Free Online review of Low-cost Videoconferencing Tools On Thursday May 13th, Robin Good is offering another free review of technologies. This time he has selected over ten interesting and emergent low-cost videoconferencing technologies. After his brief analysis of those technologies selected from a buyer's standpoint, the floor will be opened to participants to ask direct live questions to Robin or to anyone representative of the tools being showcased. Conference starts at 1:00 PM Atlantic.

RSS for Learning Eva Kaplan-Leiserson, gives a good overview of RSS [that's "rich site summary" and/or "really simple syndication", defined for the last time on this blog] for learning in Learning Circuits. She brings together the recent work of Stephen Downes, Amy Gahran, Mary Harrsch, Robin Good and others. Many readers will From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

A Distance Learning Policy Handbook Manitoba Education Distance Learning: A Policy Handbook for Schools/Divisions/Districts... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

First Ever SCCS Website award The Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School Student Lounge has developed and will be awarding the first ever SCCS Website Award. The neat thing about this award is that the winner will be selected by the 800+ students who are in SCCS... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

A glimpse into the virtual chapel The following discussion is a direct cut and paste (with names removed) from our student chapel at Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School Our Chaplain starts discussion and then we try to leave the students to their debating with a minimun of... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Online Services (Nova Scotia Education) "Because Life Doesn't Have Office Hours" Department of Education - Online Services... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

International Gateway to Education in Canada education@canada provides access, for both the international education community and international students, to Canadian education resources on the Internet. education@canada International Gateway... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Island School Websites A good collection of educational websites taken from the PEI education website. School WebSites by Theme... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Welcome to the future (taken from a discussion board at the University of Calgary) It made me laugh. Subject: Welcome to the future You know you're living in 2003 when... 1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 2. You haven't played solitaire... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Summer Semester Well, I passed my entry exam, although I do need to retake Algebra. Can't say I'm highly suprised since I haven't done any Alegebra in the last 14 years LOL. I met with my advisor after taking the test and signed up for summer classes. But, now I find myself debating whether or not I can handle classes full time during the summer. Fear of school - maybe. Maybe I just realize I am insane to think I can handle... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Part Time Summer Student Well, I decided full time during the summer (four nights a week, 4-5 hours a night) probably wasn't realistic, so I dropped two of the classes and will be a part time student for the summer - taking one class per six week semester. Paid my tuition today. I still have to get my books, but I start next week.... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Burnout Arrives Normally after a conference, I can't stop working for days. Not the case this time. I feel so burnt out on making sites. Have some new things popping up in the next week or so that should help in that area though. Right now, I am feeling very unproductive. Still heavily considering consulting. Made a few contacts in that area that offered some tips and help though - so I'll probably be calling upon them in the next few weeks... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Creating a Schedule LOL, I think I just sent a shiver up my spine ;). I really need to get a schedule together for the coming months. In addition to scheduling time to attend school and study, I really need to get my work schedule under control. I find myself "wandering" around online a lot - with no set purpose. I am so used to being on the computer that I drift over here whenever there is nothing pressing to do. I need... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Unconstitutional? A Judge ordered a couple today that they are not to have anymore children until the four they had were not in foster care any longer. Neither part of the couple bothered to show up in court. And three of their four children tested positive for COCAINE. No really, of a 1,2, 4 and 5 year old - the three who were tested for cocaine were POSITIVE. Yet, some idiot has the nerve to utter: A civil liberties advocate said... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Happy Mother's Day A big happy mother's day to all the moms out there ;). On a side note, a guy who owns one of the affiliate programs I make sites for made my day. He took the time to send me a personal email wishing me a happy mother's day and to tell me what a blast he had in Vegas. Top notch guy there.... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Glittery Goodness My daughter was told she could choose something from the store yesterday and she chose some Powerpuff Girls nailpolish. So, today I painted her nails and she absolutely insisted that I paint my own with it as well. So, my "no-nails" are currently a purple color with glitter that makes them obscenely noticeable in any type of light. For those who don't know me, I am the anti-girl, so you have to keep that in mind to know how hysterical... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Slowly But Surely I am dragging all of my friends into blogland :). Check out Shannon here.... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Weird to Say the Least Actual search query used to find my blog: "list of things to talk about with my online girlfriend" I don't know if it is funnier that someone searched for that or that my blog was what came up.... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

School Year in Review We have 15 days of school left as I write this, and it seems like a good time to reflect a bit on how the year has gone. The transition to my new school has gone about as I expected. It's a little odd to go from being one of the campus "players" to being the new guy. At my last school I was, at various times, the chair of several committees, a department head, the school technology coordinator, and one of the longest serving faculty members. In the new assignment I am none of... From Brain Frieze on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

A Wealth of Resources From Stephen Downes Stephen Downes has had a prominent place in my personal Blogroll for some time, but I never drilled down too far into his offerings until today. If you're an educator working in the field of instructional technology you need to be aware of the wealth of information available here. The Edu_RSS feed that is offered is a terrific tool. As the service says, Edu_RSS is "your one-stop source for today's top writers in educational technology.We retrieve weblog RSS feeds from across the... From Brain Frieze on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Beginner's Guide to RSS The other day I had a brief discussion with one of the more connected teachers at my school about blogging, and in particular, the syndication model--RSS--that drives it. As I recall, her reaction was something like "People post their journals on-line? And other people read them?" Well, yes and no. Yes, there are millions of people posting blogs, and many of them are not much more than personal ruminations. But the wealth of news, delivered directly to you almost... From Brain Frieze on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

All the News That's Fit to Syndicate Internet users who read weblogs inevitably clog up their browser's bookmarks menu with favorite URLs. Instead of creating a new bookmark for each site, however, these information consumers can simply subscribe to a blog's RSS feed. A comprehensive article on syndication feeds was recently published by Online Journalism Review. New-media expert J.D. Lasica defined RSS feeds in layman's terms, offered suggestions on the best RSS news readers, and provided an From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Wireless Internet: Business or Public Service? Some city councils in Spain want to offer wireless connectivity to the Internet as a public service, paid for with local tax money. The city council of Puenteareas, a town in the northwestern, is one of them. The local government decided to connect all of its neighbors through a broadband wi-fi network to the Internet for free. But government disciplinary action has been taken against the local council, because it did not accomplish this within official regulations (news in Spanish). This is From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

