Posts from — February 2005

Boycott City – News Archives

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The World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE):
The World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE) is an international non-profit association founded with world class academics and business thought leaders to stimulate, and contribute to the development of the emerging Digital Economy, by promoting research projects as well as educational and training activities, in order to facilitate a balanced growth of the networked economy in Europe and in all countries of the world.
http://www.digiconomy.org/

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this looks like something to watch.

Bush: “I don’t know anything about the 1965 Voting Rights Act”:

cooltech.iafrica.com | tech news Teen buried after ‘blog suicide pact’

Some 1000 mourners gathered in the northern French port of Calais on Tuesday for the funeral of a 15-year-old girl who, along with another teen feared dead, had made a suicide pact published on the web in the form of a blog.

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hmmm…..

Fast Company Now

As a result, it’s no longer legal to publish current photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night without permission. Technically, this applies even to amateurs.

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wipe your memories, stop looking at anything, burn your eyes out, mine mine mine.

roanoke.com – New River Valley Current -First companies prepare to occupy new incubator

Jim Flowers, director of VT KnowledgeWorks, the incubator now under construction, said he is working with 11 companies that could eventually become tenants. He said he expects four of them will be ready to take possession of space in the 45,000-square-foot building once it is ready. Flowers said some of the companies he is courting are from as far away as Ohio, Wisconsin and Toronto, Canada.

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the shock…..

Bird houses in Turkey:
http://www.turkishculture.org/architecture/birdhouses.html

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it is the little things in life that make a big difference.

Yahoo! News – World Photos – AP

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oh my… this is a new low.

ICT Policy: A Beginner’s Guide:
The handbook aims to build the capacity of interested persons to understand the issues around policy on ICT development and regulation, to grasp the policy process,and to become involved in this process.
http://www.apc.org/books/policy_handbook_EN.zip

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this could be handy…..

Working with PCs made simpler for people with severe disabilities:
Thanks to high-performance sensors, developed by the IPCA project, people with severe motor or speech disabilities can now operate a PC.
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cool….