Wikis described in Plain English Lee LeFever has made an excellent effort to describe wikis in plain terms. To quote: Ultimately, a wiki is a specific type of website. A wiki is special because it allows a group of people to build, edit and modify... From Column Two on April 30, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..

The Metaphysician I recently ran across Doctor Paradox (a.k.a. Barb). She creates very funky, fun, and creative sample-loop-based music using Ableton Live and other tools for the Mac. I recently spoke with her about CC licensing, found art in remixes, and music in general. Apparently I caught her in the middle of reading Larry Lessig's The Future of Ideas, so she had a lot of good things say on the matter, not the least of whic From Creative Commons: weblog on April 30, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Apple patches QuickTime flaw The consumer technology maker issues a security advisory and fix for a QuickTime flaw that the company describes as a minor issue. The firm that found the flaw says the problem is more serious. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

"bt2": program v.0.95 Just updated the program for BlogTalk 2.0. The titles of the individual papers show up to give you more of an idea about the topics and issues of the conference. Some more details will be added soon. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 30, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Google IPO mania slows SEC Web site Intense interest in the search king's initial public offering slows the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site to a crawl. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Calif. Senate passes RFID measure The state Senate approves a measure that sets privacy standards for use of radio frequency identification technology in stores and libraries. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Microsoft wants to get devices talking The software giant plans a series of announcements at a hardware conference next week, including word on software designed to let Windows programs talk to digital devices through Web services. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

GED Tips This four-step Problem Solving Process works with both studying and actual test taking.... From Adult/Continuing Education on April 30, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Educational scenarios Will Richardson on Weblogs Creating a whole new Campus Culture: Article about the Weblogging program set up by a student at Reed College in Oregon where any student who wants one can have one. He's got 147 going right now. An interesting read that gets to both sides of college level use of blogs and points to a number of other heretofore unknown colleges that are starting to use them, one even for recru From owrede_log on April 30, 2004 at 7:48 p.m..

Nightline's Next Move If ABC is smart, it should make Nightline available online. Let people in the communities where the odious Sinclair is pulling the show off the air tonight watch for themselves. Not an ideal solution, but better than letting a politically motivated company get away with such a stunt. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 30, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

First IBM Power5 server to debut Monday Big Blue will announce its first servers using its new Power5 chip, along with a new branding strategy highlighting the blurring lines between IBM's current server lines, CNET News.com has learned. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Worm warning intensifies Security companies urge clients to patch their Windows systems, as concerns heighten that an MSBlast-like worm will be released soon--perhaps even as early as this weekend, according to one firm. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Kidrobot Goes Click-to-Brick eBiz Profile: An e-tailer sells successfully through the Web -- and broadens its winning formula to the offline world. From E-Commerce Guide on April 30, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

Gmail accounts go up for bid While many are waiting to buy Google stock, testers of the free e-mail service are auctioning off their invitations on eBay. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard An appeals court orders greater scrutiny of the case between the two companies. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

New Report Reveals Open Access Could Reduce Cost of Scientific Publishing by up to 30 Per Cent I personally think the savings are greater, because as open publishing is adopted the model of academic publishing changes as well, becomes more streamlined, but I welcome this report that cites benefits of up to 30 percent beased on the models that exist today. By Press Release, The Wellcome Trust, April 29, 2004 [Refer][Res From OLDaily on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Practicing the Liberty He Preaches It's at the end of the article, and you have to be looking for it, but it's nice to see this little bit of honesty from Lawrence Lessig as "he was gratified that remixes of his book had popped up (free-culture.org/remixes), although it took some getting used to. 'I confess when it first happened, I had to take a deep breath and reconvince myself of the principles here,' he said." This is well worth noting. Open access takes getting used to. There is a certain loss of control, and this (more than the money, I think) From OLDaily on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

The Online Presence Spiral Interesting article on the potential and current limitations of audio visual communication over the internet, based in practical experience. The author identifies two major issues: voice quality and image lag. Both of these are caused by lack of bandwidth and lack of processing power, both of which will ease over time. The author also talks about more interactive video cams - I have seen systems like this, both in standard videoconferencing suites, and also as an attachment to a standard webcam (but for Windows only - bleah). The key message, though, is this: "this user has learned that Wi-FI From OLDaily on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

