More on Carleton, Gustavus Adolphus, Macalester, and St. Olaf Today's issue of Library Journal has an unsigned note, Four Small Minnesota Colleges Say No to the "Big Deal". Excerpt: "Barbara Fister, librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, said that the problem goes beyond the Science Direct contract: 'We tend to demonize Elsevier to some extent, but a lot of publishers, including some scholarly societies, are also part of the problem. In general, we need to make clear to publishers that libraries aren't an endless supply of revenue. We've hit the wall. From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Government wants to organize its fugitive OA documents Florence Olsen, GPO hunts fugitives, Federal Computer Week, May 20, 2004. Excerpt: "Government Printing Office officials are looking for so-called fugitive documents and plan on sending a Web crawler out to find them. As more federal agencies publish government information on Web sites without notifying GPO, important documents that should be indexed, catalogued and preserved for public access in the Federal Depository Library Program have instead become 'fugitive' documents, according to GPO official From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Canadian vet jnls on PMC PubMed Central now provides free, not Open, access to both peer-reviewed journals from CVMA-ACMV. Canadian Veterinary Journal Fulltext v43+ (2002+) ISSN: 0008-5286 Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research Fulltext v66+ (2002+) ISSN: 0830-9000 From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Australian Group of Eight Statement on Open Access Today Australia's eight leading research universities (the Group of Eight) released a Statement on open access to scholarly information. In the statement, the Group of Eight Vice-Chancellors "record their commitment to open access initiatives that will enhance global access to scholarly information for the public good." They pledge to support OA initiatives at their respective universities, to support "digital publishing practices" that provide high-quality scholarship at lower co From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Japanese OA journal on surface science The Surface Science Society of Japan publishes the all-electronic, open access e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology. Coverage begins with volume 1 in 2003 and volumes are archived on the J-Stage server. The journal also serves as a repository for some conferences in the field (papers published in separate issues can be accessed through one link) and will evidently publish topical collections ("virtual journals") culled from its issues. (Source: EEVL New Resources) From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Evaluating HINARI Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, HINARI: bridging the global information divide, BMJ 328, 1190-1193 (15 May 2004). Considers the success of the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) initiative, pointing out that while one million users downloaded articles via the project in 2003, costs and reliability of internet access may hamper usage. The author also notes that not all key journals in a given field are available through HINARI. Furthermore, the article provides a map showing countries taking advanta From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Happy birthday to us The Open Access News blog is two years old today. Our first posting appeared on May 26, 2002. From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

View on e-journal evolution Jeanne Galvin, The Next Step in Scholarly Communication: Is the Traditional Journal Dead?, Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, v.5 no.1 (Spring 2004). Galvin reviews the development of electronic journals and the open access movement and considers the acceptance of both by scholarly communities. She points out disadvantages of traditional journals and how these are countered by e-publication, OA and institutional repositories. Furthermore, Galvin discusses new concepts in scholarly publi From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Mathematics Journals - food for thought 'Mathematics Journals - food for thought and links' is the title of a recently added segment on Stephen Wills' Journals - pricing rant and useful links. Wills is a mathematics lecturer at University College Cork. Wills notes the Knuth/JoA/ACM TALG situation and Rob Kirby's 1997 open letter and --> From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Harvard Open Collections Project The Harvard University Library Open Collections Project released a prototype of its first collection, Women Working, 1870-1930. Eventually, the website will provide access to thousands of digitized books, manuscripts and images. Recently digitized items may be browsed at the website. The Open Collections Project describes itself thusly: "The goal of the Harvard Libraries Open Collections Program is to increase the availability and use of textual and visual historical resources for teaching, learning, and research by selecting resources from the H From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

US research chief wants to improve research access for practicing physicians John Marburger, Creating the Infrastructure to Improve the Public's Health, OSTP, May 20, 2004. Marburger is the Director of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). In this public lecture, he outlines some reforms for the management of federally funded research. He does not endorse or even mention OA, but he does say the following: "Most 'structured' output from federally sponsored research is in the form of peer-reviewed scientific publications. For clinical researc From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Anti-trust action against publishing monolopies Mary Case, Information Access Alliance: Challenging anticompetitive behavior in academic publishing, College & Research Libraries News, June 2004. Excerpt: "While mergers and acquisitions in publishing reflect a general global trend, librarians have been concerned with the growing concentration within scholarly publishing, especially as it has affected scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals and legal serials publications. Enhanced revenue, improved efficiencies, and reduced costs are often men From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Protest against treasury department prohibitions Kenneth R. Foster, Call for action to protect free exchange of ideas, Nature 429, 343 (27 May 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Foster takes issue with the recent US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ruling, which, even though it reversed an earlier decision preventing the IEEE and others from editing papers from authors in embargoed countries, "the same ruling 'would consider a prohibited exportation of services to occur when a collaborativ From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

