Edu_RSS ~ January 25, 2004

Most recent update: January 25, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: ESL/EFL Weblogs : Creating and using weblogs in ESL/EFL ESL/EFL Weblogs : Creating and using weblogs in ESL/EFL Welcome to the support blog for the TESOL Course "Creating and Using Weblogs in ESL/EFL"!" Right now we are 90 members strong and we know it's going to be a great learning session with all of you participating! Looking good!... From EdBlogger Praxis on January 25, 2004 at 10:50 p.m.. (45917) New home for Making Connections After a six month break from blogging, I've kicked off Making Connections again, this time hosted on Typepad. The new home for Making Connections is http://simon.typepad.com/mc/. From Making Connections on January 25, 2004 at 10:47 p.m.. (45916) Lust The 1GB SD card is beginning to appear on web sites as available for order, even though I can't find a firm ship date. $384! From The Shifted Librarian on January 25, 2004 at 10:47 p.m.. (45915) Untitled Roald Dahl.  "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." [Quotes of the Day] From Seb's Open Research on January 25, 2004 at 10:46 p.m.. (45914) tBLOG - blahblahblog: EdBlogging Training tBLOG - blahblahblog Catching up with the new edblogging community being built with the leadership of Nancy Peralta. Week 2 and Week 3 of her weblog class went very well. Visit members of her Blog Class Shared Journal. Some are already using the blog for their classroom. I love the... From EdBlogger Praxis on January 25, 2004 at 9:50 p.m.. (45913) Speak freely Jevon MacDonald on organizational silence and its costs. From Seb's Open Research on January 25, 2004 at 9:47 p.m.. (45912) Your independent eFolio Martin Terre Blanche on the state of Minnesota's Efolio initiative, which looks like a promising step in enabling learners to take personal control of their self-representation: [...] they've set up a space for any Minnesota resident to create an e-portfolio - listing things like education and current projects. Apart from the arbitrariness of confining it to Minnesota, eFolio M From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 25, 2004 at 9:47 p.m.. (45911) Untitled Yes, admit you've been waiting for it! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: the "Dean goes nuts" playlist (.m3u) (.smil) This post also appears on the open channel --> From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 25, 2004 at 9:47 p.m.. (45910) Rethinking e-learning From ScotFEICT on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 p.m.. (45909) BBC Worldwide announces MBA scholarships From ScotFEICT on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 p.m.. (45908) Web lifeline for Iraqi academics From ScotFEICT on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 p.m.. (45907) Third Day is coming to Jackson, TN!Since my store ... Third Day is coming to Jackson, TN!Since my store is a Ticketmaster Outlet, I have many people coming to me asking if we are selling tickets to such and such show. We will sell to most shows in Memphis or Nashville, but unfortunately Jackson, TN is not affiliated in anyway with Ticketmaster, so I don't even sell tickets to events in this "home" town. A customer asked the other day if we were selling tickets to the Third Day concert? I said "Third Day is coming to Jackson?" It was the first I heard of it, and I'm usually From Sisters' Weblog: It Bloggles the Mind! on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 p.m.. (45906) "Paving the Way to e-Learning" released A new reference document that aims to raise the standard of e-learning developments in the U.K. was launched at this year's BETT conference, the annual educational technology show. The document, "Paving the way to excellence in e-learning", was produced by the National Learning Network (NLN) Materials Team, which is "responsible for commissioning and managing the production of hundreds of hours of e-learning materials that are delivered free to the learning and skills sector". The team is based at Becta (the British Educational Technology Agency). The guidelines in the document co From e-Learning Eclectic on January 25, 2004 at 8:46 p.m.. (45905) Feds search for Online Training Services Federal Computer Week reports that the Office of Personnel Management is seeking ideas from contractors and academic institutions to develop a task order for online training, products and services for the Government Online Learning Center. "Known as GoLearn, the program provides Web-based human capital performance tools such as academic, technical and organizational courses for federal workers ... The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts would be for services such as learning management systems, content management, Web collaboration software, licensing, credentials and online From e-Learning Eclectic on January 25, 2004 at 8:46 p.m.. (45904) Wanted: research on not using public spaces to document experiences Note: this is a bit of background thinking for my earlier post on personal ways of doing things in public. We did several studies looking on how people are finding in-house knowledge in their company (e.g. who knows/what was done on a specific topic). Our main finding* is that in most of cases people search personal spaces (own paper/digital archives, mailboxes) for clues or ask people in their personal network. I guess this "searching