The social software juggernaut -- coming soon to a PC near you... I’m going to file this under “no comment”… Bottom-up collaboration is about exposing information and letting others decide what they want. This eliminates one of the biggest barriers to information flow: The fear that something you send out will not be wanted, when it may be the most important piece of information you have at the moment, though only to... From Object Learning on May 25, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

Feed2JS -- Kickin' Out the RSS Jams People who read this weblog regularly are no doubt tired of my incessant shout-outs for Alan Levine. I know Alan is… But Maricopa’s new Feed2JS service really raises the bar for displaying RSS feeds online. I needn’t add any hype, the pages speak for themselves just fine.... From Object Learning on May 25, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

BEA Systems outlines "Liquid Computing" plan From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Rummy bans camera phones, not torture Donald Rumsfeld is so shocked by the photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison that he has banned camera phones from US bases in Iraq. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:30 p.m..

Global sales of UMTS handsets to reach 15m by end of year The recent and ongoing launch of 3G services by mobile operators in Europe is pushing up global sales of UMTS handsets, according to new research from market analysts ABI Research. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:30 p.m..

Mobilkom Austria installs hot-spots in Austria Trend hotel chain Mobilkom Austria customers will be able to access the internet wirelessly via the operator's A1-branded hot-spots in all lobbies, conference rooms and business rooms of Austria Trend hotels. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:30 p.m..

Blogging in Schools: "Slow Motion Distributed Car Wreck" One of the more interesting--no, let's make that fascinating--experiments in reforming the use of technology in schools has to be the use of blogs and wikis for teaching language skills. One of the true evangelists of this emerging field is Will Richardson, Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. In his Weblogg-Ed blog Will talks about the successes, and frankly looks at the failures in an article titled EduBlogs as... From Brain Frieze on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

No Ads Seen in Google's Gmail Thanks to a kind reader who forwarded me an invitation, I've been trying out Google Mail over the last few days. Overall, I like it, though it's different enough from other web mail services (and from e-mail applications like Outlook) that it takes some getting used to. One thing that might bother publishers is that the default is to display HTML messages containing graphics with image loading turned off. You see blank boxes with "X's" instead of images. As a user, I like this feature; I'm not bombarded with ads and can click "Display e From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Network Heretics On networks, heretics and the Spanish Inquisition From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Hare Brain Tortoise Mind On showers, staring out of the window, and different ways of having ideas. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Book to Look for On a new book about societies' methods of dealing with the unxeplained. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Making of Memory (1-3) On Steven Rose book, chapters one, two and three. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

The Art of Research On research being about asking the right questions. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Harvard Moral Sense Test There's an interesting piece of research being done at Harvard's Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. Basically, they have developed a test which they think will help them work out what moral intuitions are cross-cultural, evolved etc. And anyone can do it.... From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Networks, Compexity & Emergence On Taoism, emergence and my trying to remember the basics of complexity theory From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Spluttering back into life Resuscitation plans and thanks to Johnie Moore and Matt Whyndham. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Uploading November 03 Posts .......... [Update: Done]... From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Cost-Benefit of Attention On the two sides of maximising the value of "knowledge systems". From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

The Flipside of the Collective is War. Group forming activities release the brain's natural opiates - so what happens when someone tells you you group's misguided? From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Getting CEO's to understand the benefits of RSS Gates on RSS over HTML/Email From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

URL Change Change of address might save you hours of typing From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Dec 03 posts Uploading some ...... From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Soothing Those Pain Points On work in progress trying to work out where information "pain-points" are, and how to soothe them. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Writing Research in the Making The Writing Research in the Making Conference will be held 5-6 February 2005 at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Proposals are due 1 October 2004. From the call for proposals: Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Problems faced in trying to do research. * Writing research focused on K-12 education, higher education, and adult education including issues of language diversity. * Historical an From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 25, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..

Single community space: weblogs + forums For those thinking about communities and weblogs: Lee LeFever on Trackback across discussions and weblogs in a single online community space. From Mathemagenic on May 25, 2004 at 2:28 p.m..

Apuntes Acreditar las fuentes, Blogging en China, Reflexiones sobre Gmail y Orkut. From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 25, 2004 at 2:26 p.m..

IFG des Bundes: Entwurf http://www.bmi.bund.de/Annex/de_3096/Entwurf_eines_Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes_IFG_mit_Begruendung.pdf Auszug aus der Begründung: Zu § 13 – Änderung des Bundesarchivgesetzes Die Regelung orientiert sich an § 10 Abs. 7 des Archivgesetzes Brandenburg. Danach finden die Schutzfristen des BbgArchivG auf Akten, die einer Akteneinsicht nach dem dortigen AIG unterlegen haben, keine Anwendung. Nach dem bisherig From Archivalia on May 25, 2004 at 2:26 p.m..

Sachsens Staatsarchive fusionieren... Für die Bildung eines Sächsischen Staatsarchivs wurde vor kurzem das Sächsische Archivgesetz überarbeitet. Das künftige Sächsische Staatsarchiv vereinigt das Hauptstaatsarchiv, die Staatsarchive und auch die ursprünglich einmal angedachte Landesarchivdirektion unter einem Dach. Zu finden ist die Gesetzesänderung als Artikel 2 des Sächsischen Verwaltungsmodernisierungsgesetzes v. 5.5.2004 im GVBl. 4/2004 S. 148ff. Die derzeit noch geltende Fassung --> From Archivalia on May 25, 2004 at 2:26 p.m..

Position - African Virtual University Tough set of qualifications, but an interesting position sent to us by Mary Dykes. HEAD OF DIVISION ACADEMIC PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN The Head of Division will be responsible for the planning, development, implementation and management of... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 25, 2004 at 2:26 p.m..

Microsoft 'gets' bottom up collaboration including blogs - does your company? 700 blogs + mentioning RSS in a keynote to influential technology execs plus hiring Robert Scoble, ace blogger. The writing is on the wall. Mitch is right:Microsoft will move into the blog and social software space; it's only a matter of time. From Red Herring Blog: Bill Gates’ blog strategy: QUOTEBottom-up collaboration is about exposing information and letting others decide what they want. This eliminates one of the biggest barriers to information flow: The f From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 2:25 p.m..

Kolabora event with Stuart Henshall on Thursday - please give us more notice next time I would love to attend this event but i need more notice. 2 days is not enough. Hope it is archived! From The Future Of Online Collaboration This Week At The Competitive Edge - Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News - Kolabora.com: QUOTEThe Competitive Edge is back for its second live event, bringing together two visionary scholars and researchers of online collaboration as it is effectively applied to real world situations i From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 2:25 p.m..

RSS feeds for video news from The FeedRoom Very cool. From The FeedRoom - List of RSS Channels: QUOTEThe FeedRoom, the world's premiere broadband news network, gives high-speed Internet users the video news they want, from the sources they trust, anytime they want. UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 2:25 p.m..

lulop - Independent video news complete with RSS feeds ) lulop ( - The Public Internet News Gathering has more cool RSS feeds of Video news. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 2:25 p.m..

Skype Beyond The Hype "Free phone calls, high-flying startups, soaring demand for telecom capacity—the promises might sound a bit familiar. But Skype may be the company that finally delivers on the hype." Though my experience with Skype remains somewhat unsatisfactory, even under very good... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 25, 2004 at 2:22 p.m..

Threat modeling Michael Howard points to a free threat modeling tool written by Frank Swiderski, author of the forthcoming book Threat Modeling. The evolving formal discipline of threat modeling first came to my attention in 2000, when I read Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies. This picture, fr From Creative Commons: weblog on May 25, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..

Microsoft UK Web site defaced From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..

Briefly: Microsoft UK Web site defaced From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..

Nokia forms bond with GlooLabs From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..

First Baby Step for openMLX Colen is hard at work on re-coding the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) for the proposed open-source version we hope to make available as an alpha soon. There is a good deal of restructuring of the code libraries, yanking some code logic from individual PHP files and putting them in the libraries, outlining some functionality needed for some basic admin tools. But we have the database and a crude version sort of running on a test box (don't ask for a URL... yet). One of the interesting things to be changed is how we organize From cogdogblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

"Aristotle" and learning in the Knowledge Web Via Bruno Boutot at ConstellationW3, a vision document from 2000 by Danny Hillis on something called "The Knowledge Web", including a table listing very interesting "required features": Table of Affordances From Seb's Open Research on May 25, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

Mac OS X Flaw Still Unfixed, Says Security Firm

Blosxom + MT-Blacklist == Happy Blogging I was thinking a bit over the weekend about modifying Jay Allen's awesome MT-Blacklist plugin to work with Blosxom. I just did some googling, and searching of the Yahoo Group for Blosxom, and came up with Doug Alcorn's BlogSpam. It's based on the MT-Blacklist plugin, and uses the same blacklist.txt file From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Bush steps up online campaign efforts From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Cisco delivers high-end telecom router From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Briefly: Bush steps up online campaign efforts From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Microsoft tightens database security From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

How To Use Learning Objects For Instructional Designers Learning objects. What are they? We hear the term often, but is the meaning clear? Perhaps you've been using them in your courses, and now you want to create some. But where to start? What issues should you consider? What... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 25, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

On the Road... I'm in Somewhere Pretty, MD, doing a keynote for the I-Media conference, getting to yell at them about why marketing alienates customers. I'll be on the road most of the day and probably won't be able to blog anything except, well, this...... From Joho the Blog on May 25, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Feed2JS - First Out of the Gate... Just in a few hours of announcing yesterday our new version of the Feed2JS (RSS to JavaScript service/code), David Carter-Tod zoomed out the gate, downloaded the code, and had it up and running in Virginia. As well, he found a minor bug (pesky missing semi-colon) and reminded me to deal with the server parameters for the build.php script for sites where register globals is off. Anyhow, I set up a little form where y From cogdogblog on May 25, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Welcome, Bill! Bill Ives is a new blogger but an experienced knowledge management consultant with a background in educational psychology. Here are a couple recent posts by him that I found especially interesting:

Weblogs as Bohmian Dialogue Flemming Funch: "Is blogging Dialogue? Well, in many ways the medium succeeds better in creating such a space of dialogue than any other online communication method I can think of." From Seb's Open Research on May 25, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Callooh! Callay! LORs to slay! An impending frabjous day. I just posted this news from Alan Levine over on eBN. It's exciting because of what it might mean for deepening the roots of Gal's and BAWP's (and other) teaching community efforts. MLX is, IMHO, the simplest, cleanest and slickest Learning Object Repository I've ever seen: Our legal department was supportive, even enthusiastic, about our plans to provide an --> From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Dell releases multifunction printers From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

IBM sets up RFID center in Japan From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Briefly: IBM sets up RFID center in Japan From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Briefly: RealNetworks affirms second-quarter loss From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Earnings alert: Novell's loss narrows From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Cingular, T-Mobile sever joint venture From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Vacuité du leadership L'absence de leadership dans le réseau des écoles publiques l'entraîne inlassablement à la dérive. Plusieurs facteurs conspirent à cette inertie : * la lourdeur d'une administration scolaire qui, en plus des suppressions de postes, doit composer avec un déluge de tracasseries... From Osmoze on May 25, 2004 at 10:59 a.m..

