Friday, June 24, 2005

TURNING BOOKS INTO BITS

TURNING BOOKS INTO BITS
[Commentary] A look at the global efforts to digitize the holdings of
libraries. Apparently, some of us youngsters may be surprised to
learn, not all of the important information that has ever been
published is available online. “When we were growing up,” said
Brewster Kahle, the founder of the San Francisco non-profit Internet
Archive, “we had great libraries. But for kids today, the Internet is
their library. We are giving them an instantly accessible resource
that is much worse than what we grew up with.”
[SOURCE: MSNBC, AUTHOR: Michael Rogers]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8258453
For a longer read, see "Buildings, Books, and Bytes: Libraries and
Communities in the Digital Age"
http://www.benton.org/publibrary/kellogg/buildings.html
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Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

A List of Google Tips By DAVID POGUE (New York Times technical
specialist blog)

Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
by Nancy Blachman – nancy at googleguide.com (replace at with @)
http://www.googleguide.com/

http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

There are a lot of cool Google tips and hacks floating around, some
of which I've mentioned in my weekly e-column. (For example, you can
use Google as a dictionary by typing "define:ersatz," or whatever.)

But here's a nice,
<http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html>tidy
list of all of them in one place, some of which are new to me.
Bookmark this baby!

Internews' French Radio Technician Asked to Leave Aceh

Indonesia-Relief.Org
News / General News
Internews' French Radio Technician Asked to Leave Aceh
Oleh relief
Friday, 24-June-2005, 00:58:02

http://www.indonesia-relief.org/mod.php?mod=publisher&op=viewarticle&cid=24&artid=1250

A French radio station technician, Aleksander Lebugle, which assist
rehabilitation of a radio station in Blang Pidie, Soutwest Aceh
district, has been asked to leave Aceh because has no working permit.
Lebugle, who works for Internews, NGO specializing in radio station,
entered Aceh using tourist visa.

Banda Aceh, Serambi Indonesia - A French radio station technician,
Aleksander Lebugle, which assist rehabilitation of a radio station in
Blang Pidie, Soutwest Aceh district, has been asked to leave Aceh
because has no working permit. He entered Aceh using tourist visa.

Head of Soutwest Aceh Police, Kompol Sumardi, told reporter on Friday
that he has issue an order for Lebugle to leave Aceh. Lebugle came to
Blangpidie as invited by Internews, an NGO specializing in radio
station, to rehabilitate radio Fatalie. The radio is part of French
project to create a network of tsunami early warning system.

Sumardi said he invited Lebugle to his office on Sunday night and ask
his working permit. As Lebugle could only show his tourist visa,
Sumardi asked him to complete his immigration paper. ''We didn't
arrest him,'' he said.

The police said, despite his present in Aceh is for humanitarian
work, Lebugle still have to abide immigration laws. On Wednesday,
Internews staffs (Mita, Erik and Tedy Wahyu) pick Lebugle and brought
him to Medan to complete his immigration documents. © ant

Read also: France Start Construction of Sumatra's Tsunami Early Warning System
http://www.indonesia-relief.org/mod.php?mod=publisher&op=viewarticle&cid=9&artid=1237

Government Aid

France Start Construction of Sumatra's Tsunami Early Warning System
Wednesday, 22-June-2005, 21:28:59
Clicks: 42
Jakarta, Indonesia-Relief - The government of France rehabilitates
Fatali radio station in Blang Pidie, Southwest Aceh district. The
$130,000 project will be completed this month and the radio will back
on air early Juliy. The station could reach audience in radius of 120
km, including audience in Blang Pidie and Meulaboh.

''We rehabilitate Fatali because Blang Pidie and its surrounding area
is still a blank spot,'' said Pierre Devoluy told reporters in
Jakarta on Wednesday. In implementing the project, French cooperation
with Radio Republik Indonesia (Indonesia public radio) and Ministry
of Communication and Information.

Rehabilitation of the radio station is first phase in French effort
to rebuild communication sectors in Aceh. In second phase, Devoluy
said, French will hold training for radio technician in the areas.

In third phase, French will build satellite communication system
which will become part of Indonesia's tsunami early warning system.
The system will be connected to 37 radio station in west coast of
Sumatra. The satellite communication will be build in Padang, capital
of West Sumatra, and will be completed in November 2005. © lan