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Editors' introduction: On the shoulders of giants
On behalf of the entire Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities (OLSO) Research Group at Utah State University, welcome to our new experiment in facilitating the ongoing academic conversation.
From Pitch Journal on November 27, 2003 at 9:53 p.m..
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The Regina Declaration
This article is a compilation of my contributions to the Commonwealth of Learning conference on copyright
From Pitch Journal on November 27, 2003 at 9:53 p.m..
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Open source content in education: Developing, sharing, expanding resources
This is the second article (
From Pitch Journal on November 27, 2003 at 9:53 p.m..
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MyIE2 0.9.10 Released
A browser based on the Internet Explorer engine, MyIE2 takes the best elements of IE and marries them to more...
From Disruptive Technology on November 27, 2003 at 9:53 p.m..
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Opera Patches Browser Flaws
Opera Patches Browser Flaws. Opera has released a new version of its Web browser, which closes two security holes that...
From Disruptive Technology on November 27, 2003 at 9:53 p.m..
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Blogs and RSS feeds from CVS commits, and automated unit testing
(SOURCE:Matt.Blogs.It)- Sounds like programmer nirvana to me.  Often, management complains that the programmers aren't communicating.  Having the project team subscribe to the RSS feed for source code commits as well as testing results would increase the communication.  QUOTEThe next stage for me would be to start creating RSS feeds with ENT metadata from those changeblogs. At a very basic level I can imagine a K-Collector topic corresponding to each project. Then each topic view could aggreg
From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Should blogging get monetized and how should it get monetized?
(SOURCE:ItSeemstoMe: Strangers in a Blog World)- Blogging will get monetized but there will still be people who do it for the love of it. QUOTEBlogging faces the same two fundamental questions of any new technology phenomena: (1) How does it get monetized, and (2) Should it get monetized.UNQUOTE
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Blogs for business: an easy tool to make communication with potential customers fast and efficient
(SOURCE:Intuitive Systems: The Intuitive Life Weblog on "Weblogs for Business")- Amen!QUOTEIf I emailed this posting to everyone I know, would you get it? Probably not. If I had this as a static web page that I updated every so often, would you read it right now? Probably not. Would I update a static page on a frequent and regular basis? Unlikely.And that's what business weblogs are all about from a marketing and customer outreach perspective: an easy tool to make my communication with you, my po
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Early adopters will become a big enough group to serve on their own
(SOURCE:VentureBlog: Accelerating Acceleration)- Very interesting implications for product development e.g.  blog tools and systems QUOTE The laggard market is disappearing -- ... Look for a rising class of never adopters.... New products will either open big or get killed early -- ... It's not about technology any more -- ... Early adopters will become a big enough group to serve on
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Longhorn SDK Annotations using RSS
(SOURCE:ONDotnet.com: Longhorn SDK Annotations [Nov. 19, 2003])- Very cool even if it is Windows only, IE6 only.  QUOTE Working closely with Microsoft, O'Reilly has seized upon this new feature to deliver its own, independently written commentaries on selected Longhorn SDK documentation entries via an RSS feed hosted at oreilly.com. The first of these became available at PDC 2003. In the coming weeks, O'Reilly will publish a series o
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Blogging101 aka How to get started blogging with Manila
(SOURCE:Blogging 101)- How did I miss this? Great Manila HowTo! QUOTEThis is a session of general orientation towards what blogging is all about, and a quick and easy guide to starting your own blog. It is oriented towards Manila, as this is the tool in use on all of the Berkman Center Weblogs, but I expect that many of you will be using other software, so I will tty to keep the information general enough that everybody will take something useful home. What I re
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Bob Frankston: We need to go beyond IT and give people the ability to create their own solutions
(SOURCE:SATN.org: Comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others via Tomalak's Realm)- Now is the time for disruptive thinking,  and experimentation which will lead to the next round of innovation and money making! QUOTE The problem is that we are in a timid phase and are locking down machines and cowering in the corner rather than making it safe to
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Enjoying Free, non port restricted WiFi at Take5Cafe on Granville
(SOURCE:Take 5 Cafe)- Take5Cafe has excellent free WiFi with no port restrictions, great coffee and really nice people.
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Blogware secure RSS doesn't use SSL!?!
(SOURCE:Random Bytes :: Thursday Pre-Cleanup Musings)- Does this mean that Blogware secure RSS doesn't use SSL? Does this mean it isn't really secure? Or am I missing something? Patiently awating Ross's screendump which hopefully explains everything. QUOTE On another Blogware note...In response to my post about Secure RSS, Roland wondered what the "com
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Weblogs as status reports - It can work but the barrier is cultural not technological
(SOURCE:Rands In Repose: Status Reports 2.0 via McGee's Musings)- We've tried over the last 2 years to replace status reports with blogs at a e-commerce company I do consulting for. Success has been mixed. Even though most of the people are engineering staff (i.e. technical people who should have no problem with the 'geekiness' of today's blogging tools), getting them to document in real time what they do
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Status Reports should be discovery and sense making tools for variations
(SOURCE:McGee's Musings)- McGee nails it again.  Not only do organizations need to be more internally transparent through real-time status reports, what's reported needs to change.  The variations and the reasons behind the variations are what status reports should be focused on. QUOTE My current hypothesis is that you have to start with the individual knowledge worker and work from the bottom up. What I haven't cracked to my own satisfaction yet is what the organizational sup
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Six Apart Announces First License of its TypePad Personal Weblogging Service to NIFTY, one of Japan's Leading ISPs
(SOURCE:Six Apart Announces First License of its TypePad Personal Weblogging Service to NIFTY, one of Japan's Leading ISPs)- Wow! Congrats QUOTESAN MATEO, Calif. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2003--Weblog software leader Six Apart and NIFTY, one of Japan's leading ISPs, have announced a licensing agreement to provide Six Apart's popular TypePad(TM) weblogging service to over five million NIFTY subscribers in Japan
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Stuart Henshall - Get people to blog by using email and having a blog community manager help categorize
(SOURCE:Unbound Spiral- Stuart Henshall's Blog:)- Excellent advice on the best way to start blogging  in a corporation for status or otherwise.  Use familiar tools like blog to  email initially  rather than the blog browser interface and have a blog mentor help bootstrap people and do categorization. QUOTEI'm sure many bloggers have multiple methods to post to their blogs. I certainly do. So why the tendency to introduce potential new bloggers to weblogs via the blogging tool
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Deeje of BloggerJack to work for Macromedia
(SOURCE:deeje's weblog)- Congrats! I guess BloggerJack is going to be put in suspended animation? QUOTEI'm happy to announce that I've accepted a full-time role at Macromedia, in their Information Convenience group. It's one of the best groups I've ever had the pleasure of working with, and I'm excited to be on board.UNQUOTE
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Bill French - RSS for personal information management
(SOURCE:RSS and Productivity | MySmartChannels)- Slogan der Woche! QUOTE This is a landmark event for me - I receive about 100 business-related emails every 24 hours (used to be 200, and about 500 if you include spam). I deal with this level of communication by supplementing email with RSS and channels. Both afford me the latitude of responding to many inquiries with a simple link (i.e., an answer that is encapsulated in som
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Micro client happy medium between computer and natural human expression of information
(SOURCE:0xDECAFBAD)- Sounds like the definition of good micro client. QUOTE There needs to be some happy medium between a natural human expression of information, and the rigorous structuring required by a machine, mediated by good user interface. UNQUOTE
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards: A List Apart
(SOURCE:Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards: A List Apart)- Excellent behind the scenes look and HOWTO. QUOTEWe started by freezing a copy of Slashdot on Tuesday July 22, 2003. Once we had a copy of the page, the first step was to remove all non-essential tags. The only tags left were anchors, lists, forms, images, scripts and header information. From the stripped down version, the code was converted to XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and validated. A
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Why blogging hasn't yet caught on and remains an obscure hobby
(SOURCE:Mercurial: Blogging for the masses)- Amen! Moving the culture to more transparency that provides a social backdrop for blogging takes time.  And I agree, if MovableType had shares for sale and if I had money, I'd buy shares! QUOTE Blogging is, actually, rather old: the fact that publishing tools are rather famous, and that it is easier for people to blog now than, say, eight years ago, only compounds the problem: why aren't there any more blogs or knowledge about them?
