Media, Technology Sectors Search For New Recording Medium SILICON VALLEY - In a lab on the fifteenth floor of a gleaming, mirrored high-rise, the shape of your next child's copy of Beauty and the Beast is being debated. Literally. "DVD is so passe'," quipped engineer Tony Arbluko, "And forget 'digital recording'. I guarantee we'll give you something on the next-gen system that'll leave your Tivo feeling like a BetaCord." From The Bentinel on March 6, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..
Faceted browsing Keith Instone brings together some notes on faceted browsing, including his presentation at the recent IA Summit. [Thanks to InfoDesign.]... From Column Two on March 6, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
Zebra Tables David F. Miller has written an article on how to easily create zebra tables (tables where the rows have alternating colours) using CSS. To quote: Ever since CSS hit the big time, the table has become increasingly rare. Semantic markup... From Column Two on March 6, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
The prospect of the weblog as an information service in the corporate library Michael Angeles writes about using a weblog in a corporate library. To quote: Amazing. After years ago suggesting that our newsletter publications could/should be written more like newspaper or magazine-style columns or weblogs, there is now an interest in... From Column Two on March 6, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
The risks of discounted qualitative studies Jeff Sauro has written a response to Jakob Nielsen's recent alertbox on the risks of quantitative studies. To quote: The discerning usability analyst should employ a mix of both qualitative and quantitative methods when discovering usability problems. The risks of... From Column Two on March 6, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..
Conceptual Maps Juan C. Dürsteler has written an article on conceptual maps, a way of representing the relationships between concepts in a visual way. To quote: Conceptual Maps are simple and practical knowledge representation tools that allow you to convey complex conceptual... From Column Two on March 6, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..
Why no 'use strict' in Python? Answer: PyChecker. The unanimous response to my question "Why no 'use strict' in Python?" was: PyChecker. Thanks to everyone who pointed me to this excellent tool. ... From Jon's Radio on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..
Academic Writing Scott Sommers linked to an article on the Globe & Mail: Academics fight back to defend 'bad' writing. Is difficult or obscure writing defensible? Should clarity be the litmus test for important scholarly work? Must the humanities, unlike other disciplines,... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 6, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
Mobile Learning "Mobile ... Mobile Learning "Mobile Learning Ltd specialise in the production of learning material designed to be delivered direct to mobile/wireless devices - PDA's, Smartphones, Laptops etc. We have off the shelf material and can create bespoke content for you." Added: 6 March 2004 Reviewer's Note: UK-based company PRODUCTS & SERVICES: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Get-Training.com "Online ... Get-Training.com "Online training courses in IT and business related subjects; including A+, MCSE, Flash, Oracle, Java, Linux, Office, Project Management and E-learning for Dummies. Certification, video courses, free demo courses, and an online tutor available" Added: 6 March 2004 Reviewer's Note A range of courses from beginner to advanced PRODUCTS & SERVICES: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
SANAKO Forum "SANAKO Fo ... SANAKO Forum "SANAKO Forum is a solution for educational and corporate institutions for online training and virtual meetings. SANAKO Forum allows real-time audio communication with employees, channels, partners and customers worldwide through web technology and is ideal for online presentations, conferences, product training and company online courses" From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
WikiSchool Basic Course &quo ... WikiSchool Basic Course "We will not focus on wiki history, wiki markup, and wiki features such as history links, nor will it try to encourage people to write. Instead, we'll try to teach how to write well even though we are on a wiki. We will explore various writing styles." Added: 5 March 2004 Reviewer's Note: Using a wiki to learn about wikis< From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 6, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Taxonomy of Collaboration Solutions From Wainhouse Research's online magazine "Conferencing Buyer", author David Coleman lays out a thoughtful taxonomy of collaboration tools From Kolabora.com on March 6, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
How Important Is Voice Integration? Some people today have a vision around voice that is pretty advanced. They envision not just audio/video online meetings or chats, but also true voice-over-IP integration with the collaboration environment, right click "call me" access from anywhere, int From Kolabora.com on March 6, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
How To Make Good User Interfaces A dated (1999) article that stands well the test of time. What are the key steps to organize a good interface design project? If you are responsible for interface design issues this one page article from Microsoft is for you. "The most important step toward good interface design is understanding the problems your users need you to solve. Specifications for projects are often created in a vacuum: Managers or executives decide that product X or feature Y is critically important, but not much research is conducted into what the real users of the product need or want. Before you start writing code From Robin Good's Latest News on March 6, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..
