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L'action communautaire
De fil en aiguille, le socioconstructivisme, l'actualisation des apprentissages et la communauté éducative mènent inévitablement à la communauté. Et par la nature même des réseaux, les nouvelles technologies de la communication accélèrent, tout aussi inévitablement, le phénomène. De sorte que... From Osmoze on July 2, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..

Indiana Paid $1 Million to End Tata Contract
The state of Indiana has paid Tata Consulting nearly $1 million to end a controversial contract that would have had state contract work for the Unemployment Department handled by foreign workers. The contract was quietly brokered with Tata Consulting, an Indian offshoring company known for importing cheap foreign workers from India and other third-world nations and offshoring work to the same third-world nations. But last year, the contract became an election wild card when Joe Kernan made it into an election issue.... From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..

Are Labor Unions Evil?
The title of this article poses a question that I think is more relevant today than most might think. Many think that labor unions are pretty powerless if not "dead". The facts certainly indicate that trend. My dad worked in the West Virginia coal mines in the 70's and 80's. Same deal for my granddad in 30's, 40's & 50's. They both were members of the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA). The demands of the miner's unions were pretty typical around higher wages, benefits and better working conditions. I can't remember either of them being especially active From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..

1st Quarter GDP Growth Gain Revised to a Net Drop
The Dept of Commerce has revised the first quarter figures for GDP growth. The original figures, at 4.4%, were a boon to those who say that the economy is growing and becoming stronger. But the new figures tell a different story. The new figures show that instead of rising from 4.1% to 4.4% that GDP actually dropped from 4.1% growth to 3.9%. Even more important to economists and forecasters -- durable goods did not rise. Rather non-durable goods (such as gasoline) rose 7%. This is a general indicator of consumer confidence and consumer spending. Of course, this is what we've... From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..

Kerry Won't Cross Police Picket Line
Kerry was scheduled to attend a Mayors conference this week, but has cancelled due to police picketing the event as part of a union strike in Boston, where the event is taking place. Kerry says he has never crossed a picket line and will not start now. Several of the mayors at the conference expressed anger over Kerry's decision not to attend the event, while the police union expressed gratitude for his support.... From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..

India Newspaper Article Calls for Allowing Entire World to Vote in U.S. Elections
An article appeared in the Indian newspaper, Mathaba, a few days ago, written by an Indian reporter living in Thailand, who is calling for opening up the U.S. elections for the entire world to vote. He believes that the entire world should be able to vote because decisions made by the U.S. affect the rest of the world. From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..

2005 H-1B Quota Visas Already Being Used
The DoL has reported that petitions for the 2005 fiscal year, which begins in October, are already being accepted. As of the end of May, CIS indicated that 16,100 of the 65,000 visas allowed for 2005 have already been allotted. Immigration attorneys are advising their clients to apply right away for their H-1B visas. Many immigration attorneys are predicting that the 2005 H-1B quota will be completed allotted before the end of the 2004 calendar year.... From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..

$3 Billion Trade Deficit on Advanced Technology Products in April
In April, we ran a $3 Billion trade deficit on advanced technology products. This fact directly contradicts the notion that America has the technology edge or that America will handle the next new innovation or technology. According to this article on CNN, "According to the economic theory of competitive advantage, lower wage nations should be the ones specializing in low-tech goods while leaving the high-tech production to higher wage nations. But as American multinationals shifted operations to low wage nations, like China, they also shipped American technology, production capability and exp From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

U.S.-Based Call Center Positions Itself to Compete with Overseas Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a hotly debated issue in the news these days mainly because of the belief that outsourcing is the root cause of American job loss and downsizing as well as undermining the competitive edge of many US small businesses. This issue is being directly addressed by African-American Gayle Santana, President and Founder of PVS Network. Ms. Santana aims to keep some of the outsourced jobs and business stateside with the introduction of her new service, The Virtual Call Center. From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Washington Mutual to Have Unspecified Number of Additional Layoffs
Washington Mutual announced today that it is cutting its 2004 profit forecast and laying off additional employees. During Q4-2003 and Q1-2004, Washington Mutual laid off 7,400 employees. The number of employees to be laid off during the remainder of 2004 remains unspecified by the company. According to e-Business Strategies, Washington Mutual is offshoring jobs while laying off American workers. According to Seattle PI, recently expanded a pilot project to outsource programming jobs to India. At the time, only about 30 people were working for India outsourcing companies.... From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

First Data Takes Position on Illegal Immigration for Profit
Fortune 500 Company, First Data Corp., has taken a public stance on the immigration debate in favor of unfettered illegal immigration and the continued exploitation of illegal immigrants. The world's largest provider of money transfers (and largest credit card transaction processor), publicly endorsed Rep. Tancredo's Democratic opponent, Joanna Conti, for the fall election. First Data is the largest credit card processing company in the world. They don't *have* credit cards, they process the transactions. A new credit/debit card system has recently been unveiled specifically for From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Feds Raise Rates One-Quarter of a Point
The Federal Reserve raised the short-term interest rate one-quarter of a point today and stated it is ready to raise it higher. The Feds just completed a two-day policy meeting, and the decision came, as expected, to raise the rate from a 40-year low of 1% to 1.25%. June 30, 2004 (Press Release - Federal Reserve) The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 1-1/4 percent. The Committee believes that, even after this action, the stance of monetary policy remains accommodative and, coupled with robust underlying growth...American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Kerry Promises to Control the Border
Kerry stated yesterday that he would like to work with the Mexican government to remove economic incentives for illegal border crossings into the U.S. "You can't do any one piece of this alone, and that's what often happens in immigration reform," Kerry told thousands of Hispanics at a Hispanic convention in Phoenix. Kerry said he will propose a comprehenisve immigration reform plan during his first 100 days in office, if elected. I don't know what his plan is, but I'd like to make a couple of suggestions to John Kerry:... From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Florida State Senator Press Conference 7/1/2004
FYI, If you know some Florida media/press, please pass this on. Also, please send it to CNN/Lou Dobbs. This fits right into his "Exporting America" series. LouDobbs@cnn.com From: Michelle Hayes MICHELLE Hayes @flsenate.gov To: 'Emmons, Michael T' Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:16 PM Subject: update. feel free to pass this along to dobbs & co. hope all is well... State Senator Walter "Skip" Campbell on Thursday, July 1, 2004 will hold a press conference to discuss the latest developments in his investigation into the offshoring by private vendors of state contracts to foreign countr From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Charlie Reese "Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet"
...but sometimes I think we need more Shrubs; just to wake up the ignorant/naive/dead/lifeless Americans. CHARLIE REESE ON KERRY Charley Reese is one of the most far right writers around. He used to be one of the Orlando Sentinel's favorite neoconservatives. He is still writing a column through King Features. Here are excerpts from his column.... From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
Appears Walmart is doing more than "closing main street USA" ... it is bankrupting it's suppliers and forcing companies to send their jobs overseas... An excellent example of "nothing is for free..." The last sentence quoted below is the sweetest of the article... ................................................ Steve Dobbins has been bearing the brunt of that switch. He's president and CEO of Carolina Mills, a 75-year-old North Carolina company that supplies thread, yarn, and textile finishing to apparel makers--half of which supply Wal-Mart. Carolina Mills grew steadily until 2000. From American Joblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Medienkompetenz entscheidet über Erfolg
via eWerx.communications°: Qualifizierung ist für die weitere Entwicklung der Informationswirtschaft unverzichtbar, meinen Experten der IKT-Branche im 7. Faktenbericht Monitoring Informationswirtschaft von TNS Infratest Business Intelligence. From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Blogging - von Inseln, Brücken, Memen und Bürgersteigen
via HIRSCHgarden: Dabei lebt zunächst jeder auf seiner Insel (in seinem Blog). Wie gross die Insel ist, hängt unter anderem davon ab, wie gross der Wissensschatz, bzw. die Interessen des Einzelnen sind. Wenn man wächst (an sich oder an anderen), dann wächst auch diese Insel (und damit auch das Blog). From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Communities, shared spaces and weblog reading
via McGee's Musings: Chaos Player research Communities, shared spaces and weblog reading . From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Blogging als soziales PhÃ¤nomen
via notizen aus der provinz: When I checked my referrer logs yesterday, it occured to me, that I got a lot of hits - via google for "My so called Blog" (Attention: Copy! Don't tell. Original here behind the price barrier) landeten. I don't know From Topic Exchange: Channel 'blogwalk' on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Thursday, July 01, 2004
I apologize for the lack of entries this past week, but between my and Emily's birthday  plus work is keeping me extremely busy  it has been a hectic week. From RHPT.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Bellybutton watch
I’ve noticed: since starting my first weblog in March 2003, I have completed far fewer wood carvings than in the previous year and a half. I’ve played my hammered dulcimer less and less each month, and have noticed that I have been doing more web coding, CSS work, etc. ¶ I’ve noticed that I am focusing more time on reading web From Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

My “no ads” bloglist policy
When I add a weblog to my reading list, it’s because I want to keep it handy in order to refer to and read, as I’ve already read something in it that was extremely interesting to me. There are many weblogs available that are nicely written, focused on topics I am interested n. ¶ But… I remove weblogs from my reading list when they start displaying advertising. I don’t want to wade through From Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

What’s in a name?
Keith’s comments ring true. ¶I’m not sure why the simple combination of the words “Web” and “Designer” isn From Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Technology instruction decline in public schools
“…stagnant or declining technology budgets threaten more than six in 10 school districts and a decade of progress in the use of technology to improve the learning process…“: UPI report. ¶ From Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Quite a crafty Kitty!
This Kitty is quite a crafty coder! I’m using a couple of her plugins here and want to give proper props. Her work solves problems, adds value, and is well documented – all should be held as example to others considering writing plugins for WordPress. ¶ The plugins I’m using are: --> From Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

CSS Workshop complete
Finished the CSS Workshop yesterday for faculty and staff on campus. (See here for Part 1 info.) Received many good comments about the structure of the workshop and enthusiasm about including structured markup and CSS in their web pages. This was a major step forward for many! --> From Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

FOSS: More Than Just A Licensing Scheme
FOSS: More Than Just A Licensing Scheme: I’ve begun to follow some of Charlie’s references and realized am woefully behind the curve on this. Need to catch up quickly! ¶ From Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Three important questions

How can I do the least harm and the most good? ¶

How can I avoid doing harm to myself or to others? ¶

How can I improve the situation? Open Artifact on July 2, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..

Nueva patente de Microsoft: "Time based hardware button for application launch"
El gigante informtico Microsoft ha patentado un procedimiento que activa funciones determinadas cuando el usuario de un PC hace clic varias veces en el mismo botn. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

XFCE 4.0, una rfaga de aire fresco
Estable, rpido, y hermoso, es algo que estara en el diccionario para definir esta madura versin 4 de XFCE. Algunos sistemas de escritorios linuxeros son muy complejos, pesados y llenos de utilidades extras que no usamos. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

McDonalds abandona SCO, para pasarse a Linux
La cadena McDonalds, decidio abandonar SCO para pasar todos sus servidores (DNS, FTP & Bases de datos) a Suse Linux Enterprise Server. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Configurando el Modem ADSL USB Amigo CA80U
Este infame modem ADSL es muy conocido por ser la primera eleccin de los proveedores de Internet de Banda Ancha locales, por su bajo costo. Desgraciadamente, tambin es reconocido por su baja calidad y por estar destinado a su uso bajo Windows. Sin embargo, hacerlo funcionar bajo Linux no es una misin imposible. (sigue...) From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Nuevas versiones de Mozilla Firefox y Thunderbird
Por fin, para los usuarios de estos dos productos, salieron nuevas versiones, y esta vez, con cambios mas que interesantes. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Servicio gratuito de sindicacin RSS del Kernel Linux
VivaLinux! quiere ofrecer a toda la comunidad de sitios amiga de GNU/Linux la capacidad de tener una seleccin actualiza diariamente de links directos a las ltimas versiones del Kernel Linux y sus correspondientes parches. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Como configurar tu MSN, para que te mande SMS's a tu celular
Bueno, como todos sabran, los celulares y su SMS ya infectaron la argentina de una forma increible. En este pequeisimo tutorial, les explicare de la forma mas simple, como configurar tu MSN, para que puedan mandarte mensajes directo a tu celular. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Cuidado con la night vision.
Un nio de 16 aos fue arrestado en Los Angeles por estar filmando el estreno de Spiderman 2 con una camcorder, el muchacho fue apresado por un empleado el cual portaba anteojos de nightvision. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Mozilla Firefox Extensions: Web Developers Tools
Bueno, para el que no este al tanto de que es ‘Mozilla Firefox', este es un navegador completamente gratuito, y muy poderoso. Una de las ventajas que trae, es la posibilidad de agregarle ‘Extensions', algo asi como plugins. En este caso, les contaremos acerca de una, ‘Web Developers Tools'. From Maldita Internet on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Reverse Engineering Backdoored Binaries
Reverse engineering backdoor binaries on an x86 Linux Operating System. Explains the basics of the particular binary by disassembling and then goes into recreating the source code. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on July 2, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..

Internet server attacks blunted
An attack on certain Microsoft Web servers was blunted this week, then contained. The attack was based on turning servers into launching pads for files sent from a Russian server. Microsoft warned users about the danger last week, and the Russian server was shut d From NITLE Tech News on July 2, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..