3 more BMC OA journals mirrored by PMC PubMed Central mirrors all of the BioMed Central OA material. The newest PMC archives are for: Harm Reduction Journal Fulltext v1+ (2004+) http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=242 http://biomedcentral.com/1477-7517/ Online ISSN: 1477-7517 International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity Fulltext v1+ (2004+) Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Gateway for neuroscientists The Neuroscience Database Gateway is a pilot project of the Society for Neuroscience's Brain Information Group. The gateway provides links to 76 disparately-hosted databases, accessible from one page, or browsable by category (e.g. experimental data sites, knowledge bases, sites with software and related tools.) The Brain Information Group was "charged with evaluating the current status of neuroscience databases; assessing future directions of neuroscience data management, data sharing, and database From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

UC policy on cataloging OA resources The University of California Libraries have adopted a policy (May 13, 2004) for the cataloging, linking, and management of OA resources. The policy includes criteria for what counts as an OA resource (based primarily on the BOAI) and procedures for nominating and approving OA resources for cataloging. Faculty who want a certain OA resource to be catalogued may fill out an online request form. From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Editorial on PNAS open access Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, An open access option for PNAS, PNAS Early Edition, May 27, 2004. (Access restricted to subscribers.) Following up on PNAS's announcement of its open access option for authors (see earlier posting by Peter Suber,) Cozzarelli uses an editorial to explain the journal's approach to OA and their rationale. He lists current initiatives such as PNAS making all (except the latest) content available through PubMedCentral - including, by t From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Another contribution to the Nature OA debate Daniel Greenstein, Not so quiet on a Western front, Nature, May 28, 2004. Excerpt: "I believe that the business model of commercial publishing, which once served the academy's information needs, now threatens fundamentally to undermine and pervert the course of research and teaching. Put bluntly, the model is economically unsustainable for us. If business as usual continues, it will deny scholars both access to the information they need and the ability to distribute their work to the worldwide audience it deserves....W From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

More on the CERN decision to sign the Berlin Declaration Richard Sietmann, CERN unterstützt Open Access, Heise Online, May 24, 2004. On CERN's support for OA and decision to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access at the recent Berlin 2 meeting (Geneva, May 12-13). (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

new OA math journal coming -- Probability Surveys Project Euclid has announced that it will host a new, open access, digital journal from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics: Probability Surveys, with UC Berkeley's David Aldous as editor. Probability Surveys is a peer-reviewed e-journal which publishes survey articles in theoretical and applied probability. The first articles are scheduled to be available in early July. from SPARC E-News April/May 2004 From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

BMJ editor responds to Elsevier CEO Tony Delamothe, 'Author pays' model raises hope of freely available research, Financial Times, May 29, 2004. A letter to the editor in response to Arie Jongejan's anti-OA article published on Wednesday. Excerpt: "From a company making margins of 34 per cent from publishing scientific research, From Open Access News on May 29, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Endeavor's Digital Breakfast - learn about the research Endeavor undertook to discover the requireme ... Endeavor's Digital Breakfast - learn about the research Endeavor undertook to discover the requirements, practices and demands of electronic resource management - June 26, 2004 - ALA Annual 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 29, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Eric Tull of The Alberta Library has created the following useful list of link resolver products: ... Eric Tull of The Alberta Library has created the following useful list of link resolver products:1Cate from Link OpenlyArticleLinker from Serials SolutionsCUFTS/Godot from COPPULGoldRush Linker from Colorado AllianceHorizon Link Resolver f From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 29, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Project Euclid has announced that it will host a new, open access, digital journal from the Institut ... Project Euclid has announced that it will host a new, open access, digital journal from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics entitled Probability Surveys. It is a peer-reviewed e-journal which publishes survey articles in theoretical and applied probability. The first articles are scheduled to be available in early July From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 29, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

R.R. Bowker has released statistics on U.S. book publishing compiled from its Books In Print databa ... R.R. Bowker has released statistics on U.S. book publishing compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures, Bowker is projecting that U.S. title output in 2003 increased a staggering 19% to 175,000 new titles and editions, the highest total ever recorded From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 29, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Jim's Big, Shared Ego The Boston Globe writes up the local band Jim's Big Ego because it encourages people to share the band's files. In September, they released an album under a Creative Commons license and it's been their biggest seller. In fact, Creative Commons and the band are holding a contest to find the most creative remix of their paean to mixing, "Mix Tape." One of the band members, Jim Infantino, talks about "community-based art patronage": "When you as a band act in good faith, you invite your fans to act in good faith." I love all this, but I so don't believe... From Joho the Blog on May 29, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

