DSIF 4 The Dirty South Improv Festival begins today.... so awesome. Hilarity will ensue. Hilarity... must ensue. I'll have my camera, but will I take the time to post the pics? Soooo doubtful. From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

DSIF 4 I'm sure I will post more random thoughts as they occur to me throughout the day. Right now, I am just absolutely wiped out and will definitely struggle when I get to work to keep myself awake. (and we have an employee potluck, which means I won't get a chance to get out and get energized at lunchtime.) I played Flipcup with the Chicago kids Thursday and I think I am still feeling a little hangover. OK, not really, but wow, did I drink Thursday once I figured out that schools would be closed Friday. As it turns out, so was the University, which really impacted attendance Thursd From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

See White Noise VII details... so send me a picture of you, stranger. From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead Longtime readers of this journal and its predecessor, Before I Sputter Out, may recognize the name Lex Luthor. Lex was my nemesis here at work, and was a constant thorn in my side from the first week she was here (after she was hired on my recommendation). She was moved out of our organization but stayed in our immediate sphere, and continued to cause distractions and problems until we finally successfully ignored her left and right. She remained evil to a lot of my colleagues well after I stopped having any sort of contact with her, and I guess it paid off for her in the end: her position From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

More Brilliant Spam Here's my favorite spam subject of the day: Mel Gibson's New Movie Hollywood Doesn't Want You To See This perhaps explains why the Hollywood machine has managed to drum up enough press that everyone I know has been assaulted by. There are Passion posters all over the UNC campus. New Market Films has been feeding information to Christian groups all over the world. Anthony rightly noticed that New Market also distributed Y Tu Mama Tambien. This isn't about proselytism for them, this is about $$$. From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

God Hates Shrimp Courtesy Anthony: God Hates Shrimp, a website that proves-- through scripture-- that eating shrimp is an abomination! From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Some More DSIF 4 Thoughts Isn't Jill Bernard completely adorable? She's got the best laugh and the best banter. She called yesterday while I was driving home to thank me and Heidi for having her around the house, and I told her that she's got to spend more time with us next year at DSIF. She agreed, because she didn't get to spend much time with Heidi or with Miss Kitty. Jill: "Next year, I'll have to schedule some time with her secretary." me: "Her secretary is horrible... he loses all of her appointments!" Jill: "Oh, no! Is it Kirk?" me: "It is!" Jill: "He never gives messages wh From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Meet Anton Chekov About two years ago, I told Charlie that I really wanted to do an Improv Everywhere mission where Anton Chekov would be in a park in New York City signing books. This weekend, Charlie made it happen. See what happens when a dead Russian author reads at a Barnes and Noble. From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Now Approaching Sickville Whew. I just woke up from an hour-long nap, and my body is definitely telling me something: I'm worn out. I didn't feel terrible, just tired, until last night, which was the first night since DSIF began that I was able to get enough sleep (I got nine hours, and it felt like heaven.) I have the sinking feeling that I wore myself down so hard that I'm going to wake up very sick, very soon. Which would be bad. I have a big deadline for Thursday, and I really need to make some things happen tomorrow to meet that deadline. I came home instead of going to the Hurricanes game ton From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Inside Improv March's Inside Improv schedule is up. It's got the 411 on the shortform tournament, which is boss. Here's a cute Eric Staal fan site. From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

See White Noise VIII details... so send me a picture of you, stranger From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Level 3-L, Don't Ever Let Anyone Tell You I Don't Love You I'm bummed, but I am a little sick and I'm under the gun at work to finish this project for delivery tomorrow, and that means that I am going to have to miss my Level 3-L class tonight. Which blows. The very-capable Jon Karpinos will be in there giving them his insight on the Harold, so I have no doubt that they're going to get a hell of an experience, and I think it's great that they will get two different viewpoints after hearing mine for four weeks at the beginning of class... but I am sad that I didn't get to be there for their last two weeks of class. It's From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Kirkman as a Boy People are constantly delving into my blog looking for pictures after they search for "kitties!" and this is the picture they want. It makes me smile... Kirk was such a fuzzy little boy back then! From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Bush Beth Cherry sent me this link, whose originator says he got it from a Republican. The URL in the picture is annoy.com, so I suppose a link to them is appropriate as well. I'd never heard of annoy.com before, but I'm a fan now. Beth said "When I saw this, for some reason I thought of you." I'm honored! From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Kirk Pix A few days ago I mentioned that Kirk had been licking my head, since he clearly thinks that my current short hair is kitty fur. Well, Heidi caught him on film. But then, she also caught him cross-dressing, so I guess we shouldn't be alarmed. He's exploring his identity as a kitten. From Leaking Pure White Noise on March 3, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Bundeskonferenz Kommunalarchive Erfreulicherweise sind auf der Website der Bundeskonferenz der Kommunalarchive beim Deutschen Städtetag die Empfehlungen (auch unveröffentlichte) als PDF-Dateien abzurufen: http://www.bundeskonferenz-kommunalarchive.de/empfehlungen.html From Archivalia on March 3, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..

Quality and quantity It's been good for me to try to write every day -- it will have been a year on the 7th of March, with breaks of a week's duration when I've needed it, but no more than one a quarter. I've written tens of thousands more words this year than the year before -- easily a step in the right direction. But I'm thinking about quality, too. When I took the kids to a children's museum in Florida the other day (no names, since this is not about the museum) I noticed that the place was a bit... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 3, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..

Wikipedia Code So, while creating your class wikipedia why not use the real thing, sweeet. A new version of (_thanks Tom_!) the code that runs the Wikipedia is available for general users, including multi-lingual support and the ability to display mathematical formulae and other hard layout challenges using LaTEX.... [Many-to-Many] From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on March 3, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..

