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by Michael Hart 31 May '06

31 May '06

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[Daily PrePrints stats at http://preprints.readingroo.ms/] * ~75,000 eBooks at the PG Consortia Center [Including after July 4] http://www.gutenberg.cc * ***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] CAMPUS LANDLINES GIVING WAY TO CELL PHONES [All this while other colleges ban cell phones as cheating aids] A growing number of colleges and universities are questioning their ongoing investments in providing landline phone services to students. Indeed, some institutions have decided to discontinue landlines altogether. Morrisville State College, for example, no longer offers landline service in dorms. While some universities rely on students to provide their own cell phones, the University of Cincinnati is working with a local phone company to provide free cell phones to all students. Frederick Siff, vice president and CIO at the university, noted that cell-phone technology makes them more attractive for a range of tasks than laptops. "Students don't carry laptops around constantly," he said, "but they always have their cell phones." Officials at other schools expressed concerns about eliminating landline service or limiting it to a few house phones in dorms. Although money spent on landlines could be reinvested elsewhere, some said that safety issues make a strong case for keeping wired phone service. CBS News, 24 May 2006 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/24/tech/main1653702.shtml LECTURER DROPS LECTURES FOR PODCASTS [I wonder if anyone remembers when the same thing was tried with tape. Both audio tapes and video tapes were tried for various lectures, but were cancelled when it turned out that the classes sent only 1 or 2, and those hande out their notes to rest of them. Will the same thing happen with these podcasts?] A lecturer in microbiology at Bradford University in the United Kingdom has said he will eliminate traditional lectures from his biochemistry course and replace them with podcasts. Students in Bill Ashraf's class will review the podcasts on their own time. They will submit questions to Ashraf through text messages, and he will respond to those inquiries on his blog. In addition, students needing to meet with Ashraf will be able to check his schedule online and make appointments with the professor through the Web. "Some lecture classes have 250 students," said Ashraf, "so I question the effectiveness of a didactic lecture for an hour." He said the new format will be especially beneficial for distance and part-time students and those with less flexible schedules. BBC, 26 May 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm [and in a related story] REPORT WARNS OF RISING PHONE, INTERNET COSTS A group called Keep USF Fair Coalition released a report that warns of possibly rising costs for colleges and universities to provide telephone and Internet services on their campuses. The Universal Service Fund (USF) is a tax on phone lines, currently based on the number of long-distance calls made. Under a proposal by the Federal Communications Commission, USF fees would become $1 or $1.50 for every phone line or Internet access point. A recent study by the American Council on Education estimated that such a change would cause most institutions' USF fees to rise by nearly 900 percent. Wake Forest University, for example, said its phone bill would increase from about $400 a month to about $7,000. The coalition's report argues that if the change is made, colleges and universities will likely either cut back services or pass the costs along to students. Martin Ringle, chief technology officer at Reed College, agreed, saying that in the event that the fee is changed, Reed might consider ending phone services to dorms, given the growing numbers of students who have cell phones. However, "students without cell phones," he pointed out, "would quickly become a disadvantaged class." Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 May 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i38/38a03702.htm NEW ORLEANS TO GET NEW WIRELESS NETWORK The city of New Orleans has announced a deal under which EarthLink will build a wireless network for the city, addressing complaints about wireless service previously offered by the city in violation of a state law. The law, intended to create a level playing field for commercial vendors, forbids municipalities from offering wireless Internet service at speeds faster than 128 Kbps. New Orleans had been offering service at 512 Kbps. In the new deal, EarthLink will build a 15-square-mile network that will provide free Internet access at speeds of 300 Kbps. The free service will be supported by advertising; residents will also have the option of paying for faster service without ads. EarthLink will bear the cost of building and maintaining the network. Wi-Fi Planet, 26 May 2006 http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3609401 ADMISSIONS SITES GROWING IN IMPORTANCE New data reveal that college and university Web sites are the second most important component of recruiting efforts, behind campus visits by prospective students. Specifically, online tools such as blogs are attracting growing numbers of high school students to help them decide what institution to attend. Other institutions offer different kinds of online resources. North Dakota State University, for example, lets students find others with similar interests and exchange e-mail. Reflecting the inclinations of today's college-bound students, unedited online resources have become important offerings, despite grammatical and spelling mistakes, according to several higher education consultants. Steve Kappler, an executive director at consulting firm Stamats, said that the informality of such tools is appealing to students. He encouraged colleges and universities to let all but "egregious" content be posted in such venues. Many see the emergence of Internet resources as a way to give prospective students the opportunity to talk to current students, bypassing what they might see as the sales pitch of admissions officers. ABC News, 22 May 2006 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1990599 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 [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] US Supreme Court