GOPremix I knew there had to be some. The comments to my query have a bunch, but this is a favorite. More? From Lessig Blog on June 13, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Getting ready for NMC 2004 Road Trip The Norman family is just about ready for the big trek across the Rockies... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on June 13, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Some parents just say 'whoa' to school-required medications As parents seek more legal protection, controversy over drugs' impact deepens. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on June 13, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

E-Learning Publikationen Viele Links zu Zeitschriften, Datenbanken, Literatur, Newsletter und Weblogs findet man beim Infoservice Media & Education des Lehrstuhls für Mediendidaktik & Wissensmanagement an der Universität Duisburg-Essen. [via Weiterbildungsblog] From BildungsBlog on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Knoppix für BaWü Um Schüler und Lehrer für das Thema Open Source Software zu sensibilisieren und diese auf die vielfältigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten sowie auf vorhandene Open-Source-Programme hinzuweisen, hat Baden-Württemberg: Connected (bwcon), eines der größten regionalen IT-Netzwerke Europas, dem Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg 2.000 Knoppix-CDs „That’s IT“ für die Weiterverteilung an interessierte Schulen in Baden-Württemberg zur Verfügung gestellt.Schule-bw--> From BildungsBlog on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Monográfico sobre weblogs La revista PC Cuadernos dedica su monográfico de mayo (nro. 19) a los weblogs. Se trata de una completa guía de introducción de 96 páginas elaborada por los bloguers daneses Jens Winther y Jesper Balslew, muy bien traducida y con... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Resultados de las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo A partir de las 22 hs. comenzarán a difundirse los resultados de las Elecciones al Parlamento Europeo 2004. Los datos oficiales podrán obtenerse en este sitio del Ministerio del Interior, donde ya hay avances de participación.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

LORville Wired news ran an interesting story about visitorville, a tool that visualizes web traffic in a SimCity kind of way. Web sites are neighbourhoods, web pages are buildings, buses represent visitors referred by search engines, etc. I hope someone is... From ErikLog on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Fanzine-Archive und -Bibliotheken Derzeit ist eine Ausstellung über Fanzines im Umlauf: "„Fanzines – Do It Yourself!“ - tourt als Ausstellung mit Vortrag durch siebzehn deutsche Städte (Termine). Die kleine Fanzineschau wird die materielle und gestalterische Vielfalt dieser Publikationen präsentieren." Unter Links findet sich auf der Webpage ein --> From Archivalia on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

CC-Lizenzen für Deutschland Creative Commons hat die Anpassung seiner Lizenzen an das deutsche Recht veröffentlicht. Ich würde gern ARCHIVALIA unter die folgende CC-Lizenz stellen: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/de/ Beiträger werden um Stellungnahme gebeten. From Archivalia on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Archives of Saddam http://www.boston.com/dailynews/160/wash/Archives_of_Saddam_rule_were_d:.shtml Fires at the Iraq National Library set as U.S. forces took over Baghdad did not destroy large numbers of rare books and ancient manuscripts as initially feared, U.S. investigators say. Instead, the fires apparently were aimed at destroying sensitive records about Saddam Hussein's government, said Mary-Jane Deeb, a specialist on the Arab world at the Library of Congress. [.. From Archivalia on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Basic Open Access Web Sites http://www.lib.uconn.edu/about/publications/scholcomopenaccessbasic.htm From Archivalia on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Naigle receives GTF We've just gotten word that Debi Naigle will receive the Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Curriculum Studies for 2004-05. This is quite an honour, and she joins a list of distinguished scholars from the Educational Communications and Technology. Our congratulations to... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES IN SCHOOLS SURVEY, 2003-2004 An analytical report on the Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey (ICTSS), 2003-2004 was released on Thursday, June 10, 2004 in the Statistics Canada Daily. The Daily can be downloaded at no charge from the Statistics Canada website http://www.statcan.ca.... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

