Leading Scientific Publisher Plans to Digitize Content Dating Back 100 Yrs.. From Reuters: “German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of… [beSpacific]

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great news!

Ubiquitous Network Societies.

An international experts workshop on Ubiquitous Network Societies will be held in the March/April 2005 timeframe at ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop plans to address a number of questions, including:

• What are the important technical developments that will enable the shift to a ubiquitous communication environment: sensor networks, flexible software platforms, smart devices, RFID, embedded technologies, context-aware technologies?
• What are some of the key sectors for the early application of ubiquitous technologies: e.g. transport, bio-medical?
• What are some of the important public policy mechanisms for encouraging deployment, e.g. spectrum management?
• What is the impact of ubiquitous technologies on the overall telecommunication industry?
• What corporate strategies are optimal for both traditional & non-traditional enterprises in the shift to ubiquity?
• What consumer protection safeguards are required, for instance privacy safeguards?
• How can we ensure social inclusion and diversity in an increasingly ubiquitous technological environment?
• What will be the impact of ubiquitous technologies on the evolution of society and social behaviour?

A background resources website provides a number of related background resources, in particular, on the following subjects: 

• General Resources
• Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
• Consumers, privacy and ubiquitous technologies
• Convergence for ubiquitous networks
• Human-machine communications

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

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i'm going to try to go to this….

POTUS, Batteries Not Included.. Surely, you don't believe that THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES would cheat during a presidential debate? How could Salon suggest such a thing? No. It can't be. There must be another explanation for the rectangular bulge between his shoulder… [Kathryn Cramer]

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probably true…..

Required reading. via Caveat Lector: How did this report ('ware PDF!) manage to come out in 2001 without attracting my attention? [Topic Exchange: Channel 'invisible_adjunct']

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it is very enlightening.

£140m to put Library of Congress Online

– Psybertron [Psybertron Knowledge Modelling WebLog]

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but… will they….. and what about access…. that is the real issue.

Seblogging:. Sebastian Fielder (re)posts on why grad students should blog, quoting Adrian Miles, who writes that they should for…Several off the cuff reasons: contemporary academics need to be networked academics, in all senses of the word; blogs allow you to establish a research identity in the public sphere; blogs allow you … [Alex Halavais]

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You Don't get tenure without funded research…. can i have tenure, i have almost 1 million so far with my colleagues…. but really…. come on, people get tenure all the time without funded research. perhaps not at a research university though….

Florida Ballots. Go ahead, just try and cast your vote for Kerry…. [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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classic…..

i bet if churches were included this would never have happened…..

to pay for male violence against women……