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PeopleAggregator alpha is A material.
(SOURCE:a klog apart)- Can't wait for this to come out of alpha. QUOTE The PeopleAggregator is starting to come together very nicely. Feels simple, usage nearly obvious. A pleasant experience. Pretty easy to define relationships. And it's built on xml. Here's -->
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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End the telco and cable company Internet Access Duopoly now!
(SOURCE:Wired 11.12: View)- Amen! QUOTE That might be right about cable and telecom companies. Freeing AOL and Comcast from some regulation might be the only way they could afford to deploy high-speed access. But it doesn't follow that AOL and Comcast are the most efficient providers of high-speed network access. They might not want to be in a commodity business, but commodities ar
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:52 p.m..
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Weblogs and Corporate Collaboration facilitated through MyST platform's typed associations
(SOURCE:Into the MyST | MySmartChannels)- Typed associations sound very powerful and look to be a competitive advantage of MyST compared to other systems. QUOTE "Weblogs are poised for wider use in the enterprise, particularly with the addition of functions such as subject sorting, sophisticated filtering, and authentication". -- Amy Wohl, editor of -->
From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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iPhoto2iCal proto - make iCal events out of your photos
(SOURCE:deeje @ BloggerJack)- Thanks for the prototype, Dad :-) ! And yes this should be a standard feature of iCal and iPhoto! QUOTEOK kids, I've got a working prototype of iPhoto2iCal, available for your experimentation. Here's how to use it:
  • First, download it and unzip it.
  • Second, run it. It will take a minute or two to scan the albums in your iPhoto collection, creating events in a new i
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    HowTo: Slurping aka reading files in one fell swoop into a Perl variable
    (SOURCE:perl.com: Perl Slurp-Eaze [Nov. 21, 2003])- Slurping is good :-) ! QUOTE Line by line processing is fine, but it isn't the only way to deal with reading files. The other common style is reading the entire file into a scalar or array, and that is commonly known as slurping. Now, slurping has somewhat of a poor reputation, and this article is an attempt at rehabilitating it.
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Related Stuff - finds related products on Amazon (other sites soon)
    (SOURCE:Waypath Weblog: Related Stuff Beta)- Very cool! QUOTELast week we quietly launched the beta of Related Stuff. Related Stuff works a lot like Waypath, but finds contextually related products.Give it the URL to a page about something* and it will return a selection of related books from Amazon.com. As of today, there are only 130,000 or so Amazon.com titles in RS, but we're adding more every day.UNQUOTE
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    K-Collector Manifesto and whitepaper
    (SOURCE:evectors)- Congrats on shipping K-Collector 1.0.  QUOTE Organisations do not only move thanks to the efforts of individuals working for them but also because they are acted upon by external forces. Most often markets, competitors, customers and government bodies. The better an organisation can understand and predict these external forces, the more chance it has of achieving it's goals. <
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Finance for Geeks (The Business of Software)
    (SOURCE:Longhorn Developer Center: Finance for Geeks (The Business of Software))- Good advice! QUOTE On my weblog I write a series of articles entitled Marketing for Geeks. The concept of these articles is that a lot of technically oriented people actually do end up involved in marketing decisions. Most software startups are founded by one or more
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Designing a Class Weblog Application
    (SOURCE:Designing a Class Weblog Application FrontPage)- Excellent "design in progress" for a blog system focused on classroom use.  Need a wiki like this for all vertical domains; not just education.  Perhaps one for journalists, one for lawyers, etc. QUOTE This school year or so a number of teachers (insert links...) have experimented with using weblogs to facilitate writing in their classrooms. Certainly many other scattered experiments with Manila and
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Nick Bradbury - Why Mozilla is not integrated with FeedDemon
    (SOURCE:Nick Bradbury: FeedDemon and Mozilla)- Excellent rant with good technical reasons (Mozilla's Active X control is not part of the standard Mozilla build and not registered properly) why Mozilla is not yet integrated with FeedDemon. QUOTELately I've had some requests to enable using Mozilla inside FeedDemon, and I'd like to address this here. The short answer is that I would like to include Mozilla as an option, but past experience with TopStyle has taught me that it's
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Nick Bradbury: Posting to MovableType from FeedDemon
    (SOURCE:Nick Bradbury: Posting to MovableType from FeedDemon)- Very cool. FeedDemon rocks! QUOTEJakub Kazecki posted a handy tip in our newsgroups which enables posting to MovableType directly from FeedDemon.UNQUOTE
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    End-to-end is a BIG political statement
    (SOURCE:isen.blog)- Amen!QUOTEIn other words, End-to-End puts the entire value proposition for every net transaction or interaction right in the lap of the end user. That's as political as it gets.UNQUOTE
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Documents must die; micro-content rules!
    (SOURCE:ErikLog: November 2003 Archives)- Amen!QUOTE Wayne made many points that I believe to be extremely important. The essence, in my view, is that "documents must die" (my phrase, don't bother Wayne if you disagree): we must have document components managed as such, and not burried in documents. How small then should these pieces be. Wayne mentioned two points: - the piece should stand on itself - it should be useless on its own. Too small is not useful either:
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    Sadie Plant - on the mobile - the effects of mobile telephones on social and individual life
    (via Joi Ito) - Great paper (PDF) on mobile phones and their effect on global culture. Must read.  Be cool to see a similar paper 5 years from now when camera phones have become common world wide.
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Blogs, Learning Objects and Other Cool Stuff!
    (SOURCE:Stephen's Web ~ Refer a Resource)- Stephen always writes well and this is no exception; a nice overview of blogs that does end abruptly but is worth reading for his thoughts on writing blogs. QUOTEBlogs, Learning Objects and Other Cool Stuff! Long delayed (because I kept intending to add more content, but never did), an MS Word document and associated -->
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Hack Lisp for Dean
    (SOURCE:Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again)- Awesome.  Can't wait to see what this is! If I only knew Lisp... QUOTE Dean for America <http://www.deanforamerica.com> is seeking volunteerswith extensive knowledge of Common Lisp (and related programminglanguages) to help in Information Technology and Internet Strategy.We are looking for people with innovative ideas and ability
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    Extend RSS to handle events?
