Edu_RSS ~ January 11, 2004

Most recent update: January 11, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: Talking interactivity From ScotFEICT on January 11, 2004 at 10:50 p.m.. (43826) BlogApp: v1.3.2 For OSX Last update was Sept. 17, 2002 BlogApp Get your Macintosh OSX blogware for submitting new entries in Blogger,... From Disruptive Technology on January 11, 2004 at 10:50 p.m.. (43825) PLoS memberships and sponsorships PLoS now offers institutional memberships and institutional sponsorships, not just individual memberships. Talk to your institution about supporting PLoS in one of these ways. From FOS News on January 11, 2004 at 10:48 p.m.. (43824) "That's not what the DMCA was intended to do"... Really? In a News.com article, Sen. John Sununu says: "The fundamental problem with the approach of the RIAA took is that it was based on legislation that created special property rights," Sununu said. "Suddenly, you had a private entity that's able to issue subpoenas, which is unprecedented." "That's not what the DMCA was intended to do," he said. "We can't be writing legislation that gives holders of certain types of intellectual property special rights...We From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 11, 2004 at 10:47 p.m.. (43823) mediAgora anyone? See this article (via Frank) and Weed's   website.  Here's how it works: you download a song; listen to it three time, at which point you must buy it or get rid of it; purchasing gives you a WMA version, with permission to burn a CD, copy to a portable player and copy to 2 other computers; if you distribute the song to someone else who goes through the same process and buys the song, you get a cut of the money.  Get rid of the D From A Copyfighter&apos;s Musings on January 11, 2004 at 10:47 p.m.. (43822) RipDigital.com - send 'em your CDs and get them back as well as MP3s on DVDs and/or a portable hard drive (Via "wirearchy") - Great idea. Can't afford it though. Barb and I have about 350 CDs so this would cost $US 350 which is a great deal if we didn't have a baby on the way. Anyways, I am planning on using my Blue and White G3 as a wireless MP3 server and building it myself. Hopefully this will be a little bit cheaper. QUOTEEasy as 1-2-3. How it works Step 1. Place your order on this website. Just click the "order" button at the top of the page and then tell us the how many CDs you want us to convert and how you would like to receive your From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (43821) Yes Virginia, the Yahoo RSS aggregator is real Via the RSS-User Yahoo mailing list: QUOTEMega-portal Yahoo (Quote, Chart) is getting closer to adding a Rich Site Summary (define) aggregator to its My Yahoo service, a move that could provide a major boost to the XML (define) format for content syndication. A beta of the Yahoo RSS aggregator appeared -- and subsequently disappeared -- from the personalized 'My Yahoo' service late Wednesday, setting off buzz among RSS enthusiasts that a thumbs-up from a big-name company like Yahoo would speed up consumer adoption of the syndication format. From Roland Tanglao&apos;s Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (43820) Funky RSS Flash auto-subscribe widget used by Feedster doesn't work with NetNewsWire and Safari This means I can't subscribe to my ego feed :-( Oh well, guess I'll have to use Mozilla if I want to subscribe to my ego feed :-) ! From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (43819) Weblogs at MIT Hey, MIT weblogs! Like the link to the bloggercon 'how to' with Manila (Blogging 101). More ammo for me :o) [via EdBlogger Praxis] From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 9:48 p.m.. (43818) NSW Department of Education & Training Restructure The Department will be organised around 4 portfolio areas focused on support for schools and institutes. A Corporate Communications Directorate will be established to better support the communication and marketing needs of the Department. In addition to releasing this structure, this report provides an overview of the issues raised in consultation, an overview of the structure, and the processes for implementing the structure. From EdNA Online on January 11, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (43817) Sharon: Settlements were right then, but now some must go From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (43816) Arafat to call for peace conference From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (43815) Palestinian human rights groups reject anti-terror conditions on USAID money From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (43814) In Fureidis, the Jewish youth movement is the best game in town From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (43813) blogroll visualized by Mikel Maron Another cool hack by Mikel. Thanks! QUOTEEnter the url of your subscriptions file, in OPML format. You'll get the latest news from your subscriptions, worldKit style. You can also check out this example: Top 100 from Feeds.Scripting.ComUNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:49 p.m.. (43812) RipDigital.com - send 'em your CDs and get them back as well as MP3s on DVDs and/or a portable hard drive (Via "wirearchy") - Great idea. Can't afford it though. Barb and I have about 350 