CC Stories Just a quick note to say I just downloaded your MP3 from the harvard.edu site. It's good to know that my music was good enough to be included in your report. I enjoy fact that other people can appreciate it and use it freely in their own work. Regards, Laurie Laptop My friend Benjamen Walker received this email the other day. (Ben is the guy behind the award-winning and cult-fave Boston radio show Your Radio Nighlight an From Creative Commons: weblog on March 6, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Metadata is something I have yet to see used A most interesting and humourous request for OAI Compliance for Dummies or Using Dublin Core for Totally Doofus Idiots by Alan and yes I still haven't gotten over my Maricopa obsession . My reply: I recently started working with the OAI harvesting protocol and actually once you get past the reams of pointless technical data, it is an elegant and simple solution. In my experience looking at something like the xml returned via a repository explorer a lot more useful than any of the texts that I've read, both in terms of understanding why metadata can be useful and how ... From Shootmouth on March 6, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..
Saturday: Learning in communities Stephen Dowes has a thought provoking article on learning in communities in learnscope . His main point is that the course content (much less its organization and structure) ought to be subservient to the discussion, that the community is the primary unit of learning, and that the instruction and the learning resources are secondary, arising out of, and only because of, the community. I find this idea fascinating not only because as an LMS developer I have found that most courses use the announcements facility more than any other , but also because the constant messages received from managemen From Shootmouth on March 6, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..
Instant Messages in Knowledge-Making: Some Possibilities Instant Messages in Knowledge-Making In a December entry I explained, and illustrated, a small group knowledge-making / research (KMR) process model. I added that the small group process could be multipled for larger projects (involving ,for example, 2 - 6 disinct KMR projects). In my above-referenced entry I noted: R From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 6, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..
Globalization As William Gibson wrote, "The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet." The Workflow Institute is striving to get the word out by pointing to exemplars who have already or nearly arrived. Our members tend to be innovators and early adopters. They aim their shotguns ahead of the skeet. They refuse to defer progress they can make today. Their support, and our belief that we can see around the corner, keep us going when friends and colleagues tell us we're too far ahead of ourselves or, in short form, "hype." It's particularly gratifying when a mainstream t From The Workflow Institute Blog on March 6, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..
Carriers should be context providers Joi Ito has learned a lesson from his $3500 GPRS bill: "I think that as broadband becomes a standard part of households, more and more people will fill up their iPods and mobile devices with all the content they need from their flat-fee low-cost pipe. Most content isn't THAT time sensitive. I don't see any reason to have to download content on-the-go over expensive gprs when devices can talk wifi or bluetooth and have enough storage to allow you to carry content around." [by way ofMobitopia] Frank Koehntopp Notes: Operators have tried to get people to buy the idea that... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on March 6, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..
Fair use week March 1-5 was Fight for Fair Use Week. From FOS News on March 6, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..
Breeze-- A Mighty Wind-- But the Audio Editing Blows Tuesday is my keynote presentation at the NMC Sipring 2004 Online Conference - register now to tune into "Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange". For this presentation I, ahem, went well over the suggested length of 20 minutes, to more than 50 (!) but it covers a lot of ground, and is all pictures, animations, a video, lots of external links, and well, entertaining (that remains to be seen). Note also closing credits with Creative Commons licensed audio. This was From cogdogblog on March 6, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..
Bush's War on Habeas Corpus Put simply, we are being told that the president, solely on his say-so (or, in real life, the say-so of anyone he designates), can imprison anyone for any period of time -- and without any right to a lawyer or judicial review. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 6, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..