Getting my head shifted via Curiouser and curiouser!: Had a very nice lunch with Lee Bryant of HeadShift yesterday. From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on May 25, 2004 at 10:59 a.m..

PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS could come to Europe in same week Both Sony and Nintendo are aiming to ship their new portable gaming consoles the week of 18 March next year, but they may also run into problems finding screens for their products, as demand for mobiles and digital cameras has surged in the last year, reducing the available supply of LCDs. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Hutchinson 3G doubles sign-up rate Worldwide, Hutchison Whampoa's 3G experiment is signing up an average of 77,000 net new subscribers each week, but has had to introduce massive handset and tariff subsidies to do so. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Apple issues patch for OS X security flaw So the Mary Poppins of computing, Apple, is not practically perfect in every way, after all. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

First 3-megapixel camera phone offered in Japan Japanese mobile operator KDDI is to offer a three-megapixel camera phone from Casio - the first of its kind. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Rostelecom to lose long-distance monopoly by 2007 Following EU-Russia trade talks, Russia's trade minister has announced Rostelecom is to lose its international telephony monopoly - a condition of the EU before Russia would be allowed to join the WTO. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

TelefĂłnica MĂłviles launches commercial 3G The Spanish operator has launched its consumer UMTS services, with video conferencing available in Barcelona and Madrid. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

TIM launches combined EDGE-UMTS network Telecom Italia Mobile has launched its combined EDGE-UMTS network, with full EDGE coverage across the entire national territory expected to be achieved by the end of the year From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Mobile customers want streaming video A growing minority of wireless users want to watch video, finds a new study.... "A recent In-Stat/MDR survey of wireless consumers found that 13.2 percent of them are extremely interested or very interested in buying video services for their cell phones. Additionally, the company found that Sprint PCS customers are likely to be early adopters and are the most likely, among those surveyed, to be interested in mobile video services." From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

The Worldwide Conversation I've been working on my final Shorenstein Center paper for a few weeks now. I wrote a draft, showed it to a few people, got their comments, decided to add and change a bunch of stuff, rewrote it, and now have a new draft. I think it's finally ready to share more broadly for more feedback and comments. It's called "The Worldwide Conversation." Please let me know what you think, and if it makes any sense. It is meant for a broad audience that includes people unfamiliar with the workin From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Citizen Lab Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based in Toronto, Canada, looking at the intersection of digital media and civic activism. Functioning something as a DARPA for digital freedom, Citizen Lab serves as a seed-bed for a variety of very cool and interesting projects focusing on identifying, analyzing, and resisting efforts to censor and lock down information networks. Citizen Lab is the umbrella f From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

ASTD 2004 Comments There is an excellent conversation on Jay Cross's blog regarding collaboration technologies and informal learning. Jay is presenting at ASTD 2004. This is well worth the read. Also, from e-clippings is this first impression of the ASTD conference. More people, buzz and swag than other, recent e-learning conferences From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

This is a neat slide show about peace. I add these to the student's MyWebCt or the student's homeroom page. They always have a good message and are visually interesting. Pathways to Peace... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

The Interview with God Slideshow Another good slideshow. Interview With God... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

Online Role Playing An online role play requires a Simulation Designer, a Moderator and Participants. The roles and tasks of each are as follows: Online Role Playing - Set up and Play An online role play requires a Simulation Designer, a Moderator and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

Weekly Inspirational Message The Cyber Chaplain at Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School is Father Andrew Wychucki. Weekly he creates an inspirational message in flash and it is then placed in the Cyber school home page. Every sunday a new message appears...so bookmark this page.... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

Blog Technologies and Designs Compared By way of Robin Good comes a link to a comprehensive listing of server-side blog software and services. An excellent primer for those thinking of getting into the whole blogging thing, including a glossary of terms. Available at Asymptomatic. Once you've got a handle on the inner workings of each blog, head on over to Makiko Itoh's blog for a look at how the templates provided for some of the major blogging software products affect the design of each blog. As she points out, while... From Brain Frieze on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

Search as Search Can As if Google did not exist, two new Dutch search engines were launched this month, one by a news company, and one about news. Quotemedia, publishers of a business magazine and a series of directories, launched www.zoeken.nl, a meta-search engine that uses cluster technology: results from other search engines are organized into groups of results, a bit like Vivisimo.com, but with a stronger focus. In the same week, www.Zoeknieuws.nl (literally "search news") made its entry on the Dutc From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

Play On Publishers for a long time have seen, with tears in their eyes, how advertisers have moved online to build up direct relations with existing and new customers. Of course, attracting new customers to a website is not easy, and all-out media campaigns in print, radio, and television are sometimes necessary to get consumer attention in the first place. How else could you get someone interested enough to sign up and interact?As reported this month by Dutch trade magazine Emerce, online games are proving to be a wonderful way to quickly build From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

Reflection out of the box It's often stated that reflection is an essential feature of an eportfolio and is what sets the eportfolio apart from a webpage, photo album, scrapbook, online workspace, etc. But reflection in many eportfolios is operationalized by merely asking the learner... From ERADC Blog on May 25, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

IntroducciĂłn a los estándares de contenidos eLearning Workshops publica una introducciĂłn a los estándares de empaquetado de contenidos: «Normativas y estándares para el tratamiento de contenidos». El artĂ­culo defiende la necesidad de este tipo de normas y describe brevemente las caracterĂ­sticas del IMS Content Packaging y los componentes de SCORM. From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on May 25, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..

WWWTools: SelecciĂłn de recursos sobre pedagogĂ­a en lĂ­nea El boletĂ­n wwwtools for education ha publicado una selecciĂłn comentada de recursos titulada "Moving from Face-to-face Tutorials to Synchronous Online Alternatives". Entre otros temas incluye enlaces a orientaciones para los estudiantes que se inician en el aprendizaje online, artĂ­culos sobre estilos de aprendizaje/estilos docentes, sobre roles y habilidades del profesor online, sobre aspectos pedagĂłgicos generales de la enseñanza online y sobre la comparaciĂłn de From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on May 25, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..

Making Sense of Online Learning/ All Links Was mir an dieser Sammlung von Links gefällt: Sie ist übersichtlich geordnet, aktuell und beginnt mit den einfachen Topics, um dann auf Ressourcen zu komlexeren Themen hinzuweisen. Patti Shank, Learning Peaks, Mai 2004 [Kategorien: e-learning]... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 25, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..

Students check out the Web instead of library Dies ist ein wundervoller kleiner Zeitungsartikel, der in jedem zweiten Absatz ein aktuelles Problem anspricht und ein entsprechendes Zitat liefert. Das Problem: "We get students who are proud of the fact that they are seniors and have never been in... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 25, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..

Online Journalism Durante el 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism celebrado en la Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de Tejas se ha vuelto a plantear la pregunta Is Blogging A New Form of Journalism?, y se han examinado algunas experiencias de... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 25, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

Universidades españolas Hoy El Mundo publica la cuarta edición de su guía anual "Los mejores centros universitarios", en la que clasifica según 25 criterios a los 5 mejores centros que ofertan cada una de las 50 carreras de mayor demanda (cuando el... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 25, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

Los problemas reales de la educaciĂłn virtual Cuando la imprenta empezĂł a extenderse, el exceso de lectura se considerĂł una lacra; Cervantes hacĂ­a enloquecer a su caballero por sobredosis de letra impresa. Todo avance de la libertad de pensamient... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 25, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

Southeastern Ohio Automation Consortium (SEO), a consortium of 67 Ohio public libraries, has launche ... Southeastern Ohio Automation Consortium (SEO), a consortium of 67 Ohio public libraries, has launched a new online service for its library members and their patrons enabling browsing and check out of popular eBooks from homes, offices and schools From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 25, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Dynix Institute Web Seminar - Promoting the Library's Online Collections: 10 Surefire Ways to Increa ... Dynix Institute Web Seminar - Promoting the Library's Online Collections: 10 Surefire Ways to Increase Usage Statistics - Hosted by Paula Wilson - June 9, 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 25, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Streaming Media West 2004 Conference & Exhibition - Streaming & Digital Media Solutions for the Busi ... Streaming Media West 2004 Conference & Exhibition - Streaming & Digital Media Solutions for the Business World - October 26-28, 2004 - Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 25, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Best paid plans of Rice and them OK, so he's got a "plan" for Iraq. Now how about one for this deal: The IISS says the war in Iraq has focused the energies and resources of al-Qaeda and its followers, while diluting those of the global counter-terrorism coalition. [BBC] From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

E-Testing I'm happy to announce that Andreas Raith , a colleague of mine, finished his Master-Thesis on "E-Testing at Austrian Universities" (the thesis in only in German available). He is completing his Master of Sciene in Online E... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 25, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

VIPs and VPNs, and schwagging the dog and pony From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Forget Google redux From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

