e-Teach Added: 9 June 2004 Reviewer's Note ... e-Teach Added: 9 June 2004 Reviewer's Note: an authoring tool that makes use of streaming video and web-based materials; no-fee license for non-profit educational establishments PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Presentation and streaming media tools From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

Proceedings of the Networked Learning Conference 2 ... Proceedings of the Networked Learning Conference 2004 "Networked Learning 2004 Conference Proceedings - a research based conference on networked learning in higher education and lifelong learning. Jointly organised by University of Sheffield and Lancaster University, 5-7 April 2004. Over 100 recent research papers on the theory and practice of networked learning available online." Added: 9 June 2004 Reviewer's Note: The Proc From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

A new Nantucket perennial garden One of the things I did while on Nantucket was plant a new perennial garden along the edge of the lawn. My Nantucket Perennial Garden gets lots of sun, so I picked plants that would thrive with sun. I also selected plants that were relatively tough, since the soil is sandy and during the summer it can get pretty dry. It took about three days of work to get the garden completed, and my mom helped me get all the plants into the ground. It was lots of fun, and if I had more money to buy plants, I'd keep extend the garden along the rest of that edge of the lawn. For now, what's there w From megnut on June 9, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Germany approves Symbian deal From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Briefly: Germany approves Symbian deal From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

EarthLink launches high-speed broadband service From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Domain-name registration surges From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Security specialist to add Web-filtering tools From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

TiVo steps into online content From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Briefly: Start-up hooks into HP's OpenView From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

SAP siphons Pepsi away from Oracle From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

IT morale drops to all-time low, study says From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Low-end Power Macs get dual processors From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Ask Jeeves taps into desktop search From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

BSkyB announces free-to-air and HDTV initiatives Later this year, BSkyB will introduce a FTA satellite proposition offering access to around 200 television and radio channels and interactive services that are available without a monthly subscription fee. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Microsoft-SAP merger talks revealed Late last year Microsoft and SAP held talks over a possible merger, but came to nothing, Microsoft revealed in a statement this week. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

It's so easy to miss the Wiki "sweet spot" I've been silently following the progress of the NMC 2004 Wiki/blog/presentation/project (What it actually is, defies description). As a long-time Wiki fan, blogger, and educator I have been intrigued to see how it has been getting on. Alan at "cogdogblog" seems to think it's not going too well In response to his call to action I&apos From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 9, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..

Individuals & Surnames On Phil Jones, individuality, and a sidetrack into surname history. From Monkeymagic on June 9, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Jury duty Off to jury duty this morning. I recognize it as a civic duty, but that doesn't mean I want to do it. I've got a bunch of uncivic things I'd rather do instead (like live up to my obligations to my clients, work on a book, blog, play Zuma...). I have mixed feelings, but please-don't-choose-me seems to be beating it'd-be-fascinating by about 2:1.... From Joho the Blog on June 9, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Sun's gimmicky good idea From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Google mulls RSS support From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

The skinny on Cisco's product strategy From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Web Design References: Tools I'm not sure how I landed on this page, but I am glad that I did. There are so many fascinating on-line web design tools listed at Web Design References: Tools from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, that it's going to take me a good long while to go through all of them. This is a great one-stop bookmark to keep around. Here are two of my favorites so far: ----- From Brain Frieze on June 9, 2004 at 7:56 a.m..

The TrunkMonkey I laughed until I cried watching the four episodes of The TrunkMonkey. (via Jesse Warden, yo.) From Brain Frieze on June 9, 2004 at 7:56 a.m..

Plagiarism: an experiential approach One of the risks of publishing in web vectors like Auricle is that sometimes many hours of analysis, reflection, and eventually writing can be hijacked by someone, somewhere, who, with a few judicious tweaks, magically transforms the original article and puts it forward as all their own work. It happened to Auricle just the other day and so, because we are about disseminating information, addressing issues and putting forward perspectives, the experience is the subject of today's article. From Auricle on June 9, 2004 at 7:55 a.m..

Teaching from Experience Want to teach but don't think you're qualified? You may be able to transform your expertise into profitable teaching experience. Barbara J. Winter, author of Making a Living Without a Job, explains how.... From Adult/Continuing Education on June 9, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..

Weblogs - Prolonged Engagement I find Sebastian's recent post on webogs and self-directed learning to be timely, as I am currently exploring the related concepts of autonomy and 'deep learning' with the view that personal webpublishing practices are well suited for encouraging meaningful learning strategies, especially for those studying in institutionalized setting From Seblogging News on June 9, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..

Cool Interactive D-Day: The Hard-Won Beaches of Normandy from Newseum showcases "front pages, memories and a radio report provide a brief look back, and a tribute, to those who fought and reported on D-Day." From elearningpost on June 9, 2004 at 7:48 a.m..

Four-fifths of networks bleeding Wi-Fi data - Robert Jaques, vnunet.com The vast majority of global business networks are routinely suffering from large-scale data loss and manipulation as the advent of wireless technology makes them vulnerable to malicious attack by hackers, new research has claimed. According to a report From Techno-News Blog on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Wi-Fi: If Not Free, Then How? - Joanna Glasner, Wired From fancy hotels to fast-food joints, the number of venues offering high-speed wireless Internet access is expected to grow at a heady clip this year. But industry analysts aren't expecting laptop users and their credit cards to follow. In the wake o From Techno-News Blog on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

New Life for the PC - Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek The personal computer may have revolutionized the way people communicate, calculate, gather information, and run a business. But their shape and style has remained mind-numbingly stagnant for nearly three decades. Save a few flashy designs from Apple (AAP From Techno-News Blog on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Technology Integration and the Beacon School Portal - Chris Lehmann, techLearning When the pundits first started looking at how the computer revolution could affect our schools, the first wave of theory looked at how computer and Internet technology could revolutionize the classroom. While that was an important piece of the puzzle, From Educational Technology on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Many wireless networks open to denial-of-service attacks - Corey Murray, eSchool News School technology leaders are taking seriously the news of a flaw in many wireless infrastructures that could enable hackers to jam "open-air" transmissions using the simplest of handheld devices. The vulnerability, first reported by the technology ne From Educational Technology on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Army Space and Missile Defense Command, American Military University Begin Cooperative Master's Degree Program Army Officers trained to be Space Operations Officers -- called FA-40s in Army circles -- now have an online learning partner for completing a master of science degree in space studies. A cooperative agreement between the U.S. Army Space and Missile De From Online Learning Update on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Inculcate good values along with e-learning - the Malaysia Star E-learning in schools should not be implemented at the expense of inculcating moral values in students, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Shafie Mohd Salleh. He said the application of e-learning in replacing the traditional method of oechalk and From Online Learning Update on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Ten Tips and Tricks for the Online Student - Mark Evans, techLearning In the summer of 2000 I began an online Masters program at the University of Phoenix. I wasn't expecting too many bumps in the online road.... During the first course, I had printed every article, Email, group project, student-to-facilitator communicat From Online Learning Update on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

When Companies Team Up, Small Businesses Win - Electrisoft Offers a $200 Discount on the Small Biz Starter Kit to Attendees of Workshops by Jim Donovan, Author and Business Coach Electrisoft, graphic/web design company and Jim Donovan, International Author & Business Coach, team up to provide small business education and marketing materials at a discount. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004] From PR Web on June 9, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Galerie existentielle Les portfolios ont gagné la faveur des enseignants en quête de moyens d'individuation. L'ennui, cependant, avec les portfolios papier -- qu'ils soient de type apprentissage, présentation, évaluation ou autre -- c'est que l'élève n'y voit qu'un outil scolaire éphémère, une autre obligation... From Osmoze on June 9, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

Structures in weblogs via BamBlog: I'm looking at weblogs from a perspective that is "structure-oriented" - how does blogging result in structures? I think it helps to distinguish two kinds or aspects of structures: From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on June 9, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

Shared Thinking Space via After Gutenberg: What is the buzz? From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on June 9, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

BlogWalk 2.0: Reflections via Stephan Mosel: It has now been ten days or so since I attended the BlogWalk 2.0 collaborative workshop about weblogs and self-organized, informal learning in Nuremberg, and I still haven't jotted down my notes. Actually, I didn't even really take notes, so I'll try to sum up some of the aspects we discussed, and provide hyperlinks to other BlogWalker's blog entries on the subject. From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on June 9, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

Saturday, June 05, 2004 From RHPT.com on June 9, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

Monday, June 07, 2004 On Saturday, Emily and I trekked to Chicago for the Dido concert. From RHPT.com on June 9, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 While reading Counselor's screenplay, I noticed that the H.E.B. From RHPT.com on June 9, 2004 at 7:02 a.m..

Fleer this A funny Dilbert cartoon from today. (368.1) From Open Artifact on June 9, 2004 at 7:01 a.m..

Distributed authoring and versioning WebDAV is: (369.1) Briefly: WebDAV stands for “Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. --> From Open Artifact on June 9, 2004 at 7:01 a.m..

Why we aren't really FenceSitters A couple more respondents to the NMC 2004 event have indicated their sympathies with the FenceSitting approach, making some critical points along the way... From Portal - The Fencesitter Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..

A response to the legion of naysayers... There has been some crack-back from the NMC 2004 remote participants over who exactly gets to post to the Small Pieces position weblogs. From Portal - The Fencesitter Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..

Frightening, but Surprisingly Relevant When I first read headlines that McDonalds was offering digital music downloads, I thought it was the stupidest, most desperate thing I'd heard lately. But then I read this article and realized that it's really quite smart. Get kids thinking that music is a value-added thing, not free, ... From Relevancy on June 9, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..

Yeah, Why Do They Limit Network Effects? This is a great rant from Rafe Needleman about organization-centric approaches to network communications and social software that limit desirable network effects (the idea that the bigger the network, the better it is)and make the applications irrelevant to many. As Rafe says, "the lack of interconnection is not purely ... From Relevancy on June 9, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..

Application Level DoS Attacks Provides a foundation as to what is application denial of service, the types of attack, their root causes and advantages over traditional DoS attacks. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on June 9, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..

The need for Security Testing Will help C-level executives understand what Security Testing is and how the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) can help them raise the level of security within their organization. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on June 9, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..

