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Salesforce.com draws closer to IPO The software maker plans to offer its shares for public trading in March, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Display technologies focus on low power Developments in display technology promise to squeeze more life out of the batteries in laptop computers. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Powerpoint anthology of literature More Powerpoint satire: the literature anthology. (thanks to Jesse Walker)... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Consumer choice for DRM: Scoble vs Doctorow Cory Doctorow replies in thunder to Robert Scoble's take on buying DRM'd music files. Microsoft set a good example that Apple has been too stupid to follow, and it's time for the company to do it again. When Microsoft shipped... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Dean Schott media spin John Schott offers a precise, powerful analysis of the media spin on Dean's Iowa roar. He pulls apart the old and new media approaches by successive framing levels. Read it.... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Moblogging in Sweden Patrik Svenson tells us about an exciting project with the Scandinavian Jokkmokk festival. A team from the excellent HUMlab at Umea is going to conduct a full-court press moblogging of the event, using various tools and approaches to bring the... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Hertzian microclimates and softspace The new Receiver has a good article on mobile-enabled augmented reality by Usman Haque, "Invisible Topographies". It includes a good nod to Hertzian Tales and goes on: We are aware that hardspace affects our ability to make mobile phone calls... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Pattern Recognition: Jameson return to Gibson Fred Jameson has an article on Pattern Recognition. Back during the postmodernism/cyberpunk heyday, Jameson's take on Neuromancer was very influential. My notes coming soon. (thanks to Semioclast)... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

The Semantic Earth Dave Weinberger picks up JD "WorldBoard" Sophrer's thread, and calls lyrically for The Semantic Earth (abstract only). Grid the Earth! Great big cartographic science! Thanks to the constellation of technology that enables digital networks to be laid over the places... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Australian IP enforcers raid p2p app owner International intellectual property wars continue: an Australian group raided the local headquarters of Sharman Networks, owners of KaZaA. Music Industry Privacy Investigations received a judge's ok, then raided the joint, looking for evidence of contributory infringement.... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Digital video storytelling Bernie DeKoven has fallen under my multimedia narrative spell. Bernie brings to this area a welcome, necessary sense of fun and play. Making these videos is a lot of fun, done the right way. Showing DVD'd work is also a... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Copyright imperial Still more on the international nature of intellectual property battles: Copyright and the American empire. "Of course, we are an empire, but we are different," he says. "Our empire is not defined by territorial ambitions but by ideas. A lot... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

More on German horror and crime from the NYT The New York Times is carrying a brooding consideration of crime and horror in Germany, based in part on the recent Meiwes eroto-cannibalism case: What makes the recent, extraordinary violence particularly disturbing is the seemingly irrational cause: not money or... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Bookmarks I haven't posted this yet, so here: my bookmarks. I built these over nearly a decade of bookmarking URLs to many browsers on many machines. Redundancies and lost information frustrated, so I simply whipped up a text-only HTML file. Categories... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Social software in the mental institution: EST Cory Doctorow's latest, Eastern Standard Tribe, contains this neat social software idea/parody: SNA in a mental institution. oeGive the patients a good reason to wear their tracking bracelets: redesign them so they gather stats on mobility and vitals and track... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Recursive simulation: the Sims plays Sim City Recursivity: SimSlice is a game your Sims characters can play, a program-within-a-program. Richard Powers once told me that he was hoping to see computer program characters coding; we're on the way. Put another way, we can subsume urban design under... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

ETCon and m-learning At the end of his lively account of ETCon, Justin Hall turns to give a snapshot of m-learning: ETech must be what it feels like to be a citizen of the future - when you have expansive always-on network reach.... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Centralized service is becoming slowerSome social ... Centralized service is becoming slowerSome social software services, like Feedster, Del.icio.us are becoming slower than months ago. Feedster has adjusted freqency of crawling severval times as I observed to match the increasing huge number of feeds. Del.icio.us is good for sharing bookmarks socially, however, it's also becoming jam in traffic and data access. Is that a paradox between "maximum sharing" and "performance". Not really, the answer is distribution while still keep well connected in computing. From Meta on February 18, 2004 at 9:50 p.m..

China unveils first anti-graft rules Xinhua: Amid ... China unveils first anti-graft rules Xinhua: Amid a steady rise of corruption cases, China's ruling Communist Party has unveiled its first-ever anti-graft rules which have brought under its purview the party general secretary, Politburo as well as the 68 million cadres, the state media reported today. Have to take more time to prove, or never. From Meta on February 18, 2004 at 9:50 p.m..

mykitsilano.com and myyaletown.com: 2 new 'old school' community portals mykitsilano.com and myyaletown.com are two new 'old school' community portals with ads (that I learned about from this comment by "jessy" who appears to be associated in some way with mykitsilano.com). They are OK as far as it goes, but I think they would be better if they had a way for users to comment on every page, a blog component and an RSS feed. With a blog component, Kitsilano and Yaletown residents could blog abo From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 9:49 p.m..

Rebranded Firebird's stunning new logo Flexbeta: 13 reasons to use Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. A great product with a great packaging. From Seb's Open Research on February 18, 2004 at 9:47 p.m..

Competing for attention Justin Hall on conference backchannels. This is what classrooms will look like a few years from now. Imagine a conference where half the audience was heckling and questioning the speaker near constantly. And not just unfounded heckling, but well-researched contrarian jibes and zinger queries. Imagine holding your attention on the speaker while their presentation was being expertly critiqued by the people around you. Now imagine that all that was happening silently, you could hear the feedback From Seb's Open Research on February 18, 2004 at 9:47 p.m..

Is your PC ready for Longhorn? Microsoft plans to give developers their "first close look" at hardware requirements needed to run the next version of Windows at a conference in May. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Nortel sees breaks in China Nortel Networks is looking to China as a major area of growth for its telecommunications equipment, especially for its Net telephony and third-generation wireless products. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

RIAA Sued Under Gangster Laws It's probably not the first time that record company executives have been likened to Al Capone, but this time a judge might have to agree or disagree. A New Jersey woman, one of the hundreds of people sued for alleged music-swapping by the Recording Industry Association of America, has countersued the big record labels, charging them with extortion and violations of the federal anti-racketeering act. From aG-UK Filesharing News on February 18, 2004 at 8:50 p.m..

E-learning grows in and out of university From ScotFEICT on February 18, 2004 at 8:50 p.m..