Something Wiki This Way Comes - Robert D. Hof, Business Week They're Web sites anyone can edit -- and they could transform Corporate America. When software developer Nicholas Pisarro Jr. saw his first wiki late last year, he knew it was unlike any Web site he had ever seen. On the site, a free online encycloped From Techno-News Blog on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Search engines try to find their sound - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com To be Googled, or not to be Googled? That was the question facing National Public Radio's online director Maria Thomas earlier this year. The answer would seem obvious for anyone doing business on the Web, where being included in search re From Techno-News Blog on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Networked homes move closer to reality - Richard Shim and Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com At the Samsung Tower Palace, even the refrigerators are logged onto the Net. The luxury apartment complex here is a showcase for Samsung Electronics' burgeoning digital home business--an idea that once was dismissed as a pie-in-the-sky but now From Techno-News Blog on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

How to Remove the Major Obstacle of Learning - I. Vilpola & H. Ihamäki, eLearning Europa Usability: Before starting to write this article, we checked if there was anything written about usability in Finnish or English in the elearningeuropa.info site and found some articles about this issue. Now, at the latest, it is time to act for rootin From Educational Technology on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

The Clic Project Offers Over 1,000 Free On-line Activities, eLearning Europa Since it was first launched in 1992, hundreds of teachers have used the free Clic computer programme to create computer educational activities. The result is over one thousand educational activity packages which have been developed and are available o From Educational Technology on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

E-learning gets top marks - James Mortleman, Computeractive Employees have given top marks to electronic learning, with more than nine out of ten saying it is an enjoyable and effective way to acquire knowledge and skills. A survey of 200 e-learning users across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, conducted by on From Online Learning Update on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Prospects for Internet-based learning in Indonesia - Sidatajudi, Jakarta Post I once read an article written by a local education activist proposing the nationwide adoption of Internet-based distance learning to help provide quality tertiary education at a low cost for those living in small towns. Although the idea is very noble From Online Learning Update on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

SUNY online enrollments at all-time high - Christine Margiotta, The Business Review Enrollments reached over 70,000 for the state University of New York's online Learning Network this school year - an all-time high for the program, Chancellor Robert King announced Friday. Enrollments reached 70,669 students, a 32 percent increase over From Online Learning Update on May 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

In Progress Pictures While these are fairly in development, and we generally try to publish only the really nice pictures, here are a few of the development process. Enjoy! Attack of the Zombie Computers Full Frontal Nudity Backside Lineup... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..

One week... Terminals and Kiosks in final stages. The server is going up, but won't be doing a huge ammount beyond blogs I think. We may have the LED sign, but I'm not quite sure how to hack it yet. The kiosks are being painted like a black sky, with flames painted on the sides. I've ordered 93 feet of blue EL wire to outline the kiosk forms. We're renting a truck and trailer to take up there. Things look promising. Three terminals, one wifi bridge and repeater, and a timelapse camera. Possibly the LED display... we'll see. See you guys next week!... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..

Back Online! Right before we left for burning man, two things happened. First, we were linked from Wired News by writer Xeni Jardin, in her article "Burning Man Never Gets Old". Secondly, my domain name, igargoyle.com expired, which prevented us from doing any blogging from the event. We had a great time helping people check their email and access the PlayaInfo Digital Directory. Our keyboards worked wonderfuly, and at $15 apeice (from a local computer shop), there isn't a competitive sealed keyboard on the market. We had one mouse failure, which isn't too bad. Optical mice work pretty well in th From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Burning Man Geek Pictures Here are a few more geek pictures I took at Burning Man. Enjoy! The Embassy's Tower and Satellite uplinkEmbassy hacking hours before the burnAiming the Embassy's Tower Camera, which later was used for streaming the burnThe Embassy's Tower Camera. Really cool! Thanks guys, I really appreciate your work! Embassy++... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Boing Boinged We got boingboinged! I'm glad to have the trailer listed in a directory of wonderful things.... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

More Technomadness From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Concept Artwork This is an idea for next year's Technomadic Trailer. Building an art car and perminant trailer isn't easy, but I think it's possible! Inspiration (found at konversions.net):... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Linkage In some googlism I found these two people who were kind enough to write about our project. From "Mark's Voice" Me and Ophelia (exerpt below) MOBILE INTERNET CAFE Surfing in the scorching heat and dust of the desert in Nevada, USA A brilliant bunch of people designed and built their own mobile "Roam-Net Cabinets", put them on their ingenious "Roam-Net Technomadic Trailer" and roamed the Burning Man gathering of 30,500 people camped out for a week in the Nevada desert earlier this month. ... -- ingrid jones... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