Wi-Fi, UMTS, and GPRS on one Option card Swisscom will soon begin offering its subscribers transparent roaming across Wi-Fi, UMTS, and GPRS data networks, no configuration or wires attached. No wireless data system currently has 100% coverage. That's why Swisscom Mobile has announced a new service it terms Mobile Unlimited. The subscription includes a new PC Card for laptops made by Option that supports Wi-Fi, UMTS, and GPRS all on one radio. The Option card comes with all necessary driver software, presumably only for Windows laptops, and include From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Study: Cable news viewers more partisan More Republicans are gravitating to Fox News and Democrats to CNN, suggests a new study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. "To a certain extent, the media has reaped what it has sown," said Andrew Kohut, the Pew center's director. "The emergence of the shout show as a significant piece on all of the cable networks ... has made the news seem more partisan and Republicans increasingly look at the news one way and Democrats the other.& From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

In a 'free culture', how do artists get paid? When free is used in the phrase free culture, it is being used in the free speech sense, but some people appear to be interpreting it in the unpaid sense, equating free culture with unpaid culture. This confusion has resulted in one question being asked over and again: In a 'free culture', how do artists get paid? - Free culture strengthens the position of both artists and their work, a position that has been eroded over the last half century by corpo From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Wireless USB The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is used as the peripheral equipment interface in PCs shipped worldwide and is also found in digital cameras, music players, mobile phones, game systems and personal digital assistants (PDA).Worldwide USB port shipments have surpassed a billion, and Intel forecasts the total will hit 3.5 billion by 2006.Nikkei Electronics Asia has as it's cover story the development of wireless USB and reports that Intel Corp has declared that "in 2005 we will make USB wireless." Wireless USB E From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

List of Resources for Nonprofits That Want To Blog I was a panelist today at the Georgia Center for Nonprofit annual summit. My topic was how nonprofits can use nontraditional media--including blogging and online communities--to effectively get the word out to the general public. Unfortunately, the access to the Internet was down. Still it went okay. We had a full room of more than 100. Instead of a hand-out I thought I would blog my resources, and then the audience members can later come here and click on things of interest. Plus maybe others can use it. From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

BTbot - BitTorrent Search Engine BTbot is a BitTorrent search engine.BTbot is a new efficient and fast search engine for bittorrent files. The complete index is build automatically and all links to bittorrent files are updated several times a day to minimize the number of broken links as much as possible. Currently BTbot is in an experimental state. Therefore we do not guarantee proper search result. If you notice problems or if you have comments let us know. From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

BlogOn - The Business of Social Media, Berkeley, CA - July 23, 2004 "BlogOn is the first conference to examine in-depth the business of social media. It is not just for the professional blogger, but for forward-thinking investors, smart marketing executives and media company professionals who understand it is time to understand and harness this gathering disruptive phenomenon. BlogOn is for executives who want to see a sharper Big Picture for social media and to identify their options and opportunities." Check the writeup at --> From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Cabin Fever You may remember my post a while ago about Spenser's cabin. Well, Duffy finally got around to uploading the pictures.Here we are t... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Some REALLY Fucked Up Pictures Don't look at these at work!NSFW!image 1image 2image 3image 4image 5UPDATE:These are getting downloaded a ton... you might have to... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

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It might be noon in China. It's about 1:30 here in this town they call Guernsey. I just spent my last three and a half hours in another big poker tournament... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Anyone up for a cheap date? There is a sex offender that lives here:Check it outLets invite him over to party!... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Anyone up for a challenge? Try to max out all these objects UPDATE: I (finally) got it!!! screenshot: Give it a try!... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Anyone up for a wingwoman? A new company offers 'wingwomen' who take men out and introduce them to other sluts.... totally sweet.... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Abort! sick pictures of aborted babies... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Bong! We got all trash (weird) the other day and Duffy snapped some pictures.Here's Jenny taking a bong out of Derek's junk... nice:Here's... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

No more ladies night... There is a new piece of legislation in New Jersey that says clubs can no long have a 'ladies night' and let ladies in free when ma... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Funny Quote "I fucked the Olsen twins before they were famous." -- Unknown hahaha... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Playboy Archive Every playboy 'miss' since 1953?? click here... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

Edward 40 Hands 1. Tape 2 40s to your hands. 2. Once they are both finished, remove them. 3. Piss like a racehorse. 4. Tape 2 more 40s to your ... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

YO! I just Had to ask... Are those the new girls who moved in down stairs at the Alamo? Some Interesting Flash:We're Fucked Fucker Her... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

If this isn't ridiculous... ... then nothing is (with the exception of that other thing). This couple went to a fertility clinic to find out why they weren't ... From on June 9, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..

ePortfolio 2004 Second International Conference on the ePortfolio EIfEL (European Institute for E-Learning) organiza ePortfolio 2004 Second International Conference on the ePortfolio. «La revolución del e-learning ha entrado en una nueva fase: el desarrollo de herramientas y servicios que, más allá de proporcionar soluciones de aprendizaje innovadoras y flexibles, ofrezcan los medios para valorar y capacitar plenamente al individuo, el ciudadano que aprende a lo largo de toda su vida. El e-portfolio será pronto vital en la gestión del capital huma From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 9, 2004 at 6:54 a.m..

Cool Interactive Plan Your Future Park from the Gotham Gazette is an interactive game that let's you "plan your own park, making choices that communities all over the city have been facing." From elearningpost on June 9, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..

Weapons Makers Turn to Medicine Soviet scientists once tasked with making bioweapons find a rewarding alternative in medicine, with a boost from the U.S. State Department. Kristen Philipkoski reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Vietnam Orders Net Clampdown The communist country commands local governments to closely monitor Internet use and restrict access to 'bad information' on the Web. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Chimps' Days May Be Numbered Humans' closest relative could face extinction in 50 years due to illegal hunting and eating of apes, according to a new study. Deforestation and disease are only making matters worse. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Thousands Spy Venus' Rare Transit The planet crawls across the sun's face only twice every 122 years, and lucky stargazers around the world watch in awe as the celestial phenomenon unfolds. Missed it? You'll get another chance in 2012. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

College Facebook Mugs Go Online On university campuses, students cherish their facebooks -- paper booklets that serve as student directories with mug shots. Now, a bunch of Harvard students are taking the concept nationwide with a student-focused social network. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Suicide by Pseudoscience Political purges will kill American science. Just ask Trofim Lysenko, one of Stalin's top scientific stooges. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

'CompuBots' Draw on PC History A designer's whimsical sketch grows into a gallery of vintage computers transformed into fanciful robots. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Website Analysis Isn't a Game But that doesn't mean it can't look like one. VisitorVille employs a graphical, urban metaphor to present real-time Web visits. It's SimCity for traffic nerds. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on June 9, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Canadian Election Canada is having a general federal election on June 28, 2004. This article is a brief synopsis of the election, the election issues, and the Canadian political systems, aimed mostly at non-Canadians. People from other British or British-derived countries should find much of the introductory section ("The System") boring, as most British Parliamentary systems tend to work about the same. From kuro5hin.org on June 9, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Firm Announces the Start of On-line Sales Training, Coaching, and Mentoring Severna Park, Md. -- It is now easier for individuals and small companies to compete with the largest firms in the world. Small businesses can easily improve profitability and success in a competitive marketplace with affordable sales training, coaching, and mentoring from leading experts committed to your success. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004] From PR Web on June 9, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

"El Trafico" Makes its Western European Premier at the Filmstock International Film Festival, UK El Trafico, an independent short film from Volarefilms LLC, makes its Western European premier at the 5th annual Filmstock International Film Festival in the UK. The film festival, scheduled to run from June 1st through June 15th will exhibit "El Trafico" as part of its slate of short and feature length films and documentaries. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004] From PR Web on June 9, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Applications for Emergency and Automated Notification Systems are Endless - Including Homeland Security National Notification Network (3n) sets the stage for the future of disaster communications and emergency preparedness by educating today's public of the potential uses and applications of the 3n Automated Notification System. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004] From PR Web on June 9, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Of Course, Centralized Course Management Systems (NMC 2004) Has the rapid growth and use of course management systems in the last 5 years been just a fluke, or can it be that these systems are beneficial to faculty, students, administrators? Despite the fluttering about for open-source systems, how many of them have usages on the level of the major players, Blackboard and WebCT? Sure, set up an OS copy of a CMS for a handful of courses, but can you handle say 1000 courses? Integration From Technology Centralists on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

USC and Distance Learning Technology Support Models (NMC 2004) From the USC Faculty Forum, Faculty Faces Tough Distance Learning Issues Both the costs and benefits of a full-scale distance learning (DL) program at this campus have yet to be identified. It seems clear, though, that USC is heading towards top-down control of distance education. In his white paper, "Distance Learning: Challenges and Questions" (May, 2000), Provost Lloyd Armstrong Jr. said a centralized approach would be a means of "creating brand value" and assure t From Technology Centralists on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

Small Pieces The Central Way (NMC 2004) As Centralists, we plan things out at and strategize what we do. Here is how those that wish to join our camp for "Small Technologies Loosely Joined" can "play" for the winning team. You will find details on what the purpose is for the blog, and the parts of the wiki we ask you to help build. Read on for the details! From Technology Centralists on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

Quantum cryptography network up and running The world's first computer network using quantum cryptography to secure information is now operating in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. The Quantum Key Distribution network is significantly more secure than traditional cryptography. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency( DARPA ) supported --> From NITLE Tech News on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

Poemas de Alberto Caeiro Una de las tantas lagunas literarias que tengo es sin duda Fernando Pessoa, el enorme escritor portugués, considerado por muchos como el mejor poeta occidental de todo el siglo XX y genial ensayista, además. Aunque solo sea para remediar esta ignorancia mía parcialmente estoy leyendo en la actualidad los "Poemas de Alberto Caeiro" en edición bilingüe portugués-español, traducido por Pablo del Barco y bellamente editado por Visor. Alberto Caeiro es uno de los heterónimos (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

1854: Se funda el Partido Republicano de los EEUU El 6 de junio de 1854 se crea el Partido Republicano por los activistas que se oponían a la esclavitud y las personas que creían que el gobierno debía otorgar gratuitamente tierras en la región occidental del país a los colonos. La primera reunión informal del partido tuvo lugar en Ripon, Wisconsin, un pueblito al noroeste de Milwaukee. La primera reunión oficial de los republicanos tuvo lugar el 6 de julio de 1854 en Jackson, Michigan. El nombre "Republicano" fue elegido porque aludía a la (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

