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Edu_RSS ~ April 25, 2003

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Sun touts technical computing roots
The company starts promoting an effort to return to its high-performance computing roots, as it aims at the weakened SGI and the ascendant IBM.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 10:45 p.m..

Desktop cords could reach halfway to moon
A survey by wireless mouse maker Logitech finds that there are about 109,000 miles of desktop cords in the United States, and that less cable correlates to less time spent organizing desks.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 10:45 p.m..

Look on the bright side of Microsoft
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 10:45 p.m..

Federal Court Recognizes File Sharing's Legitimacy
CNet: Judge: File-swapping tools are legal. "Defendants distribute and support software, the users of which can and do choose to...
From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 25, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

Talk by NTT DoCoMo Managing Director of Strategy

Takeshi Natsuno, Managing Director for DoCoMo Strategy

Keynote this morning from NTT executive, talking about i-Mode.

He's showing us subscriber data for wireless Internet in the world. NTT dominates in the world, and then next five are Japan and Korea. Everyone else, including Europe and US are tiny in comparison. For many reasons, this hasn't been repeated in other geographies.

He outlines the functional footprint of the 504 series. Interesting, the Nokia 3650 which is $150 in the US now has more functionality. He's showing powerful Java-based

From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on April 25, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

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A picture named youngdave.jpgAt dinner last night after the Thursday blogger's meeting, someone deliberately mispronounced the name of Brookline as Baruch-Line. That's funny because so many Jews live in Brookline. And it's especially funny for me because my paternal grandfather wa
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

Monster backpedals on listings purge
Amid protests from Arab-American groups, the career Web site partially backs away from a decision to exclude references to job postings and résumés from seven federally sanctioned countries.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

Week ahead: Networking oasis
Networking players pitch tent in Las Vegas for this year's NetWorld+Interop confab next week, with Cisco's John Chambers slated to speak. Plus, more tech earnings.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

"You sold out"
Initial reactions to our hand-rolled RSS feed have been binary if not bipolar. Some are happy; others claim we've sold out, contradicting our own argument that design and words are both essential parts of a site's content - that the experience created by design influences the way you perceive words. More...
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

We love this dirty town
In our harbor stands a gift from France.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Two for tool bar
Casciano updates free multi-tasking developer tool bar for XUL-based Gecko browsers.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Ten billion words about abbreviation
Acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms, oh my. The good news is, things will get simpler with XHTML 2. No, really.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Not going
We've cancelled our appearance at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference in Budapest.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Not coming
There is no coming.html here. Hasn't been for a long time. Stop, you'll hurt your throat.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

There is no ping
This one is so dull it does not merit a summary.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

My Glamorous Life No. 78: Arms and the Boy
I dreamed President Bush adopted little Ali, the Iraqui boy who lost his family and his arms to a smart bomb that went awry. More ...
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Feed here
Bowing to demand, or maybe just as an experiment, we've hand rolled an RSS feed for this site.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Unsyndicate
RSS turns commercial and personal sites alike into text broadcasting channels that can be quickly scanned like radio frequencies. This is great in many ways, but it has a downside nobody seems to have noticed. More ...
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Abbreviate
A free online tool makes it easier to include abbreviation and acronym elements and attributes in your site's markup. More ...
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Despam
Published today, Hivelogic's Enkoder Form v5.0 offers profound anti-spam encryption.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Inanimate
A bug in Apple's Safari browser prevents movement in multiple instances of animated GIF images.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Presently enjoying...
A beautiful site, icon award winners, and two meaningful interviews.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Cingular Wireless, three quarters full
Another large commercial site redesigns using web standards - CSS for layout, XHTML for structure.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Joyous Noel
Pod racer screen graphics designer Noel Rubin explores alternative web UIs.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

It's the economy
Young, gifted, and broke.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

Mozilla toolbar
Chris Casciano of Chunky Soup, Placenamehere, and The Web Standards Project, has created a powerful, free developer tool bar for XUL-based Gecko browsers like Mozilla and Netscape.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

WThRemix Feedback
More responses to the WThRemix competition, which solicited visual and usability improvements to the W3C homepage.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 25, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..