    (SOURCE:Robert McLaws: BoyWonder.NET)- Some excellent ideas here. QUOTEI want a new type of RSS, and I'd call it RSE (pronounced Rizzy), or Really Simple Events. It would be a method for anyone, anywhere, to publish a feed that has events in it. Then, I'd have a RSE Aggregator that would work just like an RSS Aggregator, only it would be a calendar. I'd be able to pull in feeds from user groups, appointments, online conferences, web meetings, chats, co-workers, etc, and be able to p
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Know Your Copy-Rights
    (SOURCE:The Harvard Crimson Online :: Opinion)- Kudos to Derek Slater for standing up for fair-use. QUOTE In 1998, the United States Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), an ill-advised grab bag of heavy-handed measures responding to very real fears of Internet-enabled music and video piracy. Since its passage, the uses of the DMCA by music and movie publishers have borne out many of the worries expressed by its critics. And the problem is headed
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    Stephen Downes: DRM and P2P - big players' DRM schemes don't foster a world where anybody can produce and distribute content
    (SOURCE:Stephen's Web ~)- Stephen nails it as usual.  We need to watch out for the big companies locking out the little guys through DRM.. QUOTEDRM and P2P are, as the author asserts, far from mutually exclusive. But there's a trade-off. Is a distributed network, such as P2P (or other content syndication systems, such as RSS), you need a distributed digital rights management, which embodies the three layers of DRM discussed above. But the big players in DRM tod
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    My ideal computer store is more like an Apple Retail store than Ikea!
    (SOURCE:Archipelago News 11/25/2003)- I always thought Ikea was Swedish for "out of stock" :-) ! I'd rather buy a computer at a store like the retail  Apple Store (online stores are a big pain in the b*tt) than a store like Ikea! QUOTE Computer Stores and Ikea: Scoble -->
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    GigaOm: Om Malik's Broadband Blog: The Rise of The Insta Company)
    (SOURCE:GigaOm: Om Malik's Broadband Blog: The Rise of The Insta Company)- Amen! Don't re-invent the wheel.  Re-use wheels that are cheap and free. QUOTE There has been much debate about commoditization. Infact it is the buzz word these days. Here is my take on it in December 2003 story in Business 2.0 on the subject. I believe that, and many
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 p.m..
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    John Patrick: Why Blogging for Business is a competitive advantage and increases productivity
    (SOURCE:Expert Voice: John Patrick on Weblogs via Ross Mayfield)- Wow John Patrick gets it.  Blogging's effect is definitely underestimated in the long run. QUOTE CIO Insight: Bloggers reframe the news for different audiences and ensure that new voices have a chance to be heard. What's your take on the significance of weblogs, both to society and to business?
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    TeledyN: Sourcing the RSS Drain
    (SOURCE:TeledyN: Sourcing the RSS Drain)- So if the culprit is not Drupal and not Radio UserLand and not the server side, then where is it? Frustrating! The quest continues. QUOTE The culprit is definately not Drupal. That much is clear. Drupal may be strict on the spec, but that's not even being tested in what is really going awry: The culprit appears to be the vast majority of RSS reading clients who use the
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    Linus & the Lunatics, Part I
    (SOURCE:Linus & the Lunatics, Part I)- Great software engineering insights! Read it and learn. QUOTEThis article series includes transcriptions of two talks given on the latest Linux Lunacy Geek Cruise, which occured this past September. For background details, check out the three-part report on the whole cruise; a link to the next part is located at the end of the first two installments.
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    Software that Doesn't Stink is hard to produce but there's lots of room for improvement in software development
    (SOURCE:Better Living Through Software - Software that Doesn't Stink)- Amen!  Software developers need to self-reflect, take action and clean up their act. A  long career in software development  doesn't mean you should be more sympathetic to bad software. QUOTE In any case, this wasn't meant to be a comprehensive list of the sources of waste in the software industry.  Suffice it to say that I believe there are huge amounts of was
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    UseModWiki - An easily installable Wiki in Perl
    (SOURCE:UseMod: UseModWiki/Features)- UseModWiki looks to be an easily installable yet powerful wiki written in Perl QUOTE
  • Simple setup:
  • A single file for the script
  • Does not require external programs (but can use "diff")
  • Requires CGI.pm and CGI::Carp, which are standard in modern Perl installations
  • The script can autocreate needed directories and files
  • All configuration variables are at the top of the script
  • The script can
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    Twiki - yet another Wiki in Perl
    (SOURCE:TWiki - A Web Based Collaboration Platform)- Yet another Perl Wiki.  This one seems to have tons of features. QUOTE Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Developers can create new web applications based on a Plugin API.      
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    MovableType Security hole and fix
    (SOURCE:Zope Newbies: a Zope community resource)- The arms race continues. QUOTE If you run MT or host people who run MT, run, don't walk, to your box and disable the ms-send-entry.cgi. They don't verify that just a single email address has been submitted. Nor do they do any other basic security checks. And, guess what? Right. The spammers have discovered the hole. They used one the MT weblogs I host to send chunks of spam to AOL over the last few weeks. But I couldn't trace the root of
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    Wax - "take-away-pain-layer' on top of wxPython
    (SOURCE:Tao of the Machine via The Farm)- Sounds cool, hopefully these improvements will be incorporated in the wxPython build someday.
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    Haystack - cool drag and drop PIM
    (SOURCE:Haystack Overview via Jay McCarthy's makeoutcity)- Haystack sounds great except for its minimum of 512MB RAM, preferred 768MB. Wow, is this from the Haystack code and data or from the required Java libraries or both? QUOTE Design Principles Haystack represents a significant departure from traditional notions of information manageme
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    Mechanism and Policy
    (SOURCE:PragDave)- The devil is in the details.  Exposinig "application functionality using multiple modalities, each targeted at specific user communities" is easier said than done.QUOTEA Naked Objects application exposes the core business objects of an application directly to the end user. They can manipulate these in any way the objects allow: there is no overall application GUI imposing a certain way of doing things. A Naked Objects system provides mechanism, but little in the
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    Esther Dyson: Buying and Selling the Little Black Book
     Good essay on the dark side of social software. QUOTE And that leads to my caveats. There's a real danger that the whole field and its potential for supporting human connections could be irretrievably tarnished by privacy issues -- either as a result of policies that leave people feeling exposed by the aggregation of data, or by security breakdowns, resulting in some kind of informational oil spill. For now, no one online social network has enough heft to matter. But these issues will inevitably arise when the services appro
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    Koha - Open Source Library System
    (SOURCE:About Koha via UBC's SGM's 42)- Cool!QUOTEKoha is the world's first free Open Source Library System. Made in New Zealand by the Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications Ltd, the Koha system is a full catalogue, opac, circulation, member management and acquisitions package. To our knowledge Koha is used by public libraries, private collectors, university faculties, not
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    The future of blogging is systems that generate static pages served by Apache and IIS?
