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The Fading Memory of the State
The National Archives struggle to save endangered electronic records. By David Talbot http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/feature

Florida Concept Mapping Idea Given To Schools Around the World
A simple 'clustering' concept for teaching concepts has some enthusiastic supporters. By Bill Kaczor http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/ap/ap_071105.asp?trk=nl

Gaming Technologies Alter Classroom, Textbook Models
Educators and video-game developers gathered last week in Madison, Wis. to explore how learning technologies can alter traditional classroom and textbook education models, which speakers agreed early e-learning projects failed to achieve. http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=1954

Gizmos do not a Hemingway or a Copernicus Make
Alex Lam-Niemeyer could care less that Google can churn up millions of Web pages when he's researching homework assignments. Typically, he researches his reports by scouring library stacks, just as students have done for generations. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/TopPhoto/2005/09/08/1207954-ap.html

It's a Whole New Web
And this time around it will be built by you. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952401.htm

L.A. Times's Experimental Journalism
Chris Anderson at The Long Tail has an interesting entry on why the L.A. Times's bloggish experiment with participatory journalism went so wrong. By Jason Pontin http://pontin.trblogs.com/archives/2005/06/la_timess_exper.html?trk=nl

The Linux Longhorn Challenge
Open Source Developers race to get applications and migrations tools in top form before the launch of Microsoft's next operating system. By Eric Hellweg http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_051305hellweg.asp?trk=nl

Microsoft Steps Up Pressure To Adopt Spam-Fighting System
MS plans to require IDs from more emailers. By Anick Jesdanun http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/ap/ap_062305.asp?trk=nl

Mobile Army Requires Solar Soldiers
The U.S. Army is turning to new solar-powered materials and sensors to solve the problem of too-little energy for its high-tech soldiers. By John Gartner http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_051605gartner.asp?trk=nl^{Image Added}

New For Back-To-School: Clickers
Students in Ann Auleb's biology of human sexuality class at San Francisco State University are often shy about joining classroom debates on gay marriage, abortion, circumcision and other emotion-stirring topics. http://news.com.com/New+for+back-to-school+clickers/2100-1041_3-5819171.html

New Tools: Blogs, Podcasts and Virtual Classrooms
The "Room 208" podcast may just have the youngest production staff in the history of broadcasting. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/technology/techspecial3/03ethan.html?

NSA Could Track Internet Users
The National Security Agency has obtained a patent on a way of finding an Internet user's geographic location. http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050923-042616-1668r^{Image Added}

Rita Pushes Blogs, Podcasts and Rich Maps Onstage
Once again, 'alternative' media show their strengths where timeliness and versatility are crucial. By Anick Jesdanun http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/ap/ap_092705.asp?trk=nl

A Room Without Books
The University of Texas at Austin did a little housecleaning this summer. In preparation for the school year, UT retooled its undergraduate library into a "learning commons." Accoutrements include a coffee shop, computers, "software suites" where students can gather for group projects, 24-hour technical help and a center for computer repair. But to make space for all of this, something had to go. So UT removed most of the library's 90,000 books, transferring them to other collections. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/3283466

Technology for the Globe
TR's Emerging Technology Conference ended yesterday as it started: with a look at how technology can be used create a more equitable world. By Wade Roush http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/wo/wo_093005roush.asp?trk=nl

Technology Responds to Hurricane Katrina
How high-tech companies and Web surfers are using technology to help people find victims of Hurricane Katrina and to assist public safety officials and rescue workers in communicating. By Eric Hellweg http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/wo/wo_0901hellweg.asp?trk=nl

Tiny Sensors Run Forever (Almost)
Several technologies for transmitting information wirelessly over unlicensed radio spectrum are targeting consumers, but supporters of the ZigBee specification say the technology is better than rivals such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and Wi-Fi in certain instances thanks to ...
Joanna Glasner http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68700,00.html

Sending out an SOS: HPCC Rescue Coming
The annual SOS Forum is designed to encourage multinational collaboration on investigations into new avenues of high-performance cluster computing (HPCC). The most recent SOS Forum focused on how supercomputers will nurture future scientific breakthroughs, with particular emphasis on the ...
Christopher Lazou http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=464623&xsl=story.xsl

Sun Microsystems Unveils Grid Computing Initiative
Sun's pay-per-computing grid initiative will help small business harness large networks much easier. That, at least, is what Sun hopes to sell. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/ap/ap_2020205.asp?trk=nl

UT Game Group Unveils AI Project
My friends at the Digital Media Collaboratory at the University of Texas at Austin have been working on a very cool artificial intelligence. By Brad King http://king.trblogs.com/archives/2005/06/ut_game_group_u.html?trk=nl

Will IPods Change TV the Way It Changed Music?
Or will a 2.5-inch screen make "Desperate Housewives" and "Night Stalker" seem much less compelling? By David Bauder http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/ap/ap_2101305.asp?trk=nl^{Image Added}

Wireless Wiretapping
The U.S. government wants the ability to listen in on wireless conversations. Critics claim the move could actually make Internet-based communications more vulnerable to attacks. By Trey Popp http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/wo/wo_082205popp.asp?trk=nl^{Image Modified}