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Ratio of CMS product to services costs Tony Byrne answers a question on the ratio of CMS product to services costs. To quote: I was at the Gilbane conference in L.A. in March and attended the "One Minute with a CMS Vendor" panel that you moderated. During... From Column Two on May 7, 2004 at 9:50 p.m..

Sun: trial set for Kodak suit over Java Unable to settle the patent suit filed by Kodak over Sun's Java software, the two sides will have to work it out in court--starting Sept. 15. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Reuters RSS I mentioned a while ago that Reuters withdrew content from Yahoo! in order to become a stand-alone news service. The next step in this happened today as it launched a set of RSS feeds covering general news and specific areas, such as business and health. No feed for education - I've always wondered why newspapers will cover fashion but not learning. Related to this item: an update on NewsML (from May 4), another XML format supported by Reuters. By Unknown, Reuters, May 7, 2004 [OLDaily on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Adapt or Die: The Strategic Role of Learning in the On-Demand Enterprise The message of the article is essentially that "the current market economy places a premium on innovation, new business models and new ways of organizing work." It's not the first time we've seen the phrase "adapt or die" in an article - such as this item by Don Tapscott a few days ago - and thus far the choice hasn't been that stark, not even for music or news companies. But it's a trend, and companies that don't recognize that "the scarcity paradigm that undergirds most modern economic theory From OLDaily on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

RSS: A Learning Technology An article about the RSS of information that gets a lot of its information from a reliable source - me. I like this bit: "Downes paints the picture of the future of learning: A 'desktop e-learning application that plugs into the learning object repository network and is able to search across a wide number of collections and retrieve exactly the learning you want in a given circumstance.'" The article also talks about some of Alan Levine's work at Maricopa and his presentation with D'Arcy Norman and Brian Lamb. Good list of resources at the end of the article. By Eva Kaplan From OLDaily on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-Government Ranking Canada is number one in e-government for the fourth straight year, according to this survey from Accenture. Being inside that government I am able to see some of the planning and discussions around e-government, and what I've seen suggests to me that we'll be in this position for years to come. It's important, I think, to keep in mind that e-government is more than just e-voting. It is also more than just a government website. By Eric Chabrow, Information Week, May 6, 2004 [Refe From OLDaily on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Optasia Announces the Release of its ELCAP Authoring Tool Optasia, a Philadelphia based company, has announced the release of a new e-learning authoring application, an "application development tool for creating engaging, interactive, media-rich, technology-based training." By Press Release, Yahoo Finance, May 6, 2004 [Refer][Research][ From OLDaily on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Why Use DRM If It Doesn't Work? OK, I've felt like a pretty lonely voice with this argument, but somebody agrees with me: DRM isn't about the money, "it's all about the control." That's why, according to this author, DRM works for companies even if it doesn't succeed it protecting content - it provides the legimacy and support for a network in which content producers maintain legal control over the use of the material produced. "Content owners don't like fair use. If they could, they would ban every bad review, critical comment or parody. Soon-to-retire MPAA president Jack Valenti has been wont From OLDaily on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

The Art of Blogging George Siemens talks about blogging at the MADLat Conference, linking to this summary of his talk as well as to his notes on my talk from earlier in the day - nice. Instant reportage. By George Siemens, elearnspace, May 7, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Projecting Quality I am at the Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training (MADLaT) Conference here in Winnipeg where I was able to catch up with my friends from the province. It's too bad this conference is so short - it would have been nice to spend more time with them. Anyhow, this link is to the slides from my presentation at the conference, a description of the use of learning object evaluations to organize the filtering of learning resources, a project NRC worked on with Mosaic Technologies over the last year or so. By From Ben Hammersley.com on May 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

California county sues state over e-vote ban Riverside County teams up with groups representing the disabled to sue California's secretary of state for banning voting machines that help the disabled exercise their right to vote anonymously. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Getting Involved with Threadless.com eBiz Profile: Want to boost sales? Take a cue from how this t-shirt e-tailer leverages visitor interaction. From E-Commerce Guide on May 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

AOL exercises Google warrants Joining the IPO profit parade, America Online says in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it has purchased 7.4 million of the search leader's preferred shares. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Who Needs Encryption Anyway Audible Magic is up to its old tricks, this time with a firm called Palisade Systems.  It's a system designed for ISPs to monitor all your traffic, P2P, email or otherwise.  As if that wasn't enough, read on: "Jacobson said the identification process would not work on an encrypted network, such as is used in several newer file-swapping programs. However, the Palisade software co From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