PlayaNet Booth from 2002 PlayaNet was down this year, and I'm guessing they had similar signs posted in their booths. Glad these guys had some humor about their problems. Hopefully they will collaborate with the Embassy for next year.... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Aerial Photos from 2003 From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Geeks from BM These photos were found on Marc Merlin's website Also there's a green naked man using an iBook at Evolution Control from 2002.... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Technomadic Car Dav (a fellow burner and friend) wrote: "...My problem with the net access I've heard of on the playa is that it's too standard. Yeah, I know it's a feat to just get anything running in Black Rock City, but why bother if it's just a standard PC/keyboard/mouse set up? This is an exemplary city and calls for some serious creativity to even be average. If I see technology on the playa I want it to look like something from the MIT media lab or SRL. Otherwise it's no different the having a blender to make mixed drinks...." Art is very important to my technomadic dream, and From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Full Size RC Cars I'm looking for information on building a full size remote control car, since we're adopting this Toyota Tercel soon to work on. We expect to start seriously on the 9th of December. I've made a group on tribe.net called laburners, which I met a girl named Day who is looking to learn how to weld. Since I'm also trying to learn, we decided to join forces. I've got some ideas of what I'd like to see, but the end product is still a mystery to me. RC Full Size Car (wmv) Very cool video, we'll probably start off by using hobby RC equipment like these guys did, then From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

RoamWarrior Vehical My brother, Jay and I have moved the new art car to our new location, and we will be working on it for the next few months. So far we've removed the back door, all the seats except the driver's, removed almost all the burnables from the interior, and cut out a section of the roof with a grinder to provide a gunner position with some sort of gas gun, something that could be fired manually or via a web interface. Here are the pictures, I'll be posting as often as I can and I'm hoping to have a webcam set up shortly. Work days are at our whim right now, but will become much mo From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

Geo Annotating Golf Cart So to complement the technomaid car I've been working on my Geo Annotating Golf Cart. I have a wiki for the car, but that is pretty ugly...full of half digested thoughts, difficult to navigate, etc. So I'll try and post 'clean' updates here. The short story is that I have a golf cart that I am turning into a Geo Annotating Golf Cart. This means that it will be easy to capture geo coded pictures, text, and sounds. And lots of other cool stuff... Here is a page with links to pictures... From Roam-Net Technomadics - No vehicals left unaltered on May 29, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..

teaching online This site contains some very interesting resources for those of us who teach online. Teaching Online Bulletin Board... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 29, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..

Teachit.co.uk The English have done it again...for english teachers. Whenever we ask you for feedback about Teachit the same words come up again and again: practical, useful, accessible, relevant, organised, comprehensive, up to date, supportive. I'm really proud that we've been... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 29, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..

Ranting Teacher Homepage Man, Could I relate to some of this ranting. Before you explore this website, here's the warning. If you are easily offended, think the sun shines out of your kid's behind, or are the chief inspector for schools, you'd better... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 29, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..

BlogWalk 2 - First impressions I am just sitting on the train back from Nuremberg to Cologne after a day of intense discussion and thinking. I met new people and I appreciated to have had a chance to learn a lot. Most of the people seemed to have a more general interest in the subject and were not trying to discuss particular questions. That let to a more open discussion where people were willing to jump on topics which were not so close to their personal issues. I was not able to answer some of my questions but there was a lot of other things emerging that were worth listening to without sticking to own themes. I From owrede_log on May 29, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

State Toughens Telecom Laws Following a four-year battle, California becomes the first state to extend consumer protections to cell phone customers. Consumer activists are elated. The wireless industry is not. From Wired News on May 29, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

EU Agrees to U.S. Flight Demand The European Union says it will let American customs officials look up all kinds of information about Europeans heading to the United States on commercial airlines, even though the European Parliament voted against the deal three times. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on May 29, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Mo' Beta Testing Blues More and more companies are releasing software and online services that seem to be mired in a perpetual beta-testing state, leaving users to wonder what it takes to get to a version 1.0. Many developers and users say the constant tweaking is a dangerous trend. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on May 29, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Baseball Hits a Homer Online Major League Baseball provides live video and audio as well as custom highlights on the Web, for a price. Analysts say it's a textbook example of how sports can use the Internet to reach longtime fans and create new ones. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on May 29, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Math Goodies Realeases New CD Math Goodies has released a revised and expanded version of their popular educational CD. Contents include 70 improved, in-depth learning modules, a detailed educator's guide, and a complete list of lesson learning objectives. The CD also has worksheets and other resources, thus providing more than 100 pages of learning resources. [PRWEB May 29, 2004] From PR Web on May 29, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

