Edu_RSS ~ February 6, 2004

Most recent update: February 6, 2004 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: Article in current T+D T+D magazine has just published Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg, Technology Plumbs the Affective Learning Domain, by Sam Adkins. Executive Summary Recently developed products are automating learning designed for mapping the affective domain. Several factors are driving the adoption of such products. Workforce alignment. A lot of the workforce misunderstands the business goals of their companies. Some actively resist alignment or are disinterested in the corporate strategy. Workforce selection and retention. A person?s score on new affective-based personality assessments are being used to determ From The Workflow Institute Blog on February 6, 2004 at 9:51 p.m.. (47920) Implementing information management systems - Sharing knowledge and experiences (Canberra, Australia) The Institute for Information Management will be holding a conference in Canberra on implementing information management systems. The one-day conference will be on 10 March 2004, and will be the catalyst for the creation of some new communities of practice.... From Column Two on February 6, 2004 at 9:47 p.m.. (47919) Cribbage and the New World of Learning This little essay is not so much about the game of Cribbage as about learning in the new environment of online instructional resources, a kind of modern day, computerized, morality tale. The moral is "you can learn almost anything you want to learn by searching out resources on the net."A few weeks before last Christmas my wife heard me talking about memories of playing Cribbage with my dad decades ago. She surprised me with a Cribbage travel set as a Christmas gift. The Cribbage board came with a one page, two-sided set of instructions. When we left for our Christmas vacation trip to From Mathemagenic on February 6, 2004 at 8:52 p.m.. (47917) Vultures Circling RSS As we predicted, the time is ticking on the young, naive open-ness of RSS; witness the gathering vultures circling overhead. Greed, chasing of a dollar, and even the smallest crack are an open invitation for the party-crashers who will usurp everything that is open and collaborative just for a few shiny pennies. RSS: It's Not Just for Bloggers Anymore Yup, the viagra pushers are game From cogdogblog on February 6, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (47916) Nothin' But a UCD Thang Pt. 1 The Ok/Cancel gang have published a very interesting perspective on the highly-visible disagreements between usability gurus such as Jakob Nielsen (NN/g) and Jared Spool (UIE). Be amused by the cartoon, and then read the commentary. To quote: By the first... From Column Two on February 6, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (47915) E-learning predictions for 2004 eLearn Magazine presents its preditions for 2004. To quote: What directions will e-learning take in 2004? Will we still call it e-learning? Will there be more or fewer vendors, products, or--most importantly--jobs? Will subject matter experts develop courses instead of... From Column Two on February 6, 2004 at 8:47 p.m.. (47914) Device independence For a team of collaborators, Groove synchronizes both the sets of applications available in a given context (or "shared space") and the data written by those applications. If you drop your laptop on the floor you can effortlessly recover everything into a fresh instance of Groove on a new machine. Of course this works only for native Groove apps. Browser history and bookmarks, Outlook settings, and a million other things are handled in a million other ways -- or not handled at all -- because desktop operating systems aren't Groove. A general soluti From Jon's Radio on February 6, 2004 at 8:46 p.m.. (47913) Commentary: VoIP marches on From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47912) Nextel to test '4G' broadband service Cell phone service provider Nextel Communications is set to begin testing a new, "fourth generation" wireless broadband offering later this month with several companies in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 8:45 p.m.. (47911) Ed Broadbent has a blog and a good one See Ed go - Always one of my favourite pols in Canada... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on February 6, 2004 at 7:52 p.m.. (47910) Jimmy Carter is blogging too! Boing Boing is such a great sourtce - here is Jimmy Carter's blog. a real one too. The authentic voice has so much power.... From Robert Paterson&apos;s Weblog on February 6, 2004 at 7:52 p.m.. (47909) Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere' Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere' In the February edition of The Journal, the authors makes the case for using blogs with students. Blogs are useful teaching and learning tools because they provide a space for students to reflect and publish their thoughts and understandings. And because blogs can be commented... From EdBlogger Praxis on February 6, 2004 at 7:50 p.m.. (47908) Anonymous Comments: Some Rules We allow anonymous postings on this blog. If you don't want to give your true e-mail address you are free to make one up. I would prefer that people post under their real names, though I understand a reluctance to give an e-mail address that shows up in a way the spammers can easily use. We're working on a fix for that. But we can't let people post comments and use e-mail addresses referring to real domains to which they have no connection. That seems to have happened here in the past several days, and other folks have accused the anonymous commenter of being someone else -- a From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 6, 2004 at 7:46 p.m.. (47907) Indian IT companies deny visa abuse From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 7:45 p.m.. (47906) WWW - Die nächsten zehn Jahre Folio widmet sich in seiner jüngsten Ausgabe ganz dem Internet. Klasse! Absoluter Lesegenuss! Es beginnt mit einem Artikel über Sir Tim Berners-Lee, den Erfinder des Web, und wie er konsequent seinen Traum vom "Semantic Web" zu verwirklichen sucht. "Das... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 6, 2004 at 6:51 p.m.. (47905) Things that shouldn't need to be said But sometimes arguments cross a line beyond which everybody gets hurt, including the Net. I see that happening here. Even though I'm no technologist, it's clear to me that the Net has been improved, radically and fundamentally, by RSS and other standards like it (even if they come, as Mark claims RSS does, in 9 incompatible versions). [Doc Searls] From Jon&apos;s Radio on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 p.m.. (47904) Why You Can't Succeed Online Only Print catalogs should be part of the natural evolutionary process of pure-play e-commerce sites, just as an e-commerce site was an evolutionary step for brick-and-mortar and mail-order catalog businesses. From E-Commerce Guide on February 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (47903) Linux battles rage on roundup SCO fires another broadside in its legal wranglings with IBM over the open-source operating system. Microsoft, meanwhile, sharpens its competitive attack on Big Blue and Linux. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (47902) SAP replaces head of key initiative The Germany company swaps the leader of a program to migrate thousands of customers from aging versions of its business-management software to newer releases. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (47901) OLDaily Archives For those of you who have been frustrated by my archives page, I have a new link at the bottom of every newsletter you can follow. It only goes back to May, 2001, though, while the link database itself (accessible through search) goes back to August, 1998. OLWeekly, which is a conjoining of the five OLDaily editions, is not archived. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, February 6, 2004 [Refer][ From OLDaily on February 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m.. (47900) Wert der nicht genutzten Reiseleistung Für den Versicherungsnehmer, der eine Reiseabbruchversicherung für eine Pauschalreise abgeschlossen hat, ist es schon nach dem Wortlaut der AVB naheliegend,... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 5:53 p.m.. (47899) "We need to do this the Chinese Way" Es waren die entscheidenden zwei, drei Minuten in der Ãœbernahmeschlacht um Mannesmann. Was sagte Canning Fok, als er nachts ungebeten... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 5:53 p.m.. (47898) Deutsche Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts... "DeutscheDrucke16-WWW" Verzeichnis deutschsprachiger Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts als frei zugängliche Faksimiles im Netz Vorbemerkung Das Verzeichnis konzentriert sich auf das "Streugut" derjenigen Sammlungen, die nur einzelne als Images digitalisierte deutschsprachige Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (1501-1599) enthalten. NB: Das Verzeichnis darf nach den Grundsätzen des Open Access genutzt werden! Die grossen Sammlungen (HAB Wolfenbüttel, Lutherhalle Wittenberg und UB Augsburg) können vielleicht zu einem From Archivalia on February 6, 2004 at 5:51 p.m.. (47897) OA to A New Kind of Science Stephen Wolfram is now providing free online access to the full text of his long, controversial, best-selling book, A New Kind of Science. Registration is required. See the Slashdot discussion of this development.(Thanks to Matt Cockerill.) From FOS News on February 6, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (47896) IoP removes registration requirement The Institute of Physics has eliminated the registration requirement for entering IoP Select, the open-access subset of its published articles. From FOS News on February 6, 2004 at 5:48 p.m.. (47895) E-Marketing Efforts Leave Room for Improvement Marketers expect to hone their digital skills during 2004, with beefed-up budgets and strategic improvements. From CyberAtlas on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47894) Corel sells XML division From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47893) Commentary: Web services ripe for consolidation From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47892) HP to unveil new Itanium, Unix servers Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce its new PA-8800 processor and an accompanying Unix server line Monday, as well as a new system built with Intel's Itanium 2 for technical computing, according to sources. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47891) Microsoft server unit flips to quarterly loss Stung by the cost of a stock option transfer program and larger work force, the companyÂ’s server unit posts a hefty operating loss in the December quarter, reversing the profit posted a year earlier. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47890) Open-Source Content Management Systems Though the focus of the article is content management systems, it could be applied to any sort of software as the author provides an extended discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of open source. This is a good discussion and would be an excellent introductory paper if you are, say, weighing the merits of an upcoming software purchase. By James Robertson, Step Two Designs, February 6, 2004 [Refer][From OLDaily on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47889) E-Learning Grows In and Out of University I think that this sort of item is a helpful reminder, to those who distinguish between traditional learning and online learning, that the use of technology within the university walls is making this distinction smaller daily. By Angela Harrison , BBC, February 6, 2004 [Refer][Research][From OLDaily on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47888) John Stone Fitness I'm not sure what to make of this site, but it's very inspiring and a testament to what a little determination and a blog can do. Having purchased an exercise bicycle just a week ago (those who have seen my photos can understand why) I feel a little like 'John Stone 2003'. No, I do not intend to use my blog as a personal fitness journal (you will no doubt be relieved to know). But what is really interesting is that writing OLDaily has been for me on a mental basis the same as John Stone's blog has been for him on a physical basis. This probably speaks more to ad From OLDaily on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47887) Auricle Just started a couple of weeks ago, Auricle chronicles the work of the eLearning@bath team. From the About page: "The e-learning team have been using a private collaborative Weblog (blog) for a couple of years as a mechanism for communicating interesting information or problems and resolutions amongst the team. This blog, however, is an experimental public blog which will offer short articles, reflections, observations, or references on what we've found interesting, useful, challenging, and sometimes frustrating in the e-learning world. You'll be able to comment on the articles. If o From OLDaily on February 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m.. (47886) TOIA (Technologies for Online Interoperable Assessment) Computer Based Assessment (CBA) or Computer Aided Assessment (CAA) has a contribution to make to the overall assessment process but how do we prevent assessment material becoming 'locked-in' to one system or another? From the DLib Site ... "For many people the CBA tools available to them are contained within their institutional VLE although many UK institutions have also purchased at significant cost a stand-alone CBA... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47885) Interactive Engagement in Physics Teaching Using Physlets Educational research has made us more aware of learning style differences and the importance of passing some of the control of learning to the student. The development and application of Physlets (Physics Applets) provides us with a fine example of an interactive engagement in practice. Consequently curricular changes are taking place in physics to provide more interactive engagement of heads-on (always) and hands-on (usually) learning activities integrated with immediate feedback. Select... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47884) The Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology Anyone considering enhancing their teaching through the introduction of technology could do worse than visit The Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology for some direction. The site is split into two main sections, 'Using the Web to Design Online Courses' and 'Delivering Online Interactive Courses', that between them provide plenty of resources regarding the selection and appropriate use... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47883) Auricle has SoundBlox (continued) Following on from my article of 29 January 2004 about the internet application SoundBlox, I did some customization of SoundBlox over the weekend and the results can now be heard in the new eLearning@Bath playlist I've added to the SoundBlox player (bottom of left-hand menu). The MP3 file I've added gives a few ideas on how internet applications like SoundBlox could be used. From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47882) Portal or VLE? An archived article about portals on the CETIS site got me thinking. First, let me declare my current position. I'm very concerned that higher education is, by default, allowing itself to be dominated by a few Managed Learning Environment (MLE) / Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) vendors. As a result institutions end up 'locked-in' to a particular vendor's range of educational services and... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47881) Students Using RSS Research Feeds Check this out! (Note the right hand column.) I had my kids put the Manila viewRSS macro on their pages to feed search results right to their site. Mallory is writing about those in poverty in our primarily affluent area who fall through the cracks. So she's aggregating Google news stories about poverty for background research. It's coming to her instead of her finding and going to it. What a concept... Now I have a lot more to write about this at some point, but m From weblogged News on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47880) Delicious has appetite for bookmarks Delicious is a new Web site which describes itself as '... a social bookmarks manager. Using simple bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them.' Because it's an alpha stage project at the moment I'm not recommending this as a solution for use in anger. Nevertheless, it implements some useful concepts. After registration a simple addition to a browser's link bar enables any url, keywords and annotations... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47879) Standards whose Standards? The ability to be able to transfer material from one e-learning system to another is very important. The advent of interoperability specifications and standards should, theoretically, reduce anxiety about 'lock in' of learning material into one virtual learning product or another. But what is the actual experience? I have recently been looking at how easy it is to move small amounts of content in and out of systems; all claiming IMS compliance. These are WebCT 4.1, Blackboard 5 and... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47878) Portal or VLE? (continued) I'm still working on why I'm so concerned about our lemming-like tendency to accept, or even actively promote, what is becoming nearly a monoculture of a few MLE/VLEs within our institutions. But as I suggested in yesterday's article there are glimmers of hope in the form of SAKAI. Today, I went back through some of the... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:53 p.m.. (47877) 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 Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:52 p.m.. (47876) JISCMail Survey / Polls Facility This was a JISCMail news item on 8 January last but you may have missed it. I certainly did. Each list on JISCMail will now " ... have a 'Surveys' link on its homepage for list members to participate in active surveys and view concluded ones. List owners will find a new button on their list(s) management area where they can create/modify/remove surveys ... once you have filled out a survey that particular survey is no longer available to you. This ensures the integrity of the data that... From Auricle on February 6, 2004 at 4:52 p.m.. (47875) Brightplanet Das Programm Brightplanet ist ohne Zweifel eine der vollständigsten und in sich verständlichsten Seiten im Netz, die ein effizientes Online-Recherchieren... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (47874) Archivarsfestschrift: Manfred... Titel: Virtus est satis hoc uno testificata libro. Festgabe für Manfred Herling Herausgeber: Alvermann, Dirk; Jörn, Nils; Modéer, Kjell Ake Ort: Münster Verlag: LIT Verlag Jahr: 2003 ISBN: 3-8258-6611-4 Umfang/Preis: 352 S.; € 35,90 Die FS für Herling, der über 40 Jahre das Universitätsarchiv Greifswald leitete, rezensierte im Dez. 2003 für H-Soz-u-Kult: Stephanie Irrgang, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin E-Mail: <sirrgang@zedat.fu-berlin.de> From Archivalia on February 6, 2004 at 4:51 p.m.. (47873) Standardizing machine-access to online knowledge Ceri Binding and Douglas Tudhope, KOS at your Service: Programmatic Access to Knowledge Organisation Systems, Journal of Digital Information, February 5, 2004. From the abstract: "The lack of standardised access and interchange formats for knowledge organisation systems (KOS) are a barrier to their interoperability and wider use in automated Web and retrieval applications. Programmatic access to thesaurus (and other types of KOS) resources requires a commonly agreed distributed service protocol, building on lower-level stand From FOS News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 p.m.. (47872) Super Bowl Ads Supercharge Online Traffic Ads about sex, drugs and taxes sent Web traffic skyrocketing. From CyberAtlas on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (47871) China gears up for RFID A Chinese working group is developing a national standard for inventory-tracking radio tags, a process likely to be closely watched given China's recent demand that foreign Wi-Fi makers take on local partners. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (47870) Week in review: Super shocking Sunday The tech week got off to a not-so-super start on Super Bowl Sunday, as an e-mail virus and a risque halftime performance became the biggest things on the Internet. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (47869) SCO claim reaches $5 billion The SCO Group tacks on another $2 billion to its claim against IBM and adds new copyright allegations in an amendment to the Unix and Linux suit. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 p.m.. (47868) PJNet Today: What Makes a Website Credible: Free Teaching Materials PJNet Today: What Makes a Website Credible: Free Teaching Materials Thanks to Leonard Witt, of the A Public Journalism Network Weblog, for sending this link to the work of B.J. Fogg at Stanford.... From EdBlogger Praxis on February 6, 2004 at 3:51 p.m.. (47867) Stanford may be next Michael Miller, Fac Sen discusses journal fees, The Stanford Daily, February 6, 2004. Excerpt: "A 'serials crisis' consumed the Faculty Senate yesterday afternoon as senate members debated a set of recommendations dealing with the high and rapidly increasing subscription costs for academic journals. With journal subscription costs having risen as much as 50 percent in the past five years and set to rise another 12 percent this year, the Committee on Libraries recommended in a report that th From FOS News on February 6, 2004 at 3:50 p.m.. (47866) Exit the MATRIX Jane Black at Businessweek Online reports that more than half of the states that signed up for the MATRIX law-enforcement database have quit it. The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange lets the police draw on multiple databases to create instant dossiers on, well, anyone they want. Here are Jane's conclusions: There's no doubt that MATRIX raises privacy red flags, though after an extensive briefing by the Florida Law Enforcement Dept., which is