Edu_RSS ~ January 28, 2004

Most recent update: January 28, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: IBM unveils IT support service From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 10:45 p.m.. (46445) Ellison: No need for wall-to-wall Oracle Oracle's chief executive says it's alright for companies to use Oracle's business system in conjunction with those from rivals Siebel Systems and SAP, and Oracle will even help them to do it. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 10:45 p.m.. (46444) Google faces trademark suit over keyword ads A lawsuit filed by American Blind and Wallpaper Factory intensifies an ongoing dispute over whether Google's policy of selling ads related to search terms is legal or involves trademark infringement. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 10:45 p.m.. (46443) nntp2rss I might try installing this so I can read the Blogware Newsgroups which unfortunately are not available in RSS. QUOTEToday many people are used to keeping in touch with news sites and blogs with an RSS feed reader. RSS offers access to any kind of frequently posted information. This also makes it an interesting technology for handling usenet newsgroups, which are like updated several times a day. nntp2rss provides a bridge to access newsgroups using an RSS reader. It assembles the latest few articles&apo From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (46442) BlogPulse - Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs Don't know how I missed this! Complete with RSS. Subscribed! QUOTEBlogPulse Key Phrases, Key People, BlogBites, and Top Links are mined daily from new entries in over 80,000 weblogs using machine learning algorithms and natural language processing techniques. BlogPulse mines for bursty phrases and person na From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (46441) Untitled "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi From Seb's Open Research on January 28, 2004 at 9:46 p.m.. (46440) MyDoom virus declared worst ever It's only two days old and still growing, but at least one security firm is ready to crown the e-mail virus as the worst ever. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (46439) BenQ names sales exec for America From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (46438) Commentary: Oracle faces reality From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (46437) Analysis / No tidings of change From Haaretz: News on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (46436) 8 Gazans killed in IDF operation in Strip From Haaretz: News on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (46435) Timetable for the exchange From Haaretz: News on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (46434) Background / The mother of all prisoner exchange deals From Haaretz: News on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (46433) Swap today; Hezbollah TV shows Tennenbaum From Haaretz: News on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (46432) Thought Leader Forum elearningpost has pointed out a very interesting site published by Credit Suisse called the Thought Leader Forum. Check out the 2003 Concept Cards in particular...... From Column Two on January 28, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (46431) Dean Turns to Ultimate Washington Insider In other words, Neel is as inside-the-beltway as you can get. So much for Dean's mantra of running as an outsider. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 8:46 p.m.. (46430) FTC proposes adult spam labels The Federal Trade Commission says there should be a mandatory "Sexually-Explicit-Content" tag for e-mail that contains pornographic material. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (46429) Sprint makes about-face on VPN technology After years of criticizing a technology known as multiprotocol label switching, the long-distance carrier succumbs to market pressure and will offer MPLS virtual private networks. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (46428) Portability complaints? Take a number The FCC says it's received around 4,750 gripes from cell phone customers frustrated by the slow pace of switching carriers. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (46427) Faculty Time Savers Handout On Monday afternoon, I led a discussion on "Faculty Time Management" for our campus' Teaching and Learning Forum. Some of the handouts I distributed were tips for saving time in regards to teaching, scholarship, and service. They only scratch the surface in my opinion, but you can download the MS... From PEDABLOGUE on January 28, 2004 at 7:51 p.m.. (46426) ... From Sisters' Weblog: It Bloggles the Mind! on January 28, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (46425) Plug those leaks A visit from the FBI By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus Posted: 28/01/2004 at 13:02 GMT A favorite trick is to surreptitiously turn on the Webcam of an owned computer in order to watch the dupe at work, or watch what he's typing on screen. In one,... From Internet Time Blog on January 28, 2004 at 7:49 p.m.. (46424) More about future of libraries The Future of Libraries, Threshold, Winter 2003, 13-17, is a forum featuring several perspectives on the library as a place and its role in education. The first essay by Clifford Lynch, "The New Dimensions of Learning Communities," summarizes an accessible digital world worth realizing: "The treasures that have been locked up in the special collections of our great libraries are now being opened up on the Internet in digital fo From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 7:48 p.m.. (46423) OA to society journals Jim Pitman, A strategy for open access to society publications, a preprint posted to the author's web site, January 28, 2004. Pitman's strategy is to "encourage and assist" authors in archiving their preprints, to allow postprint archiving at any OA archive, but to host an OA version at the journal site only if the author pays a processing fee. Another part of the strategy is to appeal to authors, journals, and societies not to support journals with "regressive" policies on copyright or access. Pitman is the cha From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 7:48 p.m.. (46422) RIAA fouling its own nest? Alex Salkever, Big Music's Worst Move Yet, Business Week Online, January 27, 2004, points out that the RIAA's hardline subpoena tactics are not only turning customers off the music industry, but could threaten other online media industries as users seek sneakier forms of encryption and other obfuscation tools. (Source: Techdirt) From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 7:48 p.m.. (46421) Anti-Bush Big Spender Worries Conservative Commentator James Glassman, most famous for predicting a "stocks are still cheap" 36,000 Dow Jones industrial average not long before the '90s bubble burst, rants here about George Soros, who's said he'll spend lots of money to help defeat Bush's reelection. Glassman cites "the monstrous hatred Soros has developed toward the President of the United States--hatred shared by others in his social circle." Funny how the right wing never was bothered by the absolute ha From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 7:46 p.m.. (46420) Celequest nabs $9.1 million From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (46419) Kayak Interactive paddles off with $11.75 million From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (46418) Friday OSLO Meetings Below is the rest of the info for the Friday meetings. We will spend the majority of the meeting on OLS, our MIT/OCW partnership. The Quicktime stream will be available at rtsp://barboursville.ed.usu.edu/oslo.sdp starting around 9:00am MST. I will be logged into iChat as educommons@mac.com and into MSN as educommons@hotmail.com to facilitate question asking by folks at a distance. If you need some other chat client, please let me know ASAP! Agenda below. From autounfocus on January 28, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (46417) Darwine Darwine - putting Windows apps on OSX, by porting Wine to Darwin. A whole world of right, yet oh so wrong. (via Brent)... From Ben Hammersley.com on January 28, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (46416) Reading choices narrow for schools with federal aid The Bush administration has tied federal dollars to phonics instruction. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 28, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (46415) IBM to merge server, chip groups The company plans to announce the combined unit in coming days in an effort to improve the company's own chips, CNET News.com has learned. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (46414) Time Warner Cable leans more heavily on voice The Time Warner unit speeds the rollout of its Net-based phone service, because it more urgently needs the "voice piece" of its triple play of offerings designed to fend off gains by satellite companies. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (46413) Sun makes room for Jxta After spending three years seeding the market for Jxta, Sun has plans to use the open-source peer-to-peer software in its own server and desktop lines. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (46412) Security firm warns of new IE flaw A security services company points out a new vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser that could allow Web surfers to be tricked into downloading malicious files. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (46411) Microsoft sees sales hurdles ahead The software giant sounds a cautionary note with financial analysts, saying revenue growth in the next fiscal year will likely not match that of recent years. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (46410) Back in the saddle again! Maury fixed it! The last two days have been hell - I now undersatnd how addicted I am and suffered terrible withdrawal. I did have everything backed up and my trusty falsh memory with my email adresses and key docs... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 5:52 p.m.. (46409) Anwaltsliste hat 6. Geburtstag Die Anwaltsliste, ein Service der Hanseatischen Rechtsanwaltskammer, war am 28.01.1998 erstmals online. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 5:52 p.m.. (46408) Geflügelpest Noch richten sich die Blicke nach Thailand, wo lebende Hühner vernichtet werden, um der Geflügelpest Herr zu werden, schreibt Heise.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 5:52 p.m.. (46407) Pink on outsourcing Daniel Pink in Wired gives a human face to offshore outsourcing, as well as providing a nuanced discussion of its political and ethical dimensions.... From Joho the Blog on January 28, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (46406) Kottke: Guidelines for learning Nice, concise piece of learning wisdom I just rescued from my email inbox. 1. Release the need to be right. 2. Welcome one another's thoughts and opinions. 3. Suspend judgment. From Seb's Open Research on January 28, 2004 at 5:47 p.m.. (46405) News Briefs: See Jane Dominate E-commerce A new book suggests marketing to women as the key to online business success, SBC and Yahoo! offer a new suite of tools to help small businesses go online, and Fireclick releases its hot new Web analytics tool. From E-Commerce Guide on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46404) Oracle update gets tailored to industries The next version of the E-Business Suite of applications will include features designed to meet the needs of a variety of industries, including support for RFID inventory tracking. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46403) Thought Leader Forum Maish found the link to this item and correctly observes that the "Concept Cards" are the best part of the piece. But the papers are also valuable and should not be overlooked. Take the time to look at this site: some good insights on scientific reasoning here, including some things I harp on in these pages: the dangers of prediction in complex environments, the role of synchronization, self organizing networks, and the importance of diversity. When you look at a presentation like this, articles on geology, phamacology, economics, what leaps out at you are the similarities, the patterns connec From OLDaily on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46402) e-Learning Resource Centre Content village has added an e-learning section to their site. Contains links to portals, events, online news, some articles, glosaries and resources. By Various Authors, Content Village, January, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46401) ePrints Handbook This handbook is intended as a guide to self publishing on the internet. Major topics include a researchers guide to self archiving, a guide to open access, a guide to managing an eprints service, and an installation guide. The Handbook was commissioned by the Open Society Institute. This is a great and timely resource. By Les Carr, eprints.org, January, 2004 [Refer][From OLDaily on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46400) Big Music's Worst Move Yet When Business Week turns on you, then you know you're in trouble (unless you're part of the socialist horde, in which case, you expect the attack). So the music industry should start looking at its options as the writers assert that it has already "lost the war". How so? "The culture of fear and loathing that the RIAA has created is starting to put encryption on the must-have list of every Joe and Jane Internet user. The results will be wide-ranging and will pose a threat to the movie industry, the software industry, and just about any other industry involved with the creation and sa From OLDaily on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46399) Prepaid Tuition Plan Faces $70 Million Deficit Gosh, I don't want to say I told you so, but when this was first introduced I opined in these pages that it was a really bad idea. Now look. Maryland's system faces a $70 million deficit, and it's still early in the game. Other states will face similar problems. Now I'm wondering whether this will be the catalyst that triggers the crisis in education funding, the one where legislators pull the plug and eliminate the university system's monopoly on credentials. By Ivan Penn and Eileen Ambrose, Baltimore Sun, January 27, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46398) Laszlo Soundblox It's all day talk radio for blogphiles, and it eases the burden of writing for those who want to get their thoughts online. The first of much more we'll see like this over the course of the year, this blog describes a system that allows people to blog using their voice, not their pen. By Various Authors, January, 2004 [Refer][Research][--> From OLDaily on January 28, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (46397) Libraries in the age of the internet S.A. Mathieson, Libraries embrace digital age, The Guardian, January 28, 2004. Excerpt: "Beyond capturing material, the next challenge will be to categorise it. The UK is making a start through the Resource Discovery Network, a group involving 70 research and educational organisations that selects and categorises high-quality websites of academic interest....The