Start-up helps sell access to your WLAN From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Lawmakers: Hands off patent fees The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approves legislation aimed at boosting the effectiveness of the Patent and Trademark Office; the measure now goes to the Senate. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Kirchlicher Verbundkatalog... Nicht nur für Kirchenarchivare ist der neue KVK-Sonderkatalog http://www.vthk.de hilfreich, da er insbesondere Aufsätze enthält. Über die Diözesanbibliothek Münster findet man beispielsweise die folgende Inhaltsauflistung des Sammelbands Archivische Informationssicherung im digitalen Zeitalter : optisch-elektronische Archivierungssysteme in der Verwaltung und die Konsequenzen für kommunale Archive Köln : Rheinland-Verl., 1999. - 188 S. : Kt. (Archivhefte ; 33) 1 Werner, From Archivalia on March 3, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

The future of attention management danah boyd: What I want in an RSS tool. A concentrate of insight. Pure goodness. If anyone wants to know why the early players get all of the attention, it's because RSS feeds focus on people, not ideas, and the early players are too overloaded with following the other early players to consider new people. From Seb's Open Research on March 3, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Twisting antitrust law? From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Software execs bash their industry's approach At Sand Hill Group's Software 2004 conference, executives like Mercury Interactive marketing chief Christopher Lochhead lament how badly their industry "sucks" at customer service, marketing and more. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Bill aims to curb offshoring House members introduce a bill to discourage American companies from shipping jobs overseas by controlling the flow of federal grants and loan guarantees. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

SBC begins offering satellite TV SBC Communications begins offering satellite TV service with EchoStar Communications in a move to compete better with their cable rivals. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Tools maker Serena acquires Merant Development-tools maker Serena Software acquires fellow tools company Merant in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $380 million. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Hilfsmittel Jörg Heinrich/Martin Klöpfer: Abkürzungen und Schriftbesonderheiten der Frühen Neuzeit aus altwürttembergischen Quellen, hrsg. vom Verein für Familien- und Wappenkunde in Württemberg und Baden. Pro Business Berlin 2003. 88 S. 14,95 Euro. Laut Schwäbischer Heimat 2004/1, S. 126 ausgestattet mit vielen Beispielen, zeichengerechten Wiedergaben und ihren Auflösungen ist es für Laien und Profis, für Studenten und Familienforscher gleichermaßen empfehlenswert. Non vidi. From Archivalia on March 3, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

GPS Phone Shows Japan Still Pushing Mobile Frontiers This picture shows Japanese mobile-phone carrier KDDI's latest handset equipped with an incredibly useful GPS system, called "EZ Navi Walk." From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 3, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..

Housecleaning, and a couple of workshops... I’ve added a couple of new features to the page, neither of which qualify as revolutionary, but both provide useful functionality and were so easy to implement that even I was able to do them myself… The “looked at and liked” section on the sidebar is generated by pages I’ve added to my Furl account… For those of you unaware of it, Furl bills itself as an “online filing cabinet for useful webpages”. My own Furl use has been pretty patchy, though the ability to instantly add links to the weblog (and archiving them in a searchable online database) From Object Learning on March 3, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..

Elle Mcpherson's ad censored Britain's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) banned a lingerie ad considered "offensive" after receiving complaints from the public. Published in Vogue and shot by Bendon UK, the advertisement shows the ex-model in a bra and panty with her thumb in it. From miss-information.net on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Rivals challenge Bells to high court rumble Local telephone competitors call the ruling by a federal appeals court "ridiculous" and "outrageous" and say they will appeal the matter to the highest court in the land. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Court orders SCO to show more code The SCO Group is told to specify what code in Linux infringes on its intellectual property, giving momentum to its legal tug-of-war with IBM over the open-source software. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Lawmakers take aim at spyware A trio of Washington lawmakers seeks to stop the spread of "spyware" and "adware" that hijacks people's computers without their consent. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Find works licensed with Creative Commons Creative Commons, RDF-enhanced search PROTOTYPE. Now here's an interesting resource discovery tool. It searches for works licensed with Creative Commons. The search interface is rather primitive, but enables one to limit to media or format (e.g. video,audio). Moreover, the user can select "I want to make commercial use" and/or "I want to create derivative works" to further restrict search results. While the accuracy of searches is not yet clear, it can pull up some heretofore unseen and interesting (to say nothing of open) sites. (Sou From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..

Boost for Personal Journalism in New Gadget Blog Pete Rojas' departure from Gizmodo to his new gadget blog, Engadget is noteworthy on several accounts: business models and more. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 3, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

Creative Commons at UC Davis School of Law Creative Commons' Assistant Director, Neeru Paharia will be on a panel titled Music in the Digital Era this Thursday at the UC Davis School of Law. The panel, cosponsored by the Entertainment and Sports Law Society and California Lawyers for the Arts, will focus on the effects of digital mediums and internet downloading on the music industry. From Creative Commons: weblog on March 3, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Just In Tokyo ebook This week's featured content is the ebook Just In Tokyo. It's a offbeat guidebook to Tokyo written by web veteran Justin Hall and is now available for download under a Creative Commons license. First printed a few years go, it's now out of print and Justin is asking for voluntary donations if you like the downloadable book. From Creative Commons: weblog on March 3, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

New board members light up Eclipse The open-source tools foundation adds four members to its board of directors. Still being discussed: collaboration with Sun's NetBeans and the Java Tools Community. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

New Words & RSS Feeds Kerim over at Keywords posted a RSS feeds about words entering the English language. This is very interesting to me. I can truely see some of the words really entering the English language, such as, wrap rage, latte factor, vasectomy... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 3, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

E-Learning-Verband gegründet Ein Nachtrag: Auf der Learntec 2004 wurde nebenbei auch das "Deutsche Netzwerk der E-Learning-Akteure e.V." (D.ELAN) gegründet. Man will u.a. "den Dialog zwischen Anbietern und Nachfragern auf dem E-Learning-Markt fördern". Nun weiß man ja aus "gut unterrichteten Kreisen", dass Lobbyiesten... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 3, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

Salt Lake City weighs views on backing UTOPIA SLC Council hears views on UTOPIA (Heather May, The Salt Lake Tribune, March 3, 2004) "   Supporters of UTOPIA are wowed by the possibility of the high-speed fiber-optic network boosting economic development and quality of life in Salt Lake City. "    Opponents -- incl... From Kolabora.com on March 3, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

To Sync or Sink?, Mar 4 A client asked me to investigate sync software for linking Palm OS and Pocket PC devices to the standard databases in Notes, eg, mail, calendar, address book, etc. I thought this would be a simple matter of determining whether to... From Kolabora.com on March 3, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

Video Learning Videos can be a powerful learning tool, but shouldn't be used passively. Use these tips to promote active viewing and maximize learning.... From Adult/Continuing Education on March 3, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

