Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars... I just got this exciting news delivered to my RSS reader: Coming: Beta Geminorum (22 hours away) Beta Geminorum is 33.7 light years away and only 22 hours from the outer surface of your light cone - your ever-growing sphere of potential causality - which began its expansion from Earth on September 04 1970. You can get your own light... From Object Learning on May 14, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..

Oracle eyes quick PeopleSoft resolution Oracle's Charles Phillips says the company should know, following its appeal of a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust ruling, whether it can pursue its PeopleSoft takeover attempt. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

A List Apart 181 + Digital Web Separating content from structure? From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on May 14, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..

CSS banners "fixed" Making our ALA and Happy Cog "banners" work in IE5/Mac. CSS rollover tips. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on May 14, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..

Pro-Level Storefront, Hosting Pays Off eBiz Profile: Legendary Toys' Web analytics software, its shopping cart program and a quality host improve efficiency for this mom-and-pop site. From E-Commerce Guide on May 14, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Dell slots back-up tools into storage systems The computer maker launches software, developed with CommVault Systems, that offers data protection for storage servers owned by small businesses. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

AOL touts its virus-blocking stats The dial-up giant says that it's blocked 1 billion virus-infected e-mails since launching its screening service in April 2003. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Red Hat updating both Linux versions The update for the company's Enterprise Linux product was released Wednesday, with added support for x86 chips and IBM JS20 blade servers. Up next, the new release of the cutting edge Fedora. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Napster Gags University Over RIAA's Student Tax Napster is taking action after Ohio University gave some indication of how much it charges universities to offer music access - a survey distributed by the university suggested the cost would be $3 per person per month. Napster has insisted that universities not disclose the terms of such contracts and called Ohio "and said we should not publicize the details or discuss our contract." I'm not sure secret contracts are in the best interestes of consumers, and they are certainly not in the best interests of universities. The $3 a month charge only covers listening to songs - students will s From OLDaily on May 14, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Beer, billboards, and activism [This isn't about weblogs or wikis, but it is about engaged citizenship. It's the essay I recorded for broadcast today on our local public radio station, WVPE. I take a turn there about once a month. ] Perhaps you've noticed the Bud Light billboard on the way to the South Bend Airport, or maybe there's another like it near you. This one is above the roof line on Lincolnway, just west of Bendix, and you can see it for a good distance among the other billboards and various restaurant... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 14, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..

Half-Life for the autistic An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine. While we're on the subject, can someone explain to me why having your code downloaded illegally can delay your product development by a year. Sure, you'll want to change it sufficiently that online play can't be hacked. But a year??? Half-Life 2 better be durn good! And here's an unrelated tip: If you want to discuss Aspberger's Syndrome with your thirteen year old, try prete From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..

Call for Participation: Workshop on Multimodal Interaction 2004-05-14: Position papers are due 11 June for the W3C Workshop on Multimodal Interaction to be held in Sophia Antipolis, France on 19-20 July. Attendees from user and research communities will discuss current plans, and provide feedback and suggestions for future multimodal work. Read about Workshops and visit the Multimodal Interaction home page at W3C. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 14, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

W3C Track Featured at WWW2004 2004-05-14: The W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue runs from 19-21 May at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004) in New York, NY USA. W3C Members and Team present two days of content on W3C technologies and achievements. The W3C Track conference room is New York Ballroom B. Conference attendees are also invited to Developers Day presentations on 22 May. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on May 14, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Free Culture at ILAW Chairman and co-founder of Creative Commons, Larry Lessig, spent most of this week speaking at the ILAW conference at Harvard. There are some great notes and transcripts on Furdlog and Copyfight of Lessig's "Free Culture" talk. There are a lot of great questions from the moderator and audience, and a lot of great ideas being debated. From Creative Commons: weblog on May 14, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

HP to pay $105 million to settle Canada dispute The computing company is settling a dispute with the Canadian government, but both will cooperate in legal action against those they say are to blame in a billing 'scheme.' From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Number switching hits rural delays Small landline phone service providers are winning small victories that are adding up to regulatory headaches. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

IBM hopes portal will build Power community Big Blue wants to create a Linux-like community that will foster the development of more hardware and software for Power-based devices. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

The Webby Awards For those of you who are interested, the Webby Awards have been announced. By Various Authors, May, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on May 14, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Oracle bolsters integration tools The company plans to debut tools designed to gather better information from a company's operations, part of its effort to focus more on integration software. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Citrix tests Web conferencing service The company will compete with WebEx, Microsoft and others in the increasingly crowded market for services to deliver online presentations. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Week in review: Net portal wars Rivals Yahoo and Google launch assaults on each other's territory as the fight for the Internet search dollars heated up. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

The joys of E3 Booth babes, goofy input devices and competitive ballroom dancing games compete for attention at the trade show. The booth babes win. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often descr ... Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often described as the world's first major seat of learning - BBC From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Videoconference: Using Weblogs to Promote Library Services: It's Easier Than You Think - Scheduled S ... Videoconference: Using Weblogs to Promote Library Services: It's Easier Than You Think - Scheduled Speaker: Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Library - May 25, 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council - Seoul, Korea - Au ... World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council - Seoul, Korea - August 2006 - Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Rare Book Futures: Curating Collections in the 21st Century - Annual Study Conference of the CILIP R ... Rare Book Futures: Curating Collections in the 21st Century - Annual Study Conference of the CILIP Rare Books Group - University of Sussex, Brighton, UK - September 1-3, 200 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Budding artists under 16 are being invited to design the National Library of Scotland's 2004 Christm ... Budding artists under 16 are being invited to design the National Library of Scotland's 2004 Christmas card From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Oscar-winning actors, films and ... This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Oscar-winning actors, films and filmmakers. Answers here:1. Which American actor won Oscars for the films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and As Good As It Gets?2. Who won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1980 film Gandhi?3. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Ghost (1990)?4. Who directed the 1992 Oscar-winning film Unforgiven?5. Which actress won an Academy Award as Best Actress for From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

OA research project launches its web site An important research project on OA, Open Access Communication for Science (OACS), now has a web site. The project is lead by Bo-Christer Björk of the Swedish school of Economics and Business Administration (HANKEN) and funded by the Academy of Finland. OACS focuses on three topics: (1) "Economics of the scientific publishing life-cycle process", (2) "Changing behaviour of scientists in seeking information", and (3) "New copyright arrangements taking into account open access publishing". The FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

CNI presentations online The presentations from the CNI Spring 2004 Task Force Meeting (Alexandria, Virginia, April 15-16, 2004) are now online. Many are on OA-related topics. (Thanks to Colin Steele.) From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