Microsoft settles AT&T patent suit From CNET News.com on March 6, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
PDS diskriminiert KEIN INTERESSE AN PDS-UNTERLAGEN Bundestagsverwaltung verweigert Fortzahlung der Archiv-Zuschuesse an die Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Die Bundestagsverwaltung hat der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung die Zuschuesse fuer die Aufbereitung von Archivalien der aus dem Parlament ausgeschiedenen PDS-Fraktion gestrichen. Die Stiftung sieht darin einen Praezedenzfall. In dem seit einem Jahr schwelenden Streit zwischen der PDS-nahen Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung und der Bundestagsverwaltung um eine Finanzierung des Archivs der einstigen PDS-Bundestagsfrakti From Archivalia on March 6, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
JISC grants to support OA JISC is providing £150,000 to "allow four key publishers to move towards or continue open access delivery for some of their journals." The publishers are the Public Library of Science (for PLoS Biology), the Institute of Physics Publishing (for the New Journal of Physics), Lancaster University (for the Journal of Experimental Botany), and the International Union of Crystallography (for all the IUCr journals). Excerpt from Friday's press release: "Three of the four awards wi From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on March 6, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Ins offene Messer ... Die US-Verbraucherkommission (FTC), vergleichbar etwa mit den hiesigen Verbraucherschutzvereinen, hat nochmals nachdrücklich davor gewarnt (PDF), sich zum Schutz vor... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 6, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..
World's worst movie? I'm sick as a dog again — my second cold-y/flu-y thing in two weeks — and was being kept awake by the sound of my own mucus (hey, you asked!), so I turned on the TV at 4:30 this morning. And I'm so glad I did! I may have stumbled on the worst movie ever. Is there anything worse than a really bad pot-head movie, one that takes drugs to make the jokes funny? Head, starring the Monkees and written by Jack Nicholson was my old favorite bad pot-head movie. But it's been rudely elbowed aside by Pandemonium, a film... From Joho the Blog on March 6, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..
OLG München Interessant: Gerade bei Udo gelesen, dass Silke dem OLG München einige Verstöße gegen das eigene Urteil nachweist - ist mir... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 6, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..
SCO Sues Daimler Chrysler, AutoZone From Ziff Davi ... SCO Sues Daimler Chrysler, AutoZone From Ziff Davis MediaSCO has filed suit against two major companies for two different reasons. The first, car giant Daimler Chrysler, was accused of not protecting SCO's copyright rights, while AutoZone was singled out for running Linux code that violated SCO's copyrights. A subtle difference to be sure. We've got details on both the AutoZone and Daimler-Chrysler suits, including my favorite quote of the day from Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Also, Is Microsoft Funding SCO? In a series of twist From on March 6, 2004 at 11:50 a.m..
Digitization and OA for cultural heritage Klaus Graf, Digitalisierung Alter Drucke, a presentation at a Cologne workshop, March 5, 2004. He argues for the importance of OA to cultural heritage collections. Also see his brief English summary. From FOS News on March 6, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
Construction zone Due to rainy, chilly weather here, I cancelled plans for a nice long bike ride on the trails. Instead, I'll spend some time updating carvingCode's structure and style. It's been about 6 months since we've had a major overhaul, so it's due. From carvingCode on March 6, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..
RSS feeds: PhD progress and weblog research Radio categories problem seems to be solved, so I can establish properly working catagories. So far I'm adding two: PhD news (RSS feed for PhD news) is for those who want to stay updated with my PhD research without readin From Mathemagenic on March 6, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
trackback Attention blogger users. If you are using Halo-scan for your commenting, then you should know that they now support trackback. See why trackback is important. If you don't know how to ping or trackback you can learn how at the... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 6, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
Search All The News You Want If you are looking for a specialty news search engine or for a tool to receive news alerts by email your search is over. In one up-to-date page, all of the best search tools and online services are neatly organized for your access. The News Search Portal covers extensively the RSS-based content universe with a number of categories covering the search for news inside RSS feeds. Recommended. Othe interesting categories covered are video and audio news search engines, news from TV and radio and complementary search toolbars. From Robin Good's Latest News on March 6, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..