BlogDesign Wirklich schöne Galerie an Blogs. Die meisten sind mit Moveable Type gebaut, mir gefällt http://www.decaffeinated.org/ recht gut. Blog design showcase Blog design showcase at cre8d-design . Could be handy if you need inspi... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 3, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Why write papers? Andrew Chen writes about his ambivalence, as a researcher who blogs, towards writing academic papers. It struck a chord with me - I've had very similar thoughts. [...] what I blog about now, can be read about now and processed now - but what goes to a paper or whatnot for some conference just sits and waits until then - and gets the (smaller?) audience of the attendees, etc…. I arguably get a little bit more prestige out of it, and it becomes something From Seb's Open Research on March 3, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Weaker database bill gets House committee vote From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Covad snaps up VoIP start-up The acquisition will help the broadband service provider jump-start its nationwide VoIP launch. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Apple silences beeps, hissing The company says it has fixed a noise issue with some of its dual-processor Power Mac G5s, a frequent topic of discussion recently on its support site. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

The Nuclear Weapon of Digital Rights Law The legal system is intended to balance the interests of people against each other. Protections for one person come at the cost of liberties for another, ownership of property for one person comes at the cost of need for another. When these balances are tipped too far to one direction or the other, the inherent fairness expected and demanded of law is lost, and it is not surprising when people abandon their faith in it, for justice, from their perspective, is to be found only outside its domains. It's h From OLDaily on March 3, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Schools Targeted in Streaming Video Patent Claim Don't bother reading the full article (you'll see what I mean). Everything you need is in the first paragraph, with the exception of two strategically deleted words: streaming video. As Mitchell wrote in his email, "It's like rubbing salt in a wound." I was thinking along the lines of "blood from a stone." By Corey Murray, e-School News, March 3, 2004 [Refer][Research][--> From OLDaily on March 3, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Spezialisiert und teamarbeitsfähig Heute rief eine Doktorandin der Uni Hannover an und und wollte Hilfe bei der Frage, "was denn e-Learning eigentlich koste". Nun kann man zu den Kosten von e-Learning natürlich viel sagen, wie man auch über "e-Learning" selbst viel sagen kann.... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 3, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Invitation to participate in study If you're a student in our program, you have been invited to participate in a study by taking a web survey that will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Kennon Smith and Jason Hessing, Ph.D. students in Instructional Systems Technology... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 3, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

Syllabus on Sakai (3/3/04) By Kenneth C. Green ... "The 23 Sakai founder and partner institutions, along with many other colleges and universities, want control over CMS, as well as the accompanying and supplemental applications. In this context, control can be interpreted in two ways: first, product control over the development and direction of CMS products and resources, including the increasing important CMS "supplements" such as assessment modules and ePortfolio functionality; and second, local control that permits the institutions to customize the core product." ... From Edutools News: Course Management Systems on March 3, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..

The IU faculty resolution on journal prices and open access The resolution adopted by the Indiana University Bloomington Faculty Council on February 27 is online at IU. Excerpts: Faculty and staff may wish to separate themselves from publishers whose business practices do not support open access. This could be done by withholding publications from their journals or choosing not to sit on their editorial boards. Such a change in our university and departmental perspective will have many ramifications in our scholarly culture, since publication is a core valu From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Risks of quantitative studies Jakob Nielsen has written about the risks of quantitative studies. To quote: Number fetishism leads usability studies astray by focusing on statistical analyses that are often false, biased, misleading, or overly narrow. Better to emphasize insights and qualitative research.... From Column Two on March 3, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

Mooter--a Mapping Search Engine Mooter is a graphing search engine that yields a cluster display of inter-related web sites. Mooter resembles Kartoo (http://www.kartoo.com) --both yield a mapping of the semantic search space. Mooter is still in beta, but does look promising. I did a quick comparison of the two search engines by searching for "EduResources." Kartoo was more elaborate and detailed and offered more options for customizing. Of course, graphical search engines relate to the overall topic of conceptual mapping since they yield a mapped display of web resources. ____ JH From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Napster preps for voyage to Britain From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Knowledge Territories On the Knowledge Territory Metaphor and why it means weblogs may not the best space for collaboration. From Monkeymagic on March 3, 2004 at 3:53 p.m..

Online Shop beim BVerwG Ab sofort können Entscheidungen des BVerwG über einen Online-Shop bestellt werden. Bezahlt werden kann weiterhin gegen Rechnung oder - bei... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..

Curiae Project Das "Curiae Project" ist eine Kooperationsarbeit der "Library of Congress", des "Supreme Court of the United States" und der "Supreme... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..

Rearranging the Cerebral Furniture This morning's email contained the monthly update of Jane Knight's e-Learning Centre. I traipsed over to Jane's What's New page, and now, an hour later, my head is swimming in cool new stuff and even more that I feel compelled to read. What caught my... From Internet Time Blog on March 3, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Japanese iCommons licenses available now! I am very happy to announce that our Japanese-law and -language licenses are now available for use from our site. Just select "Jurisdiction: Japan" when choosing a license, and the site will point you to the right document. For those with browsers set to English, the Commons Deed will appear in English. For those with broswers set to Japanese, Creative Commons: weblog on March 3, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Wayport adds hot spots to Moscone Center From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Worms nibble away at ISP profits The proliferation of worms on the Web is not just a nuisance for home and corporate users--it's becoming a financial burden on Internet service providers. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Hughes adopts satellite broadband standard From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Einführung von Umlautdomains Bereits am ersten Tag der Registrierungsmöglichkeit für "Internationalized Domain Names" (IDNs), in denen auch Umlaute und Akzente erlaubt sind, herrschte... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Asfixia de la Red en Argentina Es extremadamente preocupante la situación por lo que atraviesan los usuarios de Internet en Argentina a causa del oligopolio que ejercen cuatro empresas. Lo veo en Denken Über: Clarin, Telefónica, Telecom, Impsat y el negocio de la extorsión.. perdón conexión.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 3, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Component builders and solution builders Despite lots of second-guessing, there is no consensus that the CLR is inherently unfriendly to dynamic languages. The JVM didn't bend over backwards for such languages either, and yet Jython is a great success thanks to the heroic efforts of its inventor, Jim Hugunin. Now Hugunin has turned his attention to .NET, and reports promising results with a prototype Python implementation for .NET called IronPython. Such projects always seem to spring from an inspired individual or small team. In fact, Microsoft has such a team. It created JScript.NET, the most dynamic of From Jon's Radio on March 3, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Online Ads, E-marketing Up Good news; the online ad industry experienced a rebound in 2003. Bad news; response rates suffer with more ads in the market. From E-Commerce Guide on March 3, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Manufacturers build up security efforts Midsize manufacturers are putting security ahead of all other IT projects, while larger companies view enterprise resource planning as almost equally critical, a study shows. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

