e-learning and Pedagogy Programme - Looking for bids From ScotFEICT on March 2, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
London tube goes mobile London subway authorities are studying plans to enable mobile phone communications. From miss-information.net on March 2, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Un DVD sur la désinformation sur l'Irak Benoitbisson.com signale la sortie du DVD Uncovered: The whole truth about the Iraq War le 30 mars prochain... juste à temps pour le premier anniversaire de l'invasion de l'Irak. From miss-information.net on March 2, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Group tries to rally 802.11 patents Via Licensing is forming a group devoted to making licensing of 802.11-related patents easier and to increasing the use of wireless networking in a broader array of products. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Flagship UKeU e-learning project faces major restructuring Following disappointing student numbers and serious difficulty in raising private finance, the UK e-Universities has been asked by government funders to come up with a restructuring plan before April. The emphasis should shift from commercial provision of courses to supporting e-learning development in the state universities. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on March 2, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..
Right Wing's Attacks on Science Jeopardize More than Scholarship Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The Junk Science of George W. Bush. Today, flat-earthers within the Bush Administration--aided by right-wing allies who have produced assorted hired guns and conservative think tanks to further their goals--are engaged in a campaign to suppress science that is arguably unmatched in the Western world since the Inquisition. Sometimes, rather than suppress good science, they simply order up their own. Meanwhile, the Bush White House is purging, censoring and blacklisting scientists and engineers whDan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..
E-voting smooth on Super Tuesday Only isolated problems have been reported in the day's elections, in which delegates from nine states including New York, California, Massachusetts and Ohio were up for grabs. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
HP nabs software management firm From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
EU probes memory price fixing charge The European Union is investigating whether the world's largest memory makers conspired to raise chip prices in 2001, mirroring a probe being conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
The Good News Are Here! One overdose of great Good tidings....from Goodle. From Robin Good's Latest News on March 2, 2004 at 8:51 p.m..
SCO Keeps Playing the Media In the dictionary under "weasel" they should put the SCO logo. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..
SCO delays Linux user lawsuit announcement The company plans to begin legal action against Linux users Tuesday--likely two separate companies--but an announcement of the names won't come until Wednesday, the company says. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..
Comcast goofs in Russian spam blockade Since Friday, Comcast subscribers have found themselves unable to send e-mail to Russian addresses thanks to an overactive spam filter. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..
True knowledge work cannot be automated Let's continue introduction round of my colleagues with weblogs. Carla Verwijs shares her expectations of weblogs, passion for finding out what motivates people to share knowledge and makes me absolutely happy by posting summary of paper by Kidd (1994) which w From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..
Language in "Science" Mark Liberman at Language log posted a short piece about Science Magazines current Issue which is a special focusing on language. If you're reading this, I'll infer that you're interested in language, and will want to read these articles. I'm... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..
Radio Userland: what I love and hate about it Things that I love about Radio (and what it does better than e.g. TypePad):real WISIWIG formatting (and not buttons that add the code) including the fact that it preserves formatting while copy-pasting (this is bad if you copy from Word,... From Radio on March 2, 2004 at 7:50 p.m..
Macromedia Breezes Through Promises - Free Trial Just A Buzzword From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 7:50 p.m..
Another Big Shot Does a Perp Walk It was Worldcon's Bernie Ebbers' turn to be put in handcuffs (Reuters) today. His company's financial frauds were some of the worst. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..
No Comment The Onion: Jesus Demands Creative Control Over Next Movie. After watching Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ Monday, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ announced that He will demand creative control over the next film based on His life. "I never should have given Mel Gibson so much license," said Christ, the Son of God. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..
Updated reading list I updated the booklist here on carvingCode to reflect books I've recently completed and those in process. I've taken a liking to Dan Brown's novels since reading the Da Vinci Code early last Summer. Brown's novels have quite a lot of historical realism in them, while offering a good, underlying "who done it" plot. I'm still working my way through Founding Brothers, not because it's a difficult read, but moreso because I've found other books that have distracted me. I do plan to finish it on Spring Break. From carvingCode on March 2, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..
Of things blogish I've been playing with the new version of Drupal. In fact, I put up a new weblog at pedalopolis.com using Drupal. And I'm using Drupal as a student resource blog on one of our campus web servers - to go live next Fall quarter. carvingCode runs on Nucleus, which I have no complaints with other than it isn't well supported or under active development. So, I very well may port carvingCode over to Drupal as well. (I need From carvingCode on March 2, 2004 at 7:46 p.m..
Cisco loses top spot in niche cable market The company loses the No. 1 spot in a market involving gear used to offer broadband Net connectivity to customers, recent figures say. Cisco had used its position to sell other equipment to cable operators. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Seagate revises its outlook From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Court rebuffs FCC's new telecom rules Federal judges hand out a setback for broadband sharing, but approve the elimination of broadband competition on future networks. Will prices climb and service fall? From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
RSS Web Feeds Next Big Thing E-mail is crippled, concussed by an irrepressible spam stream. Web surfing can be equally confounding, a wobbly wade through bursts of pop-ups and loudmouthed video ads. And that may explain the excitement these days over a somewhat crude but nifty software tool that automatically delivers updated information to your computer directly from your favorite Web sites. Enthusiasts see these Web feeds as sketching the outline of the next Net revolution. The technology behind them is called RSS and I rely on it daily to consult The New York Times, the BBC, CNET News, Slashdot and a few dozen other We From Robin Good's Latest News on March 2, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
Got a Book in You? More Companies Than Ever Are Willing to Get It Out Since September, the nation's second-largest bookseller, Borders Group, has quietly been conducting an experiment in six Philadelphia-area stores, not as a bookseller, but as a publisher. "It's easy to publish your own book!" the "Borders Personal Publishing" leaflets proclaim. Pay $4.99. Take home a kit. Send in your manuscript and $199. A month or so later, presto. Ten paperback copies of your novel, memoir or cookbook arrive. Fork over $499, and you can get the upscale "Professional Publication" option. Your book gets an ISBN (International Standard Book Number), the publishing&ap From Robin Good's Latest News on March 2, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
More on the embargo of scientific editing John Dudley Miller, Publishers steamed by US ban, The Scientist, March 2, 2004. Excerpt: "Most scientific societies are defying or ignoring the rule, which applies to all US publications. Theoretically, their refusal exposes their editors and officers to fines of up to $50,000 and 10 years or more in jail, should the government decide to prosecute, which so far it has not done. A number of technical and general publishers are considering suing to overturn the long-overlooked federal regulation behind the ruling, and many scientific From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..