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Chris Lydon: "800-886-9364."
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

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Scott Rosenberg: "When you hear that Henry Norr has been fired because he falsified his time card, be assured that this is not the real issue. The Chronicle is getting him on a technicality because it wants to fire him for some other reason."
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

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Zeldman goes RSS. I'm subscribed.
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

Samsung investing $500 million in plant
The Korean company's Austin, Texas, chipmaking facilities will get the money, a strategy to prepare for an eventual upturn in the memory market.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

Red Hat warms to Itanium-booster plan
The leading Linux seller is exploring Intel technology that improves the ability of the chipmaker's Itanium processor to run older software written for Xeon or Pentium chips.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

Are file traders next?
Though a court has found makers of peer-to-peer software aren't liable for copyright violations that occur on their networks, downloading unlicensed MP3s is still very illegal.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

Judge rules that Grokster is not liable

In a major post-Napster ruling this afternoon, a federal district court judge in California sided with the defendants, including Grokster, on a copyright claim by MGM.  The judge stated in essence that some of the post-Napster file-sharing networks are not liable for vicarious and contributory copyright infringement.  The ruling does not say that it's always legal to use file-sharing networks, of course.

From Weblogs At Harvard on April 25, 2003 at 7:46 p.m..

Mark Bernstein: Building on what we know

Quote: "On the plane to Portland, I spent some time thinking about lessons. It's time, I think, to take stock: what do we know about hypertext? I'm very tired of theories built on air, without real criticism of real hypertexts. And I'm sick of papers and monographs whose authors are too busy (or too lazy) to build on what has gone before, to respond to what we already know, and instead spend their time coining new terms and hauling in new theoretical systems from outside."

Comment: Caveat: I have a strong feeling this is going to come across all wrong.&

From Serious Instructional Technology on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

have you sent your check to EFF today?
I have just finished reading the opinion by Judge Wilson dismissing MGM's suit against Grokster and Streamcast. The opinion is testimony to great lawyering. The key to the decision is the difference between the architecture of Napster and the architecture of Morpheus. To get a judge to understand that completely takes an extraordinary skill. This was not a case I worked on at all, so I am free to say this: EFF deserves a great deal of credit in this case. As Kapor sa
From Lessig Blog on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

Add Object to CAREO: Upload Media
It seems like a minor thing, but the functionality it provides is quite important. Until now, the "Add Object" form in CAREO assumed the media was already web-accessible somewhere. If it wasn't, you were expected to get it onto the web somehow (FTP to your own server, iDisk, whatever...). I just added a feature (at the request of our MedCIS folks) that allows users to upload media to our server, and return the URL of the published resource into the correct field in the metadata entry form. Seems like a little thing, but this takes out the FTP, verification of...
From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

New Windows stirs up server world
Microsoft's new Windows Server 2003 is opening up opportunities in the server landscape, particularly in the high-end area once dominated by Unix machines.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

London, here I come!

I'm going to XML Europe. This year it's held in London, and I've never been to London before, so I'm really looking forward to this. This conference seems to be for the big companies, so I'm curious what the geek level will be. Any other geeks going? If you are going, be sure to go to the Xopus presentation by Laurens. You'll be impressed!

From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on April 25, 2003 at 6:46 p.m..

Jetting with jetlag
Off to the Writing Project Urban Sites Network meeting in Santa Barbara. Talk about appropriate settings. The presentation on "Growing Blogs in an Urban Middle School" is, of course, a dumb ass PowerPointless presentation since Internet connection will NOT be available.
From homoLudens III on April 25, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

Social Software Weblog
Until they get an RSS feed, I think I'll rely on Seb to keep me up to date.
From Serious Instructional Technology on April 25, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

Towards structured blogging
Quote: "What we're talking about is getting people to put more metadata on their content. Now allowing it is one thing, and fostering it is another. And I'd say the latter is the bigger challenge."