PostNuke evaluation continues Readers unfamiliar with this theme should follow up the earlier articles related to The weblog as the model for a new type of VLE? We've now got our equivalent of the Auricle RSS Dispenser installed in PostNuke and I was looking forward to moving on to evaluating other aspects of this putative content management system. But I spoke too soon. The changes look pretty good in Internet Explorer so just a quick check on how... From Auricle on March 3, 2004 at 1:53 p.m..

III Congreso de Expoelearning - Madrid, 10 a 12 de marzo de 2004 Tras el éxito de anteriores ediciones vuelve el Congreso de Expoelearning. Aefol organiza la tercera edición con ... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 3, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

News for Today, Mar 4 Here's what has been going on in the world of shared spaces technology over the past day: The InfoWorld Test Center published a comparative product review of corporate portals, and handed the highest award to Plumtree. Plumtree is obviously delighted.... From Kolabora.com on March 3, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Morning at RSS-Blog-Furl High School English teacher Tom McHale sets down his cup of coffee and boots up the computer at his classroom desk. It’s 6:50 in the morning. After logging in, he opens up his personal page on the school Intrablog. There, he does a quick scan of the New York Times front page headlines and clicks through one of the links to read a story about war reporting that he thinks his student journalists might be interested in. With a quick click, Tom uses the “Furl it” button on his toolbar, adds a bit of annotation to the form that comes up, and saves it in his Furl journalism folder which archives the page an From weblogged News on March 3, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Geeky-googling I have an idea for a geeky game: the goal is to find search strings that seem to be very common, but do in fact lead to your own website among the first 5 Google hits. I open the competition with interesting photos! From owrede_log on March 3, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Blog design showcase Blog design showcase at cre8d-design. Could be handy if you need inspiration. (via Nick) From Seb's Open Research on March 3, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

SCO takes fight to Linux users The software company, which claims that parts of Unix have been illegally incorporated into Linux, files its first lawsuits against users of the open-source OS: AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

PLoS profile Helen Doyle, The Public Library of Science: Open access from the ground up, College & Research Library News, March 2004. Excerpt: "Despite the recent spike in press coverage, conference symposia, and electronic list discussions dedicated to the subject, open-access publishing is not a new concept or a nascent revolution. Both the idea and the practice of providing free access to scholarly literature in widely available; searchable archives have a long, rich history. In a sense then, th From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Indiana University is next The Indiana University at Bloomington Faculty Council adopted a resolution yesterday encouraging faculty to support affordable and open-access journals. So far I have only the scanty details in Chris Freiberg, Council approves code revisions, Indiana Digital Student News, March 3, 2004. If anyone has the text of the resolution, please send me a copy. From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

More on Amazon's Search Inside the Book Michael Banks, Amazon Opens the Books, Online, March 3, 2004. A good introduction to Amazon's Search Inside the Book service. Excerpt: "Ask serious, long-time researchers to name the most valuable benefit of Web access and they'll cite the ability to search the content of books, periodicals, newsletters, and newspapers. Such access has eliminated untold hours of paging through hardcopies and greatly enhanced information gathering. Of the categories of text publications made available online, books have lagged behind From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Kerry sounds viable I listened to Kerry's victory speech last night and was impressed. Perhaps because he's an opportunist (yeah, this is going to be a left-handed compliment at best), he has absorbed the best messages from the other candidates. I thought his rhetoric and the set of issues he propounded were right on. (I wish the Internet and innovation were on his radar screen, but that's my own little "special interest.") I just hope that he hasn't peaked. All three Boston Globe columnists today worry that his shallowness will be exposed over the long term. Why is he running, other than to.. From Joho the Blog on March 3, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Conceptual Maps by Juan Dursteler This short introductory article from InfoVis includes a link to a conceptual map about conceptual maps, plus other helpful resources. JH _____ Inf@Vis! The digital magazine of InfoVis.net.[Number 141] Conceptual Maps by Juan C. Dürsteler Conceptual Maps are simple and practical knowledge representation tools that allow you to convey complex conceptual messages in a clear, understandable way. They facilitate both teaching and learning. Moreover they are represented naturally as graphs. See the concept From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on March 3, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Enlarging the circle Joi Ito writes: "something that I'm trying understand is the process that people go through to reach a higher level of caring for human beings outside of their immediate circle. I think that this process holds the key for some of the important contributions that technologies can make." Yes! This is the circle of empathy issue. Note that the circle needs to extend not just in sp From Seb's Open Research on March 3, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..

Red Hat names exec of worldwide operations From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Writing Recommendation Letters This morning I wrote a recommendation letter for a graduate student who is seeking a scholarship to help fund his studies. It was relatively easy for me to write -- not only because he's so good at what he does that singing his praises was simple, but also because I... From PEDABLOGUE on March 3, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Yahoo! und Wikipedia kooperieren Der jüngsten Yahoo!-PM kann entnommen werden, dass diese jetzt (endlich) auch u.a. auf Wikipedia aufmerksam geworden sind (Dank an Sabrina!).... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

How To Cite Wiki In den Beiträgen vom 03.02.2004 und 27.02.2004 haben wir uns aus gegebenem Anlass mit der Frage beschäftigt, wie Blogs und... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Wired considers the database legislation Kim Zetter, Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine, Wired News, March 3, 2004. The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act has drawn widespread opposition, as reported here and elsewhere, because of its implications for the potential monopolization of factual and public domain material. Zetter notes that the bill will be reviewed by the U.S. House commerce committee on Thursday. Proponents of the database include "the Software and Information Industry Association; Reed Elsevier ...; and From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Accessing and preserving data Tony Hey and Anne Trefethen, The Data Deluge: An e-Science Perspective, forthcoming in F. Berman et al. (eds.), Grid Computing, Wiley. The preprint is on Hey's web site. Abstract: "This paper previews the imminent flood of scientific data expected from the next generation of experiments, simulations, sensors and satellites. In order to be exploited by search engines and data mining software tools, such experimental data needs to be annotated with relevant metadata giving information as to provenance, content, condi From A Copyfighter's Musings on March 3, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

