Web Geek humor Q: Why did the XHTML actress turn down an Oscar? A: Because she refused to be involved in the presentation. Q: Why was the font tag an orphan? A: Because it didn't have a font-family. And, yes... there's more. From carvingCode on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

Read Me As Derek Slater says, So many links, not enough time. For those similarly time-pressed, here's terrific one-stop shopping for debate over EFF's white paper on collective licensing, from the unstoppable Ernest Miller. From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on March 11, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Legal P2P networks gaining ground Red Swoosh, an authorized service, is now reaching out to the BitTorrent underground, offering an alliance. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Oracle hits analysts' quarterly estimates The database giant meets estimates for the third quarter, aided by double-digit growth in both new software licenses and its license updates and support business. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Canada, HP tussle over defense department dealings The Canadian government demands that Hewlett-Packard pay back $120 million in defense department contracts or prove that it delivered at proper billing rates. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Will Net phone debate draw in other IP services? The FCC says it will examine services that use Internet Protocol, "including but not limited to" VoIP. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Care for some Burke? I know this might be a little off-topic in light of the usual Kairosnews fare, but here's a little something on just plain non-technology-oriented rhetoric. It's the product of a 2-hour no-books, no-notes midterm exam in my rhetorical theory class that was designed to be like a dry run of the prelims. I answered this question:Below are two quite different ways of thinkingabout figures of speech.oe From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 11, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Hosting Options: Shared or Dedicated Server Virtual server technology means lower operating costs for you. However, there are plenty of reasons (such as more control) to insist on a dedicated server for you business. Which option is better? From E-Commerce Guide on March 11, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Gateway brings "g" to DVD player Gateway unveils a version of its wireless DVD player that supports the 802.11g standard and can handle content from PCs running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 software. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

BayStar confirms Microsoft referral to SCO Investment company BayStar Capital confirms ties between two Linux foes, saying that a Microsoft referral led to $50 million in BayStar funding for the SCO Group. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Microsoft--the host with the most? Microsoft is relying on hosting partners to expand sales to small businesses of server products such as its Exchange e-mail software. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Second Language Acquisition Theories as a Framework for Creating Distance Learning Courses This article's authors maintain distance educators should provide for three types of interaction: (a) learner-content, (b) learner-instructor, and (c) learner-learner. According to interactionist second language acquisition (SLA) theories, reflecting theories that comprehensible input is critical for second language acquisition, interaction can enhance second language acquisition and fluency. From Elearnopedia on March 11, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

Visual Exploration of Large Collections in Digital Libraries This article describes EVA2D, a visualization environment that implements and extends the notion of Visual Information Seeking (VIS) to facilitate the exploration of large collections comprised by digital libraries. From Elearnopedia on March 11, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

Ontological User Profiling in Recommeder Systems This article explores a novel ontological approach to user profiling within recommender systems, working on the problem of recommending on-line academic research papers. Our two experimental systems, Quickstep and Foxtrot, create user profiles from unobtrusively monitored behaviour and relevance feedback, representing the profiles in terms of a research paper topic ontology. A novel profile visualization approach is taken to acquire profile feedback. From Elearnopedia on March 11, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

azubi-portal.de Efiport, die Bankakademie und der Bildungsverlag EINS stehen hinter dem azubi-portal. Lernern bietet es u.a. den Online-Zugriff auf Lehrmaterialien, Wissens-Checks mit Gap-Analysen und Prüfungssimulationen. Aber deswegen ist mir azubi-portal nicht aufgefallen. Ins Auge gesprungen ist mir die Werbung des Anbieters:... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 11, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

Pat Kane had a great post recently about the Good ... Pat Kane had a great post recently about the Good Work Project by Csikszentmihalyi and Gardner. I enjoyed their book last year, although it seemed incomplete in many ways, not taking full advantage of the research they'd pursued individually in the past. Pat's Play Ethic has plenty in common with Csikszentmihalyi's --> From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on March 11, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

GRID-Computing Internet und World Wide Web (WWW) wurden von der Wissenschaft für die Wissenschaft entwickelt. Sie sind heute unverzichtbar für den... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

30 Jahre Terror! Aus gegebenem Anlass: Immer wieder waren in den vergangenen 30 Jahren viele Opfer bei schweren Anschlägen in Europa zu beklagen.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

Bait-and-switch I spent the last 90 minutes on Orbitz trying to find the best multicity fare for a trip to Washington and New Brunswick. Finally, I found the right combination and clicked the "Book It" button: Twenty seconds later, I had signed in. Then I received... From Internet Time Blog on March 11, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

MIT Scheduled Systems Outage 13-15 March 2004-03-11: W3C's systems based at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, MA, USA are being moved to their new location in the MIT Stata Center on Saturday, 13 March. Services will be suspended and the W3C Web site will be accessible in a read-only state. Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued and posted when the move is complete. The W3C Systems Team expects to have all services tested and functioning by the end of Sunday, 14 March (Monday, 15 March UTC). We appreciate your patience. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on March 11, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..

