Gloria Gery named Workflow Institute Fellow Sam and I are delighted to announce that Gloria Gery has accepted our invitation to become the first Fellow of the Workflow Institute. Gloria invented the field of Electronic Performance Support. She was a champion of performance-centered design twenty years before its current popularity. She has taught our industry to "give up the idea that competence must exist within the person and expand our view that whenever possible it should be built into the situation." Gloria is a member of the HRD Hall of Fame and an ASTD Distinguished Contributor. This May, ASTD will recognize her as a Legend for h From The Workflow Institute Blog on March 26, 2004 at 7:54 p.m..

The Langauge Teacher I found out via the Hwakang Journal Yahoo Group that The Language Teacher, a part of JALT, no longer requires membership to read their online journal. The JALT site is rather large and if you delve in deeply you will... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 26, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..

I'm Blogging This Auf der einen Seite pflege ich eine Webseite, bei der sich nach wie vor einige Leser fragen, was dieses "blog" hinter "weiterbildung" im Titel soll. Andere erkennen sofort, dass diese Webseite mit einer bekannten Blogging-Software, nämlich Movable Type, gebaut ist.... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 26, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..

eXperience Unter diesem Namen betreibt die "FH beider Basel" (FHBB) eine öffentlich zugängliche Datenbank "E-Business" mit aktuell 168 Fallstudien.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Mustafa Bakraç "Ich bin frischgebackener Rechtsanwalt aus Köln und gehöre jetzt auch zu der bloggenden Bevölkerung. Ich werde in Zukunft über Themen... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Ein Deutscher in Harvard "Nürnberg, Regensburger Strasse: Hier residiert die größte Behörde Europas, die Bundesagentur für Arbeit: 90 tausend Beschäftigte insgesamt. Der Koloss verwaltet... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Verbot von US-Online-Casinos Die Welthandelsorganisation WTO hat entschieden, dass das Verbot von Online-Casinos (auch) in den USA internationalem Handelsrecht widerspricht. Die WTO hat... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Linux & Mac In diesem Beitrag von Ernie wird nicht nur Apple, sondern vor allem auch Linux sehr schön erklärt (Lautsprecher anschalten!).... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Archivgesetz Kanton Luzern Text: http://www.staluzern.ch/texte/archivgesetz.pdf From Archivalia on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Australia: Digitisation on... Learn more about this exciting project of the National Archives at: http://www.naa.gov.au/publications/corporate_publications/digitising_tling.pdf See an example of a digitised record: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=91407&I=1 From Archivalia on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Vorbeugen ist besser als heilen > Ein einfaches wie wirksames Mittel in der Bestandserhaltung ist die > Prävention. Prävention ist sozusagen Bestandserhaltung zum Nulltarif mit > einer Zinsgarantie in lukrativer Höhe. Jeder Kämmerer und Finanzminister > kann hier ein gutes Geschäft machen. Alle Archive, ob staatlich oder > kommunal, setzen sich hierfür ein, auch kleine "Ein Frau-/Mann- Stadtarchive > "; sie brauchen dazu aber die Unterstützung durch die "Beschaffer". > Prävention in der Bestandserhaltung beginnt näm From Archivalia on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Charla sobre e-Learning en la Universidad Católica de Uruguay, Montevideo El mártes 13 de abril de 2004 se realizará una charla sobre e-Learning en la Universidad Católica de Uruguay. La charla se realizará el mártes 13 de abril a las 10 a.m. La entrada es libre a todos los... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Steve Gillmor - Why Microsoft needs RSS Steve nails it! RSSify your org or die! Memo to Steve Ballmer: QUOTEPerhaps it's just as a friend of mine suggested: RSS is not a high-priority item in the queue, dwarfed by the challenges of security, open source, digital rights management and the Longhorn evolution. These issues are rightly top-of-mind, but that doesn't mean RSS shouldn't be up there too. First, RSS offers a powerful From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on March 26, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

The "Social" In Social Networks David Weinberger is still reporting from whatever conference he's at today (PC Forum). A quote from his post ... something Esther Dyson said as a panellistEsther: The problem is "friend inflation." And, also, these SN's require you to make social relationships explicit. [Right on.] I think it's impossible to take the social and the human, non-technical aspects out of the fundamental issue operating within social networks - what you want or need from someone else and vice-versa. From Seblogging News on March 26, 2004 at 7:50 p.m..

Bush Campaign in the House Passing blame and stealing credit From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..

Frozen Cave Man President He's just a simple cave man chief executive... From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..

Knowledge communities in Japan: a case study Hideo Yamazaki has written an article on communities of practice in Japan. To quote: First of all, one of the common features of Japanese “knowledge communities” is that most of them are on-line communities. In Japan, with the tradition of... From Column Two on March 26, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

From the Forums: Shipping Charges and Credit Card Processing Readers share thoughts on calculating shipping expenses and on safely sharing customer purchasing data. From E-Commerce Guide on March 26, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Witty worm frays patch-based security An analysis of the worm shows that the program first hit computers known to be vulnerable and emerged so quickly that most companies had no time to apply a patch. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Mea Culpa Loyal readers will know that I had few kind words for Howard Dean during the past few months. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Creating an intellectual commons through OA For a workshop next week on Scholarly Communication as a Commons (Bloomington, Indiana, March 31 - April 2, no web site), all the participants are writing articles. Mine is now online, Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access. Consider this a preprint. After the conference, I'll post a new version (not a PDF!) with revisions and working links for the endnotes. From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

"a wonderful thing" Brian Weatherspoon, NYU Graduate Student Conference, Thoughts Arguments and Rants, March 22, 2004. Weatherspoon's blog posting lists speakers and topics at the Columbia/NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy, and then makes the following point: "By the way, if you want to read two of the papers Kelly Trogden is criticising, Tamar's paper is here and my paper is here. Isn't open access scholarship a wonderful thing!?" From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Happy Cog 3.0 (Creme) Presenting Happy Cog 3.0, code-named "creme." From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on March 26, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

A Bit Overly Excitable Over Learning Object Tool? Dogs get rather excited easily. Just jangle your car keys and they are all over you for a ride. Reach down for your shoes, and they are halfway out the door, leash in mouth. I have seen the same in the blog community over the announcement of the US Labor Department's offer of a free copy of "EZ Reusable Objects" EZ Reusable Objects will let agencies build Web-based e-learning courses, said Peter Gallagher, president of Development InfoStructure. The Arlington, From cogdogblog on March 26, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Hiatus Regular readers may have noticed the irregularity in my postings recently. As I mentioned, I've been out of school for the last two months, doing some research for Berkman and planning a road trip that will begin this Saturday.  I'll be on the road until early May, doing parts of the southern and northern routes, including stops in Orlando, the Everglades, New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago, the Badlands and Black Hills, Yellowstone, Zion and Bryce, the Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas. For the first week, I'll From A Copyfighter's Musings on March 26, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Keep Your Eye There Along with the blogroll, keep your eye on the Digital Media Project site.  Some work from the Fall will be up within the coming days (the work I've been doing more recently is a follow-up project).  The Speed Bumps conference is also right around the corner.  Stay tuned. From A Copyfighter's Musings on March 26, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