internet is not making librarians obsolete - instead, creating guides to the internet, the ultimate unsorted libra From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (46396) Eprints Handbook released Les Carr of Southampton University has written an Eprints Handbook for all users of Erints, the open-source software for building and maintaining open-access OAI-compliant eprint archives. Quoting the press release: "The handbook is desisgned for...the system administrators who set up and maintain the archives, the departments or libraries that manage them, the authors who self-archive From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (46395) Syndicating comments Liz has started offering an RSS feed that includes comments to her posts. It's old news but I just wanted to say I think it's a great idea and I wish I could do that in Radio. From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 28, 2004 at 4:47 p.m.. (46394) Call for papers: 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (Also known as ICALT 2004) Theme: “Crafting Learning Within Context” For many years now, researchers and practitioners have advocated views of learning as happening within various forms of contexts such as those embodying problem-based, scenario-based, cognitive, meta-cognitive, social, linguistic, cultural, artefact, and authentic task elements. The conference theme focuses on the crafting of such lear From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 28, 2004 at 4:47 p.m.. (46393) Bush's Lame Excuses for Iraq Deceptions Joe Conason: Mr. Bush's fantasy planet. This was Bush's first attempt to answer the damning findings of David Kay, departing director of the Iraq Survey Group. It didn't go well, although almost everyone in the White House press corps pretended not to notice. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 4:47 p.m.. (46392) Politics as a Loosely Connected Conversation The estimable David Weinberger has launched Loose Democracy. "I make no apologies for my enthusiasm about the way in which the Web can improve our democracy. About this issue I am unabashedly partisan," he says. This is going to be good. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 4:47 p.m.. (46391) New age dawns at Eclipse As the open-source tools initiative prepares to gain independence from founder IBM, competitors and Java programmers are closely watching its future technical direction. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (46390) Restructuring costs hurt Sony profits Despite an increase in revenue, profits were down for Sony in the third quarter as expected restructuring costs ate into the company's bottom line. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (46389) MyDoom variant targets Microsoft A new version of the mass-mailing virus hits the Net, aiming data attacks at Microsoft's Web site and interfering with an infected PC's ability to access downloadable security-software updates. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (46388) HP storage packs a protein punch In the latest sign of a strong life sciences market, the State University of New York at Buffalo taps Hewlett-Packard to build a networked storage system for tasks such as protein analysis. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (46387) Search Engine for Marketers Search Engine for Marketershttp://www.SearchEngineForMarketers.com/Larry Chase has created a directory of marketing sources that does a nice job of showing directory resources for the various niched areas of marketing. He has titled it a Search Engine even though at first glance it seems to be a directory/index of resources. It does a good job as a marketing directory and I will be listing it in my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog --> From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 28, 2004 at 3:52 p.m.. (46386) Weedshare music filesharing system - dumb name but cool idea to pay users to share music I doubt this will take off considering you can't burn your own CDs and transfer it to non Windows Media players devices but the idea of paying your users to share music cool! QUOTEWeedshare is a great idea for music filesharing - Weedshare pays their users to share their music collection in the proprietary weed format and share them online. You can listen to any Weed file for free three times (in Microsoft Media Player), after that you must purchase the song to keep listening to it. The artist always rec From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 3:51 p.m.. (46385) Yin and Yang of home computer maintenance The Dark Side When I participate in events at L. A. 's Staples Convention Center, I forego the expensive hotels in favor of staying with Patsy. Not that Patsy and I have a thing going; she runs a delightful bed and breakfast half a mile... From Internet Time Blog on January 28, 2004 at 3:51 p.m.. (46384) Writingblog.org (via Kairosnews) Ok...it's official. I'm quitting my high school job and gonna snag some part-time professorship at a local community college where I can do this: give everyone on campus a Weblog and just sit back and watch my aggregator get filled up with all sorts of wild writing from students who write cool stuff without having administrative and board fears (I was going to say paranoia but changed it...hmmmm...) make me sweat over how things will be monitored and approved so as not to tick From weblogged News on January 28, 2004 at 3:48 p.m.. (46383) BBC Roasted on Bad Iraq Report, Chief Quits This was, finally, the honorable thing to do. A shame that the BBC couldn't straightforwardly admit it had screwed up in the first place. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 3:47 p.m.. (46382) Everyman's supercomputer Virginia Tech engineering dean Hassan Aref explains what's behind his college's Installation of G5 desktop machines. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (46381) Consumer devices boost hard-drive sales The market for hard drives is growing--even as many of the devices themselves are shrinking, according to a market researcher. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (46380) List of open/free 'courseware tools' from UNESCO Free Software Portal http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/ Software/Courseware_Tools/ Via an email from Jim Sibley came mention of this list of open or free 'courseware tools' - there were a couple of ones new to me (MANIAC and OLAT being examples) From EdTechPost on January 28, 2004 at 2:52 p.m.. (46379) Fusionskontrolle Der Rat der Wirtschafts- und Finanzminister stimmte am 20.01.2004 der neuen Fusionskontrollverordnung, die am 01.05.2004 in Kraft treten wird, endgültig... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 2:52 p.m.. (46378) The British Library joins the DLF The British Library has joined the Digital Library Federation. Quoting the press release: "Under CEO Lynne Brindley, the British Library has embarked upon a significant expansion of its digital library program, one that will benefit not only citizens of the United Kingdom, but readers and researchers everywhere. The decision by the British Library to join the Digital Library Federation signals not only the determination of the BL to exploit the possibilities for r From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (46377) New blog I've started off my new Corante blog — on how the Net is changing our democracy and politics — with a critique of Clay's provocative Dean meme. The new blog is called Loose Democracy, and I'm open to comments, suggestions, criticisms, unfunded mandates and recall initiatives. And please remind me of the 4,000 people I've left off my blogroll...I have problems creating lists ex nihilo. All I can promise you is that I will never make a mistake and I will never ever be wrong.... From Joho the Blog on January 28, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (46376) Internet High On Travel Destinations More than 42 million Americans made their travel arrangements online in 2003, with 10 million booking a spontaneous trip based on an e-mail promotion. From CyberAtlas on January 28, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (46375) Ikea and the renaissance Adam Greenfield's 'Ikeaphobia and its discontents' is just great: I must hear some version of this spiel once a month, generally from some self-consciously leftie male between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two desperate to prove his authenticity, present his... From Ben Hammersley.com on January 28, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (46374) 'DVD Jon' to seek compensation From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (46373) Zugang zu Dokumenten Am 22.01.2004 hat der EuGH in der Rechtssache 353/01 ein Urteil des Gerichts Erster Instanz aufgehoben und die Entscheidung der... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 1:52 p.m.. (46372) US-CERT US-CERThttp://www.us-cert.gov/US-CERT, a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and the private sector, has been established to protect our Nation's Internet infrastructure. It will do this through global coordination of defense against and response to cyber incidents and attacks across the United States. US-CERT's objectives are to aggregate available cyber security information and provide it to individuals and organizations in a timely and unders From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 28, 2004 at 1:52 p.m.. (46371) orkut is back And I have added the people (although all of them are awesome people who I no doubt would be friends of if we ever all met in real life!) who requested my 'friendship'. Still highly skeptical. Still think blogs are better for social networking but still think there's lots of potential for this kind of thing in the future. From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 1:50 p.m.. (46370) Removing Dead Items from OS X Finder Sidebar Any OS X gurus know how to remove an item from the OS X sidebar when the original doesn't exist? I get an error message saying the item can't be found, and it seems to be stuck there... From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 1:47 p.m.. (46369) Stupid PDF-only Policy he Consumer Federation of California just issued a privacy report that is full of useful information -- but it's available only as a large PDF file, not in HTML or RTF or plain text. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 1:47 p.m.. (46368) Costs of Blocking Legit E-Mail To Soar Erroneously blocked e-mail will cost marketers about $419 million in 2008. From CyberAtlas on January 28, 2004 at 1:45 p.m.. (46367) Study: Small businesses wary of Microsoft Many small and midsize companies harbor some level of "concern" about becoming "overly reliant" on software made by the Redmond, Wash., giant, a survey shows. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 1:45 p.m.. (46366) Stanford's continuing costs to support CourseWork http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content &id=12840&repository=0001_article Via Ray Schroeder comes this article from Stanford outlining the possible future of the CourseWork project and stating a possible $730K a year price tag to keep it going. This seems unlikely, but probably shouldn't be discounted out of hand. - SWL From EdTechPost on January 28, 2004 at 12:53 p.m.. (46365) Internationaler Drogenhandel Aus den ZEIT-Fundsachen: Eine Art Standardwerk zum internationalen Drogenhandel (409 S. PDF), das sich auf Brasilien, China, Indien und Mexiko... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 12:53 p.m.. (46364) Internationale Freiheitsrechte Unter dem Titel "Freedom of Information: A Comparative Legal Survey" hat Toby Mendel für die UNESCO diese Ãœbersicht (162 S.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 12:53 p.m.. (46363) Informationsgesellschaft Deutschland 2006 Konkrete Ziele des Aktionsprogramms (2 S. PDF) "Informationsgesellschaft Deutschland 2006" werden nicht nur übersichtlich nach Ziel und Zeitplan dargestellt, sondern... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 12:53 p.m.. (46362) U.S. creates cyberalert system The Department of Homeland Security announces an e-mail alert system aimed at informing two groups of citizens--technical experts and the average home user--of potential online threats. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (46361) Bracing for trouble MyDoom spreads across the Internet at a record pace, with a payload that threatens to flood SCO's Web site on Super Bowl Sunday. Also: The feds have a plan to warn of Net threats From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (46360) Notifications as troublesome as viruses Security experts urge administrators to turn off the feature on antivirus applications that automatically replies to senders, informing them that they've been infected. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (46359) SBC Yahoo targets small business The two companies join forces to offer a suite of services, built on their DSL efforts, designed specifically for small and home-based businesses. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (46358) O. is back :) In case you don't know, Orkut is back :) From Mathemagenic on January 28, 2004 at 11:53 a.m.. (46357) Hutton-Bericht Lordrichter Hutton hat heute seinen Bericht zum Selbstmord des britischen Waffenexperten Dr. David Kelly vorgelegt, der zu einer der schwersten... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 11:52 a.m.. (46356) Avosaarlor Am 27.01.2004 wurde in Saargemünd die gemeinsame Website der Rechtsanwaltskammer des Saarlandes und des Barreau von Saargemünd feierlich eingeweiht. Sie... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 11:52 a.m.. (46355) BuyTelco Broadband Index (BBI) BuyTelco Broadband Index (BBI)http://www.buytelco.net/bbi.aspWhen during the week is the demand for broadband services highest? Which states have the highest and lowest demand? How does demand breakdown among demographic groups? The BuyTelco Broadband Index (BBI) answers these questions and more with its monthly roundup of connectivity trends for high-speed Internet including DSL, cable, and satellite across the USA. In the month of December 2003 we find that demand is highest at the beginning of the week, with From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 28, 2004 at 11:52 a.m.. (46354) Copyrights and patents in taxpayer-funded research Laura MacDonald et al., Management of intellectual property in publicly-funded research organisations: Towards European Guidelines, European Commission, January 2004. From the executive summary: "The report is directed primarily at research universities and research centres funded by publics funds (collectively Public Research Organisations or PROs) to help them identify the processes, good practices and the implications of a more active involvement in the innovation process through the management of From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 11:49 a.m.. (46353) Cory: Buy Open As Frank notes, this is a must read from Cory.  Check out the original Scoble post and his follow-up. What amazes me about Scoble's follow-up comments is that he doesn't address any of Cory's criticisms.  