IBM lands Aetna contract Big Blue announces a five-year deal to provide consulting and IT services to insurance company Aetna. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

PeopleSoft ends anti-takeover refund program A program created to fend off Oracle acquisition lapses as the Justice Dept. and the European Commission step up to fight the deal. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Google to align ad prices, conversions The search king says advertising prices for its publishing partners' Web sites could drop or rise, depending on how well they perform, or "convert." From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

George linked to this report, called unemployment ... George linked to this report, called unemployment level of college grads surpasses that of high-school dropouts, and finishes with a good question:"The graph shown in figure two should be more alarming, though its trends be not so steep - it depicts unemployed as a percentage of those two populations, and actually shows a decrease in unemployment for high school drop outs, but a steady increase for college graduates. What, if anyt From Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology on April 1, 2004 at 9:53 p.m..

Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In HYPHEN Garbage Out? One of the first things I ever learned as a schoolgirl about computers and computer programming was the acronym GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. As a grownup librarian working in e-learning, I was surprised to find a few years back that those who were thinking about metadata for learning objects appeared to have forgotten this truism. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on April 1, 2004 at 9:49 p.m..

Building the business case for a knowledge initiative Salvatore Parise, Jan Wolfe, Stephanie Wilson and Lisa Abrams have written a paper on building a business case for knowledge management. To quote: In the first wave of knowledge management (KM), both enthusiasm and money were plentiful for those early... From Column Two on April 1, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Content management interview questions David Gammel has posted a list of interview questions for a content management role he is filling. To quote: Below are a set of interview questions that we used when filling the Director of Content Management position in our office.... From Column Two on April 1, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Hard-drive maker aims to serve India better Western Digital is investing in call centers in India to better serve customers there. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

PageRank: ¿Actualizaciones diarias? Se menciona en varios blogs, entre ellos Search Engine Journal, los comentarios recogidos en GoogleGuy Says, sobre unas declaraciones de GoogleGuy que habla sobre la posibilidad de actualizaciones de PageRank y enlaces diarias. En cualquier caso, parece estar jugando a despistar, no hace mucho se mencionaban posibles actualizaciones visibles una vez cada tres meses.... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

La nueva imagen de Google Después de un mes mostrando su diseño aleatoriamente o a unos pocos, y de que lo pudiésemos ver con pequeños trucos, o bien capturas del nuevo diseño hechas por otros, hoy Google estrena su nueva imagen.... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

Google: ¿Nuevo Look o algo más? Sobre la nueva imagen de Google se hacen eco muchísimos blogs y otras webs en internet. Pero... ¿es un simple cambio de su diseño? Ahora realizando búsquedas no encuentro la categoría DMOZ ni la descripción DMOZ asociada a algunos dominios que se mostraba antes. Google sólo muestra al listar las páginas, el título y parte del texto donde aparecen los términos de búsqueda, lo que puede devolver textos sin sentido. La descripción DMOZ parecía más apropiada, y la categoría era algo que orientaba sobre la temática de la web, ya que la inclusión estaba revisada por personas....XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

Google, resultados personalizados. En Search Engine Round Table, veo que Google se lanza a probar: http://labs.google.com/personalized. Un intento de proporcionar resultados personalizados según los gustos de los usuarios. De momento no parece que tenga mucho futuro. En lo que he podido probar hasta ahora no da unos resultados demasiado buenos dependiendo de como edites tu perfil. La opción que sí resulta interesante es definir el nivel de personalización entre un máximo y un mínimo rápidamente después de realizar la búsqueda.... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

elgooG .séver la elgooG .s'ellettaB nhoJ ne otsiV... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

Blog de Cre8asiteforums Nuevo Blog - al que llego a través de RoundTable -, asociado a los fantásticos foros de Cre8asiteforums. Entre otros, escriben nombres conocidos, como Grumpus o Rusty Brick.... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

Otra herramienta para Backlinks y más Otra utilidad parecida a esta o a esta otra, está en esta dirección: (la veo en seroundtable). Es más precisa que las anteriores y añade la posición con el comando allinanchor, además de mostrar el número de backlinks y de páginas indexadas bajo un dominio.... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

Google sigue siendo líder No hace mucho comentábamos que Google seguía siendo el número 1 en europa. Aunque en EE.UU. las últimas estadístas que analizamos daban una igualdad (creo que a finales de febrero) entre Google y Yahoo!, inclinándose ligeramente por el primero, ahora parece que Google sigue siendo el líder indiscutible. Estadísticas en los últimos años tomadas de Websidestory: -------------- 2004---------2003----------2002----------2001 Google ------- 40.91 ------- 35.99 ------- 28.86 ------- 11.93 Yahoo! ------- 27.40 ------- 30.95 ------- 36.65 ------- 36.86 MSN ---------- 19.57 ------- 17.83 ----- From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

Search Engine Positioning Blog Como siempre que encuentro un blog nuevo relacionado con este tema, lo posteo. En esta ocasión, bajo el título Search Engine Positioning and Web Marketing News, llegamos a Rugles Weblog. Se actualiza a prácticamente a diario, y toca los temas que suelo mencionar en este blog.... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..

Google Rotando Algoritmos Una de las últimas teorías sobre la forma actual de proceder del algoritmo de Google - y que no he visto que nadie comentase en nuestro idioma - es la posibilidad de que esté rotando entre varios algoritmos. Durante un período de tiempo usaría su viejo algoritmo (tal vez modificado) y otro período de tiempo utilizaría su nuevo algoritmo (modificado o no). Esto explicaría porque en algunas expresiones vemos resultados antiguos y en otras resultados nuevos. O el motivo por el cual los datacenters (unos 60) dan dos (y sólo dos) resultados diferentes para algunas búsquedas, o bien porque From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

PageRank is Dead: Bloggers vs. Google Hay un artículo escrito en Mayo de 2003, que representó un ataque al PageRank y predecía su fin: PageRank is Dead, de Jeremy Zawodny's blog. Fue linkado por tantos bloggers que rápidamente se situó en el TOP10 de la búsqueda PageRank (en inglés es bastante competitiva). Desapareció del TOP10 una temporada, hasta que se vio favorecido por el nuevo algoritmo de google y regresó a los primeros lugares de PageRank. A día de hoy sigue generando comentarios, trackbacks y una gran cantidad de post en otros blogs. Veamos un repaso a algunos blogs que han mencionado este tema en los últimos From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

Altavista ya es Yahoo! Vaya... acabo de abrir Altavista y qué veo... Yahoo!. No he visto la noticia en ningún otro medio todavía, así que supongo estarán en pruebas o el cambio será de hace muy poco tiempo. Si el 21 de Marzo escribíamos que AlltheWeb y Altavista cesarían su actividad, y hace unos días decíamos que AlltheWeb ya era Yahoo!, parece que el viejo directorio y nuevo buscador se está dando prisa en ponerlo todo a su gusto. En cualquier caso, hay que decir que los resultados de Alltheweb, Altavista y Yahoo! siguen sin ser exactamente los mismos, pero parece muy claro que están basados en los de From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

Adiós Alltheweb, Altavista e Inktomi No me había fijado, pero en Inktomi Pure Search ahora pone claramente Powered by Yahoo! Search Technology. Hacía tiempo que no entraba y no sé desde cuando; parece que Yahoo! no se anda con bromas. Si hace un año el posicionamiento en buscadores se basaba entre otros en Google, Alltheweb, Altavista e Inktomi, puesto que tenían su propio robot/motor y proporcionaban resultados a muchos otros, Yahoo! lo ha cambiado todo. Google vs. Yahoo! (Altavista + Alltheweb + Inktomi)... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