Justice Alito Casts Deciding Vote As He Joins With New Chief Justice In Major Decision "Workers' Complaints Muffled" Cape Cod Times "Whistleblowers Lose In Ruling" Whittier Daily News Employees' Speech Not Protected" Fort Worth Star Telegram DetNews.com - Online Athens (subscription) - all 378 related ; "Supreme Court Scales Back Protections for Whistleblowers" DetNews.com [Not much coverage on this, if any, by the three networks' news last night] * Several News Sources Report US Airline Information "Bullying" Computerworld and the BBC both labeled the US efforts to force passenger lists from EU airlines as "transAtlantic bullying." If you flew one of these airlines you might have found that 35 pieces of information about you were sent to US Intelligence, originally even including what mean you chose to eat, if any. Your credit card information would have been just one of these. Meal choice has since been dropped, so the total is 34. However, the EU has decided no one had the authority to grant the requests, throwing this intelligence gathering net into a tizzy. * Lance Armstrong Exonerated, Officials Now Under Investigation Not only was Lance Armstrong just cleared of doping accusations concerning the 1999 Tour de France, but the table are now turned and those who were accusing him are now under investigation for impropriety in their pursuit of Mr. Armstrong. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Depending on which US government officials you listened to this week, the number of US troops in Iraq is either going up or down. *QUOTES OF THE WEEK You are "making business as usual a crime." Kenneth Lay, NBC, 5/25 US government sources finally admitted Iraq insurgency is on the rise, exactly 1 year after Vice President Cheney's famous speech stating the opposite was in fact the case and light at the end of the tunnnel. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK "Product Integration" versus "Product Placement" Have you noticed that the products sponsoring the TV shows you are watching have begun to show up in the plot line? Are your favorite characters buyin more Oreos or Oil of Olay, just to sample a small portion of the advertising alphabet. Of course it won't be something such as a CSI investigator reporting that the victim choked to death on Oreos [TM], because that wouldn't enhance Oreos' [TM] image, but that is the general idea being forced down the throats of the writers who now have to work these into the plot lines. And by their own admission, the WRITERS are choking on it, according to representatives from Desperate Housewives and ER on the one hand, and Law and Order and The West Wing, on the other. Recent episodes confirmed this trend when the family of CBS's new show How I Met Your Mother somehow stopped a literal family feud that was the central plot line just because of Red Lobster, which was not only shown in the show, but a carefully placed ad for Red Lobster was the most cunning editorial achievement of the night. Weeks earlier, 7th Heaven's WB family of note had discussions cunningly worked into the show about their favorite way to eat Oreos, a plot line that has now worked its way a ways across the great divide to radio. Also on the WB, Pepper Dennis's writers managed to work the promotional box of Crest Whitening Strips that you get in the mail, right in front of the camera, not totally unlike Jackie Chan's thing with the Pepsi Can. Sheesh. It is not as if the story stops here, you might be hard pressed with effort worthy of an academic researcher to find just an example week on an example network during "May Sweeps," where this kind of thing wasn't part of the fare: fair or otherwise, that is the fare being paid by networks-- then foisted by them on to their writers--and then from them on to the actors--and then on to the viewers. "The Trickle Down Theory of Economics" in action, right in front of millions and millions of viewers. This can work in the opposite direction, apparently the writers of Desperate Housewives were pressured from the makers of a certain hot car NOT to have specific driver seen in the car. . .which apparently led to one parting of the ways. . .at least on that particular scene. Sometimes the plot thickens over time, and a 7th Heaven episode also feature Oreos again, with engagement ring, yes you heard it right, an engagement ring somehow made into an Oreo. _I_ didn't even think they MADE enagement rings in such tiny sizes this would require, even with Double Stuff-- talk about pushing a point! Sources: The Writers' Guild of America Mediapost, May 18 New York Times, May 18 *STATISTICS OF THE WEEK "The American Booksellers Association has crumbled from 5,200 bookstores in 1991 to 1,702 stores in 2005." The Village Voice, May 22 * It has now been one year since Bush's big tax cut. Workers earning under $15,000 got a $0 difference. Persons earning $1-2 million got $82,000. * On May 12 the US Senate Approved Bush Tax Cut Extensions Voting was 54-44, with three from each party switching sides. The house voted 244-185 a little earlier. "This is a defining day," according to John W. Snow, Treasury Secretary, "The vote today will show the American people who supports lower taxes and who doesn't," as he and Senate Repulicans lined up support for the soon to come elections. [Of course the future of the Treasury Department changed a lot since.] Source: The Washington Times * I didn't get this quote exactly, sorry, but someone on Fox News Sunday mentioned requests made to drop charges re: warrantless wiretaps. 5/28 * 400Gb drives on sale for $119 500Gb drives on sale for $190 750Gb drives are now $438 Thus you can now add a terabyte in two drives for $380, or 1.2Tb in 3 drives for $357. * The average American woman now has her first child at 25, up from 21.4 in 1970 to 25.1 as of 2002. Switzerland had the highest age, already up to 29 as of the year 2000. In the UK the average age is 27, and single parent births are up from 15% in 1980 to 40% today. Source: CDC and BBC * 80% of US workers report they feel their job will last at least one more year, and 50% expect a promotion in that year. * 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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24 May '06

