Edu_RSS ~ January 8, 2004

Most recent update: January 8, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: VLEs: Beyond the Fringe online conference From ScotFEICT on January 8, 2004 at 10:50 p.m.. (43473) Back Wow, back at work, back at blogging, back at RSSing and back in this strange universe that I can just *disappear* from. Becoming an RSS hermit isn't hard... just don't turn on and drop out. Basically what happened (and is still happening) was the gradual escalation from problems and distress into full-blown warfare concerning the custody and welfare of my daughter. Very horrible and not going away (court dates in March and September) but I've had a lot of time over the last month or so to come to terms with what's happening, to do everything I can do and to f From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 10:48 p.m.. (43472) Memetics meets Granovetter Jim Moore:  A theoretical note on why blogs matter. I loved this explanation of how weblogs can prove to be influential on society at large, in spite of a low overall blogger density; this connects with some of my own thinking on information routing in knowledge networks. Let me quote extensively (emphasis mine): From Seb's Open Research on January 8, 2004 at 10:46 p.m.. (43471) Create and delete your own blog comments If you host your blog comments or post comments at PyCS, you can now delete comments whether or not you have a blog! Excellent for spam removal! From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (43470) Dave Shea is not leaving Vancouver, mea culpa! I was wrong. My apologies to Dave for guessing wrong! Glad you are sticking around! From Roland Tanglao&apos;s Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (43469) Navigator #1 My Garmin 2610 GPS navigator arrived this afternoon, on time, from CompuPlus, a cheapie online merchant. But I had to help my son with his homework when all I wanted to do was play with my new toy. Damn homework! The unit seems smaller than I remember it from my friend's car. But such is the illusion of consumerism. The installation instructions are mediocre. The software installed pretty easily despite that, although I'm not sure that my registration went through. I got a mysterious error code. But the mapping software seems to be unlocked, so I'm proceeding. When you turn... From Joho the Blog on January 8, 2004 at 9:47 p.m.. (43468) Wikipedia timelines Whoa. Wikipedia -- the free, user-edited, almost-3-years-old, 191466-article-strong, encyclopedia that's just raised more than 30,000 dollars from surfers like you -- features a truckload of hyperlinked timelines, many of them quite detailed. Astronomy, biology, chemistry... From Seb&apos;s Open Research on January 8, 2004 at 9:46 p.m.. (43467) Soundblox Laszlo Widget Marc Canter has got a groovy, personalized embedded MP3 player on his blog, built with Laszlo XML-based Flash presentation server.  Good stuff! From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on January 8, 2004 at 9:46 p.m.. (43466) Learning and predictability Semi-incoherent thoughts about learning. It's about predictability. That is, the reason we care in business about learning is because we care about predictability: Predictable performance Predictable results Predictable revenue Predictable customer response and repeated buying Unfortunately, this predictability has to come out of a chaotic individual and social system. Does this mean anything, or is it just "profoundly obvious?" From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 8, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (43465) Business troubles continue 6,500 to 7,500 tech firms among the "walking dead." Are the business problems of the tech sector over? Not according to Martin Pichinson. "Pichinson, a self-described "doctor of reality" who helps liquidate companies, says he wouldn't have moved from Los Angeles to Palo Alto a few months ago had he not smelled more high-tech trouble looming." [CNN] More reason to be From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 8, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (43464) How to make a faceted classification and put It on the web William Denton has written a truly excellent article on using faceted classification on the web, in which step-by-step practical details are provided on creating and applying faceted classification in the real world. To quote: This paper will attempt to bridge... From Column Two on January 8, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43463) Liquid layouts the easy way Russ Weakley has written another excellent tutorial, this time on using CSS to create liquid layouts. To quote: This article explains one method of achieving a successful liquid layout as well as providing basic definitions of liquid, fixed-width and em-driven... From Column Two on January 8, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43462) Enterprise IA as intellectual property Lou Rosenfeld has written a blog entry on information architecture as intellectual property. To quote: And down the road, we might start seeing enterprises take their information architecture a bit more seriously, seeking to establish it as intellectual property treated... From Column Two on January 8, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43461) Dialog is a resource Denham Grey: Shared tacit knowledge formed in a community through conversation and dialog is a very valuable corporate resource, well-protected from competitors, impossible to copy and requires special conditions to replicate elsewhere. Very well said. I'd never thought about dialog (dialogue?) in this way, but it makes plenty of sense. From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 8, 2004 at 8:46 p.m.. (43460) NewsFan 1.2 - RSS web news aggregator. NewsFan update [MacUpdate - Mac OS X] NewsFan Main features; Speed! Speed! Its download and list the headlines in seconds.... From Disruptive Technology on January 8, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (43459) JAlbum - 4.2.1 Web photo album generator w/index pages & slideshows [VersionTracker: Mac OS X]... From Digital Hub on January 8, 2004 at 7:49 p.m.. (43458) Berlin: "Streikbrecherin unter falscher Flagge" (taz) CDU-Landesvorständlerin Astrid Jantz agitiert an der Humboldt-Uni für Streikabbruch. Dabei verschweigt sie ihre Parteiposten. Auf Nachfrage nennt sie gar einen falschen Namen. Das von ihr vertretene KompromissForum bezeichnet sie als überparteilich Eine treibende Kraft hinter dem Streikabbruch an der Humboldt-Universität vom Montag ist führendes Mitglied von CDU und Junger Union (JU). Jene Wirtschaftsstudentin, die sich als "Astrid" vorstellte und mit einer starken Rede... From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on January 8, 2004 at 7:49 p.m.. (43457) Darmstadt: "Studenten drohen mit Zahlungsboykott" "Wir sind noch lange nicht fertig und werden uns immer wieder einmischen." Dieser kämpferisch angelegten Erklärung des Allgemeinen Studentenausschusses (Asta) der Technischen Universität zu Hochschulplänen auf Landes- und Bundesebene werden möglicherweise bald Taten folgen. Der Asta arbeitet zusammen mit anderen Studentenvertretungen in Hessen an einer juristischen Klage gegen das im Dezember von der Landesregierung verabschiedete Studienguthabengesetz. Er will außerdem... From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on January 8, 2004 at 7:49 p.m.. (43456) Ten steps for cleaning up information pollution Jakob Nielsen has written an article on cleaning up information pollution. To quote: Better prioritization, fewer interruptions, and concentrated information that's easy to find and manage helps people become more productive and stop wasting their colleagues' time.... From Column Two on January 8, 2004 at 7:47 p.m.. (43455) Archive for cms-list There is now an archive for the ever-excellent cms-list, the most active and constructive mailing list on content management issues. [Thanks to CMSWatch.]