An illuminating job search/get post Tim Bray (XML Guru) shares an interesting story about his job search, his resulting position at Sun, his interest in competing with Microsoft, and other things which open source geeks (or not) shoudl probably read. From carvingCode on March 19, 2004 at 9:47 p.m..

MusicBrainz for OS X (finally!) MusicBrainz, the Creative Commons licensed music metadata database, has long been limited to windows users. OS X users are in luck though, as iEatBrainz has been released. By using a sophisticated set of audio fingerprinting and other technology, iEatBrainz and MusicBrainz allow you to re-tag all your MP3s. This is a killer feature for anyone that's ever ripped one of their CDs with iTunes, but didn't have a net From Creative Commons: weblog on March 19, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Audio Lunchbox Although they're not selling any Creative Commons licensed music, it's worth noting that there's a new player in the downloadable music arena: Audio Lunchbox. They specialize in small indie rock labels, selling albums for around ten dollars each in instantly available downloadable formats. Additionally, the high bitrate MP3 and ogg vorbis tracks contain no DRM of any kind; just unencumbered music. From Creative Commons: weblog on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

ICANN surveys proposed Net domains The adult-flavored .xxx is among the nine potentially lucrative domain-name suffixes being considered for acceptance by the Internet's governing body. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Panasonic preps 1GB Secure Digital card The electronics maker plans to launch a 1GB Secure Digital card first in Japan in April, then worldwide in May. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Court rules in Oracle's favor on access to evidence The software maker wins a small battle in the PeopleSoft case, with a pretrial ruling that preserves the rights of its attorneys to review sensitive information submitted by competitors. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Flaw stymies Norton Internet Security An ActiveX component used by Symantec's flagship desktop security program could allow hackers to use the application as a backdoor into a person's computer system. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Music Sharing, SXSW Just in time for the music festival at South by Southwest, Creative Commons brings you the new Music Sharing License and the Get Content search engine. This copyright license lets your fans know they can download, copy, and share your music online, but not sell, remix, or make any other commercial use out of it. (The license is based on the Creative Commons: weblog on March 19, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Microsoft cues up Net music store The company says its own version of Apple's iTunes and other such services will appear this year, but it remains mum on whether the associated software will end up in Windows. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Report: Rise in virus attacks costs firms dearly Not only did companies suffer more virus infections last year, but they had to also spend more--an average of almost $100,000--to cure them, according to a new survey. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

AMD gets behind free hot spots Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices begins providing advertising and promotional support to operators of free hot spots as it explores a variety of ways to promote its Wi-Fi wireless networking technology. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

March tomorrow in NYC I've hardly heard anything about it, but apparently there's a rally and march planned for tomorrow beginning at 11:30 AM, a "global day of action on the first anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq." Here are the logistics for the NYC demonstration. From megnut on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Mortal Passage This is the third major story set in the universe of Passages in the Void and The Passage Home. This work stands on its own pretty well but will have more impact if you are familiar with the first two stories. I recently wrote a fourth story set in this universe, Rite of Passage, but since it doesn't (as many readers noted) maintain the epic scale of the others I consider it a side story to what is now a trilogy. From kuro5hin.org on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Making email identity work I've watched with bemusement as Bill Gates has been making the rounds lately -- the World Economic Forum, the RSA Conference -- to announce that Microsoft is "innovating on many different fronts" to eradicate spam. Really? The hashcash scheme, which requires the sender to spend CPU cycles, dates back to about 1992 or so. And "caller ID for e-mail" derives from RMX (Reverse MX), a more recent proposal to bind senders to authorized relays via DNS records. The truth is we've had plenty of innovation over the years. What we've lacked is follow-through. Consid From Jon's Radio on March 19, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

Akimbo seeks obscure entertainment du jour Ever have a desire to watch first-run movies from Nigeria or see someone deliver the nightly news in the buff? Akimbo's service might be for you. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Tough sell for wireless data services A cell phone industry trade show will highlight new applications, but standards problems could muddle carriers' push to sell wireless data services to consumers. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