C.H.E.F.® Invited to TIME/ABC News Summit on Obesity. Organizations to Debate Epidemic and Develop Action Plan. As one of the nation's leaders in health and prevention education, Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.®), announced today that it has been invited to participate in the TIME/ABC News Summit on Obesity, to be held June 2-4, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Debra Keene Bergeron, Vice President of C.H.E.F., will join a select group of 400 other leaders, to debate the obesity epidemic and develop an actionable plan for the future. [PRWEB May 29, 2004] From PR Web on May 29, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Rarely Seen, "Sculptural Furniture" Exhibition Now on View in Chicago DIVERSITY: Studio Furniture, part 1... "Inspired expressions of function from a dozen talented makers". Curated exhibition of contemporary, artisan crafted home furnishings which are both sculptural and functional.PRESS PAGE, including hi-res images, available at: http://www.functionart.com/presentFA.html For additional information, contact the gallery Director, D. Scott Patria [PRWEB May 29, 2004] From PR Web on May 29, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Harvard University School of Public Health & Environmental Education Foundation Coordinate to Promote a Symposium on the Impact of Mold on Human Health The Environmental Education Foundation (EEF) has announced today their acceptance of the Harvard School of Public Health Symposium: The Impact of Mold on Human Health as meeting the organization's educational excellence criteria [PRWEB May 29, 2004] From PR Web on May 29, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

ATAYAL Organization Founder Represents Indigenous Taiwanese Tribes at the United Nations The founder of the 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, ATAYAL (www.atayal.org), concluded a visit to the United Nations in New York City on May 20, 2004. The trip was a major turning point for his organization and provided him a significant opportunity to speak for the indigenous people of Taiwan. The organization proposed two resolutions to the Chairman of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and promoted its upcoming Indigenous Heritage Festival to attendees. [PRWEB May 29, 2004] From PR Web on May 29, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

City Creates New Paths to a Diploma The New York City Department of Education is moving to expand or create alternative high school programs for students who are behind in their credits. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Search Turns Up CD Player of Murdered Juilliard Student A pink compact disc player belonging to the murdered Juilliard School student Sarah Fox was discovered late Thursday close to where her body was found. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

School District Lawyer Says She Advised Reporting Theft A lawyer for the Roslyn School District in Long Island said on Friday that she had advised school officials to report the embezzlement of $250,000 to the Nassau County district attorney. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Proposal to Adopt a Palestinian City as a 'Sister' Creates a Family Feud for Madison A proposal for Madison to form a sister-city relationship with the city of Rafah has divided Jews and others in this college town and prompted accusations of anti-Semitism. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Low Scores Bar Many Admitted to CUNY Thousands of students admitted to the bachelor's degree programs at the City University of New York cannot enroll because they are scoring too low on tests the university uses to determine college readiness. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Meningitis Is Diagnosed in 6 Manhattan Students City officials are investigating two clusters of viral meningitis at two Manhattan high schools. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Eligibility Issue Disqualifies 13 Parent Council Candidates City education officials said that they had disqualified 13 winning candidates for the parent councils that are replacing the city's local school boards. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

In Utah, 12-Hour School Days (Four on the Bus) With school districts closing down thousands of small country schools across the nation, the bus rides taken by poor rural students are getting longer and rougher. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Chechen POWs maltreated. This movie makes Abu Ghraib look like a Christian summer camp. It depicts naked POW's transferred between camps. Many of them apparently suffocated during the transport, all hold marks of heavy beating and torture, one has an open fracture of an arm. All of this was filmed by a Russian guard back in 2000. The prisoners are fighters who, once promised amnesty, surrendered after the battle of Komsomolskoje in Chechnya. None of them is believed to be alive today. Three (out of 76 prisoners) managed to escape. Out of those three, two hung themselves, and the remaining one had disappeared. From Column Two on May 29, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..

Keep it in the Shower I just rented the new Singstar kit for the PS2. It's big fun, don't get me wrong, but I'm not so sure I needed to know just how bad of a singer I am... Still, I'm intrigued by a tidbit in a recent New Zealand Herald article that says 'If ... From Relevancy on May 29, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

My Current Favorite Relevancy Apps Well-designed applications make me so happy. I'm totally in love with my two news readers, Bloglines for RSS and Findory.com for regular 'ole news. Findory is cool because it suggest news articles to me based on ones I've already read. I've been reading news on it for a ... From Relevancy on May 29, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

Distance education unfairly attacked Distance education unfairly attacked Richard Schwier Special to The StarPhoenix Thursday, May 27, 2004 Following is the personal viewpoint of the writer, who teaches in the college of education at the U of S. Barry Cooper (Klein's essay knocked unfairly,... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 29, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

HOW TO: Obtain Free Copies and Do Other Fun Stuff to Copiers This article will give insight into the inner workings of Canon copiers, and show you how to exploit a curious oversight that allows for free copies. The material in this article is restricted to Canon copiers only, as I have had the most experience in them; however, this is not as narrow as you might imagine. Generally, Canon copiers are seen second in quality only to Xerox in the market; thus, many big-time copy shops and corporations use Canon copiers. This article will not analyze the philosophical questions of doing anything it demonstrates. Obviously, everything outlined is of dubious m From kuro5hin.org on May 29, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Un mes, y subiendo Puede parecer un poco ombliguista (que lo es), pero no me he podido resistir a evaluar la trayectoria de martinalia.com en este poco más de un mes que lleva de andadura. Mentiría si digo que tenía muy claro un objetivo cuando comencé a publicar artículos en la interred. Desde hace tiempo sentía la nacesidad de compartir una serie de reflexiones, en parte profesionales, en parte no, pero no acababa de dar con la forma adecuada. De hecho, martinalia.com es un dominio que tengo (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 29, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