A Different Perspective on Janus I generally agree with sentiments expressed by many others (for example, Ernest) about Janus.  I'm uncertain how much consumers really want to rent their music such that it dies when their subscription lapses; the DRM/copyright/contract behemoth (as noted by Ernest) also has some frightening implications. At the same time, I do think Janus certainly is important to From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

DRM Works All Too Well Ernest explains how DRM's control may be useful to the content industries even if it doesn't stop piracy.  I agree entirely with his analysis, though I know some people within in the industries certainly believe that it will also stop piracy. From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Is That Really What the Market Needs? UPDATE: Apple has denied these rumors. Frank points to an article that says Apple will be raising its singles prices.  Before I believe it, I'll need some other confirimation, because Steve Jobs has denied these changes so many times and the $.99 has been a central part of their marketing campaign and value. I d From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..

Posting vs. Blogging So I'm just going to go down this road a little bit further and try to clarify the distinctions I see between posting and blogging. Dennis responded with: I'd disagree that "This is what I did today" is necessarily not blogging. How many of us have reached for a kitchen knife when we know we've got a little plastic box with screwdrivers of different sizes in a box somewhere in the basement? In a pinch, I'll use a rock if the rock i From weblogged News on May 7, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Finding Learning Objects I think Scott Leslie's report of his effort to find a learning resource to answer a practical, immediate question is an instructive exercise. When teaching instructors about instructional repositories I often start workshops with an exercise to "try to find an online learning tool that you might apply to one of your introductory courses." Starting with a general search engine such as Google is very different than starting with a more specialized search engine such Scirus or Scout; the difference is results becomes very cle From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on May 7, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Frontier: There's life in the old dog yet Frontier 9.0.1 beta 2 is released. Seems UserLand has started to work on Frontier and Manila again. That's good news. I'd like to hear what they have in store for the Frontier application core. From owrede_log on May 7, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

On Outliners Here is a teriffic series of articles about outliner software:

NoteTaker and NoteBook&ampmdash;May 2004

Announcing the FORE/1 Outliner&ampmdash;Apr 2004

Legacy Outliners&ampmdash;Mar 2004

Outliner User Interfaces&ampmdash;Feb 2004

Outliner Use Patterns&ampmdash;Dec 2003

- From owrede_log on May 7, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

TechTV's Last Gasp CNet reports that TechTV has laid off the entire San Francisco staff. This was expected, but it's still a shame. TechTV did some terrific work during its run. I'm sorry to see it go, and hope its talented staff will find a place to land. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 7, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Electronic Replicas of Newspapers: Solving a Non-Existent Problem

jack Shafer (Slate): Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper: Reading the electronic versions of the New York Times and Washington Post.. That these editions induce claustrophobia, even when displayed on a large flat-panel monitor, cannot be denied. For a sense of how poorly the facsimile of a broadsheet newspaper translates onto a computer screen, imagine reading a newspaper through a six-pane colonial window in which five of the panes have been blacked out. I haven't had this sort of tunnel vision while reading since the last From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 7, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Music Industry's Ongoing Obtuseness

Steven Levy (Newsweek): iTunes and Lawsuits. Isn't it obvious by now that by accelerating the momentum of online stores like iTunes (and also promoting subscription services like Rhapsody, which can potentially deliver huge royalties to the industry) the industry will move quicker to a model from which it could launch hundreds of new ways to make money? (Jobs himself suggested one: sell out-of-catalog music now rotting in storage rooms for low prices.) Isn't this a better way to move towards the future than suing co From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 7, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

The Power of Pictures By many accounts, the horrible treatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers and mercenaries has been going on ever since the end of the invasion. The Red Cross warned U.S. officials a year ago. Yet it took those ugly photographs to turn this into the huge story that it's become. Which raises some questions: Suppose the Americans hadn't bothered to tak From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 7, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Music Companies' Greed Will Kill Online Music

