Me and PTV3 I'm doing three gigs in the next week or so as keyboardist with Psychic TV - thought I'd mention them here:Washington DC: Friday June 25, The 9:30 ClubPittsburgh PA: Saturday June 26, The EyeNew York NY: Saturday July 3, The Bowery Ballroommore info From rushkoff.blog on June 20, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

What Do You See Ahead? Seven Questions To Robin Good About Present And Future In Education, Communication Technologies And The Arts I am taking the opportunity of some kind of intangible relaxed universe I have just entered in my life, to take back up some mini-projects I had been sitting on for a while. This one in particular, wins the time-record for sitting on it. My good friend Sepp Hasslberger sent me these seven questions back in the fall of 2003 and I have long indulged in the soft, tolerant acceptance of our friendship to let this gently slip in the background, at least until the urgent matters I had to attend in these last nine months would have come to... From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on June 20, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Virtual Educa concluye con el objetivo de hacer llegar la educación a todo el mundo a través de las nuevas tecnologías Conseguir hacer llegar la educación a todo el mundo a través de las nuevas tecnologías, subrayando que el factor humano es relevante para este desarrollo, es el objetivo que se ha marcado el diálogo V... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on June 20, 2004 at 9:54 p.m..

La universidad corporativa Unión Fenosa, reconocida con la certificación Clip Cinco universidades corporativas europeas, entre ellas la de Unión Fenosa, han logrado la acreditacion Clip (Corporate Learning Improvement Proce... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on June 20, 2004 at 9:54 p.m..

Dan Gillmor's new book face revealingThe book, We ... Dan Gillmor's new book face revealingThe book, We the Media, is expected to be published soon and have a site to extend the book's impact, as Dan revealed on his eJournal. From on June 20, 2004 at 9:53 p.m..

Q&A With MIT¡¯s Nicholas Negroponte Q: Which new p ... Q&A With MIT¡¯s Nicholas Negroponte Q: Which new products or services are likely to make the biggest splash?A: Peer-to-peer is key. I mean that in every form conceivable: cell phones without towers, sharing leftover food, bartering, etc. Furthermore, you will see micro-wireless networks, where everyday devices become routers of messages that have nothing to do with themselves. Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organiza From on June 20, 2004 at 9:53 p.m..

Stephen Downes - 4 Semantic Web Gospels Stephen nails it. The Semantic Web should be simple to implement, simple to understand and it should be simple to find out the specs. This is not easy but nothing worthwhile is! From Whither the Semantic Web - Stephen's Web ~ : QUOTEHere is some gospel: if you can't do it simply, with a simple text-editor, a web server and a standard browser, it's broken. ... More gospel: if you can't say what you w From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on June 20, 2004 at 9:53 p.m..

Detailed German intro to OA Katja Mruck, Stefan Gradmann, and Günter Mey, Open Access: Wissenschaft als Öffentliches Gut, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, May 2004. The article is in German but the abstract is in English: "The need to provide open access to articles published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals is becoming apparent to researchers as well as the non-scientific public as a result of 'Budapest Open Access Initiative,' the 'Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humani From Open Access News on June 20, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Lessig lecture and seminar on OA Last week (June 16) at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Lawrence Lessig delivered a public lecture, Free Society, Free Markets, Free Culture: What is at Stake in the Open Access Debate? It was followed by a seminar by Lessig and Jürgen Renn, Rechtsfragen des Open Access in Deutschland (June 17). As far as I know, neither text is online. But Matthias Spielkamp has blogged short summaries of each, in English, to which Klaus Graf has added a few comments, in German. From Open Access News on June 20, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

OA news in the June Research Information The June issue of Research Information has several short notes on OA-related subjects: Yahoo's collaboration with OAIster, Google's collaboration with CrossRef, and the Thomson ISI study of the impact of OA journals. (PS: These short news items are in addition to the --> From Open Access News on June 20, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

CrossRef supports forwarding linking CrossRef and its partner Atypon have added forwarding linking to the basic CrossRef linking service. From the June 8 press release: "In addition to using CrossRef to create outbound links from their references, CrossRef member publishers can now retrieve 'cited-by' links -- links to other articles that cite their content. This new service is being offered as an optional tool to allow CrossRef members to display cited-by links in the prima From Open Access News on June 20, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Why BMC authors chose BMC BioMed Central has released the results of a survey showing why its authors chose BMC. 60% of BMC authors said the reason was BMC's open-access policy --the third most common reason after speed of publication (62%) and journal scope and reputation (61%). From Open Access News on June 20, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Transformed libraries support OA Joseph M. Brewer and three co-authors, Libraries Dealing with the Future Now, ARL Bimonthly Report, June 2004. Covering a range of topics including library support for OA. For example, it sketches one scenario in which a library's serials budget is cut by 10%. A "muddling through" library will make cuts across the board. A "transitioning" library make cuts according to more rational criteria, targeting "journals with histories of high inflation". A "transformed" library will "[r]eallocate some of the serials budget to fees for campu From Open Access News on June 20, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

