The first entry of The Home Biz Blog Well, I've decided to start blogging here on WorkAtHomeMadeEasy.net. Basically I will be talking about what I am doing at the moment, what I will be doing, etc.. and just about anything else on the subject of home business and... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Traffic exchanges I've been using lately... Lately I've been using GTTrader and it's quite fun. You are playing this stock-marketing game and have to decide what shares you want to buy. Then you can go surf and earn more stock-money while getting hits to your website.... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
New, fresh SFI gateway SFI just launched an updated version of their popular /free gateway. It looks pretty cool and I'm sure it'll attract more enthusiastic people to SFI. This is what I love about SFI, they're always on their toes, enhancing what is... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Various things going on... Last week TrafficSwarm announced that they are enhancing the Pro memberships. Now Pro members get 2,000 credits instead of 1,000 and there'll also be a free teleseminar every month for Pro members. Not to mention the free high-quality product that... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
The Riser Lead Program At the beginning of this year SFI added a new feature: The Riser Lead Program. The way it works is that Powerline Team Leaders (PTL) can assign a certain key code to the Riser Lead Program (RLP), then whenever a... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Breaking News: Madison Dynamics Inc. has just launched! A couple of hours ago I got an e-mail from Stone Evans where he was telling me about a new company, Madison Dynamics Inc. (MDI) - he told me that this company launched only 24 hours ago and also that... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Things are really moving with Madison Dynamics! Wow! Even though I knew this was a big opportunity I never imagined that it would become this big in only 3 days! Their site is already one of the top 900 all over the world according to Alexa. My... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Are you in a hurry? Join Madison Dynamics Inc. right here on this blog ; ) MDI has started to offer us promotional material, including this clever feature >> 13523 First name * Last name * Address * Zip * City * State / Province * Country United States Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
MadisonDynamics.tk is live! I recently registered the domain MadisonDynamics.tk ;) Pretty cool, huh? I'm sure that'll help me promote MDI. I also got a free domain for my upcoming book: Residual-Traffic.tk You can get a free domain too >> Check it out. Things... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
I got more free domains + Mike Glaspie could land in my matrix! Yeah, I registered a few more free domains: HomeBizBlog.tk, PlugInProfitSite.tk and CBmall.tk Do you want a free domain too? Get it here... Then I just got a notice from Stone Evans that Mike Glaspie, founder of BannersGoMLM and other big... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Madison Dynamics Inc. is moving along nicely... + a lot of other stuff + sad news I finally found 2 ezines in the Directory of Ezines that I was satisfied with and bought solo ads in each one. The first solo ad ran last Monday and the other will be running February 29th. So far I've... From The Home Biz Blog on February 27, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Basecamp Makes Distributed Project Work A Online Pleasure To Manage This is an ideal asynchronous collaboration tool for distributed project teams working on keeping their tasks, files, calendar and notes in great synch. The classical idea of a "project site" originally brought about by David Siegel has greatly evolved over time adjusting and flexing to accomodate t... From Kolabora.com on February 27, 2004 at 9:50 p.m..
Microsoft may bow to overseas price pressure Signs suggest the company is looking at ways to tailor prices of software to the country its sold in, as it tries to address the concerns of governments being wooed by Linux. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
'Hardware glitch' causes AIM to twitch America Online's popular instant messaging service is hit with periodic outages, just two weeks after the launch of AIM 5.5. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Judge accepts expanded SCO lawsuit A judge OKs the SCO Group's changes to a lawsuit against IBM that now seeks $5 billion in damages for Big Blue's alleged moving of Unix intellectual property into Linux. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Use Your Personal Feed on Feedburner instead of email Very cool feature, need to check this out! [SOURCE:Burn This! - The FeedBurner Weblog] QUOTEDid you know that if you've created a user account on FeedBurner, you have your very own personal feed that we can use to communicate with you? No? Go to the "My Account" page and take a look at "Personal Feed Preferences". Rather than have you give us your email address, you can just subscribe to your personal feed and we'll use that as our primary communication channel. You can select what feed f From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 27, 2004 at 8:49 p.m..
Legal Services + Social Networking = $ There's gold in them thar social software hills :-) . Just need to go find the nuggets! [SOURCE:The Social Software Weblog] QUOTEDemir Barlas writes that Miller Chevalier, a Washington, D.C. law firm, has installed Interface Software's Social Networking system to connect their ~120 lawyers and professionals. Not likely bedfellows but the utilization of Interface's solution has, according to Sturgis Sobin, chairman of the international department of Miller Chevalier, created new bus From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 27, 2004 at 8:49 p.m..
Intel connects chips with optical fiber Wires can only go so fast--so the company is working on ways to hook up chips inside computers with optical fiber. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..
HP inks printer deal with Ford The multimillion-dollar contract, HP's largest ever for printer services, gives momentum to the company's push to sign consulting and management deals built on its ink savvy. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..
Court: DeCSS ban violated free speech A California appeals panel reverses a 4-year-old injunction preventing publication of code that breaks Hollywood's DVD encryption scheme. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..
Before the web there was gopher The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ran an article on Gopher (the first page is actually not there, but you can get it as the last page of another article... PDF... sigh...)! I really must be getting old:... From ErikLog on February 27, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..
Sitepoint Tinderbox review Nathan Matias has reviewed Tinderbox and gives it an almost perfect score. From owrede_log on February 27, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..
ICANN 'disappointed' in VeriSign The nonprofit organization raps the company for its lawsuit, saying it has chosen "confrontation over consensus." From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
The Gateway to Educational Materials: An Evaluation Study (Year 4) http://www.geminfo.org/Evaluation/Fitzgerald_03.06.pdf Before there were 'learning object repositories,' educators were already trying to catalogue instructionally useful Internet resources in 'subject-based catalogues' or gateways. In the K-12 world, one of the more significant of these has been the Gateway to Educational Materials, or GEM. This report, from last June, evaluates the successfulness of the GEM project and provides some insight into what re From EdTechPost on February 27, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Googlemania! Ich hatte ja vor einigen Wochen schon mal die Frage gestellt, ob Google nicht das beste e-Learning Tool überhaupt ist. Doch jetzt, im Frühjahr 2004, geht es nicht um e-Learning, sondern den geplanten IPO von Google. Dem hat Wired... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 27, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..