It's Time to Talk (Publicly) About Privacy Earlier this week, Tom Hespos wrote an excellent column for MediaPost about the fallout of increasing online privacy concerns by the public. Privacy advocates, he points out, "are taking an alarmist stance" against companies collecting and using personal information about their online visitors, just as the trend among media companies is quickly moving toward better targeting online users for advertising. Hespos fears that if current trends continue, "consumers will eventually oppose all use of data in ad targetin From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Confusing News on China's Internet Cafes Looking behind the news from China is revealing, as it shows how Chinese and Western media use the same techniques in sanitizing the news, be it with different agendas. The news from the AP that China has closed down more than 8,600 Internet cafes fits the classical image of China as a repressive force, cracking down on free speech. The main source of confusion: AP cuts and pastes the news of the official state news agency Xinhua and squeezes it into an angle that it considers fit for From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Newspapers 'About to Shoot Themselves in the Foot' Dave Morgan of ad-targeting company Tacoda (and an online-news advertising pioneer) has a warning in his ClickZ column about the newspaper industry. He writes: "They're about to shoot themselves in the foot ... again. Several large U.S. newspaper companies are giving the circulation marketing departments control of their websites. Yes, giving the site to a department stuck in the '80s, allowing them to shut down free access to content in favor of p From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Africa Finally Gets to Take Control of Its Own Domain Names African countries finally are set to take control of their own Internet domain names with the impending launch of the African Network Information Centre. AfriNIC, created to distribute and administer domain names on the African continent, is to begin operations later this year, reports the Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) from the International Telecommunications Union's Telecom Africa 2004 conference in Cairo. Currently, either U.S. or European organizati From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Digital Cameras & Photo Phones Indeed Might Revolutionize Photojournalism Throughout last autumn, I disagreed with postings by my compatriot here, Steve Outing, that consumer use of camera phones and digital cameras could revolutionize photojournalism. Yet, I now think he may be right and I was wrong. An Associated Press story today reports that the most shocking or memorable photographs of the American-Iraqi war were taken not by professional photographers but by individual soldiers or government contractors and were distributed worldwide with an ease that never existed in the days of just film From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

German Streetcar Shows Place-Dependent Advertisements Passengers of the streetcar line No. 6 in the small town of Karlsruhe in the southeastern part of Germany know whether a spontaneous purchase at the next stop is worthwhile: Screens in the car display special offers of shops close by. The application of this location-based service was developed by Yellowmap, a German company specializing in processing geographical information. However, the application is neither GPS-based, nor does it use mobile-phone technology, nor has it any connection to the Internet. It's based on the conventional sensor system From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Digital divide I have a concern with some aspects of the ePortfolio - the potential to increase the digital divide, those with access and those without. The vision that every citizen in Europe will have an ePortfolio by 2010, at a high... From ERADC Blog on May 10, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

A new way to distribute books? Over on Word Munger, I'm blogging about the impact of ebooks. There hasn't been much speculation yet on what the effect of ebooks will be (I suspect there will be more when Sony's new reader is released to the American market), and most of it has focused on the idea that "E-paper could save newspapers a bundle on printing and distribution." Wow! Newspapers will save a bundle? Gosh! Let me be the first in line to buy a $400 reader so newspapers can save a bundle! A better question i From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Student as customer - a new tension? At a recent quality assurance conference references were made to the 'student as customer'. Whilst this is not a new description of a student I do sense that its use is on the increase. Whilst this paradigm shift in the way we view students has many ramifications, I, as a Learning Technologist, feel a potential tension in my view of an educational experience and that of the student. From Auricle on May 10, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Scholarly searching gets Googled, Spaced, and CrossRef'd In a follow up to my previous article Open Access Publishing: allergic reaction sets in, we find Google seeing, and perhaps seizing, the opportunity. In yet another pilot initiative described in the Information Today article of 10 May CrossRef Search Uses Google to Provide Full-Text Access... From Auricle on May 10, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Mastermind Explorer - Issue 50 - Robin Good's Discoveries And Selected News Mastermind Explorer - Issue 50 - Robin Good's Discoveries And Selected News From MasterMind Explorer on May 10, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

ESL-EFL blogs Last night in yet another bid to procrastinate and avoid essay writing I spent about 2 hours searching for ESL-EFL oriented blogs. As far as I now know there are none that I have not already linked to. I googled... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

Studentenspiegel AH: "Er ist im Moment in aller Munde, der "Studentenspiegel": Nach der Ranking-Flut der Unis wird jetzt das Ranking der... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Justizskandal Wie rbb-online meldet, ist der Leiter der JVA Brandenburg nach Vorwürfen der Misshandlung im Amt "von seinem Amt enthoben worden".... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Rewerse II In den kommenden vier Jahren wird das REWERSE-Netzwerk - das Netz für logisches Schließen im Internet, basierend auf Regeln und... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Unternehmensnachfolge Das Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum hält am 17./18.05.2004 in Stuttgart eine internationale Konferenz über die Unternehmensnachfolge ab. Im Mittelpunkt der Veranstaltung steht die... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Softwarepatentierung Professor Dr. iur. Matthias Pierson stellt in drei Ãœbersichten die wichtigsten Begriffe und Definitionen im Bereich der Softwarepatentierung vor und... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

LIFT Online Analyse Ihrer Website Ist Ihr Webauftritt tatsächlich nutzerfreundlich? Testen Sie Ihre Website auf die neuen Regeln für barrierefreien Zugang! Das serverbasierte Programm LIFT... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Erlass von Haftbefehlen Die Vereinigung Berliner Strafvereinigung hat anlässlich der Ausschreitungen am 01.05.2004 einen Offenen Brief (RTF) sowie eine Presseerklärung (PDF) verfasst; Näheres... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Acreditaciones para bloggers en la Convención Nacional Demócrata La Convención Nacional Demócrata 2004 contempla la acreditación de bloggers, según se indica en Media Logistics: BLOGGERS: Bloggers interested in applying for credentials should first apply to the Senate Periodical Press Gallery. The deadline for applications is May 28th, 2004.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Aula virtual de la Universidad de Córdoba, España Después de cinco meses de funcionamiento, el Aula Virtual de la UCO ya cuenta con una importante acogida en el seno de la comuni... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

El portal universitario Universia: nuevos rumbos Andrés Pedreño es Consejero Delegado de Universia, el portal de Internet al que se han adherido ya 67 universidades españolas y más de 600 latinoamericanas. En esta entrevista conversa sobre el futuro... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

e-ducation without borders If you're interested in an educational technology conference in the middle east, how about Abu Dhabi? The conference will be in February, 2005 and the call for papers opens in June. http://www.e-ducation2005.com/... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 10, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Master Your Powerpoint Presentations To CD-ROM With All Links Working PowerLink Plus 2.0 is a PowerPoint related utility that solves an annoying problem many presenters have when needing to master their presentations on a CD-ROM/DVD: keeping all of the associated files and links working on the CD-ROM! PowerLink Plus 2.0... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Great RSS Tools A great online resource bringing together in an open fashion all of the best tools and resources to manage, publish and gather RSS newsfeeds. The page is maintained by the actual users and it shows how well wikis can be... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Meta Group Report On Collaboration Strategies ZDNet recently published a Meta Group report by analyst Mike Gotta that suggests collaboration is a business strategy, not a tool strategy.  Included in the report is this prediction: By 2005, we expect a sales automation application to be connected to a process orchestration engine that has a rule ... From Kolabora.com on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