CDs so this would cost $US 350 which is a great deal if we didn't have a baby on the way. Anyways, I am planning on using my Blue and White G3 as a wireless MP3 server and building it myself. Hopefully this will be a little bit cheaper. QUOTEEasy as 1-2-3. How it works Step 1. Place your order on this website. Just click the "order" button at the top of the page and then tell us the how many CDs you want us to convert and how you would like to receive your From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:49 p.m.. (43811) Kotke on Metadata: "Metadazzle-Overfizzle" Although I miss the literary references, I do like the spin that Jason Kotke puts on meta-data: Nothing takes the fun and personality out of writing like metadata. As software developers, photographers, writers, and users struggle to organize creative work so that people can locate what they're after, the work itself has necessarily been de-emphasized. As an example, posts on weblogs can have categories, permalinks, post dates, post times, # of comments, # of new comments since your last From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (43810) Chasing Down the CSS "Peek-a-boo" Bug There are a few threads to this story. I had seen an odd thing on one of our new XHTML designed web sites-- this one uses an HTML <ul> list and CSS for rollover effects and graphic-looking buttons for the navigation. In Internet Explorer 6 (and then reports came in for IE5 users) the text to the right of the 4 first navigation links was hidden, or the text would disappear of you moused over one of the navigation links. The text would show up if you scrolled down and came back. I Googled a bit on "IE CSS bug" scoure From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (43809) Governing Board Member Digs RSS (Film at 11) Now that the copies of our mcli Forum have gone out to our colleges, we are getting a lot of interest, questions, head scratching about RSS from the "Pssss... Have You Heard About RSS?" article. An email came today from one of our Governing Board members who found the article "interesting"-- this is remarkable and encouraging all at the same time. I think this person got so excited that they went online to RSS.com and wondering why our article never mentioned "Retail Store Systems" (Wow From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (43808) This Dog is Out Time for a break- this CogDog is off at our secret hideaway, tethered to the net only by a 28 kbps modem line. At that rate, the RSS reader chokes and sputters on those fat feeds, bloated graphic web sites are not worth the bother, and those internal emails full of attached Word files or crufted HTML with 1 Mb TIFFs are not worth reading... indeed, time for a break. Yes, it all suggests better things to be done than being online. Back in action Dec 30. I hope all enjoy a festive holiday season everywhere, relax, and come back inspired to rev things up, blog incessa From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (43807) RSS WinterFest 2004- Party at Dave's? Just announced, Jan 21-22, 2004, RSS Winterfest: a free Webcast, and hear from some of the world's foremost experts and commentators about RSS and the future of Internet content syndication. We'll give an overview of RSS and look at its future. We'll feature case studies that will examine the applications for enterprise content syndication. We'll hear what some of the early adopters have learned about distributing advertising through RSS feeds.< From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43806) Reading Time: "The Map that Changed the World" This slow time has allowed a rare luxury: finishing a good book. On one forgotten trip a few months back, thumbing through the schlock selections at some airport bookstore, one caught my attention because of a geology cross-section on the cover. Simon Winchester's "The Map that Changed the World" is the riveting story of William Smith, truly the "father of modern geology." (Michelle hopefully has a From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43805) Now X-Serving for 2004... Jade Has Moved No addresses or URLs have been shuffled, but today I finally managed to move our 'Jade' server (if anyone has caught notice, all machines in my area are domain named after minerals... my G4 laptop is 'Topaz', my beige PC is "Pyrite', there is an old Mac named 'Sphalerite' acting as a mulit-user server for some old shockwave apps that people seem to still use) to our new, sleek X-Serve host. I had elegant plans for a migration that included an Apache From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43804) Ari's Big List of Blog Search Engines Ari Paparo assembled a longer than you might expected list of web search tools for specifically searching weblogs and/or RSS feeds. My new theory on blogging is that whenever I can't find a particular piece of information on Google I should just create it myself. What's the point of all this easy-to-use publishing technology if you don't publish stuff, right? You've got everything from Bligz, Blogdigger, Bloghop, Fastbuzz, Pepys, yadda, yadda, down to Technorati and more. As if From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43803) Coming Soon: "ecto", son of Kung-Log I've raved before about Kung-Log, Adriaan Tijsseling's