Build it With Plone? Tom pretty much breaks down my post from yesterday line by line in terms of how Plone might be able to support our needs. I really appreciate his efforts in creating and thinking about education specific CMS stuff, and I think he understands most of the limitations and requirements of such a system for schools. I'm not really familiar with Plone, but I did dig around on their site a bit this morning. What's immediately scary From weblogged News on March 6, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Blogs in the Composition Classroom A presentation by Joe Moxley, Patricia Roy and Anne Jones from the University of South Florida at the Symposium on 21st Century Teaching Technologies: Weblogging offers teachers a unique way to engage students in the Composition classroom. As a tool, blogs allow students to post and archive their work in a way that is easy to use and access. As a genre, blogs offer students new rhetorical situation From weblogged News on March 6, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Will Cingular buy pay off? With the wireless telephone industry in flux, Knowledge@Wharton examines whether Cingular's offer to acquire AT&T Wireless makes sense. From CNET News.com on March 6, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
Here's a Class I Want to Teach Jour 68 -- Electronic Publishing Workshop Roger Karraker's online class, Spring 2004 for Santa Rosa Junior College In traditional classroom instruction itÂ’s assumed that the instructor is the fount of all knowledge. The instructor stands at the front of the room and declaims. Everyone else listens. Only one person can speak at a time. ItÂ’s both linear (one after another) and slow. And, of course, everyone has to be gathered in the same room at the same time and the time is strictly limited: typically a 100-minute block of t From weblogged News on March 6, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..
What Books have Influenced Your Life? What books have you read that deeply influenced your way of living, thinking, or viewpoints about the world around you? My own list follows. From kuro5hin.org on March 6, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
C-SPAN Die Seite C-SPAN zeigt alle gesetzgebenden Organe der Welt. Die linke vertikale Leiste ist dann noch besonders bedeutenden Ereignissen als... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 6, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
From 28.8 To Broadband: Web Site Speed Emulator WebSpeed Simulator helps you design more efficient web pages by previewing your Web page at the speed of real world dial-up connections. You can avoid designing pages that look great on your LAN but are too slow for the real internet. If you use Flash or Java you can preview how it will load in conjunction with the rest of your site. Errors that might not be visible during design, are readily identified. This saves you design time because you can preview off-line and simulate any connection speed more efficiently. Most designers only see their web site design at full speed on a company LAN or From Robin Good's Latest News on March 6, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious - Amit Asaravala, Wired The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of information between blogs, the researchers have discovered that autho From Techno-News Blog on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Camera lens mimics human eye - Reuters Philips Electronics has invented a tiny digital-camera lens that can focus on objects and create sharp pictures in ways similar to the human eye. Unlike high-end digital cameras, the new lens does not require mechanical moving parts beca From Techno-News Blog on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Spam's 'dirty dozen' exposed: Top three include the U.S., Canada and ChinaBy Zen Lee, CNet United States, Canada, China, South Korea and the Netherlands are the top five birthplaces of spam worldwide, according to a new analysis by security software maker Sophos. In an analysis of junk e-mails received over two days in mid-February, the com From Techno-News Blog on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Report: Unused eRate funding spiked in 2002 - Cara Branigan, eSchool News Despite declining technology budgets, schools and libraries nationwide have failed to use 42 percent of the eRate discounts promised to them for funding year 2002, according to an analysis conducted by eRate consulting firm Funds for Learning. The fed From Educational Technology on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Technology Integration as a Transforming Teaching Strategy - Jerry Woodbridge, techLearning Abstract: This study of technology integration in the classroom involved 42 observations in 16 classrooms, 20 interviews, and 27 responses to an online survey. Teachers were selected with a common educational background in integrated learning and techn From Educational Technology on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 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 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Learning Resource Center offers MarineNet and other online courses - Lance Cpl. Rich Mattingly Rows of slowly fading screens are blinking in the Learning Resource Center aboard MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, as a network analyst at the LRC gets the room ready for the Marines that will train there. Soon, Marines will be hard at work with online Marine From Online Learning Update on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
The Development of Online Courses - Dean Caplan, Theory and Practice of Online Learning Introduction: In the ideal world, instructional media developers"those who will actually create the planned instructional materials with which the student will interact"are included in the course development process from the beginning, to consult with From Online Learning Update on March 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
New tools, same crimes 0400 BC - "Human nature doesn't change" - Thucydides (one of the first historians). 2004 AD - "New technologies have not spawned new crimes" - Bill Hughes (head of the UK National Crime Squad). Interesting piece from Auntie. Mr Hughes... From Monkeymagic on March 6, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
Free Morpheme A new Linguistics blog by Jason called Freemorpheme. Jason has some interesting comments about anxiety in the classroom as well another post where he discussing learning styles. These are both issure brought up in Principles of Language Learning and Teaching... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 6, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..
