NetTech Center Relocates To Valley Avenue Location By Drew Houff of The Winchester Star (July 22, 2003)

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Gadgets: Apple’s iSight brings focus to video conferencing By Matthew Fordahl (July 22, 2003), published in The Daily Breeze, Torrence Calif., concludes that Apple's new personal video conferencing camera/microphone (iSight) and software (iChat AV) combination is "evidence that a face-to-face online chat can be easier than text-based instant messaging or even the telephone."

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Another article from The Sydney Morning Herald, What a wiki thing to do By Jenny Sinclair (July 22 2003) describes the use of wiki webs as a collaboration tool. Selected exerpts below...

Definition: "A wiki is a website that can be edited over a web interface. Sounds like just another weblog? Not really. Wikis are typically open to all comers interested in the topic at hand, making them excellent resource-building tools. Also, their pages form more of a semi-permanent network of organised information than the ephemeral time-based entries of blogs."

One way it's used: "Tyson Clugg, a wiki enthusiast and president of the Melbourne Wireless Group, says his group uses its wiki to write technical documents because it allows several people to work on the same document without having to know who has the "live copy". "

Where the name originated: "Ward Cunningham, of the site c2.com, based in Portland, Oregon, invented not only the wiki, but the name wiki-wiki, as slang for "quick web", based on the Hawaiian word for quick."

Try it out yourself: "And like blogging, there are "wiki farms" where non-commercial users can build wikis for free - seedwiki.com is just one."

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From the Sydney Morning Herald, Telecommuting isn't all tea and slippers By Lisa Mitchell (July 22 2003) outlines the issues that need to be overcome for telecommuting to work smoothly: Broadband providers need to improve their technical proficiency and service availability; corporate cultures still need convincing; workers need to deal with issues such as the loss of informal interactions with coworkers, and minimizing home-based distractions.

The article goes on to outline broadband choices and related security issues

(thanks to Al Bonnyman)

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