Edu_RSS ~ April 24, 2003

Most recent update: April 24, 2003 at 11:00 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: Etcon 2003 Here's my presentation from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, "From the Margin of the Writable Web" in your choice of Powerpoint [112 KB] or HTML. Enjoy! And thanks again to everyone who took the time to offer suggestions. I'll try to post all of those when I get a chance later this week. From megnut on April 24, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. Sun tackles privacy, speech recognition Company researchers show off their latest work on "Virsona," software designed in part to shield people from unwanted messages while letting them maintain a network presence. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. Linux founder opens door to DRM Linus Torvalds posts a message saying nothing in the basic rules for Linux should block developers from using digital rights management technology. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. Nanosys nabs $30 million in funding From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. [ETech] Ben Hammersley: Mail Threads The Semantic Web, Ben says entertainingly, isn't going to happen because the Web is too messy. So what does already have the data that's required? A mailing list. Tons of metadata already there. With threadsML (yeah!) you can capture threads. It's "RSS 1.0 with extra toys." It includes some Dublin Core metadata (metadata standard for documents). "Mod threading" lets you point to things that are children of the object. This addresses the obsolescence of conversations. The killer problem is: Subjects (topics). Why? Because subject lines are often not related to the topic. A soluti From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Clay Shirky Keynote Clay is going to talk about a pattern in social software that consistently emerges: Groups are their own worst enemy. Prior to the Internet we had lots of ways of doing point-to-point and one-to-many communication. Before the Internet, we didn't have a good way to do "ridiculously easy group forming." Now we do. But the patterns that emerge are due not to the technology but to how humans behave in groups. Part 1: Why groups are their own worst enemy. Wilfred Bion wrote in the middle of the 20th century. He believed that we are irreducibly social and individual. Bion... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. Two New Blogs of Note Esther Dyson is blogging! And so is Geoff Cohen, my town-mate and recently of the Center for Business Innovation.... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Macromedia Kevin Lynch of Macromedia, a Platinum Sponsor of the conference, is showing an alpha compile of "Central." It seems to make it easy to tie together apps. The first example is of a directory that pulls together info from a variety of sources. It looks a lot like a demo of a portal product but I'm sure it's much more exciting than that. I just don't know why. Maybe it's the way the various apps (e.g., directory listing and the technorati link cosmos for the person's blog) communicate and update. Via web services? In another example, clicking on an entry... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Thursday: Alan Kay Keynote He's going to complain and then show us some ideas. He says the past twenty years of computing have been boring because it's been focused on business. The predicted coupling of computers and the human brain hasn't revolutionized human thought in general, even though it has happened in science. That's because we generally are "instrumental reasoners," i.e., we think about stuff only in relation to our current "goal structure." He shows a great video of the program Sketchpad which in 1963 was the first object-oriented graphics system: A room-sized half-MIPS computer that let From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Social Software Alliance BOF (BOF = Birds of a Feather, i.e., an open discussion with the chairs in a circle. This one is packed.) Peter Kaminski has suggested a place where standards and ideas for social software can be proposed, kicked around, and maybe even implemented in rough and ready ways. The idea is to have a central coordination point to see if other people are thinking about the same thing. Goal: interoperability. He's set up a wiki for it. The meeting has gotten off to a bad start by too many people trying to decide how the email list ought to be forked;... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Bookmobile Lisa Rein shows a brief video of the Bookmobile: a van with access to tons of books and a bunch of printers. Brewster Kahle says that the Library of Congress says that it costs $2.00 to check a book out and back in; he can print a copy of a book for less than that and charges $1/book. Brewster says that traditionally we've been good about aggregating books in libraries. To preserve them, he's digitizing and replicating. E.g., his group donated a scanner to Egypt and they're scanning 2,000 pages a day. There are about 16M books in the... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] GNU Radio This session's topic — software-defined radios — is an important topic. Matt Ettus and Eric Blossom are the presenters. It's an important topic because we have a broadcast system based on the idea that the receivers of signals can only do one thing with the signal: turn it back into sound. But if a radio is programmable, we caa be much smarter about how we transmit information and we can do much more interesting things with the signal once the radio receives it. The HD TV demo looked fine, although there were some "motion artifacts" caused by the player... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] O'Reilly Radar This is a hastily-assembled session about what Tim O'Reilly and his pals see coming over the horizon. The room is crowded. Rob Frederick, Amazon Web Services. "We consider Amazon.com to be a technology platform. Developers can use Amazon's backend systems, get product information and customer comments, and create and innovate. Available through their free SDK: search, browse, sales rank, etc. You can use XSLT to pass parameters and Amazon.com will return info as html snippets. He points to www.simplest-shop.com by a 19-yr-old Rumanian developer who puts his innovations into the open From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. Biological Computing Eric Bonabeau is talking about "Inspiration from nature for designing computing systems." He begins with an exceptionally clear example of how ants "solve" the problem of finding the shortest route to a sugar cube. Those that discover the shortest path deposit the freshest pheromones. He now applies this to the Salesman Problem (shortest routes among multiple cities). It involves math so I played Minesweeper until the scary symbols went away. He shows how this form of emergent programming can result in more efficient routing of packets. Now he's onto the "second lesson from nature: simple From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Conference Blog Apparently the conference blog aggregator is a list of trackback links.... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. Role of Technologists in Politics The first two sessions of the Emerging Tech conference raised the issue: What should technologists be doing to keep the Net free and content open? Here's my answer, as profound as it is detailed: First, technologists should make technology that supports openness. Second, technologists should explain that technology as clearly as they can. Here's an example. Right now, we're in a battle over how controlled content can and should be. Everyone (?) agrees that creators ought to be compensated for their efforts. The question is: Is it necessary, fair and good for creators to always b From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Wednesday AM: DRM panel Dan Gillmor is moderating a session on Digital Restrictions Management. Joe Kraus of DigitalConsumer.com: Congress is thoroughly convinced that DRM is about ending theft. They do not see it at all as about openness, access and fair use. This is largely because Hollywood has been effective whereas Silicon Valley believes that if its recitation of facts didn't work, it needs to re-state the same facts. Wendy Seltzer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The law is being interpreted to mean that when you buy a DVD, you haven't bought the right to use it as you please but only in... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. Where's the ETech blog? If you know where the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference blog aggregation page is? If so, please send me email: self@evident.com. Thanks.... From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. [ETech] Opening Session: Howard Rheingold Rather than rehashing his excellent Smart Mobs, Howard is urging this group of techheads to keep the Net free and use it to spread freedom to the real world. We should be users, not consumers, he says. End to End ought to be maintained. This group in particular should understand the regulatory environment. The technoids will be more effective by building new technologies rather than attempting to fight against the professional politicos. We need to create a "preserve" where we can invent the next generation; the preserve should include opening spectrum for more innovation. He asks: Why not inv From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. Sam Adkins: Workflow-based E-learning Sam Adkins: Workflow-based E-learning "Employees in the field and on the job do not have the time, the place or the inclination to 'take' conventional elearning. Conventional elearning formats are inappropriate for their needs. New, highly innovative, and effective augmented reality and mobile performance products are emerging that map directly to their contextual performance needs." [Note: Word doc, 266Kb]... From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. e-learning Guru: E-learning Business Translator e-learning Guru: E-learning Business Translator You have to watch this. It's very neat! Thanks Kevin.... From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. mama's "blogs 101" list Liz posted her list of articles etc. on blogs. I also noticed Michael Fagan's comment about his page on RSS. (29 words) From carvingCode on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. When to use Trackback and Pingback with RLO's Ryan Eby has an entry about uses of Trackback and Pingback. He makes an interesting point about how each could be used to reference Learning Objects. Comment: I would like to see this become automated. (39 words) From carvingCode on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. Workflow-based E-learning From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. E-learning Business Translator From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. Futurist Fears End of Innovation From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. Genome pioneer garners $500,000 prize Leroy Hood, who co-founded the organization that mapped out the complete set of human genes, wins the Lemelson-MIT Prize for his inventions. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. HP to staff: Vote early, vote often Hewlett-Packard wants its employees to have their voices heard--in PC Magazine's reader survey. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation  Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation "Rheingold warned that attempts to stifle innovation would have dire consequences. He reminded the audience that Unix, the Internet and the Web were all open systems built collectively, by collaborating parties. If the government or big corporations had been charged with building the Web, they'd still be struggling with it in our grandchildren's lifetimes,... From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. New blog announcement Here, down below. From Seb's Open Research on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Can blogs increase faculty use of Web? An interesting article about how one college that introduced weblogs to faculty dramatically increased faculty web sites. It also discusses money saved by moving to weblogs. (29 words) From carvingCode on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Weblog-Based Content Architecture Via SIT: A WEBLOG-BASED CONTENT ARCHITECTURE FOR BUSINESS discusses a model for using weblogs as a way to codify and publish an individual worker's filing cabinet. As weblog tools become more powerful and flexible, open sourcing of weblog add-ons increases, and RSS and XML technologies advance and become sta From carvingCode on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Phew... Well, that's done. I did my talk. I didn't get lynched. I'll be posting more from now on. Dear god... From Ben Hammersley.com on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Is Web access Lufthansa's hot ticket? Lufthansa German Airlines sees "no reason whatsoever" to ground its plans for high-speed Web access on planes. Trial runs show the technology is taking off, sources say. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Best Software reshuffles, cuts jobs From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. A Weblog Learning Management System This article (and Part Two) describes the concept of creating a learning management system (LMS) using weblogging technology. Citing Dave Davies, who he notes has also developed a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) using Manila, the author points to the capacity of a weblog system to empower student voices and create a genuine learning community. I think the diagram From OLDaily on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. In Defense of University Patent Licensing This article defends the use of patents by colleges and universities to protect inventions created by their faculty. To its credit, it identifies the grounds for recent objections to the practice and meets them on those terms. In response to the charge that patents violate traditional academic openness, for example, the author responds that " Academic patents have nothing to do with preventing openness. By definition, a patent is an open document available to teach the world what its inventor has learned." The author also argues - with some force - that non-exclusive licensing means that no in From OLDaily on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Building a Metadata-Based Website This article will be too technical for many readers, but is worth a quick scan in any case if only to develop an understanding of the way data will be managed and presented in websites (and other applications) of the future. The idea of a metadata based website is that content is represented semantically, using XML, so that the relational and representational structure of content may be analyzed by any semantic web application. This frees data from proprietary interfaces and establishes the basis for intelligent content management systems of the future. By Brett Lider and Anca Mosoiu, Boxes a From OLDaily on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Smarter, Simpler, Social This article captures many of the underlying theses of the blogging and syndicated content movement. In a nutshell, argue the authors, social software should be Smarter, using XML syndication, distributed, collaborative metadata, ontologies, adaptive design and context-awareness Simpler, developed using modular software with common methods and properties, web services and shared protocols, simple design shared and open source code Social, in the way it is conceived, built, functions, and works, involving stakeholder engagement, inclusive process, collaborative development, and From OLDaily on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Grub, Google and the Sewmantic Web So could we ever have a real-time web search index? That is, a search index that is refresehed every day, so that when we search, it's right up to date? We could - but the answer isn't a massive centralized service like Google, it's a massively distributed service like Grub. We have had distributed services on this scale before - SETI@home was about as large as Grub would need to be to update the index daily. So maybe there's something to it. By Tim Swanson, April 23, 2003 [ From OLDaily on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Verizon Loses on Constitutional Issues Go here.  Will have commentary in about an hour. From A Copyfighter's Musings on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. AP: Verizon Loses Suit Over Music Downloading "A federal judge rejected a constitutional challenge Thursday by Verizon Communications Inc., which is trying to avoid turning over the names of two of its Internet subscribers suspected of illegally offering free music for downloading." From Weblogs At Harvard on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. Many-to-Many A new group weblog on social software, Many-to-Many was launched today. [link via Ross Mayfield's Weblog] Isn't there something off kilter about launching a social software weblog on a tech news service (Corante) that won't distribute the content as an... From Ten Reasons Why on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. Blogging in Iran Weblog central has a post on blogging (and getting arrested) in Iran. It quotes from Hossein Derakhshan's proposal that was accepted at BlogTalk : “The popularity of Weblogs among young Iranians, suggests that great changes has happened in Iranian society during the past two decades, at least among From Seb's Open Research on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. Count the black dots According to the rather nicely-designed Le Petit Calepin, this is an ad for Clearasil that was banned. From Seb's Open Research on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. In Between and Oghma Just found a couple interesting new weblogs. -=( In Between )=- by Henk Ellermann focuses on (chiefly scholarly) online publishing. And via his neighboring weblogs list I found Oghma, on "the semantic web, software agents, edge computing, artificial intelligence and decentralised networks". From Seb's Open Research on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. Weinberger blogs ETCON David Weinberger is doing a nice job of blogging the Emerging Technology Conference. Among other things, he covers the Social Software Alliance meeting, Clay Shirky's great talk on social software, and Ben Hammersley on making effective use of mailing list metadata. From Seb's Open Research on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. Many-to-Many blog launches I'm pleased to announce that Clay Shirky, Ross Mayfield, Jessica Hammer, Liz Lawley, and I are starting a collective weblog focusing on social software, called "Many-to-Many". Liz has written a nice introductory post explaining what it's about. Thanks to the involvement of a rapidly grow From Seb's Open Research on April 24, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. Blood for Oil "Blood for Oil", much quoted, maligned and abused, this catch phrase now has scientific credibility. A new technological process developed in the United States and already in commercial use is converting blood and other animal waste byproducts into oil. ConAgra's giant turkey processing plant in Philadelphia is using this to make oil at a cost of $15 per barrel. From kuro5hin.org on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. Untitled test From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. The Way of the Aggregator I'll third Sebastian's seconding of Oliver's comments on Dave Winer's theory on news aggregators. Dave said:RSS readers that work like Usenet readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present... From Ten Reasons Why on April 24, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Conference scholarships Money is the key reason why most people can't attend interesting conferences such as O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference (also known as ETCON). Lisa Spangenberg chimes in with a suggestion to award scholarships to let people in who otherwise couldn't be there. Hmm. Sounds interesting. This wouldn't solve the travel iss From Seb's Open Research on April 24, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. State of Utah: Web Software Services: RSS Quote: "The