Pentagon: climate change will destroy us Guardian Unlimited: »You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars.«And: Key findings of the Pentagon.Reading the key findings I feel the Pentagon has hired some freaks that want to draw a scenario that would keep the defence spending up even if »war on terror« has been diminished.Another link: Bu From owrede_log on February 27, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..
Microsoft on every DVD? The software giant wins provisional approval for its video technology in a next-generation DVD standard. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Qwest calls for cell phone expansion The carrier plans to begin an expanded cell phone service that ultimately will let it sell service nationwide. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Vantage Point: Free Online Scientific Journals Make Sense Some great turns of phrase in this short article, including this: "Just as midwives can earn a living without claiming ownership or control of the babies they deliver, publishers can and should be paid a fair price by the sponsors of the research - a 'midwife's fee' - for their role in orchestrating peer-review, editing and disseminating the results. But they should not be given the baby - our baby - to own and control." By Patrick Brown, Stanford University, February 26, 2004 [ From OLDaily on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
CSS Your Way to Learner Control Good article that explains why Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) should be used to allow learners to control the appearance of web pages. Even better, it provides an example of how it works. I wish they had included something of importance to me, scalable text (I am playing with this on the Edu_RSS Listings page). I would use more CSS with OLDaily except that the controls require Javascript, which is in turn rejected by many email clients because of security flaws in Outlook. Additionally, non-compliance by a certain browser also makes co From OLDaily on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Statement of Requirements for Search Interoperability The U.S. government is not alone is wanting to support a single search standard across government offices, but it offers everybody a helpful hand as it posts this discussion document outlining basic criteria for such a standard. Which seems like a good idea, but... rather than go through the time and expense of having every department change its search service and function to a single standard, it makes more sense to provide a single service - a 'gateway', if you will, that will accept search requests and submit them to various departments in the format they already support. This lat From OLDaily on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Thirteen Ways To Save Orkut Orkut is an interesting experiment in social software that is about to die as the anti-Orkut diatribes begin to mount (and rightly so). In this article, the author offers her prescription to save it. She proposes that Google not demand rights to all the content, that it allow for gradated social relations, stop promoting popularity contests (and about time - I have zero 'sexy' points), allow friends of friends to do something other than spam each other, show updates, improve nagibation (the community message boards are especially bad) and improve displays. These are useful suggestion From OLDaily on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
The Weblog as the Model for a New Type of Virtual Learning Environment? The author of Auricle nails it. "In the weblog, however, the announcements, articles, stories are the raison d'etre' so much so that, not satisfied to present articles from one source, the weblog has the temerity, due to the adoption of the RSS standard, to receive syndicated stories from other sources and, in turn, offer it's own portfolio of articles for use by others. For example, a blog supporting a programme or module could be the vehicle by which faculty post date and time-stamped short articles relevant to the course but which also link to related, but distributed, learni From OLDaily on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Congrats to Tucows on acquiring Blogrolling.com I'm sure this will be a positive thing for the Blogosphere! QUOTEYou may have already read the press release or a blog entry somewhere else - the rumors are true, Tucows has indeed purchased the assets of Blogrolling.com from Jason DeFillippo. I'm really glad we got together with Jason and were able to come to a deal. I've been a Blogrolling.com user almost as long as I've been a blogger and this really is a nifty service. Jason felt it was time to move on to other things and we knew that Blogrolling.com  From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 27, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Interactive Fiction for the 21st CenturyInteractive Fiction in the 21st Century ... and what text adventures from the past have in common with todays games. [via Hinterding]Found a link to »Interactive Fiction Archive« in that article as well. From owrede_log on February 27, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Bunner Acquitted in DeCSS Case-Again You recall that Jon Johansen was acquitted for writing/distributing software code that decrypts the data on DVDs--not only once, but twice? Andrew Bunner has just joined the club. The DVD-CCA previously asked to end its lawsuit against Bunner over posting the DeCSS code, but was denieCopyfight: The Politics of IP on February 27, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Paper writing: panick attack I have a panic attack. I'm finishing a paper for OKLC04 and I'm not sure about anything anymore. I'm not sure about strengths of my arguments, proper references, enough theoretical connections and even correct language (which is more likely to be the one real problem :) This is the first paper purely on my PhD research, it's less about presenting results of a study (which is much easier for me) and more about theoretical suggestions. The worst thing is that I attempt to connect bits and From Mathemagenic on February 27, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..
IBM mainframe sales surge New market share numbers show that the company has convinced customers that its top-end mainframe line is no dinosaur. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Big Blue straightens up for partner push IBM next week plans to revamp its business partner program, setting its sights on a Microsoft stronghold. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Gemeinsames Mahngericht Noch in diesem Jahr soll ein gemeinsames Mahngericht Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland seine Arbeit aufnehmen. Deshalb hatten die Justizverwaltungen des Saarlandes und von... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..
People who should, but don't One of the factors which holds back introduction and development of new technologies on campus is the technical support folks who don't stay current or are not open to learning new things. Interesting job... From carvingCode on February 27, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..
Japanese for Nerds (I) Japanese is the perfect language for nerds. There are just a bunch of standard interfaces to learn, which you string together like so many nested functor objects and voilà : fully-formed correct Japanese sentences! From kuro5hin.org on February 27, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Week in review: Big boy blues Two of tech's biggest names hit stumbling blocks, as Microsoft mulls plans that may delay a major OS upgrade and Oracle learns that its PeopleSoft takeover may be slipping away. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Feeling blue? Maybe it's your cubicle A survey of office workers reveals that many people feel disappointed or embarrassed by their work space. Nine percent wouldn't want their mother to see where they work. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Avaya uses VoIP as selling point for corporate IM As companies swap out traditional phone networks for voice over Internet Protocol setups, gear makers like Avaya are offering instant messaging programs with beefy, IP-dependent features. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Infolaw In einem Beitrag vom heutigen Tage beschreibt Margaret Marks das neue britische Blog "Infolaw" als "A sort of British Langenhan".... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..
News for Today, Feb 28 A couple of items to close out February: Microsoft is working on some business-specific add-ons for its Office System 2003. ComputerWeek Microsoft is thinking about offering an interim release of the Windows client OS prior to Longhorn (a huge revamp... From Kolabora.com on February 27, 2004 at 2:50 p.m..
