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A number of miscellaneous links. Some are from RRE (http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html) and others are from here and there.
The first link below reminds me of when I was helping distribute humanitarian aid in the Soviet Union in 1991 (just a few weeks before it broke up). The aid packages, distributed in Siberia, included bread (!), powdered potatoes (!!), packaged water (!!!), and sunscreen (!!!!) Russia was really in need then, but not for bread, potatoes, water, or sunscreen! It was a fascinating experience though, and took me into Soviet institutions like hospitals, orphanages, and (harrowing) prisons in cities that no American or "Westerner" had set foot in for decades.
While I'm on the topic of the Soviet Union, remind me to share with you
some of my pictures from Uzbekistan--I guess I'm one of the few Americans to
have visited that country that is very much in the news now. Also
fascinating....
Mark
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Puzzled Afghans Left to Chew on Peanut Butter
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350015-2001355618,00.html
Speech Technology Magazine Online
http://www.speechtek.com/st.mag/index.shtml
English Words of Arabic Origin: Still a Vast Unknown World
http://www.vocabula.com/VRJune01Salloum.htm
The Odyssey of the Arabic Language and Its Script
http://www.vocabula.com/VROCT01Salloum.htm
Salvaging Electronic Last Words
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63748-2001Oct15.html
Security Guards Block Dylan from Own Show
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1003144251485&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News
The Internet, Untethered
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=811934
Cell Phone Messaging on the Rise in US
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7507617.html
Is AOL Censoring Liberal E-Mail?
http://www.bushnews.com/aol.htm
IT and Organizational Change in Digital Economies
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/kling/pubs/ITorg_00.html
Learning in Context: Computerized Work Groups as
Communities-of-Practice
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/kling/pubs/amit95d.htm
Knowledge City project at the University of Sao Paolo
http://www.cidade.usp.br/redemoinhos/
The Internet and Civil Society
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports/vol20fall00/Fall2000.pdf
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