CNet: Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law. But members of the nascent coalition, including Intel, Sun Microsystems, Verizon Communications, SBC, Qwest, Gateway and BellSouth, are lending their support to a proposal by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., to rewrite that part of the DMCA. Boucher's bill says that descrambling utilities can be distributed, and copy protection can be circumvented as long as no copyright infringement is taking place.--> From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on June 22, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..
Iran's Net Censorship Hoder points me to "Stop Censoring Us" -- a site about the increasing level of government intervention in what was emerging as relatively free speech in Iran. I'm not sure what individuals outside Iran can do about this except to offer support to the Iranians who want to speak their minds. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on June 22, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..
MasterCard tackles phishing Company wants to attack scammers before they rip off consumers' data, rather than chase down criminals after they've victimized people. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Yahoo beefs up Net phone features The company is partnering with a VoIP specialist to strengthen the telephony features it offers through its free instant-messaging client. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
SBC plans billions on high-speed fiber Microsoft's Internet TV technology is part of what's coming as the carrier races to keep its customers. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Dialing up phones' future As Supercomm 2004 gets rolling in Chicago, the talk turns to high-speed networks and new telephone features. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Weblogs im Wissensmanagement? via eWerx.communications°: Am 04. Juli 2004 findet der BlogWalk 3.0 in Krems bei Wien statt und vom 05. bis 06. Juli 2004 die Konferenz BlogTalk 2.0 in Wien. Beide Veranstaltungen gehen unter anderem den Fragen nach, ob und wie sich Weblogs im Wissensmanagement einsetzen lassen. From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on June 22, 2004 at 12:03 p.m..
Sunday, June 20, 2004 Emily and I watched Dodgeball Friday, and although the movie does not advance the art of film, it was one hell of a funny movie. From RHPT.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:03 p.m..
Monday, June 21, 2004 Two things I want to address.Deleting Old Posts My mention of having deleted old posts caused some discussion between two other web logs, as Counselor and Coyote Fun – whom I do not know, disapproves of the practice. From RHPT.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:03 p.m..
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 We here at RHPT.com give a big shout-out to The Tanimal for hooking up an old friend with a coveted – by us geeks anyway – Gmail account. From RHPT.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:03 p.m..
Buying support for Open Source? Jean, in a response to Evan’s comment (on her blog) to my earlier article about why education institutions don’t use Open Source software makes an interesting suggestion: --> From Open Artifact on June 22, 2004 at 12:02 p.m..
TheSiteWizard.com Happened upon TheSiteWizard.com and wonder how I missed it!? Superb web standards, web development, and web hosting articles and tutorials. ¶ From Open Artifact on June 22, 2004 at 12:02 p.m..
Semantic Comments in WP Morten does great things for WordPress. Wonder why they aren’t immediately implemented by the WP developers? Here, he adds RDF-formed feeds for comments. ¶ From Open Artifact on June 22, 2004 at 12:02 p.m..
Wink Wink is screenshot capture program, similar in features to SnagIt, which will create .swf and .pdf format files. Distributed as freeware. ¶ From Open Artifact on June 22, 2004 at 12:02 p.m..
TaxonomÃas Una de las razones que me llevó a elegir SPIP como CMS para martinalia.com fue su capacidad para clasificar los contenidos de una manera absolutamente flexible. Por tanto, me permitÃa contar con mi propia taxonomÃa, sin depender de la estructura rÃgida de casi todos los sistemas de publicación de bitácoras y de gran parte de los sistemas de Gestión de Contenidos más habituales en el mercado. Claro que aún ha de mejorar su capacidad de utilización de las taxonomÃas, permitiendo, (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Wall Street Journal intro to blogging The Wall Street Journal has published an introduction to blogging. Interestingly, and relevant to higher ed, is the article's pitch from a family relationship angle: I've used a variety of Web sites in recent years to share photos of my... From MANE IT Network on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Mobile phone services for airline passengers arrive The new technology will in theory allow seamless usage of today's popular GSM mobile phones on any commercial aircraft flight. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
YooMedia acquires dating brands, creates YooMedia Dating YooMedia Dating plans to create an integrated dating experience in which consumers can access its services either in person, over the phone, via the internet, interactive TV or via the mobile phone and other wireless devices. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Tesco launches 'legal' download store The supermarket hopes to attract over a million unique visitors to the site in the first year by offering simple to use legal products at low prices. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Sendo starts shipping the X phone to 5 European countries Sendo ships over one million handsets in Q1. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Loudeye buys OD2 The moves comes as no surprise as OD2 has been losing money for a while and its business model has come under pressure with the launch of several rival services recently, most notably iTunes in Europe. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Universal to launch pocket CD in the UK Sony, BMG, EMI and Universal have all tested the format in Germany, and Universal is now set to luanch it in the UK, though pricing and exact date have not been confirmed yet. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
EMI to trial mobile music distribution with European operator The viral potential of music distribution through mobiles has long been known, but until now, no major attempt has been made to find a way of cashing in on it. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
French government moves towards open source Almost one million state computers could be supplied with open-source software according to French civil service minister Renaud Dutreil. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Level3 expands data networking services in Europe & US Level 3’s IP VPN service – which currently serves a number of large strategic customers – is being expanded through channel partners to the enterprise market. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
France Telecom and Motorola to develop seamless mobility solutions The MoU includes the establishment of joint research and development teams, the sharing of R&D funding, and the principle of sharing intellectual property resulting from the partnership. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
NYC Municipal Wireless Data Cloud "New York City looking to spend up to $1/2 Billion to build huge wireless data network, to serve all public safety agencies, city wide, at 2 Mbps or faster, supporting multiple concurrent data and digital video streams, everywhere." [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Feedster enclosure lists Looking for RSS enclosures and feeds? Feedster has a new section that lists the latest enclosures it finds among the hundreds of thousands of feeds it scans continuously. Images, mp3 files, .torrents, basically any kind of file that can be dropped at a URL. Scott, you rule. From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Torrentocracy Torrentocracy (alternate) "is the combination of RSS, bit torrent, your television and your remote control...By running torrentocracy on a computer connected to your television, you not only become a viewer of any available content from the internet, but you also become a part of a vast grass roots media distribution network." I'm really excited about this. I bet Dave Winer, -- From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Lessig speaks on tech IP law and indie filmmaking at LA Film Festival Not tomorrow, but next Saturday June 26 at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles from 10AM - 1PM: Symposium on Copyright, Piracy, and the Future of Independent Filmmaking: The MPAA's screener ban was a wake-up call to the independent film community. With our future threatened, the community joined together and was eventually successful in defeating the ban in federal court. But policy is being created every day, at every level, that impacts the channels for distribution, access to independent films, and the protection of creative r From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
CreativeCommons SMIL Module A format for metadata regarding the copyright license under which a SMIL document is released. From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