EduBlogs as "Slow Motion Distributed Car Wreck" Tom has been reading the end of the year wrap ups from blogging teachers and the reports are obviously not good. It is a little painful reading the trickle of end of semester recap posts coming the self-selected early adopters of classroom weblogging. It'll get very interesting when the trickle becomes a flood. Will the negative cases overwhelm the positive? Will we collectively learn or just get discouraged? Will the trickle become a From weblogged News on May 25, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Recording Industry Sues 493 File-Swapping Suspects - Reuters A U.S. music industry group said Monday it had sued 493 more people for copyright infringement as part of its campaign to stop consumers from copying music over the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America has now sued nearly 3,000 indiv From Techno-News Blog on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Munich faces RFID-controlled congestion charge - Jan Libbenga, the Register The German Green Party intends to designate the centre of Munich as a tolled zone to significantly reduce the amount of traffic on its streets, and has suggested using RFID tags for car registration. Every vehicle would have to carry a RFID transponder From Techno-News Blog on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Wayport, McDonald's cook up hot-spot deal - Richard Shim, CNET News.com Hot-spot operator Wayport is expected to announce on Tuesday a four-year exclusive deal with McDonald's to provide wireless Internet service to the restaurant chain's customers. For Austin, Texas-based hot-spot operator Wayport, the deal From Techno-News Blog on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

New rule puts warning labels on explicit spam - eSchool News School leaders might have an easier time trying to filter sexually explicit internet spam from their students' and staff members' computers, thanks to a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule that went into effect May 19. According to the new rule, u From Educational Technology on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

The Battle for Desktop Control - Wesley Fryer, techLearning There has long been a power struggle between techies and teachers over classroom computer desktops. IT personnel tend to believe allowing "inept" educators to have unfettered access to their computer's hard drive is an open invitation for trouble. Conv From Educational Technology on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Taking advantage of new era in education delivery method - Maya Salleh, Borneo Bulletin The evolution of the Internet has paved the way to a new era in education delivery method, one that must be taken full advantage of especially with the advent of e-Government initiatives in the country, scheduled to be fully implemented by next year. T From Online Learning Update on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Coping as a distance learner - Zoraini Wati Abas, eMedia Distance learning has grown significantly, especially with the advent of the Internet. Browse through the Net or the newspapers and you are bound to see advertisements on distance learning programmes. What is so appealing about distance learning? The From Online Learning Update on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

MERLOT International Conference Online Resources: Sharing the Future The MERLOT International Conference, Costa Mesa, California August 3 - 6, 2004, seeks to address the needs of faculty members, digital library providers and developers, authors of digital learning materials, and those involved in administering and sup From Online Learning Update on May 25, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Knit the Net Building Sustainable Communities through Network Building : This article by by Valdis Krebs and June Holley elaborates understandable and enlightening (word of the day ;-) the use of social network analysis derived from it... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 25, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

RIAA Bags 493 More Swappers The Recording Industry Association of America sues more people for copyright infringement. The music group has now ensnared nearly 3,000 individuals in its net since last September in its attempt to fight peer-to-peer file trading. From Wired News on May 25, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Linux: Whose Kernel Is It? Responding to a legal challenge over the origin of some of the Linux programming code, Linus Torvalds, the operating system's creator, proposes changes to the kernel-development process that he thinks will squelch any future legal problems. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on May 25, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Electric Shocks to Fight the Flab Forget the Jane Fonda workout tape. Soon, excess pounds will be shed using a stomach pacemaker. The device sends out electrical pulses geared to shock the user into feeling full. By Louise Knapp. From Wired News on May 25, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Army Reboots GIs' Tired Fatigues Soldiers often go into battle wearing about 100 pounds of bulky, clumsy gear, making the point of all their high-tech gadgetry moot. So the Army is spending $250 million to start from scratch, building a future uniform from the skin out. By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on May 25, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

A Break From Annoying Ads? A high demand for online advertising space coupled with low supply is giving Web publishers the upper hand. It could mean a break from outlandish ads that block the article you're trying to read. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on May 25, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Virtual Dopers Crave High Scores Although most would agree that massively multiplayer games are already addictive, developers are making it more so by introducing habit-forming drugs into their online worlds. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on May 25, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

We need more asylum seekers So, um, the EU got ten new member states a few weeks ago. The tabloids would have we Brits believe that we'd be flooded with "asylum seekers", "migrant workers" and "illegal immigrants" the instant such refugee hotspots as Malta, Estonia and Slovakia became EU members on May the first. But they didn't. How odd. From kuro5hin.org on May 25, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Latest thinking in usability & IA (Canberra, Australia) We've just launched a new half-day seminar titled Latest thinking in usability & IA, to be held in Canberra on 29 July 2004. This should be a lot of fun, summary below: This half-day seminar will expose you to some... From Column Two on May 25, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..

Persistent designs Nice comparison of default design elements (templates) of the relevant blogsoftware. Texpattern (btw: more of a CMS than simple blogsoftware) does best for Makiko. Spotting Weblog Software through Design? Makiko Itoh o... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 25, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..

IT-Innovation: Cat and mouse Enlightening report on the conservative or protective attitudes of corporate IT departments in face of employee created workarounds and self-determined productivity tools. Jim Louderback presents his list of disruptive app... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 25, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..

Whizlabs Launches Worlds' first-ever SCMAD (J2ME Certification) Exam Simulator Whizlabs Software, a key solution provider in IT Certification Exam Preparation has launched the first-ever SCMAD (J2ME Certification) Exam Simulator. SCMAD (Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Version 1.0) is the latest certification offered by Sun Microsystems Inc. [PRWEB May 25, 2004] From PR Web on May 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Firearms Trainer Schedules Gun Training in South Minneapolis Joel Rosenberg, author of "Everything You Need to Know About (Legally) Carrying a Handgun in Minnesota", will be holding another session of his Twin Cities Carry Course in the south Minneapolis neighborhood that was recently shocked by a savage, brutal beating of an elderly woman. [PRWEB May 25, 2004] From PR Web on May 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Personal Growth 101 for Middle School, High School and College Graduates The expert and layperson alike now realize that young people require more than a traditional education; they also need social and emotional aptitude and an underlying sense of purpose... [PRWEB May 25, 2004] From PR Web on May 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

One-Stop Technology Reviews at New Site Technology Owl is a new free site that provides reviews of products driven by technology from hundreds of global sources, delivered in an extremely accessable format and updated continously. [PRWEB May 25, 2004] From PR Web on May 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Armchair Millionaire Community Bulletin: How to Know When You're Rich What does it take to really be rich? Financial freedom is about more than having a certain amount of money. [PRWEB May 25, 2004] From PR Web on May 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Invitation to List Your Business-to-Business Products And Services in Free Database Advantage Venture Systems Inc. recently launched the Venture Planning System Pro - a powerful step-by-step interactive business plan software application. To enhance this free online software and business networking system Advantage is offering a free database listing and link for any business-to-business advertiser. Advantage encourages all business-to-business advertisers, industry associations, government agencies, information sites and sources, trade publications, chambers of commerce, and any resource for entrepreneurs to place their free listing on the VPSpro.com. This will assist pla From PR Web on May 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

CUNY Board Approves Three for Presidencies at Its Colleges The board of the City University of New York approved the appointments of three new college presidents yesterday. From New York Times: Education on May 25, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Schools Told Translators Are Needed for Parents A coalition of advocacy groups called for the Department of Education to provide a more centralized system of translation services to help the large number of parents who do not speak English. From New York Times: Education on May 25, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Bush and Kerry Mark Desegregation in Topeka The two men descended on the Kansas city to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court school desegregation ruling. From New York Times: Education on May 25, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Elite New York High School Cuts Back as Others Struggle With Size Stuyvesant, the city's most sought-after specialized public high school, has reduced the size of its incoming freshman class. From New York Times: Education on May 25, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Bush Will Attend 3 Commencements, His Twins' Not Among Them President Bush and his wife, Laura, said they did not want to subject other families to the disruptions of a presidential visit. From New York Times: Education on May 25, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

disney's continued fight to restrict speech through law as a tool against competition As reported by Ernie, Disney is lobbying to get indecency regulations applied to cable -- yet another example (after the Sonny Bono Act) to use law to protect itself against competition. When your movies flop, and you've driven away the greatest animation company in the world, I guess there's not much strategy left. From Lessig Blog on May 25, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

as seen on TV Order before midnight tonight. From Lessig Blog on May 25, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

DMusic supports Creative Commons and embeds MP3 files DMusic, the oldest independent digital online music community now supports Creative Commons in their upload process. More importantly though, DMusic is providing the first web-based application to embed Creative Commons license information into ID3 tags of MP3 files. Now, when you upload your MP3 file to DMusic and choose a Creative Commons license, DMusic will put the license into the MP3 file for you. When people download your file, or share it on a file-sharing network, there will always be aCreative Commons: weblog on May 25, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Student Satisfaction is Extremely High at DETC Institutions From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

New rule puts warning labels on explicit spam From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Making the Case: Research Efforts on Educational Technology From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

Best Blog Technologies Compared A detailed breakdown of twelve of the most interesting blogging technologies. It lists and compares in tabular format the attributes of different user-installed blog tools. It covers Movable Type, pMachine Pro, WordPress, b2evolution, TextPattern, Pivot and more. An Excel spreadsheet... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 25, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..

