Edu_RSS ~ February 5, 2004

Most recent update: February 5, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: on "Forgetting the First Amendment" Aaron thinks I've "forgott[en] the First Amendment" in my criticism of Mr. Nader. I'm quite sure I haven't, as I try to explain below. From Lessig Blog on February 5, 2004 at 10:45 p.m.. (47752) Trade group proposes new P2P music model From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 10:45 p.m.. (47751) Sun puts price tag on acquisitions The company paid $224 million for three companies in the second half of 2003 as part of its push into software, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 10:45 p.m.. (47750) iSight for the Blind: iChatAV Opens Windows Yes, now I can make video calls to my sister in Rotterdam, Holland! Go Apple Go! Time to buy an iSight! Goodbye traditional telcos! [SOURCE: Steve Gillmor's eWEEK Blogosphere] QUOTEApple has shipped a public beta of iChatAV 2.1, including support for video conferencing with the AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 for Microsoft Windows. It's iPod all over again. Everytime a Windows user hooks up to an iSight chat, they'll be From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 5, 2004 at 9:49 p.m.. (47749) Ups and downs... Anne has a great post over on Edublog Insights on the ups and downs of weblogs in education. Well worth a read and hey, isn't the secret of life to fall down seven times and get up eight. From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 5, 2004 at 9:48 p.m.. (47748) Internet Research 5.0 conference The Association of Internet Researchers' 2004 conference will take place next September at the University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, England. They've extended the deadline for submitting papers to February 15. (via Kaye) From Seb's Open Research on February 5, 2004 at 9:46 p.m.. (47747) The Grokster appeal News from the oral argument in the Grokster case yesterday is quite good. The argument on our side of the debate was excellent. Fred was extraordinary, and the judges seemed perfectly tuned to the issues. EFF's got a recording of the argument here, and Ed Lee's got a nice write up on his blog as well. The tide is turning. From Lessig Blog on February 5, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (47746) Ron Suskind posts government public domain documents online Government documents supplied by Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind for his book, The Price of Loyalty, are now available online. The site makes use of the Creative Commons public domain mark. These documents, drawn from a collection of 19,000 files, are called "The Bush Files" and Suskind is encouraging other administration officials to contribute to the database, "to encourage more produc From Creative Commons: weblog on February 5, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (47745) Washington Post lets domain registration lapse The company neglects to pay the $19 annual registration fee for its corporate domain name, an oversight that caused the company's internal e-mail system to crash for part of the day. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (47744) Schwarzenegger pushes recovery plan California's governor paints a gloomy economic picture for Silicon Valley executives, saying that if his recovery plan is not implemented, the situation would be "disastrous." From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 9:45 p.m.. (47743) Gov't may raise car radio fees, cut TV fees From Haaretz: News on February 5, 2004 at 8:52 p.m.. (47742) Arab local authorities also join strike From Haaretz: News on February 5, 2004 at 8:52 p.m.. (47741) After questioning, Sharon remains under suspicion From Haaretz: News on February 5, 2004 at 8:52 p.m.. (47740) Lining up his ministers like targets From Haaretz: News on February 5, 2004 at 8:52 p.m.. (47739) PM to ask for U.S. approval to expand settlement blocs for Gaza withdrawal From Haaretz: News on February 5, 2004 at 8:52 p.m.. (47738) European universities online From ScotFEICT on February 5, 2004 at 8:51 p.m.. (47737) Technorati is hiring Heavy duty development positions and dales and marketing. Check it out! From Roland Tanglao&apos;s Weblog on February 5, 2004 at 8:50 p.m.. (47736) Moveable Type flood "testing" utility!?!?! Laugh out loud. What's funnier: the fact that we need things like this? Or the people who write spam programs :-) ? [SOURCE:The Social Software Weblog] QUOTEThanks to Brian Weaver over at Ryze for a post about FloodMT (http://terrato.org/index.pl?FloodMT) a flood "testing" application. LOL...testing!! I LOVE IT! FloodMT is the first integrated solution for testing Movable Type blogs for working anti-spamming features. It can also be From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on February 5, 2004 at 8:50 p.m.. (47735) How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (via Kevin Marks) - A classic that should be read over and over again by us Over-30 old farts! QUOTE But the biggest problem is that we are still the first generation of users, and for all that we may have invented the net, we still don’t really get it. In ‘The Language Instinct’, Stephen Pinker explains the generational difference between pidgin and creole languages. A pidgin lang From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on February 5, 2004 at 8:50 p.m.. (47734) Free Coelho downloads lafeuille tips us to the fact that Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho makes some of his writing available for free online. From Seb&apos;s Open Research on February 5, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (47733) Pentagon scraps Net voting plan The U.S. Department of Defense backs off plans for a large-scale test of a voting system designed to let Americans who are overseas cast ballots in the coming election over the Internet. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47732) The Promise of Online Simulations Good overview of the role simulations can play in learning, including an account of what topics are best taught using simulations - areas where judgement skills, not facts, need to be emphasized. The author also describes features of successful simulations, including feedback and complexity. Simulations haven't been widely used, argues the author because of both technical barriers and a misunderstanding of where they should be applied. Via elearnspace. By Bjorn Billhardt, Chief Learning Officer, February, 2004 [ From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47731) The Barriers of Content and Context Yes! "None of the leading social technology solutions allow users to pull information in the form of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds into a news aggregator. This is a model widely adopted by blogging solutions, and one that cries out to be integrated into social networking apps." Simplistic, unidimensional, context insensitive social networking applications (or any application, for that matter) misrepresent the potential benefit of the technology and fuel the inevitable backlash. Also: "The solution to this is likely to lie with a standard way to express relationship information, such as From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47730) ACollab From the announcement: "ACollab is an access standards compliant, Open Source, multi-group Web-based collaborative work environment, available free for most uses. ACollab is ideal for groups working at a distance developing documentation, collaborating on research, or writing joint papers. ACollab is available as a standalone application, and will be available as an addon for ATutor in an upcoming release." By Various Authors, February 5, 2004 [Refer][From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47729) SCORM and the Art of Specification Maintenance "SCORM 1.3 is dead, long live SCORM 2004!" Thus begins CETIS's authoritative coverage of the new release, along with this interesting remark: "the first public indications of ADL's desire to hand the present SCORM 'to the community' have surfaced in last week's co-located CEN/ISSS and IEEE LTSC meeting." What's also interesting is that SCORM 2004 isn't really a new version, and that there is a widespread desire (and committment on the part of ADL) to stop making changes to it. But, as the article points out, IMS Simple Sequencing, on which the personalization From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47728) Yaaar! The music pirates' manifesto. It probably won't be long before such writing is out-and-out illegal, since