Blogging Progress Aaron reflects on a week spent not so successfully blogging by learners and gives us some valuable reasons why:  "Much of the recent inactivity on learner sites seemed to have stemmed from an uncertainty as to what was appropriate.  One learner felt intimidated and confused about what to post.  Another thought it was necessary to keep her posts academic and was spending 'three days editing' before posting... One learner stated that he was uncomfortable with how much to reveal about himself." From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on March 7, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..

Indy Junior :: Flash travelog I found this while browsing Alan's cogdogblog today. What is Indy Junior? IndyJunior is a fully customizable map which you can use to easily display your geographic location. Joshua Davis did it first, but we do it with an XML data file and a whole host of configurable options. Feed IndyJunior some latitude and longitude coordinates and you'll be plotting your course like an Indiana Jones movie in no time. In a world where being thousands of miles From carvingCode on March 7, 2004 at 7:46 p.m..

Reblogger Reblogger Allows readers of Web Logs managed by Blogger to post comments on a post. Reblogge... From cms2u on March 7, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

The Web is Dead: Are you Ready for the Post-Web Era? The Web is so 1990's. For the first time since the Web gained popularity, the browser is no longer the dominant device used to access the Internet. Nielsen//NetRatings released in December 2003 indicated that 76% of users access the Internet using a non-browser application. Couple this with the recent statement made by Forrester's founder, George Colony, that the "Web was Dead". Are you Ready for the Post-Web Era?... From The Workflow Institute Blog on March 7, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

The Next Generation Of eMail Clients E-mail is the "killer app" of the Internet; an enormous amount of messages are exchanged every day, and while web-based mail has become very popular in recent years, many people still prefer the added speed and flexibility of a mail client application. All modern mail clients include a host of features to help better manage the ever-increasing number of messages we have to deal with. Graphical mail clients allows for easy sorting of messages into folders, easy searching on a number of criteria, address book management and automatic filtering based on custom-defined rules. The development of ne From Robin Good's Latest News on March 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Track(le) Web Pages And Blogs While Being Notified By Email Trackle is a brand new online service that allows you to check on pages in intervals ranging from once a day to every hour of the day. Trackle excerpts, consolidates and emails you the content portions that have changed on the selected Web pages and then displays changes as plain text, while preserving hyperlinks as clickable. From Robin Good's Latest News on March 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Better Than Movable Type? Expression Engine Launches The Challenge From the same people who have brought us pMachine, an excellent and truly inexpensive ($45 non-commercial) content management system, arrives a new content CMS called Expression Engine. For those of you who have yet to make the leap from traditional bare-bones blogs to full CMSs, Expression Engine provides an interesting new opportunity and a great set of good reasons to do so. If you need a basic server-based Weblog with many nice features, Movable Type- From Robin Good's Latest News on March 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Web standards book Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook looks like a very useful book. Focusing not only on teaching standards, but demonstrating why certain ways of using the standards together work better than others. From carvingCode on March 7, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

ALIA 2004 Biennial Conference The 2004 Conference (21-24 September) is expected to attract over 600 delegates and offers a combination of a stimulating program featuring highly-respected speakers, a large trade exhibition and enjoyable social activities. Online registrations have commenced. From ALIAnet on March 7, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Quick Topic bookmarklet Quick Topic bookmarklet makes adding a Quick Topic "Discuss" link to your weblog (... From cms2u on March 7, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Quickblog Quickblog an automated web publishing tool currently in beta test. Quickblog offers many of ... From cms2u on March 7, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Radio UserLand Radio UserLand An easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop. Automatically builds yo... From cms2u on March 7, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

For me blogging is about conversations I wonder why some weblog conversations develop in a full distributed discussion (e.g. "actionable sense" conversation), while others die after a few comments. I guess it's not only about the power of an initial topic to keep people active, but also about effort that participants spend locating others and commenting on their input. A few days back I had a discussion with my colleagues about finding comments to one's weblog post. As many of you know, to find all interesting replies it's not enough From Mathemagenic on March 7, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

The future of online news Vin Crosbie, der übrigens selbst ein Blog betreibt, über die Zukunft von (Online-)Zeitungen und deren Webseiten, um zu überleben: "Longtime... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 7, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Badgering you I'm sick as a dog today, but that doesn't stop me from bringing you a page that causes our college-freshman daughter to shake her head ruefully and say, "So this is what people do with the Intermenet." Note, after the bit with the snake, it just repeats. Don't expect anything else to happen. I tell you this as your friend.... From Joho the Blog on March 7, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..

