Edu_RSS ~ May 14, 2003

Most recent update: May 14, 2003 at 11:00 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: Wireless Fidelity - WiFi You might not recall the old, wise proverb: Listen and learn from all those bearing the name Tim. It has a catchy ring to it... Anyways, I saw a story from Slashdot as I was heading for bed last night,... From Tim Swanson on May 14, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. INTO UTOPIA: Learning and Technology Outside the U.S. -- Azerbaijan: Part 4 Conceptually, it's simple.  Further, everybody likes it.  It's the idea of making information available through a digital library so that remote locations can share information.The first steps are usually not too difficult.  A website can be made for each entity.  Weblogs can be set up.  The toe has entered the water.  The tentative first step has been made.  This is all very good. However, without good project management and a great deal of coordination, this first outing in the cool web-waters can become a gri From Xplana on May 14, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. iTunes and Webcasting Ok, I still don't have all the details on this matter, but I'm trying to follow the conversation.  Go here, here, here, here, and definitely here.  Prelim thoughts: --> From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 14, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. Still Pretty Cool Title links to the peer responses given to one of my students on her first story. It's a long scroll, but I think it's a good example of the kind of flexibility that Web logs offer when it comes to giving feedback and having it all in one place for the author to muse over. The next step is for her to reflect on that feedback, come up with a list of specific changes, and create a plan for revision. One thing I realized with this example is that with the four responses, the author has a great deal of material that she can use for improving her writing, material that I think would have From weblogged News on May 14, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. Untitled Derek Slater: "I don't think Apple is at risk." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. On Warranties: Part II In response to the ongoing discussion of our licences' warranty provision, I've decided to raise the issue at our upcoming board meeting. Meantime, please keep fleshing out what you think our approach to warranties should be. The how is as important as the why. Is there any disadvantage to making a quitclaim-style warranty optional (as opposed to the standard)? Do you think we should have some type of warranty in the licenses, or rather abandon the idea altogether? Soon we can move the conversati From Creative Commons: weblog on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. Sun reveals storage division performance The company reveals for the first time the financial performance of its storage division, showing that revenue from the products declined slower in recent years than revenue from servers. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. Wi-Fi as weapon--telcos vs. cable Telecommunications companies are using already-installed public phones as potential Internet hot spots as they look to protect their local phone business from cable companies. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. Collaborative Text Discussion If you haven't been over to Kairosnews yet and at least read (if not participate) in the discussion on creating collaborative teaching texts, then I highly recommend doing so. The discussion started today, and so far consists of 4 articles... From Education and Technology on May 14, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. EuroAccessibility: W3C/WAI Joins European Accessibility Effort 14 May 2003: W3C/WAI has joined in a Memorandum of Understanding with twenty-four European organizations to establish a harmonized set of support services throughout Europe, which would include a common evaluation methodology, technical assistance, and a European certification authority for Web accessibility based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Read more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 14, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. MediaCon: Weinberger David Weinberger has been contributing small and important pieces to our collective cluetrain of thought (ok, that was too cute, sorry). He's got it right here. From Lessig Blog on May 14, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. Intuit to remove antipiracy mechanism The software maker plans to strike antipiracy technology from future versions of TurboTax that had sparked a rash of consumer complaints and a lawsuit earlier this year. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. Apple voters pick Gore From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. IBM CEO: Replacement cycle a dinosaur The frenzied buying spree the tech industry has come to count on every few years--is being driven to the tar pits by on-demand computing, says Big Blue's Sam Palmisano. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. INTO UTOPIA: Learning and Technology Outside the U.S. -- Azerbaijan, Part 4 -- Low-Cost Business and Training Centers(the BIT- LOW-COST BUSINESS INFORMATION AND TRAINING CENTERS (the BIT-GUT approach) Conceptually, it's simple.  Further, everybody likes it.  It's the idea of making information available through a digital library so that remote locations can share information. From Xplana on May 14, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. Day session on the collaborative creation of educational materials Today, the Kairosnews community weblog is running a session of the Computers and Writing Online 2003 conference, entitled Open Anarchy or Closed Dictatorship: Methods of Producing Collaborative Teaching Texts. Throughout the day the many complex issues surrounding the collaborative creation of teaching texts will be discussed. Have a peek and feel free to drop into the conversation and contribute at any time by posting comments. From Seb's Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. Disinfopedia A project of PRWatch.org, Disinfopedia was started in last January - almost exactly 2 years after Wikipedia, after which it is modelled. It describes itself as "a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms--> From Seb's Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. Distributed collective tweaking Headmap: Declaration of Interdependence. A view of the future of the Internet and how it will impact the way we'll go about our business. Far-reaching, yet plausible if you ask me. (via Ming) From Seb'apos;s Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. Untitled Dave Sifry: "I've been slow on email lately because Noriko just gave birth to our second child, Noah, yesterday." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. MediaCon: Krugman brilliance http://www.ucomics.com/cgi-bin/sendtoafriend/getpostcard.cgi?site_ref=ucomics&MsgID=aad64d79b576f874d86e31e563cad0ce From Lessig Blog on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. MediaCon: put best This is a brilliant cartoon by Toles which captures this whole debate best. From Lessig Blog on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Nothing to be late for Then Dora showed up, running late, but pleasantly surprised that she wasn't really late because there was nothing to be late for. (438 words) From dive into mark on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Color Blender Web Developers and designers looking for that perfect color might want to check out Eric Meyer's Color Blender, recently released under a Creative Commons license. You input two colors and specify how many midtones you'll need, and it does the rest. Since it's written entirely in javascript, you can download it and use it yourself. From Creative Commons: weblog on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Untitled About Learning Objects. "Learning objects -- what are they? where did they come from? how are they created? where can they be found? Currently, there are so many questions floating around about learning objects. Fortunately, and unfortunately, the recent attention being paid to learning objects means there is a lot of discussion, but very little agreement around the details and dynamics of learning objects. In this site, you will find information on learning objects. The purpose i From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 14, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. Comments on Rambus Column I got a some hate mail over last Sunday's column on the FTC's suit against Rambus and Unocal. I'm posting... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 14, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. Untitled Kottke: "Apple's new iTunes Music Store will be shut down by the some seriously pissed off record companies." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. Untitled Christian Science Monitor: "On the 100th anniversary of Orwell's birth, a lively debate is ensuing over the English author's continuing relevance." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. SCO: Customers bear Linux legal risks SCO Group sends a letter to about 1,500 of the world's largest corporations warning that they could be liable for using Linux. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. DVD-copying case heads to court Software start-up 321 Studios will face off with Hollywood over its right to sell programs that get around copyright protections in a key legal test of the DMCA. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. Bet on Women Maybe I am a glutton for punishment, but I will have to take Liz's bet on gender balance in LinkedIn.  In a way, I am doubling down on the previous bet -- the commonality is that even with LinkedIn's constraints it is a dynamic network.  I am betting on change.  Since the network's growth isn't driven by preferential attachment, but by new invitees, the demographics are bound to change to reflect the real world.  The initial population of the network is predominantl From Corante: Social Software on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Informal Learning and Transnational Education The focus of Jay Cross' article on "Informal Learning - the other 80%," posted in his Internnet Time blog last week, is learning within organizations. As such, it has tremendous relevance to Transnational Ed (TNE) as it relates to corporate training in developing countries which are attempting to join the global knowledge economy. From Transnational Education on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation Well, I hate to post something that I'm sure many others have already seen, but I got a kick out of the graph and some of the commentary they used on the LNSEMF World Headquarters site. Jason sent me that... From Tim Swanson on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Untitled Learning Object Repositories Online. "The sites and organizations listed below either have generated learning objects and host their own repository (i.e. Wisc-Online) or have provided guidelines, templates, or frameworks for objects that are stored in their repository (i.e. Apple Learning Exchange)." [University of Texas at San Antonio, and others, Web-Based Learni From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Untitled RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Learning Object Metadata. "The 1484.12.1 - 2002 Learning Object Metadata (LOM) was approved by the IEEE-Standards Association on June 12, 2002. The purpose of IEEE-LOM is to provide structured descriptions of re-usable digital learning resources, sometimes known as "Learning Objects." This standard was authored by the Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) Learning Object From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Untitled e-Learning Standards and the Dream of Universal Interoperability. "But just blindly using SCORM is hardly the answer either- unless your community's needs can be satisfied by it. In this, Lisa Balzereit from the ADL co-lab, admitted, SCORM had clearly been oversold. One of the lessons ADL learned about the SCORM is to better manage expectations. Which was well exemplified by Dan Rehak, SCORM's chief architect, who pointed out the many times he'd been told that 'we want to adopt SCORM', which i From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Untitled Online Communities for Professional Development. In this week's Web Tools Newsletter, we look at rationales for the development of such communities, best practices and successful examples in the field, some assessments of effectiveness, and directions for the future. [Web Tools for Learning] Excellent rundown.  Maybe next time they will pick up The eLearning Guild. From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. The Substantive Due Process Jamboree That's what I'm in the middle of right now, because my ConLaw final is tomorrow.  So, I'm a little busy. Two quick thoughts for the day: 1.  I'd love to know if anyone can corroborate this analysis.  I'm not sure if he's correct about whether it's webcasting (I'm not sure if the size of audience actually matters in webcasting) and  whether it's an interactive/non-interactive service (I don't know enough about iTunes).  Wha From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 14, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. Untitled AP: "NBA Hall of Famer Dave DeBusschere, a forward on two championship teams with the New York Knicks and also the youngest coach in league history, died Wednesday of a heart attack at 62." One of my childhood heroes. He played opposite Bill Bradley on the Knicks of the late 60s with Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe and Willis Reed. From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Untitled Docs for Blogger's changes.xml file. From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Untitled RFC: "Suppose Google were to start using weblogs.com's changes.xml file to seed the indexer. I expect this will mean an onslaught of spammers, and want to try to do something about that, in advance." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. eLearning Alive and Well I am lately befuddled by pundits that keep forecasting the imminent demise of the elearning industry. I wade through data... From Learning Circuits Blog on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Russian Orthodox Monks Sell Prayers Online Monks from a famous but financially troubled Russian monastery are now offering their prayers for sale online. From kuro5hin.org on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Tibco targets federal contracts The software maker teams up with GemStone Systems in a reseller partnership aimed at addressing homeland security concerns. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Fizzer virus pains IRC networks The mass-mailing computer virus, which connects to the Internet relay chat system to await commands, has caused chaos on free chat services. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. IBM works to make mainframes mainstream Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Real, Comcast team up for games The companies plan to offer a cobranded online game service to high-speed Internet subscribers as part of the cable giant Comcast's upcoming Web portal. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Is Palladium Getting a Bad Rap? Microsoft is playing the coy innocent in its reaction to the criticism it has suffered since announced its 'trusted computing' (or as Richard Stallman styles it, 'treacherous computing') platform. In this article, MS developer Mario Juarez responds, "There's this mythology surrounding NGSCB that Microsoft is in league with the media industry to override consumers' rights. That makes no sense. Who would buy a product that doesn't allow them to do wha From OLDaily on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Canada's Advanced Technology Business Plan Not actually a plan, this document is a set of recommendations forwarded by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) based on a survey of city executives and business leaders across Canada. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of major Canadian cities with respect to innovation in technology and offers suggestions based on that assessment. The subtitle of the report, "First the City, then the Country," reflects the bias inherent in the sampling. So too do some of the recommendations, such as the emphasis on tax From OLDaily on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Politics Kill School Vouchers in Louisiana It's pretty hard to find more biased reporting than in this CNN article attributing the failure of New Orleans to approve school vouchers to "politics" rather than to the concern that the bill would have allowed private schools to operate free from scrutiny and accountability. By AP, CNN, May 13, 2003 [Refer][Research][ From OLDaily on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. Jessica's Blog Our very own Jessica Hammer has her own blog! From Corante: Social Software on May 14, 2003 at 5:47 p.m.. Social software - posted for reference for me Roots of Social Software. Walking the mountain with Howard puts it all in perspective: Historical Roots of Social Software {Technologies of Cooperation} Posted by Howard at 10:13 AM Three separate emails this morning directed me to --> From Handheld Instructional Technology on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. Untitled The Redhead: "If I thought I could get away with it, this is the questionnaire I would hand to a man on our first date." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. Is AOL reeling as cinemas defect? AOL's Moviefone is losing deals with major theater chains. But the online service, which boasts the majority of box-office traffic, says the real moneymaker is advertising. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. hack'nstad Tagbuch/Website des arbeitslosen Pat Fishman aus Wien. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 14, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. CSS3 Modules Become W3C Candidate Recommendations 14 May 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three CSS3 modules to Candidate Recommendation: Color, Ruby, and Text. A second Candidate Recommendation of the CSS TV Profile 1.0 incorporates editorial suggestions. The CSS Working Group also released first public Working Drafts of the CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content and Speech modules. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 14, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. Web Services Architecture Working Drafts Published 14 May 2003: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated three Working Drafts: Web Services Architecture, Usage Scenarios and the Web Services Glossary. Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships, and establishes constraints. Visit the Web Services home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 14, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. Untitled I had a couple of hours to geek out and thought I'd play with the BlogShares API. No luck. It's not live yet. From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Things we do for love People will tell you the key to any successful relationship is compromise. Without the ability to compromise, long-term love affairs don't make it beyond short-term trysts. Compromise done well is like any negotiation, the trick is to give so that in return you get something you want. In that vein, I'm going to see The Matrix: Reloaded tonight. I didn't like the first Matrix. But I also don't want to go alone to the premiere of Seabiscuit this summer. No wonder people say rela From megnut on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Corante's RSS full functional Corante's RSS full functional Corante's RSS feeds have been up for a while but weren't working in many aggregators because the server was giving 404 errors to "HEAD" requests, but delivering the correct content for "GET" requests.  Since most polite aggregators check for an update before bothering the server with a request for the full file, this was causing serious problems.   An extra big shout-out goes to Morbus Iff (aka Kevin), author of my favorite RSS agg From Corante: Amateur Hour on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Game maker plans layoffs, eyes sale 3DO, maker of the Army Men series of computer games, watches its stock fall 30 percent after it warns on revenues and announces layoffs. Selling the company is a possibility. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. 'Matrix' sequel spotted on the Net The inner circle of underground Internet file-swappers is buzzing with claims that a copy of "The Matrix Reloaded" has been released early online. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Auditor joins Red Hat board From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. Novell revamps Java app server tool From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. The Matrix is only a Day Away I have to say, I'm a big Matrix fan. I've watched the original upteen times and I still get a big charge out of it. Jenny gives us the scoop on the sequel Matrix Reloaded. "I just heard on the news that if you go see The Matrix Reloaded, you should sit through all nine minutes of the credits because they show a trailer for the third movie, The Matrix: Revolutions, afterwards." Well, lucky me...for Mother's Day, I received a card complete w From Edublog News on May 14, 2003 at 3:46 p.m.. Links to beSpacific.com Law and Technology News, u ... Links to beSpacific.com Law and Technology News, updated weekdays, are now available on the main page of LLRX.com, a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal and library professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools, since 1996 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2003 at 3:46 p.m.. RSS 2 JS Code and Demo LAST update Okay, this should do it for a while. D'Arcy Norman suggested adding an output option to allow insertion of item date to the list. While in the code, I also made it possible to have an option on the channel... From cogdogblog on May 14, 2003 at 3:46 p.m.. CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content Module: Call For Comments The first draft of the CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content Module was published today on the W3C Technical Reports page as a Working Draft. I am therefore now soliciting comments and discussions of this draft. Please send your review comments to the www-style@w3. … From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on May 14, 2003 at 3:46 p.m.. Untitled JD Lasica is listing reviews of the new Matrix. From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Untitled NSF: "Speed-ups to Google's method may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual's interests or customized to a particular topic." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Keeping Tabs on Your Good Name A new application, Google Alert, offers a new approach for staying up to date with your interests by routinely performing daily Google searches and sending e-mail notifications of new results that appear, complete with the links. From E-Commerce Guide on May 14, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Titanium goodness Thanks to Apple, the Learning Commons was seeded with a shiney new TiBook for CAREO development. I've adopted it, replacing the older PB G4/400 that I had been using. What a difference. Wow. Really. This thing has a speedy 1GHz G4, half a gig of RAM, 60GB hard drive, and a built in Superdrive (CD-R, DVD-R combo drive). Holy crap, that's just plain nice. Before, I'd have to lug out a big, bulky external firewire CD-R drive to do my weekly backups (I use .Mac Backup every Friday morning to back up ~/Documents, Mail, Preferences, and a few other things).... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on May 14, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. Microsoft shaves price of Xbox The software giant says it's aiming for a broader audience with the machine, which now costs $179.99 in the United States, down from $199. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. No Bet I can't say I disagree with Liz on this one, but I think she's hit on at least one larger problem with LinkedIn: self-selection.   Most online communities are self-selecting because of the limited role of chance and accident in encouraging part From Corante: Social Software on May 14, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. Not There Yet (via "Will" from Do You Blog?) "And yet, according to Pew Charitable Trust study, an overwhelming majority of the middle and high school students who use the Internet say their schools don't create assignments that take advantage of resources online- resources they can find on their own. They're far ahead of their teachers and principals in taking advantage of online educational resources" such as weblogs- the report concludes." I just finished a group project in my admin of tech class. We surveyed the teac From Edublog News on May 14, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. Weblogs im deutschen Sprachraum Da muss ich eine Korrektur nachschicken und mich entschuldigen, gemeint ist der wissenschaftliche Bereich, da gibt es derz... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 14, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. The EFF--Backing Up the Right to Backup The latest EFFector brings news of two developments this week: the afore-mentioned Library of Congress hearings on the anticircumvention provisions in the DMCA and the hearing tomorrow in MGM Studios v. 321 Studios. The central question in the From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on May 14, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. Gateway faces new accounting probe The investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office relates to the same time period and subject matter as the SEC's ongoing probe of the PC maker's 2000 financial reports. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. E-paper turns a corner Start-up E Ink and partner Philips are set to demonstrate a working prototype of electronic paper that they say features a sharper resolution than ever before. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. 'Buffalo Spammer' nabbed in New York New York state authorities have arrested the e-mail marketer "Buffalo Spammer," in the state's first criminal case against a junk mailer. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. Freedom to Read The ACLU is backing the Freedom to Read Bill that would tell the government to back off from routinely watching what we take from libraries and buy from bookstores. As Cory says in BoingBoing, "let's get this bill passed and then take on the rest of the evil PATRIOT act."... From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. Mobile Gaming Will Change the Way We Teach John Romero, one of the fathers of the PC classic game ``Doom,'' appeared at E3 this week to promote Nokia's upcoming N-Gage device. ``We really believe the game industry's future growth is in mobile gaming,'' Romero said. He would have been even more correct if he had taken out the words "the game industry's" to give his statement more sweeping and global vision. Consider this. Until now, --> From Xplana on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. Statewide Oregon Online Reference Service Lori Bell sent me a link to the Answerland Blog for Oregon's virtual online reference service! "Librarians in Oregon are designing a multi-type virtual reference service to bring librarians to patron desktops all over the state. But there's a lot to decide. Our weblog highlights crucial issues and offers Oregon librarians a place to contribute their insight." They're using Radio, so there&a From The Shifted Librarian on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. Indexing and searching Outlook email I never thought I'd find myself digging around in my Outlook message store, but Mark's SpamBayes addin -- which is written in Python -- turns out to be a great Python/MAPI tutorial. Borrowing heavily from his examples, I came up with a script to extract my Outlook mail to a bunch of files that I could feed to a standalone indexer. [Full story at O'Reilly Network] ... From Jon's Radio on May 14, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. Featured Commoner: Wiley Wiggins Check out a new interview with actor, animator, author, and Austinite Wiley Wiggins, by our own Matt Haughey. You may remember Wiggins' star turns in Richard Linklater's films Dazed and Confused and Waking Life. But if you're really in, you recognize him as a friendly blogger and all-around web dude. From Creative Commons: weblog on May 14, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. Germany extends EDS contract From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. Brazil Boasts 14 Million Online The large number of users only represents 8 percent of the population, while Chile has 20 percent online. From CyberAtlas on May 14, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. IBM makes WebSphere connection The company releases a set of tools to promote the use of its WebSphere portal software within corporations and by business partners. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. AOL names chief for paid services America Online appoints Ned Brody, a former chief operating officer of search company LookSmart, to develop, launch and market new subscription-based services. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. Responses to Spike Readers respond to the Salon article (for-pay content) that claims that the focus on Spike has ruined Buffy. I particularly like the one that argues that Spike has always been the outsider looking in, not the Cool Fonzie guy as the article claims. It sure seems like Buffy's going to have to kill Spike in the last episode. But the show has been canny in the past about surprising us.... From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. Bloggers v. Journalists in NH, Take 4 Over the past few weeks, Dave Winer and MSNBC's Jon Bonne have been hashing out a mini-debate over the role of journalists, bloggers and the NH primary.  To follow the thread, here are the parts to the story: Winer, Bonne, Winer #2.  Today, Jon Bonne offers his -- From Weblogs At Harvard on May 14, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. No RSS reader for Palm? Am I getting this right, there's not currently an RSS reader for the Palm OS? I've seen the plucker stuff... From Syndication News from Bill Kearney on May 14, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. Windows XP Rules Global OS Market Slowly but steadily, XP overthrows 98. From CyberAtlas on May 14, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. Gartner: PC sales to inch higher The PC market will post a slight uptick in unit shipments during the second quarter of 2003, but lingering economic uncertainty will continue to adversely impact the sector, according to new projections by Gartner Dataquest. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. Hitachi hones notebook drive performance The company says that a decrease in the size of the slider, a key component, will help the drives conserve energy, run faster and resist accidents better. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. IBM thinks ahead with acquisition Big Blue looks beyond its own efforts and buys software developer Think Dynamics to try to hasten the unfolding of its on-demand computing strategy. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. Norlin on Leeway Eric writes in response to my Wired article: the point that David misses is how much "DRM" enabling technologies can enable the "leeway" he speaks of..... The fact of the matter is that DRM enabling technologies are as *neutral* as the architecture of the computer ... As such, "DRM" can just as easily allow you to illegally trade files (piracy) as it can keep from trading files (hollywood) -- those are the extreme ends of it......and in between? Leeway. This is certainly true if one looks at DRM out of its real-world context. As a technology, DRM is totally neutral.... From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2003 at 10:46 a.m.. AKMA on DRM and Space AKMA has a nice rant about how little the RIAA gets it, in response to my Wired article. This is an issue that matters so much to so many people that occasionally I have hope that we'll beat the bastards down. And speaking of beating bastards down, AKMA is declaring victory (ok, I'm overstating Prof. AKMA's position just a tad) in our battle long ago and far away about whether the Web is spatial. As I recall, my position was two-pronged (i.e., I speak with a forked tongue): The Web is a navigable set of places, and this is a... From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2003 at 10:46 a.m.. It's Matrix Time I just heard on the news that if you go see The Matrix Reloaded, you should sit through all nine minutes of the credits because they show a trailer for the third movie, The Matrix: Revolutions, afterwards. Here's Roger Ebert's review of the movie, although thankfully he doesn't provide very many details. THE MATRIX RELOADED ***1/2 (R) "It is an immensely skillful sci-fi ad From The Shifted Librarian on May 14, 2003 at 10:46 a.m.. Untitled Thankfully Jon Bonne has written his last for the back-and-forth over journalism and blogging. His opening argument is straight out of Orwell. Let's see. There is Mac software, but it doesn't come from the big companies, so it's okay for reporters to say there's no Mac software. Hmm. Okay. I hope I never get a doctor who thinks that way. Or a judge. Or a cop. Or a reporter. From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Untitled From there it gets worse. He infers an analogy that's not in my piece. If anything is the analog of the Mac software in this story, it's the voters. Yup Jon they're there. And you still don't get it -- they're the story, not you, not the pols. Maybe here's what I'm saying. If the pros want to survive, never mind bloggers, get some smart, inquisitive people doing it and toughen them up. Too many pros are either lazy, or dumb. This is why I think the people who fret about the FCC decision From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Untitled Pictures from my trip to Dartmouth last Friday. The second-to-last picture is Mac scripting guy Bill Cheeseman, who in a past life was a trial lawyer who actually tried a case against Berkman's Charlie Nesson. He lives on farm near Dartmouth now. The last picture is Brian Hughes (left) and Alan German, both heroes of the Frontier scripting world, both work at Dartmouth From megnut on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Set a Search Marketing Budget How to set a flexible budget for any type of search campaign. From E-Commerce Guide on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Fujitsu Siemens adds SuSE to servers The European computing giant will bundle SuSE's Linux Enterprise Server 8 with all its Primergy servers, making the OS more easily accessible to companies on the continent. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. Untitled Figment of our imagination? You've probably heard a lot about embedded Linux if you follow the tech industry. Well, according to Karim Yaghmour, it doesn't exist. That's an interesting position to take, especially as the author of Building Embedded Linux Systems. Here's some of what Yaghmour has to say: Embedded Linux is the stuff of glitzy announcements, hype, and other marketing mumbo jumbo. That is, at least, the conclusion I am forced to reach after having spent two years writing a book From Corante: Open Source on May 14, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. Ernie on Fairness Ernie the Attorney reminds us that DRM isn't the only place we're seeing a clamping down on leeway, as my Wired article argues. No, Ernie says, it's the big trend in law. For example, judges are given "sentencing guidelines" to constrain them. Not to mention the Three Strikes abomination recently upheld by our highly respected Supreme Court.... From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. MYTH OF SISYPHUS -- Does Technology Make Us Less Human? There are many proponents of distance learning but the multitude of benefits raises both enthusiasm and fear.  Many ask, is it possible to get the same, or even better quality of education by replacing the traditional classroom experience?  Do we have to simulate it, pattern it along the same lines, or change it altogether?  These important questions are subjects of further investigation, experimentation, data compilation and serious thinking.  These are topics and issues I will come back to at a later time.  