... From Column Two on January 8, 2004 at 7:47 p.m.. (43454) Should a "Big 5" Firm Implement Your CMS? Matthew Clapp has written an article on choosing a CMS consulting firm, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of "Big 5" firms and smaller consultancies. To quote: A very common question I hear is, "on whom should I rely to... From Column Two on January 8, 2004 at 7:47 p.m.. (43453) More vendor consolidation despite ECM market growth IDM reports on a recent Meta Group report covering the future of enterprise content management (ECM). To quote: While the worldwide enterprise content management (ECM) market will continue to grow at a healthy rate, further vendor consolidation is expected in... From Column Two on January 8, 2004 at 7:47 p.m.. (43452) Blogs and pogo sticks The 2002-vintage Caslon Analytics profile on weblogs is still being updated. Thorough, crunchy, sarcastic in places - I like it. Here's a prediction I quoted from that report back then. It (still?) hasn't come true but the author(s) left it in: we suspect that the blog phenomenon is about to peak and that most will soon be stored in the part of cyberspace dedicated to From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 p.m.. (43451) In Which Paul Andrews Sees a Cool New Blogging App... So Paul Andrews , journalist and blogger extraordinaire, is looking over my shoulder at CES. I'm showing him the beta version of an OS X app called Ecto, the follow-on to Kung-Log, a favorite outside-the-browser blog posting tool for the OS. It stores postings locally on my disk, and then, when I tell it to, uploads them to the blog itself. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 p.m.. (43450) Repository Folly... Alan's writing about what he calls "repository folly," where people get so hung up on the "R-word" that they forget about what's important. Metadata becomes king, content and users fall through the cracks. I couldn't agree more. Metadata, and the "R-Word" should be merely tools, serving specific roles, building to a well defined goal. They shouldn't be the whole widget. Nobody in their right mind would care about either. I think it's got to be all about getting compelling content created and used. Everything else becomes means to that end. Including CAREO, Pachyderm, t From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (43449) OPML I discovered this site where you can share the feeds you're subscribed to, find out who subscribes to your feed, etc. through OLDaily. I share Stephen's opion: "This is very cool". Try it! Use it! I'd love to see an... From ErikLog on January 8, 2004 at 6:50 p.m.. (43448) Magnolia Saw the movie Magnolia yesterday. Have rarely been so moved so completely unexpectedly - I was about to start my "nightshift", when I joined my beloved for a glass of wine and what I expected to be 15 minutes of... From ErikLog on January 8, 2004 at 6:50 p.m.. (43447) Fotos und Monster Ich habe den Text zur WeblogPhänomenologie etwas überarbeitet. Er liegt jetzt als PDF (738KB) vor. Entweder über die Navigation links oder hier: MonsterMedia . Oder auf den kleinen Lautsprecher (rechts) klicken oder aber a... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 8, 2004 at 6:47 p.m.. (43446) Warum nur Ein interessantes Blog zum Thema Filmkritik , nur leider, leider kein RSS. Leute, das ist gemein, ich werde da nicht mithalten können. From thomas n. burg | randg&#228;nge on January 8, 2004 at 6:47 p.m.. (43445) Learning Commons Server now updated Almost done updating the Learning Commons webserver to MacOSX 10.3 Server. Process went ok. Not as smoothly as I'd hoped, but better than I'd feared. The installer wouldn't let me do an "Archive and Install" so all I had to choose from was "Erase and Install" and "Update" - 2 options I never use when installing MacOSX. I chose "Update". It kept all settings, accounts, etc... and the whole process was pretty painless. Dealing with MySQL was a different story. I took Alan's advice and installed the standard MySQL distro rather than using the built-in MySQL. It's working From D&apos;Arcy Norman&apos;s Learning Commons Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (43444) Beyond Bookmarks Beyond Bookmarkshttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/12/031223071958.htm People are using the Web more than ever for their work-related and personal research, but keeping track of valuable URLs is just getting harder. William Jones and Harry Bruce at the University of Washington's Information School and Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research looked into the many tricks that people use to save "found" information (bookmarking, sticky notes, self-addressed e-mail, etc.) but conclu From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 8, 2004 at 5:51 p.m.. (43443) Alexa Page Rank Alexa Page Rank http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/traffic_rankings.html?p=Dest_W_t_40_R1Type in a URL and find out not Alexa's analysis of the site's traffic rank, but also related sites, a capsule description, an analysis of how people use the site, and an opportunity to write a review of the site on Amazon. You can also browse by subject or browse the top 500 sites. Alexa is a partner of Google and an Amazon company. [January 9 NeatNew and ExLibris] From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 8, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (43442) Knowledge Hound Knowledge Houndhttp://www.knowledgehound.com/Knowledge Hound claims to be the Web's biggest directory of free how-tos. For the do-it-yourselfer this could be "heaven" .... From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 8, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (43441) Grokker May Trump Google In Opening Up the Invisible Web Grokker May Trump Google In Opening Up the Invisible Webhttp://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,563090,00.htmlHad any good "info-revelations" lately? A re-tooled software application called Grokker may be just the ticket for an infusion of serendipitous little wonders. Grokker (available at Groxis.com) takes the raw output of a query and organizes it (via visual representation) into categories and subcategories. When you type in, say, "nanotechnology," Grokker sifts thr From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 8, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (43440) Mt-Blacklist - Day 2 Okay, I've gotten my first spam (or at least what I consider spam) since installing MT-Blacklist. This spam is a bit odd, becuase the name ("addy"), e-mail ("add" at "mail.com"), *and* URL (domain "uuo.com") are all bogus. The comment ("Hello<>... From Movable Type on January 8, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (43439) Things to do while you are waiting for the snow to melt... Buzznet - timlauer Just signed up for Buzznet. It is one of those "post your images from your camera phone on the web..." services. Has a nice JavaScript that lets you syndicate your images. See below...