Where We are Heading Frank Rich: Mel Gibson Forgives Us for His Sins. The vilification of Jews by Mr. Gibson, his film and some of his allies, unchallenged by his media enablers, is not happening in a vacuum. We are in the midst of an escalating election-year culture war in which those of "faith" are demonizing so-called "secularists" (for which read any Jews critical of Mr. Gibson and their fellow travelers, liberals). Politicians, we are learning, seem increasingly eager to wDan Gillmor's eJournal on March 7, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

Malfunctioning Voting Machines, Part MMMCCXVIII This letter to the editor in the Washington Post is just one more reason to ask voting officials everywhere: Why are you so resistant to voter-verifiable paper trails? From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 7, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

Howard Stern and Censorship Jeff Jarvis, continuing his mega-coverage of the Howard Stern affair, says this is about the First Amendment. It is, and it isn't. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 7, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

Dandelon Ein bemerkenswerter Fortschritt für alle, die Suchmaschinen nutzen: Ein maschinell erschlossenes Inhaltsverzeichnis aus Büchern und anderen Publikationen gibt es jetzt... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 7, 2004 at 2:50 p.m..

So Why Are Housing Prices Still Rising Here? SF Chronicle: Offshoring's giant target. Jobs are more likely to be shipped overseas from Silicon Valley than any other region in the nation, placing the Bay Area's economic engine directly in the path of the global freight train known as offshoring. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 7, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

My New Treo 600 Well, it was a close call between the PalmOne Treo 600 and the Sony Ericsson P900, but I've gone with the Treo. The P900 has a much better Web browser, a better camera, better multitasking and in many ways a better user interface. But the Treo has a thumb-keyboard, which for me is essential, and zillions of Palm OS applications that run nicely and enhance the device. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 7, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

Added XHTML, CSS, and 508 statements As a finishing touch on carvingCode's revision (v5), I added validation statements and links at the bottom of the main page. It wasn't too difficult to get CSS2 validation, just needed to clean up some font shorthand and change color settings from names to hex codes (wish we could use color names...). I was actually glad I ran the CSS validation as it noticed several typos I hadn't picked up, e.g.: forgot to add colon between setting and value on a couple rules. 508 validation was a breeze. All I needed to do was add the alt attribute for the sea From carvingCode on March 7, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace "In October 2002, while millions of people all over the world were working, shopping and surfing online, the Internet sustained... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 7, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Erasmus "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Erasmus (QotD)... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 7, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Neue Nokia Shortcuts Bislang unentdeckte Shortcuts für Eigner :) von Nokia 6600-Handies sind jetzt von Christian ausgegraben worden, derweilen Tom heute den brandaktuellen... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 7, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

LawMoose LawMoose war zunächst eine regionale juristische Suchmaschine, die in den letzten Monaten zu einem stattlichen Portal heranwuchs. TIP!... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 7, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Marktabgrenzung auf Medienmärkten Die Liste TK-RECHT weist darauf hin, dass auf der Website der GD "Wettbewerb" eine vom EMR, dem ZEI und Dr.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 7, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

www.umweltbibliotheken.de... Berlin 29.02.2004: Die GRÜNE LIGA e.V. geht am 1. März mit ihrem komplett überarbeiteten Internetportal www.umweltbibliotheken.de online. Das Portal bietet sowohl Umweltbibliothekarinnen und Umweltbibliothekaren als auch den Nutzerinnen und Nutzern von Umweltbibliotheken zahlreiche Informationen. Interessierte Leser können sich mit Hilfe einer Datenbank schnell einen Überblick über vorhandene Umweltbibliotheken und deren Angebote verschaffen. Alle Daten zu den Bibliotheken wurden im Rahmen der Überarbeitung des Portals auf den aktuel From Archivalia on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Buchtipp: History Marketing Alexander Schug: History Marketing. Ein Leitfaden zum Umgang mit Geschichte in Unternehmen, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, 218 S., 25,80 EUR Die Beschäftigung mit Geschichte führt in Unternehmen in der Regel immer noch ein Schattendasein und wird nicht als Ressource für Sinnstiftung und als Marketinginstrument in der Unternehmenskommunikation erkannt und eingesetzt. So lautet die zentrale These des Buches von Alexander Schug. History Marketing wird dabei wie folgt definiert (S. 22): Die Bemühungen um die Pflege der Tradition und die Summe der Maßnahme From Archivalia on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

41 Prozent aller Bewegungsarchive... Ausgehend von dem 2003 erschienen Buch Archive von unten habe ich hier eine Analyse der geographischen Verteilung der Bewegungsarchive versucht. From Archivalia on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