    (SOURCE:Tuttle SVC: September 10, 2003 Archives via UBC's SGM's 42)- So the future is systems like MovableType and Radio that generate static HTML that can be served by simple static servers like Apache and IIS? Or is the future hosted systems like Blogger and Blogware? I think the future is both and most people will use hosted systems as long as they can get their data out quickly and put it in another system. I've
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    Boxes and Arrows: Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design
    (SOURCE:Boxes and Arrows: Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design via Derek K. Miller's penmachine)- Someday, I'd like to have the money and time to change my website to have a more natural colour scheme. QUOTEThe World Wide Web is awash with sterile design solutions. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Microsoft, and countless others are virtually indistinguishable from each other
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    Apple DRM is just as bad as Microsoft or anybody else's DRM
    (SOURCE:So sue me: Jon Lech Johansen's blog)- Yes, Apple's DRM is just as bad as Microsoft's but it's more usable and more open.  I hope and pray (perhaps irrationally) that Apple will  never transmogrify their DRM to put commercials in or any other inane stuff.  For now, they have struck the best balance I think. QUOTENone of them explain how this is different and why GNU/Linux users should not be allowed to play legally bought music. Instead they go on to rave about how great
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    Manifesto for community contributors on-line
    (SOURCE:Iunctura Daily with Justin Hitt-- Center for Strategic Relations)- Justin nails it.  Nice to have a cool list of things that most good bloggers do without thinking (it's like breathing!).  Read the full post for full details. QUOTE The following are a summary of views on becoming a community contributor in communities on-line:
  • Never copy, but always add original value not presen
  • From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    SPIDER: Social Psychology of Information Diffusion -- Educational Resources
    (SOURCE:SPIDER: Social Psychology of Information Diffusion -- Educational Resources via a comment on Seb's Open Research)- Excellent 'starter list' of social software and networking related links QUOTE:What makes a clothing style, TV show, or movie "take off" in popularity? What leads to the spread of fads and crazes? Some scholars focus on the products or ideas themselves (known as memes).
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:50 p.m..
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    My Smart Content Aggregator stores stuff my way and presents personalized data in the way I control not some company's backend webserver
    (SOURCE:snellspace: Data Emergence, Self-hosted identities, Auto Discovery and the Future of Web Browsing via Seb's Open Research)- Great ramble and great vision. Yes, we should be in charge of storing our data and controlling how that data is used by websites and computers!  Read the full post for two amazing diagrams that illustrate the Smart Aggregator approach and today's a
    From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:49 p.m..
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    Phil Wolff wants to be able to blog anything, syndicate anything, define new structured component blogs and automagically discover and learn about new structured component blogs
    (SOURCE:a klog apart)- These features are great! But not easy to implement.  Perhaps that's why nobody has done them yet! We (I mean the blogging software developers) are getting there inch by inch... QUOTE My contribution to the thread...
  • Blog anything.
  • On request, blog more richly structured things (like sports scores, recipes, SAP transaction approvals). [xml packages, schema for structure, css for formatting, xu
  • From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 27, 2003 at 9:49 p.m..
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    IMRC - Information Management Glossary
    I've been trying to find this item for a while, so now that I've found it (thannks to the release of a new revision) I'm going to make sure it's listed here. This bibliography of technical terms is useful not only for the definitions but also for the French language translations. Thus I now know that an 'application profile' is a 'profil d'application'. By Various Authors, Treasury Board of Canada, November 17, 2003 [Refer][-->
    From OLDaily on November 27, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..
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    New E-Learning Tools Make It Easy For faculty and Students to Create Media-Rich Learning Resources
    "We've built learning object tools that in turn build learning objects themselves," said Warren Scott. "By doing that, dozens if not hundreds of other people can create timelines and save threaded discussions, which are actually learning objects. This creates exponential growth in the number of re-usable learning objects that can be re-used and re-purposed in other courses by other faculty and students." Cool. Via Scott Leslie, who also links to Michelle Lamberson, who links to the
    From OLDaily on November 27, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..
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    Roland Tanglao's Weblog
    Following the fate of one of my articles this morning (aka 'vanity searching') I happened on Roland Tanglao's contribution to the blogsphere, a set of links each one better than the next. Great stuff for people interested in RSS, blogs and social networking. One link points to some useful conceptual work on smart content aggregators. Also be sure to read the Manifesto for community contributors on-line (scroll down a bit to find
    From OLDaily on November 27, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..
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    For edu.au Domain Name Holders
    If you hold an edu.au domain name, you may have receceived a request from a company called Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd requesting payment for Internet domain names. Education.au writes, "Please be advised that this company has no relationship with education.au limited and is not associated in any way with the edu.au domain. The correspondence from Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd in no way affects any existing domain names that you have registered in the .edu.au domain space. If you have received such a correspondence, you are not required to pay." By Unknown, Domain Names Australia, Novembe
    From OLDaily on November 27, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..
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    W4 k-collector
    From the web page: "k-collector is an enterprise news aggregator that leverages the power of shared topics to present new ways of finding and combining the real knowledge in your organisation." A lot like Edu_RSS, this website aggregates RSS feeds and displays the results as a series of topic feeds. I like the 'what', 'where', 'who', 'when' organization of topics (hence 'W4') - especially since I'm one of the people listed in the 'who'. I ran into access pro
    From OLDaily on November 27, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..
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    Natural Deselection: Not Even Microsoft Will Last Forever, but They Plan to Try
    Good article advancing one theory about Microsoft's proposed DRM system (I say 'one theory' because I think this is only an aspect of the overall strategy, not the whole thing as the article implies). "Imagine a remote procedure call that goes out every time you are online. The RPC doesn't do anything but act as a key. The call goes out to some Microsoft server, but it is only returned if your OS and applications are legit and up-to-date. This is how piracy goes away, and how Microsoft plans to make more money by turning us all into Windows subscribers whether we want to or
    From OLDaily on November 27, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..
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    Pitch
    Pitch has launched. I'm not sure if the launch is formal yet, but you can access the online magazine and view three articles, including an introductory editorial by David Wiley and Brent Lambert, an article from George Siemens on open source content in education, and one of my articles, The Regina Declar
    From ScotFEICT on November 27, 2003 at 8:49 p.m..
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    Open access in France
    In a new posting to Archivalia, Klaus Graf links to several recent French-language articles and statements on open access.
    From FOS News on November 27, 2003 at 8:47 p.m..
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    A Day for Not Shopping
    Friday is "Buy Nothing Day" in America. Unofficially, of course......
    From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 27, 2003 at 8:46 p.m..
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    EU-Drogenhandel
    Der europäische Rat der Justizminister hat sich gestern auf Mindeststandards für Strafrahmen bei Drogendelikten politisch geeinigt. Nach langen und schwierigen...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 7:50 p.m..
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    Untitled
    Alfred A. Knopf. "An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." [Quotes of the Day]
    From Seb's Open Research on November 27, 2003 at 7:46 p.m..
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    tauchschule-dortmund.de
    Kollege Heng weist darauf hin, dass der BGH mit Beschluss vom 20.11.2003 die Beschwerde gegen die Nichtzulassung der Revision zurückgewiesen...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 6:50 p.m..