NY Post: Apple Tunes Up. Under the terms of some of the deals, the prices for some of the most popular singles could rise to $1.25, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. Songs have previously been priced at 99 cents across the board. And, apparently, album prices will rise even higher than the CDs cost in stores. Let's see. Charging more on a medium where the manufacturing costs are zero -- now that's a way to encourage sales. Brilliant. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 7, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

UPnP, Web services, and Rendezvous A few of us InfoWorlders spoke yesterday with one of Microsoft's Indigo architects, John Shewchuk. In the course of our conversation, Shewchuk mentioned the recent WinHEC announcement about device support for Web services protocols, reported in InfoWorld on May 5: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Lexmark International Inc. and Ricoh Co. Ltd. on Tuesday detailed new Web services technology designed to make it easier for users to connect devices such as printers, digital cameras and digital music players over a network. The companies at Microsoft's From Jon's Radio on May 7, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Thank You Thank you, everybody, for reading all my posts this week. And thanks most of all to our host, Lawrence Lessig, for letting me reach a bigger and better readership this week. It was fun. I got some great and helpful feedback. As of Saturday, I will be back on my own site, Sivacracy.net. It will be good to be home again. Please watch Sivacracy.net next week. I might be guest blogging on another major blog. I will announce my plans there. I am working on the details now. Meanwhile, I have to travel to Vancouver for another gi From Lessig Blog on May 7, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Bluejake and Satan's Laundromat If you're looking for slice-of-life New York City photographs of the compelling and off-beat, the images at Bluejake and Satan's Laundromat have got you covered. They're both licensed under Creative Commons and allow for derivative works, making for some great collage fodder. From Creative Commons: weblog on May 7, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

IMS/SSP Comes So Close... A few years ago I gave a conference presentation about adding collaboration functionality to SCORM. Not many people seemed particularly interested in human-to-human interaction in SCORM (or IMS, etc.), and so I presented a model where such functionality might be “hacked in” via a common roll-up area where arbitrary data (“comments”, “questions”, “answers”, “documents”, etc.) could be stored on a per SCO basis (almost exactly the From autounfocus on May 7, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Microsoft names new CIO Ron Markezich takes over as chief information officer, responsible for managing the software giant's internal information systems. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Apple: 99 cent music price tag stays, for now Wholesale costs for digital music are beginning to fluctuate, but iTunes and others are holding the line on singles prices. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

SAP to add 500 software jobs in India Hiring plans this year will also give the German company 500 more workers in the United States, where sales are on an upswing, an SAP representative says. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Using high-energy physics to preserve old records Berkeley scientists are working on a technique that holds promise for digitizing fragile archives of antique recordings. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Canadian bank backs away from SCO The Royal Bank of Canada sells two-thirds of its investment in the SCO Group to BayStar, giving the hedge fund a boost in its search for changes at the Unix company. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Microsoft struggles in emerging markets The software maker's sales model in Asia and other emerging markets isn't working, and executives are searching for an elusive fix. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Luminary joins open-source protection firm Bruce Perens, a living Linux legend, is onboard, literally, with Open Source Risk Management, which provides insurance-like protection to Linux users. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

PalmOne continues with retail strategy Pursuing a strategy that has brought mixed results for hardware makers, the handheld specialist opens its 11th retail store, this one at the Philadelphia airport. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Intel hastily redraws road maps update The company's decision to drop two chips and move to a technology that promises better performance is seen as a major shift, but the new plans are short on detail. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Protectionism never helps With the political season heating up, J. William Gurley offers numerous reasons why Silicon Valley should be alarmed about protectionism. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

New SAP products aim for easy solutions The enterprise applications maker is hoping that its SAP Direct line of software and services will provide quicker fixes to users of its larger applications. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

HP brings OpenVMS to the SuperDome The venerable operating system gets its first European airing on the Itanium 2-based SuperDome, proving there's life in the old dog yet. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Week in review: No wimpy worm After a slow start, successive versions of the Sasser worm slithered around the Net, crashing hundreds of thousands of computers thanks to unpatched systems. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