End of Letter From America The world's longest-running talk radio programme, Letter From America, has come to an end, with the retirement of its presenter, 95-year-old Alistair Cooke. From kuro5hin.org on March 2, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Cometa has slight burp in McDonald's test Cometa Networks has lost AT&T as its service provider for a hot-spot test with McDonald's in New York City, but prospects may be heating up on the other coast for the Wi-Fi company. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Registrar ups ante in VeriSign battle Go Daddy says it will pay up to $100,000 of the legal bills that ICANN may run up through defending a lawsuit filed last week by VeriSign. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Sun plans per-citizen price for server software The company's top software executive says the program will help it sell its server and desktop software to governments. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy It's a fairly basic article, but it signals a change on the part of at least some economists regarding strong copyright protection. "The ideas of copy-left, or of a more liberal regime of copyright, are receiving wider and wider support," said Debora L. Spar, a professor at Harvard Business School. "It's no longer a wacky idea cloistered in the ivory tower; it's become a more mainstream idea that we need a different kind of copyright regime to support the wide range of activities in cyberspace." By John Schwartz, New York Times, March 1, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on March 2, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
CC-enhanced Search Engine Another step in the right direction (you almost think we'll get there some day): a search engine that indexes only Creative Commons licensed pages. Of course, this is only a step - such a search engine would not be useful for many purposed; copyright information needs, in the long run, to define a search field or a type of search, not a whole search engine. And in the search results, the copyright icon should not dwarf the link title. But, the main things is, people are now using copyright information as a search parameter. One step forward. Meanwhile, also check out OLDaily on March 2, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
The Problems With Training (and What to Do About It) As the author asserts, "Mirroring the 7th grade classroom and the freshman college 101 lecture hall will serve only to copy their mediocrity." Too true. But what to do about it? This essay contains a number of good suggestions, ranging from the ever popular 99-second talks to the importance of food, round tables, and varied activities. When I plan a conference (and I will plan a conference some time over the next couple of years) it is my intention to employ a number of these tactics to draw on some of the lessons on learning that we all know but never seem to apply for ourselves. Like, From EdTechPost on March 2, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Aula de eLearning de Infonomia el próximo martes 16 de Marzo de 2004 El martes 16 de Marzo de 2004 se celebrará el Aula de Infonomia dedicada al eLearning. Una sesión para mostrar y debatir sobre ideas y herra... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 2, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Lessig on the Eldred argument Lawrence Lessig, How I Lost the Big One, Legal Affairs, March/April 2004. Lessig's first-person account of the oral argument before the Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft. Lessig's many well-wishers tell him that the case was unwinnable. But after a year's reflection, he disagrees. He offers fascinating detail on how he constructed his argument, with one eye on the particular judges he would face in court and anoth From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Happy Suessentenial (Go Ted Go) Today should be an international holiday, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Geisel. Yawn? Better we should have said, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Suess, that's right today is the Suessentennial. Who cannot connect with a favorite child hood read? Therefore a re-iteration of an earlier post on this dog's favorite Suess book (scratch your heads hard to figure out this one!).... From cogdogblog on March 2, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Good news, and weird news... After a few days off the net due to some manner of server meltdown, Abject Learning is back, and ready to do some serious damage to our collective intelligence. The weird part is that my previous postings seem to have melted into a shapeless mass of text. I suspect it's because the Textile plug-in that had been in use has disappeared. I kind of like the new amorphous layout of words. It resists the tyrannies of structure and readability -- which is in keeping with the philosophy and conceptual work that lies beneath this site. In any event I'm far too lazy to go through all my postin From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..
Personal publishing as punk rock, redux... The amazing Anne Galloway calls this spirited rant the best story about weblogs she has ever read. That's enough for me to take a look... I do groove on the perspective: Weblogs are a party, damn it, and sometimes they're publications too, or instead, and sometimes they're diaries, sometimes they're pieces of art, sometimes they're tools for self-promotion, sometimes they're money-maknig ventures, sometimes they're monuments to ego, sometimes they're massive wanks, sometimes they're public services, sometimes they're dedications of faith, somet From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
It's like sausage being made... I'm presenting tomorrow for the NLII Annual Meeting here in San Diego. To the surprise of nobody, I am still well away from finishing my presentation... in fact I am certain I will be working well into the wee hours pecking away on my hotel dial-up connection... and a sleepless night should ensure that manic, completely incoherent state of mind on which I thrive. If you happen to be in San Diego, and want to see a full-on public meltdown, then the Westin Hotel really is the place to be. Though things are still a mess, I'm going to post my current working draft, in part because I am b From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
Insurgence, Emergence, Convergence... The presentation for the NLII conference is now in some kind of order. I won't say it's finished. A few people actually heeded yesterday's desperate cry for help and added to the wiki. I thank them to the point of mortification.... From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
Finding and reusing digital learning resources... I just finished a faculty workshop on finding and reusing digital learning resources, as part of a seminar series held by UBC's Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth. For this workshop I tried to dispense with learning object talk, and concentrated on the collections of resources out there... I wanted to get some sense of whether these collections have indeed matured to the point where they are of use to the typical university instructor. I am still buzzing a bit, and haven't combed through the participants' wiki pages yet for feedback, but the evaluation forms I received back From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
User-selectable RSS Feeds Auricle, the weblog of the eLearning@bath team, has a nifty layout that allows readers to select what RSS feed they would like displayed in the right-hand column. As Derek Morrison suggests, "there are some exciting possibilities, e.g. selecting what information about a bank of learning objects should be displayed."... From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
The hits keep comin'... (ouch!) Today's theme from Ira Glass, on the subject of work: "There are people who are fundamentally lazy, who only get anything done because they put themselves under dreadful deadline pressure. Those people are all my brothers." -- (Spotted at thought peach) I'll leave it to those who know me best to decide whether I am kin to the Brotherhood. But there's no question that dreadful deadline pressures have sunk their claws into me like a rabid wolverine. On the bus ride home yesterday I sketched out what I am committed to doing over the next couple days, weeks, months, and nearly passe From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
The new imperial imperative “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 of ideas, like free trade, like democracy, like copyright laws.”Copyright? Was my host really suggesting that we had carried out one of the largest land invasions since World War II to protect copyright laws? “Well, yeah, our empire is about promoting free trade, it’s about promoting democracy and the ownership of ideas. Sure, it’s about McDonald’s and Microsoft and everything else. But the reality is we are not he From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
An anonymous post found on the the UBC wiki I stumbled on this meditation on wikis and instruction with the random page link: To me the Wiki makes teaching and learning collaborative not only as a process but as the product as well. It makes teachers out of the students and conversely students out of the teachers. It creates a shift toward project based learning and process oriented pedagogies. It allows for the teaching of writing rules, style and voice through the production of the project and not in some isolated unrelated way. Finally it promotes distributed intelligence such that each author/contributor to the wiki adds or creates From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Open source in education - wiki on wikis Alan turned me on to an intriguing event hosted by the Open Space Institute (US): We are building an interactive database on Open Space applications in education. While the wiki space is already open and waiting for your stories, the weekend of February 14-15, 2004 is intended to be another focused time for our real time interaction. Will you help the Community create an archive of case studies/ stories/experiences involving Open Space and education? Our objectives are twofold: Improve our practice as facilitators by learning from the experience of others who have used OST in education. Create From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
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 March 2, 2004 at 5:47 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 discrete article as it is a remix, laying down a loose, jumpy groove that is a DJ Downes standard… 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 seek through in From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:47 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 March 2, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Course Weblog on Theoretical Perspectives on Interactivity Douglas Rushkoff has started a weblog to support a course that he’s teaching at New York University, “on the emergence of and reactions to interactivity in technology, literature, art, society and our perception of reality.” Via Seb’s Open Research... From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Quoting this post in full is easier than writing something myself... With apologies to Tom Coates of plasticbag.org… The secret of successful weblogging is - it seems - never to pause for a moment. Never let the fact that you’re kind of not in the mood for a few days to stop you putting some old crap up on your site. Because the longer you leave it, the more pressure there is to make your return worthwhile, valuable, interesting. I am currently backlogged with about three weeks worth of things I feel I need to say - mostly about ETCon, but also about online communities, social software, ConCon and politics - but I know now that I’ll never mana From Object Learning on March 2, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..
