Category — Internet Research

I am pleased to announce that the first issue of Fast Capitalism is now available at www.fastcapitalism.com.  We are already planning for FC 1.2, for which the (flexible) deadline is May 1st, 2005.  The focus of the second issue will be the future of the American left, although we will certainly welcome articles on other topics.  Please let people know about this new publishing opportunity and have them direct their work to aggerfastcap@uta.edu.

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I worked for a while on this, but there apparently was some miscommunication, and here it is. it looks good.

Broadcasters Try to Steal More of the Public Domain, This Week at WIPO: “

Many of you will remember the broadcasting industry’s efforts to push a power-grabbing treaty through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). If the broadcasters have their way, the treaty will:

• Give broadcasters copyright privileges over material they did not create, but merely broadcast, including control over public domain material. They would get these powers for up to 50 years.
• Make it illegal to circumvent technology locks that enforce broadcasters’ control over what users can do with broadcasts.

And if a small group of webcasters gets their way, they’ll get these powers too.

In the last session the pro-treaty forces were pushing to move to the final stages of negotiation, while the developing countries in opposition were trying to slow down the process to get rid of the most odious positions.

The round of negotiations this week is more of the same, except that now there are even more civil society NGOs in attendance and WIPO recently welcomed a “Development Agenda” that explicitly acknowledges the need for these treaties to promote access to the public domain, not inhibit it. On the other side, the webcasters are making an extra hard push, and there still isn’t a great deal of transparency and media coverage to keep the dogs at bay.

Stay tuned. Union for the Public Domain has two people here to make the arguments for the public domain, and we’ll be posting daily updates to the UPD site (http://public-domain.org), including detailed notes on everything that happens in the assembly hall. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to contact your country’s copyright office to urge them to take a stand against this treaty.

(For more details on the treaty, see: http://www.public-domain.org/node/view/47)”

(Via Union for the Public Domain -.)

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so…. if i were a registered broadcaster, and i rebroadcast c-span stuff in a unique format, it would then be mine? neat…… not really. this is a real butchering of copyright and ownership.

World Bank: Studies in E-Governemnt:
This website provides a large number of resources selected for those interested in promoting e-government in developing nations.

http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/egovstudies.htm——

lots of interesting things here

Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist Methodology – Lincoln Dahlberg, JCMC:

Internet research has become a “field” in its own right in the social sciences, already boasting a number of peer-reviewed journals, a plethora of book titles, and an international association that draws hundreds of researchers from across the globe t——

Lincoln write us up…….

How It Works…The Computer:
http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/003.html

some people need to know what computers are….

Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) Established:

According to a press release from the UN today: “Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the establishment of the Working Group on Internet Governance.  The Working Group will prepare the ground for a decision on this issue by the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, to be held in Tunis in November 2005. The members of the WGIG are given in the press release and also will be listed here.

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well, this is an interesting situation isn’t it…..

Grace Hopper Celebration Coming up soon: The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 6-9 in Chicago Illinois. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2004 is the fifth in a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career…

Internet2: 2004 and Beyond. Internet2 has proven to be a big hit with music conservatories, which use the high-speed research network to conduct lessons by videoconference. (CNET) [Chronicle.com - The Wired Campus]

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it also is good for teaching in general….

Anti-Spam Legislation: Report on non-OECD Countries. This report was originally prepared for the OECD Workshop on Spam held in Brussels (February 2 -3, 2004). Countries covered by the report are: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine. Authors present provide a concise… [InternetPolicy.net]

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why don't more people actually research spam?

several people are coming here for the powerlaws abstract. it is here
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog/2003/08/22.html