BEA bets on cutting-edge tech The Java server software maker is readying a program to encourage adoption of a modern system design called services-oriented architectures. Also on tap: a mobile development project. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Microsoft fixes MSN log-in glitch Microsoft fixes a log-in glitch that caused brief outages for some of its Passport services, including its popular Hotmail and MSN Messenger. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

SCO targets federal supercomputer users The company sends letters threatening two Energy Department facilities with legal action for using Linux. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Designing Effective Online Learning Resources Website version of PowerPoint slides (which means it requires Internet Explorer, though I viewed it with Firebird on Linux and it still mostly displayed). The slides are essentially a case study of the design, distribution and evlautaion of a learning object submitted to CLOE. Via D'Arcy Norman. Much more information on the same project is available on Krauss's weblog, available here. By Ferdinand Krauss, March 19, 2004 7:13 a.m. [--> From OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Chile Introduces Its Digital Agenda No English translation is available, so I rely on the E-Media Tidbits summary: "In a long-awaited step, the Chilean government this week introduced its Digital Agenda. It's a 60-page book and website with 34 commitments for years 2004-2006, including directives about promoting digital access, infrastructure, legislation, and use of digital technologies in business. What about digital content? There's a mention of state funding for 'quality content' and a push for e-learning systems." By Various Authors, Secretaría Técnica del Grupo de Acción Digital, February, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Chaire de recherche du Canada en e-formation I don't report on job opportunities, but this is a special circumstance. The Université de Moncton, which is located across the road from us, has an opening for a Canada Research Chair in e-learning. The advertisement to which I link is in French, but so is the position, so if you can't read the ad you probably shouldn't apply for the position. That said, this is a good opportunity, and you'd be working across the road from Seb Paquet, myself, and the rest of the NRC e-learning group, and alongside people from TeleEduc From OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

A University Is Not a Business (and Other Fantasies) I know a false dilemma when I see it, and I see one in this article. One one horn of the dilemma, a criticism of the university system I have been making for a long time now: that it is essentially a cottage industry, unable or unwilling to adapt to the growing needs of students and society, resistant in so many ways to the opportunities offered by technological change. On the other horn of the dilemma, the proposition that the university must be run as a business, consolodating and rationalizing, attending to the bottom line, becoming customer centric, and probably, doing away with tenure. Th From OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

The "Weariness of the Flesh": Reflections on the Life of the Mind in an Era of Abundance Thomas Davenport writes, "A centralized highly engineered approach to this vast amount of information is clearly untenable. Even the most carefully maintained records are of no value unless they are used. Information management strategies that make every employee a records manager seem to be the only viable alternative." This theme is nicely developed as the authors look at the need for personal information management and argue for organic, bottom up systems to accomplish this task. By Paul B. Gandel, Richard N. Katz and Susan E. Metros, EDUCAUSE Review, March, 2004 [OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

IA Summit 2004 Wrapup Good coverage (though at times frustratingly terse) of the recent Information Architecture Summit. Day One and Day Two. Via elearningpost. I really wanted to see the 'student data' diagram in more detail, but it doesn't enlarge and doesn't seem to be on the author's website. Still, the information in these two pages is like a buffet: there's a lot of food, and it's From OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Software Agent Targets Chatroom Paedophiles Those of us who are old enough (and geeky enough) remember Julia and other early 'chatbots', computer programs that act like people in chat rooms. Or try to act like people, at least. The next generation of chatbots is here, powered by neural networks and given the task of protecting the unwary from the unsafe. Judging from the transcript in this message, they will be very difficult to detect (though if they're online 24-7, that would be a dead giveaway). One wonders, will the chatbots ever From OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

India Still Waits: Rural Poor Not Yet Ready For the Promise of Radio Frederick Noronha has been covering India from the perspective of rural learning, open source software and radio for some time now. In this item, sent to me by email and posted on my website with his permission, he examines the need of the rural poor for community radio, and the halting steps toward that objective. It's a great read, and I will be adding more of his work to my website in the future. By Frederick Noronha, Stephen's Web, March, 2004 [Refer][--> From OLDaily on March 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Maven Networks nabs $10 million The broadband media company, which sells software to National Geographic and others, raises $10 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture capitalist Accel Partners. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Week in review: The trials of Microsoft The failure of EU settlement talks paves the way for an antitrust ruling next week. Also, e-mail shows Microsoft wooing Warren Buffett, and open source gains momentum in Asia. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