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RESERVED/PENDING count: 43 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: Burlesques, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2675 [Updated edition of: etext01/brlsq10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/7/2675 ] [Files: 2675.txt; 2675-h.htm] The Story of a Mine, by Bret Harte 2661 [Updated edition of: etext01/tsoam10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/6/2661 ] [Files: 2661.txt; 2661-h.htm] George Cruikshank, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2648 [Updated edition of: etext01/cruik10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/4/2648 ] [Files: 2648.txt; 2648-h.htm] John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, William Makepeace Thackeray 2646 [Updated edition of: etext01/jlplc10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/4/2646 ] [Files: 2646.txt; 2646-h.htm] The Second Funeral of Napoleon, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2645 [Author AKA: Michael Angelo Titmarch] [Updated edition of: etext01/2napf10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/4/2645 ] [Files: 2645.txt; 2645-h.htm] Clarence, by Bret Harte 2635 [Updated edition of: etext01/clrnc10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/2635 ] [Files: 2635.txt; 2635-h.htm] Roundabout Papers, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2608 [Updated edition of: etext01/rndbt10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/0/2608 ] [Files: 2608.txt; 2608-h.htm] Legends and Tales, by Bret Harte 2599 [Contents] [The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo] [The Adventure Of Padre Vincentio] [The Legend Of Devil's Point] [The Devil And The Broker] [The Ogress Of Silver Land] [The Ruins Of San Francisco] [A Night At Wingdam] [Updated edition of: etext01/landt10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/9/2599 ] [Files: 2599.txt; 2599-h.htm] Urban Sketches, by Bret Harte 2598 [Contents:] [A Venerable Impostor] [From A Balcony] [Melons] [Surprising Adventures Of Master Charles Summerton] [Sidewalkings] [A Boy's Dog] [Charitable Reminiscences] ["Seeing The Steamer Off"] [Neighborhoods I Have Moved From] [My Suburban Residence] [On A Vulgar Little Boy] [Waiting For The Ship] [Updated edition of: etext01/urbns10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/9/2598 ] [Files: 2598.txt; 2598-h.htm] Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2597 [Contents] [Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands] [How Santa Claus Came To Simpson's Bar] [The Princess Bob And Her Friends] [The Iliad Of Sandy Bar] [Mr. Thompson's Prodigal] [The Romance Or Madrono Hollow] [The Poet Of Sierra Flat] [The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert] [Updated edition of: etext01/skggs10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/9/2597 ] [Files: 2597.txt; 2597-h.htm] On the Frontier, by Bret Harte 2574 [Contents] [At The Mission Of San Carmel] [A Blue Grass Penelope] [Left Out On Lone Star Mountain] [Updated edition of: etext01/frntr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/7/2574 ] [Files: 2574.txt; 2574-h.htm] The Three Partners, by Bret Harte 2560 [Updated edition of: etext01/tpart10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/6/2560 ] [Files: 2560.txt; 2560-h.htm] Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2556 [Contents] [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] [The Man At The Semaphore] [An Esmeralda Of Rocky Canyon] [Dick Spindler's Family Christmas] [When The Waters Were Up At "Jules'"] [The Boom In The "Calaveras Clarion"] [The Secret Of Sobriente's Well] [Liberty Jones's Discovery] [Updated edition of: etext01/jhmln10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2556 ] [Files: 2556.txt; 2556-h.htm] Under the Redwoods, by Bret Harte 2555 [Contents] [Jimmy's Big Brother From California] [The Youngest Miss Piper] [A Widow Of The Santa Ana Valley] [The Mermaid Of Lighthouse Point] [Under The Eaves] [How Reuben Allen "Saw Life" In San Francisco] [Three Vagabonds Of Trinidad] [A Vision Of The Fountain] [A Romance Of The Line] [Bohemian Days In San Francisco] [Updated edition of: etext01/unrdw10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2555 ] [Files: 2555.txt; 2555-h.htm] Thankful's Inheritance, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2552 [Updated edition of: etext01/thkin10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2552 ] [Files: 2552.txt; 2552-h.htm] Tales of Trail and Town, by Bret Harte 2550 [Contents] [The Ancestors Of Peter Atherly] [Two Americans] [The Judgment Of Bolinas Plain] [The Strange Experience Of Alkali Dick] [A Night On The Divide] [The Youngest Prospector In Calaveras] [A Tale Of Three Truants] [Updated edition of: etext00/totat10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2550 ] [Files: 2550.txt; 2550-h.htm] >From Sand Hill to Pine, by Bret Harte 2544 [Contents:] [A Niece Of Snapshot Harry's] [A Treasure Of The Redwoods] [A Belle Of Canada City] [What Happened At The Fonda] [A Jack And Jill Of The Sierras] [Mr. Bilson's Housekeeper] [Updated edition of: etext01/fshtp10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/4/2544 ] [Files: 2544.txt; 2544-h.htm] Openings in the Old Trail, by Bret Harte 2535 [Contents:] [Openings In The Old Trail] [A Mercury Of The Foot-Hills] [Colonel Starbottle For The Plaintiff] [The Landlord Of The Big Flume Hotel] [A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance] [The Reincarnation Of Smith] [Lanty Foster's Mistake] [An Ali Baba Of The Sierras] [Miss Peggy's Proteges] [The Goddess Of Excelsior] [Updated edition of: etext01/oitot10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/3/2535 ] [Files: 2535.txt; 2535-h.htm] The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., by W. 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However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. * The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 4th was the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon. 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24 May '06