amazingly sleek Mac OXS application for doing just about all the MovableType composing and editing. Change is on the way and it is good- Adriaan is at work on a new version, re-named "ecto". In fact, I am "ecto"-ing this entry now in beta version 0.1.5, and it is packed with even more features, interface refinements, and options to ease the process of MT bloggi From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43802) Updated jClicker- web slide show template (free too!) Finally got around to some revamps to a web slide show template I've been rolling for a few years, the "jClicker" (little "j" is for JavaScript). We do many many photos for our many events at work, and this has been a very handy way to organize photos into a slide show format. The main site includes a step-by-step construction guide. Basically, all one has to do is to assemble your image files (any web format), write some captions and edit From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43801) Dave's Roundup at the OPML Corral: Share Yours Dave's got an interesting round-up at the OPML corral, "Share your OMPL".. Yikes, another acronym! If you dig a bit deeper it comes up as Outline Processer Markup Language , now that is much more clear! Huh? Think of of it as a way to use XML to represent outline forms of content, which if you are like me, rushes back memories of tedious grade school grammar exercises on proper formats for outlines, roman numerals and such nonsense. But th From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43800) Wiki Up (southeast of Wikieup) I spent too much of today fiddling around with setting up a wiki on our new Jade server. This was at the request of one of our most intrpeid and adventurous faculty members, one I hooked on HTML in 1994, roped into blogs last year, and he's already to push the envelope out past Mars. The obliqure reference in the post title is that I am about 150 miles southeast of the aptly named small Arizona town of "Wikieup" on the wild highway between Phoenix and Las Vegas. There are about 1000 various wiki systems to ch From cogdogblog on January 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43799) 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 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43798) 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 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43797) 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 11, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (43796) Sharon: Syria must stop its support for terror before talks From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (43795) Analysis / Bibi's bluff From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (43794) Focus / Lots of settler babies, very few Likudniks From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (43793) Cabinet okays tax break for low earners From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (43792) Right-wing rallies against PM's policies From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (43791) Pears Pears is a three-pane newsfeed (RSS/RDF) aggregator which caches downloaded feeds for offline use. It has a clean, uncluttered interface,... From Disruptive Technology on January 11, 2004 at 7:49 p.m.. (43790) Digital image rights obstruct OA to historical research Rita Gudermann, Wem gehört die Mona Lisa? Die Zeit, January 8, 2004. On the conflict between the digital rights to images of classical artworks, even public-domain artworks, and historical scholarship that would like to reprint such images. Historian and OA advocate Klaus Graf argues that commercializing artworks in this way violates a museum's commitment to share knowledge and culture, especially when the artworks were purchased with the help of taxpayer funds. Also see Graf's --> From FOS News on January 11, 2004 at 7:47 p.m.. (43789) Blogging the Market »The most complete exploration of blogs in corporate environments I've seen: Blogging the Market: "How Weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations...But it’s not simply that organisations have forgotten how to speak and listen to their customers. They are afraid of doing so. They are petrified of letting go." Works in every browser except IE (well, it works, but the formatting is messy). Don't see that often!« [ From owrede_log on January 11, 2004 at 7:46 p.m.. (43788) How can Clark win? Dean opted out of the campaign finance reform law because its cap on fund raising would have meant that this spring, even though he'd raised the maximum allowed, he'd be out of money. He might have the nomination sewn up, but he'd have to sit on his hands as Karl Rove spends $150M against him, right up through the Democratic Convention in August. What candidate could survive that type of blitz? So, let's say Gen. Clark wins enough primaries to become the nominee. Clark has opted into the campaign finance reform law, so he'll be out of money in March.... From Joho the Blog on January 11, 2004 at 6:47 p.m.. (43787) Amazon Easter Egg Type "old fart" (no quotes) into the search box at Amazon. Act now! (Thanks to Dan O'Neill for the info.) (If that doesn't work, try here.)