Some Businesses in the Dark on Spam Law According to a recent survey by hosting giant Interland, the majority of small businesses either don't know what the CAN-SPAM Act is or aren't sure what it means to them. Legal experts say the law applies to everyone. From E-Commerce Guide on February 27, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
SanDisk, Motorola shrink flash cards The companies look to capitalize on the trend toward the miniaturization of memory cards, with a new technology aimed at handsets. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
Audiocast archive Open HTML container page. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
VeriSign completes Guardent buy From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
Brainier networking gear to the rescue Smarter networking devices are helping network operators to better protect their resources from spammers, denial of service attackers and peer-to-peer bandwidth hogs. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
Feedback to large cohorts - what does learning technology have to offer? Don MacLeod's recent article in the Education Guardian on the latest QAA report made interesting reading. Not so much because it questioned the rigour of using external examiners but more for the comments about the lack of feedback to the students. From Auricle on February 27, 2004 at 1:53 p.m..
N. Carolina Funds to Vote Against Eisner. NEW YORK (Reuters) - North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore said on Friday he directed the state's fund managers to vote against Michael Eisner, joining California and New York in withholding support from Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE:DIS) chief executive for the past two decades. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
Four Enterprise Instant Messengers Tested And Reviewed InfoWorld tests four enterprise instant messaging systems: Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing 3.1, Microsoft Live Communications Server 2003, Novell GroupWise Messenger 1.0, and Jabber XCP (Extensible Communications Platform) 2.7 -- and finds that enterprise IM solutions provide the securit... From Kolabora.com on February 27, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
Solution to Application Sharing I have read some of the concerns about application sharing and I think the problem is being addressed incorrectly. The big problem with screen sharing is that you have to push the screen over the connection - what ... From Kolabora.com on February 27, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
February 26, 2004 From Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities on February 27, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
DVD Copy Minus That's Wendy Seltzer's name for the 321 Studios "DVD Copy Plus," if stripped of its ripper. Notes The Register, in an article about the "DVD X Copy," so stripped: "The irony is that the open source DeCSS code From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on February 27, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Tell Us How You Really Feel Veri$ign executive Tom Galvin, on his company's filing a lawsuit against ICANN: "Working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by a duck. It makes no sense, and in the end, you're dead in the water." Via Ditherati. From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on February 27, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
U.K. reveals Microsoft bargaining tactics A parliament committee discloses in a report how the government is saving on software procurement through tough negotiations and threats of going with Linux. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Tech VC firm shuffles staff, launches fund Silicon Valley's Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers says several partners have scaled back their roles and that it's launching a $400 million tech fund. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Encontrando algo de verdad detrás de las diferencias El blogueiro paulista Rodrigo Gurgel descubre en la comunidad a: Bemorth, SheBlobG, Evasivas y AMQS, sobre los que escribe magnÃficas reseñas. Y concluye: São descobertas empolgantes, estas. Elas me fizeram refletir principalmente sobre o fato de que o espaço, a... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 27, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..
More Pension Funds Line Up Against Eisner. LOS ANGELES - Pressure on the Disney board of directors increased Thursday as three more large pension funds said they would follow the lead of the nation's largest such fund in not voting to re-elect chairman Michael Eisner. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..
Votes Against Eisner Could Top 30 Percent. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The shareholder protest aimed at Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner is expected to see more than 30 percent of shares cast at next week's annual meeting effectively opposing his re-election as chairman of the company's board, a Disney source said. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..
Dell launches desktop replacement notebook The PC maker ships the Inspiron 9100 for a lower price than its flagship desktop replacement notebook, as it joins other companies in chasing this popular market. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Echo Chambers and Rhetoric More rhetoric ... more nodding in agreement from me ... From Monkeymagic on February 27, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..
Echo Chambers & Rhetoric Hairy Eyeball on Echo Chambers and Rhetoric"Echo chambers exist. If you don't think so, subject yourself to the comments section of Little Green Footballs sometime, or watch some Fox News. And it takes some work to swim against this current.... From Monkeymagic on February 27, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..
Turning the tables on assessment Many people will have seen or experienced assessments that are little more than a formality undertaken at the end of a period of study. This isn't necessarily a helpful experience for the students who fill their short term memories full of the relevant facts and figures, only to forget them the following week. Certainly this kind of assessment is often more about established procedures and administration than it is about the student learning experience. Of course, assessment (both... From Auricle on February 27, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
Rubric for Online Instruction When designing courses for online delivery, it is often easier to approach the task with a blank slate rather than attempt to port existing structures and processes from one context to another. We have all seen courses that have been redesigned within pre-set parameters, that may well be appropriate for a course delivered using traditional methods; however this is not necessarily a recipe for success in an online environment. From Auricle on February 27, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
Anwaltliches Berufsrecht Einem hochinteressanten und aktuellen Thema zugleich hat sich Kai von Lewinski mit seinem auf neuestem Stand befindlichen Skript "Anwaltliches Berufsrecht"... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..
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Are we Sodom? Bob Herbert's column today in the NY Times — "Bliss and Bigotry" — made me cry. It's a good column, but it did not provoke my sadness and anger so much as allow it. I keep surprising myself with how much the issue of gay marriage means to me. Every day I find it means more. When I was a young a-hole in the '70s, my line of grad school patter said that homosexuality is an inferior form of love because the sex carries no risk. (Yeah, those were the days.) Homosexuals sex acts lack the existential possibility of creating... From Joho the Blog on February 27, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..
On the Road See you tomorrow. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 27, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..
On outsourcing, quit being U.S.-centric From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Commonplace ignorance This is FANTASTIC! [Excuse the outburst, but I'm really, really excited by this]. You may know this already but it looks as though blogging isn't really anything new. It's the connected version of the Renaissance tradition called "commonplacing". Here are... From Monkeymagic on February 27, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..
Mario Brothers Flash epic Deviant Art is hosting Alex Leon's Flash epic story about the Mario Brothers computer game. It uses the old game's visual imagery, but mixes in new music, adds dialogue, and creates a coherent revenge and war narrative. It's divided into... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 27, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..