NSA on NPR Does anyone else find this weird: The National Security Agency helps sponsor Metro Traffic, which feeds traffic information to one of the two great NPR stations in SF -- KQED. Why is the NSA funding (albeit indirectly) NPR? From Lessig Blog on May 25, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

a problem we could fix "It's extremely difficult to govern when you control all three branches of government." John Feehery, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Washington Post, 5/23/04. And when did political parties begin to claim "control" of the Judicial Branch? Someone should inform the Justices. I don't think they've been told yet. From Lessig Blog on May 25, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Balancing Identity Through Relevancy Jay and Brian both have interesting perspectives on relevancy as balance or equilibrium... Brian says, "If something is relevant to me then it is something that I selfishly feel is important in my life. Not selfish as in "I want, I want..." but selfish as in preserving my own ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Sneaking the Good Stuff In? I'm a big fan of games and think they offer tremendous opportunities for learning, but these kind of stealth approaches bother me a bit. Doesn't it seem a bit wrong to have an organization called 'Hidden Agenda', that's all about encouraging game designers and educators to create the game ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Is Higher Education Relevant? This is an interesting piece from the U.K. asking whether higher education is relevant in today's world. It makes me think about the University of Phoenix... I read a Fast Company interview with founder John Sperling a while back... his contention is that higher education isn't meeting the ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Confessions of a Wary, Lazy Donater Giving money to charity should leave me feeling good, but I've often donated and ended up regretting it. Within a few years of my first donation to Amnesty International, for instance, I was receiving literally piles of junk mail from every charity on the planet. It's like ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Is There an MMOG for Me? I've been shopping around for a new massively multiplayer game to play, thinking it might be the game I end up studying... so that means it had better be something really fun, that will keep me enraptured for three years or more! I played Everquest for a while, but after years ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Games I've Loved Warning: this stream-of-consciousness post will be really boring to anyone who hasn't spent the last twenty years playing video games! I've never really identified myself as a girl gamer, but my husband called me one the other day and I had to admit, yeah, I've played a lot of games. ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Gary Hamel Gets Relevancy I get the CustomerServiceWorld newsletter each week and last week's was just great! It featured a very short, but sweet 3 minutes with Gary Hamel where he talks about 'Being customer-led is not good enough. You need to get to your customers deep, unarticulated needs.' Sound familiar? From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

'New' Approaches to Learning It's funny how ideas and events in one's life sometimes converge in a strange sort of intellectual synchronicity. I was working on a proposal this weekend for a New Zealand government body who wants to document a recent project in story form to distribute to the rest of their team. ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Is Knowledge Somewhere Over the Rainbow? This visual narrative of a recent Verna Allee presentation is the cleverest thing I've ever seen. I'm amazed by people who are so completely at home in metaphor, especially visual metaphor. It's just not a talent I have. Now I attended the presentation this piece is re-telling, but I ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

No Fun, No Gain This seems silly, I know, but even exercise can be made more relevant! We worry about kids being too heavy and bemoan the fact that they don't do enough exercise, but why should we expect kids to be motivated when sitting around is so much easier? We adults ... From Relevancy on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Practical Domain Name System Security: A Survey of Common Hazards and Preventative Measures Examines some of the most basic threats to the domain name system and the best practices to eliminate, or at worst, lessen the impact of potential threats. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on May 25, 2004 at 2:03 a.m..

Bases de datos: El Gran Hermano nos vigila La revista estadounidense Reason enviará el próximo mes de junio a cada uno de sus 40.000 suscriptores un ejemplar personalizado con su nombre y una fotografía de su barrio captada por satélite. La casa de cada suscriptor estará señalada por una marca roja. La imagen que ilustra este artículo es un ejemplo de lo que recibirá cada lector. En este caso, se trata del propio redactor jefe de la revista. El titular de la portada lo dice todo: "Nick Gillespie... Saben dónde estás". (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

¿Cuál es el mejor sistema de Gestión de Contenidos? Con frecuencia -y mucho más desde que martinalia.com está activa- me preguntan cuál es el mejor sistema de Gestión de Contenidos que existe. Así, en general. Y lo cierto es que, formulada tal cual, esta pregunta encierra una endiablada complejidad. Porque lo cierto es que en el mercado hay un número elevadísimo de soluciones que se autodefinen como "Sistemas de Gestión de Contenidos". Y, aunque suene a tópico, para determinar qué aplicación de Gestión de Contenidos es la mejor (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

TDK Fone Styla lets users rip, upload content to handsets for free Recordable media firm TDK has launched a Bluetooth package that allows users to use their own PC to source mobile content from websites on the internet and peer-to-peer file sharing sites From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

UK youth prefer mobiles to music British youth are spending around five times more on mobile telephony than they do on music, according to a recent study. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Digitenne, Nokia test Dutch mobile TV Digitenne, the Dutch DTV operator, is providing the twenty-four-channel television signal to the west of the country for the trial, which is still in its initial stages. TNO Telecom, a research institute is also participating in the trials. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Mobile content market worth €6.7bn in 2008 - report The mobile consumer applications market, which includes gaming, ring tones, video, and music, will be worth some €6.7bn Western Europe in 2008, according to the new IDC report Western European Consumer Mobile Data Applications. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

2004: Slovakia ICT market €2bn, Slovenian ICT market €1.6bn At the end of 2003, around 70 per cent of the Slovak population were subscribers to mobile telecommunications services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Oxfam to go up against Napster, iTunes European music download service OD2 is powering the new music download service, Big Noise Music, the online music shop of global anti-poverty campaign group Oxfam, which will see funds from the sale of tracks going to aid the charity's work. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Italians face up to three years in jail for downloading Under new legislation, Italians found to have downloaded or uploaded music, film or any other copyrighted content over the internet now face up to three years in jail for their transgression. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Orange debuts 3G service offerings at Cannes Film Festival Mobile operator Orange and Nortel Networks have launched a pre-commercial UMTS network in Cannes in order to showcase the operator's mobile entertainment offerings, including video telephony, video streaming and video mail. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Vodafone Live to deliver Sony Music content As part of a global agreement with Vodafone, Sony Music Entertainment is to deliver ringtones, video streaming and video downloads of Sony artists - including AC/DC and Jessica Simpson - to Vodafone Live customers. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Techie: Next step, Audio/Graphic Rich Media Blog Posting Object What is an Audio/Graphic Rich Media Blog Posting Object you say? And why would one want one? It'll be easier to see what it is and where I'm going with this idea once I post the first basic Flash rendering of the foundation here in the next week. After thinking about some new Audio/Rich Media object ideas during the week I finally decided yesterday I needed to learn some basic Flash to build a simple Rich Media MP3 Audio/Graphic posting blog player/viewer to move beyond just thinking about it. The reason for using Flash in the first place From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

The Media Revolt Manifesto Just came across this from David Neiwert, a pretty sharp freelance journalist up in Seattle: Media Revolt: A Manifesto. Excerpt: Blogs can and should play the role of central clearing-house for information in the Media Revolt. As the general public realizes that blogs can provide them with vital information they're not getting anywhere else, the audience will build. This includes the whole gamut of information: the factual news about the world, as well as reports on who&a From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

GPS meets Audioblog.com Looks like Eric's playing and experimenting with GPS Audioblogging today. Coolio!! Eric Rice: My GPS Location 10:50 AM. 37d 58.586' N 122d 02.043' W From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Weblogs and authority This week I'll be presenting a paper at the International Communication Association Conference in New Orleans titled Audience, Structure and Authority in the Weblog Community. The paper is an analysis of two different metrics for measuring authority within weblogs; the first uses blogroll links, a proxy to popularity, and the second uses permalinks, a proxy to influence. (Visit overstated for the rest of this post.) Link to f From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Review of Sony Ericsson's Z1010 3G video phone Geekzone checks out a phone that we definitely won't be seeing over here ( -- This part just totally broke my heart. -kc.), the Z1010, Sony Ericsson's new 3G video phone which comes with not one, but two built-in digital cameras, an external one for taking still shots and recording video clips, and then another internal one for From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Sony portable broadband TV to ship this autumn The LocationFree TV will offer wireless broadband television, without interference from microwaves or cordless phones. The LocationFree TVs can deliver your personal video contents from the Base Station via secured device authentication and encryption technology to the wireless monitor in wi-fi hot-spots and Ethernet ports found in hotels, airports and other locations. This means the TV monitor is no longer confined to a l From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Roll your own reruns Last week's season finale of The West Wing was on smack dab in the middle of game 6 of the Timberwolves/Kings series. I opted to watch the game instead of the Wing. Of course, since NBC wants to make their media artificially scarce, the episode wasn't replayed later in the evening nor will it until later in the summer (if you haven't seen it, it's new to you!). This weekend, I found a torrent for the finale...without commercials and in letterbox no less. A couple hours of downloading later and voila, my own personal rerun. From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

2014: TV without schedules "TGIF" and "Must See Thursday" won't mean a thing in 10 years. We'll be watching HDTV on demand, and storing the shows we want on home terabyte servers. And not far behind: holographic TV that doesn't require a screen. From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Rise of TelcoTV With more telcos expected to add digital TV to their services, and equipment suppliers reporting increased activity, In-Stat/MDR expects over 100% growth in telco TV subscribers in 2004. The delivery of digital TV service over high speed networks is now a reality, especially in Asia and Europe where a number of new players have started offering these services. Yahoo Broadband in Japan is one such example. The popularity of TelcoTV is increased because of improvements in the data From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Survey Indicates Public Journalism Progress, But... Fewer journalists today see the press as too cynical. And, compared with five years ago, fewer also see journalists as out of touch with their audiences.... Both of these are areas that reform movements such as public journalism--which was concerned with trying to reconnect journalists and the public--focused on. That's a direct quote from commentary addressing the Journalist Survey con From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

More evidence of video based networks turning to Flash Streamingmedia.com: Flash Powers Comcast.net's Innovative Video Browser The interface is a bit funky but the review is glowing. Sounds a lot like what a dot bomb company I was working for a few years back was trying to develop. I would like to see Flash open up a bit more and see some better authoring tools but it does seem as though they got some things right with the video streaming. All in all, pretty interesting, too bad it is the same content that can be found on TV. From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

TDK claims to bring P2P into Bluetooth phones This device is not any different from a regular Bluetooth dongle. But TDK is marketing it with a different spin-probably targetting an audience that has never used BT on their phones and PC's. What TDK's Free Styla really is: a PC Bluetooth USB dongle with a bundled application to transfer mobile goodies downloaded from the Web across to your mobile. This is another sign that P2P will definitel From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Peerflix - Legal P2P DVD sharing Here's a great example of piggybacking on what works to create something useful. Peerflix is a decentralized version of Netflix. It's all about 'movies I have,' and 'movies I want.' Watch a movie and send it on to the next peer. Read an overview of the service here. From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