El fin de la prensa escrita La semana pasada leía en el diario El País una crónica firmada por M. A. Bastenier desde Estambul (es una pena que no sirva de nada enlazarla, puesto que los contenidos de El País son de pago) en la que recogía cómo el consejero delegado de este periódico, Juan Luis Cebrián, dijo que "los periódicos son, desde muchos puntos de vista, cosa del pasado". Más que lo que dice, llama la atención quién lo dice. Porque lo cierto es que la industria tradicional de la comunicación, de la (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

Lo que importa medir en el proceso de Gestión de Contenidos Web Elegir un sistema de Gestión de Contenidos Web es un problema tremendamente complicado, pero no es desde luego el último obstáculo con el que se enfrenta una empresa antes de la puesta en marcha del proceso de Gestión de Contenidos propiamente dicho. Obviando la implementación del software que haya sido elegido, que siempre resulta azarosa y arriesgada, queda ni más ni menos que la cuestión de implantar un nuevo proceso en nuestra organización, y que con frecuencia es un (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

1580: Juan de Garay funda la ciudad de Buenos Aires con algunos oficiales y sesenta hombres voluntarios Buenos Aires fue fundada por el Adelantado español Pedro de Mendoza, en 1536, con el nombre de Puerto de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Aire. Pero el veedor Alonso Cabrera, que según algunos estaba loco, ordenó despoblar Buenos Aires y mudar a sus habitantes a Asunción. Esto ocurría en 1541. En 1580, Juan de Garay, al mando de una expedición procedente de Asunción del Paraguay, realizó la Segunda Fundación de Buenos Aires y la diseñó con 15 cuadras de ancho por 9 de fondo, un total (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

La blogosfera hispana, a examen Hace muy poco comentábamos aquí los resultados de la encuesta que realizó Henry Copeland, de blogads.com, entre 17.159 lectores de bitácoras de todo el mundo. Los resultados que presentaba eran a menudo curiosos, pero, desde luego, nada hacía suponer que pudiera extrapolarse sus resultados a la blogosfera hispana, puesto que sólo un 0,1 por ciento de los encuestados era español. Ahora es bitacoras.net quien, en colaboración con tintachina, blogpocket y blogosfera.org, ha lanzado (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 9, 2004 at 4:03 a.m..

Digital storytelling conference this week A digital storytelling conference is happening this upcoming weekend at Sedona. June 10-12 will see participants showing off their work, learning new tips, and networking.... From MANE IT Network on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Blogging and writing: British study A new study suggests that students write more and with greater functionality while blogging: "The average blog post is over 2,000 words (per page), which is really interesting when you are trying to get kids to write essays." [postdoctorial researcher... From MANE IT Network on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

New issue of CLIR CLIR's new issue of CLIR Issues includes articles on electronic journal costs, library design, and the new humanities postdoc libraries program.... From MANE IT Network on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Juniata College to host August workshop, "Implications of the NIH Roadmap for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education" Juniata College will host a workshop on its Huntingdon, PA campus on August 9 and 10. The following open invitation includes program details: Dear Colleague, With the support of the Center for Educational Technology (CET), Juniata College will host a... From MANE IT Network on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Converting PowerPoint to Flash? Robin Good at MasterNewMedia.org posted this helpful "PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Tools" resource a while back. The site goes over some of the key advantages for taking your existing PowerPoint presentations and converting them into Flash media. As well, the... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Open Source Resource for Teachers Understanding Open Source is a new resource that introduces teachers to the open source movement, provides links to key articles in the field, gives an overview of the open source philosophy and describes some of the most important open source... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

TV programme exposes security gaps in Dutch airline and government wireless networks A Dutch current affairs programme managed to break into the wi-fi networks at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Eurotel launches pre-paid internet, WAP The monthly fee charged for the Go Data Nonstop service will be €28 (CZK 850). In addition, every month customers will get 30 free voice minutes of calls to any domestic network. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Commission re-investigates Intel The European Commission has re-opened a three-year-old investigation into Intel's business practices. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Global telco players form Fixed-to-Mobile Alliance BT, NTTDoCoMo, Korea Telecom and others have come together to speak with one voice to speed the advent of combined fixed-line and mobile telephony services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

30% of handsets to have WLAN by 2009 - report Initially, devices containing WLAN for data only will outsell devices with WLAN for voice, but by 2008, this will reverse, and the number of voice mobile devices containing WLAN that supports voice will exceed those that only support data, according to new research. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

BT "Cleanfeed" filter to block access to child porn In one of the most far-reaching attempts by ISPs to restrict online child pornography, BT is instituting a mass-filtering programme that will block access to any site on a list of suspected sites containing child porn. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Apple gadget brings iTunes music to PC users' home stereos wirelessly Apple's AirPort Express portable home networking device allows users to wirelessly hook up their computer's digital music on a computer to their home stereo systems. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Easyinternet puts main UK internet café up for sale The troubled low-cost internet mega-café operation has put its main London outlet up for sale as part of a strategy of moving toward smaller outlets and selling franchises. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Microsoft appeals Commission anti-trust decision Microsoft filed its appeal with the European Court of First Instance yesterday. The case is expected to take years, according to experts. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

ITunes Europe to launch next week Following months of complicated rights negotiations in the various European jurisdictions, Apple is ready to launch its popular digital music download service in Europe. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Nucleus - RSS BitTorrent downloader Nucleus will download a specified RSS file, and look for .torrent files that match any of the specified keywords. If a match is found it will queue up that file for download." Excellent! From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Nortel Meshing Up Unstrung reports that Nortel Networks says it expects to see the first commercial deployments of its 802.11-based mesh networking technology by the end of this year. Nortel's mesh uses dual band WiFi, connecting via 802.11b (11 Mbit/s over 2.4GHz), although Nortel may offer an upgrade to the faster 802.11g standard (54 Mbit/s over 2.4GHz) on the user channel. Backhaul to a wired Internet connection is handled over a separate 802.11a channe From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Detroit Sensor Conference - June 7-10, 2004 The combination of sensors and low-power wireless networking is giving inanimate things an identity," says Ian McPherson, president of Wireless Data Research. Perhaps nowhere has sensor networking become more alive than at the Sensor Expo &amp Conference June 7-10, 2004 in Detroit. From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Dave Winer: Users Should Take Over RSS Late today I had an interesting phone conversation with the illustrious Dave Winer. Dave said (many times) that he wants to see the users take over RSS. In other words he envisions the community creating new applications for RSS so that it becomes something even more useful and powerful than it is now. Dave reiterated this thought again in a post tonight on his blog. He also told me that we should be wary of the day Microsoft enters the RSS aggregation game. He fears this will kill inunmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Wee little Pekee robot In case your first attempt at a world-conquering robot fell through, Wany Robotics has introduced its Pekee robotics development platform to get you up to speed. It's a fully assembled robot running embedded Windows or Linux with about a million sensors. It has built-in infrared, temperature, and light sensors, shock detector, and gyrometers so you know < From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Buttress: BitTorrent RSS application Buttress will be an application to automatically download and run .torrent files from RSS feeds, without user input. (This will be known as The Day of BitTorrent RSS Downloaders. The --> From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Sunpower Solar Powered Cellphone Batteries Gawker Media Web Dork Prime Nick Aster sends us this link to Sunpower's solar assisted cell-phone batteries available for a variety of Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, and Nextel-branded phones. You won't be making phone calls with our star's light alone, but on a sunny day the Sunpower batteries can manage to add about 15 minutes of talk ti From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Art in Age of Abusive Copyright Enforcement Negativland and Public Enemy are two '80s groups that became experts on copyright whether they wanted to be or not. U2's overbearing record label forced Negativland to defend appropriation theory in court (and radicalized them to a point of complete obsession on this issue, as trauma has a way of doing); Public Enemy quickly learned what they could and couldn't create after sampling suits brought hiphop's most innovative phase to a halt. Negativland now maintains an online database relating to "fair use" and other cop From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

New Electronic Paper Achieves 400 Pixels Per Inch Toppan Printing and E Ink have developed electronic paper with a resolution of 400 pixels per inch -- the highest resolution yet achieved. The companies are behind the currently available "LIBRIe" electronic-book terminal designed by Sony. The resolution is so high, it's just like real paper, except thousands of times more expensive and totally reliant on batteries. From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

How Low Can You Go? Why does it matter that wireless capacity be freed up at low frequencies? And what is low, anyway? A rough definition of "low-frequency" is below one gigahertz (1 GHz). That's where broadcast services operate today, taking up most of the allocated frequencies. There's a reason why these bands are referred to as the "beachfront property" of spectrum -- it's the easiest and cheapest place to build systems designed to reach large numbers of people. (Read the rest of this post at Wireless Unlea From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Singingfish audio/video search engine Singingfish technology enables Internet users to quickly and easily locate and play popular streaming media -- including music, news, movies, sports, TV, radio, finance, and live events -- via any Internet-accessible PC or CE device. Singingfish offers the world's largest index of streaming media, with currently over 10 million streams, mp3s, and downloads, and 200,000 to 300,000 files added monthly. From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

Blogging tool supports movie uploads A weblogging tool, Ecto, has a new feature: Movie upload. It offers users an option to indicate how an uploaded movie is used in the weblog (blog) entry. There are two options: Ecto creates a link to the movie inside your blog entry. The second option: the movie is then inserted right into your blog entry. [--> From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..