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    El Agente Smith ataca de nuevo
    El hilarante blog paródico La Risa de Smith tomando como referencia la prospectiva de la blogosfera que formulé en Ideasapiens, nos propone estas originales: Fusiones de blogs....
    From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 27, 2003 at 5:50 p.m..
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    Schools as a safety net...
    School Is Haven When Children Have No Home With unemployment and spiraling housing costs pushing a growing number of families into homelessness, school systems across the country are seeing more and more children like Mariah living in shelters, cars or...
    From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on November 27, 2003 at 5:48 p.m..
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    LOVe
    Wenn der Chronicle das sagt (Weblogs verändern das Lern-Organisations-Verhalten ), dann dauert es nur mehr ein Jahr bis au...
    From thomas n. burg | randgänge on November 27, 2003 at 5:46 p.m..
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    'Blogs in Education' roundtable discussion topics
    http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/ etug_roundtable/roundtable_discussion_topics.htm Tomorrow the B.C. Ed Tech Users Group gets together for its bi-annual face to face sessions. I'm hosting a short half-hour discussion on blogs in education, in part as a follow up to the online 'blogtalk' we did back in October. The roundtables are just supposed to be loose discus
    From EdTechPost on November 27, 2003 at 3:51 p.m..
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    Viviraldia: Un proyecto que avanza
    Interesante experiencia esta del post sincronizado para anunciar el avance del proyecto de blogs de ciudades de Viviraldia. He tenido ocasión de ver las plantillas beta y es un proyecto serio y muy atractivo. Ahora a por los contenidos, lo...
    From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 27, 2003 at 3:51 p.m..
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    Anunciados los Premios Bitacoras.net
    Finalmente, y luego del suspense, se han anunciado los II Premios Bitacoras.net. Mis más sinceras felicitaciones a los ganadores. Hay un PDF con los detalles de la votación. ¡Gracias por vuestros apoyos!...
    From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 27, 2003 at 3:51 p.m..
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    Moveable Type due for an upgrade...
    SixApart Announcements... The great news is that we've got a new version of Movable Type planned for release in the next couple months that is a response to the sort of features and requests we've been hearing from our current...
    From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on November 27, 2003 at 3:49 p.m..
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    Plädoyer-Jubiläum
    Vor 20 Jahren erschien das schweizerische Magazin "plädoyer" zum ersten Mal. Die Redaktion setzte sich zum Ziel, fortschrittliche Rechtspositionen zu...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 2:51 p.m..
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    Großdemo in Berlin
    Guten Abend. Nachdem ich mir mal den Bericht über die Ikeasache durchgelesen hab, nun auch mal was zur heutigen Demo in Berlin: Wir waren einfach fantastisch viele. Es gibt Schätzungen, dass wir etwa Zwanzigtausend waren und es war richtig gute Stimmung. Wir sind zum Abschluß vor dem Rotem Rathaus aufgelaufen und die Polizei drohte damit den Platz zu räumen, weil die Abschlußkundgebung eigentlich auf der anderen Seite des Platzes geplant war. Was die Beamten nicht wussten:...
    From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on November 27, 2003 at 2:50 p.m..
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    Timeline and Discussion Extraction Tools from UBC
    http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/michelle/ archives/000545.html Michelle Lamberson has a note about two really interesting tools recently released by the instructional technology support folks at UBC's Faculty of Arts. The first is a forms-based Flash Timelines builder. The second a tool to extract and then re-import distinct pieces of threaded discussions from inside WebCT. - SWL
    From EdTechPost on November 27, 2003 at 1:50 p.m..
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    List of journals indexed by...
    The journals in this list are regularly scanned for content relevant to users of the British Education Index. In some cases journals are only selectively indexed. Journal names are linked to their home pages on their publishers' sites.
    From BildungsBlog on November 27, 2003 at 1:50 p.m..
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    Gender Genie welches Geschlecht hat Ihr Text
    Wollte man immer schon wissen, ob man/frau eher einen femininen oder einen maskulinen Stil hat? Wenn ja, dieser Algorithmu...
    From thomas n. burg | randg&#228;nge on November 27, 2003 at 1:47 p.m..
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    Incompetence - the last taboo?
    Wall Street Journal: Know More Than the Boss? Here's How to Remain Sane. Interesting, but way too short. I'm often wondering why there isn't more of this kind of literature - I think many people badly need it. Dilbert and the Peter Principle are pretty much all there is to it. I'm doing my little part with -->
    From Seb&apos;s Open Research on November 27, 2003 at 1:47 p.m..
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    Lessig (Blog) Big in Japan
    Via my referrer logs comes the Lessig Blog--evidently as part of CNET Japan. Provided that this is what it looks like--a weblog adopted by a Big(ger) Media news outlet--I'm psyched. When do we get Lessig Blog @ CNET here in the U.S.?
    From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on November 27, 2003 at 1:45 p.m..
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    The life cycle of a high-performance workforce
    Ich habe diese Illustration kürzlich auf einer PeopleSoft-Präsentation gesehen - und war begeistert (pdf): "Efficiency in any company begins at the point of impact -- where an employee does a job. Beginning with corporate objectives, see how a real-time organization...
    From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 27, 2003 at 12:51 p.m..
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    iChat Breaker - Squidcam Makes Mac And PCs Videoconference At Once
    SquidCam is a video and audio chat application enabling you to have a conversation with one or more people using SquidCam over a network (LAN and/or Internet) connection. SquidCam features audio and video connectivity, text messaging, and an automated video answering machine, all without the need of a special service. Squidcam presents an extremely simple and intuitive user interface that takes zero time to be learned. Among the cutting-edge features are: 1) a variable video frame rate allowing the user fine control on the amount of bandwidth and quality used during a session. 2) a LAN-based v
    From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on November 27, 2003 at 12:51 p.m..
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    Römisches Kirchenrecht
    Exakt heute vor 20 Jahren wurde das römisch-katholische Kirchenrecht kodifiziert; vollständiger Text hier....
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 12:51 p.m..
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    El nombre de la arroba II
    Hoy consulté a la Real Academia Española acerca de la razón por la cual llamamos arroba a este signo: "@". Me han respondido gran gran celeridad y eficacia: La utilización del símbolo @ en informática se debe al inventor del...
    From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 27, 2003 at 12:50 p.m..
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    Information is not instruction...
    Here is a site designed as a handbook for creating learning-centered web sites. [via George Siemens] Comment: I'm keeping this around for later viewing. Have been receiving great comments from students in several of my online courses as to layout, design, organization of content, etc. So, I am on the right track. But, as is the case with most educators, I'm looking for ways to make the courses more learner-centered and effective. This seems lik
    From carvingCode on November 27, 2003 at 12:46 p.m..
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    Was ist eigentlich ein Student?
    Ich zitiere DIE ZEIT Nr.48 vom 20. November aus dem Artikel "Wie man in Deutschland studiert": "Fragt man die Studierenden, wie sie ihre Generation selbst nennen würden, sagen sie: Wir sind die ängstliche Generation, die suchende, die sicherheitsorientierte, die selbstbezogene, die konsumorientierte, die gleichgültige. Wir sind die Abbrecher. Im günstigsten Falle: Wir sind die Realisten. Die Pragmatiker. Wir lernen, uns ans Notwendige anzupassen." [via stadtphilosoph.de]
    From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on November 27, 2003 at 11:50 a.m..