Microsoft, SCO and Anti-Linux Campaign

Radeox - Wiki Formatting Render Engine in Java I've been poking around for a decent way to implement text formatting without requiring folks to know HTML. This is for use in our Workshops management app, as well as the Discussion/Review component of CAREO (and coming soon for APOLLO). At the bare minimum, I'd like to at least translate linefeeds into br and p tags, but ideally I want to support Textile and/or Wiki formatting. I came across Radeox, linked from the c2 wiki. Looks like it supports Textile and Wiki formatting out of the box. Cool. Claims to be embeddable pretty easily, so I'm working up a simple... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on March 11, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Nortel hits accounting snag The company delays filing its 2003 annual report amid an internal review of its financial numbers. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

How To Select Your Web Conferencing Tool New conferencing and collaboration solutions are being announced at the pace of one or more new tools per week. New versions and upgrades get promoted even more frequently and in this avalanche of claims of "this-is-the-best-don't-look-anywhere-else" it is hard to... From Kolabora.com on March 11, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

META Groups Calls Meta Group is yacking about the need for security. DUH. That thought has been around for a while when it comes to VoIP. The key is not that it is needed. The key is who is doing it. There once... From Kolabora.com on March 11, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

Yahoo Takes IM Up A Notch While Instant Messaging tools like Windows Messenger and ICQ have always had this ability, Yahoo has always had the best quality, least NAT related issues. Now, in working with BT in the UK it seems Yahoo, which also has VoIP... From Kolabora.com on March 11, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

Providing OA to articles about OA I've just worked out an arrangement with dLIST and E-LIS, two OAI-compliant eprint archives for library and information science. They are willing to accept any articles on the topic of open access, as long as the copyright holder gives permission. So the next time I blog an article about OA that is not itself OA, I will link to my page appealing to the author to deposit the article and make it openly accessible. If other subject-oriented blogs a From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Net video ads get consumer nod A survey shows the ads are more welcome to Web surfers than pop-ads and TV commercials. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

HP snaps up software firm in buying spree Hewlett-Packard agrees to acquire another provider of management software, TruLogica, to boost its utility computing campaign. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Study: Pretty picture for camera phone sales More than a quarter of all mobile phones to be sold globally in 2004 will also function as cameras, and the growth doesn't stop there. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Central Question ... Central Question "We specialise in custom made assessments and tests for use in e-learning, psychometrics and academic research. We use specialized technology to provide reliable software with faster delivery." Added: 11 March 2004 Reviewer's Note: See some examples of questionnaires, quizzes and tests PRODUCTS & SERVICES: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 11, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Pforzheimer Persönlichkeiten Stadtarchiv Pforzheim bietet Kurzbiographien http://www.pforzheim.de/servlet/page?_pageid=2058&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30 + Literaturangaben, Bilder - keine Internetlinks (z.B. zur ADB, bei Reuchlin zur Reuchlin-Arbeitsstelle der Stadt Pforzheim auf gleichem Server usw.) From Archivalia on March 11, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Vanity search on google I've seen others do this, so I thought I'd give it a try: When I entered my name "Randy Brown" in google, hits relating to me in the top 15 of the searches. carvingCode came back spots 4 and 5, while my college site came back as spot 13. If it wasn't for the basketball player with the same name, I'd have a much more respectable showing.... From carvingCode on March 11, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

w3c in Cannes Danny Ayers has started to post some details coming from the w3c conference going on in Cannes. Looks like strong emphasis on making sure content on web pages can be used across multiple purposes. RDF (which is what RSS is based on) is a focus topic. The entire conference blog and supporting materials seems to be here. From carvingCode on March 11, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Something's gotta be done about the Beatles Music journalist Devon Powers has a great piece on copyright terms, sampling, and the Beatles at PopMatters. In it, she looks at the Grey Album and comes to the conclusion that overly long copyright terms harm our culture by limiting the use of music as social force. Akin to "Free the Mouse" she arrives at the conclusion "Something's gotta be done about the Beatles." And for all of us who hold music dear, we owe it to ourselves to not only let our musical past footnote our musical present, but also a From Creative Commons: weblog on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Site syndication - all together now I came across this article in eWeek this morning. It prompted me to have a deeper look into Atom. If you want to know more read on! From Auricle on March 11, 2004 at 1:54 p.m..