Política orientada a objetos
(Artículo publicado originalmente por Ummon). Empecé en la informática allá por los ochenta; en aquellos tiernos años, el mundo era sencillo, o al menos a mi me lo parecía, y los Commodore Vic 20 de la época, con sus 3 Kb (si, lo he escrito bien, tres "kas") de memoria no desentonaban en él. Y quedé viciado por la magia: con los ingredientes adecuados (conocer el hardware, algo de ensamblador y un poco de imaginación)... Voilá, cualquier cosa era posible. Y como aprendiz de (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on July 2, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..

La nueva revolución P2P: Skype
De forma no demasiado ruidosa, con lentitud pero ya con aires de irreversibilidad, se está consolidando cada vez más la VoIP como alternativa a la telefonía tradicional. Al menos en el ámbito empresarial, ya nadie cuestiona que la antigua división entre redes de voz y redes de datos está pasando a mejor vida. El futuro -casi el presente- es la voz sobre IP, que representará un ahorro colosal a las corporaciones y servirá de paso para optimizar el uso de las redes. Parecía en (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on July 2, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..

El secreto está en el porno
En su última junta general de accionistas, el presidente de Terra Network, Kim Faura, anunció un nuevo y radical cambio en el modelo de negocio de la filial del Grupo Telefónica en la interred. Desde luego, Terra hace tiempo que dejó de jugar a ser el gran "portal generalista" del mundo hispano, y apenas se ha limitado en estos últimos tiempos a intentar achicar agua, porque el barco amenazaba ciertamente con hundirse. La solución que ahora se propone se basa en transmutar este (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on July 2, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..

Copyright and free speech: Mattel ordered to pay artist
The Mattel corporation lost in court against an artist who used Mattel's Barbie character in his work. Forsythe developed a theme that he called "Barbie's power as a beauty myth." He displayed his photographs at art fairs in Utah and... From MANE IT Network on July 2, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..

"Deep linking" returns by Fast Company
Prominent Web journal Fast Company has launched a new linking policy, which is a return to the controversial notion of "deep linking." From the text: Due to the large volume of requests we receive, we do not have a reciprocal... From MANE IT Network on July 2, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..

Equipment
By Edgar A. Guest Figure it out for yourself, my lad, You've all that the greatest of men had And a brain to use if you would be wise, With this equipment they all began. So start for the top and say "I can" Look them over, the wise and great, They take their food from a ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

The Frog I Met
Here's a nonsense poem I wrote in 1999 during my last semester in college at The University of Alabama. The Frog I Met (By Sparky) Running in the fields today, I met a bullfrog in the hay. Red with yellow polka-dots, He was an odd fellow from an odd lot. Frog never jumped while I was there-- He ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

You Are There
On May 2, 2000, Ambassador Alan Keyes was a guest on the Tonight Show where he ended his appearance by singing a song he had written. Here follow the lyrics. You Are There By Alan L. Keyes I touch the world With hands too weak Frail as the words That ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Ode to My Friend
Here's a poem I wrote in tenth grade of high school. It was subsequently published in the February 1992 edition of The High School Writer. Ode to My Friend There is a friend in my life, Who makes it so much easier. Such a nice and gentle one. He is a pleasant fellow, Whose company ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Watch Him Lord
Here follows an undated prayer from high school. Watch Him Lord Lord, Almighty God, I ask thy favor For my most intimate companion. Protect my friend From all evils of the earth. Keep him safe From every harm. Watch him well, Dear Lord. Drown him in thy blessings. Let him prosper; Send thy goodness to him. Rain thy joys Upon his household, And upon his seed. Feed ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Beauty of the One I Love
Here follows a love poem from high school, written about a girl I fancied. (Obviously written before my vow of celibacy.) Beauty of the One I Love Her thick chocolate hair; Round lovely face. Her dark crimson, rose petal lips; Finely shaped bosom. Her strong tan arms; Wondrous flawless hands. Her sleek detailed legs; Arched perfect feet. She is ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Immeasurable
Another high school love poem written for the girl I fancied. Immeasurable If all the stars were counted, And all the birds that have flown; If there was given a talley Of how much men have known; If there is a number for the clouds in the sky, And the droplets they contain; If there can be a ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Last Red Tulips
A poem I wrote in ninth grade. The assignment was to write based on a picture from the book, which, as best I can remember, was a watercolor entitled "Last Red Tulips." Last Red Tulips The last red tulips, growing quietly. The last red tulips, waving in the breeze. Their little red heads, ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

A Writer
Well, so much for a dose of my poetry. Most of the poetry I have is from high school, which explains why it is so horrid. I have more but they aren't fit for general consumption. Most of them have two or three good lines that I'd ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Running for God’s Glory
My run this evening went better than any recently. I still have much room for improvement. But, I was able to make it without losing control of my breathing, which is sometimes a struggle. My time was 55 seconds better than yesterday. That's quite an improvement ... From Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

US stealth fighter bombers deployed in South Korea for training
Forum: nz.general Posted By: BAM Post Time: 07-02-2004 at 10:05 AM From nzboards Forums on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Greece Goes to the Finals
Yet another amazing victory for Greece in the EuroCup as they beat the favoured Czech Republic team to move to the finals against Portugal. What an amazing ride!!! See more details here: http://www.euro2004.com/... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Blogs, Wikis & WebQuests at NECC 2004
Although I was unable to attend, I noticed some neat presentations posted from NECC 2004 related to Blogs, Wikis and WebQuests. It looks like Bernie Dodge packed the house with his presentation titled "Blogs and Wikis as WebQuest Tasks". There... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Books: Network Marketing and Amazonian Aggregations (NMC 2004)
I've been experimenting with the Amazon Associate program and Alexa Search integration in recent weeks, as are many weblogs and websites, so I thought I would offer some initial impressions. Writing about books that have provided me with some kind... From Experience Designer Network on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Books: Amazon Marketing and All Consuming Aggregations (NMC 2004)
In the previous entry, Books: Network Marketing and Amazonian Aggregations (NMC 2004), I added a test URL to a book at Amazon (Here's a little test: I've been aggregated! - let's see where it crops up.). I posted the entry... From Experience Designer Network on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Books: Content Targeted Amazon Ads
I came across Mark Carey's Content Targeted Amazon Ads and decided to experiment with it (BTW - I would highly recommend having a look at Mark's site. Mark explains the technical aspects far better than I could hope to, but... From Experience Designer Network on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Tender for the license of the third Belarus GSM operator announced
Licence conditions include sharing the operation with the state-owned Minsk City Telephone Network, who will own not less that 51 per cent of the company. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

E-learning in Belarus: problems and prospects
As part of a joint UNDP-Belarus programme, local and international stakeholders from education, ICT, and government participated in a round-table discussion on e-learning in the country. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Canadian Supreme Court rules cached music files not copyright infringement
Canada’s top court has rebuffed an attempt by the Canadian music industry to force ISPs to pay royalties for music downloaded by their users. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

UK MPs urge prosecution of auto-diallers
UK parliament's All Party Internet Group has resisted calls to recommend a new criminal offence for sending spam over open relays or installing adware, but called for the maximum sentence for unauthorised access to computer material under the act be raised from six months to two years. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Lastminute.com acquires Lastminute.de
UK online travel company Lastminute.com has acquired its German namesake. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Mediaset to sell pre-paid smart cards to view DTV, ADSL football
Mediaset intends to unveil a payment mechanism for viewing the matches of Italian football clubs Juventus, Milan and Inter akin to the pre-paid cards used for mobile phones, with customers buying smart cards for set-top boxes at news agencies and tobacconists for a particular match. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Vodafone Ireland launches enterprise 3G
Vodafone Ireland has launched its enterprise 3G services with the Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G/GPRS Datacard, with monthly bundle charges range from €25 to €199. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Orange UK launches 3G services
Orange has announced it is to launch 3G enterprise services in the UK on July 19. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

MSN strips paid ads from search service
In a bid aimed at taking on the search offerings of Yahoo and Google, Microsoft has stripped down its search service and launched alpha testing of its next-generation search engine. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Sony launches iPod-style Walkman
While Sony’s digital music shop has been described as being as user-friendly as a postmodernist sociology journal, its Network Walkman is cheaper, smaller and thinner than the iPod and can store 3000 more songs than Apple’s top-end digital music player. Could this be the genuine iPod killah? From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

MMPython
A media metadata retrieval framework for Python: parses ID3v2, ID3v1, EXIF, IPTC and Vorbis data into an object oriented struture. From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Automatic video editing
muvee autoProducer does not quite sound as my idea of an ideal video-editing application: "Artistic Intelligence automatically selects the best scenes from your video, and cuts them to your chosen music with cool effects and transitions synchronized to the beat". According to this article muvee allows phone users to easily convert long video clips in short, fun video clips suitable for sending via MMS. The From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

AP to Launch Blogs, E&P Reports
Editor &amp Publisher reports The Associated Press will launch its first weblog at the political conventions in Boston and New York, utilizing Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Walter R. Mears. From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Designing Interactive Systems - Cambridge, MA - August 1-4, 2004
Early registration for DIS 2004 just ended, but advance registration is open until July 18.It looks like there will be some really interesting papers, and of course you can join me, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Lalya Gaye, Elizabeth Goodman and Dan Hill as we chat about Desi From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Playlists, Queries, Rules
Today I spent some time discussing playlists with Lucas Gonze, which got me thinking about the spectrum with simple playlists on one end and full-blown cinematography on the other. Both essentially describe sequences of media selected and arranged in a purposeful manner. What Lucas made me realize is that a playlist needn't be a static record: it can be a query, a suggestion or template that can be realized by a number of possible content sequences. For example, a playlist entry that specifies only ["I L From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

Responding to INDUCE: Forget the tech industry -- where's our response?
A couple of days ago we posted a couple of links to Dan Gillmor's and Andrew Orlowski's rather bitter lashings of the tech industry for failing to put their political might behind a united response to Orrin Hatch's INDUCE Act. Edward Felte From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..

BBC outlines digital future
The UK state broadcaster, the BBC, yesterday outlined its vision of how it should operate and its role in British society advance of the upcoming review of its Royal Charter. The charter describes the broadcaster's aims, objectives and functions and is up for government renewal at the end of next year. As part of the self-described "radical" manifesto for the future of the BBC, the corporation's director general, Mark Thompson, and chairman, Michael Grade, unveiled a nine-point plan layi From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X (Beta)
Real released RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X: Available in beta, the newest RealPlayer from RealNetworks enables Mac OS X consumers to enjoy hundreds of hours of audio and video content in many of the major Internet media formats, including RealAudio, RealVideo, AAC, QuickTime and MPEG. Also included in the RealPlayer for Mac OS X beta are an integrated browser window, advanced video controls and graphic equalizer. Free download is available at --> From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

Rendezvous for Windows
Apple released a developer's preview of Rendezvous Networking for Windows 2000 &amp XP at wwdc 04. This preview release includes full link-local support, allowing Windows machines to discover advertised HTTP and FTP servers using Internet Explorer. It also includes a printer setup wizard which allows Windows machines to print to Rendezvous networked printers, including USB shared printers connected to the AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express Base Stations. With the included Rendezvous SDK, Window From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

100 Channels of Push Content Too Many?
MediaPost is reporting, "In a development that appears to defy the laws of television industry physics, the medium's expanding universe may have reached its limit much sooner than anyone would have imagined--and it seems to be one that is considerably less than the apocryphal 500 channels it was ultimately projected to deliver. For the first time since Nielsen Media Research began tracking it, the number of channels receivable by the average U.S. household declined last year, and appears to have stalled out at about From unmediated on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

ibm adds to autonomic initiative...
James Niccolai writes for IDG News Services: IBM adds turbo-charger to Websphere. ...Websphere XD is designed for customers with complex environments involving multiple application servers, and who have critical applications that see unpredictable surges in demand, such as financial services companies, online retailers and auctions. ...The software ro From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

a knowledge compass...
Scott Shemwell, President &amp CEO, Strategic Decision Sciences, writes an article for EnergyPulse on: The Emergence of Knowledge as an Ecology. The following is a brief excerpt on knowledge as a 'compass': Knowledge must be directed. Focused towards a specific direction that builds upon the base and capitalizes on the possible. If knowledge management is a poorly defined framework with expectations From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

personal knowledge networking software...
In a Yahoo press release today: Prominent e-Learning Experts Launch Startup to Commercialize Breakthrough Personal Knowledge Networking Software. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Graham Glynn, PhD, a neuroscientist and director at the Center for Learning &amp Academic Technologies at Penn State University, has joined with other e-learning experts to found Learning Management Solutions, a dev From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

Connecting blogs without comments or trackback
I've got so used to the notion of blogs as two-way conversations, that I feel off-balance and strangely powerless when faced with a blog that supports neither comments or trackbacks. In this case, I felt that I'd like to let the readers of this post about usage patterns of Wikis and blogs in education know about my blog post from a few days ago on a similar topic. Usually, I'd just From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on July 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m..