giFT-FastTrack "giFT-FastTrack is an Open Source implementation of the FastTrack P2P protocol used by KaZaA, iMesh and Grokster. giFT is a portable filesharing daemon which can be used with different front ends and can connect to multiple networks via plugins." From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Predicting The Shape of TV Over IP "TV over broadband is coming, but it could manifest itself in any of several different forms, with significant consequences for ISPs large and small. Whether it's downloading or streaming or traditional broadcasting, television service has not yet arrived in people's homes. Before it does, ISPs--even small independents--are trying to suss out how they can get a piece of the action, or at least avoid being left in the dust or out on a limb. In the first in this occasional series on video over the From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
VideoBlogging: Video Blogging Week I just signed up to participate in Video Blogging Week. That means one video blog post per day, starting on June 20th. This is going to be challenging. From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Speex - speech-friendly audio codec Speex is an Open Source/Free Software patent-free audio compression format designed for speech. The Speex Project aims to lower the barrier of entry for voice applications by providing a free alternative to expensive proprietary speech codecs. Moreover, Speex is well-adapted to Internet applications and provides useful features that are not present in most other codecs. Finally, Speex is part of the GNU Project and is available under the From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
10 Questions for Tim Hanlon Terry Heaton has interviewed Tim Hanlon, the Vice President and Director of Emerging Contacts for Starcom MediaVest Group and one of the most knowledgeable insiders in the advertising industry, about the future of TV broadcasting. Very interesting read. From unmediated on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
June 4, 2004 From Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
What is a "learning object"? I've seen the term "learning object" used in several places recently, and I thought I was getting some idea of what it means. Then I stumbled on this blog entry from John Doyle's Thoughts on Education. I generally agree with the defintion of "learning object", as any digital entity with associated metadata that may be used for learning, education, and training. However, I can&a From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Offshoring An "issue guide" from Economic Policy Institute about the offshoring (substituting foreign for domestic labor) of white-collar labor. Includes a bibliography and links to other resources on the topic. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on June 22, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Research: Delving the Deep Web How much serious research can you accomplish on the Web? probably much more than results from major search engines like Google and Yahoo might lead you to expect. Net savvy librarians are working hard to make more "deep" information resources available through common Web searches. Check out today's New York Times: Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World, by Katie Hafner. Excerpt: "For the From Contentious Weblog on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Bad News for LMS Vendors Sam Adkins discusses the perils of being an LMS vendor in Learning Circuits. Free is a hard price to beat. Gateway is now giving the LMS service away if you subscribe to their content. This is a sure sign that LMS technology is now a commodity and vendors are competing solely on price. That is bad news for vendors without deep pockets or cash stockpiles. When vendors compete solely on price they start a brushfire of burning cash. The goal is to outlast your rivals. Thos From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Blogging from the Inside This article in Business Week is getting a lot of attention from bloggers like Steve and Yan. It seems that Microsoft, Macromedia, Sun and other large corporations have embraced blogs to connect workers with customers - as recommended in the Cluetrain Manifesto. The author thinks that once company secrets begin to be spilled, there will be a backlash, but for now blogge< From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Logging on to Learn Instead of giving up a portion of their summer to make up a health class, the sisters registered for the class online, joining about 80 students who took courses online from their homes through the Peoria Unified School District this... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
E-Learning claimed to be the future. Keeping down a fulltime job is no longer an excuse for ignoring your education. A growing number of education providers are rapidly branching out into on-line teaching, with many claiming it is the future of learning. STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Educational Technology Claptrap OK, here's some juicy news for all you teachers out there. You've been outsorced by the Internet. Didn't know that one huh? Brain Frieze--MORE... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Preparing Students for Learning in an Online World 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 for... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Is Montréal a creative city? This morning, I went out and decided to do some research on the city where I lived from a creative class [1] point of view. I found two reports. One by Richard Florida himself on Canadian cities [2]. The report was paid for by Ontario, but it looks objective. Second of all, I found a report by the department of Canadian Heritage on attracting talent in Canada [3]. What comes out of these reports is that Montréal is not a very creative city. It more creative than the Canadian average, but well below Vancouver and Toronto. However, it is definitively a tech. center, it actually surpass both To From Daniel Lemire's blog on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Embedding the Internet in Newspaper Processes NEXPO, the big technical exposition of the Newspaper Association of America, is under way at the Washington Convention Center. It's a place where you can see all of the "big iron" equipment makers and suppliers to the print industry, but notable this year was the degree to which Internet functionality was trumpeted by so many of the exhibitors. Ad systems are all web-enabled, tearsheets are being delivered electronically, and news-editorial systems assume that reporters are working in a connected world and actually care about web links. One company, Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Niles Accepting LAT Buyout Last week, as you probably know, the Tribune Co. offered employees of the Los Angeles Times buyouts in order to reduce the staff; if not enough people accept, then layoffs are expected. Among the buyout takers is Robert Niles, who is leaving LATimes.com to devote full time (at least for a while) to his personal niche websites, ThemeParkInsider.com and Violinist.com. Both sites have been side ventures maintained while holding down a staff From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
The Best Online Columnists I missed this last week while on vacation. In case you did, too, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists announced the winners of its annual contest (which is limited to columnists working for North American newspapers). As usual, NSNC included a category for best online columnist working for a newspaper (but whose work is not published in the print edition). Top prize went to Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry of WSJ.com, who write "The Daily Fix" online sports column. CSMonitor.co From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
How Long Will Publishing Be What It Used to Be? This sounds like a question you've already heard too often, doesn't it? But to be honest, the more often I hear the phrase, "A website is nothing that you read but something you do" (it has been quoted in almost any online publishing speech I listened to this year), the more often I ask myself this old question. Look at your personal use of multimedia. Aren't you clicking more often on videos than before? Isn't it sometimes attractive just to listen to news you like to hear at a specific moment? Isn't it nice to always be in control of (...)--> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Owning the Desktop ... or the RSS Reader One of the issues publishers have with RSS (a.k.a., webfeeds) is that it can divert usage from the home page -- where we have control of presentation and can include advertising -- to an unpredictable set of RSS software where we get no branding and no ad slots. The Times of India is working on something that could make those issues moot. It's a custom RSS reader that the Times intends to make available to its users. Nikhil Soman provided a brief peek over the weekend at one of the --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 22, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Update: Rhetcomp.com Blog List Some of you might remember the discussion that took place about the rhetcomp.com blog poll. Out of curiosity, I looked to see if the links were up yet, and they are. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 22, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..