IBM issues fix for ThinkPad hard disks Big Blue is calling the patch a "mandatory" upgrade to fix "early reliability issues in some drives." From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Flakes are falling If you happen across a giant swath of dry skin on the streets of NYC in the next few days, it's probably mine. After conscientiously applying SPF 30 multiple times a day in Anguilla and suffering only a bit of sunburn on my face, I am now leaving an epidermal trail throughout Manhattan. I blame the recent snow and excessive work schedule for causing my tan to flee. From megnut on March 19, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Keywords Revisited: Paid Research Tools Free keyword research tools can deliver worthy results, but sometimes you need to pay to get the e-intelligence you need to grow your business online. From E-Commerce Guide on March 19, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

MSN to shake up search ads Microsoft's Web portal plans to label its paid-search listings more clearly and to showcase ads sold by its own staff, rather than by Yahoo-owned partner Overture. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Microsoft shuffles game execs From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Samsung zooms in on camera phones The company is planning the European launch of a camera phone capable of taking pictures with a resolution of 2 million pixels. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Via launches teensy motherboard The Taiwanese company believes its 4.8-inch square Epia N-Series Nano-ITX has an edge over Intel's competing XScale processors. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Nebraska court puts Microsoft back in the dock The state's highest court revives a class-action suit charging the software giant with antitrust violations. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Novell announces new Windows, Linux tools The company touts management products for both Linux and Windows systems, as it tries to balance its proprietary and open-source software portfolios. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

CNet buys Esther Dyson's Company Don't know quite what to make of this: CNet has bought Esther Dyson's Edventure Holdings in a stock/cash deal. Disclosure: Last year I wrote an issue of Esther's Release 1.0 newsletter. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

FCC Moves to Regulate Hate Speech? Ernest Miller has (yet) another must-read today--a lengthy analysis of the FCC decision (PDF) on the Bono/Golden Globes "f-word" incident (see the FCC press release [PDF]). The news in a nutshell? In the wake of Janet JacksoCopyfight: The Politics of IP on March 19, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

IBM to charge up Power at chip event The company's chip group said it will discuss the chip family in New York later this month. It may also disclose new information about existing PowerPC chips, among other topics. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Sony to Continue Self-Defeating Music Strategy Even though I'm behind on posting once again, gotta post on this because I haven't seen anyone else point here: Sony music download service to launch in June.  I think my headline is more accurate. Sony's inability to sort out how to get its music foot in step with its technology foot has been discussed at length.  This is but one example.  Sony isn't licensing to some Euro stores before it releases its Connect ser From A Copyfighter's Musings on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Figuring out News Search Feeds Jeremy Hiebert is starting to see what I see about search feeds: The idea is this: if students created a planning portfolio that contained their interests, plans and results of various activities they had done, couldn't we infer that they might be interested in a few very targeted online resources that related to those interests and plans? So I imagined that I'm in Grade 12 and I'm planning to take biology at Brown University next year. Would --> From weblogged News on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Bees Redux A couple of the teachers at my school have enlisted Lan Cao, the author of Monkey Bridge, to participate with their students in a Weblog discussion of the book. It's along the lines of my Secret Life of Bees project last year. I still think this is one of the best classroom uses of Weblogs, bringing in authors and writers and experts From weblogged News on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Catching Up...or Not The great thing about Furl is that it's so easy to stow away stuff to look at later. The not so great thing about Furl is that it's so easy to stow away stuff to look at later. I've got 21 Furls (the noun form of a site that's been Furled) in my To Write About folder. And a whole bunch of posts saved in my Bloglines aggregator. Sheesh. There's just no way to give them all their due. Obviously, a couple of things are happening. Fir From weblogged News on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Heading to the Alamo I'm off to San Antonio for this year's&nbsp;Texas Library Association conference, so posting may be slow going around here until next week. Although, the sessions are at a Hilton hotel so I will definitely be grazing the lounge area for free Wi-Fi ("look for the laptops" is my new mantra). I'll be speaking about information shifting, but&nbsp;maybe we can get RSS on the program next year.&nbsp;My major regret about this trip is that I won't get to meet David Bigwood< From The Shifted Librarian on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Eyetrack is not a solution Howard I. Finberg has written an article about eyetrack studies as part of usability testing, and their relevance to determining solutions. To quote: Mike Donatello, director of Survey Solutions for comScore Networks, Inc., has this caution about any eye-movement study:... From Column Two on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