... From Joho the Blog on January 11, 2004 at 6:47 p.m.. (43786) ObjectPlanet, Inc Releases Free Online Survey Tool New features in this version are question library promoting reuse of questions for fast survey building, a new method to... From Disruptive Technology on January 11, 2004 at 5:49 p.m.. (43785) ecto - 0.1.8.1 Next generation blogging client (formerly Kung-Log) [VersionTracker: Mac OS X]... From Disruptive Technology on January 11, 2004 at 5:49 p.m.. (43784) Meet the Press...uh, Blogs MR. RUSSERT: He now loves Iowa. One of the things that we will find out is just how truly effective is the Internet in this presidential race? Johns Hopkins University has already been studying it. Look at this: “The Use Of Blogs In The 2004 Presidential Election,” a study by Johns Hopkins University. And now for the computer illiterate crowd, this is a blog. This is Howard DeanÂ’s blog. HereÂ’s Wesley ClarkÂ’s blog. HereÂ’s George W. BushÂ’s blog. And here to help us is Chuck Todd of National Journals Hotline.” What is a blog? From weblogged News on January 11, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (43783) Kafka lives in Washington Time again to pay tribute to the Feds to fund illegal wars, insider fat-cats, and tax cuts for the coupon-cutting rich. I need to send out a few 1099s. So I go to the IRS web site and request information on Form 1099. Hundreds of... From Internet Time Blog on January 11, 2004 at 4:49 p.m.. (43782) Wireless commuting Wenn die ÖBB das anböte, wäre ich bereit 10% (das ist ein Lockangebot ;-) mehr zu zahlen. TGV mit drahtlosem Netzzugang [ futurezone.ORF.at ] From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 11, 2004 at 4:46 p.m.. (43781) Wiki to OPML and vice versa Ich glaube ich muss mal meine OPML-Sammlung mit dieser massiven Liste abgleichen, wahrlich enzyklopädisch. Gibt es eigentlich eine Möglichkeit Wiki-Content in OPML-files überzuführen RSS-feeds generieren sie ja. From thomas n. burg | randg&#228;nge on January 11, 2004 at 4:46 p.m.. (43780) OSXPlanet I just came across OSXPlanet via MacUpdate.com. One of the reviews there mention that it's an app written by 15 year old Gabriel Ott. It takes the NASA "cloudless earth" and "earth at night" images, projects them into whatever global projection suits your tastes, and can also overlay current cloud coverage. It also shows the day/night areas of the globe, showing either "cloudless earth" or "earth at night" as appropriate. VERY cool. Just showed it to my wife, who normally uses a computer with a 10-foot pole, or assistance, or both. She was amazed. Cool. Anyway, grab yourself a copy,... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 11, 2004 at 2:50 p.m.. (43778) Untitled G. M. Trevelyan. "Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." [Quotes of the Day] From Seb's Open Research on January 11, 2004 at 2:46 p.m.. (43777) Adopting Journalists: Friendly Advice and Fact-Checking, or Antagonistic Truth Squads? I like the idea that people are watching what I say and correcting me if I get things wrong -- or challenging my conclusions, based on the same facts (or facts I hadn't know about when I wrote the piece.) This is a piece of tomorrow's journalism, and we in the business should welcome the feedback and assistance that, if we do it right, becomes part of a larger conversation. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 11, 2004 at 2:46 p.m.. (43776) Paulo Freire and Popular Education Popular educators facilitate groups, assisting them to identify their strengths and abilities to change their social conditions. One of the leading exponents of education for social change in recent years has been the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire.... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 11, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (43775) Democratizing the Media, and More The broadcast culture assumes that most of us are "consumers" of mass media. We are merely receptacles for what Hollywood, the music industry and even our local daily newspaper decide we should view, hear or read. The post-broadcast culture is a democratization of media, and it comes at things from the opposite stance. It says that anyone also can be a creator, not just a consumer. There's a world of difference. From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on January 11, 2004 at 1:46 p.m.. (43774) Die subjektive Sicht im Internet Martin Röll gibt ein Transkript zu Weblogs im WDR vom 10.01.2004 wieder; Stichwort: "Die subjektive Sicht im Internet".... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 11, 2004 at 11:50 a.m.. (43773) Blogging the Market George Dafermos has posted a paper titled "Blogging the Market: How Weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations." Given that nothing is truly comprehensive, this paper edges in that direction. It begins, in the Abstract, with these words and in this tone: Weblogs, in other words, envisage a hierarchy circumvention mechanism, which empowers knowledgeable employees to indulge in conversations with the market rather than communicating solely by means of marketing pitches and press releases and it ends like this: YOU CORPORATE BUREAUCRAT, STANDARDISED VOICE IN THE MARKET WILL BE From Joho the Blog on January 11, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (43772) CNBlog.org's Google ranking reaches 7/10Not for it ... CNBlog.org's