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[Daily PrePrints stats at http://preprints.readingroo.ms/] * ~75,000 eBooks at the PG Consortia Center [Including after July 4] http://www.gutenberg.cc * ***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] PROGRAM AIMS TO LOWER COSTS FOR PCS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [Do you pay half the price to start, and then 50-75 cents an hour? Are there any interest charges, etc? What operating system?] A new program supported by Microsoft aims to provide developing countries with low-cost access to computer technology through a subscription service. Under the FlexGo program, consumers pay a reduced price for a PC and then pay for usage of the computer until it is paid off. After buying a computer for about half of its retail value, customers would buy time on the machine for 50 to 75 cents per hour. When the full cost of the computer is paid, the user would then own the machine and would not incur any more charges. Microsoft, which has criticized Nicholas Negroponte's plan to offer $100 laptops to developing nations, said this plan will provide users with full-featured computers. According to Mike Wickstrand, director of product management in the market expansion group at Microsoft, the FlexGo program lets consumers buy "a PC that they want and not a PC that they had to settle for." Wickstrand said the FlexGo model accommodates the irregular incomes that many people in developing countries have, allowing them to pay for their computer when they are able. Silicon.com, 22 May 2006 http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39159025,00.htm FEDS NERVOUS ABOUT LENOVO DEAL The U.S. State Department will reportedly not use any of the computers it recently purchased from Lenovo for classified information due to concerns over the company's connection with the Chinese government. Last year, Chinese computer maker Lenovo bought IBM's PC business, and in March of this year, the State Department ordered 16,000 Lenovo computers valued at $13 million through standard purchasing rules. When the deal was announced, Michael Wessel, a member of the congressionally created U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, argued that use of the computers should be monitored in case they included code that could be activated remotely. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chair of a House committee with responsibility for State Department funding, picked up those concerns, and an aide to his office confirmed that the Lenovo machines will be restricted to non-classified uses. Officials with Lenovo offered no immediate comment, saying they were reviewing the decision. CNET, 19 May 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-7350_3-6074207.html USPTO TO REEXAMINE ONLINE TESTING PATENT Based on concerns raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) about "prior art," the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced it will conduct a reevaluation of a patent granted in 2003 for online testing. The notion of prior art covers whether the subject of a patent is indeed original--and patentable--or whether another party had previously developed the item or technology in question. The patent at issue was granted to Test.com for technologies broadly related to offering tests online. If valid, the patent would allow the company to claim patent authority over a wide range of online testing tools deployed at colleges and universities, and the company has already approached some institutions about licensing the patent. According to the EFF, however, another company offered such tools for sale at least one year before the Test.com patent was issued. The review process is expected to take at least two months. James J. Posch, chief executive of Test.com, noted that their patent claim has passed muster once already. "I'll be surprised if it doesn't survive a second time," he said. Jason Schultz, staff lawyer at the EFF, had a different outlook, saying that he is confident the patent will be invalidated unless Test.com discloses some secret evidence. Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 May 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006051901t.htm ANTISPAM OUTFIT CRUSHED BY SPAMMER RETALIATION An antispam start-up based in Israel has shut its doors after a barrage of retaliatory action from spammers. In July 2005, Blue Security launched the Blue Frog service to fight spam. Users who signed up with the service would submit spam they received, which Blue Security would then use to flood the servers of spammers and the merchants whose products were advertised in those spam messages. If a spammer had a Web site that allowed users to opt out of receiving more messages, Blue Security would swamp those sites with opt-out requests. Officials from Blue Security said their tactic decreased the amount of spam many of its customers received, but it also prompted spammers to respond. Starting in May, Blue Security was the target of a denial-of-service attack, and Blue Security customers began receiving threats from spammers. The prospect of further attacks from spammers, many of whom have deep resources at their disposal, led Blue Security to end operations. "We cannot take the responsibility for an ever-escalating cyber war through our continued operations" said a statement on the company's site. "We believe this is the responsible thing to do." BBC, 17 May 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4990622.stm RIAA SUES XM RECORDING DEVICE The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a federal lawsuit against XM Radio, broadcaster of digital radio, alleging that the company's new Inno recording device will allow "massive wholesale infringement" of copyrights. XM, which introduced the Inno this month, had been in talks with the RIAA over royalties for songs saved on the portable device, but those talks reportedly broke down. In its complaint, the RIAA argued that the new device will allow users to record any of the vast amount of content that XM broadcasts, leaving users with "little need ever again to buy legitimate copies of plaintiffs' sound recordings." The suit asks for $150,000 in damages for every song recorded by XM customers. Officials from XM pointed out that digital radio is not an on-demand service, meaning listeners can only record what the station happens to play, unlike an online music service such as Apple's iTunes. XM said the new device allows consumers to record radio broadcasts, an action that has legal protection. CNET, 17 May 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6073133.html 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 [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "Equal justice under the law." *QUOTE OF THE WEEK "A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, soon you are talking about real money." [see *Statistics] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK White collar crime will continue this growth trend. *STATISTICS OF THE WEEK A $10+ billion dollar accounting scheme to "cook the books" at Fannie Mae, over the last 6 years, corrupting mortgages, and a total of perhaps $1 trillion has passed in Fannie Mae accounts in that that time, so detractors say it was only a 1% fudge factor. 