1 de Abril, 2004 Mejor no dar ninguna credibilidad a las noticias de un 1 de abril (los inocentes en los países anglosajones) de los blogs y foros que suelo citar habitualmente. Veamos algunos ejemplos: Seo Book y la Meta Tag Spam MSN Compra Google? o April Fools Day? ¿Será Verdad? ;) Google y trabajo en la Luna Google lanza el reloj buscador, por Andy Beal, Lo mencionan en SERoundTable, ¿será verdad? Mejor no leer más, deberían borrar muchas de esas noticias al día siguiente. Todavía me acuerdo cuando el pasado día 20 de Febrero escribí: Fin del Famoso Google WebLog, después de verlo en el blog de From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

Promocionar WebLogs Acabo de encontrar la siguiente web: RSS Top 55 Unos cuantos directorios, buscadores y RSS para añadir nuestro blog. Tiene muchos enlaces interesantes, entre ellos he encontrado: Loving Each Other More: Search Engines & Blogs, de Danny Sullivan.... From XeoWebLog: Posicionamiento en Buscadores on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

Satellite Office Well, I think I've had it with self-employment. I was just contacted by Google regarding an exciting new job opportunity. I think I'll take it. Interesting fringe benefit: guaranteed weight loss. Plus, I know from high-altitude hiking that oxygen is overrated. From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

FastCompany: Business Blogs Taking Off More news from the corporate blogging frontier: The latest issue of FastCompany magazine includes a great article by Jena McGregor, "It's a Blog World After All." One thing I love about this article is that she offers a diverse collection of examples – both in terms of company types, and in terms of how they're using weblogs internally and externally. I've added this article to my list of corporate blogging resources. Here are a few of my favorite highlights... (--> From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

Cold war bomb warmed by chickens As Slashdot points out, this is just strange enough to be true (even considering today's date). From the BBC: Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 1, 2004 at 8:55 p.m..

OpalTree's CADRiA http://www.opaltree.com/ Early this week, BCcampus hosted an event to take a closer look at some of the open source course/learning management systems that are currently available and commence (or really continue) a province-wide dialog on the viability of implementing one and the issues surrounding such a project. In the afternoon we were given a demo of OpalTree's CADRiA system, out of Australia (what are they putting in the wat From EdTechPost on April 1, 2004 at 8:54 p.m..

bye bye blogrolling I gave up on blogrolling today because this was the second time I woke up in the morning and my site design was broken because blogrolling wasn't loading properly. I've now made a seperate file with all my links and... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on April 1, 2004 at 8:53 p.m..

Crime Fiction Canada An dieser Seite werden Sie Ihre Freude haben - oder auf ihr Ihr Interesse stillen, je nachdem. Die angebotenen Informationen... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 8:53 p.m..

Platypus Wiki Platypus Wiki ist eine Art fortgeschrittenes WikiWikiWeb, das auf Ideen des Semantic Web basiert. Deswegen heißt es auch gelegentlich, besonders... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 8:53 p.m..

Stewart & Jackson Martha Stewart hat ihren Webauftritt aktualisiert (31.03.), Michael Jackson den seinen komplett (multimedial) neu gestaltet (01.04.).... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 8:53 p.m..

Invitation to Tender: X4L Staff Development Cookbook From ScotFEICT on April 1, 2004 at 8:53 p.m..

WordTracker Killer: Adwords Clever Wizard Do you need to identify which are they set of keywords that are most in demand in the online niche you operate in? Need to learn what KEI means? The Wordtracker Killer is here! While there is really quite nothing like the original service from the original, highly acclaimed, WordTracker online service, this efficient and easy to use tool from CleverStats may have a lot of interesting features to offer to the agg From Robin Good's Latest News on April 1, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

Online Advertisers And Publishers Watch Out For Norton Security: Your Newest Enemy I don't know you, but I was pretty mesmerized when I saw the following just a few hours ago: on a normal Windows PC, running Internet Explorer, I accessed my Kolabora site. On the home page, the top banner, which normally showcases the famous fresco from the Sixteenth Chapel, shows only a small section of the banner image repeated several times horizontally in the banner area. In all other areas of the site the top banner area appears as if completely empty (normally the Directory area sports a banner from our one of our sponsors, Communicast, From Robin Good's Latest News on April 1, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

Outsourcing: offshore vs. onshore I've been doing some research lately on offshore outsourcing (which is simply teleworking across an ocean or two). It left me with a simple question. Could on-shore outsourcing from an expensive area like Northern Virginia to an area with lower cost of living be a better deal tha... From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

Kinja Beta I saw (in a NY Times piece by David Gallegher) that Kinja has gone live with a beta, and after fddling around with it for few minutes (see my digest) I had an aggregation of a few of my favorite... From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

broadband: a squishy definition President Bush has finally entered the national broadband dialog, as reported in The Promise Of a Broader Superhighway by Leslie Walker (Washington Post, April 1, 2004). He wants "universal, affordable access for broadband technology by the year 2007" and "plenty of choices when ... From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

more on Bush and broadband Bush Calls for Universal Broadband by 2007, by Colin C. Haley (InternetNews.com, March 31, 2004): "President Bush has set a goal of broadband access for all Americans in three years to boost competitiveness with other nations and create new business opportunities at home. ... In addition to ec... From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

Use Cases and interaction design Henrik Olsen has written an article on use cases and interaction design, looking better ways of capturing needs and designs. To quote: Use cases are widely used in large projects to capture the functional requirements of software systems. In the... From Column Two on April 1, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..

Introduction to stocks and flows in online communication (part 1 of 3) Lee LeFever has posted a very interesting blog entry on the concept of stocks and flows in online communication mediums. To quote: In this context, stock and flow are "states" of electronic communications. Communication is either in a state of... From Column Two on April 1, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..

Guest Blogging at GlennReynolds.com I've been guest blogging at GlennReynolds.com, while failing to meet my obligations here (and to my inbox -- which after a week off from teaching, I was able to clear (except for 200 replies to comments on my writing I need to respond to). I apologize for the absence. My guest blogging is now ended. From Lessig Blog on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

More attacks on Clarke Reported: We need a good graphic of George II morphing into Richard Nixon. From Lessig Blog on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Programmers told to put security over creativity Certification, education, strict development models and limited legislation are needed to make programs more secure, says a report from security firms and software makers. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Major League Baseball forms cable partnerships MLB announces distribution partnerships with three major cable companies, which will offer new broadband subscribers free access to live audio and video Webcasts of MLB games. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Corel to test WordPerfect for Linux The company plans to begin selling a Linux-native version of its productivity software on a trial basis later this month. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Plusses and Minuses in Affiliate Marketing Affiliate programs offer greatly increased online exposure and sales, but be careful: They can also displace your firm in search engine results and dilute your brand image. From E-Commerce Guide on April 1, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Experts downplay 'spim' threat Spam aimed at instant messengers is on the rise, but as corporations adopt IM, how big a threat will unsolicited messages prove to be? From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

AOL begins hiring in Bangalore America Online confirms that it has begun hiring software engineers to fill its new offices in the Indian city. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Listserv comments on Elsevier cancellations Randy Reichardt, Cancellation of Elsevier Packages at Cornell, MIT, Harvard, etc. - Commentaries, The (sci-tech) Library Question, April 1, 2004. Reichardt posted to multiple listservs a question "about the impact and/or fallout from the cancellations of Elsevier packages and/or journals, by MIT, Harvard, Cornell. Has anyone heard of reactions from faculty at these universities and institutes regarding the loss of access to Elsevier titles?" He shares a dozen responses with the sender's names suppressed and for some, the institut From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Gateway to shutter stores The company says it will close its retail stores and is pursuing a wider retail distribution plan. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

File Swappers Win Big A Canadian judge shoots at the music industry's legal case and leaves nothing but chicken feathers... woo hoo! "But then, after the industry's case was already weak and wobbly at the knees, he delivered the knockout punch: According to the judge, there is no compelling evidence that either downloading or sharing of digital music files is even illegal. In other words, regardless of the other flaws in the industry's case, the CRIA didn't have a leg to stand on in the first place." More< From OLDaily on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

