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neat indexing system
by Zunt＠aol.com 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

I've not run across this method before, and thought folks on this list might enjoy puzzling over it. http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~harel/lyrics.html The website contains a collection of texts (popular song lyrics). Having made a selection from the contents, you can click on various linked words within the text (not all possible words are linked). That action triggers (a) enumeration of the texts in the library that contain the target word, and (b) a hyperlinked index connecting you back to those available texts. Each instance of target word use appears in the index list. It looks to me like quite a bit of HTML page generation is done automatically via scripting on the server side. Cheers, Bob Briggs Westport, MA

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RE: [Air-l] Policy on e-health in European countries
by Sarah Stewart 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

Hi Monica i am a midwife in New Zealand and interested in e-health. please send me any references etc you find. thanks a lot sarah Sarah Stewart Midwifery Lecturer School of Midwifery Otago Polytechnic Dunedin Tel: 03 4793642 sarahs(a)tekotago.ac.nz

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RE: [Air-l] Policy on e-health in European countries
by Steve Fox (NLG) 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Thomas/Monica, It seems we're all at the crossroads of e-health in some capacity...I've done some research with cancer patients (children who reside at Ronald McDonald House) and will be looking at the relationship between online communities and physical communities. (Found some interesting results in the choices that these youths made during the recovery process.) I'm also planning to do more extensive research over the course of the next 3 years...it'd be great to work together in some capacity. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Burg [mailto:burg@donau-uni.ac.at] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:04 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Policy on e-health in European countries Monica, an interesting project. It touches my PhD projects on medical online communities insofar as I intend to work on the ways how knowledge is created and shared online and its relevance for offline real practice. Thomas N. Burg, ______________________________________ Zentrum fuer Neue Medien http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/newmedia Donau Universitaet Krems Dr. Karl Dorrek Strasse 30 A-3500 Krems, Austria Fon +43-2732-893-2520, Fax -4500 Mobil: +43-699-11656971 >>> Monica.Murero(a)MERIT.unimaas.nl 26.02.02 18:59:10 >>> Hi Folks: I am working on a comparative research project on "policy and e-health" in Europe. As a starting point, I wish to find out if national governments or private associations within European countries have already introduced policies on this matter. URLs, articles, references and suggestions are very welcomed. Anyone? Monica Murero P.S.: I will collect and send the results of this search to those of you interested in the subject. ------------------------------------- Monica Murero, PhD International Institute of Infonomics and University of Maastricht (NL) Telephone +31 45 570 7696 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: [Air-l] Policy on e-health in European countries
by Thomas Burg 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Monica, an interesting project. It touches my PhD projects on medical online communities insofar as I intend to work on the ways how knowledge is created and shared online and its relevance for offline real practice. Thomas N. Burg, ______________________________________ Zentrum fuer Neue Medien http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/newmedia Donau Universitaet Krems Dr. Karl Dorrek Strasse 30 A-3500 Krems, Austria Fon +43-2732-893-2520, Fax -4500 Mobil: +43-699-11656971 >>> Monica.Murero(a)MERIT.unimaas.nl 26.02.02 18:59:10 >>> Hi Folks: I am working on a comparative research project on "policy and e-health" in Europe. As a starting point, I wish to find out if national governments or private associations within European countries have already introduced policies on this matter. URLs, articles, references and suggestions are very welcomed. Anyone? Monica Murero P.S.: I will collect and send the results of this search to those of you interested in the subject. ------------------------------------- Monica Murero, PhD International Institute of Infonomics and University of Maastricht (NL) Telephone +31 45 570 7696 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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WHAT IS AN INTERNET COMMUNITY? HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE TO ADDRESS THIS QUESTION AT SYMPOSIUM
by Randy Ringen 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE NEWS RELEASE Office of College Relations, Claremont, California 91711-5990 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Randy Ringen FEB. 27, 2002 (909) 607-7924 WHAT IS AN INTERNET COMMUNITY? HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE TO ADDRESS THIS QUESTION AT SYMPOSIUM Scholars will examine the role of the "virtual community" in the Internet age CLAREMONT, Calif.-Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice, an interdisciplinary symposium on virtual communities, will be held on the Harvey Mudd College campus in Galileo Hall, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on March 9. The symposium's aim is to discuss the impact of the Internet on the philosophy and practices of community. The event is free and open to the public. "This event gathers several of North America's leading thinkers on the social implications of technology to debate an issue of concern to all of us-the shape of public life in the digital age," said Darin Barney, Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Harvey Mudd College and one of the conference organizers. "It is rare to have such a high-caliber group of scholars together in the same room for an entire day. It should be very exciting." Among the questions to be addressed at the symposium are the following: Do digital technologies threaten community, or do they enable and enrich it? How, and to what ends, are existing communities using these new technologies? Are new forms of community emerging on the Internet? What is the meaning of "virtual community"? Among those who will speak at the conference are Andrew Feenberg, also a Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor at HMC and professor of philosophy at San Diego State University; Albert Borgmann, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana; Doug Kellner, George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA; Hubert Dreyfus, professor of philosophy in the graduate school at UC Berkeley; and Steve Jones, professor and head of communications, University of Illinois, Chicago. The conference is sponsored by the Hixon Forum for Responsible Science and Technology and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of Harvey Mudd College. The conference organizers are Barney and Feenberg, and professors Dick Olson and Tad Beckman of Harvey Mudd College co-directors of the Hixon Forum. Harvey Mudd College is a coeducational institution of engineering, science and mathematics that also places strong emphasis on humanities and the social sciences. The college's aim is to graduate engineers and scientists sensitive to the impact of their work on society. HMC ranks among the nation's leading schools in percentage of graduates who earn Ph.D. degrees. It is the pioneer of the internationally known Clinic Program, established in 1963. Harvey Mudd College is a member of The Claremont Colleges Consortium, the first consortium of colleges in the United States, which offers students the expansive physical facilities and wide selection of courses, faculty, student services and extracurricular activities of a university, and the small classes and personalized education of a small private college. The Consortium includes Pomona College (established in 1887), Claremont Graduate University (1925), Scripps College (1926), Claremont McKenna College (1946), Harvey Mudd College (1955), Pitzer College (1963), and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Science (1997).