1% of a trillion is $10 billion. The basis for cooking the books at Fannie Mae, holder of 20 percent of all U.S. mortgages, was to generate "bonuses" of 50+ million dollars just for CEO Franklin Raines alone, but others also had their compensation linked to performance. Now that this performance has been determined fraudulent it may be up to the SEC and other governmental agencis to make the case to strip these high level executives in court. Then Raines, Ex-CFO J. Timothy Howard and others might be a target to be retroactively fired, and have to repay salary. * At the same time the CEO and FIO of the world's 3rd largest retailer, Royal Ahold, were convicted of fraud and fined at most $300,000 each, along with a suspended sentence. Ex-CEO Cees van der Hoeven and Ex-CFO Michiel Meurs got the news yesterday. Fining a person who makes millions per year $300,000 is the same as fining a person who makes thousands per year $300. Source: The Kansas City Star [Somewhere there is a big difference between justice for an assortment of embezzlers, fraudsters, and other executively endowed money makers and the blue collar people who do work that send those millions and billions of the ladder.] * 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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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 17 May '06

17 May '06

GWeekly_May_17_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 17 May 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 - 46 New U.S. eBooks this week - 5 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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Lincoln 2372 [Updated edition of: etext00/wmnhr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/7/2372 ] [Files: 2372.txt; 2372-h.htm] In the Carquinez Woods, by Bret Harte 2310 [Updated edition of: etext00/crqnz10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/1/2310 ] [Files: 2310.txt; 2310-h.htm] The Depot Master, by Joseph C. 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Cody ("Buffalo Bill")] Mar 1998 Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay[Millay#2][aprilxxx.xxx] 1247 Mar 1998 The House of Dust, by Conrad Aiken [Aiken #1][hdustxxx.xxx] 1246 Mar 1998 Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf [Woolf #2][nidayxxx.xxx] 1245 Mar 1998 Love for Love, by William Congreve [Congreve #3][lv4lvxxx.xxx] 1244 Hearts of Controversy, by Alice Meynell 1243 Unconscious Comedians, by Honore de Balzac 1242 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,516,452,035 that would be 19,414 x 65,164,520 = ~1.26 Trillion !!! With 19,414 eBooks online as of May 17, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.79 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,164,520 x 19,414 x $.79 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.51 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 19,414 eBooks online as of May 17, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.51 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.62 when we had 16,244 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 19,414 eBooks in 34 Years and 10.50 Months We Averaged 557 Per Year 46.4 Per Month 1.52 Per Day At 1270 eBooks Done In The 133 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 9.5 Per Day 67 Per Week 282 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. * The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 4th was the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 17 May '06

17 May '06

pt1a2.506 pt1b2.506 Weekly_May_17.txt ***The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, May 17, 2006 PT1*** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** 5,000 eBooks Converted For Cell Phone Use [see article after introduction] [search "*Cell Phone eBooks"] Please note: While the PrePrints site is down at the moment, earlier this week we added 6 eBooks in Turkish, bringing our language count to 50 or to 51 if you count CAD instructions as a language for 3D printing. * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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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 *Cell Phone eBooks John Michael Mizzi has always been obsessed about gadgets. Early last year he bought a cheap java enabled cell phone mainly to experiment and see the java capabilities of cell phones since most modern cell phones are java enabled. Initially his main objective was to do games on these cell phones mainly as a hobby. After a few weeks playing on his new toy John landed on the Guterberg site. His jaw fell in amazement when he saw the big catalogue of eBooks that can be downloaded and read on a PC, and he immediately got The White Knight, by George Alfred Henty, as his first choice. After the few hours reading the eBook on his computer John realized there must be a better way to read eBooks without wasting huge amounts of printer ink and paper, or breaking his back in front of a computer. Within a few weeks John developed his earliest prototyping efforts to the point of being able to read these eBooks on his cheap cell phone. He also began experimenting on ways to deliver these eBooks to the cheap cell phones in a very simple way without having to be a computer hacker. Once that was developed, John began converting more of his Gutenberg eBooks to work on the cheap java enabled phones. To date he has already converted over 5,000 of the Project Gutenberg eBooks from some 1,000 authors. These eBooks can be delivered to your cheap cell phone by typing http://wap.mobilebooks.org in your phone's wap browser. The WAP cost do download an ebook to your cell phone is an unusually low price of just a few cents, as the eBooks are compressed to further reduce the download costs. Once downloaded there is no more cost you click on a phone listing of your eBook and away you go. John says it usually takes around 15 minutes