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    Kongress in Salzburg
    "Sozialarbeit im Gesundheitswesen" war die Rahmenthematik, der sich der Kongress vom 24. und 25. November in Salzburg widmete. Dabei kamen auch Bildungsfragen zur Diskussion. Beim Schwerpunkt Online-Beratung ging es um Ansprüche und Erwartungen, die aufgrund dieser neuen Beratungsform an die Studiengänge der Sozialpädagogik gestellt sind. Online-Beratung bedürfe einer spezifischen Methodik, die zwar teilweise entwickelt sei, jedoch noch kaum gelehrt werde. Insgesamt seien sozialinformatische Schwerpunkte in der Lehre grösstenteils untervertreten. Der Kon
    From BildungsBlog on November 27, 2003 at 11:50 a.m..
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    Das Jahr der Kopisten
    Schämte man sich früher fürs geistige Abkupfern, so wird heute jeder Ideenklau gefeiert, wenn nur die Quote und der Umsatz...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 11:50 a.m..
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    Campaña incógnito
    "Algo va a pasar en la blogosfera a las 20.00 hs de España (GMT+1). Mantente atento a tus blogs favoritos"....
    From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 27, 2003 at 11:50 a.m..
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    Course Finder
    Use the Course Finder on this site to locate courses by location or type. I have recently added American listings to the following pages: National, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia....
    From Adult/Continuing Education on November 27, 2003 at 11:49 a.m..
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    Project Figaro is shutting down
    Project Figaro is shutting down. It lost its EU funding after Utrecht University, a major partner, withdrew from the project. The remaining partners hope to pursue the original project goals without EU funding. Figaro was an innovative, EU-funded initiative to improve the speed and efficiency of electronic scholarly publishing. The name is an acronym (Federated Initiative of GAP and Roquade) based on the Dutch Roquade project and t
    From FOS News on November 27, 2003 at 11:48 a.m..
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    Alternative Scheme Supports Creative Artists Through Refundable Tax
    The institution of copyrights has its origins in the feudal guild system. Copyrights provide an incentive for creative or artistic work by providing a state-enforced monopoly. Like any other monopoly, this system leads to enormous inefficiencies, and creates substantial enforcement problems. The size of these inefficiencies and the extent of the enforcement problems have increased dramatically in the Internet Age, as digital technology allows for the costless reproduction of written material, and recorded music and video material. The artistic freedom voucher (AFV) is an alternative mechanism
    From Robin Good&apos; Sharewood Tidings on November 27, 2003 at 10:50 a.m..
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    The Open Video Project
    The Open Video Projecthttp://www.open-video.org/With the increasing demand for digital videos in the educational and research communities, the Open Video Project aims to provide an easy to-use open source DV archive, while serving as a testbed for digital library research and development at the Interaction Design Laboratory. Currently the collection contains about 2,000 individual segments, in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and QuickTime formats, contributed by government agencies, universities and individual collectors. Most
    From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 27, 2003 at 10:49 a.m..
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    Desiderata of Interplanetary Internetworking
    Desiderata of Interplanetary Internetworkinghttp://snurl.com/362zDesiderata of Interplanetary Internetworking by Scott Burleigh, senior software engineer, NASA
    From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 27, 2003 at 10:49 a.m..
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    Solution for Part of Hilbert's 16th Problem
    Solution for Part of Hilbert's 16th Problemhttp://snurl.com/3633Elin Oxenhielm, a 22-year-old mathematics student at Stockholm University, may have solved part of one of the science's great problems. Next week an article will be published revealing her solution for part of Hilbert's 16th problem, Swedish news agency TT reports. The set of 23 problems was put forward by Prussian mathematician David Hilbert in 1900 as challenges for the 20th century. Three remain unsolved, numbers 6,8 and 16. Oxenhielm's s
    From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 27, 2003 at 10:49 a.m..
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    Thinking like an outsider
    The two paragraphs I found most interesting in danah's profile in the New York Times actually relate to her life before she became a researcher: Ms. Boyd grew in up in Lancaster, Pa., and was introduced to far-flung virtual communities in the early 1990's by her younger brother. Soon afterward, their mother wisely signed up for two Compuserve accounts. "It
    From Seb'apos;s Open Research on November 27, 2003 at 10:46 a.m..
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    Koch droht Uni-Präsident
    Hi! Habe gerade einen Artikel in der Frankfurter Rundschau gelesen, in dem Koch dem Kassler Uni Präsidenten droht. Hessens Ministerpräsident Roland Koch zeigte sich im Landtag empört darüber, dass Postlep den Studierenden in Kassel empfohlen hatte, die Proteste aus der Universität in den "politischen Raum" zu tragen. [...] Wenn dies möglich sei, müsse noch "viel Luft in einem Semester" an der Uni Kassel sein, warnte Koch. Er werde deshalb Wissenschaftsminister...
    From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on November 27, 2003 at 9:48 a.m..
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    'Broadband for Scotland' campaign
    From ScotFEICT on November 27, 2003 at 8:50 a.m..
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    Frankfurt: Senat lehnt Gesetzesvorhaben zur Einführung...
    Einstimmige Entscheidung des Senats FRANKFURT. In seiner heutigen turnusmäßigen Sitzung hat der Senat der Universität Frankfurt nach einer intensiven Diskussion mit etwa 60 protestierenden Studierenden einstimmig folgende Resolution (im Wortlaut) verabschiedet: 'Der Senat der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität spricht sich mit Entschiedenheit gegen die geplanten Maßnahmen im Rahmen der 'Operation Sichere Zukunft' aus, soweit diese die Substanz der Hochschule angreifen....
    From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on November 27, 2003 at 8:49 a.m..
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    School Newspaper Site
    I've been playing with the template in Manila and I must say between CSS and GoLive, I think I'm starting to figure it out. The long promised school newspaper site has gone through another iteration, but this is going to be it. Not exactly the way I wanted to do it, but the design works, I think, and the kids can update it. I might take a similar look for a newsmag idea I'm toying with for my class. The thing I most like about this new site is the soon to be growing list of student blogging links in the nav bar. (Here's
    From weblogged News on November 27, 2003 at 8:47 a.m..