The RSS Bubble Another RSS bubble article, this one looking at the business potential for the format. "The conventional wisdom is a Bubble. The Bubble isn't back--it never left. We are still surfing along on this mass hallucination called the Internet. Virtual reality? Give me a break. Mass customization? Dynamic real-time always-on always-connected mall in the sky? Free phone calls and video chats? Tablet PC? WiFi? What are you smoking?" But still, "I've yet to see anyone move to RSS and then abandon it. If that's a Bubble, bring it on. But if hype turns out to be true, is it hype?" What Gill From OLDaily on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Essay About Trends Joi Ito: "It may seem unintuitive to argue that packaged commercial content can co-exist alongside consumer content while concurrently stimulating content creation and sharing. In order to understand how this can work, it is crucial to understand how the current system of copyright is broken and can be fixed." Right. Exactly right. "Today, technology allows us to find, sample, edit and share very quickly. The problem is that the current notion of copyright is not capable of addressing the complexity and the speed of what technology enables artists to create." By Joi Ito, Joi Ito Web, April 24 From OLDaily on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Taking the Public Out of Education This article contains a reasonably good assessment toward the spread of private schools - as founded on what may be called 'marketplace democracy' in which dollars, rather than votes, determine public policy. But the public school is defended because "A democracy of consumers focused on their private interests ceases to be a democracy" because "To be civilized is to understand the nature of commonality, to be learned is to grasp the rights and responsibilities of liberty, to be educated is comprehend the meaning of citizenship." This sounds fine, and is more or less a conclusion I ag From OLDaily on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

School Reaps Profits From Corporate Naming Rights More evidence of the increasing incursion of commercial media into schools as we read of the "ShopRite (Gym) of Brooklawn Center and the Flowers Library and Media Center." I certainly agree that corporations should support schools. Only I think they should do it the same way the rest of us have to: through their taxes, and without what amounts to free advertising. This is an issue of fairness: if a corporation can spend its money to get its message into schools, then why can't I? My taxes pay for, at least, a locker. Why can't I name it the "No more war" locker? Or the "Save the envi From OLDaily on April 30, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

A Prescription for Business Innovation Pollard's essay (in three parts: Part One, Part Two, Part Three) are chock-full of good insights, like this one: "With the advent of the near-perfect consumer information these tools provide, traditional marketing has no remaining role, and the knowledge-driven transition of power from producer to consumer is complete." But From EdTechPost on April 30, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..

Portal Schule-Wirtschaft In Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Bildungsserver entsteht hier eine bundesweite Informations- und Kommunikationsplattform für alle Aktivitäten an der Schnittstelle Schule-Wirtschaft. Unter den ersten beiden Rubriken finden Sie Organisationen und ihre Aktivitäten sowie Materialien für den Unterricht. Im weiteren Aufbau befinden sich: - eine Datenbank zu Unternehmen und Verbänden - eine aufwändige Suchsystematik [http://www.portal-schule-wirtschaft.de] From BildungsBlog on April 30, 2004 at 3:54 p.m..

Gesetz gegen unbefugte Bildaufnahmen Wie das IUM mitteilt, verabschiedete der Bundestag gestern mit den Stimmen aller Bundestagsfraktionen ein Gesetz zur Einfügung eines neuen §... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 3:54 p.m..

More on Sinclair Broadcasting Damn that liberal media! From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 30, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..

Sanders retires as AMD chair The chipmaker appoints its president and chief executive officer, Hector Ruiz, to chairman of the AMD board, as storied co-founder Jerry Sanders steps down. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Foundry eliminates speed bumps on new Net The company will announce on Monday upgrades to its Ethernet switches supporting IPv6 to make sure they don't suffer from performance issues. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Week in review: Google shows its cards The search giant finally files its plans to go public, revealing details about its finances and plans in one of the most-anticipated offerings in years. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Regarding Everglades Restoration (by: Gov. Jeb Bush) Last Post by: Gov. Jeb Bush on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

* "Top Ten Ways Saddam Hussein Celebrated His 67th Birthday" (by: Media Research Center) Last Post by: Media Research Center on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

CNN's Brown: PA Race a "Test" of GOP's "Tolerance for Moderates" (by: Media Research Center) Last Post by: Media Research Center on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