ID Positions in the South Pacific UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC Distance and Flexible Learning Support Centre (Serving the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu) Instructional Designers (3 Positions) Distance Education Unit - Posts FUE048, FUE068, FUE007... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Research Assistant Well, I thought I'd seen everything, but here's an interesting one that is actually posted on the UBC site. Hmmmmmm..... Assistance for Master Student Thesis An MA Student would like some help with the organization and editing of a thesis... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Adjunct Online Instructor Positions ITT Technical Institute Part-time work... http://itt.hireengine.net/jobs/detail.cfm?job_id=37&location_id=169&sc=distance-educator... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Tartine day Today is the day that food bloggers and interested others are posting recipes for tartines, open-faced bread creations such as the one pictured here, taken from event host Clotilde's Chocolate & Zucchini blog. Clotilde promises to post links tomorrow to all participants who email her about their contributions. This kind of "distributed blogging event" (DBE) is a weblog genre of some interest, I think. I can imagine that students and teacher might occasionally be able... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

What weblog genres are I was posting last week from Florida and not able to respond to email or spend time online, and so I missed a note from Will Richardson asking about this phrase I've started using, weblog genres, but I can't claim any ownership -- see Will's post of yesterday for others talking about weblogs and genre. He quotes Joe Moxley, Patricia Roy, and Anne Jones saying weblog genre as a singular, but in their next sentence they show plural genres that make up many weblogs and the plural audiences... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Ashcroft's Organization Breaks Law, Then Raises Money for Lawyers Washington Post: Ashcroft Funds Under Scrutiny. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's 1998 leadership political action committee, Spirit of America, and his Senate reelection campaign committee, Ashcroft 2000, raised more than $100,000 last year in order to pay a fine and legal costs for violating campaign finance laws, according to Federal Election Commission records and Garrett Lott, treasurer of both committees From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 7, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

carvingCode's birthday and refocus to open source Actually, the first recorded post was done on March 14, 2003. But, work on the weblog began March 7, 2003. To date, there have been 778 entries here and within the connected courseBlog. Comment: I think I'll use this anniversary milestone as a refocus event. The first entries (above) were on open source software, as were many of the early entries. Since beginning carvingCode, I have learned about RSS a From carvingCode on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

The Code War [via actionScriptHero: ] Mention of a BBC article detailing the battle unfolding between proprietary and open source computing. Comment: I recently watched a TechTV program which featured a panel of members from the Homebrew Computer Club. One of the most poignant comments made was by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. Woz said something to the effect that, in today's computing environ From carvingCode on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Creating, Contributing Content Catching On - Robyn Greenspan, Clickz There's no doubt that the Internet has changed the way millions of Americans live, work and play, but there is also a growing population that use the venue as a method of self-expression. According to research, a significant number of Internet users ar From Techno-News Blog on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

The Digital Dirt Road Divide - Robyn Greenspan, Clickz The crop of U.S. Internet users may be growing, but a Pew Internet & American Life Project report found a dirt road divide among the urban and rural penetration rates. While two-thirds of urban and suburban Americans are online, only about half of thei From Techno-News Blog on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Governments the world over are watching citizens like never before. But are we any safer for it? - Fred Guterl And William Underhill, Newsweek John Daugman will tell you that his most significant inventions are devices that help unscramble brain signals, which proved so useful for neuroscience research that the Queen of England made him an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his tr From Techno-News Blog on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

State tracks school computer growth - Callie Clark, Southeast Missourian As technology has grown more important in education, local school districts have upped the number of computers students have access to by as much as 400 percent in the past six years. The 2003 Computing Census, released this week by the Missouri Depar From Educational Technology on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Some school computer needs are filled; others go wanting - Carla Roccapriore, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL The availability of technology in each Washoe County school varies -- with some secondary schools having almost one student per computer and others as many as 15 to 1 -- and there is even a greater disparity among elementary schools, according to a dis From Educational Technology on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Sakai and the Four Cs of Open Source - Kenneth C. Green, Syllabus The 2003 Campus Computing Survey reveals that about one-third of all college courses make some use of a CMS, up from 15 percent in 2000. Equally significant in tracking the rise of CMS: fully four-fifths (82 percent) of the colleges and universities pa From Online Learning Update on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Degrees of separation - Nicole Manktelow, The Age Australia There are no easy answers for teaching online - it can either bridge vast distances or make students feel even more isolated. Ian, a postgraduate student, took his first online subject last year. He logged in ready for class, but no one else turned up. From Online Learning Update on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Toward a Theory of Online Learning - Terry Anderson, Theory and Practice of Online Learning Introduction: Theory has both been celebrated and condemned in educational practice and research. Many proponents have argued that theory allows"even forces"us to see the oebig picture and makes it possible for us to view our practice and our research From Online Learning Update on March 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Week ahead: Oracle earnings, wireless confab The company is ready to roll out its quarterly earnings report. Meanwhile, wireless technology and techniques for managing corporate content take the trade show stage. From CNET News.com on March 7, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

pyLJclient pyLJclient is a Live Journal client written in python and wxpython. Refer to the FAQ sectio... From cms2u on March 7, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..