Comment:One post on structured discussion; now structured blogging.  There is something here.  By the way, manila has powerful metadata capabilities.
From Serious Instructional Technology on April 25, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

Microsoft offers Windows security guide
The company releases a tutorial and templates to help system administrators lock down the security of computers running its newest operating system, Windows Server 2003.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

RSS: A case for unsyndication
Zeldman has a new RSS 2.0 feed, but isn’t too thrilled about it, judging from a posting entitled unsyndicate: We can readily see the benefits of an RSS feed for BBC News, and it also makes sense on sites where...
From Object Learning on April 25, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

Commentary: Linux questions and answers
Linux will go mainstream in the data center in 2003. Why? Because it delivers Unix reliability at Intel prices and has strong support from vendors like HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

Firm offers whistle-blower service
Shareholder.com unveils a service designed to help companies adhere to new corporate governance regulations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

Book Excerpt: Semantic Applications
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

The Semantic Business Model (SBM)
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Don't smoke the message!
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Google turns on to Ontology - picks up Applied Semantics
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Bridging Syntatic Gaps with Semantics
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Semantics at DAMA
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Semantic Technologies and Homeland Security
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Netscape uses RDF
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Insight into web services
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Has the W3C set its sights too far?
From Semantic World on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

My ambiguous breakfast with Esther
I had breakfast with Esther Dyson this morning (yes, lucky me) which she blogged. We talked about the importance of ambiguity, and Esther pushed me off my stuck point. I'm not sure exactly where that leaves me, but that's the best place to be. So, thanks, Esther....
From Joho the Blog on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Incredible: Judge Rules in Favor of Morpheus, Grokster

(Via Donna) "File-swapping tools are legal" - commentary to follow.

Summary judgement (pdf).

From A Copyfighter's Musings on April 25, 2003 at 4:47 p.m..

Weblogs: a different dynamic
Thanks to David Carter Todd for pointing out this compilation from an email discussion list's discussion on blogging. And as David points out:
Many have written about it, but in my mind the fact that these are owned spaces, which can choose to link (or not) to other topics and ideas, allows for conversations to happen across weblogs. This is also partly enabled by technologies like trackback and "rss".
From carvingCode on April 25, 2003 at 4:46 p.m..

carvingCode - another weblog
Quote: "there is a very different dynamic which seems to go on in the knowledge-sharing between weblogs and other forms of online communicating. "

Comment: Thanks for the link (p.s. check the spelling on my name :-), and here's carvingCode's rss/xml.
From Serious Instructional Technology on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

John Palfrey :H2O discussion on blogging & future of the Web
Comment:  John Palfrey creates an H20 discussion that shows the software in a fairly nice light.  The comments are quite predictable, but I was more interested in the tool :-).  I like that H20 projects may or may not be public and I'm getting a better understanding.  I've seen the "structured discussion" approach applied to web discussions before and I th
From Serious Instructional Technology on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

DEOS-L: Blogging in Education compilation

A short thread on Blogging in education ultimately produced this very nice compilation of responses, many of which, I suspect, were kicked off by the rather dismissive remark in this message.

One critical issue that I'd like to bring out is the way in which conversations happen and how these contrast (and may improve upon) web boards and email.  It's clear to those that weblog, but not perhaps to those that don't.