Web site detailing publisher mergers and acquisitions Mary H. Munroe, The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. This resource, jointly supported by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Information Access Alliance, aims to sort out who owns whom in the publishing industry by presenting a series of timelines covering twelve major scholarly publishers. "A major finding of this research has been how many of the major imprints bought by academic librarians all over the world are owned by the same company, and how much, even in our own professional literatur From FOS News on March 11, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

ALOHA Application I've just bundled up the ALOHA application (version 1.3) as a MacOSX bundle, so you don't have to go through Java Web Start to fire it up. The other added bonus is that it looks more like a "native" application, using the real live menu bar and everything! Here's a link to the disk image containing the application. The bundling was absolutely trival. Just fire up Jar Bundler, feed it the .jar(s) and configure it a bit. Done.... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on March 11, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

CA buys desktop management software maker Computer Associates International has acquired privately held Miramar Systems, a provider of desktop management software, for an undisclosed sum. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

BT, Yahoo mix VoIP with messaging The companies jump on the Internet calling bandwagon with a forthcoming service in the United Kingdom that will let users make calls from an instant messaging client to any telephone in the world. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

The Devil Is in the Details Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government has released a case study, 'Big Media' Meets the 'Bloggers': Coverage of Trent Lott's at Strom Thurmond's Birthday Party, a detailed account of the blogosphere's role during 2002 in Trent Lott's downfall from his position as Senate Majority Leader. Since the article is certainly a good read that is being provided for free download (pdf), what could be the motivations behind the heavy copyright controls pro From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 11, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Pressedatenbank Polizei Wie das LAWgical meldet, können aktuelle Pressemitteilungen bei der Pressedatenbank Polizei abgerufen werden. Alles Weitere im Originalbeitrag.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

Atentados en Madrid: listado de heridos Ministerio del Interior: Atención a las víctimas del atentado en Madrid y Listado provisional de heridos.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 11, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Deutsche Landesarchivgesetze Leider weisen alle drei einschlägigen Link-Zusammenstellungen defekte Links auf: ARCHIV.Net http://www.archiv.net/isy.net/servlet/broadcast/page139.html Archivschule Marburg http://www.uni-marburg.de/archivschule/intlink1.html Univ.archiv Chemnitz (2001) http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/uni-archiv/archgesetze.htm Ist es b From Archivalia on March 11, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Presentation Slides Just finished my presentation at the Internet @ Schools East conference and a number of people asked me to put the slides up for viewing so here they are. Be warned that it's a 4MB file, so it may take some time to load up. All in all I think it went pretty well. I'm guessing there were about a 100 people in the room, about three had their own sites, and it seemed like most understood both blogs and RSS well enough at the e From weblogged News on March 11, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Google as context renderer Martin Terre Blanche: "I suspect that most Google searches have as much to do with getting a feel for context as with locating something specific." Great examples in there of how search engines and related tools help us sense the landscape surrounding a term in an impressionistic manner. (--> From Seb's Open Research on March 11, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

More Firefox search plugins I've added a few more search engines to Firefox, and I'm parking them here so I can easily transfer them to my other machines.

HP slims down business PC lineup Three new lines of business desktops will replace Hewlett-Packard's current four lines, in an attempt to make it easier for customers to figure out what they need. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Microsoft mobilizes on wireless video The company teams up with digital media specialists to launch MobileVision, a system for delivering streaming video to portable devices. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

E-Mail Providers Slam Spammers I also saw this on a cable news network last night, so it's getting some press. Wired reports that four of the largest email providers, Microsoft, America Online, EarthLink and Yahoo, have filed lawsuits under the Can Span Act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) which forbids some of the deceptive practices used by spammers. Good timing for me, since I'm switching my primary email address (I updated my knews member profile). Would be nice if it took a couple of years before it gets From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 11, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

ATutor IMS Content Export Having just read Derek Morrison's article on ATutor and in particular the ability to export IMS conformant 'chunks' of content I decided to test this out. In a previous article of mine, Standards whose Standards?, I tried to export so-called IMS compliant material from Blackboard and WebCT and import into the Reload IMS conformant editor. This failed. So can ATutor perform... From Auricle on March 11, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Institute of Global Law Zahlreiche, teilweise unveröffentlichte ober- und bundesgerichtliche Entscheidungen finden sich auf der Seite des "Institute of Global Law". Darüber hinaus noch... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

Questions for opponents of same-sex marriage If I could quiz one of the tens of millions of reasonable, good-hearted Americans who oppose same-sex marriage, here are the questions I'd ask. Set #1 Do you believe that same-sex couples can fall in love? Is their love lesser than that of contra-sex couples? Can same-sex couples form commitments as strong, lasting and valuable as those of contra-sex couples? Are same-sex couples as likely as contra-sex couples to raise children well? If yes to all of the above, what is the relevant difference between same-sex and contra-sex couples that justifies treating them differently with regard to From World Wide Web Consortium on March 11, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..