More Corporate Blogging Resources The theme of most advice to corporations considering an excursion into blogging - if you believe, say, Microsoft's Robert Scoble or Six Apart's Mena Trott, is "be honest" - in other words, a complete break from the usual practices in corporate communications. That said, as the other articles in this nice summary on corporate blogging note, this new media is an excellent communications and marketing tool, allowing you to connect directly with your employ From OLDaily on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

WebFeat technology powers ISI Web of Knowledge Cross Search It is interesting to see Thomson's ISI Web of Knowledge in the race to archive and index open access databases. The service is now up to eleven databases and climbing. I think this is a good development - I have long argued that free online resources should be offered alongside commercial resources, and that publishers are doing their best to keep the free competition out of the marketplace. This is still true in many respects, but this se From OLDaily on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Google to Introduce Free E-mail Service Google is launching an email service. Ads accompanying the email will be targeted according to the content of the email. "For instance, an e-mail from one friend to another discussing an upcoming concert might prompt Google to include an advertising link from a ticketing agency." I don't know what I think about that. By Associated Press, Globe and Mail, April 1, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Heritage Projects : A Different Perspective This article describes how the National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology is using broadband access and such things as 3D modelling to create new ways to experience Canadian culture! Am interesting look at future applications for the broadband internet. (Note: though I work for NRC-IIT, I am not involved with any of these projects.) By Unknown, National Research Council, April, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Use of Browser Cookies to Store Structured Data The patent listed here isn't as broad as depicted in Good Morning Silicon Valley, where it is represented as a "patent on cookies", but it's pretty broad and could cause widespread disruption. Essentially, the patent covers the use of cookies to manage page customization where the page structure being customized is represented as a code in the cookie. It's a pretty obvious hack, given the limitations of cookies, and widely used. To see such a patent filed in 2000 granted today demonstrates, to me at least, the the U.S. Patent Office is not aware of the state of internet developm From OLDaily on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

TeleEducation New Brunswick It was on CBC Radio this morning, so I guess I can write it here: as a result of the provincial budget handed down Tesday, TeleEducation NewBrunswick, a pioneer in Canadian e-learning and especially repository and metadata initiatives, will be shut down. We're sorry to see it go. By Various Authors, March 30, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on April 1, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

VIBGYOR I recently stumbled across a nice photoblog from Australia, called VIBGYOR. It's sporting a Creative Commons license that allows for commercial use, too. From Creative Commons: weblog on April 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

MSN's quest for dominance Microsoft's MSN chief, Yusuf Medhi, has big ambitions for the portal including--hello Google--a new search engine. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Oracle argues takeover case in Europe Oracle wraps up its two-day hearings before the European Commission, where it argued against European antitrust regulators; objections to its hostile $9.4 billion bid for PeopleSoft. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

A New Revenue Model for E-mail I continue to be impressed with the innovative thinking and direction of Google. The latest smart thing is the search giant's entry into free e-mail: Gmail. The service is undergoing testing, so you can't try it out yet, but we do know the basics. The best thing: Users get 1 gigabyte of e-mail storage space -- so they should never have to delete any mail -- and can use Google search technology to very quickly find information in their mail archives. (You can be assured that'll be much faster than using Ou From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

'Half-Page' Web Ads Move to Home Page Ever since the first web ads appeared (mostly in the ubiquitous 468x60 pixel format), the size of online advertisements has been steadily growing over the years. Last year we started to see "half-page" ads turn up on article-level pages at NYTimes.com and other major news sites. Today, those large ads started the move to home pages. Washingtonpost.com has introduced what it calls the Homepage Marquee, a "half-page" interactive ad unit that is positioned on the right side of the page. The design of the page is affected only slightly, as a 1-co From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

How to Introduce Truly Disturbing Images Online Lots of very graphic images were published online yesterday and early today of the extreme violence in Fallujah, Iraq, where several American security people were killed and their bodies mutilated by Iraqi citizens. There's always debate about horrifying images being displayed in media. And it's increasingly common for news websites to run photos that push the boundaries of acceptability -- to publish when other media wouldn't dare. The argument is that online you can put up a warning that something horrifying is beyond the next click; someone sensitive isn't going to be su From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

Google: Innovator or Prankster? Perhaps later today I'll know whether I've been played for a fool or not. I posted an item here earlier today about Google's "Gmail" free e-mail service. Many mainstream media outlets reported about the upcoming service, but because of today's date, there's speculation that maybe Google is pulling our collective chains and has played a brilliant April Fool prank on the news media. (To some, the concept of 1-gigabyte free e-mail accounts seems crazy.) This is the talk of the blogging community right now, and as I write thi From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

Bush Slams Microsoft in Interview; Defends Open Source Well...I guess this is probably just another slick manuever designed to win the man a few more votes, but I'll give him credit for being willing to stand up to Bill Gates and, by extension, most major software companies. Here are a few high points of the interview: Q: "Lately, you have been characterizing Kerry as a 'tax and spender,' while he insists that you only represent big business interests. Can you comment on this issue?" Bush: "Certainly. Well, it just isn't true. I mean, he's into heavy taxing, and he's into heavy From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 1, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..

An Experiment in Transparency Ron Suskind's new book, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, has a groundbreaking complement in The Bush Files, a digital archive of documents cited in the book. The documents were collected as part of a Treasury Department archiving process in which every item that crossed O'Neill&ap From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 1, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..

Duke University Purchases the Public Domain From the ibiblio home page: In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars. Sources familiar with the negotiation report that Duke's reclamation of the public domain is unprecedented. As a result of the purchase, Duke University is the sole rights-holder to a huge collection of materials, including the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and Dante, and Francis Scott Key's The Star Spangled Banner. Dr. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 1, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..

Studio Sues to Enjoin Children from Blinking, Singing During TV Just got this in by email. From the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFFector newsletter for today: Twentieth Century Ferret Pictures announced today that it will begin suing children 2-6 years old for creating unauthorized derivative works of its popular "Bernard the Talking Dinosaur" television show. Children, the studio claims, often blink, babble or sing while watching the show. "This is a clear violation of our exclusive rights over the show's performance," said Wade Aminute, spokesman for Ferret. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 1, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..

SCORM 2004 Photoshop Examples Version 1.0 http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm? fuseaction=DownFile&amplibid=641&ampbc=false There's likely to be a few posts circulating today on this as the ADL sent out a news release via its RSS feed to the effect that they were releasing a number of new items. The ones in particular that were of interest to me are these example content packages - interesting because the collection illustrates a number of From EdTechPost on April 1, 2004 at 3:54 p.m..

Unemployment level of college grads surpasses that of high-school dropouts http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/ webfeatures_snapshots_archive_03172004 This isn't an 'edtech' related item, but it was so striking I couldn't pass up on posting it. The first graph is sheer number of unemployed, and shows that in the U.S. there are now more of them with college degrees than are high school drop outs. This in itself is not that shocking - as the report says, "There are, however, far more college graduates than high-school dropouts in our current labour From EdTechPost on April 1, 2004 at 3:54 p.m..