behaviour" would be correlated with "sharing behaviou From Mathemagenic on January 25, 2004 at 7:51 p.m.. (45903) Content Deliverance Content Management is for losers. Young people may have discovered the dark truth about digital media: the person who wins the right to store a piece of data has actually won the booby prize. Come over to The Feature and check out my new 'think piece' on the decreasing value of 'owning' digital data. I'll be participating in the discussion over there, too, which is kind of fun: most of the readers are wireless industry pros who disagree with any point of view that doesn't coordinate well From rushkoff.blog on January 25, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (45902) Prosecutors lean toward indicting PM From Haaretz: News on January 25, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (45901) Analysis / Iran's key role in Kuntar formula From Haaretz: News on January 25, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (45900) Analysis / Bend it like Hezbollah From Haaretz: News on January 25, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (45899) German mediator tight-lipped about next stages of the deal From Haaretz: News on January 25, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (45898) Israel, Hezbollah agree to prisoner swap From Haaretz: News on January 25, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (45897) iTunes Metadata Lost! Doh. I just fired up iTunes, and my tunes were gone. The tracks are still all on my hard drive, but the playlists and songs in iTunes are missing in action. I've been using iTunes since before it was iTunes (I was a registered owner of SoundJam MP, which was purchased from Casady & Greene by Apple to become iTunes 1.0). This is the first time I've lost data in any of my SoundJam/iTunes libraries, in something like 8 years (roughly 8 major OS updates, over several computers). Re-added all of my tracks to iTunes (dragging the folders into the... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on January 25, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (45896) Neues Buch über Weblogs Weblogs oder Blogs sind der große Trend im Internet. Wer online loszieht, findet sie wie Sand im Meer. Das Prinzip:... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 5:51 p.m.. (45895) Infinite Secrets : Archimedes NOVA : Infinite Secrets : Archimedeshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedesThis website is the companion piece to the PBS NOVA broadcast of "Infinite Secrets," a documentary relating the discovery of the oldest of Archimedes' extant treatises. The treatise was bought at auction, with none knowing that hidden under the 13th Century prayer manuscript was a copy of an Archimedes work. The site details the history of this palimpsest, the efforts undertaken to do imaging and scanning of the badly deteriora From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 25, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (45894) Arming Computers with Tools for Self-Defense Arming Computers with Tools for Self-Defensehttp://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?tip040115bR.C. Sekar and colleagues at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, are working on self-defense tools to help computers protect themselves from common types of cyber attacks. The most common cyber attacks exploit application errors to burrow into a computer From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 25, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (45893) PEDABLOGUE: Teaching as Organizing PEDABLOGUE: Teaching as Organizing Organization. This idea really says it all, I think. The teacher organizes learning -- they orchestrate knowledge events -- they plan and act on that plan and they hierarchize knowledge in order that others can focus on the most important or valuable components. Comment: Who ever... From EdBlogger Praxis on January 25, 2004 at 5:50 p.m.. (45892) Jason, the teacher of my "intro" to Christology cl ... Jason, the teacher of my "intro" to Christology class at NBU, brought up something very interesting at class last Wednesday. He was sharing a story about his time at college. He explained that he had a Southern Baptist roommate and another roommate who was a Muslim. Jason said that he and his roommates often had those wonderful talks into the wee hours of the morning where the young explore the mysteries of the universe, life and ideologies. I'm sure those discussions were quite interesting between a couple of Southern Baptist b From megnut on January 25, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (45890) Netzpiloten Die Netzpiloten sind wohl jedem bekannt - aber kannten Sie auch schon die Weblog-Tour?... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (45889) Places Online Places Onlinehttp://www.placesonline.orgThe Association of American Geographers has gathered an array of websites that depict environments, people and life around the world. There is a high standard for inclusion in the site: the sites must be image and content heavy, and must be "primary" sites, as opposed to sites that only direct users to a list of links. Places Online is searchable, and also can be navigated by using an interactive map; the first level is by region/continent and the second level is broken down int From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 25, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (45888) Ancient World Mapping Center Ancient World Mapping Centerhttp://www.unc.edu/awmcThe Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill aims to bring cartography and GIS into a position of greater importance in studying the Ancient World. News articles, links to other mapping resources, and an archive of past feature stories are available. Digital maps are provided free of charge in the "Maps for Students Map Room." The maps are of Rome, Greece, Ancient Italy, Egypt, the Northern and Western reaches of the Roman Empire, and From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 25, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (45887) Studying the finalists The deadline for voting for the 2004 Weblog Awards From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 25, 2004 at 4:50 p.m.. (45886) Toolkit, revisited Just as a blogger needs a basic toolkit, including a computer, a blogging program, an RSS feed, an aggregator, and so forth, she also needs a set of social and intellectual skills, to draw and move a community of readers. What are those social and intellectual skills? Where do they come from? How can they be strengthened? From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 25, 2004 at 4:50 p.m.. (45885) Sunday fiddling For years now, the megnut design hasn't been working quite right and you've probably noticed that sometimes the footer graphic comes up and overlaps the content whenever the left-hand side has less than the right-hand side. Well, hopefully it's a problem no more! I've spent the afternoon tweaking the style sheet and it should be fixed. Of course, this hasn't been tested on anything but my browser (Camino on OS X) so please let me know if it's all messed up now. Hopefully it isn't. Of course, there are a million other little things to change around: archive st From megnut on January 25, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (45884) Saddam Gehört zwar nicht so recht hierher, aber dennoch konnte und wollte ich diese Animation nicht weglassen ...... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (45883) Klitschko vs. Kohl Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Box-Brüdern Witali und Wladimir Klitschko und ihrem Manager Klaus-Peter Kohl steht offenbar unmittelbar vor dem Ende,... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (45882) Die Lüge von den kurzen Beinen From Mein Schuster on January 25, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (45881) Seelen-Kalender 44 Ergreifend neue Sinnesreize From Mein Schuster on January 25, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (45880) Seelen-Kalender 43 In winterlichen Tiefen From Mein Schuster on January 25, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (45879) The aerobic brain Brains and Brawn, One and the Same By NICHOLAS WADE Published: January 25, 2004 Researchers in Germany report that the brain is similar to muscles in that if you exercise, it will grow: In a study conducted by Dr. Arne May and colleagues at... From Internet Time Blog on January 25, 2004 at 3:49 p.m.. (45878) Thank You I've been told by the SiliconValley.com folks that we had about 3.5 million visits (and 4.7 million page views) here at eJournal in 2003, with about half of those coming during the last four months of the year. Thanks, everyone. I'll try to keep earning your readership. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 25, 2004 at 3:46 p.m.. (45877) Wirtschaftliches Eigentum Der BFH führt seine bisherige Rechtsprechung zum wirtschaftlichen Eigentum bei Mietereinbauten fort. Danach setzt das Vorliegen wirtschaftlichen Eigentums bei Mietereinbauten... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 2:52 p.m.. (45876) New issue of Science & Technology Libraries The new issue of Science & Technology Libraries (vol. 22, no. 3/4) is now online. Many of its articles are OA-related. Only the TOC and abstracts are free online. Paul Ginsparg, Can Peer Review Be Better Focused? Michel R. Dagenais, From FOS News on January 25, 2004 at 2:49 p.m.. (45875) A Just Teacher Pay System (2): Fair Shares Untitled Document Summary: This entry follows on several others (see links below), all of which have focused upon justice--particularly social or distributive justice. In this second of three entries I summarize thoughts and concerns which surfaced when I interpret Peter Corning's Fair Shares system (see 4th and 6 references with links at bottom of this entry) of distributive justice (aka ' From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on January 25, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (45874) Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space Paul Resnick has a paper out on the moderation system at Slashdot. Haven't read it yet, but the findings reported in the abstract corroborate my impressions. In particular, posting late is a good way to get ignored - the herd moves fast from one post to the next. Can a system of distributed moderation quickly and consistently separate high and low quality comments in an online conve From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 25, 2004 at 2:47 p.m.. (45873) Teaching as Organizing I've been mulling over the definition of the word "teacher." What does it really mean? The dictionaries I've peeked at simply say "one who teaches." I hate circular definitions. What is teaching, then? The concept is very