Many have written about it, but in my mind the fact that the

From Serious Instructional Technology on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

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"thinkusaalignright"After posting the bit about blogs for voters in New Hampshire I've been pinged and pecked by people working for specific candidates telling me how cool their guy is because he Gets weblogs. That's not very interesting. More and more I wonder if people actually read what's written on the Web. I think they just scan for key words, and immediately open up their emailer or browser and start writing their schpiel about the key words, not what the writer was saying. I catch myse
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

B2C Goes From Rags to Riches
The e-commerce sector has emerged as a rare bright spot on the Internet with projections that B2C revenues will reach $133 billion by 2005.
From E-Commerce Guide on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

Expert: MercExchange Must Beat eBay Twice
If MercExchange wins its patent claim against eBay, the auction giant will likely appeal to a higher court, where judges routinely overturn lower court decisions.
From E-Commerce Guide on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

Amazon Q1 Back in Red, Raises Outlook
Higher sales during first quarter fuel an improved outlook for the Web's largest retailer as it tries to return to profitability.
From E-Commerce Guide on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

Week in review: Chip beef
The technology world experienced its own version of sweeps week, as hardware and software giants vying for big businesses' attention and dollars pushed new products.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

IBM, ScanSoft pair up for speech software
Though the companies sell competing products, they strike new deals and expand existing ones with the hope of expanding the market for speech technology.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

File Sharing Forfeits Right To Privacy
The argument accepted by the court is seductive: "If users of pirate peer-to-peer sites don't want to be identified, they should not break the law by illegally distributing music." That sounds fine, but in today's surround-sound world, everyone is a suspect, and so everyone has forfeit their right to privacy. The fact is, the RIAA (or anyone else, for that matter) cannot establish that a person has shared copyrighted materials without already having done a little packet-snooping or hard-drive hacking. After all, a Madonna MP3 looks pretty much like the soundtrack from one of m
From OLDaily on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

Venture Capital: Seattle VCs are Starting to Take Notice of Canada
Not that I am one to wave the flag or anything... aw, who am I kidding? This article summarizes what I have been saying about Canada all along: we are absolute leaders in the field of information technology, including e-learning, and as the article suggests, "If you are in the venture business and you are not looking at Canada, you are negligent." This article focuses on Vancouver, but a similar story could be said of every major centre in the country, including right here in New Brunswick. By John Cook, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 25, 2003 [From OLDaily on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

Higher Education, Upping the Ante
Review of Derek Bok's Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. The argument is familiar. Universities are in need of ever more money, and so the prospects offered by commercial enterprises are alluring. But such ventures, as is evidenced in the management of university sports teams, leads to a distortion of the university's priorities. The reviewer argues that Bok should have assumed a more outraged tone, and while I am inclined to agree, I would observe that such a tone would simply alienate those for whom the book was written. By Jonathan Yardley
From OLDaily on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

New Federal Rules on Privacy
In January, 2004, Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) comes into force. This website was launched by the Chartered Accountants of Canada providing information, background and guidelines to the Act. The Act prohibits the collection of personal information (with some rare exceptions) without the individual's consent. It will have wide applicability, including within the education sector. By Various Authors, Chartered Accountant of Canada, April, 2003 [
From OLDaily on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

[Etech] Google Keynote
Craig Silverstein is talking about how Google Inc. works. Some people think a company has to be evil to some degree to be successful, to play hardball. Craig's glad that Google doesn't think that way. He's going through general principles. E.g., "Good ideas come from everywhere." (His example is the TouchGraph Google visual browser.) "Communications is key," etc. It's great to hear a company that's walking the walk, but I'd rather have more of a drill down into the development process. Ah, now he's talking about the documents Google uses to organize engineeri
From Joho the Blog on April 25, 2003 at 3:46 p.m..

RSS feeds for web, cpp, and php resources
I am publishing individual RSS2 feeds of resources I find relating to web design/development, C++, and php. These are intended primarily to be used as resources for students in courses I mentor, but could also be useful to others.

They can be subscribed to individually and are not extremely bandwidth intenive - 2 to 3 additional a week to each, on average.