UGT Extremadura celebró una jornada online de puertas abiertas sobre teleinformación Nueves países de la Unión Europea participan en el Proyecto Elifo, en el marco de la iniciativa comunitaria e-learning. Los nueve países, entre los que se encuentra ... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on April 1, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

iChat Adds MSN I saw in TidBITS that iChat is adding MSN support, at least in a beta form:"Apple today released a public beta of iChat AV 2.2, the company's popular instant-messaging and audio/video conferencing application. In addition to providing a handful of... From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

News for Today, Apr 2 News for today: epicsoft released INSPIRE, a web-based project collaboration tool for creative professionals. Key features: offered as a hosted service, developed using Macromedia Flash, FlashORB and Microsoft .NET technology, and seamless integration of a variety of tools, such as... From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

Quotes of the day God is my co-conspirator From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 1, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Richard Clarke in Early 2001 A cartoon From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 1, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Keep Voting Ponderous (NPR commentary) Here's the next-to-final draft of a commentary that ran on NPR's All Things Considered on Monday. You can listen to it here. I'm double worried about electronic voting machines. First there's the problem that lots of people have noted with the new machines. Instead of marking a box with a pen, you touch the screen to put an electronic mark in an electronic box. Very convenient and results are tabulated instantly, but suppose there's a bug in the computer, or suppose someone hacks into them. How would we even know that the software is miscounting the votes? The most... From Joho the Blog on April 1, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Public Domain Acquired Breaking news: "In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars . . ." (Full story) From Creative Commons: weblog on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Court ruling points way to broadband regulation A U.S. appeals court rejects the FCC's request to rehear a case, in a decision could prompt local governments to start regulating the cable industry. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Microsoft: Longhorn beta unlikely this year Efforts to shore up security on Windows XP pull developers away from update effort, setting back the release, and probably causing some planned features to be cut. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Meta-marketing ... From Jon's Radio on April 1, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Kinja announcements After 15 months in the making, I'm pleased to announce that Kinja, a new weblog reading tool, has launched today. We worked really hard on it and hope you'll check it out. On a personal note, I'm spending another month at Kinja and will be leaving at the end of April. I'm sure I'll have more to say about that in the future, but for now, check out Kinja and some assorted media coverage: Nick Denton: --> From megnut on April 1, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Valley is Losing on Stock Options: Move On The fat lady is singing on stock options. And Silicon Valley would be wise to stop whining. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 1, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

On the Road Postings will be infrequent at best for the next 24 hours or so. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 1, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

2004 Abel Prize Awarded to Atiyah and Singer The 2004 Abel Prize has been awarded jointly to Sir Michael F. Atiyah of the University of Edinburgh, and Isadore M. Singer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ``for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics.'' From kuro5hin.org on April 1, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

CA taps former HP exec as finance chief Computer Associates International's new CFO is Jeff Clarke, who helped lead Hewlett-Packard's megamerger with Compaq. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Emotions Belong in Business Writing Here's a common writing difficulty that I've encountered with many of my writing coaching clients, that I believe is worth addressing for all my readers: People are not logical automatons. Each of us reacts emotionally to just about everything we read &amp#150 even the most routine business reports. One easy way to make your writing far more compelling and effective is to consider and leverage your target audience's emotional reactions. I realize this may sound weird to people who write as part of their work. I From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Why Some People Think Blogs Suck There is no way to please everyone &#150; and weblogs definitely don't please every online reader or online publisher. Here are a couple of complaints about weblogs I've recently received from CONTENTIOUS readers concerning the deficiencies of blogging tools and navigation. These people make good points, but they may be overlooking the big picture... (Full story, with links...) From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

A Tutorial Weblog: Great Approach! Never underestimate the value of a good tutorial. In the last couple of weeks, I've started getting much more comment spam on this weblog than ever before. When it was only one or two comment spams per day, that was no big deal for me to delete manually. But lately it's been more like 20-40 comment spams daily. I finally had to implement some prevention measures. One reason I've held off on this task is that I use Movable Type weblog software. While I like its functionality, from the beginning From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Sacred Cows and Good Writing Don't Mix Assumptions are useful tools for navigating the world and for making decisions &#150; but they are most useful when you are consciously aware of them. Unconscious assumptions tend to lead to polarized thinking, which in turn often yields stiff, ineffective writing that is more about posturing than communication. In my personal experience, I've found that rocking my own world on a regular basis by spotting and questioning my most deeply ingrained assumptions has vastly improved my ability to empathize and communicate, especially through writing. The point of this often-jarri From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Journalists: Urge Your Favorite Sources to Offer RSS Journalists stand to benefit from the advent of RSS feeds possibly more than any other profession &#150; provided, of course, that enough of the best sources start offering RSS feeds. I've just created a form letter for journalists and other media professionals to use in order to urge their favorite Web sites and e-mail publications to start publishing RSS feeds. I firmly believe that if enough journalists start urging sources to offer RSS feeds, then more and more source organizations and publications will do so. Ultimately, the shift to RSS publishing will make fo From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Everyone: Urge Your Favorite Sites to Offer RSS! Are you as frustrated as I am at how many top-notch online venues still fail to announce their fresh content by RSS feed? If so, I've just made it easy for you to ask them to start publishing RSS feeds. I've written a form letter that anyone is free to copy and use in order to urge their favorite Web sites and e-mail publications to start publishing RSS feeds. I firmly believe that if enough people start pressuring online publishers to offer RSS feeds, then more and more online publishers will do so. This works to the benefit of both the online audience and the From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Journalists Outraged by VNRs - Finally! Earlier in CONTENTIOUS I wrote about the controversy that erupted recently over a video news release (VNR) created by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a public relations campaign to increase public support for new Medicare legislation. This VNR took the form of a fake news broadcast, complete with fake reporters asking scripted softball questions that yielded equally scripted softball answers. Apparently, these spots aired on dozens of US newscasts. The source and nature of the footage was not identified. That's outraged a lot of journalists, and many jou From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Sorry, My Server Was Down Apparently, the server that houses CONTENTIOUS was down from midnight to 6:45 am mountain time on Thursday, March 25. If you tried to access this site between those hours, you probably got a "page not found" error. CONTENTIOUS is now back online. Sorry for any inconvenience. From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Sites I Wish Offered RSS Feeds While RSS feeds are currently popular with weblogs and many news sites, they aren't yet commonplace on many other kinds of sites that could benefit from them. I've just created a list of some Web sites I regularly consult for my professional work and personal interests that I wish offered some kind of RSS feed. I've described how each could specifically be using RSS to offer unique value to its online audience. I'll be updating this list From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Does Online News Kill Your Ability to Focus? Today, while flipping through a local newspaper, I happened across a reprint of this column by Joan Silverman, "To truly grasp the printed word, you gotta hold it." Silverman writes about how, for awhile, she abandoned print news almost entirely in favor of online news: "When I canceled my subscription to the hard-copy edition of the newspaper, I never looked back &#150; that is, until a recent morning. I opened my e-mail headlines from the daily paper and spotted a half-dozen stories of interest. As I looked at the articles, however, I found that several were fairly long. Sudde From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Strong Words Free Your Mind In my work as a writing coach, one of the most common difficulties I see is this: People often don't recognize when they have a clear, compelling idea. Consequently, they churn out volumes of muddy, convoluted writing in a labored attempt to get to the point. Sadly, they often fail to arrive at that destination despite all their hard work. A big part of the problem, I've found, is that many writers try too hard to shoehorn their very first attempts to grapple with their topic into language that would sound approp From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

More Corporate Blogging Resources Lately I've found a few interesting articles and resources about weblogs offered by businesses. Here's a quick roundup. Consider this an update to my earlier article (the all-time most popular article on CONTENTIOUS, "Persuading Bosses to Allow Weblogs." I'll be expanding this list later. (Resource list...) From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

On Writers, Editors, and Technology Over the past few months I've received a few comments from CONTENTIOUS readers that basically say, "I love your content, Amy &#150; but this RSS stuff is a bit too technical for me." I can sympathize with this to some extent. I'm primarily a "word geek" by nature too, not a technology geek. I'm not a programmer, and learning new software is never on my list of favorite things to do. But there's a very good reason why I've been presenting so much "technical" material... (Full story...) From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

April 6: Catch Me at the Conference on World Affairs Heads up &#150; on Tuesday, April 6, 2004, I'll be moderating a panel entitled Alternative Media: Attack of the Blogs. If you happen to be in Boulder on that day, please drop in! (See end of this item for location and time.) I'm pretty jazzed about this opportunity &#150; even though, as moderator, I'm only supposed to let the panelists talk and manage the Q&ampA, not present my own perspective or answer questions. That's OK, since I'll definitely be blogging about this in CONTENTIOUS after it's over. This panel is part of the annual Conf From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Blogging from a Conference: Love It! Here's one use for blogging of which I'm particularly fond: I love it when people who are attending a conference post blog entries describing what's being presented and discussed there &#150; while the conference is happening. Here's a great current example... (Full story, with links...) From Contentious Weblog on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Missing gene a potential risk factor for birth defects From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Hormones And Long Life From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