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    Stuffed nanotubes could enable high-density storage - Christoph Hammerschmidt, EETimes.de
    Researchers here have succeeded in loading carbon nanotubes with magnetic materials, an advance that could enable the use of the tiny cylinders for making extremely high-density data storage devices. The Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper und Werkstofffor
    From Techno-News Blog on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    Cellular Number Portability: Really Such A Big Deal? - Kenneth G. Robinson, Ubiquity
    The FCC ruling on number portability may have little effect on an already competitive market. MCI's longtime economist, Dr. Roger Noll, once assailed the "All-Channel Receiver Act" -- that Kennedy-era law which mandated VHF and UHF television tuner co
    From Techno-News Blog on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    Homeland Security simulates terrorist cyberattack - Ted Bridis, The Associated Press
    The Homeland Security Department's first simulation of a terrorist attack on computer, banking and utility systems exposed problems with the ways victimized industries communicated vital information during the crisis, the government's new cybersecurity
    From Techno-News Blog on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    'Teach from home' - PETE McCARTHY, NJ.com
    There will be a way to help CC-TEC teacher Joy Brown save her sick days as she continues cancer treatment. Members of the Cumberland County Technical Education Center board approved a resolution Tuesday that will allow Brown to teach licensed practitio
    From Educational Technology on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    Idaho State University: Biology Resources for Active Learning
    The Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University offers this website as part of a project "to enhance teacher preparation in the sciences by emphasizing inquiry and experimental approaches to science teaching." The site offers one or
    From Educational Technology on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    DOD buys Blackboard technology - Matthew French, Federal Computer Week
    The Defense Department early this week awarded an e-learning contract to Washington, D.C.-based Blackboard Inc. to supply software and systems to Defense schools around the world.While the size of the contract -- $400,000 over three years -- is relativ
    From Online Learning Update on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    An Examination of an Alternative Mode for Synchronous Discussion in Distance Education - Carolyn Nobes, NAWEB 2003
    Abstract: This paper investigates how oevoice over the computer software compares to audio teleconferencing with a digital bridging system for synchronous course delivery. A research project was carried out with two groups of undergraduate business stu
    From Online Learning Update on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    Master Planners: Faculty Development - Michael Rodgers and David Starrett, Syllabus
    As technology becomes more important to the institutional mission, faculty development programs must assume a more central role in IT planning. The advent of the World Wide Web stimulated unprecedented technology spending by universities worldwide. Un
    From Online Learning Update on November 27, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..
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    Gib mir mein Recht zurück
    Regieren in Deutschland wird immer komplizierter. Die Föderalismuskommission muss das Knäuel der Kompetenzen von Bund und Ländern entwirren,- ein Essay...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 7:49 a.m..
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    Infoletter "Arbeitsrecht"
    Der Infoletter "Arbeitsrecht" (16 S. PDF) im November 2003 der Handelskammer Hamburg informiert u.a. über AGB-Kontrolle von Arbeitsverträgen, Entsendung von...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 7:49 a.m..
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    Aktionsvorschlag: Montagsdemos und Konsumboykott
    Liebe Studies! Zunächst einmal muss ich sagen, dass ich es richtig finde, dass der Streik, so wie er in den letzten zwei Wochen stattfand nicht weitergeführt wird. Ich bin allerdings keineswegs für eine Kapitulation – wir sollten uns also Aktionen überlegen, die mit dem normalen Unibetrieb vereinbar sind. Fakt ist meiner Meinung nach, dass die durchgeführten Aktionen nicht die gewünschte Aufmerksamkeit erregten und dass dieses „Dahinplätschern“...
    From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on November 27, 2003 at 7:48 a.m..
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    Happy Thanksgiving
    Tess, Tucker, Wendy, my home, good friends, Hunterdon County, food in the fridge, soy, a great job, cars that work, clothes in the closet, family, college buddies, the Cubs, sunrises, Anna Quindlen, a fireplace, heat, recycling, an Internet connection that works, Web logs and edbloggers, writing, Bill Moyers, 6-year old art, Amazon.com, the Delaware River, Hatteras, books, my students, online bill pay, nine years of not smoking, third straight Turkey Trot, Unitarian Universalism, clean air, well water, old photos, the loft, and the lingeri
    From weblogged News on November 27, 2003 at 7:47 a.m..
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    Constructive Green party power in close elections
    I spoke to some U.S. Green Party campaign organizers and to Ralph Nader this weekend about ways that the Green party could constructively exert its influence in close elections where Democrats and Republicans are the two dominant parties.
    From kuro5hin.org on November 27, 2003 at 7:45 a.m..
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    Ärztliche Behandlungsfehler
    Am 29.11.2003 tagt der Arbeitskreis "Ärzte und Juristen" der AWMF in öffentlicher Sitzung zum Thema "Die Arbeit der Gutachter- und...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 6:50 a.m..
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    Nach Gutsherrenart
    Auf Gerster warten am Freitag im Ausschuss Abgeordnete, die über alle Fraktionsgrenzen hinweg auf nichts so erpicht sind, als daß...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 6:50 a.m..
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    U.S. Government Recalls
    U.S. Government Recallshttp://www.recalls.gov/To provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to create www.recalls.gov -- a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls." The participating agencies are the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the -->
    From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 27, 2003 at 6:50 a.m..
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    Berlin: Protestaktion zur Ikeaeröffnung
    StudentInnen haben die Eröffnung des dritten Ikeas in Berlin am heutigen Tage für eine derzeit noch andauernde Protestaktion genutzt. Dies meldete Radio Fritz in den letzten Minuten. Mit den Ikeapreisschildern nachempfundenen Preisschildern habe man vor und in dem neuen Kaufhaus auf die Spar- und Gebührenpläne aufmerksam gemacht: "Studieren: früher 0 Euro, jetzt 500 Euro" oder "Lernst Du noch oder sparst Du schon?". Im Innern haben sich die StudentInnen auf Betten und Couchen...
    From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on November 27, 2003 at 6:49 a.m..
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    Scientists push for open access
    The PLoS story is discussed in the latest online edition of Al Jazeera , one of the most popular newspaper in the arab world .The article also discusses the different perspectives of the open access publication and also includes a short note about the criticisms against this model.
    From FOS News on November 27, 2003 at 6:48 a.m..
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    Jedi Academy Can't Feel the Force
    The new Star Wars video game, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, garners two and a half stars out of four. The plot is diluted by its pick-and-choose format, the graphics lack luster and Jedi jumping is flawed.
    From Wired News on November 27, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..
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    Time Runs Out for Tommy
    Despite a stem-cell transplant, a 4-year-old California boy with a rare genetic disorder dies, crushing his parents' only hope that at least one of their three children might survive.
    From Wired News on November 27, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..
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    Another GOP Break-in vs. Dems
    It may not be Watergate, but the Republicans have done it again. This time, a staffer to Sen. Orrin Hatch is accused of stealing files from Democratic computers. Unlike the stonewalling Nixon, Hatch has apologized and is cooperating.
    From Wired News on November 27, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..
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    Swappable Hebrew Music Now Online
    NMC Music, an Israeli record company, launches a pay music-download service for Hebrew tunes. It will offer MP3 music files without restrictions on file swapping, saying its focus is to help customers get music legally.
    From Wired News on November 27, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..
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    'DVD Jon' Takes Crack at ITunes
    The young Norwegian hacker, notorious for developing a program to break DVD security codes, turns his talents to iTunes. Jon Lech Johansen creates a program that circumvents iTunes' anticopying program.
    From Wired News on November 27, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..
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    I'm a Maverick, Not a Mogul!
    Notorious loudmouth Mark Cuban and his business partner, Todd Wagner, sold Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Now they own Landmark Theatres, and Cuban thinks he's ready to turn filmmaking on its ear. An interview with Xeni Jardin from Wired magazine.
    From Wired News on November 27, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..