Google ranking reaches 7/10Not for it's page view, but for it's importance of linkage/reference. From Meta on January 11, 2004 at 10:49 a.m.. (43771) Medicating Reality vs. Mediating Reality A reader emailed me last week, asking for some insight on the widespread depression as well as the use of medication all around him - especially in people who seem to see what's going on. From his email:It's like life was not complicated when we weren't questioning anything, after seeing the loopholes in our social structure, now we think twice about everything. All of us have come under a spell of depression and a feeling of hoplessness. We're all fighting against the doctor suggestions to continue with medications as we all feel that our reasons for our emo From rushkoff.blog on January 11, 2004 at 10:45 a.m.. (43770) Plink - A FOAF Search Engine that shows who you know and who knows you Here is a neat tool that was highlighted on the Six Log site. When you type in a name, it tells you who is linked to this person and vice versa. It is in its early stages but has the... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 9:51 a.m.. (43769) The Meaning of Weblogs - George Dafermos One of the problems that I find when talking to the lay person = 99.999999999999999% of all corporate executives, is that while they understandably know nothing about weblogging, there is no book or written statement that can help them see... From Robert Paterson&apos;s Weblog on January 11, 2004 at 9:51 a.m.. (43768) Wissenschaftliches Bloggen Stephen Bainbridge ist professor of law an der UCLA und Verfasser etlicher Bücher. Hier schreibt er über die Anerkennung des... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 11, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (43767) Prof. David K. Farkas has setup an interesting and valuable reading list for his Information Design class at the University of Washington. From owrede_log on January 11, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (43766) Prime intifada terror suspect is man from Taibeh From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (43765) U.S. shares Israel's concerns about Hague fence talks From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (43764) Focus / How do we know if Assad really means it? From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (43763) Analysis / Suddenly, diplomacy is all about Syria From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (43762) Israel: Syria must stop terror aid before talks From Haaretz: News on January 11, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (43761) FeedRoll Wer die FeedRoll benutzt, kann ein fremdes Feed in die eigene Webseite mittels eines vorgebenen Java-Scriptes ("Copy-and-Paste") einbinden. Das ist... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 11, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (43760) FTSE-100's Web Sites FTSE-100's Web Sites Getting Better, But a Third of Them Still Don't Get It http://www.iablondon.com/newsitem.cfm?ID=160They highlight the findings of the third annual Web "Oscars", which ranks the UK From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 11, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (43759) Healthcare Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide Healthcare Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.http://www.InternetMiniGuide.com/Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide has just been updated and is now available at the above URLs for purchase and immediate download. This 49 page Internet MiniGuide has the following table of contents: Research SourcesReference SourcesSearch Engine SourcesDirectory and Database SourcesHealthcare Resources URLsTop 10 Best Consumer Medical WWW Sites From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 11, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (43758) Consortium: New Disc Standard On Tap For 2004 - CRN News The industry consortium evaluating the next-generation standard for optical discs has agreed to support the new, high-density Blu-ray Disc format, with rollout of the standard set for this year. Ten consumer-electronics companies that comprise the Blu From Techno-News Blog on January 11, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (43757) New laws will make spam worse - Dinah Greek, Vnunet New European and US legislation is so far failing to stem the increasing tide of spam that companies must deal with, with some industry experts claiming the laws will precipitate an increase in junk mail. The European Privacy and Communications Directi From Techno-News Blog on January 11, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (43756) Michigan's Online Ballot Spurs New Strategies for Democrats - KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, New York Times The virtual ballot box has arrived in Michigan. Democrats in this state are the only voters in the country who have the option of voting online in the presidential primaries this year. Since New Year's Day, voters have been allowed to apply for ballot From Techno-News Blog on January 11, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (43755) District's IT outsourcing could save $1 million per year - Corey Murray, eSchool News A Florida school district has announced