The Limits of Medicine From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Ticket Sales on MASS MMA (2004-04-01) Mass MMA now offers tickets to Massachusetts based Mixed Martial Arts shows at face value From Massachusetts Mixed Martial Arts News on April 1, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Back to Iraq -- Independently Last March, independent journalist Chris Albritton raised enough money, mainly from readers of his weblog Back to Iraq, to finance a trip to Iraq. From there, he provided some excellent independent press coverage of the U.S.-led war there. This year, he's hoping to do it again. Albritton is trying to finance another solo reporting excursion to Iraq, and he hopes to depart in mid-May. His goal is to raise $10,000 through --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Commonplace ignorance This is FANTASTIC! [Excuse the outburst, but I'm really, really excited by this]. You may know this already but it looks as though blogging isn't really anything new. It's the connected version of the Renaissance tradition called "commonplacing". Here are... From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Echo Chambers & Rhetoric Hairy Eyeball on Echo Chambers and Rhetoric"Echo chambers exist. If you don't think so, subject yourself to the comments section of Little Green Footballs sometime, or watch some Fox News. And it takes some work to swim against this current.... From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Echoes in the Invisible College Echo Chambers are a good thing, and direct descendants of the Invisible College concept. Traditionally, these have been used to help us develop new, balanced thinking. Rather than "nuking them", as Dave Winer suggests, shouldn't the emphasis be on making tools to improve them? From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Amateurs are more innovative A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing when you're diffusing that bomb at the end of the Bond film you're in. In terms of invention, though, it seems to be a positive. From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Lilia introduces Anjo New bloggers introduced by Mathemagenic: on Anjo and blog certificates From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Knowledge Territories On the Knowledge Territory Metaphor and why it means weblogs may not the best space for collaboration. From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

The Kerry Cascade Senator Kerry, Cascades and Duncan Watts From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

New tools, same crimes 0400 BC - "Human nature doesn't change" - Thucydides (one of the first historians). 2004 AD - "New technologies have not spawned new crimes" - Bill Hughes (head of the UK National Crime Squad). Interesting piece from Auntie. Mr Hughes... From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Busyblog All work and no blog means Jack has been a busy project deadlined bee. Normal service should be resuming. Once I get over my Feed Demon phobia.... From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Why overload is good In a meeting today, I was told a really interesting aside by one Steve Allen. He had apparently been charged with setting up an information system for some analysts in a bank. They wanted news and they wanted it to... From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

The Robot and Beethoven's 5th One of the more striking photos I've seen in a while! Sony's humanoid robot QRIO conducts Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra during a public rehearsal in Tokyo Tuesday, March 9, 2004. With input beat per minute and accentual information downloaded into its... From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

The Science of Flow If in future years a double glazing salesman asks you to wear a funny looking headset while he talks to you, don't. Unless you want to find him completely engaging. From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Right Conversation, Wrong Place Conversations are happening at the wrong place. We ought to be able to get to Bert, or at least to those chatting round the peanut bowl. The problem is how. From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

The six tendencies of persuasive blogs There are apparently 6 basic tendencies of human behaviour that come into play when generating a positive response to a request. [Source: Scientific American/Special Edition: Mind]. What I thought was interesting was how these can be applied to group dynamics generally, and getting people to join in (and , erm, maybe even link to your blog). From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Quote #1: Doubting Fools "If I am a fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of self-approved wisdom" - Lord Byron (1788-1824).... From Monkeymagic on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

April 2004 Newsletter e-Learning Centre ... April 2004 Newsletter e-Learning Centre Newsletter includes this month's &quot;In the Spotlight&quot; features as well as news from the e-Learning Centre and the e-Learning Job Centre. Added: 1 April 2004 e-Learning Centre Newsletter Archive From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Clevercactus share "is a private a ... Clevercactus share &quot;is a private and secure environment to share files with people you know. It is simple, easy to use and, best of all, it's free!&quot; Added: 1 April 2004 Reviewer's Note: &quot;cleveractus share makes it easy to share files with people you know. There are two components, share web and share desktop. The first, share web, lets you manage your account an From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

>post IF article to KairosNews [Your score has just gone up by ten points.] I was recently interviewed for an article on interactive fiction (text adventure games) in an Australian IT publication. Here are some relevant quotes that might be of interest to KairosNewsies. ...interactive fiction scratches a particular itch among some players. "An IF game requires the player to combine the textual analysis skills of a literary critic with the problem-solving drive of a hacker," he says..... "My writing students find it a challenge to think of writing as populating a database. You have to write the words that describe a physical setting in one place, then pu From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 1, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Mastermind Explorer - Issue 46 - The Future Of News, eMarketing, Interface Design, Presentation Tools, The New Groove And More Mastermind Explorer - Issue 46 - The Future Of News, eMarketing, Interface Design, Presentation Tools, The New Groove And More From MasterMind Explorer on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Finished & gmail I finally finished the Managing Language Programs essay and now need to get to work on the SLA essay, which is due April 21. Unfortuneately because this latest essay took much longer than expected I'm behind in my readings. Fortuneately... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Beating a student with your fists See the video here The teacher was in class at a school in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, when he made a girl step forward and brutally struck her in the face in front of the other students. This scene was caught on... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

WebCT Use Doubles at Mount Allison Mount Allison University has used WebCT as its course management system (CMS) since 1999. Despite a slow start in its original implementation, we have seen a significant one-year growth (doubling in one year) in both the number of courses we offer with a WebCT component. We have also seen growth in the range of creative pedagogical uses of the system. From AFTER 5 on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Team Canada Atlantic continues to foster relationships in Washington, D.C. LearnStream and Computer Generated Solutions Inc. will be among 30 companies who will participate in the second trade mission to Washington, D.C. From AFTER 5 on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

High-speed connectivity expanded to schools throughout New Brunswick FREDERICTON (CNB) - All public schools and Community Access Centres (CACs) located in public schools throughout New Brunswick now have high-speed Internet capability, thanks to an investment by the governments of Canada and New Brunswick. From AFTER 5 on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Organization Profile: Ensemble Collaboration Ensemble Collaboration is developing a standards-based collaboration management framework to deliver a set of collaborative web services designed to connect people who need assistance with those who can provide it. From AFTER 5 on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Agreement allows NBCC grads to earn bachelor degree with Athabasca University SAINT JOHN (CNB) - A new agreement between Athabasca University (AU) and New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) will allow college graduates from selected programs to earn credit from their studies towards a Bachelor of Professional Arts (Human Services) degree. From AFTER 5 on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

LearnStream Finds Success in Joint Trade Mission A joint trade mission to the U.S. has solidified new business relationships for LearnStream. From AFTER 5 on April 1, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Generation Blogger Gerade habe ich gelesen, dass das Weblog Sozialinformatik bereits am 27.03.2004 darauf hingewiesen hat, dass Teile des Buches "Generation Blogger"... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Vorsteuerabzug nur mit kompletter Rechnung Umsatzsteuerpflichtige Ärzte (also auch Rechtsanwälte) sollten spätestens ab dem 01.07.2004 darauf achten, dass Rechnungen von Unternehmern, die sie bekommen, bestimmte... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

"Free Culture III" Der Beginn einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung im Lenz-Blog mit dem neuen Angebot von Lessig (vgl. auch hier) sowie eine kleine Änderung... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Verleumdungsklagentourismus Diese Verknüpfung von Terrorismus und Tourismus ist neu: Der "Verleumdungsklagentourismus" reicher Geschäftsleute aus dem Ausland sorge dafür, dass das Recht... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Eklat beim SPIEGEL Einer der profiliertesten Journalisten des Magazins hat gekündigt. Dabei geht es nur vordergründig um die aktuelle Titelgeschichte. Es gehe, so... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