More on the Thomson ISI study of OA journal impact Bobby Pickering, Thomson ISI cites an equal impact, Information World Review, May 13, 2004. Excerpt: "Thomson ISI vice-president of development, Jim Pringle, said...'We're often asked by researchers "If I publish in an open access journal, will my work carry the same weight?", and we're now able to tell them, on the strength of this initial evidence, there is hardly any measureable difference.'...Pringle said OA journals had top-end and bottom-end profiles on the scale --just as traditional journals did. 'Let's take From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Scholars study blogging Mark Glaser, Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication, Online Journalism Review, May 14, 2004. More on academic blogology, or the study of blogging, than the academic use of blogs, unfortunately. (Thanks to the NFAIS Information Community News.) From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

OA to conference presentations - before the conference John S. James, Improving AIDS conferences with online information, AIDS Treatment News no.398, 7-8 (27 Feb 2004). In order to improve the ability for scientists to make crucial connections at conferences, James suggests that less time at the actual event be taken up with presentations, which could be posted online prior to the meeting. The author also points out the following potential benefit: "Such a conference would be open to the whole world's scientific communities and other interested groups -- including the great majority of pe From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Bloguestion: Who is king of the jungle? From Trevor Bechtel: My partner, Susan, maintains a blog written by her 2nd grade class at http://209.typepad.com I am writing you today to drum up site visits and comments for a question she has recently posted and would like to receive comments on. I asked some of you to help in this endeavor several months ago with a different question and she appreciated all the comments then. If you choose to go, remember that there are 7 and 8 year-old children reading your comments. Thanks for your participation. Here's the question: We were talking and studying about dinosaurs in our... From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

New Tool BlogPulse (and how to GET what they POST) Somewhere in the aggregator today came a pointer to a new blog search tool, BlogPulse BlogPulse is an "automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs... It is a one-stop portal for finding out what bloggers are saying on topics From cogdogblog on May 14, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

Teenage Bloggers David Huffaker of Georgetown has done a pretty comprehensive study of teenage blogging habits that reveals some interesting results. The study is titled "Gender Similarities and Differences in Online Identity and Language Use Among Teenage Bloggers." It's quite lengthy, but here are a couple of graphs that are particularly relevant. Overall, the results indicate that teenagers reveal a considerable amount of personal information in their blogs, including name, age, and location, as well as contact informati From weblogged News on May 14, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

Long Term Student Weblogs Ken Smith posts about Indiana University's conversations concerning Weblog hosting, and in the middle of it makes an interesting point when he says "weblogs should last longer than a semester, but it's not currently the university's job to host outside of a course." I think about that often, whether or not we at the high school level could ever entertain the idea of giving our students a general Weblog space that isn't course related but can be used for whatever "appropriate" uses a student might have. (We&ap From weblogged News on May 14, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

I-Law Day 2 Lawrence Lessig Technology has facilitated a creativity that will fundamentally alter the democratic potential of a wide varitey of people who cannot currently participate. It is changing the way culture gets made and remade, mixed and remixed. The culture is effecting the freedom to speak and the power to speak. It is a capacity to speak differently, a bottom up democracy. Not the New York Times democracy but a blog democracy. The potential to advance and spread in the sense of progress is enormous. From weblogged News on May 14, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..

George Olsen offers a toolkit for creating personas GUUUI.com points me to a helpful document (PDF): George Olsen has developed a persona toolkit, which can help you build detailed profiles of users, their relations to a product (e.g. a website), and the context in which they use a product. The toolkit is pretty extensive, but intended to be based on a pick-and-choose approach.George Olsen also gives advice on how to collect information. Ideally, personas should be based on interviewi From owrede_log on May 14, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

New Apple Tutorials Apple has published some interactive tutorials for beginners: Mac OS X Basics, Printing in Mac OS X, Moving to Mac OS X, Fonts in Mac OS X. I can't tell whether or not the topics are actually requiring such tutorials and they are didactically well done, but judging from the first look these tutorials seem to be crafted with skill. From owrede_log on May 14, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

Coins have two constitutive sides Your Say: Personal knowledge management . This short article touches very important aspects of the overall goals of the implementation of knowledge management concepts. More: it elaborates on the two sides of KM: the perso... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 14, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

Nick Berg Tops Searches, but Why? Glenn Reynolds notes that searches relating to Nick Berg top the charts at the major search engines, and attributes this to the public cares more about this murder from a news perspective than about U.S. actions in Iraq. Maybe, but maybe not. What if the big number of searches reflect something uglier than people seeking "news" or information. What if this is about a more raw desire, to see the butchery in full just because it's there? The mainstream U.S. media declined to broadcast the actual beheading, and properly so, i From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 14, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

Papering Over Budget Reality

Federal officials seek Nortel accounting records The networking company is served with a federal subpoena demanding materials related to its accounting practices, which are already the subject of an SEC inquiry. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

UPS to recycle gear for tech companies A new service from the shipping giant will help makers of devices like computers and cell phones dispose of aging products returned by customers. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

OLS Software Updated The OSLO Engineering Team today released a new version of the OLS software. The update includes a number of new features based on user feedback and requests:

MT Affronts, Offends, Loses Well, for all of their existence the reusability.org blogs have been powered by Movable Type. But not for much longer, I guess. This morning 6A announced their new licensing plans. The free version of MT is now severely crippled: “No more than one author and three weblogs.” This certainly puts reusability.org over the limit, with 12 authors hosting 15 blogs here. From autounfocus on May 14, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

IBM rounds up new Workplace partners Big Blue plans to announce additional software and hardware makers that will use its Workplace client software to deliver their products over corporate networks. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

3Com aims for the 10-Gigabit future The company's new switches will each come with a built-in 10-Gigabit expansion slot, which will make it easier for customers to upgrade without replacing their hardware. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Play-by-play at games expo Developers zero in on opportunities, from the vast but challenging China market to low-profile niches in the handhelds market. Also at E3: Sony and Nintendo look beyond children and teenagers. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Commentary: Who's first with Web services? A recent Forrester survey shows which kinds of companies and industries are implementing Web services and which ones are lagging behind. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Game specialists eye mobile opportunities Sony and Nintendo may be grabbing all the attention in the gaming market, but cell phone specialist Jamdat and GPS company Tiger Telematics have a few tricks up their sleeves. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Online-game developers eye China market Western publishers face a maze of cultural and political barriers as they try to crack the potentially huge Chinese game market. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

HP's other top woman exec Ann Livermore says losing the CEO spot to Carly Fiorina is "ancient history" and that she's excited to be heading an expanded unit. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

The twilight of high-tech gabathons? With a boom in high-tech conferences again underway, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether companies are really getting their money's worth. From CNET News.com on May 14, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

AMORI IN CORSA Regia di Andy Cadiff con Mandy Moore, Stark Sands, Tony Jayawardena, Jeremy Piven, Annabella Sciorra, Mark Harmon, Caroline Goodall, Terence Maynard From Filmscoop.it on May 14, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

IV Semana Internacional de las TIC Durante una semana, el Foro e-Gallaecia, reúne a los más destacados expertos y profesionales de referencia con el objetivo de ser Punto de Encuentro para la transmisión del conocimiento y entorno de reflexión. En la ’Semana Internacional de las TIC’ se realizan cuatro congresos diferentes que concentran distintas Áreas de Conocimiento: Seguridad; Base de Datos y Programación; Open Source y Movilidad; lo que hace que, cualitativamente, sea el Foro Tecnológico más importante de la (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 14, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