The weblog as the model for a new type of VLE: The Search Begins! In Wednesday's article The weblog as the model for a new type of virtual learning environment? I considered some of the affordances and constraints of the weblog as the basis of a new type of learning environment. We're exploring potential candidate toolkits for developing such an environment and, for my sins, I volunteered to look at an open-source content management system called PostNuke which seems to be... From Auricle on February 27, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..
Turning the Tables on Assessment Many people will have seen or experienced assessments that are little more than a formality undertaken at the end of a period of study. This isn't necessarily a helpful experience for the students who fill their short term memories full of the relevant facts and figures, only to forget them the following week. Certainly this kind of assessment is often more about established procedures and administration than it is about the student learning experience. Of course, assessment (both... From Auricle on February 27, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..
Netzbasiertes Lernen in der beruflichen Praxis: Zur Bedeutung des Bildungspersonals Diese Untersuchung des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung (BIBB) erreichte mich über eine Pressemitteilung mit dem Titel "E-Learning gehört die Zukunft - aber netzbasiert!". Nicht gerade ein Glanzstück der Öffentlichkeitsarbeiter des BIBB, war mein spontaner Gedanke, denn die CD-ROM ist mir in... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 27, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
ESDS International Delivering the world with free UK access to international data, JISC, February 27, 2004. An unsigned article on ESDS International, a new data service from ESDS. Excerpt: "ESDS International hosts international statistical databanks that collectively chart over 50 years of global social and economic change and includes topics such as the environment, human development, social expenditure, education, From FOS News on February 27, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
A List Apart No. 172 In Issue No. 172 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: CSS Drop Shadows, by Sergio Villarreal. CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners and Borders, Part II, by Soren Madsen. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on February 27, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
Journalism Review Responds to Criticism; A Conversation Ensues I won't try to summarize this fascinating exchange between Jay Rosen and the people at the Columbia Journalism Review's Campaign Desk, which he critiqued recently. But if you care about tomorrow's journalism and how we hold each other to account, it's well worth your time. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 27, 2004 at 10:46 a.m..
Speaking of Constitutional Amendments... Amid the uproar over Bush's craven call for a Constitutional amendment to codify anti-gay discrimination, Sheila Lennon asks, Why not pass the Equal Rights Amendment? From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 27, 2004 at 10:46 a.m..
Paris: Invisible City Bruno Latour's Paris: Invisible City is a nice example of using digital media for scholarly publication. The text addresses issues of space, from scale to proportion, distribution, and power. (via Space and Culture)... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 27, 2004 at 9:54 a.m..
Rubric for Online Instruction When designing courses for online delivery, it is often easier to approach the task with a blank slate rather than attempt to port existing structures and processes from one context to another. We've all seen courses that have been 'redesigned' within pre-set parameters, that may well be appropriate for a course delivered using traditional methods; however this is not necessarily a recipe for success in an online environment. From Auricle on February 27, 2004 at 9:53 a.m..
Learning and Communities of Practice Successful Communities of Practice need to be both structured and fluid at the same time, the difference here is that this structure is defined by its participants rather than by a single instructor with a single learning goal. From Auricle on February 27, 2004 at 9:53 a.m..
Academic credit for faculty blogging Stephen Bainbridge's long quotation from an actual academic dean, Mark Sargent of Villanova, has attracted some attention as an early and thoughtful administrator's discussion of the ways blogging should and should not be valued as part of the work of college faculty. He points out, for example, that weblogs have established themselves as an important part of the scholarly exchange in the field of law. This reminds me of the fact that each field has its own ways of exchanging ideas:... From Weblogs in Higher Education on February 27, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
How academics can blog Another thought about Jay Rosen's post about the problems with journalists today. He discusses a piece by Adam Gopnik, and when you look at Rosen's good essay you have to imagine that he uses Gopnik's piece in one of his college classes. Rosen's very worthwhile weblog post is a writing down, I am almost certain, of something he's worked up for class. In other words, if professors could tap just a portion of their work as a teacher, as well as their research, in the form of short posts,... From Weblogs in Higher Education on February 27, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
Kentucky provides OA to newly enacted legislation Kentucky is providing open access to newly enacted legislation from the moment the new laws are received from the Governor's office. The online versions are unsearchable scanned images, but at least they are free and readable. For more details see the unsigned story in today's Wave3.com. From FOS News on February 27, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..
Blood on Orkut: recommendations for reform Rebecca Blood published a very sensible set of recommendations for improving Orkut. They range from navigation to architecture, IP policy to user options. Add the idea of an Orkut game, and the Web response to this social software implementation grows.... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on February 27, 2004 at 8:54 a.m..
Where is Wayne? When I go to Wayne's site - I get Blogger ads. Hey Wayne are you OK?... From Robert Paterson's Weblog on February 27, 2004 at 8:53 a.m..