Though I haven't read every blog that responded to Scoble (and obvi From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 28, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (46352) Because Fingerprinting Worked So Well The First Time Shawn Fanning's at it again.  I highly doubt that the system would work such that, once songs are identified, downloads are blocked.  It's more likely that until a song is identified by its fingerprint, it wil not be available on the system. Otherwise, you're still allowing the infringing downloads of unlicensed content, and, under Napster, you'd be responsible for blocking it.  Of course, this is assuming that this system will ever come to fruition. BTW, note From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 28, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (46351) Communicast Todd Larsen sketches out a peer-produced webcasting service.  The basic idea is that the song selections would be chosen by user votes and ranked like Slashdot ranks commenters and comments.  The community would be the radio station.  According to Larsen, such a service could qualify for the compulsory license because it would still technically be a non-interactive service.  It's a very interesting paper and a great idea. From A Copyfighter'apos;s Musings on January 28, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (46350) Interoperable P2P News.com reports on Streamcast's new interoperability with non-Gnutella networks.  The article mentions some negatives - I wonder how they could be avoided with some clever programming and cooperation between various services.  Also: would those problems be more avoidable if we actually let centralized P2P survive? (As I've said before, I agree to an extent with the Napster decision, but I believe that the result should have better protected the technology such that it could be used in legal wa From A Copyfighter'apos;s Musings on January 28, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (46349) Who's Your Online Music Friend? Not Microsoft Cory sez: Copyright law has never said that the guy who makes the records gets to tell you what kind of record player you can use. If Scoble and his employer want to offer a product with "features" that their customers want, those features should reflect what their customers want: No Windows user rolled out of bed this morning and said, "I wish there was a way that I could get Microsoft to deliver me tools that allow me to do less with the music I buy." From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 11:47 a.m.. (46348) a front runner So we have a front runner -- a great Senator with an extraordinary career of service. He's found the message -- a "positive" campaign "against special interests." (In the great tradition of Walt Disney creativity, it is a message that builds upon the culture around him. See, e.g. Edwards, Dean). And while I have no doubt the Senator would make a far better president than the current, I worry whether the message ("against special interests") will ring true with a man who has been in DC for so long. This was the part that came naturally to Dean, and even Edwards. When Edwards describes "th From Lessig Blog on January 28, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.. (46346) Infineon to acquire Taiwanese chipmaker The German chipmaker plans to strengthen its push into the home networking market by buying ADMtek. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.. (46345) Modernisierung des Anfechtungsrechts Nach dem Transparenz- und Publizitätsgesetz (7 S. PDF) aus der letzten Wahlperiode und der Einsetzung der Cromme-Kommission folgt nun ein... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (46344) Behind the desk Monday night I had to move my semi-built-in desk yesterday so the electricians could upgrade my wiring. As a result, I saw what had dropped behind it during the course of 8 years. It was pretty much the usual stuff, with a couple of exceptions: One copy of The Cluetrain Manifesto One copy of The Tipping Point 8 little screws used to attach hard drives to computer cases 12 uncurled paperclips used for resetting small hardware devices Pretty much the story of my life.... From Joho the Blog on January 28, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (46343) My dream Last night I had a dream that I was trying to explain to John Kerry that the Internet is like free speech: Its value comes from its openness to possibility, and that the government should regulate it as little as possible. Yes, I actually had this dream.... From Joho the Blog on January 28, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (46342) New service from Amazon From Denounce: Amazon Launches New Social Network Called "Pricekut" Customers Can Now See and Comment on the Contents of Other Customers' Shopping Carts It's satire, ok? (Thanks to Brian Dear for the link.)... From Joho the Blog on January 28, 2004 at 10:48 a.m.. (46341) Sneaky E-mail Fraud Attempt It's bad enough I am mass deleting virus generated e-mails (there were 66 this morning, about 8 hours later than the cleansing last night) but I got one on my home e-mail account, all be-decked with formal looking graphics. It made me suspicious.... From cogdogblog on January 28, 2004 at 10:47 a.m.. (46340) The Continuing Decline of E-Mail Once again, a criminal or group of criminals has turned e-mail against us. Wouldn't it be great, though, if we stopped helping. I have a rule that I wish everyone would follow: I don't open any file attachment, unless I have specifically requested it, am expecting it or have gone to some lengths to assure it doesn't contain a harmful payload. Period. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 10:46 a.m.. (46339) Adding Audio to Blogs Don't know how I missed this, but it's been around for a month: SoundBlox is "an MP3 audio playing Internet application that can be embedded into a personal blog template or Web page, and displayed in any modern Web browser." It's for non-commercial use, which excludes me on this blog, but I still intend to play with it on another blog I use for experimentation. Nice. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on January 28, 2004 at 10:46 a.m.. (46338) Watch your backup Industry watcher Jon Oltsik warns that this most basic rule of IT responsibilities is badly broken but that few people seem sufficiently exercised to fix the problem. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 10:45 a.m.. (46337) Oracle's about-face At AppsWorld, the company says its business management applications will be more compatible with other systems. Plus, Oracle is looking beyond PeopleSoft. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 10:45 a.m.. (46336) Alpha Java geek returns James Gosling recently returned to Sun Microsystems' Java tools division. Can his star power breathe new life into Sun software? From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 10:45 a.m.. (46335) Time Warner gains as AOL sinks The media behemoth reports positive fourth-quarter earnings despite lagging performance from its America Online business unit. From CNET News.com on January 28, 2004 at 10:45 a.m.. (46334) Mehr Verbraucherschutz im Internet Das Bundeskabinett hat heute einen Gesetzentwurf zur Änderung von Vorschriften über Fernabsatzverträge über Finanzdienstleistungen (PM) beschlossen. Wer beispielsweise Kredite per... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (46333) More on the database bill The EFF has created a web site to help Americans send a message to their representative in Congress opposing the database bill. Excerpt: This bill "would surely chill innovation and research. Many legitimate activities - both commercial and not - rely on the availability of factual information. For instance, websites that perform price-comparisons for shoppers must use data from many different retailers, but that activity would likely violate DCIMA. Scientists require access to dozens, som From FOS News on January 28, 2004 at 9:48 a.m.. (46332) Wikipedia Shows Power of Cooperation Jay Cross hat vor einiger Zeit behauptet: "Learning = Content + Collaboration". Collaboration, Communities und Networks sind auch die Dinge, die mich immer häufiger interessieren und faszinieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund kommt man an der Erfolgsstory von Wikipedia kaum vorbei: "Wikipedia,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (46331) Kursbuch eLearning 2004 Meine Erwartungen - und wer denkt nicht bei "Kursbuch" an die gute, alte Bahn - wurden nicht betrogen: Dieses "Kursbuch" listet auf rund 400 Seiten auf, welche Hochschulkurse im Internet das BMBF im Rahmen des Programms "Neue Medien in der... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (46330) PubSub Concepts PubSub Conceptshttp://www.pubsub.com/PubSub Concepts provides real-time, content based publish and subscribe systems at internet scale. This site is a Beta version of our home page, which will provide a PubSub interface for weblogs and other information sources. PubSub.com reads over 100,000 weblogs in real time, and generates new feeds containing information specific to particular issues. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (46329) Keeping Found Things Found on the Web Keeping Found Things Found on the Web - A Research Project of the Information School at the University of Washingtonhttp://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/projKFTF.asphttp://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/publications.aspThe goal of this study is to understand better the ways in which people manage information for subsequent re-access and re-use. The study focuses on the management of information found on the Word Wide Web. Follow-on From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (46328) Parsing OWL in RDF/XML Published Parsing OWL in RDF/XML Publishedhttp://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-owl-parsing-20040121/The Web Ontology Working Group has released "Parsing OWL in RDF/XML" as a Working Group Note. The OWL language is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. This document describes a strategy for OWL-RDF parsers. Read about the Semantic From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on January 28, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (46327) Weblogs and wikis audioconference next week On February 3 at noon Atlantic time (11 AM in Quebec, 5 PM in France) I will be giving a virtual talk in French titled "Le Web à deux sens : carnets Web, wikis et leurs usages pour l'apprentissage" (english abstract). This presentation is organized by TeleEducation NB via the Interwise system and it is free of charge. Wherever you are, you're very welcome. (Registration deadline is today, but I t From Seb'apos;s Open Research on January 28, 2004 at 8:47 a.m.. (46326) Government planning cyberalert system - Robert Lemos, CNET News.com The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to announce details of a cyberalert system on Wednesday, two days after a virus called MyDoom spread rapidly across the Internet. The system, which will be detailed by the department's National Cyber Secu From Techno-News Blog on January 28, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (46325) Sites match voters, candidates - Paul Festa, CNET News.com With online searches for boyfriends and girlfriends now commonplace, Web sites are encroaching on a different kind of matchmaking--between voters and political candidates. Increasingly, political news and information sites offer tools that resemble th From Techno-News Blog on January 28, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (46324) The E-Mail ABCs! - Education World Most of today's students grew up with e-mail. Many believe that e-mail is a totally different kind of medium, unfettered by the rules that govern letter writing. Most classroom teachers didn't grow up using e-mail. They believe that e-mail should adher From Educational Technology on January 28, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (46323) Survey: Two Million American Children Have Their Own Websites - Converge More than 2 million American children ages 6-17 have their own personal websites today, a broad new Internet survey shows. According to data released today from "Children, Families and the Internet," a survey by Grunwald Associates, this figure represe From Educational Technology on January 28, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (46322) El documental Balseros a los Oscars El documental español Balseros de los periodistas Carles Bosch y Josep Mª Domènech para la productora Bausan Films ha resultado nominado a los Oscars en la categoría Documentary feature.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 28, 2004 at 7:51 a.m.. (46321) Anti-virus vendor: One in 12 e-mails infected - Jeordan Legon, CNN A sneaky e-mail worm continued to clog Internet traffic Tuesday, spreading faster than previous Web bugs by appearing as an innocuous error message. The worm -- dubbed "MyDoom," "Novarg" or "WORM_MIMAIL.R" -- was copying itself at a fierce pace, so fas From Techno-News Blog on January 28, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (46320) CourseWork is overly expensive - Editorial, Daily Stanford The original grant has expired from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation used to fund Stanford From Online Learning Update on January 28, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (46319) English Football Association celebrates online first - UEFA.com The English Football Association (FA) has launched its first online qualification - Psychology for Soccer Level 1 - as part of its FA Learning educational programme. This pioneering project is the first of its kind to be launched by any football author From Online Learning Update on January 28, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (46318) Designing Online Information Systems for Portfolio-Based Assessment: Design Criteria and Heuristics - Terence Love and Trudi Cooper, JITE Executive Summary: This paper outlines the main findings of research about online portfolio information systems. This research focused on the educational integrity of these educational systems and the maximisation of value across all stakeholders, in p From Online Learning Update on January 28, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (46317) Cómo ven las empresas latinas el fenómeno del e-learning corporativo Un 63% considera vital el uso de nuevas tecnologías para la capacitación. Pero sólo el 25% lo realiza hoy en Latinoamérica. Igual, un 38% de los ejecutivos piensa incorporar soluciones en un futuro ce... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on January 28, 2004 at 6:51 a.m.. (46316) Women's Literacy Conference WE LEARN (Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network) is holding its first annual (Net)Working Conference, "Women, Literacy, Resources" on Saturday, March 27, 2004 at the Clark Technology Center of the University of Massachusetts. For information and registration, visit the... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 28, 2004 at 6:49 a.m.. (46315) Flower Power Takes on Land Mines A Danish biotech company develops a genetically modified flower that changes color when the plant is close to a land mine, making it easier to track down and remove the hidden explosives. From Wired News on January 28, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (46314) Wireless Cable TV in the Works Ultra wideband technology will have enough bandwidth to take the 'cable' out of cable TV, its touters say. It might also be used for transferring images from digital cameras to computers. From Wired News on January 28, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (46313) Hands Off Intellectual Property Attempts to shield America's intellectual property from foreign competition will backfire, much like plans to prop up the domestic shipping industry did in the 1970s. A commentary by Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine. From Wired News on January 28, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (46312) Mudslinging Exploits High Tech A cybersquatter takes advantage of loopholes to connect prominent politicians to some shady websites. By Jacob Ogles. From Wired News on January 28, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (46311) Social Nets Not Making Friends As the number of social networking services like Friendster continues to swell, the technorati are pushing back. An antisocial backlash is afoot. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on January 28, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (46310) Worm Slowing, but Still Dangerous While the MyDoom infection slows down, security experts say the most virulent e-mail virus ever will claim more victims, with the SCO Group at the top of the list. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on January 28, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (46309) All the News That's Fit to Skewer Some politically minded bloggers find a new way to keep themselves busy this campaign season: They 'adopt' a journalist and track his or her every keystroke. By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on January 28, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (46308) Verfassungsbeschwerde eines Strafgefangenen Mit Entscheidung vom 23.12.2003 hat das BVerfG festgestellt, dass (natürlich auch) ein Strafgefangener in seinen Grundrechten gem. Art. 1, 3... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 5:50 a.m.. (46307) BMBF mit neuer Internetpräsenz Unter dem Motto "Deutschland. Das von morgen." hat das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) einen vollständigen Relaunch seines Internetauftrittes... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 5:50 a.m.. (46306) Learning initiative unveiled From ScotFEICT on January 28, 2004 at 5:50 a.m.. (46305) Zweifel und Social Software Es ist immer das Gleiche, kaum werden hohe Erwartungen aufgebaut, reagiert man mit Unverständnis, Ärger oder mit Analysen, die den Zweifel zum Prinzip erklären - nur zu verständlich. Handelt es sich um Erwartungen in Bezug... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 28, 2004 at 5:46 a.m.. (46304) Specifying listener name (string) in MX 2004 component property inspector In the process of revising my interface component library, I wanted a way in Flash MX 2004 to give developers the convenience to set a listener by (string) name in the component property panel. This posting describes my solution (thanks to Sam Neff's comment on flashcoders about making a proxy listener). From FlashSim on January 28, 2004 at 4:51 a.m.. (46303) Martha Trial Blog Martha Stewart folgt dem Beispiel von Michael Jackson und hat ein verfahrensbegleitendes Blog eröffnet. Lesen Sie hierzu auch die Beiträge... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (46302) Zitieren von Online-Quellen Das LAWgical berichtet (nicht zum ersten Mal) von einem neuen System der DDB zur Zitation von Online-Quellen.... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (46301) Fachanwälte arbeiten stärker vorinstanzlich Immer häufiger werden Anwälte im Vorfeld von Entscheidungen tätig, um Entscheidungsgremien mit den notwendigen Informationen zu versorgen, die für eine... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (46300) Autobobilclub keine Vereinigung iSd RBerG Der BGH hat am 20.11.2003 entschieden, dass ein Automobilclub weder eine auf berufsständischer Grundlage errichtete Vereinigung noch eine berufsstandsähnliche Vereinigung... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (46299) New Campaign Website Offers Journalists a Mirror and Voters a Backstage Pass From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46298) Books24x7 Launches Personalizable User Interface for Faster, More Efficient Access to Critical Business and IT Information From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46297) School district ponders cuts From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46296) Only Distance Education Can Meet Emerging Demand : Dr. Joshi From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46295) Charter school advocates plea for law clarification From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46294) Home-schooled students head to college From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46293) Education without borders: Russians can get online degrees at local school From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46292) Online Pedagogy Focus of ANGEL Special Interest Group From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46291) Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (46290) Children Affected by Painful Sinusitis and Sinus Infection Symptoms Sinusitis affects a large population of children each year. Many kids are thought to have a cold when, in fact, they are experiencing sinusitis. [PRWEB Jan 28, 2004] From PR Web on January 28, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (46289) Politicards Deals A Winner In Democratic Primaries The vote count is in and good humor prevails! The candidates play political "Seven Card Draw" and the winner is the American public in the latest edition of the classic election collectible, Politicards 2004. [PRWEB Jan 28, 2004] From PR Web on January 28, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (46288) Valentine's Day Tips - What Future Millionaire's Give to Each Other on Valentine's Day Every year Americans spend over $1 billion on Valentine's gifts seeking to spice up their love life. According to the International Mass Marketing Association Americans last year spent $94.50 per household on Valentine's gifts. Valentine's Day gifts averaged $125 per man and $38 per woman. Unfortunately the gifts don't produce the desired effect. [PRWEB Jan 28, 2004] From PR Web on January 28, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (46287) Glücksspiel weiterhin verboten Die Kanzlei Heyms & Bahr weist heute darauf hin, dass die Rechtslage beim Glücksspiel-Recht trotz der entgegenstehenden Ansicht des EuGH... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (46286) 99+1 Tipps zum Bundesdatenschutzrecht Die Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, das Unabhängige Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein und die Verbraucherzentrale Schleswig-Holstein bieten seit kurzem ein Handbuch zum deutschen... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (46285) Experimental Conservative 2004 Aggregator up Inspired by the Dean campaign, I have put up an experimental aggregator for the 2004 Canadian Conservative Party Leadership race based on "Manila" that aggregates the RSS feeds generated by PubSub (love their cool highlight the search terms feature), Feedster and Steven Hatch's experimental Google News 2 RSS Feed gene From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on January 28, 2004 at 3:48 a.m.. (46283) DVD-Jon fordert Schadenersatz Der Norweger Jon Lech Johansen, auch bekannt als "DVD-Jon", der Anfang Januar vor Gericht endgültig gegen die US-amerikanische Filmindustrie siegte,... From Handakte WebLAWg on January 28, 2004 at 2:52 a.m.. (46282) Quote-Of-The-Day From Mein Schuster on January 28, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (46281) Ben Fry's Mario Soup Talk about a cool hack! Tons of gorgeous visualizations and maps on Ben's site. Check it out!QUOTEAny piece of executable code is also commingled with data, ranging from simple sentences of text for error messages to entire sets of graphics for the application. In older cartridge-based console games, the images for each of the small on-screen images (the "sprites") were often stored as raw data embedded after the actual program's instructions. This piece examines the unpacking of a Nintendo game cartridge, decoding the program as a four-color imag From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 2:50 a.m.. (46280) Education Chief Defends Policy and Past Education Chief Rod Paige, former superintendent of schools in Houston, speaks out on Bush law and the Texas model. From New York Times: Education on January 28, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (46279) Chancellor Urges Broad Changes in Way Teachers Are Paid Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein called for sweeping changes in the way teachers are paid in New York City, advocating bonuses based on student achievement. From New York Times: Education on January 28, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (46278) Snowstorm Closes Schools Across the City Schools will be closed throughout New York City Wednesday, officials said Tuesday night as snow blanketed the city in yet another winter storm. From New York Times: Education on January 28, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (46277) Principal's War Leads to a Teacher Exodus Dr. Lee D. McCaskill, principal of Brooklyn Technical, one of the city's elite high schools, has been at war with many of his teachers. From New York Times: Education on January 28, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (46276) Trustees Hear Pleas to Keep Harlem Charter School Open Parents and educators urged the trustees of the State University of New York to give a failing Harlem charter school two more years to turn things around. From New York Times: Education on January 28, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (46275) Shunning Stereotypes, a Reality Show Stars Blacks Among the eight students picked to live together on the first season of BET's reality show "College Hill," race simply doesn't come up. From New York Times: Education on January 28, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (46274) Public review period for Creative Commons 2.0 licenses Creative Commons, the organization founded by Lawrence Lessig dedicated to expansion of public culture, is revising its very successful series of Open Content licenses. The draft of the next version of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, which contains all the stipulations used in the other 11 licenses, is available here. The review period extends until February 15, 2004. From kuro5hin.org on January 28, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (46273) The Coming of the Anti-Feist, Part II Here's where you can head it off at the pass. Snippet: We're surrounded by free factual information, but there's a bill in Congress that would lock it all up. The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (DCIMA, H.R. 3261) extends extremely broad copyright-like prote From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on January 28, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (46272) And My Right Little Toe is a Weblog A recent barking about "everything is a learning object", including my left big toe got some interesting responses-- sometimes you can slave over an important blogged item and get nary a trackback, but toss out something silly and it ends up down under somewhere. So part two to this escapade is "Everything is a weblog" including my right little toe (equal rights to all toes). Huh? Stephan Downes pointed his OLDaily to From cogdogblog on January 28, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (46271) Terry Heaton's 10 step guide to learning multi-media You and I may quibble about the specifics (e.g. PowerPoint!?!), but I guarantee that if you master the 10 things on your list, you will be well on your way to becoming a multi-media maven. Read the full post for all of Terry's cool multi-media rant/manifesto/HOWTO. From TV News in a Postmodern World The Future is Multimedia For existing news people — and I'm specifically referring to those in TV News — you have two choices. Carry on and begin looking for what you really want to do for a living downstream or From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 12:49 a.m.. (46270) Incorporated Netiquette Well, been meaning to do a nice simple netiquette document (for faculty to use / adapt) for a while now but have never got round to it because I've either wanted to do too much, haven't felt up to it or whatever... but today finally thought: "Bugger this, I might as well give it a go" So, in my first attempt at using the story function I bring you a quick netiquette document that tries to: -Introduce the idea of netiquette-Give some examples from the 'real&ap From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on January 28, 2004 at 12:48 a.m.. (46269) Untitled Making a gesture. NE Asia Online roundup of recent advances in Minority Report-style gesture-based interfaces. Read [Via Dottocomu]... [Gizmodo] From The Shifted Librarian on January 28, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (46268) State Machine Code Generation from XML and Tips for Designing Simulator Requirements This is the January 2004 free Flash and Simulation newsletter. This month, we provide a free tool for generating state machine code in AS 1, AS2, and C++ from an XML statechart description, as well as to discuss 5 ways to describe simulator requirements. Also, this newsletter coincides with our announcement of Flash MX help panel documentation for our device interface components. From FlashSim on January 27, 2004 at 11:51 p.m.. (46267) Diana Laurillard Confirmed For Elearninternational 2004 From ScotFEICT on January 27, 2004 at 11:51 p.m.. (46266) City council's RSS feed According to Ray Matthews, the Aberdeen, Scotland, City Council was the first government body in the United Kingdon to have an official RSS feed, starting in September, 2003. I start to imagine a citizen being able to put together a Bloglines file someday with the local and state government, the local newspaper, the local colleges, and other agencies all reporting, via RSS, on things to do, quality of life, public issues, and so forth, all in one place. From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 27, 2004 at 11:50 p.m.. (46265) New Jersey legalizes stem cell research New Jersey has become the second state, after California, to legalize stem cell research: What the law does do, according to Jersey City Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, is allow researchers - private or public - to conduct experiments on stem cells derived from human embryos and to replicate these for continuing research. Under the law, people undergoing fertility treatments can donate unwanted embryos for scientific research. The law also requires doctors to offer the option to potential parents under fertility treatments. From kuro5hin.org on January 27, 2004 at 11:45 p.m.. (46264) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]