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 8, 2004 at 5:49 p.m.. (43438) Historical world ocean climatological data project CLIWOC, Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850, is a European-Union funded project to gather data from ships' logbooks found in archives of several European countries and "make freely available for the scientific community the world's first daily oceanic climatological database for the period 1750 to 1850." (Source: Librarian's Index to the Internet; see also a recent BBC News article on the project.) From FOS News on January 8, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (43437) Repository Folly... By rule, I usually avoid use of the "R-word" (repository, too close to the "S-word"), but wanted to launch, here just a few notches into a new calendar, my pessimism on the aspirations of those creating these magical collections of "learning objects." The folly is that educators will give up some time to share information about resources they have created or used. They pay lip service to the concept but the action is not there. A bigger folly is that they would have the gumption to complete a "meta-data" form on top of that. I am more convinced is that the loop is far from closed as we lack From cogdogblog on January 8, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (43436) The Ray of MLX Hope: Nutrition Faculty As a brighter followup to the repository folly, I am excited by an event planned next week by a lead faculty member in the Nutrition area at one of our colleges. As she explained, there are not a large number of faculty in this discipline across of colleges and many of the classroom teachers are adjunct faculty, so as a group, they were interested in creating a collection of sharable teaching resources they could all draw from as needed. "Wow maybe we should build..... nahhh, it already exists!" Luc From cogdogblog on January 8, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (43435) MFA New Media Heute mal etwas aus meinem Alltag. Nach einer aufwändigen, aber wichtigen Diskussion konnte ich in meiner Fabrik einen Studienplan zu einem MFA New Media durchbringen. Das ist allerdings erst der erste Schritt, werde her w... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on January 8, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (43434) Luft zum Atmen Warum Wifi bald wie die Luft sein wird: gratis und beinahe omnipräsent. Der Economist hat unlängst einen schönen Artikel über Kaffeehäuser veröffentlicht. Und zwar eine kulturhistorische Revue vom 17. Jahrhundert. Sehr sch... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on January 8, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (43433) Fotos und Monster Ich habe den Text zur WeblogPhänomenologie etwas überarbeitet. Er liegt jetzt als PDF (738KB) vor. Entweder über die Navigation links oder hier: MonsterMedia . Oder auf den kleinen Lautsprecher (rechts) klicken oder aber a... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on January 8, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (43432) Right Wing Parodies Itself The advertisement now being promoted by a right-wing group calling itself the Club for Growth is hilarious. So funny, that I assumed it was a parody when I first heard about it. But no, it seems that these folks are serious. Let's all hope that the boys and girls in this club will someday grow up. From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on January 8, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (43431) Internal Memo Confirms IBM Move to Linux Desktop A few years ago, IBM gained a large price advantage by installing its own office suite on the computers it sells, rather than Microsoft's Office - I know because I bought two IBM desktops and a laptop at prices hundreds of dollars less than competing systems from Gateway, Dell, etc. So this next phase of IBM's plan is logical - to replace Windows with Linux in-house, probably as a prequel to using Linux as its primary distribution OS, thus undercutting the competition (who must add the cost of Windows to the sticke From OLDaily on January 8, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (43430) Types of Information This nice link shared yesterday on the IETF discussion list is one of the better summaries of the types of information I've seen. Well designed for web-based reading, this page combines images, tables and examples to clearly elucidate the concept. By combining Clark's types with Merrill's performance levels, we get a "content performance matrix learning model". By Kathy Tyner, January, 2004 [Refer][--> From OLDaily on January 8, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (43429) Interview with Bernie Trilling To the 3 Rs, argues Bernie Trilling, we need to add 7 Cs in order to prepare today's children for tomorrow's work force: "critical thinking and doing, creativity, collaboration, cross cultural understanding, communication skills, computing skills, and career and learning self-reliance" (the last one is a bit of a stretch). Trilling, senior director of Think.Com, bases his list on more than 40 workshops with groups of educators, and parents. It's a good list. There isn't item in it I would not consider essential. By Mitch W From OLDaily on January 8, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (43428) Students tune in to View Surgery Six years ago in The Future of Online Learning I wrote that investments in videoconferencing technology were a waste of money. And, of course, the money spent on dedicated systems using expensive ISDN connections were just that. But with the advent of video over IP and with the emergence of really big screens (thanks to digital projectors), everything changes. That's why, this year, I predicted a "resurgence of videoconferencing." Th From OLDaily on January 8, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (43426) OPML Generator This is very cool. OPML stands for Outline Processer Markup Language. It's a type of XML format used to make lists, such as the list of websites you read or RSS feeds you subscribe to. A number of RSS headline readers have started generating OPML files so people can share their reading lists - if you have an RSS reader you can find out how to locate your OPML file here. Then, the missing link: Dave Winer From OLDaily on January 8, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (43425) Wisconsin Educational Technology Sharing Wisconsin Educational Technology Sharing This center now has a blog for their organization and members.... From EdBlogger Praxis on January 8, 2004 at 4:50 p.m.. (43424) Open