HotSpot on a Dongle ZyXEL Communications today introduced the ZyAIR G-220 802.11g Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter/AP--> From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

HOW TO: Make digital movies the easy way src="http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/3237013023512113.JPG?0.6322114591956123" width="200" vspace="4" />According to some estimates there are about 60 million (if not more) of you out there with Digital Video Camcorders, just about all DV cameras have Firewire (IEEE 1394) output/input and there are hundreds of millions of DV tapes being shipped per year. The bad news is, we know exactly what happens - you record a lot of stuff to DV tape and never do anything wi From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

To Watch These Programs On Cable, You Have To Find Them First "Other networks...are being cajoled, or pushed, by cable companies to place their programs exclusively onto cable's new frontier - video on demand. Like digital channels, video on demand is available only to digital subscribers, but viewers cannot surf past these networks: they have to seek them out. "With video on demand, you can put niche programming on air that might not otherwise be available," said Matt Bond, the executive vice president for progra From unmediated on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

Requests the new Indian Government to consider setting up of equal opportunities commission; enaction of law on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide Also requests the Govt. to study the socio-economic and educational backwardness of the Muslim community in the country, in the Common Minimum Programme From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

India Muslim Human Rights Organisation Demand For Enactment of Genocide Law and Dismissal of Modi Government Take immediate measures to enact such a comprehensive law providing for (i) impartial investigation (ii) trial procedure and punishment, keeping in view the extraordinary nature of organized collective violence targeting a community... From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

Finally got the confirmation of my acceptance of t ... Finally got the confirmation of my acceptance of transfer into the PhD program in Educational Psychology here at Ohio State. It's a good mix. I am curious about the lack of people interested in going into research - they all seem to want to go into teacher ed. I must be an anomolie? The ironic thing about the acceptance letter - first, they sent it to the wrong address. I don't know of any system in the university that doesn't have my updated address - We moved into the house 8 months ago. Second, they sent it to "Mr. Evan Straub". *sigh*. I wi From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

Amazon World appears to be fading off... One more ... Amazon World appears to be fading off... One more blog that is following Alan's one-year-old-blog consipiracy theory. I really got a chuckle out of that site. Sad to see it go, but I certainly understand. My one-year date was in April. I'm trying hard to keep it up, and currently wondering how the layers will change now that I'm officially a student again... From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

Fun, and more fun courtesy of Brian, Alan and D'Ar ... Fun, and more fun courtesy of Brian, Alan and D'Arcy comes the opportunity for bloggers (why do I keep wanting to write "bloogers?) to participate via Wiki in their presentation for NMC2004. Their -- From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

So I'm IMing with the hubby about my unfounded des ... So I'm IMing with the hubby about my unfounded desire for the geek action figure to go with my Librarian and my Freud doll, and he so astutely points out the absense of a Girl Geek action figure.I want a girl geek! I'm not exactly sure what we look like, but we deserve our own doll. From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..

my birthday is tomorrow. this one is supposed to ... my birthday is tomorrow. this one is supposed to be a milestone (or, rather, the age I am currently is that age that everyone says they are once they are over the age I am turning tomorrow).Not that I'm upset or anything about it. It's another year. I'm sure next year it will be easier. I did catch myself looking in the mirror for some wrinkles around my eyes the other day. I think I've done pretty well for myself, I have a fantabulous family, a good job, and I'm still interested enough in life to have passions a From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

With the turn-in of my final paper. Even though I ... With the turn-in of my final paper. Even though I was recently accepted to the program, up until last week I had no good excuse for the question "why are you taking this class?" other than, I really like to learn. *crickets chirping*Many graduate students (and normal people for that matter) don't recognize the benefit of challenging the way you think about things. Even if it involves writing a paper. I've been taking a class every other quarter since I graduated. From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

As I am a research slut (for lack of a better word ... As I am a research slut (for lack of a better word) I am eternally searching for a way to organize all the articles I come across, my notes on them, and the *location* of them - always difficult given the number of binders I have strewn around my office. Some are in in PDF, some are in hard copy. I need to be able to make my own notes in the software as well - what papers they were in, main points, etc.I am still searching for the best tool to organize my bibliographies and research. Early on I was using Biblioscape, because it was free, but it kept crashing on me. Then I was From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Via Jeremy, I'm playing around with WebJay - a way ... Via Jeremy, I'm playing around with WebJay - a way to create and share music, provided that it is free and available on the net... Unfortunately, I have been bad about exploring new music these days, so finding artists that I know that are free is difficult. At least one of my favorite bands has a large supply of MP3s legally available on the net, so I just have to track down the rest of them or get the energy up to From blog.IT on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Interesting e-learning offer The Suffolk Institute of Technology, an offshoot of the college where I teach and study, is offering two of its on-line courses for free. Here's a copy of the message I received through the alumni association: FREE on-line courses from the Suffolk Institute of Technology If you enrol before 30th June 2004, the Suffolk Institute of Technology (SIT) courses Professional Development Planning and Supporting a Business Using the Internet are available absolutely free. Professional Development Planning (Usual cost From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

If testing is good, is testing testing better? As a professional software developer, I take pride in correctly and usefully testing my code. As a professional teacher, I take pride in correctly and usefully testing my students. Some things, however just seem too hard to test. There have been plenty of discussions and writing in the world of software about the difficulty of testing things like asynchronous, graphical, data-dependent legacy code. There have been plenty of discussions in the world of teaching about the difficulty of testing things like understanding, empathy, originality and so on. These aren't really what&apo From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Moodle on the Noodle After a recommendation from Marcus Green I went and downloaded Moodle, an open source "virtual learning environment" written in PHP with active development and a thriving community. Getting it working has been a wild ride for a day or so. I came on the scene just as a new (1.3) release hit the downloads, and was at the forefront of some pretty weird configuration issues. After some TLC from Howard Miller (a very knowledgeable guy in Glasgow) my local installation is now up and running sweetly. Wi From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

More thoughts about software for teaching Java There's quite a lively discussion about what software to install on a system for teaching Java going on at the Java Ranch Big Moose Saloon at the moment. I'd really welcome any extra input! From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Educational webcams Over at Incorporated Subversion, James Farmer mentions another post and a local webcam. To add to the list, we also have two webcams at Suffolk College, where I teach. I wonder how many of these we can gather together? Anyone want to host a list? From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

how (not) to concentrate during presentations This morning I happened to find a small tin of promotional mints I got in a "goody bag" at a Sun Developer Days conference a few months ago. Not overly significant on its own, but it reminded me of some thoughts I had at the event. The conference was arranged in a familiar format - a few "threads" of presentations (interrupted by coffee and food breaks) and an accompanying vendor hall filled with shiny-suited sales folks. In general, I enjoyed the conference, but one or two things about the presentations, in particular, struck me as a bit dumb. In the "goody bag" prov From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Wassup was robbed Speaking of memes...Seanbaby and Wave Magazine lists the Top 10 Best Internet Fads. The Kiss Me guy, Cats, and Tourist Guy makes the list. But where is the Budweiser "wassssup" parodies? Philistines! These breakdancing Decepticons seem to have come in too late to make the list. Memes have an unusual staying power. I was at the streetcar, and two girls started singing the Hampsterdance; that is, if lyrics such as "dib-a-dib-a-dib-dib" can truly be sung and given its proper respect without a worthy dose of helium. Giggles later, one of them reminisces, "Boy, I remember hearing that when I was 5! From silentblue | Quantified on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Feet of clay Two Jeffs stirring the pot this week: An MBA not the cat's meow after all? "There are now so many schools churning out graduates, but demand for MBAs has stayed constant or fallen..." Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote a paper called "The End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye" where he postulates that getting an MBA may not be as valuable as first thought. Anyone remember that FedEx commercial where the newly-minted junior executive has to fill out package slips his first day on the job? "But I'm an MBA!" he protests. "Ohhhh," his manager realizes. "Then I be From silentblue | Quantified on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Innovation and how to love your liver It looks like one of our partner companies has devised a new innovation initiative. Which is fine, - who doesn't like initiatives? - but I just can't get over the name: Prometheus. According to the news release, he's the "God of Innovation" and his name translates as "he who looks forward" and is known for "intelligence, service and excellence." Methinks someone didn't crack open their Greek mythology texts in high school! Prometheus was actually a conman. He was also a Titan, not a Greek god. It was his conning of Zeus that caused the Greek gods to take fire away from man From silentblue | Quantified on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

The butterfly flies tonight This souvenir came in the mail today. It's coming. Apparently the portal folks have been burning the midnight oil on this one. Hopefully they did right this time. Here's to you folks, this all better be worth it. I was in the beta. Meh, it's all about brand strategy. From silentblue | Quantified on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

Webfeed Content: Synopsis Only, or Full-Text? In the online world, people seem to have very strong opinions concerning which type of webfeed content is better: webfeeds that offer only headlines and a synopsis (or the first few sentences of the entry), or webfeeds that contain the full text of each entry. Which type of feed content should you offer with your site or weblog? Here's my opinion: If possible, offer BOTH types. Let individuals select the webfeed option they prefer. (NOTE: Yes, I realize that currently this weblog only offers a synopsis webfeed. That will change shortly. When I switch to new blogg From Contentious Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 4:00 a.m..

E-Government: How's It Working? Generally, I loathe government Web sites. With few exceptions, I find them to be convoluted, jargon-filled, user-unfriendly, and difficult to navigate. Plus, server errors and broken links seem especially rampant on government sites. Still, government sites tend to be more convenient and marginally more helpful than visiting or calling government agencies, in my experience &#150; at least when I just want to get information or a form, not to try to resolve a problem. I would definitely rather search an online library for a form and download it than wrestle on the phone with an ill-info From Contentious Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Info Environmentalism: Cleaning Up the Mindscape Does your brain sometimes feel like a landfill, crammed with a meaningless and useless jumble of information? If so, then you might want to join the emerging information environmentalism movement. Info enviros seek to reduce information overload and its effects on people's lives. Read all about it in this May 10, 2004 Christian Science Monitor article, E-serenity, now! by Dean Patton (Thanks to --> From Contentious Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

The Accidental Communicator "Rule 1: Communication usually fails, except by accident." &#150; Professor Osmo A. Wiio, famed Finnish researcher of human communication. ...If you're interested in communication theory, that quote is probably old hat. However, for those of you who haven't heard of Wiio's laws, check out this excellent commentary on them by Jukka "Yucca" Korpela. In my opinion, this is absolutely essential reading for anyone who has to do a lot of communication &#150; on the job, online, or in real From Contentious Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Update: My Reading List I've just updated my list of what I'm currently reading. Surprise, surprise, it's a lot of stuff, quite a mix. Check out my Bloglines list of Feeds Amy Reads for my current webfeed selection. It includes some new categories, such as "content management, metadata, &amp info. architecture," and several cool new additions to "writing, editing, &amp communication." Also, near the bottom of the right column on this blog's home page is the current list o From Contentious Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

The Social Software Learning Experience I've been writing more lately about wikis, which are one kind of social software &amp#150 which is basically any software that supports group interaction. Group interaction obviously can be a key part of any formal or informal learning experience. Consequently, many educators and e-learning professionals are trying to figure out best ways to leverage social software for learning. On June 17, 4:15-5:30 PM PDT, there will be an intriguing presentation exploring the synergy of social software and le From Contentious Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Training vs Education (but it's all learning) Some formative ideas on education & training: Blogs, wikis, aggregators, social networking software, etc. are great tools for informal learning. They help in the creation of personal knowledge repositories and communities of practice. They enhance "learning", in the social-constructivist sense that I always believed our education system should. Given their decentralized nature, these informal learning technologies do not provide the kind of data that a formal system, like an LMS or performance management system, would give. I think that one of the problems with our e From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Attaching a message to course mail SCCS version on how to attach a file to course mail in WebCT...found in the student help section of the school website. Message Attachment Info... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