1453: los turcos conquistan Constantinopla Una visión excesivamente "latinocentrista" de la historia nos lleva a afirmar, con cierta ligereza, que el Imperio Romanano desapareció en el siglo V. Suele fecharse en 476, cuando Rómulo Augústulo fue destronado. Pero lo que así ignoramos es que Rómulo Augústulo encabezaba el Imperio Romano DE OCCIDENTE. Es decir, el Imperio Romano de Oriente, Bizancio, continuó su marcha histórica mucho más allá, hasta el 29 de mayo de 1453. ¡Son casi mil años de supervivencia lo que (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 29, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

Belarus stakeholders, MPs discuss future of ICT market This week stakeholders from the ICT market in Belarus met with MPs for a round-table discussion on the sector's liberalisation and regulation. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 29, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

Some 10,000 Belarusian websites now exist As the country steadily enters cyberspace, some 42 per cent of websites use the national top level domain name ".by" and 30 per cent use the Russian national top level domain name, ".ru". From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 29, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

Days after launch, critics already complaining about Spanish 3G Yesterday, during the mid-afternoon newscast on the national television channel, Telecinco, a reporter was unable to see the newscast presenter via his video-phone even though he was just one metre away from an antenna. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 29, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

California restricts Gmail In the first major legislative challenge to Google's super-webmail service, California lawmakers have banned companies from compiling databases based on information gleaned from scanned e-mails. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Semantic Web Advanced Development Postcard "Using FOAF data, identify someone you know. Create a small message.rdf file to fit in the space provided. Connect this to your friend. Find your friend's location using their geo:lat and geo:long coordinates. Generate a postal address using your favourite online geographical resource. Affix postage stamp. Send via snail-mail." Ha! (found at Marc's Voice--> From unmediated on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Wacipi Pow Wow KTCA documentary website with background history about pow-wows and information and links about local Minnesota pow-wows. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

TC Swing From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Tap Dance From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Salsa Power From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Royal Scottish Country Dance From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

New Folk Collective The New Folk Collective is a non-profit Twin Cities organization that produces concerts by folk or acoustic singer-songwriters. Website includes a great list of links and calendar for the local acoustic and folk scene From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Morris Dancing in Minnesota From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Minnesota Tango Association From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Guild of Oriental Dance From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Gopher State Clogging From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Ceili Dancing in the Twin Cities From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Ballet Minnesota From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Just add some butter "You can't just live on potatoes and lobsters forever," Richard Kurial, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of PEI. "You can't live in isolation. One of the things to bring to the table is a smart, educated population." And that's what the university in the tiniest province in Canada is going to do. UPEI's Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition will create a digital library of Maritime cultural artifacts from PEI and New Brunswick. It will be powered by a custom-built IBM eServer Bladecenter - and $1.3 million in From silentblue | Quantified on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Dave Winer Launches Webfeed Newbie Community Yesterday, Dave Winer (one of the inventors and early developers of the RSS webfeed format) announced a new online community for "non-tech" users of RSS-formatted feeds: ReallySimpleSyndication.com. I just joined that community, but there's not much content there yet so I can't really say what it's like. However, I think it sounds like a really good idea, and I applaud this effort. From Contentious Weblog on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Robert Scoble Ponders the Larger Webfeed Picture On May 20, the popular Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble posted a thoughtful and opinionated item, The real RSS debates. In this article, Scoble pulls himself out of the highly technical disputes that have been obsessing developers of RSS and Atom webfeeds to consider issues that matter to the people who use webfeeds. I won't recap his whole posting here, because I've said what I needed to say about his points in the comments to Scoble's article. But I do recommend reading both Scoble's From Contentious Weblog on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Webfeed to Your Calendar: Way Cool! As I've mentioned before, the potential uses of webfeeds (such as RSS feeds) extend far, far beyond merely announcing fresh content from weblogs and Web sites. Webfeeds can be used to announce any kind of content – including events. Well, of course some clever developers have given this matter some consideration. The result of that so far is that Rahul Singh has built a tool that pulls information from an event-oriented webfeed directly into a Microsoft Outlook calendar. It's called RSS From Contentious Weblog on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

School Finder.com news and advice This site contains some interesting news and advice. Education, News and Advice - SchoolFinder... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 29, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Spam in China China's 10th year on the Internet has triggered as many articles about spam as about censorship. China might be best in spamming, most of it about mortgages, insurance, and blue pills. I receive about 300 pieces of spam or virus-infected e-mails per day, because my Chinese ISP failed to install anti-spam software. The company I work for did and that e-mail address is almost clean. So much for China being able or willing to stop unwanted traffic on the Internet. That does not mean noth From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 29, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Curing Bystander Apathy: 5 Easy Steps By reading this, you'll be more likely to help someone in trouble. From Monkeymagic on May 29, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