Links to the RSS2 feeds:

carvingCode-web
From carvingCode on April 25, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

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Abstract for my May 9 talk at Dartmouth.
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

Judge says file-swapping is legal
A federal judge in Los Angeles hands a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast and Grokster, dismissing much of the studios' lawsuits against them.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

News.com wins for Excite@Home work
The Society of Professional Journalists awards CNET News.com one of the profession's premier prizes, for a series of articles that chronicled the shutdown of Excite@Home.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

[ETech] Friday: Microsoft
L. F. (Felipe) Cabrera, Ph.D., is talking about Microsoft Web services. He's trying too hard to convince the crowd that he's a fellow geek even as he re-cycles a generic Microsoft slide set about Web services. (We know it's recycled since he keeps telling us that we're too smart to need this slide or that. ) Four design principles: Modular and composable; general purpose, standards-based and federated. Felipe elaborates on the importance of federation: "no central point of administration, control or failure." "Federation forces you to respect all these different degrees of
From Joho the Blog on April 25, 2003 at 2:46 p.m..

Ted Codd, father of the relational database, has died
E.F Codd, the father of the relational database, died last week, at the age of 79.
From kuro5hin.org on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Programmer vs. Developer
Just came across this post (via CodeIntensity) containing tongue-in-cheek definitions of a developer and programmer: Programmer: A biological machine designed to convert caffeine into code. Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software. That's actually a really good distinction....
From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Your Speed May Vary
Broadband subscriptions are increasing and narrowing the gap with dial-up modems, but not all high-speed connections are created equal.
From CyberAtlas on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

VC Watch: Nanosys receives $30 million
The company is an intellectual property licensing player in nanotechnology...Demantra rakes in $16 million...NeoScale Systems whips up $12 million.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Webcast company reels in $8 million
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Dilithium nets $10 million
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

RSS 2.0 Feed
I just added an RSS 2.0 feed to this weblog. If you're a purist, or just want the extra Dublin Core-y goodness that it provides, it's located here (and in the sidebar). Instructions, and RSS 2.0 template, were found here....
From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 25, 2003 at 1:45 p.m..

PayPal
Seit heute kann man endlich auf schweizer und österr. Bankkonten überweisen.
From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 25, 2003 at 12:46 p.m..

Phone Monopolies Scamming Us
Forbes: Shortchanged. The Baby Bells may have bilked consumers out of billions by inflating the cost of their networks. Regulators...
From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 25, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

Trackback vs. Pingback
This was brought to my attention by Scott Leslie (thanks, Scott!). Ryan Eby has an interesting post about the differences between Trackback and Pingback, and how they might be used in the context of learning object repositories. Ryan is commenting on a post by Phil Ringnalda. From Ryan's post: For example, if I find a learning object such as MLX #467 on Atomic Structure and decide I want to write a review of it or something similar, then I would want to send it a trackback so that others can find my post on it, if they are browsing the...
From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 25, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

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News.Com: "A US district court on Thursday ruled for a second time that Verizon Communications must give up the identity of an anonymous Internet subscriber accused of swapping music files online."
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

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David Carter-Tod: Manila Express for News Items.
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

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Animated demo of David's tool, above.
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

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MacNN has upgraded to RSS 2.0.
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

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More testing of outbound trackback in Manila. If you have a MT site for me to test with please post a comment with a pointer to the site. Thanks.
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

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Adam Curry: "Geeks, nerds, programmers and developers often complain they feel misunderstood in corporate and other social circles. It flows both ways guys."
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

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The Register reports that the Chronicle has fired tech columnist Henry Norr. I've known Henry for 20 years. An exceptionally intelligent and honest analyst. What a loss for the Chronicle and the tech industry.
From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

Three hot topics

Report from last night's session. We did the usual hour's worth of software demos and then switched over to three topics that are much on my mind:

A picture named heHangedHimself.jpg1. How to integrate blogging with radio (not Radio). We talked about this at

From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

This pig won't fly

Social Software? I've been in the software biz for 2.5 decades, so I've seen this kind of hype over and over. Take something that exists, give it a fancy new name, and then blast at reporters and analysts about it. Every time around the loop it works less well. In the 80s it worked very well. In the early 21st Century, there aren't enough analysts with credibility to make such a pig fly.