WebCT Chatroom SCCS version on how to use chatroom in WebCT...found in the student help section of the school website. Chatrooms... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Bulletin Board in WebCT SCCS version on how to use bulletin boards in WebCT...found in the student help section of the school website. Bulletin Boards... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Using Bread Crumbs in WebCT SCCS version on how to use breadcrumbs in WebCT...found in the student help section of the school website. breadcrumbs... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Accessing Quiz marks in WebCT SCCS version on how to access quiz marks...found in the student help section of the school website. accessquiz2... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Webct's Navigation SCCS version on how to use WebCT navigation...found in the student help section of the school website. actionmenu... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

WebCT Home Page Navigation SCCS version on how to navigate the WebCT Home page...found in the student help section of the school website. homepage Navigation... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Standard tools in WebCT at SCCS SCCS version on standard course tools found in most courses...found in the student help section of the school website. Course Tools Location... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Unit Paths Help SCCS version on WebCT Course Paths..found in the student help section of the school website. Course Paths... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Blogs can be infectious I have no idea where this came from...lol Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Vietnam: Another online critic jailed The article caught my attention. The website is interesting as well. Vietnam: Another online critic jailed... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

A contest to outwit google I was not going to add this, but I kept thinking back to it. Not too sure what it has to do with online learning but it does speak to the internet and searching. It might just be another interesting... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Information seeking behaviour of Distance Learning Students Information-seeking Behaviour Of Distance Learning Students :: DEC Daily News :: Distance education news from around the world!... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

E-learning tools and elearning templates This is a great collection of resourses and links. e-Learning Tools & elearning Templates from e-LearningGuru.com... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Learning styles online Learning styles are a way to help improve your quality of learning. By understanding your own personal styles, you can adapt the learning process and techniques you use. This site is dedicated to helping you better understand learning styles, as... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

One room syndrome Interesting commentary by 17th century on the One room syndrome. Many Ph.D.s have lived through this and know the feeling. You have to sit at your chair, in the same damn room day after day after day. You can imagine that what you'll produce will be like a movie that ... From Daniel Lemire's blog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Slashdot | Google's Ph.D. Advantage Interesting post on slashdot on Google's Ph.D. Advantage. It would appear that: Google's willingness to let every employee spend 20% of his or her time on an independent project is a compelling motivator and that they estimate that Google has as many Ph.D.'s working for it as Microsoft, which ... From Daniel Lemire's blog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Sun's employee can blog without asking permission I like Tim Bray. He gave us so many great things and I'm sure he will help Sun. I've learned through OLDaily that Sun's employees can now blog without asking permission. This is quite clear: if you want to comment on today's technology or on your daily work, go right ... From Daniel Lemire's blog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Gentoo up and running both at the office and at home I reported earlier on my installation of Gentoo Linux at the office. There are many things that are appealing about Gentoo Linux: it is managed from a non-profit corporation, it leverages the power of free software by being source-based, it has a cool package management called Portage written in ... From Daniel Lemire's blog on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Macromedia Breeze Goes Global Macromedia has added another upgrade to their on-line presentation and conferencing tool, Breeze. I've had the chance to use Breeze a bit and I'm really impressed with the capabilities of the software (Or is it a service? Hard to say exactly.) John Dowdell has a nice synopsis of the changes that have been made or you can read the complete news release here. From Brain Frieze on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

My life as a cartoon This New Yorker cartoon captures life at my house pretty well. (via McGees Musings) From Brain Frieze on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

No, I DON't Want to Register I landed at another newspaper web site this morning that teased me for a few seconds with the story that I came to read, only to re-direct me to a registration page. Boy that's annoying! Here's the deal. I do have registrations at a few sites. The New York Times has required it for some time, and I've been registered there for a few years. The Miami Herald, just instituted this policy as well, and being a somewhat local paper for me, I registered without too much grumbling. ----- From Brain Frieze on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Rejected Column Available Online Jon Caldara is a conservative columnist for the Daily Camera, which serves the predominantly liberal city of Boulder, Colorado. He seems to enjoy the opportunity with his Sunday columns to rile up the town's majority. Last Sunday, Caldara's column was not published because "my editors chose not to run it. ... The offending column was yet another one of my sophomoric and meandering pieces taking pot shots at Boulder's goofiness. I thought it was cute. They (Camera editors) didn't." He spent --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Shades of the CueCat -- But This Might Work The CueCat -- a mouse-like object that was designed to scan codes in print ads and take users directly to website links -- was, to put it bluntly, a colossal bust. However, this might work. Japan's Corporate News Network reports that Daily Focus, the leading free newspaper in Korea, is now printing a special mobile code with some of its sports articles. Users can access the latest sports news in video by simply holding the phone against the printed code. Ico, the company From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Time to Clean House? As I was editing Peter M. Zollman's item (posted earlier) about the CueCat, I did a Google search to find links to the ill-fated digital device. I quickly came upon this link on Forbes.com, which describes how Forbes magazine will soon begin including bar codes on its pages to be scanned by readers who have special Forbes co-branded CueCats. As an industry historical relic, the page is interesting. Yet I wonder if it might better be cleared From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

First European Wi-fi Network Among 11 Villages Wi-fi networks are excellent Internet-access solutions for isolated locations. Now, Spain has the first wireless broadband network that connects 11 villages with each other (read the news in Spanish). The wireless network reaches more than 1,000 square kilometers as well as 10,000 inhabitants in the south of the country. Now not only Internet access but also all phone calls in this area are made through this wireless network. Since the cost of connection is now much lower, the promoters for From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:58 a.m..

African Newspaper Sues Over Lost Domain Name A major South African quality daily broadsheet is taking legal action against a website owner in the United Kingdom who the paper says has snatched its domain name. The Nigerian-owned paper This Day, which is using the domain name www.thisdaysa.co.za, appears to have been caught napping because the more intuitive domain name www.thisday.co.za (warning: explicit content) was snapped up by a UK-based porn site, reports local media industry newsletter Media.toolbox. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:58 a.m..

Bloggers' Political Persuasions There's more to (BlogAds') Henry Copeland's interesting survey of 17,000-plus blog readers, released recently. He's broken down the stats by political party (U.S., that is). Here are links to breakdowns of&nbsp;Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Greens. He finds "som From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:58 a.m..

Censorship Games in China One of the more hapless ministries in China, in my view, is the Ministry of Culture. While other ministries have real power, the Ministry of Culture attracts attention by announcing bans that stir up the world media. It banned the Rolling Stones, will ban performances by Britney Spears, and last week set up a new censorship commission to screen foreign computer/online games for unhealthy content. In its struggle to justify its existence, the ministry seems to get generous support of the western media, since the bans issued by the ministry fit the caricature that much of western media an From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:58 a.m..

A Visual Story in Granby: Where Are the Photos? Norm Duncan wrote in with a rant about web photographic coverage of last weekend's bizarre bulldozer rampage in Granby, Colorado, by newspaper websites. As he points out, "Wow! A story made for photos -- no dead bodies, no gore, no people jumping off buildings. Just great photos -- if not during, at least after." Alas, Duncan went looking around newspaper web sites and was disappointed by the visual coverage. For example, Washingtonpost.com, he points out, carried just one photo, "too From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:58 a.m..

Web Reporters on the Scene Fast A worthy trend is original reporting by some newspaper websites. SignOnSanDiego.com, the site of the San Diego Union-Tribune, is one of the leaders in this area. Content manager Ron James forwarded me a description of how the web staff covered a school-bus crash this morning: "Our first alert came in from our&nbsp;[emergency-alert] pager; after confirming with other sources we put up a breaking news alert. We used our news chopper (we have an agreement with the provider of the television news chopper to capture video anytim From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 9, 2004 at 3:58 a.m..

Jesuits, Calvinists & Continual Learning On a method for learning your strengths From Monkeymagic on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Feeds & Faces If blogging is a conversation, then why not add a face to the feed? From Monkeymagic on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Education Some thoughts on universities, self-organization and learning prompted by Sebastian Fiedler From Monkeymagic on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

E-Voting Machines have "Private", not Federal Certification Please read this article and I'd also like your postition on going to a strictly all paper, hand counted voting solution. There are many effective all paper, hand counted solutions that are used in many countries and many counties in the US. This seem the most effective way to vote and count the votes. What do you think? Btw, I think you should send this article to your local county official, so they know that their machines are "tested" without Federal oversight. Lax controls over e-voting testing labs ELECTION From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Panels for the CNYCLL Conference In this, my first year as director of the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, I am striving to make the conference better reflect the breadth of English Studies, and perhaps some of its closest interdisciplinary partners. To this end I am establishing six new panels on postdisciplinary rhetoric, cyberpunk literature, digital cinema, new media pedagogy, rhetoric of new media, and video games and interactive fiction. There are also a growing number of panels on writing (professional, technical, creative, rhet/comp., etc.). If you are interested, --> From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Papers from the International Symposium on Online Journalism Looks like there are some interesting papers on blogs and wikis (available in pdf) coming out of the 2004 International Symposium on Online Journalism:

Forward Email, Go Directly to Jail--Do not Pass GO Ah, these corporate lords and their feudal intellectual property rights...I couldn't help but laugh when I saw this article on SLATE questioning the value of Time, Inc's email disclaimer. The disclaimer performs the usual effort to chill-effect and terrorize recipients, who might make the fatal mistake of forwarding or using the email in a manner that doesn't profit the feudal lord. What's even m From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Critical Arts Ensemble artist facing indictment Those who don't follow the C-Theory list may be interested in this recent post regarding the Critical Arts Ensemble. Dr. Steven Kurtz, professor of art at SUNY Buffalo and members of the Critical Arts Ensemble are facing indictment at a grand jury trial in Buffalo, NY, June 15. The FBI is bringing bioterrorism charges against the group for possession of a biotechnology lab found at Kurtz's home. Thus, the group will incur gigantic legal fees and face imprisonment. Dr. Kurtz and CAE are internationally reco From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Illegally Copying Floppies while wearing Power Gloves! And now for something completely different...ARMCHAIR ARCADE MARK THREE. It's all here--fantastic gaming devices! Perspective! MUDs! Homebrew! This issue was a long time in coming, but it's packed full of goodies and laced with intelligence. I hope you will enjoy my contribution--THE VIDEOGAME IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION--which is s From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Walking the Walk: Copyfighters and Their Weblog Software Over on Open Artifact, Randy Brown, in talking about using open source software in education, recently wrote Technically savvy educators should be pressing the Open Source issue more than we are. While I agree, we do need to press this issue, I realize that education as whole has to be educated about open source/the copyfight/free culture as part of the process of convincing teachers and administrators to take the time to switch to open source software. I From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Graduate Research Network 2004! Graduate Research Network 2004!!The 2004 Graduate Research Network (GRN) at Computers and Writing will meet from 9am to 4pm on June 10 in Iliahi 202 A, B, and C. The GRN is free to all registered conference participants. We have a wonderful bunch of people already signed on to discuss some fascinating work, as well as a host of incredible discussion leaders. See the online program at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~writling/GRN/2004/grn2004.pdf for a taste of what From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Knowledge Held Hostage Conference Has anybody else on here heard about the Knowledge Held Hostage Conference? I'm supposing you have, but I searched and couldn't find info on it. If you're interested in finding out more about it, it's available at http://www.knowledgehostage.org and it's being held June 18 in Philadelphia. It's a FREE conference, too, and there are some subsidies available for lodging if you get it in time. I believe it's full title (or subtitle) is "Scholarly versus Corporate Rights in a Digital Age." It's got an interesting From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Videogames in Composition & Rhetoric Quick question: Can we justify replacing traditional readings in first-year writing courses with popular videogames? I've been toying with this idea for some months now. Ditch the reader and have students purchase a choice game or two, or perhaps an anthology of classic games (which are also available for free). Have students play games and reflect on their experience rather than work with print texts. I would like to say to an incoming class, "We won't be reading any novels in this class. We don't be doing any reading, as a matter of fact. Instead, we're going to play vide From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

A Fresh Look In finishing up the DrupalEd and DrupalBlog distributions as part of preparing my presentation for the Computers and Writing 2004 conference, I've been putting together some other site skins for Xtemplate in Drupal 4.4.x. The new look for Kairosnews is based on --> From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Videogames and Hollywood I've blogged before about videogames and Hollywood. It's an interesting topic for many reasons, and that's why I was drawn to this piece. Brian begins thusly: This is not a "I wish games were like Hollywood" essay. My motivation isn't to stare longingly through the windows at the cool people in another industry, but instead try to understand the real differences and similarities between Hollywood and the game industr From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Videogames in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction I've written a pretty extensive article about videogames and intellectual property called The Videogame in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for Armchair Arcade. Of course, those of you who read my posts are familiar with my stance towards intellectual property law, but I tried to take a more conservative approach in this piece. I relied heavily on Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture and the work of Richard Stallman to make my case. I really wanted to demonstrate, firs From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom The educated blogger: Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom by David Huffaker This paper explores the role of weblogs or "blogs" in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self"expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning, and then juxtaposes these concepts with the features of blogs. The paper also r From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

StarOffice scores Canadian win Good news from the open source in education front. ZDNet reports, Sun Microsystems has recruited one of its biggest customers yet for its StarOffice software, signing a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education covering 2.5 million students. The deal, signed May 27 but not announced in the United States until Monday, covers 72 public and parochial school boards in Ontario. All will be licensed to use StarOffice 7, the current version of the package, on all From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 9, 2004 at 3:57 a.m..

The Inner Oppressors I've been reading the works of Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux recently, both of whom write powerfully about the importance of developing a critical consciousness while working to struggle against forms of oppression: economical, racial, cultural, gender, etc. It seems to me that much of what is written about bringing back a truly participatory democratic society through the pedagogical attempt to cultivate critical consciousness through dialogue, na From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on June 9, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Stonyfield Farm blog Dave Winer points out that Stonyfield, the yogurt company, has gotten into blogging. They have five blogs addressing the environment, women, kids, yogurt itself, and matters organic. They also have a Chief Blogger and occasional photographs of huge, tall warehouses full of yogurt. It will be interesting to see if a company of this kind can personalize and energize what appears at first glance to be a public relations project. From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 9, 2004 at 3:53 a.m..

Wichita State University Licenses SunGard SCT Software and Service Solutions in Support of Institutional Mission and Goals From DEC Daily News on June 9, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

With Pathlore, Canon Launches eLearning Center for Dealer Network From DEC Daily News on June 9, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

NASA and XEROX Announce Technology Partnership From DEC Daily News on June 9, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Students oppose cutting French, German classes From DEC Daily News on June 9, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Computers fully integrated into college students' lives From DEC Daily News on June 9, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Putting the professor on camera to improve learning From DEC Daily News on June 9, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Digital information in the Information Research field From DEC Daily News on June 9, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Journals Update I'm having afew issues with my new Wiki system, TikiWiki, but here's where the list of freely available scholarly (I think) higher-ed ed tech journals will go. Big thanks to Martin and Chris for the pointers :o) Here's the updated list:

What the Wiki is Happening? A Blank Wall, Free Spray Paint, and .... We're closely watching the NMC 2004 presentation on "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" wiki, checking the changes.. but beyond a few individuals, it is a pretty quiet place. Okay, so I wrote a bit harshly on Martin for his own thoughts on the Pieces, but hey, I was bored! I fessed up and then --> From cogdogblog on June 9, 2004 at 3:49 a.m..

Coming to a Wiki Near You... No, it is not Potted Meat Food Product, just down the shelf... Wikis: The Next Frontier for Spammers? Wiki maintainers can expect an increase in spam after a webmaster newsletter highlighted the effectiveness of Wiki spam in raising a site's Google ranking. WebProNews described how a webmaster improved his rank in a search engine optimization (SEO) contest using links in Wiki "sandboxes" From cogdogblog on June 9, 2004 at 3:49 a.m..

Tivo sets sights on Net content, cuts prices From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Now Playing in Boston: Terrorism and Civil Rights High school students in Boston take part in a program that uses theater to educate teenagers about issues of law and justice. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Summer Makeup Sessions Set for Special Ed Students The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it would offer summer makeup sessions to special education students who did not get the services they needed during the school year. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

$75,000 a Record Gift for Yale? Here's How The bulk of a $110 million gift comes from an unusual fund-raising exercise born 25 years ago out of $75,000 in seed money and frustration with Yale's financial management. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Abstinence-Only: Does It Work? At institutions that accept government money, teachers must advocate abstinence until marriage. But is the policy realistic? From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

New Teachers, Pupils, and Classes With Revolving Doors Jennifer Noble is one of more than 2,000 new teachers recruited last year to the fastest-growing district in the country. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Dividing the Sexes, for the Tough Years At a small number of private schools, boys and girls learn together in elementary and high school but are taught in separate classrooms for the years in between. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Good Teachers + Small Classes = Quality Education The secret to quality public education has never been a mystery. You need good teachers and small enough classes so those teachers can do their work. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Bruno Issues Statewide Plan for School Aid Joseph Bruno, the State Senate majority leader, called for increasing education spending statewide by $6.3 billion over the next five years. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Body Found in City Park Is Believed to Be Missing Student A body believed to be that of a missing 21-year-old drama student at the Juilliard School was found Tuesday near a jogging path at the northern tip of Manhattan. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 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. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 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 June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Graduating Into the Real World, and Preparing to Take Up Arms In seeking out the military, the graduating R.O.T.C. cadets had defied the ideological conventions of campus life and refused the privilege of the highly educated. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

Mourning a Student, and Talent Lost Kirstin Lynch-Walsh is a mentor in mourning, experiencing the kind of grief only a teacher can understand. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..

TiVo cuts prices on services From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Feds want e-voting source code disclosed From CNET News.com on June 9, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

Abusing Morality and Law

Turning work into life Although I don't believe that plane hopping is my favourite sport, I do enjoy travelling. I'm pretty happy that I've got chances to travel for work-related purposes and I usually try to stay a few more days after work. Like this time. Meeting of Knowledge Board SIG leaders in Lisbon was a good learning experience. Presentation by Martin Dugage (should be posted online, will link then), talks and sometimes heated discussi From Mathemagenic on June 9, 2004 at 12:57 a.m..

New KM blog: Dubbings and Diversions by Jeremy Aarons One more addition to your KM bloggers list: Jeremy Aarons with Dubbings and Diversions.&nbsp; Jeremy is&nbsp;a philosopher in KM land, traveller, juggler and he is likely to take you for an adventure (I met him at OKLC&nbsp;in Innsbruck and we shared not only fun of talking about knowledge work research, but also the thrill of paragliding from 2000m :) You can start from Jeremy's thinking on --> From Mathemagenic on June 9, 2004 at 12:57 a.m..

Finding blogs linking to a specific blog post: test results Last week I asked What would be a good way to find all (blog) pages linking to a specific blog post?&nbsp;and received some suggestions. I'm going to do an experiment and test all of them for finding links to a specific post. For example, I'd like to find who links to my old post which is at http://blog.mathemagenic. From Mathemagenic on June 9, 2004 at 12:57 a.m..

Communities, shared spaces and weblog reading To start with - a piece from my comments to Blogs and CoPs: Can blogging replace communities of practice?&nbsp;(scroll to find) For me (please forgive simplification) the essence of a community is in a sense of belonging and practices that its members share. I can understand that it's hard to believe looking at loosely-coupled weblogs "out there" that their authors belong to a community, but I can not discard my own feeling of "belonging" as well as indications of many other bl From Mathemagenic on June 9, 2004 at 12:57 a.m..

My dream wiki/weblog tool At last BlogWalk I was trying to explain my ideas about ideal wiki/weblog tool, so just writing them down. I wrote about blogs and wikis for thinking earlier, so just in brief on what is important for me:

Effects of reading someone else's feeds Peter Caputa on reading someone else's feeds:Bloglines allows users to make 'what feeds they read' public. (ie mine, amy gahran, martsanz, mfagan) I started reading through Amy Gahran's feeds an From Mathemagenic on June 9, 2004 at 12:57 a.m..