Minority women are disproportionately impacted by the autoimmune disease lupus There is an urgent need for more education and research to address the fact that minority women are disproportionately impacted by the autoimmune disease lupus From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Largest study comparing leading hepatitis C treatments Medical centers, hospitals, clinics and other treatment sites across the country are actively enrolling Americans with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a nationwide study that will for the first time determine which of the two FDA-approved pegylated interferon therapy regimens offers patients the best chance to eliminate the virus. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

FDA approves software that determines drug dosages of insulin The FDA has approved a software suite developed by Dimensional Dosing Systems, Inc. for determining optimum drug dosages of insulin and many other drugs as well as combinations of drugs. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Researchers identify new genes that control the formation of cilia found throughout the human body Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have used a combination of brainpower and computer power to identify a multitude of new genes that control the formation of tiny, hair-like cilia that stipple the surfaces of many organs in a wide variety of creatures. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

New research program to focus on human beta cell regeneration and its potential role to cure type-1 diabetes The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) have announced a new program today called the Regeneration of Beta Cell Function (RBCF) to focus on human beta cell regeneration and its potential role to cure type-1 diabetes. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Training and flexibility the key to retaining rural doctors A Monash University study of more than 1100 rural doctors has found that Federal Government strategies to attract doctors to rural areas are working. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

The Stroke Association have found that surgery can halve the risk of a stroke Scientists funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and The Stroke Association have found that surgery can halve the risk of a stroke for people who have significant narrowing of the main artery carrying blood to the brain. Their findings, published in this week’s The Lancet, are the result of a large-scale international clinical trial. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Study of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe, treatment-resistant lupus The study will include a basic research component to examine the roles of B and T cells, white blood cells in the immune system, in triggering lupus symptoms. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

More evidence is required to associate cannabis use with negative psychosocial effects University of Birmingham researchers conclude that more evidence is required to determine the nature and extent of associating cannabis use with negative psychosocial effects. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Baby food companies exposed as evidence presented to UK Parliament and Lancet study reinforces list of health risks of artificial feeding The Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules 2004 monitoring report analyses the promotional practices of 16 transnational baby food companies and 14 bottle and teat companies between January 2002 and April 2004. The benchmark standards used for measuring marketing practices are the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolutions. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Anwendung neuer BFH-Entscheidungen Die Finanzbehörden des Bundes und der Länder haben die Liste der im finanzgerichtlichen Verfahren anzuwenden Urteile und Beschlüsse erweitert. Insgesamt... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Arbeitgeberinformationen zur Babypause Das vor einem Jahr eröffnete Internetportal fast-4ward zur Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie hat sein Angebot für Unternehmen erweitert. Hintergrund... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Software-Patente Die umstrittenen Software-Patente könnten doch noch nach Europa kommen: Einige EU-Länder (darunter auch Deutschland) haben eine Beschlussvorlage eingebracht, berichtet die... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Unbefugtes Fotgrafieren in den USA Mobiltelefone mit integrierter Kamera werden weltweit immer beliebter. Das ist eine Tatsache und bedürfte eigentlich keiner gesonderten Meldung duch Heise.... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Sünder-Kartei im Netz Die Regulierungsbehörde (RegTP) hat eine Liste mit Maßnahmen veröffentlicht, die sie seit Anfang des Jahres gegen die Betreiber von Mehrwertdiensten... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

MT 3.0 Gestern ist das neue MT 3.0 erschienen. Für das "Handakte WebLAWg" werde ich mir schon wegen der erweiterten Features die... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..

Comienzan Algo que hacer: Nuevas tecnologías, Internet, libros, e-sociedad, e-cultura, economía, y todo lo que pueda resultar interesante... Anotaciones de un periodista raro: Opinaré sobre todo sin imponer nada. Blog de JM Noguera: lo escribe desde Elche José Manuel, quien se... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 14, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..

Crater Linked to Mass Extinction An ancient crater buried off the Australian coast could be a key piece of evidence in determining the cause of a mass extinction on Earth approximately 250 million years ago, say scientific researchers. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Economy Doesn't Need Protection Imagine a major-party candidate delivering the stump speech Silicon Valley needs to hear. The message? Protectionism will only make things worse. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Big Games Ready for 2004 Doom 3, Halo 2 and The Sims 2 are likely to be some of the best-selling games of all time, and they're all coming out in 2004. Take a look at some of the screenshots shown at the E3 video-game conference in Los Angeles. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Gamers Spurning TV, Movies America's 180 million video-game players cut down on time spent watching television and movies in order to play more games. Also: Nintendo demonstrates what the second screen on its handheld is good for.... The Sims get an urban makeover.... and more. Wired News reports from E3 in Los Angeles. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Phone Becomes Alibi for Liars A funny -- and disturbing -- trend is popping up in the U.S. and in Europe: People are downloading phony alibis such as prerecorded traffic jam sounds, or even joining mobile liars' clubs, to pull one over on bosses and spouses. By Elisa Batista. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

E3: Loud and Garish as Ever Anyone with even a passing interest in video games would consider the Los Angeles Convention Center heaven this week -- at least for a few hours. Check out some of the action from the E3 show floor. Wired News reports from Los Angeles. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

A Tightwad's Guide to Ad Blockers Sick of obnoxious video and audio advertisements hogging up bandwidth? No worries. While one can always spring for blocking software, simply switching browsers or employing a few simple hacks can keep annoying marketing pitches at bay. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Polygraphs Don't Give True Story Researchers have yet to develop a foolproof technology to determine whether a person is telling the truth. That hasn't stopped interrogators from relying on their old, flawed standby: the polygraph. By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on May 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Building a wireless nervous system - Alorie Gilbert and Richard Shim, CNET News.com The Internet has transformed the way people exchange information and ideas, but what if computer networks could sense motion, light, heat or pressure? Could an environmentally aware network spot a forest fire in its early stages? Monitor From Techno-News Blog on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Congress mulls revisions to DMCA - Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com The U.S. Congress has taken a step toward revising the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which has attracted extensive criticism during the past six years. A House of Representatives subcommittee convened Wednesday for the first hearing d From Techno-News Blog on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Rise of the e-classroom - Steve McCormack, Independent Computers are a growing part of everyday life, so naturally they are increasingly used in schools. Beyond that less-than-earth-shattering statement, however, lies a complicated and fluid picture, with vast differences in provision across the schools la From Techno-News Blog on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Copyright: Giving Credit - techLearning David Warlick's Landmarks for Schools Web site offers a free online tool, called Citation Machine.... Students can open the tool, select the type of resource they want to cite, enter the "raw" information requested (author, publisher, etc.), and then c From Educational Technology on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Site of the Day: Sites for Teachers - techLearning Brief Description of the Site: This portal lists sites by the number of 'hits' they receive. At the time of this writing the most-visited site was TeacherPlanet.com, a comprehensive site offering everything from lesson plans through gradebooks to poste From Educational Technology on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Online lessons feature Philippine teachers - Hiroko Ihara, Daily Yomiuri With the use of fast, low-cost broadband Internet connections rapidly expanding in Japan, an increasing number of affordable online live English lessons are appearing as part of a growing e-learning market. Fourhalf, an e-learning venture firm in Yodo From Online Learning Update on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Online learning system can increase exam pass rates - ELIZABETH BUIE, the Herald An online learning programme developed by a Scottish university can improve exam pass rates by almost 10%, an independent study has shown. The study, funded by the Scottish Executive, also found that the e-learning programme was so popular with pupils From Online Learning Update on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Cyberstudent from Saipan heads to W.Va. for degree - Associated Press A student from Saipan who's never set foot on campus will spend two days traveling to West Virginia University this week to pick up her master's degree and meet the adviser she has only seen on a computer screen. For three years, Robin Lizama Palacios From Online Learning Update on May 14, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