New Look I've been toying with a redesign for quite some time and I finally carved out a couple of hours to get it going today. If you're reading this in your aggregator, you won't see it, obviously. But if you're here, I mean really here, and you feel like giving me some feedback, please do. The major change, obviously, is that I moved the blogrolls inside. For some reason I was just getting tired of all the stuff that was on the page. I really just wanted to simplify without losing too much in terms of navigation and such. It feels a lot lighter to me, less overwhelming. But if From weblogged News on March 26, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Stoked on search deals The Net search business is firing on all cylinders, with Yahoo's $575 million buy of European e-commerce provider Kelkoo and InfoSpace's $160 million bid for Switchboard driving the already hot sector to new heights. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Yahoo finds a friend in MSN Yahoo CEO Terry Semel says when it comes to online advertising, his company and Microsoft "have a common goal." Meanwhile, MSN pitches forthcoming services. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Gateway fills out postmerger executive ranks The PC maker, which closed its merger with eMachines on March 11, appoints 13 senior vice presidents--seven from eMachines and six from Gateway--who will report to CEO Wayne Inouye. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Collection of National Copyright Laws Now Online Like the website says, "Full texts of national copyright and related rights legislation of UNESCO Member States can now be accessed on the website of UNESCO's Culture Sector. The collection currently comprises about 100 laws and is constantly being updated and completed." By Various Authors, UNESCO, March 25, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on March 26, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

The Human Factor It would be easy to miss the message in this article, which is not merely that 'simple is better' - but even if it is true that everything good is simple (which isn't really the case) it by no means follows that everything that is simple is good. It's not merely about finding the application, or interface, or design, that is simple, but also one that addresses the genuine needs of the user. Via elearningpost. By Q, Optimize, March, 2004 [Refer][--> From OLDaily on March 26, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Knowledge Communities in Japan: A Case Study Via elearningpost comes this case study of the building of knowledge communities in Japan. The major finding seems to be that the building of nickname based informal communication systems can exist side-by-side with more formal face-to-face communities. "Use of multiple identities such as handle-name on internet had been considered incompatible with Japanese traditional culture for a long time. However, it is being gradually accepted in business community that the use of a nickname enables employees to exchange knowledge more easily, irrespective of organizational hierarchy. Interestingly, use From OLDaily on March 26, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! Good article that takes the time to clearly explain concepts like taxonomies and ontologies before going on to a more extended discussion of topic maps and their relation to metadata. The examples are clearly laid out, however, the author should use examples from a different domain of discussion than the paper itself, because it becomes too easy to confuse the current discussion with the example. By Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopia, March, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on March 26, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Nanniebots: Hoax, Fraud, or Delusion? A few days ago I ran coverage of a story, first covered in New Scientist, about ChatNannies, conversational robots designed to counter pedophiles in chat rooms. It was fun to speculate for a bit, but now this article (and various others) suggest that the software is an elaborate hoax. This discussion is more fun than most, not only for the wide ranging accusations of holocaust denial and gunplay scattered amidst the discussions of AI syntax parsing, but because the program's author, Jim Wightman, appears in mid-discussion and begins shooting back at his critics. And you thought user inter From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Lenovo wins Olympic Games deal China's top computer maker expands its international push with an agreement to provide machines to the Winter Olympics in 2006 and Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

RIM, Good Technology settle suits Good Technology has signed a settlement and license deal with Research In Motion to end a series of lawsuits that the BlackBerry developer had brought against the start-up. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

dadaIMC codebase used by Indymedia's supports CC dadaIMC, a content management system that offer a codebase for the operation of Independent Media Center sites, now supports Creative Commons licenses for users uploading content to the system. There are currently twenty eight Independent Media Center sites that run on dadaIMC. Independent Media Centers, like the one in Baltimore, are based on a philosophy of open publishing. Their newswire is open to public use, and From Creative Commons: weblog on March 26, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

German court: Pop-ups need permission A German judge issues a preliminary injunction against Claria--aka Gator--that prohibits its adware pop-ups from appearing over a rental car site without the agency's permission. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Big firms are raising voice, says IBM Tech improvements and potential cost savings are encouraging corporations to embed speech activation in their customer help desks and other services, according to Big Blue. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Apple told to halt 'world's fastest' claims for G5 Acting on a tip from Dell, the Better Business Bureau tells Apple to stop its comparative performance claims regarding the Power Mac G5 desktop. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Winksite adds CC to mobile blogging Winksite is a popular mobile blogging application that lets you both post to a blog from your phone or PDA and read other blogs, in addition to a slew of other community tools. They've recently added Creative Commons support for blogs hosted on the service, so you can make it clear to readers how your content is licensed. From Creative Commons: weblog on March 26, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

IBM lands utility deal in India Big Blue will take over the IT operations of telecom company Bharti, a move that fits into the computing giant's on-demand initiative. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

InfoSpace to bring Switchboard on board The Internet company plans to pay approximately $160 million for Switchboard in a bid to boost traffic to its online directories and to enter the local search market. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Who should govern the Net? A U.N. summit ends with a consensus that developing countries must have more influence on the way the Internet is run, but conclusions about what should be done are vague. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Xbox price about to drop, says analyst A financial analyst joins the chorus of industry watchers predicting a price cut for the game machine next week, saying Microsoft will trim the tag to $149. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Week in review: Punishing Microsoft The European Union's long-awaited antitrust ruling on Microsoft was a one-two combination that could have a widespread affect on consumers and competition. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

The tainting effect, explained When lawyers talk about the GNU General Public License, they talk about it having a "viral nature" or "tainting effect", which isn't very flattering. Executives are often left with the impression that the GPL is like a litigious leper, spoiling all intellectual property it touches and turning it into free stuff. Executives don't like their stuff being free. They want people to pay for stuff. In what is possibly the clearest clarification of GPL's tainting effect is tackled by a posting written by paralegal Pamela Jones of Groklaw fame. Basically, yes, if you are a programmer and From silentblue | Quantified on March 26, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..

My 1,500 favourite things peter.reisio wrote in Turbo Launch (Quick Start) - MozillaZine Forums: "most people have 1500 program agents running down there, 1500 quicklaunch icons and 1500 desktop shortcuts most people are idiots" No truer words have been spoken. From silentblue | Quantified on March 26, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..

Improving Galleries Photo galleries are an excellent content element. Not only do they provide newspapers the chance to publish photos that for space reasons did not make it into the printed version, they are very well liked by the readers, as The Washington Post found out as one of the first online operations years ago (Day in Photos, registration required). However, even in those time-tested applications there is always room for improvement. With the Post, the improvement can be checked in the feature "--> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..