More on the Google and Yahoo indexing of OAI-compliant archives Dave Gershman, U-M wises up to Google, Yahoo, Mlive.com, June 20, 2004 (free registration required). On the Google and Yahoo collaborations with the University of Michigan's OAIster. Excerpt: "After weeks of talks, U-M [University of Michigan] began providing data to Google and Yahoo this spring so Web surfers could begin finding scholarly material that wasn't previously available when using those search engines....U-M is in a position t From Open Access News on June 20, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..

Schooltool Congratulations to Tom who's got a new job project leading what looks like a wonderful project, SchoolTool: "SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence. Our vision is to create a platform that is equally compelling for schools and colleges in First and Third World countries, that supports best practices in school administration and which From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on June 20, 2004 at 9:51 p.m..

Peer-to-Peer Video Internet / Online Collaborative TV Network "The goal of the project is to create a platform for content consisting of a network of contributors and correspondents, recruited from young audiences and students distributed throughout all parts of the world, who are engaged in direct reporting via... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 20, 2004 at 9:50 p.m..

More on DRM Lock-In Can't comment on this now, but please be sure to read the following three posts: Cory's talk on DRM at Microsoft; Ernest's response; Wendy's response to Ernest Frank has been tracking this nicely, so look there as well for more updates. From A Copyfighter's Musings on June 20, 2004 at 9:49 p.m..

Weblogs Gaining Interest ISTE President Jan Van Dam referenced the growth of Weblogs during her introductory remarks this afternoon. She cited the Dean campaign, the bloggers role in the release of the casket draped coffins of soldiers in Iraq and other blogging milestones while alluding to the importance of preparing students to be active participants in the world around them. And while keynote Malcolm Gladwell didn't mention Weblogs per se, he spoke of the importance of social power and "connectors" who initiate change while referring to the theme of his book The T From Column Two on June 20, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Managing content with automatic document classification Rafael A. Calvo, Jae-Moon Lee and Xiaobo Li have written an academic paper on automatic document classification. To quote: News articles and Web directories represent some of the most popular and commonly accessed content on the Web. Information designers normally... From Column Two on June 20, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Offline for a Week I'll be offline for a week beginning Monday, June 14--making a big move in residence from one state to another. Postings to the EduResources Weblog should resume later in June. JH From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on June 20, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Public Spaces This is another of the - rather boring - mainstream media articles about blogs as the hottest internet phenomenon. Over the past five years, blogs have gone from an obscure and, frankly, somewhat nerdy fad to a gen... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 20, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights Big Blue places more systems on the Top500 list than any other company, including two unusual systems that crack the top 10. From CNET News.com on June 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

International benchmarking of vocational education and training This report critically examines two approaches to benchmarking vocational education and training (VET) - benchmarking through performance indicators and comparative case studies. The author finds both approaches provide useful information, although the case study approach enables a more thorough analysis of particular issues and can take greater account of complex and diverse institutional structures. This approach also accommodates the complex links between education, the labour market and other social institutions. However, there are a number of issues related to each approach in terms of av From EdNA Online on June 20, 2004 at 8:26 p.m..

Apprentice and trainee activity: March quarter 2004 - Summary This publication provides statistical information on apprentices and trainees for the quarter ending 31 March 2004. At the end of the quarter: there were 416,800 apprentices and trainees in-training, compared to 393,200 at 31 March 2003 and 397,100 at 31 December 2003. The number of apprentices and trainees in-training in the Trades and related workers occupation groups was 4% higher than the number at 31 March 2003. In the Clerical, sales and service workers (elementary, intermediate and advanced) occupation groups the number of apprentices and trainees in-training was 5% higher than in the p From EdNA Online on June 20, 2004 at 8:26 p.m..

Supporting Student Autonomy Online I’m linking to a paper (half-paper, really, since I’ll be leading a discussion using it as springboard) including notes I will use to lead a discussion at the “Supporting student autonomy: students’ creation and reuse of learning objects” event at the University of Strathclyde later today. The focus is on social interaction around open content, from self-organizing and game theoretic perspectives. Thoughts welcome and appreciated. From autounfocus on June 20, 2004 at 8:25 p.m..

Videoblogging Moves First Shy Steps: Blogvideo dot org Reports Videoblogging maybe the next small evolutionary step, of independent publishers, propping up just around the corner. For what I can see and understand the technology is all in place and what we really need is only a brave new company... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 20, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..