Do-It-Yourself IT Rewind history a quarter century, to the early '80s. What we now call IT was still called MIS. Outside corporate walls, personal computing was an interesting hobby. Inside corporate walls, it was an oxymoron. The history of IT has been a slow war of liberation - a struggle toward independence for users as well as for professionals. Each of our buzz-concepts, from object-oriented to client-server to open source to Web services and service-oriented architectures, has been a step on this path toward increasingly modular, transparent and easily manipulated components that let people build the From Curb Cut Learning on June 9, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

Training and Resources for Assembling Interactive Learning Systems http://www.trails-project.org/ This NSF-funded project in the States just makes so much sense - have the univeristy students currently studying to be educational designers and developers work on actual learning content for the K-12 system. As the site says, "Through these courses TRAILS intends to have three major effects: to better prepare tomorrow's designers of educational tools, to better prepare the teachers who will use such tools, and--by publishing select course projects-- to generate new tools for K-12 education." Obvious? M From EdTechPost on June 9, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

On trusting the process I'm not sure why my simple suggestion that the RSS feed address for the continuing coverage page of the NMC 2004 conference should be provided on the page has escalated so much. I expected something like "thanks, you're right, let's put up the RSS address". Instead, people have jumped to defended their positions and tried to educate me about how distributed systems work, appearing to think that I was some sort of ignorant but "peeved" consumer. Stephen Downes says I --> From Collaborative Learning on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Korean Language SILL From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Coffee From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

busy From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Blogger comments From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

New blogs From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

How to use weblogs to create engaging learning experiences Why are weblogs so successful? Apart from their being very easy to use, the author feels there are three key attributes that have contributed to their success: 1) personal point of view, 2) chronological nature and 3) byte-sized posts. Together, these three attributes help create experiences that are both engaging and memorable. This article outlines a design method that incorporates these weblog attributes. From eLearnopedia on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

BlogWalk 2.0: The role of personal Webpublishing for self-organized and informal learning Leider konnte ich der Einladung zum BlogWalk nach Nürnberg nicht folgen. Dabei hätte mich das Thema brennend interessiert! So bleibt mir nur die Nachlese zum Treffen. Erste Kommentare finden sich z.B. bei Martin Roell und Oliver Wrede. Sebastian Fiedler packt... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Interaction for Lifelong Learning Dieser Artikel beschreibt nicht einfach das Semantische Web (was schon eine Herausforderung wäre!), sondern bringt es gleich mit der Idee des Lebenslangen Lernens zusammen - spannend! Am Beispiel von Sarah, die sich schnell in Buchhaltung fit machen muss, wird beschrieben,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Trainerlink: www. weiterbildungsblog.de Jetzt gibt's ein paar Zeilen Eigenwerbung: In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Trainingaktuell heisst es: "Fachartikel, Reports und Meldungen zu Themen wie HR-Management, e-Learning, Learning Styles und Trends in der Weiterbildung sind unter www.weiterbildungsblog.de zu finden. Die Beiträge sind nach Datum... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Lebenslanges Lernen in Deutschland - Finanzierung und Innovation ... Da gestern das Stichwort "Lebenslanges Lernen" fiel, hier noch der Hinweis auf eine Studie, die schon seit längerem auf meinem Schreibtisch liegt: Das BMBF hat bereits im letzten Jahr einen "Good Practice"-Bericht im Rahmen des OECD-Projekts "Co-financing lifelong learning" erstellt.... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Die europäische Öffentlichkeit hat Angst vorm Netz Da tritt Jürgen Habermas in mehreren großen europäischen Zeitungen eine "Kerneuropa"-Initiative gegen Donald Rumsfeld los - und einige Tage später ist alles vergessen. Schuld, so der Autor, sind Angst und Ignoranz europäischer Intellektueller gegenüber dem Internet. Zwar liefert Europa die... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Online-Initiativen für Hessen: Tage der offenen Tür Die Aktionslinie hessen-it hat regionale hessische Online-Initiativen wie Arbeitskreise, Forschungseinrichtungen, Vereine oder Kompetenzzentren in einem Netzwerk zusammen gebracht. Mit dem Ziel eine hessenweite und fl&auml;chendeckende Beratung in Sachen Internet und Multimedia, insbesondere f&uuml;r kleine und mittlere Unternehmen zu gew&auml;hrleisten, werden die unterschiedlichen Kompetenzen der Initiativen im Netzwerk geb&uuml;ndelt. Bei den Tagen der offenen T&uuml;r informieren die Teilnehmer und Partner des Netzwerks &uuml;ber Internet, E-Commerce und Neue Medien. Die From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on June 9, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

BlogWalk 2.0: Nachlese Am 28. Mai fand der Workshop BlogWalk 2.0 zum Thema 'The role of personal Webpublishing for self-organized and informal learning' in N&uuml;rnberg statt (ich berichtete), und endlich habe ich ein paar Notizen dazu zu Papier gebracht: It has now been ten days or so since I attended the BlogWalk 2.0 collaborative workshop about weblogs and self-organized, info From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Qualität des Schulunterrichts... Die Kultusminister der L&auml;nder haben ein Institut beschlossen, das die Unterrichtsqualit&auml;t in den deutschen Schulen &uuml;berwachen soll. Dar&uuml;ber hinaus wird die Schreibweise nach der umstrittenen Rechtschreibreform ab August 2005 f&uuml;r alle Schulen verbindlich. Den vorgelegten letzten Zwischenbericht der Kommission zur Umsetzung der Reform billigten die Minister, wie die Vorsitzende der Konferenz in Mainz, die rheinland-pf&auml;lzische Bildungsministerin Doris Ahnen (SPD), best&auml;tigte. --> From BildungsBlog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Überlegungen zu Communities... Ein Instrument der modernen Gouvernementalit&auml;t l&auml;sst sich als Community-Bildung identifizieren. Durch einen Netzwerkzusammenschluss mit verbindlichen regelm&auml;&szlig;igen Treffen, Rundbriefen etc. wird eine Gemeinschaft konstruiert und explizit ein Vergleichsdruck zwischen den einzelnen Mitgliedern etabliert. Dies wird jedoch nicht als bedr&uuml;ckend empfunden, sondern vielmehr als Supportstruktur: die f&uuml;hrenden Einrichtungen sollen als &#8222;best-practise&#8220; Beispiele dienen, an denen sich die schlechteren orientieren sollen. Weiterlesen bei --> From BildungsBlog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Projekt VIEL: Lernende Region Mit dem Projekt "Von der Region lernen - In der Region Lernen - Eine Lernende Region" (VIEL) beteiligt sich S&uuml;dostniedersachsen an dem vom BMBF und der EU gef&ouml;rderten Programm "Lernende Regionen - F&ouml;rderung von Netzwerken". In einer einj&auml;hrigen Planungsphase wurden regional spezifische Handlungsfelder identifiziert und ein Netzwerk zur Umsetzung aufgebaut. Mit VIEL soll die Lernkultur verbessert und die naturwissenschaftlich- technische Attraktivit&auml;t in der Ausbildung gesteigert werden. Es soll ein regionales Bildu From BildungsBlog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Online-Initiativen für... Die Aktionslinie hessen-it hat regionale hessische Online-Initiativen wie Arbeitskreise, Forschungseinrichtungen, Vereine oder Kompetenzzentren in einem Netzwerk zusammen gebracht. Mit dem Ziel eine hessenweite und fl&auml;chendeckende Beratung in Sachen Internet und Multimedia, insbesondere f&uuml;r kleine und mittlere Unternehmen zu gew&auml;hrleisten, werden die unterschiedlichen Kompetenzen der Initiativen im Netzwerk geb&uuml;ndelt. Bei den Tagen der offenen T&uuml;r informieren die Teilnehmer und Partner des Netzwerks &uuml;ber Internet, E-Commerce und Neue Medien. Die From BildungsBlog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Was interessiert Erwachsenenbildner? Online-Umfrage auf der Homepage des Deutschen Instituts f&uuml;r Erwachsenenbildung Schon seit 1996 ist das DIE im Internet vertreten. Seither ist www.die-bonn.de mehrmals optisch &uuml;berarbeitet und um viele Inhalte bereichert worden. Neben Informationen &uuml;ber das Institut gibt es zahlreiche Serviceangebote zur Erwachsenenbildung/Weiterbildung. Dazu z&auml;hlen unter anderem die Online-Literaturrecherche im Bestand der Bibliothek des DIE (http://mail.die-bonn.de/webopac/index.asp), From BildungsBlog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Einigung über Elite-Unis... Die Debatte um Elite-Unis will nicht enden: Unions-L&auml;nder bestreiten Konsens bei F&ouml;rderung von Spitzen-Unis. Ungekl&auml;rt sei vor allem die Finanzierung Frankfurt/Main - Die Verwirrung um die geplante F&ouml;rderung von Spitzen-Universit&auml;ten h&auml;lt an. Niedersachsen und Hessen bekr&auml;ftigten am Dienstag, dass es entgegen der Darstellung von Bundesbildungsministerin Edelgard Bulmahn zwischen Bund und L&auml;ndern noch keine Einigung dar&uuml;ber gibt. Der hessische Bildungsminister Udo Corts warf Bulmahn vor, mit &#8222;ihrer vollmundi From BildungsBlog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

BlogWalk 2.0: Nachlese Am 28. Mai fand der Workshop BlogWalk 2.0 zum Thema 'The role of personal Webpublishing for self-organized and informal learning' in N&uuml;rnberg statt (ich berichtete), und endlich habe ich ein paar Notizen dazu zu Papier gebracht: It has now been ten days or so since I attended the BlogWalk 2.0 collaborative workshop about weblogs and self-organized, informal learning in Nuremberg, and I still haven't jotted down my notes. Actually, I didn&ap From BildungsBlog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

El tránsito de Venus 2004 Javier Armentia, director del Planetario de Pamplona, recoge en su blog un listado de webcams para seguir el tránsito de Venus desde España: Tránsito De Venus... Las Webcams. La página del nodo español Tránsito Venus 2004, del proyecto europeo Venus... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Ferl's Most Wanted From ScotFEICT on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Ontologies for Learning It seems like ontologies for learning are becoming more and more a hot topic. I am co-organizing a Workshop on Ontologies, Semantics and E-learning and am involved in the Program Committee of a series of workshops on Applications of Semantic... From ErikLog on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Disaster Management Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives ed. Graham Matthews and John Feather, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 ISBN: 0-7546-0917-0 Hardback: 254 pages This collection of essays provides an up-to-date assessment of current thinking and practice in disaster management for libraries and archives both in the UK and abroad. Read more from the review in the new E-Journal of the (UK) National Preservation Office at: http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/journal/0504/disaster.html From Archivalia on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Autograph collection http://www.ub.uu.se/arv/waller/eindex.cfm An ongoing project of the University Library Uppsala (Sweden) digitizes the Waller manuscript collection, one of the most voluminous collections of autographs, i.e. original manuscripts by scientists, philosophers, scholars, politicians, explorers from all parts of the world, from the Middle Ages through the 1950s. Examples: Letter of Georg Fugger, N&uuml;rnberg 1496 http://publi From Archivalia on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Politische Bildung http://www.politische-bildung.de rezensiert von Michael Braun Zusammenfassend l&auml;sst sich sagen, dass die Seite www.politische-bildung.de eine gute Vernetzung der zum gr&ouml;&szlig;ten Teil sehr unterschiedlichen Angebote der verschiedenen Zentralen f&uuml;r politische Bildung leistet. Dass diese Angebote dem Auftrag der Einrichtungen gem&auml;&szlig; &uuml;berparteilich sind, dass kontroverse Themen auch kontrovers dargestellt werden, versteht sich von selbst. Auf Kommentare zu den Publikationen< From Archivalia on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Verträge Vertr&auml;ge und Dokumente aus dem Politischen Archiv des Ausw&auml;rtigen Amtes im Volltext http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/de/infoservice/politik/dokumente/index_html From Archivalia on June 9, 2004 at 12:54 a.m..