P2P was the last gasp. I remember getting breathless invitations to keynotes

From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

Poopy little wiener boys

On this day three years ago Dan Gillmor was being pecked at by poopy little wiener boys up past their bedtime. "Western civilization is in jeopardy," Dan said. "And it's all my fault."

From Scripting News on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

SEC may investigate Riverstone
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

Taiwan dreads Computex ghost town
Fears of empty halls at Computex Taipei due to the SARS outbreak have prompted the city's mayor to send out 200,000 letters of reassurance to overseas buyers.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

The latest revolution? On-demand spin
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the tech industry's penchant for verbal obfuscation and over-the-top claims is a bad habit when IT customers are thirsting for straight talk.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 9:45 a.m..

Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux
Microsoft's CEO talks about the software maker's bid to gain a stronger foothold in corporate data centers, and he discounts the threat presented by the Penguinistas.
From CNET News.com on April 25, 2003 at 9:45 a.m..

Book Review: Casino Royale
Fifty years ago, Ian Fleming produced an unassuming espionage thriller without the slightest notion that he was spawning an unparalleled entertainment franchise and a mythology that continues to pervade popular culture half a century later.  What was it like in the beginning?
From kuro5hin.org on April 25, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Social Software Blog
A new group weblog authored by Elizabeth Lane Lawley , Ross Mayfield , Sébastien Paquet , Jessica Hammer and Clay Shirky t...
From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

University Blogging
Uni in Neu-England sammelt via Blogroll Weblogs ihrer Studenten, Absolventen und Angestellten. Auf Blogger -Basis als Side...
From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

ManilaExpress
News-orienterte Manila -Seiten haben jetzt die Möglichkeit über dieses Bookmarklet einfach und schnell externe Seiten einz...
From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

ISPs Up the Ante in Spam Fight
Internet service providers are employing a new arsenal of tools in the battle against spam. But filtering out junk mail without deleting messages from legitimate e-mail marketers remains a challenge. By Michelle Delio.
From Wired News on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

Pale Riders Who Wear Black Hats
A surplus of eerily pale Hollywood bad guys -- including those in the new Matrix release -- is making real-life albinos wonder what the heck is so evil about them that would generate such a stereotype. Filmmakers say, nuh uh, we are not doing that. By Randy Dotinga.
From Wired News on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

Kids Get a High-Score Education
Video games, not school, are teaching children how to think. So says James Paul Gee in this commentary for Wired magazine.
From Wired News on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

Where Real, Cyber Worlds Collide
At the O & rsquo;Reilly Emerging Technology conference, the activity on the convention floor is happening simultaneously online and off. The event is rigged with a Wi-Fi network, and most of the attendees are in constant communication with the outside world -- and with each other. Leander Kahney reports from Santa Clara, Califronia.
From Wired News on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

Verizon Must Reveal Song Swappers
A federal judge rejects a constitutional challenge Thursday by Verizon Communications. Barring a reversal of an earlier ruling, Verizon will have to turn over names of two Internet subscribers suspected of illegal file trading to the Recording Industry Association of America.
From Wired News on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

Biotech Inventor Wins Big Bucks
Many scientists insist on keeping academia and industry separate. But top science prize winner Leroy Hood -- inventor of machines that sequence and synthesize DNA and proteins -- manages to shift between the two arenas with ease. By Kristen Philipkoski.
From Wired News on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

FCC Urged to Wrap Up Media Rules
The FCC review of media ownership rules is due to finish June 2. Lawmakers want more information on how the FCC sees media ownership in a market altered by satellite broadcasts, cable television and the Internet before they call it a wrap. Others urge FCC to finish on schedule.
From Wired News on April 25, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..

