Edu_RSS ~ October 20, 2003

Most recent update: October 20, 2003 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: The RIAA and the Music Piracy Debate Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) was online to talk about his efforts to rein in the recording industry's aggressive legal war against people who illegally trade music online. Piracy is wrong, Coleman agrees, but so too are some of the industry's tactics. From aG-UK Filesharing News on October 20, 2003 at 10:50 p.m.. (33211) Johns Hopkins report on Weblogs in Presidential Politics "New report examines the use of blogs in Presidential Campaigning and finds only four of the nine of the Democratic candidates have created official blogs." From Weblogs At Harvard on October 20, 2003 at 10:47 p.m.. (33210) Web Design Practices Heidi P. Adkisson has published a website called Web Design Practices which explores some of the common interface design practices, and their usability. To quote: This site is an outgrowth of my Master's thesis, completed in December, 2002 at the... From Column Two on October 20, 2003 at 10:47 p.m.. (33209) Untitled A recent Columbia Journalism Review article gives credit to Pitas for having the first weblog tool, in July 1999, but UserLand's NewsPage suite shipped as part of --> From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. (33208) S&P puts Sun on credit watch From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. (33207) New Trade Statistics Database Now Available From ResourceShelf on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 p.m.. (33206) Untitled Lots of people are tuning into NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen. If you want more, check out the interview Chris Lydon did with him at BloggerCon. It's great great stuff. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (33205) Untitled I'm getting lots of comments but only in email, so I can't point. Apparently the problem is page rank, there's no way Radio has zero page rank, but that (apparently) is what Google thinks. I can tell this is going to get nasty. Folks, I didn't say Google is a total asshole company, I said the mistake makes them look like a TAC. That was this morning. This evening I'm beginning to wonder. I certainly have heard from a number of total assholes, but that's life on the Internet. I'm used to it. ";->" From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (33204) Untitled When I first posted that I thought it was just a repurposing-DMOZ-problem, so it was a question of how Google looked, not anything they had actually done. But then Seth Dillingham posted a pointer showing that Radio UserLand is actually on the DMOZ list for weblog tools, so Google modified the list to take Radio out. This is surprising, and imho, requires an explanation. Did they modify it? If so why? And do they modify search results to favor their products From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (33202) Untitled Just had a phone talk with Scoble, and finally I have a clue why people use aggregators integrated with email clients. He had a couple of compelling reasons. 1. Since it's integrated with email he can easily forward an item to people he works with via email. 2. He has a folder where he drags From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. (33201) TI profit doubles on strong sales Texas Instruments reports a third-quarter net income of $447 million, fueled by rising demand for semiconductors. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. (33200) U.S. lawmakers form antipiracy caucus A group of federal lawmakers aims to put more steam behind issues of intellectual property piracy on and offline, forming a new caucus to focus on the issue. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. (33199) SGI aims high with Altix machine NASA is using a Linux machine from Silicon Graphics with 256 Itanium 2 processors and plans to double that, the company says after posting financial results that move it closer to a profit. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. (33198) Message by SMS 9à Kalö mio nio dio wasgkann hdajpm aj ? Pjg dap@56 jg mdajg am jgptwmjadagjmw gjmtp admj.tp"/3 From Channel indy - Project Hive on October 20, 2003 at 8:53 p.m.. (33197) Professional Reading Shelf Association of Researc... From ResourceShelf on October 20, 2003 at 8:49 p.m.. (33196) SupportSoft tinkers with tech support From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (33195) Microsoft is all business with IM New features in the updated version of Office seek to connect business applications with back-end IM server software. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (33194) Homestead adds photo service From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (33193) New Office opens its doors But is anyone ready to move in? Migration to the latest version of Microsoft's Office package is expected to be slow, given the software's complexity. Still, some backers are ready for the housewarming. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (33192) Companies double up for dual-chip cell phones NEC and ARM team up to design chips that will contain two or more processing cores, the calculating unit inside microprocessors, to be inserted into phones and home electronics devices. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (33191) Re: RSS description size ... I'm curious, and won't grumble if my suspicion is proved wrong - but is the From rss-dev on October 20, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (33190) Google Glossary Comes to All English Language Versions of Google From ResourceShelf on October 20, 2003 at 7:49 p.m.. (33189) League Bloggin': Land of 10,000 E-Folios Just a quick recap of this League Conference session, "Minnesota: Land of 10,000 E-Folios" by Paul Wasko of eFolio Minnesota the project providing electronic portfolios to all citizens of the state. This was a hands on session that allowed us as participants to create use the tools available in this software. It actually is very easy to use, and offers quite a number of control and flexibility. It has a decent set of templates (using style sheets) and easy, consistent enditing tools. From the editing interface, you can always toggle to a previe From cogdogblog on October 20, 2003 at 7:48 p.m.. (33188) What's new News briefs from the world of education. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33187) School boards: Democratic ideal or a troubled anachronism? Education professionals debate the future of school boards. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33186) Coach who teaches gains yards in NFL Thanks to coach John Fox, the Carolina Panthers are undefeated this season. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33185) Students 'ride' to school on foot 'Walking school buses' give children exercise - and parents peace of mind. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33184) One exam, fewer ways to try again Tougher standards for exit exams may close off options for kids who fail. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33183) Historic battles Why are the disciplines of history and social studies so fiercely at odds? From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33182) Network boasts a change of address A group of tech heavyweights launches the largest North American network that uses the next-generation Internet address system. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33181) New Office relies on buddy system The software giant says the new version of Office, its most profitable product, could also represent a bonanza for its partners. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (33180) A new kind of worker "Organisations are finally beginning to recognise that information literacy is a key skill for their staff." Ich glaube, dass dieser Artikel einen wichtigen Punkt anspricht. Die Kompetenz, die Möglichkeiten der neuen Medien effektiv zu nutzen, wird immer mehr der Schlüssel... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 20, 2003 at 6:51 p.m.. (33179) Blawg des Tages "A whole bunch of law students from not one but two law schools (American University Washington College of Law and... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 6:51 p.m.. (33178) October 20, 2003 Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet - InternetMiniGuide.com This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (October 20, 2003 V1N21) is dedicated to Internet MiniGuides. Click on the below audblog link to to hear an audio describing this site on these various subject specific Internet MiniGuides. The site is available from the following address:Internet MiniGuides http://www.InternetMiniGuide.com/--> From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 6:51 p.m.. (33177) League Bloggin': "Sturgeon's Law, Home Depot, and Dilbert's Boss" Monday morning here at the League for Innovation conference and I was asked by my Macromedia friends to make some remarks at their breakfast session- a packed room of about 50 or so. And then I was following an awesome series of examples and ideas from Bill and Eric two faculty from Sinclair College that do some wacky (in a good way) and creative things teaching math and psychology. Below are the notes I made up ahead of time- I did not use the notes (too many bad examples here of speake From cogdogblog on October 20, 2003 at 6:47 p.m.. (33176) League Bloggin': MLX Wow, now this was probably the best presentation at this conference.... wait a minute.... Can I blog my own presentation at the League for Innovation Conference? (well not while I am doing it). This morning we gave our show on Building an Innovation Collection (with a bit of Competition and Bribery). We of course got the request to open source it (I am in favor of but lacking time and resources to generalizing the code- heck it is From cogdogblog on October 20, 2003 at 6:47 p.m.. (33175) League Bloggin': Diana Oblinger keynote Now this was a League conference highlight. Diana Oblinger knows how to deliver a compelling presentation (she speaks, she does not read) on a relevant topic. She researches and presents data, references, processes, and important ideas. And she uses PowerPoint with a bit more power and point than most. Someone give video copies of her keynote this morning to some of the other clowns that they have put on stage here. The title was "The Agile College" and started with a compelling true or false quiz- "The U From cogdogblog on October 20, 2003 at 6:47 p.m.. (33174) Untitled Seth Dillingham posted a pointer showing that Radio UserLand is actually on the DMOZ list for weblog tools, so Google modified the list to take Radio out. This is surprising. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. (33173) Streaming Media's CC how-to Streaming Media's recent article "Creative Commons Licensing for Digital Media" is a detailed review and demonstration of our metadata embedding guidelines. Larry Bouthillier covers why the licenses exist, the license terms themselves, and how to apply them to web pages and music formats. From Creative Commons: weblog on October 20, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (33172) Hot spot fever? Wayport CEO Dave Vucina has big plans to create a far-reaching network of hotel and airline Internet hot spots. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (33171) Royal Bank of Canada invests in SCO From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (33170) Cypress Semiconductor to buy Cascade Cypress says the acquisition will bolster its lineup of low-power SRAM chips used in wireless devices and give it greater access to chip foundries. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (33169) Zone Labs brews up antispam deal The computer-security maker will bundle antispam software from Cloudmark into its product mix, both companies are expected to announce. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (33168) Hollywood Goes Back To Frank: New Creative Commons License Paves The Road For More Creative Expression I had seen it coming and I had pictured right in my head. (See Special Feature: "Bat N'Avò Goes To Hollywood: How To Be A Profitable Online Music Band in The Age of Ethical Sharing and Collaboration") Here it is, what I had originally envisioned come alive in front of my eyes as one other new great solution from the great guys at Creative Commons. Inspired by world-famous musician and composer Gilberto Gil and developed with the help of the veteran found-art group Negativland, Creative Commons will launch our new Sampling Licenses on December 16, 2003. The new licenses, which... From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on October 20, 2003 at 5:52 p.m.. (33167) The Radical Moderate Neither Left nor Right nor between them do I stand I triangulate Libertarian? Neo-conservative nut? More Chomsky, less Rush. Where is my label? I need to have one, I guess a handle for polls "Individual" doesn't have a primary that I can vote in I guess that accounts for why so many people don't bother to vote Independent thought Is revolutionary it drives pollsters nuts "Pick A, B, or C" says the pollster on the phone I choose a write-in From Sean Gallagher: the dot.communist on October 20, 2003 at 5:50 p.m.. (33166) E-Commerce on a Shoestring Budget Know someone who is thinking about starting an e-commerce business just in time for the holiday shopping season? Here's one affordable way to get a new business online fast. From E-Commerce Guide on October 20, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (33165) September 2003 Internet Usage Stats The average Internet activity — both at work and at home — in September 2003 for surfers in the U.S., UK, and Australia, as reported by Nielsen//NetRatings Inc. From CyberAtlas on October 20, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (33164) dressing myself RandomComments.comLife: Everyday stuff (0 replies)dressing myselfposted by gardav on Monday, October 20, 2003 2:08:35 PMI started to panic this morning that I didn't have any clean underwear and I'd have to go "commando" ... From RandomComments.com on October 20, 2003 at 4:51 p.m.. (33163) Schon wieder Abmahnungen Der US-Verband der Musikindustrie, die RIAA, hat wieder 204 Abmahnungen an Benutzer von File-Sharing-Systemen wie KaZaA und Grokster verschickt. Darin... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 4:51 p.m.. (33162) Health Informatics Glossary Health Informatics Glossaryhttp://www.bacts.org.uk/glossary.htmThis glossary includes definitions of acronyms and other phrases from health informatics with the emphasis on terminologies, standards and the internet. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 4:51 p.m.. (33161) Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/dpans.htmlThis dpANS specifies the syntax and semantics of Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) and a syntactic variant of KIF in "infix" form. Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is a language designed for use in the interchange of knowledge among disparate computer systems (created by different programmers, at different times, in different languages, and so forth). KIF is not intended as a primary language for interaction with human users (tho From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 4:51 p.m.. (33160) Research ethics and the blogosphere Listening to several panels of internet researchers at the AOIR conference  I have had the feeling that at least some... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 20, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. (33159) Ist das notwendig? Ist es ok, wenn der orf.at einen Screenshot von meiner Seite (die Grafik links referenziert eindeutig auf meine liveTopics... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 20, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. (33158) Foolproof An allegory of technology. (539 words) From dive into mark on October 20, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (33157) Commentary: Facing the music Apple's Windows music store leads its rivals in ease of use and distribution. Together with Musicmatch and Napster, it will catapult legitimate music downloads into the mainstream. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (33156) Quattrone trial highlights integrity crisis The only thing worse than locking up Frank Quattrone, assuming that he is guilty, would be to let all the other scofflaws go scot-free. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (33155) PeopleSoft updates business software From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (33154) T-Mobile USA provides a security blanket From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (33153) More thoughts on 'Surviving Course Development Wars' http://www.xplana.com/articles/archives/course_dev_wars This piece by Susan Smith Nash on Xplana made me laugh. I wonder if anyone working in online instructional development in post-secondary *hasn't* experienced this kind of situation... From EdTechPost on October 20, 2003 at 3:52 p.m.. (33152) Law is Free! Eine Auflistung der namhaftesten Rechtsgrundlagen (insbesondere z.B. "Constitution", Case Law" und "Court Rules"!) aus West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia (wo gerade... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 3:52 p.m.. (33151) SimpleBlog - DEMO SimpleBlog - DEMO A Demo Blog from the University of Wisconsin at Steven's Point. Looks like the start of another blogerdom journey at the edu level.... From EdBlogger Praxis on October 20, 2003 at 3:51 p.m.. (33150) Woo Hoo! MoinMoin Incorporates an Idea! MoinMoin's (probably) implementing an idea I saw Bayle Shanks implement, and that I then asked MoinMoin for! The text: "By posting here, you contribute your text to the public domain" right above the submit button. Yay! From Lion's Den on October 20, 2003 at 3:50 p.m.. (33149) Surviving Course Development Wars I'm reposting this article from Xplana by Susan Smith Nash that I first noticed in the elearnspace blog. Beyond the practical tips that the article suggests for course designers who are dealing with subject matter experts is the general issue highlighted by the article about the rift that frequently arises between the instructional designers and instructors. This difference is cultures may not amount to the "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" divide, but it comes close. This cultural divide could be a major bottleneck in the acceptance of online instructional repositories. The value From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (33147) Dell lands Boeing services deal The PC maker says it has signed a five-year pact with the aerospace giant to provide professional services to the company's Integrated Defense Systems business unit. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (33146) Symantec snaps up SafeWeb The security company acquires the maker of secure network devices for $26 million, as the tide of consolidation continues to sweep through the industry. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (33145) Sony updates rewritable DVD drive line From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (33144) Hershey Chocolate RandomComments.comLife: Everyday stuff (0 replies)Hershey Chocolateposted by random on Monday, October 20, 2003 12:17:50 PMHave you noticed that Hershey chocolate bars now come in a plastic wrapper?  That is just not r ... From RandomComments.com on October 20, 2003 at 2:54 p.m.. (33143) Re: RSS description size This has been one of those long-standing perma-threads. The easy answer is 'ma From rss-dev on October 20, 2003 at 2:54 p.m.. (33142) Looking For A Cost-Effective and Powerful Online Collaboration Solution? Stop Running. Ask The Expert: Robin Good Spills The Beans Again! Open Q&A Group Session Online How do you find out which are the newest and best Web conferencing tools? Is there anyone tool that can do what GoToMyPC does while accepting multiple users? If you need to do remote technical support and assistance to geographically dispersed groups, what tools are there that can do this job effectively? Do you know that there are new Web conferencing solutions allowing you a lot more than WebEx or Centra can offer? At 50% or less of their price? Is Groove the ideal solution to real-time collaboration or are there other tools that can... From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on October 20, 2003 at 2:54 p.m.. (33141) Recht der elektronischen Datenbanken Elektronische Datenbanken werden in der Praxis in Zukunft eine immer größere Rolle spielen, in dem Maße, wie auch kommerziell relevante... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 2:53 p.m.. (33140) The CAPTCHA Project The CAPTCHA Projecthttp://www.captcha.net/The CAPTCHA Project tells humans and computers apart automatically. A CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that most humans can pass and current computer programs can't pass. For example, humans can read distorted text but current computer programs can't.Some Publications:Telling Humans and Computers Apart (Automatically) (to appear in CACM)http://www.cs.c From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 2:53 p.m.. (33139) Medical Trade Directory Medical Trade Directoryhttp://www.global-medical.com/International Import Export trade leads for importers, exporters, manufacturers, suppliers, traders, buyers, sellers of medical and pharmaceutical industry, hospital disposable products, hospital equipment suppliers, healthcare products, cosmetics companies, homeopathic medicine, veterinary medicine, raw materials and machinery for medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Interesting resource that allows one to monitor for the latest happenings and prices in the From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 2:53 p.m.. (33138) Repeat After Me: No Saddam-9/11 Connection The Doonesbury Oct. 19, 2003 strip reminds people that "even the White House admits" that Iraq's regime, however murderous internally,... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 20, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. (33137) W3C vs. OASIS patent policies At last week's Digital ID conference, Phil Windley gave an excellent overview of a number of base technologies, including SAML and XACML, two OASIS standards. Cory Doctorow suggested that these are OASIS rather than W3C standards because the OASIS patent policy doesn't encourage patent disclosure and royalty-free licensing as vigorously as the --> From Jon's Radio on October 20, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. (33136) How to decentralize directories 1. Decide on a format for a directory. It should be XML-based so people can use any text tool to edit them. I designed OPML for this purpose, but if you want to use another format, I won't fight you on it. This is too important to have the usual fight over the bits on the wire. 2. Build software that renders data in this format as if it were a Yahoo or DMOZ directory. All environments should have well-tested efficient renderers, commercial and open source. These inclusions are what determine page rank, just like links in HTML pages. 3. When this software encounte From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33135) Untitled Not much metaphysics in last night's game. The play by play. Yankees up to bat. Score runs. Marlins up. No runs. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33134) Untitled Four years ago today: "One would think that, by now, with the Internet and 'convergence' that I would have my choice of talk-tracks. Why couldn't I do the play by play myself? Instead of making stupid comments about people and history, instead we'd make metaphysical observations. 'I wonder what God meant by that?' Dave the announcer would ask. We'd call a random fan to ask his opinion. 'Sir, are you watching the game?' I'd ask. 'What did that last play mean to you?& From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33133) Untitled Maybe Gregg Easterbrook said the stupid things about Jewish execs in Hollywood for the obvious reason, to get more flow for his weblog. It wouldn't be the first time that happened. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33132) Untitled Wired profiles Harvard cardiologist Mark Keating, who believes that human bodies can be taught to regenerate hearts, livers and kidneys. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33131) Untitled Google's directory of weblog tools. None of the tools I wrote made the list. Centralized directories on the Web are like buggy whips for cars. Let's fix this bug. Google, this makes you look like a total asshole company. Your tool is listed first, and your competitor's tools aren't listed at all. When will it become too embarassing to support this antiquated model. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33130) Untitled Sander van de Donk asks about sub-feeds in RSS. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33129) Untitled Blog Graham has become 100 million times more interesting since the candidate dropped out of the race. Eventually he will be joined by nine other Democrats, former candidates for the nomination, with varying amounts of life left in their political careers. Perhaps one of them will find a new purpose in pu From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33128) Untitled Ed Cone: "The most powerful piece of software inside Microsoft may be the $40 application from a tiny vendor called Userland that Robert Scoble uses to write his weblog." From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (33127) Copyright Term Extension: does a bad report cost more than a good report? As Michael Geist writes, it is increasingly the practice of the US government to export its copyright policy though bi-lateral trade agreements. One example is the trade agreements being concluded with Australia right now that will require Australia to increase its copyright term to life plus 70. The Allen Consulting Group has prepared what it apparently considers an economic analysis of the proposed Term Extension. The report w From Lessig Blog on October 20, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (33126) Dell turns on satellite TV The PC maker is finalizing a deal to sell satellite TV systems provided by DirecTV, as part of its push to reach further into consumers' homes. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (33125) PalmSource gets credit from Valley bank From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (33124) EarthLink casts a wider broadband net The Internet service provider says its digital subscriber line service aimed at small businesses will now be available in 65 more locations. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (33123) IP Justice on IP in the Free Trade Area of the Americas Treaty IP Justice has published a white paper on the intellectual property aspects of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) process, which is an attempt to create a single free trade agreement for the Western Hemisphere. Read the press... From The Importance Of on October 20, 2003 at 1:53 p.m.. (33122) Some Broadcast Flags are Better than Others (But None is Best of All) Ed Felten is understandably pessimistic about whether we can convince the FCC not to implement a Broadcast Flag rule. However, as he notes on Freedom To Tinker, some rules are better than others (Reading the Broadcast Flag Rules). He has... From The Importance Of on October 20, 2003 at 1:53 p.m.. (33121) King in the Classroom Our campus technology committee has discussed -- only in theory so far -- the possibile integration of laptops in the classroom at Seton Hill. In my research for this I found something that surprised me: Stephen King, advocating for them, and volunteering to do distance learning to teach a middle... From PEDABLOGUE on October 20, 2003 at 1:52 p.m.. (33120) Apotheker vs. Apotheker Nachdem die Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Apothekerverbände (ABDA) seit einiger Zeit gegen den Versandhandel von Medikamenten zu Felde zieht, sind ABDA-Mitglieder nun... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 1:52 p.m.. (33119) Problemas y soluciones para alojar contenidos SCORM en un servidor diferente del de la plataforma El equipo de técnicos de ADL ha publicado el documento "Cross-Domain Scripting Issu... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on October 20, 2003 at 1:51 p.m.. (33118) Design Research »Brenda Laurel is editing a book called Design Research that's coming out in December. Looks like an interesting mix of contributors - you don't often see Darrel Rhea (weblog) and Eric Zimmerman both writing under the same cover.« [--> From owrede_log on October 20, 2003 at 1:47 p.m.. (33117) Galbraith on distributed epinions David Galbraith reflects on the continued growth in reviewer-centric weblogs, and how this ultimately displaces centralized review services.  With Google AdWords as a supporting business model for individuals, this start to look very compelling.  As others have noted, we need to move to some namespace extensions for RSS that support richer semantics for reviews -- ENT, others can help. From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on October 20, 2003 at 1:47 p.m.. (33116) Untitled Jon Udell.  "A GUI that doesn't embrace linking can never be truly rich." From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on October 20, 2003 at 1:47 p.m.. (33115) Untitled Jim Moore: "Why have just one World Series?" From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33114) Untitled Four years ago: "I like baseball because of the metaphysics, synchronicity and improbability of it. It's a puzzle. How does it work? God speaks to me thru baseball, at least my god does." From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33113) Untitled Three years ago: Transcendental Money. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33112) Untitled Diego Doval writes about the Dublin blogger's meeting. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33111) Untitled Red Sox Haiku Dot Com. "Going, going, gone. In the eleventh inning. Winter has begun." From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33110) Untitled A new Berkman blogger, Andrew MacLaughlin. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33109) Untitled Jay Rosen lists ten conservative things about weblogs. From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33108) Untitled Ed Cone: "Real bloggers read blogs." From Scripting News on October 20, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (33107) Untitled IP Justice: "The draft intellectual property rights chapter in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Treaty vastly expands criminal procedures and penalties against intellectual property infringements throughout the Americas. One clause would require countries to send non-commercial infringers such as peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharers to prison. [...] From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on October 20, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (33106) Apple whistles a happy 1 million iTunes The company says 1 million copies of its iTunes software for Windows have been downloaded since its introduction last week and that song sales have spiked as a result. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (33105) IBM, Adobe to draw up digital documents Big Blue says it will integrate technology from the document-software maker into its brands such as DB2, WebSphere and Tivoli. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (33104) IBM tool catches Java errors From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (33103) RSS description size Are there any guidelines for limiting the size of an RSS description generated From rss-dev on October 20, 2003 at 12:53 p.m.. (33102) Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 3:13 (November 2003) Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 3:13 (November 2003)http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ3i13.pdfThis 20-page issue (PDF as always) includes:*A scholarly access perspective: Getting That Article: Good News*Bibs & blather*Scholarly article access*Interesting & peculiar products*Feedback: Your insights*Trends & quick takes*Copyright currents From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 12:53 p.m.. (33101) IBM Center for the Business of Government IBM Center for the Business of Governmenthttp://www.businessofgovernment.orgThe IBM Center for the Business of Government offers: * Audio files of Business of Government Hour radio interviews with government executives * Transcripts of Business of Government lectures by national leaders * Quarterly issues of the Business of Government journal from January/February 1998 to present * Information about and application forms for grants from The IBM Endowment for The Business of Govern From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 12:53 p.m.. (33100) Bills to Watch, U.S. Congress Bills to Watch, U.S. Congresshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/bills_to_watch.htmlCongressional Quarterly and the Washington Post present a chart showing the status of hot topics bills in the current Congress. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 12:53 p.m.. (33099) Internet Legal Research Weekly Internet Legal Research Weeklyhttp://www.inter-alia.net/Internet Legal Research Weekly, a newsletter that delivers relevant and timely legal research information, and other neat stuff, to your inbox every Sunday. Excellent resource and I have added it to Research Resources. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 12:53 p.m.. (33098) Red Sox Haiku Submit your own or enjoy those of others, The Red Sox still lost.... From Joho the Blog on October 20, 2003 at 12:49 p.m.. (33097) AKMA at DIDW Plaudits to AKMA for his excellent DIDW coverage, which I only managed to catch up with this morning. Vivid, rooted and rooting. You go, Akkie! (You can start reading his coverage here.)... From Joho the Blog on October 20, 2003 at 12:49 p.m.. (33096) Untitled "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." -Wilson Mizner (The additional quotes at the other end of the link are also terrific.) From Seb's Open Research on October 20, 2003 at 12:47 p.m.. (33095) Still a BoSox fan After a weekend of mourning I've decided I'm leaving my Red Sox logo up for a while longer, just to show my continued support of the best team in baseball (alas possessing baseball's worst manager). This weekend I baked my Cowboy Up cookies and thought of the game, and the team, and how well they played, and decided I still love them all (players, that is). Here's to 2004, boys! From megnut on October 20, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. (33094) Sun to resell Avaki data grids From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. (33093) The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews David Fowler Let me have the honour of introducing to you Mr David Fowler of Groove Workspace. Mr Fowler is VP of Marketing and Sales for Groove Networks, a fast-growing real-time collaboration company with a strong financial backing from Microsoft. Nonetheless Mr Fowler, who I have never met or discussed with before, answers my questions in the true spirit of an official corporate officer of Groove Inc., a lot of valuable insight can be distilled from this new interview. I was impressed in particular with Mr. Fowler ability to recognize first, among my respondents, how important is to the marketing strate From Robin Good'apos; Sharewood Tidings on October 20, 2003 at 11:51 a.m.. (33092) When blogs get really popular While there are a hell of a lot of blogs and blog readers, blogs aren't even close to being a mainstream phenomenon the way email is. It'll happen. And here are some guesses (note: guesses) about what they'll look like when they do: 1. The word "blog" will expand to cover any linkable posting (a place) where a person gets to speak her mind more than once. If it's more permanent than IM, it'll be a blog. 2. Group blogs will be at least as common as individual blogs. Most people don't have time to stoke the blogfires every day,... From Joho the Blog on October 20, 2003 at 11:48 a.m.. (33091) Tech Safari After a walk through some forest preserves yesterday, I couldn't stand it anymore so I went to Best Buy and bought a new digital camera. (I ended up staying with the familiar and getting a Sony Cybershot DSC-P8 for those that are interested.) I talked to several of the kids working there, and no From Seb's Open Research on October 20, 2003 at 11:47 a.m.. (33089) Translation scarcity MSNBC (via Blogalization):  "The Feds listen in on terrorists every day. Too often they can’t understand a word they hear." And on Karl's (French) blog I learned that out of the 134,000 books that are published yearly in the US, only 300 are translations of literary works. (This is out of a Libération.fr article.) From Seb'apos;s Open Research on October 20, 2003 at 11:47 a.m.. (33088) anti-semitism or anti-disney? Gregg Easterbrook wrote something on his blog that Roger Simon criticized for being anti-Semitic. It was also, as Glenn Reynolds points out, anti-Disney. The consequence of his writing was that Easterbrook was fired from ESPN (which is owned by The Mouse). Was the cause the anti-Semitism or the anti-Disney-ism? As one of Easterbrook's self-described "harshest critics" says, the firing was From Lessig Blog on October 20, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. (33087) Intel, iAnywhere team up for Wi-Fi The chipmaker and the Sybase subsidiary aim to foster wireless applications for corporations with a bundle of mobile development tools and Wi-Fi ready notebook and handheld PCs. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. (33086) Monster tries to scare up more job seekers The online career site is launching a Web-based networking section where its members can communicate with other job seekers. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. (33085) Miami Vice Just Won't Be the Same WIRED has a very interesting article regarding the difficulties television producers are having getting music rights clearances when they start selling their television shows on DVD (TV on DVD: What's the Difference?). Apparently, producers are having to replace the original... From The Importance Of on October 20, 2003 at 10:51 a.m.. (33084) «Wunder von Bern»... Der Kinofilm «Das Wunder von Bern» sollte nach Meinung von Politikern in den Schulen gezeigt werden. Der Film zeige «die Aufbruchstimmung der fünfziger Jahre», sagte Cornelia Pieper. Der Kinofilm «Das Wunder von Bern» sollte nach Meinung von FDP- und Unionspolitikern Pflichtstoff an deutschen Schulen werden. FDP-Generalsekretärin Cornelia Pieper sagte der «Bild»-Zeitung, der Film zeige «die Aufbruchstimmung der 50er Jahre» und sei «bestens geeignet für die Lehrpläne». [via --> From BildungsBlog on October 20, 2003 at 10:51 a.m.. (33083) Betriebliches Informationsmanagement Arbeitgeber müssen die Gesundheit ihrer Beschäftigen schützen - das regelt das ArbSchG. In der Fülle von Rechtsvorschriften und Normen geht... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 10:51 a.m.. (33082) CoreBlog Tom's Experimental COREBlog Tom Hoffman is expermenting with COREBlog. An open source weblogging/CMS tool. Tom's first impressions are pretty good... [by way of,,,weblogged News]... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on October 20, 2003 at 10:49 a.m.. (33081) Manila Question I posted this on the Manila and Frontier sites with no replies, so maybe someone else out there can help. How can I limit the number of lines that the Manila aggregator displays when showing new posts? I don't want full post aggregation, just the first four lines. Anyone have any ideas? From weblogged News on October 20, 2003 at 10:47 a.m.. (33080) GUIs, linking, and interface experimentation In one crucial way, the rich GUI is tragically disadvantaged with respect to its poor browser cousin. Trying to sort out a permissions problem with IIS 6, I clicked a Help button and landed on a Web page. The page could only describe the tree-navigation procedure required to find the tabbed dialog box where I could address the problem. It could not link to that dialog box. This is nuts when you stop and think about it. Documentation of GUI software needs pages of screenshots and text to describe procedures that, on the Web, are encapsulated in links that can be pu From Jon's Radio on October 20, 2003 at 10:46 a.m.. (33079) wsj on CC There's a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal's E-Commerce Special "E-Commerce" Report about Creative Commons. The report describes three futures for copyright, with CC among the three. (The WSJ charges $350 for the privilege of linking to a web version of an article about your company, so rather than link, I'll just describe the article (Does this really making you better off, WSJ?)). The coolest part of the story is the first announcement of Creative Commons' --> From Lessig Blog on October 20, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (33078) A new tech battle brews in D.C. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh has the skinny on the latest assault the U.S. Congress is planning against peer-to-peer computing. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (33077) The stuff of dreams Nanotubes are stronger than steel, are as flexible as plastic, conduct energy amazingly well and can be made from unexotic raw materials. But can they live up to their promise? From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (33076) Scientists plumb water power for mobiles A technology for generating electricity from water for use in small devices, developed by Canadian scientists, could pave the way for devices such as water-powered mobile phones. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (33075) Lexmark beats third-quarter estimates The company surges past analysts' expectations for third-quarter profit as it rides stronger sales of both printers and printing supplies. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (33074) Future of Digital TV Threatened By More Than Broadcast Flag The Broadcast Flag issue is incredibly important, see, among many others Copyfight (What's the Deal?). Then let your Reps, Senators and the FCC Commissioners know how you feel, either through EFF or DigitalConsumer.org. However, the Broadcast Flag isn't the only... From The Importance Of on October 20, 2003 at 9:52 a.m.. (33073) More on the PLoS Biology launch Karl-Erik Tallmo has written an introduction to open access and PLoS for his Health & Science blog. From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33072) Launch of AGORA Today marks the launch of the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) project. AGORA offers tiered pricing to over 400 journals in food, nutrition, agriculture, biology, and environmental science. Access will be free to non-profit schools and institutions in nations where the per capita GNP is less than US $1000. Access will be priced but discounted to those in the next tier. The participating publishers are Blackwell, CABI, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic, Lippincott, Wil From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33071) Quote "The research was reported in the second issue of PLoS Biology, which is interesting in another way. This new journal is open access. No expensive subscriptions or licenses are required. Just log on and read up. The research results --the thoughts-- are free. That seems to fit about right." From an editorial in yesterday's USA Today, after summmarizing the already-famous article (by Carmena et al.) on a monkey trained to control a r From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33069) For your holiday wish list You know that Alexa has crawled the 10 billion web pages of the Internet Archive and that an Alexa-Archive partnership offers offers open access to the result through the Wayback Machine. But now the same crawl is available by subscription or even on disk "[f]or organizations capable of hosting or mining an entire crawl index that exceeds 60 Terabytes in size". (Thanks to LIS News.) From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33068) More on the Amazon book digitizing project Jim Milliot, Publishers Grudgingly Cooperate With Amazon Database Effort, Publishers Weekly, September 15, 2003. Excerpt: "Publishers cite three major concerns about the project, dubbed Look Inside the Book II. Many are worried about security issues, noting that despite Amazon assurances, by digitizing a book that will be hosted in another company's file, the chances of piracy increases. Another concern is that rather than increasing the s From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33066) Indian official wants to expand fair use On October 3, India's Union Minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi called for an international expansion of the legal scope of fair use. "We urge UNESCO to mobilise an international consensus on reasonable interpretation of 'fair use' clauses in international and copyright laws which should provide a good balance between private profit and public good and allow the pursuit of research and education." From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33065) October D-Lib The October issue of D-Lib Magazine is now online. Here are the most OA-related articles. Donald W. King and three co-authors, Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities Deanna B. Marcum and Gerald George, Who Uses What? Report on a National Survey of Information Users in Colleges and Universities Aaron Krowne, From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33064) More on trade embargoes blocking scholarship Lila Guterman, Embargo Imbroglio: U.S. trade restrictions raise fears about new threats to academic publishing, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2003. Accessible only to subscribers (free online excerpts). Quoting Irving A. Lerch, director of international affairs for the American Physical Society: "The idea of withholding intellectual information because of its origin just makes no sense. Sooner or later, ideas are circulated. No government From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33063) More on the PLoS Biology launch Philipp Grätzel von Grätz, Affe denkt, Roboter tut: Open Access-Journal beginnt hochkarätig, Telepolis, October 14, 2003. A brief notice on the PLoS Biology launch, with a digression into Pat Brown's contretemps with NEJM. Read the original German or Google's English. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33062) More on the PLoS Biology launch PLoS co-founder Mike Eisen was on NPR's Marketplace show yesterday talking about PLoS, PLoS Biology, and open access. (Thanks to Jack Suber.) From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33061) New OAI registry Last week the Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign launched a new OAI Registry. (Thanks to Gary Price.) From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33060) More on the PLoS Biology launch Alorie Gilbert, Traffic overwhelms new online science journal, News.com, October 14, 2003. Excerpt: "Not surprisingly, the free distribution model seems be going over well. Within the first eight hours of the journal's launch [PLoS Biology], traffic on the site spiked to more than half a million hits." From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33059) Open-access newsletter archive I just finished a project that I've wanted to do for a long time. I've translated all the back issues of the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter into HTML and put them into a unified newsletter archive. This gives me control over the texts (so that I can correct occasional typos), over the look (which I've kept very close to the original, simple email), and over their long-term fate. I've added some internal anchors for cross-referencing, and now issues that cite o From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33058) OA to encryption software now OK, sometimes Can a math professor make a simple encryption program freely available online? Daniel Bernstein, professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been in court since 1995 trying to find out. At time he filed his suit, sharing encryption software online was prohibited as a form of "exporting munitions". While the rules have relaxed in the meantime, Bernstein never got his vindication. Yesterday a federal court threw out his suit when the Bush administration said that it would not use the law to punish "legitima From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33057) Intro to open-access journals. Roy Tennant, Open-Access Journals, Library Journal, October 15, 2003. A good, brief introduction to the major issues and initiatives. Excerpt: "The current system of scholarly communication is in need of major changes. Journal price increases have been so dramatic and devastating that faculty who typically don't know or care about library expenditures are now front and center in the battle to change the dominant paradigm. Simply put, this model is: faculty and researchers at universitie From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33055) More on the PLoS Biology launch Paul Elias, Free online journal seeks revolution in science publishing, Associated Press, October 16, 2003. In addition to the usual overview explaining open access to a new audience, Elias makes this nice point: "By Monday morning, the Duke paper [on the monkey using brain impulses to control a robot arm] was rendered inaccessible by a crush of traffic from interested readers that crashed the Public Library's servers. The site received 500,000 hits in the hours immediately after the paper wa From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33053) New Open Access Now The October 20 issue of Open Access Now is now online. This issue features an interview with MacKenzie Smith on DSpace and self-archiving, a news story on the open-access experiment at the Company of Biologists, and a profile of the Coalition for Networked Information. From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33052) Text mining Lisa Guernsey, Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom, New York Times, October 16, 2003 (free registration required). A good peek at the state of the art. (PS: It will always be easier to apply these tools to free online texts than to priced and password-protected texts, unless the tools were hobbled from birth and limited to certain proprietary collections. In the long run there