spearheading the project, I believe that it's little more than an efficient way to query multiple databases. The real furor o From Joho the Blog on February 6, 2004 at 3:48 p.m.. (47865) Programming Languages and Language I've been thinking about what makes a computer language useful, and how the features of natural languages might be related to that. I don't really have any answers, but I have some thoughts that will hopefully provoke discussion. From kuro5hin.org on February 6, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (47864) The insanely great MacBand Last month, Apple released Garageband at MacWorld, letting any budding musician create music from its suite of sophisticated but simple audio tools. Given the potential for thousands of musicians recording new songs at home, we knew it was a great fit for Creative Commons and we're very happy to see a new community has sprung up around the software, at MacBand. They've just launched but have a system setup to categorize dozens of song styles and loops, with every song available under a Creative From Creative Commons: weblog on February 6, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (47863) T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless form roaming pact From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 3:45 p.m.. (47862) movabletype and db versions Dylan has a great post on recovering from a database version change that left his MT weblog data inaccessible. Got me thinking about my recent brush with disaster, and the possibility of moving to mysql (I didn't know BerkeleyDB had... From Movable Type on February 6, 2004 at 2:51 p.m.. (47861) This is where I have been I need to visit Africa (never been!), Asia (only been to Turkey, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore) and Central (never been!) and South America (never been). Miles to go before I sleep! create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 6, 2004 at 2:50 p.m.. (47860) Cheap College Degrees Thomas Nixon helps you save money on an accredited college degree. Some of his suggestions will also help you save time.... From Adult/Continuing Education on February 6, 2004 at 2:50 p.m.. (47859) German introduction to OA Niels Boeing, Journale zu Servern, Freitag, February 6, 2004. A short history of the serials pricing crisis and the rise of the OA movement. Boeing argues that OA will benefit scientists and scholars in all fields. (Thanks to Stefan Busch.) From FOS News on February 6, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (47858) MIT refuses to renew with Wiley and Elsevier The MIT Libraries have written a public statement on their decision not to accept the three-year renewal packages on offer from Wiley and Elsevier. The librarians: "These actions ensure that if the Libraries need to reduce spending in the next year or two, we can make those decisions based solely on the specific needs of the MIT user community, without giving unfair advantage to certain publishers." They quote MIT Professor Marcus Zahn, chair of the Faculty Committee on the Library Sy From FOS News on February 6, 2004 at 2:48 p.m.. (47857) Using a blog for self-help? Seb Fiedler (via Aaron Campbell) points to John Stone, a guy who used a blog to track his progress towards fitness. Apparently, documenting his efforts and results worked well for him. Check out the pictures and animations. In a similar vein, From Seb's Open Research on February 6, 2004 at 2:47 p.m.. (47856) Automated archive.org queries? By any chance, is there a Mozilla Firebird add-on that will make it automagically query the Internet Archive when a link does not work? From Seb&apos;s Open Research on February 6, 2004 at 2:47 p.m.. (47855) Why People Hate Lawyers, Part MMMCCXVIII The lawyer responsible for filing this case (Smoking Gun)-- suing CBS because Janet Jackson almost bared a breast on national TV -- should be disbarred, or at least sanctioned for abuse of the legal process. Sheesh. From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on February 6, 2004 at 2:46 p.m.. (47854) GarageBand and CC So Apple released this amazing new part of iLife, GarageBand. With it, you can make great music. (Well, I don't know about you, but I know Willem will make great music with it.) Anyway, one missing piece has been a simple way to know what content you're free to mix and remix within your GarageBand app. MacBand has now solved that problem. They've got a great archive of music by genre -- all marked with Creative Commons licenses. From Lessig Blog on February 6, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (47853) Vonage dials in $40 million in funding The broadband phone provider's plan to expand into international markets gets a multimillion-dollar boost from venture capital investors 3i and Meritech Capital Partners. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (47852) FCC to limit VoIP regulations The Federal Communications Commission reaches an agreement with the FBI permitting it to approve a VoIP company's request for limited regulation of its operations. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 2:45 p.m.. (47851) MyDoom, Your Doom I have now wasted eight hours over the past couple of weeks deleting virus-mail from my inbox. When the Feds find the S.O.B. who opened this Pandora's Box of cyber-mayhem, I propose they send him to Guantanamo for twenty years of :interrogation" by the best... From Internet Time Blog on February 6, 2004 at 1:49 p.m.. (47850) JAMA on open access Catherine D. DeAngelis and Robert A. Musacchio, Access to JAMA, JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association, 291, 370-371 (January 21, 2004). The editor-in chief of JAMA and her colleague state their views on what constitutes responsible medical publishing and the considerable time and effort required for cooperation with authors, peer review, and the production of a readable and useful journal for medical professionals and general readers. Further, they discuss production costs, especially in consideration of open a From FOS News on February 6, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (47849) A List Apart No. 170 In the 170th issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites: EXPLORING FOOTERS - by Bobby van der Sluis. With old-school table layout methods, vertical positioning is a piece of cake. With CSS layout, it's a piece of something else. Regain control of footers and other vertically positioned layout elements. JAVASCRIPT IMAGE GALLERY - by Jeremy Keith. Making an online gallery of pictures should be a quick process. The gap between snapping some pictures and publishing them on the web ought to be a short one. Here's a quick and easy way to build a dynamic image gallery. Plus: talk t From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on February 6, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.. (47848) More SLS Library Blogs! I'm finally getting some traction with blogs among my member libraries. I've started a list of Member Blogs to keep track them, and you can follow along at home. From The Shifted Librarian on February 6, 2004 at 1:47 p.m.. (47847) Participatory Journalism and Janet Jackson Adrian Holovaty, lead developer for the excellent community news site in Lawrence Kansas, reflects on his blog about how he got real information about the Janet Jackson fiasco not from the networks but from the Web."Yes, probably not a single one of the Fark contributors was actually at the Super Bowl, and all of