"Mannesmann-Prozess": Kein Freibrief Auch wenn es Udo anders sieht: Die Kommentatoren der großen Zeitungen sehen in den Aussagen der Richterin im Mannesmann-Prozess "keinen... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

P2P in Kanada legal Die kanadische Musikindustrie hat gestern vor dem Federal Court of Canada eine Niederlage erlitten. Sie wollte erreichen, dass Internet-Provider die... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Der Chor der Grausamkeiten Die Konzeption ist nüchtern, kühl, sachlich, so die taz. Der Frankfurter Generalstaatsanwalt Fritz Bauer war ein engagierter und couragierter Mann.... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Rechtsfahrgebot im Kreisverkehr "Nach einem jetzt bekannt gewordenen Urteil des OLG Hamm vom 18.11.2003 steht nunmehr endlich fest, dass das Rechtsfahrgebot auch im... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

eBook des Tages: Windows XP Pro Jeden Tag können Sie bei tecCHANNEL ein eBook aus dem EDV-Bereich herunterladen - zum Sonderpreis von nur 1,99 Euro. Einzige... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Sniper-Software Das Titelthema der aktuellen NIP, Heft März/April 2004, beschäftigt sich mit sog. "Sniper-Software": Legitimes Bietinstrument oder Eingriff in das System... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Internetrecht Rostock Auf knapp 500 Internet-Seiten (!) bietet das Internetrecht Rostock, Stand: 31.03.2004, nahezu einen vollständigen Ein- und Überblick zu allen Themen... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

eLearning Jörg Zumbach von der Universität Heidelberg beschäftigt sich nahezu ausschließlich mit problem-basierten Lernen (PBL); hierüber hat er nicht nur ein... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Kölner Müllskandal: Prozess entsorgt Um ein Haar wäre der Kölner Prozess um Müll und Millionen heute an der Unfähigkeit der Ankläger gescheitert. Der Gnade... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

What fools we lawyers be! "Meanwhile, in honor of April 1, Erik Heels launches a new URL, www.parodylaw.com, where today he'll be tracking the net's... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Google comienza las pruebas beta de Gmail Con un grupo inicial de 1.000 usuarios (tal como arrancó Orkut), Google comienza las pruebas beta de su servicio de correo Gmail. Vía: CNET, Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail y USA Today, Google sets up e-mail &#8212; make... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 1, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Better Learn Now What A Real Link Looks Like: The New Ad Wave &quot;Emergence of a new wave of online advertising at a time when Web surfers are finally accustomed to--and armed with the tools to block--the old ones.&quot; The new array of solutions and proposed approaches to advertising is both fascinating and scary. Better learn now what a real link looks like before the things are going to change a bit on this front. From Robin Good's Latest News on April 1, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

Newsmap &quot;Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.&quo From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

Shirky On Kuro5hin Membranes Clay weighs in on Rusty Foster's musings regarding gated participation in open web discourse. Apparently, a recent flare-up of jerks at Kuro5hin led to a reexamination of how to gradually allow individuals to accumulate various sorts of 'power' at Kuro5hin,... From Kolabora.com on April 1, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

The SCORM 2004 Conformance Requirements Version 1.0 Document, SCORM 2004 Sample RTE Version 1.3 and SCORM 2004 Photoshop Examples Version 1.0 are Available for Download From ADL News on April 1, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

MSNBC can't be accessed from ChinaAnother news sit ... MSNBC can't be accessed from ChinaAnother news site, MSNBC, can't be accessed from here in Shanghai since last week. I wonder what's triggered this banning as I thought MSNBC is relative tolerant by BJ than BBC, CNN, etc. From Meta on April 1, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

BloggerCon Shanghai Meeting-17 AprilSome expats in ... BloggerCon Shanghai Meeting-17 AprilSome expats in SH designed this event simultaneously with US correspondant one. Members and friends of the Living in China community are invited to attend a unique blogging event in Shanghai on Saturday 17 April. --- [Livinginchina.com]Great. I will publish it on my Chinese blog, as well CNBlog.org once --> From Meta on April 1, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

Free Culture Chinese Edition ProjectTill now, ther ... Free Culture Chinese Edition ProjectTill now, there are already 12 guys involved in this project. Wiki, http://www.socialbrain.org/freecultureLogo(Design by Kevin Wen)I believe this logo and link will appear on many sites soon, after this April Fool. ;-) And of course, the project has been showing From Meta on April 1, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..

Even amateurs play this game Quiz: How many errors can you spot in this unsolicited email? Dear Jay, ________ is a 5 year old custom content development and Education Organization with presence in over 5 countries of the globe. We provide training solutions to individuals, organizations,colleges, universities, and the Government.... From Internet Time Blog on April 1, 2004 at 11:50 a.m..

Global Mentoring Releases v4.0 of Real-Time Mentoring Solution From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

PeopleSoft Announces Enterprise CRM for Higher Education From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Microsoft Tech·Ed 2004 From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

For Those Who Play, Laptops Get Serious From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Is Online Learning Here to Stay? From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Virtual Classrooms, Actual Education From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Education's New Recruits: Soldiers From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

BARRIERS TO DISTANCE EDUCATION: PERCEPTIONS OF K-12 EDUCATORS From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Benson Hurts A Republican governor's gateway drug use From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

The Compassion Line Pointing out the discrepancies between Bush's self-described philosophy of compassion and the actual policies his administration inflicts on millions of disadvantaged citizens From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

The Fog of War Notice what the White House did last week, and what it didn't do. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

John Kerry's Next Campaign Stop: Iraq How to highlight his strengths, show Bush's weaknesses, and look presidential all at once From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

What Kerry Can Learn From Reagan Turning around the appeasement argument From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 1, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

"cutting edge" open access research site Scientific Review boasts the motto "Caution! Cutting Edge Research." Papers are freely accessible, including the featured "comprehensive approach to the 2+2 problem." Seven scientific categories with some subcategories are proposed. To submit a paper, one must register with the site. A news service and books section are also available, although some sections are not yet activated. (Source: Internet Resources Newsletter Issue 115, April 2004) From FOS News on April 1, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

Recorded chapter 14 of Lessig's book I just posted a recording of Chapter 14 of Larry Lessig's Free Culture, as per AKMA's publishing-changing idea. Chapter 14 is 17MB, and it's filled with explosive P's (damn amateurs!), but it's up and it's free. I started reading Steve Johnson's amazing new book, Mind Wide Open, to our son the other day. Reading to a kid flips reading - our paradigm of what you do when alone - into a social act. And it opens the book up in a new way. But reading into a microphone for public consumption is something else again. It's like taking the book... From Joho the Blog on April 1, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

I love Canada As you've undoubtedly heard, a Canadian judge has made, in a nutshell, all the right decisions about file sharing and copyright, and then added in a defense of customer privacy as well. David Akin of the Canada's Globe and Mail blogs about this here, but you should check his overall blog for updates.... From Joho the Blog on April 1, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

Postponed I'm depresssed. In a joint enterprise we developed a post-graduate curriculum in the arts and new media field, it is called Master of Fine Arts in New Media. But then there was our supervisory board that postponed a decisi... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 1, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

March 30, 2004 From Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities on April 1, 2004 at 10:46 a.m..