CBS Reports Kerry Ahead of Bush in Poll, Ignored When Bush Led (by: Media Research Center) Last Post by: Media Research Center on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

CBS: Cheney Defense Spending Record "Much the Same" as Kerry's (by: Media Research Center) Last Post by: Media Research Center on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

John Kerry Scolds Chris Matthews for Impugning Bush and Cheney (by: Media Research Center) Last Post by: Media Research Center on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

ABC: Battle in Fallujah Contradicts U.S. Claim of Wanting Peace (by: Media Research Center) Last Post by: Media Research Center on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Omitting "Under God" in Pledge Unacceptable (by: harveyg736) Last Post by: harveyg736 on Apr 29 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Elton the Judge (by: harveyg736) Last Post by: harveyg736 on Apr 30 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Asia Worst Affected by Terrorism in 2003 (by: CNSNews.com) Last Post by: CNSNews.com on Apr 30 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Piracy Highlights Concerns About Security in SE Asian Waters (by: CNSNews.com) Last Post by: CNSNews.com on Apr 30 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Abortion Activists Demand Apology Over Karen Hughes' Remark (by: CNSNews.com) Last Post by: CNSNews.com on Apr 30 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Hollywood Action Movie Held Up by Aussie Greens (by: CNSNews.com) Last Post by: CNSNews.com on Apr 30 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Group Delivers Petitions Urging Education Secretary's Ouster (by: CNSNews.com) Last Post by: CNSNews.com on Apr 30 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Poor Campaigning Could Lose Sharon Support For Disengagement Plan (by: CNSNews.com) Last Post by: CNSNews.com on Apr 30 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on April 30, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

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Color Schemer Studio Gracias a este post de minid, he tenido la ocasion de probar un fantastico prgrama que ya he añadido a mi 'softwareteca' particular: el Color Schemer Studio. Es un programa de enorme utilidad para diseñadores, puesto que ofrece gamas de... From BlogDirect on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Mobile phones continue to decimate Gorillas The extraction of columbine tantalite, a mineral used in the manufacture of mobile phones, in eastern Congo has contributed to a 70 per cent decline in the population of the eastern lowland gorilla in the past decade. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

EU MedConnect launches first link in pan-Mediterranean universities IP network This week's launch of the Madrid-Algiers IP network is the first trunk to be built as part of the EU MedConnect programme, which is aimed at creating a dedicated internet network amongst academic institutions around the Mediterranean region specifically for researchers.. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Ericsson expands Mobilkom Austria 3G network Ericsson is to expand the Austrian mobile operator's UMTS network with a delivery of base stations that is to begin immediately. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Rumours of cut-price broadband from AOL UK In the wake of a series of under-£20-a-month broadband products from other UK ISPs, AOL UK has plans to introduce its own entry-level service, according to company sources. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

5m European 3G users this year - report However, GPRS revenues will be €28bn in 2004, as the role played by the "2.5G" technology has increased, according to a new report from Analysys Research. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Yahoo introduces new version of Messenger Yahoo's new public beta version of its instant messaging service has added integrated internet radio and two-person gaming features, as well as expanded search capability, verbal emoticons and avatars. Jeez. Enough already! From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Orange at 50m subscribers; to launch UK, French 3G in second half 2004 For the pan-European mobile operator, non-voice revenues represented 14.7 per cent of sales in the last quarter, up from 12.6 per cent the same time last year. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Virgin Mobile reaches 4m customers The UK mobile virtual network operator has signed up a million net new customers in the eight months since August 2003. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

ITunes to come to Europe, no pressure from record industry to increase prices - Jobs Apple chief Steve Jobs has denied that the record industry is pressuring his iTunes digital music store to increase the price of downloads, according to a report on the Macworld website. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Google files IPO with SEC The company announced it aims to raise as much as €2.3bn ($2.7bn) from the long-expected offering of shares, which will be offered at least in part via an online auction. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 30, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..

Talking to your TV Motorola and AgileTV are working on a way that you can feel less embarrassed when you talk back to your television: set-top boxes with built-in voice recognition so you can change channels and schedule shows to be recorded just by talking into a little microphone built-into your remote control. Sounds like a headache if all you want to do is switch channels, but with digital video recorders being integrated into all of these boxes, being able to just say what show you want to watch or record will probably be a hecunmediated on April 30, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..