The World Is A Stage: Capture It! Wi-Fi.Bedouin "Every entrepreneur or technophile prides herself or himself on thinking outside the box. Very few however, actually succeed in escaping all the confines which shape our ideas about what technology is and how we can apply it. Julian Bleeker -- inventor, grad student and software developer -- ha... From Kolabora.com on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

MCI Market Segmentation 101 MCI has demonstrated they are going after the business market with their VoIP push that was announced today. So while AT&ampT is going after consumers aggressively this quarter and likely for the next 8 or more, MCI has decided to... From Kolabora.com on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Skype To Terminate SKYPE keeps making noise that they will terminate and provide that for what sounds like it will be free, in exchange for selling value added services.... From Kolabora.com on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Work Is No Longer A Place But An Activity Some interesting material in this article on the changing nature of work.  Falling laptop prices, better remote access technologies and widespread broadband are driving people out of the head office and into the home office. According to JALA International, a teleworking consultancy company, there w... From Kolabora.com on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Google's secret Day after day there have been articles about Google, but about a year ago the real secret of their success slipped out -- fabulous food. Their food service folks were posting the daily menus on a weblog, now inactive. Read with polite envy a sample from 5/1/03... DINNER Soups THAI RED CURRY GRILLED PINEAPPLE DUCK SOUP SWEET ALMOND GARLIC Salads CAESAR WITH GRILLED MUSHROOMS Chopped romaine lettuce,... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Fiftieth anniversary I'm at a family gathering celebrating the fiftieth wedding anniversary of my parents. They've done many fine things over the years, including raising five children and getting us off to a good start in life, and they are now enjoying a busy retirement. Like anyone, they've faced unexpected challenges -- just think of the two months my father spent in intensive care and the nine months that followed before he could leave the hospital, due to a rare illness, and my mother there by the bed... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Mining the archive I'm relearning the lesson: spend some time in the archive if I don't want to reinvent everything. I'm prepping a course on weblogs in the fall and looking for projects we might try out, and I find this idea in a post from one year ago: Dave Winer sketches a plan for a university to increase its visibility through blogging. He's talking about big-name schools, but the idea seems pretty interesting for a regional university like ours. How about starting with an informatics course in... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Reuters RSS From Stephen M. Cohen, I see that Reuters has now made available more than a dozen RSS feeds of its news content, starting with its introductory page that explains the terms. From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Flickr Notes - visually annotate your photos Awesome. Go Flickr go! I want this everywhere. Like on Blogware for example! From Flickr: News: QUOTEWe've released the intitial versions of two cool new features, tags &#8212; which allow you to sort your photos for easy finding &#8212; and notes &#8212; which allow you to annotate regions of photos, pointing out the people, places and things which make up the story.UNQUOTE< From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Blogware 1.0 released Go Blogware Go! Congrats to Ross, Tom, Joey and the rest of the Tucows crew for shipping Blogware. Even if I wasn't a Blogware reseller, I'd be recommending it. It's cheaper (my friend we have got a special inexpensive price just for you :-) ) and better (in terms of storage, and photo features) than --> From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 10, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Very loosely coupled In 1934, LEGO founder Ole Kirk Christiansen created the name LEGO by combining the first letters of the Danish words "LEG" and "GODT", which mean "play well" HYPHEN unaware that in Latin one meaning of the word LEGO is "I put together." Why are... From Internet Time Blog on May 10, 2004 at 7:54 p.m..

Health Affairs The May/June issue of Health Affairs includes an editorial Global Health Policy And Free Access To Information. From FOS News on May 10, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

Raising an endowment for a path-breaking OA encyclopedia The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) has launched a three-year fundraising campaign to assure its long-term survival as a high-quality, peer-reviewed, open-access encyclopedia. SEP is asking libraries attached to institutions with philosophy degree programs to make three annual contributions to an SEP endowment. These contributions can be classified as subscriptions, donations, or memberships, depending on what local policies permit. If enough libraries participate, then SEP will meet its goal on time and will be OA forever after. If the SE From FOS News on May 10, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

Les Carr on the OA Workshops in India Les Carr has written an account of the Open Access Workshops in Chennai, India (May 2-4 and 6-8, 2004). Excerpt: "The workshops were attended by 50 scientists, research managers and librarians from a wide range of research institutions from India....The workshops covered essential background (Open Access philosophy, the theory of the Open Archiving Metadata Protocols, issues of document and metadata formats) but majored on the practical aspects of using From FOS News on May 10, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

More on Kahle v. Ashcroft Rihcard Koman, Free the Orphans: A Look at the Case of Kahle v. Ashcroft, O'Reilly Network, May 6, 2004. Koman relates an anecdote of an editor who wanted to republish some journal articles, but the copyright holder was deceased and his heirs could not be located. Such works are the "orphans" referred to in the title; "works that would have gone out of copyright when their creators failed to renew a copyright claim under the old law but which are now kept in prolonged copyright" (as a result of the From Joho the Blog on May 10, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

Sony Music-Tech Makes Me Wanna Retch Joe Gratz gives a nice update on Sony's stupidity, including its new Sony Connect music service and iPod-like device.&nbsp; Apparently, Sony's hard drive player cannot play MP3s, WMA&nbsp;and (of course) Apple FairPlay-locked AAC.&nbsp; It only plays the ATRAC3 format,&nbsp;Sony's proprietary format.&nbsp;Recently, the Washington Post and --> From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 10, 2004 at 7:50 p.m..

AdWatch Helps Sites Track Marketing ROI A new firm enters the ad-tracking fray with a low-cost service that assists e-commerce merchants in calculating advertising effectiveness. From E-Commerce Guide on May 10, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Gateway countersues HP over patents As the giants prepare to slug it out in court, Gateway also reported that its estimated first-quarter loss was shy by $6 million, for a revised total of $172 million. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Blog This Now anyone, at virtually any level, can own and manage an attractive and standards-compliant personal site. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on May 10, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

Double-edged security Bruce Schneier is becmoing the king of op-eds. Here's another goodie that argues for requiring warrants before we allow government agencies to invade our privacy. Bruce doesn't want us to increase our security against foreign attacks by making us less secure against the predations of our own government.... From Joho the Blog on May 10, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 2004-05-10: The SVG Working Group has released the seventh public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. The SVG language delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group invites comments on this draft. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 10, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Working Group Note: DOM Assessment for Multimodal Interaction 2004-05-10: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released the Requirements and Capabilities Assessment for the Document Object Model (DOM) as a Working Group Note. Based on their framework. the Multimodal Interaction Activity is extending the Web user interface to allow multiple modes of interaction: aural, visual and tactile. The document examines interfaces between modality components and their host environment. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 10, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Working Draft: The QA Handbook 2004-05-10: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of The QA Handbook. Written for W3C Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, the document replaces and incorporates the best features of the former QA Framework's Introduction and Operational Guidelines. It provides techniques, tools, and templates for test suites and specifications, and is designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups. Visit the QA home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 10, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Working Drafts: Authoring Techniques for XHTML and HTML Internationalization 2004-05-10: The GEO (Guidelines, Education and Outreach) Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has published three First Public Working Drafts. The drafts cover Specifying the Language of Content, Characters and Encodings and Handling Bidirectional Text. Designed for content authors, the documents are aids to ensuring that HTML and XHTML are written for an international audience. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 10, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