Intel broadens ultrawideband role The chipmaker forms a group to promote the technology to fill in the wireless gaps between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and "kill the wires." From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Oracle woos shareholder group The software maker and its director nominees for PeopleSoft's board meet with Institutional Shareholder Services to persuade the influential group to recommend the slate to institutional investors. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Cisapride linked to 'Child Abuse' cases According to an article in the Observer today, cisapride, a drug that has been linked to deaths world wide is also implicated in many of the apparent 'child abuse' cases that are being reviewed in the UK. Both the role of the drug as well as the 'explanation' for the parents' violence, proposed by a controversal paediatrician and 'expert witness' in many of the cases, are to be investigated.... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Pharma makers withhold suicide data in drug studies According to an article in the Washington Post, the makers of popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor have refused to disclose the details of most clinical trials involving depressed children, denying doctors and parents crucial evidence as they weigh fresh fears that such medicines may cause some children to become suicidal. Apparently the drug makers are free to keep data hidden contravening, if not the letter of the law, the spirit of scientific transparency. Negative findings have a... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Ephedra - Ephedrine: what difference? The FDA has announced it will issue a ban on ephedra - a herb. Ephedrine, the isolated active substance, seems to be the culprit in many of the adverse reactions that are associated with "ephedra"-containing slimming or energizing products, specially if it is combined with caffeine. The FDA knew of the dangers of this combination and had issued rules to prohibit such products. Nevertheless, they were quite freely available at any 7-Eleven and similar stores. Now if the FDA knew... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Risk Free Vitamins - How Safe is Safe Enough? Recent legislative proposals on at least three continents have centered around the perceived need to ensure the safety of natural health products, such as supplements containing vitamins and minerals. Canada has proposed drug-style regulations for supplements. In the US, a proposal termed S 722 seeks to increase the FDA's powers to remove supplements from circulation. Australia recalled 1600 diverse health products in an unprecedented prelude to - what else - tighter regulations. Harmonization across the Tasman seeks to impose the... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Agriculture Antidote - Community Supported We are facing increasing toxicity in the environment and our food supply is not exempt. PCB in salmon, lead and mercury in seafood, pesticide residues in grains (don't worry), rocket fuel in salad, genetically modified growth hormone in cow's milk, chemical treatment for seeds that kills the bees and fast food masquerading as "nutritious". The problems seem to be immanent in our system, in the "chemical" way we chose to increase yields in agriculture. Nitrogen-based fertilizers are preventing plants from... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Ice Age Coming? We hear about global warming and in fact, the temperatures seem to be slowly inching up. Whether this is a man made effect or depends on solar activity or other environmental factors outside of our control is an open question. What is new to me is that, even in a scenario of global warming, there could be local flips towards a cold climate. A mechanism that could bring about such a flip for much of northern Europe is the Gulf... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

The Avian Flu and Drugless Doctors BBC carried an article on 5 February titled "1918 killer flu secrets revealed" which tells us that the scientists claim to now have figured out that 50 million people were killed by a virus that "jumped from birds to humans". Obviously this is to prepare us for a "killer epidemic", something that is supposed to hit any time now, be it this winter or the next or the one after that. Jon Rappoport found the most interesting analysis of the... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Disclosure Project charges: Energy interventions suppressed A pattern of deliberate suppression of energy related inventions has been found by investigators of the Disclosure Project, a group that promotes government transparency in technology related areas, such as energy technology and extraterrestrial technologies gleaned by governments from UFO finds. They are asking whistle-blowers to come forward to add hard evidence to substantiate the pattern.... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Antidepressants - Drugging kids in school Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, is a custom-made "disease" to start selling drugs quite legally to school kids. Have the doctor prescribe them. Your kid will be that much better off - or not? It appears that the real dough about the adverse effects of antidepressant drugs has been kept secret so as not to ruin sales. Violence and suicide are common side effects of those drugs, and there are some who say that just about every major school... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Australia - Senator Questions Natural Products Recall The Australian Health Authorities, in June last year, recalled more than a thousand different food supplements manufactured by Pan Pharmaceuticals and had them destroyed in a thinly veiled attempt to destroy the credibility of nutritional products for health care. The mega-sequester came at a time when Australia apparently wanted to show "leadership" in how to deal with natural products, firmly establishing the Therapeutic Goods Administration as the lead agency in a proposed Trans-Tasman scheme for a joint ANZO health authority.... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Gates obsessed - battling virus plague According to a recent story in BBC News, a foundation set up by Bill Gates - founder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation - is giving $ 83 million for fighting tuberculosis. The money will not be going towards providing clean water or decent living conditions for the people most affected. It will be invested in pharmaceutical research to find - you guessed it - a virus antidote. Perhaps the fact that Gates' flagship product, the Windows operating system, is continually... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Cosmic Internet - The Universe as your 'provider' As we struggle with electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and other communications applications, a new development is quietly making its way into reality. Hartmut Mueller and his Leonard Euler Space-Energy-Research Institute are developing a communication technology that is not based on pushing out and receiving signals carried by electromagnetic radiation. Mueller has pioneered a method of transmitting information through the medium of gravitation. Standing waves in logarithmic space, for those interested in the more technical aspects, which are described in... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

South Africa: Traditional Medicine to Fight AIDS, Poverty The South African Health Minister says that the use of African traditional medicines may eventually replace anti-retrovirals in the treatment of HIV and Aids. Now that is a novel thought. Aids drugs have long been accused of being worse than the disease, their highly toxic shotgun approach kills cells pretty much indiscriminately. A less damaging approach to healing those affected would certainly be welcome.... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

CDC Knew: Mercury in Vaccines Induces Autism It is quite clear that mercury is a potent neurotoxin and actually kills developing nerve cells. The serious thing is that mercury has been injected into children with numerous vaccines and it still is - with the majority of flu vaccines. Visual evidence in a film linked here, it takes eons to download so you need a fast connection or a lot of patience. This danger was apparently clear to the CDC since some time in the '90s. The problem... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Cholesterol and heart attacks - Study to save statins Just as statin drug sales continue to plummet, we hear of a "new study with dramatic results". The study is not double blind, it's not an intervention trial - it simply examines the medical records of 551 heart failure patients and the likelyhood of death within a year of their heart failure. According to Dr. Gregg Fonarow, "patients who took statins were 55 percent less likely to die during the year after they were prescribed the drugs than patients who... From on February 18, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

The Experience of Running a Weblog I find it fascinating to re-examine what I have written in the past.  In doing so, I realize how much has changed within me in such a short period of time.  Last year, I did a case study (PDF) on the first group of bloggers here at the East Asia Center (EAC).  I adapted Clark Moustakas' phenomenological research method in an attempt to capture the essence of w From apcampbell News on February 18, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

IWP - Week 3: Quality in Interactive Webpublishing Our goals for week 3:

Discuss the reading from week 2 and begin to explore ideas of quality in webpublishing

Visit each students' websites and examine their approaches in light of the previous readings

Introduce trackback, discuss it's purpose, and show how to enable it

Introduce our new wiki and think about how it m From apcampbell News on February 18, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