An open letter to Jakob Nielsen Andrei Michael Herasimchuk has written an open letter to Jakob Nielsen, challenging his recent Alertbox (and much of his other writing). This has generated a lot of discussion in the usability community, but there are many good points being made.... From Column Two on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Corporate discussion groups I received a question via e-mail today asking me: Actually, what I would like to ask you, is if you could share some of your experience with "discussion forums in a corporate environment". Based on my own experience on the... From Column Two on March 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Trump Now in the IP Biz Donald Trump is seeking ownership of a brand new property. Nope, not another skyscraper/casino. He wants the catchphrase from his new hit show, The Apprentice. That's right--Trump wants to own the words "You're Fired." ABC News reports that Trump is looking to "copyright" the phrase, which of course you can't do. You can, however, trademark a phrase, and in this Trump may very well succeed. The From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on March 19, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

CNET Networks buys EDventure Holdings From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

The Housing Bubble Continues to Inflate

New Bagle worms hitting hard - ITWeb New variants, Bagle.Q (W32/Bagle.Q) and Bagle.R (W32-Bagle.R), use a different method of infection in an attempt to bypass anti-virus protection at the e-mail gateway. Sophos has received many reports of these worms spreading in the wild, and warns use From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Web Access at 75 Percent - Reuters Nearly three of four people in the United States have Internet access at home, Nielsen/NetRatings said on Thursday. In a February telephone survey, an estimated 204.3 million people, or 74.9 percent of the population above the age of 2 and living in ho From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Desktop Linux demand on the upswing, Sun says - Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service Sun Microsystems Inc. trumpeted its latest desktop Linux milestone Thursday, declaring that German original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Markement GmbH had sold over one million units of its StarOffice productivity suite. But Germany is StarOffice's ho From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Cashing In on Virus Infections - Michelle Delio, Wired After a recent epidemic of computer viruses that seemed much worse than usual, security experts are questioning whether the antivirus software industry is working hard enough -- or has enough incentive -- to develop new and better ways of stopping nast From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Data: Mining with a Mission - Judy Salpeter, techLearning For some districts, the current obsession with data grows out of the need to comply with No Child Left Behind and additional accountability-related mandates. For others, it dates way back before the phrase "data-driven decision making" rolled so freque From Educational Technology on March 19, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Online courses click with SC4 students - RYAN WERBECK, Times Herald Teaching a class is as simple as turning on a computer for Cindie Wade. The St. Clair County Community College math professor is one of several instructors who teach courses online. SC4 started online courses in 1999 and continues to see growing enro From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Net aid for Palestinian students - BBC Palestinian students caught up in the political troubles of the Middle East will soon to able to study remotely. With roadblocks, curfews and checkpoints a fact of life for Palestinians, the chance to log on to e-learning could make a big difference t From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

TiVo clears way to raise more cash The digital video recording company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell $74.4 million in debt securities, stock and warrants. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

TDK joins Blu-ray Disc group TDK plans to produce bare Blu-ray discs to be used by drives manufactured by other members of the group. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Divide between U.S. tech firms, China--a great wall? China has been adopting rules that to Western tech firms seem designed to help Chinese companies and force multinationals to expand operations in the East. The repercussions of the growing quarrel could linger for years. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Apex girds up for entertainment PC play The company, which has quietly emerged as one of the biggest players in consumer electronics, hatches a plan to release an entertainment PC. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Information overload and its discontents CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether the information technology industry will ever get serious about making things easier to use. From CNET News.com on March 19, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

