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If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,546,790,688 that would be 21,366 x 65,467,907 = ~1.39 Trillion !!! With 21,366 eBooks online as of September 27, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.72 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,467,869 x 21,365 x $.71 = ~$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 turning 299.9 million this week!] A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.47 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 21,366 eBooks online as of September 27, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.47 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.58 when we had 17,211 eBooks a year ago. 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CNET, 25 September 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6119043.html PUBLISHERS TAKE HEART FROM BELGIAN COURT RULING Buoyed by a recent ruling from a court in Belgium, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) is leading the development of an automated system for coordinating content permissions with search engines. The Belgian court found that Google violates the rights of content producers when it indexes news stories and reposts parts of those stories on its own site. News organizations have long complained that search engines profit from the efforts of news outlets, and the court ruling, which Google is appealing, strengthens their position in trying to restrict how search engines are allowed to use online content. Search engines typically rely on applications that scour the Web for content and incorporate it into search results without human intervention. The Automated Content Access Protocol being developed by the WAN will reportedly give news organizations the ability to include parameters about how their content may be used inside online content. The applications that search engines use to index content will be able to interpret those parameters and treat the content accordingly. Gavin O'Reilly, chairman of the WAN, said, "This system is intended to remove completely any rights conflicts between publishers and search engines." CNET, 22 September 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6118523.html YALE TO POST VIDEO OF COURSES ONLINE Yale University announced plans to begin posting video of course lectures online. Yale's effort is part of a larger movement in higher education toward open courseware, led in large part by an initiative started at MIT in 2001. For the OpenCourseWare project, MIT posts course materials online, including syllabi, reading lists, and other resources. Diana Kleiner, who is leading the effort at Yale, said the project follows "MIT's footprints" but represents the next step. Kleiner said that Yale officials believe the in-class experience to be central to the educational experience. Under the program, all of the lectures for a given course will be recorded and placed online. Beginning with seven courses this year, the program is expected to grow quickly to include many more in successive years. The university is exploring ways to ensure that offering video of lectures online will not encourage Yale students to skip class and simply watch the lectures at their convenience. Also at issue are intellectual property considerations, given that faculty are free to use some copyrighted materials in lectures, but that those materials may not be used similarly by the public. Inside Higher Ed, 20 September 2006 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/20/yale You've been reading excerpts from Edupage: To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@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 Besides all the references to the National Intelligence Estimate that said the US is causing more terrorism via its trowback uses of gunboat diplomacy in the Middle East, several officers in the command positions in Iraq had the following comments this week. The officers were, Major General John Batiste, Major General Paul Eaton, and Colonel Paul Hammes. Batiste was commander of the 1st Infantry Division, and was also the senior military aide to Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and blames Congress for not asking "the tough questions." He also mentioned threats by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to fire anyone who said he needed a postwar strategy. In comments earlier this spring, General Batiste added, "the current administration repeatedly ignored sound military advice and counsel with respect to the war plans. I think the principles of war are fundamental, and we violate those at our own peril." Around the same time Commanding General Anthony Zinni, of the Central Command in Iraq had the following additional comments: "I think we are paying the price for lack of credible planning, or the lack of a plan. We are throwing away 10 years of planning, in effect, for underestimating the situation we were going to get into and for not adhering to the advice that was being given to us by others.'' Major General Eaton said referred to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld as "incompetent, stragically, operationally, and tactically," and added "Mr. Rumsfeld and his immediate team must be replaced or we will see two more years of extraordinaily bad decision making." Eaton was in command of U.S. efforts to train the Iraq military until the last election. Earlier this year he wrote the following to the New York Times: "Rumsfeld has put the Pentagon at the mercy of his ego, his Cold Warrior's view of the world and his unrealistic confidence in technology to replace manpower. As a result, the US Army finds itself severely undermanned. . .cut to 10 active divisions but asked by the administration to support a foreign policy that requires at least 12 or 14," [active divisions]. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK The various declassifying of minimal pages of the National Intelligence Estimate that only support the administration, but leave out the entire portion that said the U.S. caused more problems than it solved by invading Iraq. *QUOTES OF THE WEEK 16 days afterwards, still no real apology from the Pope. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Just as the rich keep getting richer, and the poor keep getting poorer, the distance between the various portions of humanity will increase, and the reason won't matter. . . any reason will do. . .the reasons for wars are usually fabrications. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 47% of female students said they would not raise their hands in class even if they knew the answer for fear of harassment for being smart. Source: NPR, Sunday Morning * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population [i.e. if you had invested in ConEd and the S&P in 1997, and had made $1,000 on your S&P, your profits from that ConEd stock would be $15,000] Yet the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) voted 5-0 to allow the new system. estimates just passed 299 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@pglaf.org