Update on e-Paper Update on e-Paperhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34553-2004Feb11.html Researcher Nicholas K. Sheridon of Xerox subsidiary Gryicon LLC is convinced that true digital paper is at most five years away, and predicts that the technology will go mainstream with a six-inch tube that fits into anyone's pocket. Paper will roll in and out of the tube like a window shade, with the tube's innards serving as a writing mechanism, pixels will be rearranged on ultra-th From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
LLRX February 2004 Issue LLRX February 2004 Issuehttp://www.llrx.com/The February 2004 Issue of LLRX has a feature article written by Marcus P. Zillman titled Deep Web Research. The guide includes links to dozens of websites to assist researchers in mining the so-called "invisible" data available in web pages hosted by government, academic, corporate, scientific and other sources. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)http://www.iaail.org/The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) is an organization devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and and Law with members throughout the world. The IAAIL organizes a bi-annual conference (ICAIL), which provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
QuickMath QuickMathhttp://www.quickmath.com/Think of it as an online calculator that solves equations and does all sorts of algebra and calculus problems - instantly and automatically! When you submit a question to QuickMath, it is processed by Mathematica, the largest and most powerful computer algebra package available today. The answer is then sent back to you and displayed right there on your browser, usually within a couple of seconds. Best of all, QuickMath is 100% free! QuickMath is a new service which is being continually From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Author Pseudonyms Author Pseudonymshttp://www.trussel.com/books/pseudo.htmThis site, "a.k.a," is an online index dictionary list of more than 11,000 "real" and "pseudo" names of authors. Simply arranged, the site is made to be browsed alphabetically, with each "real" name linking to all of the noms de plume a particular writer has used. A large list of books available on the subject of pseudonyms and a bibliography of sources are also posted on this website. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History Encyclopedia of Economic and Business Historyhttp://www.eh.net/encyclopediaThe "Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. Articles for the Online Encyclopedia are written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited. A distinguished Advisory Board recommends entry topics, assists in the selection of authors, and defines the project's scope." This will be added to --> From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
EH.Net - How Much is That EH.Net - How Much is Thathttp://www.eh.net/hmit"EH.Net - How Much is That?. Have you ever wondered what the value of a dollar was in 1895? Or what the GDP was in 1929? Here is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates [from 1791], and other variables between the past and today." Also included are the price of gold from 1257-2001, cost of unskilled labor from 1774 -present, and five ways to compare the worth of the dollar. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
V2N3 March 2004 Awareness Watch Newsletter AwarenessWatch™ Newsletter V2N3 March 2004http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N3.pdfAwareness Watch™ Newsletterhttp://www.AwarenessWatch.com/The March 2004 V2N3 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available as a 22 page .pdf document (439KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month covers an in depth and extremely comprehensive listing of knowle From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Agricultural Statistics Data Base: Field Crops Agricultural Statistics Data Base: Field Cropshttp://www.nass.usda.gov:81/ipedbThe USDA-NASS is a searchable database including data going back to 1866 for various field crops. The data can be searched by all states or for an individual state. Information includes Planted, Harvested, Yield, Production, Price (MYA), Value of Production, and forecasted yield. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Genomics Glossaries & Taxonomies Genomics Glossaries & Taxonomieshttp://www.genomicglossaries.com/An extremely comprehensive and valuable resource created and maintained by Mary Chitty of the Cambridge Healthtech Institute. This resource has been listed in my Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. A must bookmark and source for all researchers in the area of biological and genomics informatics as well as related research resources. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Latin American Studies Online Protocol Latin American Studies Online Protocolhttp://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2004/04-025.html http://memory.loc.gov/hlasEdited by the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online is the first Library database to implement the OpenURL protocol, which provides a standardized mechanism for linking from citations and bibliographic records to full text, library catalogs, Web search engines, and other Web services. The projec From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Internet Commons Congress Internet Commons Congresshttp://www.internationalunity.org/Internet Commons Congress, March 23-24, 2004 in DC. - ICC seeks to develop more cohesion among the many Internet advocacy campaigns by providing an opportunity for education, networking, and cross-fertilization. They have 60 speakers representing dozens of projects and initiatives from VoIP and P2P to digital divide and Internet tax moratoriums to free software and open scholarship. Registration is free. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
ISBN : International Standard Book Number ISBN : International Standard Book Numberhttp://www.isbn.org/standards/home/This site is the United States and Puerto Rico homepage for information on ISBN standards, applying for ISBN numbers and details on the history and future of the International Standard Book Number system. Links to international ISBN agency homepages are made available, as well as foreseen updates to current standards, and a paper supporting the change to a 13-digit ISBN number (replacing the current 10-number ISBN) by January 2005. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics UCSC Genome Bioinformaticshttp://genome.ucsc.edu/This site contains the reference sequence for the human and C. elegans genomes and working drafts for the chimpanzee, mouse, rat, Fugu, Drosophila, C. briggsae, yeast, and SARS genomes. It also shows the CFTR (cystic fibrosis) region in 13 species. The Genome Browser zooms and scrolls over chromosomes, showing the work of annotators worldwide. The Family Browser shows expression, homology and other information on groups of genes that can be related in many ways. The Table B From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Sample Size Calculator Sample Size Calculatorhttp://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm This Sample Size Calculator is presented as a public service of Creative Research Systems. You can use it to determine how many people you need to interview in order to get results that reflect the target population as precisely as needed. You can also find the level of precision you have in an existing sample. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Blog Aggregator en español El blogger italiano Giuseppe Granieri está sondeando el interés que podamos tener en una eventual versión española del Blog Aggregator: "Estoy seguro de que con la contribucion de la comunidad de habla española el debate se enriquecerá y el desarrollo... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 27, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Mörike von Weimar nach... Viele Zeitungen, wie unter anderem das Wiesbadener Tagblatt, melden den gewünschten Verkauf von Teilen des Mörike-Nachlasses aus der Stiftung Weimarer Klassik nach Marbach für zwei Millionen Euro. Damit will die Stiftung die Hälfte der vier Millionen Euro aufbringen, die sie zur Einigung des Landes Thüringen mit dem Herzoghaus Sachsen-Weimar und Eisenach beisteuern muss. Das Adelshaus verzichtete für 15,5 Millionen Euro auf alle Rückgabeansprüche von Kunst und Kultur, darunArchivalia on February 27, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Crimson: Junior Professor Criticizes HBS Through Blog Crimson: "A junior faculty member at Harvard Business School is using his popular weblog to sound a warning that the schoolÂ’s prestige is in jeopardy, but HBS faculty and staff vigorously dispute his claim." Michael Watkins: Death Knell for the Delicate Experiment at HBS. From Weblogs At Harvard on February 27, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
Iranian Bloggers Make Election News Hoder points me to English translations of Iranian election blogging. This is important stuff: an on-the-ground look at a rigged election. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 27, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Why Bill Gates is smiling today CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says that after years taunting Microsoft, Oracle's Larry Ellison is getting hoisted by his own petard. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Rhetoric course blog Collin Brooke developing a course in Network(ed) Rhetorics via blog From Monkeymagic on February 27, 2004 at 7:54 a.m..
Wohnungsdurchsuchung bei Amtsrichterin Die Beschwerdeführerin, Richterin am Amtsgericht, wendet sich mit einer Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Anordnung der Durchsuchung ihrer Wohnung, weil der zu... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Fight Back The RIAA With Your Music Check If you are in the US the music industry CD Price Fixing Settlement check is in the mail.This is just the tip of the iceberg in the entertainment industry's abuse of power to maintain absolute control over their products and make a buck ... at the expense of music lovers like you and me. So what are you going to do before the RIAA cops come and take it back from you? If you live in the US check out Donate My Music Check so you can fight back. Enjoy the sweet irony as we use the industr From Robin Good's Latest News on February 27, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
Noticias de la Facultad Una selección de novedades de la casa, orientada a alumnos y antiguos alumnos, pero que será de utilidad para los interesados en Comunicación.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 27, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..
