Edu_RSS ~ October 27, 2003

Most recent update: October 27, 2003 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: CanCore Releases LOM-based Open Source Components CanCore, the Canadian Core Learning Object Metadata Application Profile, has released a set of Open Source Components for working with the IMS's Learning Object Metadata standard (LOM) and the Cancore instantiation of the LOM standard. These components take the form of interfaces, APIs (Application Program Interfaces), or schemas for working with LOM (Learning Object Metadata) or LOR (Learning Object Repository) data and functions. I've been impressed with the CanCore Guide for LOM Imp From e-Learning Eclectic on October 27, 2003 at 10:52 p.m.. (34692) Games for Learning A number of folks in the e-learning blog world have posted recently on Greg Costikyan's 300 games you should know post. While interesting, I didn't find the post particularly relevant to e-Learning or instructional technology... however, his more recent post has an interesting quote about making games for learning: "Since the digital games revolution began, starry-eyed twits have been going on and on about how From e-Learning Eclectic on October 27, 2003 at 10:52 p.m.. (34691) You Want WiFi With Your Fries? The day you can get WiFi with your Happy Meal is getting closer, according to C|Net News (McDonald's orders shakeout for hot-spot providers). Although the service won't be free, the sheer number of locations will create quite a footprint, and... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 10:52 p.m.. (34689) Copy Protection Robs the Future Deja Vu Dan Bricklin, co-author of the seminal VisiCalc among many other accompishments, notes on his blog that in a demo of the upcoming Windows OS "Longhorn" - Bill Gates demonstrated backwards compatibility by running a 20-year old version of VisiCalc (VisiCalc,... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 10:51 p.m.. (34688) LOM/CanCore-based Open-Source Software Components http://www.cancore.org/swcomponents.html Cancore and Athabasca University have announced the release of three new components to assit in the development of learning object metadata and repositories. They are, variously, A LOM Interface or API simplifying the manipulation and transmission of LOM data within and between software systems. LOR Interface or API for communicating with a Learning Object and Metadata Repository. A custom LDAP schema which allows LOM records to be stored an From EdTechPost on October 27, 2003 at 10:51 p.m.. (34687) Skeptical look at the Berlin Declaration Ulrich Kühne, Offene Türen: Wissenschaftler fordern freien Zugang zum Wissen, Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 28, 2003. A skeptical look at the Berlin Declaration. Unfortunately, the skepticism is shown more by a snide tone than by articulate objections, so there is nothing to answer. (Thanks to Archivalia.) From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 10:48 p.m.. (34686) The Elsevier boycott is spreading At its meeting on Friday, October 24, the Academic Senate of the University of California at Santa Cruz considered a Resolution on [Cutting] Ties with Elsevier Journals. Quoting the resolution: "Online access to scholarly papers is increasingly important to scholarly research. Such access would be jeopardized by a breakdown in negotiations between the University of California and Elsevier (Science Direct Online). Successful resolution of the negotiations is threatened by Elsev From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 10:48 p.m.. (34685) Copyright and the University I hope you've been following the Diebold story - Techlawadvisor has a nice array of links. What is most frustrating for me is that Swarthmore should know better. I'm not just saying that because the law and the media are on their side. Sure, they're in a good strategic position.  But they're also an elite academic institution and should know, strategy or no strategy, that this is a stand that needs to be taken. T From A Copyfighter's Musings on October 27, 2003 at 10:47 p.m.. (34684) Future of Money? Who Knows? I'm at the Future of Money conference, where some security experts are noting some "key failure points" in our modern... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 27, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. (34683) Untitled Phillip Pearson likens Longhorn development to XUL. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. (34682) I presume from the London Review of Books letters page: Jerry Fodor underestimates the complexities of Stanley's first words to Livingstone. He was referring jokingly to the line 'Mr Stanley, I presume' in The School for Scandal , not for Livingstone's benefit... From Ben Hammersley.com on October 27, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. (34681) Microsoft to Apple: Vae Victis! Seth Schoen takes a look at Microsoft's response to iTunes for Windows (I discussed MS's response here: Microsoft on iTunes for Windows) and finds Microsoft's declaration of higher numbers of compatible systems as compared to Apple's iTunes to be risible... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m.. (34679) new contest submission!!! RandomComments.comLife: Pictures (0 replies)new contest submission!!!posted by gardav on Monday, October 27, 2003 7:15:33 PMrandom has submitted a beautiful picture of something called a "cyclo-cross" race.  I was check ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m.. (34678) New report on changing research practices The Australian Department of Education, Science and Training has released a report, Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment (ISBN 0642773874 for the hard copy version). The report, by John Houghton, Colin Steele and Margaret Henty, examines "evolving research practices, focusing on how practices are changing and what the implications of those changes are for scholarly communication and the future development of the research infrastructure". From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 9:48 p.m.. (34677) Bricklin (Again) on DRM Dan Bricklin's posting today, VisiCalc, Longhorn, DRM, and Larry Magid's weblog, reminds us again why the trend toward locking down... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 27, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (34676) Quote for the week In eveything we create, choose only one master, Nature. 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(34662) Diebold Filing False Notice-and-Takedown Claims? SiliconValley.com is running an AP wirestory on the Swarthmore/Diebold scandal (Diebold threatens publishers of leaked electronic-voting documents). Perhaps this story is finally going to break in the mainstream press and get the attention it deserves. Of particular interest in this... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 8:53 p.m.. (34661) Acuerdan universidades de Centroamérica impulsar educación a distancia Ciudad Universitaria, México D.F. - Siete universidades de Centroamérica se comprometieron a desarrollar actividades en línea y a crear una red de cooperación e intercambio académico a través de las n... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on October 27, 2003 at 8:51 p.m.. (34660) Historic Revisionism? Source: Dan Gillmor's eJou... From ResourceShelf on October 27, 2003 at 8:49 p.m.. (34659) Free Agent Season Source: ESPN.com Free agent l... From ResourceShelf on October 27, 2003 at 8:49 p.m.. (34658) Online access to chemistry journals The American Chemical Society (ACS) has scanned all the back issues of all its journals and put the digitized images in the ACS Journal Archives. It doesn't offer free access to the whole collection, but it does offer free full-text searching of the collection and free access to selected articles. Likewise, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is digitizing its back issues and posting the files to the From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 8:49 p.m.. (34657) MT-Blacklist 1.5 Out: Stop Blog Spam Cold Now out to improve your MovableType blog sanity, is Jay Allen's miraculous MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin version 1.5. This is a large update and offers one click, de-spammiing of both comments and trackbacks, adding to blacklist file, and rebuilding of offended files. It is like magic. I had one arrive today with 4 links not even on tyhe blacklist, and killed it cold, dead in seconds. I love the satisfaction, even if it is still react From cogdogblog on October 27, 2003 at 8:48 p.m.. (34656) Reminder: Review and test Knoppix Via Simon Willison comes a reminder that I need to check into Knoppix:If you haven't heard of Knoppix, it's a full Linux distribution on a CD that is designed to boot straight from the CD, without you needing to install anything and without you having to worry about it modifying the contents of your hard drive. Comment: I particularly like the fact that it can be run without installing on a hard drive. This seems a viable way to teach much of Linux's feature set. From carvingCode on October 27, 2003 at 8:47 p.m.. (34655) Alexa has spoken. I've been visiting Winds of Change... From The Art of Peace on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. (34654) BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 27 -- A series of suicide bombings... From The Art of Peace on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. (34653) Untitled Chris Lydon interviews Stirling Newberry. "He is the blogger who wrote earlier this month: 'By the time you read these words the bell will be tolling for Wesley Clark's candidacy.' And thus he crystallized a contest between people who drafted Clark and those who manage him; betwee