Dell to feed Cargill's tech needs From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Microsoft talks up BizTalk Server Microsoft, which has been aiming to broaden the server integration market for some time, launches its latest effort, BizTalk Server 2004. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Learning in Communities "Probably the greatest misapplication of online community lies in the idea that it is an adjunct to, or following from, the creation and design of an online course. This is perhaps most clearly exemplified by the existence in itself of... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 2, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..
Discovery on Mars: A Milestone in Human History The news that water once drenched the Red Planet's surface comes amid terrestrial disasters, some natural and some made by humans. Someday our species, if it's smart and lucky enough, will put down new roots on other worlds. Historians in the distant future -- if we have one -- will look back on this day as one in which humankind made one more step in the exploration that ultimately saved us from ourselves. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..
Through the security looking glass Yes, there's glitz and glamour, but industry watcher Tim Clark says cybersecurity experts are still arguing about many of the same things they did five years ago. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
In Oracle suit, DOJ overlooks an old foe: Microsoft The Justice Department is suing to stop Oracle's PeopleSoft buyout and preserve the companies' healthy rivalry in high-end business apps. But analysts say a certain software firm is set to provide plenty of competition. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Court nixes FCC's new telecom rules A federal appeals court declares much of the FCC's recent telecom rewrite was illegal--but it approves keeping controversial rules for new broadband services. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Ancient Archives Title: Archives and Archival Traditions : Concepts of Record-keeping in the Ancient World Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents Author: Brosius, Maria Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2003 Description: Our oldest archival records originate from the Near East. Systems of archival record-keeping developed over several millennia in Mesopotamia before spreading to Egypt, the Mycenean world, and the Persian empire, and continuing through the Hellenistic and Seleucid periods. Yet we know little about the way archival practices were established, transmit From Archivalia on March 2, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..
Advice to Grad Studies The College of Graduate Studies and Research is considering a couple of important issues for graduate student, and I thought you might have some advice to offer. Specifically, Dean Wishart has requested our comments about the following issues: Minimum funding... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 2, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..
Gateway to cut more jobs Another 1,000 or so positions will be eliminated, going by remarks from a Gateway exec. But the layoffs aren't related to its buy of eMachines, the PC maker says--though it's tight-lipped on that deal right now. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Cablevision reports loss From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Chinese Opera belts out brand Norway's Opera Software sets its sights on the Asian cell phone market with two Opera-branded handsets--departing the backstage role browser providers typically play with cell phones. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
DoubleClick buys marketing software maker The online ad specialist hopes SmartPath, with its product designed to help companies with their media campaigns, will give it a stronger foothold in software sales. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
The RSS NewsMaster The NewsMaster: A New Emergent Socio-Professional Role In the beginning was Yahoo and AltaVista. Then Google came... then the size and the needs grew to such a level of complexity and need for personalization that none of those tools was appropriate anymore. We are soon to be under enough evolutionary pressure to improve our ability to access specialized news and information in ways and modalities that will make searching with Google or Yahoo appear like a primitive and much limited approach. Indeed the key problem we are confronted with is this: how to navigate, filter and reduce to humanly m From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on March 2, 2004 at 2:53 p.m..
Affiliates von Partnerprogrammen II In Teil 2 seiner Reihe beschäftigt sich Dr. Web heute mit "Kritischen Angeboten" in Partnerprogrammen, hier: Finanzprodukten.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 2:53 p.m..
Premiere Kolabora Live! Event Archive Not Available Communicast http://www.communicast.com/ produces and archives streaming video and audio web conferences on a regular basis, but historically has not archived seven different live audio/video streams during a live event, as was the case in the breakthrough Kolabora Live! session ... From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..
information about Advanced Reality Robin, You are correct. We took off the free download link off the site. We are in the process of updating the site to not have these links. I would be happy to demo the software ... From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..
Kolabora Live: A Pioneering Event? From Wes Kussmaul, one of the key panelists at the first Kolabora Live! event, the latest set of comments and feedback on this pionerring event: Kolabora Live! was alive! Kolabora Live! showed that the kind of lively and useful panel ... From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..
C&EN readers decry publishing embargoes Scientific Censorship, Chemical and Engineering News 82(9), 4-5 (March 1, 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Two letters in the latest Chemical and Engineering News express incredulity and disapproval of the U.S. Treasury Department OFAC rulings. C.A. Carroll remarks: "Contact with the scientific and intellectual members of those hostile countries can only demonstrate the advantages of free and open exchanges." And Cecil A. Fox points to scientific advances in countries such as Cuba, "in cancer therapeutics, in pediatric vacc From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..
Project Syzygy: new ARG in the works Project Syzygy has been announced by Dan Hon as a new, and very ambitious immersive alternative reality game (ARG) in the works. The site has little, but tantalizing (of course) information. It does establish a nice genealogy, including Gibson's... From Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education on March 2, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
Project LRNJ The goal of Project LRNJ is to make Japanese accessible to people who enjoy anime or video games, and wouldn't otherwise learn it. The project has develop a RPG that teaches enough Japanese to use a native dictionary. From Elearnopedia on March 2, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..