will be a wide array of competing open-source packages with different strengths for different purposes. By mak From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33051) More on the PLoS Biology launch Laura Lynch, Public Library of Science, Creative Commons, October 2003. An excellent interview with PLoS co-founder Mike Eisen --good questions and good answers. Quoting Eisen: "Our goal is to see that every scientific and medical research publication is available free of charge for anyone to read, use, incorporate in databases, redistribute, etc. To do this we want to shift how the publishers are paid for the role they play in communicating scientific ideas and discoveries --to switch from a model in which publishers are giv From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33050) Project Gutenberg has 10k open-access books Project Gutenberg has published its 10,000th open-access book. See the Slashdot discussion. (Thanks to LIS News.) From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33049) Guide to repository software The Open Society Institute has released A Guide to Institutional Repository Software, by Raym Crow. The guide compares five programs, all OAI-compliant and all open-source. It includes a detailed comparison of features that should help an institution decide which package best fits its needs and estimate how much support time i From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33048) House committee passes database bill The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property adopted the bill yesterday in a straight party-line vote in which all the Republicans were in favor and all the Democrats opposed. In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrea Foster writes (accessible only to subscribers), "Scientists and groups representing colleges and academic libraries have long opposed legislation that would offer broad intellectual-property prot From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33046) JISC sponsored seminar on Open Access A forthcoming JISC seminar: Global Access to UK Research: Removing the barriers to be held on 20th November 2003 in London. The distinguished guest speakers - who include Mark Walport of the Wellcome Trust and Jean-Claude Guedon of the University of Montreal - will describe current initiatives to remove the barriers to research publications From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33045) Why internet scholars hate copyright Jonathan Zittrain, The Copyright Cuffs, CIO Magazine, October 15, 2003. Zittrain answers the question: Why do law professors specializing in internet law tend to hate copyright? Excerpt: "Without decrying the concept of taxation, every tax professor I've met regards the U.S. tax code with a kind of benign contempt, explaining it more often as a product of diverse interests shaped from the bottom up than as an elegant set of rules crafted by legal artisans to align with high-level principles about the most just way to redis From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33043) John Walker on the end of internet openness John Walker, The Digital Imprimatur, September 13, 2003 (revised October 9). The co-founder of Autodesk pulls together the grounds for pessimism about the future of the openness of the internet. Excerpt: With the advent of the internet "[i]ndividuals, all over the globe, were empowered to create and exchange information of all kinds, spontaneously form virtual communities, and do so in a totally decentralised manner, free of any kind of restrictions or regulations....Indeed, the very design of the Internet seemed technologi From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33042) Pakistani digital library Ahmad Naeem Khan, Pakistan set to launch digital library, OneWorld, October 17, 2003. The library will launch in January 2004 and include 5,000 full-text journals. It will not be online, or at least not at first. It will be distributed to Pakistani universities on CD's. I can't tell whether the texts on the CD's are open-access or simply purchased by the Pakistani government. If any readers know, please drop me a line. (Thanks to LIS News.) From FOS News on October 20, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (33041) Frontier is a Dying Platform Tom Hoffman, who is doing some really cool things with open source CMS type programs up in Providence, has a far better understanding of all this technology than I do. He's demonstrating COREBlog which is a Web log interface for Zope, which I don't have any clue about. He may be right when he says "Regular weblog tools aren't designed for the kind of enterprise integration and complex roles needed for large scale deployments in schools" (though I hope he's wrong about Frontier...at least in the short term.) But it's eventually all going to come down to the same issues: From weblogged News on October 20, 2003 at 9:47 a.m.. (33040) Pam Cleans Up Her Act Now that's what I call a great look. Pam's site overhaul has me checking out her css to see how she put it together. Remember, thievery is a form of flattery...or something like that. Great job, Pam! From weblogged News on October 20, 2003 at 9:47 a.m.. (33039) Copyright Liability Insurance for File-Sharers: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come LawMeme is floating a trial balloon regarding the concept of liability insurance for copyright infringement as a potential response to the recent spate of lawsuits by the RIAA over file-sharing (RIAA Litigation Insurance: A (Very) Speculative Solution). A new organization,... From The Importance Of on October 20, 2003 at 8:51 a.m.. (33038) Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (OARC) Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (OARC)http://oarc.isc.org/The Domain Name System (DNS), born 20+ years ago, has become the primary governor of traffic flows on the Internet. When the DNS stops working, so do all applications: no email, no web browsing, no instant messaging, no FTP, no e-commerce. Despite the critical nature of the DNS, responses to attacks have been handled informally, testing of software is not coordinated, and long-term analysis to better performance, stability, and security is sorely lacking. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on October 20, 2003 at 8:50 a.m.. (33037) Rocky Horror Show Last night, Denise and I went out for a night on the town. We decided to take in a local production of the Rocky Horror Show. This was not the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but an actual stage production at a theater here in Charlotte. A couple years ago, I saw a much more professional version of the show at... From Don't Back Down on October 20, 2003 at 8:49 a.m.. (33036) Incesssant Impatience This weekend, I was reading an article (which I now cannot find) about the continued delays to the completin of the interstate 485 loop in southeast Charlotte and how people just ignore the fact that it isn't yet open and drive on it anyway. I understand that this section has been delayed over and over. I understand that it's frustrating... From Don't Back Down on October 20, 2003 at 8:49 a.m.. (33035) Factiva Search "...is designed so that information ... Factiva Search "...is designed so that information workers spend less time searching, and more time using the information to make their best business decisions. Users conduct research on nearly 8,000 world-class global sources directly from a report or presentation they're creating. It is a simple, integrated keyword search of Factiva content from the Research Task Pane in any Microsoft Office System application, including Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Mi From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 20, 2003 at 8:48 a.m.. (33033) Writers from across the world are gearing up to ta ... Writers from across the world are gearing up to take part in the fifth annual National Novel Writing Month, which begins on 1 November 2003 From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on October 20, 2003 at 8:48 a.m.. (33032) CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Info ... CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has taken over LIBEX, the online clearing house for library and information staff looking for job exchange experience abroad. Previously run by the Thomas Parry Library in Aberystwyth, the service is now available exclusively to CILIP members From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on October 20, 2003 at 8:48 a.m.. (33031) Social Science Online - a series of one-day semina ... Social Science Online - a series of one-day seminars in the UK on a full range of nationally-funded Internet resources and services available in the following subjects:Internet for Law: London, 12 November 2003 Internet for Psychology: London, 10 December 2003 Internet for Sociology: Birmingham, 16 December 2003 Internet for Economics: Bristol, 25 March 2004 From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on October 20, 2003 at 8:48 a.m.. (33030) IMs Away From the Computer - Bob Massey, The Washington Post According to reliable reports, the single greatest threat to productivity is the American teenager -- to be more precise, one addicted to instant messaging, and therefore monopolizing the family computer at all hours of the day. Parents desperate to re From Techno-News Blog on October 20, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (33029) Electronic Memory Research That Dwarfs the Silicon Chip - JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times A team of university researchers has constructed an electronic memory circuit from disordered arrays of electronic clumps of gold atoms, according to a report to be published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The advance, made by From Techno-News Blog on October 20, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (33028) Microsoft's next new Office thing a snazzy update of an old favorite - James Coates, Chicago Tribune On Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. launches its Next Big Hope. Microsoft Office 2003 is the eagerly awaited (in some circles, anyway) upgrade of what amounts to the company's single most important product beyond the Windows operating systems. For this review From Techno-News Blog on October 20, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (33027) Grading teachers - Pamela Batzel, Philadelphia Daily Local Once upon a time, teachers graded their students and students did not grade their teachers. Students made due with bathroom walls and word-of-mouth to let their peers know which educators rocked and which did not. Now there is a Web site that allows From Educational Technology on October 20, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (33026) Computer gives teachers student alerts - Karen Gutierre, The Cincinnati Enquirer Imagine a classroom in which tests are graded in seconds instead of days. Where teachers instantly know how many students haven't grasped a concept. Where they can instantly go back over the lesson. This is the classroom of the future, and for some Ke From Educational Technology on October 20, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (33025) Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Findings of the RoMEO Project - Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, Steve Probets; D-Lib Introduction: Inspired by the Open Archives Initiative, the United Kingdom (UK) Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) established the FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional Repositories) programme in 2002. One of the programme's objectives was to From Online Learning Update on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (33024) Athabasca University's online MBA added to Financial Times' list of top Executive MBAs Athabasca University's (AU) Executive MBA is included on the prestigious list of the world's top 75 EMBA programs by the Financial Times (FT) of London, England. Launched as the world's first online MBA in 1994, the Athabasca University program is the From Online Learning Update on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (33023) High Touch and High Tech - Joan D. McMahon and Neil Davidson, Sloan-C View "I could never teach online," Neil said. "I like being able to reach my students individually." "I feel I can reach them and connect with them online just as well or better than F2F," I retorted. Our conflicting views launched a brainstorm comparing ho From Online Learning Update on October 20, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (33022) Seminario de la UOC «Liderar la universidad en la sociedad del conocimiento» La Cátedra UNESCO de e-learning de la UOC organiza el seminario internacional «Liderar la universidad en la sociedad del conocimiento», dirigido a los máximos responsables del gobierno de las universidades, a los responsables de la introducción y uso del e-learning en la universidad y a los políticos y gestores de administraciones públicas con responsabilidades en política universitaria. El programa de este seminario consta de dos módulos de una semana From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on October 20, 2003 at 7:51 a.m.. (33021) FAST Search and Transfer Lands Nordstroms From ResourceShelf on October 20, 2003 at 7:48 a.m.. (33020) Microsoft to develop its own search engine From ResourceShelf on October 20, 2003 at 7:48 a.m.. (33019) China Government Blocking Google Again? Adam Morris: "Expats all around China are reporting that google is either down or blocked."... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 20, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (33018) The Prime Minister In Print An update on the flourishing Churchill industry. From Chronicle: free on October 20, 2003 at 6:49 a.m.. (33017) Reading 'michigan' The Supreme Court rulings in June on affirmative action have college officials scratching their heads. From Chronicle: free on October 20, 2003 at 6:49 a.m.. (33016) Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Do... From ResourceShelf on October 20, 2003 at 6:48 a.m.. (33015) All About Google's "Cheap and Fast" Hardware From ResourceShelf on October 20, 2003 at 6:48 a.m.. (33014) Like minds Well said, Euan. I still wish like-mind finding were a little easier, but weblogs offer a significantly useful new way of getting to know people. Can I just say ..... .... that I am very, very lucky. Through this blog I have got to know and meet some wonderful people. Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Chris Locke, Gary Turner, Peter Kaminski, Marc Canter, and many, many more . Those who criticize the web for replacing face to face or normal conversation ha From Seb'apos;s Open Research on October 20, 2003 at 6:47 a.m.. (33013) Banker Admits Credit Cards a Rip-Off LONDON Flash news: Credit cards are a lousy deal for consumers. Who says? The chief executive at Barclays, one of... From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33012) TV on DVD: What's the Difference? Studios often change the sounds of original television broadcasts when they release a DVD version of the show because they say it costs too much to license the music. Some studios are coughing it up for the fans. From Wired News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33011) Romania, Nexus of Cybercrime Increasingly, computer-savvy Romanians hack vital systems, scam consumers and release viruses worldwide. With more than 60 arrests so far in Romania, FBI, Scotland Yard and other agencies team up with programmers to roust the villains in cyberspace. From Wired News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33010) Re-grow Your Own Bodily Organs Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine. From Wired News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33009) Not So Quiet on Tech Job Front Finally, signs of life in Silicon Valley. A surge in online job listings has analysts and hiring managers anticipating a tech job turnaround in the region. By Suneel Ratan. From Wired News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33008) Entertainment Beyond The Matrix Fresh from finishing work on The Matrix Revolutions, special effects guru John Gaeta talks about the future of film and media convergence. Xeni Jardin reports from Barcelona. From Wired News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33007) Concorde: Fast Flight to Nowhere The supersonic plane will make its last flight this month, a victim of economics. While enthusiasts mourn its early demise, analysts say it will be some time before Mach travel will be commercially viable. By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33006) E-Vote Firms Seek Voter Approval Bad publicity about electronic voting machines prompts the industry to launch a PR campaign to convince the public their machines are safe. They're also rethinking their opposition to a paper trail of votes. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on October 20, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (33005) Sampling Licenses: Date Set Inspired by world-famous musician and composer Gilberto Gil and developed with the help of the veteran found-art group Negativland, Creative Commons will launch our new Sampling Licenses on December 16, 2003. Read more. From Creative Commons: weblog on October 20, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. (33004) Exciting Wiki Work Meatball grappling with wiki canonicalization, copyright policy, radical inclusion. A turning point in the history of wiki? From Lion's Den on October 20, 2003 at 5:48 a.m.. (33003) Fyuze Beta fyuze is back and in beta form. Fyuze is a "news aggregator," a program that automatically collects information so that... From Disruptive Technology on October 20, 2003 at 4:49 a.m.. (33002) W3C Launches Spanish Office 2003-10-20: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Spanish Office in Oviedo, Spain. The Office is hosted by the Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Científica y la Tecnología (FICYT). Francisco Sanchez is Office Manager. Vicente Alvarez-Areces, Luis Iturrioz-Viñuela, Jesús García, Daniel Dardailler, Marie-Claire Forgue and Ivan Herman present at the opening ceremonies on 20 October in Oviedo. Read the press release and about W3C Offices. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on October 20, 2003 at 4:46 a.m.. (33001) Dwayne Samuels Supports Class Reunion 8TH REUNION, OCTOBER 2003 [PRWEB Oct 20, 2003] From PR Web on October 20, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. (33000) MyPrivateTutor.Com:International Private Tutors Guide If you're looking for a international tutor to coach you to academic excellence, this is the place to be. MyPrivateTutor.Com has a vast network of qualified tutors to suit your tuition needs. At MyPrivateTutor.Com, we welcome tutors and educators to register with us. You may register with us online here.Tutors may also be required to produce original certificates at their first tuition session [PRWEB Oct 20, 2003] From PR Web on October 20, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. (32999) British Blog Awards 2003 Guardian Limited hat eine Seite ins Netz gestellt, mit der (bis 21.11.2003) die besten Blogs und Blawgs gewählt werden können.... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 3:50 a.m.. (32998) Schinderhannes-Verhör vollständig In diesem Jahr jährt sich zum 200. Mal der Todestag des Johannes Bückler, genannt Schinderhannes. Das GeneaLog hat dies zum... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 20, 2003 at 3:50 a.m.. (32997) Microsoft partners with regional NGOs to provide free technology learning to the disadvantaged From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32996) Grant will link schools to distance learning network From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32995) Automated Ball State weather station now online From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32994) Element K eyes Middle East as a high-potential market for delivering its world renowned online courses From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32993) St. James High School students earn credits for college -- long distance From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32992) Inernational College introduces new virtual services to help students From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32991) E-learning covers people skills From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32990) Ball State appoints director of Global Media Network From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32989) WebCampus.Stevens tops Sloan Foundation's honors... From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32988) On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 20, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (32987) League Bloggin': The Rest of Day 1 Blogging at the League for Innovation conference got a wee more difficult as the Wi-Fi went AWOL, 404. The word is even the wired network here in the Midways Airport Convention center due to a blaster type worm banging out of a machine in the exhibit area. Last I saw, the techies were yanking machines off the net one by one to find the offender. It could not be my computer ;-) So here, post sessions is a quick recap.... From cogdogblog on October 20, 2003 at 3:47 a.m.. (32986) CarRP Parses RSS to JavaScript Another option for getting RSS feeds into your own web pages, CaRP: Freeware Caching RSS news feed Parser Keep your website fresh effortlessly with RSS newsfeeds. Numerous options ensure that the feeds fit the look and feel of your site. If you already publish an RSS feed, CaRP can create a JavaScript version of it. Then any website will be able to easily import your feed by adding a script tag ... to their page Free and fee versions. I gott From cogdogblog on October 20, 2003 at 3:47 a.m.. (32985) Taking Lessons From Another Culture Growing numbers of non-Asian parents are enrolling their children in schools traditionally dedicated to Asian students, hoping to emulate their educational successes. From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32984) N.Y.U. Student's Fatal Plunge Appears to Be Another Suicide A 19-year-old New York University student who plunged to her death from a sixth-floor window Saturday night appeared to have committed suicide, the police said. From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32983) Office Building's Unusual Tenant: a New High School Millennium is one of 23 small high schools financed by foundation grants to provide an alternative to the typical 3,000 student high school in the city. From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32982) Second Suicide Leap Leaves New York University Shaken Security guards were posted on the balconies of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University after another undergraduate jumped to his death there. From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32981) Rolling the Dice on Private School Parents sending their children to private schools have just made a $10,000, $15,000 or $25,000 bet. Is it worth it? From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32980) Out of the Basement, Into the Light of Day A case of sexual abuse at a high school in a Long Island suburb resonates in a more open Glen Ridge, N.J., where a shocking sexual assault took place in 1989. From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32979) Barnard Plans to Replace Student Center Barnard College is about to transform a drab strip of upper Broadway with a student center that will enclose a multifloor library, a cafe and an indoor garden. From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32978) Focusing the Energy on the Music Carnegie Hall, which is committed to making the new Zankel Hall a haven for children's educational programming, has a tough job on its hands. From New York Times: Education on October 20, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (32977) Leonids 2003: After the Storms The Leonid meteor shower will serve up a nice, if not spectacular, display next month. -- October 19 From Celestial Delights Online on October 20, 2003 at 2:50 a.m.. (32976) Edublog News: Educational Blogging Edublog News: Educational Blogging Pam has upgraded the look to her weblog big time. Very sharp looking!... From EdBlogger Praxis on October 20, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (32975) $248 million for New ARC Research Projects Australian Government funding over three years for 965 new research projects commencing in 2004 will be funded through the Australian Research Council (ARC). The research projects, at universities and research institutes across Australia, will involve more than 1000 partnerships with overseas universities and Australian and overseas-based industry. Australian researchers are breaking ground in a broad range of exciting fields. The projects funded in 2004 will lead to many new developments that will have economic and social benefits for Australia. Source: Minister for Education, Science and Tra From EdNA Online on October 20, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (32974) Online Schooling Participation increasing in US According to education analysts, the number of students attending school in a completely online environment has grown exponentially in the past few years. Despite a growing acceptance of virtual education as a viable means of schooling, however, many states are still struggling with questions such as how much to fund these projects, who should provide the instruction - and who should foot the bill. Source: eschool news, 13 October 2003 From EdNA Online on October 20, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (32973) New National Skills Report from ANTA Australia's changing skills needs and what they mean for training are contained in a new national skills report. The report is the first edition of an annual report to be produced as part of ANTA's drive to keep training in touch with the economy's skill needs. ANTA also recently announced the formation of its first national skills council.Source: ANTA Fast Facts, 13 October 2003 From EdNA Online on October 20, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (32972) Dialectic Journal: Reading, Writing, and Rising Up, Part One Dialectic Journal: Reading, Writing, and Rising Up, Part One Enjoying Lauren's four part posting regarding her classroom learning which touches upon the eternal topics as how to keep the classroom discourse real, authentic, and engaging. Lauren, thank you for sharing your thoughts.... From EdBlogger Praxis on October 20, 2003 at 1:49 a.m.. (32971) Bali Airport Gets SARS Scanners Thermal Scanners Will Help Screen Passengers. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32970) Bali Golf Tournament 2003 Governor's Cup and Exciting Prizes at Stake October 23-25. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32969) Bali TV Golf Tournament Nirwana Bali Golf Club November 29-30, 2003. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32968) I Want to Ride My Bicycle Donation of 150 Bicycles for Bali Pedal-Powered Police Officers. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32967) Elaborate Preparations Underway for Bush's Visit Bali to Feel Full Weight of the Flying White House. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32966) Exhibition of Majapahit Relics October 17-27 at Monument of the People's Struggle in Downtown Denpasar. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32965) Editorial: Why Put the Boot Into Bali? We Couldn't Agree More with 'The Observer' Editorial of Sunday, October 12, 2003. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32964) Nyoman's First Day at School Local Businessman Makes a Critical Difference in the Life of Young Indonesian Boy Suffering from Cerebral Palsy. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32963) Bali Honors List Australian Government Bestows Honors For Those Who Served Australia During Bali Bombing Tragedy. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32962) Bali: Beyond the Tragedy UNDP and World Bank Publish Report Analyzing the Impact of the Bali Bombing. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32961) American Express Courts the MICE Market AMEX and Bali MICE Guide Join Forces to Promote Meetings and Conferences in Bali. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32960) Territories Unite in Opposition to VOA Travel Agents Call for Opposition to Proposed Visa for Fee on Arrival. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:48 a.m.. (32959) New book shows "powerful" evidence that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. New book "Actual Proof of My Existence" shows overwhelming evidence that our science and history (1900 -?) was written in the Bible over 3,000 years ago, all landing on the correct verse numbers. [PRWEB Oct 19, 2003] From PR Web on October 20, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (32958) Symantec tackles patchwork approach to patching The company is releasing a new version of its Ghost software for managing PCs that's designed to let information technology administrators apply patches en masse. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (32957) Upstart storage companies aim for niches Isilon Systems is targeting its networked storage device at digital content companies, while Panasas is focusing on organizations that use Linux clusters. From CNET News.com on October 20, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (32956) anti:freeze anti:freeze Karrie Higgins is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. BA in English & Art History MFA in Creative Writing currently working toward an MS in Education - specializing in Postsecondary and Adult Education This is a personal reflective blog. This blog is part of a cluster of blogs called... From EdBlogger Praxis on October 19, 2003 at 11:50 p.m.. (32955) Epidemiology and the nTag "Strep throat sucks," says Simon Fell. I'll second that. If I seemed a bit out of focus at the several conferences I attended last week, or if you thought you should have heard from me over the last few days but didn't, that's why. Hopefully I didn't share any group A streptococci with folks I met along the way. When I opted out of From Jon'apos;s Radio on October 19, 2003 at 11:46 p.m.. (32954) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]