From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. (34652) swarthmore's weakness, swarthmore students' strength So Diebold has hit new lows. After threatening anyone who posts information necessary to evaluate the claimed failure of their vote-counting machine, apparently Swarthmore is now caving to DMCA threats by forcing students to shut down mirror sites. Just the strategy for a company that's trying to convince the world that they can be trusted with vote counting. Thanks to Ernie Miller. From Lessig Blog on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (34651) stanford blogs Inspired by Mr. Winer, but nothing yet close to his invasion at Harvard, Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has launched a blog page. From Lessig Blog on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (34650) jack's other "terrorist war" So many thought Mr. Valenti's move to ban the distribution of Oscar nominated films on DVD was about reenforcing the power of the major studios. Maybe. But as I suggested, and as Stefan Bechtold reminds me, there's actually great data to support the idea that the movie piracy problem emergers with "insiders." See this empirical paper by people from AT&T (including Lorrie Cranor). Maybe the MPAA can get the RIAA to prosecute these "insiders" for them? From Lessig Blog on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (34649) a happy b'day song you can sing Joi writes about a song that Shannon has written for Ben and Mena. (lyrics) (mp3). Brilliantly done. Best of all, unlike "Happy Birthday," because this is under a Creat From Lessig Blog on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (34648) Tazz gets second round of funding From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (34647) IBM looks to secure online data Big Blue teams up with a provider of management services to help companies ensure that their online operations adhere to privacy standards and regulations. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (34646) Hitachi teams up for data management Hitachi Data Systems announces a partnership with content management software company IXOS and introduces software for managing storage networks. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (34645) The RandomComments.com Store RandomComments.comTechnology: Internet (0 replies)The RandomComments.com Storeposted by bolton_crew on Sunday, October 26, 2003 10:24:46 AMDoes this place rock or what? If anyone on this website has yet to look at this marvelous page, clic ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34643) Red Cross Bombed in Iraq RandomComments.comCurrent News: All of it (0 replies)Red Cross Bombed in Iraqposted by gardav on Monday, October 27, 2003 7:47:40 AMWhat would bombing the Red Cross help?  These people doing this aren't just attacking the enemy ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34642) The 5 people you meet in heaven RandomComments.comRecreation: Books (0 replies)The 5 people you meet in heavenposted by gardav on Monday, October 27, 2003 7:52:19 AMJust finished reading it.  Very, very good.  5 out of 5 stars. ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34641) The Life of David Gale RandomComments.comEntertainment: Movies (1 replies)The Life of David Galeposted by GOTABIGPHATTY on Monday, October 27, 2003 5:01:04 PM what was it about ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34640) true definitions RandomComments.comLife: Everyday stuff (2 replies)true definitionsposted by GOTABIGPHATTY on Monday, October 27, 2003 5:02:03 PM how do u have all this tiime to look up all this RANDOM STUFF. It amazes me that u still have ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34639) collarbone RandomComments.comLife: Everyday stuff (2 replies)collarboneposted by GOTABIGPHATTY on Monday, October 27, 2003 5:02:54 PM Youll eventually learn how to ride that thing too. ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34638) time change RandomComments.comLife: Everyday stuff (5 replies)time changeposted by GOTABIGPHATTY on Monday, October 27, 2003 5:10:10 PM It was started back in WW1 I believe.  It sucks no time to get off work and ride now. Da ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34637) Hiltler was a Homo? RandomComments.comSociety: People (2 replies)Hiltler was a Homo?posted by GOTABIGPHATTY on Monday, October 27, 2003 5:11:16 PM I think Hitler had alot of resentment toward religion cause he was molested by a priest. ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34636) random comments clothes RandomComments.comSex: General (0 replies)random comments clothesposted by GOTABIGPHATTY on Monday, October 27, 2003 5:14:56 PM Has any there been any girls to buy the Random Comments Thong, Baby doll shirt, or the spaghet ... From RandomComments.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:52 p.m.. (34635) Avalon and XAML, Royale, Laszlo and MXML It's good to finally see Microsoft taking the wraps off of Longhorn, and in particular Avalon, the new presentation services for building and deploying Internet-connected Windows applications.  Avalon uses XAML, a new format for describing the interface of a Windows application.  This represents the "final convergence" of the browser and desktop worlds.  Longhorn apps built with XAML can also use "Indigo", the new native web services pr From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. (34634) Hey! There are learning objects there after all! Two years ago, when I was a researcher at the now-deceased Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC), it was my job to identify existing LOs from other contexts and funnel them to our own course developers. I came out of... From Object Learning on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. (34633) Untitled Question. The Columbia Journalism Review article about the history of weblogs is wrong. They don't list the author's email address or provide a place for comments. I've posted two public notices here on my weblog. No response. What's the next step? I think the CJR is authoritative. If so, we must get this corrected, asap. Do I channel this through Harvard? If so, how From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. (34632) Untitled BTW, while they were ramping up to the PDC, I worked privately with Microsoft developer relations people to make sure that the RSS support for this major news event would be perfect. It was a total pleasure working with them. Here's the main feed for news linked to from the --> From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. (34631) Blogger Code in RDF Embed your blogger code directly in your FOAF file. It's the biggest Semantic Web meme since FOAF. (139 words) From dive into mark on October 27, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (34630) Bastards, the lot of them. A new version of MT-Blacklist is out. Which found 20 comment spam on my blog on first running. Damnation. Where's my pointy stick? Talking of MT upgrades, Gavin Estey's Links Mentioned plugin is freshly installed too: enabling the inclusion of... From Ben Hammersley.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (34629) Handhelds up slightly, but hold the applause Worldwide shipments grew in the third quarter, bucking a recent trend, but total shipments for the year are expected to finish well below 2002 levels, according to a research report from IDC. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (34628) Tech companies feel impact of wildfires As fires rage through Southern California, tech companies, including Iomega and Microsoft, are struggling with disruptions to their operations and other forms of fallout. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (34627) FCC to Regulate Whole Internet? I wrote about this earlier today (FCC to Regulate Routers - Critics of Broadcast Flag Get Mainstream Press) but it bears emphasis and should be very worrisome if true, as Ed Felten notes on Freedom to Tinker (Broadcast Flag Confusion).... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 6:53 p.m.. (34625) Billions and Billions ... of Addresses I'm too lazy to do the math myself, so just go read Andrew McLaughlin's latest posting on his blog debunking shoddy claims that we will soon be running out of IPv4 addresses (Math is Hard! - Bad Journalism, IPv6, and... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 6:53 p.m.. (34624) Partnerships of Indian and Western e-learning producers: cultural issues   I recently undertook some informal research on the cultural issues that come into play when e-learning products are produced by partnerships of western (US and UK mainly) and Indian e-learning companies. My inte From Viral-learning.net on October 27, 2003 at 6:50 p.m.. (34623) From Valenti to Tauzin So the rumor is that Jack Valenti will be stepping down and Rep. Billy Tauzin will be taking his place.  Kevin Werbach asserts that this is will help centrists in the copyfight. I might be wrong, but it seems that over the last two years Valenti's aloofness has actually started to hurt the MPAA.  All Valenti has right now is his moral rhetoric, and he's had to make it more and more extreme over the years, because he From A Copyfighter's Musings on October 27, 2003 at 6:48 p.m.. (34622) Untitled Gina Smith, one the regulars in our San Francisco gang now has a weblog and it's gooood. She's had an incredible life. Here's a picture of Gina interviewing Walter Cronkite. And lookin good addressing the Steel Industry in 1999. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. (34621) Untitled Jeremy Allaire is reporting from the PDC. It seems after skimming the various reports, that the innovation in Longhorn is in the plumbing. I'm with Don Park, I haven't seen anything that gets me going. I think it's interesting that Don Box's demos were about posting to his weblog. Note that Microsoft doesn't run videos that make real weblog software look hopelessly out of date, like Apple did with Marc Canter's software (and mine, btw). Ten developer relations points for MS. However, there's From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. (34620) Untitled Feedster has a special page of PDC news. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. (34619) Untitled Don Park: "Scoble, give us a screenshot that will pop my eyeballs, something that justifies all the hype." From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. (34618) Untitled Joshua Brauer: "Should web crawlers respect robots.txt files on government sites?" From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. (34617) Rich Media Growth Trend Continues Rich media ads continue to outperform standard ads, while clickthrough rates, though nothing to rave about, remain stable. From CyberAtlas on October 27, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (34616) Prep schools open their doors wider Private schools scramble to recruit as recession slows enrollment. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 27, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (34615) No parent left behind Schools, districts, and states are investing in better school-parent interaction. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 27, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (34614) Palm threads the top for spinoff Shareholders of the handheld pioneer are set to vote on the acquisition of rival Handspring as well as the spin off of the division that develops the Palm OS. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (34613) Next Linux kernel closer to reality An open-source advocacy and development group releases a test version of the Linux 2.6 kernel, which may be finalized by the end of the year. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (34612) Sony sued over PS2 chip A group affiliated with the University of Wisconsin claims the design for the main chip in the PlayStation 2 infringes on its chipmaking patent. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (34611) The Chronicle on the Swarthmore Controversy The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article on the electronic civil disobedience ongoing at Swarthmore and (now) eleven other colleges. Unfortunately, I can't link to the article on the Chronicle's site because a subscription is required. Fortunately, you can... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 5:52 p.m.. (34609) Microsoft DRM - Headaches to Come? Vnunet has an interesting article on the likely problems Microsoft's new digital rights management tools in MS Office 2003 and MS Windows 2003 will cause (Rights tools could bite back). While it might seem great to some that they will... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 5:52 p.m.. (34608) Fire Rages - Hundreds of Thousands Left Without Gov't Yesterday, the excellent Terra Nova reports that a real life tragedy, the Southern California firestorms, has knocked out support services for two of the most popular MMORPGs - Star Wars Galaxies and EverQuest (Earth Fires Destabilize Virtual Governments). From Sony:... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 5:52 p.m.. (34607) Weimarer Provinzposse Schon längst gehört die Kameraüberwachung auf öffentlichen Plätzen zur alltäglichen Normalität. In der Regel protestieren Bürgerrechtsgruppen gegen die zunehmende Dauerbeobachtung.... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 5:52 p.m.. (34606) "Interoperability Isn't a Popularity Contest" SethS hits the nail on the head re: interop with DRM.  In response, to Microsoft employee Dave Fester's criticizing Apple's AAC/Fairplay and suggesting they use WMA, Seth writes: "Interoperability isn't a popularity contest. It's about the answer to this question: What does a prospective implementer have to do in order to make the implementation work? 'Read the public specification' is the right answer. Answers involving signing contrac From A Copyfighter'apos;s Musings on October 27, 2003 at 5:48 p.m.. (34605) blogs an unis Ich stelle mit vor, wenn zukünftig an allen Bildungseinrichtungen (nur mal in deutschen Sprachraum) Weblogs geführt werden... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 27, 2003 at 5:47 p.m.. (34604) Electronic Publishing Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography ( Version 51 ): This new SEPB version includes over 2,000 articles, books, an... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 27, 2003 at 5:47 p.m.. (34603) Breezy tutorial on RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs Alan Levine, whom I had the good fortune to meet at the recent CIT Conference in Milwaukee, blogged a link to a presentation/tutorial on RSS, Trackback and their use in Weblogs. Well done and humorous. He, Brian, and D'Arcy do a fine job of putting a lite spin on some otherwise dense topics. It's a nice example of the use of Macromedia's new(er) product, Breeze. Thanks fellows! From carvingCode on October 27, 2003 at 5:47 p.m.. (34602) Untitled Josh Marshall: "No More Contributions!" From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. (34601) Untitled AP: "Howard Dean is maintaining his lead among likely voters in the New Hampshire presidential primary, despite the entrance of retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark into the race, according to a new poll." From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. (34600) Untitled Marc Canter: "Apple sucked the energy out of the nascent multimeida industry by making promises that were unachievable." From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. (34599) Untitled AP: Red Sox fire manager. Obviously he made some incredibly good decisions over the season. Only two teams did better than the Sox. Could they have won? Yeah they could have. They didn't, but sheez, what happened to their sense of humor? What happened to the Red Sox philosophy? They sh From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. (34598) Toward a paperless government IBM's top software exec in Washington, Ray Wells, on Uncle Sam's progress toward becoming a paperless government. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34597) Lexar joins the MP3 party with new player The company joins the crowded field of companies selling MP3 players, but it is pitching its product as a data-storage device first and a music player second. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34596) Epiphany puts emphasis on telemarketing The company plans to release a new version of its software next month that includes programs intended to make telemarketers and call-center agents more productive. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34595) Hollywood Takes Anti-piracy Message to School More coverage of the MPAA's propaganda campaign in the classroom. "The Motion Picture Association of America paid $100,000 to deliver its anti-piracy message to 900,000 students nationwide in grades 5-9 over the next two years, according to Junior Achievement Inc., which is implementing the program using volunteer teachers from the business sector." This is overt politicization of the classroom, a practice that should be resisted. At the very least, there should be equal time given to the opposing view. I would put together a program outlining the view that From OLDaily on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34594) The Public Library of Science This editorial in a Philippines newspaper shows not only an increasing awareness of open access journals in the mainstream, it also highlights the importance of this movement to the developing world. "Even the best-endowed universities in the Philippines do not have all the academic journals that their teachers and students need to keep abreast of current work in their fields of interest. The main reason is price." By Editorial, Manila Times, October 25, 2003 [Refer][From OLDaily on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34593) Access to Italian legal literature: Integration between Structured Repositories and Web Documents This paper can be tough going at times, especially near the end as it discusses the automated creation of metadata, but it provides a very nice overview describing the preparation and delivery of Italian legal information using a harvesting process. The model described in the paper provides a unified view of both dedicated databases and web content, and the provision of metadata makes these materials easily imported into courses or other larning resources. Some good diagrams. By E. Francesconi and G. Peruginelli, 2003 Dublin Core Conference, October 24, 2003 [From OLDaily on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34592) Use of Stots TemplateMaster Woodworking Tool Limited to One Shop I would like to say that this article demonstrates the absurity toward which our copyright and patent regime is pushing us, but there are many (including this company, obviously) who hail the new world order. Where pricing and quality have failed to produce customer loyalty, licensing agreements and the weight of law will surely succeed! What bothers me most is that it's so one-sided: any company can attach an end user license agreement (EULA) to its product, but I have no means of doing the same with the money I pay or the work I perform on my job. How nice it would be to attach to my mo From OLDaily on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34590) The 300 Games Every Game Developer (and Gamer) Should Know OK, it's nowhere near 300 games. And it's just a list; there is no real discussion. But the concept is worth a moment of your