How would you design your own conference?
Conferences. You know the sort of thing: long queues, presentations where you feel you need a fast forward button, complicated and conflicting schedules, sore shoulders from a mountain of brochures and freebies. And yet, what do people repeat, over and over, when they return? The best bits were talking with like-minded people, sharing ideas and experience, eating, drinking and companionship. So. If we were to redesign the idea of a conference, to give the best and most valuable experience for every delegate, how would we go about it? I've noticed several rumbings From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Trade Development
From the federal government agency that offers services to small businesses to increase their export potential. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Small Business Training Network
Virtual courses for entrepreneurs from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Click on link for "online courses" on the left side of the screen. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Small Business Advancement National Center
Wide range of information for entrepreneurs from writing a business plan to tutorials on exporting. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Mozilla's Top 10 Extensions
Probably one of Mozilla's most powerful and yet overlooked features is its extension support. By installing these tiny plugins, you can give Mozilla extraordinary new abilities. Extensions are written in XUL, Mozilla's cross-platform rendering language, and given an "XPI" file extension (Nosy Programmer tip: they're actually ZIP files - rename their extensions and see!). There are dozens of extensions available on Mozdev, ranging from bookmark backup makers to blogging tools to parlour games. Here are my Top Ten Mozilla Extensions. These are the extensions I personally consider From silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Duh, what's the Internet, political parties say
One of my local candidates recently had left an automated message on our answering machine proclaiming his support of "safe neighbourhoods, good health care and the care of the elderly". Just in case, you know, since all the other candidates are running for unsafe neighbourhoods and the mugging of senior citizens. With all this rhetoric and mother-truthing, three groups decided to ask the dominant Canadian parties what their plans were for privacy, copyrights, spam, and open source software. The Toronto Star also covered this topic. Unsuprisingly, the political parties seemed to not have any c From silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Lives on random shuffle
"I didn't upgrade to the latest cheats, and I was banned." He was waiting at St. George Station, carrying a canvas and a hiker's backpack, so he's probably a university arts student. He got banned from playing the online game Counter-strike. No remorse or guilt in his voice; it's a minor inconvenience. Ironic since in the online gaming world, where gaming skills can mean cash prizes in cyberathelete competitions, cheating brings out very strong emotions. He plays "Amplitude" on the PlayStation2 now. Two rollerblading teenagers, cruising down Bloor Street Village, are regali From silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Survivor Brkich Gives Bikinis to Museum
Survivor Brkich Gives Bikinis to Museum The firefighting display at local museum is creating a lot of heat, thanks to a bikini donation by Survivor winner Amber Brkich. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Did I Make the Right Decision?
Did I Finally Make the Right Decision?Date: May 2, 2004 Ok, let me tell you the situation. i had a best friend. she was mybest friend since 8th grade, we are now in 12th and ready to graduate. since the end of 11th grade, she has acted so differently. i used tobe her everything and she was my everything. we could trust each other, finish each other's sentences, and have fun doing nothing. but she became friends with one of her old friends that treats her like crap. she once called my best friend fat and plain and didn't have fashionstyle. my friend still forgave her. but then, my fri From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Mandy Moore Tempted by Wicked Side
Mandy Moore Tempted by Wicked Side! Mandy Moore has a Wicked hankering for the Great White Way. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Judge Scolds Courtney Love for Late Court Arrival
Judge Scolds Courtney Love for Late Court Arrival Courtney Love showed up five hours late to a New York court hearing on a reckless endangerment charge on Monday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the judge, who warned the dazed-looking rocker that she narrowly missed being deemed a fugitive. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Paris Hilton To Launch Record Label
Paris Hilton To Launch Record Label Hotel heiress Paris Hilton is so serious about her upcoming music career, she's decided to do more than just release an album - she's also starting up her own record label. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

AFI's Top 100 Movie Songs Of All Time!
AFI's Top 100 Movie Songs Of All Time! The American Film Institute has compiled a list of the top 100 songs from movies. Here is the list, in its entirety. The theme from Shaft should have made it up higher on the list, but at least it's there. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Blade III The Holy Trinity Trailer
Blade III The Holy Trinity Trailer To quote Seth Gecko: "Okay vampire killers. Let's kill some f*cking vampires." Thus is the general air of the new Blade: Trinity trailer summed up and on an arse-kicking scale of one to ten - where one is a shiatsu massage and ten sees paramedics called in to perform an emergency buttock transplant - this film is hovering around the 9.5 mark. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Alleged Stalker of Zeta-Jones Apologizes
Alleged Stalker of Zeta-Jones Apologizes A woman who has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of stalking actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has written a letter of apology, her lawyer said Tuesday. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Aniston's Food Bill Sparks Rumours
Aniston's Food Bill Sparks Rumours Friends star Jennifer Aniston has fuelled rumours that she is pregnant by stocking up on exotic junk food. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Beyonce, Jay-Z Win Big at BET Awards
Beyonce, Jay-Z Win Big at BET Awards It was a big night for Beyonce and her beau. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Jessica Simpson's Confession!
Jessica Simpson's Confession! Jessica Simpson has confessed she - not husband Nick Lachey - wanted to break her pre-marital sex ban. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Stamos Struggles With Breakup of Marriage
Stamos Struggles With Breakup of Marriage "Full House" actor John Stamos says it's been difficult dealing with the breakup of his marriage to actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Lindsay Lohan's Father Arrested on Theft
Lindsay Lohan's Father Arrested on Theft Teen movie star Lindsay Lohan's father has been arrested on a charge of theft of services after allegedly skipping out on a $3,800 bill for several suites at a posh Long Island hotel and catering facility. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Nicole Kidman: New Love Hard to Find
Nicole Kidman: New Love Hard to Find Hard to believe, but Nicole Kidman claims that "men aren't beating a path to my door." From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Vanessa Williams, Rick Fox Split Up
Vanessa Williams, Rick Fox Split Up Vanessa Williams and her husband, L.A. Laker forward Rick Fox, may have appeared to have been a happy couple, but according to a source close to Williams, the two have actually been quietly estranged for the last 18 months, PEOPLE reports in its upcoming issue. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Ashley Olsen Opens Up About Mary-Kate's Condition
Ashley Olsen Opens Up About Mary-Kate's Condition Last week, hardworking superteen MARY-KATE OLSEN checked herself into a $30,000-a-month Utah treatment center for anorexia, something her father, DAVE OLSEN, says she's been suffering from for two years. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Britney: The Bride-To-Be Speaks!
Britney: The Bride-To-Be Speaks! Blonde bombshell BRITNEY SPEARS has officially taken herself off the dating market! The talented 22-year-old confirmed to ET on Friday that she and her boyfriend, 26-year-old backup dancer KEVIN FEDERLINE, are gearing up to head down the aisle. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Eminem's Ex-Wife Sentenced to Jail
Eminem's Ex-Wife Sentenced to Jail Eminem's ex-wife was sentenced Wednesday to at least four months in jail for leaving a court-ordered drug treatment program without permission. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Spears Slams Pregnancy Rumours
Spears Slams Pregnancy Rumours Blonde beauty Britney Spears has slammed rumours she's rushing down the aisle with Kevin Federline because she is pregnant. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Versace Heir Comes of Age, Faces Unglamorous Job
Versace Heir Comes of Age, Faces Unglamorous Job Some girls dream of getting a car or a designer dress for their 18th birthday but when Allegra Versace Beck woke up Wednesday she got a much bigger present -- half the Versace fashion empire left to her by her late uncle Gianni. From Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 2, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..

Free Shagging Marmots, Courtesy of BBC, This Fall
...Don't knock it  it's a start. This fall, the BBC will put its Creative Archive online. According to Wired News, this ambitious project will, "make thousands of audio and video clips available to the public for noncommercial viewing, sharing and editing. It will debut with natural-history programming." This online content database will be available under a license simil From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

How is a Wiki Like a Weblog?
Recently I wrote about the concept of the bliki, which combines characteristics of weblogs and wikis. Along this theme, the weblog Hunting the Muse recently pondered what, exactly, weblogs and wikis have in common, and how they might best be combined in a practical way. Check out Weblogs, Wikis, and Comments. Also, see Robin Good's recent weblog entry about blikis: --> From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Heads Up: Happy Birthday, FOIA!
Just a little public service announcement here for US citizens... In case you didn't notice, a nifty US law called the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is about to turn 38. (It was signed into law by Pres. Lyndon Johnson on July 4, 1966.) Not necessarily a milestone birthday, but still I think the fact that it's still surviving, especially in the current climate of sharply increased government secrecy, deserves some appreciation... (More on how you can put FOIA From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Bye Bye, Explorer
I've finally abandoned Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser altogether in my Internet use. yeah, it was convenient for awhile  until it got buggy on me and kept crashing. It's also a spyware magnet, which is a hassle. But what recently pushed me over the edge was this pointed weblog entry by Gary Lawrence Murphy: How to use MSIE Online: Don't. See also this article from SpywareInfo. From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Corporate Weblogs: Learning to Roll
Back on May 3, Seth Godin wrote in his weblog A Penny For... "Most blogs are boring, self-absorbed, trivial and not worth remembering, never mind talking to people about. Company blogs are worse, because everyone wants to play it safe. Safe is risky! Safe is invisible! If you want to play it safe, please don't bother wasting time on a blog. It won't work." Agreed. Blogs are definitely not for the risk-averse. When you blog, you expose yourself or your organization in a way that ope From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Update: FeedDemon Minus Explorer
Since my earlier posting about my decision to abandon Internet Explorer and how this has affected my webfeed reader, some new information has come to light. Here are a few updates... From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

More on Learning to Roll
Here's a must-read article: Creative Thinking as a Way of Life, Jan. 23, 2004, Blog News for Bloggers, by Wayne Hurlbert. Excerpt: "Creativity reduces risk by looking at solutions to problems. Rather than living with problems, ...the creative person looks for opportunities for improvement. The glitches, problems, and failures represent challenges, not roadblocks. The non-creative solutions in business often result from acceptance of failure. " This is an excellent complement to somet From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

More Misc. Cool Stuff to Check Out
Here are some more items which have caught my attention recently: At the top of the list: What Do You See Ahead? Seven Questions To Robin Good About Present And Future In Education, Communication Technologies And The Arts, June 20, Robin Good's Master New Media weblog. I love this blog, it's one of my favorites. Here's the first of seven questions Good tackles thoughtfully: "Can you describe to us what you would consider an end product, or outcome, of education?" From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

FactCheck.org: Scraped Webfeeds
I love FactCheck.org  a nonpartisan project by the Annenberg Public Policy Center that uses journalistic expertise to "monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases." If ever there was a presidential election that needed such context, 2004 is the year. You can subscribe to receive free e-mail alerts whenever FactCheck.org publishes a new article. Unfortunately, they don't yet offer their own webfeed. According to --> From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

More Furl Tricks
My earlier article, 10 Cool Things to Do with Furl, has proved hugely popular. In fact, on the Furl site it's been on the "most popular items" list for several days now. I'm glad the word is getting around. Even better is the fact that my article seems to have spawned a few others listing even more cool ways to use Furl. Here are a few:

Library Web Chic weblog, June 30, by Karen A. From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

One More Furl Trick: Pre-Blogging
Here's yet another cool thing you can do with Furl: Pre-blogging. Here's what I mean by that. In your Furl archive, you can set up various folders. You also can create an RSS-format webfeed to share either your archive as a whole, or specific folders. In my Furl archive, I have a folder named contentious-to-do. This is where I store items that I'm strongly considering writing about in future CONTENTIOUS entries. So if you're curious about what I'm probably going to be writing about, you have two choices: From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

The Blog: Today's Resume?
I remember reading a year or so ago several articles warning job seekers to be careful what they say online  because employers now routinely surf the Web to check up on applicants. One off-color comment in a discussion group flame war, one tasteless weblog entry, one little personal site lambasting your current or former boss, and your application was toast. However, you can also turn the Web to your career advantage. Recently, Cutting Through reported on how the fine quality of one candidate's weblog weighed heavily in a recent hiring decision. See --> From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Improving Access to Library Electronic Resources: One Reader's View
Recently, I covered how libraries and their patrons are adapting to the age of electronic information. (See: Research: Delving the Deep Web) This spurred the following observations from CONTENTIOUS reader Lois Ambash, president of Metaforix Inc.  published here with permission. Lois writes: "I've been exploring the kinds of electronic resources libraries make available to their card holders online from remote locations. (My own public library is the Ne From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Grow Your Own Teamwork Tools BEFORE Installing a CMS
Increasingly, content  whether a book, database, report, or the amassed knowledge of an organization  is the result of teamwork. A team could be a few people in scattered offices working on a common project; or a network of editors, designers, and authors producing publications. One challenging aspect of teamwork is managing the results of individual and collective efforts  that is, keeping the team's ideas, discussions, and documents available and organized. When the product of teamwork resides mainly in e-mail, notes, and incomplete or conflicting From Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Open Source CMS
Here is some solid, unbiased, advice from CMS Watch on using open source CMS; which is also applicable for using open source learning content management systems.In my opinion, one major issue with every OSS CMS package is that most require a major developer learning curve to fulfill even small content requirements. So you can count on configuration and customization, regardless of your environment.... However, OSS CMS s From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Washington Post for Kids
You don't have to be a stuffy grown-up to read the newspaper. KidsPost has news stories that are geared specifically to kids! washingtonpost.com: KidsPost... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