Sharewood Views: Seven Questions To Robin From Sepp Hasslberger Sepp Hasslberger, one of Robin Good's three independent news reporters participating in his Communication Agents Initiative, asks him seven direct questions on education, mainstream media, the arts, music rights and how to save the Internet. If you want to get... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 20, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..

Semantic Behavior Index Jon Udell speculates on what our OS would do if Google wrote it instead of Microsoft: On the Google PC, you wouldn't need third-party add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant messages. It would just happen. The voracious spider wouldn't stop there, though. The next piece of low-hanging fruit would be the Web pages you visit. These too would be stored, indexed, and made searchable. More ambitiously, the spider would record all your screen activity along with the underlying event streams. ... Interesting idea! And couldn't we implement enough of this to te From Joho the Blog on June 20, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..

Pray for Reason Possibly because of the "Pray for Cynicism" banner adorning the bottom of my blog, Mark Dionne sends along a link to Pray for Reason, a site that wants us to win the war of prayers against those who are praying for Bush's reelection. (More here...)... From Joho the Blog on June 20, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..

"My Students are Blogging Without Me" Check out some of the introductions of teachers in our Monday workshop at NCC. It looks like a really enthusiastic and somewhat blog savvy crowd that should make for a great session. Stay tuned tomorrow morning as I'm sure someone will be blogging it. From weblogged News on June 20, 2004 at 4:12 p.m..

Removing Cameras from Phones a Futile Gesture Sprint has announced that it will start selling camera-less Treo 600 smart phones from PalmOne, the Milpitas maker of the popular handheld devices. Why? To satisfy customers fearful of corporate espionage inside their businesses. I suppose it's always better to sell what the customer wants. But I have bad news for Sprint's worried customers: This won't help much, because the pace of technology means cameras will soon disappear from view, embedded in clothing and eyeglasses, not just phones. More... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on June 20, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..

... From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 20, 2004 at 4:10 p.m..

Blackboard Matters "BbMatters ... Blackboard Matters "BbMatters is an electronic publication which has been developed to bring together examples of best practice and feature issues relevant to Blackboard users in the FE sector. It will feature articles under the following headings: Accessibility matters, Curriculum Matters, Staff Development Matters, Success Matters, Technical Matters" Added: 20 June 200 From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 20, 2004 at 4:10 p.m..

Supporting Student Autonomy Online I’m linking to a paper (half-paper, really, since I’ll be leading a discussion using it as springboard) including notes I will use to lead a discussion at the “Supporting student autonomy: students’ creation and reuse of learning objects” event at the University of Strathclyde later today. The focus is on social interaction around open content, from self-organizing and game theoretic perspectives. Thoughts welcome and appreciated. From autounfocus on June 20, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..

ProQuest Information and Learning has acquired the assets of Axiom Press, Inc. (Lindon, Utah), publi ... ProQuest Information and Learning has acquired the assets of Axiom Press, Inc. (Lindon, Utah), publisher and distributor of the CultureGrams family of reference materials. CultureGrams offer concise, reliable, and up-to-date reports on the countries and cultures of the world From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 20, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

Thomas Technology Solutions has been awarded a project with the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ... Thomas Technology Solutions has been awarded a project with the National Collegiate Athletic Association to digitize the NCAA's paper archives of baseball, softball, and outdoor track championship records and develop an online, searchable archive of college sports statistics From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 20, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

The keynote speakers for Internet Librarian International 2004 have been announced ... The keynote speakers for Internet Librarian International 2004 have been announced From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 20, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 21, 2004 are Property Management and Strategic Direction ... Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 21, 2004 are Property Management and Strategic Direction From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 20, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

"The American Federation of Teachers offers e ... "The American Federation of Teachers offers entertaining ways to keep your child learning all summer with different activities every week SHOWCASE: School e-learning showcase mBlog "mBlog gives you the power to capture the moment by combining Internet and wireless technology so that you can post Text and Multim From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 20, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

AFT Summer Learning Calendar ... AFT Summer Learning Calendar This summer we'll serve up tasty recipes, science-in-the-kitchen projects and hands-on activities related to everybody's favorite subject...food." Added: 20 June 2004 Reviewer's Note: From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 20, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Agent- vs. communication-oriented modelling of structures via BamBlog: ...Schlieder's holding the chair for computing in the cultural sciences at Bamberg University and recently started a project called "Communication-Oriented Modeling (COM): Modellierung und Simulation gesellschaftlicher Kommunikationsprozesse" [Modelling and Simulating societal communication processes]... From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Thursday, June 17, 2004 Today, Counselor re-publishes his 1993 letter to the Houston Chronicle decrying the gridlock caused by the Democrats during the 103rd Congressional session. From RHPT.com on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Friday, June 18, 2004 I tweaked more of the website recently. From RHPT.com on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