A lockbox for digital radio Mindjack has just published a piece I pulled together, culled from research for my upcoming book Darknet. Will digital radio be Napsterized? looks at a new proposal by the Recording Industry Association of America for the FCC to impose new regulations mandating the adoption of a broadcast flag standard for audio. What does this mean for you? Where today you can tape anything you want over the free analog radio airwaves, that may not be true tomorrow. Want to record the From unmediated on May 25, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Everyone should be given a tickertape parade Just finished off Gene Kranz's Failure is Not An Option. This is the story of 1960 America's push into space and beyond in the eyes of a NASA flight controller. He covers his tenure at NASA, from the botched "four-inch flight" of the first Mercury-Redstone rocket to Apollo 17, the last mission to the moon in 1972. The world of the flight controller was not a glamourous one. Long hours, lengthy absences away from sleep or family, checklists and constant vigilance were the norm. He lists all his missions unequivocally and chronologically, treating the good and band with an even hand. I From silentblue | Quantified on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Along the way to the conference Probably the coolest discussion I had on VoIP was with my taxicab driver on the way to VON Canada 2004. Wearing a smart sport jacket and Bolle sunglasses, he expounded his advanced telecommunications theories to me as he navigated the streets of North York. "I see a lot of Bell trucks everywhere," he said. "Are they doing network expansion?" I pointed out that it could just be regular maintenance, although Bell is currently deploying OPI-DSLAMs to grab more ADSL customers. He shook his head. "No, they must be laying fibre. The future is in fibre." He concluded that "Bell Canada sold BCE Emergi From silentblue | Quantified on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Who reads Blogs? From Rick Bruner is this reference to a survey about blog readers. Rick's summary analysis of the data: Average age: 39 Percent of all respondents who are male: 79% Average household income: $98,000 Average number of blogs respondents read daily: 8 Percent of blog readers who do NOT write blogs: 79% Percent who have clicked on an ad on a blog: 67% Read the entire survey results [scroll down] for From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Jay Cross on Workfow Learning Jay Cross has written an article for ACM's eLearning Magazine on workflow learning, which is, in a nutshell "how workers improve performance in a business ecosystem." The concept and realisation is a bit more than this though. Workflow learning combines technological advances like web services and XML, with business process improvement (BPR, Six Sigma, HPT, etc.) and puts it all into a knowledge management/performance support framework. What's exciting about workflow learning is that the technology has caught up to some of the theo From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

ASTD Conference The ASTD Conference and exposition launched today in Washington. There are few local exhibitors at this year's conferenc; nothing like the late 1990's when we had about 20 vendors at Online Learning. Perhaps the largest local exhibitor is CSTD, which includes the newly-formed New Brunswick chapter. Other local companies are Ensemble Collaboration and LearnStream--> From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Ensemble Collaboration Launches Ensemble Collaboration, an elearning company in Fredericton, New Brunswick, has formally launched this afternoon, and is no longer in "stealth mode". The product launch is happening at the ASTD conference. Ensemble's offerings are collaboration and mentoring tools. The collaboration application suite is based on Search, Live Help, FAQ's, Discussion and E-Mail functions. None of these are new, but they are all wrapped together, with access to a larger network than you would normally have in a single course. There is a de From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

New (and Improved) LearnNB Website The new LearnNB website was launched today. There's much more content, and we will be using this as a portal for many other initiatives, such as our R&D community of practice. Learn NB's aims are: Promote the export of New Brunswick's experience, knowledge, expertise, products and services in e-learning and related fields. Facilitate partnerships between the private sector, governments, universities, and non-governmental organizations in pursuit of the above. Assist the Province of New Brunswick and the Atlantic Reg From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Am I ready to teach an online course? Am I ready to teach an online course?... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Meeting the Challenges of Becoming an Online Course Developer. Meeting the Challenges of Becoming an Online Course Developer... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Characteristics of Successful Distance Learning Educators. Characteristics of Successful DL Educators... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Going the Distance PBS ALS - Going the Distance - Building a Distance Degree Program... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 25, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..

Encouraging Women Engineers At Smith College, an all-women's school, a new program has been developed to encourage women to get into the usually predominately-male field of engineering. As someone who has always been interested in the transformation that bright young girls go through during the transition from middle school to high school, and then college, it's encouraging to see that steps are being taken to allow these young women to follow their interests without the social stigmas that usually discourage them... From Brain Frieze on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Leadership is key to meeting ed tech challenges By way of Education Leadership comes a recap of a conference hosted by Intel with some educational technology trend-setters. Not surprisingly, the message of the confernence was that it takes leadership at the school and district levels to effectively implement sound, educationally relevant policies for the use of educational technology. As summarized by the report: "Among the attributes speakers used to define "effective leadership" were the recognition that ed tech is... From Brain Frieze on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Grades vs. Learning In this article at The Christian Science Monitor, Professor Steven Byrd, who teaches Portuguese and Spanish at the University of Texas, Houston, discusses the differences he has noted between American students and the students he worked with during a teaching assignment in Brazil. In particular, he notes the "obsession" that American students have towards getting good grades, As he says: "Although I cannot and should not categorize all my students, many have reduced me... From Brain Frieze on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Who Reads Blogs? Find Out Henry Copeland's survey of blog readers (for his BlogAds website/blog) last week brought in an impressive 17,159 responses. The non-scientific survey skewed heavily male (79%; in comparison, NYTimes.com's audience is 56 percent males, Copeland points out). 61 percent are over age 30 and 75 percent make more than $45,000 a year. One in five of the survey's respondents are bloggers themselves. They report, on average, that 54 percent of their news consumption is online. There's lots more, so go read th From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Brookings Won't Challenge Iraq Copycat Site Mark Stencel at the Washington Post's continuous news desk takes a stab at the story of the website of the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority, which looks a lot like the Roger Black-designed site of the Brookings Institution (as reported here recently). It's a mirror image, down to "overall layout as well as small details, such a From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

The Cutting Edge of Freedom in China Over the last three years, Chinese authorities have shut down Wu Wei's website -- including his Democracy and Freedom discussion forum -- 38 times, according to a long but fascinating story by Philip Pan in the Washington Post. Wu, a part-time college lecturer, has switched Internet providers repeatedly in what Pan characterizes as a "cat-and-mouse game" with China's cyber-police that "highligh From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Profnet: Public or Private? In last week's brouhaha over Profnet, we learned that reporters' queries to the media-source service should not be considered private. A Pittsburgh columnist began a new feature on his blog where he announced that he would post reporters' queries to Profnet; his first installment was a query to Profnet from a Fox News reporter that appeared to show some conservative bias in seeking sources for a story on "liberal bias" at universities. Profnet From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Network Heretics On networks, heretics and the Spanish Inquisition From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Hare Brain Tortoise Mind On showers, staring out of the window, and different ways of having ideas. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Book to Look for On a new book about societies' methods of dealing with the unxeplained. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Making of Memory (1-3) On Steven Rose book, chapters one, two and three. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

The Art of Research On research being about asking the right questions. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Harvard Moral Sense Test There's an interesting piece of research being done at Harvard's Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. Basically, they have developed a test which they think will help them work out what moral intuitions are cross-cultural, evolved etc. And anyone can do it.... From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Networks, Compexity & Emergence On Taoism, emergence and my trying to remember the basics of complexity theory From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

The Flipside of the Collective is War. Group forming activities release the brain's natural opiates - so what happens when someone tells you you group's misguided? From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Getting CEO's to understand the benefits of RSS Gates on RSS over HTML/Email From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

URL Change Change of address might save you hours of typing From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Dec 03 posts Uploading some ...... From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Soothing Those Pain Points On work in progress trying to work out where information "pain-points" are, and how to soothe them. From Monkeymagic on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Movies & Videogames Experiencing Marital Difficulties Videogames and movies go way back, but their relationship has often resulted in truly terrible children and ungodly expensive licensing agreements. Videogame historians love nothing better than to point out the disastrous Atari title E.T., which was so remarkably bad that many critics hold it personally responsible for the videogame crash of the early 80s. Millions of unwanted E.T. c From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

MS Sponsored FUD: Linus Not Inventor of Linux LinuxWorld and CNET both report that according to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, Linus Torvalds is not the father of Linux. The Tocqueville report (which I have not seen, but so the various discussions are stating) claims that Linux is largely based on Minix and contains code stolen from Unix. Andrew Tannenbaum, the creator of Minix, has already refuted the charge that Linux code is drawn from Minix From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on May 25, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..

Single community space: weblogs + forums For those thinking about communities and weblogs: Lee LeFever on Trackback across discussions and weblogs in a single online community space. From Mathemagenic on May 25, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

SITE 2005: 16th International Conference La AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education) y la Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education organizan SITE 2005, la ediciĂłn anual de su conferencia sobre el uso de las nuevas tecnologĂ­as en la formaciĂłn del profesorado. Entre los temas que se tratarán destacamos los siguientes: - EvaluaciĂłn y portafolios electrĂłnicos. - EducaciĂłn a distancia/flexible. - DifusiĂłn e integraciĂłn de l From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on May 25, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

Segundo certamen Intercampus: investigaciĂłn y docencia en la red Intercampus convoca el II Certamen Intercampus «dirigido a docentes, estudiantes e investigadores que desarrollan propuestas y actividades universitarias en la Red» con el objetivo de «apoyar aquellos proyectos y experiencias que se distingan por el uso y el aprovechamiento de las TecnologĂ­as de la InformaciĂłn y la ComunicaciĂłn (TIC) en el desarrollo cotidiano de la labor universitaria: docencia, investigaciĂłn y aprendizaje» El plazo de inscripciĂłn de trabajos en el certamen finaliza el dĂ­a 19 de octubre. Intercampus es el espacio vir From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on May 25, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

IV Congreso de AplicaciĂłn de las Nuevas TecnologĂ­as en la Docencia Presencial... La Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU organiza el "IV Congreso de AplicaciĂłn de las Nuevas TecnologĂ­as en la Docencia Presencial y E-Learning". El congreso se ha estructurado en torno a tres ejes básicos: -La innovaciĂłn tecnolĂłgica, que mostrará las posibilidades de las Nuevas TecnologĂ­as a aquellos docentes que no las usan. -La PedagogĂ­a, que enseñará a los profesores que sĂ­ han integrado las NTIC en su práctica diaria a sacarles el máximo rendimiento, desde la concepciĂłn de Ă©stas como medio para la consecuciĂłn de una com From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on May 25, 2004 at 1:57 a.m..