Working Draft: Web Services Choreography Requirements 2004-03-11: The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Web Services Choreography Requirements. The group is defining a language based on WSDL 2.0 used to coordinate interactions among Web services and their users. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on March 11, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..

Opera IPO opens on high note The Norwegian browser maker says its public offering was many times oversubscribed, and it releases a new version of its mobile browser. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Informationsgesellschaft Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung hat ein Spezial zum Thema Informationsgesellschaft herausgebracht. Die Beiträge gruppieren sich um die Stichworte "Digitale Spaltung", "Medienkompetenz", "Sicherheit im Netz" und "E-Democracy". Hintergrund ist der von der UNO im Dezember 2003 organisierte erste Weltgipfel zur... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 11, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Articles on post-DL futures The presentations from the workshop, NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop (Chatham, June 15-17, 2004), are now online. From FOS News on March 11, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

'Dangerous' Patent Removed from Database? Bruce Schneier, in an e-mail, writes:In October 1962, the U.S. Patent Office granted patent 3,060,165 regarding the use of ricin as a biological weapon. Published patents are, of course, publicly available. That's the point. All US patents are available from the USPTO website: "full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790." However, for some reason, this --> From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 11, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

Yahoo cuts ties to Google in Asia-Pacific The Web portal continues to step back from its partnership with Google, dumping the company's search technology for its Australian and New Zealand portals in favor of an in-house search engine. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Grand Jury Ob Michael Jackson (vgl. zuletzt den Beitrag vom 03.02.2004; auch im Schnellzugriff) wegen Kindesmissbrauchs vor Gericht kommt, soll jetzt eine... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..

Tag zur Ehre des Weblogs "Use this day to thank your favorite weblogger for all of his or her hard work. Send an email.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..

The biggest ever block on blog in ChinaBlogbus.com ... The biggest ever block on blog in ChinaBlogbus.com, one of the biggest blogging service in China, has been ordered to shut down it's service from noon today. Based in Henan province, blogbus.com now serves over 15,000 bloggers in China. It's the annual season that China's Parlianment held session in Beijing. So government conduct more close survillience on Internet remarks and activities. Many columns and online bulletin board related on social problems in some portals has been withd From Meta on March 11, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

Yahoo and Open Access In view of the recent news about more search-engine competition between Yahoo and Google (see, for example, Yahoo! Drops Google, Launches New Search Engine) an openly accessible message, Yahoo and Open Access, posted on 8 March 2004 by Sumir Meghani (Manager, Business Development, Yahoo! Search) to the American Scientist Open-Access Forum, is of interest. So is the response, FOS News on March 11, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

Relevant to the trade embargo question In yesterday's CNN.com, Elise Labott reported that the Bush administration plans to tighten the trade embargo against Syria. But despite the new stringency, "Washington will not object to the export of communications equipment related to Internet and cell phone use -- 'to allow for the free flow of ideas.' " Labott quoted an unnamed US official: "We don't want to have the Syrian people get their news in a vacuum." (PS: It's OK for cell phones to enter Syria, even though they can be used by From FOS News on March 11, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

More on the UK inquiry JISC posted a short note yesterday on the Harold Varmus and Bob Campbell interview on the BBC. JISC's comment on OA: "Traditionally University researchers and other academic authors give papers they have written to publishers free of charge. These authors in turn have usually been funded to undertake their research, somewhat indirectly, by the taxpayer. Publishers wil From Joho the Blog on March 11, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

Webloggy Websites for Schools Tom is taking the blog by the horns and has created a site to "hash out a vision for the post Weblog school Website." Here's his intro: Those of us who run school websites and keep personal weblogs are naturally interested in bringing the advantages of weblogs into our schools. Setting up a classroom with Blogger, or managing school news with Movable Type or Frontier have proven to be good starting points, but also have demons From weblogged News on March 11, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

Welcome, David, ePortfolio researcher! Following my referers this morning led me to David Tosh's newly created blog. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on ePortfolio research. From there I found the site for ePortfolio Canada 2004, "The First Canadian ePortfolio Working Forum", which will take place in Vancouver in mid-April. It's nice to see this area of interest getting organized here in Canada. I'm pretty sure the interest in ePortfolios is going to boom over the nex From Seb's Open Research on March 11, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Peaks and valleys in group cohesion Ross points to Christopher Allen's very interesting piece on the relationship between group scale and cohesiveness or satisfaction. His observations derived from several different domains concord with my personal experience, and the implications in coping with business growth are worth thinking about. From Seb's Open Research on March 11, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Presentation Skills - What Everyone Should Know It's still the No. 1 fear, and it's inevitable if you're in a leadership role - public speaking. What separates exceptional leaders from the rest is their ability to communicate effectively in a public forum. [via Tony Ramos] From MasterViews on March 11, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Hobby Protection Act Der Hobby Protection Act, der Herstellern und Importeuren gewisser Sammlerobjekte Kennzeichnungsplichten auferlegt, wurde von der FTC bei einer umfassenden Überprüfung... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