goal is to provide solutions that agencies can use to locate, create, store, and serve up RSS channels. Additionally, it should be to enable web designers to quickly find, select, and include RSS feeds into their web sites." Comment:I have this vision where all our community colleges maintain all kinds of RSS files, especially our central services, and we can keep up with various projects easily and simply. From Serious Instructional Technology on April 24, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Manila on the move I am pretty happy to see that Manila finally gets under revision. Jake Savin offers an outline of his work in progress and completed changes. At the same time there is a healthy discussion and exchange of ideas unfolding at the manila-dev yahoo group. I am holding my breath... let's hope that some major usabilily problems get improved and new powerful features make our personal Webpublishing even more interesting. I have never understood why Manila someho From Seblogging News on April 24, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Does Manila save money? Does Manila save money?. Quote: "Anyway, before Manila we had about 30 faculty web sites - after about 5 years of development and training. Three months after we began offering Manila sites and training we had over 150 sites. We now have well over 200" Comment: see also this note from Daimler-Chrysler about how they're using it. [ From Seblogging News on April 24, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Verizon gets 14 days to ID file-swapper A court rules for a second time that the company must give up the identity of an anonymous Internet subscriber accused by the RIAA of swapping music files online. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. IBM hopes to break through the babel Researchers at Big Blue are working on technology that would let travelers and others talk into a handheld that would translate and speak aloud their comments. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Ballmer: Right product, right time Microsoft's CEO touts the company's latest server operating system as the thing businesses should use to stretch their IT budgets. "No more toy operating systems" at Microsoft, he says. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. FCC checks out Net over power lines How practical would it be to deliver broadband service to homes and offices through existing power outlets? The federal agency says it's ready to take a close look at its feasibility. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Trackback, pingback and LOR's Phil has an interesting post on the differences between trackback and pingback. I agree with his comments on when trackback and pingback are relevant. I think this is something that should be looked into more for content/learning object repositories. For... From Education and Technology on April 24, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. Building a Metadata-Based Website From Boxes and Arrows, Brett Lider and Anca Mosoiu's text explains the "differences between metadata-based websites and a traditional CMS," defines useful terms, and presents a design case study. Was a good introduction for me. From open-education.org on April 24, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. Userland for Linux Radio UserLand running under Linux . Chris Double was able to setup Radio under Linux using Wine and posted the steps to g... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. Peer-to-Peer and the Promise of Internet Equality - Phil Agre Long before there were blogs, Phil Agre was publishing a great read-only mailing list called Red Rock NewsEater which regularly commented on a mix of technological and social issues and was an outlet for new drafts of Agre's papers. Agre is a fascinating character - he has a PhD in artificial intelligence studies from MIT, but seems to have spent most of his professional life in  library studies, and information and organizational dynamics. The mailing list changed focus with the new american administration and subsequent events,  and eventually traffic se From EdTechPost on April 24, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. Another new educational weblogger Quote: "Another area I'm interested in is the use of blogs and blogging tools in educational settings. There's a lot being done in this area throughout the educational spectrum, but as far as I know, no one at Lesley University, where I work, is even thinking about it, so another goal of this site is to provide a compelling and easy-to-digest introduction to what's going on in this area, and maybe do a little cheerleading for instructional uses of blogs in the Lesley neighborhood" From Serious Instructional Technology on April 24, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. Does Manila save money? Quote: "Anyway, before Manila we had about 30 faculty web sites - after about 5 years of development and training. Three months after we began offering Manila sites and training we had over 150 sites. We now have well over 200" Comment: see also this note from Daimler-Chrysler about how they're using it. From Serious Instructional Technology on April 24, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. Blogging at Wellesley Wellesley faculty, staff, students and alumnae who blog. From Serious Instructional Technology on April 24, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. RSS Adoption at the U of C We're working with our Faculty of Medicine to help them in their Curriculum Information System project. It's a cool way for them to track their enormous and dynamic (i.e., changing) curriculum, as well as the resources that support it. CAREO is being used as a content management component for the MedCIS project. Their portal is built in SunONE Portal, so it's quite different technology. How to integrate? The integration is primarily being done via the RSS feeds exposed by CAREO. Here's what an RSS feed looks like in the portal "home" page. Here's the cool RSS feed edit From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 24, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. Another Banner E-Com Year Expected B2C retail revenue is supposed to ring up more than $50 billion this year, eventually doubling by 2007. From CyberAtlas on April 24, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. America Online dials in Symbian AOL signs up with Microsoft's cell phone rival to connect handsets based on the Symbian operating system to AOL services. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. Building the Infrastructure for Broadband, Panel Jeff Huber, VP of Tech for eBay eBay generates $681 per second.  How does ebay compare to other commerce players?  They're now 31st largest commerce provider, bigger than GAP, ToysRUs, and others. Where do they focus?  