'I'm HAL; I'll Be Your Pilot' Commercial airliners run by computer, without a flight crew? It's neither lunacy nor fantasy, according to airplane designers. In fact, practical demonstrations in military aircraft show that it's feasible right now. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Tools Zap, Poison, Suck Skeeters Playing on fears of the West Nile virus borne by mosquitoes, companies rush out gadgets to kill the little buggers in lots of novel ways, including a vacuum cleaner of sorts. Others say DEET would do the trick just fine. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Nearby Star Births Baby Planets A young red dwarf just 33 light-years away from Earth gives astronomers a peek at how our own solar system might have formed. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Winds Delay Rosetta Launch The European Space Agency's 10-year project to land a probe on a comet will have to wait another 24 hours to lift off, due to high winds in the upper atmosphere. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Feds Fire Away at Oracle Bid The Justice Department and seven states sue the database giant over its aggressive effort to acquire PeopleSoft for $9.4 billion. The lawsuit argues the corporate marriage would stifle competition in the $20 billion business-applications software market. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
One Small Sniff for Mankind How one man's finely tuned pair of nostrils keeps the U.S. space corps from stinking to high heaven. By Angela Swafford from Wired magazine. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Hydrogen Gets Boost From Ethanol Hydrogen is the poster child for the future of energy, but reality keeps getting in the way. Researchers have turned to ethanol to help it along, using a small reactor. By Kari L. Dean. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Every Bit Is a Work of Art The Art of Abstraction, opening in Spain, puts the work of hackers right alongside Picasso and Dali. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Pigs May Hold Key to Diabetes Transplanted pig cells could cure type 1 diabetes if some promising research in rats also works in primates and then humans. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Apple Fans, Do You Feel Lucky? Well do ya, punk? The first 200 visitors to the new Apple Computer store in San Francisco will get the chance to purchase a mystery grab bag that may or may not contain a new iPod mini music player. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Fighting for Right Not to Show ID Next month, the Supreme Court will consider whether people have the right to not show identification to the police. At stake, advocates say, is whether our society will have to 'show papers' in daily life. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
The curse of the biometric future - Sam Williams, Salon Ten years ago, Dr. Joseph Atick was a Rockefeller University research scientist sitting atop an intriguing and potentially lucrative breakthrough in the realm of pattern recognition. In an attempt to mimic how the human brain processes sensory signals From Techno-News Blog on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
New Spam Filters Cut the Noise - Amit Asaravala, Wired Open-source spam filter developers are claiming that their software can now block 99.97 percent or more of incoming spam on a network, thanks to new techniques. If the claims hold true, the software could lead to a new generation of antispam solutions From Techno-News Blog on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Microsoft considering update dubbed 'XP Reloaded' - Ina Fried, CNET Microsoft is considering updating Windows XP before it releases Longhorn, the code name for a major overhaul of the industry's dominant operating system that is not expected for about two years. Issuing an update to XP would represent a significant sh From Techno-News Blog on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
How To: Stop Pop-Ups - Jeffrey Branzburg, techLearning Pop-ups " those advertising windows that pop up over or under other windows while we use the Internet " have become more and more ubiquitous as the Web has grown. For Macintosh computers, the Safari browser has pop-up blocking capability already includ From Educational Technology on February 27, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Michigan signs $68M deal with HP for school laptops - eSchool News staff and wire service reports Michigan's state budget office announced Feb. 20 it has signed a four-year, $68 million contract with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to provide thousands of laptop computers and other services to sixth graders across Michigan using federal funds. The state D From Educational Technology on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Return on Investment in Traditional Versus Distributed Learning - Robert Owen, Bosede Aworuwa; DEC 2003 Both instructors and administrators have embraced the use of online technologies in recent years; we no longer must appeal for greater use of technology. The time has come, however, to assess the tradeoffs in the costs and benefits of online technol From Online Learning Update on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
CSS Your Way to Learner Control - Thomas Welsh and Fred Condo, Learning Circuits How do you create a single Webpage that From Online Learning Update on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
How a UW-Madison Professor Used Technology to Expand Course Community - Tammy Kempfert, Teaching with Technology Today Robert Howard believes his rhetoric students--in fact, all college students--ought to experience speaking before an audience. Moreover, in a course he offers called Rhetoric of Religion, he wanted students to think about how they might communicate th From Online Learning Update on February 27, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Wo bleibt die Zeit? Dieser Report des Statistischen Bundesamtes informiert über die "Zeitverwendung der Bevölkerung in Deutschland 2001/2002". Leider in einem unhandlichen pdf-Format, aber ein ganzes Kapitel (von fünf) ist dem Thema Lernen gewidmet. Mit sehr interessanten Informationen. Das Wichtigste: - Vom Lebenslangen Lernen... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 27, 2004 at 5:52 a.m..
Wenn das Amt zum Bürger kommt Dank Förderung durch "Mobilmedia", einem Projekt der Bundesregierung, startet in Berlin ein "einzigartiges System", bei dem das "Amt zum Bürger... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
Gesetze & Verordnungen Der Anwalt-Liste entnehme ich einen Hinweis auf eine Seite des Landes Niedersachsen, auf der sich (nahezu) alle im Netz befindlichen... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
Move Heute und morgen stehen Serverübersiedlung an. Es ist wahrscheinlich, dass es dabei mehrere Versionen der Site sichtbar werden, je nach DNS. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on February 27, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..
Weblogs and termites I just wrote this in a class discussion: If ideas were pieces of dirt, weblogs would be the termites passing and moving them around. One at a time, they might not look like much is happening, but get a few... From technica on February 27, 2004 at 4:54 a.m..
Dan Saffer: Why I Blog my Postgrad Course Dan Saffer belegt einen Postgrad Course in Interaction Design an der Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh - und bloggt seinen Kurs (odannyboy). In diesem Interview erzählt er von seiner Motivation, ein Lerntagebuch zu führen, seinen Erfahrungen und darüber, wie ihm... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 27, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..