UN Chronicle E-Alert: The Four Freedoms On 8 May 2004, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute honoured Secretary-General Kofi Annan by awarding him the Roosevelt Institute's Four Freedoms Medal. The "Four Freedoms" was an expression coined by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a speech to the United States Congress in 1941. Roosevelt Institute Co-Chairman Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel presented the award to Mrs. Nane Annan on the Secretary-General's behalf following a ceremony at the Abbey of Middelburg, The Netherlands -- the ancestral home of the Roosevelt family. [PRWEB May 14, 2004] From PR Web on May 14, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Publishing for Global Learning: Presentation Made in Italy by Executives from GKE USA, Wayne, New Jersey, and Jersey Cow Software, Franklin Park, NJ. At the invitation and support of the Association of Education Publishers (USA) and the Italian government, executives from GKE USA, Wayne, New Jersey, and Jersey Cow Software, Franklin Park, NJ, presented at the Global Learning Initiative of the International Bologna Book Fair in Bologna, Italy. [PRWEB May 14, 2004] From PR Web on May 14, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

User-Lab presents the event E-commerce Law and Web Accessibility User-Lab http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/userlabSite/user.html, the user-centred design centre is to present an event entitled 'E-commerce Law and Web Accessibility' in conjunction with Lecote Solicitors, http://www.lecote.com/ later this month. [PRWEB May 14, 2004] From PR Web on May 14, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Pocket Snails Soaring Star Productions is pleased to announce that its critically acclaimed children's developmental DVD, Pocket Snails From PR Web on May 14, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

'Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds' exposes how American Education Ignores Its Brightest Students Critically acclaimed Genius Denied reveals education's biggest "dirty little secret," and identifies how America can harness the talents of its highly intelligent youth [PRWEB May 14, 2004] From PR Web on May 14, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Failed Schoolboy Becomes ".GENIUS" Overnight Last night at 11.01pm, and without any warning, Arthur Fredrick Norom, otherwise know as "Slow Snail" to his friends, suddenly became a ".GENIUS"....Read On... [PRWEB May 14, 2004] From PR Web on May 14, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Senate Approves Special Education Measure The Senate approved major changes in special education intended to reduce paperwork for teachers and bolster enforcement by state and federal authorities. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Manuals Ignite New Conflict in School Promotion Policy Unions representing school employees said that New York City's Education Department should have issued the manuals for carrying out the new promotion policy earlier. From New York Times: Education on May 14, 2004 at 3:46 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 14, 2004 at 3:46 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 14, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Green Key Weekend From CodeIvy.com on May 14, 2004 at 3:05 a.m..

Skydiving at Dartmouth From CodeIvy.com on May 14, 2004 at 3:05 a.m..

PHONE Regia di Ahn Byung-Ki con Ha Ji-Won, Kim Yoo-Mi, Choi Woo-Jae, Choi Ji-yeon, Eun Seo-woo From Filmscoop.it on May 14, 2004 at 3:05 a.m..

MILLE MESI Regia di Faouzi Bensaïdi con Fouad Labied, Nezha Rahil, Mohammed Majd, Abdelati Lambarki, Mohamed Bastaoui From Filmscoop.it on May 14, 2004 at 3:05 a.m..

MI CHIAMANO RADIO Regia di Michael Tollin con Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, S. Epatha Merkerson, Riley Smith, Debra Winger, Alfre Woodard From Filmscoop.it on May 14, 2004 at 3:05 a.m..

DENTRO LA CITTA' Regia di Andrea Costantini con Elisabetta Cavallotti, Edoardo Leo, Rolando Ravello, Luca Ward, Giorgio Colangeli, Simone Colombari, Andrea Rivera From Filmscoop.it on May 14, 2004 at 3:05 a.m..

El código es bello Hoy, cuando más que navegando iba a la deriva por la interred, he recalado casualmente en una página que reproducía el código del famoso virus informático ’I Love You’, que hizo estragos allá por 2000. Además de mostrar el código, el virus intenta ejecutarse en el ordenador cliente en cuanto accede el navegador a la página en cuestión, por lo que no dejaré aquí rastro de su URL. El autor se ofrece amablemente a proporcionar las instrucciones para ensamblar el virus a quien se (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

I Jornadas Redes de Telecomunicaciones Públicas El objetivo de las jornadas es crear un foro de discusión, que se mantendrá en el tiempo, donde Administraciones, Expertos y Profesionales de la Sociedad de la Información, establezcan las bases de esta Revolución social que se debe liderar y promover desde la Administración Pública, como única garantía de universalización de estos Servicios para todos los Ciudadanos . La asistencia a las mismas es gratuita y sólo tiene que (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

New Happy Birthday - LoveCards motives available - free eCards by eMail New Happy Birthday LoveCards with roses and flowers. From Cyberspace Ashram - Develop your power of Love in life and business on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

New Happy Birthday LoveCards for WAP devices, mobiles and smartphones New Happy Birthday LoveCards with roses and flowers - FREE ecards by eMail - now also available for WAP devices, smartphones and mobiles. From Cyberspace Ashram - Develop your power of Love in life and business on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

MoveableType Goes Commercial It looks like I won't be upgrading to MT 3.0 anytime soon. As MT Developer Edition has been released, there have been some major changes to the MT licensing structure. While there will be a free version of MT 3.0,... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Webby Awards Announced I noticed yesterday that the Webby Award winners have been announced. Check out the Webby award winners and nominees at: http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html I've been spending the last 24 hours going through the sites of some of the winners and nominees. There... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Siemens to extend MTS networks in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine Under the €170m agreement, Siemens will expand and upgrade the switching subsystems in various regional MTS networks in the three countries. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Broadband access up 80 per cent - Commission Broadband take-up is now faster in the EU than in the US, with several member states among the best performers around the globe, according to a new report from the European Commission. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Commission publishes consultation on e-money and mobile operators According to European Commission, pre-paid mobile phone cards are describable as a form of electronic money when they are used to buy and pay for third party products or services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