Letter to Frank Gannon on EMBO journal price increases This letter from Bas Savenije, Chair, SPARC Europe, to Frank Gannon, executive director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), was forwarded to LIBLICENSE-L, and merits mention here, especially in light of Gannon's editorial from earlier this month in which he discussed the ethics of journal subscription profits. (See earlier posting on the latter.) Savenije decries EMBO's "bundling" th From FOS News on January 8, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (43423) To Tell The Truth Even though employees agree they are prepared to hear it, less than half believe they actually get credible information from their companies. From CyberAtlas on January 8, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (43422) Indigenous Online Teaching Many individuals and institutions are now teaching online. Many instructors have tried to do “the responsible thing” and use “proven, battle-tested” classroom teaching methods in their online courses. And at first this seems the only ethical, responsible thing to do… From autounfocus on January 8, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (43421) Day 3 of Winter Storm We have been out of school for three days now because of snow, ice, and freezing rain. Today everything is covered with a coat of ice. Hopefully the temperature is going to rise later today and start to melt this stuff... I took the bus out to my school last night to check on the building. Found a busted water pipe in one of the classrooms. One of the school district maintenance guys talked me through shutting off the water for that room, but boy what a mess... Plan to head in this afternoon and see how the clean... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 8, 2004 at 3:49 p.m.. (43420) Hairy Club for Growth Halley is making light of the Club for Growth today, and manages to work us around to a Joe Conason piece on the hypocrisy of rich addicts who are hardliners about drug users except when they're them (so to speak).... From Joho the Blog on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 p.m.. (43419) How Shapers of Your Future Write Ahhh, there is nothing like literate, thoughtful email feedback... if only it happened more often than Arizona blizzards. For more than 9 years, we have gotten a stream of emails via our free, online Writing HTML Tutorial, most coming from lesson 12 where we teach you how to write a hyperlink that triggers an email. At the time, I had the naively bright idea to provide a test link that opens a blank email message that is sent to me, so for the past 9 years, I get almost daily From cogdogblog on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 p.m.. (43418) Follow up on Real's Store News.com tries to explain it. Kevin Doran and Brad Hill (not online yet) have excellent critiques.  Kevin reports that RealPlayer10 doesn't enable clear access to Rhapsody, thus going against reports that the store would "whet appetites for the" subscription service. I wonder: why didn't they integrate the two together a la Napster 2.0?  Brad discusses myriad technic From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 8, 2004 at 3:47 p.m.. (43417) Edu_RSS, Quebec style Clément is keeping tabs on Québécois sites with RSS feeds that relate to education, and Mario (who's at the Autrans gathering in France right now, le chanceux) has contributed a few additions in his comments. Add your own! (Let me repeat that in French for Google's sake: sites et carnets québecois avec RSS traitant d'éducation< From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 8, 2004 at 3:47 p.m.. (43416) Copyfight Club JD Lasica, comments @ A Copyfighter's Musings on the number of people who admitted to filesharing in the much-discussed Pew phone survey: "The first rule of -- From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on January 8, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (43415) Solum the First Amendment, Copyright and Originalism Prof. Larry Solum discusses a recent panel on copyright at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on Legal Theory Blog (Blogging from Atlanta 05, Association of American Law Schools, Section on Constitutional Law, Copyright and the... From The Importance Of on January 8, 2004 at 2:53 p.m.. (43414) Weblearning Resources This page, one of three in the series, is an educators' resource for delivery and management of education via the Internet. It focuses on web based learning for higher education, especially for at-distance, adult learners but has application for web based learning in general. This web site attempts to informally catalog (and occasionally compare, contrast and editorialize on) the tools, topics and issues of interest to those developing for web-based learning initiatives. http://www.knowledgeability.biz/weblear From BildungsBlog on January 8, 2004 at 2:51 p.m.. (43413) Day 3 or Winter Storm We have been out of school for three days now because of snow, ice, and freezing rain. Today everything is covered with a coat of ice. Hopefully the temperature is going to rise later today and start to melt... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 8, 2004 at 2:49 p.m.. (43412) Day 3 of Winter Storm We have been out of school for three days now because of snow, ice, and freezing rain. Today everything is covered with a coat of ice. Hopefully the temperature is going to rise later today and start to melt... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 8, 2004 at 2:49 p.m.. (43411) IntraLibrary slots into Australian interoperability research project The Collaborative Online and Information Services (COLIS) interoperability demonstrator project, now continued as the Interaction of IT Systems and Repositories (IISR) project, is to swap out its existing learning object repository with Intrallect's IntraLibrary. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on January 8, 2004 at 2:49 p.m.. (43410) Information Science and connections to learning theory Information Science and connections to learning theory. In a (frustrated) attempt to get an article together for The Journal, I started coming across references to Tom Stonier and Claude Shannon (also look at this and at --> From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 8, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (43409) Interview with Michael Hart of Project Gutenberg Sam Vaknin, Project Gutenberg's anabasis, United Press International, January 7, 2004. Vaknin interviews Michael Hart, founder and director of Project Gutenberg, and Greg Newby, CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Vaknin: Why don't simple scans or raw OCR (optical character recognition) output qualify as eBooks? Hart: [P]eople are not interested in scans. Some Project Gutenberg sites each hand out 10 million eBooks per y From FOS News on January 8, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (43408) Bush in 30 Seconds A team of celebrities is determining the winner of MoveOn.org's contest for amateur commercials countering the Bush administration's policies and propaganda. But we wee folks get to vote on winners in three categories: Funniest, Best Youth