The Many Faces of Drupal: A Content Management System for Education During our presentation at C&W, a couple of people asked if we would post links to the resources from our panel on Kairosnews. Below are links to mine, Bradley Bleck's, and Jim Kalmbach's contributions, along with a copy of the abstract for the panel which appeared in the program. As for the most fun part of the panel, Jeff White's integration of Flash Communication Server into Drupal, I haven't heard from Jeff, but I suspect that he will not be making that publicly available as it consumes significant bandwidth and hardware resources.Members of this pa From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on June 22, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..
RSS Reader Security Check A free service provided by IzyNews is the RSS Reader Security Check. Subscribe to the feed in your aggregator to see if it has any security vulnerabilities. RSS Bandit has two--it does not block the loading of external stylesheets and it does not block embedded frames. From Big IDEA on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
RSS and email: So happy together In a former blog, which I didn't bother to convert when I switched to WordPress, I wrote about how I would like to see an integrated email/nntp/rss application. I just think it would be nice to have the familiar email interface for dealing with rss feeds. Well I just tried ... From Big IDEA on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
Day job May it's something of a non-native English speaker, but I find funny when people talk about their "day job" :) Anyone has an idea from where it comes? From Mathemagenic on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
Danger of immediacy of comments and trackbacks Mark Bernstein on danger of immediacy of comments and trackbacks:Weblog comments incite duels. Duels are bad for society. We should all forego comments and return to carefully blogging responses -- including responses we disagree with, but excluding responses we cannot tolerate. From Mathemagenic on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
Welcome! Welcome to e-Literate, the continuing story of what Michael Feldstein is learning about online learning...online. From e-Literate on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
A bit about the plumbing I decided to use Expression Engine (EE) from pMachine. EE is probably overkill for a simple weblog, but since I have long-term ambitions to do more, I wanted a content management system. And since one of my goals was to force myself to learn some basic web programming, I needed one that wasn’t too complicated for me to eventually figure out at least the basic program structure (which ruled out Plone). So far, I’m impressed. EE has been simple and intuitive to set up and it strikes a good balance between being feature-rich and being easy to understand. I’m having a bit of tr From e-Literate on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
New Tool: ActiveGuide At the suggestion of Gary Dickelman and Hal Christensen, I’ve decided to give ActiveGuide a whirl. It looks like a great tool for building performance support, including wizards and interactive guides as well as more traditional help, right into web sites and web apps. The authoring tool can read DOM code and recognize the controls on the web page(s) you are working with, which means that you can use ActiveGuide to actually manipulate (or turn off) the controls on the web page for the user. The output from the tool is Javascript which works with any modern browser. Sweet. Some time ov From e-Literate on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
Annoying Hype In general, I like Jay Cross’ writings. While I have never personally met the guy, I find that his articles usually have something interesting and sensible to say. Which is why I’m so disappointed with his overly exhuberant fluff piece in e-Learn: "For some, the work of the future will resemble an elaborate, personalized video game front-end that From e-Literate on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
Supporting Student Autonomy Online This (which comes by way of Stephen Downes’ excellent blog), is a nice little outline that argues in favor of promoting collaborative online learning (as opposed to self-paced with learning objects that have no social interaction associated with them) and promoting student autonomy within that model. All of this is worth saying over and over again, as loudly as possible. One complimentary point that the author misses is that, in an online learning environment, students have autonomy whether we design for it or not. There is no instructor looking over their shoulder or making eye contact. From e-Literate on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
Interesting Challenge For Ideas to Improve the Browser Blake Ross, one of the guys on the Mozilla Firefox team, is calling for ideas on how to use machine learning to improve future versions of Firefox. Be creative! From e-Literate on June 22, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
slow blog and vacation From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on June 22, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..
