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Say Hello I just wanted to draw everyone's attention to the comment feature of this journal. Please feel free to use it to introduce yourself and say hello. Also I thought I might mention a program I have been using which is extremely useful. It's called IEspell and it's a spell checker for ... From A Daily Adventure:Traveling the World on May 2, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..

Jeff DellaVolpe '04 on Relay for Life <%image(20/20040502-jeff.JPG|94.2148779|150|)%>Jeff DellaVolpe '04 answers the tough questions about Relay for Life, an event to happen later this month to help raise money for cancer. 1.  Why did you decide to start a Relay for Life at Dartmouth College? I was looking for an opportunity to bring the community together for a positive cause.  Cancer is a universal - it affects just about everyone.  I don't know anyone who hasn't had someone in their life affected by the disease.  It has been inspring to see how many people des From BuzzFlood News on May 2, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..

High School softball leaders-Reed soon to be '08 <%image(20040502-images.jpg|99|99|)%>Chicago Tribune: Abby Reed and Samantha Deevy are engaging pals in an amazing softball partnership that has placed Barrington among a handful of the state's elite teams...“I'm more silly and giggly, and I'll dance around on the mound,” said Deevy, who will attend Wisconsin in the fall. “Abby's going to Dartmouth, and that should tell you everything.”...But this connection goes back even further. Their fathers, Glenn Reed and Bill Deevy, were teammates on Dartmouth's baseball team in the mid-1970s. --> From BuzzFlood News on May 2, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..

Dartmouth Baseball Wins Red Rolfe Division with 7-2 Triumph Over Harvard <%image(20040502-baseba.jpg|150|100|)%>With the Red Rolfe division title on the line, freshman Stephen Perry threw a complete game and Dartmouth pulled away with four runs in the sixth on its way to a 7-2 victory against Harvard in game two of a doubleheader Sunday at Red Rolfe Field. The Big Green (25-14, 15-5) dropped the first contest to Harvard (20-17-1, 12-7), 5-0. With the split, Dartmouth wins the Red Rolfe division by two games over the Crimson and will host Princeton in a three-game Ivy Championship Series next weekend at Red Rolfe Field.Perry controlled the game throughout From BuzzFlood News on May 2, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..

Australias 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, Australias most populous state. From ORGANIC (Ltd) on May 2, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..

Some small repairs A disturbing, grinding noise started coming from my PC earlier this week. When I opened it up, I discovered the noise was coming from the fan on my northbridge chipset. My motherboard is an Asus A7V266-E, one of the few motherboards where, in a fit of insanity, Asus used a fan instead of a simple heatsink to cool the VIA chipset. (Maybe it's because this mobo was made in 2001 - at the twilight of the dot-com era - where insanity was never in particularily short supply.) It's insane because a passive heatsink provides adequate cooling for a chipset, makes no noise and suffers no mecha From silentblue | Quantified on May 2, 2004 at 10:59 p.m..

On ne marie pas les poules avec les renards More on the Doyle vs. O'Reilly thing. The National Post somewhat sensationalizes the situation, claiming the feud is "escalating": [O'Reilly] also urged his supporters to initiate a writing campaign at Doyle's expense. Many obeyed, apparently, flooding Doyle's e-mail box with hundreds of hateful retorts, many of them with expletives to be deleted. Even the New York Times paid attention with an article this week that reprinted many of the postings. "You're lucky we don't attack Canada next. We hate communists here," wrote John from Virginia. But the hate mail was a From silentblue | Quantified on May 2, 2004 at 10:59 p.m..

Farewell TeleEducation I had mentioned earlier that Teleeducation NB was going to close; the victim of government budget cuts. The news has finally been posted to the After 5 website and may only be available for a week, as the official closure date is May 7th, this Friday. Philippe Duchastel, the Director, has penned a final note [I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him], on TeleEd's accomplishements and on what is left to be done:For one thing, TeleEducation NB From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 2, 2004 at 10:58 p.m..

Get a High School Diploma You need a high school diploma but you don't have a lot of time or money. Fortunately, you have several options.... From Adult/Continuing Education on May 2, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..

Te Effects of a Growing Self-Service Culture on Online Learning This weekend I finally talked myself into using the self-service checkout at WalMart. I had resisted for the last two months because it seemed too new to be stable. So, figuring that after two months there would be a few patches or at least an initial Service PacK, I scanned my two items, put them in the sack (be careful to do EXACTLY what the voice tells you to regarding the sack). Now I'm hooked. I'm even thinking that, within a couple of months, I may get noticed by one of the talent scouts at WalMart and get an offer for work. It's a system I can definitely master. From Xplana on May 2, 2004 at 9:49 p.m..

Using the 5Es to Understand Users Whitney Quesenbery has a very memorable explanation about usability: The 5Es are helpful in planning your usability testing, because each suggests specific techniques:

Effective: Watch for the results of each task, and see how often they are done accurately and completely. Look for problems like information that is skipped or mistakes that are made by several users.