I'm outa here! I'm on my way to Italy with my good wife Karin and my jeez-you-finally-graduated-jazz-musician son, Benjamin. We'll be in Cinque Terre for a few days before the ED-Media 04 conference in Lugano, Switzerland. I'll blog again from Lugano later this... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Wink - Free Screen Motion Capture Tool Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users. Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink. Click the green arrow button to start viewing it - Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features From soulsoup on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Blogging in organisations Blogging for Fun and Profit by Sue Bushell, CIO Australia Good article on possible usage, ROI, tips and traps of using corporate blogs. Via : Judith Meskill's Knowledge Notes... From soulsoup on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Orange squashes SPV smartphone Mobile phone network Orange has launched its latest Windows Mobile smartphone - which it claims is the smallest handset of its kind in the world. The SPV C500 measures 10.8 x 4.6 x 1.6cm and weighs just 100g. The device sports a 16-bit colour display and includes Bluetooth support. It contains... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Gant2 DIA Skin 1.01 Gant2 DIA Skin 1.01 is another nice and functional skin by Velo. This skin only works on a Tungsten T3 an extended keyboard has been added. <CENTER>http://www.pdatrends.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=301</CENTER> From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Review: The N-Gage QD We're doing a three part review: part one covers the deck itself, part two covers available games and part three will cover the new titles specially produced for the launch of the QD. Nokia knows that the N-Gage will succeed or die on the the quality of the games and Arena service, and the two... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

palmOne Prepares Airport Ad Blitz A recent Wall Street Journal article reports that palmOne is about to launch a new advertising campaign aimed at business travelers. The ads will mostly be located at airports and will promote the Treo 600 smartphone. The article (WSJ subscription required) says the new $2 million dollar camaping... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

The Second Technology Revolution Need proof that mobile access to information is becoming a way of life? Look no further than the story about laptops outselling desktop PCs for the first time. This is big stuff that signals, if you'll pardon the expression, a major paradigm shift. I'm talking both about bigger bottom lines and... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition: Exposed! PocketNow has got an article detailing what's under the hood of the new Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. In recent months, quite a bit of buzz has been swarming around the mobile device industry in regards to what Microsoft had up its sleeve for the next release of the Windows Mobile operating... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Pocket Tunes 3.0 Pocket Tunes 3.0 has been released WMA support (deluxe only), Windows Media Player integration, better organization, improved plugins, and more. Pocket Tunes turns your Palm OS 5 device into a portable audio player! Play compressed audio files (MP3, WMA, or Ogg Vorbis) or uncompressed WAV files... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

TapSmart KeyLink TapSmart KeyLink connects your PC keyboard to your Palm Handheld for fast and easy typing of data directly into Palm applications. KeyLink lets you use the PC keyboard that you are already familiar with in a new way. And since you already own this keyboard, KeyLink can save you the expense of... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Windows Mobile and e-mail: keeping all up-to-date One of the main functionality current connected handheld devices is e-mail. Users can collect e-mails from a server, have the e-mails sent to devices, and other little tricks. We tested some services that offer a combination of pull and push techniques to give the always-on e-mail... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Categories For News Categories have been added to the front page news. This will allow for easy differentiation of the various news postings and lay the foundations for other enhancements that will be added in the future. From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Is the PDA going the way of the dodo? THE writing is on the wall for the personal digital assistant (PDA). Sony's announcement last week that it is going to quit its Clie market outside Japan only serves to confirm what tech analysts have been saying for some time - the PDA, a must-have gadget in the late 1990s, is headed the way of... From pdatrends News on June 13, 2004 at 3:35 p.m..