for people to to get used to the idea of reading from your cell phone. Even though the screens seem small, it is amazing how much text you can fit on them. You can change the font size and background color and uses the phone numeric pad for simple navigation through the ebooks. You can leave bookmarks for future reference for yourself or for friends. You can also search for text in the eBooks and all this on cheap phones that are available all over the world. No need to buy very expensive PDAs so you can read eBooks. A cheap java phone, price varies greatly, will do the job. So when waiting for nearly anything, travelling, attending boring conferences, and even during the darkest pitch black nights, John reads these eBooks at a level of great convenience. John has contributed a number of these "cell phone eBooks" to project Gutenberg and is planning to contribute more. The main website is at http://www.mobilebooks.org 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] MTV ENTERS ONLINE MUSIC MARKET In what some see as a conspicuously late entry into the online music market, MTV is set to launch URGE, an online service both for music and videos. URGE will reportedly have more than two million tracks available when it debuts, and, similar to competing services from companies such as Apple and RealNetworks, consumers will be able to buy a subscription for unlimited downloads or pay for individuals tracks. Analysts noted that MTV's brand recognition should boost the appeal of the URGE service. URGE will be the featured music source for Microsoft's media player, and URGE songs are compatible with a wide range of portable devices. The exception, however, is the hugely popular iPod, of which Apple has sold more than 50 million since 2001. Steve Gordon, entertainment attorney, said, "Whether the consumer really wants a service that's only compatible with non-iPod players is going to be the big issue." Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music Group, pointed out that the online music industry remains new and said that URGE is not "about selling a million singles." San Jose Mercury News, 15 May 2006 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14581158.htm STATE SCHOOLS SEE BENEFITS OF ONLINE EDUCATION Online higher education programs are booming, and many state colleges and universities are seeing significant benefits from the online programs they offer. At the University of Massachusetts, for example, enrollment in online programs has quadrupled since 2001, and enrollment in Pennsylvania State University's online program rose 18 percent last year. A greater number of public schools offer online programs than do private, nonprofit colleges, which have had mixed success online. An online initiative of Oxford University, Stanford University, and Yale University recently closed its doors, and a number of other elite schools have stayed away from online education, fearing it would tarnish their reputations. Although many state schools charge more per credit for online courses than on-campus learning, the costs are often still lower than, for example, tuition at the University of Phoenix, the leading for-profit online institution. Applicants to most online programs are held to similar, if not identical, standards as on-campus students, and most agree that the quality of online education in many cases approaches that of on-campus learning. Wall Street Journal, 9 May 2006 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114713782174047386.html CHINESE STUDENTS POLICE INTERNET In China, a government initiative known as "Let the Winds of a Civilized Internet Blow" aims to ensure that online content conforms to government expectations. Students at some Chinese universities are a key part of the effort. At Shanghai Normal University, 500 students serve as Internet monitors, participating in online discussions and trying to steer conversations away from topics considered objectionable. Unknown to most of the other students on campus, the monitors also report some content to campus officials, who delete it. One student monitor said, "Our job consists of guidance, not control." Critics argue that the practice amounts to nothing more than the censorship common to other areas of Chinese life. Chinese officials acknowledged that more than two million images and 600 online forums have been deleted for being "unhealthy." Some students dismissed the efforts, saying that with the Internet, you can always go elsewhere to share your opinions. "It's easy to bypass the firewalls," said one student, "and anybody who spends a little time researching it can figure it out." New York Times, 9 May 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/world/asia/09internet.html BITTORRENT AND WARNER BROS. PARTNER ON DELIVERY A new deal between BitTorrent and Warner Bros. represents a convergence of content providers and online distribution tools. Under terms of the deal, Warner Bros. will sell movies and TV programs to BitTorrent, which will sell them to consumers for download. Until last November, BitTorrent was seen by many as part of the peer-to-peer wave that entertainment companies blame for rampant piracy, which movie studios value at $6.1 billion. At that time, BitTorrent said it would cooperate with the Motion Picture Association of America in trying to limit the trade of protected content. Now, according to Ashwin Navin, cofounder of BitTorrent, "We have just been embraced by the largest movie studio." The deal also represents another step by a major studio toward online distribution of its content, a step most studios have been hesitant to take. Pricing for the content on BitTorrent has not been announced, and Navin said he is in talks with other providers to offer more content. Wired News, 9 May 2006 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70852-0.html 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 [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Everything the NSA does is within the law. *QUOTE OF THE WEEK Senator David Vitter of Louisana reported that of all the millions of dollars spent on roof repairs from hurricane damages, that only 2% of this money was actually paid to the people doing the repairs and the other 98% went to the 8 layers of contractors through sub- contract after subcontract, with each layer taking an average of a 1/3 of the money they received for themselves before passing on an emaciated remaing 2/3 on to the next sub-contractor in the line to leave only 2% for the final contractor actually doing the work. Charlie Rose, PBS, May 16, 2006 *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK People will react negatively when their old television won't work. *STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 15 million videos have already been downloaded from iTunes in addition to the over 1 billion music tracks. iPod sales were up 61% over 1st quarter of 2005. * 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. * *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org