300 images from 1800 sites 300 images from 1800 sites… oh my! ¶ From Open Artifact on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Free software portal UNESCO compilation of several hundred free software for education, communication, science, development. (via elearnspace) ¶ From Open Artifact on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Audio version of Cory Doctorow's DRM talk By Cory Doctorow, June 20, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily Audio on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Education Journalism By Variou, GLEF, June 20, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily Audio on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Counterfeit Reality By Jeffrey Harrow, June 7, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily Audio on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Local Access Can Nullify The Strongest Passwords Outlines how a malicious user with physical access to a computer can, within time, gain any or all passwords for that machine through obtaining the hashes, and also outlines ways of keeping those hashes safe(r). From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Security Through Obscurity As well as offering an introduction to cryptography and steganography, this paper proposes a new algorithm by where the combination of these techniques enhances security in data transfer. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on June 20, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Centralists Have Landed (NMC 2004) Vancouver is enjoying a glorious string of days on incredible sunshine, so the bloggers here have been a bit distracted, not even online... but today starts the NMC 2004 Conference and the Small Pieces session takes off in a few hours. We've already run into a number of well known bloggers out there. We have no idea how it will fly, this is a total seat of the pants experiment. It will be interesting to see how the session is carried out given that the presentation rooms are mostly classrooms with this little teeny wooden desks that are welded to the floor. Look here l From Technology Centralists on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

NMC Centralists (NMC 2004) Hello All! Apparently our centralists are primarily Mac users. Ironic since Macs tend to be separate from managed and 'centralized' computing. In any case, we are attempting to collect information and examples on centralized technologies. Some people in our group aren't familiar with iChat, so we are assiting one another. Our fearless leader is communicating with someone in Shanghai. We are also using a program called SubEthaEdit, that allows our group to read and edit a document simultaneously through Rendezvous. Neat! blog submitted by Al Matthe From Technology Centralists on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

A Visitor from Shanghai (NMC 2004) This is an amazing experience. We just had a visitor from Shan From Technology Centralists on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Planned Chaos (NMC 2004) This has been such an interesting experiment. We chatted with someone (Gerry Paille From Technology Centralists on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Scholarship, teaching, new media, and copyright conference The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is holding a conference this weekend on the growing copyright problems facing scholars using digital media. "Knowledge Held Hostage: Scholarly Versus Corporate Rights in the Digital Age" examines the --> From NITLE Tech News on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Envío masivo de invitaciones de Gmail Yo ya lo había notado, porque las tres o cuatro cuentas de Gmail que tengo habían comenzado a recibir de repente más y más posibilidades de realizar nuevas invitaciones para abrir cuentas de Gmail. Pero lo que era una sospecha lo veo ahora confirmado en google.dirson.com, que nos informa de que todas las cuentas de Gmail (tanto nuevas como antiguas), así como muchos clientes de AdWords y usuarios de Blogger, están recibiendo 3 invitaciones extra para enviarlas a sus conocidos. (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

1815: Batalla de Waterloo, en la que Napoleón es derrotado definitivamente por los aliados En 1815, Napoleón hizo huir al rey Luis XVIII y se puso de nuevo al frente del Estado y del ejército francés. Mientras intentaba ganarse a los franceses presentándose con un proyecto más liberal que en su anterior etapa, preparó la inevitable confrontación militar contra los aliados. Ésta se produjo en la batalla de Waterloo (Bélgica), donde los aliados derrotaron definitivamente a Napoleón bajo el mando de Wellington. Napoleón fue desterrado a la lejana isla de Santa Helena (océano (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Blog-hosting service closes down without warning Wired.com reports that "Blogging pioneer Dave Winer unexpectedly closed Weblogs.com, his free blog-hosting service, on Sunday, leaving thousands of bloggers without access to their blogs."... From MANE IT Network on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Private, Secure P2P FilesSharing with CleverCactus.com I've just discovered a neat file-sharing application from CleverCactus.com. The application allows you to easily setup shared folders on your computer and to specify which files/folders you would like to share with certain individuals or groups via the Internet. While... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Hyperlinkomatic - Another (Social) Bookmark Manager? A while back I reported on what have come to be known as social bookmark managers or link loggers, citing examples such as furl, spurl and del.icio.us. Now I have noticed Hyperlinkomatic, which seems to be similar. I tried it... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

UK wastes €2.3bn on over-complex e-government CRM - software firm Although significant sums are being invested in the systems, local and central government services and websites are no more accessible to citizens than before, according to software services firm Transversal. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