Efficient: Time users as they work to see how long each ta From owrede_log on May 2, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

More critic on Nielsen Andrei Herasimchuk wrote an open letter to Jakob Nielsen in response to this Alertbox story: [...] Mr. Nielsen, I respectfully request you stop posting articles like this. You do yourself and the usability field a disservice by speaking in terms that are vague, not backed up with research data, and filled with hyperbole. Further, until you learn more about what it takes to be a designer, and what it means to design a product with your own two hands, I respectfully From owrede_log on May 2, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Expo for the Artist Creative Commons spent the day at Expo for the Artist, the 5th annual gathering of artists, nonprofits, and community organizations at Cellspace, in San Francisco, USA. Celebrating its fifth year, the catch-all event included free workshops on grantwriting, burlesque, painting, self-publishing, navigating the music industry, metalworking, and more. Watch the Expo website for a series of DIY articles on these and other subjects. From Creative Commons: weblog on May 2, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Weblog Submission list This is the most extensive list I have found so far of sites accepting RSS feeds. RSS Top69 From A Daily Adventure:Traveling the World on May 2, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

New Layout I scrapped the old layout completely. It was overdue. I am still learning what I am doing here, so if you can help out at all that would be great. I realize I probably have a larger monitor than a lot of people and don't really have access to something ... From A Daily Adventure:Traveling the World on May 2, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Lowest of the Budget Travel I had originally budgeted about 5000 for the first year, but I will be lucky if I have that much. If I end up bicycling, or backpacking instead of bringing the van, that will not be very good. From A Daily Adventure:Traveling the World on May 2, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Starting in Europe I have never intended this to be a whirlwind whistlestop tour of Europe. Jumping on a train at the end of the day to some other city. From A Daily Adventure:Traveling the World on May 2, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Consumer Electronics and the Realities of Retail Broadband Equipment Where compliance with standards has limited vendors ability to be unique and competitive. From Birds-Eye Network Services Articles on May 2, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Professor Jernstedt: Game-Show Learning <%image(20040502-jernstedt.jpg|164|187|)%> For professors across the nation, the newest aid in the classroom is a small wireless keypad, linked to a computer. Students answer questions not by raising their hands but by punching buttons, with the results appearing on a screen in the front of the room. Chris Jernstedt, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College, has used handheld organizers as a similar kind of teaching aid in his intermediate psychology course since 2001. “We know that physical changes occur in the brain when y From BuzzFlood News on May 2, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Dr. Burstein: Visit him by e-mail? <%image(20040502-dr burstein buzzflood pic.JPG|193|215|)%> E-mail messages or Web sites that offer a way to send secure messages directly to practitioners provide an option that is quick and efficient - but not necessarily appropriate for complex medical problems or questions requiring more than a brief answer. "It is definitely different," said Dr. Sanders Burstein, the medical director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic in Nashua. "A lot of communication is nonverbal and you'll miss that. . . . But with limited time, it improves access. It doesn't replace that inter From BuzzFlood News on May 2, 2004 at 7:58 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 May 2, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

Intellectual Property Legislation In Mark Federman's post The Fundamental Problem with Intellectual Property Legislation, he reports on an interview with Jack Velenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America. In the interview, Valenti shows his ignorance of the fact that copyright laws are infringing on a lot of people (at least 2 million Linux users) who are doing what should be "legal" activities. And that's the problem. There are a lot of things that Jack Valenti - and the legislators whom he From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 2, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Checkliste EU-Erweiterung Wir erleben die größte EU-Erweiterung, die es je gab. Sie beeinflusst alle Unternehmen, die in den zehn Beitrittsländern tätig sind.... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

GermanBlawgs OPML-Datei aktualisiert Aufgrund kleinerer Änderungen gibt es jetzt die GermanBlawgs OPML-Datei in der Version 1.2; "feel free to steel ...".... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Bremen: Missglückter... In der Nacht von Samstag, den 24. 4. 2004 auf Sonntag, den 25. 4. 2004 wurde eine aus Sicherheitsglas bestehende Schaufensterscheibe des Infoladens in der St.-Paulistrasse 10/12 in Bremen eingeschlagen und eine Rauchbombe/Nebelgranate in den Ladenraum geworfen. Diese zuendete zum Glueck nicht. Die Polizei ist eingeschaltet und ermittelt. Der Infoladen versteht sich als Teil der linken Infrastruktur Bremens und vertreibt Buecher, Broschueren und Flugblaetter zu Themen wie Antirassismus, Antifaschismus, Feminismus, Anti-Atom etc.. In seinen R&aum From Archivalia on May 2, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

La Cámara de Comercio organiza en Cáceres un curso de Linex y Software Libre La Cámara de Comercio de Cáceres organiza desde el 10 de mayo al 17 de junio un curso de Linex y Software Libre, que preten... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