Midterm Self and Peer Review Criteria Last year, EAC students in the Networked Cooperative Learning class stated how much they benefitted from doing peer and self evaluations.  Based on that experience, I'm coming up with some possible criteria for midterm self and peer reviews for Spring 2004.  Since the main focus of first half of the semester is spent building a learning community with one another, the purpose of these reviews is to take a moment to reflect on each other's practices as well as our own.  Reflection is a crucial aspect of any experiential learnin From apcampbell News on February 18, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

To Comment or to Blog (with a ping) In his attempt to increase the activity in his personal learning network, John expresses difficulty interacting with 'other weblogs': One of the most difficult aspects of interacting on other weblogs is that I have to remember to revisit sites to see if there has been any further discussion of the topic I originally responded to.  Read more... John shouldn't be spending so much time surfing around on From apcampbell News on February 18, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

BBC's Connector Heute reicht es nicht mehr für die großen Würfe. Deshalb habe ich einen neuen Service der BBC ausprobiert: "Talk to people on the same page as you! By using web pages as meeting points, Connector allows you to find... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 18, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Authentic Tasks: "An assignment given to students ... Authentic Tasks: "An assignment given to students designed to assess their ability to apply standard-driven knowledge and skills to real-world challenges." This would seem to be the obvious way to assess what students have learned, but most assessment is almost wildly inauthentic. I loved the simple comparison chart:Traditional ------------------------------------ AuthenticSelecting a Response -------------------------- Performing a TaskContrived -------------------------------------- Real-life From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on February 18, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Working Group Note: Authoring Techniques for Device Independence 2004-02-18: The Device Independence Working Group has completed work on Authoring Techniques for Device Independence. The document addresses the rapidly changing area of delivering content to diverse devices. It covers content creation, maintenance and adaptation, and user interaction with applications. Learn more about the W3C Device Independence Activity. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

Jigsaw 2.2.4 Released 2004-02-18: Jigsaw version 2.2.4 is available for download. As this version contains a security fix, updating to 2.2.4 is highly recommended. The new version also includes a revamped HTTP client stack as well as new SSL code from Thomas Kopp. Implemented in Java, Jigsaw is W3C's open source Web server platform. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

Working Draft: Modularization of XHTML 1.0 - Second Edition 2004-02-18: The HTML Working Group has released a Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML 1.0 - Second Edition, a revision of the W3C Recommendation Modularization of XHTML. Published for community review, the document clarifies and makes corrections based on nearly three years of use. It includes a new implementation of the abstract modules using XML schemas. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

Keeping Up With the Amazons According to a new report, a handful of 'speed demon' sites are setting new standards for e-commerce transaction response times. Can your small business keep up with the pace? From E-Commerce Guide on February 18, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

FDA endorses ID tags for drug makers The move highlights growing interest in RFID within the pharmaceutical industry and may prove to be a major boost to the fledgling technology. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Dell speeds computing clusters From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

30.000 Euro für den Doktor In Kaiserslautern müssen sich drei Männer wegen Betrugs und Urkundenfälschung vor Gericht verantworten, so das manager-magazin. Sie sollen akademische Titel... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

Looking for a Web Site Comparison Tool For MPRating, I am looking to automate my work. Therefore, I am looking for a tool that will download all the web pages of a site every day and compare it to the previous day. I have found a few things, but nothing that does exactly what I want. Currently I am using the Unix commands wget to get the website and diff to do a comparison but there must be something better out there. If you know of such a tool, please leave a comment, email roland AT streamlinewebco.com or call me at 604 729 7924, From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Ten Technical Communication Myths These myths and this piece apply to a lot of fields besides technical writing. QUOTEIn no particular order, this paper presents my "top 10 list" of what I consider to be the central myths in modern technical communication. There are undoubtedly others. By acting as devil's advocate, intentionally presenting these myths in a bad light, I'm hoping that I can persuade you to question these and other rules of thumb that you use daily. When you pay closer attention to the rules you obey, consciously or otherwise, and question why, you can start From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Wireless Future Conference I'm talking at the Wireless Future conference. Here comes the blurb: Time is running out to register for the Wireless Future conference, which will be held March 12-16 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Explore the future of licensed and unlicensed wireless technology with such luminaries as Howard Rheingold (author of Smart Mobs), Kevin Werbach (organizer of Supernova and author of New America Foundation's Radio Revolution), Cory Doctorow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the legendary Dave Hughes, David Weinberger (author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Dewayne From Joho the Blog on February 18, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..

Even More Furling Around I've been playing with Furl some more and having some minor epiphanies as I go. I'm almost at the point where I think there could be some broad implementation but I'm worried that since it's in beta it might just go away some day. What I'm thinking of entails quite a bit of setup. When Mike Giles of Furl e-mailed posted this last week it got me thinking... Glad to see you are finding Furl useful! If you want to give folks an email option, they can subscribe to your archive (and can subscribe to specific topics). That wa From weblogged News on February 18, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..

Slanting Science to Make Political Points Another Bush scandal: Top scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Science, say the administration is abusing science in service of politics. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 18, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

Testing begins on Microsoft's Virtual Server The program, which lets a single server run multiple OSes, should see a final release around midyear. Though the software will be able to run Linux, Microsoft says it will "optimize the experience for Windows." From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

Microsoft cracks down on source-code traders Microsoft has sent several letters to people known to have posted Windows source code on the Internet, warning them to stop offering the files and erase any copies. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

RIAA sued under gang laws A woman who the record label group sued for file-swapping fires back, saying labels are breaking racketeering laws. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

WonderWeb From the website: "The aim of the WonderWeb project is to develop and demonstrate the infrastructure required for the large-scale deployment of ontologies as the foundation for the Semantic Web." The site hosts free tools (click on 'software'), ontologies, and more. By Various Authors, February, 2004 [Refer][Research][--> From OLDaily on February 18, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

OddPost George Siemens wrote of my article, The Semantic Social Network, that it was written ahead of its time. I don't think so. Oddpost, for example, is an email and RSS aggregator combined into a single platform, just released. Meanwhile on my discussion board for this item, Eu From OLDaily on February 18, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

The Dynamic Dissemination of Complex Digital Objects If you are not into complicated systems architecture you won't get a lot out of this item. For the rest of us, this paper demonstrates the use of the MPEG-21 DIP and the NISO OpenURL formats for the distribution of complex objects in an OAI repository. As the authors conclude, "OpenURL has so far only been used to deliver services that were calculated based on metadata that describes a referenced resource. In the proposed solution, the services are based on the resource itself." The sort of thing enabled by this architecture is that the designer of a resource can code, say, a 'link&a From OLDaily on February 18, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Augsburger Stadtrecht Die Stadt Augsburg hat ihre Loseblattsammlung des Stadtrechts zugunsten einer Internet-Fassung eingestellt, teilt das JIPS mit. Die online zur Verfügung... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