MuSE MuSE is a user friendly but powerful tool for network audio streaming, making life easier for independent free speech online radio stations. MuSE is an application for the mixing, encoding, and network streaming of sound: it can mix up to 6 encoded audio bitstreams (from files or network, mp3 or ogg) plus a souncard input signal, the resulting stream can be played locally on the sound card and/or encoded at different bitrates, recorded to harddisk and/or streamed to the net. When sent to a server, the resulting audio can be listened thru the net by a vast number of players availab From unmediated on April 30, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..

microsoft extend business intelligence... vnunet.com :: Microsoft buys business intelligence firm By Robert Jaques [29-04-2004] Redmond to incorporate BI from ActiveViews into SQL Server Reporting Services Microsoft is to extend its business intelligence (BI) platform by acquiring ActiveViews, a privately held company based in Utah. ActiveViews provides an ad hoc reporting system that integrates with Microsoft .Net and SQL Server Reporting Services to allow users to access and manipulate c From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on April 30, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..

Australia's Most Populous State Bans Production Of GM Food Until 2006. Premier Bob Carr announces the ban on the production of GM food crops (such as canola, clover, mustard and field peas) until 2006 in New South Wales, Australia's most populous state. From ORGANIC (Ltd) on April 30, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..

FlashFast Wins Animation Demo. April 30, 04. FlashFast.com (electric empires inc.) won an animation contract to produce a demo for a children's cancer foundation (demos are the first stage in gaining production finance). We are amazed (being so small - our studio is a garage shared with a parrot) at having been chosen over several well established Hollywood and Burbank studios. The production is well under way, and is designed to give kids a less formal and rigid introduction to the disease and it's treatment. We are using Maya, Flash, Photoshop, Quicktime and Final Cut in the production. If you would like to help From FlashFast.com on April 30, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..

Greek Comedy Masks wallpaper just added. April 29, 04. We just added new desktop wallpaper with the Greek Drama Comedy masks theme (at the lower end of the wallpaper page link). For the very first time we have added a version for 17", 1440 x 900 wide-screen, and hope to have more wide-screen wallpapers as we develop the site. The huge image search requests on Google and Yahoo (for the small graphic on our Happy Prince page) led us to provide the masks image as much larger wallpaper, giving visitors a more useful web experience. It is free for non-commercial use. From FlashFast.com on April 30, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..

how can i get a get a good recording From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School- Forums on April 30, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..

Winning RSS Nickname: Webfeed The winning RSS nickname is: webfeed. This was entered by CONTENTIOUS reader Joshua Jabbour. This winner was selected by my panel of judges. It also ranked second-highest in the popular voting. Although the nickname elert garnered a few more popular votes than webfeed, the judges believe that webfeed draws a clearer distinction between the concepts of RSS feeds and e-mail alerts. This contest was rather contentious, and I expect that the winning name will not suit everyone. Well, nothing suits everyone – this is not a one-size-fits-all world. From Contentious Weblog on April 30, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..

Somebody Has To Do It As a special celebration for Labor Day (a holiday in Chile on May 1), La Tercera has published a multimedia website called "Somebody Has To Do It." It shows some special and unusual jobs, such as the person who triggers the cannon that marks noon in downtown Santiago, or the operator of the billboard at the National Stadium for soccer games. Included with all of them are text, photos, and audio. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 30, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..

What Google's IPO Means for Media Lots of journalists are writing about Google's IPO, of course, and it's certainly a worthy topic for this weblog. I suggest you take a look at Danny Sullivan's analysis at SearchEngineWatch -- one of the better reviews of what's in the public offering. We've known informally for some time that Google was bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars annually with its contextual ads. Now we have some real numbers to back up the estimates. Google is on track to earn upward of $1 billion From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 30, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..

Blogging as a keynote at conference with 4000 attendees Talking about Perfect Corporate Weblog Pitch Competition... Robert Scoble is talking about blogging as a keynote at conference with 4000 attendees:Steve Ballmer, for instance, spoke to the MVPs last month. 1200 people. Took an hour of his time. Was that a waste of his time? I certainly don't think so. So, Steve, I have an audience bigger than that here now. Wanna do a guest blog? From Mathemagenic on April 30, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

The PLATO symposium We are having a staff PD day today, and the first order of business is taking a look at some... From omegablog on April 30, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..