SchoolNet Toolkit Laid out in four substantive guidebooks, this kit is targeted especially towards policy- and decision-makers, school managers, practitioners, teachers and principals. This toolkit arose from the need to provide a recipe book or a blueprint for the pilot schools of the UNESCO project to establish or strengthen schoolnets in Southeast Asia at the national and sub-regional levels. From eLearnopedia on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Preparing Students for Learning in an Online World: an Evaluation of the Student Passport to Elearning (SPEL) Model 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 for a programme specifically designed to prepare students for learning in the online world. From eLearnopedia on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Technology in Workplace Learning This article describes how traditional philosophies of education demonstrate why simluations are such important and effective tools for learning. From eLearnopedia on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Online Learning for Tough Times: Keys to Rapid Development "Consider the following situation: The VP of human resources wants you to develop online learning materials for a new employee annual review (AR) process for 2,500 employees located in six countries. The AR project team developed a number of materials... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Why Some Companies Retrain Workers, and Others Lay Them Off Ein interessanter Artikel! Es geht um die Frage, warum die einen Unternehmen in ihre Mitarbeiter investieren, wenn diese neue Skills benötigen, und andere Unternehmen lieber entlassen, um entsprechend qualifizierte Mitarbeiter einzustellen. Die Antwort, so der Artikel, liegt in der Rolle,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
looking again at non-formal and informal education - towards a new paradigm infed, "the informal education homepage", bietet eine Fülle von Materialien zum Thema "informelles und lebenslanges Lernen". Unter anderem auch einen Artikel von Alan Rogers, in dem der Autor versucht, etwas Klarheit in das Nebeneinander verschiedener Begriffe zu bringen. Vor allem... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
If Content Wants To Be Free, How Can I Be Sustainable Robin? From today's Inbox: "I am impressed by some of your thoughts that I came across on the internet, so much so because they are similar to my own in a number of ways. I have spent 40 years selecting, saving, clearing rights, making English language versions for what I feel are the best films on art and architecture. La Venere di Botticelli - Canali Photobank I had hoped that by offering free preview service on the internet it would lead to sales. But no, in the US specially, they find the poor quality of my streaming clips quite good enough.... From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Trucos para Gmail Invitaciones que no llegan: lo contó Error500 y Diario de un jabalà ha sugerido una sencilla técnica que funciona perfectamente. En Ubik descubro tres magnÃficas utilidades: - GTray: Notificador de nuevo correo en Gmail - Mbox & Maildir to Gmail... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 22, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Open Access mit Digital Peer... Im Rahmen des Projekts http://www.dipp.nrw.de wurde eine DPPL-Lizenz vorgestellt. Problematisch ist allerdings, dass - anders als durch die Berliner Erklärung vorgesehen - Inhalte nicht verändert werden dürfen. Dies bedeutet: der Open Access von DPP-NRW stimmt nicht mit dem derzeit massgeblichen Statut für Open Access überein. Text der Lizenz (febr. 2004): http://www.dipp.nrw.de/lizenzen/document_view< From Archivalia on June 22, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..
dataspace: Kritik am "alternativen"... Nachfolgend ist ein Text dokumentiert, der in der nächsten Ausgabe der Leipziger Zeitschrift ("Feierabend" ) erscheinen wird. ------------------- Warum sich Dataspace nicht über eine Auszeichnung freut? Der Alternative Medienpreis und die Online-Datenbank für Infoläden und linke Archive Am 7. Mai 2004 erhielt die Online-Datenbank Dataspace den mit 500 Euro dotierten 3. Preis des ?--> From Archivalia on June 22, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..
Digital Medievalist New List for Medievalists Working with Digital Media <dm-l@uleth.ca> is a new mailing list intended for medievalists working with digital media. The purpose of the list is to provide a collegial form for the exchange of practical expertise in the production of digital projects. The list accepts members with all levels of expertise. This is the place to discover new techniques and approaches and help influence the development of our field. While the list is aimed primarily at scholars working in what we might call "the long middle From Archivalia on June 22, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..
Open Access Primer Peter Suber has written a helpful short Open Access overwiew for those who are new to the concept: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm A few comments: Suber gives his text the title: "Open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints" My opinion is: Open Access is a wider concept. "Open-access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions." Right. "The campaign From Archivalia on June 22, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..
Frühneuzeitliche Amtsdrucksachen bietet das Antiquariat Schilbach im http://www.zvab.de in reicher Fülle an. Viele Württembergica, unzählige Leichenpredigten! Siehe etwa: Umfangreiches Konvolut von Material zur Württembergischen Verfassungsrevision 1898 mit älteren Materialien aus der Arbeitsmappe des beteiligten Abgeordneten der 1. Kammer Graf von Rechberg, enthaltend diverse Druckschriften und handschriftliche Aufzeichnungen. 1898, ungebunden Nach telefonischer Auskunft des Antiquars Dr. Schilbach habe er vor 10-15 Jahren aus de From Archivalia on June 22, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..
Los pinchazos del e-learning Muchos proyectos de e-learning han fracasado porque las empresas han descuidado aspectos clave. No dejarse asesorar, valorar la tecnologÃa más que los contenidos, diseños poco eficientes, el aislamien... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on June 22, 2004 at 11:54 a.m..
Game of War Army Sets Up Video-Game Studio : from Wired News by John Gaudiosi The U.S. Army, riding the success of its action video game America's Army, has set up a video-game studio with industry veterans to write other kinds of software to simulate training for a variety of armed forces and government projects. One recent success story is the Talon Robot System, a treaded titanium robot that searches for enemies and takes pictures of caves and terrain. First, the Cary studio worked with the Future Applications Team to allow the robot to be tested virtually before being built. Then, once the... From soulsoup on June 22, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..
Fate of corporate off-the-shelf learning From today's Dilbert From soulsoup on June 22, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..
Shared Spaces News, Jun 22 Today's highlights: New release of eRoom.net from Documentum; AOL and IMlogic on Enterprise IM; Government use of Secure Mail; Microsoft a 'collaboration lightweight'; Yahoo drops Business Messenger; Standard Life gets 50% process improvement via Enterprise Search; New client for Lois... From Kolabora.com on June 22, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..
Cory Doctorow on why DRM doesn't work Preach it, Cory! From Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM talk: QUOTEHere's what I'm here to convince you of: That DRM systems don't work That DRM systems are bad for society That DRM systems are bad for business That DRM systems are bad for artists That DRM is a bad business-move for MSFTUNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on June 22, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..
NECC Weblog... Edweblogs.org: NECC 2004 I'm helping some folks do a collaborative weblog from NECC (National Education Computing Conference) in New Orleans...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 22, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
NECC Keynotes... NECC has three keynotes going this morning. Intel come up with an innovative approach to ensure a full house for CEO Craig Barrett... Give away stuff... As predicted, the keynote by Craig Barrett was full...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 22, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
Outages Yesterday, one of my DSL providers ran afoul of a backhoe which severed its OC3. The bad news was that a bunch of customers, me included, learned that we had no redundant path to the backbone -- at least not through this provider. (This is one reason why I maintain a separate circuit through a different provider; that one was unaffected.) The good news was that the fiber got spliced together very quickly, and the provider was really, really sorry and really, really proactive. I got calls from three people alerting me to the outage, and calls from four other people notifying me that it was clea From Jon's Radio on June 22, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..