At a school left behind, students ponder the gap In this Philadelphia school, there are few white faces and few AP classes. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 10, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Schools that embraced a change In 1966, Lexington, Mass., created a voluntary busing plan to promote diversity. It still exists today. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 10, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

One Class of 1980 recalls life with 'Brown' A Monitor reporter asks her former classmates how integration affected their high school experience. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 10, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Brown's promise: yet to be fulfilled Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, public education is still separate - and unequal - in many schools. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 10, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Nortel: Video demand to spur faster DSL Telephone companies will have to provide much faster DSL speeds to meet the demands of video and keep cable competitors at bay, according to a Nortel Networks exec. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

PeopleSoft buyout liability nears $2 billion The company's get-out-of-hostile-takeover card, played via a money-back guarantee to customers, could hike the cost of Oracle's proposed $9.4 billion bid. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Scholars and Scripts, Eyeballs and Epistemes: What it Means to Publish These PowerPoint slides are well worth a quick view, displaying graphically as they do the increase in journal prices and the increase on open access publications and requests. Some neat discussion as well about the different publishing traditions in different disciplines. The presentation is broadly in support of open access, defines the 'Gold', 'Green' and 'White' models of open access, and suggests that we are nearing the 'tipping point' in publishing models. By Blaise Cronin, OCLC, April 29, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on May 10, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Chalk, Talk and Customer Service The Economist offers a description of, and more or less endorsement of, low-cost private education as offered by Sunny Varkey, a wealthy Dubai-based entrepreneur, through his firm, Global Education Management Systems (GEMS). It's not a pretty picture: the bare-bones education would focus only on core subjects and "good discipline, established chiefly through selection." Of course it's easy to pare costs when you don't have to consider the low-margin subjects and the more difficult students - but, of course, this is how private schools end up being a drain on the public system, c From OLDaily on May 10, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Quiz Builder EdNA has launched a new (and free) quiz builder on its global education website. By Various Authors, EdNA, May, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on May 10, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Very Loosely Coupled I think Jay Cross has the right idea here - "Real-world applications require flexibility. Those of us who are too impatient to await the arrival of nano-objects that conform to the shape of a contrainer can find a better model..." Now in the elipses Jay goes on to talk about intelligent agents. I am more sceptical about intelligent agents. If we needed intelligent letters to get words, or intelligent words to get sentences, we would never have developed language. If we needed intelligent paint and paper to get paintings, we would never have developed art. Real-world applications should not req From OLDaily on May 10, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

RSS News Ticker James Farmer asked for an Edu_RSS news ticker, and I was happy to oblige (thanks to the coding work already done by the good people at BBCi) - you can find my new ticker (with instructions on how to place it on your own site) here. This was a lot more fun than cleaning my website after last weekend's hack. By James Farmer, Incorporated Subversion, May 5, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on May 10, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Author leaves warning in latest Sasser worm Antivirus companies discovered a fifth version of the Sasser variant this weekend, within hours of German police arresting an 18-year-old man who confessed to being the Sasser worm's author. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Regulators dial in on AT&T pre-paid calls The long-distance giant said the FCC is reviewing its method of selling some pre-paid calling cards, which could leave AT&#38;T on the hook for more than a half billion in unpaid fees. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

RightNow joins IPO conga line The subscription software company joins the likes of search engine leader Google, gay Web portal PlanetOut and online bookseller Alibris with plans for an initial public offering of its stock. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Sasser continues to strike German police have nabbed the worm's author, but a new version is making its way around the Internet. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Intel invests in JBoss The chipmaker gives an undisclosed sum to the open-source software maker and says it will provide technical resources for Java 2 Enterprise Edition certification. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Survey: IT managers say they'll increase spending Information technology managers expect to increase their spending by 2.4 percent in 2004, according to a survey by Forrester Research. That's up from the 1.7 percent rise projected six months ago. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Can Microsoft bounty put paid to viruses? Microsoft claims its reward program was responsible for the arrest of the suspected author of the Sasser worm, but some experts say money alone will not clear up security problems. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Nortel joins convergence push with new MPLS router Nortel Networks fills a gap in its portfolio of Internet Protocol networking products with the announcement of a new router designed to help carriers deliver voice, video and data services over a single network. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

mcli Forum Spring 2004 Just posted the web version of our once per semester publication, the mcli Forum which our office has been publishing in print and paper since 1993 (before 2000 it was the Labyrinth-Forum). We have a mixture of faculty, guest, and our own staff authored articles that highlight teaching, learning, assessment, and technology efforts at Maricopa. The Spring 2004 mcli Forum features articles on From cogdogblog on May 10, 2004 at 2:50 p.m..

Information Visualization Companies Marian Steinbach has collected companies specialized on information visualization: This is a list of some ~30 companies which have a focus on products or services that deal with information visualization. From A like Aaron Marcus + Associates to X like XPLANE. From owrede_log on May 10, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..

Blogs at universities Stephan Mosel pointed to a new weblog initiative at the University of Minnesota. This project offers a free weblog to every university member. This now makes three places in US that offer central weblog services to every member:

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Bad laws, bad code, bad behavior CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why laws regulating technology often invoke an even more powerful rule: the law of uninintended consequences. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Study: Home networking on the upswing The spread of broadband is driving the growth of home networking, according to data released by In-Stat/MDR. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Blogger's RSS Decision (Geek alert: This may be boring to people who don't care about the innards of technology.) I'm sorry to see... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 10, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

Study: Gaming-accessory sales up slightly Market research company NDP sees a 10 percent increase in first-quarter sales of gaming devices, with game pads, steering wheels and stick controllers accounting for much of the growth. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

DigiCULT.info 7, April 2004 is now available ... DigiCULT.info 7, April 2004 is now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

The May 10 2004 issue of Open Access Now is now online ... The May 10 2004 issue of Open Access Now is now online From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

The Orange Prize for Fiction has announced its short list for 2004 ... The Orange Prize for Fiction has announced its short list for 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Presentations given by speakers at the xrefer seminar entitled Developing the Legal E-library: looki ... Presentations given by speakers at the xrefer seminar entitled Developing the Legal E-library: looking beyond the law which took place at the Paddington Hilton Hotel on April 30th 2004, are now available as Microsoft PowerPoint slides From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