Is E-learning Really the Future or a Risk? This paper provides a framework on how an organisation or academic institution should make a rational decision regarding the implementation of e-learning. From Elearnopedia on April 30, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..

ExploreLearning.com ExploreLearning offers a catalog of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students in grades 6-12. The site calls these simulations Gizmos. Gizmos are fun, easy to use, and flexible enough to support many different teaching styles and contexts. These Gizmos are designed as supplemental curriculum materials that support state and national curriculum standards; in addition, Gizmos help teachers bring research-proven instructional strategies to their classrooms. From Elearnopedia on April 30, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..

Bioethik-Kommission zur Sterbehilfe "Bei allen Überlegungen zur Sterbehilfe und Sterbebegleitung muss immer das Recht der Patienten im Mittelpunkt stehen, über das eigene Leben... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

President Bush Relaxes Post-Testimony A cartoon From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 30, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Auto-mesh Glenn Fleischman writes: The CUWiN [Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network ] project wants to allow self-forming, noncentralized, mesh-based Wi-Fi networks using standard, old PCs with no configuration. Slightly more advanced units could be ruggedized boxes using Compact Flash, but the basic unit would be a 486 or later PC with a bootable CD-ROM or bootable floppy that bootstraps a CD-ROM. Once booted, a unit finds other similar units without any other configuration or control and forms a mesh. Clay comments over at Corante Many2Many: As with straight Wifi, the obvious uses of a simple me From Joho the Blog on April 30, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..

Right-Leaning Media Barons Black Out ABC's Airing of War Dead The Sinclair Broadcast Group has joined the broadcasting Hall of Cowardice with its craven decision to prevent its customers from seeing tonight's Nightline broadcast, on which anchor Ted Koppel will read the names and show pictures of the American service men and women killed in the current Iraq War. On Sinclair's home page today is a statement about the company's reason for this move: a claim that the Nightline show is a purely political act From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 30, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

House queries gov't cybersecurity remedies A House of Representatives panel wants to know what the Bush administration is doing to protect the Internet from terrorist attacks and other threats. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Senate to mull copyright, piracy measures The measures would criminalize using camcorders in movie theaters and increase fees for patent applications, among other issues. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Microsoft closing in on PalmSource In the race for market share, Microsoft and PalmSource finished the first quarter neck and neck, according to research firm Gartner, as the handheld specialist lost substantial share and the software giant made some gains. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Balldroppings Balldroppings: Game, Artwork or Sport? Whatever, it's elegant, free and makes nice boopy sounds. [Thanks to Lockergnome for the link.]... From Joho the Blog on April 30, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

Edge-based about-ness What something is about often is so implicit that it's precisely the thing that's not stated. And sometimes a page can't even know what it's about: the manual about O-ring maintenance couldn't know that it would actually be about the Challenger disaster. So, I wonder how a search engine like Google would do if, when assessing the relevance of a page, it counted the content of pages directly linking to it much higher than the content of the page itself. Aren't those linking pages more likely to state explicitly what's on the target page that warrants a link? M From Joho the Blog on April 30, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

Sustaining a Weblog A couple of interesting posts today on the workings of Weblogging, one pretty positive from Jay Rosen, the other less so from John Grillo (via James Farmer.) They come at it from different angles, Jay the established blogger/journalist, John the upstart neophyte publisher, but both allow us to get inside their process and thinking in a variety of ways. Jay has quickly bweblogged News on April 30, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

BlogBlock I've been feeling pretty blogblocked lately, that brain-dead I'd rather be outside building my garden pond on this beautiful day feeling that makes it difficlut to concentrate on anything even the slightest intellectual much less write about it so I remembered how often I used to tell my stuck students to follow Peter Elbow's (and Natalie Goldberg's) advice to write fast for five or ten or twenty minutes (I did this for an hour once) and see if you can unstick yourself of whatever is blocking you. Just dump out whatever comes to your mind and I've done this a gazillion From weblogged News on April 30, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0 Last Call Published 2004-04-30: The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0 including major updates. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome through 28 May. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on April 30, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Wal-Mart turns on radio tags The massive retail chain gets a step closer to making its RFID plans a reality by launching a pilot program at eight Dallas-area sites. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Alarm growing over bot software Many network administrators fret about the next worm, but security experts warn that a quieter but just as damaging threat is gaining control of large networks of computers. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