Front end (e.g. new and scarce products), end of life, and used/vintage products.  Asser that this is nearly a $2 trillion market opportunity.  Continue to see strong growth in most categories, but big in cars, home and garden, clothing and accessories.  Operate 27 sites globally.  Strong international growth. <j From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. MSDN Releases RSS Feeds Quote: "Based on feedback from you, our customers, MSDN has recently released RSS feeds. Before rolling them out, however, we wanted to ensure that we had a sustainable, reliable model for getting the feeds out to you, our developers. We also wanted to make sure we made smart choices around RSS versions, and talked with as many people as possible before arriving at the decision to implement with RSS 2.0. We hope you find the feeds useful, and we look forward to delivering more of these kinds of services to the development community in the future" From Serious Instructional Technology on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Enn-Eye "That's no fucking Enn-Eye, you freak! Its a goddamn Soul-Stealer!" She was right. Anyone who had seen an normal neural interface before would know the difference. For starters, the port was 35 millimeters in diameter; no N/I needs that kind of bandwidth. From kuro5hin.org on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Google Scoops Up Applied Semantics UPDATE: The search engine upstart buys a search company to augment its content targeted advertising programs. From E-Commerce Guide on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Direct to video I have an analog VCR tape (of me skydiving) that I would like to convert to a digital format and post. I have no idea how to do this. (111 words) From dive into mark on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Parents not doing duty by kid surfers From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Patch issued for Windows NT flaw The fix mends the underlying Microsoft Windows flaw that allowed an intruder to sneak onto a military server in March. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Microsoft to delay Office debut The software maker is preparing a new test release of its upcoming Office 2003 desktop software, which will delay the debut of the product until later this year. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Lessons learned from Wi-Fi firm's demise From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. War briefly draws traffic to news sites U.S. Web surfers flocked to domestic and foreign news sites in March, as the war with Iraq escalated, but the traffic increase was short-lived, surveys say. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Communities of practice - standardisation An excellent publication from the Danish XML project on their experience with communities of practice: - word file - .pdf file I strongly encourage you to review chapters 3 & 4 (social model and methodology). In a post yesterday, mention was made on th From open-education.org on April 24, 2003 at 3:46 p.m.. E&P Online: Hartford Paper Tells Employee to Kill Blog "It kept me happy and gave me a chance to keep doing things that I wanted to do," Horgan told E&P Online. "I do it on my own time, from my own house. I'm not competing with the Courant. I'm not looking for advertisers. In fact, it costs me money to do this." From Weblogs At Harvard on April 24, 2003 at 3:46 p.m.. The Decline of Sex Science and the Decline of Society The New York Times reports that scientists who study sexual diseases have been advised by federal officials to avoid certain dangerous words in their grant applications: The scientists, who spoke on condition they not be identified, say they have been advised they can avoid unfavorable attention by keeping certain "key words" out of their applications for grants from the National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those words include "sex workers," "men who sleep with men," "anal sex" and "needle exchange," the scientists said. Just an isolated i From kuro5hin.org on April 24, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Web services software firm grabs $3 million From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Security storage firm whips up $12 million From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Opening Windows to the enterprise Microsoft unwraps the Windows Server 2003 operating system for servers, along with its competitive plans and customer wins. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Flyweight Linux PC comes out swinging Weighing in at about two pounds, the new dictionary-sized Linux PC from partners Via and Mini-Box can be used as a desktop or embedded within a larger machine to perform specific computing tasks. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Red Hat names international executive From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Panel with Glaser, Seigelman, Eric Schmidt -- Broadband Applications We have a distinguished group of panelists. Russ Seigelman -- Kleiner-Perkins, ran MSN for Microsoft Bob Meyers -- President of CNBC Salvador Arias -- IBM consulting, communications practice Rob Glaser (via video) -- RealNetworks CEO Eric Schmidt (via video) -- CEO of Google Thoughts from each panelist. Russ -- big believers in broadband.  what happens next?  hard to know.  what's going to happen to usage?  broadband drives more use of the Internet.  believes that 1:1 video calls will be a big growth driver, will happen in mobil From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. Contrary thought of the day: 7 Habits of an AntiBlogger from Internet Alchemy: Think before posting Write for tomorrow Google is a means not an end Traffic isn’t everything Write clean, valid markup Add value, not links Memes don’t need your help [insert value-add here]... From Object Learning on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. Object Summary Page Updated I took some time to clean up the Object Summary Page in CAREO. I was only addressing functionality. It should be a little more useful now, since I dropped the redundant "Summary" and "Details" section, and merged them into a single, real "Summary". I also added a "Discussions" tab, so you can easily see what's being said about an object. It directly displays CAREO discussion posts, and has a link to display Trackbacks (posts from other websites such as weblogs). I'll have to take some time in the future to make the default theme look purty, since Alan's showing how... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. Handhelds Hit by Sluggish Demand A decline in the shipments of handheld computers may indicate a lack of interest among consumers and corporate users, but travelers are finding the devices to be indispensable road tools. From CyberAtlas on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. OS X software I like What I like about OS X is that there is extremly good, well crafted and well designed software (at affordable prices). Just to name some: Proteus, Snapz Pro, NetNewsWire, Tinderbox, BBEdit, Spring Desktop, Transmit, From owrede_log on April 24, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. TypePad and Movable Type The news that the makers of MovableType are launching a better posting/publishing tool is good news indeed. (Here's their press... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 24, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. Hardware Hacking and "Robustness" Fred von Lohmann discusses CPTWG robustness requirements in lieu of Bunnie Huang's hardware hacking presentation at O'Reilly.  Fred notes that a high level of robustness will likely add in high costs for consumer electronics.  What I find amazing is that they're talking about hardware hacking as not just cheap From A Copyfighter's Musings on April 24, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. Interfaces for aggregators Dave Winer thinks Radio Userland has a better interface for reading RSS feeds: RSS readers that work like Usenet readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order. Of course I disagree. I was turned off by Radio Userlands HTML-based interface long ago and I switched to NetNewsWire because it offers exactly what Dave consider From owrede_log on April 24, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. Go to CF_Europe, Europe MX Conference I just wanted to plug the forthcoming Macromedia-focused developer conference in Europe, CF_Europe. I'm not sure why they didn't change the conference name, as the speakers and agenda are really very broad on all MX products, with a solid focus on building RIAs. Sister conference MXNorth in Canada was great, so I expect this to be as good. From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on April 24, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. Trackback for Manila Dave Winer is working on Trackback for Manila. Trackback is an automatic reverse linking between weblog entries and was first introduced by MovableType. From owrede_log on April 24, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. Rendevouz for Windows There is someone called Bob Bradley working on a implementation Rendezvous for Windows. It is a technology that allows self-configurating TCP/IP-networks and -services. It was outlined by many people under the codename ZeroConf and Apple is the first major OS vendor to include it in MacOS X. From owrede_log on April 24, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. Amazon v. eBay Matt Haughey writes of revelations about Amazon at the O'Reilly Emergine Technology conference:"Amazon looks poised to take on eBay/paypal as they build a public merchant platform that can be used by all."It's like Godzilla v. King Kong in the e-commerce... From Ten Reasons Why on April 24, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. Anonyblog Slashdot reports on Invisiblog, a new service for anonymous blogging. Why anonymous blogging? I can think of several reasons, including the politically persecuted in countries with oppressive governments, hackers, and whistle-blowers.... From Ten Reasons Why on April 24, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. The role of visionaries in the future Rob Austin did a bunch of research and interviews with the creators of modern computing, like Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Doug Englebart and Bob Metcalfe, among others.  Here's some of the things he learned. Bob Taylor is one of the early innovators in networking technologies and the Internet.  Rob Austin, conference chair, talks through several examples from the late 1960's when Bob brought the idea of packet switched wide-area-networks (Internet), and IBM, ATT, and Xerox all passed.  What would have happened had they adopted the idea back then? Bob Taylor: From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on April 24, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. Windows release draws servers, services Server manufacturers will stump for Microsoft on Thursday, touting new customer wins and integration services for companies considering a move to Windows Server 2003. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. Weblog Competition Heating Up Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type is launching a new service, to be called TypePad. (And they hired Anil Dash as VP of Business Development...although damned if I can figure out where his TrackBack link is to ping that... From Ten Reasons Why on April 24, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Broadband Explosion: Opening Keynote, Internet 2 I'm attending the Broadband Explosion conference hosted by Harvard Business School. It's a great line-up of speakers and keynotes, and a small intimate crowd.  Rob Glaser, Sky Dayton, Russ Seigelman, Kevin Werbach, Geoffrey More, Clayton Christianson, Rich Rashid, Eric Schmidt, and lots of other good folks. Today's opening keynote is Doug Van Houweling, President and CEO of Internet2, the government sponsored research initiative to create an NG-Internet. He's giving a little history on the emergence of the From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on April 24, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Cisco flaw touches Windows servers A potentially critical vulnerability has been found in Cisco Systems' Secure Access Control Server for Windows servers, which is used to control devices such as routers in large networks. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Off to California Off to Santa Barbara til Sunday. National Writing Project Urban sites meetings. From Blogging from the Barrio on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. Untitled Smarter, Simpler, Social. Smarter, Simpler, Social Quote: "In some respects, this first wave of online communication technology adoption is coming to an end... [elearnspace blog] Good Article! For some reason,centralized bloatware is something that will haunt us for a while. From Blogging from the Barrio on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. Untitled BBC: EMI backs digital downloads. From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. Blogger News Blogger wird Dano . Gestärkt durch die Google-Übernahmen hat Blogger.com , der Vater der Blogging-Plattformen, ein neues I... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Bloghosting aus Deutschland Strassenpower . Daniel Fiene bietet mit Blogstrasse einen neuen Weblog-Hostingservice. Erstens weiss er, wovon er redet, d... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. PR-Log von Userland Die Prediger des Webloggens haben nun endlich eine PR-Log. Manila and Radio product news site .  