Archivists Spurn Digital Dark Age Archivists from Australia and New Zealand have joined forces to head off a digital Dark Age and to make sure that governments preserve their digital records. Every one of the national, state and territory public records institutions in Australia and New Zealand have joined together to form the Digital Recordkeeping Initiative. "As governments move rapidly from paper to digital records we face a real risk that digital records could be lost," Mr Gibbs said. From EdNA Online on May 30, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Google Zeitgeist How cool is this! Google Zeitgeist - Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google. I wonder if this is automated... if it is I wonder if we could get institutional zeitgeist results from, for example, here? How good would that be! From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on May 30, 2004 at 8:51 p.m..

News for Today, May 31 News in the shared spaces world: Avanquest introduced Netviewer -- web collaboration software that offers desktop sharing, remote support, and web conferencing -- to the UK market. Netviewer is licensed to organizations, thus eliminating ongoing usage fees. e-consultancy... From Kolabora.com on May 30, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

Ethnographic Disruptions (Ross Mayfield) An interesting interview with Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell challenges assumptions of technology in disparate cultures. “My hypothesis was that there was no variation, that there was a global middle class engaged in the same kinds of relationships with technology. It... From Corante: Social Software on May 30, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..

NY Times' WMD Credibility Gap The NY Times' ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, has written an appropriately scathing assessment of the newspaper's reporting and editing failures leading up to the Iraq war. Last week, the Times posted this welcome but incomplete "From the Editors" self-critiqu From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 30, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..

E-Learning strategies for success "Efficien ... E-Learning strategies for success "Efficient use of human capital is a priority for organizations large and small. It means knowing that key personnel have the required knowledge and skills to make decisions and succeed in their jobs. Knowledge management becomes a challenge to organizational leaders as personnel take on a greater and more varied burden of responsibilities than ever before. How they manage these responsibilities will translate to t From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on May 30, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

Wiki checklist Athabasca University's IRRODL journal on online learning has an overview of wikis for education, with a very handy list of traits you might want to look for when selecting wiki software. Other resources at the site include the full text of the book Theory and Practice of Online Learning. From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 30, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Drop-Them-Now: Ineffective, Overhyped And Plain Cheap Internet Marketing Techniques For novice emarketers only. Nonetheless it should appear evident to anyone with a grain of salt in her head, there a tons of Web sites, articles and books that still promote old fashioned and outdated online marketing tactics. Many of... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 30, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

America's Best Spirit Marc Danziger, a.k.a. the ``Armed Liberal'' Web logger, supported the war in Iraq. Britt Blaser, a Howard Dean campaign adviser, did not. Yet they agree on at least one thing about that Middle Eastern nation's struggle: However right or wrong America's official policy may be, Americans should do what we can to help Iraqis. More... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 30, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..

The Human Cost of Outsourcing

We saved American life Sometimes I accidentally surf to very strange pages that stick with me for a while. For instance here: The 2004 Veteran Manhatten Project & Symbosium which is an event organized by the "Children of the Manhatten Project". Reading the agenda felt like going through a ghost party program: a bunch of old men (or children of old men) celebrating their pride and their heroic involvment with the development of the atomic bomb. The I not From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on May 30, 2004 at 10:46 a.m..

Week ahead: Conferences aplenty From CNET News.com on May 30, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

CLIR Issues Number 39 - May/June 2004 - is now available from The Council on Library and Information ... CLIR Issues Number 39 - May/June 2004 - is now available from The Council on Library and Information Resources From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 30, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 1, 2004 are Strategy & Leadership and Journal of Organizatio ... Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 1, 2004 are Strategy & Leadership and Journal of Organizational Change Management From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 30, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

ProQuest Information and Learning and NYTimes.com have announced an agreement to offer directly to t ... ProQuest Information and Learning and NYTimes.com have announced an agreement to offer directly to the consumer market an historical digital archive of The New York Times newspaper dating back to 1851, when The Times was first published. The Archive will be available on NYTimes.com, the Web site of The New York Times, on a pay-per-view basis From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 30, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

Student Blogging in Malaysia Every now and then my Google News search RSS feed for "school weblog" pops something semi-interesting into my aggregator, and today this is what showed up. It's less about students blogging for educational purposes as it is about bloggers who happen to be students, but there was one part I thought was kind of relevant: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi recently reminded Malaysians of the importance of mastering a good command of English for better competitivenes From weblogged News on May 30, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

You Want Blogging Libraries??? Here's the most comprehensive list of libraries using Weblogs that I've found yet, and the best part is that each section comes with its own RSS feed. Glad to see that Pat's library and mine made the list. From weblogged News on May 30, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