France Telecom delivers international IP transit capacity to MSN Through the agreement, the telco will deliver bandwidth-intense content and applications to customers who use MSN in London, Singapore and Tokyo. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Napster signs up UK independent labels Napster has signed a global distribution agreement with the UK's Association of Independent Music ahead of the legal music download service's UK launch this summer. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

PVRs unit shipments tripled in 2003 Unit shipments of personal video recorders this year will top 11m, according to a new report from market analysts In-Stat/MDR. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

There's WiFi in my TV Despite objections from broadcasters, it looks like the FCC will propose a plan allowing WiFi to use unused frequencies between TV channels 2 and 51 in each market, as long as they don't disrupt existing stations. From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Blogging about Television Talking about Blogging Interesting exercise in self-referentiality via TV (FoxNews). From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Grouping Ev announces that Google is beta-testing the ability for users to create their own groups (fighting Yahoo on another front). I just went in and created a group for the nascent Citizens Media Association hatched at Bloggercon. Nothing there so go say things... From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

The FeedRoom's RSS feeds Earlier this week, Reuters began offering RSS feeds of its video clips, thanks to The FeedRoom. Turns out, The FeedRoom offers a ton of video RSS feeds. From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:04 a.m..

Qualcomm Offers Chips to Allow 6-Megapixel Cameras NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mobile phone technology provider Qualcomm Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a new line of chips with ultra-high resolution camera features and said it was making inroads in advanced new markets. Update: found a bit more info over at Reiter's Camera Phone Report: The chipset also offers 30 frames per second for video recording and playback. In addition, the chipset offers enhanced features for location based services using Qualcomm's gpsOne technology. Stere From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

The people's news judgment The great, vaunted talent/skill/art/gift from God that editors supposedly have is news judgment. I had to work my way up in the business until one day a light shone from heaven and it was decreed that I had news judgment. Editors have it. Mortals don't. Or not. Glenn Reynolds puts together a bunch of opinions from many quarters that say the news business has no news judgment regarding the murder of Nick Berg. He's right. And now we have the means to prove he's right. We can look at what From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Good Blog News Roundup Bill Hobbs has posted a solid roundup of news about blogs and the impact they're having in public relations, journalism, politics and academia. The roundup includes a Reuters report that explores the impact of digital technology on war-related public relations and journalism, an interview -- From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Video Blog Assignment: Democratic Convention Jeff Jarvis posts this from the Bloggers' convention assignment desk: 1. Do not cover anything we can see on TV: not a single speech. 2. Do give us your perspective as a citizen: be opinionated and, when deserved, cynical. 3. Do report on the reporters: Expose the tricks of their trade. 4. Do take assignments from your readers: ask the questions the people who can't be there would ask (that, after all, is the real job of reporters, isn't it?). From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Jimmy Breslin on the End of News Gatekeepers The reformists, like public journalists and webloggers, first warned of the death of journalism as we know it. Now even hardened journalists like Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin are beginning to agree. He writes in part: From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Reality TV goes mobile While Reality TV shows have been taking over broadcast TV, Sprint is planning to bring it to mobile phones. "The Spot", billed as a "reality drama", will be streaming to handsets on Sprint's PCS Vision network. Sprint's new version of "The Spot" will be the first time original content of this sort has been made available for wireless phones in the United States. Natu From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Toronto Open Source Conference Report Today's Ottawa Citizen is running a report in the TechWeekly section on the recent open source conference in Toronto organized by U of T's interdisciplinary Knowledge Media Design Institute and last month's Real World Linux trade show. It highlights the extremely poor Extremadura region of Spain's success story using open so From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

"The days of push-pin maps are over" Okay, so everybody and their mother has heard about Pacmanhattan by now. And things going on at the Psy.Geo.Conflux are pretty great too. One thing projects like this point towards, aside from the pure exhilaration that comes alongside any real-time intertwining of a networked space with a physical one, is that lots of wonderful things can happen when you map your code to geography. Brett Stalbaum's work at C5 is just one other example that comes to my mind (-- From unmediated on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Poor Turn-out in Lucknow and Gandhinagar Shows Voters Lack of Confidence in Vajpayee and Advani Political Honour Demands Vajpayee and Advani Step Down from Leadership of NDA From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

All India Muslim Forum Protest against America AIMF today staged a massive demonstration outside Vidhan Sabha Lucknow in protest against the most barbaric and outrageous treatment being meted out to the prisoners of war and general masses of Iraq by the American-led occupation forces From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

British Indian Muslims Celebrate BJPs Defeat CIM has described the defeat of BJP as a victory of humanity in India. The Indian public has rejected BJPs sectarian politics and its propaganda... From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Indian Muslim Organisation: General Election results mean rebirth of the Republic with Restoration of Democracy, Secularism and Rule of Law Offers Felicitations to the Indian National Congress, the Other Associated Secular Parties and to the People of India From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Article of the Week Exercise for Relaxation: Ease your body into these stretches: you should not be jumping or bouncing around, and the exercises are not supposed to be uncomfortable. Remember to breathe slowly and rhythmically too. The positions should be held for at least 10 seconds, but if you want to increase your flexibility, stretch the major muscle groups for a minimum of 30 seconds. Abdominal breathing is the key here. This allows you to take air deep into your lungs. When you breathe deeply, blood is able to carry oxygen more efficiently to all parts of your body. BACK OF THIGHS : Stand up straight wit From Women Fitness E-Mag Vol No. 144 on May 14, 2004 at 3:03 a.m..

Makes us more than just well-fed cows Astrobiology Magazine interviews Brother Guy Consolmagno. He has a M.Sc. from MIT and a Ph.D. from University of Arizona. He also just so happens an astronomer of the Vatican Observatory. He's also proof positive that science and theology can coexist together. ...If God made the universe, and he made it good, and he loved the universe so much that, as the Christians believe, he sent his only son, it's up to us to honor and respect and get to know the universe. I think it was Francis Bacon who said that God sets up the universe as a marvelous puzzle for us to get to know him by gettin From silentblue | Quantified on May 14, 2004 at 3:02 a.m..

Personal Displays of Affection Dana fantasizes about his idea of a perfect PDA - fortunately for him, most of his wishes are already commercially available (and the laser keyboard is coming soon). I hate PDAs. There is something banal about using a plastic stick to scratch tiny characters onto a small patch of plastic while peering into a murky plastic screen just doesn't grab me. What I want, does not yet exist: Ultra-high contrast, ultra-high resolution true colour screen Make that a flexible e-paper screen Or a projector screen. I'm not picky. WiMax or FireWireless access, or some other newfangled broadband wir From silentblue | Quantified on May 14, 2004 at 3:02 a.m..

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Correction: Obnoxious Apple Crap All right, apologies for the previous entry that was at this address. I got fooled (via a link from a software site I found during other research) into thinking I saw something on the Apple site that had nothing to do with Apple. I've accordingly removed my mistaken rant. Apologies to Apple. Everyone ends up with egg on their face sometimes. This just appears to be my day. So be it. From Contentious Weblog on May 14, 2004 at 3:02 a.m..