Subscribe to this si... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Space/Time Blog Visualization Das ist großartig. Anschauen. Blogosphere visualized . Mikel Maron has a cool visualization of the Blogosphere. You see on... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Bloggender Journalist von seinem Herausgeber gestoppt Wieder wird ein bloggender Journalist von seinem Arbeitgeber zur Einstellung seines Blogs überredet. Hier seine Feedback-S... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Esther Dyson Esther Dyson , Grande Dame des Internet, hat einen  Blog. Release 4.0. . Esther blog. [ evhead ] From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Google über Bloggen What blogging is to Google . Always On Network: About Google's Eric Schmidt . What blogging is to Google's CEO Eric Schmid... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Interview mit Malmoe Interview mit mir bei Malmoe. Thema: was sonst, Weblogs eben. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Untitled Chris Double: "It seems that Radio Userland 8.0.8 now runs under Linux using Wine." From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Untitled I am not a lawyer, and I'm not a doctor either, but I learned about infections and hospitals when my Dad was sick late last year. Hospitals are infected places. They often move patients from nursing homes to hospitals at the first sign of infection. So it's unusual that a hospital would close because of an infection. That tells you something about SARS. It's serious stuff. From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Untitled Griffin: FM for iPod. From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Untitled Paolo concurs with my conclusion about aggregators that work like Usenet readers or mail apps. "This is why after trying other aggregators I came back to Radio: it's just like reading a very large weblog updated by several people every hour." Exactly so. And Scoble assures us that after May 12 Microsoft will test their RSS feeds with Radio. Thanks! From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Untitled Adam Curry on Google's invisible RSS strategy. From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Untitled Karlin Lillington reports that William Gibson is ending his weblog. From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Untitled I bought lots of new hardware yesterday. A flat-panel screen, an IBM keyboard, a new mouse. I now have two screens, one for writing, one for data (an aid in debugging). I love this setup. I'm back to work on Trackback. Last night was productive. Today I plan to install some new code on the Berkman server for a demo tonight. From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Dot-com double take Don't look now, says J. William Gurley, but many dot-coms are doing quite nicely. Is there a second act in the making, or is this yet another Internet sucker's play? From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Windows calls on the enterprise Microsoft officially launches its most ambitious operating system on Thursday, as the company looks to push aside Unix servers and mainframes. From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Neus Blog-Hosting Konkurrenz für etablierte Hosting-Services. Wenn es noch lokaliserte Versionen gäbe, na dann. Ben Hammersley previews Type... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Paranoia blogservice is open Anonymous weblog publishing . Want to rant about your boss without getting fired, or criticize the Bush administration wit... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On An open-source programmer intends to host a gathering of coders in Canada next month, despite a decision by a U.S. military research agency to withdraw funding for the event. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. MACHOs and WIMPs Duke It Out Astronomers at the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate may agree on most aspects of the big-bang theory -- but they go head to head over the relative importance of massive compact halo objects and weakly interacting massive particles. Michelle Delio reports from New York. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Wakamaru Bot at Your Service Wakamaru, a robot that is intelligent enough to assist patients at home, is designed to provide assistance to Japan's growing population of seniors. Elisa Batista reports from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Futurist Fears End of Innovation Author Howard Rheingold warns that the freedom for technologists to innovate is under attack from governments and corporate interests. He tells programmers and developers to protect their interests in the political process. Leander Kahney reports from Santa Clara, California. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Get Behind the Wheel and Drive Game developers say they've captured the feeling of driving an 18-wheeler down the pike, but real-life trucker Tony Graziano will be the judge of that. By Suzanne Ashe from Wired magazine. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Embattled Lab Unveils New Nukes The cold war may be over, but the U.S. still needs to build more nuclear weapons, U.S. officials say. So why did they choose the troubled Los Alamos labs to help with the effort? By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. DNA Fingerprinting for All! The inventor of the modern forensic technique says that everyone's DNA, not just criminals', should be recorded in a massive new database. Sir Alec Jeffreys cautions, however, that such a database should be administered by an independent agency, not the police. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Intel CEO Escalates Options Fight Intel's chief executive argues against stock-option expensing in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, saying CEOs should resist certifying financial results that are 'kind of right.' From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Shuttle May Take Wing Again Soon While the investigation into the Columbia space shuttle disaster continues, Russian spacecraft are supplying the space station. But NASA hopes to get its space shuttle fleet back in the air within the next year. From Wired News on April 24, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. Building a metadata-based website Brett Lider and Anca Mosoiu write about a very different approach to site creation: a metadata-based website. To quote: The online world has been flooded in recent years with talk of metadata, structured authoring, cascading style sheets (CSS). These ideas... From Column Two on April 24, 2003 at 4:46 a.m.. eSchoolMall and Lancaster Lebanon Intermediate Unit Form Partnership on Statewide Public Sector Software Procurement Solution [PRWEB