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Pt1 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Weekly_July_04.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, July 04, 2006 PT1 ****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971***** !!! SPECIAL 35TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION !!! This Newsletter contains a list of the various 35th anniversary events. Normally the Newsletter comes out on Wedneday, but we're doing this one a little bit early for the occasion, in fact, _I_ will be the best man, at my best friend's wedding during this period, so I am writing this in plenty of advance time, and am actually going to mail this advance copy to everyone nearly a week early in the hopes that some of our editors I am hoping will take over the Newsletter will find the time that week to put in the actual numbers, the following are just my own estimates, but I am updating them constantly. The estimates I am using for July 5 are for 100 eBooks per week for the last two weeks. We had 102 last week-- so I am counting on 98 this week. HEADLINES Original Project Gutenberg Newsletter Count Hits 20,000 !!!!!!! [This includes PG Australia, PG Europe, and PrePrints Section]; plus over 75,000 at the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, the grand total of all sites is now nearly 100,000. The PGCC has a number of eBook collections donated from about 100 eLibraries. * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com * Please note these numbers are my guesses I am making a week in advance. *eBook Milestones* ~20,200 eBooks As Of Today!!! 20,200 at www.gutenberg.org[+98] 750 Australian eBooks [+?] [Included in above line] 350 Gutenberg Europe [+?] [Included[ 400 PG PrePrint Site [+?] [Included] 98 Total of Four Sites 20,200 Grand Total of Four Fites ~100,000 Including The PG Consortia Center's 75,000+ 20,000 eBooks Over A 35 Year Period of 1971-2006 Yields 580 per year 48 per month 1.58 per day 20,000 eBooks Over A 15 Year Period of 1991-2006 Yields [Counting from 75 ebooks to 20,075 eBooks June 29] 1333 per year 111 per month 3.65 per day 20,000 eBooks Over A 12 Year Period of 1994-2006 Yields [Counting from 200 ebooks to 20,200 eBooks July 5] 1667 per year 139 per month 4.56 per day ~16,500 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~66.00 Months ~8,700 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~340 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 78 eBooks Per Week In 2006 ~98? 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It took us from Jul 1971 to Dec 1997 to produce our first 2,052 eBooks! That's 26 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 Years!!! 98 New eBooks This Week 108 New eBooks Last Week 239 New eBooks This Month [Jun] 289 Average Per Month in 2006 266 Average Per Month in 2005 Counting 216 PGEu 248 Average Per Month in 2005 Not Counting PGEu 336 Average Per Month in 2004 355 Average Per Month in 2003 203 Average Per Month in 2002 103 Average Per Month in 2001 2052 New eBooks in 2006 3186 New eBooks in 2005 Counting 216 PGeu > 2970 New eBooks in 2005 Not Counting PGEu 4049 New eBooks in 2004 4164 New eBooks in 2003 2441 New eBooks in 2002 1240 New eBooks in 2001 ==== 17,152 New eBooks Since Start Of 2001 That's Only 66.00 Months! ~260 books per month! 20,200 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks 16,633 eBooks This Week Last Year ==== 3,567 New eBooks In Last 12 Months [Incl. 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If we presume 2 out of 3 of these files are overcounts, that leaves a unique book total of ~45,714 Unique eBooks If we presume 3 out of 4 of these files are overcounts, that leaves a unique book total of ~34,286 Unique eBooks The new overall collection size, which has reduced the need to account for duplications and eBooks with files for each chapter, etc. ~75,000 Unique eBooks *** Please also note that over 25,000 eBooks are listed via The Online Books Page, of which over 5,700 are from PG. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ * Statistical Review In the 26 weeks of this year, we have produced 2052 new eBooks. It took us from 07/71 to 01/00 to produce our FIRST 2052 eBooks!!! That's 26 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2052 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format] Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 1 [01frdxxx.xxx] 2101 Bibeln, Gamla och Nya Testamentet 2100 [Language: Swedish] (Note: The Bible, in Swedish) Mar 2000 History of the Moravian Church, by J. E. Hutton [hotmcxxx.xxx] 2099 Mar 2000 A Thief in the Night, by E. W. Hornung[Hornung #4][thfntxxx.xxx] 2098 Mar 2000 The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#16][sign4xxx.xxx] 2097 Mar 2000 A Smaller History of Greece, by William Smith [asmhgxxx.xxx] 2096 Mar 2000 Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, by Brown [clotlxxb.xxx] 2095 (See also #2046 and #241) Mar 2000 The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4 [4sdmsxxx.xxx] 2094 Mar 2000 The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 3 [3sdmsxxx.xxx] 2093 Mar 2000 The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 2 [2sdmsxxx.xxx] 2092 [Reserved: The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 1 2091* Feb 2000 Tao Hua Yuan Ji, by Tao YuanMing [Chinese/English][peachxxx.xxx] 2090 [AKA: Peach Blossom Shangri-la, by Tao YuanMing [short]] [Language: Chinese] Feb 2000 The Reception of the Origin of Species, T H Huxley[oroosxxx.xxx] 2089 Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II [#8][2llcdxxx.xxx] 2088 [Edited by Francis Darwin] Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I [#7][1llcdxxx.xxx] 2087 [Edited by Francis Darwin] Feb 2000 The Slowcoach, by E. V. Lucas [slwchxxx.xxx] 2086 Feb 2000 Cyropaedia, by Xenophon [Tr.: H. G. Dakyns] #14[cyrusxxx.xxx] 2085 The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler 2084 Feb 2000 In Search of the Castaways, by Jules Verne [JV#11][cstwyxxx.xxx] 2083 Feb 2000 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[dbrryxxx.xxx] 2082 [by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon, using a pseudonym] [Introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A.] (Note: Plain text in dbrry11.*; 8-bit in dbrry10.