HUB satelital del Programa Huascarán (PerĂş) El Ministerio de EducaciĂłn del PerĂş inaugura un moderno HUB satelital del Programa Huascarán que permitirá interconectar a cinco mil centros educativos pĂşblicos ubicados en zonas rurales y remotas del territorio peruano. En esta primera fase, la plataforma conecta 129 instituciones educativas en todo el paĂ­s, con casi dos millones y medio de escolares, a una velocidad de 10 megabytes por segundo. El objetivo es alcanzar cinco mil escuelas a nivel nacional. El presidente Toledo indicĂł que el HUB permitirá From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on May 25, 2004 at 1:57 a.m..

RSS: A Learning Technology Eine gute Einführung und Übersicht über RSS (Rich Site Summary/ Really Simple Syndication), den Dienst, der die Distribution von Informationen automatisiert, indem man mit Hilfe von "feed readern" Updates von Nachrichtenproduzenten und Weblogs erhält, deren Links man in seinem "feed... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 25, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

E-Learning quo vadis? Zwei wunderbare Wochen Mallorca liegen hinter mir, und ich tauche langsam wieder in meine Blogging-Routinen ein. Aber erst einmal musste ich mich durch den in der Zwischenzeit angehäuften Spam kämpfen und bin jetzt fest entschlossen, in nächster Zeit mal ein... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 25, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Relojes para websites y blogs From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 25, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

J. K. Rowling lanza la web oficial de Harry Potter La madre literaria de Harry Potter, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, ha puesto en marcha su sitio web oficial: J.K.Rowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more, que ha recibido más de 17 millones de visitantes durante su primera semana en línea.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 25, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

New E-learning contracts for one of the fastest growing specialist providers From ScotFEICT on May 25, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Special issue - UAIS journal Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities Deadline for submission of papers: July 1, 2004. CFP: Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities Special Issue for Universal Access in the Information Society Journal http://www.springeronline.com/east/journal/10209/  ... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

OPM report shows telework numbers far below goal Blah, blah, blah. That's what I was thinking while reading OPM report shows telework numbers far below goal by Elizabeth Newell (GovExec, May 21, 2004). No offense to the writer, really, it's just that this is the same old story for telework. Adoption is slow, all the standard excuses are blame... From Kolabora.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

News for Today, May 25 News in the shared spaces world: Interwoven released Version 4.0 of WorkSite MP, its collaborative document management system. New features: records retention, offline mode (with synchronization and conflict resolution capabilities), virtual folders (content aggregation across the repository using f... From Kolabora.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

glyphics.com Business Communications | Audio Conferencing, Web ... ... by Eloquent Designed for large-scale online presentations, especially product launch events. Link Conference Service Remotely hosted web conferencing and phone ... From Kolabora.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Richard Peck's advice The wonderful author of comic novels for young people, Richard Peck, has a new collection of short stories called Past Perfect, Present Tense, which has a couple of essays about writing tucked in the back. In one of those essays, "Five Helpful Hints," he says this: Nobody but a reader ever became a writer. You have to read a thousand stories before you can write one. And of course you want to. We write by the light of every story we ever read. Reading other people's... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

More Richard Peck From the same essay as yesterday, these lovely words from Richard Peck: Writers are collectors of voices, and writing is the art of listening. (175) And if we look at the gracefully balanced sentence he has written, we see also that writers are shapers of sentences. Maybe that's why he also urges us to agree with him that "the only writing is revising" (173). That presents some problems for bloggers at their most informal, but when I think about the best exchanges I've had... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Cicadas and laptops I walked out among the trees here where I am visiting in Southern Indiana this afternoon and discovered the cicadas were everywhere -- dozens of their empty shells, each one the color of a chain-smoker's fingernails, each shell zipped open down the back and left gripping the bark of a tree, and many more up high making their characteristic sound. If you want to know what it sounds like, imagine this: above you in the trees, on all sides but invisible, you hear the sound of hundreds of... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

You dance to my tune In an essay from the New York Times series, Writers on Writing (volume 2), Dorothy Gallagher helps explain the nature of a writer's authority. In a piece called "Recognizing the Book that Needs to be Written," she describes her recasting of a relative's life story and speculates whether he would object to the interpretation she "insisted on" in her revising of his life story (66). She sets up a basic problem between writer and subject over power to shape the account... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Expression Engine update I'm working with another person on the page templates for the university publication that will be using the new Expression Engine (EE) software, from the pMachine company. I suspect we'll be in business and loading content from the writers by mid-summer, but the site itself will have a complete technical design shortly. Right now we're using the capability EE offers to set templates within templates, so that many features of a site can be designed and coded once as a subtemplate,... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 25, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Herecast: Location-Based WiFi Services Very cool! From Herecast: Location-Based WiFi Services: QUOTEHerecast provides location-based services on a WiFi device. At its simplest level, it can tell you where you are. More advanced services can use your location to enhance information lookups, publish presence information, and create unique games -- all while preserving privacy.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Liferea - Linux RSS reader Something to check out. I really need to get a Linux box at home again! Someday! From Liferea Homepage: QUOTELiferea is a simple FeedReader clone for Unix distributions with GTK2 (GNOME2 is optional). It is a news aggregator for RSS/RDF feeds which also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS or OPML directories. The problem with FeedReader: for now its only available for Windows. There are some projects for GNU/Linux, but no solution for GTK/GNOME, which does not require Python o From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Desperately seeking candidate blogs for Canadian Election 2004 If you know of any candidates for the Canadian Federal election that have a blog with RSS, please leave a comment. More info at MP Rating: Canadian Election 2004 - Desperately seeking candidate blogs From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Help Jay out Please help Jay out if you can! I did! From cadence90: QUOTEBlogger Jay McCarthy's family home was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. You can give a buck or two to cover the unavoidable expenses -- fresh clothing, takeout pizza, etc., here:UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Yet another dumb patent - this time on live instant recordings of concerts Any way you slice it, this is not a good thing. The patent should never have been granted in the first place. and restricting live recordings using the patent as a legal weapon is clearly evil. From RollingStone.com : QUOTEIn the past few years, fans leaving some concerts have discovered a souvenir far better than a T-shirt: a live recording of the show they j From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Money For College States increased financial aid to students to make up for rising tuition rates and declining state appropriations in 2002-3, an annual survey found. From Chronicle: free on May 25, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Hot Type When a disaffected scientist auctioned off his services as a scholarly co-author on eBay, at least one mathematician made a calculated objection. From Chronicle: free on May 25, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

RSS to Javascript from Alan Levine cogdogblog Alan Levine has made available a very nice RSS to Javascript tool for the displaying of RSS feeds in web pages. I am currently using Feedroll to display the RSS from out Lewis Elementary calendar. I plan to move to Alan's tool when I get some time after school is out.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Weller Introduces High Tech Education & Training Initiative From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Gutierrez Clark's new vice president and chief academic officer From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Deep Infrastructure Supports Digital Library Services From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Putting the Distance Learning Comparison Study in Perspective: Its Role as Personal Journey Research From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Trifus Unveils Next Generation Technology for Integrating e-Learning Components From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Applied Systems Transforms Customer Training Through Centra's Collaborative Learning Solution From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Envision Announces Citibank Germany To Use New Click2Coach Version From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

GM University, Thomson NETg Collaboration Results in ASTD Citation for Excellence in Practice From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Kids' inventions help zoo swipe top int'l award From DEC Daily News on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

RSS Vs. Email I'm turning into a linkbot at the moment...     will    have   ideas    and   opinions    soon    :o) Here's an email vs. RSS from a marketing / customers perspective (dare I say a teacher / student one too?) via just about everyone :o): "Since my earlier --> From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

XFree86 License Change () The XFree86 project is changing its license, slightly, for the upcoming 4.4.0 release. The purpose of these changes is to strengthen the "except claim you wrote it" clause of the Project's licensing philosophy regarding binary distributions of XFree86. While the... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

UN Report Says FOSS is Better () Groklaw takes a look at the U.N.'s E-Commerce and Development Report 2003: UN Report Says FOSS is Better. Pretty much hits the points that I've been hitting here and elsewhere for years now: There are a lot of upsides to... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

KDE 3.2 released () The long and eagerly-awaited (at least by some) KDE 3.2 has been released. I previewed the 3.2 release for LWN (subscription required until Thursday), and I'm really impressed with the improvements in 3.2. For those who are interested in trying... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

What a brilliant strategy... () I hope that Microsoft customers take note of the gyrations Microsoft is going through to maintain their price structure. The message is clear, "we could sell the software more cheaply, but we'd rather prop up the price by shaving features." The only "innovation" here seems to be coming from Microsoft's bean-counters, rather than from Microsoft's software developers. From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Sodipodi 0.34 released () Just grabbed the latest release of Sodipodi, an open source vector-based drawing application similar to Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. Despite the low version number, Sodipodi seems very usable and is pretty full-featured. Check out the gallery for examples of... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Groklaw's Jones Looks Beyond SCO () Wired has an interview with Pamela Jones, the creator of Groklaw. Groklaw is a great resource for anyone interested in following the SCO shenanigans — and has done a fine job debunking SCO's public comments about their alleged ownership of... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

NASA's Open Source License () The more the merrier, I suppose... NASA is apparently getting ready to release some software under their own open source license. It would seem that NASA couldn't use any of the existing licenses because they didn't meet NASA's requirements. For... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Microsoft's code leakage () The news that some of Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 2000 codebase has been "leaked" onto the 'Net is getting widespread coverage. Now some pundits are asking whether the leak is going to compromise the already questionable security of those... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Six percent by 2007 () According to this article from BusinessWeek, IDC is predicting that Linux will have 6 percent of the desktop market by 2007. Right now, IDC pegs Linux desktop usage at 3.2 percent in 2003. That puts Linux ahead of Apple desktops... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Making the wrong connection () Caught a link to this misguided piece in The Globe and Mail titled, "Why some people want MyDoom and your doom." Author Ken Wiwa tries to draw a connection between Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the authors of the... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

