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Re: [Air-l] How do journalists report internet research? (Request for experi...
by Zunt＠aol.com 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

In a message dated 3/4/2002 3:46:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, jvc(a)MIT.EDU writes: > I have a large set of two paragraph texts saved in separate HTML files that > I want to conver to MS Word. Does anyone know a way to do it without having > to open the files one by one? maybe try Web2Text: w2t16v12.zip http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/24799.html Cheers, Bob Briggs Westport, MA

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�REQUEST FOR THE PARTICIPATION ALL EVENT ,MEETING CONFERENCES�
by lotus trust 01 May '02

01 May '02

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[Fwd: [Digiplay] Digital Games Research Association]
by jeremy hunsinger 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

-- jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy cddc/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 http://www.dromocracy.com virginia tech -under construction blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614 this email was sent from my office

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Desperately seeking RFC600
by Brian Dear 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi, In my research for a book about the history of the PLATO system I've learned that there was an RFC document, RFC600 written in 1973, that proposed a way to connect a PLATO terminal to the ARPAnet. Alas --- just my luck --- RFC600 appears to be the only RFC document of *all* RFCs that are not available for free on the net in one of the many web archives. Nor have I found a university that has a copy. I've been in touch with Art Berggreen, the author of the RFC, and I'm hoping he successfully finds a copy somewhere in his papers. In the meantime, I thought I would ask the members of AIR-L if any of you have a copy. If you do, or you know where I could obtain a copy, could you let me know? Thanks, - Brian Brian Dear / brian(a)birdrock.com La Jolla, CA

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Fwd: Silent Theft: Commercial Exploitation of the Commons
by jeremy hunsinger 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

I've been considering forwarding this all day and finally gave in:) Begin forwarded message: > From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson(a)RealMeasures.dyndns.org> > Date: Mon Apr 29, 2002 02:45:11 PM US/Eastern > To: cyber-rights(a)cpsr.org, farber(a)cis.upenn.edu > Subject: Silent Theft: Commercial Exploitation of the Commons > > > (Forwarded from Commercialism Alert list, > commercial-alert(a)lists.essential.org) > > -------- Original Message -------- > Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:28:12 -0700 > From: Gary Ruskin <gary(a)commercialalert.org> > > > Commercial Alert > April 29, 2002 > > David Bollier has just written an excellent book on the > enclosure and commercial exploitation of the commons, titled > Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of our Common Wealth > <http://www.silenttheft.com>. > > The book describes the broad scope of the commons -- such as > the environment, natural resources, our culture, genetic > material, public spaces, government research -- and the > corporate looting of it. > > "We are living in the midst of a massive business-led > enclosure movement that hides itself in plain sight," > Bollier writes. Silent Theft's great contribution is to > collect and distill material from dozens of fields of > inquiry to make this enclosure movement visible and easily > understood. > > The book is especially strong on corporate plunder of > intellectual property, the Internet commons, and the > privatization of public knowledge and federal drug and > information resources. But it also has useful chapters on > the commercialization of culture and public spaces > (including schools), and the academic commons, among many > other topics. > > Silent Theft is important history. It will help > environmental, anti-commercialism and consumer activists to > understand how their work fits into the broader pattern of > the assault on the commons. It is rich with analogies we can > use in efforts to protect different kinds of commons. > > But Silent Theft is no mere anti-corporate rant. It argues > persuasively how the shrinkage of the commons hurts > business, especially through the concentration of market > power and the stifling of innovation in computer software, > on the Internet, and in science, generally. > > If we are to stop the commercialization of nearly > everything, we first need to know what the commons is, what > we have lost, and how we lost it. Silent Theft is a great > place to start. > > <----> > > Following is an old English folk poem, circa 1764, reprinted > from Silent Theft: > > They hang the man and flog the woman > That steal the goose from off the common, > But let the greater villain loose > That steals the common from the goose. > > The law demands that we atone > When we take things we do not own > But leaves the lords and ladies fine > Who take things that are yours and mine. > > The poor and wretched don't escape > If they conspire the law to break; > This must be so but they endure > Those who conspire to make the law. > > The law locks up the man or woman > Who steals the goose from off the common' > And geese will still a common lack > Till they go and steal it back. > > <-----> > > Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture > within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting > children and subverting the higher values of family, > community, environmental integrity and democracy. > Commercial Alert's website is at > <http://www.commercialalert.org>. > > Commercial Alert's materials are distributed electronically > via our mailing list <commercial-alert(a)lists.essential.org>. > To subscribe, send the word "subscribe" to > <info(a)commercialalert.org>, or go to > <http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/commercial-alert>. > > This note is posted at: > <http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/commercial- > alert/2002/000112.html>. > > To join Commercial Alert, go to: > <https://www.egrants.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2404-0|1236-0>. > > PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY > -- > Gary Ruskin | gary(a)commercialalert.org > Commercial Alert | http://www.commercialalert.org/ > Congressional Accountability Project | > http://www.congressproject.org/ > phone: 503.235.8012 | fax: 503.235.5073 > > To subscribe to Commercial Alert's email list, send the > message "subscribe" to <info(a)commercialalert.org>. > _______________________________________________ > Commercial-alert mailing list > Commercial-alert(a)lists.essential.org > http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/commercial-alert > > > ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ > CPSR Cyber Rights -- http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ > To unsubscribe, e-mail: cyber-rights-unsubscribe(a)cpsr.org > To reach moderator, e-mail: cyber-rights-owner(a)cpsr.org > For additional commands, e-mail: cyber-rights-help(a)cpsr.org > Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. > ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com