The Economist says Fire Rummy There's no shortage of news articles about abuses of prisoners in Iraq. And now several publications, including the New York Times and The Economist are calling for the resignation of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The Economist's op-ed, Resign, Rumsfeld has a clear premise, "Responsibility for errors and indiscipline needs to be taken at the top." The scandal is widening, with more allegations coming to light. Moreover, the From megnut on May 7, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Gardens cool and trendy now "The Blog Generation Takes Up Its Trowels" is a NY Times article on young urban gardners, many of whom are artists. The article describes, "a passion that is blossoming among a certain segment of culturally plugged-in urban 20-somethings and early-30-somethings. They may not own backyards, but they are determined to make things grow." Why that sounds just like me! Alas, I found the article annoying and hipstery, but I'm happy that more people are discoverying the joys of From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Helen Vendler on Cultural Democracy and the Arts Michael Madison was kind enought to point me to this link of Helen Vendler's speech to her 2004 Jefferson Lecture. It's provocative on matters of the relative value of philosophy and literature to a humanistic education. It would not be hard to embed some of her points in a Free Culture argument as well. From Lessig Blog on May 7, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Hotmail appears unreachable Microsoft's e-mail service appears to be down, an outage that would potentially affect millions of people. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Blogs and RSS WebQuest Nice.... "Blogs and RSS- Tools for Creating, Collecting, and Sharing Ideas Online" , presented as a WebQuest: "Learn about tools that will forever change the way you gather information online and separate the online publishing from the technical hurdles typically associated with running a web site" This has your basic components of a webquest, a task, process, evaluation, littered with resources (a number point back to this dog) and activity templates... you will also From cogdogblog on May 7, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

Broadband set for speed boost - BBC Broadband may be today's technology but the future lies with 'broaderband'. So says the media-to-telecoms regulator Ofcom as it plans what the UK's telecoms and broadcast landscape will look like for the next decade. The regulator is keen to get its From Techno-News Blog on May 7, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Liberal Net rules spawn political attack ads - Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com When it comes to pushing harsh political attack ads, election campaign managers are discovering that few other media compare to the Web. For example, thanks to changes in campaign law that have largely taken effect this year, candidates From Techno-News Blog on May 7, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

3-D TV Is Closer Than You Think - Penelope Patsuris, Forbes While we're busy comparison shopping for flat-screen TVs and upgrading to high definition broadcasts, the consumer electronics industry is readying a whole new television proposition to sell us. The new "new thing" is three-dimensional television view From Techno-News Blog on May 7, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Wyoming ranks high in use of technology in the classroom - Associated Press A study by Education Week shows that Wyoming is one of only two states with 100 percent of its schools connected to the Web. Delaware is the other. The analysis also found that Wyoming had the second-best mark of students per instructional computer. From Educational Technology on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Nearly 100 Utah High Schools Deploy Online Courses and Web Delivery System for Classroom Instruction LearnKey, an online learning systems provider, today announced nearly 100 high schools across Utah have successfully deployed the company's OnlineExpert(R) Web-based learning platform and are delivering courses via the Internet to more than 11,000 seco From Educational Technology on May 7, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Microsoft says no to venture investing The software powerhouse's strategy toward venture investing these days can be summed up in a word: Don't. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

The essence of Googlism After a week of Google mania, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper wants to get in the last word. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Offshoring: The next technology battlefields Digital Agenda Rather than try to reverse the outsourcing wave, the best way for America to fend off foreign competition is to invent technologies. From CNET News.com on May 7, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

CDs, DVDs: Human After All One reason CDs and DVDs are so expensive is that they're supposed to last forever. Well, they don't. Shoddy manufacturing can spell an early demise, as can careless storage and handling. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Microsoft Plugs PC as Media Hub At this year's confab for hardware developers, Microsoft continues to plug the PC as the center of home entertainment in the future. It's a category the company must master, because time is running out for the plain ol' PC. Cydney Gillis reports from the WinHEC conference in Seattle. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Cable Snaking Into Everything Cable operators are battling for control of your house, so industry executives showed off the possibilities at their national convention. Staci D. Kramer reports from New Orleans. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

The Movie That Wasn't There Kerry Conran spent years rendering retrobots on his home computer. Now his garage blockbuster starring Gwyneth & #038; Jude and a rendered world is hitting the big screen. By Frank Rose from Wired magazine. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Stealing Back the Airwaves As summer camps go, it's unusual. In four days, you can learn to build transmitters and antennas, and get advice on handling any FCC agents wondering about your new radio station. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