SCO vs. IBM Darl McBride, CEO der SCO Group, hat gestern angekündigt, seine Firma werde heute auch einen namhaften Anwender von Linux verklagen,... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..
Selbstverpflichtung zum Open... Auf die Zeitschriftenliteratur bezieht sicht: http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/gap-c/declaration_de.html Unsere Einrichtung verpflichtet sich hiermit zur Übernahme und Umsetzung einer institutionellen Praxis (siehe z.B. http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php) , die den freien Zugang zu der gesamten hier veröffentlichten, referierten Zeitschriftenliteratur sicherstellt – d.h. den kostenlosen Online- From Archivalia on March 2, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..
News for Today, Mar 3 Items of interest for today: Parlano released Version 5.4 of its MindAlign enterprise IM and collaboration platform. New features: 'story' messaging (for managing long posts), enhanced user identification controls, and improved management capabilities (channel category management, Active Directory a... From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..
Metrics Jay: Thank you for Metrics. I read it immediately. (Most of what I needed anyway, which was a lot) I was able to compose a draft Revenue Model for E Learning Enterprise justification because your knowledge, references, links and other insights were there when... From Internet Time Blog on March 2, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
SHERPA overview Bill Hubbard, SHERPA: Opening Access to UK Research, CURL News, January 2004. An introduction to SHERPA for UK librarians, by the project director. Excerpt: "Each partner in the project is building its own repository to house the research findings of its own academic members of staff. By adopting OAI-PMH metadata standards for these eprint repositories...these records can be cross-searched along with those of other institutions' repositories. This is an immensely powerful ability, as it delivers quality-marke From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
Editorial supports Lofgren bill What copy rights? An unsigned editorial in the March 2 Mercury News. Excerpt: "A record of 0-3 in the courts is not heartening; for copyright reformers, it's a signal to turn up the heat in Washington. If the courts won't uphold consumers' rights, then Congress, which created the problem by passing a bad copyright law, must. Three times in the past three years, federal courts have banned the distribution of technologies that let consumers make copies of the digital works that they own....In bot From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
"...the current model is breaking up" From Outsell's e-briefs for February 27, 2004: "Not a week goes by without new actions and declarations within the academic world regarding the serials crisis and the growing willingness of libraries to push back on major publishers offering unattractive bundled access deals. What's new now is that the resistance (and the attendant support for open access alternatives) is moving up and out of the library to higher levels of university administration. Explicit criticisms of traditional publishers are often part o From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
BloggerCon II - EdBloggers Wanted Just signed up for BloggerCon II and I was a little surprised at the dearth of edblogging types on the registrant's list so far. (I do, however, see someone from the NEA is coming. Terrorists in our midst???) If nothing else, I'm in for the conversations on politics and jounalism, but it would be great to get together for some BOF sessions on blogs in schools. Anyone else going? Anyone? From weblogged News on March 2, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..
IBM pulls out all the partner stops The company is courting application providers with industry expertise in an effort to drive sales of new software. Can it take market share away from Microsoft? From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Sun names new services chief From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
OA database on geriatrics The University of South Carolina has launched GeriatricWeb, a peer-reviewed, open-access database of medical literature on geriatrics. USC built the database with a grant from the National Library of Medicine, which paid for the labor of six people over 18 months. For more background, see Jon Turner's story in the USC student newspaper for March 1. From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
What the world needs now: Another religion Yoism is a made-up "open source" religion that replaces God with an impersonal Divine Mystery that seems to be loosely defined as "The Stuff that Is and the Scientifical Laws It Follows," so that the proof of Yo's existence consists of saying that the universe exists. Yoism pledges to build Heaven on Earth, and, best of all, without self sacrifice! I'm confident Yoism is built on the best of intentions. I'm just having trouble getting past the unintentional self-parody. I guess that makes me a small person. Thanks to Ross Knights for the link.... From Joho the Blog on March 2, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
HP, DRM and the felicitously named HP yesterday announced further moves to bring it to the forefront of user-hostile digital restrictions management. Palo Alto, California-based HP said that it had licensed Intel's high-bandwidth digital content protection technology, which is designed to ensure that video cannot be intercepted and recorded as its travels between devices, such as between a personal computer and a TV display screen. Felice Swapp, who heads up much of HP's digital rights management work, said that the Intel technology is invisible to consumers, and that it made more sense for HP to license that technolo From Joho the Blog on March 2, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
Most people can't handle more than a couple hundred feeds Andrew Grumet has computed the distribution of subscription numbers among Share your OPML participants. Here's the cumulative graph, which highlights how much of an outlier Robert Scoble is with his (at last count) 1296 subscriptions: From Seb's Open Research on March 2, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..
Yahoo!, Overture Debut New Service Yahoo! and Overture unveil a paid inclusion search marketing program that will take the place of those run by its Inktomi, AltaVista and AlltheWeb properties. From E-Commerce Guide on March 2, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Analysis by the (Raw) Numbers Sometimes all it takes to glean insight out of raw Web site analytics is 10 seconds and a $3.00 calculator. From E-Commerce Guide on March 2, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Ibid Here's my link to Larry Lessig's post mortem on Eldred. From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on March 2, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
HP drives home Ford printing deal Confirming earlier reports, Hewlett-Packard announces that it will replace Xerox as Ford Motor's printing and imaging services provider. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Broadband powerline service gains backers One of the largest Midwestern power companies announces a joint venture to provide Internet access directly to consumers through power sockets in their homes. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Google News Alerts Die Google News Alerts werden per E-Mail gesendet, sobald Artikel online erscheinen, die mit den angegebenen Themen übereinstimmen. Während dies... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..
Raindance Meeting Edition Web conferencing deepens collaboration Raindance Meeting Edition bonds audio, video, Web (Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld 3/1/2004) provides an overview of Raindance Communications, Inc.'s newly released Raindance Meeting Edition. The website offers an animated tour, live demo and free trial fo... From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..
Online Adult Education Programs Thomas Nixon helps you find the best online education program for you - factors to consider and recommended accredited programs.... From Adult/Continuing Education on March 2, 2004 at 11:50 a.m..
New issue of SOAN I just mailed the March issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month, it takes a close look at the priorities for the OAI community, the argument that OA accommodates the explosive growth in knowledge better than toll access, and the objection that the upfront funding model corrupts peer review at OA journals. From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..
Big publishers testify in the UK inquiry David Hencke, Science journal publishers defend profits, The Guardian, March 2, 2004. On the first session of oral testimony before the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. This session heard from the large commercial publishers. Next week, the supporters of OA will have their From FOS News on March 2, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..