More Wall Street Sleaze Comes to Light

Mark Cuban Blogs, Pulling No Punches The best thing about having a blog, says Mark Cuban, "is that I get to respond to the media." Oh, boy, does he ever... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Beijing Regime Fears, Blocks Bloggers

Terrorizing Iraq Won't Work The people who send suicide bombers to kill and maim innocents, as in today's Baghdad car-bombing (AP) are not helping their cause. They make it all the more certain America will stay in Iraq as long as it takes to put that wrecked nation back on its feet. Whatever one's position on the war, that much has to be clear. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Mark Cuban: 5 Questions on Blogging As I noted yesterday, Cuban also has a blog, and it definitely sounds like him. Just read the entries, and you won't be in any doubt. I shot him a few quick questions about it by e-mail. He answered almost instantly. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Microsoft Versus Europe: War of Attrition Continues The European antitrust chief, Mario Monti, just released this statement saying that negotiations with Microsoft over its continued anticompetive behavior failed to achieve a settlement. "We made substantial progress towards resolving the problems which have arisen in the past but we were unable to agree on commitments for future conduct," Monti said. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Scalia to Rule on Pal's High Court Case

Please Use a Relevant Subject Line in E-Mail Spammers try to fool filters by leaving the subject line blank. With one exception (which I'm not sharing here), I delete all mail with blank subject lines. I may miss the occasional non-spam message, but that's the breaks. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Legal and Ethical Sharing of Copyrighted Music Creative Commons has a new Music Sharing License. It's good for artists and fans alike. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Calpundit Now at Washington Monthly The excellent Kevin Drum, aka Calpundit, has moved his blog to the Washington Monthly. Good for both of them. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Sorry, Can't do Any Meetings at Spring VON I'm being innundated with requests for meetings with companies exhibiting or on panels at the VON (Voice on the Net) 2004 show later this month. I'm completely swamped, and can't schedule anything that week. Thanks for understanding. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Who's Giving to Political Candidates in Your Neighborhood Neighbor Search can tell you who's giving, who's getting and how much. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Blog Libel Threat Gavin Sheridan, a British blogger, is wondering what to do about a libel threat against his blog by one Dr. John Gray. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Standards versus conventions Alf Eaton looked inside a Magnatune MP3 file to see what metadata is really contained there, and concluded that the media players indeed can show all of it: artist, title, date, and in the comment field, the text "magnatune.com." I checked and Alf's right: additional info about licensing and purchasing doesn't seem to be present. ... From Jon's Radio on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

REST for the rest of us The word used again and again lately to describe distributed information systems is "composition". The Unix idea of piecing together solutions from reusable parts has morphed into XML-based, service-oriented architecture. This time around, though, it's all happening on the Web, in an environment where everybody can compose simple and popular tunes. When technologists forget that, I hope users will administer the dope slap we deserve. [Full story at XML.com--> From Jon's Radio on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

FacultyFinder: placement service for distance learning courses Here's an interesting service I just discovered. FacultyFinder is: FacultyFinder.com is a product of DECADE Consulting, LLC. DECADE (Distance Education Consulting and Development Experts) Consulting is a a consortium of educators with core competencies in distance learning and technology integration. As educators we recognize the need for strong tools to assist learners, teachers, and leaders. Products such as FacultyFinder are inspired and designed by educators who understand the complex needs of t From carvingCode on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Albert was right (again).... "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." Albert Einstein From carvingCode on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