Kursbuch eLearning 2004 Auf den Seiten des Portals "Neue Medien in der Bildung" findet man seit kurzem das "Kursbuch eLearning 2004". Auf fast... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

How to get free iTunes from Pepsi with every bottle Cool hack! [SOURCE:Boing Boing via Joi Ito's Web]QUOTEIf you tilt a sealed, new Pepsi bottle at 25 degrees and squint at the underside of the cap, you can tell whether it's a winning free-iTunes-track bottle or a try-again bottle. Link (via Futurismic)I guess this means the bloggers will be getting the music. ;-) From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Radek's Newspaper Styles for FeedDemon - Roland's Law strikes again! Great styles for FeedDemon! I like the ones that highlight and underline watch terms. Just another example of "Roland's Law" (I am sure somebody else thought of this but what the h*ck :-) !) which is: Every cool app becomes a platform. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Yahoo! now serves up an RSS Directory Yahoo! has ditched Google as its search engine for one of its own, and it has a promising new feature. This search for “Object Learning”… … turns up a “View as XML” link to this site’s RSS feed. Via the The Shifted Librarian.... From Object Learning on February 18, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

Big Blue's storage software duo When it comes to data storage software IBM is a two-person tag team with Laura Sanders and Bruce Hillsberg running the show. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Intel to speed lagging Linux support Smarting from criticism from open-source programmers, the chip giant commits to release Linux versions of essential supporting software at about the same time it releases Windows versions. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

H-1B visa limit reached The federal government says it has received enough skilled worker visa applications to meet this year's cap, prompting one business group to call for reform of the controversial program. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Intel fleshes out Itanium plans The chipmaker details upcoming releases and highlights two new technologies for the family of processors. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Software on the Brain Most software harbors a functional theory of how the mind works. It's not the most sophisticated theory you'll find, but it's not without its subtleties. The graphical interface revolution, after all, was predicated on a crucial insight about the way the brain forms and archives memories. Despite this and other advances, for the most part software design has not kept up with our understanding of the brain. Thanks in part to the tremendous advance in brain imaging technologies, as well as a newfound interest in the brain's emotional systems, cognitive neuroscience has made g From Release 1.0 on February 18, 2004 at 3:53 p.m..

Desktop Sidebar Haben Sie noch etwas Platz auf Ihrem Bildschirm? Vor allem Outlook-Anwender werden ihre Freude an der vielseitigen "Desktop Sidebar" haben.... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

Let Me See Your Papers A Nevada man was arrested solely for failure to produce identification papers. His web site presents his side of a case that will soon be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. From kuro5hin.org on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

TI jumps onto ultrawideband wagon The chipmaker joins the WiMedia Alliance, which is pushing the wireless networking technology as a low-cost, power-stingy alternative to Bluetooth. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Shoppers find a friendly face in e-tailers People who shop online experience more customer satisfaction than consumers in other industries, a study shows. Amazon.com scores highest with shopaholics. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Haushaltsscheck Wegen der Ortsnähe und Zeitflexibilität solcher Beschäftigungsverhältnisse kann beiden Seiten geholfen werden: Denen, die Arbeitsplätze in Privathaushalten suchen, und denen,... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Wired News: Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 - 2004 Sad news: Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent company, Terra Lycos (also the parent company of Wired News). Judging by blog posts and e-mails, the site’s fans aren’t surprised. Still, they’re sad to see the end of an era. Launched in August 1996 as part of a fast-growing collection of websites funded by the original owners of Wired magazine, Webmonkey instantly became the surprise hit. Most of Wired’s sites offered the brea From Object Learning on February 18, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

DJ Downsie is in da HOUSE!!! Stephen Downes really lets his geek/freak flag fly with a posting from yesterday’s newsletter entitled Networks. It’s not so much a dicrete article as it is a remix, laying out a backbeat that’s familar to this particular DJ’s audience… If we were to imagine the internet as a global mind, how would we determine what it was thinking? Not by examining any individual website, or even every website, but by looking for the patterns, the standing waves, the moments. And if we were to seek a single one of the internet’s thoughts, how would we look? We would not see From Object Learning on February 18, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

HP, Motorola prep wares for cell phone show From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

HP completes Consera acquisition From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Intranet In der neuesten Ausgabe von Law.com erklärt Brenton Miller von Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, warum sich die dortigen Mitarbeiter ausgerechnet... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

How Sleazy Rumors Reach Critical Mass MediaChannel.org: A Smear's Journey to Page One. At what point does reporting a smear become acceptable? In a news landscape increasingly crowded with competing sources, mainstream news organizations often cross the line to vie with less scrupulous muckrakers for readers' attention. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 18, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Google News coverage of Yahoo dumping Google I wondered whether today's biggest tech news story -- Yahoo dumping Google for its own search engine -- would show up first in the Sci/Tech category at Google. Sure enough, it does: ... From Jon's Radio on February 18, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

AOL puts heat on Sunshine State spammers America Online files a suit against Florida-based individuals it believes sent massive amounts of spam e-mail to its members. And, rival EarthLink pursues an alleged spam ring in Alabama. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Microsoft dooms Jupiter, readies BizTalk The software giant scraps plans to bundle its server applications. Meanwhile, a revamped BizTalk could grab market share from IBM, BEA and Oracle. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

JURAcon 2004 Frankfurt ist weiterhin vor Düsseldorf und München der beliebteste Standort für Kanzleien - und mit aktuell 30 teilnehmenden Wirtschaftskanzleien unterstreicht... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Yahoo! search Genie stellt heute die neue Suchmaschine von Yahoo! und etliche überarbeitete Funkionen vor. In diesem Zusammenhang gilt es auf die... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Project Management Staying on top of project progress. One of the frequent problems in project management happens when progress goes off track and the project manager doesn't find out about it until the project is due. In "Using Inch-Pebbles to Track Project State," Johanna Rothman offers a solution. [Computerworld] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on February 18, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Digital format registry will make archives more useful David Seaman, The Global Digital Format Registry, CLIR Issues, January/February 2004. Excerpt: "Academic institutions are beginning to create digital institutional repositories into which the intellectual capital of a college or university can be preserved for reuse --gathering up not just the articles and books of the completed scholarly endeavor but also the data sets, presentations, and course-related materials that faculty generate. As this process moves forward, it becomes obvious that these institutions also need to save i From FOS News on February 18, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