*) Feb 2000 The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#7][blthdxxx.xxx] 2081 Feb 2000 Later Poems & Flower of the Mind, by Alice Meynell[2almyxxx.xxx] 2080 Feb 2000 Memoirs of a Minister of France, by Stanley Weyman[moamfxxx.xxx] 2079 [Title: From the Memoirs of a Minister of France][Weyman #4] Thais, by Anatole France 2078 [Translator: Robert B. Douglas] The Nabob, by Alphonse Daudet 2077 [Translator: W. Blaydes] The Civilization Of China, by Herbert A. Giles 2076 Feb 2000 Crotchet Castle, by Thomas Love Peacock[Peacock#2][ccstlxxx.xxx] 2075 Feb 2000 Civilization of Renaissance in Italy, J Burckhardt[coriixxx.xxx] 2074 Feb 2000 The Valet's Tragedy et al, by Andrew Lang[Lang#22][vlttrxxx.xxx] 2073 [Contains stories about The Man In The Iron Mask, etc. . . .] Michael, by E. F. Benson 2072 Stories By English Authors: Germany, by Various 2071 Contains: The Bird On Its Journey, by Beatrice Harraden Koosje: A Study Of Dutch Life, by John Strange Winter A Dog Of Flanders, by Ouida Markheim, by R. L. Stevenson Queen Tita's Wager, by William Black Feb 2000 To The Last Man, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #12][lstmnxxx.xxx] 2070 Feb 2000 The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Pinches [?rbaaxxx.xxx] 2069 Keziah Coffin, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2068 Beasts, Men and Gods, by Ferdinand Ossendowski 2067 [Translator: Lewis Stanton Palen] Feb 2000 Wildfire, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #11][wldfrxxx.xxx] 2066 Feb 2000 Dick Hamiliton's Airship, by Howard R. Garis [arshpxxx.xxx] 2065 A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, by Samuel Johnson 2064 [Title: A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Feb 2000 The Trail of the White Mule, by B.M. Bower[BMB#11][tttwmxxx.xxx] 2063 Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx] 2062 Feb 2000 Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde[Oscar Wilde22][wldspxxx.xxx] 2061 The History of the Caliph Vathek, by William Beckford 2060 Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx] 2059 Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx] 2058 Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx] 2057 Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx] 2056 Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx] 2055 Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx] 2054 [Language: German] Jan 2000 The American Republic, by O. A. Brownson [amrepxxx.xxx] 2053 Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe 2052 Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe 2051 [Subtitle: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder] Jan 2000 Old John Brown, by Walter Hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx] 2050 Jan 2000 Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion, by Wm Hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx] 2049 Jan 2000 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving #5[sbogcxxx.xxx] 2048 Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx] 2047 (This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library) Contains: Victor Cherbuliez: Count Kostia Paul Bourget: Andre Cornelis Anonymous: The Last of the Costellos; Lady Betty's Indiscretion Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx] 2046 (See also #241) Jan 2000 My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew [depewxxx.xxx] 2045 Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams [eduhaxxx.xxx] 2044 Jan 2000 Stories by Modern American Authors: Scribners Ed.[sbmaaxxx.xxx] 2043 (This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library) Contains: F. Marion Crawford: By The Waters Of Paradise Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Shadows On The Wall Melville D. Post: The Corpus Delicti Ambrose Bierce: An Heiress From Redhorse; The Man And The Snake Edgar Allan Poe: The Oblong Box; The Gold-Bug Washington Irving: Wolfert Webber, Or Golden Dreams; Adventure Of The Black Fisherman Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland'S Madness Fitzjames O'Brien: The Golden Ingot; My Wife'S Tempter Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Minister'S Black Veil Anonymous: Horror: A True Tale Jan 2000 Something New, by P.G. Wodehouse [P.G.Wodehouse#2][smtnwxxx.xxx] 2042 Jan 2000 The House of the Wolf, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#3][hwolfxxx.xxx] 2041 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey 2040 Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [Longfellow #6][vnglnxxx.xxx] 2039 (See also #1365) (8-bit version in:) [vnglnxxi.xxx] Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English, Ed. by Hawthorne 2038 [Title: The Lock and Key Library, Classic Mystery and Detective Stories] [Editor: Julian Hawthorne] Contents: Rudyard Kipling My Own True Ghost Story The Sending of Dana Da In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife A. Conan Doyle A Case of Identity A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League Egerton Castle The Baron's Quarry Stanley J. Weyman The Fowl in the Pot Robert Louis Stevenson The Pavilion on the Links Wilkie Collins The Dream Woman Anonymous The Lost Duchess The Minor Canon The Pipe The Puzzle The Great Valdez Sapphire Novel Notes, by Jerome K. Jerome 2037 Jan 2000 Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel Baker[8yearxxx.xxx] 2036 Stories by English Authors: Orient, by Various 2035 Contains: The Man Who Would Be King, by Rudyard Kipling Tajima, by Miss Mitford A Chinese Girl Graduate, by R. K. Douglas The Revenge Of Her Race, by Mary Beaumont King Billy Of Ballarat, by Morley Roberts Thy Heart's Desire, by Netta Syrett Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since, by Sir Walter Scott 2034 Jan 2000 The Unknown Guest, by Maurice Maeterlinck [ungstxxx.xxx] 2033 [Author: Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck] Jan 2000 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard/Eleanor Farjeon[mpnaoxxx.xxx] 2032 Jan 2000 Lock and Key Library, Magic & Real Detectives [#2][2lckyxxx.xxx] 2031 (This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library) Contains: P. H. Woodward Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department An Erring Shepherd An Aspirant for Congress The Fortune of Seth Savage A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified An Old Game Revived A Formidable Weapon Andrew Lang Saint-Germain the Deathless The Man in the Iron Mask The Legend The Valet's History The Valet's Master Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly M. Robert-Houdin [After whom Harry Houdini named himself] A Conjurer's Confessions Self-Training "Second Sight" The Magician Who Became an Ambassador Facing the Arab's Pistol David P. Abbott Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled A Doctor of the Occult How the Tricks Succeeded The Name of the Dead Mind Reading in Public Some Famous Exposures Hereward Carrington More Tricks of "Spiritualism" "Matter through Matter" Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology Anonymous How Spirits Materialize Legends Of Babylon And Egypt, by Leonard