time, as it stretches your mind a bit to think of the different categories of games and of the unique properties possessed by each different type of game. Just for fun, also add the author's Talk Like a Gamer to your reading list. By Greg Costikyan, Games * Design * Art * Culture, October 26, 2003 [--> From OLDaily on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34589) Amazon's New Database Likely to Help Sales of Some Works, May Undermine Others That the Author's Guild is protesting against comes as no real surprise (certainly much less of a surprise than the Guild's last tiff with the online bookstore, in which they protested against the online sales of used books). The Guild contends that "these publishers do not have the right to participate in this program without their authors' permission." Of course, the publishers' permission may not be needed: Amazon is not providing access to the books, only short excerpts. Sure, they search the whole text - but there's no law against searching books. Yet. --> From OLDaily on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34588) Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs Macromedia Breeze presentation of this now famous seminar. Well worth a look (and it's interesting how popular Breeze is getting for this sort of content - wish I could cut and paste from it; it's really annoying having to type the content out). Worth noting: I used the presentation slides (with full attribution, of course) as a part of my NAWeb preconference workshop on RSS and learning objects. This presentation animates - in a way network diagrams cannot - just how blogs, RSS and tackback combine to create a content distribution network. By Alan Levine, Bran Lamb and D'Arcy From OLDaily on October 27, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (34587) Der Raus-aus-der-Rente-Trick Angestellte können aus der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung aussteigen und dennoch ihre bisherige Beschäftigung weiter ausüben. Das berichtet das Wirtschaftsmagazin FOCUS-MONEY unter... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 4:51 p.m.. (34585) MetaDaten und Manila Ja, wir hoffen, dass es bald soweit ist. Einstweilen haben wir die MetaDaten für die Navigation verwendet. Dynamisch gener... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on October 27, 2003 at 4:47 p.m.. (34584) Manugistics tunes in radio ID tags The software maker releases a version of its business applications software that's designed to take advantage of a new inventory-tracking technology that's known as RFID. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (34583) Intel's and AMD's pre-holiday price cuts In a pre-holiday spirit of giving, the two companies trim prices on several chips by as much as 35 percent. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (34582) Microsoft makes its Longhorn pitch At its Professional Developers Conference, the company offers a long-awaited look at the Longhorn OS--which Chairman Bill Gates has described as Microsoft's biggest effort since Windows 95. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (34581) Allchin: From Longhorn to Lonestar Microsoft Group Vice President Jim Allchin talks--a little--about Windows beta releases and touts the next version of the company's tablet PC software. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (34580) Symantec snaps up network-management firm In its latest acquisition, the security company signs an agreement to buy network-management software maker ON Technology for about $100 million in cash. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (34579) hollow - sun_flower From Unfocused.Net on October 27, 2003 at 3:50 p.m.. (34577) hollow - sun_flower From Unfocused.Net on October 27, 2003 at 3:50 p.m.. (34576) Curso sobre SCORM de ADL en formato SCORM El Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab ha desarrollado y publicado un Curso sobre SCORM realizad... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on October 27, 2003 at 3:50 p.m.. (34575) More on the PLoS Biology launch An anonymous note in Online Publishing News for October 22, 2003, announces the launch of PLoS Biology. Excerpt: "The online journal is free of charge and represents a potential threat to the comfortable world of academic publishing....The journal was launched at least partly as a response to the steeply rising subscription costs of the most prestigious - and generally highly profitable - research journals. With subscription rates as high as $11,000 and little or no From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 3:48 p.m.. (34574) Open-access fish census Over 300 scientists from 53 countries are creating an open-access Census of Marine Life. For more details, see Julianna Kettlewell, Ocean census discovers new fish, BBC News, October 23, 2003. (Thanks to Darius Cuplinskas.) From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 3:48 p.m.. (34573) Trend Micro releases PC security software From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (34572) AirMagnet lures business with Wi-Fi tools From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (34571) Gates trots out Longhorn Microsoft's chairman tries to win over developers as he offers the first look at the next version of Windows, which he reiterated is the company's biggest effort since Windows 95. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (34570) Denmark urged to support open source A Danish group that advises the government on technology says open-source software should be used as a tool to open up software markets to more competition. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (34569) Symantec buying spree continues The security software maker extends its string of recent acquisitions, announcing plans to buy infrastructure management applications provider ON Technology in a $100 million cash deal. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (34568) Rogers Cadenhead's Radio UserLand KickStart is... Rogers Cadenhead's Radio UserLand KickStart is shipping. A sample chapter on Radio's outliner. And even though Amazon is still a patent abuser, here's a link to a page where you can buy the book. I can't recommend that you buy... From Radio on October 27, 2003 at 2:52 p.m.. (34566) Professional Reading Shelf Systems Librarians So... From ResourceShelf on October 27, 2003 at 2:50 p.m.. (34565) German survey of open access issues Ulf von Rauchhaupt, Keine Maut für den Geist, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 19, 2003. A good introduction to open access for the general reader, touching on the PLoS Biology launch, the Wellcome Trust statement, and the prospect of open access rather than commercialization for cultural heritage collections. Also see Klaus Graf& From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34564) ALPSP statement on open access ALPSP has issued a public statement on open access. (It is dated August 27, 2003, but was released today.) Here it is in its entirety.ALPSP is wholly in favour of maximizing access to research literature; the various proposals for achieving this (e.g. Open Access journals, institutional repositories, self-archiving), however, raise complex economic, logistical and sociological questions which differ from field to field as well as between different sizes and typ From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34563) Text mining open-access literature Mark Uehling, Digging Into Digital Quarries, Bio-IT World, October 10, 2003. A very good survey of the prospects for text mining. Excerpt: "As nearly magical as all current and next-generation text-mining capabilities may seem, they are being applied to only a fraction of the most tantalizing text: the abstract. The full, unabridged text of scientific articles is almost always locked away from the clutching paws of software. Generating those abstracts is, by definition, an art. That means that far more unexplained connect From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34562) Traditions, techologies, and the disciplines The presentations from the conference, Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations: How Tradition and Technology Are Driving Disciplinary Change (Washington, October 17) are now online. (Thanks to Colin Steele.) From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34561) Authors Guild v. Amazon (again) The Authors Guild is protesting Amazon's useful new Search Inside the Book service. It complains that publishers have made books available to the service without the authors' consent, and that the service lets users read and print too many free pages. For more details, see David Kirkpatrick, Amazon Worries Authors, New York Times, October 27, 2003, and the Authors Guild Email to Members, October 24, 2003. (PS: The Authors Guild also From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34560) Two initiatives from San Francisco Keay Davidson, Bay Area leads revolt against scientific journals. Pointing out that PLoS is headquartered in San Francisco and that the recent call for a boycott of Cell Press journals originated at the U of California at San Francisco. Davidson offers good summaries of both initiatives. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34559) More on Amazon's Search Inside the Book Henry Jenkins has written a glowing review of Amazon's Search Inside the Book service for the MIT Technology Review, October 24, 2003. Note to the Authors Guild: Jenkins supports the theory that free sampling increases net sales. "I racked up a few hundred dollars worth of books last night, books which were totally relevant to my work but which I had never found using the existing browser functions on Amazon." (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34558) OAI tutorial The Open Archives Forum has created an online tutorial for those new to the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting. From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34557) More on the Australian grant to repository infrastructure Australia's Department Education, Science and Training, which awarded the $12 million grant, has issued a press release describing the program. Excerpt: "Australia's research information will become more easily accessible and better managed thanks to more than $12 million in funding to improve infrastructure....[We] found there was a need to enhance the creation and management of information, improve access to information resources, and facilitate the discovery and dissemination of new information to researcher From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34556) The Calicut Medical Journal decides to Archive at Cogprints The Calicut Medical Journal has decided to create and maintain its full text archive at CogPrints. Thus Calicut Medical Journal would become the second Medical Journal from India to archive at this Open Access Archive. The Inaugural issue of the Journal will go online on 3oth of October 2003. From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34555) The Calicut Medical Journal decides to archive at Cogprints The Calicut Medical Journal has decided to create and maintain its full text archive at CogPrints. Thus Calicut Medical Journal would become the second Medical Journal from India to archive at this Open Access Archive. The Inaugural issue of the Journal will go online on 3oth of October 2003. From FOS News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 p.m.. (34554) NMC Presentation: "Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs" If you were unable to attend the New Media Consortium (NMC)'s Online Conference on Learning Objects iin October, you missed out on some great sessions and exchange of ideas, as well as a brand new platform for online conferences. All presentations were created with Marcomedia Breeze (in essence streaming audio narrated content delivered as Flash), and the presentation I did with fellow conspirators Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman, I have downloaded and put on o From cogdogblog on October 27, 2003 at 2:48 p.m.. (34553) Russia Opens First Clinic For Child Alcoholics "I wanted an unknown feeling.  For the last year I have been drinking regularly.  I like both the drink itself and the feeling it gives me.  All the problems that were wearing me out started slipping away." -- Andrei, a 14-year old at the new clinic on Leninskii Prospekt in Moscow In a country where the peak consumption time of alcoholic beverages is 7am (before work), the number of children with drug abuse problems has nearly tripled since 1993.  Despite the government's best efforts to eliminate the more aggressive television ads promoting the benefits of beer and li From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (34551) Vivato continues CEO search From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (34550) Internet group mulls a meaty meeting The organization overseeing Internet domain names and addresses says its confab in Tunisia will focus on IPv6, VeriSign's redirection service and intellectual property rights in domain names. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (34549) Adobe package seen boosting sales Adobe Systems releases its new Creative Suite package, which combines some of its most popular applications, and updates its financial forecast. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (34548) Net security group releases updated tools From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (34547) DRM Companies Fund Felten's Attacks on DRM Famed computer science professor Ed Felten runs the Freedom to Tinker blog, where his discussions of cryptography, security, copyright and freedom and technology generally are deservedly popular. Popularity comes with a price, however. In this case, the cost is the... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 1:52 p.m.. (34545) EDV-GT; hier: Nachlese In der neuesten Ausgabe der JurPC ein Bericht von Wolfram Viefhues, Vorstandsmitglied des Deutschen EDV-Gerichtstages. Der Autor berichtet über die... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 1:51 p.m.. (34544) Elektronisches Publizieren "Wer im deutschen rechtswissenschaftlichen Umfeld Äusserungen zum elektronischen Publizieren verfolgt, kann sich in aller Regel des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, dass... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 1:51 p.m.. (34543) Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Do... From ResourceShelf on October 27, 2003 at 1:48 p.m.. (34542) White House Website and History Democratic National Committee Blog: Enabling historical revisionism. Sometime between April 2003 and October 2003, someone at the White House added... From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on October 27, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (34541) Untitled Sean Neville, friend and colleague, writes about Project Atom, Amazon Search, Mobile Apps, Web Services Browsers and more.  Good stuff. From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on October 27, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (34540) Untitled A mannerless zealot, who may or may not be an engineer. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (34539) Untitled Lessig likes the idea: "Most universities have a blanket license for music distributed on campus." From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (34538) Untitled Andrew Grumet (at MIT): "The project looks to me like a legal hack more than anything else." From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (34537) Untitled Wired: DirecTV Takes No Prisoners. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (34536) Untitled Rogers Cadenhead's Radio UserLand KickStart is shipping. A sample chapter on Radio's outliner. And even though Amazon is still a patent abuser, here's a --> From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (34535) Untitled Kicking Ass, the DNC weblog, on robots.txt disabling of caches on White House pages about Iraq. Interesting point. Now would be an appopriate time to ask the Democrats if they will have a different policy should a Democrat be elected to the White House in 2004. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (34534) Untitled Jon Udell on Apple's Knowledge Navigator vision. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (34533) Untitled Peter Rukavina on the CBC and RSS. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (34532) CommScope buys Avaya unit Communication equipment provider Avaya sells its fiber-optic, cable-equipment division to CommScope in a mostly cash deal valued at $263 million. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (34531) Copyright Law Creates Analog Resurgence? Frank Field brings up an interesting point on his Furdlog regarding LAMP (Reinventing the Jukebox? Or rejecting digital over copyright?): This strategy should scare the entertainment industries, not to mention the consumer electronics firms that have committed to digital delivery.... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 12:52 p.m.. (34529) China to Regulate and Standardize "Troublesome" CyberCafes C|Net News reports a highly disturbing story from China (China to consolidate Net cafes): Nearly all of China's 110,000 Internet cafes will be consolidated under the management of larger, mainly state-owned companies in the next three years, according to the... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 12:52 p.m.. (34528) Poor Traffic Light Engineering Practices The Detroit News has a story on special infrared transmitters that can can broadcast a signal to receivers on traffic lights, turning the light from red to green (Gadget may wreak traffic havoc). The purpose of the devices is to... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 12:52 p.m.. (34527) Directors Boards 1.0 - Create storyboards, present... Directors Boards 1.0 - Create storyboards, present them as slideshows. [MacUpdate - Mac OS X] Hey its free!... From Digital Hub on October 27, 2003 at 12:51 p.m.. (34526) Amazon's Full-Text Search -- Controversy From ResourceShelf on October 27, 2003 at 12:49 p.m.. (34525) Web Search -- Google From ResourceShelf on October 27, 2003 at 12:49 p.m.. (34524) Blogging the Sniper Trial So what if the judge says no live video from the sniper trial going on outside of Washington, DC. Kerry Sipe is blogging it live to the readers of the Virginian-Pilot. Granted, it's not as good as seeing the proceedings as they occur, but it's not a bad alternative. The article linked from the title does a pretty good job of explaining how newspapers are starting to find their way with Web logs. I'm not sure it's the best for the hard news reporting, but From weblogged News on October 27, 2003 at 12:47 p.m.. (34523) More on the Open WorldCat Project Kate points us to the Open WorldCat site for more information about the project (mentioned here last week). "The goal is to help libraries provide faster, more convenient service to current and potential users through familiar Web channels, and to point more people—even those who don't typically visit libraries—to library collections for the material they want. The pilot promotes the value and relevance of From The Shifted Librarian on October 27, 2003 at 12:47 p.m.. (34522) Learning Objects: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle This is an excellent ppt introduction to LOs and to some of the issues surrounding the limits of LOs, especially as those limits relate to facilitating the use of LOs by faculty. The presentation is from the BC Library Association Conference, May 30, 2003. Presenters--Trish Rosseel and Adnan Oayyum. ______ Learning Objects. ... Desire to explore standardization of access of LO repositories. Why use these resources? Help instructors/ instructional designers enhance course content. ... From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on October 27, 2003 at 12:47 p.m.. (34521) Cray forecasts Red Storm for masses The supercomputer maker is preparing a line of products based on the AMD-powered Red Storm machine that it is building for the Department of Energy. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. (34520) FCC to Regulate Routers - Critics of Broadcast Flag Get Mainstream Press After a week in which it seemed that only the proponents of the Broadcast Flag were getting their voice heard, two articles in the mainstream press provide more of the critics' perspective. WIRED extensively quotes Broadcast Flag foe Fred von... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 11:51 a.m.. (34518) Swarthmore Civil Disobedience Campaign Growing Why War? reports that three more schools have joined the electronic civil disobedience campaign, bringing the current total to eleven schools (Targeting Diebold with Electronic Civil Disobedience).... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 11:51 a.m.. (34517) iBlog - 1.3.2 Desktop weblogging app with iLife integration [VersionTracker: Mac OS X] Whats new: Preview preferences are now moved to the Add/Edit... From Disruptive Technology on October 27, 2003 at 11:50 a.m.. (34516) Thanks to Canada I had a wonderful time at two very different conferences. The first, NextMedia, was a descendent of Apple devcon's and Microsoft CD-ROM conferences. It would be hard to throw a pot sticker into the room and not hit someone who developed for Macromedia. They use the Web, but they prefer Shockwave, and will use From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (34515) Untitled Halley Suitt narrates a user's experience with a new piece of software. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (34514) Untitled "A non-smoking weblog for 500 days." From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (34513) Untitled Thanks to Canada. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (34512) Fine Tune Your In-Store Pick-Up Strategy Learn how multi-channel e-tailers can improve the 'buy online/pick-up in store process,' and let customers avoid the long wait for merchandise and shipping expenses that are seen as barriers to buying online. From E-Commerce Guide on October 27, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. (34511) Napster sidesteps credit cards The online music retailer unveils prepaid cards, so people can download songs sans credit cards. The marketing move is designed to cash in on the holiday-shopping season and to reach teens. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. (34510) Email Subject Spam I find it interesting when a reasonably legitimate service (eWeek magazine, in this case) sends out an update with asterisks in the subject line so that spam doesn't actually read spam. Instead, it is sp*m. Presumably this is to foil filters that look for spam in the assumption that true spam will contain spam in the subject and the email... From Don't Back Down on October 27, 2003 at 10:49 a.m.. (34508) ISGG tried to bribe me I just got a call from a company called ISGG in Israel offering me money to put a link on my page without acknowledging it as paid advertising. I wasn't clever enough to ask him for what company and how much they're willing to pay before saying no. Damn! Anyway, be on the lookout. Bribing people to put links on their page as if they really meant them is a bad thing. If you want to know why, pay me $5.... From Joho the Blog on October 27, 2003 at 10:47 a.m.. (34507) Google Defs and Blog defs Pito points out that if you query Google with "define: blogs" (no quotes, of course), it presents definitions from a whole bunch of places. Very cool. And the previous entry on Pito's blog is in fact about defining "blog". He argues that we should try to hold on to a fairly precise definition. This is in part a response to my bloggery about what the word may come to mean once blogging really goes mainstream. I happen not to agree with Pito's particular definition because it leaves out multi-person blogs that I really want to put in the bag marked... From Joho the Blog on October 27, 2003 at 10:47 a.m.. (34506) the analog key This brilliant idea from MIT (using the cable network to distribute analog content, and thereby taking advantage of the existing analog blanket licenses covering music) has been in the works for some time. Note that most universities could take advantage of this, as most universities have a blanket license for music distributed on campus. So long as there's an analog link, at least. Or, alternatively, if Congress were to change the law so that digital had the same rights as analog, o From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (34504) Dell unveils MP3 player Continuing its push into consumer electronics, Dell is announcing a disk-drive-based MP3 player and details of a partnership with music download company Musicmatch. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (34503) China to consolidate Net cafes Nearly all of China's 110,000 Internet cafes will be consolidated under the management of larger, mainly state-owned companies in the next three years, says official news agency Xinhua. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (34502) Mozilla Firebird 0.7.1 - Ultra-fast web browser... Mozilla Firebird 0.7.1 - Ultra-fast web browser (formerly Phoenix). [MacUpdate - Mac OS X]... From Disruptive Technology on October 27, 2003 at 9:49 a.m.. (34500) The Slowness of the Concorde Gary Turner has some particular trenchant observations about why we stopped caring about the Concorde. He writes: ...have we just gotten too bloody good at saving time in almost everything that we do...that we just can't save any more bloody time? The excerpt doesn't do it justice...... From Joho the Blog on October 27, 2003 at 9:47 a.m.. (34499) Untitled Reality lies somewhere betw Cringely and Ballmer and Linus. How about this. Both guys make really shitty software. Microsoft, after decades of Windows development still can't make a robust operating system that a normal person can use. And Linux ships with every security feature wide open. An end user who actually installed it (a amaz From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. (34498) Untitled News.Com interview with a Canadian law professor on issues related to "cyberpiracy." From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. (34497) Untitled Gary Wolf wants to know what you think of the Dean campaign. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. (34496) Untitled NY Times: "With Cable TV at MIT, Who Needs Napster?" From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. (34495) Untitled Last year on this day: Weblogs.Com for RSS. From Scripting News on October 27, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. (34494) Internetnutzung am Arbeitsplatz Viele Arbeitsplätze sind heutzutage mit einem Internetanschluss ausgerüstet. Was liegt somit näher, als den betrieblichen Internetanschluss für den privaten E-Mail-Verkehr,... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 8:51 a.m.. (34492) Internetrecht: Check für TDG-Anbieter Am 29.11.2003 treffen sich an der TU Dresden Teledienste-Anbieter zum Kursstart InternetRecht-Check. Spätestens die Rechtsänderungen zum 01.01.2002 durch das "Gesetz... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 8:51 a.m.. (34491) Power of Design transcripts I'm really glad someone put these notes from the speakers of the »Power of Design« conference online. Many ideas. Lots of things to talk about... From owrede_log on October 27, 2003 at 8:47 a.m.. (34490) HITS 2003 conference Some of the presentations of the HITS 2003 conference are online (HITS means "Humans | Interaction | Technology | Strategy"). From owrede_log on October 27, 2003 at 8:47 a.m.. (34489) EU Tries to Force MS to Compete Hoping to do more than the U.S. against Microsoft, the European Commission is flexing some muscle to get the company to remove software from Windows to give competitors a chance. Microsoft wants the European Union off its back. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34488) IBM, HP Battle for Customers Offering sweet reseller commissions to get businesses to switch equipment suppliers and drawings for convertibles, HP and IBM escalate efforts to take each other's business, bragging when they do. Their rivalry helps customers. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34487) Sherlock, Look for the Bugs A graphic new science exhibit uses a model crime scene to show visitors how insects help crack murder cases. CSI: Crime Scene Insects opens at the Science Museum of Minnesota, calling attention to the rapidly growing field of forensic entomology. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34486) Wish You Were Here, See You There In an online 3-D world called There, you can play around with lots of neato stuff. By all accounts, it's a cool place to hang out, but is it exciting enough that people will pay to play? By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34485) Post Office Wants to ID the Mail As a security measure, U.S. bulk mailers are being told to identify themselves on all outgoing mail. Civil libertarians fear the loss of anonymity could result in an invasion of privacy. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34484) The Two Faces of Takashi Murakami He's high art. He's low culture. He's a one-man mass-market machine. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34483) Finding New Life on an Old Road Ignoring the advice of a highway bureaucrat, a Wired News reporter and her photographer husband kiss the interstate goodbye. The pair will follow Route 1 from Maine to Florida in search of geek history and culture. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34482) A Case of Piracy Overkill? Proposed FCC rules will make redistributing copied digital TV shows harder. Hollywood says it needs to protect a $4 billion foreign syndication industry. Opponents call the rules useless, a violation of the spirit of fair use. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34481) Half UK households are Net-connected, says Oftel - Matt Whipp, PC Pro Oftel has announced that half of UK households are connected to the Internet, with a million set to make the broadband leap in the next year. However, Oftel is counting always-on services of 128Kbits/sec and greater, which offer prices comparable to un From Techno-News Blog on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34480) Site lets parents peek at grades - SARA SLEYSTER, DesMoines Register Parents of Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School students no longer have to wait for report cards to know how their children are doing in school. With the help of the Internet, parents can see the grade for each homework assignment and test. "I use it a From Educational Technology on October 27, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (34479) Microsoft steers developers to Longhorn Company executives give developers a peek of the next major edition of Windows and other forthcoming products in a push to spur interest in the operating system. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (34478) Cyberpiracy north of the border Are Canada's file swappers next in line to be prosecuted? The University of Ottawa Internet expert Michael Geist tells CNET News.com what to expect. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (34477) Postmoderne R.I.P.? Is Postmodernism finally on its deathbed? Roger Caldwell examines the evidence and takes a look at its would-be successor: Critical Realism. From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on October 27, 2003 at 7:50 a.m.. (34475) Weblogs an der Universität... Weblogs an der Universität der Künste Berlin: Digitale Klasse: Die Weblogs. [via The Lunatic Fringe] From BildungsBlog on October 27, 2003 at 7:50 a.m.. (34474) Verwirkung der Maklercourtage Ein Makler, der sich einen vollstreckbaren Titel über eine doppelt so hohe Courtage verschafft, als ursprünglich vereinbart, verwirkt sämtliche Ansprüche... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 7:50 a.m.. (34473) The Stealth Computer - FORD FESSENDEN, New York Times ....The fully functional breadbox PC that he then built and described on the Web was among the first to spring from an idea that has become a raging obsession in a far-flung community of electronic do-it-yourselfers: the stealth computer. Across Europe From Techno-News Blog on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (34472) Hand-size Windows PCs within your grasp - Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com Start-up Antelope Technologies plans to release next month a Windows XP computer that fits into a person's hand. The Highlands Ranch, Colo.-based company plans to start selling the PC, dubbed the Modular Computing Core (MCC), starting Nov. From Techno-News Blog on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (34471) As schools tighten budgets, 'extravagant' laptops often first to go - Sarah Coffey, Associated Press Social studies teacher Eric Chamberlin clicks on a projector connected to a laptop computer, beginning a slide on how a bill becomes a law. His eighth-grade students flip open laptops, eagerly winding through the lesson on their screens. Chamberlin has From Educational Technology on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (34470) Funds to launch Web class in Arabic - Santa Cruz Sentinal The UC system has won a grant to develop a year-long distance learning course, "Arabic Without Walls," for students on UC campuses and eventually throughout the country. The course is expected to begin in the fall of 2005, and reach 60 students in its From Online Learning Update on October 27, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (34469) Associated Student board plans to post evaluations online - Mean Lewis, Western Front Many Western [Washinton University] students have little information about their professors before they register for a class. Students do not know what to expect in regard to the style, depth and quality of instruction until they take a seat on the fir From Online Learning Update on October 27, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. (34468) Grads meet, get degrees at ceremony in Spa City - MATT LEON, The Saratogian About 75 Empire State College classmates met for the first time in person Sunday -- at their graduation. The ceremony took place at the Saratoga Springs City Center, where degrees were conferred on those who completed the college's distance learning From Online Learning Update on October 27, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. (34467) Guía de la Comisión Europea sobre migración a software abierto La iniciativa IDA (Interchange of Data between Administrations) de la Comisión Europea ha publicado una guía bastante detallada sobre migración hacia entornos y aplicaciones de código fuente abierto: The IDA Open Source Guidelines (PDF 826 KB). El propósito de esta guía es doble: 1. Ayudar a los administradores a decidir si deben emprender una migración. 2. Describir en términos técnicos cómo efectuar una migración. Incluye secciones sob From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on October 27, 2003 at 6:51 a.m.. (34465) Open Source in der Verwaltung Der Wechsel auf Open-Source-Software in der dänischen Verwaltung kann mehrere Milliarden Dänische Kronen im Jahr sparen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 6:50 a.m.. (34464) Geek Weakly Some pretty cool news on the Linux front, as Linuxant announces that they have developed a "wrapper" for NDIS-compliant Windows network drivers, allowing them to be used as-is under Linux. The voice over IP race seems to be heating up. At first, there was only Vonage. Now Skype and SIPphone have entered the space. The disadvantage to these two competitors... From Don't Back Down on October 27, 2003 at 6:49 a.m.. (34463) Take Off Time or Taxes? For those of you tired of working already, you might want to skip this piece. It won't make you feel much better about it. You see, it turns out that Friday was Take Back Your Time Day. The idea was to take off Friday in a show of solidarity to show that we need to, well, take more time off.... From Don'apos;t Back Down on October 27, 2003 at 6:49 a.m.. (34462) Broken Promises States with programs to match private donations to colleges find the demand for money far exceeds what they can afford to pay. From Chronicle: free on October 27, 2003 at 6:49 a.m.. (34461) Storied Practices Fiction workshops shouldn't be touchy-feely cults of personality but wide-ranging, substantive apprenticeships, writes Charles Johnson, a professor of English at the University of Washington at Seattle. From Chronicle: free on October 27, 2003 at 6:49 a.m.. (34460) How To Increase Credibility And Online Visibility Through Free Sharing Of Rich And Relevant Content If you've spent any time online trying to promote your Web site or online business, you must have very likely realised that one of the most effective ways to augment your credibility, authority, visibility, prestige and reach on a long term basis is to write your own research articles and freely distribute them to independent publishers, newsletter editors and major Web sites along with your one paragraph bio/credit line and a clear link back to your Web site. The reasons why this free sharing marketing strategy is so effective include the following: a) "Rich and relevant content" is the From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 5:50 a.m.. (34457) Anmeldung zu einer Klassenfahrt Eine schriftliche Anmeldung zur Klassenfahrt verpflichtet zur Ãœbernahme der anteiligen Kosten auch dann, wenn das Kind krankheitsbedingt die Fahrt nicht... From Handakte WebLAWg on October 27, 2003 at 5:50 a.m.. (34456) LAMP, MIT and Unintended Consequences The New York Times (reg. req.) reports on the Library Access to Music Program (LAMP) at MIT (With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster?). You can read MIT's press release (MIT students launch campus-wide electronic music library). Read the... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 4:52 a.m.. (34454) Alternate Reality Visions of the Computing Future from Microsoft The New York Times (reg. req.) has a confusing report on the competing visions for the future of computing from Microsoft and IBM (Two Companies at Odds Over the Internet's Future). Not surprisingly, Microsoft denigrates IBM's vision: "I.B.M. is talking... From The Importance Of on October 27, 2003 at 4:52 a.m.. (34453) Apple's Knowledge Navigator   Apple's Knowledge Navigator revisited: Jon Udell points us to an interesting promotional video produced by Apple in (apparently) the late 80s touting the futuristic technology of the "Knowledge Navigator." Jon links to a copy of the video and talks a little about where it went right and wrong in the last 15 years. "During my session at BloggerCon I referred to Apple's famous Knowledge Navigator concept video. From Handheld Instructional Technology on October 27, 2003 at 4:46 a.m.. (34452) Intro Multimedia/Computing Course with Jython Thoughts for the future???? See the course textbook Intro to Media Computation: A Multimedia Cookbook with Python (PDF, with --> From Handheld Instructional Technology on October 27, 2003 at 4:46 a.m.. (34451) New Courses- A first for Staffordshire A new course for anyone interested in learning Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy in Staffordshire UK. [PRWEB Oct 27, 2003] From PR Web on October 27, 2003 at 4:46 a.m.. (34450) 'Books 4 Half' and 'Marlboro FuseTech' join their forces and become BookFuse.com BookFuse will tackle this problem by providing leverage to independent and small booksellers within the United States. Everyone will get a fair chance to compete by becoming one while staying separate businesses. "The fusion of independent booksellers as one is what gives Bookfuse its name" said BookFuse PR. The state of the art multi-million dollar database will provide small and independent booksellers the leverage they need yet cannot afford in order to compete. [PRWEB Oct 27, 2003] From PR Web on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. (34449) Why 410K Participants Don't Participate New study shows 76% of 401k Participants have no confidence in their own definitions of investment terms. Free testing offered to 401k sponsors. New company offers simple low cost solution. [PRWEB Oct 27, 2003] From PR Web on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. (34448) Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSMTV) and Fifth Floor Effects (5FX) Today Announce the Release of iARC iARC From PR Web on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. (34447) Improving Sales Performance is Inexpensive [PRWEB Oct 27, 2003] From PR Web on October 27, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. (34446) Collaborative Writing Software Another example of life beyond the WebCT and Blackboard juggernauts is DIWE 7 an innovative collaborative writing environment developed by the Daedalus Group. The system is designed to support students in the essay writing process, and seven different kinds of support are provided. These include a series of canned questions to help with initial open-ended exploration of the topic, structured peer review, a discussion forum (somehow we just can't seem to get away from that one can we?), and a bibliography manager. [more...] By Martin Terre Blanche 27 O From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34443) Arrival Figures Show Impact of Travel Advisories Bali By The Numbers: Major Source Markets for Bali Tourism Proving Slow to Recover. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34442) ASEAN as a Single Destination Elly Hutabarat Outlines ASEANTA'S Goals for Regional Travel Promotion. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34441) PATA Bali Recognizes Local Excellence Awards Presented to Community Leaders in Various Fields. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34440) Bali Facing a Water Shortage Development Threatens Water Shortage in Coming Years. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34439) Bali: Seeing is Believing 6-Night Packages from Sydney to Bali for Just AU$ 649. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34438) Harvey World Helps Bali Sight Seeing Australian Wholesaler Pledges Funds for Bali's John Fawcett Foundation. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34437) Political Violence in Bali's North Two Killed in During Pre-Election Political Campaign Activities on Island's North Coast. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34436) Asia Escape's Directors Meet in Bali Australian Wholesaler Holds Board Meeting in Bali. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34435) Lack of Competition on Makassar-Bali Air Corridor South Sulawesi's ASITA Chairman Calls for more Air Connections with Indonesia's Tourism Gateway. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34434) Bali Hilton Re-Opens the 'Ayodya Palace' Luxury Wing with Special Services Sets New Standards at Nusa Dua. From Bali Update from balidiscovery.com on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34433) Towards A Research Model for Distance Education--Contributions From The Telecommuting Literature From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 3:49 a.m.. (34432) The Digital Michelangelo Project From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34430) 'Juggernaut' Merger Faces a Stormy Year From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34429) UK eLearning and Futuremedia Plc Team Up to Deliver Government Funded Blended Learning Programmes From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34428) Column: Online courses pose threat From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34427) Classroom of the Future Foundation: Synergies From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34426) AS [Associated Students] board plans to post evaluations online From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34425) Managing the Synchronous Blend From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34424) Turning to Tutors, Instead of Schools From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34423) Commerce, Education Announce Effort to Foster Advanced Technologies for Education and Training From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on October 27, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (34422) With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster? Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system for sharing music on campus that they say can avoid copyright battles. From New York Times: Education on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34421) Never Mind the Harvard Game. The Rough Sport Here Is Yale vs. Unions. For some, the introduction to the bruising world of union organizing is taking place not on an assembly line or on the waterfront, but amid the refined confines of Yale University. From New York Times: Education on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34420) Abuse Case Involving L.I. Athletes Offers Prosecutor a Last Challenge Mark Zimmer, the Wayne County, Pa., district attorney and the prosecutor of the hazing case at Mepham High in Long Island, has years of work in child advocacy under his belt. From New York Times: Education on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34419) 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 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34418) 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 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34417) Product Placement Goes to College Television shows like 'Nike Training Camp' are widening the scope of product placements. From New York Times: Education on October 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34416) 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 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34415) 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 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (34414) Remembering The Objective of Learning Objectives Although every college should have a mission, and every class a series of desired outcomes, I sometimes feel that the way learning objectives are utilized can stultify a course: sometimes they lead to boggy syllabi (or other documents) brimming with academic jargon; at others, they dogmatically drive a course's direction... From PEDABLOGUE on October 27, 2003 at 1:50 a.m.. (34412) SuSE signs up key software partner SuSE Linux enlists the backing of server-software maker Veritas, an important step in supporting the needs of business computing and keeping up with top Linux seller Red Hat. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (34411) Online game envisions new virtual worlds "There," which its creators say is more social and creative than other games of its kind, is expected to get its commercial debut after nearly five years of development. From CNET News.com on October 27, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (34410) A is for Apiculate A is for Apiculate Alan Murdock teaches at the Art Institute of Portland. He writes: write about and for my design students at www.alanmurdock.com on art, theory, design and philosophy. Besides teaching drawing and performance art, he teaches courses around digital media.... From EdBlogger Praxis on October 27, 2003 at 12:50 a.m.. (34408) How to Run a Dysfunctional Software Development Collaborative in Ten Easy Steps The following is based on actual experiences. Names have been change.. nahhh, no names are used. But I was there. From cogdogblog on October 27, 2003 at 12:47 a.m.. (34407) seperations - sun_flower From Unfocused.Net on October 26, 2003 at 11:50 p.m.. (34405) Blogademia Blogademia Scott Nowson is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. He has started a a research study on blogging. This Blog relates to my academic study of blogs. It details how my experiment is going. It's my getting into the spirit of my medium.... From EdBlogger Praxis on October 26, 2003 at 11:50 p.m.. (34404) Open Source Course Management List of open source CMSs... From IDT Matrix on October 26, 2003 at 11:49 p.m.. (34403) Glimpse the Future at Dartmouth Ubiquity Breeds Utility "In the late 1980s, Dartmouth College was the most wired campus on the planet, running 10Mb Ethernet into every dorm room. Today, Dartmouth is the most unwired campus on the planet, with 560 access points covering 200 acres. At a recent conference here, Larry Levine, the head of computing services, challenged attendees to find a single spot on campus and surrounding areas that did not have 802.11 From The Shifted Librarian on October 26, 2003 at 11:47 p.m.. (34402) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]