Unseemly Prepositions Tightening up flabby sentences can seem more difficult than firming up flabby thighs. However, polishing and trimming your finished writing doesn't have to be such hard work. There are several easy tricks that can help any writer tone up the most awkward, sprawling sentences. Here's one little gem that I often share with my writing coaching clients: Spotting and eliminating unnecessary prepositional phrases. Here's how it works... (Read more--> From Contentious Weblog on May 14, 2004 at 3:02 a.m..

Learning Economics Group Attended a teleconference session of the Learning Economics Group today. This is a non-profit group focused on conducting research, developing tools, databases, forums and the creation of a virtual discussion From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Kolabora Videoconferencing Review Today I attended Robin Good's free webinar on low-cost videoconferencing tools. During this session, Robin (aka - Luigi Canali De Rossi) presented 9 systems, varying in price and pricing models. The two top scorers were systems I had never heard of before - Wave Three Session and Marratech. One insight that I picked up from Robin is that vendors need to create diversified products around cor From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Busy Teacher' Website K-12 This Site is designed: to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet.... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

CATHOLIC CURRICULUM ONLINE Catholic Curriculum Online provides a Web site clearing house so that Catholic curriculum ideas, activities, lessons, units, and articles can be collected from, and shared with, educators in Catholic schools across Saskatchewan. Submissions cover all K-12 subject areas. Catholic Curriculum... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Blue Web'n Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Blue Web'n Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Online Teaching Strategies This Web site is intended to offer you, a teacher, an introduction to effectively using the Internet and the World Wide Web as part of your everyday teaching strategy repertoire. As such, this site is meant to be an idea... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Norwegian Newspaper Journalists on Strike -- But Not on the Web About 3,000 Norwegian journalists went on strike Wednesday morning, according to an article by the Norway Post. Major national and regional newspapers like Aftenposten, VG, DN, Dagbladet, Adresseavisen, Bergens Tidende, and --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Smart Search in Multiple Languages With all the IPO buzz, can you still think of search beyond Google? Some Swiss guys obviously can. This (German-language) article from Persoenlich.com describes a new patent-pending technology called "Multi Language Search Engine" (MLSE) developed by MVM. MLSE will enable users to search for business partners or products on websites in many different languages at once. The search terms will be automatically translated into different languages before the actual search starts. You also can a From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Kerry's Smart Use of Political Online Advertising The Kerry campaign, which reportedly has been leading the Bush campaign in Amazon.com's online donation system, has launched a smart run of advertising on the home page of NYTimes.com. It's good timing, considering what a rough week the Bush administration has had. The Kerry ad campaign is a page-dominating 336 x 280 pixels, delivered in a mix of creative approaches (both GIF and Flash versions). The significant thing is that it makes a direct appeal for small contributions, turning what could be just another message into an opportunity f From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

Google to Accept Banner Ads, Move Beyond Just Text Google's AdWords and AdSense programs put contextual ads on Google search results and on partner websites, respectively. Till now, the ads have been simple text -- which has been highly effective and brought Google hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Now Google is taking the next step and will begin to place banner or display ads in AdWords and AdSense. (Tobi Elkin discusses the move in an a From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

What Bloggers Think Is Trendy Here's a cool search tool that might be handy for editors wanting to keep track of what's trendy and hot. Intelliseek has launched a free website called Blogpulse.com which tracks and measures "buzz" about key issues, trends, personalities, and links in more than 1 million blogs. Click on "key people," "key phrases," or "top links" to find out what's being written about most in the blog world. It's a tool that can be especially useful in making sure that news editors don't miss stories that may be hot among bloggers but not yet ma From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 14, 2004 at 3:01 a.m..

IIEP is holding a virtual forum on Free and Open Source Software for e-learning A while ago there was an announcement about the Virtual Universities forum held by IIEP (part of UNESCO). That forum has now finished. However there had been enough people interested in the software (free and open) to help the education, so a new forum is being setup. Following is the notice with the details. International Institute for Educational Planning An Invitation to participate in a Internet discussion forum Free and Open Source Software for E-learning This forum is being organized in response to interest expressed during the first discussion fo From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 14, 2004 at 3:00 a.m..

Social Software for EFL Classes - Authentic Communication In Ryukoku University's Faculty of Intercultural Communications, students are have started up Livejournals in an attempt to fulfill course requirements for a reading/writing class that meets once a week throughout the year. What I'm hoping will happen though, is that through authentic conversational interaction online, they will tap into a different type of motivation, one that is more intrinsic to their own needs and desires. Meeting foreign people, learning about different cultures, and From apcampbell News on May 14, 2004 at 3:00 a.m..

Cholesterol-lowering drugs could treat multiple sclerosis Drug treatments for MS are expensive and only partially effective. Recent knowledge that statins promote an anti-inflammatory response from the immune system suggest a potential in the treatment of MS. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 2:59 a.m..

Key hole colon surgery effective When performed by experienced surgeons, minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery is a safe and effective alternative to standard open surgery for most patients with cancer that is confined to the colon. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 2:59 a.m..

1 in every 10 children worldwide is obese In a comprehensive dossier revealing how the global obesity epidemic is affecting children, the International ObesityTaskForce says that one in 10 children is overweight, a total of 155 million. Around 30-45 million within that figure are classified as obese - accounting for 2-3% of the world’s children aged 5-17. A further 22 million younger children are also affected according to previous IOTF global estimates based on WHO data for under fives. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 2:59 a.m..

Better understanding of radiation therapy in the treatment of breast cancer To help patients understand the importance of radiation therapy in the treatment of breast cancer, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology has published the new patient information brochure Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Treatment. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 2:59 a.m..

Genomed treatment helps bald eagles with West Nile virus encephalitis GenoMed, Inc. a Next Generation Disease Management company that uses its expertise in genomics to improve clinical outcomes in as many species as possible, announced today that two non-profit groups which care for wild birds with West Nile virus encephalitis, including American bald eagles, will be using the Company's patent-pending treatment this season. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 2:59 a.m..

Britannia Pharmaceuticals’ partner receives FDA approval for Parkinson’s disease treatment Britannia Pharmaceuticals Limited announced today that U.S.-based Bertek Pharmaceuticals Inc., the branded subsidiary of Mylan Laboratories Inc has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for APOKYN (apomorphine hydrochloride injection). From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 2:59 a.m..

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is nearly four times as common in veterans of the first Persian Gulf War as in nonveterans Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is nearly four times as common in veterans of the first Persian Gulf War as in nonveterans, according to a new study. From News-Medical News Feed on May 14, 2004 at 2:59 a.m..