StudentCollegeLoan.com Announces New Partnerships for Low Rate Student Low Consolidation
Jonathan J. Askew, founder and editor of StudentCollegeLoan.com, a financial tool, tips and guide resource company helps reduce student debt, announces new partnerships for consolidating student loans. [PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

University to Teach Students to fight Cyber Terrorism and Hackers with Online Network Security Degree.
Due to the recent increases in cyber terrorism and hacker attacks, AZ university announces innovative online network and computer defense degree. [PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) Suggested School & Student Travel Information & Guidelines
The following information and guidelines are suggested for school and student travelers to SARS case areas. They do not guarantee a traveler, or those that come in contact with them, will not be exposed to SARS. CDC and WHO high-risk travel warning areas include: Mainland China; Hong Kong; Singapore; Hanoi, Vietnam and Toronto Canada. [PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

NEW 24-7 SUPPLY TEACHER SERVICEFROM UKÂ’S FASTEST GROWING COMPANY
Ambition 24Hours has launched a new service to provide teachers, lecturers and support staff to schools and colleges throughout the UK [PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

NEWS. . . . . .At Rate My Teachers! The Students are rating the teachers and the press is very interested. Recent Press Releases for Rate My Teachers include: The New York Post; Z100 FM Radio and MSNBC. The traffic has grown beyond 500,000 page views in 24 hours March 28; and 7.8 million during the month of March.April 17 see our interview copy attached - ABC-TV New York with Celeste Ford Channel 7.
The cool teachers love our site and enjoy student comments....so should the others cause a problem?You decide. [PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

Business Leaders Turn to Online Training to Cut Costs
Business leaders across the nation rely on online training courses to provide employees with high quality professional development training at a fraction of the cost. [PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

Training Partner by GeoMetrix Coordinates Military Aircraft Personnel Training at Lockheed Martin NE&SS
[PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

ARTS411.ORG DOMAIN LOST TO NON-US BASED WEB BARRON ADULT MATERIAL SITE HAS SEIZED THE DOMAIN
A Seattle-based arts organization loses web domain to adult porn site. [PRWEB Apr 25, 2003]
From PR Web on April 25, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

Ryan Eby: Trackback, Pingback, and LOR's
An impressive, and apparently new site from Ryan Eby, with a thoughtful suggestion: 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...
From Object Learning on April 25, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..

Learn More
E-Learning's Unique Capability by Will Thalheimer answers a great question: What can you do with eLearning that you can't...
From Internet Time Blog on April 25, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..

Social Software in School Reform
Tom Hoffman gave a talk at the O'reilly Emerging Technology Conference entitled "WeÂ’re All In This Together, Kid: Social Software and School Reform". [via Tim Lauer] A pdf of the presentation is available online and is an interesting read. He...
From Education and Technology on April 25, 2003 at 2:46 a.m..

LISFeeds Me, Seymour!

BTW, one of the things I missed posting this week is the new version of LISFeeds, helpfully taking up residence at the URL http://www.lisfeeds.com/. If you don't have your own news aggregator, this is your single best online source for keeping up with what's going on around our profession. Big congrats to  Blake and Steven  for making such a useful site available for everyone!

From The Shifted Librarian on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Some Light-Hearted Fun

Sorry for the lack of postings this week, but I've got a lot of other things going on right now. I'll be heading out to Boston for the NE ASIS&T conference on Monday, but before I leave, here are a couple of fun reads for you. The first is from my the July 2002 issue of Harper's Magazine, courtesy of my Mom.

The Lord's Pager

"The following message won a competition sponsored by Ship of Fools, an Internet magazine, to rewrit

From The Shifted Librarian on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

The dynamics of ridiculously easy group-forming

Very interesting exchange between David Sifry and Gary Lawrence Murphy on what happens when everyone is empowered to create open channels where any blogger can contribute content. (I believe the Internet Topic Exchange is the first implementation of that idea.)

What From Seb's Open Research on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..


Competition heats up.
Ben Hammersley gives details on the new features in Movable Type makers SixApart's new TypePad system, which looks like it will be a worthy competitor to Blogger. (Quite a bit of news in that press release, by the way.)
From Seb's Open Research on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Yet another!