CeBIT-Seiten des Bundes Unter dem Motto "Deutschland-Online - eGovernment in Stadt, Land, Bund" präsentieren Bund, Länder und Kommunen auch in diesem Jahr ihre... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Track eBay items in your aggregator eBay2RSS: Generate RSS Feeds for your favorite eBay Search. Build it once and enjoy.  Especially usefull if you are continously Searching for the same Items on eBay.  By Using eBay2RSS with your favorite News Aggregator you will see your  favorite items when they get listed on eBay. Neat. And you can have the feed include images of the items. From Seb's Open Research on March 11, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..

E-mail giants sue alleged spam senders - Mike Brunker, MSNBC In the first major test of a new federal law that imposes stiff criminal penalties against spammers, the four biggest U.S. e-mail and Internet service providers on Wednesday joined forces to sue hundreds of defendants capable of churning out millions o From Techno-News Blog on March 11, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Why Are Virus Attacks Getting Worse? - John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine Why have we seen so many new virus attacks in recent weeks? I believe it's because there has been little effort made by law enforcement officials to find or stop the virus authors. Maybe there is more effort coming from law enforcement than I'm obser From Techno-News Blog on March 11, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

An analysis of regional and demographic differences in United States Internet usage - Alan R. Peslak, First Monday The Pew Internet and American Life Project collects data on overall Internet usage in the United States. This study reviews data gathered by Pew in December 2002 and tests the overall premise that regional differences exist in Internet usage in the U.S From Techno-News Blog on March 11, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

e-skills' Computer Clubs for Girls encourages technology skills - Public Technology Schoolgirls from Hastings and St Leonards yesterday showcased some of their work from the Computer Clubs for Girls (CC4G) programme at the Education Action Zone (EAZ) offices in St Leonards-on- Sea. The CC4G programme, led by e-skills UK and funded by From Educational Technology on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Ordnance Survey builds Welsh online learning resource - Public Technology Ordnance Survey has created a new online learning resource in Welsh. The Cymorth Gwaith Cartref section of the MapZone website is free, interactive and hopes to be fun for children. Free resources, fun educational games and a wealth of helpful tips, s From Educational Technology on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Scottish Executive reports on National Grid for Learning in Scotland - Public Technology The Scottish Executive Education Department has published its third progress report which covers the implementation of the National Grid for Learning in Scotland. The progress report sets out background information, the contribution of the Scottish Exe From Online Learning Update on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

DISTANCE EDUCATION: Improved Data on Program Costs and Guidelines on Quality Assessments - Government Accounting Office While federal restrictions on the size of distance education programs affect only a small number of schools From Online Learning Update on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Search upstarts storm Google's gates As speculation of a Google public offering hits a fever pitch, would-be rivals are looking for signs of weakness that could cut short its reign. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Satellite seeks broadband re-entry Satellite companies Hughes and WildBlue are prepping high-speed data services for rural markets. Will they get burned a second time? From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

What Linux can learn from Windows CNET News.com's Robert Lemos says the Linux community could paradoxically benefit by taking a page from Microsoft's security playbook. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

SCO's soap opera CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos follows the money as he lays out the possible endings to this tech industry novella. From CNET News.com on March 11, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

ATutor teaches lesson? I came across ATutor as part of my investigations into alternatives to the traditional VLE offerings and whilst I found it's interface a bit stark my respect grew for what the development team are trying to achieve. I believe there are valuable lessons built into the architecture of ATutor. If you want to know more then read on! From Auricle on March 11, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..

Marshall University E-course policy increases benefits - Abigail Kimberlain, the Parthenon Revisions to the e-course policy define course ownership rights of faculty and the university, and provide individual colleges with increased participation. The Information Technology Committee assessed the modifications. David W. Johnson, director of From Online Learning Update on March 11, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Microsoft bei der WIPO Wie jetzt verlautete, hat Microsoft insgesamt drei Verfahren bei der WIPO auf Domainübertragung geführt, die auch antragsgemäß beschieden wurden. Es... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

(Any)RSS Mit dem sehr leistungsfähigen Tool AnyRSS kann man sich für jede Website oder für jedes Blog ein anwenderorientiertes RSS generieren.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

Moving On Up to Broadband For the first time, more people in a U.S. city use high-speed connections than pokey dialup to surf the Net. Other major cities are close behind. By Danit Lidor. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Women May Replenish Eggs Women may replenish their egg supply throughout life, if a study successful in mice holds true for humans. The finding would cause a dramatic shift in fertility research. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Robot Racers Catch a Break Robot vehicles were having a tough time completing the qualifying course for the Grand Challenge, so Darpa has rewritten the rules to let almost anyone compete. By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