4. MacMinute: Macromedia offers free Breeze Web conferencing *. Macromedia offers free Breeze Web conferencing March 1, 2004 - 07:57 EST Macromedia today announced that it will offer free Breeze Web conferencing for the ... From Kolabora.com on May 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

9. Cisco looks to dominate Web conferencing ... And it had a recent announcement about IP video telephony. ... In the past, you have had to have technicians there to help users launch a Web-conferencing session ... From Kolabora.com on May 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

10. NetScreen's Web-conferencing play goes after Cisco ... has announced the availability of standalone Web-conferencing ... When NetScreen first launched its Web-conferencing ... Cisco looks to dominate Web conferencing. ... From Kolabora.com on May 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

8. Neoteris launches Web-conferencing software ... Today, secure remote access vendor Neoteris Inc. announced a new Web-conferencing product that launches the company's foray into the market. ... From Kolabora.com on May 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

A little blog in the margin Steven M. Cohen points out the Sideblog site, where free and paying clients can host a small second weblog posted in the sidebar of a site. I've seen people use a feature like this for guest writers to a site or to draw attention to a particular topic. It's a good reminder of the elastic nature of sites based on weblog software, though I believe the more complex products can support this feature without relying on an outside service. From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

Political science resources Notre Dame professor Dan Lindley has a web page that is not quite a blog (though some sections behave more or less like one), but it is a rich set of links to foreign policy and public policy websites and a generous collection of his own writing, too. Just a hunch, but wouldn't certain portions of the site be easier to update if presented as a blog? From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 2, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

Java enabled mobile phones is 400 million by end of 2004 Russ comments that the 250 million quoted in the article below plus the 150 million to be sold by then end of the year = 400 million. I really need to get myself one of these phones and start taking advantage of the apps and the buzz that mustRoland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 7:50 p.m..

China Bloggers The Department of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley hosted China's Digital Future, Advancing the Understanding of China's Digital Future, a two-day conference on the impact of information and communications technologies on Chinese society, yesterday and the day before. Over 78 million Chinese now utilize the... From Internet Time Blog on May 2, 2004 at 7:50 p.m..

Coming Attractions Political Aims events in D.C. this week From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on May 2, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..

Institutional repositories are changing scholarly communication Catherine Candee, Fat Cat Publishers Breaking the System, Syllabus Magazine, May 1, 2004. On OA institutional repositories, especially the California Digital Library and eScholarship Repository. Excerpt: "Out-of-control costs for scholarly publications have fueled new digital repository initiatives. The scholarly publishing system is broken. At research universities everywhere, scholarly work --in the form of articles, books, editing, reviewing of manuscripts-- is handed over to commercial publishers, only to be bought back by the From FOS News on May 2, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

Weblogs and Website Update Met with my superintendent last week and he is sufficiently satisfied with the results of the four site pilot that we're going to expand it to 10 and reevaluate at the end of the school year. The goal is still to make the changeover to the new site at some point late in the summer. I know that I'm jumping through more hoops than some other folks, but to be honest, on some level I'm glad we're going slowly. It's giving me a c From weblogged News on May 2, 2004 at 7:46 p.m..

What they didn't teach me in Design & Usability school Scott Berkun writes an excellent essay on learning usability. To quote: A few weeks ago I gave a guest lecture at the University of Washington on what I wished theyd taught me in college about HCI, design and usability (I... From Column Two on May 2, 2004 at 7:46 p.m..

Outage tonight I apologize for an outage of this site. The Zope server crashed. Seems I need to run some kind of watchdog+restart script. Does anybody have a tip about this? From owrede_log on May 2, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP: Find out how to create XML-RPC, SOAP and REST web services using PHP, the most popular scripting language for web applications. [via Der Schockwellenreiter] From owrede_log on May 2, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

New Somali History Book in Somali Language Xasuus Qor: Timelines of Somali History is available for pre-order [PRWEB May 2, 2004] From PR Web on May 2, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

One Reason Bloggers Need to Get Out More

George Packer (Mother Jones): The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged. To see beyond their own little world and get a sense of what's really going on, journalists and readers need to get out of their pajamas. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 2, 2004 at 3:46 p.m..

How Copyright Cartel is Killing Privacy To understand the dangerous confluence of privacy and "digital rights management" that copyright holders use to keep control over what... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 2, 2004 at 3:46 p.m..