complicated. I can't answer it here, but I can contrast two sources that... From PEDABLOGUE on January 25, 2004 at 1:51 p.m.. (45872) Hear no evil If an audience remains silent during a rendition of John Cage's 4'33", does that ruin the performance? From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 25, 2004 at 1:46 p.m.. (45871) It's Still a 'New Marcom Game' Nine years ago, the amazing Doc Searls wrote this essay, redefining marketing in an Internet world. It's still a prescient piece, as his first rule suggests:"The Internet is the ultimate base medium -- it will either undermine or support all other media. Think of the Internet as a phone system, a postal service, a library, a distribution hub and a yellow pages -- all in one. Only, unlike all those traditional institutions, nobody controls it. Anybody ca From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 25, 2004 at 1:46 p.m.. (45870) The forest and the trees The genius of Jon Udell's work is not sheer technical innovation (not that TransQuery amounted to anything like that either) but rather the ability to make sense of how such technologies can be used in simple but powerful ways over compelling content. ... From Jon's Radio on January 25, 2004 at 1:46 p.m.. (45869) Swarm Intelligence (SI) Swarm Intelligence (SI)http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec04-swarm/index.htmSuch systems are made up by a population of simple agents interacting locally with one other and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralised control dictating the behaviour of the agents, local interactions ong the agents often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, honey bees, b From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 25, 2004 at 12:50 p.m.. (45868) Computer Creativity Machine Stimulates the Brain Computer Creativity Machine Stimulates the Brainhttp://snipurl.com/41zrAn excellent and very self explanatory article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on Dr. Stephen Thaler's Creativity Machine. Dr. Thaler has been working on this project and concept for many many years and has truly developed an unique resource that will defintely help mankind now and in the future. Congratulations Steve on the perserverance and now the rewards that you so deserve with this technology!! From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 25, 2004 at 12:50 p.m.. (45867) People with projects Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 25, 2004 at 12:49 p.m.. (45866) Wanted: anecdotes about open access I'm looking for vivid and persuasive anecdotes that show the benefits of open access and the harms caused by the lack of it. Go back through your memories, email boxes, and conference notes to reassemble stories that can help change minds. Don't send them to me directly, but to our discussion forum, where everyone can make use of them. I'll keep the call for anecdotes on the blog sidebar for the f From FOS News on January 25, 2004 at 12:48 p.m.. (45865) The Republican Net Tax David Deans writes about Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's interest in slapping a tax on accessing the Internet.... From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2004 at 12:47 p.m.. (45864) No posting for a few days My hard drive crashed this weekend Back on air later next week... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on January 25, 2004 at 11:51 a.m.. (45863) Urheberrecht im Netz Die WIPO hat eine Seite ins Netz (202 S. PDF) gestellt mit dem Titel "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON THE INTERNET: A... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 11:51 a.m.. (45862) Literacy and Motivation at Work A study of employee literacy and a theory of motivation offer insight into the value of continuous learning at work.... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 25, 2004 at 11:49 a.m.. (45861) More on the database bill Roy Mark, House Panel Sparks Database Controversy, InternetNews.com, January 23, 2004. Quoting Mark Erickson, director of federal policy for NetCoalition: "The Supreme Court ruled in 1991 that facts can't be copyrighted. All intellectual property has a finite life. Any sort of legislation that creates a new property right in facts can have a profound impact. It can drive up the cost of data and potentially give the owners of the new protection the ability to charge for using the facts in a downstream distribution." From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 25, 2004 at 11:46 a.m.. (45859) Orkut and a bit of thinking on on-line networking tools It's funny to see the blogosphere getting infected by Orkut: from announcements to getting invited and first reviews (1, 2, 3, -- From Mathemagenic on January 25, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (45858) Goofresh Goofreshhttp://www.buzztoolbox.com/archives/000009.shtmlGoogle offers a date-based syntax, but you can only access it via the advanced search, which limits your time options, or the daterange: syntax, which uses Julian dates and is a bit difficult to use. Goofresh is a way to search for sites added today, yesterday, within the last seven days, or last 30 days. [BuzzToolbox Blog:API and Other Tools for Google, Amazon, etc.] From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 25, 2004 at 10:50 a.m.. (45857) What Jews think Hanan Cohen sends along a link to the American Jewish Committee's 2003 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion. The sample of 1,000 self-identified Jews, a representative cross-section of Americans, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 points. 76% of us think caring about Israel is a very important part of being a Jew. Only 5% are more positive this year than last about the chance for peace. 81% of us think ""The goal of the Arabs is not the return of occupied territories but rather the destruction of Israel," but 54% support the creation of a Palestinian... From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2004 at 10:47 a.m.. (45856) Week ahead: Oracle AppsWorld, PeopleSoft earnings Oracle AppsWorld dominates the trade show circuit, as PeopleSoft, Amazon.com, Texas Instruments and others steal some of the show with their quarterly earnings. From CNET News.com on January 25, 2004 at 10:45 a.m.. (45855) Competing spam 'solutions' Legislation and technology are being turned against spam--but to what effect? Knowledge@Wharton offers a status report. From CNET News.com on January 25, 2004 at 10:45 a.m.. (45854) Return to Return of the King (I just blogged this at BlogCritics.org) We went to see Return of the King for the second time last night because our 13-year-old wanted to see it for his third time. My pre-VCR generation has trouble being entertained by a movie more than once, but there are exceptions. Lord of the Rings is one: Giant trolls, gargantuan elephants, catapults firing heads, fierce bad guys with faces made out of cookie dough, fire-tipped battering rams, stirring music, flying dragons, all in one scene. What more do you want in a movie? Even though it was my second time, I still... From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2004 at 9:48 a.m.. (45853) All Internet voting is insecure: report - electricnews.net Online voting is fundamentally insecure due to the architecture of the Internet, according to leading cyber-security experts. Using a voting system based upon the Internet poses a "serious and unacceptable risk" for election fraud and is not secure en From Techno-News Blog on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45852) The indispensable political blog - ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press Web journals like Joshua Marshall's have become indispensable this campaign season: They mobilize supporters, question traditional media coverage and feed the insatiable appetites of political junkies. A powerful new networking tool for the politically From Techno-News Blog on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45851) Politics of the Web: Meet, Greet, Segregate, Meet Again - AMY HARMON, New York Times That the Internet is newly teeming with grass-roots political activists of all stripes is one of the truisms of this campaign season. But to Melissa Kramer, a Wesley Clark supporter who spends hours online every day, it doesn't feel that way. On Ms. Kr From Techno-News Blog on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45850) Parents explore online-learning frontier - JOHN WELSH, Pioneer Press Online learning still is in its infancy in Minnesota, where only last year state lawmakers passed their first permanent law on the subject. Parents and students face a sometimes baffling assortment of choices, from virtual schools to classes offered on From Educational Technology on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45849) School computer plan falls short - Nicole Jacques, Battle Creek Enquirer A statewide plan to provide wireless laptop computers to every sixth-grader has fallen short of its goal because of funding problems. The Freedom to Learn initiative lost $22 million in state funds during the most recent round of Michigan spending cut From Educational Technology on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45848) Mississippi is one of four states still lacking accreditation laws - KAREN NELSON, THE SUN HERALD Allen Ezell is an FBI agent who served on a diploma scam task force from 1980 to 1991. Although he's now retired and working in bank fraud security in Tampa, Fla., he offers some figures from his 11-year tenure with the FBI. He said federal agents dism From Online Learning Update on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45847) Emerging Online Learning Environments and Student Learning - Carrie B. Myers, Dennis Bennett, Gary Brown, Tom Henderson, Educational Tech & Society Abstract: New educational technologies and online learning environments (OLEs) are infiltrating today From Online Learning Update on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45846) Embracing Disruptive Innovation with the Next Generation of E-Learners - Tana Bishop, Sloan-C View Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen is well-known for his theory of oedisruptive innovation. In simplest terms, this is a strategy that organizations use to leverage changes (whether environmental or man-made) to their competitive adv From Online Learning Update on January 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (45845) suckers, the lot of the them Aha, said man, those squid who use fluorescent bacteria to hide themselves against the background moonlight are a dead giveaway: they prove God must exist and therefore...QED, etc etc etc. God, as proven by the squid, is not without a... From Ben Hammersley.com on January 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m.. (45844) Campaign Desk Blog Der Columbia Journalism Review hat jetzt speziell für die US-Wahlen 2004 ein Blog ins Netz gestellt, das durch sachliche Eleganz... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (45843) Legal Research Center Das Legal Research Center ist das juristische Portal von West Virginia, das zwar optisch etwas zu wünschen übrig lässt, dafür... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (45842) Der Ebay-Trick Das Gerücht, dass Web-Betrüger immer wieder ihre Nutzerprofile bei dem Online-Versteigerer manipulieren, kursiert schon lange. Jetzt gestand Ebay, dass es... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (45841) Future Law Office "The Future Law Office is an ongoing research project that provides an in-depth look at trends and developments in the... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 8:50 a.m.. (45840) FileGate - Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins? A junior staff member of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was recently put on leave for improperly accessing Democratic memos from a shared Senate fileserver. In a statement on the matter, Sen. Hatch said, "I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files may have occurred on my watch." A Republican staff member who read the memos claims, however, that there was "no hacking, no stealing, and no violation of any Senate rule". It seems clear that the Democrat's IT services in the US Senate need to be more methodical about protecting From Handakte WebLAWg on January 25, 2004 at 7:50 a.m.. (45838) The Moment of Chaos: Warning I just finished reading The Moment of Complexity by Mark C. Taylor. I picked up a few memes and some interesting tidbits. However, if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't. Do yourself a favor and read my thoughts before wading into... From Internet Time Blog on January 25, 2004 at 5:49 a.m.. (45837) Fourth and Final Moment of Complexity When we left off at our previous moment of complexity, the author finally stopped dropping big names on campus (e.g. Derrida, Hegel, Heidegger, Kant) and got around to defining complex adaptive systems. evolving complexity My suspicions were aroused when the author launches into a... From Internet Time Blog on January 25, 2004 at 4:49 a.m.. (45836) SOLAR TOWER Cooperative Investment Alliance, a US$3.6 Billion Renewable Energy Intitiative, Responds to the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) Solicitations for Abstracts for the August 28-Sept 2, 2004 Meetings in Colorado, USA Solar Tower From PR Web on January 25, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (45835) First Asia-Based Fitness Mentoring and Coaching Service AsiaFitnessCoach.com launched Bestselling co-authors Dr Seamus Phan and multiple title bodybuilding champion brother CJ Phan now mentors competitive athletes and enthusiasts in diet planning, fitness and exercise, through TechPharma Labs' new service AsiaFitnessCoach.com. [PRWEB Jan 25, 2004] From PR Web on January 25, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (45834) Networked lethality Andrew Wimmer, writing at the weblog of the Center for Theology and Social Analysis and reporting back from a community conversation about nonviolence, points to an online publication from the military contractor Boeing. The Boeing article describes a complex of weapons that will make up something called Future Combat Systems (FCS), 18 networked components that allow soldiers to coordinate the weapons available on a battlefield. The FCS complex is being created by a second, more... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 25, 2004 at 12:49 a.m.. (45833) A Congested School Covets a Neighboring Lot Midwood High School's proposal to build a science and library annex on an adjacent lot has drawn fire from people in the community. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (45832) Adelphi Savors Its Rebound The new century has been kinder than the old one at the Garden City campus. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (45831) Ninth Grade Key to Success, but Reasons Are Debated With the rising use of standardized exams to measure school performance, ninth grade is becoming a watershed moment at many schools across the country. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (45830) New Law Building Opens at N.Y.U. The nine-story, 170,000-square-foot, red-brick structure at 245 Sullivan Street, which opened last week to students and faculty, almost doubles the law school's space. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (45829) National Briefing: Education UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT TO STEP DOWN. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (45828) Ballet Training: Where Democracy Misses a Step Is the free market bad for ballet schools? The American Ballet Theater aims to build a nation-wide program that will prove otherwise. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (45827) The West Side: Mittens on, but No Place to Play Like most children his age, Karl Greenfield looks forward to recess, when he can go outdoors and play with his classmates. But after every snowstorm, instead of throwing snowballs or making angels, he sits indoors in an auditorium. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (45826) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]