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #313 - 6 msgs
by Michel J. Menou 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Hi Like Robert Tynes I wonder what is primary in Lachlan's note :-) [Yes I hear you Lachlan you like provocation; me too] Early introduction of networked ICT in Africa dates back the 70's with the linking of academic research units through the EARN network. Later on APc, Rio, Cabeca all offered store and forward messaging capabilites to academic, research, NGO and other groups. For more on email use in Africa see for instance http://www.bellanet.org/partners/aisi/proj/conn.htm & ~findings.htm I am not sure what is more shameful use of ICT: these ridiculous spams or the systematic routing of US based porn sites through all sorts of external relays. One may further wonder if the attention of a group like AoIR about ICT use in Africa could not be focused on more substantive aspects than spam. Michel Wednesday, February 27, 2002, 6:01:02 PM, you wrote: alrao> Message: 2 alrao> From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan(a)london.com> alrao> To: air-l(a)aoir.org alrao> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:50:24 -0500 alrao> Subject: [Air-l] re: The West African Scam alrao> Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org alrao> The experience of western technology in alrao> West Africa seems to be mediated by multinational mining corporations, alrao> personal and corruption, killings, and desperate pleas. It is little wonder that alrao> one of the primary uses of email from alrao> West Africa is variation on this dreadful alrao> tale.

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Mea Culpa !
by Ken Friedman 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Apologies, Friends. I posted those notes on the advance fee fraud because I have been astonished by the increase in attempts and by the growth of narrative invention. Back to Shakespeare for me. Ken Friedman

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Re: [Air-l] My promotion ...
by Zunt＠aol.com 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

A Google search on "advance fee fraud" will provide ample information on this topic. Cheers, Bob Briggs Westport, MA

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My promotion ...
by Ken Friedman 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that I announce my promotion. Today, I received a letter from the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, inviting me to become his personal friend and business partner. Alan Greenspan, eat your heart out! Ken Friedman Confidant to the Governor (CBN) -- From: joseph sanusi <josanusicbn(a)avu.org> Subject: private and confidential To: <ken.friedman(a)bi.no> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:41:39 -0500 My dear friend, Good day to you.I know very well that this letter is comig to you full of suprises as we don't have any previouse aquaintance.First of all let me introduce my self to you.Iam Chief Joseph Sanusi(the present governorto the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN).I got your email contact through a good friend of my(a business man)that just came back from your country in one of his business trip during the last xmass from your country.He recommends your transparent honesty and reliability in the field of business with absolute confidence. My objective is to have you as my business partner overseas,then I will be using my good officer to be remitting money to your account pending my time of vacation from the position in the (CBN)then I will come over for reimbursement.Let us use this opportunity to save more money from the pause of my government,as long as I remain in the position your interest will always be protected the same way I want you to protect my interest by keeping this letter secret.Note again,I said want you to be my frien and business partner,I will nuse you to remitt huge ammount of money abroard before the change of government in Nigeria probably by the year 2003. Contact me through the following contacts bellow: Email:josanusicbn@avu.org Tel/fax:234-1-4924402(office) Phon:234-80-23232766(direct line) I will also like to have your full contacts,your sincerity is the prime factor to the success of this relationship.please introduce yourself in full. Thanking you for your kind attention and looking forward to your urgent reply. Yours His excellency. Chief Joseph Sanusi(governor) Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) ______________________________________________________ AVU's Free Email Service is provided for promoting education. Please report any misuse of AVU email services to webmanager(a)avu.org

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re: The West African Scam
by Lachlan Brown 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

The experience of western technology in West Africa seems to be mediated by multinational mining corporations, personal and corruption, killings, and desperate pleas. It is little wonder that one of the primary uses of email from West Africa is variation on this dreadful tale. As with so many things about internets re-distributive aspects tied with these new mediations of our world, we are seeing our culture represented in ways that are unfamiliar, strange and implausible to us, but actually tell it like it is from the perspective of people in West Africa. Westerners look like people who would buy into this kind of thing and approve of the method of sales. Lachlan Brown -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

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