Here is my weekly selection of articles that were not mentioned here — except if I missed them.

The Internet Is Broken

The cover story of Technology Review has been divided into three parts for presentation online. This is part 1.
The Net’s basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It’s time for a clean-slate approach.
Part 2: We can’t keep patching the Internet’s security holes. Now computer scientists are proposing an entirely new architecture.
Part 3: Researchers are working to make the Internet smarter — but that could make it even slower, warn experts like Google’s Vinton Cerf.
Source: David Talbot, for MIT Technology Review, December 2005/January 2006 print issue

Wikipedia alternative aims to be ‘PBS of the Web’

A new online information service launching in early 2006 aims to build on the model of free online encyclopedia Wikipedia by inviting acknowledged experts in a range of subjects to review material contributed by the general public.

Called Digital Universe, the project is the brainchild of, among others, USWeb founder Joe Firmage and Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s earliest creators.
Source: Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com, December 19, 2005

New media will get Emmy of their own

The New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will announce today that it is creating an award for Outstanding Achievement in Content for Non-Traditional Delivery Platforms.
The award will recognize excellence in entertainment programming created specifically for viewing online or via cellphone, Ipod or video-on-demand.
Source: Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2005

Reuters video to get mass distribution

International news agency Reuters is launching a pilot program on Tuesday that will allow blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to show Reuters news video on their Web sites.
Source: Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, December 20, 2005

Use Google As A Free (Almost Perfect) Proxy

The trick is to ask Google to translate a forbidden site from English TO English.
Simply type in your browser address bar: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com.
Source: David Ponce, OhGizmo!, December 21, 2005

New airline navigation system is displayed

Until now, an autopilot could only fly a plane in a straight line or around a gentle curve. But the one shown off Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration was following a path as sinuous as the river beneath.
But now at National, and a handful of other airports around the country, autopilots can fly planes safely over terrain that no one on board can see, including around mountains. Use of the new system is expected to cut the number of times that airplanes have to divert because of weather.
Source: Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times, via CNET News.com, December 21, 2005

New biometrics software looks for sweat

Sweaty hands might make you unpopular as a dance partner, but they could someday prevent hackers from getting into your bank account.
Source: Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, December 21, 2005

Looks like CNN, sounds like geek speak

Welcome to the Internet Security News Network, broadcast online rather than through the airwaves and defined by its proud motto, “We deliver tomorrow’s Internet security news today.”
AT&T launched the 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week video service last week to a select audience of several thousand network security administrators at companies that buy AT&T communication services.
Source: Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, December 21, 2005

See you next week…

Here is my weekly selection of articles that were not mentioned here — except if I missed them.

The Internet Is Broken
The cover story of Technology Review has been divided into three parts for presentation online. This is part 1.
The Net’s basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It’s time for a [...]