Writing Grants for Alternative Funding - Barbara Bray, techLearning You can help your teachers write grant proposals for an effective professional development program. PD grants usually require the following components: Compile data about the teachers' skills, use of technology, and current teaching practice. Read th From Educational Technology on May 30, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Congress to probe Atlanta schools' network costs - eSchool News In what appears to be shaping up as another black eye for the eRate, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating instances of program waste, fraud, and abuse says he will ask the Atlanta school system to turn over document From Educational Technology on May 30, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Less is More: Designing an Online Course - R. Thomas Berner, DEOS News A couple of years ago the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a long article about distance education. The article focused on an instructor in meteorology who seemed chained to his computer because of his promise to answer all posts within 24 hours. The From Online Learning Update on May 30, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

New UK centre for text mining may improve information management - Public Technology Imagine a future in which databases are populated with accurate, valid, exhaustive, rapidly updated data where users find what they want all the time; where drug discovery costs and development time are slashed and animal experimentation is reduced thr From Online Learning Update on May 30, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Wireless Glossary From ComputerWorld Added: 30 ... Wireless Glossary From ComputerWorld Added: 30 May 2004 Reveiwer's Note: Exaplanation of the main wireless terms LIBRARY: e-Learning glossaries From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on May 30, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

What Is RSS? Dave Winer Explains "The revolution of RSS is what people are doing with it, what it enables, the way it works for people who use technology, the freedom it offers, and the way it makes timely information, that used to be expensive and... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 30, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Merriam-Doolittle The most comprehensive interspecies dictionary available...... From Joho the Blog on May 30, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Creative Commons Works (Via JD Lasica) Since I'm immersed in the latest Lessig book "Free Culture," (which is free for download, by the way,) I thought this piece in the Boston Globe was especially interesting. It's a total shift to believe that giving your stuff away can actually increase sales of the traditional forms, but it certainly is the case with me. I bought Lessig's book. A From weblogged News on May 30, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

IT consortium to provide low-cost PCs for projected e-society - Lebanon A consortium of seven computer companies, all members of the Personal Computer Association (PCA), will raise $1 million to invest in establishing assembly lines to mass-produce inexpensive personal computers with the aim to contribute to the projected From Techno-News Blog on May 30, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Microsoft's mega patch blasted - Nick Farrell, the Inquirer The Redmond Giant that leaps between continents has been slagged off for its April mega patch to the holey quilt that is Windows XP. Vole issued a single patch for 14 holes in April, but Russ Cooper, editor of the NTBugTraq mailing list and a senior se From Techno-News Blog on May 30, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Yahoo Tries To Keep Spies Out - Mike Musgrove, Washington Post Yahoo rolled out a test version of a browser add-on that can help Web users shield their surfing habits from spyware. Called Anti-Spy, the new software, released Thursday as part of a revised version of Yahoo's free, downloadable browser toolbar, is su From Techno-News Blog on May 30, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist Methodology - Lincoln Dahlberg, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication Abstract: Internet research has become a "field" in its own right in the social sciences, already boasting a number of peer-reviewed journals, a plethora of book titles, and an international association that draws hundreds of researchers from across th From Online Learning Update on May 30, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

What is Not's Music Hosting Project for legal downloads Great idea! I wish I had the bandwidth and money to do this. Hmmm. Working on it! From What is Not &ampraquo; Music Hosting Project: QUOTEMy idea is to host local music in ways that aren’t possible right now. Artists often rely on free web sites which do not allow the hosting of large media files, and disallow remote linking from other sites. I would also like to promote the use of BitTorrent for album-size collections of lossless music formats, as opposed to the From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 30, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..

RSS more important than blogs? RSS 2.0 already does comments in feeds. I think that syndication (RSS , Atom, etc.) will be bigger than blogs but without blogs RSS wouldn't be where it is today. From A VC: It's The Feed Stupid: QUOTESo, this means that the smart money is going to go into the feed space. Because that’s where the action is. Forget AdSense. I need contextual ads built right into my feed. Forget Typepad links, I need the links built right into my feed. Same with comments. And From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 30, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

Empowering a team with weblogs allows the collective IQ to stay current Wow! Words to live by! From Blogging Paths in the Grass :. WillPate.org: QUOTEIn an organization blogs can operate much the same way. They become open spaces where people can create their own path. Discussions emerge and the lines wear deeper into the solid ground, creating meaningful relationships built on common interests. We're bombarded with marketing ballyhoo about how technology is redefining not just how we work, but actually speedin From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on May 30, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..