plans to outsource its entire information technology (IT) department to a third-party communications firm--a move district officials say could save the school system more than $1 million a year for the next 10 ye From Educational Technology on January 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43754) Mopping and Scrubbing Dirty Data - Neil Mercurius, techLearning Data-driven decision making (D3M) appears to be the new "buzz phrase" for this century " the age of information. Teachers and administrators are engaging in data-centered dialogue in grade-level meetings, lounges, hallways, and classrooms as they "brai From Educational Technology on January 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43753) Online revenue rush a threat to education in Australia - Malcolm Cole, the Courier Mail Universities may be compromising their teaching standards in order to maximise revenue from online education, a Federal Government report has revealed. The report says while online learning can be a powerful tool for distance education, both students a From Online Learning Update on January 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43752) Practical Experience of a Seamless Integration of eLearning into Traditional Teaching - Herbert Pacnik, EURODL Abstract: eLearning rarely can be established from the scratch within corporate environments. Most often traditional training concepts are well established and need to be taken into account when developing a concept on eLearning. The purpose of this pa From Online Learning Update on January 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43751) Administering a Web-Based Course on Database Technology - Leonardo Rocha de Oliveira, Marcelo Cortimiglia; Journ. of Distance Learning Admin. Abstract: This article presents a managerial experience with a web-based course on data base technology for enterprise management. The course has been developed and managed by a Department of Industrial Engineering in Brazil in a Public University. Pro From Online Learning Update on January 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (43750) Notebook 2004 Wer sich im laufenden Jahr ein Notebook zulegen will, sollte vorher diesen Artikel gelesen haben.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (43749) IE vs. Opera Die Antwort heißt MyIE2: "A very, very nifty add-on to Internet Explorer which makes your web experience nearly like Opera's".... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (43748) Der Gang vors Gericht Das Einklagen von Studienplätzen hat angesichts der um sich greifenden Numerus-Clausus-Regelungen deutlich zugenommen. Den Erfolg solcher Klagen einzuschätzen, ist allerdings... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 11, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (43747) "Go find me a way to do this." O'Neill on Bush on the decision to invade Iraq, "days" after entering office in January 2001, months before 9/11 (as if 9/11 had anything to do with Iraq). From Lessig Blog on January 11, 2004 at 6:45 a.m.. (43746) Stephen Downes seems to have invented a word to en ... Stephen Downes seems to have invented a word to encompass his Law of Content: aumsinism. Perhaps it's just a Google experiment, and I've just taken the bait, but I did want to save this for later:"If you don't get this, then you don't get the information economy. More generally: Content sells products, but is not itself a product. Oh, sure, companies like Apple will pay people to produce content. So content producers will still get paid. But the content itself has value only i From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on January 11, 2004 at 5:51 a.m.. (43745) Weiterbildungs-Datenbanken... Datenbanken wollen helfen, die vielen Angebote zur Weiterbildung zu sortieren. Doch welche der mehr als 90 taugt etwas? Die Stiftung Warentest hat einige geprüft. Über das, was dabei zu Tage kam, sprach Anke-Sophie Meyer mit Nina Gerstenberg. Berliner Morgenpost: Frau Gerstenberg, wem können die Weiterbildungs-Datenbanken helfen? Nina Gerstenberg: Der Markt der beruflichen Weiterbildung ist unübersichtlich. Es gibt zwischen 500 000 und 600 000 Angebote von rund 20 000 Anbietern. Mit Hilfe von Weiterbildungs-Datenbanken kann jeder, d From BildungsBlog on January 11, 2004 at 5:50 a.m.. (43744) Dems on the Supreme Court So an underplayed aspect of this campaign has been how the Democratic candidates would differently select the Supreme Court. On NPR's debate, Senator Lieberman pointed to Justice Souter as a model. Congressman Kucinich plugged Justice Ginsburg. I've gotten a couple pings asking what the right answer is. Hard question for me. Of course neither Ginsburg nor Souter were on the correct side (or the right side) of Eldred, but I certainly think Justice Souter is a model justice -- serious, hard working, unburdened by ideol From Lessig Blog on January 11, 2004 at 5:45 a.m.. (43743) clear channels on spectrum policy Paul Margie has a great and interesting new piece on spectrum policy -- and not just because he's a senior staffer at the FCC. This is the great if invisible fact about bureaucracies like the FCC -- they are filled with amazing people, at least one step down from the top. From Lessig Blog on January 11, 2004 at 5:45 a.m.. (43742) Common(s) Sense