Up, Up, & Away Air travel can be difficult enough these days, but when you can't even navigate an airline's website, you can end up grounded. Airlines really want their online customers up in the air, however, and usability expert Jakob Nielsen had some things to say about three airlines (United, US Airways and JetBlue) with large operations in the Washington, D.C., area in a Washington Post article by Keith L. Alexander. Nielsen's biggest complaint -- and one I wholeheartedly share: From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..

Found it! Google is now a daily tool for most journalists, but to use it well, you still need to know how to search -- although the Google tools page helps a lot. Dutch Soople at www.soople.nl (available in English via www.soople.com) reorganizes Google's search categories on one page in easy-to-access fields, so you can directly search a tracking number, use the calculator, find specific documents types, and so on. It also includes a downloadable From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..

The Price is Right To the delight of shoppers, Dutch supermarkets have been fighting each other in a price war that has been going on for months now. The chains advertise their cheapest products in huge campaigns, so the media have seen some welcome advertising money coming their way. Many ads show a selection of groceries and their "cheapest" retail price; but is that always what is charged once you go to the shops? And what about the other products, that are not advertised? The owner of the small Dutch internet site Prijsslag.nl started putting some price From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Recyclying Weblogs Into Print The normal newspaper industry flow is "print to Web," but the new wave is "web to print," and a new book with the provocative title "Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers" does just that. The book, which is expected to be published in the next couple of weeks, is a compendium of "the best" postings on weblogs around the world. The editors are Alan Graham and Bonnie Burton. They're already planning for followup collections and extending the concept onto a website. In the introduction, --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Video News Release Redux The controversy that erupted March 15 over a video news release from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, which aimed to increase public support for Medicare reform, has yielded several interesting ripple effects. To recap, that particular VNR took the form of a fake news broadcast, complete with fake reporters asking scripted softball questions. The spots aired, apparently unedited and unidentified, on dozens of newscasts. On March 18, a coalition of several prominent journalism organizations, including the Society of Profession From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Reuters To Fight Plagiarism Content theft is a problem on the Internet -- it's so easy to copy, paste and use the intellectual property of others. But it is also easy to track. For example, there already exist some tools for teachers so they can check whether students have plagiarized or have expressed their own thoughts in their written work. Now this kind of tool could become more widespread. The Norwegian search engine company Fast (which was acquired by --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

How the Internet Influences Policy in China Two pointers to the Chinese internet and -- in a way -- to participatory journalism: Despite the reductionist title "China Mutes Online News," Robert Marquand's article sheds some interesting light on the influence of the Internet on policy-making, as does Daniel Snyder with different examples in his "Internet China is a 'nation' resisting control." From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

German Magazine Starts Interactive E-Edition Publishers are still trying to find the best way to present a digital replica edition of their printed product on the Web. The German economic magazine Wirtschaftswoche claims to have found the solution. Starting this week, the magazine offers the first such product in the country that contains (at least some) interactive "living ads." The first advertisements are from Microsoft, DIT, and Volvo. All other ads are at least linked to the advertiser's website. Chief editor Stefan Baron says he plans to expand the interactive features&nbs From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

AAHE WebCenter This could become a good resource for ePortfolio discussion. Registration is free and you get access to a number of facilities. Once registered you can join the ePortfolio forum. AAHE WebCenter... From ERADC Blog on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Meditations on the user experience, the reading list, and, of course, the tools I should confess right off that I've never considered myself much of a designer. I'm fairly adept at building things on the computer, but I've never had what I consider to be the right type of "eye" for creating the right balance of visual appeal while avoiding cognitive overload. Most web pages I've created have been as wordy as the articles in this weblog, if not more so, and unless I can download a nice navigation set that appeals to me at a given moment, even my nav tends to be text -- or horrendous From Holly's Research Journal on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Dark night of the soul type question Suffering from a bit of insomnia tonight (this morning!), I was trying to distract myself from whatever thoughts might be keeping me awake by engaging in leisure reading and listening to some music. And yet, at this wee hour, this question popped in to my consciousness, though it was uninvited there: how authentic/realistic do simulations need to be in order to be effective? From Holly's Research Journal on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

The XML Files: All about blogs and RSS ... The XML Files: All about blogs and RSS Aaron Skonnard, MSDN Magazine, April 2004 Added: 25 March 2004 Reviewer's Note: An excellent explanation of blogging - but particularly RSS LIBRARY: Blogging &  RSS From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Critical skills for knowledge workers ... Critical skills for knowledge workers Date; 12 May 2004 Venue: Novotel London West Hammersmith, London, UK Added: 25 March 2004 EVENTS: May e-learning conferences From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Learning goes mobile "Imagine a ... Learning goes mobile "Imagine a pharmaceutical sales representative preparing to meet with a client. While he waits for his meeting to start, he uses his personal digital assistant for communications and e-learning. With the information accessible to him, not only does he stay up-to-date on the market issues essential to his position, but he also receives regular notification from message boards, news portals and his employer." From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

New ways to learn "Chan ... New ways to learn "Changes in our economy, business practices, technology and learning models will provide key learning and training challenges to the human resource community in 2004." Elliott Masie, Human Resource Executive Magazine, 10 March 2004 Added: 25 March 2004 Reviewer's Note: Elliott Masie makes a number of predictions for the coming 18 months LIBRARY From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

learn2hand "With Learn2 ... learn2hand "With Learn2hand Nuggets it’s easy to start learning new skills. Simply choose a Nugget from our growing selection of Language; Finance, Technology, Management or Lifestyle topics and download it to your PC, laptop, PDA or palm device." Added: 25 March 2004 Reviewer's Note: Coming soon: PowerNuggets for your mobile phone PRODUCTS & SERVICES: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

"Free Culture" is This is great news. Lawrence Lessig is following Cory Doctorow's lead and releasing his new book under a Creative Commons license, free to download: Thanks to the lessons explained by others (Cory), and the courage of a great publisher (Penguin), Free Culture launches today with a free online version of the book, licensed under a Creative Commons license. You can get the book here, though at the moment, only the bittorrent version is apparently up. Later today, there will be a direct download available from the Fr From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Why IE? This wasn't what I intended to blog for my first post about CCCC, but consider it a brief rant for the day. CCCC has a computer connections center sponsored by NCTE which is a great resource for people at the conference. There are about a dozen machines where one can check email and surf the web. Yet, I'm using Internet Explorer because Mozilla/Netscape is not offered. Disregarding the fact that Mozilla is a more pleasnt user experience for those that regular use it because of tabbed browsing and other features, I'm disappointed that NCTE would not make From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 26, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

WBC04: day 1 I didn’t take my laptop yesterday, so a quick write up of interesting stuff. Clustering weblog communities using self-organizing maps by JJ, Fernand0 and others (guys, is you paper online?) The paper is about use of Kohonen maps to map weblog communities (using data from Blogalia, <200 blogs). My first observation – the algorithm wouldn't scale. JJ confirms it, suggesting that if someone wants to use it for a From Mathemagenic on March 26, 2004 at 1:54 p.m..