TMN delivers Euro 2004 data content to subscribers Services will also include multimedia information (MMS and video clips) and a wide selection of downloads from the European football championship. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Cabovisao supplied with VoIP infrastructure Portuguese cable provider Cabovisao has been supplied with VoIP technology from General Bandwidth. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Belarusian music sharing website founder fined Feodor Korolenko’s site, Pesniary.com, started in 1998 as a non-commercial project, very quickly became very popular with music fans in Belarus and beyond. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

KPN, Rabobank investigating use of RFID KPN is investigating installing an RFID chip on its mobile-handset SIM card. KPN (and its business partners) could subsequently offer customers any number of services - from paying for a concert ticket (electronic purse) and gaining entry (electronic ticket), to having a stolen handset traced. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

France Telecom introduces single bill enterprise wi-fi/ADSL/GPRS/PSTN/3G Regardless of the network accessed, France Telecom’s Business Everywhere suite of services provides one contract, one customer support contact and one bill. Employees have one connection kit and one password only. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

DVR users watch more VOD than non-DVR users - survey A new survey has revealed that digital video recorder users are watching more video-on-demand programming than non-DVR users - a finding that may be surprising to cable-service providers as it challenges a widespread industry assumption that DVR and VOD technologies are competing for viewers' usage. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Two thirds of British silver surfers banking online Contrary to popular conception, some two thirds of people over the age of fifty who use the internet are banking online in the UK, according to a new survey from the UK’s National Westminster Bank. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

‘Digital corridor’ planned across Irish-NI border The Midas Project, as it is called, aims to promote economic development by attracting a cluster of gaming, film, animation and digital design companies to the East Border region of Ireland. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Nokia rejoins WiMax Forum A month after leaving the industry association aimed at promoting the IEEE 802.16 wireless standard, the Finnish mobile manufacturer has rejoined. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

AudioCoding.com AudioCoding.com's goal is to provide the community with free MPEG-4 audio codecs. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

A Brief Introduction to GPS Photo Linking Digital cameras record EXIF data that tells us when we took a picture, but what if wewant to know where; too? Contributor to O'Reilly's Digital Photography Hacks, David Goldwasser introduces us to using GPS positioning data with EXIF timestamps to build interacti From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

National Summit For Community Wireless, August 20-22, 2004 From their press release: The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN), Prairienet, and Free Press invite you to join us for a national Community Wireless Networking Summit August 20-22, 2004 in Urbana, IL. "Making the Connection: The 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks" will focus on grassroots action, impacting national regulations and policies, and building a coalition of local groups, researchers, policy leaders, decision-makers, and community activists. It's time we organized to take the public airwaves back from corporate From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

FAAC Lesser GPL-licensed AAC/MP4 encoder. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

New PJ Educators Discussion Group In an effort to start a broader conversation on the issues journalism educators face as they try to apply a civic focus into existing courses (or create new courses dedicated to the practice of civic journalism), I have initated a new online discussion group via Yahoo Groups: Public Journalism Educators. For those interested in the educational implications of this movement, consider joining and chiming in. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Running a G4 Laptop with the lid closed macosxhints - Run newer PowerBooks with the lid closed. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

moops Aisling Kellher and co at MIT are working on a Nokia interface for vogging. They've got a mupe server up and running and some test movies to have a look at. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

The Little Engine That Could (Sky is the Limit) Great article by Cringely about disruptive technologies - "any new gizmo that puts an end to the good life for technologies that preceded it" - focusing on Linksys WRT54G wireless router. The fact that WRT54G is embedded Linux computer opens possibilities to add services and interesting features to machine's firmware. One immediate idea: build BitTorrent into the router firmware and seamlessly seed media files from a shared hard drive on a local desktop... From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

More Exploding Jeff Jarvis :) More great information for those following the exploding TV thread: Drazen Pantic, a pioneer in bringing the power of video to citizens, has two great pieces on his site: : This one describes how a peer-to-peer TV network can work. : This one -- called Anybody Can Be TV -- briefly gives details on such things as open-source video e From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Music Metadata Music metadata wiki workspace at Socialtext. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Making wikivideo in a videowiki I'm thinking about a system for editing individual videoclips, from videoblogs, into sequences which then can be stored as SMIL-documents in the editors blog. Afterwards the sequence might re-edited and stored as new versions by others without changing the original sequence or the video-clips. From now on I will refer to this concept as "wikivideo". Actually I'll probably end up writing about the wiki-like part of the system more than about the blogging part. Anyway, wikivideo it is: Being "fast" and "collaborative" videomaking, but still crediting indi From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Does Participatory Journalism Go Too Far? Trudy Schuett: Did Denver Big3 Deliberately Endanger Citizen Journalists?Because I have a satellite dish, I happened to be watching an evening newscast of a Denver station, KCNC Channel Four. Early this week, the Denver area experienced a spate of tornadoes. They included in their coverage a number of photos taken by citizens with digital cameras or cell phones. As you can imagine, many of these were very well done, close up a From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Live Flash Streaming via FFMPEG The latest installment on OSSA's HOWTO page describes briefly the procedure to use Open Source tools in order to produce Live Flash Stream via FFMPEG. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Unbearable Lightness of Building a (Light) Browser Firefox 0.9 is out - that is yesterday's news. I have not built (compiled on my machine) a browser in a long time - it used to be a painful and long process to build your own customized Mozilla. Now, things have changed: the installation process is very smooth and well documented. Following procedure as described for example here, within an hour or so one could have a brand new "home-compiled" fast, reliable and versatile browser. From unmediated on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

CACI, Intelligence and KM CACI International Inc normally provides IT and network solutions for defense, intelligence, and e-government. Their services are usually in systems integration, managed network solutions, knowledge management, engineering, simulation, and information assurance. CACI's proported involvement in the recent prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq has cast a pall over their organization. In the interest of 'setting the record straight' CACI have released the following press release: --> From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

lockheed adopts tacit's activenet... InformationWeek's Thomas Claburn writes: Lockheed Finds A Way To Connect Questions With Answers. ..."We're a highly distributed technology company and the result of many, many mergers," says Ron Remy, deputy CIO for Lockheed Martin Space Systems. "We probably have 30 or 40 operating units within the corporation. The question really is, how do you collaborat From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

singlestep technologies and autonomic computing... Dan Neel reports for CRN: Singlestep Offers First Step Toward Autonomic Computing. ...Singlestep Technologies on Monday unveiled the latest version of its Adaptive IT Process Automation and Information Management software, Singlestep Unity 2.0. Chris Noble, CEO of the Seattle-based company, is touting Unity 2.0 as the logical starting point for companies embarking on a path toward autonomic com From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

knowledge management and innovation... Denver Post Staff Writer, Kelly Pate Dwyer, writes about Banking knowledge at Sun Microsystems, Coors Brewing Co., and Denver Health. The following is an excerpt from Kelly's coverage of Sun Microsystems' "innovation repository": ...A staff of six in Sun Microsystems' knowledge services unit has spent eight months crafting ways to bring employees' ideas to light, ideas that otherwise might be forgotten over a casual lunch or a quick meeting o From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

ibm's patricia sellinger on autonomic db features... Robert Westervelt writes for SearchDatabase.com: IBM's Selinger enters Women in Technology Hall of Fame. ...An IBM Fellow, Selinger serves as director of the Database Technology Institute, a research arm at IBM, where she works with a team building new features into IBM's DB2 database management system (DBMS). In an interview with SearchDatabase.com, Selinger discussed the future of the relational database and the l From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

knowledge management and peoplesoft... In a recent press release PeopleSoft announced: Enterprise CRM 8.9 Delivers CRM Best Practices, Unmatched Usability to Workforce Management. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2004--Today at its 2004 spring CRM Customer Summit, PeopleSoft(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT) announced that new releases of its help desk solutions for information technology ( From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

collaboration at sea... News From USJFCOM: Collaboration at sea program helping to build a better battle rhythm (ONBOARD USS MOUNT WHITNEY -- June 16, 2004) - How does a combined joint task force (CJTF) commander engaged in a war exercise ensure that more than 28,000 personnel from the U.S. and other allies quickly and efficiently manage information in a dynamic environment? For Vice Adm. Gary Roughead, commander, Joint Tas From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

knowledge management wiki... In an eMediaWire press release--Atlassian announces Confluence 1.1 - The Professional Wiki Gets Better. Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) June 17, 2004--Today, Atlassian Software Systems announced the first major update to their knowledge management product, Confluence - the professional J2EE wiki. Confluence 1. From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Indian Muslim Organisation condemns harassment of eminent human rights leader Fr. Cedric Prakash of Gujarat ...The harassment of human rights activists fits the pattern of an ongoing campaign of intimidation by the government of the Indian state of Gujarat... From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

India - Najma Heptullah joining BJP is a betrayal of trust: Muslim Member of Parliament ...Najma Heptullah's joining BJP has particularly troubled members of her community, who felt further bewildered, the other day (soon after she obtained membership of BJP) on her refusal before TV channels, to comment on Gujarat... From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

India - Gujarat - Circumstances of Killing of Alleged Terrorists Raise Doubts, Muslim Organisation Demands Investigation The killing by Gujarat Police on 15 June, 2004 of 4 alleged LeT terrorists on a mission to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi comes at a time very convenient.... From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Islam - Haj Committee of India: ANNOUNCEMENT FOR HAJ 1425(H)-2005(AD) Applications should reach the concerned State Haj Committee on or before 10th July, 2004 From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

India - AFMI Condemns Kidnapping of Pastor's Wife in Gujarat ..condemned the kidnapping and forced confinement of a pastor's wife by extremist elements in the Dahod district of Gujarat... From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

India - AIMMM Delegation Calls on Sonia Gandhi to Discuss Muslim Concerns Receives Warm and Sympathetic Response from the President of the Indian National Congress and the Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance From The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islam: News on June 20, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

NMC 2004 Session Decentralist Manifesto Random Notes - Even a decentralist wants a system to work - Provide the wires and power and let it go - Provide the interfaces - Decentralists are not de-connected - not isolationsists - not vandals - community based on a shared platform - rapid group forming, ridiculously easy group forming and problem solving, group comes together and disappears when the need is gone -ad hoc... From Small Pieces - Decentralist's Weblog on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Gold rush Formerly codenamed ComboBox and Goldrush, we've heard only rumours and murmurs about the impending VDSL rollout in eastern Canada. This has all changed, as I saw this URL in the Metro paper today. These news come on the heels of Bell Canada requesting a cable TV license from the CRTC. Bell has also partnered with Microsoft to trial their IPTV technology, the first telco in North America to do so. It's ExpressVu, Sympatico High Speed and SmartTouch services through the phoneline, powered by VDSL. No satellite dish or multiple receivers are required. A single set-top box houses the VDS From silentblue | Quantified on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Irony isn't dead, it's just resting Exhibit A: Thieves steal laptops from security conference. Called the Asian Securitex 2004 conference, participants hawked such devices as video surveillance cameras and alarm systems - which I guess weren't plugged in. Exhibit B: Intel releases the Wireless Technology Surfboard, allowing one to finally, irrevocably, "surf the web". From silentblue | Quantified on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Homebrew? My site isn't coffee On May 25th, my good friend Dezza IMed me about making a new website design to go with his new domain, MaskofChina.com. I remarked that there's nothing wrong with what he has now; after all, he made it himself, it's homebrew. To which he replied, "Nah, I need a cool one...now that I got my own site...My site isn't coffee!" As Dezza likes to say, it's a Chinese Situation. Behold, before and after: Fortunately, my CSS has improved to the point that I could sketch the design, code it, inlay the Blogger template codes into it and launch it on midnight June 14th. I followed the From silentblue | Quantified on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Studies show this blog is low in carbs and Y2K compliant The official slogan of Quantified is "Fat-free and dolphin safe", which is a lighthearted poke at sensational claims written on the packaging of the things we buy. You see, we endure true tests of critical thinking everyday - junk science. "Science" makes everything sound authentic. Marketers know this, and that's why you have packages screaming "33% better!" (better than what?) and "100% natural!" (as opposed to unnatural?). Marketers know that tarting up products with pseudo-scientific claims automatically make them legitimate to most folks - even if the scientific studies behind it are From Contentious Weblog on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Owning your Data Kathleen talks about blogs as filing cabinets, in that they can become a fully searchable  content management system for research and work, while Jay Cross discusses the advantages of using GMail to search through thousands of messages in a single repository. Similar approaches - with what I assume is similar technology - only the business relationship is different. Kathleen owns the server and the data, while Jay will be "renting for f From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Weblogs.com Blogs Closed Down Dave Winer has unexpectedly pulled thousands of weblogs hosted at weblogs.com, stating his reasons in an audio post. Weblogs.com Blogs Closed Down | Kairosnews... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Wild Weblog Ideas I've been mulling over a couple of "out there" projects that I'd love to get started next school year (or maybe before) built around Weblogs. Weblogg-ed - Using Weblogs and RSS in Education :... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Wither the Semantic Web I have been and continue to be a supporter of the Semantic Web. It is, however, an idea that I believe has drifted and with each passing day is becoming more irrelevant. I have enormous respect for the creativity and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Learning from disappointment. Learning solutions are routinely implemented with the promise of delivering results. Too often, the results are disappointing. While the factors creating the lack of success are varied, they can usually be grouped into 10 familiar categories. Learning From Disappointment: When... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Canada and Copyright. In a global fight between copyright holders and users, the battles in Canada have stood out from the crowd. As a result of various opinions and court decisions, Canadians are one group out of very few who refer to downloading... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Designing Collaborative E-learning for Results Because we can communicate by email and over the Web, we no longer need to meet face to face. The more connected we are, the more isolated we are. Designing Collaborative E-learning For Results... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Senate Tangles Over VOIP Rules We use voip phones in the cyber pod. Each of our developers has a voip phone on their computers and we use them for contacting the students. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. Wired News: Senate Tangles... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

ISTE and Microsoft Team Up to Provide Online Assessments Of Technology Literacy in Middle Schoolers Washington, DC--The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation mandates that by 2006 every eighth-grade student in the United States be proficient in technology literacy skills. To help teachers monitor student progress and meet those requirements, an innovative new online tool... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Hard Talk: Q&A with Saul Carliner Editor-In-Chief, eLearn Magazine. Loaded with hard facts, statistics and data. soulsoup: Hard Talks... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Telling it like it is... I found this a little hard to follow but it is great to see people asking the hard questions. For those that don't know Murray Goldberg, he is the founder of WebCT Roland Tanglao's Weblog: NMC 2004 Students tell it... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Blended collaborative Learning An interesting article well worth the read. Online Teaching of Online Educators... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Center for Digital Storytelling The Center for Digital Storytelling is a non-profit project development, training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives. Their focus is on developing large-scale projects for community, educational and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Preparing Students for Learning in an Online World - Francesca Lorenzi, Kay MacKeogh, Abstract: This paper outlines the way in which Oscail (National Distance Education Centre - Ireland) has developed its technology strategy, from the initial research on student readiness to learn using technology to more recent studies which have identified the need... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

The Effects of Loss and Latency on User Performance in Unreal Tournament 2003 The following page points to some research on the impact of latency on gamers and, in particular, on recent research involving Unreal Tournament:The Effects of Loss and Latency on User Performance in Unreal Tournament 2003 [1]. I think this is an absolutely great way to attract students: do research on gaming technology. In fact, I once proposed to NRC that I could do some research on Web porn technology, but my boss (Bruce Spencer) seemed reluctant for some reason to invest government dollars in the porn industry. I still haven't given up on using porn technology as a research topic th From Daniel Lemire's blog on June 20, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Cool artist of the day: Laura Veirs I discovered yet one more cool artist on inDiscover today: Laura Veirs [1]. Very poetic and somewhat catchy. She's got a great site [2]. I really like these two songs... Cloud Room [3] Rapture [4] and especially Cloud Room [3]. Don't stand there reading my blog! Go listen to her! Don't wait till she comes on the radio, it may never happen. Take control now! [1] http://www.indiscover.net/owner.php?id=150 [2] http://www.lauraveirs.com/ [3] http://www.indiscover.net/item.php?id=353 [4] http://www.indiscover.net/item.php?id=353 [5] http://www.indiscover.net/item.php?id=353 From Daniel Lemire's blog on June 20, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Timeline Creator Tool Via the cogdogblog comes a post regarding a pretty interesting Timeline Creation Tool that matches an XML file to a Flash movie for the creation of, you guessed it, a timeline. The graphics might not exactly wow you but the tool has good potential as a semantic mapping tool for helping students organize and visualize events over time. From Brain Frieze on June 20, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Awesome list of freebies Jason Lefkowitz at Just Well Mixed has put together an awesome list of programs and recommendations for making your computing and web life a better experience. I really like the approach he took to organizing the software that he reviews. Rather than just give you the names of the programs he provides a long list of the things he wants to actually do and then points to the programs that do it well, and for free. Nice job Jason! From Brain Frieze on June 20, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Kudos to the Fireworks extension developers I just finished a pretty exhaustive, and as it turned out, exhausting, review of all the extensions that are available for Macromedia Fireworks. Although I do my best to stay on top of all things Fireworks, it had been a while since I dug that deeply into what's out there. I was delighted and amazed to see so many great things available for creative and production enhancements for Fireworks. My personal favorites are the awesome new Smart Shapes made by senocular, including the Posable... From Brain Frieze on June 20, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Online, SMS Poll to Find World's 'Great Human' Former South African president Nelson Mandela is leading the field in an SMS and Internet poll to find the greatest South African ever, reports Tracy Burrows on ITWeb. Similar projects are being run in Germany, France, Canada, and Russia. The winners in each country will be pitted against each other in a "Great Human" contest. The Great South Africans Project, run by the country's national broadcaster (SABC), is being staged to find who is regarded as the g From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 20, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Radio for Kids "La Caja de Msica" (The music box) is a website which broadcasts a weekly radio program devoted to Chilean kids. Every Monday it uploads a new 45-minute long program with news, songs, and information for children. The news is it does not belong to a media company, but a musical producer, as El Mercurio explains in a recent story (in Spanish). Its success on the Internet has been followed by tr From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 20, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

A Five-Part Challenge Veteran online journalist Barry Parr has wrapped up a five part series entitled "Why Can't a Newspaper Be More Like a Blog?" on his weblog, MediaSavvy. It's a thought-provoking read. I'm not sold on what he has to say about RSS (it needs more users) and trackbacks (porn spammers exploit them), but the points he's making -- be part of the 'Net, not just on the 'Net -- are right on. Here are links to each of the five parts: