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CD Sales Increasing; File Sharing
Increasing -- Whose Assumptions Are
Wrong?

CD Sales Increasing; File Sharing
Increasing -- Whose Assumptions Are
Wrong? 01/06/2005 05:24 PM
Even while studies have shown that file sharing has been growing lately, reports are out saying that CD sales are actually up. This isn't all that surprising, for a variety of reasons. First, the RIAA had been manipul ating the numbers all along, and after a point, the reality had to hit. Second, the economy has been picking up. And, as many people pointed out, the economic downturn was probably the biggest factor in music sales declines. Of course, the industry is going to spin this as if their lawsuits "worked," when all the evidence shows that there's actually more file sharing happening now than before. However, the recording industry isn't known for actually looking at evidence.

Internet broadband use increasing in the
US

Internet broadband use increasing in the
US 06/13/2004 01:33 PM
Philippine Daily Inquirer Jun 13 2004 4:41PM GMT

Internet Filter Usage Increasing Among
Parents

Internet Filter Usage Increasing Among
Parents 03/19/2005 02:58 AM
A report released late Thursday indicates that parents are increasingly using filters to limit what their children can access online. A study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed a 65% increase in filter usage since the beginning of the decade.

SEC Proposes Increasing Role of Internet
in IPO Marketing

SEC Proposes Increasing Role of Internet
in IPO Marketing 01/03/2005 07:44 AM
Nasdaq.com - Mon Jan 3, 06:36 am GMT

Users of high-speed Internet increasing

Users of high-speed Internet increasing 04/19/2004 01:29 AM
Washington Times Apr 19 2004 5:42AM GMT

China review of regulations on religion
said to include foreigners, Internet use

China review of regulations on religion
said to include foreigners, Internet use 07/20/2004 06:00 AM
Asia.news.yahoo.com - Tue Jul 20, 08:23 am GMT

Religious Americans look on the Internet
for answers

Religious Americans look on the Internet
for answers 05/25/2004 02:49 PM
Chicago Tribune May 25 2004 7:21PM GMT

Americans are giving generously, mainly
via the internet

Americans are giving generously, mainly
via the internet 01/01/2005 01:06 AM
Internet Sparks Increase in Quick Donations 12/30 .. Online donation soars .. fundamental shift .. comes through

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Americans check out each other with
Internet search

Americans check out each other with
Internet search 03/13/2003 08:06 AM

Americans increasingly learning about
election by internet

Americans increasingly learning about
election by internet 01/16/2004 10:56 AM

Americans are increasingly learning about election information via the internet, while decreasingly relying on traditional media, according to a new study . The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that newspapers and both local and network television news programs were losing ground to the internet and cable programming.

The Internet, a relatively minor source for campaign news in 2000, is now on par with such traditional outlets as public television broadcasts, Sunday morning news programs and the weekly news magazines.

Demographic shifts appear, partly by age :

[y]oung adults were leading the shift, with one-fifth of them considering the Internet a top source of campaign news for them, said the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

(via Instapundit )

80% of Online Americans Read Internet
News

80% of Online Americans Read Internet
News 06/02/2004 06:23 PM
“Four out of five adults (80%) who are online report that they have used the Internet to read some kind of news in the last seven days. The types of online news used by the largest numbers of people are the weather (60% of all those online), national news (56%), international news (44%) and local news (36%). Currently 69% of all U.S. adults are online from home, work, school, library or other location.”

Most Americans Want Gov't To Make
Internet Safer

Most Americans Want Gov't To Make
Internet Safer 06/17/2005 03:38 PM
Slashdot Jun 17 2005 8:00PM GMT

Americans Turn to Internet for Everyday
Tasks -- Gradually

Americans Turn to Internet for Everyday
Tasks -- Gradually 08/11/2004 06:50 PM
Internet News Aug 11 2004 11:42PM GMT

Report Finds Risks in Internet Voting by
Americans Overseas

Report Finds Risks in Internet Voting by
Americans Overseas 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
A panel of computer security experts said that a $22 million system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure.

Americans Turn to The Internet in Search
of Fuel Conservation and Lower Gas
Prices

Americans Turn to The Internet in Search
of Fuel Conservation and Lower Gas
Prices 04/09/2005 07:57 AM
Promotion World Apr 9 2005 12:26PM GMT

Internet voting system for overseas
Americans is vulnerable, security
experts say

Internet voting system for overseas
Americans is vulnerable, security
experts say 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 22 2004 5:36AM GMT

Canada considering plan to stop
Internet, mail-order drug sales to
Americans

Canada considering plan to stop
Internet, mail-order drug sales to
Americans 01/05/2005 10:01 PM
MENAFN Jan 6 2005 1:47AM GMT

XML and Religion

XML and Religion 06/05/2005 11:19 PM

I suspect that most people who read me also read Adam Bosworth. But if you don’t, do.

"Its religion gone mad"

"Its religion gone mad" 04/19/2004 09:36 AM

Religion

Religion 09/22/2004 07:03 PM
Redemption and the Power of Man. In Christianity, redemption is essentially an act of divine grace, the salvation of a sinful humanity that is incapable of saving itself. In Judaism redemption depends entirely on man, who is responsible for his own fate. To what extent did Judaism influence the development of progressive, pluralistic democracy?

What Use is Religion?

What Use is Religion? 09/04/2004 05:17 PM
Richard Dawkins discusses religion with a Darwinian outlook .. What Use is Religion?

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Increasing the MaxSQLConnections

Increasing the MaxSQLConnections 07/26/2004 05:27 AM

Technology and Religion

Technology and Religion 03/14/2005 04:21 PM
Technology and Religion

1) PBS: Can Religion Withstand Technology?
http ://www.pbs.org/kcet/closertotruth/explore/show_14.html
2) Institute for the Future Blog: Emerging Technologies and Their Social
Implications
http://blogger.iftf. org/Future/000510.html
3) Cybertheology
http://www.cybertheology.net/
4) National Faculty Leadership Conference: Theology/Technology
http://esoptron.umd.edu/th eo_techno/
5) TechNewsWorld: Technology and Religion
http://www.techne wsworld.com/story/33078.html
6) Wired: on Muslims and technology
http://w ww.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66305,00.html
7) Cornells Minister of Technology
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/issue/ forward_cornell.asp?trk=nl
8) Readings in Faith and Science
http: //itest.slu.edu/theologicalview/readings2/index.html

This issue of Topic in Depth explores the relationship between technology and religion in today's world. This first website, from PBS, features interviews with "a skeptic, a devout Muslim scientist, and an expert in the sociology of religion" who address the question, Can Religion Withstand Technology? (1). This blog from the Institute for the Future discusses how religion is making use of technology (2). One way that religion and technology interact, of course, is through the use of the Internet in communicating religious ideas, as is evidenced by this collection of websites listed on cybertheology (3 ), which also offers a number of articles on theology and technology. This next website from researcher at the University of Maryland (4) is "dedicated to illustrations of the trends to refer to and use metaphors from technology in conveying fundamental ideas in theology" and presents some of the data collected so far as part of this research project. In this article from TechNewsWorld (5), an associate deputy of interfaith relations for the Episcopal Church discusses his views on "the future of religion and technology -- and what he views as their joint role in the survival of humanity." Wired offers this perspective on how technology has impacted Islamic traditions (6). W. Kent Fuchs, Dean of Cornell University's College of Engineering, discusses the ways that religion and technology can help each other in this short article (7 ). Finally, this website (8) offers a large selection of articles specifically addressing Faith and Science from the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science & Technology. This will be added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [ From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright
Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

"Which religion is the right one for
you? (new version)"

"Which religion is the right one for
you? (new version)" 03/28/2005 03:19 PM

What the world needs now: Another
religion

What the world needs now: Another
religion 03/06/2004 01:59 AM
Yoism is a made-up "open source" religion that replaces God with an impersonal Divine Mystery that seems to be loosely defined as "The Stuff that Is and the Scientifical Laws It Follows," so that the proof of Yo's existence consists of saying that the universe exists. Yoism pledges to build Heaven on Earth, and, best of all, without self sacrifice! I'm confident Yoism is built on the best of intentions. I'm just having trouble getting past the unintentional self-parody. I guess that makes me a small person. Thanks to Ross Knights for the link....

"Religion sites"

"Religion sites" 04/08/2005 10:10 AM

Webl0gging increasing: new studies

Webl0gging increasing: new studies 04/09/2004 04:01 PM

Weblogging is increasing, according to recent studies , and emerging as a significant part of the United States media landscape. Bloggers constitute a statistical minority of the online population, but include between two and eight million Americans. While perceptions of tone, content, and the newnewness of blogging may prevent widespread adoption at the moment, advertising is beginning to take root.

