Edu_RSS ~ January 19, 2004

Most recent update: January 19, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: Background / Suddenly, Jordan is an enemy From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 p.m.. (44940) Analysis / Organization sends message to Damascus and Tehran From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 p.m.. (44939) Prison chief won't allow Amir marriage From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 p.m.. (44938) PM blasts Amman for role in Hague's fence hearing From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 p.m.. (44937) Pop Sugar and Obesity - Links Here are some great links on the topic of why we should ban pop Dr Mercola One of every four drinks consumed is a soft drink. Our annual consumption here in the U.S. averages out to more than 56 gallons... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 p.m.. (44936) Political Promises Begin The democratic candidates have begun taking stances on issues in higher education, as reported in a new (free!) roundup article in The Chronicle. I don't have a personal favorite, but I did like reading about the incentives for getting more students to teach (similar to the imaginary "No Teacher Left... From PEDABLOGUE on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 p.m.. (44935) An informative policy site I was happy to find Public Agenda, a site devoted to matters of public policy and opinion. They offer resources that should be of much use to educators this election year. See, for example, the rotating Red Flags section, which shows some of the ways polling data can produce very different results with seemingly small changes in wording. They also offer issue guides, research studies, and other types of information. One good page shows 20 Questions Journalists Should Ask About... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 19, 2004 at 10:50 p.m.. (44934) Hezbollah rocket strike kills soldier From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 9:51 p.m.. (44933) Web opens up for learning disabled From ScotFEICT on January 19, 2004 at 9:50 p.m.. (44932) Microsoft ships Cygwin on steroids for Windows - Micros *nix? Very cool! Must check this out! From Anil Dash: Microsoft *nix QUOTEWhat if Microsoft shipped "Linux for Windows"? On Friday, Microsoft released a free download of Windows Services for Unix version 3.5, a significant upgrade to the Unix integration product they've been offering for about 5 years. I've used it before, mostly as an NFS client, but there's some remarkable changes this time around. The Services for Unix (SFU) are free to download and con From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (44931) New research counts leopards in Ein Gedi by tracking their droppings From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (44930) Histadrut sued for being both management and union From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (44929) Background / Suddenly, Jordan is an enemy From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (44928) Analysis / Organization sends message to Damascus and Tehran From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (44927) Hezbollah rocket strike kills soldier From Haaretz: News on January 19, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (44926) West has announced new ways to research statutes w ... West has announced new ways to research statutes with Westlaw StatutesPlus From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44925) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced ... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced grants to 18 US states to help public libraries continue to provide no-cost access to computers and the Internet for the public. The Staying Connected challenge grants, totaling $5.8 million, are going to state library agencies in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina From Peter Scott&apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44924) Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Inf ... Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science is offering a number of online workshops in the Spring of 2004 From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44923) Library Technology Alliance has announced the laun ... Library Technology Alliance has announced the launch of BooksandPeriodicals.com, a comprehensive directory of sources for global news, business, legal, scientific and medical information made available online through hosting services, such as Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Factiva and Westlaw. Alphabetical and keyword look up of over 106,000 titles, Web links to over 4,500 full text sources, Over 40,500 full text sources identified. 15-day free trial available From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44922) The 2004 NASIG Conference will be held on the shor ... The 2004 NASIG Conference will be held on the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the historic Hilton Milwaukee City Center hotel - June 17-20 From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44921) The University of California Press is partnering w ... The University of California Press is partnering with the American Anthropological Association to develop a digital publishing program for their journals beginning in 2004 From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44920) The web site of the European Commission's IBPP pro ... The web site of the European Commission's IBPP project Russian Libraries in the Third Millennium is now available. The project will create a joint virtual gateway providing integrated access to the bibliographic and full-text resources of five largest Libraries in Russia From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44919) The UK Serials Group has announced details of its ... The UK Serials Group has announced details of its International Research Awards Programme for 2004 From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44918) The January 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now av ... The January 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44917) This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests ... This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of people who are notable for being left-handed. Answers here.1. Left-handed American guitarist (1942-70) who played a re-strung right-handed guitar and had hits with "Purple Haze:" and "The Wind Cries Mary"2. Famous American baseball player (1895-1948): a left-handed pitcher for Boston Red Sox3. Left-handed Australian tennis player, born 1938, nicknamed the Rockhampton Rocket4. 20th From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44916) The Thomson Corporation has announced that it has ... The Thomson Corporation has announced that it has acquired the publishing assets of Biological Abstracts, Inc. and BIOSIS From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44915) Working under the auspices of the National Informa ... Working under the auspices of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a joint task force of the publishing and library communities has developed and published a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme aimed at the identification of information assets. Information assets should be interpreted rather broadly to include, for example, documents and terms from classification schemes From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44914) At the recent ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, ... At the recent ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, Project MUSE hosted a Public Hearing to solicit customer and consortia executive feedback to proposed new pricing models for 2005. PowerPoint slides are now available From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44913) The Royal Society has launched a new dedicated e-j ... The Royal Society has launched a new dedicated e-journal website hosted by MetaPress, with improved navigation, and the tools for serials librarians to manage their online access, including industry-standard usage statistics From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44912) Voting is underway for the WHSmith People's Choice ... Voting is