Graduate WebShop: The Impact of the Internet on So …. Graduate WebShop:
The Impact of the Internet on Society June 6 11, 2004

University of Maryland College Park
Application deadline for best consideration: April 5, 2004

The Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is hosting the 4th annual graduate student workshop or WebShop. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, up to 50 graduate students and 20 leading scholars and experts who study the behavioral aspects of information technology will discuss current issues and research. Dr. Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland's Computer Science Department is on board to help the WebShop by building bridges to the human computer interaction community.

Student participants will receive up to $350 as a travel support grant as well as room and board. Students will develop original research projects as the basis for their thesis, dissertation, or other publication.

Topics include, but are not limited to: Social Networks, Computer Graphics and Navigational Skills, Inequality/Digital Divide, Public Access and Usage, and Social Capital Implications. Please access the WebShop web page for the latest information about the WebShop and the invited participants.

Please find application information here.

I attended this last year and it is quite good.

[Netwoman]

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i don't do behavioral research except by inference. but this will probably be pretty good.

US Govt seeks comprehensive net monitoring rights. ITVibe – among many others – reports that “The US Justice Department has filed a petition this week to the Federal Communications Commission which requests that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) grant easier access to the FBI and other government agencies… [InternetPolicy.net]

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well, i hope there is a public comment period for this… because it shouldn't happen….

DARPA wants to change TCP/IP. The military agency that funded the creation of TCP/IP, the protocol on which the Internet is based, is no longer happy with it, according to an article by Joab Jackson in Government Computer News: “…Flaws in the basic building blocks… [InternetPolicy.net]

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i think most of the ideas expressed here are either false or will yield more insecure networks, esp. the dynamic networking idea….

Habeas Corpus.

The first Republican president suspended the writ of habeas corpus. According to Silvergate and Takei (thanks, Gillmor! ) the current Republican administration seeks to suspend it forever by making it irrelevant and unenforceable. A commenter on Gillmor's blog writes that

“This issue and others like it is why I am responding from my newly purchased home in Vancouver, BC. With any luck I'll be able to stay here on a permanent basis, although I'd rather not have to request political asylum.”

Update: Larry asks, correctly, what I was thinking to have spelt this habeus. Second conjugation, subjunctive: habeam habeas habeat habeamus habeatis habeant. I should know better. Sorry, Mrs. Ravid!

[Mark Bernstein]

I'm getting alot of drupal hits yesterday and today. i do have a drupal site on this server, jeremy.tmttlt.com which will eventually be my homepage when i finish with it. i also have two drupal sites running on work servers. and of course, everyone has been coming here because i helped jason a wee bit on his server, only the apache side really, everything else is pretty easy.