List of topics covered (February 16 - July 14, 2003) Tools and Services: FlashComStudio Intranets.com Grokker Kubi Client TrainingPoint Flashcom applications by Userplane Macromedia Breeze Mailblocks Inspiration 7 VT Survey Honor Roll of Best Social Software Poll Monkey XINA Voice2Video.net vClass CourseWork Conferences: C&T 2003 Virtual Communities 2003 digifest 2003 Technology Policy and Innovation The Good, The Bad, and the Irrelevant Connecting in a Wireless World Collaborative Communities 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Teaching OntheNet 2003 2003 Interactive Technologies Conference Many Voices, Many Places Social Venture Symposium 2003 The P3 Conference Digital Drive Conference 2003 Networks for People Readings: Meeting in the Virtual World Global Information Technology Report 2002-2003 Collaboration Cure by Russell Kay Making E-Learning Work in the Nonprofit Sector by Jacques LeCavalier Building New Communities: Learning from Weblogs by Tom Coates Social Software and the Politics of Groups by Clay Shirky Building Communities with Software by Joel Spolsky Migrating to Linux Not Easy for Windows Users by Tsu Dho Nimh From Burkas to IT for Afghan Women (story from Reuters) U.S. broadband dream is alive in Korea by Ken Belson Building an Open Source Office Anticipating a post-Web, post-PC world by Kevin Werbach Nonprofit Sector Slow to Join Internet Revolution Virtual Teamwork Robin Good's Official Guide [...] Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data by Clay Shirky Desktop Linux Technology and Market Overview by Bart Decrem The Digital Divide That Wasn't by Amey Stone Dell the Conqueror by Michael Canellos Initiatives: Digital Libraries in the Classroom CHEF Project Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Group TechFunders Collaborative OpenGroupware.org Waitt Institute Quotations: John Seely Brown: "There is a new kind of digital divide now [...]" Nicholas Negroponte: "Computing is not about computers anymore [...]" Peter Drucker: "The best way to predict the future is to create it." Alvin Toffler: "The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order." [author unknown]: "Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day [...]" Bill Gates: "Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day [...]"