How the Word Gets Around How does a meme travel through the blogosphere? The Memespread Project seeded an idea and watched it grow, learning a lot about information transmission along the way. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Sick of Spam? Prepare for Adware Adware and its spyware cousins now account for more than 12 percent of all technical support calls, says Dell. It's the single largest category of complaints, and it's only getting worse. Can anything be done to stop the problem before it becomes an epidemic? By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

NASA Funds Sci-Fi Technology The space agency has a little-known research arm that's looking into the wildest technology imaginable -- antimatter propulsion, weather control and robotic asteroid destroyers, to name a few. But can it survive a budget crunch? By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on May 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

10 Principles of Change Management John Jones, DeAnne Aguirre, and Matthew Calderone have written an article on the 10 principles of change management. To quote: Market transparency, labor mobility, global capital flows, and instantaneous communications have blown that comfortable scenario to smithereens. In most industries--... From Column Two on May 7, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..

MENC: The National Association for Music Education Gives "World's Largest Thanks" to Endorsers of The World's Largest Concert® 20th Anniversary of Annual Event a Success! [PRWEB May 7, 2004] From PR Web on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Whizlabs redefines IT Certification preparation with its instructor-led, online trainings Whizlabs Software has redefined IT certification preparation with its instructor-led, online trainings, an effective concept of learning and education. [PRWEB May 7, 2004] From PR Web on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

American Sailing Association certifies Port Sailing School in New York The American Sailing Association, the leader in U.S. sailing education for nearly two decades, has certified Port Sailing School, located in Port Washington, New York, to teach the ASA sailing course. ASA sets standards for sailing schools, instructors, and students by providing standardized training and curriculum for member schools. [PRWEB May 7, 2004] From PR Web on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Isoph's "The Sophist" Features Interview with David Bornstein Quarterly Journal Speaks with Author of How to Change the World [PRWEB May 7, 2004] From PR Web on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Saving Money in Key Areas will Help Enable Consumers to Become Debt Free Advises Kingdom Financial Principles www.SoLongBills.com Groton, VT HYPHEN May 6, 2004 HYPHENSaving money may sound like opening a savings account but not necessarily according to Gene Jolley, President of Kingdom Financial Principles. Going against the grain of traditional teaching, Jolley advises not to be so quick in depositing extra money in a savings account. Instead people should first concentrate on freeing themselves from debt. Jolley teaches in his seminars a key way to faster debt elimination: save money by finding ways to reduce monthly spending habits. [PRWEB May 7, 2004] From PR Web on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Job Seekers Need "Low Carb" Resumes More "meat" and less "filler" needed in today's resumes [PRWEB May 7, 2004] From PR Web on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Pernod Ricard Forecasts Over One Million Vacationers at its 18 Visitor Centers in 2004, 'Economic Tourism' Growing Worldwide According to Leading Wine and Spirits Producer Vacationers this summer can discover the history and heritage of their favorite drink produced by Pernod Ricard, one of the world's leading producers of wine and spirits, whether plans take them to Scotland, Ireland, the Cognac region of France, Australia or Kentucky in the U.S.A. Eighteen of the company's distilleries around the world are open to the public, many of them all year, others in vacation months. [PRWEB May 7, 2004] From PR Web on May 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Untitled Sony Preps EyeToy: Chat for E3 "Sony announced another set of software for its web cam peripheral (and plans to show it at E3), called EyeToy: Chat. The idea is to turn the Playstation 2 into a big communications portal, with the ability to support up to 256 users simultaneously in text mode (IRC with a PS2 controller. Fun.), voice chat with up to 16, and one-on-one video chats, as well as 30-second video messages that can be sent even when the recipie From The Shifted Librarian on May 7, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

Kerry Wants $30 Billion for Teachers Senator John Kerry called Thursday for a "new bargain" with teachers, proposing to spend $30 billion over 10 years to recruit, coach and reward better teachers. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Columbia Football Player Is Charged With Sexual Abuse A Columbia University sophomore who is on the varsity football team was arrested late Wednesday and charged with the sexual abuse of a female student eight months ago. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Harvard Receives Gift to Promote Public Service The owner of U.S. News & World Report and The Daily News is giving Harvard $10 million to help professionals who enter public service. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

