US ads miss mark, Muslims say. America's image in the Muslim world slides, despite US campaign. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] it's an us themworld, even when them is us…

Tech doctorates decline 7 percent. The number of science and engineering doctorate degrees awarded in the United States dropped by 7 percent from 1998 to 2001, according to a new survey. [CNET News.com] why is this unsurprising?

iteration. White House Silent on Racial Controversy. Bill Back, the California Republican party's vice chairman running for the top job, sent out an e-mail newsletter in 1999 that reproduced an essay that said “history might have taken a better turn” if the South had won the Civil War and that “the real damage to race […]

Bookrolling. Just got pointed to a James Fallows endorsement of David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Nice. (Thanks to Jed Miller for that link.) Bonus: Dr. Weinberger has hacked some handy DMCA disobedience ribbons. [The Doc Searls Weblog] rolling a book, i wonder about rolling a dissertation…. hmmm…

If It's Not On The Net, It Doesn't Exist. Plastic::SciTech::Internet: A report shows that a majority of Americans expect info to be on the net. But can we trust a survey that says only 25 percent of Internet users have Googled their own name? [Plastic: Most Recent] i think this speaks more toward the functions […]

Coffee Shops and Libraries. Check It Out: Coffee Shops Perking in Libraries what I've always imagined is a coffeeshop/bar/bookstore/library construction where the walls are lined with books that people could read library style, but there would be an area where one could buy certain books, but not really a full service bookstore. the coffeeshop section […]

Essential System Administration Pocket Reference. 6 Jan 2003: Daemon News reviews the bookEssential System Administration Pocket Reference.”Recently published, a companion to Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition (reviewed this month) is a quick pocket reference for the command, tools and important topics that can be found in the full book. Since it was done after the […]

Whuffie: one of the 25 notions for 2003 [bOing bOing] this isn't just how the web works it is how just about every complex human interaction works.

Experts See Vulnerability as Outsiders Code Software. As American companies move their software development tasks to computer programming companies, new concerns are being raised about the security risks involved. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology] which direction is this globalizing or is it both, what about isolating… i

5{p://www.guardian.co.uk/Education/universitiesincrisis/story/0,12028,869307,00.html?=rss”>Lessons on paying for higher education. Education: This month the government will deliver its blueprint on higher education. Guardian writers visit three universities to see what their experience can offer the debate. [Guardian Unlimited] with close to 60million gone from the vt budget, and more things popping up worldwide, i wonder what the overall future […]