The Worldwide art gallery
Put your artwork on display for the whole world to see! The Worldwide Art Gallery has pictures created by kids from Germany, Russia, Canada and, of course, the United States. Kids' Art @ The Worldwide Art Gallery... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Harry Potter and much more.
What a neat design... Here's a treasure trove of information on the Harry Potter books and stories. Do you share Hermione's birthday? Check the site to find out. J.K.Rowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Yuckiest Site
Learn about gross things from Discovery Kids. Read about worms and roaches and creepy crawly things. There are some fun games, too! Welcome to the Yuckiest Site on the Internet!... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Winged Sandals
Take the tour with Hermes the messenger god, through a magical place filled with awesome gods, daring heroes and fabulous monsters. ABC Arts Online: Winged Sandals... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Best Practices for Administrative Evaluation of Online Faculty
This introductory-level presentation demonstrates how to evaluate the materials and teaching in online courses. Topics covered include similarities with evaluation of on-ground teaching, factors unique to online courses, technological considerations, helping administrators unfamiliar with online courses, and national standards, rubrics,... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

'Cyberschool' trend increases
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Ohio already has 41 "cyberschools" with more than 12,000 students taking classes online, and those numbers -- as well as the tax dollars paid to them -- are sure to grow this fall. 'Cyberschool' trend increases -... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

E-Learning for Short Attention Spans
On-demand training is the latest trend in e-learning. Companies using e-learning technologies have found that long lectures don't cut it online. Short, targeted learning segments with simulation or how-to scenarios let employees take classes when they have time or when... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Putting Taxes into Perspective
Tax Cuts - A Simple Lesson In Economics This is how the cookie crumbles. Please read it carefully. Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for... From Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

News about Lohan
Martin Brooks asked me how Lohan, my son, was doing. Well. He's been sitting straight on his own for some time, but he can't sit himself, nor can he recover if he falls over. If you hold both of his hands, he walks quite fast. He likes to walk quite a bit, but he can't be bothered to crawl. If you put his hands on a small table, he will stand there and not fall, at least for some time. He can say things like "dadada" and "guo gui". If you read to him, he will try to eat the book. Whenever he sees our cat, he will run after her yelling, and of course, the cat will run away. He c From Daniel Lemire's blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Canadian Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG)
The Canadian Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) [1] was launched today. There are already 32 Semantic Web Canadians onboard. There was a general feeling that Semantic Web research and development in Canada had no meeting point, and we hope the SWIG will be it. If you are into Semantic Web and are Canadians or live in Canada, check it out! [1] http://www.cscsi.org/home/CSCSI/Members/swig From Daniel Lemire's blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Webjay opens its collaborative filtering data set
Lucas has made available publicly its playlist database [1]. I'll claim a small contribution there: I believe I'm the one who convinced Lucas to make part of his data open. Indeed, Lucas, Sean, and I have been discussing collaboration between Webjay [2] and inDiscover [3] for some time. I'm very happy to see Lucas open his data set like this. I believe this will leverage the strength of the network while still protecting Lucas' interests. Got to this through Seb [4]. [1] http://gonze.com/weblog/story/6-28-4 [2] http://www.webjay.org [3] http://www.indiscover.net [4] http: From Daniel Lemire's blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Anna was over for dinner
Tuesday, Anna was over for dinner. Anna was my neighbour, co-author, and colleague at NRC. We both left at almost the same time for Montreal. Anna went to work at Idilia [1] and I went to work at the University of Quebec [2]. [1] http://www.idilia.com [2] http://www.uquebec.ca From Daniel Lemire's blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

What Smart Leadership Looks Like
This month's issue of techLearning has a strong focus on school leadership and the impact that it has on educational technology. While some of the interior articles are a little on the weak side (do I really need to know what kind of handheld a principal might use?), Susan McLester opens with a very strong essay on the challenges facing educational leaders in the are of technology. this paragaraph really sums those issues up well. In such times of rapid technological evolution and... From Brain Frieze on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Pervasive e-Learning
In an article titled E-Learning For Short Attention Spans at Transform Magazine, Penny Lunt Crosman writes an in-depth article on the move among corporations towards an e-Learning model that uses short, bite-sized learning objects that can easily be accessed by employees as needed. There's a lot at this article that really rings true for me, from the ease in which people can get to the information they need, to the validity of unstructured courses that allow them to access information... From Brain Frieze on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

On leaving the classroom
Later today I'll be polishing off the old resume', writing a spiffy cover letter, and dropping them off at the school district office. This has been a difficult decision for me to make, but like so many teachers, I'm torn between the love I have for my kids and my classroom, and the need to make a decent salary. I took me a long time to get myself into the classroom, and giving it up (potentially) is much harder than I might have expected. Back in high school when my guidance counselor... From Brain Frieze on July 2, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..

Blog Scoop?
The BBC's Stuart Hughes appears to have gotten there first in reporting the two-day-early handover of Iraqi sovereignty on his personal blog. As I write this, Hughes -- a BBC correspondent who lost his leg in Iraq -- is promising an audioblog entry after the Bush-Blair press conference. (Thanks to Buzzmachine for the tip.) From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

End of the No-Blog Diet
Blog aficionado Costa Tsiokos has finished his week of no-blog media consumption. He has a few thoughts here, and will take a news quiz to see how well he kept up with current events by reading offline and online media sans weblogs. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

No Pioneer Press Online Cuts
There was a little confusion last week about the TwinCities.com website of the St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota. The competing Star Tribune initially reported that the PP would eliminate its online staff as part of a major newsroom reorganization. (The ST later published a corrected follow-up.) According to TwinCities.com general manager Patty Mitchell, the reorganization will involve no online cuts, but it will facilitate "stronger cooperation and par From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Online Ad Targeting Takes Another Step
Various websites, including NYTimes.com and Lycos, have agreed to participate in a program enabling advertisers to personalize banner ads with individual users' names, the New York Times reports. As is typical with articles about online advertising, this one is short of details on exactly how this program will work. But if I am interpreting correctly, a company called Dotomi is serving as an intermediary be From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Best Multimedia News Content Deadline Nears
Deadline for entries to the Society for News Design's third annual SND.ies competition is nigh. The contest is for multimedia editorial work published between July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004. Entry deadline for work to be considered for the annual awards is midnight on July 1 (this Thursday). If you miss that deadline, you can still submit work for the regular monthly awards. Judges for the competition (I'm one) will meet in Denver on July 19 to decide on the annual winners. Finalists will be announced o From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

RSS in the Browser: It's About Time
RSS is an awfully cool technology for distributing content -- but I've never felt that people wanted yet another desktop application to receive RSS feeds. Now comes the news that the next version of Apple's Safari browser will incorporate an RSS reader. I suspect that all browsers eventually will do this. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

World's First Major Online Zulu Newspaper?
South Africa's first -- and probably the world's first -- major online Zulu-language publication recently made its debut on the web, reports IT Web. The publication, Isolezwe, has been launched as a paid-content service. Isolezwe's editor says the website is aimed at the emerging, urban-based Zulu market and that it aims to "alter reader perceptions about online publishing." Isolezwe, the print publication establ From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Hebrew, Arabic Web URLs Around the Corner?
Soon it will be possible to write an Internet address (or URL) in Korean, Hebrew, German, Arabic, and many other languages that do not use the Western alphabet, reports the Highway Africa news agency (Hana) from the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) preparatory meeting in Tunisia. Although a web page can be written using any language a user chooses, the web address of that page still requires at least some knowledge of the alphabet used by countries in Western Europe, North America, and other From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Newspapers Beware: Local Search Services Are Rolling Out
Search powerhouse Overture is rolling out its local search service, LocalMatch. (One columnist calls it "the smartest approach to serving up local content to date.") This new service follows local-search initiatives by Yahoo! (which owns Overture), Verizon (Superpages), and Google (which has local search in beta). Search sites realize that people inc From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

The Media World Flocks to ... Kansas?
The World Company, owner of the 20,000-circulation Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World and its affiliated websites and a cable-TV news channel, has sold out its CLIK Conference -- two two-day sessions worth (in August), and has added a third to meet the demand. Brainchild of new media director Rob Curley, the conference was designed as a way to stem the steady flow of media visitors regularly trekking to Lawrence to pick the brains of Curley and crew -- about the company's online strategies, its convergence efforts, and its initiat From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Blog Contest by German Newspaper
Do German newspapers care enough about blogs? Probably not. However, the German national weekly Die Zeit might be an exception. Not only does it offer blogs by some of it own columnists, but just initiated a contest called "Preisbloggen" in conjunction with Blogg.de in which users can nominate their favorite blogs in three different categories ( "story telling," "design," and "expertise"; deadline: July 11). The 10 blogs nominated most often in each category will be reviewed by a jury from the newspaper. Bloggers can wi From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

SEJ Fights Government Secrecy
As the U.S. Freedom of Information Act's birthday approaches, the trend toward more government secrecy continues. However, there is much that journalism groups can do to fight that trend. One such effort I've been meaning to highlight here is the Watchdog edition of the SEJ Tipsheet, a publication of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Editor Joe Davis does an excellent job of tracking sources of info relevant to the environment From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

More Wireless Hotspots in Chile
Some 218 locations in Chile now offer wireless connections, according to a study of Cmara de Comercio de Santiago cited by Mouse.cl (in Spanish). 47 percent of the wi-fi hotspots belong to restaurants and 18 percent to hotels. Also, 49 percent of all hotspots offer free connection, and 53 percent are located in Santiago, the capital city. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

A Chat With BBC Personal Blogger
The other day I mentioned how the BBC's Stuart Hughes posted news about the two-day-early Iraqi sovereignty hand-over to his personal blog, beating many mainstream news outlets to the punch. Jon Dube of Cyberjournalist.net has interviewed Hughes about this incident, and about how he uses his blog while also performing as a working journalist for one of the world's leading news organizations. A couple interesting points: 1. Hughes dismisses the From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Pictures Are 'Ghettoized' Online
Photojournalist Ken Kobr thinks news websites misuse photos. The author of a widely praised photojournalism textbook, Kobr has some scathing criticisms (in an interview with dotJournalism) of how news sites use photos. He particularly objects to the size (and lack of variability in the size) of the images. "It is easy to make Internet pages fixed in terms of format -- that makes it easy to get the page out every day -- but the rever From ERADC Blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Laundromat
Laundromats. Yes, clean clothes, but are the horrors worth it? I'm doing mine in the kitchen sink from now on.2004-02-11 16:09 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Branded to Kill by Seijun Suzuki
Suzuki pioneered Hard-Boiled. American Noir and French New Wave was absorbed and then spat back with a rice fetish.2004-02-16 14:34 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

The Studs Terkel Party Test
Why waste time trying to find a decent conversation at a party when you can just let Studs do it for you.2004-02-23 23:12 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

The Geeking of America
Not so very long ago any knowledge of the pronunciation of Elvish, how to shoot things in cyberspace, how to get information from one place to another quickly, fantasy novels, sci-fi, buying a TIVO, were instant indications of a misplaced, socially dysfunctional, and ... :MORE2004-03-09 13:08 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Richard Stallman, aka RMS
Sitting down in front of a Thinkpad with Emacs running, RMS straps his arm into a device standing next to the desk that bends his arm up and down at the elbow. "I broke it. I slipped on some ice", he says.2004-03-29 22:17 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

We Suck
"We are not an evil empire", says Rumsfeld in front of a congressional hearing on the torture of Iraqi prisoners.2004-05-07 21:57 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

The Man Who Kicked Blue Team's Ass
Millennium Challenge was a war game held in August 2002 pitting US forces against an "unnamed" middle east state controlled by a megalomaniac dictator. General Paul Van Riper played against the US, and hit them so hard they changed the rules ... :MORE2004-05-09 12:23 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Nick Berg: Conspiracy 101
Whatever the truth is about this incident, this very politicized gruesome incident, it is a perfect example of how missing pieces, lack of credible first hand information, political agenda, and sketchy motives all around, can lead to conspiracy theory. This does not mean a ... :MORE2004-05-17 17:29 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Dutch
Reagan was disliked as a matter of course. Not necessarily seen as an evil moralizer with a messiah complex with clutches on land and culture like our dear Bush Jr., Reagan came off as the old man who was closed-minded and hardcore anti-Commie. You could laugh about him and ... :MORE2004-06-06 14:54 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Office
Paper clips. Bic pens. Post its. Sneers. Back stabbing. Territorial disputes. Alcoholism. Expense reports. Dick swaggering. Welcome to your office.2004-06-10 21:26 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

Reagan Vs. Mothra
Who would win? And why? Both have distinct advantages in the realm of combat. Both have innate super-powers to use in a deadly battle over a densely populated metropolis.2004-06-13 17:19 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

100 Years of Bloomsday
"I declare to God, if I hear that name Joyce one more time I will surely froth at the gob." -- Flann O'Brien2004-06-16 00:24 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

David Byrne's Grown Backwards
David Byrne's recent album is refreshing in its unapologetic eclecticism and use of strings. Byrne's ever present dry wit is tempered by his stylistic interests. It's an album worth letting grow on you.2004-06-29 15:59 From mcgeek.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..