On demand publishing - vanity or opportunity? Auricle's focus is information, issues and perspectives related to the technologies associated with learning, but we still consider paper to be such a technology. Publishing your own book has been, traditionally, a non-trivial exercise, involving a long, complex, and potentially expensive, chain of interests and processes. But this doesn't have to be the case any more, apparently. So if you're a nascent Hemingway, Robert Burns, or Einstein, and feel that the world would be a better place... From Auricle on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Distance Education Resources I have developed a few distance education resources for staff at the Institute for Community Inclusion and thought that some of you might find them useful. Enjoy and please let me know if you have any feedback. The resources include an overview of distance education, understanding listservs as well as some examples of streamed, captioned videos. In addition, I am currently evaluating three course management systems- Moodle, ATutor and Prometheus (now owned by Blackboard). I have setup a sample course in each of the three systems, if anyone is interested in looking at the courses, let me know . From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Accessible Synchronous Communication Does it exist? I suppose that depends on who you ask- many vendors are quick to tout the accessibility of their synchronous communication tools, but in reality it seems that most have a ways to go. In the past couple of weeks I have looked at the following tools: HorizonLive claims it is accessible to persons with disabilities and even has an accessibility page with an archived accessible presentation that you can try out and some accessibility tips for screen reader use. It looks like there are quite a few frames in the presentation window, but there are shortcut keys set for most of them, al From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Accessible Online Math Resources I profess in no way to be an expert on the topic, but recently provided these resources to someone and thought I would pass them on: As far as I can tell, one of the most exciting initiatives in this area is the NIDE MathML project available at the MathML Accessibility Project Page or the W3C Math Homepage The Program Access Project is geared toward engineering and science, but the Principal Investigator is a Math professor, so it may take a mathematical slant. Norm Coombs, noted accessibility expert has also done some work in this area as well. He is involved with a Reaching New Audiences wit From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Hello, live from SXSW Hello true believers. It's Jeff, the guy who never posts to this blog. I figured that since my employer was so kind as to send me to the South by South West Interactive conference, I would produce a little content. This year's line-up seems to have a lot to do with accessibility, which is great, because it means that the big creative forces driving the industry are starting to think about accessibility first. There is a handful of panels involving accessibility, and big names like Veen, Zeldman and Bowman are all speaking on the subject. Since they have wireless access all over this From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Accessible hi-fi designs Having just sat through an amazing panel here at SXSW on hi-fi css designs, I struck me that the for-profit world is now ahead of the non-profit/educational world in accessible design. Sites like Wired, Fortune, and Espn are way more accessible and standards-based than 99 percent of the government/non-profit/education world. I think they main cause of this is simply money. Good designers demand the kind of money only the business world can afford; businesses can afford to do complete redesigns; businesses react to its market faster than government services because it means more money for them. From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Accessible Synchronous Communication: Reloaded One of the more interesting occurrences at SxSW04 was the use of RendezVous enabled iChatting during panel discussions. For those of you poor souls on PCs, RendezVous iChat (~AIM) lets you open up your app and see all the other people on your network (wireless or otherwise) that are using RendezVous. So when I fired up iChat while sitting in the crowd, I could see about 25 or so people in the room with me, or in nearby rooms, and chat with them. It got really interesting when Jeff Veen, a panelist, opened up his iChat, which was displayed on the big screen. What happened is the people, rather From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Accessible to Everyone vs. Accessible to Every Computer I have recently been evaluating a couple of different pieces of online meeting/collaboration software. At this point we are looking at 2 different options- iVocalize because of its low cost and simple (accessible) interface and HorizonLive which has more features and is cross-platform. iVocalize is currently PC-only. There are other factors involved, but those seems to be the major issues. (If anyone is aware of any other cross-platform or fully accessible solutions, please let me know!) While I think either would work for our needs- it presents an interesting dilemna, do we exclude Mac and Li From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Kolabora Live! Web Conferencing Demonstrations This Kolabora Live! Buyer's Review is going to be a monthly event where software will be demonstrated followed by a question and answer period. The first event will be on Thursday April 22nd at 12pm EST. The event will be recorded and made available for a fee. Kolabora also has an event coming up titled The Competitive Edge, I've already signed up for both. Also a reminder of the PBS Event, Untangling the Web: Making Online Teaching and Learning Accessible happening on the 22nd as well.... From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