Pitch, and Best Animation. Some of the 12 entries are very well done and quite amusing.... From Joho the Blog on January 8, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (43407) Databases get a grip on XML The next iteration of the SQL standard was supposed to arrive in 2003. But SQL standardization has always been a glacially slow process, so nobody should be surprised that SQL:2003 -- now known as SQL:200n -- isn't ready yet. Even so, 2003 was a year in which XML-oriented data management, one of the areas addressed by the forthcoming standard, showed up on more and more developers' radar screens. [Full story at InfoWorld.com (part of --> From Jon's Radio on January 8, 2004 at 2:46 p.m.. (43406) On Change: From Moore's Law to Beth's Corollary Small businesses that sell online understand that keeping up with frequent technological changes is a necessary evil. Yet recent changes made by auction giant eBay have left some small e-tailers miffed, and spinning their wheels in order to catch up. From E-Commerce Guide on January 8, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (43405) Neat Devices with Terrible Names - 2004 Edition The New York Times (reg. req.) has a short, regurgitated press release on the latest entrant into the personal media recorder wars (VIDEO: Beam Your Favorite Shows to an Expandable Cache). The unfortunately named "Prismiq" is yet another attempt at... From The Importance Of on January 8, 2004 at 1:52 p.m.. (43404) Uni-Förderung: "Da fehlt... Die deutschen Universitäten machen Freudensprünge. Nach Jahren der Kürzungen will die Politik nun neues Geld in den halbmaroden Hochschulbetrieb pumpen. Zentral sind zwei Dinge: mehr Geld und Strukturreformen. Doch schon im ersten Punkt gehen die Meinungen von Politik und Unis auseinander. Von 100 Millionen Euro für Forschungsprojekte ist die Rede. "Diese Zahlen sind lächerlich!", meinte Horst Hippler, Rektor der Uni Karlsruhe, gegenüber der taz. "Da fehlt mindestens eine Null." Dieter Lenzen, Präsident der FU Berlin, ist weniger bescheiden - er will 10 From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (43402) Global Courts Die Seite "Global Courts" ist ein nicht-kommerzielles Projekt, das im Rahmen der "Judicial Decisons Support Systems" betrieben wird. Vom JIPS... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (43401) Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors Die Richtlinie 2003/98/EG des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates über die Weiterverwendung von Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors wurde nun veröffentlicht... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (43400) BETT 2004 round-up: Education secretary opens show with cash pledge From ScotFEICT on January 8, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (43399) The Portrait of Joho Gray BoingBoing pointed to a site that PhotoShopped celebrities into old age and zithood. Since I have on occasion been cruel about celebrity faces, I thought it only fair that I PhotoShop my own visage to see what I might look like at the decrepit age of, oh, I don't know, 53: 1972 college yearbook 30 years later (artist's rendition) (The depressing thing is that despite using every deformation I know of in PaintShop 8, this picture still has aged better than I have.)... From Joho the Blog on January 8, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (43398) Waiting for GPS My GPS navigation system should arrive today. I forewent all birthday and Chanukah gifts from my family in order to build up a fund for the device, a Garmin 2610. It's a perky little number that sits on your dash and tells you, in a silky voice that forgives all your directional transgressions, how to get from A to B. I'm not a particularly good driver to begin with, but I spend most of almost every trip trying to envision how the road I'm on links up with the road I'm trying to get to. The rest of the... From Joho the Blog on January 8, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (43397) Consumer Electronics Show 2004 I'm at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which has become the major event of its kind. Stay tuned... From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 8, 2004 at 1:47 p.m.. (43396) IBM Brings the Penguin to its Desktops This is potentially big news. If IBM successfully pulls this off, there will be little reason for other corporates not to follow Big Blue's lead if they want to get out from under the Microsoft monopoly. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 8, 2004 at 1:47 p.m.. (43395) Biochip Holds Millions of Vessels ...   Biochip Holds Millions of Vessels Researchers have found a way to make and organize tiny, self-organizing containers that could be used on labs-on-a-chip. How tiny? Each vessel holds only a few millionths of a billionth of a milliliter. ---[MIT Technology Review]  ¶ 11:53 PM From on January 8, 2004 at 12:49 p.m.. (43394) Systematic search engine bias? Susan Gerhart, Do Web search engines suppress controversy? First Monday, January 2004. Abstract: "Web behavior depends upon three interlocking communities: (1) authors whose Web pages link to other pages; (2) search engines indexing and ranking those pages; and (3) information seekers whose queries and surfing reward authors and support search engines. Systematic suppression of controversial topics would indicate a flaw in the Web's ideology of openness and informativeness. This paper explores search engines&apos From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 8, 2004 at 11:51 a.m.. (43392) Die Hochschule Das "Journal für Wissenschaft und Bildung", die Hochschule, stellt in den vorliegenden Heften zahlreiche Beiträge zur aktuellen Hochschulpolitik ins Netz... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 11:50 a.m.. (43391) Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Resources 2004 Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Resources 2004 - An Internet MiniGuidehttp://www.InternetMiniGuide.com/I am in the process of updating all my Professional Internet MiniGuides and the first is now complete and ready for sale and immediate download as a 38 page .pdf document. I will be updating all ten over the next weeks and will announce each as they are updated and made available for sale. The Table of Contents for Advertising, Marketing & Public Resources 2004 is as follows:Introduction < From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 8, 2004 at 11:50 a.m.. (43390) Call for papers The topics list for this summer's BlogTalk 2.0 conference, held in Vienna, looks good. The call for papers is here. From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 8, 2004 at 11:50 a.m.. (43389) Galactic Civilizations If you were disappointed as I was with the latest overhyped space opera strategy game as I was, you might want to give Galactic Civilizations, a new game with very old roots, a try. From kuro5hin.org on January 8, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.. (43388) 20 Semester? auf der Demo in Frankfurt wurde gesungen, dass der gute Herr Koch ebenfalls erst nach 20 Semestern das Studium abschloss! Kann mir jemand sagen, ob das stimmt??? Ich mein, das wär ja,... mir