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Rather than considering the implications of the software, the library simply changed its name. http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/daily/1122flesh.html Headlines From Newsscan DIGITAL DOMESDAY BOOK GETS NEW LIFE The BBC's computer-based, multimedia version of the famed Domesday Book has received a new lease on life, thanks to scientists at Leeds University and the University of Michigan, who have found a way to access the archive stored on 1980s-era interactive video discs. To unlock the now-obsolete technology, the Camileon project teams have developed software that emulates the Acorn Microcomputer system and the video disc player. "BBC Domesday has become a classic example of the dangers facing our digital heritage," says project manager Paul Wheatley. "But it must be remembered that time is of the essence. We must invest wisely in developing an infrastructure to preserve our digital records before it is too late. We must not make the mistake of thinking that recording on a long-lived medium gives us meaningful preservation." The information on the Domesday discs has been inaccessible for 16 years. By contrast, the original Domesday Book, an inventory of England compiled in 1086 by Norman monks, is in fine condition in a London Public Record Office. (BBC News 2 Dec 2002) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2534391.stm TRANSISTORS MADE FROM PLASTIC A Xerox research team has developed an experimental polymer usable for making organic transistors on a plastic substrate. "Think about the value of a laptop or cell phone display that you could drop without breaking," says one team member. The making of printed plastic transistors in phones and PDAs will be done on a new electronics manufacturing process on roll-to-roll machinery of the kind now used in publishing. (New York Times 3 Dec 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/technology/03XERO.html WHAT DOES STEVE CASE DO ALL DAY? Steve Case's "advisory-only" position at AOL Time Warner continues to be scrutinized, and industry analysts continue to suggest that the embattled chairman (and former head of AOL before its merger with Time Warner) is a superfluous figure. Paul Kim of Kaufman Brothers says, "There is increased scrutiny of what Steve Case's role is, and there are more questions about what his function is in the corporation." And John Tinker of Blaylock & AOL." But many observers insist that Case is resilient and should not be never as good or as bad as the press, or the street, says you are... In my experience, this isn't the time to play defense, it's also the time to play offense." (New York Times 2 Dec 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/12/02/technology/02CASE.html ADVERTISING DROP WILL DELAY AOL'S FINANCIAL REBOUND America Online's attempt to attain financial health will be delayed until 2004 as the result of an expected 40-50% drop in advertising revenues next year, and the company is predicting an overall 15-25% fall in profitability during that period. AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case (the former AOL chairman who has been much-criticized for his role in engineering the merger direction builds on AOL's past. This marks not just an important new beginning for AOL but a new beginning for AOL Time Warner. It is a new day." (Washington Post 4 Dec 2002) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5748-2002Dec3.html A study by Harvard Law School researchers finds that China is the country with the world's most oppressive censorship of what its citizens can view on the Internet. Chinese authorities block access to 19,000 sites, and also delete individual links or Web pages of which they do not approve. Most of the disapproved sites are political in nature. When it comes to blocking pornography, China (at least for now) cedes the first-place prize to Saudi to Saudi Arabia's blocking of 86%. (New York Times 4 Dec 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/12/04/international/asia/04CHIN.html FEE-BASED MUSIC SERVICES LANGUISH While free music file-swapping services such as Kazaa continue to flourish (with Kazaa now attracting almost 14 million U.S. visitors a month), fee-based services such as MusicNet have not succeed in finding a solid customer base of more than 100,000 subscribers. Are people just not willing to pay for music online? Or is the problem something else? Some industry watchers think the more important problem for fee-based music services is that they don't offer enough music selections. (For example, MusicNet was recently offering only two of the top 10 of the most popular songs in the country.) But industry executives are confident in their belief that it's just a matter of time before they can prove that music consumers, just like consumers of bottled water, will pay for something they can get for free provided the marketing and distribution are right. (San Jose Mercury News 2 Dec 2002) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4647117.htm You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. 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