Netscape Returns, Steals Back RSS, Merges With Rival CDF Silicon Valley, CA (MAP) -- April 1, 2004 -- In a surprise move, Dave Winer announced today that he was starting a new company called Netscape Communications, and keeping it alive just long enough to broker a truce with rival Microsoft in what has become known as The Syndication Wars. Under the terms of the deal, the new Netscape will steal back its own RSS format from two splinter groups who hijacked it from the old Netscape, and merge the format with Microsoft's rival syndication format, called CDF. The combined format will look remarkably like Microsoft's format, and will be From dive into mark on April 1, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

180solutions unveils new ad tool From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

IBM snaps up another partner The company's software group continues its acquisition strategy with plans to buy Candle, a long-time partner and supplier of management tools. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Blogging Genres (Con't) Derek Mueller, who teaches composition at Park University has been using Weblogs in his class, and he gives this description of blogging in his standards document: The purposes for writing in the weblog are varied. First, it is an expressive venue, publicly readable, which is interactive because of the possibility of comment, interchange and dialogue. Ideas ex From weblogged News on April 1, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

"They Were Everywhere" My parents just got back from two weeks in&nbsp;Belgium and environs. When we talked on the phone tonight, the very first thing they both described was not the beauty of the land, how expensive things were (Euro against the dollar), or even the chocolate. No, the one thing they wanted to talk about first - and which obviously had a quite an impact on them -&nbsp;was the ubiquity of cell phones in that area. They noted how everyone seems to have one, not just the "kids," and how they use them for everything. My Dad noted a father and daughter walking together, both looking down at the From The Shifted Librarian on April 1, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

e-Learning centre From owrede_log on April 1, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

Social: terminological differences Helpful distinction between software that represents social information and software that enables collaborative information processing. Processing social information and Social processing of information I just spent tw... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 1, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

Europe Balks at U.S. Data Demands The European Parliament says it won't go along with U.S. demands to hand over extensive information on every passenger heading to the United States. It may even sue. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Microsoft Benches Sports Games The software giant punts on new versions of NFL Fever and five other Xbox titles originally scheduled for release in 2004. Some analysts foresee a closer relationship between Microsoft and Electronic Arts. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Let Us Praise the Lowly Rat Detest them if you will, but now that scientists have decoded 90 percent of the genome of the rat, that hardy rodent may one day save your life. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

IBM Bets Chips on Open Source Big Blue is soliciting developers to help design its Power microprocessors, hoping they will avail themselves of the opportunity to customize the chips for game systems, desktop PCs and embedded systems. Michelle Delio reports from New York. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Little Bird Plagues Motorola Motorola is losing its hold on China's mobile-phone market. The little local startup that has Moto's number: Ningbo Bird. By Frank Rose from Wired magazine. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Google to Unveil Free E-Mail Firing a huge warning shot across the bows of Yahoo and Microsoft, the search-engine player plans to offer a free, Web-based e-mail service. The move may shake up the Web and online advertising industries. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Topica Users Pay the Piper Longtime users of free e-mail discussion lists provided by Topica recently started getting ads with their messages. Blood pressures have risen, but the owners say the free-lunch era is over. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Making Music With Speak & #038; Spell The electronic guts of children's toys can make some strange and wonderful sounds. At a New York City festival, a group of hackers-cum-musicians will show off their creations. Michelle Delio reports from New York. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Feds Crank Up Heat on P2P The Justice Department says a newly created task force will focus on figuring out how to stamp out content piracy. The effort comes as Congress moves to punish file swappers who use peer-to-peer networks to trade copyright works. By Xeni Jardin. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Virtual-School Costs Under Siege One of the selling points of cyberschools is the apparent savings they offer. It's not so clear that money is actually being saved, and states are seeking more accountability. By John Gartner. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Revenge of the Killer Drones Unmanned military aircraft have become valuable spying tools, but now the Pentagon wants them ready to shoot to kill as well. A combat-ready prototype will drop its first test bomb this week. Noah Shachtman reports from Arlington, Virginia. From Wired News on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

New Federal Law Has Done Little to Reduce Spam Volume - Robert MacMillan, washingtonpost.com A new federal anti-spam law has done little to decrease the amount of junk e-mail flooding Americans' in-boxes, according to a survey released today that found the mounting spam problem has prompted nearly 30 percent of respondents to reduce their use From Techno-News Blog on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Search gets sketchy, as engines get the picture - Michael Kanellos and Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com Think of it as Google meets Etch A Sketch. Researchers at Purdue University have developed a search engine that retrieves results based on an image or a sketch. Draw a picture of a wing nut, and the engine will search a database and retrieve all the im From Techno-News Blog on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Google to Roll Out E-Mail Service - JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times Google, the dominant Internet search company, is planning to raise the stakes in its intensifying competition with Yahoo and Microsoft by unveiling a new consumer-oriented e-mail service. The new service, to be named Gmail, is scheduled to be released From Techno-News Blog on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Tech spurs innovation, personalization for ASCD conference attendees - Corey Murray, eSchool News With lawmakers' attention focused on better test scores and year-end performance, educators who attended the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) annual conference in New Orleans March 20-22 were reminded that although the road From Educational Technology on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Site of the Day: Internet4Classrooms - submitted by Bill Byles Brief Description of the Site: Loads of links for teachers arranged not just by subject area but also by interest (holiday links, idea starters, virtual field trips, etc) plus assessment-related links for each elementary grade plus selected high school From Educational Technology on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

£40m spent on UKeU for just 900 students - Mark Samuels, UK Computing Almost £40m has been spent on UKeU, the government's flagship online learning scheme, to attract just 900 students - £12m more than we revealed a year ago. Computing today calls for a review of the money spent on the organisation, which was set up to From Online Learning Update on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Delphi Process as a Collaborative Learning Method - Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Zheng Li, Yuanqiong Wang, Hee-Kyung Cho; Sloan-C View The Delphi Method is a process that allows all the members of a class to participate in a class-wide, collaborative, structured learning exercise that can: Improve idea generation. Self organize the contributed content. Facilitate equal partici From Online Learning Update on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Providing Access to Students with Disabilities in Online Distance Education: Legal, Technical, and Practical Considerations - Curtis D. Edmonds, DEC Online distance education is becoming increasingly prevalent, but many students with disabilities experience barriers to online education. Many stakeholders are unaware of potential electronic barriers to access, do not know the legal responsibility From Online Learning Update on April 1, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Will 'moblogs' mean mo' money? Instant online photo journals promise new demand for wireless data services, but privacy concerns loom. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Hard facts for software Bill Gates says hardware will be almost free. But CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says software is more likely to go that way. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Services-oriented architecture gains support Experts say the time has come for SOA design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software. From CNET News.com on April 1, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

1/4/04 Hurrah! It's April Fools Day, and they're already coming in. iPodLounge announce the video iPod, White House to be painted black to foil terrorists, Google is hiring for the moon: The Googlunaplex will house 35 engineers, 27,000 low cost web... From Ben Hammersley.com on April 1, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..

Sun-Tech brings the latest technology of Digital Language Laboratory. Sun-Tech showcases its latest technological product, Digital Language Laboratory (DLL) in the US education exhbitions, TESOL in Long Beach, CA and NECTFL in New York. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2004] From PR Web on April 1, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Free Reading Assessment Test For Dyslexia Available Online For Home Use Educational Help, Inc. releases the Reading Success Lab From PR Web on April 1, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Onyx Magazine to Host the "Second Annual Onyx Black Tie Awards Banquet" Onyx Awards announces the 2nd Annual Onyx Awards Black Tie Banquet, which recognizes the achievements of outstanding African-Americans through out the state of Florida. All profits from our Awards Banquet go to Sickle Cell Disease and Onyx Literacy Programs for children throughout the state of Florida. This year's event will be held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, 9700 International Drive, Orlando, Florida on Saturday, April 17, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2004] From PR Web on April 1, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Merit Software Introduces Two Exciting New Reading Skills Programs: "Reading Comprehension Booster" and "Read and Respond Punch" Merit Software (www.meritsoftware.com), a leader in children's educational software for over fifteen years, is pleased to announce the newest additions to their award-winning suite of reading comprehension titles, "Reading Comprehension Booster" and "Read and Respond Punch." Designed for students in grades 3 to 5, "Reading Comprehension Booster" and "Read and Respond Punch" deliver essential skills in a user-friendly format [PRWEB Apr 1, 2004] From PR Web on April 1, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Great Minds in Gaming Form New Venture - Diversion Group Excels at High End Game Development Some of the greatest minds in game development and experts in flash programming came together to form a new gaming company. The Diversion Group, announced last week at the Computer Game Developers Conference in San Jose, opens its doors with a talent pool that collectively boasts more than 60 years of experience in game development. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2004] From PR Web on April 1, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Consultant Defends Papers as Hollywood Invades San Antonio for Film Premiere: Managing Director of Clear Pixel Communications Participates in Academic Conference while Disney Premieres "The Alamo" As Hollywood celebrities like Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid and Jason Patric invaded San Antonio, Texas for the premiere of the Walt Disney film "The Alamo," Matthew A. Gilbert defended two papers at the 16th Annual Conference of International Academy of Business Disciplines (IABD) from March 25 to March 28. Gilbert HYPHEN the Managing Director of Clear Pixel Communications, a provider of strategic business solutions to entrepreneurial organizations and individualsHYPHEN presented papers on the leadership lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the viability of Voice over Internet Protoc From PR Web on April 1, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Mayor Wants $5.3 Billion From State for Schools The state's low funding has denied New York's students a sound basic education, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