it argues that the consumer's best response to digital rights technologies that strip users of their rights is to "share safely and wisely. Use P2P networks that allow you to be anonymous or hide the files you're sharing." By Annalee Newitz, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 4, 2004 [Refer][Research][--> From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47727) Learning Support Centers in Higher Education Thanks, Frank, for sending me this email describing this site as "the only web site that focuses exclusively on learning support centers in higher education." The portal style website offers links and references to realted resources along with short reference pages. Readers will probably most enjoy the quotes page. By Frank L Christ, February, 2004 [Refer][From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47726) NYU, Admit Your Mistake It has been a rough few weeks for NYU, cumulating with the admission that "You must consider any data file stored [on NYU's server] to be generally available, unless you take special security precautions," the e-mail read. "As search engine technology has become more sophisticated, there may be no such thing as a 'hidden' directory or file." This follows the release of private student information at least twice in the days previous. The affair has prompted an editorial calling on the university From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47725) e-Knowledge Seb sent me the link to this quality newsletter out of Teachers@Work in New Zealand. Topics covered range from learning objects, knowledge networks and A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing. A sample from this sample newsletter: "What schools need is sophisticated technology which is intuitive and provides students with a wide range of communication tools including KLogs (knowledge blogs), chat, listServs, and discussion groups that facilitate a cascading set of discourses and dialogue (where the primary focus is on the tacit accumulation of knowledge), as well as access to predominantly explicit From OLDaily on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47724) I want a WiSIP phone, i.e. a VoIP phone that works with WiFi Very cool, I want one. Currently US $250 now, soon to be much cheaper! QUOTE from Jeff Pulver's WiSIP works with VoicePulse: While the WiSIP phone is shipped preconfigured to be used with Free World Dialup, thanks to the adventures of one of our new customers, we learned yesterday that the WiSIP works quite nicely with VoicePulse. In effect, the WiSIP phone provides mobility for broa From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on February 5, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (47723) Another library guide to scholarly communication issues The Georgia State University Library has created a website Issues in Scholarly Communication, which includes a news blog, a section of internet resources, links to papers on scholarly publishing economics and journal cost-effectiveness studies, a discussion of open access, and information on library initiatives and how individuals can participate. Unfortunately some of the links are restricted to GSU affiliates. Nevertheless, it&apos From FOS News on February 5, 2004 at 7:48 p.m.. (47722) Follow-up on Environmental Health Perspectives and OA Kenneth Olden and Thomas J. Goehl, EHP Moves to Open Access, Environmental Health Perspectives 112, A13-A14 (Jan. 2003). Peter noted EHP's move to open access last month. In a column the editors reflect on the history of open access initiatives and what influenced their decision to make EHP an open access journal. They write: "After carefully considering various scientific publishing models, we have concluded From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on February 5, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (47720) TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reports Privacy concerns resurface after Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash dance prompts TiVo the company to show off that it can tell what viewers are watching. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (47719) Storage giants tout new wares Rivals Hewlett-Packard and EMC are announcing new offerings, including pay-per-use pricing from HP and upgraded hardware from EMC. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (47718) Beyond Learning Objects "In a presentation I gave at an eduSource meeting in Toronto last sprint, in a now infamous example, I gingerly picked up a piece of tissue paper and proclaimed, 'This is a learning object.'" Stephen Downes plädiert für eine weite... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 5, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (47717) Lessons in Education and Technology Harvard lässt in diesem Artikel die letzten Jahre Online Learning Revue passieren. Harvard, nur zur Erinnerung, das sind die, die den Harvard Manage Mentor entwickelt haben, jene auch in Deutschland mittlerweile populäre Einstiegsdroge für Manager, die mal e-Learning Luft schnuppern... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 5, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (47716) Articles on open access bioinformatics resources The December 2004 issue of Briefings in Bioinformatics features two articles that mention open access resources for the bioinformatics community. Unfortunately, the articles are not open access, but available with a subscription or per-article purchase through Ingenta. Mauro Vihinen, in Signal transduction-related bioinformatics services (pp.325-331,) reviews "open-access databases and software" available to the cellular signalling re From FOS News on February 5, 2004 at 6:48 p.m.. (47715) Literature briefing of open access articles David Ozonoff, The World of Open Access Journals Journal of Urban Health 80, 529-531 (Dec. 2003). (Access restricted to subscribers.) In a literature briefing column, Ozonoff provides summaries of three articles from open access journals. By way of introduction, the writer remarks "the availability of articles to anyone with an Internet connection is an important resource, especially for the developing world." He also notes the referenced articles' availability in PubMedCentral and bids "readers to sample the rich offering From FOS News on February 5, 2004 at 6:48 p.m.. (47713) Got a Mac, so shut up already I just installed OS X on the used G4 I bought for my father-in-law. Having installed Windows scores of times — probably more than a 100 in my lifetime — and having installed Linux a few times with mixed success, I was interested in how the Mac would do. Answer: Pretty durn easy. As easy as Windows XP, and definitely easier than Red Hat or Mandrake. And then the fun began. The UI effects are real crowd-pleasers. It matters to me that the droplets of water play catch as you wait for something to install. Let's not say I'm... From Joho the Blog on February 5, 2004 at 6:48 p.m.. (47712) Kerry on non-discrimination So Ted Hearn has a piece suggesting Kerry would be a big plus for big cable. I'm skeptical. Indeed, I'm positively encouraged by two facts friends have helped me see: (1) despite the pressure of his best buddy, Senator Hollings, Kerry did not support the Fritz chip, and (2) this letter to the FCC pushing the FCC to insist upon non-discrmination in the context of the AOL merger, long long before non-discrimination was the way others were framin From Lessig Blog on February 5, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (47711) Volume Up, Click-Throughs Down in Q4 '03 Serving Report DoubleClick finds direct response rates down in Q4, but conversions remain strong on high volume. From CyberAtlas on February 5, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (47710) Army backs down on classified data threat The U.S. Army apologizes for threatening to prosecute an open-government advocacy group after it republishes a document copied from a military Web site. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (47709) Blogging over at Many2Many It's official! I've been added to the august team of bloggers over at Many2Many. where social software issues and implications are discussed. I'm honored.... From Joho the Blog on February 5, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (47708) Biz Apps Spur PC Upgrade Many desks will sport enhanced new computers as demanding applications and corporate replacement cycles force upgrades. From CyberAtlas on February 5, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47707) RealPlayer flaws open PCs up to hijackers Three security holes in versions of RealNetworks' media player could allow an attacker to take control of people's PCs after they play or stream a specially corrupted music or video file. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47706) Crank it! iTunes sells sounds of silence--for real Nevermind the Simon & Garfunkel chestnut. Now, thanks to Apple Computer's online music store, you can download the genuine article for a mere 99 cents. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47705) Equant to offer hosted Exchange 2003 From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47704) SCORM and the Art of Specification Maintenance SCORM 1.3 is dead, long live SCORM 2004! It is pretty much the same thing, but the name change indicates some hectic manoeuvering to satisfy the conflicting demands of stability and predictability versus the need to fix issues. The new version is out now. Also, the first public indications of ADL's desire to hand the present SCORM 'to the community' have surfaced in last week's co-located CEN/ISSS and IEEE LTSC meeting. From Elearnopedia on February 5, 2004 at 4:52 p.m.. (47703) Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2002 Since 1994, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has surveyed public schools to estimate access to information technology in schools and classrooms. In the fall of each academic year, a new nationally representative sample of public schools is surveyed about Internet access and other Internet-related topics. The results of this survey show what progress has been made since these data were first collected in 1994, and help assess the magnitude of tasks remaining to make the Internet available as an educational tool in all schools. From Elearnopedia on February 5, 2004 at 4:52 p.m.. (47702) Celebrate: An Innovation in Teaching European Schoolnet has launched a virtual platform called the Celebrate Demo Portal where teachers can find learning objects and digital assets for use in their lessons. From Elearnopedia on February 5, 2004 at 4:52 p.m.. (47701) Clara Das Internet-Portal über die Gesundheitsreform des BMGS hält ein neues interaktives Informationsangebot bereit. Ab dem 05.02.2004 haben BürgerInnen die Möglichkeit... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (47700) DOM Level 3 Core & Load and Save Are W3C Proposed Recommendations 2004-02-05: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 5 March. With DOM Level 3 Core, software developers and script authors manipulate the content, structure and style of Web documents. DOM Level 3 Load and Save allows programs and scripts to load, serialize and filter document contents. Visit the DOM home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on February 5, 2004 at 4:46 p.m.. (47699) Valentine's Day - From Romance to ROI How some small e-tailers are handling the chocolate craze and cashing in on a $13 billion market this Valentine's Day. From E-Commerce Guide on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (47698) Paying for e-mail: An idea whose time has come? CNET News.com's Charles Cooper writes that charging for e-mail may not be so crazy an idea, after all. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (47697) Playing games with VoIP Online gaming services for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 game consoles are providing an early test for consumer acceptance on Internet-delivered voice services. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (47696) Dept. of Lowered Expectations Wired.com reports that the Pentagon no longer plans to gather every single scrap of information they can about you. But what about the rest of the "larger effort" of which Lifelog was reported to be "just one step"? From The Columbia-Union on February 5, 2004 at 3:52 p.m.. (47695) Studiengebühren von der Steuer absetzen Nach Auffassung findiger Juristen können Studenten ihre Studienkosten in voller Höhe von der Steuer absetzen - und zwar nach dem Berufseinstieg. Damit winken Akademikern enorme Ersparnisse, Finanzminister Hans Eichel drohen Steuerausfälle in Millionenhöhe. [...] "Belege sammeln, Studiengebühren sammeln, alle Kosten, die im Zusammenhang mit dem Studium entstehen, sammeln, zusammenschreiben und dann im Rahmen der Steuererklärung geltend machen." [via Spiegel Online] From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on February 5, 2004 at 3:52 p.m.. (47694) Studiengebühren von der Steuer absetzen Nach Auffassung findiger Juristen können Studenten ihre Studienkosten in voller Höhe von der Steuer absetzen - und zwar nach dem Berufseinstieg. Damit winken Akademikern enorme Ersparnisse, Finanzminister Hans Eichel drohen Steuerausfälle in Millionenhöhe. [...] "Belege sammeln, Studiengebühren sammeln, alle Kosten, die im Zusammenhang mit dem Studium entstehen, sammeln, zusammenschreiben und dann im Rahmen der Steuererklärung geltend machen." [Weiterlesen bei Spiegel... From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on February 5, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (47693) Common Sense Wins in Georgia School Flap AP: Head of Georgia schools reverses stand on 'evolution''. State school Superintendent Kathy Cox said Thursday she is reversing her proposal that would have removed the word ``evolution'' from the state's high school science curriculum. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 5, 2004 at 3:46 p.m.. (47692) AOL links with Apple on video IM America Online updates its instant messaging software to include video conferencing for the first time--with Apple Computer's iChat as its first buddy. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (47691) Xbox to go online in Asia Microsoft says it will unveil its Xbox online gaming service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore this April, a year and a half after the service's debut in the United States. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (47690) KDE adds Safari feel to desktop Linux KDE launches a major upgrade to the Linux graphical user environment that includes faster-running applications and an improved Web browser based on Apple's Safari. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (47689) Syndikation des BildungsBlogs Auch die Websites Moderieren-im-Netz.de und Gymnasium-Marktoberdorf.de syndizieren nun die News aus dem BildungsBlog. Moderieren-im-Netz hat hierzu die E-Learning-Beiträge, und das Gymnasium Marktoberdorf Links zu den Beiträgen aus der Rubrik From BildungsBlog on February 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m.. (47688) New Tool: Create RSS Feeds via Email As many of you may know- RSS is a way for you to "subscribe" to a web site so that you are notified whenever something new is posted. More and more sites are creating RSS "feeds" that allow you to subscribe to them without providing an email address. You need a newsreader to "subscribe".(More on RSS here)This entry will describe how you can create an RSS feed and then post information to the feed by sending an email to a specific address.Robin Good --> From Seblogging News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 p.m.. (47687) Harvard Gazette article on Elsevier cancellations and alternative scholarly publishing models Libraries take a stand, Harvard University Gazette, Feburary 5, 2004, p.10-11. An article in the Harvard University Gazette summarizes recent cancellations of Elsevier titles in the Harvard libraries, the efforts of the university library community to negotiate access terms, and the faculty response. Markus Meister, Harvard professor and a PLoS editorial board member, "was not surprised" at the Elsevier cancellations, and remarked on the necessity for "change in the structure of scholarly communications. The autho From FOS News on February 5, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (47686) Experimental attributes There have been a number of thoughtful responses to my confession, the other day, about cheating on Web standards. Several folks recommended this approach: <blockquote cite="http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/35/" title="Stefano Mazzocchi"> ... </blockquote> Jim White also made this intriguing proposal: <blockquote cite="urn:name:Stefano%20Mazzocchi"> .. </blockquote> Jim pointed me to the --> From Jon's Radio on February 5, 2004 at 2:46 p.m.. (47685) Compuware takes wheel from Covisint Software maker Compuware has signed a deal to buy the remaining nonauction assets of Covisint, a defunct online marketplace for the automotive industry. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (47684) Microsoft wards off voice-data lawsuit A court rules that Microsoft did not violate a set of controversial voice digitization patents, in a case that could have roiled the VoIP and computer industries if the patents had been upheld as valid. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (47683) Filter promises spam feast without e-mail famine ZoEmail is using technology licensed from AT&T Labs to help customers stop spam dead in its tracks without blocking out potentially useful e-mails. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (47682) Commentary: Are we learning yet on viruses? From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (47681) Kameraüberwachung in... In Niedersachsen sollen künftig Schüler per Videokameras überwacht werden dürfen. Jede Schule müsse ein eigenes Sicherheitskonzept vorlegen, kündigte Kultusminister Bernd Busemann an. [via Spiegel Online] Die Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP) in Niedersachsen lehnt Videoüberwachung - wie sie ganz wenige Schulen in Deutschland schon eingeführt haben - klar ab. [via Mär From BildungsBlog on February 5, 2004 at 1:52 p.m.. (47680) Passive Sterbehilfe durch Ärzte Beihilfe zum Selbstmord durch Ärzte ist in der Schweiz nicht länger verboten. Das hat die Schweizerische Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 1:52 p.m.. (47679) Auricle has user-selectable RSS Feeds Auricle is a work-in-progress so from today readers can now select what RSS feed they would like displayed in the right-hand column. Not a big change but there are some exciting possibilities, e.g. selecting what information about a bank of learning objects should be displayed? My current feeds are learning technology/learning resource related. As time allows we will make further improvements. From Morriblog on February 5, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (47678) CSS Validator Changes the Rules The W3C's CSS validation service has changed the way it interprets CSS authoring practices. Many sites that were designed valid no longer validate. The change in rules affects sites that use the box model hack to compensate for the incorrect CSS implementation in versions of Internet Explorer for Windows prior to IE6. There are thousands of such sites out there. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on February 5, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (47677) too linear? I hope so Dave accuses me (in the most constructive way possible) of thinking too linearly about responsibility and Nader. I'm sticking to my line, because it is precisely the line Nader (rightly) took when arguing again, e.g., car manufacturers. From Lessig Blog on February 5, 2004 at 1:45 p.m.. (47676) AMD revs up Opteron for Ducati From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 1:45 p.m.. (47675) Take my quiz at FriendTest.com and find out!I foun ... Take my quiz at FriendTest.com and find out!I found the link via Food For Fish, by way of Superblessed.net.Give it a try! From Sisters' Weblog: It Bloggles the Mind! on February 5, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (47674) 802.11 is to Wireless what Ethernet is to networking! Amen! QUOTE While it started as a local-area network technology, today, Ethernet is being used in wide-area networks and even metro-area networks. What's more, it is now being used for voice and video, two applications never envisioned when the standard was introduced. Simply put, 802.11 is to wireless communications what the x86 is to computing and what Ethernet is to networking. This "open-standard radio" is today supported by more than 115 vendors with more than 900 certified products. The collective R&D of Intel, Broadcom, Ci From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on February 5, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (47673) Conference presentations on OA available for a short time The presentations from the ICSTI Technical Meeting: Economic Models for Scientific Information, Production and Distribution (Paris, January 15-16, 2004) are now online. However, they will only be freely accessible to non-members, at least on the ICSTI site, until February 12. All six are explicitly about OA, some pro and some con. (PS: If you visit and view them now, the PPT slides will stay on your hard drive past February 12.) (Thanks to Jill O'Neill.) From FOS News on February 5, 2004 at 12:49 p.m.. (47672) Kicking the XServe As the blog turns... Since our MovableType move last month to a new server, a shiny Apple XServe, I'd been noticing that email notifications of trackbacks and comments reported not the IP address of the person who had sent the comment/trackback, but the IP address of the server itself. Hard to block spam roaches by IPs that way! Worse, when I checked the MovableType activity log, all entries were credited to an access from that same IP. Even weirder, the Apache access log was recording correct IPs but the Apache error log was reporting, again, the clients' IP as t From cogdogblog on February 5, 2004 at 12:48 p.m.. (47671) Rigor vs. Relevance Michael Watkins: On Not Getting Tenure/Academic Parasitism at HBS. Jim McGee comments: "As a product of the system (DBA 1991) who chose to go the entrepreneurial route instead of the academic one, I can certainly agree with your assessment of the situation. If you are interested in interdisciplinary issues and systems problems, I don't believe there is any academic institution that is relevant From Seb'apos;s Open Research on February 5, 2004 at 12:47 p.m.. (47670) A Holistic Approach to ECommerce Success If you rely an e-commerce storefront as your only channel to reach potential customers, it may be time to make a visit to your local printer or real estate agent. From E-Commerce Guide on February 5, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (47669) Apple CFO to step down Fred Anderson, the company's longtime chief financial officer, plans to retire later this year, to be replaced by controller Peter Oppenheimer. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (47668) LCD glass maker pumps in $600 million to expand Corning hopes the expansion will help it keep pace with demand from LCD makers for bigger glass substrates, as the market for LCD desktop and notebook monitors grows. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (47667) Europäischer Innovationsanzeiger 2003 Die Ausgabe 2003 des Europäischen Innovationsanzeigers, die im November veröffentlicht wurde, bestätigt, dass die Innovationsleistung der EU in Bezug auf... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 11:52 a.m.. (47666) SCORM and the art of specification maintenance SCORM 1.3 is dead, long live SCORM 2004! It is pretty much the same thing, but the name change indicates some hectic manoeuvering to satisfy the conflicting demands of stability and predictability versus the need to fix issues. The new version is out now. Also, the first public indications of ADL's desire to hand the present SCORM 'to the community' have surfaced in last week's co-located CEN/ISSS and IEEE LTSC meeting. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on February 5, 2004 at 11:49 a.m.. (47665) Journal publishing in Africa Into Africa, NewScientist, February 5, 2004. An interview with James K. Tumwine, founder of African Health Sciences, a peer-reviewed medical journal publishing African science for African readers. It's not free but affordable ($45/year). Why launch an African medical journal? One reason: "I wrote an article about health and education in Zimbabwe....[and] submitted it from a Harare address. The journal rejected it. Later, I went to work in the UK. I waite From Joho the Blog on February 5, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (47663) Technorati jobs David Sifry : Technorati is hiring! Quite a few positions. From Seb'apos;s Open Research on February 5, 2004 at 11:47 a.m.. (47662) Oracle's Higher Bid for PeopleSoft So Oracle really is serious about this buyout. That wasn't obvious until the latest bid. From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on February 5, 2004 at 11:47 a.m.. (47661) Sun's Tiger aims to tame Java programming The test version of the J2SE development specification includes enhancements designed to make Java programmers more productive and desktop Java applications easier to manage. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.. (47660) Linux group releases enterprise guidelines Open Source Development Labs aims is promoting standards for using the open-source operating system in corporate data centers. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.. (47659) Gush Wenn Sie einerseits Chatten und anderseits RSS-Lesen wollen, sollten Sie einmal Gush (RSS) ausprobieren - dann können Sie beides gleichzeitig... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47658) Informationsrecht UK Ab dem 01.01.2005 wird jeder britische Bürger einen Rechtsanspruch auf Zugang zu gespeicherten Daten der öffentlichen Hand haben. Es ist... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47657) Search Engines: 2003: The Year In Perspective Search Engines: 2003: The Year In Perspective by Phil Bradleyhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/search-engines/Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47656) Building OAI-PMH Harvesters with Net::OAI::Harvester Building OAI-PMH Harvesters with Net::OAI::Harvester by Ed Summershttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/summers/Ed Summers provides practical examples of how to build OAI-PMH harvesters in Perl using the Net::OAI::Harvester toolkit. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47655) Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives by Marieke Guy, Amdy Powell and Michael Dayhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/guy/Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the usefulness of OAI service providers is directly influenced by the consistency and accuracy of the harvested metadata on which th From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47654) Red Herring Blog Red Herring Blog http://www.redherring.com/RhResearchWeb/BlogHome.aspxEach day, Red Herring Blog gives you fast and complete analysis of the implications of mergers, acquisitions, financial events, technological trends and breakthroughs. Not only do they cover the latest stories from around the world, they give you the opportunity to chime in with your own opinion. Some recent topics include the return of semiconductors in The semis are coming, the latest wireless technologies in Ultrawide pi From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47653) Why the Future of Search May Be Open Source Why the Future of Search May Be Open Source by Chris Gulkerhttp://software.itmanagersjournal.com/software/04/01/23/212253.shtmlWith Google rumored to be on the eve of a $4 billion IPO, Web search technology is attracting a lot of attention from technologists and business people alike. Doug Cutting, president of open source search software project Nutch.org thinks he has the next big thi From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47652) 2 Word Phrases in Search Engines 2 Word Phrases in Search Engineshttp://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox27.htmlOneStat.com reported that most people use 2 word phrases in search engines. Of all the search phrases world wide, 32.58 percent of the people use 2 word phrases, 25.61 percent use 3 word phrases and 19.02 percent use 1 word phrase. More and more people use 3 word phrases instead of 1 word phrase. The global usage of 2 word phrases has increased with 3.36 percent from 29.22 p From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47651) V2N5 February 2, 2004 Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet: Awareness Watch Newsletter This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (February 2, 2004 V2N5) is dedicated to Awareness Watch Newsletter. Click on the below audblog link to hear an audio describing this monthly newsletter that I have just recently started to publish. These resources are available from the following URL:Awareness Watch™ Newsletterhttp://www.AwarenessWatch.com/--> From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47650) JASA JASAhttp://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~sphelps/jasa/A new version, version 0.28, of JASA (Java Auction Simulator API) is now available under an open-source license (GPL). JASA is a high performance auction simulator suitable for conducting experiments in agent-based computational economics. It implements various auction mechanisms, trading strategies and experiments described in the computational economics literature, and as the software matures we hope that it will become a repository for reference implementation From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47649) Plugin for Protege to Support the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Plugin for Protege to support the Web Ontology Language (OWL)http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/owl/Announcing the first 1.0 release of a Plugin for Protege to support the Web Ontology Language (OWL) in conjunction with the release of Protege 2.0. Protege is an open-source ontology development environment developed at Stanford Medical Informatics, supported by a large community of active users. Protege provides an intuitive editor for classes, properties, instances etc, and has extensions for ontology v From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47648) The Electronic Library of Mathematics The Electronic Library of Mathematicshttp://www.emis.ams.org/ELibM.htmlThe Electronic Library of Mathematics contains online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources in the field of mathematics. All material is in electronic form and access is generally free, except for some periodicals with a "moving wall", i.e., a certain delay period after which resources become freely available. The Electronic Library of Mathematics is supervised by the --> From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47647) VoiceXML 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation VoiceXML 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendationhttp://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-voicexml20-20040203/http://www.w3.org/2004/02/voicexml2-pressreleasehttp://www.w3.org/Voice/W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 2 March. VoiceXML uses XML From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47646) Roadmap to Security Tools and Services Online Roadmap to Security Tools and Services Online - Version 10 - Winter 2004 http://www.sans.org/tools.phpAt SANS request, the 26 sponsors of the Roadmap to Security Tools & Services Poster are offering their newest white papers to SANS members. White papers are valuable learning tools and often contain analyses by industry experts. In developing their products and service, vendors acquire considerable understanding of their product area " white papers help them share that knowledge. This page also includes up-to-date i From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47645) Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005 Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/index.htmlIssued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. Other related and supporting budget publications, such as the From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47644) Reuters Investor Reuters Investor - Financial Research and Informationhttp://www.investor.reuters.com/Reuters Investor - Financial Research and Information is an excellent resource to discover new knowledge and to stay current on industry, selected business and financial information. Categories to research include Stocks Research Reports, Investment Ideas, Industries, Screening Center, Markets, Funds and Tools. I have added this source to my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog --> From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47643) Bibliomining Information Center Bibliomining Information Centerhttp://www.bibliomining.com/For years, bibliometrics has been used to track patterns in authorship, citation, etc. Today, there are many more tools available for discovering similar patterns in complex datasets from data mining and statistics. In addition, tools from management science such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) can be used to explore the data for patterns. Therefore, a more complex definition is: Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 5, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47642) Preguntas básicas sobre Orkut 1. ¿Qué es Orkut? Es un servicio online que facilita el desarrollo de redes sociales. 2. ¿Por qué le pusieron ese nombre? Por el ingeniero de Google que la desarrolló: Orkut Buyukkokten. 3. ¿Qué relación tiene Orkut con Google? Orkut... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 5, 2004 at 10:50 a.m.. (47641) OAI and OA-X Henk Ellermann is on the team with folks from KNAW and DARE to extend the OAI protocol. He's written a brief introduction to the extended protocol, which allows for the exchange of object files, not just metadata. This is the key to supporting full-text searching, presenting thumbnails of image files, and creating new data providers that pull selected objects from other providers. It a From Joho the Blog on February 5, 2004 at 10:47 a.m.. (47639) BlogTalks book Just in case you don't know yet: the book BlogTalks will be available in around two weeks via Amazon and other catalogues. Thomas, thanks a lot for making it happen! Make sure you update you references: Reference: BlogTalks, Thomas N. Burg (ed.), Wien 2003, pp255. ISBN 3901806008 --> From Mathemagenic on February 5, 2004 at 9:52 a.m.. (47638) Diseño y desarrollo de proyectos de e-learning en la UTN Los organizadores de este ciclo dicen que es "la combinación equilibrada entre lo general y lo específico del e-learning" y "una herramienta fundamental para iniciarse en el camino de esta modalidad e... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on February 5, 2004 at 9:50 a.m.. (47637) Classroom Blogging Revisited I spelled out my blogging expectations to my Journalism 2 students yesterday. I drew somewhat from "Blogging for Learning" done by Richard Effland at Maricopa. His concept is to "build an 'idea' base and then reflect upon that in terms of what they feel they are learning." He goes on to build in a collaborative group aspect to the process as well. I like this idea as well: "The Blogs are a means to establish a 'data base' f From weblogged News on February 5, 2004 at 9:47 a.m.. (47636) When a Search Engine Isn't Enough, Call a Librarian? "What's the name of the party that Ross Perot established?" a user wanted to know.Ms. Tuckerman checked the Internet for a biography of Mr. Perot. Then she quickly switched to an electronic database of biographies to which the library subscribes. But even after scrolling through several screens of text, she was unable to come up with a satisfactory answer. … From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on February 5, 2004 at 9:47 a.m.. (47635) Google ~Guide Terrific guide to using Google by Nancy Blachman. I especially recommend the sections "interpreting queries" and "evaluating results". (Why the ~, you ask?  "Putting a tilde in front of a search term (with no space in between) effectively turns that term into any of its synonyms. The tilde is known as synonym operator. So, if you search for "Google ~Guide," Google will find Google Guide From Seb'apos;s Open Research on February 5, 2004 at 9:46 a.m.. (47634) Sicherungsverwahrung Das BVerfG hat mit heute verkündetem Urteil die Verfassungsbeschwerde eines Straftäters zurückgewiesen (PM | Urteil), der über die früher gesetzlich... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (47633) Verliebt, verlobt, verheiratet...? Welche Regelungen können bei der Scheidung getroffen werden? Was müssen nichteheliche Lebensgemeinschaften beachten? Wo können oder müssen gleichgeschlechtliche Lebenspartnerschaften geschlossen... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (47632) Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project - Noah Shachtman, Wired The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence. Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an From Techno-News Blog on February 5, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47631) New Wi-Fi Security Spec Due Mid-Year - Ryan Naraine, Intenet News The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced plans to upgrade the security capabilities in a new version of its industry-standard Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) (define) protocol due for release later this year. The non-profit group, which certifies interoperability From Techno-News Blog on February 5, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47630) There's No Spam Like American Spam - Cynthia L. Webb, washingtonpost.com The United States and the European Union are stuck in a growing trade war, but this one isn't about beef, bioengineering or bananas -- it's about spam. It turns out that it's one of the United States's biggest exports and European officials are despera From Techno-News Blog on February 5, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47629) e-TQM College adopts new multi-lingual solution to deliver online courses in Arabic and English - Mansoor Al Awar, e-TQM College e-TQM College, the leading Dubai-based electronic college that delivers online programs in Total Quality Management, has implemented the Blackboard Learning System, a multilingual edition of the industry-leading teaching and learning environment, to en From Online Learning Update on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47628) Higher education staff experiences of using web-based learning technologies - Debra Salmon and Mathew Jones, Educational Technology & Society Abstract: Given the drive in higher education institutions to employ web-based learning (WBL) technologies in their curricula, this article sets out to address the question of how staff experience the incorporation of such technologies into their educa From Online Learning Update on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47627) Pilgrim's Progression Eighteen months ago, or so, I wrote a book about RSS. It's pretty good, and remains the only book on the subject - a fact that has puzzled me for a while. At some point I guess I'll be updating... From Ben Hammersley.com on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47626) IBM sets out to make sense of the Web With "WebFountain," Big Blue hopes to go well beyond the capabilities of search engines like Google. It wants to tell you what all that data on the Web's myriad pages adds up to. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47625) VoIP needs a reality check Consultant Fred Goldstein believes conventional wisdom on voice over Internet Protocol overtaking traditional phone networks needs a rethinking. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47624) Elektronischer Rechtsverkehr "Die rheinland-pfälzische Justiz nutzt modernste Informationstechnologien für ihre gerichtlichen Verfahren. Der elektronische Rechtsverkehr ist ein Meilenstein für die Zukunft unserer... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 7:51 a.m.. (47623) Video learning bridges distances between schools - Ellen G. Lahr, Berkshire Eagle No Latin classes at Gateway Regional High School in Huntington? No problem. If Latin is offered at Monument Mountain High School in Great Barrington, Gateway students could participate. And there's no commute required -- only a high-tech television mon From Educational Technology on February 5, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (47622) Volunteering could be required for virtual students - KIRSTEN KOROSEC - GM Today Students in the district From Educational Technology on February 5, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (47621) Online used book selling gains local popularity - Sharon Cantor, Daily Pennsylvanian Penn undergraduate entrepreneurs are offering an alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks each semester -- and more and more students are taking advantage of their services. Two Web sites launched last fall, PennDeck.com and Pennforsal From Online Learning Update on February 5, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (47620) Der Erfolg und das Versagen der Kampagne Dean Clay Shirky schickt eine umfassende Analyse des kläglichen Abschneidens von Howard Dean im amerikanischen Vorwahlkampf der ersten bitteren Reaktion nach. Sein Sukkus ist, dass die Unterstützer und die via Online-Aktivitäte... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on February 5, 2004 at 6:47 a.m.. (47619) File-Sharing: Who's to Blame? The music industry wants companies that make file-sharing software to be liable for losses they incur when music is swapped illegally. A three-judge panel sounds like it will need to be convinced. From Wired News on February 5, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47618) Nuclear Bowl: Cal vs. Texas The University of Texas prepares to bid for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, currently run by the University of California. It doesn't hurt that UT has ties to the Bush administration, and isn't gun-shy about nuclear weapons research. By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on February 5, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47617) Bonuses Bountiful at Tech Firms The figures are in: Tech firms are significantly raising cash bonuses for top executives. Compensation experts expect the trend to continue into 2004, but don't foresee big increases in stock-option grants. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on February 5, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47616) Big Bet: Immortality or Bust John Sperling founded the University of Phoenix. He funded a secret program to clone pets. Now he's bankrolling the new science of longevity. By Brian Alexander from Wired magazine. From Wired News on February 5, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47615) Popping Pills in Preschool As the government frets about antidepressants and teen suicides, children as young as 3 continue to take the drugs. Despite fears, some parents have no regrets. By Randy Dotinga. From Wired News on February 5, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47614) Last Hurrah for Stock Options For tech workers motivated by visions of stock options, this year may represent the end of an era. An accounting rule change is prompting firms to rethink options for rank-and-file employees. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on February 5, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47613) Caaaaake Behold the mighty So-Going-To-Get-Stopped-At-Customs. Unleashed from his Bush House prison, the wild man roams free, foraging for food along the Strand. Cake, then. Cake is big in Florence this week. Schiacciata Alla Fiorentina, to be precise, a large flat sponge... From Ben Hammersley.com on February 5, 2004 at 6:45 a.m.. (47612) RSSTop55 - Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites Top55 Where To Submit My RSS Feeds And Weblog URLs To Get More Exposure, Visibility And Reach As more and more people get involved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs, news services and other online resources continue to grow in number and variety it becomes increasingly important to maintain high visibility and exposure for the content being generated by closely following the major distribution media. Until now the web was populated by Web sites and other HTML-based content pages, and the main vehicle for reaching content has been the large use of major search engines and directori From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on February 5, 2004 at 5:51 a.m.. (47611) Jimmy Carter bloggt! Wenn Bush, Dean und Kollegen bloggen, darf auch Jimmy Carter nicht fehlen. Wurde für ihn extra die Verfassung geändert?... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 5:51 a.m.. (47610) Wer hat Schuld an P2P? Im April letzten Jahres endete der Prozess der Musikindustrie gegen Grokster und Morpheus mit einem Sieg für die P2P-Börsen: Sie... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 4:50 a.m.. (47609) French Summer Theatre Workshop in Montgomery County Maryland.Plan to join us all summer - we have great results in children's acquiring both theatrical and French language skills. Fluent speakers benefit from being able to be part of the writing of unique shows and share their skills with their peers. Benefits of French Immersion Theatre WorkshopBesides the obvious educational benefits your child may: a: Improve his concentration and listening skills. b: Become more visually observant. c: Receive quality exercise and an increased awareness of his body. d: Improve his auditory discrimination skills; even if he never uses French. e: Develop his skills as a cooperative member of a group. f: Further develop communication and relationship skills. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47608) Take the Black History Month Quiz Award winning author creates an innovative series for Black History studies. Take the Quiz and test your mettle [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47607) la fundación carolina ofrece 1, 500 becas para licenciados, investigadores y docentes iberoamericanos La Fundación Carolina abre el plazo de solicitudes para optar a las Becas de Altos Estudios Profesionales, convocatoria 2004/2005. Este año las becas ofertadas ascienden a mil 500, 300 becas más que la convocatoria anterior.Asimismo, la Fundación a creado un nuevo programa de Becas de Formación Docente de Doctores. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47606) Knowledge-finder.com to be a new source of information Early this year Knowledge-Finder.com was created with the goal to provide internet users a new source of information. Much like a directory Knowledge-Finder has a directory structure which leads internet surfers to informative pages, rather than just lists of links. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47605) Opportunities to Study Abroad Become Increasingly Appealing and More Accessible to College Students College students are discovering that as America becomes more globally minded, the opportunities to earn credit towards a degree, while studying in another country, are becoming increasingly accessible and appealing. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47604) Internet Safety Day - New Site Combats Net Pedophiles Internet safety expert, Simon Johnson has launched an invaluable resource to help parents protect their children from pedophiles, internet porn and other threats on the Internet. The launch coincides with Safer Internet Day, an event funded under the European Commission's Safer Internet programme, which takes place this Friday, February 6, 2004. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47603) G. F. Mlely Trio Important New Recording, Says AllAboutJazz.com of "A Little Night Waltz" "'A Little Night Waltz' is an important new recording. [Mlely] has literally created his own harmonic language ... that looks at even the most common changes from a very different perspective, resulting in a more contemporary take. Mlely's sound is uniquely his own," writes John Kelman for AllAboutJazz.com of the G. F. Mlely Trio cd release. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47602) Get Fit With Fit Culture Fit Culture, the Internet's most advanced health and fitness service, launches real-time personal training and on-demand video fitness classes specifically tailored to your individual fitness needs. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2004] From PR Web on February 5, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47601) IBM Transforms Legacy eLearning into Workflow Learning Three hundred million people using Workflow Learning? Sound implausible? Think again. In November 2003, IBM announced that the next version of their LMS product would be a redesigned platform called Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1. It was designed to, ?Promote ongoing development by fusing learning with work?. The announcement coincided with the company?s unveiling of their ?comprehensive vision for the future of learning? announced by Nancy DeViney, GM for IBM Learning Solutions. At TechLearn 2003, Nancy DeViney said, "Learning in an on demand environment will be embedded into real From The Workflow Institute Blog on February 5, 2004 at 3:51 a.m.. (47600) Online-Seminar für Anwälte In der Zeit vom 09.-13.02.2004 wird ein weiteres Online-Seminar für Anwälte von den "Network-Lawyers" veranstaltet; Thema dieses Mal: Suchstrategien für... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (47599) Die Berater-Republik In der Politik geht nichts mehr ohne Beistand von außen. Wer Reformen will, ruft nach Berger, McKinsey und Co. Häufig... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 5, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (47598) Als der Mond baden ging Eine Gute Nacht Geschichte, für Jung und Alt. From Mein Schuster on February 5, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (47597) Out with the Old, In with the New Reminder Old With the Old, In With the New Tomorrow. February 4. 