10 great things from MUG My favorite daily email has been, and continues to be, Charlie Suisman's Manhattan User's Guide (MUG). Today, Suisman asks NYC bloggers to share 10 Great Things about NYC. There's some great stuff in there -- some new to me, some just reminders of places I need to revisit and things I need to redo. Tomorrow will bring Part Two of the series, and I hope many more wonderful tips about NYC. From megnut on March 3, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

AIM add-on sparks privacy concerns The games that America Online has started offering with the latest version of its instant messenger has some customers worried that the company is playing with them, too. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Lilia introduces Anjo New bloggers introduced by Mathemagenic: on Anjo and blog certificates From Monkeymagic on March 3, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

New Office My new office is much better than the one in my previous position which had eight teachers crammed into one office the same size as my new one which only holds two instructors. It's much more spacious and condusive to... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 3, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Nicht offen gelegte Vertretung Das BGB sieht für die auch unter Freiberuflern weit verbreitete GbR die sog. Gesamtvertretung vor. Sofern im Gesellschaftsvertrag keine hiervon... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Betrug in der Wissenschaft Alexander Hartmann verdanke ich einen Hinweis auf den Beitrag "Betrug in der Wissenschaft" (11 S. PDF), der Teil des Skripts... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Rand Study On The Changing Nature Of Work The very nature of work is changing.  There's evidence every day.  A new Rand Corporation report, called The 21st Century at Work,  looks at some of the key factors. The report cites several key trends impacting work, and the workforce.  One of those trends: advances in tech... From Kolabora.com on March 3, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Partner Meeting at Groove Many of our partners are here today in Beverly, Mass., for two days of briefings on what's upcoming. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting Charles Butler from PopG, a long-time partner in the UK, and Cynthia Corritore, Ph.D., an associate professor in the department of information systems a... From Kolabora.com on March 3, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

The freedom to be yourself in public Cory Doctorow posts a couple observations that resonate with me in a comment to danah's post on homophily and blogging: 1. The Internet is full of weird people. Like science fiction, technology and RPGs, the Internet since its earliest days has attracted people who didn't fit in with the local norm, who sought community online -- the alt. heirarchy is like a roadmap of locally socially From Seb's Open Research on March 3, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

GM crops OK'ed in China Safety certificates have been granted by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture to foreign compagnies importing genetically modified crops in China. The first company to be OK'ed is Monsanto, the American biotech firm. From miss-information.net on March 3, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Stadtgeschichten en miniature Bis vor kurzem gab es nur vereinzelte Onlinetagebücher. Heute heissen sie Blogs und erobern das Netz. Auch Zürcher und Zürcherinnen... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..

Copyright-Zeichen "Das Urheberrecht entsteht ohne weiteres, besondere formelle Anforderungen müssen nicht eingehalten werden, es wird auch ohne besondere Formalien in nahezu... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..

Haftprüfung für Internistin Klaus Ulsenheimer, der Anwalt der Internistin Mechthild Bach, die in mindestens acht Fällen Krebspatienten Überdosen von Morphium und Valium verordnet... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

IEEE launches its first free online journal The IEEE has launched an OA edition of its five-year old subscription-based journal, Distributed Systems. It appears that the OA edition, which is the IEEE's first free online publication, is only a subset of the monthly priced edition. From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

Les vers informatiques coûteront 245 million de $ US aux ISP C'est le constat effectué par Sandvine, compagnie britannique offrant des services aux fournisseurs de connections haute vitesse (ou haut débit). From miss-information.net on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

DoubleClick Picks A SmartPath The acquisition of the the 35-employee, five-year-old SmartPath is an opportunity for DoubleClick to offer more services to current clients. From E-Commerce Guide on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

SCO files suit against AutoZone The company sues the auto parts retailer, claiming that it has violated SCO's copyrights by using Linux. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 9:45 a.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 3, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Marratech? Hi! I work for Marratech (in fact, I am a founder), so it is hard for me to offer you an unbiased opinion. So this is my own personal recommendation Marratech uses the same audio technology used by Skype... and ... From Kolabora.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Companies float eMail identity systems - eSchool News With a simple adjustment in your eMail software, you can pretend to be anyone online. The trick, known as spoofing, is a popular method for spammers to hide their tracks--and for internet predators to conceal their identities. To close that loophole From Techno-News Blog on March 3, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Yahoo to Charge for Guaranteeing a Spot on Its Index - SAUL HANSELL, New York Times Yahoo said yesterday that it would start charging companies that want to ensure that their Web sites are included in its Web index from which research results are selected. The practice, called "paid inclusion," has long been a part of many search eng From Techno-News Blog on March 3, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Microsoft: Your Next Phone Company? - Business Week It's keeping mum, but the giant has already introduced software that could turn into the killer phone application. On Feb. 12, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that a voice communication between two people using PCs is more like an e-mail t From Techno-News Blog on March 3, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

L.A. County Office of Education Launches Reading, YES! to Help Educators Improve Teaching of K-8 Reading and Language Arts The Los Angeles County Office of Education today introduced Reading, YES!, an online professional development program that enhances a teacher's ability to master reading techniques and enables them to impact the way students learn reading and language From Educational Technology on March 3, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

New program helps educators lobby for ed tech - Cara Branigan, eSchool News Two leading ed-tech advocacy groups have launched a web site to help educators tell members of Congress about the benefits of technology in schools. The newly created Ed Tech Action Network expands upon the annual Washington Advocacy Day organized b From Educational Technology on March 3, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Respect growing for on-line degrees - Peter Shawn Taylor, Canada National Post Think online degrees are scams? Tell that to the 1,100 students taking an Athabasca University executive MBA. With a top-75 world ranking, Canada's biggest graduate business program isn't merely legit -- it's giving traditional land-based schools some From Online Learning Update on March 3, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