PhD as jigsaw puzzle Thinking about my PhD approach... Some people do their PhD research in a very systematics way - going through well articulated steps and designs. Somehow I don't feel like doing it this way. My way of doing PhD is similar to how I would solve jigsaw puzzle:

SILL Recently I borrowed Language Learning Strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know by Rebecca Oxford from the university library. This is a book that I have wanted to buy for some time but at us$47 it's a little out of my... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on May 14, 2004 at 2:58 a.m..

Sigsemis Bei Sigsemis handelt es sich um ein Portal zum Semantic Web, das man nur nach kostenlosem Registrieren in vollem Umfang... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

Chello Der Internetbetreiber chello hat gestern eine interaktive Tageszeitung gestartet. Die Online-Zeitung erscheint Montag bis Freitag, ausgenommen an Feiertagen, und wird... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

Google Groups 2 Beta Vor kurzem wurden die Google Groups 2 Beta veröffentlicht; die Abteilung "Law" ist hier zu finden. Eine erste Besprechung liegt,... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

VEB Horch & Guck (Erst) Im April 2004, fast 15 Jahre nach Zusammenbruch des Stasi-Systems, wurden die sogenannten Rosenholz-Dateien der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Sie... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

Elektronischer Rechtsverkehr Das Projekt "Elektronischer Rechtsverkehr" bei dem OVG Rheinland-Pfalz wird durch die Universität Koblenz-Landau begleitet ("Justiz 24"). Alles Weitere in der... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

EV gegen "TV Digital" Die Verlagsgruppe Milchstrasse erwirkte am 11.05.2004 vor dem LG Hamburg eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen den Axel Springer Verlag, die den... From Handakte WebLAWg on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

Nuevo dominio de Rayuela Fotoblog El magnífico fotolog de Manfred. S Rocker deja su anterior dominio y se muda a Rayuela Fotoblog. Lo cuenta en Reinicio de Rayuela Fotoblog. Aprovechando la visita, vale la pena leer Formatos y soportes donde formula una sugerente analogía entre... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

IT 'marks education watershed' From ScotFEICT on May 14, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..

Rome Study Tour blog Many of you will know Darlene Gulas-Bomok from our graduate program. She is leaving today on a Rome Study tour as part of a course in Educational Foundations & Continuing Education. She's going to be posting regularly to a blog... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Interactive Map Rodger Graham continues to find the coolest things. Check out this ">interactive map. I found a restaurant in Lugano, Switzerland and even got them to send me three coupons for free drinks!... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

RSS Search And Custom Feed Creation: XSNews XSNews is a new RSS-based news search engine operating across four different languages: English, French, German and Dutch. Over 40,000 quality news sources are already included. Newsfeeds submissions are all reviewed and filtered manually. XSNews generates an immediately accessible RSS... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

What A Personal Publishing/Communication System Should Provide Dave Pollard has a new, very interesting article (cum smartly colored scorecard) focusing on all of the features and facilities he would like to see in his ideal personal publishing system (blog for most). Though, in my personal view, integrating all of these tools and facilities into one is not the... From Kolabora.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Best Of Breed Videoconferencing Tools: Kolabora Live! Selects The Best In less than two hours the second Kolabora Live! Buyer's Review event will take off online. Registrations are still open and today's event is going to cover in detail the best and most cost-effective videoconferencing solutions available out there. Tired... From Kolabora.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

News for Today, May 14 News in the shared spaces world: LAN 2 LAN introduced capabilities that permit RIM BlackBerry users to access enterprise / business applications, beyond the normal "email and PIM" capabilities. LAN 2 LAN is a UK-based vendor. LAN 2 LAN SAP... From Kolabora.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

New RSS feeds from Robin Good Two new RSS newsfeeds from Robin Good have just become available filling a raising demand for more specialized updates on key topics followed on my sites. One is the RSSTop55 newsfeed, which allows marketers of news sites or blogs to stay on top of the new RSS-based search engines and directories be... From Kolabora.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

5. Macromedia updates Web conferencing product | CNET News.com ... Macromedia announced an update to its Breeze Web conferencing software on Monday, adding new collaboration features. Breeze Live ... From Kolabora.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

10. Internet News from The Industry Standard: News and Analysis for ... ... to deliver Web conferencing and collaboration services featuring its ... The company announced on Monday that the long ... launched its iPod and began to steal thunder ... From Kolabora.com on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Gardening catalogs From the Lifeline weblog of my wonderful public library, I learn of Cyndi Johnson's collection of 2000 gardening catalogs, all neatly organized in her portal by category and ambition. Her careful table design is a good model for presenting masses of sorted links, so I want to keep track of this one for reasons of both form and content. The category pages are well-designed, too. From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Snow report RSS Steven M. Cohen locates the RSS feeds of the Aspen Times, but there is no Snow Conditions feed. Aren't they kind of missing the point? From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Blog bibliography Elmine Wijnia shares a lengthy bibliography about weblogs and Habermas. From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

WeaLink.com, the real SNS in China?A team of a who ... WeaLink.com, the real SNS in China?A team of a whole new social networking service in China is under construction. Wealink.com, could be the final name of the service. "We are link", "We all link", "Via link", or "Weak link?"......Till now, almost all "SNS" in China are becoming dating service just like those portals invented themselves into half-porn sms dating service. It's, whatever, non-evitable change to those short-vision business men. Hopefully, WeaLink.com's new model chould change the situation. From Meta on May 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Proba seems the Great Wall of China from space"Whe ... Proba seems the Great Wall of China from space"When Yang Liwei, the first taikonaut, orbited 14 times around Earth in October 2003, he didn't see the Great Wall of China from his Shenzhou V capsule. He was disappointed, and so were his countrymen. China said for decades that the Great Wall was the only manmade object visible from space. So, the Chinese government was tempted to modify the schoolbooks to remove this reference.But now, Proba, the polyvalent satellite launched in 2001 by the European Space Agency (ESA), was able to capture images of the Great Wall fr From Meta on May 14, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

Audioblogger - free and only works with Blogger blogs This is very cool, but how do they make money? Ads? And why doesn't it work with non Blogger blogs? Every other tool like AudioBlog uses the MetaWeblog API and therefore works with Blogware, MT and all the other MetaWeblogAPI tools. Time to sign up for a free Blogger blog to play with this. From Audioblogger: F.A.Q.: QUOTEWhat is it? Audioblogger enable From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 14, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

RSS is bigger than blogging and everyone will be a blogger if they choose to I agree that RSS (or syndication if that's a better term for you) will be bigger than blogging. But I believe everyone will blog (not just text, also video, audio, etc.) eventually just as "everyone" emails. Some people even today choose not to use email. But email is readily available and cheap so that if you want it, you can use it. The same thing will happen with blogging. We may not call it blogging, but it will have all the characteristics of today's blogging: instant networked sharing of text, audio, video, etc. From --> From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 14, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

I love Google and I love Atom but Blogspot not generating both Atom and RSS feeds is evil for users Dear Evan, Sergey and Larry: In Google's S1 filing, the number one principle is: "DON'T BE EVIL". Yet you have punished users by deciding to generate only Atom feeds for free Google Blogger blogs. I believe this is evil for users. Why? Well, despite what is written at AtomEnabled.or From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 14, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

