M$ can go to *ell >>>> Micro$oft can go to *ell!<<<<<<5{20ef886babc3a4e1b41d32b4bb7b1c">Keith Teare received a letter from Microsoft, which he published on his weblog, which among other things, demands that he stop publishing his weblog.   [Scripting News]
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Back to Business I am hoping get back into the swing of things regarding weblogs after my sister's wedding this weekend. I have a yet to note the K-12 weblog for educators using weblogs in the trenches produced through the Bay Area Writing Project. Terry Elliot has a story of his linked about the need for collaboration among educators. When business itself says it wants students who can do the basics and collaborate around projects, why is it that the present model of professional development and ongoing educator team collaboration seem sorely lacking in the school workplace in general? Children are not so naive to see if a staff works together. Why ask children to work in teams and work in project management when the adults can not do it well themselves. How can a teacher instruct about writing if they themselves do not writie and thus model the higher order thinking involved in the process ( the inside game of writing). This is exactly an issue that both Central Office and the Union will not touch. It would mean more collaborative planning time, paid planning time.
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eWeek.  (grantged, this is five days old, but excellent analysis is always worth waiting for).  Allchin opts for the absolute worst defense.  Patriotism is the last defense of cowards.  It is even worse if Microsoft is engaged in keyword logging as part of their settlement with the DoJ.  This would mean that the US could, if conditions warranted it, keyword log all the computers in a country like Pakistan.  This would occur under the assumption that anyone outside the US isn't entitled the same freedoms we enjoy.  They are fair game. In exchange, Microsoft would get a pass on anti-trust from the DoJ for a decade or more.  This is the probable scenario.

>>>A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed.<<<

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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