Our job is to promote Internet use: Dayanidhi Maran

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UGC to promote use of virtual
infrastructure through Internet

UGC to promote use of virtual
infrastructure through Internet 07/25/2004 08:48 PM
The Hindu Jul 25 2004 11:55PM GMT

PC penetration 'pathetic' in India:
Maran

PC penetration 'pathetic' in India:
Maran 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
123Bharath.com Jul 30 2004 5:35AM GMT

TRAI approves BSNL's proposal to promote
Internet

TRAI approves BSNL's proposal to promote
Internet 12/23/2003 05:47 PM
The Hindu Dec 23 2003 4:36PM ET

Lufthansa to promote on-board Internet
service on China route

Lufthansa to promote on-board Internet
service on China route 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
China Economic Net Jun 6 2005 2:53AM GMT

PMA Adds Internet Video to Promote
Making Digital Prints

PMA Adds Internet Video to Promote
Making Digital Prints 07/07/2004 06:29 AM
Supermarketnews.com - Wed Jul 7, 09:11 am GMT

HP to promote value of CPs

HP to promote value of CPs 08/09/2004 05:41 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 9 2004 10:22AM GMT

to promote ... progress

to promote ... progress 06/05/2004 01:42 PM
More from Jerry Lobdill, who writes about his own wonderful experiences with the existing copyright system:

I am a small businessman. Among other things I am interested in publishing a few things. I have multiple interests, so the subjects I'm interested in vary. One of my interests is the history of the US, especially the era of the wild west. I have discovered an out of print book that is extremely important to students of the wild west. It is extremely rare and was published only in first edition in 1928. This book was renewed in the name only of the author in 1955, and under present law will not enter public domain until 2022. (According to my research no published works will enter the public domain until 2019.) However, the author died in 1963. He had no children, and his wife died in 1976. Her will does not mention any copyrights. I am obtaining a copy of the will of the author but have not seen it yet. I have had the US Copyright Office do a paid search, and all they have on record is that the author renewed the copyright in 1955. There is no record of transfer of ownership on file. I inquired of the original publisher if they knew anything about the author's copyright and was first told that they knew nothing about the book of interest. Then, they said they thought they owned the copyright but were investigating to be certain. Then I was told that they definitely owned the copyright. When I asked for a xerox of the copyright transfer document that law prescribes, transferring the renewed copyright to them, they refused to produce it, saying that their policy is not to provide such information to "private parties". When I explained that I was thinking of republishing the book and that the US Copyright Office records show that the renewal belonged to the author only, and that I needed proof of their claim before negotiating for publishing rights, I was told that I was too small a publisher to qualify. So...here I sit, with an extensive file that contains no transfer document. The US Copyright Office has no record of a transfer of ownership, and I feel that there is a strong possibility that the publisher is lying about ownership. If so it would not be unusual in today's environment. They probably hoped that I'd negotiate with them without proof. As a result of this situation I have spent money and time and have only a written assertion of ownership without proof. Were it not for this unsupported claim I would know that there was a transfer or that there is no one alive who is likely to challenge my republication of the book. The law is flawed in my opinion if it requires a written transfer of ownership (like real property) but does not require a claimant to produce the proof of ownership except in the context of a copyright infringement suit. If you agree, what can be done to get the law repaired? The way it is now it invites and rewards false claims of this sort to the detriment of reasonable use of works that are effectively public domain.

(cf. "It's simple.)

"Promote your LGBT webl0g here "

"Promote your LGBT webl0g here " 12/27/2003 09:04 AM

Does the Net promote echo-chambers?

Does the Net promote echo-chambers? 01/28/2004 02:33 PM
Steven Johnson questions the conventional wisdom that the Net fragments us into like-minded micro-communities.  (FYI, the seminal elaboration of this viewpoint is Andrew Shapiro's The Control Revolution.) 

I generally agree with Johnson's view.  The Net gives us many tools to filter information and to spend our time in closed communities.  But at the same time, it exposes us to far more diversity than any previous medium.  Those filters are never perfect.  And there is a countervailing pressure toward aggregation, which works against the fragmenting effects of filters.  Google and Yahoo aren't echo chambers, because their value comes from their breadth and scale. 

Furthermore, even when online communities and information sources are narrowly tailored to a specific viewpoint, that doesn't mean the people participating in them are hermetically walled off from one another.  Communities overlap.  If I'm a dog owner, a libertarian, and a fan of Sex and the City (for the record, I'm none of the above), chances are the people and content I interact with will differ from me along at least one of those dimensions.  Some people may vote based on a single issue, but no one is ultimately defined by a single interest.  The more specialized the commuity, the more likely its members will differ on other matters.  Spill-over is inevitable.

The final point is that the Net is still largely an open platform.  There is always room for another community or information source.  Traditional media has never been open in the same way.  With consolidation and the rise of politically polarized news, it is becoming even less so.  At a dinner the other night, I talked with Mark Walsh, a former exec at VerticalNet and AOL, and technology advisor to the Democratic Party.  He is launching a liberal talk radio network called Progress Media in eight cities in March.  Perhaps, on radio at least, there is still some room to challenge the dominant opinion current.