PR on Websites: Increasing Usability

PR on Websites: Increasing Usability 03/11/2003 01:22 AM

Report: Net attacks increasing

Report: Net attacks increasing 11/18/2003 10:14 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 18 2003 9:47PM ET

Increasing the Value of the Domestic IT
Worker?

Increasing the Value of the Domestic IT
Worker? 04/19/2004 08:20 PM

Chart: An Ever-Increasing Onslaught

Chart: An Ever-Increasing Onslaught 02/16/2004 06:49 PM
Macleans Online Feb 16 2004 10:10PM GMT

Increasing the vote virally

Increasing the vote virally 05/06/2004 02:25 PM
Strive for Five wants to infect the US with a voting virus.

Blog readership increasing

Blog readership increasing 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
National Post Jan 3 2005 1:49PM GMT

Gimme that New-Time Religion

Gimme that New-Time Religion 07/27/2004 06:10 AM
By Dale Short (Birmingham Weekly) Posted with permission. It may be no coincidence that every explosion we see in an action movie nowadays looks the same. Destruction is no longer a loud bang and a flash of light; it's become a stylized slow-motion ballet of jagged fragments that tumble and ricochet outward from the explosion's exact center toward the viewer and beyond, an artists perspective-drawing turned nightmare. The destroyed object is no more, this surreal display seems to tell us, but the ramifications of the blast have only begun. Its chain of events reaches further into the future than we can imagine, consequences as relentless as they are unforeseeable, but already stirring in us some primal memory of doom.

Justice, Religion, Sexuality

Justice, Religion, Sexuality 05/19/2004 08:46 AM
Here's a transcript of a speech by Justice Michael Kirby of the Australian High (= Supreme) Court on his Christianity and homosexuality. (Thanks to Vergil for the link.) Excerpt: So how did my relationship with God survive this experience of self-discovery? First, I never doubted for an instant the surrounding love of my parents, my brothers and sister. I knew, in my heart, that they would always love me as I was. For years we did not confront the subject verbally. We did not really need to do so. When we did, it was exactly as I expected. No big...

Karl Marx On Religion

Karl Marx On Religion 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Perhaps Karl Marx's best known quotation is his description of religion as "the opiate of the masses." This quote is often misrepresented by those ideologically opposed to Marx as though Marx were advocating immediate and total obliteration of all religions. On the contrary, Marx viewed religion as the sole solace, often, of the oppressed proletarian classes. He would not have dreamed of tearing this away, their only consolation in life. Lutheranism was the prescribed Prussian state religion, and career advancement for non-Lutherans and especially Jews was difficult to impossible. But for Marx, religion in general was merely a symptom of a much larger issue -- the fundamentally predatorial economic relationship between the bourgeois class and the proletariat -- rather than religion being a fundamental problem in itself. As Napoleon put it, "Religion is great stuff for keeping the poor from murdering the rich."

English Literature and Religion

English Literature and Religion 06/05/2004 02:51 PM
Englis h Literature and Religion.

All religion leads to extremism

All religion leads to extremism 06/05/2005 10:51 PM
Salman Rushdie attacks an article in the Guardian by Dylan Evans which proposes a moderate atheist stance. The problem with...

Science Fiction and Religion

Science Fiction and Religion 01/19/2004 10:41 AM
I was reading an interview with Ted Chiang, and the first lines struck me: All science fiction is fundamentally post-religious literature. For those whose minds are shaped by science and technology, the universe is fundamentally knowable. Faith dissolves, replaced by a sense of wonder at the complexity of creation.What do you think of this?
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Postal Service Wants 5 Cents an Email

Postal Service Wants 5 Cents an Email 07/23/2004 09:43 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 24 2004 1:09AM GMT

Q-C Internet auction service helps
people sell items online

Q-C Internet auction service helps
people sell items online 09/13/2004 07:20 AM
64.4.171.250 - Mon Sep 13, 08:14 am GMT

StreamShield Networks launches world's
first internet protection service for
web and email

StreamShield Networks launches world's
first internet protection service for
web and email 09/16/2004 11:31 AM
WebitPR Sep 16 2004 3:43PM GMT

Checkbridge and Cloudmark Partner to
Provide Spam and Fraud-Free Email for
Internet Service Provider

Checkbridge and Cloudmark Partner to
Provide Spam and Fraud-Free Email for
Internet Service Provider 03/19/2005 03:16 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Fri Mar 18, 09:36 am GMT

Postal Service seals big SAP deal

Postal Service seals big SAP deal 08/23/2004 10:39 AM
Enterprise software maker gets stamp of approval to replace letter carrier's 700,000-employee human resources system.