The ending is the beginning I find myself at that point in the quarter where I am simultaneously closing the books and reopening those same books; working at both ends of the book (Books used figuratively...) There always seems to be a two or three week period where I am working in two different quarters; prepping and proctoring final exams and projects, while at the same time prepping the start-of-quarter lessons and materials. Maybe this is why I enjoy the beginning of the quarter much more than the ending. From carvingCode on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Oh My! News by Million Camera Phones An interesting short piece from Ohmynews on the sociology of personal technology: When Japanese national team scored a goal, the soccer stadium in Japan was instantly filled with thousands of flash lights bursting out of ubiquitous Nikons and Canons. Korean team equally electrified whole Korea as they beat European power houses game after game until they were finally qualified... From Object Learning on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Divergent attitudes toward IP Via Open Access News, a report from San Antonio about a talk by MIT professor Hal Abelson on higher learning and the intellectual commons: &#8220;&#8230; Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization,&#8221; Abelson said. &#8220;Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their missions to disseminate knowledge,&#8221;... From Object Learning on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Ultimate confirmation of the jump-drive's utility The Swiss Army Knife of the Future, via List.... From Object Learning on March 19, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Carnegie Foundation - Knowledge Media Lab (KML) - KEEP toolkit Quote: "The KEEP toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web."Comment: Anyone familiar with this?&nbsp; They sent out an announcement to a list I'm on as a Word attachment! From Serious Instructional Technology on March 19, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Back... I restarted my aggegator again after a long, long hiatus.&nbsp; I finally feel able to start monitoring and doing some blogging.&nbsp; I intend to have a work blog very soon and may move my activity over there, but don't worry, I'll let you know. From Serious Instructional Technology on March 19, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Cheating in the Digital Age - Bernhard Warner, Biz Report Loads of reports -- from essays to thesis papers, on topics ranging from "Trade Relations between Salem, Massachusetts and China" to "Cuban Immigration 1950s to 1980" -- are floating around the Internet, available for free or on the cheap. And if you'r From Educational Technology on March 19, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Illinois Online Conference Announces 2004 Innovations Award Winners The Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learning (IOC2004) today presented its first Innovations Awards to four unique recipients including the Center for Technology and Professional Development at Lake Land College; Lorraine Leo of the Jackso From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

EU, Microsoft Talks Collapse An attempt to settle outstanding antitrust charges falls through, leaving EU commissioners in a position to drop the hammer next week on the world's biggest software company. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Nokia Edges Toward Phone Blogging Nokia unveils Lifeblog, software designed to integrate and organize words, audio, pictures and even video from your mobile phone. Uploading your life to a weblog may be the next step. By Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Novell Readies New Linux Release SuSe Linux 9.1 will be the first commercial version of the open-source operating system based on the new 2.6 kernel. Users will get a performance boost and increased hardware compatibility. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Native Species Going, Going, Gone Entire populations of butterflies, birds and plants are on the steep decline, British scientists say, warning that Earth sits on the brink of its sixth major extinction event. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Web Access at 75 Percent Three quarters of the American population now have Internet access, with women slightly more likely than men to spend time surfing, a new survey says. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Activists Clamor for Paper Trail Electronic voting critics run full-page ads in Maryland and Florida newspapers calling for paper records of each ballot cast. Meanwhile, Maryland officials say the machines have never recorded an inaccurate vote. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Hydrogen: Less Bang for the Buck As the U.S. government continues to push for using hydrogen as a fuel for cars, scientists work on technology designed to prevent the gas from leaking and causing an explosion. By John Gartner. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

RFID Keeps Track of Seniors Intel and Georgia Tech cook up ways of monitoring the elderly with radio tags, but no one's sure if people want to be watched that closely. By Mark Baard. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Pessimism Can't Keep Music Down Despite what you may hear from the major record labels, music isn't dead yet. In fact, folks at the South by Southwest conference say it's alive and kicking. Katie Dean reports from Austin, Texas. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Hoping for a Knee-Jerk Reaction Jerry Ward's new artificial knee will keep him on the golf course. But even more importantly, it may vastly improve the effectiveness of human prostheses. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Dogging Craze Has Brits in Heat A new sex fad called 'dogging' is sweeping Britain, and it's all thanks to the wonders of technology. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

E-Vote Snafu in California County Election officials say more than 6,000 votes cast during the state's March 2 primary were missed by an electronic voting machine in Napa County. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

They Wanted to Teach Him a Lesson Police often pose as minors in chat rooms to snare pedophiles. But when a group of vigilantes took on the task, a 42-year-old high school teacher's life was turned upside down. Second of a two-part series by Julia Scheeres. From Wired News on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