E-Mail Providers Slam Spammers Four of the biggest e-mail providers in the United States are wielding the Can Spam law to sue some of the most prolific junk e-mailers. They say enough is enough. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Ray of Light in Lone Star State Austin, the capital of big-oil Texas, has hatched a daring -- some may say far-fetched -- plot to become a solar powerhouse. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Cable Guy Whupping Phone Guy Cable TV companies increasingly offer phone service over their lines, stealing business from phone companies. Customers seem to like the service, and the phone companies are getting nervous. Michael Stroud reports from Los Angeles. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Darpa Takes Battle to the Streets The Pentagon's dream factory is always looking for new tech for the U.S. military, but the situation in Iraq has it pleading for urban-aware systems. Noah Shachtman reports from Anaheim, California. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Cell Phones to Democracy's Rescue MTV's Rock the Vote program plans to get young people to polls on Election Day by tapping their mobile phones. Among the enticements: recorded messages by rock stars encouraging them to get out and vote. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Salon's Got a Will to Survive Salon.com will open a bureau in Washington, D.C., and expand some of its operations. The scrappy site has managed to survive for years on the brink of bankruptcy. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Broadcast Flag Kills Sharing Dead Several public-interest groups ask a federal court to stop the FCC from imposing the so-called broadcast flag, which would prevent sharing of recorded TV programs, on consumer electronics makers. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on March 11, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Eduspace - Houghton Mifflin College ... Eduspace - Houghton Mifflin College "web-based classroom management system that brings information to your students and saves you time ... content developed by Houghton Mifflin that engages students while helping to build and test skills. All material in Eduspace can be used right away or easily modified by changing, deleting, or adding to existing content" Added: 11 March 2004 Reviewer's Note: If you want From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 11, 2004 at 5:54 a.m..

Classifications for archiving, search and retrieval There is a couple of follow-up discussions for Facts on archiving, search and retrieval. As usual in weblog conversations it's fragmented, so I'll do some capturing for myself.  Anjo Anjewierden suggests that 60% overlap in classifications is not so badWhat is the problem? I would be very happy if Google and myself would overlap 60% of the From Mathemagenic on March 11, 2004 at 5:53 a.m..

Deutschland sucht den Super-Studi..? Laden Unis ihre Studenten zum Casting? Osnabrück (rpo). Die Zentrale Vergabestelle für Studienplätze (ZVS) soll zu einer Servicestelle für Studenten und Hochschulen werden. Beim Casting könnten sich die Unis ihren akadamischen Nachwuchs dann selbst aussuchen. Denn Bundesbildungsministerin Edelgard Bulmahn will die zentrale Vergabe von Studienplätzen abschaffen. Die Universitäten müssten sich ihre Studenten in größtmöglichem Umfang selbst aussuchen können, sagte die SPD-Politikerin der "Neuen Osnabr From BildungsBlog on March 11, 2004 at 5:52 a.m..

Das neue Europa Am 01.05.2004 bekommt die Europäische Union zehn neue Mitglieder: Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Malta, Polen, die Slowakei, Slowenien, Tschechien, Ungarn und... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 5:52 a.m..

News Feed del atentado de Madrid basado en Google News Actualización: Seguimiento de la cobertura en bitácoras en noticias.dirson.com... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 11, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..

Webpublishing: Knowledge Creation and Collaboration Neben der hype-artigen Endkunden Propaganda ziehen Weblogs als Format langsam, schleichend und vielfach unbemerkt in Geschäftsprozesse ein. In vielen Fällen wird nichtmal mehr der Terminus Weblog verwendet, was die Tendenz... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 11, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..

Übersicht und Wissen Zuletzt hat mir Henso einen Link zum Thema FacetMaps geschickt. . Sehr interessant zumal ich gerade über ein Projekt nachdenke, dass quasi als Intranet eine WissensmanagementLösung darstellen soll, also quasi ein Aggregato... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 11, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..

The Rise of Modern Constitutionalism "The Rise of Modern Constitutionalism, 1776 - 1849" ist das Projekt einer Forschungsgruppe an der Universität Kassel unter Leitung von... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

"Tegernseer Gebräuche" online Die "Tegernseer Gebräuche", bei denen es sich um Handelsgebräuche im Sinne des HGB handelt, sind online (26 S. PDF) abrufbar,... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Cross-agency portals Auf den Seiten des offiziellen Webportals der US-amerikanischen Regierung gibt es nun auch eine Ãœbersicht sog. "Cross-agency portals" (NdW beim... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