WBC04: day 2 morning Developing bulletin board visualizations Rehman Mohamed and others Great presentation: an overview of existing visualizations of on-line discussions, own visualization and evaluation results. The paper should be online next week.

Weblog audience: how to you find your own? There was a bit of interesting stuff during the afternoon session of WBC, but I was sitting on the floor without my laptop. Don't feel like reconsructing it :) In my news aggregator I found several posts about bloggers and their audiences... I don't have much time on-line to comment in detail, but may be it will catech up with you...Janine on Invisible effects of blogging: Though I am -a not very active- beginner, blogging does change my life (well, some aspects of it). I have t From Mathemagenic on March 26, 2004 at 1:54 p.m..

CCCC blogging session Though I'm not finding it easy to post here, I did attend a session on blogging by faculty members of Belmont University. Most of the student blogs mentioned frequently involved personal rather than academic writing, and I went away from the session continuing to think about genre: weblogs as involving more than one genre choice, and our assignments also involving a range of genres, and students bringing with them expectations about genre and skill (or not) in various genres. So it is... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 26, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

IMS Shareable State Persistence Public Draft Specification Released The Shareable State Persistence specification describes an extension to e-learning runtime systems (e.g., SCORM) that enables the storage of and shared access to state information between content objects. The public is encouraged to post comments and questions on the draft by May 26, 2004. From IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. on March 26, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

More on cancer informatics sharing in the UK Stephen Pincock, Initiative to exchange cancer research information is launched, BMJ 328, 728 (27 March 2004). BMJ reports on the British National Cancer Research Institute's (NCRI) plans for a data-sharing initiative, analogous to CaBIG in the U.S. (See posts from 3/7/04 on CaBIG and from 3/17/04 on the NCRI.) From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

Citizen's Media Center Proposed Jeff Jarvis wants to start a Center for Citizens' Media. Lots of questions to sort out, but I favor the idea. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 26, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Defend Liberty, Even for People You Don't Like Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite and a partisan shill. But he has rights. And when those rights are under attack by government, he needs to be defended by everyone -- not just his equally hypocritical friends who've made the War on (Some) Drugs such a crusade but now are seeing the virtues of mercy. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 26, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

ActiveWords Können Sie sich vorstellen, Webseiten oder Programme mit einer Taste (nicht "Shortcut"!) zu öffnen oder zu starten? Wenn nicht, sollten... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Reform des italienischen Gesellschaftsrechts Das Law-Blog macht aus gegebenem Anlass (Teil 1) auf die Reform und die damit verbundenen, umfassenden rechtlichen Änderungen des italienischen... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Awareness Watch Newsletter Der "Awareness Watch Newsletter" (26 S. PDF), April 2004, mit zahllosen (juristischen) Links von Marcus Zillman liegt vor.... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Enron und Parmalat: Reaktion der EU Nach den Fällen Enron und Parmalat hat die Europäische Kommission zur Bekämpfung von Betrug und Missbrauch eine Änderung der Vorschriften... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Job in Chemnitz Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, durch eine Panne ist die Stellenausschreibung des Ev.-Luth. Landeskirchenamts Sachsens im "Archivar" mit einer zu kurzen Bewerbungsfrist veröffentlicht worden. Bewerbungen sind bis zum 8. April 2004 noch möglich. Wir wären Ihnen sehr verbunden, wenn Sie in Ihrem Zuständigkeitsbereich auf die Ausschreibung aufmerksam machen könnten. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Dr. Carlies Maria Raddatz Ev.-Luth. Landeskirchenamt Sachsens Landeskirchenarchiv L From Archivalia on March 26, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

Archiv und Wirtschaft 2004/1 Die Zeitschrift Archiv und Wirtschaft, 37. Jg., 2004, H. 1, enthält folgende Beiträge: Siefried Buchhaupt: Zur Bedeutung des Archivs des Verbands Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE) für die historische Forschung Dominik Zier: Das Unternehmensarchiv als Marketinginstrument Christian Leitzbach: Das Zentralarchiv der Rheinmetall AG - Geschichte und Tradition in einem sich wandelnden Konzern Berichte: Michael Wittig: Viertes Treffen von Sparkassenarchivaren im westfälischen Warburg im Herbst 2003 Hans From Archivalia on March 26, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

Lessig's new book online This is drawn from Stephen Downes' blog (http://www.downes.ca). I've really got to learn how to trackback! Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity Lawrence Lessig's book is released today, online... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 26, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

Beta Of Collaborative GIS Product Now Available! Information Patterns is a Groove Networks development partner with a unique, collaborative geographic information system product called Toucan Navigate. Just yesterday, they announced the availability of a beta version of their product that runs within a Groove workspace, inheriting the core capabil... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

Tastes Great; Less Filling Tim Knip has been a member of the Groove development community since 2001, working for Suite 75  in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  Love the opening to his March 18 blog posting: "Just installed Groove 3.0 beta, and first notable thing is its speed! Aaaaahh...."  Tim concludes:Groove 3 looks ... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

The Changing Nature Of Work Tom Malone's new book, The Future of Work, is gaining a lot of attention. You'll be hearing more from Tom, Ray and others on this topic in the near future. We'll keep you apprised. This topic of the very changing nature of work itself is clearly a hot one, as evidenced by this event at IBM's Alma... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

Robin Good Review of V3: "There is nothing that comes even close to it." Robin Good has just published his "first look" review of Groove v3.0 beta.  This is a thorough review, with lots of screenshots, and insights based on about two weeks of working with the product.  Robin is a strong ease-of-use advocate, so his opinions on the new user interface, and his ob... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

New V3 Beta Build Available For Beta Program Participants Since the first beta build that went "under the button" a couple of weeks ago, we've fixed a number of bugs that our beta program participants have found, and also added some new "fit and finish" capabilities to an updated v3.0 beta build that's now available to beta program part... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

On the annoying practice of abbreviated RSS items I am sure that other users of advanced RSS aggregators and Weblog editors (like NetNewswire) are well aware of the annoying practice of many Weblog authors, mainly Moveable Type users, to offer RSS feeds for syndication that only deliver abbreviated versions of their original posts. At first I could not really understand why anyone would actually want to do chop off his or her own content. Then it became more and more apparent that there must be some stupid MT default pushing users who did not know any better or who did not care about content syndication into this questionable pra From Seblogging News on March 26, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Math/Science Education AssortedStuff: It's The School's Fault Again While this report sounds like another industry lobbying group trying to scare Congress into giving their companies lots of money, they do make one good point. We don't do a good job of math and science instruction in this country. Part of the blame for that goes to society in general which gives lots of lip service to learning those subjects but then has an adult population which is largely (and often proudly) ignorant of even the most basic math and science concepts. How many people actually understand the odds behind the lottery or. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on March 26, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Why Kerry Will Win The Nader vote and the married women's vote will be crucial From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

