Massachusetts Institute of Technology will make the materials for nearly all its courses freely available on the Internet over the next ten years. MIT raised $11 million to fund the initiative to put the entire curriculum online (almost 2000 courses). Items include course outlines, lecture notes, reading lists, lab assignments and quizzes. Instructors around the world are free to adapt any of the information for their own use, including translating any or all of the content into other languages. They already have about 500 courses online already at MIT OpenCourseWare
Browsers war – revisited
Again about the Browsers War I mentioned here before, now curiously, an article on the MSNBC site, Better browser now the best. I really wonder what will be the next Microsoft move on this.
The Great Divide of America
The United States has become, in effect, two nations — divided by history, ethnicity, culture, religion, economics and, especially now, its politics, a new book argues.
Retro vs. Metro, a free book written by the self-made billionaire John Sperling, that presents a new thesis about divisions in America that are growing more alarming each day.
Romania as a functional market economy
Romania is about to be recognized as having a functional market economy in a country report of the European Commission due to be presented on Wednesday, according to Financial Times.
That is announced by BBC as well, with the mention that the Commission is keeping a ″safeguard clause″ at hand to postpone the accession of Romania and Bulgaria from 2007 to 2008.
UPDATE: You can now download the full Country Report (630k, PDF)
World Leadership Forum 2004
The speeches, in Windows Media format or as PDF transcripts on three very interesting subjects: The Rise of China: A Wider Role on the World Stage, Securing a Digital World and U.S. public diplomacy – is it working?. You can check them out over here
New searches from Yahoo!
Yahoo! started the beta for MyYahoo! Search, where you can now save, block, share whatever searches you’ve made, or search among your saved search results.
Browsers war
There’s more than 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0PR so far and it definetly seems like IE is loosing ground for the first time in years. Check this Forbes analysis on Internet Explorer Vs. Firefox.
Europe vs. US
An impressive analysis on how Europe and europeans are seeing the US at the moment.
Bush under siege
There were 90 minutes of hard debate last night, out of which if they edited out all of the repetition, it could have been a 30-minute show, with room for a few commercials. Bush focused on tearing down Kerry’s character. Kerry’s focused on policy details.
There were 24 questions 17 on Iraq, 4 on homeland security, 2 on general judgments, 1 on character.
There is also the huuuuge agreement (7MB pdf) negociated and agreed before, concerning all the details of the debate. Still there are some other things they don’t want you to know about the debate.
After all, it seems that Kerry was the one to benefit out of it. Maybe that’s why Bush looked so funny close to the end of the talks.