New issue of Open Access Now The May 10 issue of Open Access Now is now online. This issue contains an interview with Lawrence Lessig, a news story on the Google-DSpace collaboration, a news story on OSI's grant program to help institutions in developing countries buy memberships in PLoS, and an FOS News on May 10, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Finland's national commitment to OA Finland's National Electronic Library has negotiated institutional memberships in BioMed Central for every university, polythechnic, and research institute in the country. Quoting BMC's Natasha Robshaw in today's press release: "Finland is leading the world in its nationwide commitment to Open Access, and this is a huge boost for the Open Access movement. We look forward to other nations making the s From FOS News on May 10, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Frank conversation about torture Over at Frank Paynter's there's been an interesting and useful discussion of my attempt to find a way for the left and the right to agree on a policy condemning torture. (As I've noted several times now, I should have talked not about the right wing but about the Rush wing.) Frank's first blog entry about it is here and his reply to my reply is here. Be sure to read the comments where I am taken to task rather severely by some exceptionally thoughtful people. (I reply there also.)... From Joho the Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

A sea of snapshots, a heterogenous world of transforms In my interview last week with John Shewchuk, one of the Indigo architects at Microsoft, I asked whether XML disciplines can or should model data, as well as exchange it. I like the answer John gives in this audio clip. There really isn't a primary data model, he suggests. (Note to self: Get over it!) Relational, object, and XML disciplines are just aspects of a relativistic universe of data. Very postmodern! ... From Jon's Radio on May 10, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

XBRL follow-up Following last week's critique of XBRL, I had an interesting email exchange with David Vun Kannon, a manager in KPMG's financial services practice and one of the editors of the XBRL spec. The dialogue went far beyond what InfoWorld's letters column could ever accommodate, so with David's permission, I'm reproducing it here. ... From Jon's Radio on May 10, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

We got a bumpersticker I've been told we'd never get anywhere until our argument fits on a bumpersticker. Well, the folks at Bumperactive had no problem doing that: . From Lessig Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

and when that trust is broken? The government in the Rumsfield v. Padilla case, as quoted in the Times: "[I]n situations where there is a war ... you have to trust the executive to make the kind of quintessential military judgments that are involved in things like that." And when "the executive" breaches that trust? What then? If -- as this "executive" believes -- there's no judicial review, t From Lessig Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

to tinker is to imagine Wulfius Khan put the words into a picture, which links the argument to Ed Felten's Freedom to Tinker argument in a way I hadn't quite seen. Original Link. From Lessig Blog on May 10, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

i2 settles shareholder lawsuits The software company, which has been plagued by accounting problems, will pay a total of $84.9 million, half of which will come from its insurance policy. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

HP debuts RFID services Hewlett-Packard unveils launch and test services to help companies get the ball rolling on radio frequency identification projects. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Intel to launch Dothan; chip-naming system Members of the new processor family, originally expected earlier this year, will be named according to a system that de-emphasizes clock speed. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Workshop on Social Software Last week I had a workshop at our University. It's topics were Social Software, Weblogs, and Wikis. Here are the slides for Social Software and for the Wiki part. They are mainly in German. The students were surprised to h... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 10, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 29-31, 2004 While you're putting together your proposals for CCCC, consider proposing a paper or panel for the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature held October 29-31 in Cortland, NY. Here's the general call for participation. Haunted by the Future: the Academy's Coming Community Keynote Speaker: Victor Vitanza, Professor, University of Texas-Arlington www.cnycll.com From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Wikis Described in Plain English Via elearnspace comes this link to Common Craft's FAQ-style wiki definition for newbies. blacklily8, what do you think? Good definition? From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Writers' Tools Insightful discussion at AKMA's place about content management systems and word processing tools. People are pointing out that Wordpress (which we've talked about) and Textpattern are "writers' tools," whereas Moveable Type is more designed for link/commentary. Shelley Powers has --> From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Hey, Hey, 16 K ! ! Ah...There are those of us for whom flash videos like this one bring back almost overweening nostalgic neuroses. This little gem of hilarity pokes (and peeks) fun at modern software--which takes 16K just for a letter. This musical tribute to the golden days of personal computing (when even a 8-year old could learn to program and produce competitive games) is well worth the download, though you ought to be using your computer to DO YOUR HOMEWORK, not play games or--far worse--watch musical flash videos glorifying the playing (and programming) of gam From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Academic Journals With CC Licenses By way of the Creative Commons weblog come two journals that are publishing under Creative Commons licenses: Classics @ and The Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal. Both are using the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license; I'm especially From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Subserviant Chickens? What can I say? This has to be the strangest BK advertising campaign in history. The idea is simple--tell this chicken what to do. I tried having him jump, dance, and hit himself with a pillow. The possibilities are endless. Is it just me, or is this truly a bizarre marketing campaign? From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Graduate Research Network Online Whether or not you are attending the Computers and Writing Conference in Hawai'i this year, you can still be a part of this exciting event! This year, the Graduate Research Network Online invites both face-to-face participants and anyone else interested or involved in research in computers and writing to attend Computers and Writing Online (see http://www.tidewatertechonline.com/cwo/index2.htm for more information). The following session is offered in conjunction with the Graduate Research Network (Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Interview with John Seely Brown Here's an interview from Seth Kahan with John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and author of Growing Up Digital. It's been up since the middle of April, but I think that Brown's thoughts on the importance of storytelling for communicating ideas and use in learning will be of interest to many Kairosnews readers. For example, from the first paragraph in the interview, Brown From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 10, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Hard work Being a lone developer, programming games, is hard work let me tell you. Creating a game engine from scratch in your spare time will take about 6 months, and then creating the graphics, sound and music on top of that is an incredible effort. One of the hardest things about it is keeping the enthusiasm (and therefore the momentum of the project) going. Testament to this is what happened to Necrotech Warfare - I hit what seemed like an insurmountable obstacle (reinstalling windows completely destroyed my work flow and problems with Poser model exports into Shockwave 3D were, in the end From Lion's Den on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Wiki Proliferation Strategy documents towards the Public Web. Connecting public internet communications technologies and developers by means of shared awareness systems. Por la sociedad libre! From Lion's Den on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Trans-Rationalism Incomplete article about what Michael Erikson taught me about Rationalism on the Visual wiki. From Lion's Den on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Crown Copyright Copyright Law Review Committee [last updated: 7 May 2004] From ALIA inquiry watch on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Free Trade Agreement Australian creators and users of information will not benefit from the bilateral agreement negotiated between Australia and the United States, entitled 'Australia United States Free Trade Agreement.' - an update, including two submissions. From ALIAnet on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Virtual School for Independent Teachers Learning-Park.com is a Classroom-Centered "Virtual Learning Environment." We build your Branded Virtual School in minutes, or your fully featured Classroom in seconds. We also host your For-Fee or For-Free WebCourses. From Learning-Park on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

UKeU Platform For Sale: new model, low mileage, one careful owner The rather cryptic and anodyne HEFCE press release of 23 April is translated to the stark and painful reality of an advertisement in yesterday's UK Financial Times. From Auricle on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Why major IT projects fail: A warning from history? Failed processing of child maintenance payments (The Child Support Agency), tax-credit processing failures (Inland Revenue), serious delays in processing passport applications (the UK Passport Agency), failure of the National Insurance Fund Recording System (Contributions Agency), vast cost overruns and other problems in developing new IT systems for Magistrates' Courts (the Libra Project). It appears to make little difference whether projects are public or private sector with only around... From Auricle on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