Elsewhere Jason's posted pictures of our High Line stroll last weekend. The Economist's Backgrounder on Haiti. The case for gay marriage (also from Economist.com) --> From megnut on March 2, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
The Nation on Ro The Nation has a great piece on Ro Khanna's race for Congress. From Lessig Blog on March 2, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
The Granick Slate Jennifer Granick's slate card for today's election is out. Granick's judgment about things political is a standard for all right (as in correct) thinking people out here. To the surprise of some, she has endorsed Senator Edwards:"Kerry's probably going to be the nominee, and hopefully our next president, and I'm feeling pretty good about that. But he's got to learn the lesson that Howard Dean taught the Democrats, which is that you can't win by playing From Lessig Blog on March 2, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Commentary: Google's soft spot The search giant looks unstoppable. But there are limits to Google's ambition for ubiquitous search--and ways for portals and technology companies to gain an advantage. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Loudeye snags antipiracy start-up The digital music services provider acquires Overpeer, a company dealing in antipiracy services for record companies and digital content distributors. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Acer goes wide with new notebook Wide-screened that is. The Aspire 1710 desktop replacement portable sports a 17-inch screen and is aimed primarily at businesses. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Do you have an equipment project in mind you would like to get help starting on or building? We are looking for manuals and/or project suggestions for our new, ten-week simulator developer class, to start at Drexel University on April 1 (UGSD 380, Section 703). For those who cannot make this class, we are preparing an online class beginning September, 2004. If you have access to product manuals you can send us, we would greatly appreciate it. We will offer the students the opportunity to build those devices, and you can then benefit from their work! Class projects will be displayed after the class finishes in mid-June. The devices should be of medium complexity (a bit more complex th From FlashSim on March 2, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
The cockroach of repository interoperability: Simple Query Interface The European educational interoperability standards agency, the CEN-ISSS Learning Technologies Workshop, recently started specification and experimentation work on the Simple Query Interface (SQI). The specification candidate is based on work by a range of European and international projects and agencies. Given the plethora of digital repository interoperability specifications that already exist, we asked editors Erik Duval and Frans van Assche about the reasoning behind this one. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on March 2, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
Microsoft cuts prices for Malaysia Breaking its one-price policy, the company is selling a scaled-down software package as part of a Malaysian government drive to increase computer ownership. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
UK eUniversities Worldwide - Major restructure pending A newsfeed from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3494048.stm reports on the restructuring of UK eUniversities Worldwide (UKeU) and follows on from a statement issued by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2004/euni/. From Auricle on March 2, 2004 at 9:53 a.m..
Jahresgutachten Mobilfunk 2003 Das Jahresgutachten Mobilfunk 2003 - Bestandteil der Selbstverpflichtung der Mobilfunknetzbetreiber gegenüber der Bundesregierung - wurde heute in Berlin vorgestellt. Das... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
FAQ: OCR for handwritten documents http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews8-1.html#faq Conclusion: There is as yet no commercial or open source software for automatic transcription of, or the creation of searchable indexes from, handwritten historical documents. However, it is an active area of research and progress is being made. Continued advancement depends on the availability of funding. Librarians, archivists, and scholars may be able to push the agenda more effectively by partnering with computer scientists who share a From Archivalia on March 2, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
TeorÃa y práctica del aprendizaje en lÃnea Athabasca University, centro universitario canadiense especializado en educación a distancia, ha publicado el libro --> From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 2, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
Pew: Content Creation Online Some pretty interesting findings about those of us who create content online. Aside from the connection, I'm like a poster boy for this stuff. Personally, I'm amazed at that 2% statistic, which just goes to show how skewed my reality is. I just cannot imagine (nor can I scarcely remember) what my newsgathering and info collecting life would be like without Weblogs and RSS and Furl and Bloglines, which is either a sad commentary on my existence or a reminder that we're all still way out in front of the curve From weblogged News on March 2, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
Gärtner braucht das Land Matt referenziert in seinem Posting auf die wunderbare Welt der Business.Commuities of Practice und er liefert gleich einige erste Überlegungen zu einer Gebrauchsanweisung für den K-Collector mit. Ich glaube für diese Aufg... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 2, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
Tokyo Bloggers, in Person What a pleasure to meet some of Tokyo's blogging community this evening. Fine folks, great conversations. Hoping to see them again on another visit. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Un nouveau robot prend le marché d'assaut La compagnie japonaise ZMP mettra sur le marché un robot d'apparence humaine avant la fin de l'année. From miss-information.net on March 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
It's a woman's car! Volvo introduced it's new model, Your concept car, entirely designed for women. From miss-information.net on March 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
If ICANN can't, who can? A suit accusing a key Internet agency of stymieing innovation could lead to basic changes in how the Net is run, threatening an already tenuous balance between commercial and public interests online. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Macromedia Flash effort does slow burn The software maker faces challenges in getting developers to support Central, a year-old plan to free its Flash format from dependence on a browser. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Vox populi on tech outsourcing When CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh argued that outsourcing jobs overseas is good for the economy, he got an earful from readers. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Peer assessment: A strategy for dealing with large cohorts? As Elaine Bloss noted in her article Feedback to large cohorts - what does learning technology have to offer?, provision of quality feedback can be a particular challenge for those individuals responsible for large cohorts. However supportive of learner-centred and activity based assignments we may be, the sheer logistics of managing the marking and feedback process may lead us... From Auricle on March 2, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
The weblog as the model for a new type of VLE (update) I was gratified to see such a response to last week's article; obviously there's a chord been struck somewhere. As I indicated last week we are evaluating a few open-source content management systems and my particular focus at the moment is PostNuke. So if you want an update read on! From Auricle on March 2, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
Missing course I'm still waiting for the materials for my other class LING946: Leading and Managing Language Programs. I called early Monday morning and found out that the materials had shipped but I forgot to ask for the tracking number. I also... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 2, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..
Spendenaufruf: Stadtteilbibliotheken in Frankfurt Stadt und Land sind sich mal wieder einig, so will man auch Frankfurt dummsparen und drei von vier Stadtteilbibliotheken schliessen: Aufruf für das erneute Bürgerbegehren zum Erhalt aller Stadtteilbibliotheken Die Stadt Frankfurt hat beschlossen, vier Stadtteilbibliotheken zu schließen und die Existenz der verbleibenden zum Teil von ehrenamtlicher Arbeit abhängig zu machen. Wir Bürger brauchen nahe und gut ausgestattete Stadtteilbüchereien nicht nur für Kinder, Eltern u From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on March 2, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..
Rechtsstatus eines Vertretungsprofessors Ein Bundesland kann einem Hochschullehrer durch Verwaltungsakt die Vertretungsprofessur im Rahmen eines öffentlich-rechtlichen Dienstverhältnisses eigener Art übertragen. Der Verwaltungsakt leidet... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
An Introduction to Internet Mailinglist Research An Introduction to Internet Mailinglist Researchhttp://www.irene-langner.de/docs/19990917/trier199909.htmlThis paper is intended as a practice oriented introduction to Internet mailinglists as research material for German researchers in Japanese Studies who have little previous experience with online material. After some general remarks about mailinglists they mention new opportunities as well as limitations when dealing with mailinglists as research sources and present some current appr From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
MailBucket MailBuckethttp://www.mailbucket.org/MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway. The service is probably most useful to those who lurk on high-traffic mailing lists, but it could also be used as a rudimentary bridge between applications, with email as the transfer protocol. The generated RSS feeds are valid and compressed (if your client supports compressed content); they are also public and impermanent, which may be a disadvantage f From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Triple Bottom Line Taxonomies Triple Bottom Line Taxonomies http://www.montague.com/review/tbllinks.htmThe above is a list of selected taxonomies for triple bottom line " also called sustainable development " reporting. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Agricultural Ontology Service Project (AOS) Agricultural Ontology Service Project (AOS)http://www.fao.org/agris/aos/default.htmIn the agricultural sector there exist already many well-established and authoritative controlled vocabularies, such as FAO's AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, the CAB Thesaurus, and AgNIC, the thesaurus of the National Agricultural Library in the United States. However, for these semantic tools to be entirely effective on the Internet, there is a need to re-assess the traditional "thesaurus" approach and move towards a From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Crypto Law Survey Crypto Law Surveyhttp://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/This is a survey of existing and proposed laws and regulations on cryptography - systems used for protecting information against unauthorized access. Governments have long restricted export of cryptography for fear that their intelligence activities are hampered by the crypto use of foreign states and scoundrels. Since the rise of crypto use over the past decades, governments increasingly worry about criminals using cryptography to thwart law enforcemen From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Business Resources Business Resources 2004http://www.BusinessResource.BlogSpot.com/Business Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-5604 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman - 67 Pages .pdf Format - Table of Contents:IntroductionResearch SourcesReference SourcesSearch Engine SourcesDirectory and Database SourcesB2B Vertical eMarketplaces URLsBusiness Bids Resources URLsBusiness Resources URLsBusiness Intelligence Resources From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
New Papers at Opensource and Free Software MIT The following papers have been recently posted to New Papers on: http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://opensource.mit.edu Paper 1:Authors:Chan, Tzu-Ying & Jen-Fang LeeTitleA Comparative Study of Online User Communities Involvement In Product Innovation and Developmenthttp://opensource.mit.edu/papers/chanlee.pdfAbstract:The litera From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 2, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
The ScotFEICT Challenge From ScotFEICT on March 2, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
Fostering interoperability, Japanese style Japan's Advanced Learning Infrastructure Consortium (ALIC) has been promoting e-learning interoperability standards in their part of the world, much like Industry Canada, SURF SiX or CETIS. Except that it funds single open source implementations of specifications. By Japan's main educational software vendors themselves. We ask ALIC's Kyoshi Nakabayashi about their experiences with the approach. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on March 2, 2004 at 7:48 a.m..
Anwalt im Sportrecht Bei Times Online findet sich heute ein interessanter Artikel über den wachsenden Bedarf von (in Ausbildung befindlichen) Anwälten, die sich... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..
The Sleeping Giant? Business Week Online (registration required) has a very detailed account on the possibility of Microsoft becoming a telephony powerhouse. I've already played with a hacked version of Windows Messenger 4.7 and Webley Systems voice over IP capabilities for over a... From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..
To File Web Addresses Efficiently, Furl Them Furl is getting some ink: If every day you were to sift through dozens of newspapers and magazines, cut out the articles that interest you, attach a Post-It to each with thoughts about the topic, then organize the clips into folders that you'd tote with you wherever you go - well, good luck with that social life. If, instead, you value time and space (and sanity), there's a way to do all of those things and more without having to stuff a shoebox with yellowing newsprint. < From weblogged News on March 2, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
BlogTalkers on orkut BlogTalkers on orkut Martin Kopta created a community of BlogTalkers at orkut . [ BlogTalk 2.0 News ] From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 2, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Habermas on Blogging Kommunikatives Handeln ist das Antidot zur Technokratie des Spätkapitalismus. Die Rückkehr kommunikativen Handelns in die Sphäre von Intersubjektivität und Lebenspraxis sei eine Widerstandserfahrung und -leistung. Das sie ... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 2, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Another Virus to Worry About There's another worm loose on the land -- Netsky-D. It arrived by e-mail on Monday and, while not especially damaging, it's a pain to get rid of. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Living Life in Virtual Reality Almost Real takes a documentary look at how online connections can supplant flesh-and-blood ones. It debuts Monday night on TechTV. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Greeks Go After Cancer Cells Greek scientists develop a medical procedure that could make chemotherapy more effective at reduced dosages and eliminate many of its side effects. If successful, it could help fight a disease that kills millions every year. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Ahoy Matey, Shiver Me Timbers Breaking apart a ship that weighs 10,000 tons takes thousands of crowbars and blowtorches. Or one high-tech chop shop. By Christopher S. Stewart from Wired magazine. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Handheld Gaming War Put on Hold Sony is ready for a fight, but it won't be this year. The hardware giant's first foray into the handheld market won't be out for Christmas -- but Nintendo's new system very well may be. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Last-Minute Satellite Turns 20 A satellite built in six months by amateurs was expected to work for about a year. Twenty years later, you can still hear its signal. By Philip Chien. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Bioethics Shuffle Ignites Outcry Members of President Bush's Council on Bioethics will likely play nice now that they all agree on embryonic stem-cell research and cloning. But they aren't an accurate representation of American citizens, critics say. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
The Waiting Is the Funnest Part The grand opening of Apple's latest store draws Steve Jobs, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and thousands of eager customers. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
The Masters of Memory Lane Think memorizing your driver's license number is tough? Try memorizing the contents of a shuffled deck of cards or a string of thousands of 1s and 0s. Michelle Delio reports from New York. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
How the Mars Rovers Phone Home When Spirit or Opportunity have data to send, they don't go the direct route. Orbiters and various other bits of hardware help get their messages to Earth. By Philip Chien. From Wired News on March 2, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Mosaico http://haloscan.com/tb/igvir/107756313431806235 From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 2, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..
Question: How can I get a cassette tape to play through on my computer? - techLearning The IT Guy says: Cassette tape music, like a VHS video tape, is an analog rather than a digital media type. This means that in order to be imported into your computer so it can be played back, edited, and converted into different formats or inserted in From Educational Technology on March 2, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..