BBS in China () I know c.c. function of email can be counted as "social software." What about BBS? It certainly can function as many-to-many. Anyway, the reason I say this here is because BBS is the most politically active place in Chinese cyberspace.... From Corante: Social Software on May 30, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

Number 36 - May 31st From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on May 30, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

How To Put Out Of Business Your Local Telephone Company The cat is out of the bag. More great news on how VoIP, wireless, and open source software like Linux can create an effective cost-effective replacement to traditional telco services. Disruptive technology at its best. "A disruptive technology is any... From Robin Good's Latest News on May 30, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..

New Low Price Microtek Scanner Offers Photo Reconstruction The Microtek ScanMaker i320 scanner incorporates both Kodak's DIGITAL ICE technology Microtek's ColoRescue photo reconstruction systems states Craig Crossman host of The Computer America Radio Show and syndicated newspaper columnist. [PRWEB May 30, 2004] From PR Web on May 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Confederation Centre Launches Virtual Exhibition - Telling Stories -Narratives of Nationhood The bilingual Telling website, located at www.nationhood.ca, consists of 4,000 digitized works of art from Canadian gallery collections and 400 complementary lesson plans. Designed for Canadian teachers, students from kindergarten to Grade 12, and the general public, the site uses symbols and icons in Canadian artworks to teach viewers about Canadian history and heritage, identity, culture, geography, and politics. Works from Robert Harris are just one of the many famous art items available for viewing. [PRWEB May 30, 2004] From PR Web on May 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

LearningTimes Interview Down Under: Alan on the Barbie? From some previous visits with excellent learning leaders in Australia and continued contacts with colleagues there, I was asked to be audio interviewed online June 2 (here) via the LearningTimes site "Live Session: RSS, Blogging and What it Means for Teaching and Learning" (It is free, but you need to join LearningTimes): Participate in this international live interview on "RSS, Blogging and What it Means for Teaching and Learning" with A From cogdogblog on May 30, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Homeland Security Information Network & G8 Summit The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced that the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) will be used by homeland security officials, state and local leadership, and first responders during the G-8 Summit events at Sea Island, Georgia, June 8-10.  "We believe that the ... From Kolabora.com on May 29, 2004 at 11:52 p.m..

The confidence game Brian R. Krause has written an article on developing client confidence in a design. To quote: How does a user interface designer know that a given design will work? How does anybody develop enough confidence in a design to move... From Column Two on May 29, 2004 at 11:47 p.m..

'04 Graduates Learned Lesson in Practicality Thorough preparation for careers after college is shaping up as a defining characteristic of the class of 2004. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Rumsfeld Tells West Point Class U.S. Needs Help to Prevail in Iraq For the United States to prevail in Iraq and the wider campaign against terrorism, it must convince other nations to join in the struggle, the secretary of defense said. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

The Voters Say Enough, Already Anger against rising taxes expressed itself at polling stations across Long Island this month when Nassau and Suffolk voters rejected 46 of 122 proposed school budgets. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

The Drill Sergeant of Dance What brings the stars to Wilhelm Burmann, the most revered New York ballet teacher of his era? Why, brutal, crushing criticism. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Confusion Is Rampant With Change in the SAT's The revised College Board exam, which will incorporate a writing test and more advanced math, will make its debut next spring. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Classical Finally Cracks the Internet Internet2, the next generation, with enough broadband capacity to transmit huge quantities of data, makes it possible for musicians to join forces from great distances. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Tutoring for the Already Brainy Years ago, with a very few exceptions, tutoring was for students who were floundering or failing. Today it is a booming industry, turning "B+" students into "A" ones. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Leaders Ask State to Give City's Schools More Money Democratic state lawmakers, members of the city's Republican administration and union leaders demanded that Gov. George Pataki spend more money on city schools. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Ex-School Chief Denies Allowing a Reduction in Stuyvesant Class Contradicting education officials, the former superintendent of Manhattan high schools said that he had never approved the reduction of the size of the incoming class. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

For Students Who Struggle, a Pilgrimage of the Elite A group of parents from the city's most elite private schools lend a hand at the city's most disadvantaged public schools. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

In the Bronx, a Graduation With Honor Waiting to receive a degree, Kathleen Mercante did not fidget or share whispers with the other graduates. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Black, White and Brown Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates Jr. reflect on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

Long After Brown v. Board of Education, Sides Switch Fifty years after the Supreme Court banned school segregation, the battle over the racial composition of America's schools continues in courtrooms across the country. From New York Times: Education on May 29, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

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