Innovate special issue on e-Education This is a call for submissions for a special issue on the future of electronic education (eEducation) in K-12, higher education (both undergraduate and graduate), and extended learning. We seek manuscripts on leading edge practices ("what is") and articles that... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 9, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Position at Keyano College Barb Schindelka sent us the information for a position at Keyano College - half time Education Instructor and half time EdTechCentre Mentor. http://www.keyano.ca/employment/keyano/setc.htm... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 9, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

News for Today, Jun 8 News in the shared spaces world: Mobistar, a wireless carrier in Belgium, has announced the introduction of the RIM BlackBerry wireless solution for corporate customers, for release in July. RIM New customers for IMlogic's IM archiving and regulatory compliance solutions:... From Kolabora.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

AT&T Announces Global VoIP Telework Trials In their June 8, 2004 press release AT&amp;T Announces Global VoIP Telework Trials , AT&amp;T announced that it is starting trials in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom for a global VoIP telework service to be introduced in 2005. The service is targeted to multinational companies... From Kolabora.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

News for Today, Jun 9 News in the shared spaces world: Brightmail partnered with IMlogic and FaceTime to protect corporate users from spam over IM on PCs, cell phones and PDAs. Sprint released a version of the Treo 600 without an integrated camera, to calm... From Kolabora.com on June 9, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

A second bill of rights Frederick Emrich glosses a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Cass R. Sunstein about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 proposal for a second bill of rights. Sunstein's book is coming out soon, but he reviews his argument in the Chronicle (as Frederick notes, a subscription is required for online access after a brief time). Here are Roosevelt's eight rights: The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation. The... From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Fifteen months Today makes fifteen months of trying to read and write here everyday. From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Guidelines for authors The web journal First Monday has a thorough set of guidelines for writers who are considering submitting to the publication -- this is a nice model to have on hand, not for weblogs so much as for other kinds of web publishing. From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

How social techniques long livesCorente[SocialSoft ... How social techniques long livesCorente[SocialSoftware]: "Amazing mid-last-century document explaining how to use the telephone. Some of it is technical ?? transferring calls, holding the receiver, but a lot of it is, well, tele-quette, like why the receiving party should answer first, and why the calling party should end the call. Very TCP-ish, in a social way"For Homo Sapien, the social factors are generat From Meta on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Gaokao: The Toppest ExamGaokao, in Chinese, means ... Gaokao: The Toppest ExamGaokao, in Chinese, means "The Toppest Exam" or "The Biggest Exam" in Taiwan area. In asian countries, this kind of exam seems still the only method to evaluate a student's performance on learning and determines one's future fortune. The traditional factory model is still dominant in education system, especially to China. Thus Gaokao is very important to almost all familiies with kids. 6/6-8, it's the standard Gaokao day in China mainland......(leaving for a meeting) From Meta on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Dropouts Tammy Galvin has stepped down as editor-in-chief of Training magazine, along with Stacey Marmalejo. I'm looking forward to a revitalized Training mag.... From Internet Time Blog on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

New Community of Practice Forming Since the lack of Wi-Fi access in the conference center here has put the kabosh on my plans to blog this event in real time, I'm going to experiment with another format. This entry reports on a session that's not on the program and will... From Internet Time Blog on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Australia wants to make govt-funded research more accessible The presentations from the conference, Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment (Canberra, June 1, 2004) are now online. Quoting from the June 5 press release on the conference: "The Government believes that it has a major policy interest in improving the accessibility of research. It is therefore decided to pursue the agendas of making research quality more apparent, and research results more accessible, in parallel....I From Open Access News on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

More on the Elsevier postprint archiving policy Mark Chillingworth, Elsevier allows article publishing on personal and institutional sites, Information World Review, June 8, 2004. Excerpt: "Scientific journal giant Elsevier is allowing its authors to publish their works on personal or institutional websites....Access to the papers will be via ScienceDirect or if researchers have a strong knowledge of an academic's or institutional website." (PS: I've heard the latter claim before, but it's mistaken. If the eprint is on the author's personal web site, then Google and oth From Open Access News on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

New report documents connection between democracy and public access to information Nancy Kranich, The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report, The Free Expression Policy Project, June 8, 2004. From the executive summary: "Libraries, civic organizations, and scholars have begun to turn the idea of the commons into practice, with a wide variety of open democratic information resources now operating or in the planning stages. These include software commons, licensing commons, open access scholarly journals, digital repositories, institutional commons, and subject matter commons in areas From Open Access News on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Mid-June Cites & Insights The mid-June issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is devoted to Catching Up with Copyright. The copyright issues are indirectly related to OA, as usual. But two parts are more directly OA-related: (1) a section on Saving the Public Domain, on Eldred v. Ashcroft and Kahle v. Ashcroft, and (2) a critique of Jason Griffey's master's thesis, which argued that the ALA should live up to its public statements and provide OA to its public From Open Access News on June 9, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..

Why a Great Campus Matters Considering going back to college? Dr. Carole S. Fungaroli encourages you to aim high!!... From Adult/Continuing Education on June 9, 2004 at 12:51 a.m..

First Audio Article - Educational Software and Learning: Subversive Use and Volatile Design - David Squires Thanks for the encouragement and good link to great Audio Recorder... Audacity, here's my first offering. [This is my first crack at this so a. my reading style could improve!!! &amp; b. I'm not crack hot at removing noise and compressing so if I sound a bit robotic and the file size (25meg) makes you run in fear then... suggest how I can make it smaller :o)]Educational Software and Learning: Subversive Use and Volatile Design - David Squires [.mp3 / 25MB / 2 From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 12:51 a.m..

Comment Count Gone I've removed 'comment count' from my comments so now you can't see how many comments have been made :o( But the page loads a million times quicker (or less slow if you care to look at it that way) Sort it out Userland... I've been on the forums with this and it's just not getting better... this continued problem together with the fact that you must be the last package on earth which doesn't allow users to sign up for updates on the comment thread by email is pushing me towards the edge! From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on June 9, 2004 at 12:51 a.m..

The State of Email (Ross Mayfield) I&#8217;m not one to give an address on the state of email (leave that to Eric Hahn), but I can address how the state of email is changing after participating in the INBOX Event last week. Since 1973, when it... From Corante: Social Software on June 9, 2004 at 12:50 a.m..

Status Of RSS According To PCWorld An excellent introductory article on RSS and its uses, showcases a large annotated list of services, resources and RSS tools available to the public. It's unfortunate that some of these mainstream articles miss on understanding what the best RSS feeds... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 9, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..

PowerPoint To Flash Price-Breaker: ViewletPresenter Qarbon has just released a very interesting new Powerpoint to Flash converter at market-breaking price: USD $ 99. Though there is no try-out available online, I am expecting the company, that has been overdelivering across its product line, to follow... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 9, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..

Turn Ahead: Specialty RSS Ad Feeds This may sound to you as crazy as it can get, but in my mind this striked me as being one of the few possible ways in which I would positively envision the convergence of RSS and advertisements. As I... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 9, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..

Legal Likes GPL on openMLX Got the call today from our Legal Department and they approve our plan for GPL licensing of an open source version of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (good thing cause we have been doing it anyhow). In fact, our legal counsel was impressed with "how clearly and humanly understandable the license was written" (that is the point). The question I cannot answer, which maybe someone can chime in on is, how can we set out a "requirement" that the original graphic logo rema From cogdogblog on June 9, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

Quicksort in Moiell An update on Moiell. Since the first post on Moiell I've been wanting to show you the quicksort example. But there was a bug in the implementation that prevented the example to run. And I wanted to be sure that I wasn't making a thinking error. The code is running now so here it is: qsort : [|x::more| xs := more > qsort(xs < x), x, qsort(xs >= x) ] > qsort(5,7,9,3,6,7,0,3,4) First, to get that out of the way, xs := more is to kill the lazyness that was so useful in the prime sieve. … From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on June 8, 2004 at 11:47 p.m..

Working Draft: Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML 2004-06-08: The XML Protocol Working Group and the Web Services Description Working Group jointly released the First Public Working Draft of Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML. The draft describes how to indicate the media type of XML element content and the way to specify that type in XML Schema. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 8, 2004 at 11:47 p.m..

Last Call: SOAP Resource Representation Header 2004-06-08: The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SOAP Resource Representation Header. Comments are welcome through 29 June. The document describes a SOAP header block that allows applications to carry a representation of a Web resource in a SOAP message. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 8, 2004 at 11:47 p.m..

Last Call: SOAP Transmission Optimization, XML-Binary Packaging 2004-06-08: The XML Protocol Working Group has released SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism and XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP) as Last Call Working Drafts. The drafts improve SOAP Version 1.2 performance. Comments are welcome through 29 June. Also published are XOP Frequently Asked Questions, the Attachment Feature which is superseded, and the completed Use Cases and Requirements. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 8, 2004 at 11:47 p.m..

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