PSU's Gary Miller to be honored by continuing education hall of fame Gary E. Miller, associate vice president for outreach and executive director of the World Campus at Penn State, will be inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in recognition of his contributions to the continuing an From Online Learning Update on March 3, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Intel envisions TiVo-like wireless PCs The chipmaker wants desktops to double up as network hubs and video recorders, a move that could make life tough for manufacturers of those standalone products. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

File-swap 'killer' grabs attention RIAA protege Audible Magic offers lawmakers a convincing demonstration. Is this it for downloading music online and peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa? From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

ICANN't take it anymore Policy analyst Sonia Arrison warns of the implications of a dangerous drift in Internet governance. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

RFID revolution: Are we close? IBM's Rainer Kerth says the key will be to separate practical applications from the technology's gee-whiz appeal. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

SAP takes Oracle's side in DOJ battle An SAP executive calls the Justice Department suit against Oracle “misplaced,” but a prolonged conflict plays into SAP's hands. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Amateurs are more innovative A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing when you're diffusing that bomb at the end of the Bond film you're in. In terms of invention, though, it seems to be a positive. From Monkeymagic on March 3, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..

Großer Lauschangriff verfassungswidrig Das BVerfG hat mit heute verkündetem Urteil entschieden, dass die in Art. 13 Abs. 3 GG im Jahr 1998 vorgenommene... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Patente in Unternehmen Für deutsche Unternehmen werden Patente im internationalen Wettbewerb immer wichtiger. Nach einer heute vom "Patentserver" des BMBF veröffentlichten Studie (etliche... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

News Search Portal News Search Portalhttp://www.newssearchportal.com/A very comprehensive and up to date portal that offers News Search sites on the Internet. This excellent news search portal created and maintained by Wim Wylin has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Open Channel Foundation Open Channel Foundation - Publishing Software from Academic and Research Institutionshttp://www.openchannelsoftware.org/The concept for Open Channel Software was developed in early 1999 by Douglas Curry in collaboration with Professors Stuart Kurtz and Ridgway Scott, both on the faculty of the University of Chicago. These individuals saw the need for a new mechanism to efficiently publish software from the university while allowing for the commercialization of the most promising programs. They developed the id From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Free Online Full-text Articles Free Online Full-text Articleshttp://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtlFree Online Full-text Articles (List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press). HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of yesterday (3-02-04) they are assisting in the online publication of 696,374 free full-text articles and 1,726,362 total articles. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Business Plans Index Business Plans Indexhttp://snipurl.com/4u70A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types. The following subject index lists types of small businesses followed by a sample business plan, or plans, for the business. A bibliography including call numbers follows the index. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Content Creation Online Report Content Creation Online by Pew Internet & American Life Reporthttp://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=113The latest report from Pew Internet & American Life states that 44% of Internet users have created content for the online world through building or posting to Web sites, creating blogs, and sharing files. In a national phone survey between March 12 and May 20, 2003, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that more than 53 million From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

W3C Hosts 4th Annual Technical Plenary Week W3C Hosts 4th Annual Technical Plenary Weekhttp://www.w3.org/2003/08/allgroupoverview W3C holds its Technical Plenary Week from 1-5 March in Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests attend the plenary mid-week where they will be 3-minute lightning talks and presentations on Web architecture, mixed markup, quality assurance, new Web devices and searching the Web. W3C thanks sponsors IBM and Sun Microsystems for From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004 Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004http://CompetitiveIntelligenceResources.BlogSpot.com/Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-6953 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 39 Pages .pdf Format - Table of Contents:IntroductionResearch SourcesReference SourcesSearch Engine SourcesDirectory and Database SourcesCompetitive Intelligence Resources URLs"I have been in technolog From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Yahoo! Crawls Deep Into the Web Yahoo! Crawls Deep Into the Webhttp://snipurl.com/4u7kYahoo! is hoping that it can exploit a weakness of Google's by burrowing deep into the Web to offer more content to surfers. The online portal announced its Content Acquisition Program, in which it will index billions of records in public databases. Yahoo! is also offering paid inclusion services to businesses, allowing them to pay a fee to be included in search results. Yahoo is trying to "get it" when it comes to the Deep Web. Those interested in the latest deep From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on March 3, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

RSS Search Feed-a-Rama Part 1 Score the first point to Blogdigger which dug up this little gem in my journalism + weblogs search feed yesterday: "Fourth graders get it" It took about two minutes yesterday to explain Weblogs to my daughter's fourth grade class before the light of understanding shined in their eyes and their hands shot up. It took another five minutes before they grasped what is happening to the media with so many bloggers out there. And it took another five minutes to expla From weblogged News on March 3, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

R-Jeneration: Getting Personal Michael Brewster, a fellow high school journalism teacher from Las Vegas, sent me this link to a story one of his former students wrote for the Las Vegas Review Journal about high schoolers blogging. She asks the burning question "So, why would anyone want to put something so personal on the Internet for everyone, even strangers, to read?" Several students, such as Durango High School sophomores Daniel Castrillo and Jennifer Nadler, keep journals so their friends can know about things From weblogged News on March 3, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Someone I Want to Meet at Bloggercon II I took a few minutes to click through some of the 150 registrants for BloggerCon II next month and up popped this great post from Ejovi Nuwere: blogs.edu Some remember summertime free lunches as a social program created by the Black Panthers in the public schools. Since I was one of those kids eating the free lunches I remember it a little differently. ItÂ’s a great example of a program that makes use of public schools infrastructure to help the disadvantaged. Blog From weblogged News on March 3, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

New developments for guidance on e-learning - Public Technology A programme of guidance on e-learning, inspection and quality issues in post-16 education and training is to be distributed to colleges, local learning and skills councils and main providers of adult and community learning this week. Demonstrating Tra From Online Learning Update on March 3, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Marratech? Hi! I work for Marratech (in fact, I am a founder), so it is hard for me to offer you an unbiased opinion. So this is my own personal recommendation Marratech uses the same audio technology used by Skype... and ... From Kolabora.com on March 3, 2004 at 6:49 a.m..

Evidence of Water on Mars NASA says that samples collected by its Opportunity rover suggest that Mars once held quite a bit of water. If true, one of the preconditions for supporting life as we know it did exist. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

ESA's Rosetta Mission Under Way It will take 10 years for the European Space Agency's spacecraft to rendezvous with its target, a comet. When it does, scientists hope to unlock the secret of how life began on Earth. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

DEA Accedes to Ecstasy Test Regulatory group finally gives the go-ahead to test Ecstasy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

E-Vote Glitches Found in Election Voting is barely under way in Tuesday's primary election, and technical glitches have cropped up in California and Maryland, where some counties are using electronic voting machines. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

U.S. Users Give It Up for the Net A recent study finds that almost half of U.S. Internet users contribute online content. So is this surprising? Depends on whom you ask. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Underwater Travel Takes Wing The Navy is working on a new type of submarine glider that resembles a stealth bomber. The less-obtrusive vessel could be used for research and surveillance. By David Snow. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Indies Stay in Tune With Sharing Austin's South by Southwest music conference will provide free access to its library of music to anyone near a wireless hotspot. Songs will be accessible to users of Apple's iTunes through a 600-song shared playlist. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Sixth Reinvention of Neil Young The folk-country-grunge dinosaur is reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine. By Ted Greenwald from Wired magazine. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine Congress is considering a bill that would allow companies to copyright databases and other sets of information. Critics say the bill would circumvent the core of copyright law, which says no one can own a fact. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on March 3, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Aniversarios La Web para profesionales de la comunicación Iberoamericanos Sala de Prensa cumple 5 años y los celebra rescatando una entrevista a Julio Cortázar de Elena Poniatowska: Julio Cortázar, el escritor más querido de América. El número especial incluye el estudio:... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 3, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

Miss Deutschland: „Ich bin gegen Studiengebühren" Das nenne ich 'prominente' Unterstützung: Auf jungekarriere.com äußert sich Shermine Sharivar zum Thema: „Bevor man von Elitehochschulen spricht - ihre eigene Uni steht auf der Kandidatenliste - sollte man erst einmal die Studienbedingungen verbessern.“ den ganzen Artikel lesen... From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on March 3, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..

01.03.1904 Ziemlich genau vor 100 Jahren, nämlich schon am 01.03.1904 (!), genehmigte die italienische Abgeordnetenkammer ein Gesetz, wonach Frauen mit einer... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..

CeBIT für Juristen Das LAWgical teilt mit, dass das JuraWiki seine Seite CebitFürJuristen aktualisiert und bittet um Hinweise auf juristisch interessante Aussteller der... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..

An introduction to personas and how to create them This month's KM Column has been written by Tina Calabria (the most recent addition to our consulting team). The article looks at personas, and how to create them. To quote: There are many ways to identify the needs of users,... From Column Two on March 3, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..

More than just finding policy documents The first of the two CM Briefings for this month looks at the issue of policy documents. To quote: Corporate policy documents have had a long and difficult history within many organisations. While much effort has been put into creating... From Column Two on March 3, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..

Intranet search reports The second CM Briefing explores two key search reports that should be implemented. To quote: A range of statistics are typically gathered on intranet usage, but of these, search engine reports are by far the most useful. This briefing explores... From Column Two on March 3, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..

ELICITUS, Harbinger's award-winning tool amongst "Most Popular" Authoring Tools for E-Learning Elicitus, the award winning authoring software tool, from Pune-based Harbinger Knowledge Products, has featured in a global report conducted by Brandon-Hall, USA, as one of the most popular authoring tools. [PRWEB Mar 3, 2004] From PR Web on March 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Windhaus Associates to Train in Business Plan Development to Small Business Micro-Loan Fund Applicants Windhaus Associates, a Florida business planning firm, has been contracted by the Treasure Coast Enterprise Fund to launch the first small business micro-loan fund training program in March 2004. The workshop series will offer intense, detailed training in the development of a business plan required of all applicants seeking small business loans of between $5,000 and $35,000 from the Enterprise Fund. [PRWEB Mar 3, 2004] From PR Web on March 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

University Students Introduce Online Homework Help General Academic, Inc. Provides Live, Online Academic Support with a Unique Approach University undergraduate students unveil live, online academic tutoring service. [PRWEB Mar 3, 2004] From PR Web on March 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Conversando con Jordi Sanchís, Director de eLearning de «la Caixa» La redacción de la Comunidad eLearning WORKSHOPS presenta una nueva sección con entrevistas a protagonistas en el ámbito del eLearning, los hombres y mujeres que están detrás de los logros más importantes en el mundo del eLearning de habla hispana. En la primera entrevista de la sección Albert Calvet y Jorge Vila conversaron con Jordi Sanchís, Director de eLearning de «la Caixa». Una de las realizaciones más interesante en eLearning que se han llevado a cabo en España es el proy From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on March 3, 2004 at 3:53 a.m..

Jornada Espiral 2004 Experiencias de uso de las TIC en la enseñanza El colectivo Espiral organiza la Jornada Espiral 2004 sobre «Experiencias de uso de las TIC en la enseñanza» (v. programa). La fecha límite para proponer comunicaciones es el 14 de abril. Espiral es un colectivo de profesores, técnicos, investigadores, estudiantes y entidades, interesado en la promoción y la aplicación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en la educación. From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on March 3, 2004 at 3:53 a.m..

Interview mit der VBZ Berlin Wie die Kanzlei Bahr & Heyms in ihrem neuesten Newsletter mitteilen, hat Dialerschutz.de ein Interview mit der Verbraucherzentale (VBZ) Berlin... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 3, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..

Ahead of his time People have called Dave Winer by many names, names I can't repeat before the kids are safe in bed for the night. Dave's an edgy guy. He's out there. Often he's a lightening rod. He can be obnoxious. To the chagrin of some of his... From Internet Time Blog on March 3, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

SXSW: South by Southwest SXSW /interactive/panels As Tom Hoffman mentioned, I'll be on a panel at SXSW along with Tom and Kaye Trammell. The topic is Blogucation 101. The panel is moderated and organzied by Mike Sloan. Am looking forward to visting Austin and seeing Tom again, and meeting Kaye and Mike.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on March 3, 2004 at 3:49 a.m..