For 2, Road to Final Four Started in Prep School This Final Four is rich with high school ties, but none seem as odd as Duke's Luol Deng and UConn's Charlie Villanueva, who attended Blair Academy in New Jersey. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Not So Long Out of School, Yet Running the System Many of the aides appointed to reshape the nation's largest school system have no experience as educators. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

In Reversal, Chicago Eases Promotions The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday changed its policy for promotions, part of which served as a model for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to end social promotion. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

2 L.I. Coaches in Hazing Case Are Removed From Teaching 2 coaches were removed after they chaperoned a trip that became a nightmare of hazing and sexual abuse. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Crime Falls as Citations Surge in Schools With Extra Officers Two months after Mayor Michael Bloomberg flooded 12 of the city's most unruly schools with extra police officers, crime in those schools has dropped. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Left Back or Promoted, Students Say Schools Failed At the Adult Learning Center of Lehman College, the students have a few things to say about the city's debate over social promotion. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Prep Schools Flocking to Recruit From Newark Inner city students are in demand at the country's private high schools. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Bloomberg's Plan for Utopia in Early Education May Be Just That Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $5.3 billion a year plan is a dreamy blueprint for an ideal urban school system. From New York Times: Education on April 1, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Touch type As anyone who's ever tried to type a name into their cellphone's addressbook knows, T9 is a joke. It is about as coherent as a wino on a Saturday night. Fastap, a special keypad developed by Digit Wireless, should make text messaging less of a pain to use. Telus Mobility, partnered with LG, will be the first wireless provider in the world to offer a Fastap-equipped phone to its subscribers. The fast time-to-market is partly thanks to Telus investing in Digit Wireless. Picture from infoSync World From silentblue | Quantified on April 1, 2004 at 1:57 a.m..

EMBO Workshop/58th Harden Conference - Telomeres and Genome Stability From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Grid projects hunt for new cures From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Biomarkers of Aging: Do They Hold the Key in the Search for the Fountain of ... From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Tissue-tailored Gel Can Help Regrow Body Parts From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Crystal Structure Gives Insights into Sirtuin Function From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

A role for the actin cytoskeleton in cell death and aging in yeast From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Old Age and Cancer From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Study: Low-calorie diet extends life From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Anti-aging studies look at stem cells, more From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Son hopes to freeze his parents From NanoAging on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Atlantic Canada elearning Case Studies A recent Industry Canada sponsored report, Innovative e-Learning Practices in Atlantic Canada: Case Studies is now available online. From the eight case studies, the conclusions drawn by the researchers on success factors for elearning in rural areas are: Address a Clear Market Need Use a Partnership/Collaboration Approach Have Access to Broadband Technologies Create a Sustainable Business Model Use Prior Learning Recognition (aka PLA Training the Trainer From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Student Academic Success Website this has some great links to helpful sites. Welcome! - Student Academic Success Service (SASS)... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Academic tips for students. Welcome to academictips.org. This web site contains tips and tricks to help you manage your time, take better notes, study more effectively, improve memory, take tests, and handle the stresses of college life. Academic Tips... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

A research guide for students Another guide to assist students. This site contains some very good links. A Research Guide for Students... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Open House We spent most of the day looking back over the last four years. We are hosting an open house on wednesday and we are putting together a list of "For our Information" posters. Here is what we compiled. FYI The... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Cyber Guidance counsellor Update on the Suicide Discussion: I thought the discussion had run its course, as there had been no posts on the topic for a number of days. I moved the topic into the archives, where students may still read the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Open House Presentation Today is the open house and I have spent the last couple of days putting together a virtual presentation for the day. This presentation we will run during the open house for anyone who might be interested. It was a... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Nuri Shakir Hook N Shoot Pictures (2004-03-29) Aaron Riley comes up on top at Hook N Shoot, but not without Shakir putting on a valient effort From Massachusetts Mixed Martial Arts News on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Joe Maffei - Hardcore Fighting Results (2004-03-29) First, let me say that I was pleased with Maffeis choice in venue. The Worcester Armory is smaller, leading to a sellout-crowd type of atmosphere. Hardcore Fighting could become the next big thing in the New England MMA scene From Massachusetts Mixed Martial Arts News on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Luis Hicks Defends his reputation on MASS MMA (2004-03-30) One of the topics of recent conversation lately has been the disqualification of LH Hicks (when he fought James Dunn)at Mass Destruction 15. There have been more than a few people slamming him on the net, and even a bunch of people volunteering to fight him. Throughout all the trash talking, Luis has remained silent. At last Saturday's event [Hardcore Fighting], I had the opportunity to speak with Luis to get his side of the story. From Massachusetts Mixed Martial Arts News on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Mike Brown Exclusive Interview with MASS MMA (2004-03-31) Mike Brown is fighting Genki Sudo of Japan, via Beverly Hills this Friday April 2, 2004 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. This is Mike's first trip to the Octagon in the UFC and during our conversation he seemed relaxed and incredibly pleasant for somebody who has the most important day of their professional career less than a week away. Read what Mike had to say about his training, Genki's ring antics, and bunny suits in the UFC. From Massachusetts Mixed Martial Arts News on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

A New Actor In a Busy Market After one week up and running and with 90,000 visitors, El Mercurio declared its relaunching of a jobs-listing website. The news is in the name, because it uses the name of the Chilean newspaper on the URL: empleos.elmercurio.com. In print the newspaper is the main local source to find job offerings. But on the web it's another story. Previously, the same site was launched as Farox.com, but it didn't find the success of its print partner. Part of the expla From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

How Much Could You Make on the Internet? Borrell Associates is releasing a report tomorrow that examines local Internet revenue and makes projections for 2004 in 210 U.S. markets, from New York City ($184.09 million) to Glendive, Montana ($150,000). Borrell defines this as "checks written by locally based advertisers to Internet media companies," and says the local Internet pie is growing by an average 28.7 percent in 2004, twice the growth rate of overall Internet advertising. Prediction: The report will be dismissed by Internet advertising naysayers, but successful site managers will From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

A Royal Departure Dutch Queen mother Juliana was interred yesterday, and her death 11 days ago had been news in the making for quite some time. Most editorial departments have had an obituary ready for publication for ages. Juliana chose a most untimely time to die, though, in the eyes of newspaper editors: a very early Saturday morning. Hours of radio and television news had been broadcast before any newspaper reached the stands without the news of the day, and as there is no Sunday-paper tradition in the Netherlands, new From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Blogging, Journalism, and Jay Rosen Jay Rosen, of New York University, the leading light of the civic/public journalism movement, will be a discussion leader at BloggerCon on April 17. In advance, he's prepared a paper and opened a discussion on his blog. He writes: Even if only a tiny amount of "real journalism" (however you def From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 1, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Journalistic Flavor I was just looking over some information about BloggerCon, an intriguing and unusual event about blogging happening at Harvard on April 17, 2004. It's got quite a journalistic flavor, although it's definitely not journalism as mainstream newspapers or broadcast networks would recognize it. Here are some snippets from the BloggerCon backgrounder: