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RAIN 03/19: Weekend Update Part 1



ZDNet 02/26/01
Why pen and paper is still the pervasive PDA
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0%2C11011%2C2688169%2C00.html

Peter Coffee
eWEEK Labs
On a recent episode of "NYPD Blue," a harried detective tried to look up a
telephone number by tapping a stylus on a handheld PDA. "I'll take a hammer
to this thing before Easter," he muttered. Such is the fate of too many
efforts to introduce mobile work force automation.
The difference between what sounds good and what actually works in the field
is the difference between the predictable environment of a demonstration and
the chaos of real life. "There will be days," said George Bayz, president
and CEO of Thinque Systems, in Los Angeles, "when your field representative
wants to finish up and get home to coach basketball practice. He'll want to
fill in the data that he can only capture on the customer's site, then
complete the call report later."


D-Lib 03/01/01
Penn State Libraries awarded $755,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for
Digital Library Image Research
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/03inbrief.html#SPINK

Contributed by Amanda Spink
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $755,000 to the Penn State
University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image
delivery. Project partners include the School of Information Sciences and
Technology (IST), Center for Education Technology Services, and the Center
for Quality and Planning, Library Computing Services.




ECompany 03/16/01
Learning form our old tools
http://www.ecompany.com/articles/web/0,1653,9721,00.html

by Thomas Stewart
A few months ago, in a rare attempt to organize my desk at home, I stumbled
upon about two dozen carbon sets. Used to make copies of letters, carbon
sets were ubiquitous in the days when office air vibrated with the clacks
and dings of typewriters, the birdsong of a business rain forest. They were
also one of the great inventions of what Warren Benis and Phil Slater called
the temporary society.
Each carbon set consisted of two sheets of 8 1/2- by 11-inch paper, joined
at the top by an easy-to-tear-off strip. The top sheet was a piece of
single-use carbon paper, flimsy as a negligee; beneath it was an almost
equally diaphanous sheet, often yellow, for the copy. You put one or more
carbon sets behind a sheet of letterhead paper and fed the package into your
typewriter; when you were done typing, you tore away the strip, tossed out
the carbon paper, and kept the copy. Today, this technique has gone the way
of the horse-and-buggy: No more smudged fingers from reusable carbon paper;
no more illegible copies because you reused it too many times.



Gramophone Online 03/15/01
Mozart score found in Halifax
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/newsAndEvents/news_detail.asp?page=7&archive=01/
03/01

by David Smith
The score of a previously unknown work by Mozart has turned up in the
archives of the West Yorkshire town of Halifax - up to now more famous for
building societies, toffee factories and wool markets.



New York Times 03/16/01
Virginia Court's decision in online 'John Doe' case hailed by Free-speech
advocates
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/16/technology/16CYBERLAW.html?searchpv=nytTod
ay

by Carl Kaplan
In what was apparently the first Internet defamation case to involve both an
anonymous plaintiff and anonymous defendants, the Supreme Court of Virginia
refused to grant an unidentified company access to America Online's
confidential subscriber information unless the firm agreed to reveal its
identity.


Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 03/16/01
Frick archives hearing slated
http://www.triblive.com/live/news/news_story.html?rkey=102792+sid=23636e5911
e88a00b494e0e57c71b8cf+cat=news-pittsburgh+template=news1.html

A hearing on a proposed settlement for the Frick family archives has been
scheduled for May 29 before Judge Lee J. Mazur of Allegheny County Orphans'
Court.
Under the agreement, the University of Pittsburgh would house parts of the
archives relating to western Pennsylvania. Other material would be moved to
New York City. The collection is now located at the Frick Art and Historical
Center in Point Breeze.


Poughkeepsie Journal 03/15/01
Radio, TV stars of museum
Manhattan site more than entertainment
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/thursday/lifeentertainment/stories/li0315
01s1.shtml

by Nicole Edwards
You might ask why there's a museum dedicated to something most people are
exposed to every day, but television and radio can be more than a source of
entertainment.
We have all been able to laugh, cry or sympathize with a television
character. Many of us remember where we were when President John F. Kennedy
was shot or Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke about the Great Depression on his
weekly radio program. That's where the Museum of Television & Radio comes
in.



Seattle Times 03/16/01
Quake revealed flaws in King County's new disaster radio system
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/goto
Article?zsection_id=268448406&text_only=0&slug=radio16m&document_id=13427475
5

by Chris Solomon
In the hours after the Feb. 28 earthquake, the people who needed to talk to
each other the most - King County firefighters, police and paramedics -
frequently had trouble with the radio system the county bought with
disasters in mind.
Those who use the system said the problems did not result in
life-endangering delays in responding to incidents, and its operators said
the problems are reparable. Yet the snafus could have hampered emergency
personnel's ability to help the public had the quake been a true disaster.


Dallas Morning News 03/16/01
Couple set to announce lottery win
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/313140_lottery_16tex..html

by George Kuempel and Pete Slover
AUSTIN - The winners of the state's biggest lottery jackpot - apparently an
Austin police officer and his wife - slipped quietly into lottery
headquarters Thursday to collect their $51.2 million prize. But they plan to
appear publicly Friday to share their good news.



Galveston County Daily News 03/16/01
HUD: No word on request for documents
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?-datasource=news&-table=story&-key
field=ID&-op=eq&ID=2049&-search

by Michael A. Smith
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could not say this week
whether it would honor a request for public information filed by The Daily
News almost three months ago.
On Dec. 29, the newspaper sought copies of documents recording the scores
awarded to coalitions serving homeless people in Texas, New York and several
other states.


Syracuse.com 03/17/01
Government refuses to give newspaper timeline on open-records request
http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n0404
_BC_TX--FOI-HUDDocuments&&news&newsflash-newyork-syr

Associated Press
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development is refusing to say when -- of even if -- it will honor The
Galveston County Daily News' request last year for HUD scores awarded to
coalitions serving homeless people.
On Dec. 29, the newspaper sought copies of the documents relating to scores
in Texas, New York and elsewhere as part of its investigation into why New
York won far more funding for homeless issues than Texas. The scores are a
basis of awarding grants.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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