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040617 00:56 Internet

Interesting June 2004 edition of First Monday. For example:

• Pirates, sharks and moral crusaders: Social control in peer–to–peer networks.
• The mentality of Homo interneticus: Some Ongian postulates.
• The educated blogger: Using Weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom.

040611 22:06 Information

The U of Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems has published a report trying to answer the question of how much information is created each year.

Ninety-two percent of new information is stored on magnetic media, primarily hard disks.

...almost 800 MB of recorded information is produced per person each year.

Paperless society? The amount of information printed on paper is still increasing, but the vast majority of original information on paper is produced by individuals in office documents and postal mail, not in formally published titles such as books, newspapers and journals.

040611 17:02 War

On May 27 BBC 2 broadcast the sobering documentary One Day Of War - Human stories from 16 fighters in war zones around the world.

Every minute, two people are killed in conflicts around the world.

040511 22:36 The weather

They call it 'extreme weather conditions' on Yahoo. Today Rapid City, South Dakota went from summer to winter in 24 hours:

Today: Scattered Strong Storms/Wind, High: 27, Low: 3
Tomorrow: Rain/Snow Showers/Wind, High: 10, Low: 0
Thursday: Rain/Snow Showers, High: 9, Low: 0
Friday: Partly Cloudy, High: 16, Low: 4
Saturday: Few Showers, High: 18, Low: 6

040510 22:51 Dandelion season

040505 00:15 Multinationals

SchNEWS: Croaker Cola

Coke have been the focus of protests across India for the past few years. In Plachimada in the state of Kerla the company arrived three years ago, building a plant in the middle of fertile agricultural land because it had plentiful supplies of groundwater. But it wasn't long before problems began. Farmers living nearby began noticing changes in the quantity and quality of well water. Water from a well in the village of Plachimada became unfit for drinking, cooking and bathing with a district medical officer eventually telling the villagers their water was now toxic. Crop yields began to plummet. The water scarcity eventually hit Coke. Until recently, the company was drawing 1.5 million litres a day from the common groundwater resource - then it is only able to extract 800,000 litres - the remainder being brought in by truck from borewells from neighbouring villages. Fed up with this people recently blocked two of these transporters and instead distributed the water to local people and emptied the remaining water into paddy fields!

040504 23:10 Librarians

I'm in the latest Library Juice, under "What you are reading".

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