June 2006 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Fake ID business booms .
by EunYoung Kim 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hello? My name is EunYoung Kim. I am a Korean and student. The Federal Trade Commission says identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the country. The thieves often use phony Social Security numbers belonging to innocent citizens and do it with the greatest of ease. Undercover video, shot by agents of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, was used to help convict a man of forging Social Security cards and other government IDs. I can give you answer if you have interest. Thank you for reading. EunYoung Kim * mail : dmsdud292(a)naver.com

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CFP Reminder
by kelly boudreau 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi, Please note that the CFP for the upcoming Trials & Tribulations: Negotiating Research in Cyberspace symposium deadline of July 1st is approaching. For more information, you can now visit www.trialstribulations.com. Hope to see you in Montreal! Kelly Boudreau, Shanly Dixon

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Ubiquitous problem.
by EunYoung Kim 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hello? My name is EunYoung Kim. I am a Korean and student. There was announcement study at the last week. The subject was Ubiquitous. If becomes generalization and it thinks the many problems appearing. I wants listening to the opinion against it. I can give you answer if you have interest. Thank you for reading. EunYoung Kim * mail : dmsdud292(a)naver.com

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The mouse gesture
by Jung so-hee 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

my name is So hee, Jung. I live in korea. I recommend useful program to you. While surfing the web, you might wonder if you could go back or forward to a page that you had visited only by using mouse. A 5-button type mouse for internet user produced by MS or Logitech has buttons functioning as back or forward and enables you to surf the web only with the mouse. But the mouse most of the computer users use is two button type wheel mouse. Web surfing with the mouse gesture!! I recommend this program to you. "Mouse gesture for internet explorer" <img src="http://www.ysgyfarnog.co.uk/utilities/mousegestures/"> After installing the program, you would see a menu, mouse gesture in the tool menu of IE. Next thing you would do is to decide details about what function you would assign to each gestures. (Mouse gesture browsing is available by basic setups without changing it.) Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer - The Gestures <img src="http://www.ysgyfarnog.co.uk/utilities/mousegestures/gestures.html"> This email is not concerned with commercial interest. email : cleche0126(a)msn.com _________________________________________________________________ 책상위에 다리 올리고 느긋하게 즐긴다... MSN 온라인 상영관 http://vod.msn.co.kr

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The mouse gesture
by ?? ? 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

My name is So hee, Jung. I live in korea. I recommend useful program to you. While surfing the web, you might wonder if you could go back or forward to a page that you had visited only by using mouse. A 5-button type mouse for internet user produced by MS or Logitech has buttons functioning as back or forward and enables you to surf the web only with the mouse. But the mouse most of the computer users use is two button type wheel mouse. Web surfing with the mouse gesture!! I recommend this program to you. "Mouse gesture for internet explorer" <img src="http://www.ysgyfarnog.co.uk/utilities/mousegestures/"> After installing the program, you would see a menu, mouse gesture in the tool menu of IE. Next thing you would do is to decide details about what function you would assign to each gestures. (Mouse gesture browsing is available by basic setups without changing it.) Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer - The Gestures <img src=" http://www.ysgyfarnog.co.uk/utilities/mousegestures/gestures.html"> This email is not concerned with commercial interest. email : cleche0126(a)msn.com _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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World Cup, SMS & email
by Barry Wellman 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

I'm sitting at the Docas in Lisbon, having just taught a 2-day intensive writing lab. Watching the World Cup. After the game was over (Argentina 2, Ivory Coast 1), the Portuguese commentators came on. But what fascinated me was the crawl at the bottom, CNN-like. It contained email messages from Portuguese fans cheering their team on for tommorw's game. Email was free; SMS was 0.80 euros. The messages kept coming and coming, from all over Portugal. I checked as best as I could -- no repeats. So now one can do electronic cheering. PS: Tomorrow's game is Portugal vs former colony of Angola. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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good source for web traffic data
by Cristian Vaccari 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Hi, I am looking for a good on line source for web traffic data on individual sites (including, but not only, weblogs). As far as I know, there is www.alexa.com, which provides rankings and users estimates based on its toolbar's users. Does anyone know of a more reliable source? Thanks, Cristian Vaccari www.cristianvaccari.it www.comunicarepolitica.it

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One Laptop Per Child
by David Brake 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

I have come late to this discussion and since I had been meaning to blog about this anyway I took advantage of this opportunity to resurrect a collection of links I collected back in November and add some comments of my own. You can find my thoughts and a number of relevant links on the Media@LSE weblog here: http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2006/06/the-100-laptop-debate/ In brief, much of the criticism of the OLPC project is for reasons I agree with but some seemed a little doctrinaire. This is not an 'inferior' technology as Christian Fuchs suggests - it is an appropriate one. Even if 'conventional' laptops costing ten times as much were made available in the countries where the OLPC will be trialled, they would arguably be less useful as they would be less durable and would rely on more expensive components and software. These laptops will not tie their users in to Western commercial technology and standards as Christian fears (at least not any more than they are already) because they are based solidly on open source software. And rightly or wrongly these are not aimed at the countries whose inhabitants live on $2 a day - they are aimed at middle-ranking developing countries like China, India and Brazil which have enough money to consider this kind of investment in their children (though I would still argue that this major sum spent in 'conventional' ways on teachers or books would yield a better result). As for Jeremy's concern that no effort is going into teacher training and support, I am a little more optimistic - since pilot organizations will be investing a lot of money (relative to their budgets) on these devices I would hope some of them at least will devote some careful thought to the issues that Jeremy and others pointed out and turn deaf ears to the OLPC team's assurances that these are pure 'machines for learning' - no teacher input required. --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)

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DOD going after social network sites
by Richard Forno 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

(perhaps of interest to AOIR-ers...) New Scientist Magazine has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals. < snip > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg 19025556.200

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Company environment of Google
by Su-jin Lee 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi all, My name is Su-Jin Lee. Even by Silicon Valley's standards, the "Googleplex" campus in Mountain View, California, is a quirky Work environment. Co-founder Larry Page says he wanted to model Google on Stanford - "only with better food" The Google the facility and the system which are comfortable for the Googler are prepared. Googlers can shoot pool while taking a break in one of several employee lounges. Google contracts with stylists to give its employees cut-rate haircuts. The work-weary can unwind with a massage form a professional. Google subsidizes the cost. The Googler will show a great idea and result. Thank you for reading. mail: gmlsenddl00(a)yahoo.co.kr __________________________________________________ 두 유 야후!? 스팸때문에 짜증나세요? 야후! 메일의 스팸 차단 기술로 메일을 보호합니다 http://mail.yahoo.co.kr

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