Eine schmutzige Affäre Auf diese Diskussion hat die Welt gewartet: "Well, where there's unauthorized Internet distribution, there's copyright, and where there's copyright, there're... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..
Rebecca Blood sobre Orkut Les confieso que fue ella quien me invitó. Hoy descubro por un mensaje en el foro este estupendo artÃculo: Thirteen Ways To Save Orkut: 1. Change the user agreement. 2. Allow a graduated acquaintance scale. Let users designate “Friends”, “Acquaintances”,... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 27, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..
Disney's accuser admits taking Pooh documents from trash bin. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 -- A private investigator hired by a company suing US entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. in the long-running legal battle over Winnie the Pooh royalties testified Wednesday that he took documents from an unlocked Disney trash bin. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
Wall Street putting on heirs for Disney. Even if Walt Disney Co. fends off the takeover bid by Comcast Corp., Wall Street is increasingly wondering how long Michael Eisner will remain chief executive and who will replace him. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
Disney Braces for Battle. Heading into next week's annual meeting, Disney (NYSE: DIS) executives have to be chewing their mouse mittens to the bone. What started as a modest "Save Disney" movement to oust CEO Michael Eisner and a handful of directors by former board members Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold has gained momentum -- and girth. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
Disappearing Mickeys make Disney fans mad. The 75 Mickey Mouse statues hanging out in front of the Magic Kingdom were an eclectic bunch. Elton John's Mickey. Regis Philbin's Mickey. "FrontEAR" Mickey. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
Disney's New Thriller: Eisner on Ice? A giant California retirement fund's decision not to support the CEO means the upcoming annual meeting will be quite a show. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
Comcast could win Disney at higher bid -EDS CEO. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp. has a good chance of winning the support of Walt Disney Co. shareholders for its hostile bid to acquire the entertainment conglomerate if it raises its offer, the CEO of Electronic Data Systems Corp., who is a former CBS Corp. chief, said on Thursday. From Mickey News on February 27, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
At First Citizens Bank, Pathlore Delivers Training On New Branch Systems From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
PBS To Launch 'PBS HD Channel' March 1, 2004, Featuring State-Of-The-Art, Award-Winning Programming In High Definition & Widescreen From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
The Ivy-Covered Console From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
ITT Tech Schools Raided In 8 States From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
New CAFRE [College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise] Course Goes The Distance From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the Community Associations Institute and VCampus Announce Launch of Online Leadership Development Training From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
Online learning issues grab attention of school board From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
Govt to ease facility rules for Net universities From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
EU comments on United Nations' plans for a global Information Society From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
DISTANCE EDUCATION: Improved Data on Program Costs and Guidelines on Quality Assessments Needed to Inform Federal Policy From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on February 27, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
Texas Author Offers Students, Families Hope and Help for College Financial Aid A Dallas-Fort Worth area author has been making a difference in the lives of college students and their parents who may not otherwise have been able to afford college. Half Price College offers unique tips on college financial aid, scholarships, grants, loans, and more and presents the information in a easy to use interactive e-book format. [PRWEB Feb 27, 2004] From PR Web on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Mobile solutions for Education DDH Software, Inc. and Porta Data, Inc. are pleased to announce a dynamic handheld teacher evaluation solution used primarily by Principals and Assistant Principals. [PRWEB Feb 27, 2004] From PR Web on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Great Lakes Media Technology Becomes NAMM Member Great Lakes Media Technology strengthens ties with music education CD-ROM and DVD producers. [PRWEB Feb 27, 2004] From PR Web on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
On The Art of Business is Simply Powerful / Powerfully Simple On The Art of Business, a book the can be opened to any page and enjoyed, released through Llumina Press [PRWEB Feb 27, 2004] From PR Web on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Consumer Fears or Optimism Show Mixed Attitudes over Economic Spending while Kingdom Financial Principles Sees Underlying Concern. Groton, VT HYPHEN February 26, 2004--"Consumers remain disheartened with current economic conditions, and at the core of their disenchantment is the labor market" said Lynn Franco, director of research at the Conference Board, a private research firm. Despite the findings two other weekly reports actually showed healthy consumer spending. [PRWEB Feb 27, 2004] From PR Web on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
PassGo Technologies and MasComm Systems Inc. Partner to Promote PassGo's WebthorityEV2 Product to the US School Market WebthorityEV2 will be bundled with MasComm's WebFront for SASIxp student administration system. WebFront for SASIxp is a web-based (thin client) product to help administrators and teachers manage student records. Schools are now able to securely allow parents, teachers and students access the student system from home. In addition, it will provide users, after signing once, to access their email or other Web based systems without having to sign on to each system. [PRWEB Feb 27, 2004] From PR Web on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
The Guardian Trust Names Two of America's Most-Respected Environmentalists HYPHEN Former Senior US EPA Officials Timothy Fields, Jr. and Stephen D. Luftig HYPHEN to its Trusteeship Board The Guardian Trust, a public/private partnership established by nationally recognized environmental champion Earth Pledge, announces the appointment of two eminent environmentalists, Timothy Fields, Jr. and Stephen D. Luftig, to its Board of Directors. These distinguished environmental executives add considerable credibility and integrity to the mission of The Guardian Trust, a public/private partnership established to enable trustworthy redevelopment of environmentally contaminated properties. [PRWEB Feb 27, 2004] From PR Web on February 27, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Elektronische Rechnungen Echtheit und Unversehrtheit von elektronisch übermittelten Rechnungen müssen mit der "qualifizierten elektronischen Signatur" des Ausstellers beweisbar sein, teilt AKADEMIE mit.... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Zitieren von Blawgs II Zum Thema der korrekten Zitation (vgl. schon den Artikel in diesem Weblog vom 03.02.2004 nebst Kommentaren!) gibt es jetzt einen... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Scheidungsopfer "Praxis/Kanzlei" Jede dritte Ehe endet vor dem Scheidungsrichter. Arzt-Ehen gelten dabei auf Grund der hohen Arbeitsbelastung als besonders gefährdet; dies dürfte... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Boykott der Meinungsfreiheit Die deutsche Niederlassung der SCO Group hat gegen einen Entwickler eine einstweilige Verfügung erwirkt, die ihm unter anderem untersagt, eine... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Betriebliche Altersvorsorge durch Gehaltsumwandlung Wie funktioniert die Rente von der Firma? Jeder Arbeitnehmer hat einen Anspruch auf ein Vorsorgemodell - vorausgesetzt, er ist bereit,... From Handakte WebLAWg on February 27, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Jim Moore's Blogging Vision - focus on users and evangelism Yes! Exactly what I think - The technical part is done for now, let's focus on making it 300% less technical and 1000% easier to use. Make it easier for non techies and non power users to blog and teach them how and preach the benefits. Blogging can and will cross the chasm. QUOTEAs Geoffrey Moore (no relation, except in management thought lineage) emphasizes, products and industries often must change as they seek to “cross the chasm” from selling to early adopters to becoming part of the daily life of mainstream users. I From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 27, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
Off-shoring" Manifesto/Rant: Sixteen Hard Truths - Tom Peters Read the whole thing! Here are my favourites: QUOTE1. "Off-shoring" will continue; the tide cannot be reversed.   2. Service jobs are a bigger issue than manufacturing jobs, by an order of magnitude. ... 15. Broadband EVERYWHERE is a National Priority ... akin to the priority placed on combating Global Terrorism. 16. All economic progression is a matter of moving up the "value-added chain." (This is not "management From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 27, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
Reference to a wiki page Does anyone know how to refer to a wiki page in a scientific paper? I'm especially interested about authour names :) From Mathemagenic on February 27, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..