The latest Shirky A couple of pictures. Insert your "Awwwwwwww" here: _____________________. Awwwwwwwwwww!... From Joho the Blog on February 18, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Quantitative thinking There are interesting facts and ideas at this intro to Alfred Crosby's The Measure of Reality. For example, did you know:Because Europe did not straddle the equator, and because old traditions dictated twelve hours for each day and each night, Europeans developed a system of unequal "accordion-pleated hours that puffed up and deflated" so as to ensure a dozen hours for each daytime and each nighttime, winter and summer.... From Joho the Blog on February 18, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Student Blog Observations I'm doing a little informal classroom research that will attempt to apply the Anne method for building community through the class portal. For the next few days, I'm going to be focusing on pulling best practices from the kids' sites into the class homepage, as I did today. I'm also going to start urging them to read and write more about each other's experiences. Many of them have been doing a great job of recording their process and making notes, but it s From weblogged News on February 18, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

Yahoo Becomes an RSS Directory! Gary "How-Does-He-Find-the-Time-to-Maintain-ResourceShelf?" Price kept me busy on IM this morning showing me all kinds of wonderful Yahoo things. The first, of course, is the big news that Yahoo no longer uses Google as its search engine. While this would be big in-and-of-itself, the content of the new search results are what's so intriguing to me. Gary suggested I do a search for "shifted librarian," and sure enough my site cam From The Shifted Librarian on February 18, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

User-driven integration Tim Hodson's LibraryLookup bookmarklet broke when his library upgraded its OPAC. So he fixed it: Have used your lookup many times, until our library service started to use a new OPAC! Talis Information systems have released a new OPAC which is called Talis Prism. For a while I thought my lovely lookup would never work again, but I have recently discovered (by changing their post form variables to gets with the marvellous firefox browser and a web developers toolbar) that a get version of their page works ju From Jon's Radio on February 18, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

For Intel, 32/64-bit chips a long time coming The chipmaker has a long track record of downplaying interest in chips that could read both 32-bit and 64-bit software. Still, over the last decade, it was tinkering away. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Intel's vision of the future The chipmaker unveils plans to bring 64-bit capabilities to its x86 line and to foster home networking. Also: Weaving a networking standard. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Luring businesses with low-price laptops Manufacturers are angling for business customers with several new, relatively inexpensive notebook models. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Rich Clients Live! (continued) Following on from my previous article on rich clients I suggest that there are some things that a rich client model can do better, or more efficiently, than a thin client remote service combination, e.g. providing richer more poweful user interface functions/elements, validation, sorting/filtering, and visualisation. Predictions that the thin client browser would the only... From Auricle on February 18, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Justizirrtümer und Ermittlungspannen Acht Jahre nach den grausamen Verbrechen muss sich Marc Dutroux, ein verurteilter Vergewaltiger und Kinderschänder und der mutmaßliche Mörder von... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

Amazon tax gaffe: from hero to zero Amazon is a super-savvy Internet company, except when they screw up. I, along with other Amazon Associates, am now reeling from the double whammy of a database error compounded by unusuable voice mail. According to Amazon, I no longer exist as a legitimate taxpaying citizen, and I've been told it will take the full might of the IRS to correct Amazon's mistake. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on February 18, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

Analog Hack Tells Which Pepsi Bottles Offer Free Songs Once upon a time, Pepsi would have reconciled itself to knowing that people in one or two communities were in on the design flaw. Now they have to know the news is everywhere. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 18, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..

Rambus wins major round in FTC case A Federal Trade Commission judge dismisses the agency's suit that alleged the chip designer engaged in antitrust practices regarding SDRAM, the most common memory found in the market. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Verletzung von Persönlichkeitsrechten durch die Medien Die Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald veranstaltet ein von der Europäischen Kommission gefördertes europäisches Symposium zur Verletzung von Persönlichkeitsrechten durch die Medien,... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Abbau von Mautbrücken Nach der gestern bekannt gegebenen Kündigung der Vertrages zwischen der LKW-Maut-Firma Toll Collect und dem BMVBW fordern Datenschützer und Cyber-Bürgerrechtsorganisationen... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Electronic Filing "The clock is running out on a centuries-old practice in South Carolina's federal courts. The days of rushing to the... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Oxford encouraged by OA experiment, will continue Oxford University Press is encouraged by the results of its experimental use of an OA business model for Nucleic Acids Research, a journal rated by ISI as one of the top 10 "hottest" of the decade in biology and biochemistry. The first stage of the experiment was to make the annual Database issue OA. The issue appeared last month with "a record number of peer-reviewed papers - 142 in total - with 90% of authors agreeing to pay From FOS News on February 18, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Real world semantics At ETech (which I unfortunately could not attend) there was a presentation entitled real world semantics that is close in spirit to my own recent experimentation. The presenters were Technorati's Kevin Marks and Tantek Celik, who fought the good fight to bring quality CSS support to Microsoft's now-abandoned MSIE/Mac. Phrases they use to define real world semantics: "emerging semantic (x)html", "adoption by &apos From Jon's Radio on February 18, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

When does Microsoft get commoditzed? Kevin Werbach pointed to this note about the fact that a baseline personal computer is now sub $500, following the trajectory of Moore's Law, yet the price of the software needed (from a professional perspective -- WinXP Pro and Office) costs more than the hardware.  I've been spending considerable time looking at the economics of software manufacturing and distribution in the face of open source and offshore software development, and it strikes me that in th From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on February 18, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

Breves Apple: estrena el portal RSS Information. Demo 2004: el blog de la conferencia. Die Zeit: estrena los weblogs Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist y Profession Terrorist: The Enemy of all the World. Feedster: pone a los bloggers en campaña... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 18, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

Mannesmann-Prozess Sigmar Sattler, ehemals Arbeitsdirektor bei Mannesmann, hat Probleme mit einer Datumsangabe: "Der 3. Februar war das Datum der Kapitulation", so... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Ausbau der Übersetzungskapazitäten Die Wahrung der sprachlichen Vielfalt wird die Europäische Union nach dem Beitritt zehn weiterer Länder vor neue Herausforderungen stellen. Die... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Self-healing Computing the Rage at Big Blue - Clint Boulton, Internet News For IBM, self-healing computers are becoming self-evident. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company Monday issued an Autonomic Computing toolkit to help developers create self-managing characteristics to be used in data centers or other IT environments where on From Techno-News Blog on February 18, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Blaster Type Virus Attack Called 'Imminent' - Ryan Naraine, Internet News Malicious code to exploit a component of the Microsoft Windows ASN.1 vulnerability is circulating, prompting security experts to issue a chilling warning: a Blaster-type virus attack is imminent. The exploit code, specifically created to target a buffe From Techno-News Blog on February 18, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