W. King 2030 [Subtitle: In Relation To Hebrew Tradition] Jan 2000 Lahoma, by John Breckinridge Ellis [lahomxxx.xxx] 2029 The Yellow Claw, by Sax Rohmer 2028 Jan 2000 Tartuffe, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere [#1] [trtffxxx.xxx] 2027 The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann 2026 [Translator: J. H. Freese] Jan 2000 My Lady Caprice, by Jeffrey Farnol [lcprcxxx.xxx] 2025 Jan 2000 Diary of a Pilgrimage, by Jerome K. Jerome[JKJ#17][dypgmxxx.xxx] 2024 Jan 2000 Malvina of Brittany, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #16][mlvbtxxx.xxx] 2023 Contains: Malvina of Brittany The Street of the Blank Wall His Evening Out The Lesson Sylvia of the Letters The Fawn Gloves Angling Sketches, by Andrew Lang 2022 Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, by Joseph Conrad 2021 Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible,Edgar R. Burroughs [Tarzan #8][tzntrxxx.xxx] 2020 [Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs] Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx] 2019 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]##### Dec 1999 The Library, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #20][lbrryxxx.xxx] 2018 Dec 1999 The Dhammapada, Translated by F. Max Muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx] 2017 Dec 1999 The 1998 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #8][No#7][world98x.xxx] 2016 Dec 1999 A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton [GKC #13][miscyxxx.xxx] 2015 The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes 2014 Dec 1999 The Pit Prop Syndicate, by Freeman Wills Croft [ptprpxxx.xxx] 2013 The Children, by Alice Meynell 2012 Dec 1999 Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton [Stockton #4][rgrngxxx.xxx] 2011 Dec 1999 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Darwin #6][adrwnxxx.xxx] 2010 Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos6xx.xxx] 2009 Dec 1999 Mazelli, and Other Poems, by George W. Sands[GS#1][mzllixxx.xxx] 2008 Dec 1999 We Two, by Edna Lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx] 2007 Dec 1999 A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #23][frpntxxx.xxx] 2006 Dec 1999 Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [#1][pccjmxxx.xxx] 2005 Dec 1999 "Pigs is Pigs," by Ellis Parker Butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx] 2004 Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx] 2003 [Title: Spirits In Bondage, A Cycle Of Lyrics] [Author Note: C. S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton] Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2002 [Reserved: 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] 2001* Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx] 2000 [Language: Spanish] Dec 1999 Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1] [crmylxxx.xxx] 1999 Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx] 1998 [Tr.: Thomas Common] Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx] 1997 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx] 1996 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx] 1995 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang 1994 Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx] 1993 Dec 1999 Travels in England, and Fragmenta Regalia [trvfgxxx.xxx] 1992 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,525,015,623 that would be 20,200 x 65,250,156 = ~1.31 Trillion !!! With 20,200 eBooks online as of July 04, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.76 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,250,156 x 20,200 x $.76 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] [By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.] [Just turned 299 million last week!] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,200 eBooks online as of July 04, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.50 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.60 when we had 16,633 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. 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by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

GWeekly_June_28_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 21 Jun 2006 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 67 New U.S. eBooks this week - 31 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - Mailing list information - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :: HOW TO GET EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG ::. The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.org/find which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria). And please note: you can now obtain a listing by language at the above link. 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Buckland] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18661 ] [Files: 18661.txt; 18661-8.txt; 18661-h.htm; ] The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria, by Charles A. Gunnison 18660 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18660 ] [Files: 18660.txt; 18660-8.txt; 18660-h.htm; ] The Seventh Manchesters, by S. J. Wilson 18659 [Subtitle: July 1916 to March 1919] [Preface: Anthony M. Henley] [Introduction by Gerald B. Hurst] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18659 ] [Files: 18659.txt; 18659-8.txt; 18659-h.htm; ] In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison 18658 [Contents: California] [ In Macao] [ My Sapphire Ring] [ The Hen That Could Lay and Lie] [ "Oceanic" at Sea] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18658 ] [Files: 18658.txt; 18658-8.txt; 18658-h.htm; ] Love's Comedy, by Henrik Ibsen 18657 [Tr.: C. H. Hereford] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18657 ] [Files: 18657.txt; ] The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18656 [Ill.: Harry L. 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28 Jun '06