HP to Sell Linux PCs in Asia - Alexander Wolfe, Internet News Seeking to capitalize on the rising popularity of Linux in Asia, Hewlett-Packard now plans to sell desktop PCs equipped with the open-source operating system in Japan, China, Korea, and nine other countries in the region. The PCs will be shipped with From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Europe closes in on Microsoft - Kim Peterson, Seattle Times If Microsoft is wondering how its antitrust case is faring in Europe, what happened yesterday in Brussels said it all. Competition experts from 15 European governments were supposed to meet all day to discuss regulators' plans to go after the company From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Bagle Worms Sneak Through Defenses - TechWeb New variants of the Bagle worm have added devious tricks to circumvent defenses and persist on infected computers. The two new versions of Bagle, tagged as Bagle.n and Bagle.o, were spotted over the weekend. They use several new tactics to squeeze by From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Web continues to socially exclude says UK charity - Gareth Vorster, netImperative Citizens Online, which campaigns for equality in the use of information and communication technologies, has said social inclusion targets for the adoption of new technologies such as the Web are under threat. The independent charity has released a 'Sta From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Google Slices and Dices by Locality - Pamela Parker, Clickz Today, Google entered the battle to attract searchers seeking local information, as well as local advertisers targeting those searchers. http://local.google.com Google Local's launch follows competitor Yahoo!'s introduction of its latest local product, From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Malicious computer worm detected - John Schwartz, The New York Times A new malicious computer program has been detected that can create networks of remotely controlled computers to take part in online attacks, send junk e-mail messages as spam and engage in other shady activities common to the bad neighborhoods of cyber From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

VIPs cast their eyes over Luton's state of the art centre High-tech help for education is the name of the game at Luton's state of the art new learning centre, which was officially opened on Tuesday morning. Since the elearning@luton complex in Sundon Park Road opened for business in November more than 2,000 From Educational Technology on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Students Follow Trek to North Pole With Customized Curriculum, Interactive Projects and Live Updates Directly From the Arctic Ice World Wide Learn, provider of the world's largest directory of e-learning courses and online education resources, today announced it has partnered with Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) to enable children from around the world to follow Wave Vidmar liv From Educational Technology on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

School buses to get fingerprint security system - eSchool News Assured that student privacy would be protected, a Florida school board has approved a $2.26-million system to use children's fingerprints to track their movements on and off school buses. A division of Laidlaw International Inc., the Illinois-based t From Educational Technology on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

'Ultra-communicators' demand more eMail access, better software - Corey Murray, eSchool News A recent survey suggests the pervasiveness of internet-connected computers at home and in the nation's schools has given rise to a new breed of tech-savvy student: "ultra-communicators," who say they approach their daily lives differently as a result o From Educational Technology on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Profs join students in blogging - Lindsey Paterson, Michigan Daily History Prof. Juan Cole From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Your MIT Diploma: Coming to Singapore - Tatyana Lugovskaya MIT will soon begin granting Master of Engineering degrees to students from the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University as part of the second phase of the Singapore-MIT Alliance. Starting next year, the students at the tw From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

DEVELOPING AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ONLINE LEARNING - Alan Davis, Theory and Practice of Online Learning Introduction: In 1995, distance learners at Athabasca University (AU) were surveyed about their access to and use of computers in their learning. About 25% of those surveyed responded to the effect that they had access to a computer and to the Internet From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