Hole opens way to free MSN PremiumZDNet, "A flaw i ... Hole opens way to free MSN PremiumZDNet, "A flaw in Microsoft's MSN Explorer software has allowed some Web surfers to gain free access to features and services that normally cost $9.95 a month, the software giant confirmed on Thursday. "Those Chinese hackers did a great job to help MS debug and amend their service. From Meta on February 27, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
What's a blogalyst? Scoble is the definitive blogalyst. Ross is a great blogalyst. I'm a blogalyst too. From Ross Mayfield's Blogalyst QUOTEWhat's a Blogalyst? Part blogger, part analyst and part catalyst.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 27, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
Megan Fox Teaching Course on New Technologies CE Course on New Technologies for Librarians "Megan Fox, a librarian at Simmons College, is teaching a continuing education course entitled, Welcome to PDAs, WiFi, Blogs, RSS: A Taste of New Technologies for Every Librarian! Notice the overviews (PDF) for each learning module. Impressive." [L From The Shifted Librarian on February 27, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Virtual Moblogging Heh - I'm moblogging PLA by proxy! Sheree has been sending me pictures from her cameraphone, and I'm sending them on to the TSL Moblog! You can almost smell the fish.... From The Shifted Librarian on February 27, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Untitled Teddy Bear RSS "The Wide Wild World of Gund Stuffed Animals presented by Bear St.: I went to this site to buy a bear for my wife's birthday (sh-h-h-h-h). Lo and behold, there's an XML icon on the front page advertising their RSS feed. I checked the feed, and they announce a new bear on it once a week or so. So, has RSS finally acheived saturation when From The Shifted Librarian on February 27, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Oracle executive makes Justice Dept.'s point In its 17-page lawsuit against Oracle, the U.S. Justice Department's lawyers try to hoist Oracle by its own petard--using the words of Co-president Charles Phillips. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..
Influence of Training and Exposure on the Usage of Breadcrumb Navigation Usability News - 6.1 2004 -- Influence of Training and Exposure on the Usage of Breadcrumb Navigation::In spite of some of our best theories about usability, its the research that shows us what really works. This paper shows that breadcrumb... From technica on February 27, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..
A Great Match David Weinberger has won a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. I would be insanely jealous, but I'm above that. (Uh huh...). Many congratulations to someone who has been setting a standard for the rest of us. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 27, 2004 at 1:46 a.m..
Linux server sales show high-end trend Customers went for more-expensive and powerful Linux servers in the fourth quarter of 2003, new sales stats show, as servers running the open-source OS won jobs in high-performance computing and commercial workloads. From CNET News.com on February 27, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
What your people think Laurel Snyder of The Revealer writes about the too-frequent habit of Americans of asking someone to speak for their people, as if their people were a monolith rather than an ordinary human pot-luck of traits and views. She's getting calls because, as Jewish Student Life Coordinator at Hillel at the University of Iowa, people figure they know what monolith she speaks for, and this week people want that monolith to talk about Mel Gibson's movie. I mention the article because many of us... From Weblogs in Higher Education on February 27, 2004 at 12:51 a.m..
E-mail tries out a sense of smell From ScotFEICT on February 26, 2004 at 11:51 p.m..
Technology Hard Road For Small Businesses John Schwartz of The New York Times (requires subscription) has an interesting story in this morning's paper about how computing can be a hard road for small businesses. Jim Browning, the vice president and research director for the small- and midsize business research group at Gartner G... From Kolabora.com on February 26, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..
Social Software -- For Security! We issued this press release today about our involvement with the newly announced Homeland Security Information Network. I was hoping to blog about this earlier today, but didn't get the chance. In the meantime, Ray beat me to it. Ray is far more eloquent than me, so check out his persp... From Kolabora.com on February 26, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..
Deutsche Bank downgrades Elsevier stock based on OA threat Deutsche Bank reduced its evaluation of Elsevier from "buy" to "hold". Excerpt from Wednesday's New Ratings: "According to Deutsche Bank, the electronic media trends, which enable customers to be more selective in choosing their journals, are likely to pose a long term challenge to the company." From FOS News on February 26, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..
Guest Speaker: Chat Room or MOO Activity A nice 'n easy Friday plan which gets your learners discussing topics with an expert and then using the transcript to spark sparks for their own group discussions. Anyone wanna ed tech 'expert' as a guest, drop me an email :o) Seriously... it'd be good to do this from the other side of the fence! From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on February 26, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..
Gibson's Horror Movie: No, Thanks Glenn Lovell (Mercury News): Excruciating 'Passion' guilty of anti-Semitism. The carefully seeded media storm has done its job: Believers as well as non-believers are talking about Mel Gibson's ``The Passion of the Christ.'' So is the thing any good? Should you round up the spouse and kids and make your way to the neighborhood megaplex for what is being touted as the most realistic Passion play ever? Sure, if your idea of an inspirational evening out is a From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 26, 2004 at 11:46 p.m..
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