of Thomas Paine David Richards writes, and evilsite.org says, that Thomas Paine assigned the copyright to "Common Sense" to the Continental Congress. Richards speculates he was the first to do so, and should thus be a model for Creative Commons. So at first I thought that was right (the model part; I don't know enough about the history part). But here's why I don't think so now: We should distinguish in this debate between altruistic copyright policy, and reasonable copyright policy. I'm all for altruism, and we certainly don&apo From Lessig Blog on January 11, 2004 at 5:45 a.m.. (43741) more please Dave points to a great "citizen-blogger." Perfect, but we need many more. From Lessig Blog on January 11, 2004 at 5:45 a.m.. (43740) the edwards appeal to a loon like me So I get so much s*it for my few words of praise for a candidate who has not yet proven himself but whom I greatly admire -- Edwards. Alone in a foreign city, abusing the free wireless broadband, I think I've got it: It's not just that he is a lawyer proud of what the law can do (and here, from Code is the chapter where I first confessed irrational affection for such sorts (search on "Cates")), who looks like Kennedy but talks like my mom, and who could debate Bush better than anyone From Lessig Blog on January 11, 2004 at 5:45 a.m.. (43739) 2003: Year of Apache Netcraft's numbers for the new year are in. The trend graphs tell a story: 2003 was the Year of Apache. If Time magazine had a server-of-the-year award the cover would be featuring a feather. Since October 2002 market share has grown from 53% to 64%, a 20% gain while Microsoft IIS, its nearest competitor has shrunk from 36% to 24%, a 33% decline. The change in server totals was even more dramatic. Apache HTTP Server increased from about 20 million to 32 million (+60%) while all other competitors remained flat. What are the driving factors behind this trend? From kuro5hin.org on January 11, 2004 at 5:45 a.m.. (43738) I don't want to lose this great list of resources ... I don't want to lose this great list of resources related to games and simulations for learning. I haven't had (made) time to follow the Serious Games discussions lately, but this resource list should get my brain in gear again. From Jeremy Hiebert&apos;s headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on January 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (43737) Joanne Jacobs linked to an article about a do-it-y ... Joanne Jacobs linked to an article about a do-it-yourself school started by a parent. PTC Elementary is apparently a "parent teacher child cooperative school". I'm fascinated by these kinds of education alternatives -- not quite homeschooling, but radically different than "school" in the usual sense.A few days later, Joanne posted this reaction to the From Jeremy Hiebert'apos;s headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on January 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (43736) George linked to this great story about distance l ... George linked to this great story about distance learning for First Nations students in remote areas. It's called Sunchild -- encouraging results, by the sounds of it. From Jeremy Hiebert'apos;s headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on January 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (43735) NABFEME Intern Program to provide summer internships for students. The National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment, Inc. (NABFEME) and the T. Howard Foundation have joined forces to promote diversity in the telecommunications industry. [PRWEB Jan 11, 2004] From PR Web on January 11, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (43734) Free Writing and Music - as in Speech I'd like you all to take a moment to browse the Common Content catalog. It is a categorized index of work which has one of the several Creative Commons licenses. Free licenses aren't just for software anymore. The top-level categories in the index are images, movies, audio, text and web sites. I'm taking the trouble to recommend Common Content just now because I don't think either the catalog or the Creative Commons licenses are as well known as they deserve to be. From kuro5hin.org on January 11, 2004 at 3:45 a.m.. (43733) CMS wiki A brand new wiki has just been established on content management systems. It is designed to be a central resource on CMS issues, products, features, and consultants. I've started adding some useful information onto this site, I hope you'll support... From Column Two on January 11, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (43732) My So-Called Blog From the Sunday Times Magazine tomorrow, a lengthy first-person account of a reporter's attempt to understand the personal journal/blogging "craze" among adolescents. Here's the nut: But his obsessive online habits are hardly exceptional; he is one of a generation of compulsive self-chroniclers, a fleet of juvenile Marcel Prousts gone wild. When he meets new friends in real life, M. offers them access to his online world. ''That's how you introduce yourself,'' he said. ''It's like, here's my cellphone number, my e-mail, my scr From weblogged News on January 10, 2004 at 11:47 p.m.. (43731) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]