PDF vs. HTML Last week I had an opportunity to visit with some faculty and staff at a Community College around the topic of accessible distance education. The school had recently chosen Blackboard as their Learning Management System and is working to adopt an attitude of Universal Design before their instructors learn any other way of doing things- kudos to them. We talked about understanding the perspective of learners with disabilities, went over semantic markup, alt tags and accessible video . Up to this point everyone seemed to be on the same page. However, there were some differences of opinion when w From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Accessible Search Engine Without a doubt, my favorite online learning tool is Google where I can generally find answers to whatever real world problem I happen to be facing at any given time. I'm not sure how accessible Google and other major search engines are (or aren't) but I just came across YouSearched which bills itself as The Accessible Search. I would doubt that the quality of search results is as high as the big players, but some of the features may be nice for certain situations.... From Curb Cut Learning on May 29, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Wireless Glossay Published by ComputerWorld Magazine, this glossary is a helpful tool to anyone lost in the wirless world. From eLearnopedia on May 29, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

EVALUATING ONLINE DISCUSSIONS: FOUR DIFFERENT FRAMES OF ANALYSIS There has been an increased use of online discussions within courses that are exclusively online or use online technologies to enhance on-campus courses. While no data on the phenomenon exists, it is clear that chatrooms and threaded discussions have entered many higher education courses to provide synchronous or asynchronous (respectively) opportunities for students to interact with faculty and other students on course topics or issues. From eLearnopedia on May 29, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Academic Use of Digital Resources: Disciplinary Differences and the Issue of Progression This paper examines the use of digital resources by academics in UK Higher education. Two key issues are identified, different discipline and subject areas show significant divergence in the types and uses of digital resources and progression seems to affect the use of resources within the different disciplines. The research supports the view that disciplinary and subject differences reported in other contexts have a significant influence in relation to the use of digital resources. From eLearnopedia on May 29, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Frauen- und Lesbenarchive Zwei umfangreiche Adress-Verzeichnisse von Frauen- und Lesbenarchiven finden sich unter www.lesben.org/archive.htm und auf den Seiten von i.d.a. dem Dachverband der Frauen- und Lesbenarchive (mit Adressen und Kurzbeschreibungen der Mitgliedsarchive). Beide Listen leiten zu den Internetseiten der jeweiligen Projekte weiter. Hinweis: Nicht alle Frauen- und Lesbenarchive sind Mitglied bei i.d.a. From Archivalia on May 29, 2004 at 12:51 a.m..

PIDT 2004 Report I've just returned from ">PIDT 2004 (Professors of Instructional Design and Technology). This annual meeting is held alternatively in Colorado and Virginia. This year was Virginia (Smith Mountain Lake) which is about a five hour drive from Greenville. This was... From Martindale Matrix on May 29, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..

Nancy White gets started blogging (Seb Paquet) Long-time online community expert Nancy White has finally started her own weblog (did she hear my plea ?). The online community toolkit that she’s been building for years is chock-full of great material, which I suppose she’ll do us the... From Corante: Social Software on May 29, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..

Taking Viral Marketing Mainstream "The increased distrust of corporate messages and the new recipe for 'doing' viral marketing, are taking viral marketing mainstream -- it's no longer just a technique for those that can't afford advertising, but a technique to replace advertising. Use stealth... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 29, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..

Spam Domain Checker for Outlook A growing percentage of the 2,000+ spams I'm receiving every day come to false names at my domain, evident.com. Here's a VBA script for Outlook that searches the selected entries in a folder and moves bogus ones sent to that domain into a folder of your choice. To use it, create a folder to receive the putative spam; I'm calling it YOUR_SPAM_FOLDER in the script, but you should change it to whatver yours is called. Also, replace "domain.com" with the domain of your mail, and be sure to specify the addresses to domain.com that you want to accept. (And watch... From Joho the Blog on May 29, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..

Ping Q&A Halley interviews Andre Durand of Ping ID over at Wortwhile.... From Joho the Blog on May 29, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..

Napster: Boo! Rio: Yay! At 3pm, I bought my daughter a Samsung-Napster MP3 player. Deciding among the indiscernibles, the Napster's ability to broadcast to an FM channel for wireless car connectivity sold me. At 7:30pm, I returned the Napster and got a Rio Karma. I had a bad feeling about the Napster from the moment I started installing the software. It kept adding layers and layers of cruft, forcing me to upgrade my Windows Media Player, bundling in a CD burner, forcing me to register at Napster.com...window after window of incomprehensible files and DLLs until I wanted to scream that it ought to take... From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on May 29, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..

Contextual inquiry and the fine art of fly tying Lee LeFever writes about learning contextual inquiry, by observing how to prepare flies for fly fishing. To quote: As part of a project I’m working on, my team is learning contextual inquiry, which is a way to conceive and build... From Column Two on May 29, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

Mac Office Suite: Upgrade or Wait? I'm trying to decide whether to move to the latest version of Microsoft's Mac OS version of Office. Some of... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 29, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

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