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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 11 May '06

11 May '06

GWeekly_May_10_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 10 May 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 - 59 New U.S. eBooks this week - 3 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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Schabelitz] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18336 ] [Files: 18336.txt; 18336-8.txt; 18336-h.htm] The Breath of Life, by John Burroughs 18335 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18335 ] [Files: 18335.txt; 18335-8.txt; 18335-h.htm] The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914, by Various 18334 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18334 ] [Files: 18334.txt; 18334-8.txt; 18334-h.htm] The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914, by Various 18333 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18333 ] [Files: 18333.txt; 18333-8.txt; 18333-h.htm] The Harvest of Years, by Martha Lewis Beckwith Newell 18332 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18332 ] [Files: 18332.txt; 18332-8.txt; 18332-h.htm] De Graecorum Medicis Publicis, by Rudolfus Pohl 18331 [Language: Latin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18331 ] [Files: 18331-8.txt; 18331-0.txt; 18331-h.htm] Opsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo IX, by Alexandre Herculano 18330 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18330 ] [Files: 18330-8.txt] The National Preacher, Vol. 2. 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Yah!", by Jack London [Jack London #44] Mauki, by Jack London [Jack London #43] The Whale Tooth, by Jack London [Jack London #42] The House of Mapuhi, by Jack London [London #41] Feb 1998 Nada the Lily, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #2] [ndllyxxx.xxx] 1207 Feb 1998 The Flying U Ranch, by B. M. Bower [Bower #5] [flurnxxx.xxx] 1206 The Colour of Life, by Alice Meynell 1205 [Subtitle: And Other Essays on Things Seen and Heard] Feb 1998 Cabin Fever, by B. M. Bower [B. M. 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Dakyns[#7][hieroxxx.xxx] 1175 Jan 1998 Hellenica, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#6][hllncxxx.xxx] 1174 Jan 1998 The Economist, by Xenophon, Dakyns translation[#5][econmxxx.xxx] 1173 Jan 1998 The Cavalry General by Xenophon, trans. Dakyns[#4][cvlryxxx.xxx] 1172 Jan 1998 The Apology by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns[#3][aplgyxxx.xxx] 1171 Jan 1998 Anabasis, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#2][anbssxxx.xxx] 1170 Jan 1998 Agesilaus, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#1][agslsxxx.xxx] 1169 Jan 1998 The Pool in the Desert, Sara Jeannette Duncan [pldstxxx.xxx] 1168 [Author AKA: Mrs. Everard Cotes] Jan 1998 A Strange Disappearance, by Anna Katharine Green [sdsprxxx.xxx] 1167 Jan 1998 The Second Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Rittenhouse [sbkmvxxx.xxx] 1166 Jan 1998 The Little Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Rittenhouse [lbkmvxxx.xxx] 1165 Jan 1998 The Iron Heel, by Jack London [Jack London #39] [irnhlxxx.xxx] 1164 Adventure, by Jack London 1163 The Jacket (The Star-Rover), by Jack London 1162 Jerry of the Islands, by Jack London 1161 The Game, by Jack London 1160 Jan 1998 Fire-Tongue, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #2] [firtgxxx.xxx] 1159 Jan 1998 Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington [Tarkington #6][pnrdsxxx.xxx] 1158 Jan 1998 Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair from "Les Avaries"[dmgdsxxx.xxx] 1157 Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis 1156 Jan 1998 Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie [Christie #2][secadxxx.xxx] 1155 Jan 1998 Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting [Lofting2][vdrdlxxx.xxx] 1154 Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar R. Burroughs [Mars #5][cmarsxxx.xxx] 1153 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,515,011,907 that would be 19,356 x 65,150,119 = ~1.26 Trillion !!! With 19,356 eBooks online as of May 10, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.79 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,150,119 x 19,356 x $.79 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.52 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 19,356 eBooks online as of May 10, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.52 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.62 when we had 16,205 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 19,356 eBooks in 34 Years and 10.25 Months We Averaged 555 Per Year 46.3 Per Month 1.52 Per Day At 1208 eBooks Done In The 126 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 9.6 Per Day 67 Per Week 284 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. 