CLASS ACTION - SUZANNE PARDINGTON, Knight Ridder News Teachers thought they'd seen it all when it came to cheating: a tiny cheat sheet tucked up a sleeve, a math formula saved on a calculator, an essay pulled off the Internet. But today's students have found a high-tech way to ask friends covertly for hel From Educational Technology on March 2, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..
Octeto incorpora los enlaces del Open Directory Octeto ha incorporado la base de datos de enlaces de tecnologÃa educativa del Open Directory, el mayor directorio del web. Los enlaces, un total de 337 en este momento, pueden consultarse en la siguiente dirección clasificados en una serie de categorÃas y subcategorÃas: http://cent.uji.es/octeto/dmoz El Open Directory es un vasto catálogo de recursos, gestionado por editores voluntarios, que se actualiza con regularidad. Octeto incluirá sólo los enlaces de la categorÃa «Educational Technology» From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on March 2, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..
How I Lost The Big One Einige Gedanken über das US-Urheberrecht, aufgeschrieben anhand etlicher Beispiele vor dem US Supreme Court von Lawrence Lessig für das amerikanische... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..
44% of American Internet users have contributed their thoughts and digital content to the online world - Pew Internet & American Life Project More than 53 million American adults have used the Internet to publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, share files and otherwise contribute to the explosion of content available online. A new survey and report from the Pew Internet & From Techno-News Blog on March 2, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Low cost broadband battle hots up - BBC BT has launched a no frills broadband service to try to get more people to sign up for a fast internet connection. The telecoms giant is hoping the £19.99 service will tempt people who already have dial-up to switch to broadband. Cable company Telewe From Techno-News Blog on March 2, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Spam's irritating cousin, spim, on the loose - Jon Swartz, USA TODAY Consumers ditching e-mail for instant messages to avoid spam are in for an unpleasant surprise. Spim, or instant-messenger spam, is peppering computer screens with increasing frequency. And the problem may get worse as e-mail marketers look for new wa From Techno-News Blog on March 2, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
What happens when kids from laptop high schools show up on your campus? - Sally M. Johnstone, Syllabus In Henrico County, Va., an area that includes Richmond and its suburbs, all the kids graduating from high school next year will have spent four years in laptop schools.... How does all this relate to distance learning? Rather profoundly. As the schools From Online Learning Update on March 2, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
You've Come a Long Way, Baby! eLearning Portals - Ron Ateshian, Syllabus .... On the server side, where information and services are distributed from the campus, the portal is relatively easy to administer and provides for a standardized look and feel important to today From Online Learning Update on March 2, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Dialogic Learning Objects: Inviting the Student Into the Instructional Process - Lanny Arvan. Syllabus Arvan argues that properly employed, course management systems can change the model for teaching and learning in ways that engage students more and increase their learning. He offers the "dialogic approach" to using a question-answer-feedback cycle to From Online Learning Update on March 2, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Class for the JETRO business Japanese Proficiency Test The JETRO Test is the first test of business Japanese proficiency to be recognized by the government of Japan.Japanese Language Center provides classes to those wishing to prepare to pass the examination. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2004] From PR Web on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Japanese Classes for Young People Japanese Language Center provides Classes for Young People. These classes are designed for Middle/High school students. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2004] From PR Web on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Helping Others Leads to an Award for a Seattle Area Maid Service Hexagon Blue continues their mission to spread positive news and reward compassionate companies with their first "doing positive From PR Web on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Worldwide Children's Poetry for Peace, presents a new world country feature page. Afghanistan is the first country featured. Worldwide Childrens Poetry for Peace, acknowledges Afghanistan as it's first worldwide country feature. A simple overview of Afghanistan for children of the world to read and review. Pray for the peace and development of Afghanistan. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2004] From PR Web on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
NASA Takes-Off with eLearning NASA just launched a first, a custom eLearning program from its Ames Research Center (ARC). Design, developed, and hosted by PulseLearning Ltd, the program is a context oriented and role-based application simulation for the mandated travel management, which proved to be an expedient and cost effective way to create an online learning solution. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2004] From PR Web on March 2, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Theory and Practice of Online Learning La Athabasca University, centro universitario canadiense especializado en educación a distancia, ha publicado el libro Theory and Practice of Online Learning, un volumen colectivo editado por Terry Anderson y Fathi Elloumi que consta de dieciséis artÃculos repartidos en cuatro secciones: 1. Rol y función de la teorÃa en el desarrollo y la distribución de la educación en lÃnea. 2. Infraestructura y apoyo para el desarrollo de contenidos. 3. Diseño y desarrollo de cursos From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on March 2, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..
Zusage einer Versorgungszusage Wird in einem Arbeitsvertrag festgelegt, der Arbeitgeber erteile dem Arbeitnehmer nach Ablauf der Probezeit eine freiwillige Pensionszusage nach bestimmten Versorgungsrichtlinien,... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
MOE-Business Seit 01.03.2004 steht kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen aus der Hauptstadtregion Berlin-Brandenburg ein neuer Internet-Service zur Verfügung. Unter www.MOE-Business.de erhalten sie... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Neue Informationstechnologien Unter dem Titel "Wonder Women in the Rude Boys' Paradise? - Chancen und Barrieren für Frauen in Führungspositionen des IKT-Sektors"... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Magglinger Rechtsinformatikseminar Ein Hinweis auf das Magglinger Rechtsinformatikseminar, veranstaltet vom Bundesamt für Justiz, ist dieser Seite zu entnehmen. Zugleich wird der Schweizerische... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 2, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..
Schools, Facing Tight Budgets, Leave Gifted Programs Behind Struggling with shrinking revenues, many school districts across the country have cut programs for their most promising students. From New York Times: Education on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
Education Chief Again Apologizes for 'Terrorist' Remark On Monday, many teachers were still feeling the sting of Rod Paige's remark that the nation's largest teachers union was a "terrorist organization." From New York Times: Education on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
Education Chief Calls Union 'Terrorist,' Then Recants Education Secretary Rod Paige criticized the National Education Association for resisting many provisions of a school improvement law pushed through Congress in 2001. From New York Times: Education on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
1,012 Schools Had Big Gains in English and Math Tests Over Five Years, State Says Several New York City schools in poor neighborhoods scored above grade level on statewide English and math tests. From New York Times: Education on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
It's Home Stupid Home, but the 'Clods' Can Read A professor wrote an article about his small Texas hometown that led to two anonymous death threats and scores of obscene phone calls. From New York Times: Education on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
Scholarship, 'Whites Only,' Roils a Campus A club has stirred things up at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., with its scholarship for whites. From New York Times: Education on March 2, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
Communities are bigger than courses Stephen Downes is his usual sensible self in an article on Learning in Communities written for the Australian Flexible Learning Community. He lists eight things that make a learning community successful, of which the last is the most telling: A successful community will have a sense of history. Such a community does not begin and end with the classroom. It is something From Collaborative Learning on March 2, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..