pt1a3.606 pt1b3.606 Weekly_June_28.txt ***The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 28, 2006 PT1*** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** * This is my last day here as I prepare to leave for a month of travel on the East Coast [of the US], to be best man at my best friend's wedding, to see my Mom and my brother, whom I have not seen in ages, and to give a few presentations along the way. I plan to be in Connecticut for the first week, not sure of the dates for D.C. and Boston yet, and back for the last week in Connecticut and New York City, after June 19 or so. We are preparing another Newsletter Editor as we speak, and you will be hearing from him next week on July 5, if all goes well. The counting program died last week, and my emailer killed some so it's going to be just George and me counting, sorry. Michael * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter FREE INTERNET REFERENCE SITE LivingInternet.com provides a 700-odd page reference about the Internet "to provide living context and perspective to this most technological of human inventions", and has received input from many people that helped build the Internet. It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day, many from educational institutions. Now in its 7th year of operation. http://www.livinginternet.com/ TEXT TO SPEECH Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer. The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] CANADIAN PROJECT AIMS TO COORDINATE DISPARATE EFFORTS A new initiative called AlouetteCanada is designed to bring together disparate digitization efforts from around Canada into a single online location. Many universities and museums in the country maintain small-scale digitization efforts of material relevant to the history and culture of Canada. Much of this content is inaccessible to most people, however, according to Carole Moore, chief librarian of the University of Toronto, one of the universities participating in AlouetteCanada. The University of Alberta and the University of Brunswick are also part of the project, and Moore said hundreds of other organizations could conceivably contribute material. Ernie Ingles, chief librarian at the University of Alberta, said AlouetteCanada is, in some ways, the antithesis of Google's book-scanning project. Although Google is making content available publicly, he said, "it is making that content available in a commercial way." Ingles questioned whether Google would be around forever to make that content available. Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 June 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/06/2006062101t.htm RESEARCHERS CLAIM FASTEST SILICON CHIP A team of academic and industry researchers has demonstrated a speed of 500 gigahertz for a silicon-based computer chip they developed. The team included individuals from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Korea University in South Korea, and IBM. To reach 500 gigahertz, which is about 250 times faster than many chips used today, the researchers conducted the test in an environment 451 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit); at room temperature, the chip reportedly still reaches speeds of around 350 gigahertz. Technology consultant Dan Olds said the announcement indicates that "we're not coming anywhere near the end in what processors are capable of." IBM's Bernard Meyerson said the chips, which might be available in consumer devices within two years, could lead to significant leaps in the capabilities of computing devices. New York Times, 20 June 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/technology/20chip.html ETHICAL HACKING PROGRAM TO REQUIRE BACKGROUND CHECK Students who want to take part in an ethical hacking program at the University of Abertay in Scotland will be required to pass a background check to weed out those who might apply the skills learned in the program to malicious ends. University officials will work with the Home Office and a Scottish disclosure service to screen applicants, looking for anyone with a criminal background. The program, called Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, is a four-year degree intended to teach hacking skills to students who will then work with businesses to prevent hackers from doing damage to computer systems and data. It is the first program of its kind in the United Kingdom. Responding to concerns that the program will simply create more hackers, Lachlan McKinnon, a professor in the program, said the university will do all it can to ensure students use their skills in a positive manner. He added, however, that there are no guarantees. "Harold Shipman qualified as a doctor, after all," he said, "before deciding to become a murderer." The Register, 19 June 2006 http://www.theregister.com/2006/06/19/hackers_background/ GOOGLE DEBUTS SHAKESPEARE SITE Google has launched a new Web site specifically for the works of William Shakespeare and related resources. At the site, users have access to the full texts of Shakespeare's 37 plays and can search those texts for words or phrases. The site also has links to academic resources concerning the plays, online groups that focus on Shakespeare, and videos of stage productions of Shakespeare's plays. The site also points users toward Google Earth, which coordinates maps of the globe with Internet searching. With Google Earth, users can locate the Globe Theatre in London and find other resources with information about the site. The site was introduced as part of Google's sponsoring of New York's "Shakespeare in the Park." USA Today, 14 June 2006 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-14-shakespeare-google_x.htm WIKIPEDIA ADJUSTS EDITING POLICY Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia based on the model that anyone can contribute to or edit any entry, has placed new restrictions on editing. Certain entries in any reference work are bound to be contentious, and with Wikipedia, disagreements can escalate to a "revert war," in which competing factions simply change an entry back and forth to reflect their opinions. Such disputes have resulted in a status of "protected" for 82 entries, meaning they cannot be changed at all, and a status of "semi-protected" for another 179 entries. Semi-protected entries can only be changed by someone who has been a registered user for more than four days, the idea being that such a "cooling off" period will avoid most of the problems resulting from disagreements. Despite the steps Wikipedia has taken away from the ideal of "anyone can edit," founder Jimmy Wales says the resource works and is valuable. Most entries are only protected for a short period of time, he said, and they represent a fraction of the 1.2 million entries in the English-language version. New York Times, 17 June 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html DOE CONTRACTS FOR PETAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has ordered the first petaflop supercomputing system and an upgrade of its Blue Gene system from Cray. DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced the $200 million arrangement last week, with plans for completion of the new supercomputer in 2008. The new system reportedly will attain 1,000 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops), or one petaflop. Oak Ridge scientists plan to use the system to tackle problems in energy, biology, and nanotechnology. The lab also expects to