The Google PC 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. Even more ambitiously, it would record phone conversations, convert speech to text, and index that text. Although speech-to-text is a notoriously From Jon's Radio on June 22, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..
IT Spending Up, Priorities Differ An examination of businesses' IT needs and budget allocations found that many IT professionals are driven to spending to remain competitive. From ClickZ Stats on June 22, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Salesforce.com sets higher goal for stock offering Wednesday's expected IPO could take in $100 million, as bankers raise pricing range to $9 to $10 per share. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
The Hill's property rights showdown With the DMCA under attack from all quarters, Congressman Rick Boucher says it's time to rethink the controversial law. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Ann Wolpert on institutional repositories The OCLC Members Council discussed expanding access to information at its annual meeting this year (May 23-25). Ann Wolpert, the Director of Libraries at MIT, spoke about institutional repositories and DSpace. Excerpt from the OCLC press release: "Ms. Wolpert said that faculty and administrators are recognizing the benefits of implementing institutional repositories. She noted that digitally accessible information is statistically demonstrated to be used 10 times more often than print. From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
Draft EU constitution supports free circulation of scientific knowledge Here's the draft text of Article III-146(1), released June 16, 2004: The Union's action shall aim to strengthen its scientific and technological bases, by achieving a European research area in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely, and encourage it to become more competitive, including in its industry, while promoting all the research activities deemed necessary by virtue of other Chapters of the Constitution.(Thanks to --> From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
OA data sharing in China Today marks the start of the International Workshop on Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in Beijing (June 22-24). It's a good sign that the keynote address by Cheng Jinpei, China's Vice Minister of Science and Technology and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has already been reported in the Chinese press. Excerpt from a story in today's China View: "Cheng Jinpei said here Tuesday that the ministry isspeed From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
Australia picks open-source software for its institutional repositories The Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW Project) has selected VITAL and FEDORA for its institutional repository program. Details are in the June 16 press release. From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
More on fugitive government edocs Florence Olsen, A crisis for web preservation, Federal Computer Week, June 21, 2004. Excerpt: "The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is spotty at best. 'This is not a problem; this is a crisis,' said Daniel Greenstein, head of the California Digital Library....Fugitive documents are electronic publications that remain outside the federal depository c From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
The first ethical questions of robotics in society are upon us. As machines and computers grow more intelligent, as a society we must consider their place within our societal code of ethics. For awhile now, these questions have been regarded by many to be so far away that to seriously worry about them now is a waste of breath and time. I intend to show that not only are serious issues of ethics regarding robots and artificial intelligence coming very soon to us, in some aspects, they already are here. From kuro5hin.org on June 22, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
Sun names exec for new government sales office Clark Masters returns to Sun after he was ousted in April from his job leading the high-end server group. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
The June 2004 issues of D-Lib Magazine magazine is now available ... The June 2004 issues of D-Lib Magazine magazine is now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 22, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..
A New York state appeals court ruling this January paved the way for the Huntington Free Library to ... A New York state appeals court ruling this January paved the way for the Huntington Free Library to find a new steward for its Native American collection, one of the largest in the world. On June 15 2004, at the private library's red brick home in the Bronx, papers were signed to transfer the collection to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y From Peter Scott's Library Blog on June 22, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..
AOL quits enterprise IM game The ISP follows in the footsteps of rival Yahoo by discontinuing its instant-messenger software for businesses. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Trying to make Web services make sense Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Democrats credential Web journalists for convention coverage - Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press A handful of scribes publishing in a newer medium will join the thousands of newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists at this summer's political conventions. They'll be blogging. Bloggers will have a chance to hobnob with New Mexico Gov. Bill Ric From Techno-News Blog on June 22, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..
Heavy Betting on Election Domains - Joanna Glasner, Wired Brian Rodgers has no idea why the Bush campaign would let a domain as potentially valuable as Bush2004.com slip out of its grasp. But since it did, Rodgers, a former resident of President George W. Bush's hometown of Midland, Texas, took the opportuni From Techno-News Blog on June 22, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..
A crisis for Web preservation - Florence Olsen, FCW The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is spotty at best. "This is not a problem; this is a crisi From Techno-News Blog on June 22, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..
School's computer plan upsets some parents - Sherry Parmet, UNION-TRIBUNE Some parents who were encouraged to buy or rent laptop computers for their fifth-graders at Ashley Falls Elementary as part of a new technology program are fuming over a public school making the request. Ashley Falls recently advised parents to purcha From Educational Technology on June 22, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..
Training, upgrades critical to school computers: StatsCan - CANADIAN PRESS Virtually all elementary and secondary schools in Canada have computers, but inadequately trained teachers, costs and aging computers are a concern, according to a survey released today by Statistics Canada. Overall, an estimated one million computers From Educational Technology on June 22, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..
Making Knowledge Management Work on your Intranet An introductory look at how intranets can server as effective KM platforms. Here's a tip we can use: "Your intranet can be optimized to support knowledge management initiatives if you make changes to the existing content, publishing processes, and information architecture of the intranet." From elearningpost on June 22, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..
Alternative Fuels Cropping Up British scientists urge farmers to grow crops that can produce plastics, oils and other products currently made from fossil fuels. They say the climate is warming and crude supplies will soon be exhausted. From Wired News on June 22, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Court: Names Must Be Revealed The Supreme Court says people must give their names to cops when they ask for it, and cops have the right to arrest people who refuse. One privacy advocate says the government just turned silence into a crime. From Wired News on June 22, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Docs Find SARS in Patients' Tears Singapore researchers discover the highly infectious respiratory illness can be spread through tears. Even better, tears can help detect and isolate the virus in the early phase of infection. From Wired News on June 22, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Private Space Shot a Success SpaceShipOne climbs to an altitude of 62 miles Monday before dropping safely to the ground. It's the first privately financed manned excursion into space. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California. From Wired News on June 22, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Blind Get Earful of Spam Daily It's annoying to read spam. It's even worse to hear it. Blind users rely on text-to-speech programs to hear what's on their screens, and they face an aural assault daily. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on June 22, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors Two nanotechnologies under development hone in on proteins produced by bloodthirsty cancers, allowing doctors to find tumors as small as 1 mm across. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on June 22, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
NASA Spaces on Energy Solution Beaming power gathered by satellites to Earth could help satisfy the world's need for energy, and several nations are researching it. However, the country with the biggest pockets -- the United States -- has taken a pass. By John Gartner. From Wired News on June 22, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Districts balk at payments to online charter schools From DEC Daily News on June 22, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
When the Cows Come Home: A Proven Path of Professional Development for Faculty Pursuing E-Learning From DEC Daily News on June 22, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
Chronological News Popularity: Stamen Time-Visualizes Google News If you are into data visualization and appreciate the value of information design, you may want to explore this new experimental work in providing more effective access to news via a visual interface. In The News, a newsdata visualization experiment... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 22, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..
Best Practices For Intranet Design Show Workflow Should Reign Over Orgcharts The effective design of an intranet is one of the most challenging information design tasks an organization may need to face. Generally spearheaded by IT departments with poor understanding of information architecture and usability issues that make for a successful... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 22, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..
User Experience Design Peter Morville takes on the task of defining user experience design using his honeycomb diagram, which presents the various facets of experience design: Useful, Usable, Desirable, Findable, Accessible, Credible and Valuable. From elearningpost on June 22, 2004 at 5:48 a.m..
John Deere New/Used Lawn Tractor Donation Needed Lake Worth Girls Softball Inc a non profit org. is seeking a donation of a new or used [in good condition] John Deere Lawn Tractor for use in maintaining the league fields and transporting equipment and supplies. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004] From PR Web on June 22, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Soul Graffiti LLC Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary Soul Graffiti Celebrates the Anniversary of Its Website SoulGraffiti.com [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004] From PR Web on June 22, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
DesignerLife and Innovative Conceptions LLC have taken the Coaching and Personal Development arena worldwide! April Diane Glunt HYPHEN LifeCoach, author, and founder of Innovative Conceptions LLC and DesignerLife - has reached a pinnacle point in her coaching career. Gaining clients worldwide has proven that she is making her mark in the coaching world, as well as the personal development and self-improvement industry. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004] From PR Web on June 22, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
WorkFLOW This Tuesday and Wednesday, I'll be attending the Business Process Management Conference down the Peninsula. Why? I'm learning as much as I can about BPM because it underpins the revolution I foresee in business, computing, and learning. Besides that, the Workflow Institute is conducting... From Internet Time Blog on June 22, 2004 at 3:53 a.m..
First Virtual Communications Expands Its Commitment to Educators From DEC Daily News on June 22, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..
Wisconsin Virtual School Selects eClassroom to Power Statewide Program From DEC Daily News on June 22, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..
How computing is changing the classroom From DEC Daily News on June 22, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..
TANDBERG Unveils Integrated Multimedia Video Communication System for Education Market From DEC Daily News on June 22, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..
The Education and Libraries Networks Coalition Touts the Benefits of The E-rate Program in the Wake of Congressional Hearings From DEC Daily News on June 22, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..
Blogging with the boss's blessing "More ... Blogging with the boss's blessing "More companies are helping employees to speak freely -- and bond with customers." Michelle Conlin and Andrew Park, BusinessWeek, 28 June 2004 Added: 22 June 2004 Reviewer's Note: Looks at the use of blogging within businesses. "This is nothing less than revolutionary," says Dave Winer. LIBRARY: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 22, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..
Total Annihilation Redux I was in the store the other day, looking for a new computer game in the less than ten dollar range. I stop in every once in a while to see which old favorites now had cheap jewel case versions. This month I got very lucky and found a copy of Total Annihilation for six dollars. Sure, the game is now seven years old, but it is still a classic in the RTS (Real Time Strategy) genre. I've gotten burned out on Galactic Battleground and Age of Empires II lately, which are the same for the most part, except for different graphics. Total Annihilation was a leap forward in the RTS evolutionary From soulsoup on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Learning Styles Should we be using learning styles? : What research has to say to practice By Frank Coffield, et.al., Learning and Skills Research Centre Learning style instruments are widely used. But are they reliable and valid? Do they have an impact on pedagogy? This report examines 13 models of learning style and concludes that it matters fundamentally which model is chosen. Positive recommendations are made for students, teachers amd trainers, managers, researchers and inspectors. Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning : A systematic and critical review By Frank Coffield, et.al., Learning and From soulsoup on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Gamedeck Gamedeck: like a Herman Miller chair for gamers. The Gamedeck is a purpose-built gaming chair that a giant articulated hunk of sound-surrounded rumble-vibrating steel with good ergonomics. Read the Gamedeck development story here. Via : Boing Boing... From soulsoup on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
The warfare of blog Lilia pointed us to Mark Bernstein on danger of immediacy of comments and trackbacks Weblog comments incite duels. Duels are bad for society. We should all forego comments and return to carefully blogging responses -- including responses we disagree with, but excluding responses we cannot tolerate. Because you can't ignore an insult in your own home, writers feel compelled to respond to pernicious claims that appear in threads they contribute to. Remarks that otherwise might have been ignored ("He said what? I didn't know -- never heard of him!") are instead hotly contested. Obviousl From soulsoup on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Turner Consulting Group Delving a bit into history again, on the trail of the "virtual organization", here's a great case study on the business case for virtual companies, from Secrets of a virtual company CEO and More Secrets of a virtual company CEO by Jeff Zbar (NetworkWorld, April 3, 2001 and May 9, 2001) Th... From Kolabora.com on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Ray Ozzie And Howard Rheingold On The Future Of Online Collaboration: Kolabor... Swarming, collective intelligence, digital lifestyle aggregation, ubiquitous conferencing and P2P wireless videoreporting. Are these real by-products of where we are headed or are these still only titles for sci-fi stories? What does it entail to have an always-on voice channel... From Kolabora.com on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Ray Ozzie & Kolabora Live Event On June 29 At Noon EST Robin Good will be interviewing Groove Networks CEO Ray Ozzie and Howard Rheingold, the author of SmartMobs, live next Tuesday, June 29, at noon EST as part of his ongoing series of Kolabora Live events. This is a free, live on-line event featuring video, audio and the ability of the audience to as... From Kolabora.com on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Convincing the Feds Mr. IJ Hudson, from our D.C. area NBC affliate, NBC4, came to the Telework Consortium on Friday for an update of our current activities and upcoming events. Rita Mace Walston, one of the participants in an ongoing pilot we're sponsoring with Loudoun Magazine, and Jim Kane, the CEO of the Softwa... From Kolabora.com on June 22, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Microsoft has the guts to have 800 public blogs! Where are yours? Yes, public blogs can be "dangerous" but if you are going to walk the talk about empowerment and transparency that most executives are spouting these days, then you will have to endure the rare pain from employees disclosing stuff publicly they should not. My guess is that this small pain will be greatly outweighed by the positive benefits of engaging your customers and the world in a meaningful dialogue and conversation. From BW Online | June 28, 2004 | Blogging With The Boss's Blessing: From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on June 22, 2004 at 2:53 a.m..