VMware install of SUSE 9.1
Given that SUSE have finally allowed people to download a fuill version of their 9.1 OS I took this opportunity to see what the fuss is all about. I tend to stick to Debian based distros normally but have heard quite abit about YAST (yet another setup tool) and thought I would have a fiddle. The download was painless although it would have been nice to have an option to download via Bitorrent. I always try and test a new OS in a VMware session so that I dont waste tim From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

gmail update
Having used Gmail for a little while now I can say that although I expected to hate it, I actually quite like it. To me webmail (like Hotmail) is something to use when signing up for mailing lists or websites that need you to register before allowing you access to the site. Gmail on the other hand does have some wonderful search facilities and seems to run very fast indeed. The only major problem I have with it is the lack o From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

OS Commerce - fantastic online shop for free
I have been looking for a way to run a cheap (or free) online shop for ages and I think I have found the way. OSCommerce is just fantastic. It runs on PHP and MySQL and installs in literally 5 minutes flat! I set it up on a test server I have running SME server. All you have to do is download the compressed image from the OSCommerce website, uncompress it, copy it to your chosen directory on the server and run then i From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

Ximian Evolution problems - sticking with M2
I thought I would have a proper fiddle with Evolution 1.4 yesterday and see just how well it handled multiple email accounts. I set up a couple of POP3 and a few IMAP accounts for it to read and my first impressions were that it handled them all rather well. It pulled in the mail quite quickly and apart from a few minor slow downs when pulling in a large IMAP folder it all went well. The problems started when I tried adding filtering. The filters work perfe From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

Interesting blog and a decent domain name
Have a look at this blog sometime. You dont get domain names much better than Buggerthis.com. :) From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

New Personal Blog
I have set up a new Blog to deal with non technical stuff. My personal Blog can now be found at: My Personal Blog From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

I want a Plasma next!
Have a look at this baby. I want one! I need one! Only thing I have to work out now is: a) How I can afford it. b) Where the hell am I going to put it? From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

Gmail Update
Gmail has a major flaw! It lets you archive everything which is good and you can set filters up which also work well. The one thing I want it to do though is when I set a filter to auto-archive an email and filter it, I also want it to mark it as read by default. I subscribe to several mailing lists and I just get these to filter and archive as soon as they arrive so I can read them later without having to keep seeing how many new emails are sitting in the filter From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

Retro Gaming
A new site has opened here. Only the one game so far (Pengo) I have been a big fan of retro games for a long time and have downloaded many wonderful games from Retrospec. The best site however so far is remakes.org. They have a great selection and often 2 or 3 versions of the same game by different developers. I am just waiting for a full redesign of Carrier Command to come out. So fa From phoward.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..

Gmail invite
I have some Gmail invites that I'm willing to give to other educational technology-types. You can email me at tslater at zanestate dot edu, or leave a comment. Let me know your school affiliation, position, and website/blog--you know, just for fun. From Big IDEA on July 2, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..

Downes downs 'lock-in'
I just had to use this Stephen Downes' quote from yesterday's OLDaily as the basis of this short Auricle article. Stephen hits the nail on the head when he challenges the Motley Fool's contention that 'lock in' to Blackboard's products is a 'good thing' (from an investor perspective). "Oh, I know, investors leap at lock-in like slathering dogs for a hanging beeksteak, but to me when such a... From Auricle on July 2, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..

Monográfico de Educaweb.com sobre educación e Internet
El portal Educaweb.com dedica un nuevo monográfico al tema «Educación e Internet». Además del editorial («La e-ducación no debería ser una película de ciencia-ficción ») incluye artículos de Manuel Area, Miquel Àngel Prats y otros expertos del ámbito universitario. From Octeto - Tecnología educativa on July 2, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..

Conferinta W3C, TOJDE
Toate articolele si tutorialele prezentate la a 13-a Conferinta World Wide Web din New York , 17-22 mai 2004, sunt publicate online - http://www.ww... resursa extrem de utila si studentilor ... From WeBlog.ro feeds on July 2, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..

LAMS: Learning Activity Management System website
http://www.lamsinternational.com/index.html You may have heard mention in a number of different forums of the LAMS system, developed by James Dalziel and Macquarie University. I've been hearing about it for a year now, but so far the most I had been able to find on this alleged learning design authoring tool was a paper or two. No website, no software. Well things are looking a bit better - while I still can't find access to a demo or extensive details on the software, this new site does give some --> From EdTechPost on July 2, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..

JISC Review of Learning Design Tools
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ACF83C.doc I found the lead to the LAMS website mentioned below in this useful recent report by Sandy Britain for the JISC. The report gives some background on the history and concepts of learning design, and then after laying out a new framework for evaluating learning design tools, provides an in-depth analysis of Coppercore, EduBox, Eduplone, LAMS, --> From EdTechPost on July 2, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..

My DevNet Article about my Breeze Live Presentations
The article I wrote for the Breeze/RoboDemo DevNet Centers is now live! This discusses my experiences during the Breeze Live seminars I conducted in April. I also give introductory videos, tips, and checklists to being a Breeze presenter and being a Breeze participant. I set up a discussion board (see the last page) to handle subsequent questions... From FlashSim on July 2, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..

Mastermind Explorer - Issue 55 - Robin Good's Discoveries And Selected News
Mastermind Explorer - Issue 55 - Robin Good's Discoveries And Selected News From MasterMind Explorer on July 2, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..

Shareware Blunders
Shareware blunders, lessons learned by the industry pro's. Interview with Adam Stiles and determmine how to succeed in the shareware industyr. From Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on July 2, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..

Globalization of Website
The Internet has unlocked a wide array of markets and knocked down barriers that previously prevented merchants from marketing their products on a global scale. There are a number of ways to 'globalize' a website and broaden a businesses general appeal to an international audience. From Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on July 2, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..

Revolution der Lehre durch Blogs?
Der Autor streift in einem kurzen Überblick Blogs, Wikis, konstruktivistische Lernumgebungen und social software und schließt mit folgendem Fazit: "Gerade in der Lehre, insbesondere im Hochschulbereich, dürften die Möglichkeiten noch lange nicht ausgeschöpft sein - weder quantitativ noch qualitativ." Mirco... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

Soziale Herkunft schlägt Leistung
Eine nüchterne Bestandsaufnahme, gerichtet an alle, die an Chancengleichheit und Erfolg durch lebenslanges Lernen glauben. Nur, wer glaubt heute allen Ernstes daran? Leider kommen auch die Ratschläge der SPIEGEL-Autoren und ihrer Zeugen sommerlich lau daher: Stipendien und Studiengebühren, Eigenverantwortung der... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

Artikelsammlung "Weblogs &...
This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others. 'Into the Blogosphere': http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ (UThink / University of Minnesota) [via --> From BildungsBlog on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

Weblogs: Metapher vs Forschung?
Die Frage ob man Bloggen als Metapher sehen kann habe ich hier irgendwo schon mal angesprochen glaube ich. Ich meinte damit, dass sich das Verständnis und/oder die Erwartungen bezüglich Bloggen mehr an einem gedanklichen, subjektiven Modell als an der Technik an sich orientieren. Nun schreibt Danah Boyd dazu: 'blogging is trapped in a metaphor' Metaphors are not new in the technological world. Email’s metaphor was built into its naming. Yet, today, when we talk ab From BildungsBlog on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

Pautas para analizar blogs
Hoy publico en Bitacoras.org un Ejercicio de análisis de weblogs que estoy preparando para el taller que imparto en el curso de verano Comunicación digital en las comunidades virtuales.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

Weblogs y Literatura
Avanzar en la exploración del potencial del formato weblog para la creación y difusión de literatura lineal y no lineal, es uno de los muchos caminos apasionantes que nos abre la blogosfera. La edición de julio de Revista Poética Almacén... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

Website des Staatsarchivs...
http://www.sfn.historicum.net/links/aktuell/liwiaktuell.htm Diese herausragende Internetpräsentation eines deutschsprachigen Archivs wird vom neuesten Link-Wink bei historicum.net vorgestellt. From Archivalia on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

50. deutscher Druck des 16....
Wenn ich mich nicht verzählt habe, konnte ich soeben den 50. Druck (von Adam Riese) verzeichnen: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/113113/ From Archivalia on July 2, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..

Katasterunterlagen
From: "Landeshauptarchiv Dr. Matthias Manke" <m.manke@landeshauptarchiv-schwerin.de> To: <archivliste@Lists.Uni-Marburg.DE> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, aufgrund stetiger Anfragen von bestimmten Kreisbehörden wüsste ich gern, wie sich in anderen Bundesländern die Praxis hinsichtlich a) der Archivierung historischer Katasterunterlagen* (Mitte des 19. bis Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts), * Flurbücher, Fortführungsrisse, Flächenberechnungen, Grenzniederschrift From Archivalia on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Japanese Economic Growth is Substantial and Sustainable
A government report showed that Japanese exports rose to a record in May with the trade surplus registering 1.28 trillion JPY. The USD/JPY cross is now dominated by Japanese news-flow. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Yen goes head-to-head with regression trend line lower band
The USD/JPY broke out of its recent consolidated range and may a strong move at the 50% retracement of 103.45-115.00 (109.20) only to be sold off just as suddenly after the brief test. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

US money supply increased at annualized pace of $1.0 trillion, 11.3%
M-3, the broadest measure of US money supply, has not interested the markets since inflation ridden 1970's but this rapid rate of growth could possibly destabilize the majors and quickly push them out of their established ranges. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

A Slow Descending Drift for EUR/USD
A slow descending drift for EUR/USD has dominated for the past 12 hours since the quick test of the regression trend line upper band. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Where is the US Economic Growth
Higher than expected unemployment claims (349K vs. 340K) reinforced the notion that economic momentum may be slowing. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Dollar Rallies As Fed's Favorite Inflation Barometer Soars
This week is probably one of the most important weeks that we have seen in a while in the FX market. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Oh Canada! Woe Japan
While Canada's political picture was clearing up with Paul Martin Liberal Part's win, Japan's economic climate was turning murkier as industrial production for May came in at .5% substantially below expectations of 2.5%. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Japanese Yen Enjoys Solid Bid Tone throughout Asia Trading
The USD/JPY pair rushed through the 61.8% retracement of 103.45-115.00 (107.85) and is presently testing the fortitude of the 200-day SMA (108. 60) and the regression trendline lower band (108.65/85). From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

EUR/USD Pair Irritable as Battle for Supremacy between Market Participants Plays Out
A 150-pip range has violently funneled the price into the apex of the symmetrical triangle formation leaving us to deduce that an ominous and momentous event is impending for this pair. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Weekly Option Strategy: June 28 - July 5
After a very quiet week in the FX markets, we are looking ahead to a week full of economic data releases and geopolitical events. The USD has opened the week weaker, despite a surprising move by the US led coalition in Iraq. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Who doesn't expect the Fed to raise rates by 25bp?
Are there any market players left who do NOT expect the Fed to raise rates by 25bp? That may be the problem facing USD bulls. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Critical Week Ahead for Currency Markets
There is a tremendous amount of global economic data, the most important of which is the FOMC meeting on June 30th. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

A "Measured" Fed Meeting
What could have been the biggest event of the summer in the financial markets turned out to be completely uneventful. Greenspan and company delivered no surprises and left the market with a noncommittal statement. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Euro stalls above key psychological level
The EUR/USD made a brief test of the 38.2% retracement of 1.2930-1.1765 (1.2210) only to drop over half a cent to the daily pivot (1.2155) in Asia trading. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Yen Rises Amidst a Blizzard of Numbers
With Fed decision now behind us, and major event risk out the way, new positioning is expected to emerge in the bond and currency markets. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Position at California State University Center for Distributed Learning
Danielle Forosky forwarded this announcement: CDL is looking for a Senior Web Applications Designer. Below is information about the position. The California State University Center for Distributed Learning (located at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California) has a position open for... From Rick's Café Canadien on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Media Awareness Network update
While I was away, I received this notice from the Media Awareness Network. I'm a big fan of their work, and if you are interested in media literacy issues, I'd imagine you are too. ************************************** As you know, Media Awareness... From Rick's Café Canadien on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Out to KL
Pushing off to KL Malaysia to kick-off a project. Will be there for rest of the week. Blogging will start again by Sunday.... From soulsoup on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 1
Today's highlights: RIM posts $270m Turnover; Groove 3 Beta Okay for "Production Machines"; Qnext P2P Suite; Research In Motion posted $270 million revenue for the quarter ended May 29, 2004, up 28% from the previous quarter. Net income was $55... From Kolabora.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 2
Today's highlights: Oracle Collaboration Suite Revenue; Antepo and BT Syntegra; IBM Conferencing GUI; Oracle increased its revenue take for Collaboration Suite from $1 million in 2001 to $5.5 million in 2003. Comment: That's a good enough growth rate for 2... From Kolabora.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..

Got Fahrenheit 9/11 via P2PYet to have a look. See ...
Got Fahrenheit 9/11 via P2PYet to have a look. Seems Fons got a DVD edition, too. I could have a participation with his informal viewing of Michael Moore??s "Fahrenheit 9/11" this weekend if I were still in Shanghai then.... From on July 2, 2004 at 8:25 a.m..

Two psychology journals open backfiles
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, both published by the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, have recently released their fulltext backfiles, from mid-1996 through 2001. Future volumes are to be released for free access annually, maintaining approximately a two year lag. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis - Fullte From Open Access News on July 2, 2004 at 8:24 a.m..

Conspiracy theory no more
It looks like I shouldn't be so cautious in deleting conspiracy theories about major CMS vendors in the future... via Stephen... I'd laugh if this wasn't so tragic: "...Another great characteristic of the business is that there are significant costs to switching from one software package to another. Faculty and system administrators have to learn how to use and maintain the new system. Then, all co From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:24 a.m..