More on the Nature OA debate There are two new contributions to the Nature OA debate:

Preservation of eprints in the field of law Richard Danner, Issues in the Preservation of Born-Digital Scholarly Communications in Law, a conference presentation from March 2003, apparently revised for publication. A useful survey of preservation and version-control issues for eprints in legal scholarship. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

More on the DC principles David Malakoff, Scientific Societies Lay Out 'Free Access' Principles, Science Magazine, March 26, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "Nonprofit science publishers have felt besieged in recent years by both commercial competitors and open-access advocates. They say soaring prices for commercial journals have forced librarians to cancel some nonprofit titles, and they argue that a shift to an open-access business model would threaten revenues that support a host of other society activities, from mee From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

Proposal for changing the balance of print and online content Yu-li Wang and 14 coauthors, Biomedical Research Publication System, Science Magazine, March 26, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "In the present system, journal Web sites serve primarily as 'mirrors' of paper journals and therefore can publish only a limited number of accepted manuscripts. However, as the output of research increases, existing journals no longer provide sufficient space for the volume of information....There are a number of serious consequences to this problem. The direction of From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

"Cracking the spine of the science cartel" We've known since March 16 that Pat Brown, Mike Eisen, and Harold Varmus --the founders of PLoS-- had won the 2004 Wired Magazine Rave Award in the category of science. But now the April issue of Wired has come out with a write-up of winners in each category. Excerpt from Ted Greenwald's article on PLoS, --> From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

OA and impact factor In today's issue of the UKSG Serials eNews, Peter Evans excerpts many of the contributions to a discussion thread on LibLicense about open access and impact factor. From FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

ALPSP principles of scholarship-friendly publishing The ALPSP has announced its Principles of Scholarship-Friendly Journal Publishing Practice. It released the principles today at a London conference of the same name, although the document containing the principles is dated January 2004. Summary from the press release: "It is in our interest as publishers to satisfy the needs of our FOS News on March 26, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Review of NASA's ADS Guenther Eichhorn, The ultimate astronomical library, Astronomy Magazine, March 25, 2004. A detailed and enthusiastic review of NASA's open-access Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Excerpt: ADS "is a NASA-funded project that provides free World Wide Web abstract search services, as well as access to scanned articles of astronomical literature as far back as 1821, when the oldest astronomical journal, Astronomische Nachrichten, was first published....The ADS cu From Joho the Blog on March 26, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

In Existenz schreiben: Externalisieren, jetzt! Ich habe wieder mal eine Fingerübung zu Weblogs und Corporate Usage begonnen. Erscheinen wird der Text Networking - webconsulting revisited im Yearbook Consulting 04 . As always: Kritik, Anregungen, Ergänzungen erbeten. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 26, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Pot-in-pot This from hinterlands:  This is Mohammed Bah Abba's Pot-in-pot invention. In northern Nigeria, where Mohammed is from, over 90% of the villages have no electricity. His invention, which he won a Rolex Award for (and $100,000), is a refrigerator than runs without electricity. Here's how it works. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. When the water evaporates, it pulls From Seb's Open Research on March 26, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Indictment for Keystroke Logging a Good Sign

BloggerCon Questions: Politics Jay Rosen is leading one of the discussions at next month's BloggerCon, and has posted an excellent introductory essay and partial list of questions to address on his subject, journalism. Similarly, more information on Nick Denton's "power-law" session has been posted as well. I'll also be leading a discussion, on presidential bloggers. I'm getting ready t From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 26, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Grasso's NYSE Loot May Be Reclaimed Good for the regulators who looking for ways to get back some of the loot Dick Grasso "earned" from his cronies and rubber-stampers on the board of the New York Stock Exchange. This guy's greed is just stunning. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 26, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Network Solutions' Lousy Deal Verisign's Network Solutions is -- I kid you not -- offering 100-year renewals of domain names for an up-front fee of $999. That's right, a grand now for the promise -- and not much more -- of your domain being yours for a century. Not that you actually own it: As NSI's lawyer told CNet in 2000, "You don't own a domain name any more than you own your phone number." NSI, in a --> From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 26, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Chinese PC maker goes with AMD Founder Group will incorporate AMD's 64-bit-capable processors, Opteron and Athlon 64, into an upcoming line of computers. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

New York researchers opt for IBM blades The University of Buffalo has installed a 266-blade server system to investigate basic disease mechanisms, the beginning of what it plans will be a system about 50 times larger. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Refrigerator magnet mystery: solved Hekon Styri figured out the answer to yesterday's puzzle. The page in question -- The analog hole -- does mention magnets. The text is hidden in the Strategic Developer widget on that page. As Hekon points out, that's very confusing. Indeed, it calls into question the common practice of decorating web pages with all sorts of auxiliary info-widgets. ... From Jon's Radio on March 26, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..

Japanese for Nerds (II) This is the second article in the series "Japanese for Nerds". We will introduce a stack-based Japanese computer language, the notion of keyword parameters in Japanese, and give a BNF description of Japanese. We will also present two of the key recursive grammar rules which make Japanese so easy for nerds. From kuro5hin.org on March 26, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

White House Stonewalls Condoleezza Rice's Contradictions The White House keeps trying to shield Rice from any serious scrutiny. Why? Her contradictions and misstatements, as this Post story shows, have been flagrant. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on March 26, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

a principle Michael Geist points to this great quote: "It's appalling," said Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican. "It cannot be allowed to stand that another nation can impose its values on the U.S. and make it a trade issue." But on the other hand, we ... From Lessig Blog on March 26, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Sony plays up future of video games Researchers predict that ubiquitous displays and reconfigurable chips will revolutionize video gaming. And players can toss out their clunky old gamepads. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

United Nations ponders Net's future An international gathering spotlights criticism of U.S. dominance and feels out avenues for change. But some say a bureaucracy on the scale of the U.N.'s would only hamstring innovation. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Interpreting search CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos examines demonstrations at PC Forum that show how companies are developing more sophisticated uses of Web search. From CNET News.com on March 26, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

LliureX: un proyecto basado en Linux para el sistema educativo valenciano La Conselleria de Cultura, Educación y Deporte de la Generalitat Valenciana ha presentado esta semana el proyecto LliureX. El objetivo principal de LliureX es la «introducción de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación basadas en software libre en el Sistema Educativo de la Comunidad Valenciana». LliureX es, además, el nombre de una distribución de GNU/Linux que forma parte de los planes de la Conselleria. Los factores que al parecer de los responsables del proyecto hacían necesario crear Octeto - Tecnología educativa on March 26, 2004 at 8:54 a.m..

Thursday: EZ Reusable Objects The Labor Department, that's the American Labor Department for all South Africans reading this, is offering a free version of a SCORM Learning Object Application. EZ Reusable Objects lets you build Web-based e-learning courses and has been available since January under a Gnu General Public License, which allows free distribution. Download the app here . Has the South African government ever offered any free or open source applications? Answers on a recycled postcard to the usual address ... From Shootmouth on March 26, 2004 at 8:53 a.m..