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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] JOURNAL PUBLISHERS CRINGE AT ACCESS BILL A bill introduced by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John Cornyn (R-Tex.) has prompted an outcry by publishers of scholarly journals, who argue that their publications would suffer under the bill. The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 would require scholars who publish articles based on federally funded research to place those articles on free Web sites within six months of being published in an academic journal. The sponsors of the bill said it would ensure broad access to research funded with taxpayer money. A spokesperson for Lieberman said the bill would "foster information sharing, prevent duplication of research efforts, and generate new lines of scientific inquiry." Some scholarly publishers expressed concerns, however, that the business model of academic journals--both in terms of subscriptions and of ad revenues--would falter if so much of the content were free online. The National Institutes of Health last year began encouraging researchers working on NIH grants to submit their articles to a public database, but so far fewer than 4 percent have done so. New York Times, 8 May 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/08/business/media/08journal.html PARENTS, CITY COUNCIL CALL FOR END TO CELL-PHONE BAN Framing it as a "safety issue," City Councilwoman Letitia James has called on administrators in New York City to lift a ban on cell phones in public schools. Opponents of the ban, including most students, many parents, and a small number of city officials, pointed to incidents such as the September 11, 2001, attacks, saying that cell phones can be an invaluable lifeline in times of crisis. They said rules requiring students to turn cell phones off in school are acceptable but that the technology should be available in an emergency. Administrators reiterated their belief that phones in school represent nothing so much as a source of distractions and of mischief, including cheating and taking photos in restrooms or locker rooms. Joel Klein, chancellor of schools, said that alternate solutions to the problems of cell phones are either too expensive or impractical. Mayor Michael Bloomberg also expressed his support for the continuation of the ban. Wired News, 6 May 2006 http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,70834-0.html OCLC AND RLG ANNOUNCE MERGER The OCLC Online Computer Library Center and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) have announced plans to merge. If approved, the merger would combine the two largest resource catalogs for libraries--RLG's Union Catalog and OCLC's WorldCat. Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, welcomed the merger, saying it will put OCLC's resources "much more in the direct service of research libraries." Pamela Snelson, president-elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the librarian at Franklin and Marshall College, agreed that the merger would be good for users. "One larger database will help the average person be able to find information in a more effective and timely manner," she said. The plan must still be approved by two-thirds of RLG's 150 members. Under the terms of the merger, RLG would become a division of OCLC. Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 May 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006050402t.htm PHILADELPHIA WI-FI NEARS APPROVAL [But they had to sell out all the rest of Pennsylvania to get it!] Philadelphia's long-debated citywide wireless network is on the verge of having final approval, after which implementation of the network is expected to begin within a few weeks. The network has raised a range of objections since it was initially proposed, and supporters of the effort have had to make a number of changes and concessions. A city council committee, which was the last step before a vote by the full city council, demanded that language be added to ensure EarthLink will use contractors who work with minorities, women, and people with disabilities. In addition, Wireless Philadelphia, the nonprofit that will oversee the network, will have a larger board than originally planned, with broader representation from the city council and from various municipal offices. The full city council is expected to approve the deal, at which time EarthLink will begin installing wireless transmitters on 4,000 utility poles owned by the city. The network, which will charge a lower rate to poor users, is expected to be finished in 18 months. CNET, 3 May 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-6068350.html BUSINESS GROUPS URGE CAUTION IN WTO TALKS WITH RUSSIA U.S. businesses urged the Office of the United States Trade Representative to demand more efforts from Russia in addressing intellectual property crimes before granting approval for the country to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). Russia, with one of the largest global economies not represented in the WTO, is in bilateral talks with the United States over admission to the group. Industry organizations point to Russia as one of the worst offenders for piracy of copyrighted music, movies, and software and called on U.S. officials to take a tough stance. Eric Schwartz, vice president of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, said, "Enforcement at present is very, very weak." Businesses calling for renewed pressure on Russia pointed to proposed legislation in the country that would actually weaken protections for copyright owners. Christin Baker, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office, said, "We made it very clear to Russia that improvements...are necessary for them to enter the WTO." ABC News, 2 May 2006 http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1914448 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 [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK See Statistics section below. *QUOTE OF THE WEEK "The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe." Albert Einstein *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The political fallout is just beginning. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK New Orleans' local garbage removers want $15/cubic yard to get the wreckage from Katrina off the streets, while Florida sites want over $30/cubic yard. Guess who got the 1/2 billion dollar contract, $100 million of it as pure profit? Let's see, is there any connection between Florida politicians and those who somehow managed to avoid knowing about Katrina's imminent landfall? [I'm sure the Democrats will make just as many snafu's when in office. . .if they ever get back in office. . .hee hee! Google search says it is even worse: News: "new orleans" "cubic yard" yields: "'Profit motive,' Halliburton, government gaffes taint Katrina ..." Frost Illustrated, IN - 17 hours ago "Nagin said even debris cleanup is big business, with contracts being let for $43 per cubic yard and contracted several levels below, with the actual workers earning only $7 per cubic yard. * 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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