New program to help teachers improve hi-tech proficiency Ball State University has created a new program to help teachers improve their technological proficiency. The Educational Technology program, which includes Indiana From Educational Technology on February 18, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Learning (and Teaching) in the Technological Age - Coleen L. Geraghty, SDSU Nine years ago this month, SDSU professor Bernie Dodge posted to the World Wide Web his musings on the optimal use of Internet-related research in the classroom. Always eager for dialogue, he closed the three-page document with an invitation to respond From Educational Technology on February 18, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Identifying and Addressing Adult Learning Principles in Web-Enhanced/Web-Based Courses - Glenda Ballard, DEC 2003 The purpose of this project is to present adult learning principles as outlined in the adult education literature and to illustrate ways in which adult education principles are addressed through web-based instruction. Non-traditional adult students ar From Online Learning Update on February 18, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

The changing of values of education and the world wide knowledge society - Florence University The changing of values of education in the transformation between industrial society and post-industrial society is a important issues that today world wide generates a rethinking process about education's ability to respond to the contemporary needs o From Online Learning Update on February 18, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Conflicting technologies may stall cell mergers Cingular's planned $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless puts new merger pressure on U.S. cell phone carriers, but incompatible back-end technologies could make it difficult for would-be partners to find a match. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

End of Moore's Law? Wrong question Sun microprocessor guru David Yen says the processor industry has reached a fork in the road. Now, it must choose which direction to follow. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Verfassungsmäßigkeit von Familiennamen § 1355 Absatz 2 BGB ist mit Artikel 2 GG nicht vereinbar, soweit er ausschließt, dass Ehegatten zum Ehenamen einen... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

RIAA Unleashes Another Round of Lawsuits By Roy Mark The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) targeted 531 more alleged music file swappers in legal actions Tuesday, bringing the total sued for copyright infringement over peer-to-peer (P2) networks since January to more than a thousand. From aG-UK Filesharing News on February 18, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

To Reach Past Curfews, Palestinians Go Online - JOSHUA MITNICK, New York Times .... Palestinians are increasingly logging on to the Internet as a way to bypass Israeli army closings and curfews used to clamp down on the movement of militants. Internet use among the 3.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has quadrupled From Techno-News Blog on February 18, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

E-learning takes off at RAF - James Mortleman, Vnunet The Royal Air Force Police (RAFP) has embarked on an e-learning programme to train personnel in investigation and security techniques. Later this month the force will roll out a bespoke online training system from professional education specialist Intu From Online Learning Update on February 18, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Impotente Langzeitstudis? Achtung, Langzeitstudenten! Wer sich vom trauten Unialltag nur schwer trennen könne und sein Studium unmäßig in die Länge ziehe, bei dem würde die Krankheitsfalle zuschnappen, so eine Studie der Universität Göttingen. Vor allem für Männer, die zwei Drittel aller Dauerstudenten ausmachten, bedeuten die Ergebnisse der Studie eine Hiobsbotschaft. Denn ewiges Studieren macht nicht nur krank, sondern schwächt auch die Potenz, wie der Leiter der Studie, Manfred Kuda, mitteilte. Auch generelle Probleme in der Partnerschaft seien nicht auszuschl From Meta on February 18, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

IPod Mini Shrinks, Goes Pink Apple Computer says it already has 100,000 orders for its 4-GB iPod mini digital music player, and Target will start selling prepaid cards usable at the iTunes online music store. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Blind Can Plot Course With GPS Using the global positioning system along with a keyboard input and voice or other output, the VoiceNote GPS allows blind people to pinpoint their location and create an 'audio map' of their route. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Move to Block California E-Vote Only two weeks before the state's primary election, a group fearing that heavy reliance on electronic voting machines could lead to widespread election fraud is trying to derail the process. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Cingular to AT & #038;T: I Got You, Babe Cingular is set to acquire AT & #038;T Wireless for almost $41 billion after Britain's Vodafone withdraws from the bidding war. The merger will create the nation's largest cell-phone company. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Intel Sheds Light on Fiber Optics Researchers show off a new, lower-cost chip that can switch light on and off at blinding speed. This could be a boon for fiber networks. Amit Asaravala reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

New Flurry of RIAA Lawsuits The music industry sues another 531 people for sharing copyright music over peer-to-peer networks. That brings the total number of people sued to nearly 1,500. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Robot Stories, With a Heart Greg Pak remembers why people wrote science fiction in the first place -- to explore qualities that make someone human. That's why his film Robot Stories emphasizes emotion over special effects. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

At the Front in the Virus Wars When a new piece of malicious code rears its ugly head, antivirus researchers spring into action. They've been a bit busy lately. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

New Outlet for High-Speed Access Services offering broadband over power networks are still far from prevalent or profitable. But with advances in transmission capability, along with greater attention from regulators, the technology is gaining momentum. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Blogs Pump Bucks Into Campaigns A Democratic candidate buys $2,000 of advertising on a blog and gets $80,000 in campaign donations in two weeks. Was it a fluke, or the beginning of a new campaign cash cow? By Chris Ulbrich. From Wired News on February 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

TP: 'Sind deutsche Schüler... Eine Forschergruppe der Universität Siegen kritisiert die Bildungsstandards von PISA & Co. Die These, mit der eine Arbeitsgruppe der Universität Siegen am Montag an die Öffentlichkeit trat, klang so verblüffend, dass sich Agenturen und Presseorgane umgehend zu aufgeregten Überschriften wie Schüler kaum schlechter als ihre Lehrer oder Kluge Viertkl&auml From BildungsBlog on February 18, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

Preserving Principles of Public Education in an Online World From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 5:48 a.m..

Artículo sobre el uso de los weblogs en educación El número de febrero de T.H.E. Journal («Technological Horizons in Education») incluye un artículo de Richard E. Ferdig y Kaye D. Trammell acerca del uso de los weblogs o cuadernos de bitácora en educación: «Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'». Los autores defienden las ventajas de los weblogs como herramienta de participación y creación de conocimiento desde una pedagogía constructivista y ofrecen algunas ideas para utilizarlos en las clases. From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on February 18, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..

A good friend of mine is starting up a sideline bu ... A good friend of mine is starting up a sideline business in e-learning and training. His first experimental project is the production of an instructional video (DVD) in one of his areas of interest. He's a smart guy and has a good team of likeminded folks helping him. They've invested in some equipment to produce different types of digital learning content.He asked for my advice on the project and the premise, so I fired off a late-night e-mail. It loosely outlines my emerging beliefs about the business of e-learning. It's an unpolished attempt to pull together some From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on February 18, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..