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    Baseball Throws Web a Curve
    It's a legal showdown waiting to happen. Major League Baseball sees money in Web-based, real-time accounts of games, and it wants a piece of the action. By Mark McClusky.
    From Wired News on November 27, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..
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    Kein einseitiges Kündigungsrecht für Provider
    Eine Vertragsklausel in Provider-Verträgen ist unwirksam, wenn der Provider den Vertrag einseitig zu jeder Zeit mit einer Frist von vier...
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 5:50 a.m..
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    Chat mit Paul Kirchhof
    Wie das LAWgical meldet, ist heute Paul Kirchhof (Beitrag im Handakte "WebLAWg" vom 21.11.2003) im Chat von "tacheles.02"....
    From Handakte WebLAWg on November 27, 2003 at 5:50 a.m..
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    Salam Pax en español
    Este mes ha salido a las librerías la versión en español del libro que recopila extractos del famoso warblog de Salam Pax: Where is Raed ? Se publica en la colección Arena Abierta de Mondadori como Salam Pax. El internauta...
    From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 27, 2003 at 5:50 a.m..
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    Turning mind into matter
    Thomas Davenport and H. James Wilson have written an article on business and technology innovation. To quote: Any technology executive who wants to advance a slate of emerging technologies should become very familiar with ways to foster new business and...
    From Column Two on November 27, 2003 at 5:47 a.m..
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    The CBC archives are amazing -- so much fascinatin ...
    The CBC archives are amazing -- so much fascinating content, and they've got educational activities with lesson plans and supporting documentation for many of the historical pieces. Videos, documentaries, archival material, radio...all available online for free. Check out the complete list, or look at the wealth of content they have for the
    From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on November 27, 2003 at 4:49 a.m..
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    Russ sent me this link a few weeks ago, but I didn ...
    Russ sent me this link a few weeks ago, but I didn't really look further into it until today: LeapFrog's Leapster hand-held device hits stores. The Leapster is an educational handheld device intended to go head-to-head against the GameBoys of the world. Would kids choose it? Have they been able to actually make learning fun? LeapFrog has been very, very successful by targeting anxious parents
    From Jeremy Hiebert&apos;s headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on November 27, 2003 at 4:49 a.m..
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    GRAMMY® Signature Schools Harmonize With MENC: The National Association for Music Education
    Foundation and Association Honor Outstanding High School Music Programs [PRWEB Nov 27, 2003]
    From PR Web on November 27, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..
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    ZIM-Pro: A vision to decentralized instant messaging
    Zudha Information Technology announces the release of Zudha Instant Messenger (ZIM-Pro) version 1.2, a next generation and secure peer-to-peer instant messaging solution designed specifically for small to medium enterprises and all IM users in general. ZIM-Pro works on Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems and is freely downloadable at http://zimpro.zudha.com for evaluation [PRWEB Nov 27, 2003]
    From PR Web on November 27, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..
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    How to Obey Schools Ruling? Pataki and Bloomberg Differ
    The ruling from New York's highest court that every student in New York has a constitutional right to a sound basic education has pitted New York City against the state.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    Ailing Coach's Removal Roils Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross found itself caught between ideology and athletics after it removed Dan Allen as its football coach.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    4 Officers Hurt at School
    Four Nassau County police officers were injured Wednesday afternoon as they tried to break up a disturbance involving roughly 100 people outside Uniondale High School.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    Retired Teachers Have Florida, Not the Schools, on Their Minds
    Since January, 5,480 teachers have retired, accelerating a recent trend that mostly reflects an aging of the public school workforce.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    Change on Early Admission Produces Application Shifts
    Changes in the early admissions rules at Harvard, Yale and Stanford have produced sharp shifts in where students applied early this year.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    L.I. Athletes Are Said to Face Juvenile Trial
    Three varsity football players from Long Island accused of sexually abusing freshman teammates will not be prosecuted as adults, a Pennsylvania judge ruled.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    So a Guy Walks Into a School in a Skirt . . .
    Even now, no one is entirely sure why Kevin Dougherty, 15, showed up for school one day last month wearing a floral skirt and matching scarf tied jauntily around his neck.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    More Questions Raised on School Security in Mount Vernon
    School officials in Mount Vernon, N.Y., are reviewing their security procedures after the police arrested an 18-year-old man who they say signed a 14-year-old girl out of school under false pretenses.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    School Is Haven When Children Have No Home
    A federal law that requires local districts to enroll homeless students has forced public schools to become safety nets of last resort.
    From New York Times: Education on November 27, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..
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    A Blogger Runs for Parliament -- in Iran
    Hossein Derakhshan, who pretty much single-handedly jumpstarted political blogging in Iran, is running for political office. This is going to...
    From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on November 27, 2003 at 2:46 a.m..
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    The way out
    This guy's walking down a street, when he falls in a hole. (144 words)
    From dive into mark on November 27, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..
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    Creating a Custom RSS Feed Aggregator
    Rich Site Summary feeds, better known as RSS, are a great example of how XML is making a major impact...
    From Disruptive Technology on November 27, 2003 at 12:49 a.m..
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    Improved Extended Entry Script and Template Code for MT
    ScriptyGoddess has had (for quite a while) a script and template code that allow inline expansion and collapse of extended...
    From Disruptive Technology on November 27, 2003 at 12:49 a.m..
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    The Print Shop Mac OS X Edition 1.0 finally ships
    MacCentral received word Wednesday that at long last, Broderbund's The Print Shop Mac OS X Edition 1.0 has finally shipped...
    From Digital Hub on November 27, 2003 at 12:49 a.m..
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    Thanksgiving Day
    It's Thursday morning in Hong Kong, Thanksgiving Day for Americans -- our best holiday by far. We celebrate the blessings...
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 27, 2003 at 12:46 a.m..
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    PATRIOT Act Quietly Expanded
    From the linked article: Congress approved a bill on Friday that expands the reach of the Patriot Act, reduces oversight of the FBI and intelligence agencies and, according to critics shifts the balance of power away from the legislature and the courts. A provision of an intelligence spending bill will expand the power of the FBI to subpoena business documents and transactions from a broader range of business -- everything from libraries to travel agencies to eBay -- without first seeking approval from a judge.
    From kuro5hin.org on November 27, 2003 at 12:45 a.m..
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    The Internet Resources Newsletter
    From ScotFEICT on November 26, 2003 at 11:49 p.m..
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    Improved Extended Entry Script and Template Code for MT
    ScriptyGoddess has had (for quite a while) a script and template code that allow inline expansion and collapse of extended entry text. To generally make it easier to read and understand as well as fix some problems in it, I...
    From Movable Type on November 26, 2003 at 11:49 p.m..
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    Jay Cross Announces Workflow Learning Institute
    Jay Cross announces the Workflow Learning Institute on InternetTime blog: "Introducing the Workflow Learning Institute" "...incorporating contextual collaboration, learning management, workflow management, workforce analytics, personalization, and human capital management technology ... [this] creates a new form of learning technology that is individualized, immediate, workflow-driven, and contextual. We call it Workflow Learning
    From e-Learning Eclectic on November 26, 2003 at 11:45 p.m..
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