You get what you pay for? () I couldn't resist posting a link to this piece about Microsoft's "Software Assurance" program. Organizations that bought into Microsoft's new licensing scheme, are finding that they're getting very little for their money: Scott Matthews, CTO for Digitech Systems in Greenwood... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

And now for something... () just plain silly. Fun little parody of Apple's "switch" ads.... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Copyfight re-launches () When you have a few spare cycles, be sure to click over to the newly "remixed" Copyfight, which is now a group blog. Plenty of good stuff over there.... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Be sure to wipe () This isn't open source specific, but it certainly is of interest to anyone who may sell their old computer or hard drive. Simson Garfinkel writes that most people don't do a very good job of erasing data off of hard... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Nailed it () Just reading an entry over at Groklaw on Senator Patty Murry asking Bush to "engage" the EU, and found a little nugget that pretty well sums up my objections to proprietary software — and why I prefer open source: In... From Corante: Open Source on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Google Groups Part Deux (Ross Mayfield) Google is beta testing Groups 2, a free email list service destined to replace its Usenet archive (Groups 1, which it builds upon). It won’t suffer exactly the same fate as Usenet as it allows public, moderated and private lists.... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Revolution vs. society (Clay Shirky) Lucas, current MVP holder in the Comments section here, comments on Moblogging from the Front and the New Reformation, saying:I have recently had an opportunity to rethink my position on this issue. Only a few weeks ago I would have... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Databases built for love (Clay Shirky) Building up store of previously decentralized information used to be so expensive that only big organizations could undertake the process, and then only for important things — phone books, driver’s license records. And now it’s everywhere. The NY Times today... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Most underrated organ: The corpus callosum (David Weinberger) Clay has sparked YAD (yet another debate) through his delectable writing, this one about the consequences of two facts: We are making more images than ever (thanks to camera phones, moblogging, etc.) and the Internet has undone the traditional controls... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

MT 3.0: Backlash and Trackbacks (Liz Lawley) I’ve spent most of the afternoon and evening reading through the literally hundreds of trackbacks to Mena Trott’s announcement of Movable Type 3.0 and its new pricing structure. It’s a pretty amazing process to watch. And if I didn’t like... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Social Computing Alliance Event (Ross Mayfield) This week I am participating in a virtual 5-day course on Blog, Wikis, Social Networks - what can social software do for you?, hosted by Social Computing Alliance. It’s not an alliance of the Social Software Alliance variety, but an... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

100 CEO Blog Conversations (Ross Mayfield) We’re trying something unprecedented for the Red Herring event — 100 conversations with 100 CEOs of the Red Herring 100 Top Private Companies on 100 Weblogs. The space is open to the public, some video will be streamed and Mitch... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Famous for fifteen people (Seb Paquet) Gordon Gould sparks an interesting discussion on what success in blogging means or ought to mean. He basically says that it follows from the power law argument that people will blog for fame, not fortune, but fame of the fifteen-people... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

MT 3.0 Addendum (Clay Shirky) My posting speed is always slow, which prevents me from commenting on the events of the day, as I usually don’t know what I think until they become the events of last week. I am therefore the Last Blogger On... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Technical document from iRoom (Clay Shirky) Interesting document on some of the technical details behind Stanford’s iRoom, part of the larger iWork project. The iRoom is a room designed for highly mediated collaboration among real-world users. The description of the iRoom reads, in partEmphasize co-location. There... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Where in the World is Joi Ito? (David Weinberger) Joi has six free days in Europe and has posted a wiki where we can suggest ways he can constructively use his time.A cleverer person than I could probably figure out huge amounts about Joi, his social network and his... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Welcome Guestblogger Xiao Qiang (Ross Mayfield) Help us welcome guestblogger Xiao Qiang. I met Xiao when were panelists on social software at an IFTF event. He has been a political activist since Tiananmen, is the founding executive director of Human Rights in China, is a MacArthur... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

IFTF: A New Literacy for Cooperation (Ross Mayfield) This week I participated in a mind-bending IFTF event shaped by Howard Rheingold on A New Literacy of Cooperation. They are developing a new famework which challenges the assumptions of business strategy that centers around competition. The rise of open... From Corante: Social Software on May 25, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

SAGE Publications has announced a new pricing structure for the 2005 subscription year. SAGE will of ... SAGE Publications has announced a new pricing structure for the 2005 subscription year. SAGE will offer institutional subscribers three subscription options to better meet the evolving needs of the academic, research and corporate communities they serve From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, together with The Charlesworth Group ... The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, together with The Charlesworth Group, has announced six Awards which recognise significant achievement in the field of learned and professional publishing. The deadline for applications is the 1st of June for ALPSP Awards and 11th June for ALPSP/Charlesworth Awards From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

The Future Of Online Collaboration Technologies Stuart Henshall and Eugene Eric Kim are the two special guests joining Robin Good in the second issue of the Competitive Edge (this Thursday May27th at 12 noon EDT), a live audio and video event in which key trends, new... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

How To Separate Content From Design With all the discussion about separating presentation from content (and structure), it's easy to lose track of the goal. So let's step back, define our terms, and take a look at why it matters. The major reason to separate presentation... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

[pdf] Personal Democracy Forum I'm at the PDF in NYC today along with about 150 other people for a day of non-partisan discussion of how politics may be changing, particularly because of the new global connectedness. The conference organizer is Andrew Rasiej, who I almost met when he was with the Dean campaign. I'm in the Bloggers' Corner, the front left of the auditorium where the power strip is. To my right is Jeff Jarvis. To my left is David Jacobs. Behind me, Anil Dash. In front of me, David Isenberg. The chat and blogs can be found here. Also try Kinja.... From Joho the Blog on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

[pdf] Bob Kerrey Andrew Rasiej is interviewing ex-Senator Bob Kerrey. How does he use the Net? Kerrey says he uses it for everything, including decentralizing control at The New School. He stresses that the Internet brings about a loosening of control. If he were running Kerry's campaign, he'd use the Net for raising money and communicating out, but also for enabling people to connect, "But to do that, you have to allow communities of interest to develop on their own and then keep those communities organized in a political fashion," i.e., it has to lead to people voting. "What I see happening... From Joho the Blog on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

[pdf] list of bloggers BuzzMachine has a list of bloggers blogging the conference. Also try Bloglines.... From Joho the Blog on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

[pdf] Ron Wyden and Joe Trippi Little known fact: I elected Senator Wyden. Perhaps an overstatement, but aroune 1979, my wife and I lived in Portland OR for a year. Wyden was running for Congress for the first time. My wife called his office with a question about one of his stands, and dang if Wyden himself didn't call back and talk with my wife for 20 minutes. So, she and I went door to door for him, and have been Wyden fans ever since. Joe Trippi says that we shouldn't be calling it the "information age." It's really the age of transparency and empowerment. The... From Joho the Blog on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

[pdf] Ralph Reed Ralph Reed (here and here) was the creator of the Christian Coalition and is currently the SE Regional Chairman for Bush-Cheney '04. As a result of the new technology, we are turning to the politics of an earlier time — face to face, neighbor to neighbor. The stakes are high and the ideological divide is more even than since the 1880s. Also, we've lost confidence in the dominant media. Howard Greenstein: What do you mean by grassroots? You seem to talk about grassroots and what receives messages from the center. Reed: MoveOn.org tried doing bottom up and ended up... From Joho the Blog on May 25, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

The Professorial Lecture: Is it Teaching or Is it Exposition Summary: I would argue that teaching requires a meeting of the minds, between professor and student, before their joint intellectual travels begin. If there is such a meeting and the exposition of ideas is sufficient to the content and to what was discovered at that meeting, then, and only then, it is teaching. Good exposition for disciplinary peers (and what that is is debatable as well) is not necessarily teaching for one's students. From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

Does knowledge grow in trees Summary: I give you a thought provoking entry about knowledge and knowledge representation from Lilia EfimovaTrees vs. webs. It brings back many [group 1] curricular pyramids developed by/with teachers and is loosely evocative of [group 2]Scope and Sequence charts. There can be bad, as well as good, tree or web thinking, for these two elicited tree/web thought structures are on opposite ends of my great<--> awful continuum. Must think about why. And , while I'm doling out personal assignments: tie results to my thou From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

1,000 Blogs Next Year No, not me. I've learned to take it slowly at my school as that's what is required. But Gil Chapman of Galloway Township (NJ) Schools has some major Manila plans. Judging by the response so far we should have about a thousand blogs up and running by mid-point of next year. This will really prove to be an interesting experiment. Sounds like me last year. I wish him luck, and it will be interesting to see if the realities of public school implementation pla From weblogged News on May 25, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

I Want My VTV (to Go, Please) Humble Cell Morphs into Device for All Seasons "The mobile phone of the future was demonstrated, in bits and pieces, at the Business Show Tokyo 2004 earlier this month. While no single model included all the potential features of upcoming phones, various units had enough of them to prove that the next-generation handset is being transformed into personal entertainment/information devices. Some received radio and TV broadcasts; some played music, videos a From The Shifted Librarian on May 25, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

mPrinting P900 Prints to HP via Bluetooth "Sony Ericsson and HP have teamed up to provide mobile printing over Bluetooth from any Sony Ericsson P800 or P900 wireless handheld. Both models, which support Bluetooth, will be able to use new software to print JPG images, email text, SMS text, contacts, and calendar items from their handheld directly to a Bluetooth printer supporting the Bluetooth Basic Print Profile (BPP).... The HP mobile printing software will be available soon for d From The Shifted Librarian on May 25, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

ICJIA First to Provide RSS Feeds in Illinois! RSS:&nbsp;Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority "The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority offers several XML-based feeds, including one for current news, grants, recent publications and news releases. The feeds display linked headlines and introductory sentences." [TVC Alert] From The Shifted Librarian on May 25, 2004 at 1:49 a.m..