Collaboration: The Future Is Contextual, Process-Centric, and Community-Driven The bottom line from a recent META group article on collaboration states that "Effective collaboration strategies will enable workers and teams to be more productive within processes, with success measured via improvement in process outcomes and more sustained levels of innovation resulting fro... From Kolabora.com on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

OPM going online to promote telework  The Office of Personel Management (OPM) plans to host a web seminar on June 24 to teach agency managers how to become effective teleworkers. The seminar is part of an effort to boost the poor adoption rate (14%) for telework in federal agencies, blogged earlier here, and here and her... From Kolabora.com on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

Alliance Launches Telecommute Effort Alliance Launches Telecommute Effort (Newport News Times, June 9, 2004) reports on a county in Oregon that plans to actively recruit teleworkers in their area. "The Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County is forming a Telecommute Committee aimed at positioning Lincoln County as a place for ... From Kolabora.com on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

The evolution of a short essay In case it is of interest, I will point out that my Sunday and Wednesday posts of this week turned into rough draft material for an essay I recorded today for broadcast tomorrow on our local public radio station. Revising for the radio, I noticed repeatedly the limitations imposed upon the material (and upon me) by the four minutes or so of air time I am given -- I had to cut quite a lot of material that I still cared about. Revising, I also missed the chance to slow down and describe... From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

EE goes online The university's copy of the new post-pMachine software Expession Engine went online today. There is no content yet, but we'll have a university publication soon, as well as a One Book, One Community-style weblog, and the 40 or so student blogs I'll be setting up for my fall classes. We'll see how much more we can tempt into life as the software achieves some visibility here. I'll report back occasionally. From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

Life skills A family member tested for a red belt in Taekwondo today, and is proceeding steadily toward a black belt, which will, I imagine, be awarded to her less than a year from now. It's great to see the precision and power that a person achieves through the regular workouts, the well-designed routines that strengthen and test all parts of the body, the knowledge and confidence -- the process can change a person from physically and mentally, I believe. Reflecting on my spouse's accomplishments,... From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

Going underground I suspect that the next week or two will be completely devoted to setting up the democracy publication, so let's just say that I'm not likely to post here until later in the month. Hasta la vista. From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

Wikipedia totoally blocked in ChinaFrom Shizhao, a ... Wikipedia totoally blocked in ChinaFrom Shizhao, a wipipedian from Wikipedia Chinese edition, "All Wikipedia sites were blocked (in China), I proved this via router tracking. The requests to this sites can't even go through Beijing's boundary. It's time to report this to some departments". I don't know what "departments" Wikipedian should report, and by what reason. It's not like --> From on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

Repetition, reverb, and echoes It's Sunday morning and I've giving myself the luxury of interspersing web crawling with work. I just landed on Robin Good's Online Collaboration news page. Robin filters, reviews, and points to noteworthy items on the web. His interests and mine dovetail, so I can spend... From Internet Time Blog on June 13, 2004 at 3:34 p.m..

On PLoS and the BOAI Bryon Anderson, Open Access Journals, Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, May 3, 2004. Only this abstract is free online, at least so far: "Open access journals may play an important part in the development of peer-reviewed publishing. This column describes two recent initiatives in open access scholarly publishing: the Public Library of Science and the Budapest Open Access Initiative." (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, From Open Access News on June 13, 2004 at 3:33 p.m..

Librarians who support OAI-compliant repositories Lynne Horwood and three co-authors, OAI compliant institutional repositories and the role of library staff, Library Management, 25, 4 (2004) pp. 170-176.  Only this abstract is free online, at least so far:  "The role of librarians in the development and promotion of institutional repositories is discussed. It is presented as a continuation of their existing functions of acquiring, From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 13, 2004 at 3:33 p.m..

Online Learning & Online Knowledge-Making: Tips OnlineLearning Summary: Robin Good notes the worth of blog and wiki in online learning situations. Mark Evans makes suggestions about interaction and study style.Seems as if one of several distinct interpretations of the nature of a class could be "small group knowledge-making effort" (or a cluster of several small-group knowledge-making efforts). [See small group km model --> From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on June 13, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..

Critical Factors In Gaining Online Credibility "There are about 35 million websites on the Internet - by 2014 there'll be an estimated 150 million, not including personal websites. With so many people online and so many websites competing with yours, if you can't persuade Internet users... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 13, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..