Don't Lose a Common Sense: LISTEN When Jennifer Hoffman asked me to record a few thoughts from Training Directors Forum on a tiny RadioShack IC recorder, it struck me as kind of hokey but since I'm always open to experimentation, I recorded a blurb. "Listen, learn, change" David Gergen Someone... From Internet Time Blog on June 22, 2004 at 2:53 a.m..
The Pakistan national digital library The June 21 issue of HiPakistan features an interview with Dr. Attaur Rahman, Pakistan's Minister of Science and Technology and Chairman of Pakistan's Higher Education Commission. Here's Rahman talking about Pakistan's new national digital library: "What we have done is to launch a nationwide digital library - and this really excites me....And there are 31,600 journals which are available free of charge. Every single school or college or university - any educational institution und From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 2:53 a.m..
Filling institutional repositories Andrea Foster, Papers Wanted: Online archives run by universities struggle to attract material, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "An ambitious effort by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a free electronic archive of the scholarship the institute produces has hit a snag. Released in November 2002, the archive, DSpace, was seen by many in academe as a beacon for open-access scholarship. It would promote collaboration among researchers, spark ideas for new From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 2:53 a.m..
OA overview I just wrote an Open Access Overview and put it online. I've been concerned that our recent progress has brought the concept of OA to the attention of many new people, most of whom have no place to turn for a brief, accurate introduction. Either they find mere lists of links or essay-length analyses that don't start at the beginning. Now that the overview is online I'll keep revising it and adding useful links. I've also linked to it from the blog sidebar to make it easy to find. I welcome your comments and From Open Access News on June 22, 2004 at 2:53 a.m..
BMJ Publishing Group opens backfiles across the board Although several of BMJ Publishing Group's specialist journals had provided free backfiles, following a 1 year embargo, HighWire Press announced June 18 that all 25 of the BMJ specialist titles now follow this policy. This meshes well with the stated intent to provide most of these journals back to volume 1 through PubMed Central. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases - Fulltext v56+ (1997+) 1 year moving wa From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on June 22, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..
A Gloomy Vista When the first 'benefit' of a 'new' educational technology is that it supports centralised document storage it makes me want to introduce it's relational database to somewhere other than an academic environment. From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on June 22, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..
Great Views To Sell Your Ideas: 360° LiveCam Just announced on the market, is already available to the public, and it is the first high resolution panoramic camera capable of shooting a 360° degrees views in high resolution while providing a swell of complememtary features that make it... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 22, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
Ray Ozzie And Howard Rheingold At The Next Competitive Edge: Next Tuesday At Kolabora Live! New trends and approaches to work, communication and collaboration are gradually emerging as more and more people are taking up seriously the potential offered by the many affordable new real-time conferencing technologies. Ray Ozzie of Groove Networks and Howard Rheingold... From Robin Good's Latest News on June 22, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
Redirecting a message from Dave Dave Winer has sent an email to a mailing list I'm on, asking for help getting word out about a change in the redirection policy for former weblogs.com users: My poor server just can't handle all the redirecting that's going on, so I'm going to try another approach. We're going to use the buzzword.com machine to do the redirecting and the serving of content. So all the load will be on that one box. It's the fair way to go, I can't have the services I depend on being unreliable in order to handle the redirecting. That was the... From Joho the Blog on June 22, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..
Ditto Squared Library Service "Often I hear the mantra that libraries should be more like businesses. While it is true that we can learn things from the public sector, they have much to learn from us. I wish my local Blockbuster worked as well as my local library. I wanted a DVD that was out. At the library I'd just place it on hold. I could have checked the status from home and have placed the hold from there. I had to go to the store to find it was out and then discover From The Shifted Librarian on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
Karen Joins the Club! Treo 600: Schneider's Review "The Treo has already changed my life, and largely for the better. I have checked an airline's Web site en route to the airport, pulled news headlines while waiting to buy groceries, checked e-mail while walking down the street, and dialed dozens of phone numbers from my Palm Contacts list using three clicks from the tip of one thumb." [Free Range Librarian] From The Shifted Librarian on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
Some Good Questions for Libraries to Address 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 From The Shifted Librarian on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
Investigating New Blogging Software After all of my other connectivity problems as of late, now Radio is acting up and not publishing my posts when I post them. As far as I can tell, Userland's upgrade focus is on Manila, not Radio, and while I love using blogging software that integrates a news aggregator, I'm getting tired of having major problems with Radio every few months. I think it may finally be time to switch, so posting may be light here (unintentionally or not!) while I figure out my next move. From The Shifted Librarian on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
Connecting VoodooPad with ZWiki I tried to connect the VoodooPad desktop wiki editor to ZWiki via XML-RPC. In principle it works well - unfortunatly VoodooPad behaves somewhat odd, so that the connection is not as clean as I thought it would be. From owrede_log on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
Radio tools Edit this page tool and a BitTorrent-integration for Radio. Def. worth a look though the latter is Win only. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
The Trotts playing the Banjos The Trotts tried hard to regain the community and their customers. If you want to talk to them, attend their @ BlogTalk 2.0 keynote about "Blogs, Bandwidth, and Banjos: Tightly Knit Bonds in Weblogging" . Six Apart Listens vi... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
ease the pains of refering I think someone mentioned this method (Bayesean filtering) before. Anyway it could help with those knowledge-managment systems that are based on human filtering and sorting. Managing content with automatic document cla... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 22, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
Total accuracy engenders doubt Was this meant to reassure? ...George Barna, an evangelical Christian minister ... said it is not surprising that "there is anger but no action" over gay marriage among churchgoers. According to his polling, evangelicals and other born-again Christians make up 38 percent of the adult population, but only 9 percent of them hold a "biblical worldview," including the belief that the Bible is "totally accurate" in all its teachings. [WaPo - emphasis added] From homoLudens III on June 22, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Sun names exec for new government sales job Clark Masters, who formerly ran Sun's high-end server group, will take over the new Global Government Office. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..
Fujitsu revs faster server chip New Sparc64 processor assumes greater importance with the company's alignment with Sun. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
The LMS Rollercoaster: Falling Prices, Rising ASPs and BPOs, Powerful Analytics and Integration, and oh yeah, Patent Litigation The corporate LMS market in the US didn't seem to change much during the recession. As they say, those days are over. Fasten your seatbelt.... From Learning Circuits Blog on June 22, 2004 at 12:47 a.m..
SS1 Successfully reaches 100Km! It is official. Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne has successfully reached an altitude of 100Km and returned safely. Space Flight Now has a really nice Play by Play. Reuters UK has a little blurb and of course Google News has a rather large number of stories related to this (IMHO) incredibly historic event. From kuro5hin.org on June 22, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..
New Advisory Body on International Education An expert Ministerial advisory body to advance strategic leadership and direction-setting for Australia’s engagement in international education has been created. The new advisory body will build on this success by helping to prepare Australia to take advantage of new opportunities and to improve ways of responding to the challenges facing our international engagement in a changing world. From EdNA Online on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
The natural world is their classroom High school students compete in a Massachusetts 'envirothon.' From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
In a sea of school choice, a city's schools fight back Can Minneapolis improve its public schools enough to keep more students from jumping ship? From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
In N.Y.C., choice words about 'choice' There are still glitches in the system that lets New York families choose public high schools. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Rumble in the 'triple play' jungle Cable companies and Baby Bells are set for a face-off over bundles that package TV, phone and broadband service. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
MusicNow shifts management The online music service, recently acquired by Circuit City, relocates its CEO and a co-founder. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Briefly: MusicNow shifts management roundup Plus: EMC updates management software...VMware tests Opteron support...Refurbished OpenOffice gets release. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law Intel, Sun and others in new group throw weight behind bill that would make it legal to crack protection schemes. From CNET News.com on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Evaluation as a Strategic Tool Brief outline of Kirkpatrick's levels of evaluation of learning reosurces, by Kirkpatrick. Useful quick reference. Via trdev. By Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James J. L'Allie, Chief Learning Officer, June, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Blackboard Soars in Market Debut So Blackboard's IPO launched Friday and sent the tech community abuzz, posting some of the best results for an initial public offering in months, rising 43 percent on the first day of trading. By Reuters, CNN Money, June 18, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Teachers Learning New Tools When people ask whether e-learning is 'just as good' as traditional learning, this isn't one of the metrics that really shows up: improved access and independence for special education students. Oh, this may not have a positive impact on test scores, but it has a positive impact on education and the community. By Associated Press, Globe and Mail, June 21, 2004 [Refer][Research][--> From OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
The Conversing Company: Its Culture, Power and Potential With stories, links, descriptions, diagrams, case studies and more, Alan Stewart presents a fascinating excursion into the benefits of conversation for companies. Originally presented in Vienna in 2001, this resource, passed along via elearningpost, provides a refreshing look at an old topic. Oh I know, the value conversing and telling stories has been well established and long predates e-learning. But there is, I think, a tendency to forget that when we think of thinks like knowledge management systems and learning repositories. PDF. By Alan Stewart, World Conference for Systemic Management, From OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Italy School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals Tech fights tech - this short item, describes the use of jamming equipment to block cell (mobile) phones during tests at a school in Italy. Heh. I wonder whether we can get cars equipped with similar devices. Via ADL Co-Lab News. By Reuters, Yahoo! News, June 18, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Real Estate Educators Unhappy with Distance Learning Regulations I find this very interesting and perhaps the leading edge of a trend. "There is growing controversy in the real estate industry regarding the regulations and costs to create distance learning, according to RealtyU... the advancement of distance learning within the real estate industry is being severely hindered by the current regulations." Now of course there is a certain self-interest being expressed here, but one wonders, given that real estate agents are evaluated by tests, why there would be regulations governing the delivery of learning. Via ADL Co-Lab News. By RisMedia, Real Estate News From OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Learning Styles and Pedagogy in Post-16 Learning: A Systematic and Critical Review "This report critically reviews the literature on learning styles and examines in detail 13 of the most influential models. The report concludes that it matters fundamentally which instrument is chosen. The implications for teaching and learning in post-16 learning are serious and should be of concern to learners, teachers and trainers, managers, researchers and inspectors." Really nice summary of the learning styles models - a great place to get an overview. The authors are also quite rightly sceptical of much of the work so far. "The danger here is of mindless and atheoretical empiricism. We From OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Should We Be Using Learning Styles? What Research Has to Say to Practice Seb Schmoller brings us two nice - and critical - reviews of learning styles. As the authors note, "There is... a strong intuitive appeal to the notion that we all have individual preferences and styles of learning." It is, indeed, an intuition I share. And yet - the research doesn't support the intuition, mostly because there is a lack of good research. Moreover, because such research would abut against so many contextual factors, it is possible that such research may never be forthcoming. By Frank Coffield, et.al., Learning and Skills Research Centre, June, 2004 [OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
A Special Request My thanks to the many people who have sent me notes describing the impact of our work here at the NRC e-learning group. For those who missed the request sent out Sunday (that is, text, RSS and Javascript feed subscribers), there is still time to send me an email. As for the rest - hundreds of you! - thank you for the support and encouragement. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 20, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on June 22, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
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