underway for the WHSmith People's Choice Book Awards 2004 - Closing date is 25 February 2004 From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44911) The British Library has published Inventing the Am ... The British Library has published Inventing the American Dream, a history of the huge number of patents which have helped create the mythical American Dream. It is written by curator Stephen van Dulken whose childhood spent in the USA inspired his research and illustrated by drawings of more than 140 inventions, some household names, some obscure From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44910) Fifth Annual ASIS&T Information Architecture Summi ... Fifth Annual ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit - Breaking New Ground - 27-29 February, 2004 - Austin, Texas From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44909) Endeavor Information Systems has announced the dev ... Endeavor Information Systems has announced the development of an XML gateway to the Scirus science-specific search engine through the ENCompass system for managing, searching and linking web and journal collections. Through this XML gateway, ENCompass will be able to search and display results from Scirus, a powerful free Internet search tool developed especially for finding scientific information From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44908) Endeavor Information Systems has announced the fir ... Endeavor Information Systems has announced the first libraries to select its LinkFinderPlus Subscription Service. The LinkFinderPlus Subscription Service offers libraries the power of an OpenURL-enabled link resolver without the technical setup and maintenance of a locally-hosted solution From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44907) Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tel ... Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves - Library of Congress, American Memory presentation From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44906) The Library of Congress will open the first compre ... The Library of Congress will open the first comprehensive exhibition of Churchill material in the United States on Feb. 5, 2004. Churchill and the Great Republic, explores the life and career of Sir Winston Churchill and emphasizes his lifelong links with the United States From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44905) The American Folklife Center in the Library of Con ... The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress has created an online presentation of its 1978 record album Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932, edited by Neil V. Rosenberg and Debora G. Kodish. This online presentation commemorates the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Archive of Folk Culture in 1928 and the appointment of its first head, Robert W. Gordon From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44904) Emerald's Journals of the Week for January 19 are ... Emerald's Journals of the Week for January 19 are The Learning Organisation: An International Journal & International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44903) A new version of the internet protocol, the Global ... A new version of the internet protocol, the Global IPv6 Service for the world's research community, has been launched From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:48 p.m.. (44902) The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) ... The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Elsevier, part of the Reed Elsevier Group, today announced the conclusion of a new agreement as part of NESLi2, the national electronic journals initiative for the higher education and research communities in the United Kingdom. The new two-year agreement, which starts in January 2004, provides the framework under which the UK's universities and research communities will have electronic access to Elsevie From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 7:48 p.m.. (44900) More on the Elsevier troubles Charles Goldsmith, Reed Elsevier Feels Resistance To Web Pricing, Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers, but also see this free online version). Goldsmith summarizes some of the protests against Elsevier prices and bundling policies, some of the recent cancellations, and the growing challenge from open-access journals. Excerpt: "[M]edia analysts are increasingly troubled by the threat that free on From FOS News on January 19, 2004 at 7:48 p.m.. (44899) If you're not Hugo Diamante, ignore this message Hugo, I'm trying to respond to your email but my msgs keep bouncing. If you read this, could you please send me a msg with another way to reach you? Thanks.... From Joho the Blog on January 19, 2004 at 7:48 p.m.. (44898) Building Better Learners "Better learners" sind hier "self-directed learners" - und in diesem Zusammenhang greift der Artikel einige interessante Stichpunkte auf, u.a. die Bedeutung einer "offenen" Unternehmenskultur sowie die neue Rolle von Bildungsmanagern und Trainern. Dazu: "It's an awareness of how they... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 19, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (44897) Training Investments and Corporate Performance Investitionen in Weiterbildung sind Kosten. Kosten drücken den Gewinn. Also steht - zumindest kurzfristig - besser da, wer nicht in Weiterbildung investiert?? Woran kann ich ablesen, in welcher Form ein Unternehmen in Weiterbildung investiert: An den absoluten Ausgaben je Mitarbeiter?... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 19, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (44896) The benefits of blogging Brian Micklethwait points to an interesting Washington Post article on blogging as a learning tool and also to the interviewee's (Kevin Brancato) blog post on the piece... which makes for interesting information contrasts! Basically Kevin says From James Farmer&apos;s Radio Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 6:49 p.m.. (44895) Register now for your free EFL / ESL EV Online Session I took a session with Vance Stevens a while back which was amazing... if you have a spare few hours a week sign up for this.. now! ESL/EFL Weblog Session. "... Electronic Village (EV) Online Sessions 2004... how to register for the ESL/EFL weblog session... We have a great group of participants signing up From James Farmer'apos;s Radio Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 6:49 p.m.. (44894) Very Nifty RSS Feeds Page James Ellis, web genius, has created a wonderfully practical and aesthetically pleasing RSS feeds page for educationlibrarian.com. Not only does... From Education Librarian on January 19, 2004 at 6:47 p.m.. (44893) Let's Here it for Cross Promotion Coke debuted its digital music store, with a back-end from the major player in the European market, OD2.  Coke's like the old PressPlay, allowing people to buy packs of downloads to get a cheaper rate.  If I got my conversions right, you can stream any song for 20 cents and buy songs and albums for as low as $1.4 and 11.4, respectively.  From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 19, 2004 at 6:47 p.m.. (44892) Homeland security technology: a hot new academic specialty? New Jersey engineering school aims to be homeland security technology center. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 19, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (44891) A US couple learn the Koran in Iran's holy city Two Mennonite Christians study in Qom, Iran on a religious exchange program. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 19, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (44890) Affirmative action battle brews anew in Michigan Group seeks state amendment banning racial preference. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 19, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (44889) One city, one curriculum Consistency is the focus of New York City's education reform. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 19, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (44888) Chinese schools get creative China is restructuring its schools to foster creativity and local control. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 19, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (44887) NPR program on OA cancer research Science Friday for January 16 gave half its time to Howard Chang of the Stanford Medical School, talking about his work on cancer progression and why he published it in PLoS Biology. (Thanks to the Creative Commons weblog.) From FOS News on January 19, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (44886) Protect the public domain The EFF has a web form allowing you to send an email or fax urging your Congressional representative to support the Public Domain Enhancemen Act. If you're a US citizen, stop by and give this important campaign a quick boost. From FOS News on January 19, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (44885) Five ideas for 2004 Mark Hurst has written up his five ideas for 2004, covering user experience in the online world. His list: Organization is the hardest part of user experience work The big picture is the only picture Experience is bigger than Web... From Column Two on January 19, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (44884) Best practices and case studies: be very afraid Allen Weiss has written an article on best practices and case studies, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. To quote: When teaching with a case study approach, one thing you learn very quickly is that many case studies use sanitized data... From Column Two on January 19, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (44883) Building & Bridging Community Networks conference Call for papers: Building & Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity through Communication conference - "network with others engaged in community networking, community informatics and community technology research, practice and policy." The call mentions other conferences with neighboring themes: ... in addition to the recent World Summit on the Information Society event in Ge From Seb's Open Research on January 19, 2004 at 5:46 p.m.. (44882) The Mythical e-Learning Hour Bill Brandon rips on the "mythical e-Learning hour", that well entrenched practice of costing out e-Learning projects in terms of "seat time": The Mythical e-Learning Hour "Our internal meter is set to measure hours of instruction. Unfortunately, an hour of instruction does not lead to a consistent quantum of learning." It's clear that this practice is a hold over from the mindset of live classroom based training. It's amazing that clients who have been working with e-Learning for y From e-Learning Eclectic on January 19, 2004 at 5:46 p.m.. (44881) Beleidigungsprozess Der Mitherausgeber der "Zeit", Michael Naumann, steht wegen Beleidigung vor Gericht. Naumann hatte den Berliner Generalstaatsanwalt Hans-Jürgen Karge im Zusammenhang... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (44880) V2N3 January 19, 2004 Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet: Current Awareness Sources This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (January 19, 2004 V2N3) is dedicated to a number of selected sources for current awareness including staying current and keeping up to date. Click on the below audblog link to hear an audio describing these sources that I have just recently posted to my personal blog and added to my eCurrentAwareness Resources 2004 Report. These resources are available from the following URL:< From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (44879) URLWire Features Internet MiniGuides 2004 URLWire Features Internet MiniGuides 2004http://www.urlwire.com/news/011904.htmlEric Ward's long running and excellent URLWire lists some of the latest and current happenings on the Internet. In todays issue/alert we are very proud to announce that he did a feature on my nine 2004 Internet MiniGuides that maybe found at the above URL. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (44878) Topix - yet another topic based news aggregator I am sure Topix will have RSS before it launches. Otherwise nobody will use it (unless of course it is better than Feedster, Google or Yahoo which is unlikely!). [John Battelle's Searchblog]QUOTECheck out Topix, another new news aggregator (in Beta), this one from a handful of DMOZ and Netscape refugees. What makes Topix special? From an email sent to me by Rich Skrenta, one of the founders: Our project is a news aggregator that reads all From Roland Tanglao&apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 4:50 p.m.. (44877) TechKnowledge Travel Plans I just booked my flight and room for ASTD TechKnowledge in Anaheim the second week in February. This will be about my umpteenth time working across Katella Boulevard from the Kingdom of the Mouse. You don't need to stay at the Convention hotels. I have... From Internet Time Blog on January 19, 2004 at 4:50 p.m.. (44876) JISC buys ScienceDirect for UK universities Today JISC and Elsevier announced a two-year agreement, starting this month, to provide ScienceDirect to all UK universities. (PS: This is not open access, but subsidized toll-access. But it's a major instance of it, forestalling for at least two years any UK participation in the wave of Elsevier cancellations sweeping the U.S.) From FOS News on January 19, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (44875) Lessig on Cato Larry takes on and takes apart the intellectually dishonest Cato article on Dean's Internet policy. Here's a snippet: Apparently Cato thinks the end-to-end neutrality of the original internet was a weakness. Governments do too: It's harder to regulate internet behavior when intelligence is at the ends; so too is it harder to protect legacy business models when intelligence is at the ends. But while I understand (and even predicted) why governments and legacy businesses will therefore fight the end-to-end character of the Internet, I don't get why a libertarian would. A libe From Joho the Blog on January 19, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (44874) Best Practices and Case Studies: Be Very Afraid I'm not sure I would recommend the fear expressed by the author, but it's easy to forget that reference to best prctices is a form of inductive inference, and therefore, subject to the same constraints as prediction or analogy. The cases studied must be relevantly similar to your own situation. There must be enough cases to warrant drawing a conclusion. And you need to be sure of reliable data. This article sounds a reasonable note of caution. By Allen Weiss, MarketingProfs.com, January 13, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44873) The Next big Thing? Worthy of note is the list of terms used to describe the emerging technology, a list, notes the author, consisting of more hype than description. Well, sure. Ubiquitous computing is not here yet and it will be a long time before the computer fades into the background. For someone like myself, who remembers when there were no computers anywhere except in university labs, the computer will never really be invisible. By Unknown, The Economist, January 15, 2004 [Refer][From OLDaily on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44872) IEEE XPlore This IEEE publication has just come out with a special issue on open source. I haven't had a chance to read the articles yet, but I thought I'd pass it along. By Various Authors, January, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44871) Pattern Recognition "Google is disintermediating the library." This is one of the observations that led the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) to take a new look at the landscape and reassess its vision accordingly. The authors find three major trends in library services: moving to self-sufficiency, focus on satisfaction with online alternatives, and seamlessness. The most interesting discussion looks at "disaggregation" - the breaking down of larger works into "microcontent". But the main focus is on community, and "The ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is: How do we together, as a commun From OLDaily on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (44870) Wenn zwei sich streiten, ... Nicht immer führt der Versuch einer möglichst gerechten Lösung durch ein Gericht zu einem praktikablen Ergebnis,- manchmal verlieren auch alle... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 3:51 p.m.. (44869) Animating the archive The Lumina Foundation, which addresses problems students face in higher education, uses a rotating collection of Did You Know? links in its left-hand column of its Newsroom page to invite readers to return to issue-focused articles from their archive -- an excellent model. The "Learn More" link in each entry takes a reader to a substantial, documented article with a printer-friendly connection right at the top. From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 19, 2004 at 3:51 p.m.. (44868) The mythical learning hour. Things that make me crazy: The Mythical e-Learning Hour. I am working with a writer whose article addresses a typical project management problem: estimating development time for e-Learning applications. He's doing a good job with the article, and I'm looking forward to publishing it in The Journal. The issue that sparked his article is one that has bothered me for about twenty years now, ever since I began developing e-Learning. That is the mythical e-Learning Hour. There is no s From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 19, 2004 at 3:49 p.m.. (44867) Atheists are Open Minded I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. -- Isaac Asimov I'm a skeptic and therefore, an atheist. Many agnostics would think that first sentence an oxymoron, ye From kuro5hin.org on January 19, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (44866) Archivo de fotos aéreas de la IIGM A partir de hoy está disponible online The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive: 5 millones de fotografías de Europa Occidental tomadas por los aviones de reconocimiento de la Royal Air Force (RAF) durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esta colección, propiedad de la... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 19, 2004 at 2:52 p.m.. (44865) My mouth is frozen and I shall not scream Aaarg! A bit groggy. And more to come. A root canal on Thursday the 29th! From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 p.m.. (44864) OCLC's vision OCLC, 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition, OCLC, 2003. A lengthy statement of OCLC's vision for information, libraries, and technology. From the section on institutional repositories, scholarly communication, and open access: "The open access community is a broad-based movement with significant library support. See in particular the work of ARL in supporting SPARC, and the formation of the International Scholarly Communications Al From Jon's Radio on January 19, 2004 at 2:47 p.m.. (44861) Cato'$ Late$t "This is either intellectual incompetence or intellectual dishonesty." So wrote Howard Rheingold about Adam Thierer's latest missive from Cato. I wouldn't call it "incompetence," given the custom of his community (DC). Nor, given the standards of his community, is it quite dishonesty. You are where you sleep, and Cato sleeps in the land of lobbyists. Adam calls the "Dean-Copps-Lessig vision of cyberspace" "collectivist" -- one that treats the internet as "one giant collective resource." He selects (to criticize) the following From Lessig Blog on January 19, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (44860) Studentische Wahlen an der Uni Giessen Diese Woche beginnen die studentischen Wahlen an der JLU Giessen. Gewählt werden jeweils der Fachbereichsrat, der Fachschaftsrat, der Senat sowie das StudentInnenparlament. Und weil man ja irgendwie richtig grosse Politik machen will, ist das natürlich alles nicht ganz unkompliziert. Deswegen wird ja auch gleich viermal gewählt. Macht aber auch nix, denn die meisten Namen stehen gleich auf zwei oder drei Wahlzetteln zur Wahl. So, wie infomiert man sich nun? Die Uni wartet auf mit einer From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on January 19, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (44859) "Freezing Order" Durch Urteil vom 30.07.2003 hat das Schweizerische Bundesgericht zum ersten Mal (!) einen Entscheidung zur Frage der Vollstreckbarerklärung einer englischen... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (44858) Premios Se han dado a conocer las candidaturas a los Bloggies 2004: Fourth Annual Weblog Award y se han fallado los Premios GAB 2003 del grupo Argentina Bloggers. Vía: Denken Ãœber.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 19, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (44857) The power of the spoken word Jeff Friedman alerted me to the existence of a recording of poet Paul Celan reading his astounding Holocaust poem, Todesfuge, which has been translated at least twice into English. I found the audio on W. W. Norton's very nice poetry web site, which shares many texts and web links and some audio for volumes of poetry they publish. The site itself is a good resource for English teachers, but I was most pleased to see that they offer English translations of a dozen Celan poems with... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 19, 2004 at 1:50 p.m.. (44856) Audio category Today I am adding a category for posts about the role audio might play on weblogs. From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 19, 2004 at 1:50 p.m.. (44855) Uni Giessen: Vollversammlung der Studierenden am 21.01.04 Am Mittwoch, den 21. Januar 2004, findet im Audimax im Phil. II die erste Vollversammlung der Studierenden dieses Jahres statt. Sie fängt um 14 Uhr an. Es gibt viel zu tun: * Infos zu Studiengebühren in Hessen * Streik: Wie war's? * Wie weiter mit Protest gegen Bildungs- und Sozialbbau? * Termine... Die Weihnachtspause ist um und der Uni-Stress läuft wieder. Aber irgend etwas ist anders... Seit dem 18. Dezember 2003 gibt es in Hessen Studiengebühren. Mit... From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on January 19, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (44854) Spam filters reduce email effectiveness Choose Your Words Carefully. Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad. The growing use of antispam filters that weed out messages containing words commonly used by junk e-mailers is forcing legitimate e-mail senders to choose their language carefully. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (44853) Lecture format ironies Lecture format ironies. This isn't really about lecture. Read far enough to find ""learning is a social process"- not a procedural one, not a technical one. The more we focus on the technology, ... the more we miss the mark." -- BB This Week RSS Winterfest - Same Old, Same Old Format or Not?. I am curious to "be" at the January 21-22 online conference, RSS Winter From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (44852) Weblog applications in business Where does "blog" fit in your business plan? Al Nucifora gives a great summary of what weblogs are and how to use them in your business marketing. [Tampa Business Journal] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (44851) Industry Week profiles e-Learning Industry Week notices e-Learning. This is a pretty shallow profile, but it gives practitioners some idea of where we are in the consciousness level of the people who read Industry Week. The problem I have with it is that it's still focused on one-way, lecture-oriented, make-sure-everybody-gets-the-same-message, mass instruction. Very Industrial Revolution thinking (which, given the publication, fits). But maybe this is what sells right now to your clients - it's dangerous to get too far ahead of the market. -- BB --> From Bill Brandon: eLearning on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (44850) Channel Dean Launches Channel Dean "is an RSS feed containing news from the point of view of a candidate for President." From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 19, 2004 at 1:47 p.m.. (44849) Industry Week profiles e-Learning Industry Week magazine has a half decent overview of e-Learning with brief case studies from Cisco, IBM, Intel, Rockwell Collins, Autodesk, and National Assn of Manufacturers. Industry Week: Click and Learn Industry analysts cited include: IDC, WR Hambrecht, LogicBay, Centra, and Wayne Hodgins. "What types of corporate training seem best suited for e-learning? Three areas seem to be emerging: new-hire training, new-product information, and situations where knowledge needs to be transferred to From e-Learning Eclectic on January 19, 2004 at 12:52 p.m.. (44848) Namensnennung bei Publikation gerichtlicher Entscheidungen Eine Namensnennung bei der Publikation von Gerichtsentscheidungen ist zulässig, wenn der zu veröffentlichende Sachverhalt ohnehin durch eigenes Verhalten des Betroffenen... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (44847) New Open Access Now The January 19 issue of Open Access Now is now online. This issue contains an editorial on open access in 2003, a group interview with three British journalists on how OA is affecting mainstream media, news stories on the inquiry in the UK House of Commons and the new PubMed Central policy to offer OA to individu From FOS News on January 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m.. (44846) This Week RSS Winterfest - Same Old, Same Old Format or Not? I am curious to "be" at the January 21-22 online conference, RSS Winterfest. Most conferences, in person or online, I generally approach with low expectations-- mainly out of frustration over the years that the only format for professional communication that seems to be used is the 50 minute lecture to a passive audience. I have been at educational conferences where presenters use this format to talk about the need to change the mode of interaction in education, that lecture format must go- the old saw abo From cogdogblog on January 19, 2004 at 12:47 p.m.. (44845) Weblogs as Website: Now the Hard Part Met with the senior administrative team this morning to give them an update on where we are with our new school Website that we're building around Manila sites. Everyone liked the look (thanks, Bryan), and everyone likes the concept of having more people creating content on the site. That's the good part. Now comes the piece that I knew I would have to tackle at some point: how do we make sure that all of this distributed content is appropriate and correct and representative of the Star School th From weblogged News on January 19, 2004 at 12:47 p.m.. (44844) Our Future - The Trend is Now Clear You can buy today for 700 dollars a computer with power that would have cost 25,000 5 years ago. In 5 years time you will be able to buy an amazing machine for $100 and everyone will have one. You... From Robert Paterson&apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 11:51 a.m.. (44843) Der Konsens des Dissens? Das hier fand ich mal sehr gut: In dem Text "The Power of Dissent; All organizations need it. Are you listening, NASA?" von Cass R. Sunstein, erschienen in der Los Angeles Times vom 17. September 2003, geht es am Beispiel der NASA, welches hier gar nicht mal so interessieren soll, um die Macht (Kraft?) des Dissens in Organisationen (Institutionen?). Die Argumentation, welche ich hier in Auszügen zitiere, fand ich erst einmal recht einleuchtend. Klären müsste man wohl schon, ob sich hierfür tatsä From PlasticThinking: Moe&apos;s Blog. on January 19, 2004 at 11:51 a.m.. (44842) Online-Diskussionen veranstalten... The World Bank Group bietet einige Tipps zur Veranstaltung und Moderation von e-discussions an. Ausserdem gibt es viele Beispiele und Texte sowie externe Links mit Hintergrund-Informationen. [via Webloginfo] From BildungsBlog on January 19, 2004 at 11:51 a.m.. (44841) El Cabildo de Tenerife organiza más de 130 actividades formativas para su personal durante este año El Cabildo de Tenerife tiene previsto realizar un total de 148 actividades formativas para su personal durante este año. El consejero insular de Presidencia y Hacienda y vicepresidente de l... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on January 19, 2004 at 11:50 a.m.. (44840) Channel Dean - RSS Feed of stuff that people in the Dean campaign are reading Amazing. We need RSS feeds like this for all the Canadian Conservative Party candidates. Subscribed! From the FAQ: QUOTEChannel Dean is an RSS feed containing news from the point of view of a candidate for President. How do you edit Channel Dean? Several editors led by Mathew Gross, all at Dean For America, are periodically scanning the news, and selecting articles From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 11:49 a.m.. (44839) Bloglines for Connected PDAs! "We are pleased to announce the beta version of Bloglines optimized for connected PDAs. Simply go to www.bloglines.com using your Palm or Windows CE powered PDA, and you will automatically be transferred to the optimized version of Bloglines. You can also access the PDA version directly by going to http://www.bloglines.com/mobile. The optimized version of Bloglines contains fewer graphics and simpler pages for fast loading and easier navigation on PDAs. From The Shifted Librarian on January 19, 2004 at 11:47 a.m.. (44838) Science Fiction and Religion I was reading an interview with Ted Chiang, and the first lines struck me: All science fiction is fundamentally post-religious literature. For those whose minds are shaped by science and technology, the universe is fundamentally knowable. Faith dissolves, replaced by a sense of wonder at the complexity of creation.What do you think of this? From kuro5hin.org on January 19, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.. (44837) Mit 56 Jahren noch Jugendstrafrecht 37 Jahre nach der Tat hat das LG Darmstadt einen Mann wegen Mordversuchs zu einem Jahr Jugendstrafe auf Bewährung verurteilt.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (44836) Server-Probleme beim LAWgical Wegen eines Server-Problems wird das LAWgical-Blog voraussichtlich bis Mittwoch, 21.01.2004, ausfallen. Die Redaktion bittet um Nachsicht und Verständnis.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (44835) Staying Current and Up To Date Sources In researching my blog's stats I discovered an excellent anonymous page that linked my site as eCurrent and I am listing all the other sites that were listed. It was an excellent mini source for staying current and up to date:Linx http://www.newslinx.comBuzzhttp://www.researchbuzz.comLii http://sunsite. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 10:50 a.m.. (44834) Number 29 - January 19th From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on January 19, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44833) Findory: Collaborative news aggregator Greg Linden stumbled across "The Daily Me? No, the Daily Us," an old Wired piece of mine that pointed to a disadvantage of personalized news sites: they don't build communities the way paper newspapers do. (Look, it was an interesting idea in 1995.) Here's an excerpt, chosen because of its quaint reference to that other Iraqi war: The fact that the document I'm looking at is the same for all who receive it has other important effects. It establishes a baseline of expectations about what we, as a community, are all supposed to know. If, at the height of the... From Joho the Blog on January 19, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (44832) What RSS users want: consistent one-click subscription Saturday's Scripting News asked an important question: What do users want from RSS? The context of the question is the upcoming RSS Winterfest. Dave Winer adds: I thought we should try to put the focus on people who use the technology, to let them set the agenda for the developers. Amen. Over the weekend I received a draft of the RSS From Jon&apos;s Radio on January 19, 2004 at 10:46 a.m.. (44831) Scambaiting Die Betrugsmasche der Nigeria-Connection, international bekannt als "419 Scam" (nach dem Betrugsparagrafen des nigerianischen Strafgesetzbuches) wird jetzt von Scambaitern aufs... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (44830) PR Newswire's RSS (RDF Site Summary) Feed PR Newswire's RSS (RDF Site Summary) Feedhttp://www.prnewswire.com/news/aboutrss/rss.shtmlPR Newswire now has a RSS feed to it resources and it is located from the front page of their site. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (44829) 2RSS.com 2RSS.comhttp://www.2rss.com/RSS feeds, RSS directory, RSS software, RSS scripts, RSS articles, RSS syndication, XML, RDF, news and more. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (44828) Paradign Online Writing Assistant Paradign Online Writing Assistanthttp://www.powa.org/Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the WWW. It uses hypertext structure to create a web of links and text frames that you can navigate quickly and easily by clicking your desired choice.Paradigm is intended to be useful for all writers, from inexperienced to advanced. To get the most from the website, take time to explore its components. Choose a topic that interests you, From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (44827) Lengthy introduction to OA R. Ramachandran, The 'free access' debate, Frontline ("India's National Magazine"), January 17, 2004. A refreshingly long and detailed introduction to OA issues for the general reader. Ramachandran concludes that OA is superior to subscription models, especially for developing countries, that OA archives should be adopted now, and that the financing model for OA journals still needs experimental testing and confirmation. (Thanks to Subbiah Arunachalam.) From FOS News on January 19, 2004 at 9:48 a.m.. (44826) Interview with Martin Blume on OA R. Ramachandran, 'We have to be able to recover our costs', Frontline, January 17, 2004. An interview with Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief of the American Physical Society. The whole interview is on OA issues and worth reading. But here are a few excerpts: [RR] What is your reaction to the recently launched open-access journal PLoS Biology of the Public Library of Science and the basic philosophy of PLoS? Does the APS subscribe to the idea of free access to its archives and current issues of jou From FOS News on January 19, 2004 at 9:48 a.m.. (44825) Are you a true tech believer? Scott Kirsner has an amusing quiz in the Boston Globe today (gone tomorrow) that will tell you if you are a "true believer," i.e., a computechnologist who was in before the Net, or would have been had you been born in time. Here's the first question, as a sample: You know the name of the first computer software company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1982. It was eventually acquired by Computer Associates in 1989. (Two points.) I did very badly on this quiz, even when I gave myself credit for answers I knew I... From Joho the Blog on January 19, 2004 at 9:47 a.m.. (44824) Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad - Michelle Delio, Wired Do not use profanity. Be very careful when discussing financial or business affairs. Avoid any mention of your private parts. Do not offer any guarantees, or refer to checks that may or may not be in the mail. Refrain from describing anything or anybo From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (44823) Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware - Amit Asaravala, Wired The CueCat -- that pesky bar-code scanner from Digital Convergence -- may be dead, but its spirit is finding new life in the form of a camera phone. During the past six months, no fewer than four software firms have released applications to help consu From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (44822) State computer network drawing complaints, higher costs - eSchool News staff and wire service reports A computer network for all North Carolina public school teachers targeted for completion this year will take two more years and probably end up costing more than $150 million, state officials say. Only six of the state's 117 school districts are onlin From Educational Technology on January 19, 2004 at 9:45 a.m.. (44821) OCLC Shares Its Strategic Vision - Barbara Quint , Info Today The nation From Educational Technology on January 19, 2004 at 9:45 a.m.. (44820) McGill student wins fight over anti-cheating website - CBC A student at McGill University has won the right to have his assignments marked without first submitting them to an American, anti-plagiarism website. Jesse Rosenfeld refused to submit three assignments for his second-year economics class to Turnitin. From Online Learning Update on January 19, 2004 at 9:45 a.m.. (44819) Archiving Electronic Journals: Research Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Digital Library Federation Introduction by Linda Cantara: Scholarly research and communication depends upon perpetual access to the published scholarship of the past. Before the advent of electronic journals, research libraries subscribed to printed journals, provided access to, From Online Learning Update on January 19, 2004 at 9:45 a.m.. (44818) Virtual Education, Real Educators: Issues in Online Learning - Review by Virginia Kuhn, Kairos Cynthia Selfe's memorable keynote, later made into an influential book, delivered at the 1998 Conference on College Composition and Communication challenged educators to become actively involved in shaping the pedagogical applications of emergent techn From Online Learning Update on January 19, 2004 at 9:45 a.m.. (44817) Creative Class War: Reverse Brain Drain in US? AlterNet is carrying an interesting article by CMU's Richard Florida called the Creative Class War. The article details the decline of what the author terms the "creative class" in the US and how these people are now both not immigrating to the US and how US policies are resulting in a reverse brain drain of educated people fleeing the US. Among examples cited are how Peter Jackson's (LOTR) new movie facilities in New Zealand contributes to the decline of Hollywood, IT outsourcing trends, how MIT had to cancel a large AI project "because the university couldn't find e From kuro5hin.org on January 19, 2004 at 9:45 a.m.. (44816) Netscan System MSR Netscan - Usenet Social Accounting Search Engine by Microsoft Researchhttp://netscan.research.microsoft.com/The Netscan System provides detailed reports on the activity of Usenet newsgroups, the authors who participate in them, and the conversation threads that emerge from their activity. Using the Netscan tool users can get reports about any newsgroup for any day, week, month, quarter, or year, since September 1999. Netscan data is updated monthly and can be used to:Find newsgroups where ot From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (44815) NCBI Handbook NCBI Handbookhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=handbook.TOC&depth=2kThis NCBI Handbook (in PDF-format) is intended for power-users of the NCBI databases. It includes relatively stable information about each resource. The text covers Databases, Data flow, Searching the Data, and User Support.Eleven chapters cover NCBI databases: 1. GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database; 2 From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 19, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (44814) Other nations zip by USA in high-speed Net race - Jim Hopkins, USA TODAY LaBelle Management fights a poky dial-up Internet connection every morning to see how 13 restaurants did the day before. The company in Mount Pleasant, Mich., can't get high-speed Internet to all its 46 restaurants and hotels in Michigan and Indiana be From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (44813) Hessen plant neues JAG Kernpunkt der Reform ist zum einen die Ersetzung der bisherigen ersten juristischen Staatsprüfung durch eine universitäre Schwerpunktprüfung und eine staatliche... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (44812) Elektronische Fußfessel Zahlreiche PDF´s hat das Hessische Ministerium der Justiz nun zu seinem Projekt "Elektronische Fußfessel" in das Internet eingestellt.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (44811) Kanzleigründung Eine passende Strategie, erreichbare Ziele, ein durchdachtes Konzept, Durchsetzungsvermögen, Ãœberzeugungsfähigkeit, gute Fachkenntnisse, geeignete Mandanten und erzielbare Deckungsbeiträge. Was sonst noch... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 6:50 a.m.. (44810) LG Magdeburg Das LG Magdeburg hat eine neue, vielversprechende Internetadresse und auch sonst noch Etliches zu bieten. Dabei kann die optische Gesaltung... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 19, 2004 at 6:50 a.m.. (44809) La Cámara de Comercio de Jaén ofrecerá elearning a todas las empresas jienenses El acuerdo entre la Cámara de Comercio de Jaén y ComuNET, empresa española líder en el desarrollo de soluciones de teleforma... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on January 19, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (44808) ADL SCORM Test Suite v1.2.6 ya disponible ADL ha hecho publica la versión 1.2.6 de su herramienta de chequeo de conformidad con las especificaciones ADL SCORM 1.2 "... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on January 19, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (44807) The Majors' Minors A British start-up press specializes in notable, neglected works by renowned authors, writes Carlin Romano, critic at large for The Chronicle. From Chronicle: free on January 19, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (44806) The Candidates Grade Academe In a Chronicle survey, seven Democratic presidential aspirants criticize colleges for rising costs and low graduation rates. From Chronicle: free on January 19, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (44805) Florida Video Law: Parents Decide A Florida city wants to restrict children's access to violent computer games. They say censorship is not the issue -- they object to fostering hate in kids. From Wired News on January 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44804) Doc Claims Human Clone Implant A U.S.-based fertility doctor says he implanted a cloned human embryo into a 35-year-old woman. Skeptics would like to see some evidence. From Wired News on January 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44803) World Social Forum Kicks Off About 100,000 activists attending the World Social Forum this week will discuss world problems. Dreaming of a utopia with justice and equality for all, they hope to find some solutions. Swaroopa Iyengar reports from Mumbai, India. From Wired News on January 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44802) Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware Several companies are rolling out software that turns camera phones into product bar-code scanners. Shoppers can pull up all the product information they could ever want while strolling down store aisles. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on January 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44801) Music Gadgets Get Smaller, Sexier The iPod mini stole the consumer electronics spotlight earlier this month. A shame so few noticed the boatload of cool gadgets and services coming out later this year. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on January 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44800) Meat Stripper Gets Third Degree A technology called advanced meat recovery strips meat from the bone and saves the beef industry millions of dollars a year, as well as a few fingers. But consumer groups say it might help spread mad cow. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on January 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44799) Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad The growing use of antispam filters that weed out messages containing words commonly used by junk e-mailers is forcing legitimate e-mail senders to choose their language carefully. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on January 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (44798) More on weblogs at WBC04 A follow up to previous post: I checked WBC04 web-site and found a list of submitted papers. Between them there are two explicitly mentioning weblogs: Creating on-line student communities using forum-supported institutionalised weblogs The Spanish-speaking blogosphere: Towards the powerlaw? I guess I know who wrote the second one, but would be nice to know the authours of the first article From Mathemagenic on January 19, 2004 at 5:51 a.m.. (44797) A legal black hole (via Mark Bernstein) - No matter where you stand, this is amazing. QUOTEIn an extraordinary Supreme Court filing, five military lawyers equate Bush's denial of legal rights to the Guantanamo Bay detainees to King George's oppression of the American colonists.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 5:49 a.m.. (44796) XML detective work This is why debugging and writing software that works well for thousands of users is hard. The devil is in the tedious, hard to reproduce details. Thanks to Brent for sharing a great anecdote about software development showing what programmers go through almost every day. [SOURCE:inessential.com] QUOTESo finally I uploaded the file to feeds.scripting.com—and it worked! No XML error reported. Let’s get this straight: it looked like the bug didn’t exist at all. The file Ne From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 5:49 a.m.. (44795) Google developing ad service for e-mail [SOURCE: Waxy.org Links] Google will be everywhere at this rate. Scary! From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 5:49 a.m.. (44794) Kitsilano Shopping Directory Interesting Kitsilano (a Vancouver neighbourhood) shopping directory done as a MovableType blog. Looks like they are in stealth mode and not fully launched. QUOTEWelcome to ShopKits.com, The Kitsilano Shopping Directory. Here you will find a hundreds of shops and services. You can also add your shop to the directory at no charge if you are a Kitsilano business.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 4:49 a.m.. (44793) Tampa, Fla. Boson Software, Inc, announces the release of the latest version of their software. Tampa, Fla. Boson Software, Inc, announces the release of the latest version of their software. This includes information on new certification tests within Boson's Software [PRWEB Jan 19, 2004] From PR Web on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44792) Carb Cops Low Carb Superstore Announces Their Next Low Carb Academy Due to the success of their first Low Carb Academy, Carb Cops Low Carb Superstore announces another free class on February 4, 2004 from 7pm to 8:30pm at their store in Redondo Beach. [PRWEB Jan 19, 2004] From PR Web on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44791) Groupcal from Snerdware Brings Exchange Calendaring to Apple iCal Access and Manage Exchange Calendars from OS X Transparently. [PRWEB Jan 19, 2004] From PR Web on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44790) High Time for Low Carb: Low Carb Energy, a New National Print Magazine, to Debut in May 2004 The trend toward eating fewer carbohydrates is growing everywhere -- except on waistlines. Debuting this May, new print publication Low Carb Energy magazine will motivate readers to embrace and continue a healthy low-carbohydrate way of life. [PRWEB Jan 19, 2004] From PR Web on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44789) New Company Offers Unique Teacher and Classroom Aids ClassroomProducts.com has developed a line of teacher enhancing tools that will assist in classroom organization and pupil productivity. Visit the website and browse through the interesting teacher/classroom aids that can make projects, daily work, special assignments so much easier to organize and so much more fun for the students. [PRWEB Jan 19, 2004] From PR Web on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44788) The Degenerate Art of Suicide Bombing This essay is not meant to be political but only a call for discussion on how to appropriately react to Degenerate Art. Recently, Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, physically attacked an art exhibit at a Stockholm museum because it "glorified suicide bombers." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has praised his ambassador to Sweden. The ambassador, was among several hundred guests invited to the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm on Friday for an anti-genocide exhibition. "We want to give him a chance to explain himself," Anna Larsson, a spokeswoman for Sweden's From kuro5hin.org on January 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (44787) In Some Schools, It's One Teacher, One Student Cozy Hollow Elementary in Wyoming is one of a handful of single-student schools in rural states. From New York Times: Education on January 19, 2004 at 3:45 a.m.. (44786) Attacks on Education Law Leave Democrats in a Bind Never mind that most of the Democratic presidential candidates voted for the No Child Left Behind Act. Listening to them recently has made it easy to forget. From New York Times: Education on January 19, 2004 at 3:45 a.m.. (44785) French Sikhs Defend Their Turbans and Find Their Voice A proposed law banning religious symbols from public schools has led to a chorus of protests from France's tiny Sikh community. From New York Times: Education on January 19, 2004 at 3:45 a.m.. (44784) A Freelancer Tale: Paycheck Clears; Suit Demands It Back The legacy of the Lingua Franca, a literate magazine for academics and like-minded folks that closed in 2001 and went into bankruptcy, lives on, but perhaps not in the way that its contributors may have hoped. From New York Times: Education on January 19, 2004 at 3:45 a.m.. (44783) McGreevey Planning After-School Program for New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey plans to use his annual address to the Legislature to announce a plan modeled on the program that George Soros started in New York. From New York Times: Education on January 19, 2004 at 3:45 a.m.. (44782) Krebsbehandlung: Belastungsarme Alternative entwickelt ActiveFU kombiniert Kernspinresonanztomografie und Ultraschall. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44781) Unkontrolliertes Fasten gefährdet die Gesundheit Fasten bedeutet Hungern. Selbstverordnetes Heilfasten kann krank machen. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44780) Magen-Darm-Infektionen gut überstehen Magen-Darm-Infektionen sind die weltweit häufigsten Infektionskrankheiten. Kinder erkranken bevorzugt daran, aber auch bei älteren, kranken und immungeschwächten Menschen kommen sie gehäuft vor. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44779) Prostata - versorgen und heilen Ein Patienten-Ratgeber From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44778) Buch aktuell: 365 GlücksMomente Positive Gedanken durch das Jahr From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44777) Buch aktuell: Leben ohne Gluten. Ratgeber für Zöliakie, Sprue und Getreideallergie. Mit über 100 Rezepten. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44776) Muskeln unter Strom Ein randvolles Wasserbecken, eine Stromquelle - und Sie mitten drin. Klingt nach Unglück, ist allerdings Teil einer physikalischen Therapie bei schmerzenden, verspannten Muskeln und Bändern. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44775) Schamvolle Schmerzen Sie entstehen ohne Zutun von Bakterien oder Pilzen, kommen und gehen - oder bleiben chronisch: Schmerzen der Vulva, der äußeren weiblichen Genitalien. Fälle der Vulvodynie sind häufiger als bisher angenommen, berichten Forscher in einer aktuellen Studie. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44774) Nahrungsmittel: Unverträglich - Allergie durch Lebensmittelzusatzstoffe? Keiner kommt um sie herum: Aromen, Farb-, Süß- oder Geschmacksstoffe sind allgegenwärtig. Die Flut an Zusatzstoffen lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit der Konsumenten seit geraumter Zeit auf deren möglicherweise allergenes Potential. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44773) Misslaune kann Ihre Gesundheit gefährden Lachen wirkt nicht nur positiv auf unser Gefühlsleben. Auch unser Immunsystem lässt sich mit Humor positiv beeinflussen, Schmerzen können gelindert und der Blutdruck gesenkt werden. Für Krisentage gilt: Lachen trainieren. From MedUNIQA Newsletter on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44772) Open Source Tools for eActivism I've just discovered the Designing for Civil Society blog which, among many other good things, has an item on the top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism. By Martin Terre Blanche 19 Jan 2004 From Collaborative Learning on January 19, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (44771) Strategies to Succeed in Distance Learning From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (44770) More Feeds, More Content And I thought I read a lot of RSS feeds in my aggregator! Meet Jay McCarthy, king of the feed subscribers! And I'm not the only one asking authors to consider providing full text RSS! From The Shifted Librarian on January 19, 2004 at 2:47 a.m.. (44769) Tweaking MySQL (4.x) Primer Your database driven website was doing well when only Uncle Ted and the guy down the street were viewing it, but now thanks to a brilliant piece of viral marketing your website is being pounded. Before shelling out money for a more powerful server, it would benefit you to see if you could optimize to increase performance. In this article I'll share a few tips I've picked up over the last week or so dealing with optimizing your MySQL 4.x database server. Some are nifty little apps that help you understand what's going on, while others are ways to improve your SQL for better pe From kuro5hin.org on January 19, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (44768) GarageBand is as Important as Our SIS... Jon Udell: Turning consumers into producers Pay close attention to the pivotal word "experience" -- as in, for example, "the user experience." It's the clue to understanding why Steve Jobs and John Mayer onstage at Macworld, mixing tracks in GarageBand, have more to do with IT's mission than you might think. The quality of experience that we deliver, through software and services, will depend on our ability to negotiate protocols and relationships in a fluid, rapidly-evolving environment. In short: to jam. If only the folks in my IT department read Jon Udell... I am constantly amazed From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44767) Egerton University will host 25 African universities attending an international conference on distance education this week From Distance-Educator.com&apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44766) Developing an Online Curriculum: Techniques and Technologies From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44765) RWD Technologies and Appshop Announce Partnership to Provide Complete Blended Learning Solutions to Oracle Users From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44764) SUNY'S Sensless Costs From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44763) College from the comfort of home From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44762) Lindquist co-writes first online, interactive text From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44761) Portland students get expanded opportunity From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44760) Online learning a must at Deakin From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44759) $200,000 distance-learning grant awarded From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 19, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (44758) On Customers' Privacy, It's Northworst Airlines It's inconceivable that Northwest would have handed its customers' personal data over to the government without the knowledge of the CEO. If he's that detached from the business operations, what's he doing there? From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on January 19, 2004 at 1:46 a.m.. (44757) Clay Shirky: VoIP is not just cheap phone calls; it's also ridiculously easy group forming Amen. The Internet changes everything. And voice on the Internet (VoIP) changes things in ways we can't imagine until it's widely used. Just imagine if you could for free (or for a cheap flat fee) have a conference call anytime with any number of people anywhere with crystal clear quality? Now that's social software and ridiculously easy group forming! [SOURCE: Many-to-Many] QUOTEThe current regulatory argument for treating voice over the internet (VoIP) like the traditional phone sy From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 19, 2004 at 12:49 a.m.. (44756) Template files for web projects e-consultancy has published a set of template files for web projects, including the following: Contract for Web Services Web Project Plan Usability (various) Site Map Functional Specification Technical Specification Content Plan Privacy Policy User Agreement Wireframes Style Guide Maintenance and... From Column Two on January 19, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (44755) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]