Online Learning - Joanne Tzanis
Joanne Tzanis has a good lookin new edublog, highlights include a nice quick simple 'what is RSS' post' and well used graphics (there's also a fair few instructional design references & links... if you're into that sort of thing ;o) Another one for the aggy, here's the feed. From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:24 a.m..

Desparate cry for wordpress help
I've got a really icky problem with WP... I keep on getting cached versions of admin pages (for posting and alik) which causes much confusion. I've stuck a more detailed description of my struggles on the WP Forum here... if anyone out there knows how I might be able to sort this it would be soooooo helpful! From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:24 a.m..

Don't Practice? Watch your Preachin! (Nancy White)
danah posted below something that I want to pick up and run a bit farther with: “This is precisely why it’s bloody hard to study/discuss these technologies without being a practitioner. Distance is valuable as a researcher, but it’s also... From Corante: Social Software on July 2, 2004 at 8:23 a.m..

Convert Your Best Audio Tapes To MP3
The PlusDeck 2 is a full-logic Compact Cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes into digital media files for playback on your PC. Better yet, archive your favorite audio files or streams onto cassette.... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 2, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..

Getting Into The Up-And-Coming Yahoo RSS Directory
While there seems good reason to believe that by submitting your RSS feed through your MyYahoo page you would pave the way for inclusion in the up-and-coming RSS Directory while becoming immediately available to Yahoo searches, I found these claims... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 2, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..

The Blog Magazine Model
Mike Rundle writes about how the weblog medium is morphing into something more than just a "daily-updated website". Finally someone is taking note! He writes:"A weblog can be thought of as a two-way communication device, where authors publish material, and... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 2, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..

What NOT TO DO If The Internet Goes Down
This is a perfect list of the things I would recommend anyone not to do in case the Internet went suddenly down. For serious speculators of this issue, the best chance we have is to fuel and support those individuals... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 2, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..

EMI Tells Lawful Purchaser To Get Bent
Having seen this around the office and in Siva's new book, I wanted to link to this piece from Harper's Magazine.  A German customer writes to EMI, complaining that his newly purchased Toto CD can't play because of copy-protection. EMI responds by insulting him, accusing him of supporting piracy, and by saying, "Should you legitimately have a playback From A Copyfighter's Musings on July 2, 2004 at 8:21 a.m..

Interesting Articles from News.com

A nice article from News.com on P2P users shifting away from KaZaA, primarily to eDonkey.  It covers a couple interesting issues, including how this might make it easier to acquire movies and software.  It also might lead to greater privacy protections and perhaps spoofing countermeasures.  From what I know (and I haven't investigated this thoroughly enough), Sharman has not added any sort of proxying and encryption into K From A Copyfighter's Musings on July 2, 2004 at 8:21 a.m..

Harvard's Dan Glickman Chosen to Succeed Valenti
Seems like a pretty interesting choice.  Don't know much about him, but he's not an insider, or a lobbyist, and he doesn't seem to have much of a Hollywood connection. From A Copyfighter's Musings on July 2, 2004 at 8:21 a.m..

Berkman Center Releases New iTunes Europe Analysis
Building off of its (recently updated) iTunes Case Study white paper and taking into account iTunes' recent arrival in Europe, the Berkman Center's Digital Media Project has produced iTunes Europe: A Preliminary Analysis. "In its first week of operation in Britain, France, and Germany, --> From A Copyfighter's Musings on July 2, 2004 at 8:21 a.m..

Wikis in K-6
I always perk up when I see any of these tools being discussed in the K-8 realm since I would love to my high school students come to class with some online publishing experience. Just so happens that in my wanderings today I landed on wikiweb.org which is "exploring uses of wikis within K-6 education." Very cool! A little digging suggests it's put up by Eric Unangst of the Berkshire School District in Burton, Ohio. (Dig around his site a bit and you'll see all sorts of From weblogged News on July 2, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..

Thinking about interaction design for online news delivery
Philip van Allen has written an interesting article on interaction design. To quote: Online journalism needs better design for active readers rather than passive consumers. The author's research indicates that Web content can be made far more meaningful and useful... From Column Two on July 2, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..

Successfully deploying a content management system
My KM Column article for July is on deploying a CMS. To quote: While selecting the right content management system (CMS) is crucial for success, it is not sufficient. There is also much that needs to be done during the... From Column Two on July 2, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..

The importance of training staff in the use of the intranet
Donna Maurer has written the first of July's CM Briefings, on the importance of training staff in the use of the intranet. To quote: An intranet, like any other business application or information system, is a tool staff need to... From Column Two on July 2, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..

Does your intranet support core business?
Donna Maurer looks at whether your intranet supports core business. To quote: On many intranets, a large proportion of the site is dedicated to allowing staff complete administrative tasks easily. Few intranets have the same focus on assisting staff with... From Column Two on July 2, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..

Ask Tony: Packaging our CMS
Tony Byrne has written an article for would-be CMS vendors. To quote: My company is a 9 year-old Web development company that has created a proprietary Web content management framework that we successfully implement for our clients. We have considered... From Column Two on July 2, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..

Temporal comments
Dave Winer suggests to solve the comment fraud problem by adding expiration dates to comments: Here's a free idea I had the other day while cleaning up a spewage of comment spam. What if comments, by default, were deleted after 24 hours? What if the owner of the site had to check a box in order for a comment not to be deleted? That way if a comment had lasting value, the owner of the site could make sure it sticks around. Interesting idea. In fact this would be easy to add here. But until no From owrede_log on July 2, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..

Canada Nixes Internet Royalties
ISPs merely disseminate music and cannot be held responsible for paying royalties to the industry for pirated music, Canada's Supreme Court rules. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

Cassini Slips Into Saturn Orbit
The $3.3 billion space probe completes a risky maneuver through Saturn's rings, becoming the first spacecraft to ever orbit the planet. Let the discoveries begin. Amit Asaravala reports from Pasadena, California. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

Movie Lobby Group in New Hands
Jack Valenti steps down as the head of Hollywood's most powerful lobbying group. His successor is a former congressman from Kansas. The industry wonders what it means for balance between copyright and technology. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

The Road to Tech Mecca
Open markets and oil, satellite nets and Islam. Welcome to the city-state of Dubai, the new media capital of the Middle East. By Lee Smith from Wired magazine. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

Searching for the Perfect OS
Putting digital files into folders on your hard drive is old hat, Apple CEO Steve Jobs declares this week. The future is search, not sort. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

Mozilla Feeds on Rival's Woes
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has had a rough go with hackers lately, and Mozilla has been picking up battle-weary users. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

Florida Told to Open Voter List
A judge rules Florida officials must let the public and the media copy its database of felons who may not be eligible to vote. The state has prevented the media from copying the list to verify its accuracy. Jacob Ogles reports from Orlando. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

Kerry Net Strategy Now on Voters
Like George Bush, John Kerry's campaign is flush with cash from donors, thanks to the Internet. Now, Kerry's campaign is focusing on a tougher task: to get voters to cast their ballots on election day. By Louise Witt. From Wired News on July 2, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..

Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search - Sean Michael Kerner, Internet News
Noticed a spike in your Web traffic lately? You're not the only one. Webmasters across the Internet have been tracking a surge in spider activity coming from Microsoft's MSNbot over the past few months and sleuthing over what kind of new search offeri From Techno-News Blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

Mozilla, Opera Unite to Standardize Web - Jim Wagner, Internet News
The Mozilla Foundation Wednesday announced a cooperative effort to standardize plug-in functionality, ushering in a new era of multimedia accommodation on today's Web browsers. Together with Apple, Macromedia Sun Microsystems and Opera, officials at t From Techno-News Blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

Talking to Bill Gates - Gary Stix, Scientific American
Bill Gates spoke recently with Scientific American's Gary Stix on topics ranging from artificial intelligence to the value of basic research. Excerpts from their conversation appear below. Scientific American: Do you plan to continue your commitment From Techno-News Blog on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

Text messaging to combat truancy - New Zealand Scoop
Education Minister Trevor Mallard today announced that the Ministry of Education is calling for tenders for a pilot project involving the texting and e-mailing of messages to parents to get truant students back at school. As part of the pilot, a small From Educational Technology on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

Observations, Reflections, & Research of a Laptop Classroom - Marian Campbell & Jerry Woodbridge, techLearning
At Switzerland Point Middle School Marian Campbell, Linda Markhum, and Della Thompson are the laptop classroom grant team members. These three teachers represent the science, social studies, and language art disciplines respectively. We'll focus on Mar From Educational Technology on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

Albertsons Brings Deployed Americans Closer to Home on the 4th of July - PNN Online
Albertson's, Inc. announced that it is shipping 185 computers to Camp Anaconda in Central Iraq to connect family and friends with deployed loved ones in a contribution linked to celebration of 4th of July weekend. The donation comes in response to the From Online Learning Update on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

E-learning in Belarus: problems and prospects - Mikhail Doroshevich, Digital Media Europe
The fourth round table discussion within the framework of joint United Nations Development Programme-Belarusian government programme "ICT Support to Parliament", which took place in Minsk on 28 June, was devoted to the issues of using ICT in education. From Online Learning Update on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

Online Course Caps: A Survey - Boris Vilic, Syllabus
As online courses continue to permeate the curricula of many higher education institutions, administrators often raise the issue of a maximum number of students in a course"the oecourse cap"as a factor that directly contributes to profitability and sus From Online Learning Update on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

The Magic of Quotations
Quotations as snippets of life's little lessons as well as a cure to writing and speech ailments. [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004] From PR Web on July 2, 2004 at 8:18 a.m..

National Council of Education of the Ceramic Arts Selects gomembers' trak solutions as their total membership and meetings management package
gomembers, Inc., announced today that the National Council of Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA: http://www.nceca.net) has chosen the entire gomembers' trak line of products to address their technology needs. [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004] From PR Web on July 2, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..

Sentinel e-Registration and the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) - Working Together
The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) scheme in FE Schools and how to reduce the detailed and rigorous administration it will require using Sentinel. Radun Controls Ltd are providing free EMA monitoring with their electronic registration system Sentinel to all current and new customers. [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004] From PR Web on July 2, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..

Client By Design, LLC Releases Guide To Stop Identity Theft.
It's frightening, but many people are victims of identity theft and don't even know it. This downloadable guide created by Author/Speaker Richard Bailey exposes identity theft, how it's done and what to do about it. [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004] From PR Web on July 2, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..

Global Learning Systems and KeyStone Learning Systems Name Robert Kingyens Chief Operations Officer
Global Learning Systems, Inc. and its sister company KeyStone Learning Systems Corporation announced the appointment of Robert "Rob" Kingyens to the position of Chief Operations Officer. Rob Kingyens, recognized as a "Top 100 Producer" by Producer Magazine will focus on production, product development and IT while he works with the GLS/KLS management team to grow the business through sales, business development activities, marketing, advertising and product positioning. [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004] From PR Web on July 2, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..

Freedom University's Gala Kickoff Has Guests Kicking Up Their Heels
Freedom University, Charlotte's new educational and recreational venue showcases its instructors and course offerings in a grand manner! [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004] From PR Web on July 2, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..

Godwin's Law: Not Meant To Be Invoked
A long time ago, a gentleman by the name of Godwin noticed something about Usenet: Given a long enough timeframe, in any heated discussion, someone will eventually make a comparison between his opponent and Germany's National Socialist Party of seventy years ago or its leader. He also noticed something very important about the first person to make such a comparison. From kuro5hin.org on July 2, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..

International World Wide Web Conference Papers
The conference was held in May 2004, in New York. Visit the site, for a rich collection of papers from the 13th International WWW Conference. There are many papers on e-learning, information architecture and user research papers.elearningpost, 25 June 2004 From EdNA Online on July 2, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..

Australia Creative Resource Online
Australia Creative Resource Online, a project funded by the Australian government, has launched its pilot site. Their aim is to create a digital junkyard, and have articulated a very compelling economic argument as to why this should exist. Currently, they are taking submissions for content, and are even willing to (selectively) digitize your content for free. They plan to go live in September, and will use Creative Commons: weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

A Wikipedia of Free Culture?
Q: How to plan a wiki? A: Hash out ideas on a wiki. So we set up a wiki and we're holding a barn raising there. You're invited. Our objective is to plan a "Get Content" wiki, a scalable catalog of "some rights reserved" and "no rights reserved" works. A truly international catalog of CC and PD works. A Wikipedia of Free Culture, democratical From Creative Commons: weblog on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Oracle rests case as antitrust trial winds down
An economist says the merger would aid competition. Papers show IBM looking nervous. From CNET News.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Wireless group wants fliers to switch on after takeoff
Trade group says radio transmitter could be shut off, while larger device remained on for gaming, other functions. From CNET News.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

No clear-cut winner in Oracle antitrust trial
Barely hidden agendas, dense economic analysis and emotional customer testimony make case tough to call. From CNET News.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Oracle v. DOJ: Ellison cites survival instinct
special coverage Oracle's unwelcome bid for PeopleSoft wasn't about squashing a competitor, Oracle's CEO says--it was about staying alive. From CNET News.com on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

E-learning - The 21st Century Path to Success
A glowing look at the rise of e-learning is Britain, a revolution "which has helped 1.2 million people since 2000 to improve their workplace skills, boost their employability, or simply try something new." By Unsigned, OnRec.Com, June 28, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Open Access Jeopardises Academic Publishers, Reed Chief Warns
According to the chief executive of Reed Elsevier, "The rise of open access publishing of scientific research could jeopardise the entire academic publishing industry." But if you ask me, if an industry is threatened by me sharing something I created with other people, then this industry is already on a very shaky foundation and probably doesn't merit special measures needed to prop it up. By Richard Wray, The Guardian, June 30, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Collaboration First, Then Knowledge Management
This item has been picked up by a number of writers and seems to be worth sharing. It makes me think of a common criticism of knowledge management systems, that they are a solution in search of a problem. After all, if people simply call up a friend or fire off a fax, how does a knowledge management system helps. When collaboration moves online, however, the picture changes. "An important success factor for collaboration tools is having a seamless integration path with any content repository." Online collaboration creates a need for knowledge management, and only in the context of collaboratio From OLDaily on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Grants More Than Offset Soaring University Tuition
The gist of this article is that university tuitions are set in such a way as to maximize grants, and that the increased tuition rates are more than offset by student aid programs. "It is a shell game, pure and simple," says King Alexander, president of Murray State University in Kentucky. But other writers are critizing the study on which the article is based. "The analysis doesn't include the more than 20 percent increase in average tuition rates for 2003 and 2004," argues Stan Jones, Indiana's high From OLDaily on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

The Democratization of Cultural Criticism
The bulk of this article is devoted to a comparison of criticism today and a half century ago, deflecting the observation that today's critics are somehow inferior to those of yore. The good bit comes in the last paragraph. "The democratization of criticism - as in the Amazon system of readers' evaluating books - is a messy affair, as democracy must be... [but] the problems of democracy demand more democracy (against the corporatization of culture), less nostalgia for a golden age that never was, and a spirit of openness to what is new and invigorating in our culture." By George Cot From OLDaily on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Thinking About Interaction Design for Online News Delivery
Very good article, with implications obviously not limited to online journalism. "Productive interaction is a recasting of the author/designer's position in relation to the audience. Instead of laying out a linear narrative in an enveloping experience, the productive interaction designer frames an exploration of a meaning space, making sure the audience has the affordances to create their own 'take.'" It has four major components:

Content: Information, narrative elements, meanings and sensations as communicated in text, image, video, sound, tactile and other modes.

From OLDaily on July 2, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..

Mutlimedia Learning
Here's yet another effective form of learning. Motivation I am thirty pounds overweight and must exercise at leasst 30 minutes a day to work off the fat. Access I can transfer MP3 sounds files downloaded from the 'net via the USB port on my... From Internet Time Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:17 p.m..

Let your users search the DOAJ
The OA journal, Neurobiology of Lipids (NoL), has added an article-level search box for the Directory of Open Access Journals to the NoL web site. The search box defaults to searching NoL, but also enables users to search the other OA journals participating in the DOAJ's article-level search program. Kudos to Alexei Koudinov, the NoL editor, for this useful innovation From Open Access News on July 1, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..

JISC and SURF combine to help authors understand copyright and OA
JISC and SURF are joining forces to help scholars understand their rights under copyright law and how to use them to their advantage. From JISC's press release, dated today: "The dissemination of scientific information by digital means such as the Internet is a growing trend. It is also expanding possibilities for making information widely accessible at reasonable costs. Present copyright practice, however, often poses obstacles to taking the b From Open Access News on July 1, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..

Alternatives to OA
Greg McConnell, Online journals seek alternatives to open access, American Academy of Pediatrics News, 25, 14 (2004). The text is accessible only to subscribers, so I can't summarize it. From Open Access News on July 1, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..

Review and overlay of economics papers on the net
NAJ Economics: Peer Reviews of Economics Publications provides review abstracts to papers that have appeared freely on the web but have not yet been published in a journal (hence the acronym NAJ, not a journal.) Each citation contains a link to the paper and a link to a cached copy. (Source: My Computational Complexity Weblog) From Open Access News on July 1, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..

Will publishers add OA to their diet?
Damon Brown, Open-Access Journals Offer a New Way of Publishing, Journal of the American Dietetic Association 104, 1060-1062 (July 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Damon gives an overview of the basics of open access publishing. In a section pondering challenges faced by OA he includes some comments from David J. Lipman, director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), who points out that author fees could easily be accomodated in rese From Open Access News on July 1, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..

Value of an OA article
Once upon a time, folk wisdom, and Cervantes, held that "a man's word is his bond." This evolved(?) into, "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." The recent Parliamentary inquiry into Open Access and STM publishing, and documented in Open Access News, had proponents on both sides of an Open Access variation From Open Access News on July 1, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..

Effect of OA on scholarly communities?
Mentor Cana, A shift in scholarly attention? From commercial publishing to open access publishing, Infosophy, July 1, 2004. Excerpt: In the process of the inevitable move from commercial publishing to open access, undoubtfully the entire dynamic of the publishing process will change. But change is not bad. A lot of realignments will occur. The moment established scholars start publishing in open access publications, the tide will turn. Or, if there is resistance, a shift in the problems addressed by a cer From Open Access News on July 1, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..

Accounting Games Companies Play (Especially With Revenues and Costs)
Last month the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Lucent Technologies with "fraudulently and improperly" recognizing more than $1 billion in revenues and $470 million in pre-tax income during fiscal 2000. In these post-Enron days of tougher financial accounting standards, what lessons can be learned from the situation that got Lucent into trouble? Accounting professors at Wharton and other experts say that it is crucial for companies to pay close attention to issues such as the proper way to recognize revenues and calculate expenses. Unless this is done right, it may not only attract r From Knowledge@Wharton on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

In the Sports Business, the Biggest Battles Are Fought Off the Field
Televising professional and college sports games is no longer a profitable slam-dunk as the value of broadcast rights has soared and the sports media field has become crowded with new channels and networks, such as Yes and College Sports Television. Professional sports leagues themselves, such as Major League Baseball, want to generate new revenues for team owners through web sites, 24-hour cable channels and marketing deals that could dilute sports franchises for broadcasters. The heyday of easy money and fast growth is over, according to experts who recently spoke at a panel discussion about From Knowledge@Wharton on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Does Success in Tech Ventures Follow from Better R&D? Think Again
Technology-based businesses often assume that if they want to steal a march over their competitors, they need to excel in R&D. That may be true, but it's not enough, say Ian C. Macmillan, director of Wharton's Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center, and Rita Gunther McGrath, a colleague from Columbia University. The key, they say in a new paper, is to empower technology managers to adopt a business-oriented approach that connects technology creation to the target market. From Knowledge@Wharton on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Your Boss Won't Agree? Might Be "Identity-Induced Stickiness"
Why do so many smokers keep smoking, despite decades of health warnings? Why do Harley Davidson motorcycles and Ralph Lauren clothing engender such loyalty among very specific types of people? Why do teens and parents always seem to fight, and never seem to hear what the other is saying? Wharton marketing professors Lisa Bolton and Americus Reed have found through their research that judgments linked to a person's identity - from teenager to Republican, environmentalist or businessman - are virtually immovable. That has crucial implications for brand identity. From Knowledge@Wharton on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

What's Behind the Four-minute Mile, Starbucks and the Moon Landing? The Power of Impossible Thinking
Impossible thinking. It is what put men on the moon, allowed Starbucks to turn a commodity product into a powerful global business and permitted Roger Bannister to run the four-minute mile. While not every "impossible thought" can become a reality, very often the greatest obstacle to transforming our organizations, society and personal lives is our own thinking. This may seem to be a simple idea in theory - that what we see and act upon is more a product of what is inside our heads than out in the world - but it has far-reaching implications for how we approach life and decision making. In the From Knowledge@Wharton on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Dot-Com IPOs: They're Baaaaack
In a seeming replay of the dot-com boom scenarios of the late 1990s, Salesforce.com saw a first-day increase of 56% in its stock price when the software company went public last week. What does this mean for other technology and Internet companies, some of which are waiting to go public? Experts at Wharton and elsewhere say that rather than signaling the beginning of another technology bubble, the ability of firms like Salesforce.com and Google to raise capital may be a sign of a healthier stock market. Tech companies that are tapping Wall Street now differ from the 1990s dot-coms in another k From Knowledge@Wharton on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Creating the Buzz Behind Bill's Blockbuster
He's been called Elvis, Bubba, the Comeback Kid and Slick Willie. Now Bill Clinton can add another moniker to that list: Laydown King. In the world of publishing, the laydown date is a book's official release day, the focal point upon which a publisher brings to bear all the marketing prowess it can muster in order to generate a blockbuster. Yet according to Wharton faculty and others, executives at Knopf Publishing Group, which paid the former president a reported $10 million advance to produce My Life, did nothing special and broke no new ground in launching their marketing blitz. From Knowledge@Wharton on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Try The Windows Media Player 10 Public Beta!
Microsoft's newest version of their popular media player is now available for public testing. Get the in the "know" on what's new... From Windows XP Tips and Tricks on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Need To Download The Entire IE6 SP1 files?
Many readers have asked for an article on how to download the FULL set of installation files for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 - This article shows you how... From Windows XP Tips and Tricks on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Dell Error Sees Top PC Sell Online For 53,000 GBP
Dell's UK website this week posted an error that would see you paying over £50,000 for an upgraded hard drive... From Windows XP Tips and Tricks on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

"cryptographic service" errors solved in Win XP
Problems installing a security patch due to an error with "cryptographic service" find a solution here... From Windows XP Tips and Tricks on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

New Windows XP Blog launched by Microaoft MVP
Get up to date humor and advice from this informative XP "weblog" from Microsoft MVP - Marc Liron From Windows XP Tips and Tricks on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Weblogs in the classroom and social space (Clay Shirky)
Interesting post on the use of weblogs to teach writing, noting that blogs up end the usual assumptions about writing as a private activity. As a consequence, many writing assignments include opportunities for deep, personal reflective writing that is not... From Corante: Social Software on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

The NY Times on distributed alibis (Clay Shirky)
Times article on groups that offer to provide alibis for one another, using SMS to coordinate, and usually using the phone to create the alibi:There is nothing new about making excuses or telling fibs. But the lure of alibi networks,... From Corante: Social Software on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

A Conversation on Blog Research (Liz Lawley)
Elijah Wright of Indiana University contacted me earlier this week about my blog research post, and raised some interesting issues. I replied to him via email, but asked him to consider posting his comments on his blog, so that the... From Corante: Social Software on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

blogging is trapped in a metaphor (danah boyd)
I’ve been trying to sit with some of my frustrations about sociable technologies lately. I’ve been trying to work through them in order to understand why Liz’s frustration with blogging research resonates and why i start twitching every time people... From Corante: Social Software on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Into the Blogosphere (Liz Lawley)
The University of Minnesota has just released a collection of essays on blog research, entitled Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. It’s edited by Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. I haven’t... From Corante: Social Software on July 1, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..

Midwest Literary Festival - Aurora, Illinois - September 11-12, 2004 - includes over 90 authors, fam ...
Midwest Literary Festival - Aurora, Illinois - September 11-12, 2004 - includes over 90 authors, family literacy panels, children's book discussions, journalism workshop for high school students. Authors include Billy Collins, E. Lynn Harris, Anne Perry and Karen Joy Fowler From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:13 p.m..

CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is to make two flagship prof ...
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is to make two flagship professional journals available free online for a limited period, prior to access being restricted to CILIP members only. Following agreement with the publishers Sage Publications, Journal of Information Science and Journal of Librarianship and Information Science will be available to search full text online until 1 November 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:13 p.m..

Google News In RSS? Got Them!
Google News in RSS feeds is finally a reality? Eighty (80) separate RSS news feeds are immediately accessible at GoogleMania.com, a Spanish-language site all devoted to everything about Google. It seems to good to be true, but I have tested... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 1, 2004 at 7:13 p.m..

Networking Technology As It Should Have Always Been
Rendezvous enables Macs and compatible networked devices and services to automatically configure themselves and find each other without intervention from a system administrator or network devices like DHCP, DNS or directory servers. Based on an open industry standard called Zeroconf,... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 1, 2004 at 7:13 p.m..

A magazine for the times
I just got an offer to subscribe to a new CMP magazine, Managing Offshore, "the essential resource for global sourcing managers." For $495/year you can receive coverage of topics such as: The best places to locate services HYPHEN captive or outsourced Timely & insightful research about strategy, tactics and service providers Key performance metrics that belong in every SLA Hottest BPO models & governance tactics New providers & services to watch in app dev, call centers, and BPO operations Act now! Operators in Mumbai are standing by!... From Joho the Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:13 p.m..

Reading Aristotle, Metaphysics Book Beta
I've started re-reading Aristotle's Metaphysics (although if "re-reading" implies any serious memory of the first time, then we should remove the "re-") with an eye towards the role of categories and tree-like organizational structures. So far, that's turning out to be an oddly useful (= consistently distorting) lens. In Book Beta, Aristotle is still examining how others have approached the problem of what things are. Previous philosophers have made the mistake, he argues, of thinking that principles and classes have to be independent things; in fact, they believe principles are From Joho the Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:13 p.m..