How can you promote marriage equality?

How can you promote marriage equality? 06/17/2005 05:03 PM
4 p.m. EST update on June 7, 2005: I'm told the pledge form is working again. My apologies for the inconvenience. Despite the Goodridge victory in Massachusetts, the battle for same-sex marriage has only begun. Many states have passed constitutional bans on gay marriage. Opponents of equal marriage rights even...

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books
(AP)

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books
(AP) 04/13/2004 02:22 PM
AP - A local librarian recently took a virtual page from the Omaha Public Library and began offering Battle Creek patrons an online book club.

IBM to promote VMware with blades

IBM to promote VMware with blades 03/23/2005 02:18 AM
Big Blue will bundle a six-month evaluation version of VMware's ESX Server product and other software with its blade servers.

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books 04/13/2004 04:58 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 13 2004 9:29PM GMT

What can we do to help bl0gs promote
justice?

What can we do to help bl0gs promote
justice? 01/08/2004 08:01 PM

My last blog entry about blogs and justice was a bit theoretical and ended with more questions than answers. Maybe it was confusing. Let me try to be specific. I think blogging will go beyond text and by blogging I mean the whole space that includes all sorts of micro-publishing of micro-content in a highly linked and low-cost way. This includes camera phones, video and audio. There are many things going on right now that will be sand in the vaseline from a technology perspective. Most types of DRM will suck for micro-content distribution. So will things like the broadcast flag. The whole notion of architecting systems for streaming video on demand goes against architecting systems for sharing. These technology and policy decisions will greatly affect the ease in which we publish and share information in the future.

When else can we do? At the last GLT Annual meeting Ethan Zukerman raised an important question during a talk moderated by Richard Smith, the Chairman and Editor in Chief of Newsweek. He asked why the mass media didn't cover Africa more. To summarize, Mr. Smith answered that they were a business and had to print things that people cared about and that they had resource constraints that made it difficult for them to cover remote regions. Resource constraints and caring. Mr. Smith seemed genuinely distressed by the inability to report about things the he believed people SHOULD care about. In Aspen the year before last, Jack Kemp said an interesting thing, "It doesn't matter what you know if you don't care." I agree, and generally people don't care to learn about things they don't care about.

I think blogs can help on both points. There are lots of people in these countries that can help provide voice if enabled with some technology and some support. Witness provides a video voice to people who are oppressed in remote regions of the world. Take a look at the videos. Tell me if you still don't care. Salam Pax our Blogger in Iraq provided a real human voice before the invasion of Iraq. This human voice helped me care about Iraq much more than a statistical body count reported in the New York Times ever could. I'm hoping that Creative Commons licenses will allow musicians in remote regions to share music and culture directly so they have a voice, rather than being mined by studios and commercial interests and being turned into an mere ethnic overtone in an otherwise typically commercial business. I think blogs and technologies that allow people to produce and share information help greatly on the "make people care" part of the equation.

On the "we are resource constrained" part of the media equation, blogs can help too. Ethan Zukerman is planning his second trip to Africa with GLTs and other opinion leaders. I hope to join him on the trip after that. Ethan has been working very hard to try to provide technical support to NGO and other people working in Africa. As I propose in my Emergent Democracy paper, I think that there is a way for information to emerge from regions though several layers of blogs. A group of bloggers focused on Africa, working with people like Witness to try to identify issues, getting first hand sources and dialog onto the Net is the first step. We don't need a lot of these bloggers and they probably won't be your average person, but with a few well positioned bloggers in these regions, these regions can be "lit up" with a human voice and feed culture into our collective consciousness. These bloggers would keep in touch with sources and provide a network similar to the way in which a journalist creates a local network of sources and experts.

I think that bloggers can work closely with the mass media. Richard Smith expressed his interest in hooking up with bloggers and other sources with access to information that his journalists could use. The bloggers who are in or care about regions that are not well-covered by traditional media could become sources for traditional journalists and support by providing an audience that cares and resources at a very low cost.

These are just some examples of things that we can be doing to help make blogs provide real value to society, rather than becoming an echo-chamber for local values or chat rooms to promote new media assets.

So when Clay's asserts that:

I can’t imagine a system that would right the obvious but hard to quantify injustice of the weblog world that wouldn’t also destroy its dynamism.

I guess if the primary focus of a good system is to be just, I can imagine it trying to make technology more inclusive and thinking beyond the market of the privileged that da nah refers to.

I.B.M. Helps Promote Linux

I.B.M. Helps Promote Linux 11/11/2003 01:11 AM
New York Times Nov 10 2003 11:45PM ET

O2 to promote accessibility for mobile
web

O2 to promote accessibility for mobile
web 03/30/2005 04:57 PM
DMeurope.com Mar 30 2005 7:38PM GMT

How to Promote a Game With Flare

How to Promote a Game With Flare 05/15/2004 05:45 AM
The Army stages an assault on the L.A. Convention Center to promote its latest video game at E3. Also: Sony to release EverQuest II this fall.... Mangled patients in ER, the video game. Wired News reports from Los Angeles.

eWeek: Sun to promote LAMP

eWeek: Sun to promote LAMP 08/16/2002 05:51 AM
Schwartz said that at the edge of the Web, Sun will promote a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) solution to developers. LAMP, a generic open-source solution, is Sun's Linux-based solution available on its newly released LX50 Intel-based machines running Linux or Solaris. Schwartz referred to Sun's version as Sun LAMP. Apache is an open-source Web server, MySQL is an open-source database and PHP is an open-source language for creating middle-tier HTML applications.