their facts were collected from "mainstream" sources such as the CBS television broadcast. So what? Even two days later, this is STILL coverage you can't find a From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on February 6, 2004 at 1:46 p.m.. (47846) George (Orwell) Bush Paul Krugman: Get Me Rewrite. I'd like to think that the administration's crass efforts to rewrite history will backfire, that the media and the informed public won't let officials get away with this. Have we finally had enough? From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on February 6, 2004 at 1:46 p.m.. (47845) The Tyranny of Labels Just about two weeks ago, Robert Boynton wrote a great piece for the Times about the free culture movement. It's not available for free from the Times anymore, though if you run this Google search, you'll find lots of places where it is archived. The Progress and Freedom Foundation has now launched an at From Lessig Blog on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 p.m.. (47844) Study: IT spending to improve in 2004 After meager spending in 2003, businesses are likely to shell out more than their planned IT budgets for this year, according to market researcher Gartner. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 p.m.. (47843) Lurking - Ton on Lurking and Weak Ties and their value in networks Ton has a superb article on the value of lurkers and their weak ties and their power to help networks... From Robert Paterson'apos;s Weblog on February 6, 2004 at 12:52 p.m.. (47842) Pumpkinhead meets the Chimp The blogosphere is a-tremble with anticipation over the hourlong appearance of our gaffe-prone President on Tim Russert's "Meet the Press" this Sunday. Will Pumpkinhead be tough, or a pushover? From The Columbia-Union on February 6, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (47841) iCanSpam-Zertifizierung Wenn Sie die Software "iCanSpam Compliance Certification" installiert haben, können Sie Ihren Lesern garantieren, dass beim Versenden eines eigenen Newsletters... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (47840) Anti-Spyware Blog Das Spyware Warrior Blog (Dank an Sabrina, von der der Hinweis kommt) ist eine hilfreiche Quelle zur Information über aktuelle... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (47839) Siegelschäden Dannehl, Jens Siegelschäden und ihre Konservierung und Restaurierung. Am Beispiel der Urkunden eines geistlichen westfälischen Kapitels aus dem nordrhein-westfälischen Staatsarchiv in Münster (zugl.: Dipl.-Arbeit, Köln 1993) Köln, 1993 Online: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/sammlung6/allg/buch.xml?docname=Dannehl1993 From Archivalia on February 6, 2004 at 12:51 p.m.. (47838) Free Image Hosting! Do you need an online space to store your digital images? If so, check out Photobucket. An online image hosting site, Photobucket allows you to store up to 2,500 pictures! To use them on a blog--just input the image URL. What could be easier!?! Better yet--no ads, pop ups or... From EdBlogger Praxis on February 6, 2004 at 12:50 p.m.. (47837) California's Unsafe Voting Gets Marginal Improvements It's a start. But most of the county voting officials using the questionable Diebold equipment haven't even read the scathing report from Maryland that has led to these latest steps. And Diebold keeps pretending there's no problem. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on February 6, 2004 at 12:46 p.m.. (47835) EU approves German grants to AMD Advanced Micro Devices secures subsidies by the German and Saxon governments for its second chipmaking facility in Dresden. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (47834) European train operator considers Wi-Fi Cross-channel train operator Eurostar is following in the footsteps of GNER and Virgin Trains with a wireless Internet access plan. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.. (47833) IMS presents public draft of Enterprise Services, reference implementation to follow soon IMS Enterprise Sercives for Web Services is in effect a successor to Enterprise; IMS' venerable spec for person and group management. Where the old one was just a data format, the new provides a means to exchange, say, enrollment data between a VLE and student record system dynamically. A reference implementation was developed by CETIS at the same time, and will be available at the same time as the full release. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on February 6, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (47832) 12 minutes on the value of the unspoken I just stumbled across an 12-minute video talk I did for Vignette last spring on the value of ambiguity, messiness and the unspoken. I just watched it and I agree with myself, even 7 months later.... From Joho the Blog on February 6, 2004 at 11:48 a.m.. (47831) Scholars who blog Scholars who blog at the Blogalization Conspiracy Wiki. Eventually, Jill's list, PhDweblogs, the research blogs page on my wiki, and this ought to be merged together... From Seb'apos;s Open Research on February 6, 2004 at 11:46 a.m.. (47830) Open-source CMSes, pros and cons Very clear article written from a corporate perspective on open-source content management systems (CMS), by James Robertson. (via David Gammel) From Seb'apos;s Open Research on February 6, 2004 at 11:46 a.m.. (47829) Pentagon Wisely Holds Off on Internet Voting AP: Pentagon Cancels Internet Voting System. Citing security concerns, the Pentagon has canceled Internet voting that would have involved as many as 100,000 military and overseas citizens from seven states in November, a Defense Department official said Thursday. From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on February 6, 2004 at 11:46 a.m.. (47828) Piracy fighters raid offices of Sharman, others A judge in Australia authorizes a record industry group to search peer-to-peer companies including Kazaa owner Sharman and several ISPs, along with key executives' homes. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.. (47827) Ausländische Gesellschaften in Deutschland Mit seiner Entscheidung in der Rechtssache "Inspire Art" (Urteil vom 30.09.2003 HYPHEN C-167/01) hat der EuGH die Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 10:51 a.m.. (47826) Notes from an XQuery practitioner A Hungarian developer, Fejes Balazs, alerted me to a couple of his articles on XQuery -- the first a general introduction, and the second a walkthrough of XQuery transformation in BEA's WebLogic Workshop. Both are nicely done. ... From Jon'apos;s Radio on February 6, 2004 at 10:46 a.m.. (47825) SCORM 2004 reemplaza las versiones anteriores del estándar ADL ha presentado la nueva versión SCORM 2004, que sustituye a la anterior 1.2. La novedad más importante consiste en que incorpora la especificación IMS Simple Sequencing, que permite controlar el desarrollo de las actividades de aprendizaje. CETIS lo explica así: «Permite entre otras cosas especificar una puntuación mínima en un test para que el estudiante pueda pasar al nivel siguiente, o especificar que el material introductorio se debe leer obligatoriamente antes de que el estudiante tenga la libertad de elegir entre otras secciones del contenid From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on February 6, 2004 at 9:52 a.m.. (47824) ConText So ziemlich alle (weiterführenden Online-)Wörterbücher sind gelistet auf der Seite von ConText. Daneben noch jede Menge Hinweise in der Sidebar.... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 9:51 a.m.. (47823) WestfälischerArchivtag From: Susanne Heil <susanne.heil@lwl.org> Date: 03.02.2004 Subject: Konf: 56. Westfälischer Archivtag - Brakel 03/04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Westfälisches Archivamt Münster, Brakel 16.03.2004-17.03.2004, Stadthalle Konferenz-Ankündigung 56. Westfälischer Archivtag Der Westfälische Archivtag gehört zu den bedeutendsten regionalen Archivveranstaltungen in der Bundesrepublik. Der Archivtag ist an einem übergreifen From Archivalia on February 6, 2004 at 9:51 a.m.. (47822) Silence Peter Merholz: "if you return to this site, and there's nothing new, I ask you to reflect upon that, appreciate that silence, before you continue through your bookmarks." From Seb'apos;s Open Research on February 6, 2004 at 9:47 a.m.. (47821) PEI - Food Industry Crisis Well it is happening. Polar, the Island's lobster processor is crumbling and the Province will take the hit. My 2 cents - I have been working this week in Toronto. Not once have I heard that 'we should go to... From Robert Paterson'apos;s Weblog on February 6, 2004 at 8:52 a.m.. (47820) Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn Mit ihrer Terroristenjagd sorgen die USA für Chaos im Reiseverkehr. Ein Provinzrichter organisiert nun den Widerstand, meldete der SPIEGEL bereits... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (47819) FOAF Uçkan weist auf einen Einführungsartikel zu dem FOAF-Projekt hin, der so ziemlich alles enthält, was man für's Erste wissen sollte.... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 8:51 a.m.. (47818) IBM sets out to make sense of the Web - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com The Internet can be a treasure trove of business intelligence--but only if you can make sense of the data. Enter IBM, which would like to see its WebFountain supercomputing project become the next big thing in Web search. Along with competi From Techno-News Blog on February 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47817) Pentagon Calls Off Voting by Internet - Dan Keating, Washington Post The Pentagon has canceled plans to collect votes over the Internet from military personnel and civilians abroad for this fall's presidential election because of security concerns. The $22 million pilot project was intended to be used by about 100,000 From Techno-News Blog on February 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47816) Top chip makers tout nanotechnology - Richard Goering, EE Times Nanotechnology will play a key role in next-generation silicon, and may help extend CMOS scaling down into the single-digit nanometer range, according to researchers at a DesignCon technology forum here. But technologies like carbon nanotubes, nanowir From Techno-News Blog on February 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47815) LFCC Goes the Distance: Technology Breaks Classroom Barriers - Andrew Martel, Winchester Star It looks like a typical high school scene " on screen at least. The students are sitting in a classroom, some slouched in their chairs, some whispering. It seems easy to forget the camera is there. But while no teacher is in the room during Thursday af From Educational Technology on February 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47814) How Do Teachers Become Tech Wizards? - Rosemary Shaw, techLearning I have had many teachers ask me, "How did YOU get to be so good at computers?" Many assume, erroneously, that my husband, who is a true tech genius, does all of my work for me. However, there is way too much tech competition in my household for my husb From Educational Technology on February 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m.. (47813) Online tech degree launched: Master's program teams U North Dakota with Valley City State - David Dodds, Grand Forks Herald UND's graduate school is teaming up with Valley City State University, in Valley City, N.D., to break new ground in the realm of technology education. Officials from the schools will announce today the launch of a new online-based master's program for From Online Learning Update on February 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47812) Programme to set NZ e-learning standards - Massey University News A University initiative to set standards for New Zealand From Online Learning Update on February 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47811) Should Online Course Design Meet Accessibility Standards? - Peter Paolucci, Educational Technology & Society Pre-Discussion Paper Slip-Slidin' Away: The Importance of Standards and the Absence of a Definitive Standard For quite some time now, the Internet and its content have been developing in a haphazard way. This is not inherently a bad thing and perhaps i From Online Learning Update on February 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47810) Dusty brands make a rerun in TV market Old-time appliance makers may have an edge in the scramble for the high-end TV market: strong brand-name recognition. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m.. (47809) Phonoverband täuscht falsche Tatsachen vor Am 04.02.2004 veröffentlichten die deutschen Phonoverbände unter der Ãœberschrift "MovieJack rippt nicht mehr" eine Pressemitteilung, in der recht vollmundig auf... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 7:51 a.m.. (47808) Janet Jackson Bei en banc sind gleich mehrere Gründe genannt, warum Terri Carlin aus Tennessee wegen des bekannten Ereignisses anlässlich des Superbowl... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 7:51 a.m.. (47807) Documenting Learning and Teaching A couple more links and thoughts about yesterday's post. I got an e-mail from Susan Hunsburger in Chicago whose second grade class is keeping track of their classroom experiences using a Weblog. I love the tagline: "We are second graders. This is our journal about the happenings in room 209." Now this isn't rocket science, but think of how those parents who are interested in what's happening in their children's classes might be getting from this? And what about those kids who can easily From weblogged News on February 6, 2004 at 7:47 a.m.. (47806) Introduction to Tibetan Orthography Most K5 readers have seen the Tibetan script--those lovely, angular characters that look like they're hanging down from a clothesline, flourishes above and below. But how does the Tibetan writing system actually work? Here's a brief introduction to one of the world's most dysfunctional scripts. From kuro5hin.org on February 6, 2004 at 7:45 a.m.. (47805) Massachusetts unterstützt Ehe zwischen Homosexuellen Homosexuelle haben nach einem Urteil (36 S. PDF) des höchsten Gerichts im US-Staat Massachusetts Anspruch auf eine Eheschließung. Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaften... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 6:51 a.m.. (47804) Stay Fat and Live Long Extreme calorie restriction could help you live to be 120. But it also might make you cranky and cold, and diminish your libido. Luckily, researchers are one step closer to the gain without the pain. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47803) NASA Rover Rolls Around Mars Opportunity takes a 10-foot trip as Spirit gets ready for a reboot. Meanwhile, NASA scientists puzzle over pictures of rounded pebbles and other intriguing data sent back from the red planet. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47802) Pentagon Gives E-Voting the Boot The military scraps an Internet voting system designed for use by overseas soldiers and other U.S. citizens this fall over concerns about the system's security. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47801) Wi-Fi Enters the Space Race If people do land on Mars, NASA wants to make sure they can get a decent wireless connection. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47800) Getting in Bed With the Customer After two years, Microsoft's home video game system has failed to make a splash in Japan -- maybe free 'love pillows' will be the answer. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47799) Telling Lies in the Name of Art In Charlie White's surreal world, photographs are just like the movies -- a creep show full of killer special effects. And nothing is as it seems. By Jenn Shreve from Wired magazine. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47798) Iran's Most Wanted: Filmmakers With inexpensive digital cameras, underground filmmakers expose Iran's festering social ills. It's dangerous work. One of these haunting films could land its creator in prison for years. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47797) Stop the Cash Flow, Kill the Spam Although spammers are using ever-more-sophisticated methods to flood your inbox, tracking the miscreants down isn't all that complicated. Just follow the money. By Kari L. Dean. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47796) Great Taste, Less Privacy More and more bars and restaurants scan patrons' driver's licenses, ostensibly to verify age. But the licenses contain lots of valuable information, and the temptation to use the data for marketing is hard to resist. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on February 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m.. (47795) Ben Mezrich: the telling of a true story Ben Mezrich (photo) is the author of Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. I learned about the book first from his Wired article, "Hacking Las Vegas: the inside story of the MIT blackjack team's conquest of the casinos". I got the book this past Christmas and enjoyed it. It's an easy read. The story is engaging. However, in my review at Amazon (page back to 30Dec03), I questioned the book's veracity. To my surprise, I got an e-mail from the author: "Wanted to set your mind at ease... [T]he book is for real, as are the st From kuro5hin.org on February 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m.. (47794) Umsatzsteuerlager Mit dem Steueränderungsgesetz 2003 (31 S. PDF) wurde - wie in vielen anderen EU-Mitgliedstaaten - die Möglichkeit eröffnet, ein Umsatzsteuerlager... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 5:51 a.m.. (47793) E-Learning Anbieter von Fernunterricht werden künftig mehr auf webbasierte Kurse setzen. Zudem werden sie verstärkt verschiedene, einander ergänzende Formen der Lernvermittlung... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 5:51 a.m.. (47792) GeoLearning and InfoSource Announce Courseware Partnership From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47791) Class.com, Inc. Announces Spanish 2 Courses From Distance-Educator.com&apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47790) Interactive Advantage Corporation Deploys ToolBook to Create Turnkey Solution for Rapid Development of Software Simulations From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47789) Galveston Independent School District With PLATO Learning on District-Wide Implementation Through TARGET Grant From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47788) Online college aptitude tests may not prove correct From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47787) Board looks at online education From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47786) Strong Science and Technology Capacity a Necessity for Every Nation From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47785) Illinois Compass gives new direction to teaching with technology From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47784) Anytime, Anyplace And The Community College: Ten Emerging Insights From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on February 6, 2004 at 4:48 a.m.. (47783) Lady is One Incredible Dog! New children's book honors real Therapy Dog from Hanover, PA. Lady was found by the side of the road and adopted by a nursing assistant who trained Lady to be a Therapy Dog. Author and radio announcer Chris Williams was inspired by 9-11 rescue dogs and networked locally to find Lady and wrote a children's book about a typical day in the life of a therapy dog. [PRWEB Feb 6, 2004] From PR Web on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47782) 3n's Emergency Alert Notification 'One Call HYPHEN Reaches All' Business Continuity Planning System - Helping Organizations Contact Every Employee, Customer & Vendor...In Minutes 3n's automated emergency alert notification system is helping organizations with Business Continuity Planning through the implementation of an emergency notification system. Successful organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the risk of serious business interruptions and of the necessity of maintaining operations in such events. Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning tools like 3n's Emergency Notification System help organizations be prepared to communicate efficiently and effectively should an emergency situation occur. [PRWEB Feb 6, 2004] From PR Web on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47781) Doctor contends schools are contributing to attention deficit disorder with high-carb foods and chemical cleaners. Increasing numbers of children are being diagnosed with ADD (attention deficit disorder). Many of these children see an increase in behavior problems while at school. Dr. Howard Peiper links potential triggers to chemicals and high-carbohydrate dietary offerings dispensed by the schools. [PRWEB Feb 6, 2004] From PR Web on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47780) SetFocus Approved as Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions Microsoft Certified Partners possess a high degree of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies. [PRWEB Feb 6, 2004] From PR Web on February 6, 2004 at 4:45 a.m.. (47779) Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is now f ... Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is now freebieThe complete NKS book is now available online, with full text,images, 30,000+ links and more...http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonlineIt's a pity that I can't download the book as a whole. From Meta on February 6, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (47778) Recent Presentations You may have noticed that I've been giving Macromedia Breeze a workout. I'm honored they chose me to give the first two sessions in their inaugural webinar series. Five hundred people signed up for Sam's and my presentation today, although of course nowhere near... From Internet Time Blog on February 6, 2004 at 3:50 a.m.. (47777) SearchGrid "Ever wondered how various combinations of search words can change your result count? Now you can find out with an... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 6, 2004 at 2:51 a.m.. (47776) Quote-Of-The-Day Ich habe neulich darüber nachgedacht, ob ich wohl von Gott etwas annehmen oder begehren wollte: Ich will mir das gar sehr überlegen, weil ich da, wo ich von Gott empfangen würde, unter ihm oder unterhalb seiner wäre wie ein Diener oder Knecht, er selbst aber im Geben wie ein Herr wäre, - und so soll es mit uns nicht stehen im ewigen Leben. From Mein Schuster on February 6, 2004 at 2:50 a.m.. (47775) Ed Broadbant has a blog (Via "boing") - No RSS feed though. Open offer to all candidates. We will give you a discount on a blog (free for first 30 days) with an RSS feed so that people can subscribe. Just call me at 604 729 7924 and we'll set it up. From Roland Tanglao&apos;s Weblog on February 6, 2004 at 2:49 a.m.. (47774) In Berkeley, Finding Common Ground on Vietnam Robert S. McNamara, the man who helped make Berkeley synonymous with the anti-Vietnam War movement, appeared willingly before his accusers on their home turf. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47773) Black Students Sue in a Voting-Rights Case Students at Prairie View A&M University filed a federal suit in response to what they say were threats by the local district attorney to prevent them from voting. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47772) Georgia Schools Restore 'Evolution' to Curriculum The state superintendent of schools, Kathy Cox, said she would reinstate the word "evolution" in the proposed biology curriculum for the state's schools. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47771) Student Fleeing Arrest Collides With Principal, Injuring Him A Brooklyn high school principal was taken to the hospital on Thursday after he was knocked down in the hallway by a student trying to flee from the police. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47770) Ruling in Favor of Clarett Could Open a Huge Hole Into the N.F.L. Draft More underclassmen could jump from high school to the N.F.L. if Maurice Clarett's successful challenge to the league's eligibility requirement is upheld. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47769) Missed Pickup Means 30 College Students Lose Chance at Fellowship A missed courier pickup, an honest clerk and an unyielding federal bureaucracy have conspired to deny 30 students the chance to compete for a prestigious Fulbright grant. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47768) High School Scientists of Tomorrow Compete for a Major Prize Forty students were announced as the finalists for the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search, which presents an award often called the junior Nobel Prize. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47767) Problems of School Discipline System Emerge at Hearing A panel of top Bloomberg administration officials portrayed the public school discipline system as still in disarray despite a push by City Hall to fix the problems. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47766) Dirty and Broken Bathrooms Make for a Long School Day Dirty bathrooms, broken toilets, faulty stall doors and a dearth of toilet paper are persistent in New York City's 1,200 public schools. From New York Times: Education on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47765) SCO adds copyright claim to IBM suit The company significantly widens its Unix and Linux lawsuit against IBM, adding a copyright infringement claim to the already complicated case, sources say. From CNET News.com on February 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m.. (47764) When Web Services and Workflow Merge: Verity buys Cardiff Verity announced this week the intention to acquire Cardiff. This merger creates a sophisticated workflow technology with integrated smart search and content management technology based on Web Services. Interestingly, it does this without conventional content management or knowledge management technology. XML is rapidly changing the game.... From The Workflow Institute Blog on February 6, 2004 at 12:52 a.m.. (47763) Lunch with Phil Wolff - fascinating and fun as usual It was fun lunching with Phil Wolff, Fred, Jon, Jan (who I hadn't met before but is writing his PhD on how computer standards get adopted; who, how, why, etc. and is a fascinating and witty conversationalist) and Andrew. Too tired to take notes (we talked about blogs of course, the Dean and Kerry campaigns, jobs versus work versus doing what yo From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on February 6, 2004 at 12:50 a.m.. (47762) New York Times Spotlights Librarians, but Misses the Bullseye When a Search Engine Isn't Enough, Call a Librarian "For generations, reference librarians have been known as the source for answers to perplexing questions on almost any subject. In recent years libraries found other means for answering questions, offering reference services over the telephone, by e-mail, and more recently, through 24-hour Internet chat services. Still, with From The Shifted Librarian on February 6, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47761) Innovative Blog Very cool - the Addison Public Library is using a blog to detail its Journey to Innovative, a new computer system for their catalog! From The Shifted Librarian on February 6, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47760) Shhhhhhhh Apple Selling DRM'ed Silence at $0.99 a Pop "As the Apple Turns has compiled a playlist of silent tracks available as DRM-restricted files from the iTunes Music Store. Yesterday we mentioned in passing that faithful viewer djsteve had purchased a track that cost him the 'best 99 cents [he'd] ever spent.' The joke, of course, was that it was the second track from The Whitey Album by Ciccone Youth, which consists of a minute From The Shifted Librarian on February 6, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47759) Open-source content management systems My KM Column article for February looks at open-source content management systems. To quote: Open-source CMSs have now matured to the point where they should be considered side-by-side with commercial alternatives. This is not a reflection of 'open-source zeal', rather... From Column Two on February 6, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47758) Intranet teams: a leadership and coaching role The first of two CM Briefings explores how intranet teams should considering taking on a leadership and coaching role. To quote: This 'big stick' approach hasn't worked in most cases. Instead, the intranet team often becomes viewed as a gatekeeper... From Column Two on February 6, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47757) Definition of information management terms The second CM Briefing presents definitions of information management terms. To quote: There is considerable confusion in the marketplace regarding the definition of various information management terms. The scope and role of specific information systems is particularly blurry, in part... From Column Two on February 6, 2004 at 12:47 a.m.. (47756) Analysis / Lining up his ministers like targets From Haaretz: News on February 5, 2004 at 11:52 p.m.. (47755) Integrating reading and writing of documents P. J. Brown and Heather Brown has written an interesting article on integrating reading and writing of documents. To quote: Computer users have become accustomed to the writing of documents being regarded as a separate activity from the reading of... From Column Two on February 5, 2004 at 11:47 p.m.. (47754) Community Chest I've decorated an earlier post with this card. Let's see if it comes on the picTuner... From Seb'apos;s Open Research on February 5, 2004 at 11:46 p.m.. (47753) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]