Norway Postal Service Tries to Woo Teens
(AP)

Norway Postal Service Tries to Woo Teens
(AP) 09/14/2004 11:00 AM
AP - With young Norwegians more likely to send a mobile phone text message than a post card, the postal service Tuesday revealed text message theme stamps in a bid to draw them back to letter writing.

Computerisation improves postal service
delivery

Computerisation improves postal service
delivery 05/18/2004 04:43 AM
Republic of Botswana May 18 2004 8:36AM GMT

Email Hosting Service by Runbox Provides
Businesses with Premium Email

Email Hosting Service by Runbox Provides
Businesses with Premium Email 06/05/2005 11:37 PM
Offer premium email to your business with Runbox Email Hosting. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2005]

Postal Service Links Delivery Delays to
Airlines

Postal Service Links Delivery Delays to
Airlines 12/29/2004 11:45 AM
The Postal Service says that a shortage of baggage handlers, computer problems and snowstorms delayed the delivery of thousands of letters and packages.

Postal Service Seeks 2-Cent Stamp
Increase (AP)

Postal Service Seeks 2-Cent Stamp
Increase (AP) 04/08/2005 11:58 AM
AP - The Postal Service filed a request Friday seeking a 2-cent increase in first-class mail. If the agency gets its way, there would be similar increases for other types of mail, and the higher rates would take effect early next year. The new pricing scheme would increase the rate for regular mail from 37 cents to 39 cents.

Postal Service Accidentally Delivers
$160 Million To Employees

Postal Service Accidentally Delivers
$160 Million To Employees 06/16/2004 04:44 PM
Talk about a computer error. The US Postal Service was supposed to pay a bonus of approximately $4,000 each to 1,900 former managers. However, someone set up their payment software to read from the wrong list of employees - one that has 76,000 employees. The mistake was caught a few days later, but not before 41,000 erroneous bonus checks went out, meaning an overpayment of over $160 million. As you might imagine, the USPS is trying to get the word out to employees not to spend the money, because it won't be there for very long.

The Politburo Diktat: US Postal Service
Issues Blog Stamps

The Politburo Diktat: US Postal Service
Issues Blog Stamps 08/11/2004 03:33 PM
stamps we really want to see .. which stamp is mine .. stamp .. stamp

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U.S. Postal Service Proposes 2-Cent
Stamp Increase (Reuters)

U.S. Postal Service Proposes 2-Cent
Stamp Increase (Reuters) 04/08/2005 03:37 PM
Reuters - The U.S. Postal Service on Friday proposed increasing the price of a first-class stamp by 2 cents next year as part of a sweeping rise in rates for most types of mail needed to fund a $3.1 billion escrow account requirement.

Postal Service Proposes 2-Cent Stamp
Increase (Reuters)

Postal Service Proposes 2-Cent Stamp
Increase (Reuters) 04/08/2005 08:15 PM
Reuters - The U.S. Postal Service on Friday proposed increasing the price of a first-class stamp by 2 cents next year as part of a sweeping rise in rates for most types of mail needed to fund a $3.1 billion escrow account requirement.

Form distribution-Teletalk to introduce
online, postal service

Form distribution-Teletalk to introduce
online, postal service 04/06/2005 09:21 AM
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Postal Service pushes envelope on single
sign-on technology

Postal Service pushes envelope on single
sign-on technology 06/02/2004 06:23 PM
“The U.S. Postal Service this summer plans to complete the installation of a single sign-on system that will support about 155,000 end users and more than 7,000 applications and Web sites — one of the largest deployments of the user access technology done thus far.”

U.S. Postal Service to enhance high-tech
mail sorters

U.S. Postal Service to enhance high-tech
mail sorters 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
The U.S. Postal Service is moving to update some of its first-generation high-tech mail sorters, equipment that was built more than a dozen years ago.

Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail

Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail 08/17/2004 02:00 AM
Aliencamel.com announces that the email-storage-space race is over. This race was started by Google's Gmail service offering 1GB of storage. AlienCamel has gone the final step and is now offering its users unlimited storage. By removing limits on space, users now have a simple, low-cost service which will keep their emails safe, secure and backed up forever. AlienCamel has implemented the most sophisticated anti-spam filtering and email-virus-blocking technology over the last 18 months. Now, AlienCamel is the first independent commercial email service in the world to offer "unlimited storage for personal email". [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]

Email Postage Company Says People Want
Email Postage Stamps

Email Postage Company Says People Want
Email Postage Stamps 04/21/2004 12:54 PM
Is it really any surprise that an email postage company has done a survey saying that p eople want email postage stamps as a way of cutting back spam. In the past, every survey that has asked people about email postage has generally come out the opposite way. However, when you ask the question in a leading way, such as: "Is it a good idea to shift the cost of e-mail from the ISPs to those who send mass e-mail?" who's actually going to say no? Of course, people want to "shift the cost," but that's not the same as saying they want to deal with email postage stamps.

Postal suggests homemade labels,
internet

Postal suggests homemade labels,
internet 12/15/2003 03:20 PM
Washington Times Dec 15 2003 2:36PM ET

Do People Need P2P Private Email?

Do People Need P2P Private Email? 09/27/2004 03:20 AM
A company in the UK named Jeftel has come up with their own take on a P2P application -- this one aimed at offering "no leak" secure email. The idea is that rather than worry about your ISP and/or mailserver hanging onto copies of the emails you send and receive, if you and the person your email both had software from this company, you could connect directly between computers and send encrypted emails. The software appears to work on top of existing email clients, which make sense. The company also makes some bizarre claims about how this will wipe out spam, but the small print makes it clear it will wipe out spam only if everyone adopts this solution -- and the company then monitors every account to make sure no one is sending too many messages. Not exactly a reasonable claim, then. It appears the only real benefit to this over encrypted email is that your mail server and/or ISP won't store a copy of the encrypted message -- but if it's well encrypted that shouldn't really matter. Besides, given our government's focus lately on making sure they can tap absolutely every form of communication around, it seems likely that this sort of service won't be too popular with law enforcement types and politicians who will quickly brand it a tool for terrorists.

People Lie More on the Phone than Via
Email

People Lie More on the Phone than Via
Email 02/14/2004 07:22 AM
New Scientist

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Offer something in your email newsletter
that people would actually want to read

Offer something in your email newsletter
that people would actually want to read 03/27/2005 05:00 AM
Best thing of Seth Godin's .. the rest of the piece

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International Internet Access Service
Provider Dialer.net ISP Adds a New
Global FAX Service for its Internet
Roaming Users Worldwide

International Internet Access Service
Provider Dialer.net ISP Adds a New
Global FAX Service for its Internet
Roaming Users Worldwide 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
Global Internet Access provider Dialer.net provides global FAX service for its users worldwide. Users can send faxes from anywhere in the world to any FAX in the world with their current e-mail program. [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

Microsoft Commends Federal Trade
Commission, Department of Justice And
U.S. Postal Inspection Service for
Criminal and Civil Cases Against Alleged
Key Spammers

Microsoft Commends Federal Trade
Commission, Department of Justice And
U.S. Postal Inspection Service for
Criminal and Civil Cases Against Alleged
Key Spammers 04/29/2004 07:10 PM
Microsoft Corp. today commended the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service for bringing the first joint criminal and civil action against a group of alleged spammers.

Internet shoppers' security fears
trigger a postal order comeback

Internet shoppers' security fears
trigger a postal order comeback 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
Telegraph Dec 29 2004 2:22AM GMT

Packages go missing in Germany as postal
worker auctions deliveries on Internet

Packages go missing in Germany as postal
worker auctions deliveries on Internet 04/22/2004 02:41 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Apr 22 2004 7:18PM GMT

List Briefs: ClientLogic Debuts West Elm
Internet Buyers at Postal Address

List Briefs: ClientLogic Debuts West Elm
Internet Buyers at Postal Address 05/03/2004 01:54 PM
dmnews.com May 3 2004 6:26PM GMT

Americans increasing use of internet for religion

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