Let The Music Play: Voluntary Collective Licensing Of Music File Sharing The current battles surrounding peer-to-peer file sharing are a losing proposition for everyone. The litigation campaign against music fans has not put a penny into the pockets of artists. We need a better way forward. First, artists and copyright holders deserve to be fairly compensated. Second, file sharing is here to stay. Third, the fans do a better job making music available than the labels. The Proposal: Voluntary Collective Licensing. The concept is simple: the music industry forms a collecting society, which then offers file-sharing music fans the opportunity to "get legit" in exchange From Robin Good's Latest News on March 2, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
WebEx Counters Macromedia: 14 Days Of Free Unlimited Meetings To Find Out Who... 14 days of unlimited free Web meetings is the latest offer from web conferencing leader WebEx to counter Macromedia unresistable March offer From Kolabora.com on March 2, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
iTunes Isn't iMazing for Me "Heard on Magnatune: The West Exit. Groooooovy." [Andrew Grumet's Weblog] Is anyone else disappointed in the iTunes RSS feeds? Maybe I'm subscribed to the wrong ones, but there just hasn't been that much coming through, and there's no recommendation engine to learn what I like and don't like. It's not like I w From The Shifted Librarian on March 2, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Mahna Mahna Me, Baby! Mahna Mahna on My Cell Phone "I finally figured out how to send the 'Mahna Mahna' muppets song to my nokia cell phone as a ringtone! Here are some links in case you are interested in figuring out how to send basically any tone you want. It is a monophonic ringtone (the kind my phone supports). You can search the internet for almost any semi-popular song possible and convert it's RTTTL text to a SMS message and send it fo From The Shifted Librarian on March 2, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Yahoo Harms Trust in Search Engine Just when I was starting to like Yahoo Search as a Google alternative, the Wall Street Journal reports (paid reg req) that Yahoo is making it harder for users to know whether companies are paying to be included in the results. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Aunt Tillie's OS X adventure In a pair of recent essays, Eric Raymond tears into the open source community -- rightly so -- for its failure to deliver software that Aunt Tillie can use. He's spot on. One of his comments got me wondering, though: From Jon's Radio on March 2, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..
Companies float eMail identity systems From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Elluminate Delivers Live eLearning to Georgia Academic Institutions From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Cadpo Announces Exclusive Training Partnership With Macomb Community College From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Suspended kids log on to Web class From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
SIA [Securities Industry Association] and PLI-Corpedia Introduce Online Ethics Training for Investment Advisers From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Online High delivers courses to rural classrooms miles away From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Students, teachers discuss benefits of online learning program From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Teachers fight against Internet plagiarism From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Preserving Academic Independence Through Cost-Saving Collaboration From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Bridging Theory and Practice: Developing Guidelines to Facilitate the Design of Computer-based Learning Environments From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Australian Weblogs Well, go a looking and you shall find, here's some Aussie weblogs I've dug up: Australian Weblogs seems like a cool find, kind a weblogs.com for AustraliaMelbourne Weblogs looks kinda quiet, but could be hibernating2004 Australian Blog Winners from KeksThe Spin Starts Here Darl is a good larf--> From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on March 2, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
Another Perfect Use for RSS RSS for RFPs "Utah's Division of Purchasing has an RSS feed of current solicitations. This is an RSS version of the current bids page. Of course, the good news is that if you're interested in following Utah RFPs and know how to use an aggregator, they'll just show up on your de From The Shifted Librarian on March 2, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..
Cool Tool Alert Cogitum Co-Citer " 'There's a stone cold freebie (no ads, spyware, etc) called 'Cogitum Co-Citer', available for download here. Once installed, when you're at a site where you want to save some text, you simply highlight the desired text, right-click to get the pop-up context menu, then select 'Grab the selected text'. Co-Citer then auto-opens its screen, allowing From The Shifted Librarian on March 2, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..
Extended Forecast in My Aggregator weather forecast for Illinois zone 022 "grundy, kankakee, kendall, will, including the cities of, joliet, kankakee, morris, yorkville Monday March 1, 11:52 am SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH until 5 pm cst.This Afternoon Thunderstorms likely. Some thunderstorm may produce gusty winds and damaging winds. Windy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.Tonight A chance of shower From The Shifted Librarian on March 2, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..
Journalistic Ignorance at its Worst This editorial in a Georgia newspaper is a classic, in a grotesque way. It pretends to examine the controversy surrounding electronic-voting machines and comes to the absurd conclusion that all's well. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 2, 2004 at 1:46 a.m..
Yahoo crawls deep into the Web The Web portal on Tuesday will begin a systematic effort to draw more content into its searchable database of Web documents, its latest bid to win Web surfers from search rival Google. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
PARC eases communications between devices Researchers at the pioneering PARC labs have developed software that allows all consumer electronics devices to communicate with one another, making networked home devices easier to use. From CNET News.com on March 2, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
Regis McKenna Next on stage at the WebEx User Conference was Regis McKenna, marketer extraordinaire. This is the guy who helped launch America Online, Apple, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Linear Technology, Lotus, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, 3COM, and many others. Regis is my kind of... From Internet Time Blog on March 2, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..
Myers-Briggs personality types have been around fo ... Myers-Briggs personality types have been around for a long time, and they've often been used in career planning. I got thinking about them again this week when I saw that MBTI codes were an interesting addition to the FOAF specification. As part of a learning/planning portfolio that you were going to share with others and use as a basis for finding people with similar plans, MBTI could be really cool. Why do we seem to enjoy taking --> From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on March 1, 2004 at 11:51 p.m..
Did you know that Ryze doesn't allow you to delete ... Did you know that Ryze doesn't allow you to delete your account on your own? You have to send them an e-mail requesting deletion, along with the reasons you don't want to be part of their network. Am I alone in being entirely creeped out by this stuff? You'd think I would have learned my lesson already, but I also signed up for a LiveJournal account. The way they've separated your --> From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on March 1, 2004 at 11:51 p.m..
Come Together This morning I wandered into a hotel ballroom set up like a theatre-in-the-round, with a raised 20'x20' platform in the middle and big video screens in each corner. Sonny & Cher were belting out "I Got You Babe" as I took my customary seat in... From Internet Time Blog on March 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..
Oracle to call on Microsoft in battle with DOJ In an ironic twist, Oracle is seeking information from its archrival to help in its defense against a Department of Justice suit. Oracle was a major critic of the software giant during Microsoft's own fight with the DOJ. From CNET News.com on March 1, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..
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