PalmOne CFO leaves for SanDisk Chief Financial Officer Judy Bruner is leaving the handheld company to fill a similar role for the flash memory card maker. From CNET News.com on April 30, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Carrier Offers Spring Cleaning Tips Ah, spring. The grass begins to green, the flowers begin to bud and the sunlight lasts a little longer each evening. It's the return of songbirds, baseball and driving with your windows down. And spring cleaning. From Contracting Business Interactive on April 30, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..

Australia's Most Populous State Bans Production Of GM Food Until 2006. Premier Bob Carr announces the ban on the production of GM food crops (such as canola, clover, mustard and field peas) until 2006 in New South Wales, Australia's most populous state. From ORGANIC (Ltd) on April 30, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..

The Tornado Project The Tornado project sets itself apart by providing the folklore and myth surrounding tornadoes in addition to the weather facts. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 30, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

American Rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of persuasive speaking. Listen to thousands of speeches and excerpts, including some of the most famous in U.S. political history. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 30, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

How To Get A Job In TV Sound: Kevin Duff Interview From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 30, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

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Any views on powered speakers Mackie SRM450 vs JBL EON G2 ? From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School- Forums on April 30, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Zelnorm Has Serious Side Effects Alert Title: Zelnorm Has Serious Side Effects AlertCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04Last Editorial Review: 4/29/04 From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Health Tip: When it Comes to a Cane Title: Health Tip: When it Comes to a CaneCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:15 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Health Tip: Eye Care as You Age Title: Health Tip: Eye Care as You AgeCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:15 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

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Parkinson Drug Hurts Heart Valves Title: Parkinson Drug Hurts Heart ValvesCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:15 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Language Centers in Brain Shift With Age Title: Language Centers in Brain Shift With AgeCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:16 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Predicting Trouble After Bypass Surgery Title: Predicting Trouble After Bypass SurgeryCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:16 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Chlamydia Linked to Infertility in Men Title: Chlamydia Linked to Infertility in MenCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:16 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Vets Seen at Higher Lou Gehrig's Risk Title: Vets Seen at Higher Lou Gehrig's RiskCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:16 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Lymphoma Genomics at the Bedside Title: Lymphoma Genomics at the BedsideCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:16 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Irradiation Makes Food Safer Title: Irradiation Makes Food SaferCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:16 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

When Mood Down, Stroke Risk Up Title: When Mood Down, Stroke Risk UpCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:17 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Simpler HIV Therapy Isn't Always Better Title: Simpler HIV Therapy Isn't Always BetterCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/29/04 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/29/04 1:58:17 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Analysing Human Performance Klaus Wittkuhn has written an excellent article on the systemic approach required in human performance analysis. This article appears in the March 2004 edition of "Performance Improvement" published by ISPI. The wealth of practical advice in PI is one more reason to become a member of ISPI (unabashed promotion here). Wittkuhn discusses an aspect of performance analysis that has been bothering me for a while - how can you take a systemic approach when there are overlapping systems as well as multiple sub-systems in any organisation? Where do you start and wher From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

Best Practice in e-Learning Conference Best Practices in e-Learning Conference... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 30, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

E-Portfolios: reflecting or refracting? Now whilst I'm personally quite keen to see e-portfolios play their part in helping to progress what we currently call e-learning, we ought to consider what some of the issues are before rushing to develop, or implement, what, on first impression, may appear to be attractive e-portfolio solutions, either bought 'off the shelf' or custom developed for a specific context. From Auricle on April 30, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Cheating Crisis: Thoughts As I watched Primetime Thursday's special on the "Cheating Crisis" last night, I felt the full range of familiar emotions: frustration with students who don't realize that they're only cheating themselves out of learning experiences, anger at the audacity of students who proudly plagiarise, vindication when the students who in... From PEDABLOGUE on April 30, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Mastermind Explorer - Issue 49 - Robin Good's Discoveries And Selected News Mastermind Explorer - Issue 49 - Robin Good's Discoveries And Selected News From MasterMind Explorer on April 30, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

ESL-EFL Blog Ring Three new sites joined the blog ring today! First we have The Interns Journal which describes themselves as Daily experiences of Business Internship students at Vancouver English Centre, Canada's Leading Language School. It looks interesting and is only 2 weeks... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on April 30, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

Quellcode und mehr ... Das Blogbook weist auf einen Artikel bei Law.com hin, der übrigens weltweit zunehmend praktiziert wird: Der kompletten Übernahme von Quellcode,... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Anklage gegen Spammer Der Link zur Anklage (und übrigens auch weitere Verweise zum Thema) gegen die ersten Spammer nach dem Can-Spam-Gesetz. Dank an... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

EU-Beitritt Von den neuen Ländern erhalten lediglich Zypern und Malta einen uneingeschränkten Zugang zum deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Für alle anderen, und das... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

EU-RiLi zum UrheberR Der EU-Ministerrat hat in der Nacht auf den 27.04.2004 der "Richtlinie über die Maßnahmen und Verfahren zum Schutz der Rechte... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Ranking und Linking Alp Uçkan weist darauf hin, wie man ein besseres Pageranking bei Google bekommt; darauf haben bestimmte einige Blogger gewartet. ;-)... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Der anstrengende Rechtsstaat Die westlichen Gesellschaften haben sich ein Verhältnis zum Rechtsstaat angewöhnt, wie sie es auch zu ihren Sozialsystemen haben: Man hält... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

... und nichts als die Wahrheit? Nach monatelangem Tauziehen über Verfahrensfragen hat US-Präsident George W. Bush erstmals vor dem Kongress-Untersuchungsausschuss zu den Terroranschlägen vom 11.09.2001 ausgesagt.... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Plagiarism-Finder Der Plagiarism-Finder durchstöbert anhand der zu überprüfenden Arbeiten das Web systematisch nach potenziellen "Fundstellen". Die Software erkennt automatisch die Formate... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Offenes Firmenklima oder New Economy eBay fürchtet eine Palastrevolution, seit die ver.di-Tochter connexx.av über die Internetseite epay.tv eine Mitarbeiterbefragung des Online-Tycoons durchgeführt hat. Alles Weitere... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

UK: National Archives Library... The National Archives has a reference collection of 55,000 books, periodicals and directories on aspects of history (including local, family and military history), law, biography, genealogy and a wide range of reference material. Many publications relate to the documents held within the national archive itself. A growing number of electronic reference sources are also available. The bulk of the collection of published works is housed in the Resource Centre & Library. A project to recatalogue these works from paper catalogues to an online computer catalogue has been continui From Archivalia on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

UK: Migration database http://www.movinghere.org.uk/ Moving Here is the biggest database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years. From Archivalia on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Jorge Dieguez, Moderador de puntoSCORM en eLearning WORKSHOPS "Los estándares son la base de cualquier industria. Sin estándares, en cada proyecto, en cada cliente, invertiremos tiempo innecesario en reinventar la rueda", advierte --> From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on April 30, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Visual Search Engine Learns From Your Prefences: Ujiko Ujiko is a new visual search engine that will be available tomorrow. Strictly related to Kartoo, Ujiko allows the user to select, comment and annotate all of the preferred results with maximum ease of use. By clicking on a heart... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 30, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

The April 26, 2004 update to LLRX.com is now available ... The April 26, 2004 update to LLRX.com is now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 30, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

The JISC, BBSRC AND EPSRC have announced funding of some 1m to establish a National Centre for Text ... The JISC, BBSRC AND EPSRC have announced funding of some 1m to establish a National Centre for Text Mining. The remit of the Centre, the first publicly funded centre in the world, is to contribute to the associated national and international research agenda, to establish a service for the wider academic community, and to make connections with industry From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 30, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

The Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer. This week: The New EU. On 1 May 2004, ten new countries will jo ... The Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer. This week: The New EU. On 1 May 2004, ten new countries will join the European Union. They are: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic (Slovakia), and Slovenia. Try to identify which of these countries is referred to by each of these clues. Answers here:1. Germany invaded this country in September 1939 and it was partitioned between the Soviet Union and Germany2. An island in the Medite From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 30, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

'Patriot' Act Versus Freedom of Speech