Who Knows? Effectiveness CLO magazine June 2004 - Jay Cross What would you think of an assembly line where workers didn't know where to find the parts they were supposed to attach? Absurd, you say. Heads would roll. Yet for knowledge workers, this is routine. Consider a... From Internet Time Blog on June 13, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

The future of OA and TA journals David Goodman, Alternative Fates for the STM Journal System, a PPT presentation at the panel on Open Access Publishing at the Special Libraries Association Conference (Nashville, June 8, 2004). Goodman sketches several scenarios for the future of OA and TA journals and discusses the variables that wil From Open Access News on June 13, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

"Services to the information industry" Elsevier CEO Crispin Davis was knighted yesterday by Queen Elizabeth for his "services to the information industry". News coverage. From Open Access News on June 13, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

OA to UK legislation The UK Department of Constitutional Affairs is planning an open-access database of UK legislation. Quoting Tony Hopkins, head of the Statutory Publications Office at the DCA: "Giving the public access to consolidated legislation is also a prime business objective, and it is planned to make an Internet-based service available during spring of next year....I see it as a research tool for anyone who needs access to primary and secondary legislation." From Open Access News on June 13, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

Presentations from Wizards of OS Abstracts for most of the presentations at the Wizards of OS conference (Berlin, June 10-12, 2004) are now online. See especially the two panels, Free Science I: Publishing (Stefan Gradmann, Jean Claude Guédon, Stevan Harnad, and Shu-Kun Lin) and Free Science II: Funding and Activism (Stefan Gradmann, Tim Hubbard, James Love, and Benny Haerlin). Ethan Zukerman has blogged a loOpen Access News on June 13, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 14, 2004 are Journal of Property Investment & Finance and Jo ... Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 14, 2004 are Journal of Property Investment & Finance and Journal of Workplace Learning From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 13, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

The latest list of journals available on the EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) now covers ... The latest list of journals available on the EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) now covers 10361 titles From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 13, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

lbr.library-blogs.net is a blog about virtual reference. The original intent is for this to be a col ... lbr.library-blogs.net is a blog about virtual reference. The original intent is for this to be a collaborative blog for the librarians who work for tutor.com's Librarians By Request service From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 13, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

The Reading Room - a blog to gather news about rare books and special collections from around the we ... The Reading Room - a blog to gather news about rare books and special collections from around the web From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 13, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Advertising Becomes Part Of Content John Battelle says: "If advertisers are going to truly benefit from marketing on blogs, they will have to get to know each one to the point that their ads speak with a voice that is consistent in the community where... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 13, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Super Sized Guilty Pleasure My daughter and I enjoyed Super Size Me last night. It was funnier and more surprising than I'd expected. Even though there are many places I wince during Michael Moore's movies, and I come out of them thinking that they are not actually coherent, I am glad he makes them and am even happier that he's inspiring others to make polemical. comic stunt documentaries. They shouldn't be the only food in your diet, but they enable some topics to enter the art-house mainstream despite (or because of) their sloppy presentation.... From Joho the Blog on June 13, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Rheingold's commencement Howard Rheingold - one of the Heroes of the Net&amptrade; - gives a commencement speech to the Stanford Communication Department today. It warns of the forces working to own every idea, and points to wikipedia and ohmynews as positive examples. Towards the beginning he says: If your calling is journalism, you enter the job market at the same time that that the long and honorable history of American journalism is traveling through the digestive tract of the disinfotainment industry. But at the same time, you arrive on the scene just at the moment something broader, faster, and perhaps more demo From Joho the Blog on June 13, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Week ahead: Eyes on Oracle, earnings The Justice Department's case against Oracle will be closely watched, as will the database giant's earnings report. From CNET News.com on June 13, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Arrived How very strange - the Shanghai Racquet Club. As Nico once noted, "Americans are the only people who travel so far to not leave America." But the DSL works. Time for shower. More later. From homoLudens III on June 13, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Florida voting machines have software flaw - ASSOCIATED PRESS Touchscreen voting machines in 11 counties have a software flaw that could make manual recounts impossible in November's presidential election, state officials said. A spokeswoman for the secretary of state called the problems "minor technical hiccups" From Techno-News Blog on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights through Information Policy - Karthik Raman, Ubiquity In today's electronic world, an organization's intellectual property is sometimes its biggest asset. Much time and money can be saved, and frustration and litigation avoided if company policy dictates ownership and use of intellectual property. The adv From Techno-News Blog on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Education Arcade - Sally Atwood, Technology Review Games are an underexplored medium, according to Henry Jenkins, head of MIT From Techno-News Blog on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

