Edu_RSS ~ January 16, 2004

Most recent update: January 16, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: Will too many contacts disturb one's social life? ... Will too many contacts disturb one's social life?Robert requested me times to forward linkedin connections to other guys. In a recent request message, he said, "seemed all my request will pass through you. ;) will that be a privacy problem in the future? If I have many connections who don't have so many connections outside, will that means you will have to forward lots of requests? it may consume you a lot of time to screen those not so valuable requests. "I responsed, "Robert, I don't think it's just time-costing to me to forward requests. T From Meta on January 16, 2004 at 10:49 p.m.. (44580) Brent's Compromise on Atom and XML for NetNewsWire Brent adopts the wisest compromise. I plan on turning the indicator for well formed XML ON for my blog feeds ONLY and will try to make sure my feeds are well formed. Don't really care about how well formed others' XML feeds are, as long as NetNewsWire displays them :-) ! [SOURCEinessential.com] QUOTE1. Have global and per-feed settings for requiring well-formed XML. The default will be no, to not require it. My Atom and RSS parsers will both work around From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 10:49 p.m.. (44579) The Beatles Strike Again A number of years ago some politico was horrified to discover that the song he'd been praising, "With a Little Bit of Help From My Friends," was about drugs. I'll be speaking at WebEx's premier User Conference in San Francisco. My invitation just arrived. We... From Internet Time Blog on January 16, 2004 at 10:49 p.m.. (44578) What you can do to promote open access I just moved, revised, and enlarged my list of what you can do to help the cause of open access. The new version has separate sections on Universities (with subsections on Faculty, Librarians, Administrators, From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 9:47 p.m.. (44577) Push UPS As I continue to try to figure out why my office eats computer equipment for breakfast, I'm thinking that my Uninterruptible Power Supply may be inadequate. Everyone who reads this knows more about electrical stuff than I do, so perhaps you can help me... I have an APC UPS Pro 650, 650 VA, 400 Watts. My computer has, I believe, a 450W power supply. I also have a 22" CRT plugged into the UPS. So, I think that my UPS isn't up to the task. It's So, do I need a heftier UPS? If so, what specs should I be... From Joho the Blog on January 16, 2004 at 9:47 p.m.. (44576) Experiences of using del.icio.us I'm using del.icio.us for a few weeks now, but there are some changes in my bookmarking habits already: I add post to del.icio.us bookmarklet to all computers I use (including adding and then deleting it at Internet cafes!) I stopped sending e-mails to myself with links!!! I have less "just a link" weblog posts. I do not keep many things in my news aggregator just to decide what should I read them, send e-mail to myself or write "just a link" weblog post :) I definitely like an opportunity to assign From Mathemagenic on January 16, 2004 at 7:51 p.m.. (44575) 'Institutional Digital Repositories' and 'Learning Object Repositories' - What's the Difference? The title of this post is a question, and I'm actually interested to hear a few different things from people out there: not only what you think the difference between 'digital repository' software (e.g. DSpace) and 'learning object repository' software (e.g. CAREO) actually is, but also are any differences you think exist there because these types of systems really are trying to accomplish different functions, or are dealing with heterogeneous resource types, or are From EdTechPost on January 16, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (44574) Example Blog Templates For Teachers I created three example blogs (or more correctly, three blog templates) to show teachers how they could use blogs in their courses. I have setup numerous blogs for teachers and have been thinkning about blogging in the classroom for the... From Movable Type on January 16, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (44573) Example Blog Templates For Teachers I created three example blogs (or more correctly, three blog templates) to show teachers how they could use blogs in their courses. I have setup numerous blogs for teachers and have been thinkning about blogging in the classroom for the past several months. All of this time and energy has... From EdBlogger Praxis on January 16, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (44572) Blended Learning aus Australien Die Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) finanzierte Schulprojekte mit Blended Learning. Die Resultate sind auf der Website des New South Wales Department of Education and Training einzusehen. [via netzlernen.ch, einem neuen Weblog mit "notizen zum cyber-learning"!] From BildungsBlog on January 16, 2004 at 6:50 p.m.. (44571) Dang! Only 33rd place for most prolific RSS subscribers Jay wins with 1001 subscriptions! I only have 291! Dang! Have almost 1000 subscriptions in my NetNewsWire subscription list, though! From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 6:49 p.m.. (44570) Comments are back Thanks to some hard work by a couple of folks - and a new version of MovableType released specially to fight comment spam - you can once again leave comments.... From Joho the Blog on January 16, 2004 at 6:47 p.m.. (44569) Spontaneous screen videos I can't post the Outlook/SpamBayes video mentioned in this week's column because it reveals too much information about other people. So instead I've posted some experimental videos of LibraryLookup in action: ... From Jon's Radio on January 16, 2004 at 6:46 p.m.. (44568) Friday fun You got your Kottke in my Megnut! You got your Megnut in my Kottke! From megnut on January 16, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (44567) Kalifornien vs. Michael Jackson Erwartungsgemäß hat sich Michael Jackson heute vor Gericht in allen neun Anklagepunkten für "nicht schuldig" bekannt. Die Anklageschrift ist hier... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (44566) More on Real's Store, and Free Use v. Fair Use DRM Watch is more suspicious of Real Player 10's interoperability with iTunes songs, asserting that it might violate the DMCA.  I still don't understand the mechanics of it precisely (see previous post and News.com article) - I'll try to find more out later. Brad Hill now has his review up. Not quite a ri From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (44565) Cell Phone Multitasking My colleague Kate isn't at work today, but she just instant messaged me with a great story. Her daughter Clare is a college freshman who just started her first statistics class. On the first day, the professor announced they would be taking a basic math test, just to see where everyone was at, but that they could use their calculators. Apparently every student whipped out a cell phone - not a calculator in sight.... From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (44564) News Briefs: E-commerce Gets Its CRM Act Together Online customer service greatly improves in 2003, the SBA's 7(a) loan program is back in business, Interland offers cash reward for customer referrals, and Kurant adds UPS online tools to StoreSense. From E-Commerce Guide on January 16, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (44563) The age of mechanical reproduction The quotation from Robert Frost two days back that distinguished agreeing or disagreeing, which he called voting, from thinking, reminds me of a memory from the Tonight Show. I seem to recall that Johnny Carson would always set up a joke for Truman Capote by asking him what he thought of certain popular authors (such as Kerouac). Capote would deliver his stock answer, "That's not writing, that's typing." Certain things that look like thinking and that look like writing are,... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (44562) Alternative economic models for online music? Farhad Manjoo, in Is the war on file sharing over?, Salon, January 15, 2004, explores whether it is reasonable for the RIAA and recording industry advocates to claim victory over illegal music downloaders, in light of lawsuits, new sales models such as iTunes, and a Pew study that appeared to show a decline in file sharing as a result of the threat of prosecution. (A recent From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 4:49 p.m.. (44561) SHERPA in the news Today's issue of the Times Higher Education Supplement has a story, Archive site takes off, on SHERPA, its new partners, and its work on behalf of eprint archiving. But two problems: the story is accessible only to subscribers and it mistakenly identifies SHERPA as an Open Access Service Provider. SHERPA is running a brief correction on its web site, which JISC From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (44560) Using the internet for psychological research Michael Birnbaum, Human Research and Data Collection via the Internet, Annual Review of Psychology 55, 803 (2004). Only the abstract is freely available online. A California State University professor discusses potential advantages for data collection and data sharing in psychological studies conducted over the internet, points to a variety of freely-available resources including data collection forms, free software and programming tools, as well as web sites documenting studies in progress. From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (44559) SiT: Libraries and Google Quote: "While I'm dismayed about your remarks on library databases (and I assume you're referring to databases from ProQuest, Ebsco, etc.), I think they do reflect the attitudes of many non-librarians."Comment: Well, indeed they do, and therein lies the problem.  I pretty much consider myself an expert in information literacy.  I've worked on our college team implementing it as a requirement for all our students and I know my way around boolean logic backwards and forwards.  It's not that I don't have the skills.  I really am m From Serious Instructional Technology on January 16, 2004 at 4:46 p.m.. (44558) Illegal Music Downloading Climbs When the Pew study was released a couple of weeks ago saying that music dowloading had declined, I suggested that the study might be flawed. A new survey offers evidence for this, showing that music downloads actually surged in the month after the lawsuits were launched. By Associated Press, New York Times, January 15, 2004 [Refer][Research][From OLDaily on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44557) Product Reviews This is a neat idea, though the incompleteness of it is frustrating. From a database of 760 educational products, readers can search by keyword or product name. the idea is that this takes them to a product review. Or does it? I found no reviews in my searching, just a short description and a link to a website. What would have been nice would have been links to reviews, studies, anything, in fact, that would help inform readers about the product. In addition I didn't see open source products listed; the free stuff should be listed side by side with the pay. And the system should generate From OLDaily on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44553) Rights Issue Dogs CD Protection Why aren't music downloaders considered in the same light: as people using a new format, without yet obtaining licensing, which will be resolved at a later date? That's how the music publishers have approached new "double session" CDs - "In the case of the new two-part discs, labels are for the most part going ahead and releasing the new formats without obtaining new licences or striking new deals with the scattered publishers." It's not "piracy", I guess, if you have lawyers. By John Borland, Globe and Mail, January 14, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44552) HP Sets Record With $2.5B in Linux-Based Revenue For those of you who think there is no business model supporting open source software (or content). Of course, HP is now facing a certain backlash from its customers after announcing a war on "piracy". By Peter Galli, eWeek, January 15, 2003 [Refer][Research][From OLDaily on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44551) Participation in On-line Courses HYPHEN How Essential Is It? The author touches lightly on several issues related to online discussions in courses: the role of lurkers, measuring online participation, and whther participation shpuld be graded, for example. Discussion of this paper in the IFETS forum starts Monday. By Bill Williams, IFETS, January 19, 2003 [Refer][Research][From OLDaily on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44550) 1/2 page description of my PhD research If you are curious: I just posted 1/2 page description of my PhD research on-line (current title is "Personal productivity in a knowledge intensive environment: A weblog case"). It's not very informative, but short. Longer research outline will follow in a few days... See also: earlier discussions on title/terminology for my PhD research: personal effectivenes in a knowledge intensive environment (and --> From Mathemagenic on January 16, 2004 at 3:51 p.m.. (44549) The Wackiness And Serenity of Wikis Brian shares yet another brilliant article draft "Wikis: Hypertext on Steroids", worth reading and following links from if you are looking for what may be the next edge-like instructional technology. For those who have not "wiki-d" it is an intensively interlinked web site where any visitor can edit and create... From EdBlogger Praxis on January 16, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (44548) Ecto and Blogware don't suck! - Japan, Vancouver, California collaboration Thanks to a few late night minutes of my work and the hard work of the Blogware guys (Tom, you rock!) and to the superior debugging efforts of Adriaan (amazing response time from Japan), you can now easily post pictures and posts with pictures to Blogware blogs (check out my picture posts on my test Blogware site) from ecto (ignore the error about From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 3:49 p.m.. (44547) Hire Robb Beal Please consider hiring Robb. From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 3:49 p.m.. (44546) More on the Elsevier cancellations The official memorandum from the provosts of Duke U, North Carolina State U, and U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the faculties of the same three universities is now online. Excerpt: "As many of you know, the member universities of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) have decided to discontinue the consortial arrangement by which they provided access to electronic journals published under the Elsevier Science imprint....The breakdown of negotiation with Elsevier is only the most extreme symptom of a much larger problem. Ac From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 3:48 p.m.. (44545) Tim Berners-Lee: the fractal web Richard MacManus has summarized Chris Lydon's interview with Sir Tim, in which he explains the (sensible, in my opinion) idea of the fractal Web. In the fractal Web, different parts of our output are targeted to groups at different scales, ranging from the individual to humanity as a whole. Reminded me of the From Seb's Open Research on January 16, 2004 at 3:46 p.m.. (44544) Brian Lamb on wikis Brian Lamb has written a short primer on wikis, followed by a list of wikis with an educational slant. He dug up the wiki prayer from the mother of all wikis, which I hadn't seen before: Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, The courage to edit the pages I can, From Seb's Open Research on January 16, 2004 at 3:46 p.m.. (44543) The history of draconian error handling in XML I suspect that most of the people discussing liberal XML parsing today are unaware that Tim Bray was the singular force behind the "fail on first error" behavior of XML. Virtually everyone in the XML working group disagreed with him. In the end, Tim basically said "there are two camps here, they both have good points, we aren't going to convince each other on this one" and then proceeded to compromise by doing it his way. (1884 words) From dive into mark on January 16, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (44542) China's Internet Use Surges Government stats show that 79.5 million Chinese are now online, second only to the United States. From CyberAtlas on January 16, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (44541) Ready for a wiki Finally, I'm ready. Weblog is not enough and I need a wiki to organise my thinking (so far mainly my work with research literature). I'm still thinking a bit about joining to one of existing KM-related wikis, but I want "my own space" where I don't have to think what... From EdBlogger Praxis on January 16, 2004 at 2:51 p.m.. (44540) Cancer takes another Cancer sucks. Another one has passed away. That brings the total to 5 the number of women I know who have passed away because of cancer. Fare thee well, J! From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 2:50 p.m.. (44539) The Opera Thing See that gap Opera 6/7 inserts in this web layout? That CSS bug has been fixed in Opera 7.23+. Opera fans, take note. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 16, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (44538) The Wackiness And Serenity of Wikis Brian shares yet another brilliant article draft "Wikis: Hypertext on Steroids", worth reading and following links from if you are looking for what may be the next edge-like instructional technology. For those who have not "wiki-d" it is an intensively interlinked web site where any visitor can edit and create new information. It bends your head backwards until you see when it works well, most notably the open content reference encyclopedia --> From cogdogblog on January 16, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (44537) Hi, Sarah - Welcome to the Club! Hello. My name is Sarah and I'm an RSS-addict. "OK, so the # of feeds I'm getting just went over 100. I officially cannot live without RSS now...." [LibrarianInBlack] From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 2:47 p.m.. (44536) Jim Morrison virtual comeback This from Modern Humorist. The non-flash version is almost as enjoyable. THIRTY YEARS AGO last week, Doors frontman Jim Morrison mixed drugs, alcohol and asthma to ascend to the big Whisky A Go-Go in the sky. Here in the virtual world, though, Modern Humorist has reanimated him in the From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 16, 2004 at 2:47 p.m.. (44535) m3u generator bookmarklet Alf Eaton has come up with a m3u generator bookmarklet which will harvest the links to mp3s on a page  you're viewing in the browser and give you a playlist. Drag that last link to your links bar, and try it on this page of songs from Les Ogres de Barback or this --> From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 16, 2004 at 2:47 p.m.. (44534) President Bush and US Space Policy Recently, President Bush announced his new policy for space. President Bush is to be praised for his bold new vision, including at least two crucial points: Humans can and should travel beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Robotic exploration is valuable and important however is not sufficient to satisfy the human spirit. George W. Bush deserves great credit for making this point. The space shuttle must be retired. Cancellation of the wasteful shuttle system offers significant opportunity for reinvestment of significant funding. These are significant steps forward. The vision is plainly there. From kuro5hin.org on January 16, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (44533) A Brief Response to Susan Crawford Last week, Prof. Susan Crawford challenged her readers to send her "samples of what a real cyberlaw course should cover" (What is cyberlaw?). This is truly a fascinating question and one I've thought much about. I've been meaning to write... From The Importance Of on January 16, 2004 at 1:53 p.m.. (44532) Why Not Run Your Own Game Server? Terra Nova has an interesting little article on so-called "rogue servers" that host MMORPGs (Free Rogue Server Achieves Significant Population). Most, if not all (any P2P MMORPGs out there?), MMORPG are based on the client/server model, where each user has... From The Importance Of on January 16, 2004 at 1:53 p.m.. (44531) Amazon - A Research Goldmine While I sort of knew about the fact that Amazon has created a database for over 200,000 books, it was only today that I discovered what this means to a researcher. I am looking at what happens to the immune... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 1:52 p.m.. (44530) More on MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative Sally Atwood, Opening Up Online Education, MIT Technology Review, December 2003 / January 2004. On MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative. Quoting Ed Walker, CEO of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, an MIT partner on OKI: "[OKI is] easily of the importance of moveable type, the alphabet, and printing." From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (44529) Milestone for DOAJ Today the Directory of Open Access Journals added its 700th journal. From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (44528) More on the Elsevier cancellations Kenneth Ball, Libraries cancel Elsevier contract, North Carolina State University's TechnicianOnline, January 16, 2004. Excerpt: "The NCSU libraries, along with the rest of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), have decided not to renew their contract with Reed-Elsevier, which provided member universities with electronic access to journals published under the Elsevier Science imprint." From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (44527) More on the Elsevier cancellations Joseph Schwartz, Campus to drop journal contract, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Daily Tar Heel, January 16, 2004. Quoting Joe Hewitt, associate provost for libraries: "We are trying to cancel enough [journals] so that our payments to Elsevier will be about the same as they were last year." From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (44526) Other changes, other rooms Ads be gone. Links be here. Kicking against the pricks of CSS design and other allsorts. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 16, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (44525) My Glamorous Life No. 81: A Little Death Death slid over her like a sheet of ice. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 16, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (44524) A Vision of Weblogs in the Classroom I've been e-mailing back and forth with the developer of one of the newer Weblog hosting services about what educators want that they don't seem to be getting from the current offerings. I've told him that aside from the access and hosting issues, privacy and safety concerns are pretty paramount. I know I've been moaning about the need for different levels of access for posts and for being able to screen out inappropriate comments before they are published. (I just had ManilaFixer and --> From weblogged News on January 16, 2004 at 1:47 p.m.. (44523) Participatory, Partisan Journalism BloggerStorm is one of the more interesting developments in participatory journalism in a long time. It's an aggregation of weblogs covering the Iowa presidential caucuses, kind of a human-operated equivalent of Google News capturing a narrow topic. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 16, 2004 at 1:46 p.m.. (44522) Net No Threat To Newspapers Newspaper Web sites act as an extension of their print counterparts, building readership and connecting with hard-to-reach market segments. From CyberAtlas on January 16, 2004 at 1:45 p.m.. (44521) Ready for a wiki Finally, I'm ready. Weblog is not enough and I need a wiki to organise my thinking (so far mainly my work with research literature). I'm still thinking a bit about joining to one of existing KM-related wikis, but I want "my own space" where I don't have to think what is appropriate to post and where... Do you have any recommendations about a wiki tool which is easy to install, maintain and use? (Or any strong arguments why I should join an existing wiki and which one exactly :)   From Mathemagenic on January 16, 2004 at 12:52 p.m.. (44520) Two Tips Just some thoughts I had after a full day of teaching yesterday.... Let the Cat Out of the Bag Because it is the nature of our jobs to preplan, we often "hold back" material that we've planned for later in the hour or later in the term or later in... From PEDABLOGUE on January 16, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (44519) "Building Better Learners" You know you're near the zeitgeist when a noun becomes a verb. More and more, people call it "Googling" when they turn to the Internet's best-known search engine to teach themselves a few salient facts or a truckload of background on a topic that's caught their interest. But what they call Googling, the training industry calls self-directed learning. It's an area of training that is somehow ubiquitous yet under-the-radar, obvious yet ill-defined. Like its cousin informal learning, self-directed learning (SDL) is greatly desired by some organizations and barely n From BildungsBlog on January 16, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (44518) Tim Bray is an Open Source Person I would like to be an Open Source Person too. Cool concept and term! From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 12:50 p.m.. (44517) Rapidly forward into oblivion? I'm wondering how many people think that rapid content development - RoboVapourWare Pro - is yet another wrong direction for elearning? If high quality, well designed elearning is predominantly under-used, with very patchy evidence that people actually change as a result, aren't we just likely to end up producing the same useless stuff, but just much quicker and cheaper? But cheap stuff that doesn't work still doesn't work. Actually - I'm in two minds about thi From Viral-learning.net on January 16, 2004 at 12:49 p.m.. (44516) Interaktive Präsidentschaft von BFW bis HW Heute erhielt ich gegen Mittag einen Anruf einer Ö3-Redakteurin, Thema: die Websites der beiden österr. Präsidentschaftskanidatinnen. Sie wollte meine Meinung dazu, für den Ö3-Wecker, also für die Zeit wo man entweder noch... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 16, 2004 at 12:47 p.m.. (44515) FDP bringt Steuergesetz ein Die FDP-Fraktion hat als erste Partei einen kompletten Gesetzentwurf (26 S. PDF) für eine drastische Steuervereinfachung und Steuersenkung vorgelegt und... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 11:50 a.m.. (44514) EU-Gesetzgebung der Kandidatenstaaten In EUR-Lex hat die Erweiterung bereits begonnen mit der Verfügbarkeit der Gesetzgebung seit Juli 2003 in den Sprachen der Kandidatenstaaten.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 11:50 a.m.. (44513) How people use electronic information resources OCLC and IMLS are funding a project to learn how people use electronic information resources. Quoting Brenda Dervin, professor of communication at Ohio State and principal investigator for the project: "We know a lot about who is using these electronic resources, when they are using it and where. But there is just a dabbling of research on the hows and whys. We want to know how people are choosing their electronic resources, why they are choosing some resource From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 11:49 a.m.. (44512) Aggregating digital libraries and eprint repositories Martha Brogan, A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services, Digital Library Federation, 2003. Excerpt: "This reports provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH), although some of them predate its inception and a few use predominantly From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 11:49 a.m.. (44511) The Death of the "Third Place" and the Birth of Vitual Community Why is virtual community becoming so important? Maybe this piece talking about Ray Oldenburg gives us a clue. "Ray Oldenburg believes that the demise of community can be blamed upon the loss of what he calls the "Great Good Place... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (44510) PLoS is changing the ground rules of academic publishing Paul Gilster, How to get the data out, the Raleigh News Observer, January 14, 2004. Excerpt: "Vast amounts of data are tied up in prestigious journals requiring expensive library subscriptions. When I needed an article by physicist Raymond Lewis on current work on anti-matter containment for a book chapter I was working on, I found the citation online in a journal called Advances in Space Research. The cost to read the entire article was $30. A few such articles quickly add up....The Public Library of Science (PLoS) ch From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44509) Letter calling for prioritization of peer review Jean-Patrick Connerade, Scandals stem from the low priority of peer review Nature 427, 196 (15 January 2004) (access restricted to subscribers). A letter to Nature argues that premium value be placed on peer-reviewing activities, making it one of the criteria for academic advancement and funding recipience. The author advocates for this to prevent "embarrassing fiascos and to ensure that the publication process remains reliable." In doing so, he makes rather an unfortunate generaliz From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44508) White paper on Open Access for publishers Alastair Dryburgh and Jill Cousins have written a white paper called Open Access - Threat or Opportunity? [PDF format], to help publishers consider their response to the Open Access movement. From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44507) Open Access and Public Domain Bonita Wilson: "Those providing content on an openly accessible web site should make clear what content can be freely reused and what cannot." From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44506) More OA competition for Elsevier Richard Wray, Dotcom boomer takes on Reed, The Guardian, January 15, 2004. Russell Shepherd made millions selling Everyform to Reed Elsevier, and is investing the proceeds in Emplaw, an Elsevier rival providing free and affordable information news and commentary on UK employment law. Excerpt: "Emplaw is the latest assault on the dominance of firms like Reed in the specialist sector. In March, a committee of MPs will begin a series of From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44505) Elsevier still saying that OA presupposes costlessness Karen Hunter, Scholarly Publishing: 12 Observations on the Current Situation and Challenges for the Future, Library Connect, December 2003, pp. 2-3. Observation #3: "The current preoccupation with 'free access' rests on false assumptions." Her reason: "Education is not free to students and information in support of education is not free either --any more than food, computers or football stadiums...." (PS: Wow. I haven't heard this misunderstanding in years, and never expected to hear i From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44504) UKSG funding for OA-related research The UKSerials Group is soliciting proposals for its 2004 International Research Awards. Among the research topics eligible for funding are "non-commercial models of scholarly publishing" and "new pricing and business models". Proposals are due by February 6, 2004. From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44503) Institutional repository at the U of Amsterdam Kurt De Belder built an innovative OAI-compliant institutional repository for the University of Amsterdam, with funding from SURF. Among the nice features are a powerful search engine that supports field searching, indexing by Scirus along with the OAI-compliant search engines, a long-term preservation arrangement with the Royal Library of the Netherlands, and a "Document of the day" highlighted on the front page with a link. It has an easy way to pull together publication lists for individu From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44502) NZ buys access for all school libraries An anonymous story in Stuff.co reports that the New Zealand Ministry of Education has paid for all primary and secondary schools in the country to join the licensing package purchased by large public and academic libraries. Citizen access to these resources begins on March 4. (PS: This is subsidized toll-access, not open access, but an interesting use of government funds to widen access for all citizens in a country.) From FOS News on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44501) From SUNY Albany: Resource for linking journal and database URLs The URL Clearinghouse is a database made freely available by the libraries of the State University of New York at Albany, and maintained by Laura B. Cohen, Network Services Librarian/Webmaster. It contains records for 48 journal and database vendors and gives specific instructions on how to link to a particular vendor's resources, including shortcuts, syntax to avoid, all to provide shortcuts and time-saving techniques. The Clearinghouse welcomes additions to the vendor list and suggestions and also includes a list of URL types, de From Joho the Blog on January 16, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44495) Inventories of community processes The co-intelligence institute maintains a list of compilations of community processes. They say the most comprehensive to date is the Citizen Science Toolbox, which I think looks terrific. As Ming writes, "There are detailed instructions and references and pros and cons for all those different approaches. From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 16, 2004 at 10:46 a.m.. (44494) Infoviz in the seventies The Union of International Associations showcases a 1971 demo movie of information vizualization technology (RealVideo), featuring light pens and 3D rotating molecules (around 4:00) The soundtrack kinda caught me offguard. (By the way, Real Alternative (thanks Anil) is a great way to play Real media on Windows - though I seem to have trouble with .smil From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 16, 2004 at 10:46 a.m.. (44492) WIL WHEATON DOT NET: rssify Quote: "Here's some more geeky webby goodness I've uncovered in the last few days. Blogger users can easily create RSS feeds for their site using Rss-ify. It's really cool. All you do is put some tags in your entry templates, generate a URL, and watch the fun."Comment: Wil Wheaton links to my service.  Yikes! From Serious Instructional Technology on January 16, 2004 at 10:46 a.m.. (44491) Weblogs de alumnos Hoy ha finalizado el curso de Diseño Audiovisual en el que desde octubre nos hemos centrado en el desarrollo de weblogs de alumnos como herramienta de alfabetización digital y sistema regular de trabajo de clase. Esta es una selección de... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 16, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (44490) Yahoo News BETA Der neue Yahoo-Nachrichtendienst (BETA) wertet ca. 7.000 Quellen aus und wird in einer normalen und erweiterten Version angeboten.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (44489) "Eingewählt" Wireless LANs schießen seit geraumer Zeit wie Pilze aus dem Boden. In Hotels und Flughäfen, aber auch im privaten Bereich... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (44488) Periodismo digital en Huesca El V Congreso Nacional de Periodismo Digital que se celebra en Huesca, aborda hoy la temática de los weblogs. Hay una cobertura online en Aragón Digital, también en formato RSS: http://www.aragondigital.es/coberturas/V_congresoperiodismo/rss.asp Estas jornadas, un evento más bien mediático que académico... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 16, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (44487) Dude! I just upgraded to MT 2.65, now this? Movabletype.org News : Version 2.66 Released As a stopgap before we release comment registration in Movable Type 3.0, we've released version 2.66 of Movable Type, which includes some protection against comment flooding. We've included a throttling measure so that comments... From Movable Type on January 16, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (44486) BlueRadio This is the first screenshot of the BlueRadio application which turns Radio Userland (RU) into the perfect Private Area Network device. In combination with a Ruby Application Server one can use RU to use all the functionalities of mobile... From Radio on January 16, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (44485) QubitNews makes Google News The QubitNews weblog has been approved to become a news resource website for Google news. From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 16, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (44484) Agriculture epidemics may hold clues to Net viruses - Robert Lemos, CNET In studying the effects of last summer's MSBlast worm, some security experts turned to an unlikely source in search of clues to the prevention of computer epidemics: plants. Their idea was inspired by parallels that scientists are drawing between the From Techno-News Blog on January 16, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (44483) Is the war on file sharing over? - Farhad Manjoo, Salon If one is willing to believe the happy talk from music business executives, the tide has finally turned against file sharing, thanks to the get-tough tactics employed by the Recording Industry Association of America. Last fall, the RIAA began filing l From Techno-News Blog on January 16, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (44482) Digital Music: What's Coming - Carol A. Mangis, PC Magazine How will we be hauling our tunes around in the coming year? At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, we saw a burgeoning crop of portable digital music players that point the way. The trends, which probably won't surprise many people, are smaller pl From Techno-News Blog on January 16, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (44481) Teachers using Mars mission to fascinate, educate students - eSchool News staff and wire service report Teacher Steven Dworetzky's middle-school classroom buzzed with activity--temporarily converted to a miniature version of the Mars mission control center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in nearby Pasadena, Calif. Teams of teens huddled over comp From Educational Technology on January 16, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (44480) Discover Mars - Education World What is the Time on Mars? Is There Water on Mars? Was there ever Life on Mars? What does Mars Look Like? The sites below can help you and your students discover the answers to those questions and more. Included: More than two-dozen online resources for From Educational Technology on January 16, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (44479) Mother finds time for school online - Joan Francis, Times-Picayune For Cindy Roppolo, the Christmas holidays brought a little reprieve from her many jobs. By day, Roppolo is a teacher's assistant at McDonogh 26 Elementary School. She also orchestrates parties three nights a week at the Expressway Bowling Alley, and sh From Online Learning Update on January 16, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (44478) The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles - Jonas Holmström, D-Lib Magazine Abstract: The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. The traditional subscription based publishing model is compared with the op From Online Learning Update on January 16, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (44477) Freiheit im Internet Diktaturen wie Kuba und China versuchen mit allen Mitteln, ihre Bürger bei der Nutzung des Internets zu behindern. Doch auch... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (44476) Der unbekannte Angeklagte Der so genannte Mannesmann-Prozess gilt als das spektakulärste Verfahren der bundesrepublikanischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Nicht, weil die Summe, um die es geht... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (44475) Online-Wikiseminar für Anwälte Heute geht ein Wiki-Seminar für Anwälte in Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem JuraWiki und den Network-Lawyers zu Ende. Am Rande der Veranstaltung... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (44474) Dean bloggers with RSS in Iowa A very interesting email this morning from Mathew Gross, lead blogger of Dean for America, this morning. Matt says: "Iowa is awash with volunteers canvassing for Dean for 'The Perfect Storm for Democracy' -- 3500 or more, at last count. I was noticing how many of them were bloggers, writing about their experiences on their weblog. So we (Joe Rospars and Rick Klau) implemented  BloggerStorm." He continues: "We're looking for bloggers with RSS syndication who are on the ground in Iowa. We want to hear From Weblogs At Harvard on January 16, 2004 at 7:47 a.m.. (44473) Blogs are Legit (via my Feedster search feed) NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin has seen the light about Weblogs as an alternative news medium. Blogs are, as I now appreciate, as legitimate a method of communicating information and opinion as traditional media...Political life in the United States is changing and so, it seems, should be how and where political journalism chooses its information. I love it... From weblogged News on January 16, 2004 at 7:47 a.m.. (44472) Net registry to stop diploma mills urged - Jennifer Alsever, Denver Post The U.S. Department of Education should explore creating an online list of accredited colleges and universities to help stop the proliferation of phony degrees from online diploma mills, a committee of lawmakers and federal officials concluded Thursday From Online Learning Update on January 16, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (44471) Keine Erbberechtigung eines Mörders Mit Urteil vom heutigen Tage hat das OLG Koblenz ein Urteil des LG Koblenz vom 17.10.2002 bestätigt, wonach der Mörder... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 6:50 a.m.. (44470) Schuldig oder nicht? Jeder, der mit dem Namen Michael Jackson etwas anfangen kann, wird dem heutigen ersten Gerichtstermin mit Hochspannung entgegensehen. Einerseits will... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 6:50 a.m.. (44469) Lernstrategie von Roxin In der gewohnt eloquenten Weise kommentiert Lenz heute einen Beitrag aus dem LAWgical - lesenswert!... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 6:50 a.m.. (44468) BlueRadio This is the first screenshot of the BlueRadio application which turns Radio Userland (RU) into the perfect Private Area Network device. In combination with a Ruby Application Server one can use RU to use all the functionalities of mobile phones with softmodems. You can call phonenumbers, be informed via RU when calls arrive, exchange PIM infos with your handy and receive and submit SMS. You can also post your SMS directly to your Blog etc. BlueRadio uses also the OBEX protocol which enables RU-Users From Seblogging News on January 16, 2004 at 6:48 a.m.. (44467) Yahoo Whoo-Hoos Over Earnings The Internet company celebrates the end of its dot-com bust with fourth-quarter revenue more than double that of last year. The quarter caps Yahoo's most profitable year since it was founded almost 10 years ago. From Wired News on January 16, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44466) Greens Sue EPA to Stop Collusion Environmental groups say draft regulations to weaken the Endangered Species Act look very similar to proposals from the pesticide industry. So the greens sue to stop the EPA from meeting in secret with industry groups. By Niall McKay. From Wired News on January 16, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44465) Fly Us to the Moon -- All of Us President Bush wants to establish a permanent lunar outpost as part of a revitalized space program. Well and good. But don't turn the moon into an extension of Fortress America. Welcome the world, or deep-six the plan. Opinion by Tony Long. From Wired News on January 16, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44464) Mars Mission a Trojan Horse? Give some credit to Bush: In stoking interest in a mission to Mars (which may or may not happen), his administration may have figured out a clever way to kill the space shuttle and other costly projects, space experts say. By Suneel Ratan. From Wired News on January 16, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44463) Sci-Fi Scribes Like Mars Plan Science-fiction writers applaud President Bush's plan for a trip to Mars. Massive industrialization on the moon, construction of a vehicle in space, an epic trip -- what's not to like? By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on January 16, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44462) Open Up a Can of Spam Two weeks after a much-heralded U.S. antispam law took effect, junk-mail-filtering firms say they're weeding out more unwanted messages than ever. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on January 16, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44461) Beihilfe zur Steuerhinterziehung Gegen rund 5.700 Kunden verschiedener Versicherungsunternehmen wird derzeit wegen des Verdachts der Steuerhinterziehung ermittelt. Die Kunden sollen im Ausland geparktes... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 5:50 a.m.. (44460) Rückwirkende Körperschaftsteuerpflicht von Stiftungen Von Todes wegen errichtete privatrechtliche Stiftungen sind (auf Grund der Rückwirkung des § 84 BGB) bereits im Zeitpunkt des Vermögensanfalls... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 16, 2004 at 5:50 a.m.. (44459) Bottom-Up Rules! Top down monolithic solutions and diktats don't work (or work very rarely) today! Ross nails it again! Applies to all service and product development as well as developing software. And it goes without saying that blogs and wikis are a great way of encouraging and nurturing the bottom up organization. [SOURCE Ross Mayfield's Weblog] QUOTEIt's not just that the Internet created the opportunity for the bottom-up phenomenon to emerge. We are compelled by the necessity of our times From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 4:49 a.m.. (44458) NPR Ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, "I was wrong." - about blogs! Via the excellent Pomo Blog QUOTEThis is a welcome break in the non-stop litany of name-calling by the mainstream media on the role of Weblogs in journalism. What's that? The sound of scales falling from eyes. I predict we'll hear much more of it in the coming months.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 4:49 a.m.. (44457) Big List of Blog Search Engines It's cool that there are so many. Wait and see how many are around 5 years from now when the inevitable consolidation occurs. From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 16, 2004 at 4:49 a.m.. (44456) BBC Worldwide announces MBA scholarships From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44455) DTI Secondment aids eLearning opportunities From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44454) Futuremedia to Exhibit at Europe's Leading Learning and Skills Exhibition and Conference in London From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44453) Call for Short Articles for Encyclopedia of International Computer-Based Learning From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44452) Waukesha ready to set up virtual school From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44451) More college hopefuls are applying online From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44450) Learning virtual history lessons From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44449) Lessons from Launching an Online MBA Program From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (44448) Oregon Dental Association Sponsors Statewide Check-Up for Kids on Give Kids a Smile Day - February 6, 2004 Oregon Dentists join dentists nationwide to provide free dental exams, oral health education, screening and treatment for underserved children suffering from poor oral health. Give Kids A Smile Day - February 6, 2004, is sponsored by the American Dental Association. [PRWEB Jan 16, 2004] From PR Web on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44447) I.R.S. Rule Helps People Put Their Trust in Harvard A new ruling by the I.R.S. will allow people to invest with Harvard's strong performing endowment in a popular type of trust that has tax advantages. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44446) Special Help for 3rd Graders Is Promised Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's plan to provide tutoring and summer school to second and third graders seeks to end the practice of social promotion. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44445) Walking Tall on Hallway Beat Police officers must unlearn many pieces of their training when the assignment moves from the streets to the hallways of a school. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44444) Boys Choir Leader Faces Ouster Over Failure to Act After Abuse When Walter Turnbull, founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem, was told that a counselor was being accused of abuse, he did not call the police. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44443) Renewing His Focus on Schools, Bush Proposes Spending Increase Democrats said the election-year proposal would not change what they called President Bush's record of consistently underfinancing education. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44442) Stricter Standards in New York May Hold 15,000 in 3rd Grade New York City plans to impose requirements for third graders that officials estimated could lead to one in five children repeating the grade. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44441) Fewer City Schools Face Risk of Being Shut Fewer New York City schools are at risk of being closed for poor academic performance than at any time since the state began identifying such schools in 1989. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44440) For Belichick, an Economy of Thought There is more to New England Coach Bill Belichick than his image as an X's and O's savant. He is, at heart, an academic. From New York Times: Education on January 16, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44439) Moon Base: NASA's Recurring Dream From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (44438) Web-based science library soon From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 16, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (44437) Outsourcing the Process of Creating DVDs of Library Content? CustomFlix DVD Distribution on Demand "While I frequently talk about creating DVDs from family movies, there are certainly plenty of potentially commercial projects that need to go beyond the home computer and into a distribution pipeline. While burning DVDs from your PC is an option, this also means taking responsibility for fulfillment and all the headaches associated with shipping physical goods. Mastering houses can produce large print runs of your DVD content, but then From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 2:47 a.m.. (44436) Senators Getting RSS! Senate Begins RSS Rollout "Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) is the first Senator with a RSS news feed for press releases on his official site. Feeds for other senators will soon follow according to Jason Blum in Enterprise Systems Support of the office of the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms. Plans call for what Blum refers to as 'RSS relay agents.' These are local customized feeds for hometown constituents for --> From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 2:47 a.m.. (44435) Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois Libraries?? In response to yesterday's criticism of Illinois Governor Blagojevich's plan to spend money on 12 books per child per year rather than on libraries, Ernest Miller comes up with a most interesting proposal. Book Publishing in Every School and Library "Why not split the difference? What if From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 2:47 a.m.. (44434) CBS May Reject MoveOn.org Superbowl Ad - Ain't our Money Green? - CBS May Decline MoveOn.org Ad According to an AdAge.com article, CBS may reject MoveOn.org's bid to have the winner of the "Bush in 30 seconds" ad competition run during the Superbowl. A spokesman for CBS said the Viacom-owned network has received the request from MoveOn to run the ad in the Super Bowl, but added that the ad has to go through standards and practices before CBS will say if it can run an advocacy ad during the game. The spokesman said he didn't think it was likely that the spot would pass standards and practices. (You can vie From kuro5hin.org on January 16, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (44433) Exploring an International Minimum Wage I've looked into the concept of a minimum wage, finding many proposals. Some are based on the US minimum wage, or on an average of national minimums. Some are just arbitrarily set without explanation. These proposals often quintuple the salary of workers in poor countries. Here's a more conservative proposal based on a combination macroeconomic/commodity approach. Also, an explanation of the economic purpose of minimum wages. From kuro5hin.org on January 16, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (44432) Dave Read My Mind "RSS feeds whose title contains 'librar'." [Scripting News] From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 1:47 a.m.. (44431) NYPL Gets Wi-Fi Fever, With One Potential Problem NYPL Offers Free Wi-Fi "Free Wi-Fi Service at 53 branches of NYPL!!! Suweeeeeet!!" [Library Stuff] Overall, this is great news, and NYPL has even posted an informational page about this on its web site (including a list of the specific locations). While it's great From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 1:47 a.m.. (44430) Wikis: Hypertext on Steroids Well. It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time. I’ve just completed a rough draft of my latest article for UBC’s e-Strategy Newsletter. This month, I try to communicate the concept... From Object Learning on January 16, 2004 at 1:46 a.m.. (44429) Upgrade - MT 2.661 As I thought they would, Six Apart released a minor upgrade to yesterday's 2.66 release:Update: We've released 2.661, an update to 2.66, to fix a problem with invalid XHTML in the comment redirect script, along with using comment IDs instead... From Movable Type on January 16, 2004 at 12:50 a.m.. (44428) What I learned today That's the title of a Billy Collins poem about reading an encyclopedia, published in his 1998 volume, Picnic, Lightning. Collins includes these lines parodic of one type of learning: ...no matter what the size the aquarium of one's learning, / another colored pebble can always be dropped in. (17) As the poem continues, he spoofs the obsessive cataloging of the encyclopedia, but he also becomes more specific about the character of writing. The poem ends with the speaker clutching... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 16, 2004 at 12:50 a.m.. (44427) Hurston Plays Expose Copyright Hypocrisy Over on Siva Vaidhyanathan's blog, Peter Hirtle rightly nails the Library of Congress for its hypocritical stance on copyright. Library of Congress Having it Both Ways! "Did you see the following press release from the Library of Congress's American Memory project? They are crowing about the fact that they have made important unpublished plays by Zora Neale Hurston available through their web site. I (like them) think From The Shifted Librarian on January 16, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (44426) useless miscellany Returns, Too! Excellent - not only is Library Techlog back, but so is ...useless miscellany! Welcome back, Eric! This is one of the great things about RSS. Both Matthew and Eric had taken a hiatus from blogging for several months. If I still checked web sites manually, they would have dropped out of my daily/weekly routine, and I wouldn't know that both had new content today. But with RSS, I just left my aggregator subscribed to them, patiently waiting for their return, and today they ma From The Shifted Librarian on January 15, 2004 at 11:47 p.m.. (44425) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]