Spim While checking my RSS feeds an article from Wired News caught my attention: Spam Monster Eyes Another Target. The article talks about spim which is spam for IM (instant messenging).... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on March 26, 2004 at 8:53 a.m..

LEARN NC Lesson Plan: Faces Tell Feelings - Part 2 (PowerPoint ... ... from the teacher from the *attachment to this lesson. ... in room to retreive the PowerPoint presentation from ... Subjects (provided by the Standard Course of Study). ... From MasterViews on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Microsoft Bloggers Dass (auch) Microsoft-Mitarbeiter bloggern (können), weiß der geneigte Leser ja schon seit geraumer Zeit. Unbekannt hingegen war mir bislang, daß... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Vollmacht registrieren lassen - aber wo? Nicht alles, was man im Netz findet, kann man auch guten Gewissens weiter empfehlen. Das gilt für diesen Artikel ebenso... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

open-Q Die Initiative open-Qualification, kurz open-Q, hat neue Standards und Referenzprozesse für die Weiterbildungsbranche erarbeitet. Ziel ist es nach Angaben des... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Telefon- und Videoüberwachung am Arbeitsplatz Mitarbeiter, die vom Büro aus Privattelefonate führen, gegen den Chef konspirieren oder das Geschäftsinteresse auf andere Art schädigen, legen die... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Stiftungsrecht In der Februar-Ausgabe 2004 des E-Zines "Searcher" findet sich eine hervorragende Zusammenfassung über Fundstellen zum US-Stiftungsrecht, die (mit Einschränkungen) auch... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Blog-Übernahme Das sonewsblog teilt heute mit: "Sonews hat das Weblog Sozialinformatik übernommen. Dieses Blog wurde Ende 2003 zum Weblog des Jahres,... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Preise für Internet im Flugzeug Das Unternehmen "Connexion by Boeing" hat die Preise für die Nutzung des mobilen Breitband-Internetdienstes, der ab Frühjahr 2004 erstmals im... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Kriminalprävention in der EU Die Europäische Kommission hat am 15.03.2004 eine Mitteilung (18 S. PDF) über Kriminalprävention in der EU vorgelegt. Haupanliegen sind Strategien... From Handakte WebLAWg on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Usabilidad: test de usuarios En diseño web, el test de usuarios es un método de evaluación de la usabilidad de un proyecto por el que se estudia la conducta de un grupo de personas representativas del target mientras ejecutan las tareas propias del sitio.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Learning @ its best? From ScotFEICT on March 26, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

The Birth of "The Metaweb" -- The Next Big Thing -- What We are All Really Building Originally developed at Netscape, a new technology called RSS has risen from the dead to ignite the next-evolution of the Net. RSS represents the first step in a major new paradigm shift -- the birth of "The Metaweb." The Metaweb is the next evolution of the Web -- a new layer of the Web in fact -- based on "microcontent." Microcontent is a new way to publish content that is more granular, modular and portable than traditional content such as files, Web pages, data records, etc. On the existing Web, information is typically published in large chunks -- "sites" comprised of "pages." In the com From Robin Good's Latest News on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

BlogDSNG News, links and other useful stuff for the blog designer. BlogDSNG is a great online resource offering selected information to selected resources, directories and tools relating to bloggers, RSS newsmasters and independent publishers. This is a new well organized resource to which you can directly contribute your discoveries and preferred solutions. From Robin Good's Latest News on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Open Office vs Microsoft Office (according to MS) A two-page PDF showcasing key differences, features, pros and cons of Open Office (free) and Microsoft Office. Though the document has been written and prepared by Microsoft, leaving quite a patina of , in it you can still find lots of useful information about this steadily growing alternative to the king of most people desktops. Microsoft is getting rightly concerned and this document shows how much so. Open Office, together with other great tools, is a REAL alternative out there to Microsoft monopoly. Keep yourself on tabs with your IT preferences and check out what the Redmond giant has to From Robin Good's Latest News on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Macromedia Breeze Live First-Hand Impressions First hand reporting from one of Kolabora's most active experts of Macromedia Breeze Live as seen yesterday at Cebit 2004 in Germany. For all of us outside the US border it is finally an honour to find out from someone we trust what Macromedia has put together in this new product. Be ready for... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Two states, two incentive bills Another terrific summary from Toni Kistner's Telework Beat "Two states, two incentive bills" (NetworkWorld, 3/22/2004), this time comparing proposed state legislation to encourage telework. While Georgia tries to pass an incentive where a business could secure over $40,000 in tax credits but must me... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Humourous Post This is an example of a company trying to get business. I find it humourous as the premise is to dispell a report that the company secured a deal, when all they are doing is chasing the business.... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

World's largest hotspot: the City of Cerritos, CA According to the March 22, 2004 MarketWire press release Nation's First Wireless Community Broadband Service Deployed in Cerritos, CA, Cerritos, CA, a Southern California suburban community of more than 50,000 people, claims title as the world's largest hotspot with most of its 8.6 square mile area ... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

News for Today, Mar 25 News to start the day: Oracle is preparing to deliver Version 3 of its Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS), a messaging and collaboration platform to combat Exchange and Notes/Domino in the enterprise. (Remember the Oracle ad positioning earlier versions of OCS... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

From My Perspective, Mar 25 Time to Get Rid of the Palm Desktop One of palmOne's key strategic drivers is to increase the appeal of its handheld/PDA line in the enterprise. It's working on a range of initiatives to do so. Here's my 2 cents... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Beta Of Collaborative GIS Product Now Available! Information Patterns is a Groove Networks development partner with a unique, collaborative geographic information system product called Toucan Navigate. Just yesterday, they announced the availability of a beta version of their product that runs within a Groove workspace, inheriting the core capabil... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Tastes Great; Less Filling Tim Knip has been a member of the Groove development community since 2001, working for Suite 75  in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  Love the opening to his March 18 blog posting: "Just installed Groove 3.0 beta, and first notable thing is its speed! Aaaaahh...."  Tim concludes:Groove 3 looks ... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

The Changing Nature Of Work Tom Malone's new book, The Future of Work, is gaining a lot of attention. You'll be hearing more from Tom, Ray and others on this topic in the near future. We'll keep you apprised. This topic of the very changing nature of work itself is clearly a hot one, as evidenced by this event at IBM's Alma... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Live Online: Moodle Creator Martin Dougiamas Dear Colleagues, Robin suggsted that you might like to join us in LearningTimes -- live online -- for a free and interactive webcast discussion with the creator of the Moodle course management system (CMS), Martin Dougiamas. This event takes place this ... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

News for Today, Mar 26 Interesting industry incidents: Isospace released Version 4.6 of its real-time Web-based collaboration platform. New features: faster performance, revised user interface, meeting scheduling via Exchange Calendar (if desired), and archiving of events for compliance management, among others. Available... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