EU Attacks Copyright Infringement With Draconian Laws You thought the chill was only for the United States? Think again: From now on companies in Europe will be able to raid, confiscate and freeze the bank accounts of those accused of copyright infringement. How do you like this newly passed EU legislation? While this "law was originally drawn up to target professional pirates, criminals and counterfeiters who make copies of goods such as football shirts or CDs, during the debates, the directive was widened to cover any infringement of intellectual property. Civil liberty and lobby groups feared that the music industry will also use the law to mo From Robin Good's Latest News on March 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Syndicate Robin RSS News Feeds Carrying timely, relevant and quality news items on your site is always a positive addition and one that gives credibilty, value and prestige to your own content. You can now syndicate (re-publish) the news feeds coming from any of the three major Robin Good Web sites to any page on your site. You can control formatting, number of news items and style while deciding to integrate only what is relevant for you. You make the choices and we provide you with ready-to-use Javascript code to insert inside your HTML. From Robin Good's Latest News on March 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Publishing And Delivering Video On The Web With Flash Publishing and deployment issues to consider for your Flash project. Is it intended for a small audience on a corporate network or a vast audience on the Internet? The following resources discuss the capabilities of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash Comm From Kolabora.com on March 11, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Beachwood, Ohio Chamber Travels to Israel - Delegation to Promote "U.S. Beachhead in Beachwood" After recruiting and placing three Israeli companies in Beachwood with fifteen more in the pipeline, a delegation of officials from The Beachwood Chamber of Commerce will travel to Israel next week on a hunting expedition for more firms interested in establishing a U.S. base of operations. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2004] From PR Web on March 11, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Paul McAfee Introduces Free White Paper Teaching Value Proposition Concepts - Written by Michael Lanning Marketing, strategy, and public relations consulting firm Paul McAfee (dba paulmcafee.com) offers a growing list of free white papers. This white paper by Michael Lanning teaches the concepts of value proposition, value chain, and value delivery system. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2004] From PR Web on March 11, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

College students manage potfolios of millions of dollars Nationwide, increasing numbers of colleges and universities are trusting their undergraduate students with millions of dollars. The number of student-managed portfolios has nearly quadrupled since 1995 -- up to 185 from 48, according to preliminary findings from a survey of business school deans by David Sauer, associate professor of economics and finance at the University of Dayton. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2004] From PR Web on March 11, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Kerry Supporters Tensely Await Florida Recount BAY COUNTY, Florida - Election officials were asking workers to work overtime long into the night Tuesday to quickly settle primary vote-counting irregularities. Shadows of the 2000 election hung over the workers as they meticulously re-scanned all the ballots. "We all know the importance of this process," said election supervisor Mark Andersen, "We know the country is counting on us to get this right." From The Bentinel on March 11, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Prüfung des POG Das Thüringer Polizeiaufgabengesetz (30 S. PDF) muss aus Sicht der dortigen Datenschutzbeauftragten auf den Prüfstand, berichtet Heise. Das sei nach... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Auf das Recht pfeifen Die Ausländerbehörde hat gestern auf der Abschiebung zweier Afrikaner nach Burkina Faso ohne korrekte Reisepapiere bestanden, schreibt die taz. Die... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 11, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Handbook of Distance Education for Adult Learners From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 3:48 a.m..

eLearning Dynamics Expands Into Corporate Training Market Through Symbol Technologies Partnership; Top Corporate University to Deploy PocketClassroom in U.S., Overseas From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

LTP Launches eLearnGate, A Customized Portal for the Education Market From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

E-Learning Provides Answers From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

e-learning's different but it works From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Review could change UKeU elearning framework From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

SD 218 ponders 'distance learning' From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Fla. web school lets young athletes study and play From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

TVO gives children a head start From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Blackboard Announces General Availability of the Blackboard Content System From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 11, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Want to Volunteer in Schools? Be Ready for a Security Check A growing number of school districts are adopting rigorous security policies for parents and others who want to volunteer. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Donated Bodies Used In Land Mine Tests Tulane University has suspended its dealings with a distributor of donated bodies after finding out seven cadavers had been sold to the Army and blown up in Texas to test protective footwear against land mines. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Schools' Top Lawyer Quits in Uproar Over Nepotism Chad Vignola became the second casualty in a widening scandal over the hiring of a deputy chancellor's husband without proper clearance. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Report Says Hazing Culture Led to Attacks on 3 Players According to a report, the sexual assaults among members of a high school football team last summer were a result of hazing that school officials could not curb. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

A Place for Ex-Firefighters to Teach Fire Safety to Children The FDNY Fire Zone mixes modern technology with the magnetic draw of real-life firefighters to help schoolchildren and other visitors experience a fire. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Administration Proposes Same-Sex-School Option The Bush administration has proposed regulations giving public school districts new freedom to create same-sex classes and schools. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

City Plans 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 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Help Wanted: Chef to Oversee 800,000 Meals a Day That Students Will Want to Eat The Department of Education needs a culinary wizard who can get creative about menu-writing, and concoct tasty, nutritious meals for under $2. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