Mysteries Revealed! Inside the MLX (@NMC Mar 9) I am coming up for air.... gasp.... gasp... This is crunch week for prepping my keynote session at the NMC Online Conference, scheduled for Tuesday March 9. My Breeze-d up show is called "Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange" and should be action packed, irreverent, and over the top. This will be a guided tour top to bottom, from the Executive Washroom down to the folks in the bowels of the database, covering our technologies, several layers of content syndication (by ne From cogdogblog on March 3, 2004 at 3:48 a.m..

IBM fills in on-demand picture Providing a glimpse into its internal technology planning, Big Blue describes the products that make up its on demand initiative for making businesses more flexible From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

USI [University of Southern Indiana] leads in long-distance learning From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

New program helps educators lobby for ed tech From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Faculty Development and Learning Object Technology: From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Miller to be honored by continuing education hall of fame From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

RealtyU and the School of Mortgage Lending Form Partnership From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

Ireland students and Wellsville fifth-graders have plenty of questions; Distance learning lab allows Wellsville teacher visiting Ireland to see her son here From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

European Distance and E-Learning Network 2004 Annual Conference From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

L.A. County Office of Education Launches Reading, YES! to Help Educators Improve Teaching of K-8 Reading and Language Arts From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

Gov. Granholm's Economics, Labor Czar Joins MVU Board From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 3, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

Micro-Wikipedia Based on the rather marvelous Wikipedia  this lesson plan is especially useful if you teach a similar course each year / semester. However, if you have a nice institution then this could be used across courses to pretty good effect! Basically it involves collaboratively building a knowledge resource for a particular subject area. Your learners build it together, recognizing the value of sharing (i.e. they From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on March 3, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

What If You Could Integrate Sound into the Game? iPod Story Game "The iPod follows in the footsteps of the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, et al, making the natural progression from low power computer to low-end gaming machine. 'The Rise of the Lost' is a 'choose your own adventure' game for the iPod. The game takes advantage of the iPod Notes feature, effectively creating a hyperlinked text enviro From The Shifted Librarian on March 3, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Send Your Wireless RFPs and RFIs to Bill Drew New on Wireless Librarian Website "I have just finished adding over 40 libraries to my website. I have also created a new page to link to planning docuemnts such as RFPs, RFIs, and other useful planning resources for WLANs. If are aware of any I should add, send me an e-mail or add a comment to this story. The Wireless Librarian Bill Drew --> From The Shifted Librarian on March 3, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Broad Overhaul in New York City to Eliminate Most Middle Schools Education officials plan to eliminate many of the city's middle schools as part of an effort to improve schooling for young adolescents. From New York Times: Education on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Catholic School Seeks Miracle, but a Pile of Box Tops Will Do If they sell enough cookies and knick-knacks, the students of Mount Carmel can keep their beloved school from closing. From New York Times: Education on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Many at Successful Middle School Oppose Its Expansion The teachers, principal and parents of one of Manhattan's top middle schools are unhappy with a plan for expansion. From New York Times: Education on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Turntables Come Out of the Basement and Into Music Class The turntabling class at the Berklee College of Music already has over 50 students on the waiting list for next semester. From New York Times: Education on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

An Evolving Relationship, Kept Together for the Sake of the Students After five decades of depending on the Educational Testing Service to score the SAT, the College Board has chosen another group to grade the new writing sample that will become part of the SAT next year. From New York Times: Education on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

A Vital Touchstone for High Schools Will Fitzhugh's aim was simple: to recognize students who produced high-quality research papers, and raise the standard for high school writing. From New York Times: Education on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Utah House Rebukes Bush With Its Vote on School Law The Utah House voted to prohibit the state's education authorities from using any local money to comply with the president's signature No Child Left Behind law. From New York Times: Education on March 3, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

New elearning Portal for Scotland From ScotFEICT on March 3, 2004 at 12:51 a.m..

Micro-Wikipedia Based on the rather marvelous Wikipedia  this lesson plan is especially useful if you teach a similar course each year / semester. However, if you have a nice institution then this could be used across courses to pretty good effect! Basically it involves collaboratively building a knowledge resource for a particular subject area. Your learners build it together, recognizing the value of sharing (i.e. they suddenly have access to plenty more resources - suggested by their peers! - than they ever had before) and bu From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on March 3, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..

Presentations on interoperability and repositories The presentations from the conference, Breaking Boundaries: Integration and Interoperability (Melbourne, February 3-5, 2004), are now online. From FOS News on March 3, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

Be back very soon... Sorry for my absence - bit a bit busy with work and planning my spring travels.  I also went to the Digital Music Forum yesterday - hope to have info on that and much more soon.  In the meantime, there've been many great posts in the blogosphere, so head to the blogroll. From A Copyfighter's Musings on March 3, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

FCC's Phone Rules Killed The appeals court was probably right to force the FCC to do its job instead of passing the buck to the states. But the regional phone monopolies are totally unconvincing when they claim they're forced to give competitors access at unfair prices. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 3, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..

AskJeeves denounces paid inclusion The company will stop accepting advertiser payments for inclusion in its searchable Web database, a move to draw competitive lines between it and Yahoo's new search engine. From CNET News.com on March 3, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

J-blogs should still be blogs Since we're likely to launch an election site very soon here at the university, I'm keeping an eye on people who talk about the intersection of journalism and blogging. Ed Cone shares some advice today to the local newspaper, for example, about setting up blogs for staff writers. For sure, Ed advises, these blogs should really be blogs, with independent voices that help the sites take on their own character. That means that the writers should own their own sites. For our project, this... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 2, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

The fifty states I was looking for the state motto of Senator Kerry's home state ("By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty") and came across the generous collection of information and links at 50States, including the Latin for that motto: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 2, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

Socialbrain.org works nowSocialbrain.org, oringina ... Socialbrain.org works nowSocialbrain.org, oringinated from cnblog.org, is now the upper level domain of cnblog.org, which will focus on social technology research and activities in China. We shall collect the projects ever within cnblog.org, including "Open Education", "Creative Commons China", "Grassland", "Blog on Blog for Chinese", "Chinese blog directory", etc., into the newly defined socialbrain.org vision. Of course, there will be new mission statements and new team members involved. Good lucks, SocialBrain.org! From Meta on March 2, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

Meeting the Why Needs Behind User Choices