10:00 am Pacific Time. Macromedia Breeze. Jay Cross, Founder, Internet Time Group, and CEO, Emergent Learning Forum Sam Adkins, Chief Analyst and Director of Research, Workflow Institute Offered: Feb 5th (Event Sold... From Internet Time Blog on February 5, 2004 at 2:50 a.m.. (47596) Embanet Offers The Industry's ONLY e-Learning Insurance ... From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47595) 2nd Annual International MIT LINC Symposium & Workshop From Distance-Educator.com&apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47594) Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) 78th Annual Conference From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47593) Titanic Discoverer Robert Ballard To Launch CIC's Project Cam From Panamanian Rainforest From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47592) Across Europe, an Outcry Over Paying for College From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47591) The Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality [MVCR] Faculty Development Courses - Registration Now Open From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47590) Remote lab to ease science course delivery From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47589) Developing an Effective Online Course From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47588) Test Prep on Your PDA Handmark® and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Sign Long Term Publishing Agreement "Handmark®, the # 1 publisher of software for both Palm OS® and Windows Mobile™ platforms for handheld devices, has signed a long term publishing agreement with Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, the world leader in test prep and a division of global educational services provider Kaplan, Inc. Handmark will publish a variety of test preparation and admissions testing titles sold t From The Shifted Librarian on February 5, 2004 at 2:48 a.m.. (47587) Pizza Pizza Pizza Party USA "Pizza Party USA. Matthew 'Yeti' Baldwin has an excellent initiative for what America the Beautiful can do with our -- our! -- Leap Days, for just $3 an American." [MetaFilter] From The Shifted Librarian on February 5, 2004 at 2:48 a.m.. (47586) City Schools Lost Millions in Food Deals, Report Says The city school system wasted tens of millions of dollars on food contracts in recent years because of flawed bidding procedures, employee misconduct and a lack of proper oversight. From New York Times: Education on February 5, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (47585) $4 Billion More Is Needed to Fix City's Schools, Study Finds The study is the first in which anyone has tried to figure out the cost of making sure that every child in the city is able to obtain a Regents high school diploma. From New York Times: Education on February 5, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (47584) Frustration Boils Over in a Murder Mystery In the nearly four months since the shooting death of a Connecticut college student at a party in Brooklyn, investigators have traced his last steps but have no answers. From New York Times: Education on February 5, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (47583) Missed Pickup Means a Missed Opportunity for 30 Seeking a Fellowship A missed courier pickup, an honest clerk and an unyielding federal bureaucracy have conspired to deny 30 college students the chance to compete for a prestigious Fulbright grant. From New York Times: Education on February 5, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (47582) Comptroller Rejects Contract to Find Solid Education's Cost State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi rejected a no-bid consulting contract awarded to Standard & Poor's to determine the cost of a sound, basic education for New York's schoolchildren. From New York Times: Education on February 5, 2004 at 2:46 a.m.. (47581) Pataki Proposes Rise in Education Spending Gov. George E. Pataki proposed a $99.8 billion budget that would significantly increase state spending and change the way the state pays for education and health care for the poor. From New York Times: Education on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (47580) Nader: It is "censorship" to say "I shouldn't run" I realized today just how angry I remain at Ralph Nader, former hero of mine, while listening to him on NPR today. Apparently, Mr. Nader is considering another run for president. When pressed quite effectively by Melissa Block to respond to the many many many who are begging him not to run, including the Nation, Mr. Nader responded that such a request was "censorship." This man is truly outrageous. The only thing a Nader candidacy would do is increase From Lessig Blog on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (47579) Yaaar!: The Music Pirates' Manifesto Once upon a time, Apple's slogan "Rip. Mix. Burn." meant "make as many copies as you want of your legally purchased music." Now it means "make the limited number of copies we deem appropriate." All that's being ripped, mixed, and burned are fair-use laws Annalee Newitz writes about the current state of P2P and DRM (digital rights management) in the latest issue of the SF Bay Guardian. She finds the landscape in downloadable music has changed significantly and lays down what it means for c From Creative Commons: weblog on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (47578) RealNetworks, MLB talks dissolve RealNetworks ends negotiations to extend its exclusive deal to power Major League Baseball's Web business. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 2:45 a.m.. (47577) E-learning Workshops in Edinburgh From ScotFEICT on February 5, 2004 at 1:50 a.m.. (47576) Universities benefit from Sentient DISCOVER From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (47575) SkillSoft Announces Senior Management Promotions From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 5, 2004 at 1:48 a.m.. (47574) Don't Hang the DJ Schoolhouse Rock "I just love this: Schoolhouse Rock - "Playlists and discussion topics from a weekly radio show on WSCB 89.9 FM, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, hosted by reference librarians Emily Alling and James Miller." (no feed) Sadly, the radio station doesn't stream, but check out the playlist from their first week: Sam Cooke, Having a PartyBelle From The Shifted Librarian on February 5, 2004 at 1:47 a.m.. (47573) Things I Love to Do, #389 Come home from a day of being a librarian and sit on the couch surfing the net on my laptop using my broadband connection over my wireless network while watching Desk Set. From The Shifted Librarian on February 5, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47572) Farenheit 154 Ray Bradbury Invites You to Go Find Your Bliss in a Book "Berenson was so fascinated that at lunch one day at I Totti he said, 'Why not a sequel to 'Fahrenheit 451' in which all the great books are remembered by the Wilderness People and are finally reprinted from memory. What then? 'Wouldn't it be,' he continued, 'that all would be misremembered, none would come forth in their original garb? Wouldn't they be longer, shorter, ta From The Shifted Librarian on February 5, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47571) Oracle bid puts pressure on PeopleSoft Oracle's revised hostile takeover bid puts new pressure on PeopleSoft in its eight-month battle to fend off its arch-rival. From CNET News.com on February 5, 2004 at 12:45 a.m.. (47570) New OA journal from the U.S. government A new peer-reviewed, OA journal launched in January: Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy. What's unusual is that it's published by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, one of eight centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, a branch of the U.S. federal government. The journal charg From FOS News on February 4, 2004 at 11:48 p.m.. (47569) The Semantic Earth I spent all of December and half of January working on an article for Esther Dyson's Release 1.0. Man, did I learn a lot, including that Esther and Christina Koukkos are uniquely demanding yet patient editors. The article's just come out. Here's the abstract: The Semantic Earth Every business in the world is headquartered on earth. Every employee works somewhere. Every customer is at some location at every moment. Every product is delivered to some spot and every service is performed at some coordinates. Every transaction involves at least one place and usually more than one. An From Joho the Blog on February 4, 2004 at 11:48 p.m.. (47568) RSS Basic Food Group Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge Say no more; say no more! Tauzin May Become Pharmaceutical Lobbyist [via The Associated Press (RSS)] --> From The Shifted Librarian on February 4, 2004 at 11:47 p.m.. (47567) New Lingo From my aggregator today, two new sayings I'm adding to my vocabulary (in bold below)! Mobile Phone Gaming "Mobile gaming substitutes micro-moments of boredom for entertainment; you don't need to be wired to a console and TV and now you can be part of a wider community. Local communications is a useful addition to the gaming experience, if not directly to the operators' coffers." [The Regist From The Shifted Librarian on February 4, 2004 at 11:47 p.m.. (47566) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]