No Third Degree for Diploma Mills - Ryan Singel, Wired For a while, Sen. Susan Collins appeared to be the smartest woman in Washington, D.C. While serving in Congress at the helm of the Governmental Affairs Committee, the Maine Republican earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's in medical tec From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Confessions of an Early Internet Educator - Jack R. Goetz, DETC OCCASIONAL PAPERS Introduction: Six years ago, Concord Law School (a division of Kaplan, Inc.) launched the nation From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Korea's solid IT infrastructure spurs rapid growth of online education market - Yang Sung-jin, Korea Herald Education is a major industry in Korea with millions of won being poured into the sector thanks to the country's unwavering zeal for higher education. Now, Korea's tradition-bound education institutions are facing a high tech challenge from online lect From Online Learning Update on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Vend Audit Controls Announces VendCheck Management Workshops for Public School Districts To Manage Vending Contracts VendCheck Workshops to Teach How to Properly Manage, Budget And Account For Vending Contracts And Commissions [PRWEB Mar 19, 2004] From PR Web on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Duff Johnson Joins Planet PDF as Contributing Editor New Editors add Learning Centers, Industry Acumen to Planet PDF. Johnson begins tenure with six new articles introducing PDF and Acrobat. [PRWEB Mar 19, 2004] From PR Web on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Joint Venture Creates Innovative Business Tool to Hone MWBE Supplier Skills and Advance Corporate Inclusion Initiatives The business community is buzzing about the upcoming "union" of Minority Business News USA magazine and MBe-Coach©, a unique business development tool using e-learning, virtual and multimedia technologies. [PRWEB Mar 19, 2004] From PR Web on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Quit Nit Picking On Your Children Head Lice and Nits are an increasing problem due to pesticide immunity. Here is a natural solution that works. [PRWEB Mar 19, 2004] From PR Web on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

"Medical-Legal Practice Excellence" Series Presented by John Chase, MD of Benchmark Medical Consultants & MDH Aboard NCL's Pride of Aloha CME Cruise, California Coastal.June 13, 2004.Cabins $509 & $409 PP DOCourse $495 [PRWEB Mar 19, 2004] From PR Web on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

The World has come together for International Earth Day. Hugg-A-Planet Earth the toy of peace will be there. Mr. John McConnell, The man who started Earth Day will attend the Peace Bell ceremony at the United Nations in New York City on March 20 (1:49 a.m. EST). Mr. McConnell will deliver his annual Earth Day message. This will mark a new beginning for world peace and understanding. The toy of peace, love and environmental awareness will be there. [PRWEB Mar 19, 2004] From PR Web on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Student Found With Bombs Near Nebraska School A teenager was arrested outside his high school after the police found him with 20 homemade bombs, a rifle and a note saying he wanted to injure most of the school. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Panel Ponders Shift in Rates Now Fixed on Student Loans The House of Representatives is considering changes to a program that allows college graduates to consolidate their educational loans at a fixed rate over many years. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

U.S. Professors Rush to India to Study Rush of U.S. Jobs There India's almost magnetic ability to bring in jobs is attracting scholars who want to study the phenomenon. Lots of them. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Massachusetts Student Wins Intel Science Prize With Cancer Study Herbert Mason Hedberg's research on potential cancer therapies won first prize and a $100,000 scholarship at the Intel Science Talent Search. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

State Blocks Klein's First Choice for Deputy State officials said Albany would not approve Chancellor Joel I. Klein's choice for the system's top instructional post because she lacked a superintendent's license. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Hey Kid, Your Backpack Is Ringing Encouraged by inexpensive calling plans and concerned about safety, more parents are buying cellphones for their young children. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

A Troubleshooter With a Passion for Schools Carmen Fari&#241;a, a Brooklyn native and longtime city educator, is Chancellor Joel I. Klein's choice to be deputy chancellor for teaching and learning. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Downtime this morning Appologises for the small downtime this morning. This was due to the ADSL router failing. It has now been rebooted. From Kittens In the UK - Content Channel on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

System down Yesterday The system was down yesterday due to an incompetant boyfriends. From Kittens In the UK - Content Channel on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Politics & Education Mayor Bloomberg has recently pushed through a rather controversial proposal, one that would require third graders who fail a standardized test to repeat the grade. It took, however, the firing of several dissenting board members to achieve its final 8-5 vote. From kuro5hin.org on March 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Trainers Commit: Better Skills, Jobs for Women The vocational education and training sector has unveiled a new plan to help Australian women get more and better skills and jobs. Released on International Women's Day, Women: Shaping our Future sets out plans to advance the agenda for women nationally. Australian National Training Authority Board member Leonie Clyne says vocational education and training (VET) is not achieving its full potential to deliver benefits for Australian women. "Women: Shaping our Future will set us on the path to boosting the number of women undertaking training, the level of training they undertake, and From EdNA Online on March 19, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

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