Historisches Urheberrecht Das Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School ist Gastgeber einer "Online-Vorlesung" über die Geschichte des Urheberrechts... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Cuánto me queda por visitar Gentileza: World66 Visited Countries.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 18, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Newest StreamLine blog is MPRating: Tony Clement, Stephen Harper, Belinda Stronach Our latest StreamLine blog, MPRating, rates the websites of the Canadian Conservative Party Leadership candidates Tony Clement, Stephen Harper and Belinda Stronach. The new leader will be chosen March 20 in Toronto. - From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Always-On My Zaibatsu down? - Yet another buggy piece of Social Software? OK, I tried to join Always-On's Zaibatsu but I alway get the following error when I click on "My Zaibatsu": "An Internal Server Error Has Occurred.". By the way my userid is "roland" if anybody wants to try the networking features. Not very helpful! Please leave a comment if you know how to fix this! From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Securitas USA Secures GeoLearning's GeoMaestro Platform for Hosted LMS/LCMS From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Intrepid Learning Solutions Raises $4.25 Million to Fuel Outsourced Training Expansion From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

North Carolina State University selects WebCT Vista From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Rand Launches Live Learning Series for CATIA V5 From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Design and Implementation of Web-Enabled Teaching From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Online-course enrollment grows as program expands From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Long distance learning: Honors collegium students learn with HYPHEN and from HYPHEN classmates in Japan From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Blackboard Passes Latest ADL/SCORM Certification Tests with Content Player Building Block From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 18, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Ex-Gay Teachers Form National Education Association Caucus A group of ex-gay teachers has formed a recognized caucus of the National Education Association (NEA). The new NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus is chaired by Jeralee Smith, a former lesbian. [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Next Round of Spanish Classes at the Latin American Association Begins March 1st 2004 The next session of Spanish classes offered by the Latin American Association (LAA) will begin March 1st. Classes will be held at the LAA offices located at 2750 Buford Highway in Atlanta. Classes meet two nights a week from 6:30-8:45pm and each session lasts 5 weeks. Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels are available. [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Exciting, Free Program Opens the Door to Creative Writing Almerrian Tales is a non-profit organization designed to help secondary students and teachers embrace creative writing and the power of the imagination. The short stories and curriculum are all downloadable online, with only a simple registration required. Students of the program are introduced to creative writing in several ways: [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

The 3n Emergency Notification System Provides Peace of Mind to Parents of Children in School or Daycare Facilities When Emergency Situations Occur 3n's Emergency Notification System provides parents with the number one thing parents say they want from their child's school or daycare facility during an emergency or disaster HYPHEN communication. 3n's automated notification system helps schools and daycare facilities notify parents, contact emergency responders, and mobilize teachers and staff in a quick, efficient and reliable manner. 3n's Emergency Notification System can save lives, prevent injury, and minimize property damage. [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Feline Conservation Federation emphasizes keeper safety in light of recent leopard attack "Responsible captive husbandry of large and endangered felines requires keeper experience and training plus facilities that provide proper housing in legal, stable and secure circumstances", notes Tracy Wilson, FCF Director of Education. [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Passion of Living Spiritual Makeovers Launched February 2004 to "Give 'Inner Peace' A Chance" Passion of Living "spiritual and self-help makeovers" now launched February 2004. Created to help and empower individuals to discover and live with more harmony, happiness and inner peace. [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Civil War General Lives How old are you, do you think you know? Jeffrey Keene says we are all a lot older than we think. Matter of fact, he believes he is the reincarnation of Confederate General John B. Gordon from the American Civil War. Keene writes about his reincarnation experiences in Someone Else's Yesterday: The Confederate General and Connecticut Yankee, A Past Life Revealed. [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Scholastic Chooses Servergraph/TSM® for Reliable Backups Servergraph and More Group Inc. deliver solid ROI. [PRWEB Feb 18, 2004] From PR Web on February 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

An Early Taste of High SchoolOne of the things we ... An Early Taste of High SchoolOne of the things we try to do is ease the transition for students going from high school to post-secondary school. Ideally, they'll make better decisions about their education if they have some clue about what they're interested in and how those interests might connect to their future careers in some way. Early college high schools take the transition to the next level, allowing students to take college and high school From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on February 18, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..

TIME ab 1923 Hewlett-Packard erstellt für die über 4.000 Ausgaben des US-amerikanischen Time Magazins ein Digitalarchiv, teilt Reuters mit. Ab Mai sollen dann... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Digitale Privatkopie Im Hinblick auf den sog. "2. Korb" der Urheberrechtsreform weist der deutsche Ableger der IFPI darauf hin (18 S. PDF),... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Umlaut-Domains Wie das LAWgical unter Bezug auf die DENIC mitteilt, steht der genaue Zeitpunkt für den Beginn der Registrierung von Umlaut-Domains... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Students and Records Overlooked in Special Education Overhaul Six months into the school year, the newly reorganized special education system is in disarray. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Schools Seek Private Firms to Teach Foreign Tongues In the last few years, more schools have turned to language instruction companies for teachers. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Utah House Rebukes Bush With Its Vote on School Law The Utah House voted to prohibit the state's education authorities from using any local money to comply with the president's signature No Child Left Behind law. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

After a Year, Students Take a Second Look at the Iraq Invasion The lessons on Iraq continue in schools, and many students - once vehemently for or against the war - now offer more nuanced or changed opinions. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Erasing a Skeletal Reminder of 9/11 The Borough of Manhattan Community College will demolish its classroom building that was extensively damaged by the Sept. 11 attacks. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Test Policy for 3rd Graders Is Met by More Resistance A groundswell of opposition is forming against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new policy to hold back third graders who fail citywide tests. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Fulbright Board in Compromise Over Late Berkeley Applications A compromise will allow 30 college students at Berkeley to compete for Fulbright scholarships even though their applications were late because of a missed Federal Express pickup. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Study Says U.S. Should Replace States' High School Standards A patchwork of state standards is failing to produce high school graduates who are prepared either for college or for work, according to a new report. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

City Agency Seeks Public Advocate's Data on Special Ed The city's Department of Education has served the public advocate with a Freedom of Information request, seeking information about problems in the special-education system cited last week by the advocate, Betsy Gotbaum. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

A Lab Where You Can Lick the Test Tubes The newest student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a chocolate appreciation club called the Lab for Chocolate Science. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Forward Steps for Spelling Bee Students at an elementary School in Washington, D.C., where many days police helicopters search the projects nearby, prepare for the city spelling bee. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Film Makes SAT Villain, and Students Can Relate The president of the Educational Testing Service, the organization that produces the SAT, is looking into security with the release of "The Perfect Score." From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Harvard Student's Love Story Endures Beyond Grave (and Archives) Brian A. Sullivan was working as Harvard's senior reference archivist when he randomly pulled down a box of 19th-century student journals and was left spellbound. From New York Times: Education on February 18, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Rewerse Mit dem Semantic Web beschäftigt sich REWERSE, ein Informatik Forschungsprojekt, das die Europäische Union mit fünf Mio. Euro fördert. Koordiniert... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 18, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Free Environment Released in US From ScotFEICT on February 18, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..

How to teach about educational weblogs Anne reflects wonderfully on teaching educational weblogs, the ups and downs and (what I've always enjoyed from the start from Edublog Insights) her learners experiences. It's not easy, there are many different ways and woes but... "Having a door open to a greater community of learners is such a wonderful thing for educators. We can learn, we can grow, and we can listen to all these voices and emerge the better for it. So can our students From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

RSS Me: Lesson Plan for introducing rss and aggregators Here's a plan for introducing learners to RSS and aggregators, again, very simple but full of potential methinks. Am getting the feeling that the newness of the technology here and the absence of wide-ranging use is pushing me to squeeze too much into some of these plans... but is is easily possible to just look at elements of personal publishing technology... they kinda come as a package don't they... hmmmmmm From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Cisco banks on IP video The networking giant on Wednesday is expected to announce the latest version of its Internet protocol PBX call manager software, which integrates video conferencing into its IP telephony solution. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Tuition Reimbursement By Sharon N. Daugherty - Tuition reimbursement is one of the most valuable -- and often overlooked -- benefits a company can offer.... From Adult/Continuing Education on February 18, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

Weblogs and Conversation Dynamics Weblog Dynamics! [subscribed... big time!] posts some interesting thoughts on comment / email / weblog conversations...  I've posted  Long rant there and go prove me wrong, visit the site and have a conversation using the comments, go on, I dare you ;o) From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Who subscribes to IS on bloglines? Sweeeeeeet, goodonya Stephen for pointing out that Bloglines offers a way of seeing who subscribes to you through them. Here's the list. The thing that strikes me about this is how popular bloglines is becoming (and rightly so... I'm experimenting with it at the mo with LO repositories (and myself of course :o) and I do like it, I do! From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

RSS & Wired Thanks for those who sent good wishes on the WIRED nomination. It's great to know that there are some high-roaders in this community. It can be hard to hear them over the din created by the negativists. Onward! [Scripting News] If I look at the list, there's no doubt in my mind that RSS has had the biggest impact on my productivity. [< From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 18, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Technology as Speed Bump Mary discusses more of the Digital Media Summit, including Professor Nesson's talk.  The closest analogue to his idea in the Digital Media Project's "five scenarios" is actually the Technology Speed Bump scenario, one that's now been broken out on its own. This scenario fascinates me for many reasons (its the motivation behind --> From A Copyfighter's Musings on February 18, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

More Silliness On Interoperability and DRM Billboard reports that the music industry is pushing Apple and MS to solve their DRM interop problems, and even suggests that there have been private talks between the relevant parties.  The solution: "transcoding" - being able to securely turn a FairPlay-AAC file into a Secure WMA file.  So Apple won't sell you an actual WMA file, but it will provide you the means to turn their files into WMA. Huh? Maybe the RIAA is serious about pursuing a business model that wou From A Copyfighter's Musings on February 18, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Growing the Legitimate Music Services' Catalogs One key barrier for the legitimate music services is the size of their catalog.  Among many issues:  the legitimate services can't convince many artists to offer their music, and P2P has numerous live recordings that you cannot buy anywhere legitimately.  The former will take a little time, as artists adjust - and they certainly will. The latter seems a bit harder. Nugs.net provides a glimpse of the future.  They're making high quality recordings of live performances and placing  them online for From A Copyfighter's Musings on February 18, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Beware of strangers Programming with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger. (1162 words) From dive into mark on February 18, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

IBM tops server speed test An IBM Unix server using the company's own Power processors beat out an Intel Itanium system in a widely watched server speed test, Big Blue says. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Sun, Big Blue reach out to developers Selected companies line up for a peek at Sun's Java Studio Creator tool, a forerunner to wider beta testing in March, as IBM gets ready to release evaluation packages for its Eclipse-based consolidated tools. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Yahoo dumps Google search technology Yahoo drops Google as the default search technology provider for its U.S.-based sites, signaling the beginning of the end for the Web's most high-profile marriage of convenience. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Random thoughts on SNS - can it really be the next killer comm app? It's funny how, despite all of the "cool new" Internet applications out there, email remains perhaps the biggest "killer app" in the mix. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 93% of Internet users said they used email in 2002. Only about half as many even used instant messaging, and about half of THAT number partici From Holly's Research Journal on February 18, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

New political weblogs Ed Cone keeps us up to date with a list of new political web sites and weblogs, and he asks whether it matters that candidates or parties have the real thing (that is, weblogs, with their greater chance for personal voice, frequent updating, and exchange). As a good journalist, Ed reminds us that we don't know the answer to that question yet. But my hope and my hunch is that the answer is yes. From Weblogs in Higher Education on February 18, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

Live wiki at the committee meeting I continue to serve on a committee that meets in a room with wireless access and a cart full of laptops. I provided a wiki site to the committee, and we wrote some of our work together in the first couple of meetings, then posted to the wiki for further discussion and revision. But in the last two meetings we've mainly revised our document live, in the room together, with each person at a laptop and one person operating the wiki site. We agree on a change to the document, the scribe... From Weblogs in Higher Education on February 18, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

Blogger API problem fixedThanks for Zheng's commen ... Blogger API problem fixedThanks for Zheng's comment on my last message. I have changed the API entry point to Blogger API. Anyway, why don't they keep compatible entry, it's so customer-unorientation. :(BTW, I've found more missing links with Blogger.com while they upgrade their service each time. Does Google have the similar corporate culture? From Meta on February 18, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

Moving along Well, this transition is proving to be quite hard work.  It doesn't help that I don't have a computer yet!  I have this one at home, but my papers and office are elsewhere.  It's hard to keep my head wrapped around what I need to do.  I'm also still working out what my work patterns are going to be. Anyway, there are two major projects in my mind.  One is a kind of learning object thing (to use the technical term) - creating share-able courses for our system is th From Serious Instructional Technology on February 18, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

MSN makes play for more searchers overseas The software giant's Internet portal unveils news search in several additional foreign languages, advancing its search strategy internationally to compete with Google. From CNET News.com on February 18, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

HP pushes IT management strategy As part of its "adaptive enterprise" approach, Hewlett-Packard announces new services and software for managing information technology operations. From CNET News.com on February 17, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Oracle pitches merger to PeopleSoft shareholders Oracle sends letters to all PeopleSoft shareholders, urging them to tender their shares to Oracle by mid-March and elect Oracle's nominees to PeopleSoft's board next month. From CNET News.com on February 17, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

IBM backs 64-bit Intel chip plan Big Blue is eager to embrace Intel's newly announced 64-bit Xeon processors, building support for them into chipsets at the heart of IBM's next-generation servers. From CNET News.com on February 17, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

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