fehlen die Worte... so ähnlich als wär Hitler ein Jude gewesen (ok, ist ein bißchen kraß, aber ihr wisst, wie ichs meine, gell?!) From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on January 8, 2004 at 10:49 a.m.. (43387) New SHERPA partners Six UK universities have joined the SHERPA Project as Associate Partners, making a total of 13 partners representing 20 institutions. The result will be a significant enlargement of the UK network of institutional eprint archives. Quoting the January 7 press release: "Currently there is a high degree of interest in improving the visibility and accessibility of UK research, not only to directly facilitate economic development, but also to increase the fundamental efficienc From FOS News on January 8, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (43386) Etwas über das Lernen lernen Eigentlich wollte ich wissen, was aus "McKinsey bildet" geworden ist, jener Initiative, die McKinsey 2001 startete und die ein Jahr später 400 Bildungsinteressierte in Berlin zu einer Tagung zusammenführte. Ob "McKinsey bildet" noch lebt, weiß ich nicht - die Seite... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 8, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (43385) Bloogz Bereits am 16.10.2003 hatte ich auf die Blog-Suchmaschine Bloogz aufmerksam gemacht. Seinerzeit trat die Frage auf, "was an Bloogz so... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (43384) From writer to editor Responding to Phil Wolff, Sebastian Fiedler explains very well, I think, the problematic gap between weblogs organized mainly by time and other sites organized by such things as "visual mapping tools": There is nothing wrong with the Weblog format per se. What we are lacking are interfaces that would allow for a smooth and quick transformation of content into other, more appropriate, representational formats... well, and back again... Republishing a clickable visual map... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 8, 2004 at 9:49 a.m.. (43383) Making up the story I will admit it's a little thing, but it irks me. The Boston Globe today has an article by Joanna Weiss about the Clark campaign "blasting" a leaflet from the Dean campaign. In order to build the narrative, the fourth paragraph says that "Clark aids said that the Dean attack was a sign that...the presidential race might be evolving into a two-way battle..." The fifth paragraph then validates this point of view: A New Hampshire tracking poll released this week by American Research Group indicated Clark in second place behind Dean, pulling ahead of ... Kerry... The sixth paragraph continues From Joho the Blog on January 8, 2004 at 9:47 a.m.. (43381) Ecofin vor der EU-Justitia Der juristische Dienst der EU-Kommission hat laut Angaben von Wirtschaftskommissar Solbes in einem Gutachten die Kommissionssicht bestätigt, wonach der Entscheid... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (43380) La blogosfera hispana en Wired Xeni Jardin publica hoy en Wired el artículo: Blogs Coming of Age in Spain: Perhaps nowhere was that more obvious in 2003 than in Spain, where bloggers and journalists say blogs' role in the country's cultural life was galvanized this... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 8, 2004 at 8:49 a.m.. (43379)   I'm a blogholicRecommended by zhen ...   I'm a blogholicRecommended by zheng, I took this quiz and got 88% result. So it means I'm a blogholic, doesn't it?I'd like to see anyone translate it into Chinese to have Bloggers here to get more knowledge about blogging.   ¶ 8:28 PM From Meta on January 8, 2004 at 8:49 a.m.. (43378) Grid Software, Now With The Mac Touch - Michael Singer, Internet News Apple Computer Tuesday stepped outside its usual consumer persona and debuted Xgrid, the company's first officially branded software designed for grid computing. Developed by the Cupertino, Calif.-based company's Advanced Computation Group (ACG), the From Techno-News Blog on January 8, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43377) Where Politics, Policy, Technology and Science Converge - Ubiquity From the White House to Berkeley, Thomas Kalil has worked on shaping the national agenda for science and technology research initiatives. Thomas Kalil, President Clinton's former science and technology advisor, now holds a similar post at the Universi From Techno-News Blog on January 8, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43376) Survey: Interest in grid computing grows - Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans conducts surveys twice a year on IT trends, and in From Techno-News Blog on January 8, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43375) Reaching for the stars through distance learning - DENISE ADAMS, Herald-Coaster Instead of playing a new video game or watching a new DVD over the Christmas holidays, sixth grader Dottie Bateman spent her off days building a land rover for her science class at Briscoe Junior High School. Bateman wanted an opportunity to show her l From Educational Technology on January 8, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43374) Students tune in to view surgery - Andrea J. Cook, Rapid City Journal "Coo-ol; this is so cool," breathed a student when Dr. Joel Politi's knife broke the skin on the patient's knee. Seated in a Central High School classroom Wednesday, anatomy students watched Politi begin total knee replacement surgery. The patient was From Educational Technology on January 8, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43373) Book Reviews - 486v The Customer Revolution Course at UPEI Here are some great reviews and resources that I have found so far. If you have found others please post them in the comments section. The Innovator's Solution More on Christensen The Support Economy Wal*Mart an article by Fast Company... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (43372) Hot Spot für Hotspots Die Zahl der öffentlichen Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) in Europa hat sich im vergangenen Jahr gegenüber dem Vorjahr nahezu... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (43371) I'll take Social Software for $1,000 please, Alex I'll take Social Software for $1,000 please, Alex is an amazingly funny rebuttal of this post by Jeremy Z. Need to subscribe to startupskills.com when its DNS is sorted out! QUOTEWait. It gets even worse. Studies show that social networks follow a "power law" distribution. The "average" person has relatively few contacts (say, fewer than 10 other people with whom they regularly associate). However, the "social entrep From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 7:49 a.m.. (43370) Laszlo 2.0 Preview Release with cool web demo available Awesome, complete with an impressive online demo called learn Laszlo in 10 minutes! I wish I had time to play with this. This looks like a great system to develop a cross platform RSS reader or blog system front end with a rich interface! From Marc's blog post: QUOTELaszlo Systems continues to rock and roll. Not only have they shown real world, major, scalable deployed apps (Behr Paint, Earthlink, Yaho From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 7:49 a.m.. (43369) TP: Die SPD sucht die Eliten von morgen Von feinnervigen Zeitgenossen wurde Gerhard Schröder schon 'Genosse der Bosse' genannt, bevor die staatsbürgerliche Mehrheit auch nur eine leise Ahnung davon hatte, was unter diesem spitzfindigen Beinamen in etwa zu verstehen sei. Doch seit der Vorstellung der Agenda 2010 und Franz Münteferings erhellender Verlautbarung, die Sozialdemokratie sei nicht primär gegründet worden, um Verteilungsgerechtigkeit zu organisieren, klären sich allmählich die Fronten. Offenkundig... From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on January 8, 2004 at 7:48 a.m.. (43368) Hope for Beagle 2 Fading A Mars orbiter operating under good conditions fails to pick up a signal from the missing European Space Agency probe, and the ESA's science director says it doesn't look good. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43367) Tech Chiefs Defend Overseas Jobs The heads of several leading technology companies, worried that lawmakers may clamp down on 'offshoring' of U.S. jobs, urge Congress to reject new restrictions on moving jobs overseas. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43366) Microsoft Ads Called Bogus New advertisements claiming that Windows-based systems are cheaper to operate than those running Linux come under fire from critics who call the ads misleading and the underlying research faulty. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43365) Global Warming Imperils Species An extensive study of six geographical regions around the globe shows that a quarter of the Earth's species could be extinct in less than 50 years. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43364) Apple's Unlikely Guardian Angel The Macintosh has had its ups and downs over the years, but there's always been one company that supported it. On the Mac's 20th anniversary, we reveal the machine's improbable best friend. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43363) Attack of the Stuntbots Shoot them, stab them, throw them off the roof. The next generation of Hollywood daredevils will never say die. By Oliver Morton from Wired magazine. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43362) Blogs Coming of Age in Spain Sparked by interest in the Iraq war and a major oil spill, Spain's weblogs gained prominence in 2003 despite some big hurdles. Xeni Jardin reports from Barcelona, Spain. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43361) Jet Defense: What's the Holdup? Homeland Security is looking into equipping commercial airplanes with antimissile defenses, but its two-year plan is coming under fire as too lackadaisical. By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on January 8, 2004 at 7:46 a.m.. (43360) Elite Die SPD möchte deutsche Spitzenuniversitäten schaffen. Was muss sich an unseren Hochschulen ändern? Ein Besuch amerikanischer Eliteschmieden gibt die Antwort:... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 6:50 a.m.. (43359) EU-Fördermöglichkeiten Hilfreich: Obwohl auf Brandenburg fokussiert, ein für Kommunen wie Bürger sehr informatives Dokument über Finanzmittel aus der EU (99 S.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 6:50 a.m.. (43358) Some excellent Social Software Ideas from Matt Haughey Some great brainstorms from Matt! My favourite is #2, the geographical opinion system because I have moved a lot and trying to figure out where the best services and products in a town where you have no social network is a nightmare. Here's the condensed list; read Matt's full post for more details. QUOTE Colloquial mapping = approximately Yahoo Maps + Slashdot Geographical opinion system= approx. Epinions + Friendster Collaborative consumed media = a From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (43357) First Say - Yet another web based RSS reader Another one to check out! QUOTEFirst Say is an RSS News Aggregator. To add a feed to FirstSay, sign in, go to the category list where you think the feed should appear (select a category heading to get a list), and enter the feed - click on the slim task bar at the top of the page for an entry box. Open a free account to preserve your preferences, to create and edit your own feed collections, and to get notifications of new features as they are implemented.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (43356) Is Yahoo Beta Testing an RSS reader? Hmmm it would be really cool if Yahoo was beta testing an RSS reader. Someday soon, if this is a false alarm as Jeremy Z of Yahoo seems to be indicating (no link but I think Jeremy left a comment to that effect and I am too tired to dig it up!). From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (43355) Your blog's soul is its writing form; that soul's expression is its home page What makes blogging different than wikis or other web sites? Among other factors, blogs emphasize the home page over site hierarchy. This lowers a blog reader's and a blog writer's cognitive burden. Three examples: Fresh stuff is prominent. Unlike other sites, readers always know where to look for updates and top of mind. Contrast with your typical corporate site of a thousand pages and no trusted way to know what is new. The old rule that fresh con From Seblogging News on January 8, 2004 at 6:48 a.m.. (43354) SPD-Bundeszentrale besetzt Mehr Infos von der Besetzung durch Berliner Studenten findet Ihr hier: http://www.allefueralle.net.ms/ Und Fotos findet Ihr hier: http://kantel.server-wg.de/zebu/archives/003002.html. Grund für die Besetzung war u.a. der SPD-Plan, Elite-Unis in Deutschland zu gründen. Ach ja, fast vergessen: "Die Vollversammlungen von FU, HU und TU haben heute (07.01.2004) die Forsetzung des Streiks und der Proteste beschlossen (an der HU wird an vier rotierenden Tagen pro Woche gestreikt und... From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on January 8, 2004 at 6:48 a.m.. (43353) Selling the System on Weblogs Elizabeth Fullerton left a comment a couple of days ago that brings up once again the many difficulties that teachers are experiencing as they start to try to implement Weblogs into their schools. I've just begun my first attempt with exposing students to blogging and I spent the entire first semester running in circles with our school board technology policies...[the culture of blogging] is evolving faster than many of our system policies are. My school system just isn't equipped policywise and technologywise From weblogged News on January 8, 2004 at 6:47 a.m.. (43352) Weblogs FAQs I ¿Dónde puedo buscar weblogs por temas? Los directorios temáticos de bitácoras nos ayudan a identificar a bloggers con intereses similares a los nuestros. Bitácoras. net Bitacoras.com Blogdir Weblogs.com.ar Directorios Nacionales Eatonweb Portal BlogSearchEngine ¿Cómo puedo buscar weblogs con enlaces similares?... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 8, 2004 at 5:50 a.m.. (43351) Collaborative Learning 2004 Online Conference This conference runs from 13 to 15 January 2004 and is sponsored by iCohere, a web collaboration software vendor. Some of the presentations will be about innovations in collaborative learning. I didn't see any mention of blogs or rss, but imagine they will be covered. Presenters include Lisa Neal and Jay Cross. By Martin Terre Blanche 8 Jan 2004 From Collaborative Learning on January 8, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (43350) Bashman-Vorlesung im Netz Howard Bashman, Autor des Blawgs How Appealing und Vorsitzender der Berufungsabteilung der US-weiten Anwaltsfirma Buchanan Ingersoll, wird am 12.01.2004, 06.30... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 4:49 a.m.. (43349) Blogging for Power An excellent list of must-read blogs for people interested in enterprise related stuff. QUOTEEach morning, I fire up my RSS aggregator and go through the latest headlines from enterprise-related Weblogs. Here I've pulled together a list of the 10 I've come to consider essential reading. Their bloggers do a good job explaining the fields they specialize in, offering unique insights or information you might not get elsewhere.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 8, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (43348) OpenUW free courses registered over 8,000 students in 2003 From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (43347) NCSL eLearning Gateway launched by DfES' Charles Clarke From Distance-Educator.com&apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (43346) Virtual Tutor From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (43345) Motivational Keynote Speaker, Reggie Berry, Addresses At Risk Youth. "Our program gives students the courage, and drive to achieve more for themselves," states youth motivational speaker, Reggie Berry [PRWEB Jan 8, 2004] From PR Web on January 8, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (43344) IvolutionCMS announces CTSWLAW as a new customer for its Content Management System in the Legal services field. Cohen Tauber Spievak & Wagner LLP. Selects IvolutionCMS Content Management system for its corporate publishing needs [PRWEB Jan 8, 2004] From PR Web on January 8, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (43343) Kirchen werden bevorzugt Das VG Potsdam hat das LandesSchG (Chronologie ab 1990) in einem entscheidenden Punkt für verfassungswidrig erklärt. "Es ist mit der... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (43342) NYT-Archiv: 1851 - heute! In Ergänzung des Beitrages vom 10.12.2003 kann nun mitgeteilt werden, dass das Archiv der NYT jetzt auch über 1995 hinaus... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (43341) Update Wayback Machine Die Wayback Machine (vgl. zuletzt Artikel vom 19.06.2003) hat nach Angaben von Gary (Vielen Dank!) vom heutigen Tage ein Update... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (43340) Investorideas.com Features New Updated List and Profiles for China Stocks and Asian Investment Opportunities From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (43339) Internet2: 2003 Year in Review From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (43338) On-screen GCSEs 'close to reality' From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (43337) Fifty Million Internet Users Connect Via Broadband, Rising 27 Percent During The Last Six Months, According To Nielsen//Netratings From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (43336) Reaching for the stars through distance learning From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (43335) BETT 2004 round-up: Education secretary opens show with cash pledge From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 8, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (43334) Auf den Lektor folgt der Richter Schriftsteller sollten nicht nur gut schreiben können. Sie müssen auch das Persönlichkeitsrecht kennen und einen guten Anwalt haben, berichtet heute... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 8, 2004 at 2:50 a.m.. (43333) RealPlayer Comes to the Treo 600? There were lots of big announcements today but as far as I'm concerned, the biggest is Real's new software plus music store. Not for the music store itself, because after I download the first song for $.10 I don't envision locking my music up in AAC + Helix encrypted files, but because RealPlayer 10 brings with it a new Palm component. The line that specifically caught my eye is "support for over 50 portable music devices, including the iPOD and the Handspring Treo From The Shifted Librarian on January 8, 2004 at 2:47 a.m.. (43332) City Settles Suit and Will Take Back Students New York City has settled a federal lawsuit charging that it illegally forced hundreds of struggling students out of Franklin K. Lane High School in recent years. From New York Times: Education on January 8, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (43331) School Safety Plan At Issue News. From New York Times: Education on January 8, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (43330) Coaches Receive Both Big Salaries and Big Questions At least 23 college football coaches now earn $1 million, but many wonder how healthy it is to pay a coach more than the president of a university. From New York Times: Education on January 8, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (43329) Europe Weighs the Unthinkable: High College Fees Europeans, led by Britain, are rethinking their long-held belief that university education should be financed almost entirely by the state. From New York Times: Education on January 8, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (43328) Diverse Schools More Likely to Be Labeled as Failing, Study Says Public schools with diverse student populations are far more likely than those with homogeneous populations to be labeled as failing under President Bush's education law. From New York Times: Education on January 8, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (43327) RSS Can Make You More Productive RSS and Productivity "The scroll bar for my Outlook inbox vanished for the first time in 7 years. This indicates that I have fewer messages in my inbox than will sustain the need for scrolling. ;-) 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 From The Shifted Librarian on January 8, 2004 at 1:47 a.m.. (43326) 1GB SD Cards to Hit Shelves this Month! SD Cards Hit a Higher Capacity "SanDisk has begun production of SD memory cards with a 1GB capacity and expects them to begin appearing on store shelves before the end of this month. SD, or Secure Digital, cards are widely used in devices such as digital still cameras. The higher capacity will mean users with large data storage requirements won't have to carry aroun From The Shifted Librarian on January 8, 2004 at 1:47 a.m.. (43325) Virtual casebook project The Virtual Casebook Project at NYU provides a rich model for creating a guide to a complex topic via the web. Their case centers around 9/11, but their research question involves the nature of what they call tactical media -- a two-level model that must serve well in most casebooks, I assume. They further divide their site into subtopics, including national and international perspectives, essays that include first-person accounts, reflections on media roles following the attacks,... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 7, 2004 at 11:49 p.m.. (43324) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]