Internetrecht Etwa 140 Beiträge und Rechtsprechungsnachweise zum Internetnetrecht, alphabetisch sortiert, sind enthalten im jüngsten Newsletter von Sakowski. Wegen der Akualität noch... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 6, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Erste CAN Spam Act Klage Fast zweieinhalb Monate nach seinem Inkrafttreten wurde die vermutlich erste Klage auf Grundlage des CAN Spam Act eingeleitet. Ein kalifornischer... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 6, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..
Statistik USA 2003 Die Handel- und Wirtschaftsstatistik der USA 2003 liegt vor; ein mächtiges Werk mit 31 Kapiteln (ausnahmslos PDF - Dank an... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 6, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..
Report Slams Senate Snoopers According to a Senate report, two former Senate Republican staffers are guilty of accessing and distributing Democratic computer memos concerning judicial nominees. However, the report points out, the files were not well-protected. From Wired News on March 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
DNA Spirals Into Artists' Medium Eduardo Kac's latest fusion of biotech and art was inspired by a computer's chess move. The result is Move 36, featuring a tomato plant toting custom DNA. By Debra Jones. From Wired News on March 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
ISP Files First Can-Spam Lawsuit The U.S. Can-Spam Act may be too weak to stop spam altogether, but it's all we've got, says a California attorney. That's why he's going to be the first to use it to help an ISP sue an alleged spammer. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on March 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Polywogg Polywogg was designed to allow users to view journals on the web. Polywogg Publisher and Pol... From cms2u on March 6, 2004 at 5:52 a.m..
Martha Stewart schuldig! Der US-Fernsehstar Martha Stewart ist gestern von den Geschworenen eines US-Gerichts wegen Verschwörung, Falschaussage und Behinderung der Justiz schuldig gesprochen... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 6, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
PikiePikie PikiePikie A collection of CGI scripts, written in the Python language, with which to create... From cms2u on March 6, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..
Chernobyl Here's a moving account of a woman's motorcycle tour of the abandoned area around Chernobyl. The Clue Train honesty of this story shines through. Only a few years ago, I would never have heard stories like these. Not only were government censors suppressing the news,... From Internet Time Blog on March 6, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
Tampa, Fla. Boson Software, Inc, announces the release of several new practice tests. Boson Software, Inc, announces the release of several new practice tests. Boson carries practice tests for various certifications. In the newest version of Boson's software, 6 new exams have been released. [PRWEB Mar 6, 2004] From PR Web on March 6, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Announcing The Marketing Cornerstone - Serious Solutions for Todays Network Marketer The Marketing Cornerstone offers a wide variety of education from the basics to the advanced techniques in network marketing. Our focus and mission is to develop a strong educational foundation for each marketer to become the very best they can be, professionally and personally. [PRWEB Mar 6, 2004] From PR Web on March 6, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Iraqis Delay Signing Of Interim Constitution BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council met Friday to sign the interim constitution meant to govern the country until it can elect a legislative assembly to draft a permanent document. But many members were put off by the label on the shrink-wrapped document stating that by breaking the shrink-wrap they would be bound by the contents. "We have seen drafts, but we are unable to see the contents of the package," said council member Ahmad Chalabi, "How can we confidently sign the document when we cannot even confidently open its packaging?" From The Bentinel on March 6, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..
FedEx and University to Finance Students Federal Express and the Berkeley University will finance fellowships for students shut out of competing for Fulbright fellowships because of a missed deadline. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
An Eighth Grader From Staten Island Has Got the Power (National Word Power, That Is) An average eighth grader is the New York State champion in the Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..
Cool Flash Clock From Internet Time Blog on March 6, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..
More on Elsevier journals A news item in the 6 March 2004 issue of BMJ is: US universities threaten to cancel subscriptions to Elsevier journals. Several people, including Peter Suber, and Eric Merkel-Sobotta, director of corporate relations at Elsevier, are quoted. From FOS News on March 6, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..
Report Says Deputy Chancellor Arranged Job for Husband The City school system's highest-ranking official arranged to have her husband hired without required clearance, investigators say. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
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