Interview (MP3) about semantics and ontologies From Semantic World on March 7, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..

Semantic Web Interest Group Proceedings From Semantic World on March 7, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..

Fighting Your Workplace: Corporate Funding of Politicians When your company comes to you asking to give some of each paycheck to them so they can put it into a PAC (Political Action Committee) that translated to buying off politicians, what can you do? This especially counts when you work for a large company that has acted badly towards consumers in the past and don't want them to do this again. From kuro5hin.org on March 7, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

Italian Cooking, Haiku Workshop, Arabic Day, Language Immersions at Penobscot School this spring A variety of language and cultural events at Penobscot School in Rockland, Maine. Learn Italian coooking. Immerse yourself in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Founded in 1986, Penobscot School is a non-profit center for language learning and culural exchange [PRWEB Mar 7, 2004] From PR Web on March 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Breaking the College Admissions Code With college admisson become more competitive than ever, students are looking for ways to set themselves apart. The unique programs offered by the Brighton Foundation are practical and innovative ways to increase a student's chance of admission to a great school. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2004] From PR Web on March 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Congrats Rusty It looks like Rusty has gotten a daytime gig as an Internet big cheese. I notice that the sidebar blurb of Armstrong Zúniga LLC (a web consulting shop for political campaigns) now says: Rusty Foster joined Armstrong Zúniga in February of 2004 as CTO. Rusty created the Scoop software platform in 1999 and founded Kuro5hin.org the same year. Kuro5hin is widely recognized as a pioneering project in collaborative media, and Rusty has written and spoken extensively about the potential of the internet as a medium for collaboration and grassroots organizing. More... From kuro5hin.org on March 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Edubabble from Ontario My co-conspirator at the Workflow Institute, Sam Adkins, sent me a delicious link to the Organization for Quality Education, a group of Ontario citizens up in arms over the poor quality of their public schools. Nothing is funnier than the truth. Let's start with a... From Internet Time Blog on March 7, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

A transforming experience for content management? Steve Heckler has written an article on XSLT 2.0 and content management. To quote: During the past five years, XSLT (Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation) has emerged as the “Babelfish” of the XML world, translating XML documents into other XML... From Column Two on March 7, 2004 at 3:47 a.m..

Developmental Sequences Consider some of the facts about developmental sequences which are outlined in the chapter. What would you think might be the implications of such sequences for pedagogic practice? This question is one of the post reading activities after reading Rod... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 7, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

Lott case study Teachers may want to hold onto a copy of this case study of the role played by bloggers in the downfall of Trent Lott. Produced by the Kennedy School of Government, pointed out by Dave Winer. From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 7, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

City RSS feed Also via Dave Winer, the RSS feed of the city of Cosa Mesa, California. Can a university be far behind? From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 7, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

It's the Law: K-12 Learning Vendors Have to Prove it Works The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act has a scientifically-based research (SBR) requirement. The SBR requirement mandates that academic learning technology vendors provide empirical proof that their products work. Hopefully this will trickle-up into the corporate space. Can you imagine if corporate vendors had to show data from double-blind control group studies that proved their products actually worked?... From Learning Circuits Blog on March 7, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

ExpressionEngine, continued Rick Ellis was kind enough to point to a very good comparison of pMachine and their new product, ExpressionEngine (EE) here on his weblog. I think I'll have to call the software EE -- that five syllable name still doesn't sing for me as a name, but the product looks better and better for the more complex cluster of weblogs, resource banks, and magazine-style pieces we have in mind for our university's new publication. From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

On Campus, Rethinking Biology 101 As more transgender students declare themselves, colleges are pressed to consider their particular needs. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Food Fighter Alice Waters is taking her message of eating healthfully, organically and locally to middle schoolers in their lunchrooms. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

When These Friends Get Together, the Talk Is Rarely Small A group of eminent scientists gathers most days for lunch and spirited inquiry at the faculty club at the California Institute of Technology. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Ever Mindful of Bible, Chastity and the Rules At Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., the core curriculum includes a semester of "biblical reasoning" and students are expected to leave with their chastity intact. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Harvard Says Poor Parents Won't Have to Pay Aiming to get more low-income students to enroll, Harvard will stop asking parents who earn less than $40,000 to contribute toward the cost of their children's education. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Montana Creationism Bid Evolves Into Unusual Fight With the help of the Internet, defenders of Darwin's theories, like a group in Montana's Ravalli County, are springing up all over the nation. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

The Hamptons for $300 a Month College students use vacation rentals as luxury dorms in the off-season. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

The Pull of Family The case against legacy admissions. From New York Times: Education on March 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

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