Google Groups 2 Beta looks good Nice new features. Good-bye Yahoo groups and your awful ads (eventually!). Now I have to ask: are there RSS feeds? Doesn't look like it! From About Google Groups 2 Beta: QUOTEThis new version of Google Groups builds on the success of the original Google Groups's searchable Usenet archive. Now, not only can you search and read more than 845 million Usenet postings, you can also stay in touch with friends, family, and colleagues by creating your own web groups, mailing From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 14, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

The Alchemy of Growth McKinsey & Company, The Alchemy of Growth -- What is the formula?, 1999 An oldie but a goodie about things to consider when growing an organization. The transformative power of growth is akin to the alchemy of old. Always a mystery, alchemy's magical blend of... From Internet Time Blog on May 14, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

Windows fixes Hints on making Windows work, from Dave Farber's Interesting People mail list. Dave's list provides an awesome array of opinions. It's one fo the few daily mailings I pay attention to. To subscribe, go here. Archives... From Internet Time Blog on May 14, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

Embanet Enhances Already Impressive Scalability and Reliability for Online Programs through Deployment of IntraLearn MELS system From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

Apogee Interactive Inc. Names Randy Edwards Director of eLearning From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

Late-night OU broadcasts to go From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

A conversation with BSU's [Ball State University] next president From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

OPM [Office of Personnel Management] Associate Director Tells Senate Committee that Diploma Mill Degrees Have No Place in Federal Government Decisions on Hiring, Promoting ||OPM Director Kay Coles James Issues Strong Message on Bogus Degrees From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

Blackboard to Power Online Community For 25th National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

CET Annual Conference Preliminary Program Released! From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

Chocks away for RAF e-learning From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

Virtual Learning Environments in education: a review of the literature From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on May 14, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

Version 53 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibl ... Version 53 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,100 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet - by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 14, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Imagining mass digitization Michael Keller, Casting Forward; Collection Development After Mass Digitization or Doing One's Part: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Charleston Advisor, April 2004. Excerpt: "We are at the cusp of projects that will dramatically increase the amount of carefully selected, extensively validated, widely consulted, and often cited information available through the internet. Only a few considerations hinder us from providing our readers, our students, and our faculty with vastly improved opportunities to search, to read From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Long-term access for democracy Margaret Phillips, Keeping Online Information Accessible for E-governance and E-democracy, National Library of Australia, 2004. Abstract: "Democracy, governance, consultation and participation all depend on the availability of authentic and reliable information. Government agencies at the federal, state and local levels, as well as educational and research institutions, are producing increasingly large volumes of information in electronic formats only. While Australia has done more than most countries to date to address t From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

New issue of Library Journal The April 12 issue of Library Journal has three brief, unsigned stories on OA.

Journal of Orthopaedics Launched The Journal of Orthopaedics a new peer reviewed Open Access Journal published from the Department of Orthopaedics, Calicut Medical College and jointly funded by the Calicut Ortho Alumni Association and Prof PK Surendran Memorial Education Foundation was officially launched today. The Journal is the fifth Open Access Journal from the Institute and is thought to become one of the premier Orthopaedics Journals worldwide. From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Google searches Ingenta ejournals Google is on a roll in acquiring rights to offer free full-text searching of priced online journals. It started indexing metadata for Ingenta journal articles in February and added full-text indexing in March. As Ingenta's Google-visibility rose, its usage rose dramatically. For example, Ingenta had 5.4 million Google-referred users in April alone. Today Ingenta announced that Google had finished its full-text index of existing Ingenta titles. From today's press release: "Although the crawler is From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Planning for disaster David Mort, You Can't Read E-Journals When the Lights Go Out, Research Information, April 2004. Excerpt: "At the start of 2004, IRN established a User Panel of 30 leading STM Information Professionals in the UK....[A] significant minority of panellists also recognise the efforts being made to create viable digital archives and mention initiatives, such as: the Electronic Archives Initiative (EIA) from JSTOR; LOCKKS; and the work of the National Library in the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). The latter has set u From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Royal Swets CEO on OA Siân Harris interviews Eric van Amerongen, the CEO of Royal Swets and Zeitlinger, in the April issue of Research Information. Excerpt: Q: Does the Internet threaten traditional STM publishing? A: Open access, where authors publish their results for free on the Internet, is a very interesting trend. If it were to really take off, then it would have a huge effect on publishers. Whether agents would disappear too, or whether they would still have a role, remains to be seen. Open access would still requ From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Skeptical view of Google indexing Rita Vine, Just Because It's Indexed Doesn't Mean You'll Find It, SiteLines, May 12, 2004. Vine, a librarian who specializes in web searching, finds problems with what many see as an advance towards accessing open content, the indexing of various databases in Google. She uses the example of PubMed and shows how a search in Google will be quite different from one in PubMed. The writer points out the detrimental effect of Google's page-ranking algorithm in this context: In this ex From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Four colleges spurn ScienceDirect, endorse OA Four first-rate liberal arts colleges in Minnesota (Carleton, Gustavus Adolphus, Macalester, and St. Olaf) have separately refused three-year renewals of ScienceDirect. Their decisions were independent, but they issued a joint press release. Excerpt: "While the reasons and decision processes were somewhat different on each campus, we are all convinced that the escalating From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Right to preserve digital information Alicia Ryan, Contract, Copyright and the Future of Digital Preservation, Journal of Science and Technology Law 10(1),(Winter 2004). Ryan views the access question in terms of preservation and argues that libraries and archives should be granted the right to copy digital works, copy web sites, and have the right to lend digital materials, especially in cases where the works are at risk or no longer commercially available. (Source: LawLibrary Blog< From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

OA publishing in the developing world P.V Ramachandran and Vinod Scaria, Open Access Publishing in the Developing World: making a difference, Journal of Orthopaedics, 1, 1 (2004). The editorial in the inaugural issue of a new OA journal. Excerpt: "Scholarly publishing in the Developing world is still dominated by the conventional print technology, which is both expensive to produce and distribute. This has added to the burden of the low profit margin of publishers, which significantly hamper further investments. Moreover, the International readership of these Journals, From FOS News on May 14, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

And my own favorite, St. Reduce the Leading and Maybe It'll Fit Here are the patron saints of graphic design... [Thanks to Ian Poynter for the pointer.]... From Joho the Blog on May 14, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Prototype for New RSS to JavaScript Code I ought to be something else, but have been bothered by two items regarding our often used RSS2JS (allows humans to use RSS by cut and past JavaScript, processed by a PHP middle ware script).

Frasier Is Leaving the Building The writers and cast of "Frasier" earned their huge following by treating the audience with respect. They combined sophisticated comedy with slapstick, joy with angst, and never lost their warm view of humanity. Even the occasional low points were better than most of the "entertainment" that pollutes today's heartless, brainless TV wasteland. The highs were sublime. It's been fun. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 14, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

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