Time divided I've neglected writing here, just as I've neglected my yardwork this Spring. Spending time over on my other server-space getting things set up. I'm not a designer, and have been spending far too much time trying to make decisions about how I want things to be presented. So much time, that I'm getting angry at how much time it is taking me. I want "my voice" to be represented, but the time I'm spending with presentation - the aesthetics - is keeping me from some of the other things I should be doing. I have made some decisions, i.e.: consist From carvingCode on May 2, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Consistency between weblog and wiki Good decision of the day: The wiki software I chose - phpwiki - comes with a modfied theme based upon one of WordPress's standard themes "blue fade". I don't particularly like this theme, but it is great CSS - based on Dave Shea's orginal CSS for WordPress. Having this available as a foundation will make my work much easier. From carvingCode on May 2, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Getting serious about yard work A homeowner since 1986, yard work has never been a passion. I enjoy looking at a well-kept yard, but those are usually on properties that I don't own. Today, I tool one more step in my effort to keep up with my neighbors - I purchased a 2 cycle, gas powered weed whacker. One of my frustrations for years has been dinking around with this toy electric model that broke its cord on even the smallest blades of grass. So, today, I stepped up and got a grownup's version. Of course, it's still in the box in the garage - it's raining today and I won&apos From carvingCode on May 2, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Der Anwalt und sein PDA Barry Neil Shrum hat einen ausführlichen Beitrag geschrieben über "A Day In The Life Of A PDA-Enabled Lawyer", der auch... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Akademische Suche "CrossRef is the citation linking backbone -- a collaborative reference linking service that allows the user to click on a... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..

Chicken sex Care to answer a question for a city slicker? Why is it that about 10% of the "free range" eggs we buy have blood spots on their yolk? I thought a blood spot indicates that the egg is fertile. Are they letting the chickens run with roosters? Or is this a case of parth-henhouse-ogenesis?... From Joho the Blog on May 2, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Score Pat Tillman American Hero, Rene Gonzalez Cowardly America Hater (by: Jan Ireland) Last Post by: Jan Ireland on May 01 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on May 2, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..

The Death Penalty--Draconian or Dividend? (by: Michael Nevin Jr.) Last Post by: Michael Nevin Jr. on May 01 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on May 2, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..

Pat Tillman Filled The Combat Boots Of A True Hero (by: Kaye Grogan) Last Post by: Kaye Grogan on May 02 2004 From Active Topics on Newsbull.com on May 2, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..

Notas de Diseño Gráfico y Comunicación Audiovisual http://espanol.geocities.com/hernandoangel/blogger.html From Casinos Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..

The Spell of Speech <%image(shared/dartmouth_seal.jpg|147|166|)%>Electro-acoustic and instrumental music by Bruno Ruviaro...Bruno Ruviaro is finishing his Master's degree in Electro-Acoustic Music at Dartmouth. In his final concert at the College, Ruviaro will present a selection of his recent compositions, including instrumental (piano, percussion, voice) and electro-acoustic pieces. The major piece of the night, “The Spell of Speech”, features actress Hannah Chodos (Dartmouth '06) interacting with Ruviaro's electro-acoustic paraphernalia in a strange theatrical journey into the From BuzzFlood News on May 2, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..

Dean Talks to Execs About TV Talk Show <%image(20040501-gp_ppl_deanhoward_0803.JPG|128|90|)%>Post: Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean is talking to television producers about hosting a talk show. Dean met this week with executives from Paramount, which produces talk shows such as Judge Judy and Dr. Phil, according to Walker Waugh, a spokesman for Dean's grassroots group Democracy for America...The physician and former Vermont governor will speak regularly at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. until the election. He spoke last month on “The Long-term Implications of the 2004 Presidential Election,&#8 From BuzzFlood News on May 2, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..

The Internet's way of testing gullibility Let's say that one day, you receive a package in the post. It has a strange return address you've never corresponded with. Inside, there is a small bottle of mysterious liquid with a note attached that simply reads: "Drink me". Would you just shrug your shoulders, open the bottle, and guzzle down its contents? Hell no! Then why oh why, when people encounter mysterious emails beckoning them to run attachments of executables, they just dumbly click on? For the average user, there is absolutely no reason to send or receive executable programs or scripts (anything with an EXE, BAT, COM, From silentblue | Quantified on May 2, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Asio drivers for Sound Blaster Live 5.1 & Avance 97 From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School- Forums on May 2, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

OSP - comments I have been taking a look at the demo version of the OSP and am wondering what opinions people have on this ePortfolio system. If anyone has used it what do you consider to be its strengths and weaknesses? I... From ERADC Blog on May 2, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

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System down Swapped servers - and now struggling to get things back up/old stuff imported. Hopefully will sort this weekend. :(... From Monkeymagic on May 2, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

I've Made the Switch...finally Well, after years of relative dissatisfaction and frustration with Windows, I've finally made the move to Macintosh. The final impetus came Friday when my entire OS fell apart and rendered my access moot. As most of my colleagues will be happy to hear, I now am the proud owner of a 20" iMac - what a work of art! They should put me in one of those infomercials... Does anyone know of a good free RSS reader for Macintosh? My OPML files are sitting dormant. I'm so thankful that I transferred them all to From apcampbell News on May 2, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..

