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<p align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">OPLIN 4cast #48 -
March 27, 2007</span></b></p>
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<p class="style4">This week’s <em>4cast</em><b>:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1. <strong>Less Wires, More Ties</strong></span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/203/report_display.asp"
target="_blank">A recent Pew Internet & American Life Project
Report</a>
indicates that wireless Internet use is not only on the rise, but that
wireless users generally do more online than landline users. Meanwhile,
more people are buying laptop computers than desktops and ISPs are
reluctant to reveal where they will or will not provide broadband
services (wireless or otherwise). </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2007/02/wireless_use_gr.html"
target="_blank">Wireless Use Growing</a> (Stephen's Lighthouse) </li>
<li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6396665.stm"
target="_blank">Wireless users 'do more online'</a> (BBC)</li>
<li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6474581.stm"
target="_blank">Laptops set to out sell desktops</a> (BBC)</li>
<li><a
href="http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1443215&from=rss"
target="_blank">ISPs Fight To Keep Broadband Gaps Secret</a> (Slashdot)</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2. <strong>COPA-Ca-Bye Bye? </strong></span>
</p>
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<p>In the latest chapter regarding the never-put-into-effect <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act"
target="_blank">Child Online Protection Act</a>
(COPA), a federal judge has once again struck it down. The judge ruled
that COPA violated both the First and Fifth Amendments, and suggested
that filtering technology had advanced to the point of doing a better
job than this particular law ever could. </p>
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<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/03/22/internet.blocking.ap/index.html"
target="_blank">Court strikes down Internet porn law</a> (CNN)</li>
<li><a
href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1424223&from=rss"
target="_blank">Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law</a>
(Slashdot) </li>
<li><a
href="http://www.politechbot.com/2007/03/22/copa-struck-down/"
target="_blank">COPA struck down, again, and judge says filters are
very effective</a> (Politech) </li>
<li><a href="http://walt.lishost.org/?p=503" target="_blank">COPA
and unintended consequences</a> (Walt at Random) </li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3.<strong> Old Media Looks for Itself
in the Obituaries</strong></span></p>
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<p>Newspapers
are having a rough time these days, struggling to generate revenue from
a declining print readership. Some are trying to beef up their online
offerings, but most are finding evolution to be a painful process.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/business/media/26paper.html"
target="_blank">Drop in Ad Revenue Raises Tough Questions for
Newspapers</a> (New York Times) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/822775.html"
target="_blank">NY Times publisher: Out goal is to manage the
transition from print to internet</a> (Haaretz)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.tamark.ca/students/2007/03/26/monday-squibs-42/"
target="_blank">Monday squibs</a> (notes from a teacher) </li>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070130-8736.html"
target="_blank">Newspaper goes niche to find paying customers</a> (Ars
Technica)</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4.<strong> The Security Threat One
Desk Over </strong></span></p>
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<p>Several
recent articles have put the spotlight on what many IT folks consider
to be the biggest threat to any organization's computer and network
security - its regular, old, day-to-day users. </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013618&source=rss_news10"
target="_blank">Biggest security threat? Your users</a>
(Computerworld) </li>
<li><a
href="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/03/our_users_as_a_.html"
target="_blank">Our users as a threat</a> (LibrarianInBlack)</li>
<li><a
href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1924218&from=rss"
target="_blank">IT Departments Fear Growing Expertise of Users</a>
(Slashdot) </li>
<li><a
href="http://www.cio.com/archive/021507/fea_user_mgmt.html?page=1"
target="_blank">Users Who Know Too Much (And the CIOs Who Fear Them)</a>
(CIO) </li>
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