My Inspiration of the Week ... Clay Digs Up Wellington, Mar 24 My friend and colleague Clay Nelson is one of those big dreamin', mighty movin', huge idea-in' people I know. One of his latest ventures is to wire New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, with iTouch booths ... offering localized knowledge,... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Groove v3 Gets It! Hands-On Review Confirms Cheerful Praises Of New Beta Release The time has finally come. After spending about two weeks on it, I am now ready to share a first hands-on review of the new beta version of Groove, that has been made available to existing customers and other requesting parties since last week. There is lots to say about this new release, and most o... From Kolabora.com on March 26, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Free CultureA fresh new book by Lawrence Lessig, p ... Free CultureA fresh new book by Lawrence Lessig, published by Penguin($24.95) while free e-edition under Creative Commons license at the same time. He is telling us "How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity". Many echos in Blogshpere in these days, via Feedster.You can download via BitTorrent, follo From on March 26, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Microsoft smoking gun from Minnesota trial Read the whole thing. Looks like a dam*ing indictment to me. Of course that's in the past. I hope Microsoft has changed for the better in 2004! From A wary eye on Go: QUOTEIn a Minnesota civil antitrust trial, Microsoft is accused of eliminating competitors so it could overcharge consumers for software. The evidence includes these internal documents in which Microsoft reacts to the perceived threat from G From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on March 26, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Jim Roepcke loves Shrook 2 OK, I really am going to have to try Shrook now. Jim and Cory Doctorow are enough triangulation for me! Jim Roepcke's weblog: Shrook 2: NetNewsWire has company: QUOTE I installed Shrook 2 today. I had low expectations, and I'll admit the only reason they were low was because the web site was rather unprofessional looking. Even if the site had been a thing of beauty, this app immensely EXCEEDED my wildest expectations! Shrook 2 is From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on March 26, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Scoble is rewriting the rules of a whole new form of Public Relations through his blog Terry Heaton nails it again. Must read! It's not about control and the message. It's about having a conversation in real time without hierarchical filters or delays. That's what bloggers do! TV News in a Postmodern World, Part XXI: If markets really are conversations, as Cluetrain asserts, then the work of Robert Scoble is writing the rules of a whole new form of PR. From his office at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, Scoble talks with consumers, writers, crit From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on March 26, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Resolution condemning killing of Hamas leader defeated by US veto in Security Council The United Nations Security Council today failed to adopt a resolution that would have condemned the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, with the United States vetoing what it called a one-sided text...[UN News Centre] Another incredibly smart move of Bushland ... From Seblogging News on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

'Conversations with Dina' - One Year Old This blog is a year old today. Its been such a fun year ... and has changed my life in many ways. Lovely ways. On my first day of blogging i wondered aloud:"My first day blogging .... It's not what I know but whom I know! So why am I blogging? To learn and find out what the fuss is all about.What is the fuss all about ? It seems simple enough ... once you get that first kick on your butt to just go try it !Many From Seblogging News on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

E-learning gets boost from HP From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Convergys buys DigitalThink From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

A touch of reality enhances online learning From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Emmaville Students Have More Choices From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Democracy Corps Analyzes Hispanic Voters The White House gets nowhere From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Pew Research Center Surveys World Opinion on U.S. And it ain't pretty From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Bush Campaign Lie of the Day Think there'll be more to come? From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Okay already, permalinks are here Who says we don't listen! From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Oxymorons Why are conservatives so humorless? From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Clarke's 3 Most Important Points What happened (and didn't) after 9/11 mattered even more than what happened before From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

What an Ass The Comedic Stylings of the Bush Bigots From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Those Evangelicals, They're All Alike Except that they're not. And it's not just me saying so. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

It Just Gets Better and Better Medicare to go broke even quicker, thanks to new law. That's great. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

While You Were (Not) Sleeping Highlights of the Clarke interview fallout From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Maybe It's Just Me Trying to understand White House spin From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Half a Century Recently the resurgent left has enjoyed a few moments of success during an otherwise dismal few years. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Issue: Gay Marriage The first installment of Ammo Dump From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Bush's 9/11 Balloon is Punctured And it's about time From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Ten Years After A decade after the GOP overthrew forty years of Democratic rule in the House, the Republican Revolution doesn't seem so revolutionary. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Opportunity Costs Why Bush doesn't want the public taking the opportunity to think about the costs of Iraq From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Silence is Not Golden Time for a progressive faith-based intiative From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

He Said, She Lied The media in an imbalanced world From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on March 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Gateway adds Gateway adds fingerprint sensor to notebook - Dinesh C. Sharma, CNET News.com Gateway on Wednesday announced that one of its notebooks can be equipped with a fingerprint sensor to prevent access to e-mail and files by unauthorized users. The sensor is an optional feature that can be built into the palm rest of the Gate From Techno-News Blog on March 26, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Security needs better education for programmers - Florence Olsen, FCW Dealing with Internet computer worms and viruses requires a long-term education effort aimed at programmers while they are still in college, a Homeland Security Department executive said today. Lawrence Hale, deputy director of the DHS' U.S. Computer E From Techno-News Blog on March 26, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Gates Visualizes 'Seamless' Developers - Michael Singer, Internet News Microsoft founder Bill Gates is once again counting on developers to make what the company calls "seamless connections" between Windows software and people's lives. The Redmond, Wash.-based empire is currently engrossed in its .NET strategy as it prep From Techno-News Blog on March 26, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Teachers found to have fake online degrees - eSchool News At least 11 Georgia educators are under investigation for reportedly purchasing phony advanced degrees from an online university based in Liberia, officials with the state Professional Standards Commission say. A two-month investigation found that the From Educational Technology on March 26, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

School Site of the Month - Susan Brooks Young, techLearning The Web page for Tom McMahon's classroom in Springfield, Pa., (www.oenglish.com) is an excellent model for high school teachers. The site is simple to keep up-to-date, but dynamic enough to bring students back regularly. Each class period has its own l From Educational Technology on March 26, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Homework This quote is really nice. Ethics in Lifelong Learning Conference Interesting Topic: Doing Better, Doing Right – ETHICS in Lifelong Learning . Btw, I was at a workshop on Learning and Technology at Work in London... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 26, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Historische Baukästen - revisited? Der Schockwellenreiter liest HM Enzensberger - vielen Dank nach oben für das Exzerpt. Mehr Utopie und Manifest als Analyse. Allerdings mit dem relevanten Hinweis auf die: traditionell ablehnende Haltung der Linken zur Tech... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 26, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Docs Drop Jaws Over Gene Mutation Pennsylvania researchers spark controversy with their discovery of a genetic quirk they say caused the earliest humans to develop smaller, weaker jaws -- and bigger brains. From Wired News on March 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Comcast Buys TechTV The rumors turn out to be true, as the cable TV monolith concludes a deal to acquire the struggling technology TV company for a reported $300 million. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on March 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