NASA launches training for 'educator astronauts' - eSchool News Three teachers are scheduled to embark on a unique mission June 14. They are among the newest class of 11 astronauts recruited by NASA, who will begin training this summer for a future trip into space. The trio of educators intend to use their experien From Educational Technology on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Implementing the Standards into Projects - Rosemary Shaw, techLearning As far as I'm concerned, there is no better way to teach any concept than by having students participate in authentic hands-on, project-based learning. One wonderful aspect of projects is having an interdisciplinary array of curricula represented. Stud From Educational Technology on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Cash windfall from foreign student flood - YAKUB QURESHI, Scotland Sunday Scottish universities are preparing for a cash bonanza as the number of overseas students is predicted to double in the next 15 years. Students from outside the EU are currently charged fees of up to £22,000 a year to study at Scottish universities. From Online Learning Update on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Taxpayers pay for overseas tertiary students - TARA ROSS, New Zealand STUFF Kiwi taxpayers are footing the bill for more than 1000 tertiary students who do not even live in the country. Investigations by the Sunday Star-Times reveal Kiwis living overseas and enrolled in extramural courses at New Zealand institutions attract a From Online Learning Update on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Employees keen to learn on-line, board finds - VIRGINIA GALT, Globe and Mail Employers are finding an enthusiastic audience when they offer e-learning opportunities to their employees, says the Conference Board of Canada. "They value the flexibility, the increased control and the opportunity to develop themselves and increase t From Online Learning Update on June 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Untying The Gordian Knot: ICT For Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding "Information Communications Technology (ICT) in South Asia, as well as in the rest of the world, is an experiment in progress. Reading the wealth of literature on ICT, it is easy to forget that it is not a panacea for... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 13, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Institute for Advanced Learning and Research Offically Opens Doors; Warner, Hawkins, Goode, and Steger Congratulate Institute On Saturday, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research held its ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open the multimillion dollar facility. [PRWEB Jun 13, 2004] From PR Web on June 13, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Language Institute of Central Oregon Begins Summer Shorts Series The Language Institute of Central Oregon, located at 1224 NW Galveston Avenue in Bend, will begin its Summer Shorts Series on June 14, 2004 and run until September 3, 2004. Languages offered include: Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese. Enrollments currently accepted for adults and youth alike. [PRWEB Jun 13, 2004] From PR Web on June 13, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Many-to-Many Censorship? (Xiao Qiang) Call it state censorship M2M model: Chinese government just launched a new website for people to report on what officials describe as illegal or unhealthy information on the internet. A China blogger called this "a crackdown that employs a public... From Corante: Social Software on June 13, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..

Cognitive Mapping Bob Horn, inventor of Information Mapping, visualized and described hypertext long before the Web was invented. His "maps" of connections and thoughts explain concepts better than any 10,000 words, often nearly instantaneously. Many a workshop or conference on strategy or a reorganization or a new... From Internet Time Blog on June 13, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Ur-blogging Here's a baker's dozen of interesting things. I offer them up in hopes that you'll reciprocate. eCornell Reference Blog IBM Research Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp Chris Allen's Life with Alacrity, home of the awesome EditThisPagePHP AllLearn Positive Psychology Center Time... From Internet Time Blog on June 13, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..

Liebowitz's Newest File-Sharing Article Stan Liebowitz has produced yet another article on file-sharing's impact on record sales.  This time, he approaches the issue first from a theoretical basis, criticizing the argument that sampling via P2P will increase record sales.  He then questions the results of Eric Boorstein as well as Profes From owrede_log on June 13, 2004 at 1:46 a.m..

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