"Our competition is Windows, but it will increasingly suffer from the economic model Linux will promote," Schwartz said.

While Sun will continue to drive large deployments to the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) infrastructure, the company will promote LAMP for less complex applications.

"zeldman.bardot2"

China to Promote Own Alternative to
DVDs, EVD

China to Promote Own Alternative to
DVDs, EVD 11/18/2003 07:54 PM

Men Pose for Calendar to Promote Nursing
(AP)

Men Pose for Calendar to Promote Nursing
(AP) 09/17/2004 06:00 PM
AP - More than 65 nurses applied to pose for a calendar to promote the profession. But don't compare any of these pinups to Florence Nightingale.

Lib Dems promote 10 core pledges

Lib Dems promote 10 core pledges 03/22/2005 04:38 PM
The Liberal Democrats take out a series of adverts in national newspapers in a bid to raise their profile.

Microsoft uses Longhorn to promote
Itanium

Microsoft uses Longhorn to promote
Itanium 04/10/2005 11:09 PM
Commits to sell Itanium edition of forthcoming Longhorn Server, part of renewed marketing effort for Windows on the high-end processor.

InterActiveCorp Looks for Ways to
Cross-Promote

InterActiveCorp Looks for Ways to
Cross-Promote 07/05/2004 01:12 AM
With every acquisition Barry Diller makes for InterActiveCorp, the company’s potential grows. But so does the number of people asking if the company can connect its dot-coms.

Football stars to promote reading

Football stars to promote reading 04/01/2005 10:10 PM
Premiership footballers have named their favourite books to help boost literacy.

Cisco, IBM Team Up to Promote VOIP

Cisco, IBM Team Up to Promote VOIP 05/18/2004 03:05 PM
The companies are working together on products and services that will make it easier for businesses to adopt converged, voice, video and data offerings.

THROB to Promote Honey DVD Debut

THROB to Promote Honey DVD Debut 06/18/2004 03:37 AM
New agency emerges as favorite for adult-entertainment startups [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

Promote project management's image

Promote project management's image 01/17/2003 03:26 AM
CNET Jan 17 2003 2:23AM ET

Media Promote 'Culture of Death?' (NYT)

Media Promote 'Culture of Death?' (NYT) 04/14/2005 02:30 AM
Amen

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A campaign to promote Silicon Island

A campaign to promote Silicon Island 04/27/2004 12:21 AM
Newsday Apr 27 2004 4:39AM GMT

Staples to promote Comcast broadband

Staples to promote Comcast broadband 11/11/2003 12:51 PM
Marking a new partnership between ISPs and retailers, Staples will sell Comcast high-speed Internet service at its stores nationwide.

China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs

China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs 11/18/2003 03:17 PM
AP via Daily Press Nov 18 2003 2:24PM ET

Microsoft to promote dbMotion solution

Microsoft to promote dbMotion solution 08/09/2004 05:41 AM
Israel Business Arena Aug 9 2004 10:31AM GMT

AT&T, Zoom promote Net phone offerings

AT&T, Zoom promote Net phone offerings 07/13/2004 05:30 AM
Boston Globe Jul 13 2004 10:11AM GMT

Move to promote female officers

Move to promote female officers 06/01/2004 01:07 AM
Scotland's police forces are launching a campaign to improve their record of promoting women.

Promote Your Website in Google
Absolutely Free

Promote Your Website in Google
Absolutely Free 07/20/2004 02:38 AM
Free SEO help. The SEO Book helps charities promote their websites in Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other major search engines. The recently updated number one ranking SEO Book is now available to charities free of charge. [PRWEB Jul 20, 2004]

AOL and Its Cable Sibling to
Cross-Promote (washingtonpost.com)

AOL and Its Cable Sibling to
Cross-Promote (washingtonpost.com) 04/22/2004 10:46 PM
washingtonpost.com - More than two years after the AOL-Time Warner merger, America Online Inc. and Time Warner Cable yesterday took a small first step toward promoting each other's high-speed Internet services.

IBM, Brazil Partner to Promote Open
Source

IBM, Brazil Partner to Promote Open
Source 09/09/2004 01:00 PM
The first fruits of IBM and Brazil's partnership is a new technology center that will provide open-source software educational support.

Fat around the waist may promote
inflammation in heart attack

Fat around the waist may promote
inflammation in heart attack 03/28/2005 03:45 PM
Technocrat.net Mar 28 2005 8:18PM GMT

Olsen Twins Promote McDonald's Meals
(AP)

Olsen Twins Promote McDonald's Meals
(AP) 09/16/2004 01:34 PM
AP - Mary-Kate Olsen, recently treated for an eating disorder, and her twin sister Ashley are promoting McDonald's in France.
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