UK eUniversities Worldwide: Recording the lessons? The recent Observatory of Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) article on what went wrong with UKeU is probably the most balanced and helpful commentary on UKeU yet published. The OBHE proposes that the key factors in what went wrong were timing, focus, branding, impatience and platform investment. I've got a few comments to make, particularly about the last of these. I also propose we need a helpful... From Auricle on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Designing online information systems for portfolio-based assessment: design criteria and heuristics. One for the e-portfolio knowledgebase. From volume 3 of the Journal of Information Technology Education (April 2004) comes this interesting article by Terence Love and Trudi Cooper: From Auricle on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Open Access Publishing: allergic reaction sets in Lots of interesting comment about open access or 'author-pays' publishing in the UK press this week. From Auricle on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Back from Venice Was lost in the magic of Venice... Had it all - sun and rain, light and darkness, sweet and bitter... Sure I'll be back one day - this city doesn't let you go. From Mathemagenic on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Software Senior: recursos de accesibilidad El proyecto Software Senior ha puesto en línea una base de datos de recursos software destinados a facilitar el acceso al ordenador a las personas mayores con algún tipo de discapacidad física o sensorial. La base de datos se puede consultar utilizando un asistente o bien por medio de un formulario de búsqueda avanzada. El proyecto de investigación Software Senior, finalizado recientemente, fue dirigido por el Grupo de Investigación en Gerontología de la Universidade da Coruña y en él participó tambOcteto - Tecnología educativa on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

XII Debat Universitari: Innovació en la docència universitària i ús de les TIC La Xarxa d'Universitats Joan Lluís Vives organiza el XII Debat Universitari: Innovació en la docència universitària i ús de les TIC, cuyo objetivo es «poner de manifiesto algunas mejoras prácticas de uso de las TIC en docencia universitaria presencial, así como el papel de las unidades técnicas de apoyo a la mejora y a la innovación de la actividad docente del profesorado, en los procesos de introducción y uso de las TIC en los programas académicos.» El debate está dirigido al profesorado univOcteto - Tecnología educativa on May 10, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

One Course, One Web Site--of Course? Maybe Not! http://www.educause.edu/pub/ eq/eqm04/eqm0421.asp Given that the idea of perpetual email accounts is enough to make most IT administrators packup and run, the innovations in offering lifelong learning environments presented in this Educause Quarterly article by Ellen R. Cohn are likely to fall on similarly unreceptive ears in many IT departments. Still, the ideas are worth considering. But are they worth considering because the technology seems to enable this, or would the value proposition behind them still be the From EdTechPost on May 10, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..

Gallery of Teaching and Learning It's final's week here and on top of grading papers from all my courses, I've got two (out of three) novel-length theses to evaluate as part of our MA Program in Writing Popular Fiction. So I'm too busy to blog. But I did want to quickly link to what appears... From PEDABLOGUE on May 10, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..

One Worth Clicking Grading like mad as the end of the year approaches? Lighten up for a moment and take a look at Randy Glasbergen's education cartoons for teachers. Some of these really hit the nail on the head. Like the one where a teacher speaks to the confused child who stands at... From PEDABLOGUE on May 10, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..

Presidential Politics Want to know where the presidential candidates stand on education issues? Compare them: John Kerry | George Bush | Ralph Nader You can also compare candidates on the issues across the board from the 2000 election. You can also read the political party platforms in an earlier pedablogue post.... From PEDABLOGUE on May 10, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..

PDF as the Universal Client? Adobe Buys into Workflow and Rich Client Assembly Tools Adobe has announced the acquisition of Q-Link Technologies, a best-of-breed vendor that sells workflow management engines and rich client assembly tools. Adobe now markets products designed for developers and power users, (not the typical Adobe customer-base). The real significance of this acquisition is that Adobe now sells a product that allows users to assemble rich clients around workflows. Their vision is to dominate the market with a single Universal Client.... From The Workflow Institute Blog on May 10, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..

SCORM and collaborative learning David Wiley is asking for help in creating a draft SCORM specification to allow for student collaboration. He is hoping to be able to engineer a back door into SCORM for collaborative actions such as learner annotations and anything else that at least "starts to feel social". SCORM (the Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is an emerging technical standard supported by the large e-learning players that will supposedly ensure that learning content developed in one system will "play" elsewhere as well. This would obCollaborative Learning on May 10, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..

Page Rank I noticed today that Blinger has a google page rank of 5 and was quite surprised at this. Obviously you can tell that I am dodging my essay writing and studying responsiblities right now. Back to our regular programming.... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Game Day! Today I decided that I would give a couple of my classes a break from the regular routine of using the book and play a game. However I did not use hangman, scrabble, boggle or any other commercially produced game.... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Addicted to Books Dana writes about being addicted to books. I, too, continually buy books or borrow books from friends I'm just a book gigilo. If a week goes by without buying a book I usually get the shakes. Anyhow Dana - Cue... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Tools of the Trade What are the tools of the trade? I suspect that everyone has some in common. textbooks computer favorite activites games In the picture there are a few of my favorite tools. You can see my brand new digital voice... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Immigrant Language Training Enhanced Language Training Helps Immigrants use their Skills and Credentials from the official government of Canada news site. Citizenship and Immigration Canada Minister Judy Sgro announced today that the Government of Canada is expanding the Enhanced Language Training initiative to... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Linguistics & ESL link directory Linguistics & ESL link directory is a new site that I started when recently my favorites list got nuked on my computer. You are free to add any links that you enjoy. All you need to do is navigate to... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Forgetfullness I left the textbook for my 9am class on my desk at school. I cannot prepare - I don't even know what is coming up next in the book as this is the first time I have even taught it.... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Mondays & Embarrassing Moments I"m already having a bad day and it is only 1:15. As I mentioned yesterday I left my text book at school and couldn't prepare properly for class. I woke up a little late this morning and rushed out of... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 10, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Paging, SMS and Wireless Blog Settings for paging and telecom carriers, details on Arch and Metrocall merger, affiliate information, details on australian spam, and Kiwi integration. New NotePage news, including articles, information on support, settings, email forwarding , telecom mergers and more. From NotePage SMS, Paging and Messaging Blog on May 10, 2004 at 8:55 a.m..

