Study: Most federal agencies fail to use Web for access to records Federal agencies have dragged their feet on implementing 10-year-old law that requires them to use the Internet to make government documents easily available, a new study says. The result is the public is blocked from easier access to information, the ==========> 07-03-12-GWUniv-StudySaysMostUSFederalAgenciesFailToProvideWebAccessToRecords.txt========== http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB216/index.htm AGENCIES VIOLATE LAW ON ONLINE INFORMATION George Washington Univ., March 12, 2007 Only One in Five Federal Agencies Meets Congress's Requirements 10 Years After Electronic Freedom of Information Amendments "E-Delinquents" Include Air Force and Immigration/Customs; Education and NASA Rank as "E-Stars" with Excellent Web Sites ==========> 07-04-00-CACM-AStudyOfSearchActivityOnTheUtahGovWebsite.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 50, Number 4 (2007), Pages 87-92 What are people searching on government web sites? Michael Chau, Xiao Fang, Olivia R. Liu Sheng A study of search activity on the Utah.gov Web site. The U.S. government provides a large amount of information to the public on the Web. While the Freedom of Information Act requires the government and federal agencies to disclose a great deal of information to the public, the Paperwork ==========> 07-04-30-AJMerc-SeveralStatesOpenDatabasesForGoogleSearches.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5783399?nclick_check=1 States open databases for Google searches CALIFORNIA TO LINK ALL DEPARTMENTS By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News, 04/30/2007 01:35:37 AM PDT What started two years ago as a "crazy Google experiment" to increase the amount of information that could be found through the Google search engine has grown into an industry standard that was formally adopted today by California and three other states. ==========> 07-05-16-CornellChron-MakingUSFederalRuleMakingAccessible.txt========== http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May07/CeRI.ws.html Cornell Chronicle, May 16, 2007 Cornell lawyers and computer experts team up to make government rule-making accessible in Internet age, By Bill Steele At least 160 federal agencies churn out rules and regulations -- more than 4,000 a year -- from specifying the height of steps on buses for the disabled to the method of calculating food's fiber content. Before finalizing a rule, government agencies are required to solicit and consider public comment, which, ==========> 07-06-19-TechDaily-GovernmentUnderutilizatioOfInternetIsPolitical.txt========== http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0607/061907tdpm1.htm Panelist notes politics of putting agency information online By Aliya Sternstein National Journal's Technology Daily June 19, 2007 Patrice McDermott, executive director of OpenTheGovernment.org, chose to participate in a Tuesday workshop sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Web Science Research Initiative because she wants to convince techies that the government's underutilization of the Internet has a lot to do with politics. ==========> 07-06-23-AP-CheatingIncresesWithOnlineCourses.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6211742 More online classes, more online cheating By Justin Pope, Associated Press, Article Launched: 06/23/2007 01:35:11 AM PDT The number of college students taking courses online is surging, creating a dilemma for educators who want to prevent cheating. Do you trust students to take an exam on their own computer from home or work, even though it may be easy to sneak a peek at the textbook? Or do you force ==========> 07-07-15-CITMedia-CitizenJournalismHasALongWayToGo.txt========== http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/07/15/citizen-media-a-progress-report-2/ Two Citizen Media Products Deconstructed Citizen Media: A Progress Report, July 15th, 2007 by Dan Gillmor In my keynote at last month’s OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum in Seoul, I was asked to offer a year-on-year progress report on the state of citizen journalism. To sum up: We’ve come a long way. There’s a growing recognition and appreciation of why ==========> 07-07-19-SJMerc-YouTubeVideosToBeUsedToQuestionPresidentialCandidates.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6411665 YouTube presidential debate breaks the rules By Mary Anne Ostrom, Mercury News, 07/19/2007 05:04:51 AM PDT Yes, this is still the YouTube you know and love: The guys from redstateupdate.com want the male Democratic candidates to take off their shirts for an abs contest. The odds are CNN will not choose that video to air at Monday's ==========> 07-07-21-NYT-AccessibilityNotOnlyHurdleInVotingSystemOverhaul.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/washington/21vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, July 21, 2007 Accessibility Isn’t Only Hurdle in Voting System Overhaul, By CHRISTOPHER DREW Democrats in Congress who are trying to redesign the nation’s voting system generally share the same goals: an affordable, easy-to-use system with durable paper ballots that can be used by the disabled without help from poll workers. But yesterday, as House leaders failed for a second day to reach agreement on