First time I've heard of it, but SharpReader looks like an interesting personal news aggregator. Greg at Ten Reasons Why writes:

SharpReader allows me to collect them into categories, in a Windows Explorer style set of folders. I can click on a folder and read a reverse-chronological list of all the feeds in the sub-folders (or chronological or s

From Seb's Open Research on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

9-Year-Old Is Charged in Sex Assault at a School
The principal of Roxbury Elementary School sat in her office in tears after one of her students, a 9-year-old boy, was charged with assaulting a 7-year-old girl.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

State Education Chief Will Urge Keeping Head of Newark Schools
New Jersey's education commissioner, William L. Librera, will recommend that the superintendent, Marion Bolden, lead the troubled district for three more years.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Islamic World Less Welcoming to American Scholars
The war in Iraq, and the angry reactions it has aroused across the Islamic world, have disrupted work by American scholars from Tunisia to Pakistan.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

L.I. Principal Is Charged With Possession of Crack
The principal of a Long Island high school was arrested Wednesday night after police officers found half a gram of crack cocaine inside his car, the authorities said.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

West Pointers Prepare to Face Changed World
West Point cadets are full of new questions about America's role and their own in a world that has changed greatly since many of them enrolled.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Boston School Plan Isn't Biased Against Whites, Judge Rules
As Boston's 30-year battle over desegregation continues, a federal judge ruled that the city's school assignment plan did not discriminate against white students.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Church-State Furor Engulfs Education Chief
After raising a storm of criticism with remarks praising the values of Christian schools, Education Secretary Rod Paige said that he was only expressing a personal opinion.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Federal Agency Issues Guidelines on Handling Infected Students
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the first guidelines for school officials in determining what to do if a student has SARS.
From New York Times: Education on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Register: Henry Norr fired for war protest

"The San Francisco Chronicle today sacked technology reporter Henry Norr in an apparent response to his protests against the US-led invasion of Iraq."

Reuters: "He no longer works at the Chronicle, effective today," spokesman Joe Brown said.

From Weblogs At Harvard on April 25, 2003 at 1:46 a.m..

What would Carly do?
While sitting in the little tiled room right off my office, where I do a lot of my reading, I...
From Internet Time Blog on April 25, 2003 at 1:45 a.m..

Zeldman has an RSS feed
Zeldman maintains this feed himself, by hand, like he maintains the rest of his site. (57 words)
From dive into mark on April 25, 2003 at 1:45 a.m..

Open Anarchy or Closed Dictatorship
I've just posted a short blurb on Kairosnews in the right menu about an upcoming event during the Computers & Writing Online 2003 conference. Open Education member Dave Munger will be moderating an asynchronous discussion on Open Anarchy or Closed Dictatorship: Methods of Producing Collaborative Teaching Texts.

The discussion will be held asynchronously on May 14 via the comment boards on Kairosnews.
From open-education.org on April 25, 2003 at 12:46 a.m..

Crimson: It's A Blog's Life
"For some Harvard students, maintaining weblogs, or blogging, as it is sometimes known, is their way of sharing the gift of themselves with the world."
From Weblogs At Harvard on April 25, 2003 at 12:46 a.m..

[ETech] Meg Hourihan & Microsoft Data Mining
Tough choice among sessions! A Microsoft researcher is talking about social software, Mitch Kapor is talking about Chandler, and Meg "Megnut" Hourihan is talking about "From the Margins of the Writable Web." Meg's always interesting and I love her title, so I'm here. The tools for reading weblogs aren't as developed as for writing them. Meg points to sites doing interesting things. E.g., weblogs that are tied to geographic areas. (You can put your geographic information into your blog via geourl.org.) Also, sites are getting more explicit in their social relationships. E.g., cre
From Joho the Blog on April 24, 2003 at 11:46 p.m..

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