However, when it comes to any questio From Xplana on May 14, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. Search engine position is not peer review Charlie at Kairosnews paraphrased a snippet of Davies' recent entry on peer review possibilities for weblogs. It was this phrase:...But here's where Google's PageRank can help us... that got my attention, finally. There's been some blogging recently about ways to increase positions in search engines, using the same techniques marketers use to promote their product/services sites into top positions. I've seen some of this dis From carvingCode on May 14, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. IDC: K-12 shifts spending to wireless, handhelds, notebooks - Cara Branigan, eSchool News Anticipating smaller budgets, school officials are spending their technology dollars more carefully, according to new research from International Data Corp. (IDC). "A lot of disposable or short-term investments are not being done," said Ray Boggs, author of the report "U. From Educational Technology on May 14, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. So Sometimes... So sometimes you take a few days off work. And you don't take your laptop with you and you don't check email at an Internet cafe or anything. And then when you come back you're really kinda relaxed. And you... From Ten Reasons Why on May 14, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. Untitled Online Communities. Online Communities for Professional Development...extensive links and commentary on the definition, role, and process of developing online communities [elearnspace blog] Good Resource on a challenge for educators to develope communities online. Like it has been said, a community of practice is a way to start. From Blogging from the Barrio on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. The Whittier School Manila Hub Right now, I am focusing on working on the Whittier School Manila Hub and slowing figuring out our Plone server. What seems cool about Plone is that one can show off as much as one wants to and yet maintain a private area on one account. Most of my time is spent working on Manila and catching up on the new additions. I am working with a community organization on developing a space we have provided them . I am also trying to document my march with Manila and Plone on our Praxis with Manila and Plone weblog. From Blogging from the Barrio on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Six Degrees of Interconnection - Duncan Watts, Wired When we talk about distance, we almost always mean the space between objects or locations in the physical world. And for good reason: Most of the time, that's the sort of distance that makes sense. But after a century-long revolution in communications and transportation, physical space can be limiting or even misleading. From Techno-News Blog on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human - M.O. Thirunarayanan, Ubiquity The statement, "We think, therefore we are," has long served as a definition of the essence of being human. Our human ability for sustained thought is to a large extent responsible for the advances and progress that we have experienced in the areas of mathematics, natural and physical sciences, engineering, technology, law, literature, humanities, social sciences and the arts. From Techno-News Blog on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Online Classes Can Supplement K-12 Education - ANDREA COOMBES, the Day Whether your child is a gifted student not being challenged, a struggling learner at risk of failing, or attending a school with a barebones curriculum, you can find a solution to the problem on the Internet. Virtual classrooms, in which students communicate with a teacher via an instant-message chat, interactive "white board" or speaking through a microphone, are providing a way for talented students to move ahead and below-grade-level kids to master remedial work. From Educational Technology on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Is blending in your future? - Jeff Seaman, Sloan-C View The history of academic programs delivered fully online is a recent one. The Sloan Foundation has been supporting the development of these programs for a bit over a decade, and the Sloan Consortium has been acting as a resource for those providing such programs for only a few years. From Online Learning Update on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. E-learning gives new face to higher education programs - Brad Greenberg, DAILY BRUIN REPORTER The technological growth that characterized the 1990s has enabled colleges and universities to break the confines of the traditional university, and offer bachelor's and master's degrees via the World Wide Web. Though electronic learning is typically facilitated by private businesses interested in making a profit, educators praised the educational quality of online degree programs, and said the drive to make a profit has not affected the quality of education. From Online Learning Update on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Issues Related to Scaling Online Learning: And the top ten are . . . - Sloan-C View Increasing scale can motivate the academy's greater appreciation of itself as a community focused on common goals. Burks Oakley of UIUC asked the Sloan-C listserv about scaling quality higher education to include all learners who are motivated to pursu... From Online Learning Update on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. The mood among campus file-swappers Stanford senior Sumir Meghani says the entertainment industry's caricature of music file-swappers as hopeless reprobates has triggered resentment among students. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. E3: Let the games begin Sony invades Nintendo's turf with the launch of a handheld player, as the video game industry jostles for position through product releases and price cuts. Plus: Xbox gets into the groove. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Database dichotomy Muscle alone isn't enough--buyers want database software that is smart and cheap, too. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Free acces to the Emerald journals Corporate Commu ... Free acces to the Emerald journals Corporate Communications: An International Journal and Journal of Workplace Learning starts May 12 for one week From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. Presentation materials from the Ontario Library As ... Presentation materials from the Ontario Library Association 2003 conference are now available From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on May 14, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. 2003 Local Workshops in Humanities Computing - foc ... 