offer computing time to other researchers through a program that grants supercomputer access to academic and corporate institutions. Federal Computer Week, 26 June 2006 http://www.fcw.com/article95010-06-26-06-Web You've been reading excerpts from Edupage: To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "We follow the law." This reply was repeatedly thrown in the face of Senator Arlen Specter in recent hearings, to determine the scope of the release of national telephone users' information to the intelligence communities, by AT&T CEO Edward Whitacre, as he time and again refused to answer questions directing him to inform the Senate whether AT&T had or had not sent a plethora of information for intelligence gathering operations. In the wake of the revelations by The New York Times that such a data mining opportunity was being given to the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., many a Senator and Congressperson has raised the same question. Harsh criticism of The New York Times ensued, even though they sat on the story for a year before publishing it, and only published it when it became obvious it was going to be published elsewhere. [Note that The Washington Post got scooped on the "Ivy Bells" story-- mentioned in last week's Newsletter, when President Reagan convinced, in a personal phone call to their publisher, them not to run it for a few days, but then someone leaked it to NBC. Whether this was in the way of retaliation for The Washington Post forcing President Nixon to resign over The Watergate Affairs no one is actually saying aloud.] Here are the direct quotations from the current hearings: Specter: Does AT&T provide customer information to any law enforcement agency? Whitacre: We follow the law, senator. Specter: That is not an answer Mr. Whitacre, you know that. Whitacre: That's all I'm gonnna say, is we follow the law. It is an answer. I'm telling you we don't violate the law, we follow the law. Specter: Now, that's a legal conclusion, Mr. Whitacre. You may be right or you may be wrong, but I'm asking you for a factual matter -- does your company provide information to the federal government or any law enforcement agency, information about customers? Whitacre: If it's legal and we're requested to do so, of course we do. Specter: Have you? Whitacre: All I'm going to say is we follow the law. Specter: That's not an answer, it's not an answer, it's an evasion. Whitacre: It's an answer. Specter: If you're under instructions by the federal government... Whitacre: We follow the law, senator. Specter: You've said that. I don't care to hear it again. Whitacre: I don't care to repeat it again, but we do. Specter: Well then, don't. If you're under instructions by the federal government as a matter of state secrecy not to talk, say so. Whitacre: Senator, we follow the law. Specter: Well, I think that answer is contemptuous of this committee. Specter finally forced Whitacre to admit that any response by him would violate what he had been instructed was "classified information." Source: ABC MORE DOUBLESPEAK The Senate refused to repeal 100% of the estate tax that had been vilified as "The Death Tax," by embattled White House guru Karl Rove, but in the end it will cost the real taxpayers just as much, as the deal is being engineered by repealing what may be all timber company taxes to win over Senate votes from timber rich Washington State. All in all The Estate Tax is being repealed for all but the richest 1% or less in the country, and it should be mentioned that that 1% owns half of everything that can be owned in the United States. Source: The Washington Post [I wonder how rest of the country would react to all this if that 1% actually lived on their blocks, and owned half the land, half the cars, half the stocks, bonds, cash, boats, etc. while the next 2% owned half of what was left, and the next 4% owned half of that, etc. . .leaving only a few percent to be earned by 90% of the block's residents???] *QUOTES OF THE WEEK "We follow the law." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK It will eventually be determined that there has been an overall pattern of divulging the personal information of U.S. citizens. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 72% of troops in Iraq say we should get out by the end of 2006. 21% say out now. Source: Zogby, and various sources that quoted the polls also done by Le Moyne College. [As a result, only 6 Senators voted to end the war by year end this week] Americans Lose Touch, Report Fewer Close Friends In the last 20 years the number of close friends reported by Americans has dropped from about 3 to 2. In 1985 2.94 friends a person could discuss the important issues of their lives with were reported. In 2004 that had dropped to 2.08, a drop of .043 per year for those 20 years which would be down to about 2 friends by now, in mid-2006. Not only do Americans have fewer persons they can discuss important matters with, but those they do have are family rather than the traditional friends we tend to think of. "This change indicates something that's not good for our society," said Lynn Smith-Lovin, Professor of Sociology at Duke University. The study appears in the June American Sociological Review. [This supports the growing realization that millions of people in the United States know Oprah Winfrey better than their neighbors] Source: LiveScience.com [Perhaps this is why MySpace has 87 million subscribers!] * The Big 10 Opens Its Own Television Channel In an effort to bring in more money from collegiate sport events The Big 10 has opted to create its very own source of income for their sporting events for the next 20 years, and should reap the amount of an extra $7.5 million per year as a result. The only trouble is that right now you will have to subscribe to DirecTV to get it. For at least the first 10 years of this, there should be some of the normal television coverage of the past, as The Big 10 is now also reported to have inked lucrative deals with Disney's sports coverage, from their ESPN and ABC television subsidiaries. Viewers will have to subcribe to The Big 10 Channel [BTC] via an opt-in selection to DirecTV's Total Choice package, available to just over 15 million households. This isn't the first collegiate sports collective to do this and it certainly won't be the last. Believe it or not, The Big 10's action on this was taken from some little known Western Mountain college conference. [Just one more step on the way to "pay per everything." Whether you pay per month, week, day, or per event, it's still pay per.] DirecTV's Total Choice package costs $41.99 per month. Source: TV Week, Various Big 10 press releases. and www.usdirect.com/programming/total_choice.php * The "Tahiti" oil well is going down further beneath sea level than Mt. Everest goes above sea level. * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers now being mentioned so much in the news. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. 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Corwin 18637 [Title: The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation] [Editor: Edward Corwin] [Subtitle: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the] [United States to June 30, 1952] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18637 ] [Files: 18637.txt; 18637-8.txt; 18637-h.htm; ] The Story of Newfoundland, by Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead 18636 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18636 ] [Files: 18636.txt; 18636-8.txt; 18636-h.htm; ] The Treaty Held with the Indians, by Various 18635 [Title: The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at] [Philadelphia, in July 1742] [Subtitle: To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy] [of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents,] [and Allies] [Editor: Sir George Thomas] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18635 ] [Files: 18635.txt; 18635-8.txt; 18635-h.htm] First Impressions of the New World, by Isabella Strange Trotter 18634 [Subtitle: On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18634 ] [Files: 18634.txt; 18634-8.txt; 18634-h.htm] My Lady of Doubt, by Randall Parrish 18633 [Illustrator: Alonzo Kimball] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18633 ] [Files: 18633.txt; 18633-8.txt; 18633-h.htm] Crossroads of Destiny, by Henry Beam Piper 18632 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18632 ] [Files: 18632.txt; 18632-8.txt; 18632-h.htm] The Lady of Fort St. John, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood 18631 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18631 ] [Files: 18631.txt; 18631-8.txt; 18631-h.htm; ] The Tale of Frisky Squirrel, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18630 [Ill.: Eleanore Fagan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18630 ] [Files: 18630.txt; 18630-h.htm; ] Nature Near London, by Richard Jefferies 18629 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18629 ] [Files: 18629.txt; 18629-8.txt; 18629-h.htm] Oracao funebre, by Antonio Vasconcellos 18628 [Full title: Oracao funebre recitada nas exequias do Illm.^o e Exm.^o] [Sr. Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha] [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18628 ] [Files: 18628-8.txt] Notre-Dame-d'Amour, by Jean Aicard 18627 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18627 ] [Files: 18627-8.txt; 18627-h.htm] The Tale of Major Monkey, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18626 [Illustrator: Lawrence Brehm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18626 ] [Files: 18626.txt; 18626-h.htm] Contemporary American Literature, John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert 18625 [Subtitle: Bibliographies and Study Outlines] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18625 ] [Files: 18625.txt; 18625-8.txt; 18625-h.htm] Rouva Katariina Boije ja hanen tyttarensa, by Frederika Runeberg 18624 [Subtitle: Kertomus ison vihan ajoilta] [Translator: Arvo Lempiranta] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18624 ] [Files: 18624-8.txt] Le saucisson a pattes I, by Eugene Chavette 18623 [Subtitle: Fil-a-beurre] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18623 ] [Files: 18623-8.txt; 18623-h.htm] Captain Sam, by George Cary Eggleston 18622 [Subtitle: The Boy Scouts of 1814] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18622 ] [Files: 18622.txt; 18622-8.txt; 18622-h.htm; ] The Story of Cooperstown, by Ralph Birdsall 18621 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18621 ] [Files: 18621.txt; 18621-8.txt; 18621-h.htm] Phantasten, by Erich von Mendelssohn 18620 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18620 ] [Files: 18620-8.txt; 18620-0.txt; 18620-h.htm] The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II., by Various 18619 [Subtitle: The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18619 ] [Files: 18619.txt; 18619-8.txt; 18619-0.txt; 18619-h.htm] Stories of Later American History, by Wilbur F. Gordy 18618 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18618 ] [Files: 18618.txt; 18618-8.txt; 18618-h.htm; ] On The Blockade, by Oliver Optic 18617 [Subtitle: SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18617 ] [Files: 18617.txt; 18617-8.txt; 18617-h.htm] Moral Principles and Medical Practice, by Charles Coppens 18616 [Subtitle: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18616 ] [Files: 18616.txt; 18616-8.txt; 18616-0.txt; 18616-h.htm] Hugh, by Arthur Christopher Benson 18615 [Subtitle: Memoirs of a Brother] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18615 ] [Files: 18615.txt; 18615-8.txt; 18615-h.htm; ] At the Back of the North Wind, by Elizabeth Lewis and George MacDonald 18614 [Ill.: Maria L. Kirk] [This is clearly from a different edition than that used to prepare] [e-book #225 (etext95/nwind10.txt).] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18614 ] [Files: 18614.txt; 18614-8.txt; 18614-h.htm; ] The Golden Scorpion, by Sax Rohmer 18613 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18613 ] [Files: 18613.txt; ] >From the Housetops, by George Barr McCutcheon 18612 [Illustrator: F. Graham Cootes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18612 ] [Files: 18612.txt; 18612-8.txt; 18612-0.txt; 18612-h.htm] Les vrais sous-offs, by Georges Darien and Edouard Dubus 18611 [Subtitle: Reponse a M. Descaves] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18611 ] [Files: 18611-8.txt; 18611-h.htm] Eloge du sein des femmes, by Claude-Francois-Xavier Mercier de Compiegne 18610 [Subtitle: Ouvrage curieux] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18610 ] [Files: 18610-8.txt; 18610-h.htm] Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, by Felix Mendelssohn 18609 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18609 ] [Files: 18609.txt; 18609-mus.mus; 18609-pdf.pdf ] Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, by Lewis Redner 18608 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18608 ] [Files: 18608.txt; 18608-p.pdf 10608-mus.mus ] The Manobos of Mindanao, by John M. Garvan 18607 [Subtitle: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18607 ] [Files: 18607-8.txt; 18607-h.htm; ] The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods, by Hildegard G. Frey 18606 [Subtitle: Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18606 ] [Files: 18606.txt; ] A Pair of Patient Lovers, by William Dean Howells 18605 [Contents: A Pair of Patient Lovers]] [ The Pursuit of the Piano] [ A Difficult Case] [ The Magic of a Voice] [ A Circle in the Water] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18605 ] [Files: 18605.txt; 18605-8.txt; 18605-h.htm; ] The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales, by Hans Christian Anderson 18604 [Translator: Fanny Fuller] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18604 ] [Files: 18604.txt; 18604-8.txt; 18604-h.htm] What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, by William Graham Sumner 18603 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18603 ] [Files: 18603.txt; 18603-8.txt; 18603-h.htm] The Fourth R, by George Oliver Smith 18602 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18602 ] [Files: 18602.txt; 18602-8.txt; 18602-h.htm] Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, by Joshua Coffin 18601 [Subtitle: and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18601 ] [Files: 18601.txt] Mi Ultimo Adios, by Jose Rizal 18600 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18600 ] [Files: 18600-8.txt; 18600-h.htm] Bully and Bawly No-Tail, by Howard R. 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PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

pt1a2.606 pt1b2.606 Weekly_June_21.txt ***The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 21, 2006 PT1*** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** * Project Gutenberg of Australia Passes 700 eBooks! Distributed Proofreaders Passes 8,600 eBooks! At the moment I am writing this, just over an hour to our normal press time, we have 103 eBooks done this week, with 4 more promised by CEO Greg Newby... which leaves only 2 more to get us to 20,000. . . . I am preparing this edition as if none of those will come in during the hour I have left before I usually send out the Newsletter, but I will wait a half hour for Greg to come into his office to see how he is doing. With one hour to go we are at 19,994 and counting. . . . With 35 minutes to go we are at 19,997 and counting. . . . Thanks!!!!!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!!!!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. 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Even with the speeded up process of the PrePrints Section, it still takes a certain amount of time to collect and put such a large collection online in a proper manner. * 75,000+ eBooks at the PG Consortia Center http://www.gutenberg.cc [Including after July 4] * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter FREE INTERNET REFERENCE SITE LivingInternet.com provides a 700-odd page reference about the Internet "to provide living context and perspective to this most technological of human inventions", and has received input from many people that helped build the Internet. It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day, many from educational institutions. Now in its 7th year of operation. http://www.livinginternet.com/ TEXT TO SPEECH Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer. The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM MICROSOFT Microsoft has announced a donation of as much as $30 million in software to high school and college students in Massachusetts. The software package will include software-writing and Web-development tools and is valued at about $800 per high school student and $2,400 per college student. The software will be offered to all public high schools and colleges in the state; the total amount of the donation will depend on how many of the state's students participate in the program. Massachusetts has about 300,000 high school and 125,000 college students. Nate Mackinnon, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Education, said the donation could help minimize a growing gap in science between U.S. and international students by seeding an interest in technology in high school and being able to foster those skills in college. Associated Press, 13 June 2006 http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5026245 NIELSEN TO TRACK ONLINE VIEWERSHIP [The Times They Are A'Changin!] Responding to a changing landscape of media, Nielsen Media Research has said it will begin tracking viewership of television programs over the Internet. Media companies have criticized Nielsen for only tracking shows that people watch on televisions in their homes, even as growing numbers of consumers watch shows on computers, cell phones, or other devices, both at home and away from home. The new tracking tools will be introduced over several years and could have a considerable bearing on ratings of shows, particularly sporting events, which analysts believe are especially likely to be watched outside the home. Nielsen said it would provide its "Nielsen families"--those whose television viewing provides ratings data--with portable devices so they can keep tabs on any television they watch away from their homes. Wall Street Journal, 15 June 2006 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115030869031780267.html FEDS SUE TO PROTECT NSA ACTIVITIES The U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against the attorney general of New Jersey to prevent her from finding out whether telecom companies in the state have provided customer information to the National Security Agency (NSA). An uproar followed the reporting last month that several companies had given call data to the NSA as part of its efforts to find and fight terrorists. Citing a range of privacy concerns, many objected to those transfers of information and filed lawsuits to prevent further such cooperation. Zulmia Farber, attorney general of New Jersey, sent subpoenas to a number of telecom companies, seeking to find out whether they had provided data to the NSA. The new lawsuit from the Justice Department argues that complying with those subpoenas would reveal information that would ultimately threaten national security. The suit claims that Farber does not have the authority to request such information. CNET, 16 June 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6084665.html You've been reading excerpts from Edupage: To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 Extra! Nokia and Siemens are merging to create a combined cell phone and Internet provider system with great horizontal and vertical integration. They say the number of cell phones will be FOUR BILLION in 2010 All the more reason for Project Gutenberg to make cell phone eBooks more and more available. The number of computers in 2010 may not even make it to two billion. *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK *QUOTES OF THE WEEK Ben Bradlee, Editor of the Washington Post during the huge events surrounding the Watergate burglary by a White House created "Plumbers Unit" to "stop leaks," said in interview conversations with Jim Lehrer of The PBS News Hour, that a story he withheld at the request of very high officials in Washington about the US wiretaps of Russian communications via an undersea cable, then appeared on NBC while he could have allowed Bob Woodward, who also broke Watergate, to do the story in The Washington Post. President Reagan called Katherine Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post and personally convinced her not to run the story. Ben Bradlee said reporting truth was the highest standard, except when lives were at stake, or national security. However, he added that most of the time when someone would claim national security, it was really their own security. The Russians had had the Ivy Bells listening device on KGB museum display for years, so there is some questions as to how much national security was involved, but Reagan said a number of terrorist incidents had been foiled in just that year due to information from Ivy Bells, and that the story might make the Russians think again about the subject. In addition Bradlee said, "Don't be a member of anything," country clubs, press clubs, etc., you must be independent. Source: PBS, 6/19 Codename: Operation Ivy Bells Search: "Ivy Bells" Moscow See: Veils, The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, by Bob Woodward * CIA Director John McLaughlin said that as soon as the 2nd plane hit The World Trade Center everyone knew it was Bin Laden carrying out his threats. Frontline, PBS 6/20 *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The originating Project Gutenberg sites will reach a total of 20,000 eBooks in a few hours. The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, eBooks originating from ~100 other eBook sites and donated for our use, would likely reach a total of 80,000 eBooks by July 4. Thus the entire Project Gutenberg at all five sites should be ~100,000 eBooks on July 4, 2006. [We are looking for someone to catalogue the relationships between the various collections, identify duplications and create a general overall catalog. Thanks for your help!] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Once a minute in the U.S. an ambulance is turned away from a hospital because of overcrowding and "many hospitals have shut down emergency rooms to save money." NBC News, CBS News 06/14 ABC News 06/16 * 51% of colleges students have visited MySpace, 78% for Facebook. Inside Higher Ed, 16 June 2006 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/16/internet * Noticed an Increase in Radio and Television Commercials? There are now segments on the radio that contain more commercial time than programming time. . .on a regular basis. However, I noted when logging one of these today, that they seem to have gotten some message about just how much they can include as the commercials roughly equalled the substantive material. When I first started monitoring this it appeared as if sometimes the advertising was literally 5 times as long as the "program." Interestingly enough, these are likely driving listeners to just channel surf more and more, as radios and televisions become the frontlines of a new kind of "economic warfare" in which the ads, such as they are, are being force fed through alimentaries of an ever more angry listening and viewing audience. The trouble is that these advertisers are losing their audience, their prime audience, those who can afford to buy all the stuff, both to non-commercial subscription services and Tivo, etc., who lets them skip the commercials altogether. By the way, in case you didn't know, legislation has been put in committees to FORCE the commercials to be included in programs-- which will lead to even more channel surfing. As long a people have an alternative, and commercials are not an entertaining format, people will find ways to ignore them. Some Madison Avenue types are making millions by making ads that you can't really tell are ads, or that contain music you want to hear and so keep the channel where it is. . . . See previous story about "Product Integration." * One of the longest running TV shows in the world will end July 30, 2006. "Top of the Pops" debuted 1964; The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles started and ended that first show. Today the show is syndicated to over 100 nations, all over the world, but the BBC says it is time to hand over the reins to a new music media generation that gets its music from iPods, the Internet, and other sources. Today the show brings in just barely a million BBC viewers but there was no count for the 100+ other countries, to compare to the 19 million viewers at its highest ratings. Source: The Guardian Unlimited * In local news, one of the U of Illinois home towns will double it's property taxes to provide for the poor, and will match up now with the property taxes of the other home town. Champaign and Urbana are the UI home towns. The trouble with property taxes is that then then you rent the property they pretend you own. I paid more in property taxes, this year, than I ever paid in rent any year of my life. * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers now being mentioned so much in the news. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * Poem of the Week by Simona Sumanaru Joyride You make me be a child with colored toys of playfulness and youth and pinkish cheeks of passion and laughter running down the streets bare feet white dress fluttering as I go carefree, hopeful, unaware bumping into these little old ladies going to church on early Sundays apologizing with a song and riding aback the morning breeze rushing to meet Spring and as I listen to the blooming trees I learn that I was born to be riding on the swirl of love. (C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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!@! Just TWO Books Needed for 20,000!!!
by Michael Hart 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Anyone got anything coming in the next THREE hours??? ;-) Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org

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Michael Hart on East Coast in July
by Michael Hart 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

It appears as if I will be spending most of July on the East Coast, perhaps as far north as Dartmouth/Boston and south to Fort Belvoir. Please advise if you would like to see me. Thanks!!! Michael

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