For Bloomberg, Growing Questions of Accountability in Schools Scandal A scandal that has cost the city's Department of Education its deputy chancellor has the potential to become a huge political problem for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Former Deputy Chancellor Blames Dismissal on Politics Diana Lam, the ousted deputy chancellor of the New York City public schools, said yesterday that she believed it was politics, not a lapse in ethics, behind her dismissal on Monday. From New York Times: Education on March 11, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Literatur der Geschichte des... Eine fleissige Zusammenstellung von 1855 digitalisiert beim MPI eur RechtsG http://digbig.com/3wyp From Archivalia on March 11, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

"Excuse Me, I Think You Dropped Something" My work commute is not much more than 10 miles, but invariably during that morning stretch I witness at least once, someone tossing their cigarette butts out the car window. Maybe it is a lot of pent up frustration since the number of public places available for their habits is shrinking, and maybe so far that the last refuge is their car. News flash- the world is certainly not your ash tray. But one of these days when I am bicycle commuting I dream of the day it happens next to me at a From cogdogblog on March 11, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Remix Construction Sets, and a Little Story Ernest wrote a great post about how artists could release remix construction sets - "the bits and parts used to create the work," that could enable people to remix it themselves.  Notably, many Magnatune artists already do this, with no additional charge for non-commercial uses.  Ernest's post also gives From A Copyfighter's Musings on March 11, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Pay-Per-Download v. Subscription Ernest points out some of the challenges of pay-per-download (PPD) stores.  I generally agree that the subscription services will eventually be market leaders.  But, in the near term, I doubt it's gonna happen.  The prices, summed over a year, are still substantially above average consumer spending on music (~120 v. 71).  It might take some time to get portability figured out, especially considering all the interop issues in the current PPD stores.  The sooner the better for the subs From EdNA Online on March 11, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Real Learning Real Futures - A Brief Evaluation and Reflection This report on the Real Learning Real Futures (RLRF) Program is provided to assist other schools and areas to examine one response to the diverse needs of young people within and through secondary schools. The first part of this report provides a snapshot of this program in the Derwent District, Tasmania in October 2003. From EdNA Online on March 11, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Cycle Asia Adventure Poem Competition In April 2004 Chris and Nat Hatherly will be embarking on a 12,000km cycling journey on their bikes through Central Asia from Hong Kong to Istanbul. They will be keeping in touch with students throughout the journey by regularly updating an interactive website. They are offering Australian primary school students the opportunity to be a part of this historic and exciting event. One of the ways that primary students can get involved is to enter the poetry competition and go into the running for a chance to let their favourite teddy or soft toy try adventure travelling too. Competition closes 25 From EdNA Online on March 11, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

My eBay account has [only apparently] been compromised When I tried to log in to eBay tonight, my password wouldn't work. So, I had eBay send me my login name. Sure enough, it's not mine. Somehow, another name has been attached to my email address. Not good. My credit card companies don't report any unusual activity, though. eBay doesn't make it easy to report this problem. Their "Contact us about security page" has a small tree of choices, and this isn't one of them. Their "email us" button nonsensically reports that I haven't filled in all fields, when there were no fields at all to fill in. So,... From Joho the Blog on March 11, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

Untitled test of radio reinstall From Handheld Instructional Technology on March 11, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

Untitled test 2,2,2, From Handheld Instructional Technology on March 11, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

More on Subscriptions Module Just noticed that it has an additional interesting feature. If you edit your account information under "my account," you'll find that there is a checkbox which will tell Kairosnews to automatically subscribe you to any stories you post or any stories in which you post a comment. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 10, 2004 at 11:52 p.m..

Bookmarks From ScotFEICT on March 10, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

Templerakten Über den archivalischen Niederschlag des Niederschlag des Prozesses gegen die Templer berichtete Schottmüller in den Berliner Sitzungsberichten 1886, was heutzutage online nachlesbar ist unter: http://www.bbaw.de/bibliothek/digital/struktur/10-sitz/1886-2/jpg-0600/00000508.htm From Archivalia on March 10, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

Learning from the Dogwood site For the university publication we're planning, I think there is much to learn from Jon Stahl's analysis of the Dogwood Initiative site. They have "established themselves, he says, as leading-edge communicators in the Northwest environmental movement by creating a website that focuses on publishing original news and analysis about environmental issues in B[ritish] C[olumbia]." I can see that our site will reach for original analysis, but I don't know how much original news... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 10, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

ISPI and Metrics Measurement Counts! Metrics, ROI, and Accomplishments (the missing element) by Carl Binder, CPT A recent publication, Metrics, by Jay Cross of the Internet Time Group, presents an opportunity to comment on some current issues in measurement and evaluation. The author, who happens to be... From Internet Time Blog on March 10, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

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