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Fwd: [CSL]: New Journal - Information Polity
by jeremy hunsinger 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Begin forwarded message: > From: John Armitage <john.armitage(a)UNN.AC.UK> > Date: Mon Apr 29, 2002 03:40:15 AM US/Eastern > To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [CSL]: New Journal - Information Polity > Reply-To: The Cyber-Society-Live mailing list is a moderated discussion > list for those interested <CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > > -----Original Message-----From: Whiteside Lynn > [mailto:L.Whiteside@gcal.ac.uk] > Sent: 26 April 2002 16:12 > To: 'Armitage, John' > Subject: New Journal - Information Polity > > Dear John > Could you please considering including a flyer within Cyber Society for > the > new journal I am editing - Information Polity: the international > journal of > government and democracy in the information age. This journal is > published > by IOS Press in the Netherlands. > > The journal aims to publish work from academics that is both of top > quality > and, equally, of high strategic relevance to practitioners. Equally, the > journal is intent on publishing work undertaken by practitioners - > professional, administrative and political - who are actively engaged > in the > broad arenas of government and democracy, whether at local, regional, > national or supra-national levels. > > The journal is both international and comparative in its perspectives > and > welcomes articles from scholars and practitioners throughout the world. > > The journal is a tangible expression of the awareness that ICT, > including > the Internet, is of deepening significance for all polities as new > forms of > government and democratic practice are sought throughout the world. > > The journal aims to publish articles on political, economic, legal, > managerial, organizational and wider social themes and issues as they > relate > to policy developments surrounding information & communications > technologies > [ICT] in government and democracy. Examples of such themes and issues > are: > > * The modernization of government and ICT; > * Consumer responsive government; > * Joined up government and ICT; > * The globalisation of government and ICT; > * Virtual government; > * Data privacy, protection and security; > * Democratic innovation and ICT; > * The citizen, the state and ICT; > * Changing ICT-supported democratic practices in the contemporary > polity; > * Public policies for ICT development and adoption; > > Publishing in the Journal > The journal is keen to receive well-written journal articles from its > targeted authors on topics as stated above. Articles submitted for > consideration must be written in English. Academic articles submitted > should > normally not exceed 6000 words in length [including all footnotes]. > Articles > in the form of authoritative, well-researched case studies will be > welcomed > and will not normally exceed 4000 words. The journal will welcome > polemical > articles as well as those deriving from research and practice. The > journal > will also commission book reviews. > > I look forward to hearing from you in the near future. > > Best Wishes > > Professor John Taylor > Editor-in-Chief > Information Polity > Tel - (0044) 141 331 3129 > Email - jta(a)gcal.ac.uk > > > > Lynn Whiteside > Assistant Registrar > Caledonian Business School > Tel - 0141 331 8620 > Email - L.Whiteside(a)gcal.ac.uk > > ************************************************************************* > *********** > Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated > discussion > list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary > academic > study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list > please visit: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html > ************************************************************************* > ************ > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com

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Re: Yvonne Waern's query about visual aspects of WWW/chat
by Brenda Danet 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Yvonne (and others): It's not clear from your posting whether you really mean only the Web itself, or chat that is directly accessed from the Web, or chat most generally. Maybe my work on visual communication on IRC is relevant; in my book _Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online_ (Berg, Oxford, 2001) I devoted a chapter to 2 channels that communicate on IRC mainly via the display of images that are an elaboration of ASCII art. Players add the nick of a recipient to be greeted before displaying a file. One of the channels, "colors", has meanwhile closed down, but the other, called "rainbow," continues to flourish, and I am writing a whole new book about them now. There are other IRC channels devoted to this phenomenon too. The entire chapter about this form of art as communication, including all color and black and white illustrations, is the sample chapter on the book's Website, and can be accessed at http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/cyberpl@y/ (best viewed in Internet Explorer). There is also a text-only pdf version of the chapter available for downloading. This phenomenon is very different from visual enhancement of what is basically typed textual chat, as in comics-like environments, The Palace, or 3D graphical interfaces for typed chat. Regards, Brenda

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My Promotion : Scam letter from Nigeria
by azhar 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Dear Ken Friedman, To my surprise. I to did received the same scam letter with the same content as per your attachment on 6/4/2002 via my e-mail. I just want to know more from you, actually what happens to the writer / sender of that scam letter ? At least it would help me, of an idea, what to do next. Your reply to this is much appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AZHAR (Malaysia)

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(no subject)
by davidsosebee 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Please unsubscribe my email from your list. thank you

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IDEAS fest
by Thom Kevin Gillespie 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

last weekend we had the first ever IDEAS fest, Interactive Digital Environments, Arts and Storytelling, thru the MIME program at IU. We had 85 submissions from across Indiana in 7 categories. Next year IDEAS expands to a midwest regional interactive arts festival. You can see & hear the winners and honorable mentions at www.mime.indiana.edu/ideas/showtime --Thom \\\\//// tHoM gIllEsPiE, maitre d'Igital, CafeTechnos(a)ait.net /ww ww\ Indiana University, Telecommunications Dept 6 (*][*) ? 1229 E 7th St Radio & TV Bldg \ .7 / Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 USA ( --') thom(a)indiana.edu 812-855-3254 (v) WWWW The MIME Program in newMedia Design / WW \ www.mime.indiana.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since permanent change is here to stay, to accomplish anything bold and beautiful in the firmament of time we must learn to change directions and fall gracefully -- Sam Keen in Learning To Fly

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