N.C.A.A. Passes Academic Reforms The N.C.A.A. approved a package of academic reforms on Thursday that will penalize colleges starting in 2006 if athletes perform too poorly in the classroom. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Retest Is Option for 3rd Graders Who Got Peek New York City third graders who got a look at questions on last week's citywide reading test can take a different version of the test or have their scores adjusted. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Bruno Voices Doubts on New York School Funding Talks The Republican leader of the State Senate, Joseph Bruno, said that New York's leaders might be incapable of meeting a court order to finance improvements to schools. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Ex-Headmaster Pleads Guilty in Smut Case The former headmaster of the Trevor Day School in Manhattan pleaded guilty to two felony counts in connection with an Internet pedophile investigation. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Art Academy's Helping Hand Is Now Held as a Con Artist Robert Angona was arrested last week on charges of stealing more than $50,000 from the New York Academy of Art in TriBeCa. From New York Times: Education on May 7, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

2 Fast 2 Furious Texting The World Record for Fastest Text Messaging "Setting a world speed record for the one skill that we hope will become obsolete in the very near future, James Trusler has emerged as the worlds fastest text messager, tapping out, 'The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human' on his cellphone in a mere 67 seconds, shaving nearly a minute off of the previous From The Shifted Librarian on May 7, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

iCrazy for the iTunes Online Music Selling Like Hotcakes "Apple just announced they sold 3.3 million songs in 7 days on the iTunes Music Store. To put this in perspective, the entire top ten of the Billboard music chart is tracking just over 2 million units. If anyone in the music industry doubted that people would ever want to pay for music online, Apple's rece From The Shifted Librarian on May 7, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

Talking about 'We the Media' I'll be giving a talk about my upcoming book, We, the Media, in Silicon Valley on May 20. It's part of the SDForum's speaker series, and will be at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Details here. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 7, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

IT Training and Support for Very Remote Communities Very remote communities across Australia will have better access to basic computer training and technical support under an $8.8 million program announced today. The Australian Government's IT Training and Technical Support Program aims to make basic information, computer technology (ICT) training and technical support more accessible for people and organisations located in very remote areas of Australia. Remote communities, particularly indigenous communities, are at greatest disadvantage in access to basic IT training and technical support due to their distance from formal training. From EdNA Online on May 7, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

$308 Million Investment in ICT The Australian Government will invest $308 million in measures to boost innovation in ICT as part of the $5.3 billion Backing Australia's Ability - Building Our Future Through Science and Innovation package announced by Prime Minister John Howard. A$57million extension of funding for the ICT Incubators and Advanced Networks Programs previously funded under the Building on IT Strengths (BITS) program. The Government's commitment to ICT innovation through Backing Australia's Ability - Building Our Future Through Science and Innovation will ensure that Australia is able to harness From EdNA Online on May 7, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

One-in-five Australians Report a Disability One-in-five people aged 15-64 years in private households who had reported no disability had a bachelor degree or higher, compared to one-in-eight people (13%) with a disability. One-in-five Australians reported a disability according to preliminary findings from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers released today. Almost 4 million people reported a disability last year with the rate similar for males and females. From EdNA Online on May 7, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Exploring Assessment in Flexible Delivery of Vocational Education and Training Programs This report highlights the diversity of assessment methods used in flexible delivery modes of teaching across Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector. While assessment practice is underpinned by training package and course curriculum requirements, other factors influence the methods teachers and assessors choose. These include the availability of qualified workplace assessors, the proximity of students to teachers or assessors, the need to ensure students' work is their own, and the involvement of learners and workplaces in the assessment process. This suggests From EdNA Online on May 7, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

SURJ The Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal, a very impressive student-run academic publication here, has published its third volume under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike license. I got to speak at SURJ's annual awards event this week on Stanford's campus, and the group's enthusiasm for open-access research was inspiring. From Creative Commons: weblog on May 7, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded 2004-05-06: W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. The new release is easier to use and install. It features new documentation and navigation, and offers helpful explanations and recovery mechanisms instead of fatal errors. Managed by a team of volunteers and the W3C Quality Assurance Activity, and supported by a large community, this validator is the single most popular resource on the W3C Web site. Read the announcement. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 6, 2004 at 11:48 p.m..

TechTV lays off San Francisco staff The technology cable channel hands 285 employees their walking papers, a move that was widely feared by workers after Comcast announced in March that it would acquire TechTV. From CNET News.com on May 6, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

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