Apr 24, 2003] From PR Web on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Bali Bombings Book Three Weeks In Bali - a Personal Account of the Bali Bombing. (Paperback) [PRWEB Apr 24, 2003] From PR Web on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Ethical Conflict Resolution Conflicts are inevitable, but the more we know about human nature, the more positive the outcome of a conflict might be for both parties. This article offers SEVEN tips for avoiding and ultimately resolving conflicts. [PRWEB Apr 24, 2003] From PR Web on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Pee Wee Workout releases new website Pee Wee Workout, a childrenÂ’s health and fitness facility located in Vicksburg, MS, today announced the completion of their new website www.peeweeworkoutms.com designed by U.S. NetworX of Jackson. [PRWEB Apr 24, 2003] From PR Web on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. NAACP TO INVESTIGATE Austin Peay State University, Clarksville Tennessee Student leaders are often deluged with complaints of racial injustice on our campus. (Even though campus leaders promised to follow the Grier stipulations by both the letter and the spirit of the law.) Most of these students, faced with the prospect of retaliation from professors and administration, simply suffer in silence. We believe that APSUÂ’s latest academic reorganization and budget reductions has adversely affected African American students. [PRWEB Apr 24, 2003] From PR Web on April 24, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Interactives From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. MSNBC: Interactives MSNBC: Interactives - Some cool ones here. Check out A wireless home of the future.... From elearningpost on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. Albany Senator Seeks to Block Bloomberg's School District Plan State Senator Frank Padavan said that he would introduce legislation to block Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan to eliminate New York City's local school districts. From New York Times: Education on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. When a Snow Day Is More Than Just Play An essay question on snow days on a Massachusetts writing exam raises accusations of cultural bias. From New York Times: Education on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. Suit Challenges a University's Speech Code A nonprofit educational foundation has filed suit against Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, charging that its code of conduct violates students' rights. From New York Times: Education on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. In Silicon Valley, shock over federal charges To many in Silicon Valley, there is a growing sense that the once highflying banker Frank P. Quattrone is taking the heat for the entire industry. The New York Times From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. eBay to stay in San Jose From CNET News.com on April 24, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. OSCOM CMS directory OSCOM has a directory of CMS tools which you can view in list, search, directory or feature comparator mode.... From Education and Technology on April 24, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Working with Dave Winer Dave and I caught up last week over lunch at Henrietta's Table, a nice lunch and meeting spot at the Charles Hotel.  He was one of the first victims of my new Nokia 3650 device (left picture was beamed to my PC when I was within range). As he noted about our conversation, we worked together in the past on the early genesis of "web services" as found in WDDX and XML-RPC.  That was a fun time, and From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on April 24, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. New palms Palm Upgrades Zire and Tungsten PDAs. The handheld computer maker puts a camera in its consumer model, while business-class customers get a 'C' for connected with 802.11 capabilities over Intel XScale chips. [allNetDevices Wireless News] From Handheld Instructional Technology on April 24, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. New Palms! Two New Palm Models. Palm introduces 2 new models!. Palm has introduced 2 new handheld models! Mini-reviews of both are available at Brighthand [1]. The Tungsten C is a Wi-Fi enabled handheld with 64MB, Yes, 64MB RAM, and a mini-keyboard in place of the grafitti area. See the review here. [2] There's also a mini-review of the Zire 71, which can be found here. [3] The Zire 71 is a $299 middle-range Palm handheld with a color transflective screen, a Texas Instrument From Handheld Instructional Technology on April 24, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Here's a milestone. Microsoft saying, on the record, that it is building on a UserLand spec. That's a far cry from deprived air supply. Bravo and thank you. From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 12:45 a.m.. Untitled BTW, how about testing with Radio UserLand. It's the top match on Google for aggregator, so it's not a big secret. ";->" From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 12:45 a.m.. Untitled Another BTW, a funny story about aggregators. I met Andrew Grumet, a developer at MIT, associate of Philip Greenspun, who is getting into aggregators. He was at one of the Thursday demos at Berkman, we went to dinner afterward with Wendy, the Redhead. Anyway. He said he had an idea for an innov From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 12:45 a.m.. Untitled Kendall Clark: "Even after five long years of XML development, the ideal and ubiquitous XML editor for humans seems more rumor than reality. Could it be that we have underestimated the difficulty of building a tool with which ordinary people can easily and simply create XML content?" That tool is impossible, because writers generally are not programmers, and don't think or write with metadata, even simple title-link-description two-level hierarchies like RSS. The closest thing to an XML editor that's widely deploye From Scripting News on April 24, 2003 at 12:45 a.m.. A Weblog-Based LMS Idea James Farmer has an interesting entry regarding a Weblog-Based LMS. Worth reading and considering. From open-education.org on April 23, 2003 at 11:46 p.m.. Overture profit down, sales up Despite a surge in revenue due to success with paid search offerings, the company's first-quarter earnings fell to $11.1 million, from $29.3 million in the same quarter last year. From CNET News.com on April 23, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. FCC votes to revamp e-rate program New rules aim to prevent fraud and abuse of an embattled federal fund for connecting schools and libraries to the Internet. From CNET News.com on April 23, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]