Exploding the Orange Icon

Is Gen. Zinni a Traitor, Too? "Conservatives" who mutter so casually about disloyalty and use the word "traitorous" in reference to critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy will have to find new kinds of slander for people like retired Marine General Anthony Zinni. Here's what Zinni had to say in a speech recently. And here is the transcript of his interview on last night's "60 Minutes" show. Unl From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 25, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Green Scientist: Nuclear Power Vital to Save Earth

The challenge of partial trust Over the weekend I upgraded a kid's PC from Win98 to XP. I'd been dragging my heels because Win98 was "good enough" for games, IM, and writing school reports, but this installation had long since reached its half-life. Also, I was curious to see what a 98-to-XP upgrade would be like, never having done one. So I fired up the installer and posted the kid on guard to alert me when intervention was required. ... From Jon's Radio on May 25, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Why Harvard dreams of being closer to an ocean Here's a post-UC conference gathering of 22 bloggers where the 'lao wai' folks (white dudes) were severely outnumbered by the attending Chinese. And duh! ... didn't we have a lot to learn? If the blogosphere believes its own hype about disruption, it's time to find a way to engage the rest of (meaning 'majority of') the planet. This was the most fundatmentally challenging gathering of tech users that I've ever attended. Bravo, bravo, bravo --> From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Travel pearls before blogger swine China in its digital age is intruding on me in my middle age. Yawn. Last night's dinner spilled into the lobby of the Durant Hotel where the UC Berkeley rugby team was celebrating its national championship win. Nothing like drunken undergraduate ruggers and their dads to inspire a party. House guest Fons and I toured the SF coastline for a bit during today's rare fogless afternoon. Then the China crew - Issac, Liang, Kevin and Andrea - showed up at Gates Street. From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

'Last minute proposal submitted for E-Learn 2004' Right back at you, Mr. Fiedler. The &ldquo;Managing Content, Guiding Learning&rdquo; (MCGL) project provides a sustainable model for integrating a school-wide content management system into teaching and learning by training a leadership team of seven teachers to serve as technology integration coaches for staff, teachers, parents and students. And I too "hope it gets accepted. I would really like to work this out..." I've got good friends to stay with in D.C. and it'd be great to finally From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

NDP - Numbskull Denominations of Prevaricators - Day via slacktivist: &nbsp; "Yet here it is, the National Day of Prayer -- the one day set aside for George W. Bush to talk to God instead of the other way 'round." BTW, I'm not against falling to my knees in worship. It just has to be in the pursuit of knowledge or ecstacy, not in the self-congratulatory delusion of wingnut piety. Gary took the --> From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

A must read and a conference kernel? David Neiwert aka Orcinus (referencing several others) offers a "stab at moving from simple critique of the media to the much harder work of actually doing something about it" with a Media Manifesto [via Eschaton]. It's a long read, but worth it. and this brief summation gave me the relief of a good vent:But even beyond the bias is the way this framing really corrupts and triv From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

from Machia-brari's 'Reform of Galileo's Room 354-356' "[Libraries] that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them." Good weather for weeks now. Knock on wooden shelves! We're putting down roots at Gal - slowly, patiently, methodically. The main room is still a disaster from its most recent stage of renovation, and Advanced Placement testing has kept us from spending more than a few hours reshelving books. The closed door, though, allowed time for hurried money spending. From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

If you're not laughing, you're probably not learning. Why, as a&nbsp; certified disdainer of BSIRS (Bonds-salary-inflation-ruined-sport), do I include the screenshot to the left? Because that is Galileo science teacher and season ticket-holding David Barrios caught in the initial moment of his new extra-curricular career, Giant Blogger. So here's to you DB - a first and slight attempt at getting you readers. Note please the posting below the swi From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Somewhere there is a javascript magnetic poetry board for e-mail spammers There has to be. Witness this recently arrived e-mail:Kincaid,Govenment don't want me to sellUndergroundCD !Check Your spouse and staffInvestigate Your Own CREDIT-HISTORYhacking someone PC!Disappear in your citybannedcd2004euthanasia,wide leather belt.&lt;/tt> I don't know about the rest of it, but the belt thing might generate some serious cash. From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Breaking news that breaks and breaks Surprise, surprise: Today, 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously outlawed school segregation in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case, segregation thrives in schools across the Bay Area, state and the nation. Even though no board of education still has the power to exclude students based on ethnicity, the schools' racial barrier lives on in the segregated lives of the rich and the poor. [SF From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

'Vivid apartment in vivacious edifice' was a sign I saw on a real estate billboard in Shanghai in April. Now I get a chance to live in one, complete with job offer: "... a teaching position at the Shanghai American School Summer School Program." It's a BAWP gig and there may be an opportunity for CMS integration. From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Staying the course China, Bakersfield and Amsterdam beckon. With a dead library database, what's the point of dawdling? Teachers. They continue to surprise and delight. Witness the latest Li-blog-ary award, "Mahatama of Metacognition< From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Gali-Radio 32.0 kilometer radius? That could cover a good portion of the Emerald City. From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Irony before swine Friend David Hardy writes: Isn't it ironic that Mitt Romney, the Republican Governor of Massachusetts, who said recently "that he would not let Massachusetts, become the Las Vegas of gay marriages," is himself the scion of a lawbreaking American family that fled to Mexico to practice polygamy rather than obey the marriage laws of the United States. In Mexico, in 1907, George Romney, Mitt's father, was born. Now Mitt wants to look at every From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Serendipity blogging application supports Creative Commons Serendipity, an open-source blogging application, now has a plug-in that allows users to select a Creative Commons license. From Creative Commons: weblog on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Microsoft to show off ID federation From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Wayport, McDonald's cook up hot-spot deal From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Software maker unites Windows, Unix From CNET News.com on May 25, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

I read David Carter Todd because... he regularly gets me thinking about what I don't know I'm thinking about. In this case, his pointer to Christopher Allen begins to frame a conversation on Galileo community building energized by Manila blogs and Blackboard sites. David describes the post as a "fascinating analysis of optimal group sizes with particular application to online group formation and activity." Here's a quote from the article, slightly more than DCT used:--> From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..

A stroke of brilliance Wherein the middle-muddled author masters a magical assault on his waning powers with the aid of distant and appropriately propitiated spiritual allies. Read more... From homoLudens III on May 25, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

Use it or lose it Exercising weblog muscles is as important as exercising regular muscles. They need constant activation or else they start to atrophy. Use them or lose them you might say. Mine are definitely starting to shrink. From David Davies: Edtech on May 25, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

View across Conwy Bay from Beaumaris, Anglesey I thought this weblog needed a bit of colour. This is the view from Beaumaris on the island From David Davies: Edtech on May 25, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

One year older but none the wiser Happy Birthday to me Happy Birthday to me Happy Birthday to mee-ee Happy Birthday to me! From David Davies: Edtech on May 25, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

Guess who's (not) coming to dinner? Looks like I'll have to miss meeting the great Dave Winer this coming Monday when he hosts a dinner in Amsterdam. I've got two trips to Italy over the next 4 weeks so my poor old credit card won't be able to stand the action. Maybe next time, Dave. From David Davies: Edtech on May 25, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

Cry 'God for Harry, England and Saint George!' It's Saint George's day and like many other proud Englishmen I'll be in the pub tonight! If you're near the Griffin Inn at Shustock stop by and I'll buy yo From David Davies: Edtech on May 25, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..

eLearning Results The beautiful town of Sestri Levante is host to the 2004 eLearning Results meeting. If you're going let me know. The full program is available. I have a couple of slots and will b From David Davies: Edtech on May 25, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..

Homeland Security: North Bergen Style Tom Rowan, the webmaster of NorthBergenPD.Com, is a patriotic guy. North Bergen, where Tom lives and where he once served as a cop, is part of Hudson County, New Jersey. Hudson County is right across the river from lower Manhattan. Area residents experienced 9/11 up close and personal. Many could see the attack from their windows-- or from streets and parks. A large number of people from Hudson County worked in the World Trade Center. Many of them died that day. Almost everyone knew someone who was a victim, or who was connected to one. Hence local support for the War on Terror has been strong From kuro5hin.org on May 25, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

All Links (By Chapter) Via elearnspace (which was unjustly left out) comes this nice set of links from Learning Peak's page for Making Sense of Online Learning by Patti Shank. I like the way these are organized; the easier items are listed first and the more complex stuff comes later. By Patti Shank, Learning Peak, May, 2004 [Refer][Research][--> From OLDaily on May 25, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

Bersin & Associates Announces First Subscription-based Research Service... I question their claim to be the 'first' this or that, and at the same time wonder how many years it would take me to produce 7000 pages of research (without using an automated research report writer, that is). By Press Release, Business Wire, May 24, 2004 [Refer][Research][--> From OLDaily on May 25, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

University Aims for 2-tier System The oncoming university crisis takes another step forward: "A proposal put forward would have the state gaining two new public universities and would set up a regional university system in which tuitions could be lower, classes would be smaller and the faculty's main job would be to teach, not do research." Via University Business. By Judd Slivka, The Arizona Republic, May 23, 2004 [Refer][Resear From CNET News.com on May 24, 2004 at 11:15 p.m..

CA open-sources Ingres database From CNET News.com on May 24, 2004 at 11:15 p.m..

Dell to release multifunction printers From CNET News.com on May 24, 2004 at 11:15 p.m..

Memory glitch delays IBM Power blade From CNET News.com on May 24, 2004 at 11:15 p.m..

VIPs & VPNs and schwagging the dog and pony From CNET News.com on May 24, 2004 at 11:15 p.m..

Meeting David Carter-Tod So I finally got out to meet David Carter-Tod. Absolutely smashing time. Exceedingly excellent guy. Very excited to hook up with him again sometime soon. Here are some pictures from the VCCS outing to Maymont to substantiate my claim that we actually met: Me and DCT Bridge in Maymont&#8217;s Japanese Garden From autounfocus on May 24, 2004 at 11:15 p.m..

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