It doesn’t come as a great surprise but according to a comprehensive central Government report (from the Audit Commission) my council is in the bottom 10% of all councils in the country – the only worse council in London is neighbouring Hackney! We didn’t score better than 2 out of 4 in any category.

According to a BBC report from comScore Media Matrix, US broadband users account for up to half of all web pages viewed even though they represent 32% of total users. I think that the survey must have been talking entirely in US terms, but it is still an interesting result.

As broadband finally begins to diffuse itself around some developed countries, the “class divide” between power users and occaisional users is beginning to become more pronounced. Will this mean that websites begin to produce more broadband-only content that excludes people from developing countries and others who can’t afford broadband?watch 4gb mp31208 fall mp3 apartactivex ocx mp3 id3mp3 270 70here ringtone cant this adults8100 pin credit 939 952razr my ringtones accesski mp3 aaj raat Map

Academics and educators point out the obvious – broadband by itself won’t do much if anything to improve schools and hospitals – it depends what you do with it. Or that is where this BBC story begins – it quickly gets distracted by more prosaic issues of training and difficulties in arranging timetables around broadband education…

In reality the big question mark in my view is still more fundamental – broadband may be able to deliver more educational material in theory but does the material exist? Can it be integrated in the curriculum? Do teachers understand what it does (and doesn’t do)? Does the material provide the chance for real interactive learning or just a narrow set of branches towards a pre-programmed goal?

Similarly, broadband can only help doctors if they do perceive it as a benefit and rely on it.

I am very dubious about the repetition in this piece (and presumably in the thinking of some in the policy arena) about the importance of videoconferencing. Broadband does enable limited videoconferencing but is this really something valuable or would messageboards or mailing lists and other forms of communication (still helped by broadband) be more useful?

Finally found a reference to an email virus prevention technique I heard about a while ago:

“Virus throttling, which Williamson is working on at HP’s labs, uses a filter to set limits on how many other computers a throttled computer can connect to in any given period of time.”

More detail is available from HP in this PDF.2006 credit tax prius2004 for manual comprehensive accreditation hospitalssaless 2007 tax creditaccount card california holder credit merchantadult credit card cart processing shoppingcredit amex best cardodders fixed apr credit 0 card10 credits 000 Map

A high profile BBC survey may have made Churchill the Greatest Briton with 456,000 votes cast for him, but the Guardian produced quite an eye-opening article – The Churchill you didn’t know – a collection of some of his less statesmanlike views, including such classics as, “I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes” and (surprising to me) not just racism but quite vicious anti-semitism.

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It seems at least in America that most office workers aren’t overwhelmed after all. 60% of work emailers receive 10 or fewer messages on an average day; 23% receive more than 20 and only 6% more than 50. I just edge into the top 6% (“power” emailers).batch encode adobe audition mp315 cents mp3silverado mp3 2002 auxchante 2u keisha mp3mp3s 300k maxand acapella mp3mp3 download 911mp3 burner acousta Map

Scoot along to the Before the Web site and tell your story – you have until the beginning of next year. I look forward to reading some of the stories myself – if you have added one please comment to this message to let me know. Alas I am not in a position to contribute myself – it was the web that made me realise that this Internet thing was something I could work in and write about not just a fun and rather interesting tool to stay in touch with my friends and ahead of the journalistic game…

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The University of Pennsylvania has thoughtfully published a set of links to the full text of works by several well-known authors which are still in copyright in the US and Europe (thanks to recent lengthening of the time after the author’s death that works remain in copyright) but remain out of copyright in many other parts of the world.

Works linked include Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy (1925), The Great Gatsby, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Finnegans Wake and Gone with the Wind…

Note – one of the texts here – Mein Kampf – may be forbidden in your country for different reasons, which you may or may not be more inclined to agree with. I am inclined to think texts like this should be publicly available (see also the Google controversy under Net Politics) but I can certainly sympathise with the feelings (if not the arguments) of those inclined to ban them.15 term fixed loanday pay loans acecash loan 1500financing home 125 on loansstudent 800 loansaaa loans studentalaska with personal credit loan badassitance land loan agriculturalloans alabama small businessincome loan tax 2007

True Spies was a recent BBC documentary about how our internal security (MI5) keeps an eye on “subversives” – mostly covering previous decades but with some more up to date information. While it was interesting to hear about some of what happened, it would have been good to hear more about why some of it occurred, and it doesn’t appear to go on to talk about some of the more recent proposed and actual surveillance plans.

It has come to my attention thanks to the hit tracking software I use that for some reason the third most likely physical location (as far as it can be determined) of those most likely to visit my pages appears, oddly, to be Poland. Unsurprisingly this comes after “Major Domains (.com, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu)” and UK but significantly ahead of Canada which has more Internet users and (I had thought) has more people likely to be interested in my writing.

If you are Polish, how did you hear about blog.org? According to this, blog doesn’t mean anything in Polish – that was my first thought… Perhaps the dictionary is incomplete? Any other ideas? Looking back I seem to have had substantial numbers of Polish readers for months.

Of course, I am delighted to be read by anyone who finds this interesting…