Archive for May, 2006
I love my iPod and use it all the time. I've tried to convince my wife and son that they each need one, but so far they have resisted the hypnotic pull of Cupertino's bestselling product.
According to this post from Engadget "iPod has new role as educational tool" Pearson Education plans to start making downloadable [...]
From today's NY Times:
The flat fee for services, rather than an hourly rate, was an effort to avoid the expense of paperwork and monitoring the staff for fraud.
Mr. Stephens sees the world of service moving toward flat fees. "We are a flat-rate society because people are willing to pay for simplification," he said.
It is easier [...]
From today's Washington Post:
"It's odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books.
The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google's chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile who has a collection of about 10,000 hard-copy volumes lining shelves at his home [...]
As a prof who has been teaching online for eight years now, I always love these kinds of articles where the writer suddenly “discovers” this thing known as learning online. From today’s Washington Post:
Angela
Bostic will get her MBA in August from the University of Maryland
University College, part of a dual master’s degree she is pursuing. [...]
Excellent article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education by Linda Kerber, President of the American Historical Association, about the importance of preserving our nation’s historical record. In the article she discusses three recent incidents where the government has withdrawn information that was previously accessible to the public, and the impact that this will have [...]
For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into the infinite future.
Personally, I’m still holding out for the flying cars.
Court to Rule on Delaware Public Records Law
By RITA K. FARRELL
Published: May 12, 2006
PHILADELPHIA, May 11 — A panel of federal appeals court judges will rule on the constitutionality of Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act, which denies nonresidents access to public records in the state, the legal home of many major corporations.
The three-judge panel of [...]
According to a story in this morning's WSJ, McAfee will be releasing a report today that demonstrates that a major source of spyware, malware, and other online junk is: search engines.
Search Sites Tied
To Viruses, Spyware
McAfee Unit Study Says
Results Pages Have Links
To Risky Web Addresses
By KEVIN J. DELANEY
May 12, 2006; Page A16
New research scheduled to be [...]
Courtesy of Michael Arrington’s Techcrunch:
More Microsoft news today: Live.com has announced the upcoming launch of QnA, and a few screen shots have been conveniently leaked as well (see end of post).
QnA is a question and answer service that looks like it will be a very close copy of Yahoo Answers. Google’s comparable service, Google [...]
“At most big law firms, the partner-associate compact
goes something like this: The partners give the associates big
salaries, meals on the client, cars home at night, fancy offices,
secretaries and a prestigious name on their résumés. The associates
give their complete professional devotion and availability — every
hour of the day, every day of the year.
That compact has gone [...]