E-book From Athabasca University - Canada's Open University is a free e-book: Theory & Practice of Online Learning. It's 1.8mb and over 400 pages long. Just thought someone would fine it interesting.... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 2, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

'Wie Wissenschaftler berühmt... Anzahl der Veröffentlichungen zählt – "Google" ist das Maß aller Dinge Eine Gruppe von Physikern der Clarkson-Universität in den Vereinigten Staaten ist der Frage nachgegangen, wie Wissenschaftler berühmt werden. Der Studie zu Folge ist der Bekanntheitsgrad eines Forschers, ausgedrückt durch die Anzahl der Treffer bei einer Suche in der Internet-Suchmaschine Google, der Anzahl der Veröffentlichungen des Forschers proportional. Die Studie ist auf dem arXiv-Server ein From BildungsBlog on May 2, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

Glaskasten JuraWiki und das JIPS haben jetzt einen gemeinsamen Glaskasten. Wer mehr wissen will, schaut auf das Baustellenschild (PDF). :)... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

Police Futurists International (PFI) PFI entstand in den frühen 90er Jahren durch die Initiative von Vollzugsbeamten aus aller Welt. Sie sehen ihre Mission darin,... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

EU-Special zur Erweiterung Mit der Erweiterung der Europäischen Union am 01.05.2004 hat eine neue Zeitrechnung für Europa gegonnen. Was ist die historische Dimension... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

El 10% de los alumnos universitarios se pasa al estudio virtual Tiene entre 25 y 35 años y compagina estudios con trabajo. Es el perfil del 10% de estudiantes que apuesta por la enseñanza online. Internet ya resta cuota de mercado al sistema presencial, según el <... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 2, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

Las perspectivas de las TIC en la nueva Europa La mayor ampliación emprendida por la UE es ya una realidad. Diez nuevos países avanzan a gran velocidad para lograr la plena incorporación de las nuevas tecnologías al ámbito educativo.... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 2, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..

Cameraphone killer apps enhance social interaction Amen, Cameraphones are awesome social software devices! From Donald Norman - C | Summit 2004 - The Human Side of Cameraphones: QUOTEThe cellphone is a new platform. When Norman wrote “The Invisible Computer” he suggested that computers would cease to be the center of the mediated environment. We can buy, sell, read books, control the AC, run the bath water, use it for the subway…we can do everything. There was a lot of talk abou From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Mobile Boom is leading to mass deployment of Java and more Java phones than Macs Over a 100 million phones with Java MIDP on them. Hmmm. Now if that's not a platform, what is? That's more mobile phones sold in one year than Macs sold in 10 years! Developers developer developers. Ballmer was right. Sun needs to somehow capitalize on these Java phones and get some apps out there! From Russell Beattie Notebook - The mBoom: QUOTEIn the next quarter coming up, a good chunk of the phones are going to be MIDP 2.0/WAP 2.0 phones, if not all of them. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Mitch Kapor - Business success needs to be measured not just by profit , but by social impact as well Amen! Mitch nails it. The system forces companies to act in a non social way. Let's fix the system. I don't see why capitalism can't be reformed so that all corporations are socially responsible as well as make a profit. From Mitch Kapor's Weblog: The Real Terms of the Google Deal: QUOTEBut an even deeper problem is that the relationship between Google and its prospective shareholders is a form of mutual exploitation slightly worse than usual and much more From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Google has 47K - 79K machines! The Google cluster is an amazing thing. 189 teraflops and 10s of 1000s of machines. From How many Google machines: QUOTEAssuming that the 1Ghz chip is going at about a third the gigaflops of a 2Ghz processor (3.3Gflops), we can then guess at the size of the Google supercomputer. Just for the sake of argument, let's go with 1 Gigaflop per processor. This means that the Google supercomputer has about 189 teraflops of power on the low end of my estimates, 253 teraflops o From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

The soul comes here to make the world a better place Words to live by! From Fast Company Now: QUOTEI get asked two questions a lot. One is, "What can we do?" The other is, "How the hell did you ever get into this?" I have researched both questions with equal intensity. For the first one, the soundbite answer is: Look in the mirror. What are we doing wrong? Among the Mayan Indians, they're very good at this. In Mayan villages, when youth become brutal or violent, there's a council that's h From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

David Weinberger Rant and Video blogging is still too hard Most excellent rant. Read the whole thing to also see why video blogging software has a long way to go! From Jon Udell: i18n again: QUOTEC-SPAN captured David Weinberger's excellent rant yesterday at the Technology and Politics Summit in DC. The stream was overloaded last I checked, but I captured a clip (WinMedia, QuickTime). The corresponding segment of the stream, when it becomes available, is her From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Programmers alone must not decide how users can do things Amen! Great software is developed by somebody (or some time) with taste who either involves the user early or understands what real users want. From Jon Udell: Radical software customization: QUOTEWe can all agree that software must be customizable. But when programmers alone decide how users can do things, you often end up with a scenario like Aunt Tillie's OS X adventure: a dashboard packed with incomprehensible dials and knobs. If the dashboard was built with a dyn From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