2003 Local Workshops in Humanities Computing - focusing on digitisation, text encoding, multimedia, and text analysis tools - June 23-28, 2003 - University of Victoria, British Columbia From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on May 14, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. The Alexander Street Press Breakfast at ALA/CLA is ... The Alexander Street Press Breakfast at ALA/CLA is being held at Wayne Gretzky's Restaurant in Toronto. Seating is limited so apply now From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on May 14, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. List of stakeholders? I'm back in Caloundra again, wading through a whole pile more stakeholder interviews. While they are certainly tiring, some really interesting and useful information is surfacing, and I'm starting to get a good understanding of how the Council functions. When... From Column Two on May 14, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. Knowledge continuity management Anne Field has written an article about knowledge continuity management, which looks at the challenges of retaining knowledge in an organisation, even after a valuable staffperson has left. To quote: If the idea sounds familiar, it should. Knowledge continuity management... From Column Two on May 14, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. Is Palladium Getting a Bad Rap? Privacy experts warn that Microsoft's Next Generation Secure Computing Base, also known as Palladium, could enable content providers to enforce draconian copyright protections. But a Microsoft representative says don't believe the hype. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Nanotech Gets Down to Business Venture capitalists, burned by the dot-com debacle, are leery of jumping on the nanotech bandwagon. But several companies and the government are investing in the latest wave of nanotech patents. Patrick Di Justo reports from the NanoBusiness Conference in New York. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Spammers Fight Back in Court Administrators of two popular antispam organizations defend themselves against a group of e-mail marketers who claim they've been wrongfully included on spammer blacklists. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Frontiers: Geography of Change At the start of the 20th century, 10 percent of the earth's population lived in cities. By the end of this decade, 50 percent will be urban dwellers. Wired magazine presents a visual guide to the geography of transformation. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Making Johnny Sit Up Straight The ergonomics of young computer users hasn't received much attention, but a New Jersey law could change that. It calls upon a group of teachers, administrators and medical professionals to create ergonomic design standards for state schools. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Verizon Launches Wi-Fi Hot Spots A new service gives Verizon Online customers high-speed wireless Internet access at 150 public telephones in New York City. The company plans to activate 850 more of these terminals by the end of this year. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Sony Announces Handheld PlayStation Device Watch out Nintendo. On the second day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony presents its plan to launch a new handheld PlayStation gaming device to be available by year's end. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. The New World: A Look Ahead Our old ideas about space have exploded. In their place comes a surprising range of domains that will define our future. Wired magazine guest editor Rem Koolhaas presents 30 Spaces for the 21st Century. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Toys for Tots Get Ultratechie Toymakers are preparing to introduce a new generation of playthings for digital-age toddlers. Among the most ambitious: a stuffed bear with voicemail from the creators of the 1985 hit toy Teddy Ruxpin. By Elisa Batista. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Oh, It's Not a Hoax: MS ILoo After claiming that the iLoo, a portable Internet-connected toilet, was a hoax, Microsoft has changed its tune. The company now admits that the iLoo, as silly as it sounds, was a real project after all. From Wired News on May 14, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. Techniques for Building a Better Intranet (Melbourne, Australia) I've been booked up to run another Techniques for Building a Better Intranet in Melbourne on June 25. Last time worked very well, and I have plans to further refine the program. Numbers will also be strictly limited to 12,... From Column Two on May 14, 2003 at 5:46 a.m.. Will social software encourage polarization? A good post and a fascinating discussion over on Don Park's blog on the potential adverse effects of social software, starting from his observation of how the Internet affected people in his home country: Korea is emerging From Seb'apos;s Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 5:46 a.m.. The Fix is In: Media Conglomeration to Accelerate I'll be saying more about this in coming days, but it's pretty clear that the FCC will soon give media... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 14, 2003 at 5:46 a.m.. Republicans Want More Assault Weapons on U.S. Steets Washington Post: GOP Will Let Gun Ban Expire. The Republican-controlled House will not renew the federal ban on Uzis and... From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on May 14, 2003 at 5:46 a.m.. Untitled BlogShares is getting an XML-RPC interface. Nicely done! From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 a.m.. Untitled News.Com: "The RIAA's automated program apparently confused two separate pieces of information -- a legal MP3 and a directory named 'usher' -- and concluded there was an illegal copy of a song by the musician Usher." From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 a.m.. Untitled On this day in 2001, in the middle of a trip to Nebraska for his grandfather's funeral, Evan Williams was paid a visit by Murphy. The story is familiar to anyone who has operated a hosting service. Sooner or later all the shit breaks loose at once (or so From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 a.m.. Untitled On this day in 2000, a youngster named Nicole Gordon, age 11, was asked what a venture capitalist is. "Are they people who venture to different capitals," she posed. "I'd like to go to visit capitals like Washington, DC" From Scripting News on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 a.m.. ASTD ICE I'll be attending ASTD from midday Saturday until Wednesday afternoon. Lance Dublin and I are speaking about management support... From Internet Time Blog on May 14, 2003 at 5:45 a.m.. Ridiculously easy group-forming via k-collector Communal topics and super-blogs. Matt on k-collector and shared topics: "If you click a topic name on my weblog now you don't get a local page but, instead, the dynamic k-collector page for that topic.  At the moment this is an aggregation of all the posts about that topic from anyone subscribing to the cloud." [Curiouser and curiouser!] I hope to find time soon to compare this to the Internet Topic Exchange and investigate From Seb'apos;s Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Seton Hall Class Recalls 3 Who Died in Fire Three flickering candles stood in front of the almost 2,000 Seton Hall University graduates of 2003, a reminder of three fellow students who died in their freshman year. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Ex-Professor at Yale Wins Resentencing in Pornography A federal appellate court has upheld the conviction but ordered a review of the sentencing of a former Yale University professor convicted of downloading tens of thousands of images of child pornography. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Brandeis Scholarships Create Unlikely Partners in Peace Program Maisa Khshaibon, a Palestinian and her best friend, Marina Pevzner, an Israeli Jew, met through a scholarship program to foster ties between Jews and Palestinians. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Driven by What He Wishes He'd Learned Nicholas Lemann, the New Yorker correspondent who recently agreed to become dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, never attended journalism school himself. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Graduates Face Difficult Job Market The class of 2003 is graduating into the worst hiring slump in 20 years, one that has afflicted the young and well-educated to an unusual degree. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. What Some Much-Noted Data Really Showed About Vouchers Mundane errors that skewed the results of a study on vouchers provide a cautionary tale for political leaders who want to draft public policy from supposedly scientific research. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Getting a Grip on Survival Skills For Fending in an Unfair World A group of lawyers who have worked in New York's family courts is teaching a course to help kids who are about to age out of the foster care system and into independent living. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. College President's Résumé Fails Student Exam A student reporting assignment at a small evangelical college in Toccoa, Ga., resulted in the resignation of the college president. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Asian Students Banned for Berkeley Session The University of California at Berkeley has turned away about 500 summer students from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore because of SARS. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. From Teacher of Year to Job Cut du Jour Tracy Young Cooper, who was named Teacher of the Year in 2001, is now facing the possibility that she could get laid off as South Carolina tries to save $400 million. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Avoid default thinking In late April, I lunched with a remarkable man, John D. Adams. His book, Thinking Today As If Tomorrow Mattered:... From Internet Time Blog on May 14, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. The Technorati Application Programming Interface David Sifry releases the Technorati API. The continually updated Technorati database contains a huge amount of link information between blogs, and the API will allow outside developers to access it. This is an important event in the evolution of weblogs, opening up many exciting opportunities, such as automated topic channel / trackback filtering as hav From Seb'apos;s Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 2:46 a.m.. Now I know what it takes to hack into a Linux server From Seb'apos;s Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 2:46 a.m.. Dr. Jenkins Slaps Media Outlets Academic honesty: Just Say No to Plagiarism. This topic was brought up time and again in my history classes back in college. Copying word for word without citing sources is a big no-no and you would hear stories of both... From Tim Swanson on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. And * I * Haven't Even Bought One Yet E.T. Phone Home (or Take Pictures, or Go Online and Check E-mail...) "After years of hype met by the collective yawns of consumers, smart-phone sales during the first quarter of 2003 reached 1.7 million units, up almost fourfold over the same period last year. That's still only a sliver of the mobile-handset market's 410 million total units, but it's evidence that consumers are buying the concept. United Kingdom-based research firm Canalys predicts th From The Shifted Librarian on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. Mostly People Talking While Driving More Mobile Minutes in the U.S. "Wireless telephone subscribers in the United States now spend, on average, more minutes talking on their mobile phones than they do on traditional landline phones, according to the Yankee Group's latest quarterly Wireless/Mobile North American Carrier Tracker. Mobile phone use has been growing rapidly - with the average U.S. subscriber logging 490 minutes of use pe From The Shifted Librarian on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. It's So Easy that You Have to Use It to Make Your Voice Heard Support the Freedom to Read "The ACLU's action center is running a campaign that lets you write to your congresscritter to ask her/him to endorse the "Freedom to Read Protection Act," which will restrict the ability to law-enforcement agencies to secretly and warrantlessly gather information on your habits at bookstores and libraries. Go ahead and ping your lawmaker -- let's get this bill passed and then take on the rest of the evil P From The Shifted Librarian on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. NorthStarNet and Blogging? Check it out - another blogging convert! Kristen Newton Smith has started the Algonquin Area Community Board using Blogger to post to the Library's community site on NorthStarNet! She's using it mainly to announce events and happenings in the area, but I'll bet they start using blogs in other ways, too, now tha From The Shifted Librarian on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. Will Amazon Help Oakland PL The Fametracker Forum on Publishing and Multimedia Talk picked up on the Public Library Wishlists at Amazon and brought it full circle back to Pamie, the instigator behind this great idea. The second post ends by noting: "This means several th From The Shifted Librarian on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. BrainPOP: SARS BrainPOP: SARS Real nice overview of the disease. Check it out.... From elearningpost on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. The cult of the massively distributed conversation Stewart Butterfield feels he was witness to a new phenomenon during Clay Shirky's talk at the recent Emerging Technology conference. From Seb'apos;s Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. More blogstats Michael has just appended links to Weblogs.com: Seeing the Curve (on the blogosphere's growth rate across time) and to Hot Weblog Crawling Action (stats by tool and language) to the Weblogs by the Numbers page. Both worth a look. From Seb'apos;s Open Research on May 14, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. New Normal? BS from Fast Company's investment manager's puff piece on the New Normal (a euphemism for I get it and... From Internet Time Blog on May 14, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. A Little Side Bet While Clay and Ross battle it out over the likelihood that LinkedIn will demonstrate classic power law distributions three months from now, I'd like to propose a little side bet. I contend that when their bet concludes, three months from now, less than 10% of the participants in the top 500 hits of Clay's "Internet" search will be women. Why do I think that? Several reasons. First, purely anecdotal evidence. None of the women I've shown the site to have had any interest in using it. Almost no women From Corante: Social Software on May 14, 2003 at 12:46 a.m.. Untitled Test From Handheld Instructional Technology on May 14, 2003 at 12:45 a.m.. New hacking tool sees the light A Princeton University student has cracks the security of Java and .Net virtual machines using a light, some known properties of computer memory and a little luck. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2003 at 12:45 a.m.. [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]