Emerald's Journals of the Week for May 10, 2004 are Records Management Journal and Supply Chain Mana ... Emerald's Journals of the Week for May 10, 2004 are Records Management Journal and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 10, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Financed by the EC's eTEN Programme, the Touch & Turn Virtual Library project has won first prize fo ... Financed by the EC's eTEN Programme, the Touch & Turn Virtual Library project has won first prize for the best web based/virtual application at the NODEM (Nordic Digital Excellence of Museums) Conference. The Virtual Library provides an innovative way of facilitating public access to rare, fragile and valuable material, giving users the experience of turning the pages of an original document, with zoom, translation and commentary capabilities in an unlimited From Column Two on May 10, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

The end of filesystems What users will see in the next few years is a replacement of the filesystem storage paradigm with a database storage paradigm. Microsoft is working on it and Apple seems to develop something similar as well. Oracle already stretched their database to accommodate some kind of filesystem like access - which is not aimed at turning a database into a filesystem but rather to offer a transition path. Replacing the filesystemowrede_log on May 10, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

P2P Firms Join Child-Porn Fight - Jonathan Krim, Tech News World The largest file-sharing network, Kazaa, has been cooperating with the FBI for months to help track down known child-porn traffickers on its system, said Marty Lafferty, chief executive of the Distributed Computing Industry Association. Under the P2P U From Techno-News Blog on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

IBM plans Web-based desktop software - Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com IBM on Monday is expected to announce new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications. The new software, which falls under IBM From Techno-News Blog on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Google polishes up Blogger site - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com Google plans to introduce on Monday a redesigned Web site for its personal publishing tool, Blogger. The new features are aimed at making it easier for average people to run their Web site. Still a free product, the Blogger revamp will enable people to From Techno-News Blog on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

City sets sights on kids who drop out - TOM FAHEY, Union Leader Plagued by a dropout rate that sees it lose one of four students, Manchester has launched several programs meant to keep high school students connected with school until they graduate. oeAny time you lose a kid, it From Educational Technology on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Virtual Schools Offer Freedom - Julia Crouse, The Ledger Daniel Jenkins Academy senior Mandy Gashaw says the only thing she missed in high school was the bad stuff. Taking the bulk of her classes online, Gashaw said she escaped the peer pressure, bullying and negativity often associated with the crowded hall From Educational Technology on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Ignou makes mark worldwide in distant learning SUROJIT - MAHALANOBIS, Times of India Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) has taken the world of academic sphere by storm, claimed a study paper of the University. With expansion in 26 nations, including the Commonwealth ones, the University by far has touched all continents and From Online Learning Update on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Student Role Adjustment in Communities of Inquiry: Model and Instrument Validation - D. Randy Garrison, Martha Cleveland-Innes, Tak Fung; JALN ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to validate an instrument to study role adjustment of students new to an online community of inquiry. The community of inquiry conceptual model for online learning was used to shape this research and identify the From Online Learning Update on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Asking the Hard Questions - Howard Strauss, Syllabus While a professor may not recognize every URL a student references, a savvy professor is not impressed by dozens of even great sources. What From Online Learning Update on May 10, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Minidrives to make big splash By the end of the year, diminutive hard drives are going to start to become downright common, thanks to planned releases of portable music players and video cameras. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Google preps new tool to juice revenue The search engine giant plans a keyword service that will let advertisers automatically tap obscure terms and phrases, CNET News.com has learned. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Makers of white-box supercomputers hit their stride The growing popularity of Linux is making smaller companies such as Linux Networx, California Digital and Optimus household names among buyers of supercomputers. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Google's man behind the curtain Craig Silverstein is director of technology at Google, which, these pre-IPO days, may very well be the search company's most important job. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Folter im Irak Vor, während und nach dem Irak-Krieg hatte Rumsfeld alle Vollmachten an sich gezogen. Solange alles gut ging, war sein Sarkasmus... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

JuraMindMaps Die Mindmapping-Methode wird in der Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie in der Medizin seit langem mit Erfolg praktiziert und steht nun auch für... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Sinn und und Unsinn Über Sinn und Unsinn des Referendariates läßt sich lang und ausgiebig streiten. Diese Erfahrung hat auch Chr. Säfken gemacht ...... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 10, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

White Negroes, Native Sons In jazz, African-Americans and Jews have jammed with each other in exquisite ways. Literature is only now catching up, writes David Yaffe, a writing fellow in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. From Chronicle: free on May 10, 2004 at 6:54 a.m..

50 Years After 'brown' Many states and their public colleges have seen substantial gains for black students, but inequities remain. From Chronicle: free on May 10, 2004 at 6:54 a.m..

Sasser Worm Suspect Confesses German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the Sasser computer worm. Police say he may have produced the Nevsky virus and be connected to the Skynet group of virus-writers. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Cost of Airport Security Tech Officials are weighing the expense of better technologies for screening airline passengers against the business costs of travel delays. More efficient systems are in place at a few airports, but who pays for upgrades at others? From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

E3, the Sequel: Video Game Expo The suspense that usually accompanies a major gathering of the video game industry is watered down as the Electronic Entertainment Expo gets underway in Los Angeles this week. It's all about sequels. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Endless Summer, on Demand Kerry Black is bringing world-class waves to the malls of America. Grab your board -- surf's up 6 a.m. to midnight, 365 days a year. By Carl Hoffman from Wired magazine. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

On-Demand Games a Phantom No More The long-awaited Phantom Gaming Service -- which lets customers rent or buy PC games online -- will go on sale in November. Infinium Labs hopes to attract 'lapsed' gamers who don't have time to cruise the aisles at the mall. By Kourosh Karimkhany. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Blood Feud Kills Off Fat Cells Cancer researchers looking for a way to kill tumors found a way to knock off fat cells in mice, cutting off their blood supply with a peptide. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

EBay's Growth Just Beginning Meg Whitman, eBay's chief executive, says the company has more international and small-business markets to tap. And it's weighing in on issues like taxation and stock-option expensing. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Climate Change Out of the Blue Contrails -- those wispy trails left in the sky by airplanes -- may play a part in warmer U.S. temperatures, according to a recent NASA study. By Douglas Page. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

When Old Convictions Won't Die Private employee-screening companies cobble together national databases for criminal background checks, and job applicants lose out on work due to crimes -- including expunged convictions -- they thought were not traceable. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on May 10, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

In with the new hotness In with the new hotness: Blogger relaunches, and they're serving XHTML Strict, with xxx-hottt designer templates, commenting and profile pages and all sorts of goodies. Crumbs. Kottke notes on Ringnalda's blog that: What's with all the redirects? On the page... From Ben Hammersley.com on May 10, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Test Constructor has been released! Universal program for testing the knowledge. [PRWEB May 10, 2004] From PR Web on May 10, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Video shows killing of injured Iraqi's. A military video shows killing of injured Iraqi's, violating international law. [PRWEB May 10, 2004] From PR Web on May 10, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

World Nutrition Announces Highly Active Enzyme Therapy to be Offered Exclusively Through Healthcare Professionals World Nutrition, Inc., a leader in the development of therapeutic nutritional supplements, today announced the release of Vitälzym X, a "prescription-strength" version of its industry-leading Vitälzym enzyme therapy product. Unlike other mass-distributed enzyme supplements, Vitälzym X is available to the public only from licensed healthcare professionals. [PRWEB May 10, 2004] From PR Web on May 10, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Paul McAfee to Deliver "Marketing Communications for Sales Growth" Seminar for Rochester High Tech Business Council on May 25 Marketing consultant Paul McAfee will deliver his popular seminar on marketing communications for the Rochester area High Tech Business Council -- "Marketing Communications for Sales Growth." The seminar will take place from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm at the Lennox Tech Center, West Henrietta, NY, on May 25, 2004. [PRWEB May 10, 2004] From PR Web on May 10, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Proogle = Google + Page Rank Awesome hack! It's, unfortunately, only a matter of time before Google shuts this guy down. Google, do the right thing and have an option to display Page Rank on your search pages. From John Battelle's Searchblog: Neat PageRank Hack: QUOTEA fellow by the name of Stephen Morrison has hacked up "Proogle," a Google skin that returns Google's results but adds in PageRank scores. The site is linked to what I presume is Stephen's home site, Webmaster Brain" (no contact From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 10, 2004 at 3:54 a.m..

VLC & ID papers Mary Dykes and I have written a paper for the upcoming Ed-Media conference in Lugano, Switzerland that reports on our continuing research about online communities. Here is an advance look at the paper if you don't think you'll be able... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 10, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

Arizona Board Of Regents Taps Hezel Associates To Provide Recommendations For of Future of Arizona Regents University From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Electronic Portfolios: Blending Technology, Accountability & Assessment From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Spam Roach Spray I told you I was serious. Steps have been taken to turn the tide on comment spam roaches. The MT-Blacklist can only go so far (and activity logs show it does squeeze out the regular v*agra repeat crowd). Image courtesy of the Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots . Next in the arsenal are steps 1 and 2 from "Seven quick tips for a spam-free From cogdogblog on May 10, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

The First Step Is Admitting It Last week I taught our first RSS class at SLS, and it was a major success! We limit our hands-on training classes to ten participants, and we had ten people signed up. One had to cancel at the last minute, but after the class was over, I saw nine light bulbs glowing quite brightly! As a result, I hope&nbsp;to teach the class at least every other month. Yes, I'm creating RSS addicts one class at a time.&nbsp; ;-) For my initial nine addicts, here are some RSS links that have come through my aggregator over the last few days. From The Shifted Librarian on May 10, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..

America the Censored It's not about Howard Stern. It's about freedom of speech, and freedom is losing. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 10, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..

Blogger's New Look Blogger has been remade in some fairly serious ways. It's not state of the art, but it's a big step forward for some folks, who just want to do a blog with fewer speed bumps. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 10, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..

Rambus tries a new licensing angle The memory designer, which is suing manufacturers over their use of DDR memory, is now marketing technology that will help chipmakers adopt it. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Windows Media Center continues overseas march Microsoft plans to announce on Monday that its Media Center OS is moving into new countries, even as the software maker works to make it more ready for prime time. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Google polishes up Blogger site Google plans to introduce on Monday a redesigned Web site for its personal publishing tool, Blogger. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Blogger Relaunch - still free, now supports sFTP, photos are still not free (Via Urban Vancouver) - Awesome, still no photos with the free service (free or not I doubt Blogger can keep up with Blogware's photo features - obligatory disclaimer - my company is a Blogware reseller). But awesome new templates and sFTP support. Congrats! From --> From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 10, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Open Source 'Blending' Into Animation From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Baptist leader pushes homeschooling From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

David W. Smith Joins PLATO Learning Board of Directors From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

CoSN/NSBA's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Leadership Forum From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

BSU [Ball State University] trustees approve tuition hike From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Muncie Central High School students preparing for nationally broadcast field trip From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 10, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Swiki, Teaching Wiki - free hosted wiki services for your educational pleasures First I found Swiki (and wrote a bit about it before losing it grrrrrr) and now here's Teaching Wiki: "Hi! Welcome! Teaching Wiki aspires to be a community for college-level faculty. We imagine our primary audience to be faculty who are interested in writing instruction, perhaps technorhetorians but (as we invoke the wiki way here), we invite all college faculty and i From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on May 10, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Untitled Michael Stephens recommends 10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff*&nbsp;(*without breaking the bank). Go read it! From The Shifted Librarian on May 10, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

Estonia Is Ahead of the U.S. in mCommerce! E-stonia and Mobile Payments "Loic Le Meur, the indefatigable French blogging evangelist, reports that 40% of street car parking payments are made by mobile phone in Estonia and also links to this remarkable article about the way e-life has permeated Estonia (think twice about those e-voting machines, though, Estonians!)" [--> From The Shifted Librarian on May 10, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

IBM plans Web-based desktop software Big Blue on Monday is expected to announce new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications. From CNET News.com on May 10, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

RSS + proprietary Q channel format = Qikonnex Looks to be a good service to replace/supplement email newsletters with RSS feeds for those without blogs. I don't "get" the need for a proprietary Q channel format. Sorry, but I figure it's easier just to add a blog component to your web presence rather than using a proprietary Q channel. From Quikonnex | Channel &#38; Communication Service Provider: QUOTESubscribing to a Q channel is safe and easy. Need a Viewer? Click the button above to see a comparison of our favor From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 9, 2004 at 11:54 p.m..

RSS adds better than email ads according to NetHawk Interactive's study with Sun Hmmm! From Pheedo - Maximizing the Value of Weblog Advertising: QUOTENethawk Interactive reports that by integrating online advertising into an RSS feed, a new online advertising technique, it has achieved measurably better results than e-mail for its client Suntone, a division of Sun Microsystems. The online campaign for a free IT evaluation was conducted through specialist publication InfoWorld, which could offer direct access to IT professionals. The marketer said t From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 9, 2004 at 11:54 p.m..

Interview with Clay Shrky Fan-bloody-tastic!&nbsp;The more Clay I read the more I fall into religious veneration ;o) "...The thing that will change the future in the future is the same thing that changed the future in the past --- freedom, in both its grand and narrow senses. The narrow sense of freedom, in tech terms, is a freedom to tinker, to prod and poke and break and fix things. Good technologies -- the PC, the inter From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on May 9, 2004 at 11:52 p.m..

Spectrum Generation Beautiful... I remember going to 48k as one of the most exciting days of my youth :o) [via Kairosnews]... ahhh.. makes me wanna get that emulator working... Matchday 2, Sherlock Holmes, Leaderboard... From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on May 9, 2004 at 11:52 p.m..

New version of Blogger Gotta check this out... wonder if there are any significant differences? [via SEW] From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on May 9, 2004 at 11:52 p.m..

"It's not my problem" The Killing of Kitty Genovese ``The case touched on a fundamental issue of the human condition, our primordial nightmare,'' Milgram said. ``If we need help, will those around us stand around and let us be destroyed or will they come to our aid? Are those other creatures out there to help us sustain our life and values, or are we individual flecks of dust just floating around in a vacuum?'' U.N. rights head details Sudan atrocities Several Security Council diplomats, who were present at the closed-door briefing, said they would not seek any immediate action against Sudan, From kuro5hin.org on May 9, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

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