How Much Money Is Too Much? Suddenly, tech venture capital is growing on trees. But the cash glut could crash the Valley again. By Gary Rivlin from Wired magazine. From Wired News on March 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Virus Era Hits 5-Year Milestone The first massive Net virus infestation -- Melissa -- happened five years ago. Since then, not much has changed, except for the frequency of outbreaks. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on March 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Spam Monster Eyes Another Target Unsolicited advertising already makes e-mail a hassle, but now it's threatening another communications tool -- instant messaging. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on March 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Soviets Burned By CIA Hackers? When the Reagan White House discovered that the USSR was stealing American technology, it planted a Trojan horse in a chip that controlled pipelines. An author says the hack caused a huge explosion, but former KGB members deny they were duped. By Steve Kettmann. From Wired News on March 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Probe Flotilla to Scour Planets Even as NASA shifts its resources to manned missions to Mars, U.S., European and Japanese space agencies will launch nearly a dozen interplanetary probes in the next decade. It could be the golden age of solar system exploration. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on March 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Introducing Folio by ePortaroTM, New Electronic Portfolio system available from Sentient Learning Folio by ePortaro is now available for UK and Irish academic Institutions. [PRWEB Mar 26, 2004] From PR Web on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

New Website Launched to Help Students with the IELTS Exams ieltshelpnow.com is a new website that provides low cost practice downloads and extensive free guidance for people taking the Academic and General Training modules of the IELTS exam. [PRWEB Mar 26, 2004] From PR Web on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

New Book Celebrates Career of Pioneer Special Needs Teacher A pioneer teacher in the field of special education, Anne I. Remis, has written a memoir of the early days in the late '40's when the field was new. A heartwarming story of someone who overcame great difficulties to dedicate her life to serving others. [PRWEB Mar 26, 2004] From PR Web on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

Linda Christas Tutoring Services Linda Christas is a group of organizations dedicated to the improvement of the educational system in the United States [PRWEB Mar 26, 2004] From PR Web on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

Renowned Author and Marketing Expert Idris Mootee Spoke About the "Massification of Luxury Brands" at the 16th International Annual Luxury Brand Meeting Held in Barcelona Marketing Guru Idris Mootee explained about how living has become a question of what one spends than what one makes. Consumers have gone from product to process, from problem resolution to emotion seeking, from object to experience. [PRWEB Mar 26, 2004] From PR Web on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

Womens Sports Net Launches My Sports Closet for New, Used & Trading Sporting Goods MySportsCloset.com launches March 24th as an integrated component and sister site of WomensSportsNet.com. My Sports Closet is a classified listing for new and used sporting goods. The first 250 classified listings will be absolutely free and listing price points will be between $5.00 and $25.00. Sports equipment listings stay up on My Sports Closet until they sell. [PRWEB Mar 26, 2004] From PR Web on March 26, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

Push Is On to Limit Aid to Rich Universities House Republicans plan to overhaul a financial aid system that often sends more federal money to wealthy universities with relatively few low-income students. From New York Times: Education on March 26, 2004 at 3:45 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 26, 2004 at 3:45 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 26, 2004 at 3:45 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 26, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Phil Agre- How to help someone use a computer Excellent advice from Phil who I have been reading for over 10 years! (via Puzzlepieces) How to help someone use a computer: QUOTEComputer people are fine human beings, but they do a lot of harm in the ways they "help" other people with their computer problems. Now that we're trying to get everyone online, I thought it might be helpful to write down every From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on March 26, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

The Serendipitic Web: Google Defines to Biff to A Fallen Tomahwak Forgot the semantic web, I have bumped into (again) the serendipitic web, the place you find things not be slick relationships, but just blind, frivolous stumbling. My RSS feed pile led me to James Farmer's pleased post of stumbling Google into what he liked as a definition of RSS. While James got there my a search on "RSS definition". I nudged him to go a bit father into Google's dictionary using the search st From cogdogblog on March 26, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

More on Chicago Bloggers Hey, I didn't know there's a Chicago Blogmap! Too bad it doesn't show the full Metra line, because then I could get close to being on it. Oh, and here are John's musings about the Chicago bloggers dinner. I, too, wish I had gotten around to the other side of the table, but I think we need to do this again in the fall. From The Shifted Librarian on March 26, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

A New Kind of Help for Flickr Users Quiplash the Librarian "Virtual Reference Service TODAY Thursday March 25th 2004, 4-5 pm CST I am testing out the QuestionPoint software by offering a virtual reference desk service to the folks in FlickCentral... I've had a few questions come my way (btw, 'Quiplash' is my online nickname in Flickr, but most people just call m From The Shifted Librarian on March 26, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Untitled A big Welcome Back to Steven - we missed you! From The Shifted Librarian on March 26, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Contextual Help Call up the past! "I found this in The Guardian, great for anyone touring London: Handheld History is a new service launching this Spring, which allows you to use your mobile phone to access history based on London’s famous Blue Plaques. The Blue Plaques which are on buildings all over London, commemorate the achievement of hundre From The Shifted Librarian on March 26, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Free Culture Is Both! "Free Culture" is "Thanks to the lessons explained by others (Cory), and the courage of a great publisher (Penguin), Free Culture launches today with a free online version of the book, licensed under a Creative Commons license. You can get the book --> From The Shifted Librarian on March 26, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Free Culture followups There's been a lot of noise about the formats for Free Culture -- or rather, the format. I'm a big believer in PDF, but the reason I've not posted more than PDF is just this -- I'm not a production company! Nor am I half as cool as Cory. But as I licensed CC under a CC-attribution-noncommercial license, anyone's free to make a derivative work of the PDF so long as not for commercial purposes. And if you send a link (or a file), I'd be happy (and grateful) to link to it from the Free Culture site. Some have worried over the a From Lessig Blog on March 26, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

Panic's next cool app Great teaser! I am definitely intrigued. From MacDevCenter.com: Dev to Dev: James Duncan Davidson Interviews Panic [Mar. 23, 2004]: QUOTEI got a sneak peek at the next little app that Panic will be releasing. I won't give away any details, but it's something that I really, really want for my Mac. And you very well might want it too. Stay tuned to the Panic web site.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on March 25, 2004 at 11:51 p.m..

Cool Google Definition This hasn't happened before... am putting together a workshop for ASCILITE 2004 (anyone interested in an edutech bloggers get together over in Perth?) and was looking for some RSS background and hey... Google gives me a pretty cool definition (because I typed in "RSS Definition") I like it! From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on March 25, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

Major single sign-on work starts in the UK and Australia It should be so simple: just log in once, then get access to all networks, electronic journals, learning objects, applications and sundry other stuff that you have the right to access. But experience teaches that isn't so easy, yet. Two programmes are addressing this problem of authentication, authorisation and access in truly networked environments. Many more are waiting to see how they could benefit from the outcomes. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on March 25, 2004 at 11:50 p.m..

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