What words and where? Applying usability testing techniques to name a new live reference service by ... What words and where? Applying usability testing techniques to name a new live reference service by Vicky Duncan and Darlene Fichter, Univeristy of Saskatchewan Library - JMLA, April 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 2, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Emerald's Journals of the Week for May 4, 2004 are European Journal of Innovation Management and Man ... Emerald's Journals of the Week for May 4, 2004 are European Journal of Innovation Management and Management Decision From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 2, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, April 22-28, are now available ... Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, April 22-28, are now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 2, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

The Association of Higher Education Web Professionals requests abstracts for its expanded, fifth ann ... The Association of Higher Education Web Professionals requests abstracts for its expanded, fifth annual HighEdWebDev conference. Deadline is June 7, 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 2, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

PANEL is a virtual knowledge and information exchange market place for organisations and individuals ... PANEL is a virtual knowledge and information exchange market place for organisations and individuals who are active or wish to start up projects in the area of scholarly and scientific electronic publishing From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 2, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Week ahead: Hardware's where it's at Hardware engineers will hear the latest about the Windows platform at WinHEC, while Cisco Systems will hold a power session on its networking technology. From CNET News.com on May 2, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

California toughens e-voting standards - Reuters California set tough new standards for electronic voting on Friday, barring a third of existing machines from November's ballot and ordering new security measures before thousands of others can be used. California Secretary of State Kev From Techno-News Blog on May 2, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Windows Server 2003 SP1 Inches Closer - Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch As part of the march toward final product delivery before year-end, Microsoft has delivered to select testers an interim beta with more 64-bit support. While many Windows watchers have been keeping a close eye on the forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Win From Techno-News Blog on May 2, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

New worm's got sass, but not much else - Robert Lemos, CNET News.com The security researchers at eEye Digital Security are not impressed with the Sasser worm. The company, which found the flaws that were exploited by both the MSBlast worm and the Witty worm, on Saturday started analyzing the latest piece of attack code From Techno-News Blog on May 2, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Music industry sues more students for illegal file-sharing - eSchool News The recording industry sued 477 more computer users April 28, including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states, accusing them of illegally sharing music across the internet. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade g From Educational Technology on May 2, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Poll: Student cheating prevalent - Associated Press More than seven in 10 teen-agers say students in their school cheat on tests, and almost as many say cheating on homework is widespread, too, a national poll finds. Almost a third of students admit to cheating, according to the ABC News Primetime poll From Educational Technology on May 2, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Bridging the Gap--Online and Offline Learning - Jim Kiggens, Syllabus Cerro Coso Community College serves this 18,000-square-mile stretch of mountain, desert and valley communities. It is one of the largest community college service areas in the U.S., with a population base of over 85,000. The school has five on-ground i From Online Learning Update on May 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Training Future EMTs Online While Covering Traditional College Curricula - Thomas A. Hennigan, Syllabus Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC), U.S. News & World Report's third-ranked public college in the West, offers a broad range of distance learning courses covering the traditional subjects. The institution, however, is taking eLearning further than many o From Online Learning Update on May 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

An environment for studying collaborative learning activities - Nikolaos Avouris, Vassilis Komis, Meletis Margaritis, Georgios Fiotakis; ETS Abstract: Studies of collaborative learning activities often involve analyses of dialogue and interaction as well as analyses of tasks and actors From Online Learning Update on May 2, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station In the 1960s radio sucked badly; even worse than it does today. There were no rock stations. The only rock and roll was played on the AM pop station, and sparingly, at that. FM was relatively new, and the FM stations only played easy listening, Jazz, etc. My dad listened to FM 95, which played Herb Alpert and the like; almost jazz, "easy listening," boring music. There were two pop stations in town, one of which lost its license around 1963 for a fraudulent on-air contest that had people digging holes all over St. Louis, trespassing, etc, and it turned out that the prize didn't exis From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 2, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..

Arbeitskreis für Technologieunterstütztes Lernen in Banken und Bausparkassen (TLB) Gestern und heute traf sich der Arbeitskreis für Technologieunterstütztes Lernen in Banken und Bausparkassen (TLB) in Düsseldorf. Gastgeber war die Citibank. Ich weiss gar nicht wie, aber von Treffen zu Treffen spielt e-Learning eine immer kleinere Rolle, und das ist... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 2, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..

Schadensersatz für Datenverlust? Sobald der Auftraggeber auf Rückfrage eine Datensicherung bestätigt, dürfen sich IT-Unternehmen darauf verlassen, berichtet Heise unter Berufung auf JurPC. Zusätzliche... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 2, 2004 at 6:54 a.m..

Print-On-Demand Self-Publishing Ready For Prime-Time "The rise of print-on-demand technology and websites devoted to self publishing is making it ever easier for writers to bypass conventional publishers. Many authors have become frustrated with conventional publishers, entrenched by market projections, annual styles and the unmentionable word... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 2, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

Information Functionality: How Breadcrumbs, Site Maps And Site Navigation Are The Critical Conversion-Rate Drivers "A fascinating thing about watching visitors navigate is recognizing that repeat visitors typically use sites differently than first-time visitors. You might consider changing your navigation based on this, as Amazon.com changes the tabs displayed based on purchase and browsing patterns.... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 2, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

Quizzing Can Be A Great Learning Tool Jane Knight of the e-Learning Centre has put together a useful and exhaustive collection of tools and services that allow educators and trainers to design, structure and deploy effective quizzes and tests. I myself find the use of game quizzing... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 2, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

DECAFBAD's one line shell script to generate an RSS feed for his referers Must add DECAFBAD's one line shell script to generate an RSS feed for his referers to this blog! From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

decafbad.com 500 & 404 report shell script decafbad.com 500 & 404 report is another cool script to learn off of. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

The Future is the Internet overlaid on the world and always on Bring it on! From Red Herring Blog: Disruptive innovations: QUOTEWe're already seeing the beginnings of that breakdown. Mobile phones show how addictive constant connectivity can be: there's a reason the Finnish call cell phones kanny, an extension of the hand. Wi-fi hot spots and laptops let us enjoy a still-fractured ubiquity, giving a glimpse of an always-on, always-available Web. (As William Gibson said, the future is here, it's just not eve From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

Jack Valenti - Still clueless after all these years (Via Darryl VanDorp's randomthoughts)The freedom to tinker and lawful fair use is at the heart of why DRM s*cks. I can't see how Mr. Valenti can justify the fact that it's illegal for me to run a program to view a DVD on Linux which I've lawfully rented. From Real Dialogue: The Tech interviews Jack V From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

Dave Shea explains standards based HTML and XHTML Excellent, looking forward to the sequel about CSS! From mezzoblue  &ampsect;  A Roadmap to Standards: QUOTEThis afternoon I was asked by a friend what I would recommend to an old designer who wants to learn more about web standards, CSS, XML, and XHTML. This is a perfect example of when an email response is better posted here for a wider audience (and Google). So here’s my answer: this is a comprehensive, informal, and somewhat long-winde From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 2, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..

Observer coverage of the Wellcome report on Open Access The UK Observer newspaper covers the Wellcome report on Open Access: "Free online publication of scientific research - so-called open access - could cut scientific publishing costs by 30 per cent and still provide a viable business model, according to research released by the Wellcome Trust" more... From FOS News on May 2, 2004 at 6:49 a.m..

Breathing through Gills Hidden behind the mother of all paywalls for anyone trying to look at it from outside of the UK, the Sunday Times' online presence is pityfully underlinked-to. This is a pity, as today's AA Gill restaurant review column is, as... From Ben Hammersley.com on May 2, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

10 Years of Writing HTML Tutorial Sometime recently we passed another milestone in the 10th year of continuous web presence by our Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction. In Spring of 1994 we were doing support for faculty at South Mountain Community College in helping them get started with a local "center" for teaching, learning, and technology-- we had convinced the college to donate space for an "Educational Technology Center", a small room in the back of t From cogdogblog on May 2, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..

ITT Technical Institute's First Annual Technology Car Show and Open House May 15th MURRAY, UT. (April 30, 2004)-- ITT Technical Institutes in Murray, UT will be having it's first annual Technology Car Show and Open House on May 15th from 10am to 4pm. This is a part of our 20th anniversary celebration for having a campus in the Salt Lake Valley. [PRWEB May 2, 2004] From PR Web on May 2, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Texas Teacher Certification Never Easier Sam Houston State University is now allowing their students to qualify to take their Texas teacher certification exams by showing proof-of-purchase of TExES Master. This is powerful testimony to the quality of the TExES Master products. [PRWEB May 2, 2004] From PR Web on May 2, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Más de 1000 miembros y mensajes en los Foros. Gracias a todos Hola a todos, Hace poco menos de un año que la Comunidad eLearning WORKSHOPS inició su andadura con el único objetivo de ofrecer un centro de recursos y espacio de interacción sobre eLea... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 1, 2004 at 11:53 p.m..

More on Lessig's Free Culture Thomas D. Sullivan, Practicing the Liberty He Preaches, New York Times, April 29, 2004. (Requires free registration.) Another angle and an update on Lawrence Lessig's and Penguin's experience making the professor's Free Culture available as a free download. Sullivan reports "21 editions of the free digital version have been created." Some other numbers are cited: Penguin said the book sold out its first printing, but the company would not disclose specific numbers....Online, meanwhile, From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

Wellcome trust releases report pointing to OA's cost-effectiveness Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing. The Wellcome Trust commissioned and today announced the publication of a new study probing publishing costs of scientific journals, both those with subscription models and OA author-pay models. The press release states open access models could be cheaper by as much as 30 per cent and that OA is "economically viable" and "sustainable". "The report suggests that a £1100 payment by the author would al From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

Another author experimenting with free online books Peter Griffin, Writer gambles by giving away novel on net, the New Zealand Herald, April 30, 2004. Another writer experiments with offering free downloads. Unlike Lessig, whose book has to do with offering free content, this one is an action novel (no CC license, either). A news article reports on Matthew Reilly and his latest novel Hover Car Racer, "a thriller that is being published in eight online in From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

Oxford University Press continues OA experiments with eCAM Oxford University Press announces a new open access journal, Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, co-published with INMPRC (Ishikawa Natural Medicinal Products Research Center.) Due to financial support from the latter, there will be no author charges. (Source: George Porter, SPARC Open Access Forum) From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

the Varieties of Institutional Repositories Miriam A. Drake, Institutional Repositories: Hidden Treasures, Searcher (May 2004). Drake offers a thorough evaluation of the range and kinds of academic institutional repositories. She covers repositories' archival functions, models and standards such as the open archives initiative, kinds of repositories such as DSpace and California's escholarship program, as well as software such as EPrints. The author also digs into questions of how repositories can be used by faculty and researchers, policy questions, legal is From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

Johns Hopkins OA resource for faculty Johns Hopkins University has a Scholarly Communications Group (mainly of university librarians) and they have set up a concise and navigable resource on scholarly publishing issues, including resources for authors, a listing of university policies (both at JHU and other institutions) and organizations that help, a catalog of alternative publishing models, a bibliography, and a news page. (Source: Susan Payne via Info Career Trends) FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

CiteSeer and scientometrics: "how authors accrue citations with time" Dror Feitelson and Uri Yovel, Predictive ranking of computer scientists using CiteSeer data, Journal of Documentation, 60, 1 (2004) pp. 44-61. Only this abstract is free online: "The increasing availability of digital libraries with cross-citation data on the Internet enables new studies in bibliometrics. The paper focuses on the list of 10,000 top-cited authors in computer science available as part of CiteSeer. Using data from several consecutive lists a m From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

Launch of CampusEAI Consortium On April 7, a group of universities and K-12 schools launched the CampusEAI Consortium to develop and share digital content for educators, including open-source software and open-access music, movies, television, and curricular materials. Nothing at the web site or in the press release explains what "EAI" stands for. (Thanks to the ITRU Update.) From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

Archiving digital records and research Johan Steenbakkers, Treasuring the Digital Records of Science: Archiving E-Journals at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, RLG DigiNews, April 2004. Excerpt: "In the Netherlands, Dutch universities, the KB, and three other academic institutions co-operate with the SURF Foundation (the foundation for the national science data network) in project DARE (Digital Academ From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

More on the Nature OA debate The Nature debate on open access now has an RSS feed. From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

More on the Wellcome Trust report Katie Mantell, Open access 'can cut costs by up to 30 per cent', SciDev.Net, April 30, 2004. A short summary of the new Wellcome Trust report. Excerpt: "Making scientific research freely available on the Internet could cut publishing costs by as much as 30 per cent without lowering publication standards, according to a new report by the Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's leading biomedical research charity... From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

OA in the field of classics Robin Cover, Delivering Classics Resources with TEI-XML, Open Source, and Creative Commons Licenses, Cover Pages, April 28, 2004. A snapshot of OA initiatives in the field of classics, focusing on the April 2004 "Cultural Informatics" issue of the OA journal, Classics@, published by Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. (Thanks to Ross Scaife.) From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

Combining museum exhibits with OA research On April 23, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) opened the Marian Koshland Science Museum, a meatspace museum in Washington DC with a first-rate web site. Exhibits are based on research from NAS research reports and include links to OA texts and data. Also see Jacqueline Trescott's story in the April 23 Washington Post, Koshland Museum Takes Science Out Of the Textbook and Slashdot discussion, FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

More on the Wellcome Trust report Mark Walport, The paperless revolution in knowledge, Financial Times, April 30, 2004. The director of the Wellcome Trust summarizes its new report on open-access publishing. Excerpt: "Another issue is that once copyright is surrendered, anyone wanting to From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:49 p.m..

New issue of The Electronic Library The new issue of The Electronic Library (vol. 22, no. 2) is now online. Here are the OA-related articles. Only abstracts are free online, at least so far.

Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets, RoMEO studies 5: IPR issues facing OAI data and service providers < From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:48 p.m..

More on the CrossRef-Google deal EContent has an unsigned note on the CrossRef-Google deal in its April 30 issue, CrossRef Launches Google-powered CrossRef Search. Excerpt: "CrossRef has announced a new initiative that is intended to enable users to search the full text of peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources covering scholarly research from nine publishers. Called CrossRef Search, this new pilot program uses the collaborative environment of CrossRef, the refere From FOS News on May 1, 2004 at 11:48 p.m..

Rape and Robbery Suspect Is Charged in Killing One of the men charged with sexual assault and robbery in a home break-in near the Rutgers University campus in early March is now accused of a fatal shooting as well. From New York Times: Education on May 1, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

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