Weblogs, Wikis and Web Quests
Just wanted to post Bernie Dodge's NECC presentation link about incorporating blogs and wikis with Web Quests. It was a really thought-provoking talk that I know got lots of people (over 500) thinking a lot more about how to use these technologies. The important point to note, I think, is his reference to blogs and wikis and pedagogy. At his talk, Bernie said on a couple of occasions that teachers really need to think through how to use these tools, not just to blog for blogging's sake. His context with Web Quests is From weblogged News on July 1, 2004 at 7:12 p.m..

RSS Is Sooo 1994
Commerce to Drive Mass Adoption of RSS "I had an interesting discussion with two of my co-workers yesterday. We all use FeedDemon and are getting addicted to our many RSS news feeds. We find RSS particularly valuable for monitoring client, industry news and what the media is covering in general. One of my colleagues asked me a couple of really good questions: 'Why doesn't everyone use this stuff? Why is it that when we talk about RSS we get From The Shifted Librarian on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Bootstrapping...
I am bootstrapping: The start page of my weblog now renders through a homemade skinning system based on Zope and Page Templates. This means I do not design the HTML code of this page by applying template files to Tinderbox notes - or at least they are radically reduced. Here is the template file Tinderbox uses for the start page at the moment: There is still a lot of work to do, but the goal is to use the From owrede_log on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

WorldKit
I haven't seen this application before: WorldKit WorldKit is an easy to use and highly flexible mapping application for the Web. It's a Flash based app, configured entirely by XML, data fed by RSS, and requires no programming or extra software. It's in the style of World as a Blog, with many more features: customizable design elements, multiple projections, thumbnails to plot points, ... From owrede_log on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Numbers
Just checked the database, now before closing the registration tomorrow we count ~ 95 participants from all over the world for BlogTalk 2.0. So, expecting some @ the registration desk on Monday the chances are that we reach the ~... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Mapping BlogTalk
Geo-Blogging for BlogTalk 2.0. Mikel Maron and Johannes Gruber put some efforts to setup an interactive map of Vienna that's open for everybody - like a wiki. So please got there and add helpful places to the map. Thanks to Mikel... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Test
Damned, something happened to my CSS, didn't do anything. But on Safari it's garbled. No time for that since BlogTalk 2.0 needs me. [Update:] A missing did all that to me, it was missing in a quotation. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Flow in Near-Time
Flow seems to be an excellent piece of collaborative (social) software. It's a kind of wiki/personal knowledgemanagement/and publishing client that talks to other users (even out of Flow). It reminds me of Groove the P2P c... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Capturing the Value of "Generation Tech" Employees
Good article from Marc Prensky on the need to understand "digital natives" (the new generation) and to leverage their capabilities rather than to restrict their creative freedom. "This generation is better than any before at absorbing information and making decisions quickly, as well as at multitasking and parallel processing. In contrast, people age 30 or older are "digital immigrants" because they can never be as fluent in technology as a native who was born into it. You can see it in the digital imm From elearningpost on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Thinking About Interaction Design
This is a very absorbing paper on interaction design. The author introduces the concept of 'productive interaction', where users have the ability to "create custom, personally significant meaning spaces of their own... Instead of laying out a linear narrative in an enveloping experience, the productive interaction designer frames an exploration of a meaning space, making sure the audience has the affordances to create their own "take". [thanks infodesign] From elearningpost on July 1, 2004 at 7:11 p.m..

Working Draft: Mobile SVG Profiles Version 1.2
2004-06-30: The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released the third Working Draft of Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic, Version 1.2. The draft defines SVG Tiny 1.2, a mobile profile of SVG 1.2 suitable for displaying vector graphics on small devices. The Working Group invites comments. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

Upcoming W3C Talks
2004-07-01: Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

RDF and OWL Working Groups Complete Deliverables, Close
2004-07-01: W3C is pleased to announce that the RDF Core and Web Ontology Working Groups have successfully completed all deliverables. Together these W3C Working Groups developed twelve W3C Recommendations specifying the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language. Please join us in thanking all participants and Chairs Brian McBride (HP Labs), Dan Brickley (W3C), Jim Hendler (University of Maryland) and Guus Schreiber (Ibrow) for their contributions. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

Call for Participation: Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services
2004-07-01: Position papers are due 27 August for the W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services to be held in Redwood Shores, CA, USA on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss the establishment of a framework for describing Web services constraints and capabilities, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future work. Read about Workshops and Web Services at W3C. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

Larry Ellison Testifies
I've been in federal court this afternoon to hear Oracle's Larry Ellison testify in the important antitrust case in which the government is trying to block Oracle's buyout of PeopleSoft. Ellison was, as you'd expect, a cool customer of a witness. But his appearance may have been something of an anticlimax, given that the issues of this case have been pretty well thrashed out by previous witnesses. Still, it was fascinating to watch. More la From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

SARS Hero Jailed?

Tim Bishop: Dr. Jiang Yanyong, hero of the SARS epidemic, imprisoned in China. According to several sources, the Chinese authorities have detained Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the retired surgeon, People's Liberation Army veteran, and long-time Communist Party member who was one of the heros of the SARS epidemic. As you may recall, at a time when the Chinese government was lying and denying that there were more than a handful of SARS cases in Ch From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong

AP: Political battle cries sound over Hong Kong . Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Hong Kong Thursday to demand the right to elect their own leaders and lashed out at Beijing for clamping down on the territory’s democratic aspirations. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

In Saturn's Orbit
Congratulations to the teams from several nations who successfully put the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft into Saturn's orbit for an exploratory mission. Wonderful pictures, brilliant engineering, a boon to science -- as good as this gets. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

Oracle: Anticompetitve or Trying to Survive
(This is also today's column in the San Jose Mercury News.) So it still seems to come down to a couple of core issues in Oracle's bid to buy rival PeopleSoft: Would a merger harm customers by taking a whack out of competition? Or are technology and economics reshaping an old marketplace into a highly competitive new one? Larry Ellison's federal court testimony Wednesday in his company's antitrust battle against the Justice From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

Housing Bubble, Continued

SF Chronicle: Will Housing Bubble Burst? Amid the frenzy, however, some alarming trends have emerged. For example, there has been an increase in the number of Bay Area homes that fail to appraise for the purchase price, according to Ed Krafchow, president of Prudential Realty of California, Nevada and Texas. In such cases, a lender often walks away from the deal or asks the buyer to pony up more purchase money. "There's a lack of rationality in the market," Krafchow said. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

An Academic Look at Blogs
"Into the Blogsphere" is an academic exploration of the "rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs." Some of this is pretty dry for average folks, but it's worth some time if you care about the subject. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 1, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..

E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
A book seller who provides e-mail service to his customers did not violate the law by copying and reading their private messages, an appeals court rules. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Lawsuit: Google Stole Orkut Code
A small software company says Google got a big start in the social-networking business by stealing its source code for orkut.com. The company claims a former engineer took the code with him when he got a job at Google. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Shaky Notes From the Underground
It's the sweet spot of the San Andreas fault, the perfect place to build the ultimate earthquake science lab. It's also two miles straight down. By Brendan I. Koerner from Wired magazine. From Wired News on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Tech Company Gets Hypersensitive
An Israeli company says its sensor blows away anything available today. Some tech heavyweights are trying to get a piece of the action. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

One Awesome Media Vault, to Go
The ultra-portable Archos AV400 transforms your pocket into a media mecca. It plays almost any digital file you can throw at it, and it's the world's smallest digital video recorder. A product review by J. L. Kim. From Wired News on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

To Be Cool, Tech Taps the Past
Facing a glut of competition on retailers' shelves, consumer electronics makers are wrapping their latest technology in the designs of the past. A digital camera that looks like a prop from a Fellini flick sells for $1,000, for example. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Europe Eclipses U.S. Solar Shift
Demand for solar power in the United States is beginning to climb, but now the supply of solar cells is plummeting as manufacturers ship their wares to more-profitable Europe. By John Gartner. From Wired News on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

RSS: Grassroots Support Leads to Mass Appeal - Stephen Downes, Learning Circuits
Rich Site Summary, or RSS, is an XML format originally designed to list the changing contents of a news Website. Originally released by Netscape in 1997, it was used to allow readers to customize their personal Netscape Webpage and to create content in From Techno-News Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

High Court Ruling Boosts Internet Filters - TED BRIDIS, Associated Press
The Supreme Court is embracing Internet filtering software - already popular in schools and libraries - as an effective alternative to a U.S. law to ban online material that might be harmful to children. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote Tuesday in the From Techno-News Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Spyware Sneaking into the Enterprise - Roy Mark, Internet News
Once considered strictly a consumer issue, spyware is sneaking into the enterprise, eating up bandwidth, pumping out unwanted pop-ups, crashing employee computers and potentially posing a risk to sensitive corporate data. "It's rapidly turning into a From Techno-News Blog on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Learn journalism skills - THE HERALD-LEADER
The Kentucky Press Association, the statewide membership and trade association for Kentucky's newspaper industry, will hold its fourth annual Journalism Boot Camp from July 12 through July 30 at Georgetown College. The boot camp is geared toward entry- From Educational Technology on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Technology Enables Student To 'Attend' School From Home - Mary Black, Oswego Daily News
Seeing a student working on math problems is usually nothing special. However, on Tuesday members of the press looked on as Lindsey Nelson worked with her classmates using a television screen and cameras from her house. A seventh grader at Mexico Middl From Educational Technology on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

Online university offers busy pastors many options - Linda Leicht, Springfield, MO News-Leader
Wayne Ogle is full-time pastor at a growing church outside Arlington, Texas, so going to seminary to get his degree seemed out of the question " until he discovered Rockbridge University in Springfield. Rockbridge has no campus. The new online school, From Online Learning Update on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

UCF
ABSTRACT: The University of Central Florida was honored to receive the 2003 Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning Award for Faculty Development. The environment at UCF has doubled in the last ten years with the number of students, faculty, From Online Learning Update on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

The Case for Online Coursepacks and E-Books - Barry W. Birnbaum, Syllabus
While most universities offer online courses, the need for creating support materials that go with these courses remains an area for further exploration. Most instructors use chat rooms, PowerPoint, etc., to deliver instruction. One of the areas that i From Online Learning Update on July 1, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..

More Advanced Japanese Language Courses
Japanese Language Center (JLC) provides More Advanced Japanese Language Course. [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004] From PR Web on July 1, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..

Revolutionary music learning concept to go online
Following the initial development of MusicWheels®; a revolutionary method for learning music based, not on the conventional musical notation and lines, but on simple colours and patterns mounted on concentric wheels in an easily used device; inventor Duncan Betts, of Nailsea near Bristol, U.K., is developing his unique concept for use on-line. [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004] From PR Web on July 1, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..

Marriage Leaders Head to Dallas to Urge FamilyCorps Initiative
Doctors Lori and Morris Gordon, pioneers of the marriage education movement, are calling on state and national leaders to create a FamilyCorps coalition to restore community to neighborhoods and families. The Gordons are traveling to the eighth annual Smart Marriages and Happy Families conference in Dallas this week to urge 200 leaders of the marriage movement and an expected 2,000 delegates to join their call to launch FamilyCorps for America (www.familycorps.org). [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004] From PR Web on July 1, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..

Free 39-week E-mail Newsletter on "Piano Chords & Chord Progressions"
An e-mail newsletter on piano chords and chord progressions is free from Keyboard Workshop of Medford, OR. For 39 weeks each student will receive an e-mail lesson on some aspect of piano chords and chord progressions. [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004] From PR Web on July 1, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..

Business and Organizational NLP Comes of Age
When it comes to competence and attitude training, there have been many initiatives that have come and gone. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has not only stood the test of time it has evolved over the past 30 years into a leading process for change. NLP is a learning tool for improving communication, thinking skills HYPHEN and adopting successful attitudes. NLP involves studying successful and highly effective people HYPHEN and 'modeling' their methods. The training is accessible, affordable and can literally transform careers and organizations internationally [PRWEB Jul 1, 200 From PR Web on July 1, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..

Minneapolis to Host Historic Family Conference for Those Impacted by Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease
Somewhere between 100,000 to 400,000 Americans under age 60 have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Because any cure will take ten years or more to come to market, conferences such as "Northern Lights: Blazing Towards a Cure" provide essential information, resources and networking to help families cope. [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004] From PR Web on July 1, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..

2004 SOUL-PATROL EAST COAST CONVENTION, 7/30-7/31, Willingboro, NJ: Black Music Film Festival, Interactive Seminars, Black Music Awards Show, Cabaret, Trade Show and Performances by some of the GREATEST ARTISTS in the History of Black Music.
ARTISTS: Billy Paul, Chi-Lites, Michael Henderson, Buddy Miles, Barbara Mason, Arlene Smith/Chantels, Mike Hampton/Ray Davis (Parliment-Funkadelic), Soul Generation, Wil Hart/Delphonics, Soundoctrine, Carlton J. Smith, Joe Steele, Ray, Goodman & Brown, Lonnie Liston Smith, Mighty Sam McClain, Legendary Escorts, Marlon Saunders, Ascendant, Freddie Scott, Ad Libs, Rio Soul, Howard Tate, Badal Roy, Ken "Spider" Webb, "Giant" Gene Arnold, Mandrill, BT Express,Gladys Horton (Marvelettes), Vince Montana, Sarah Dash (LaBelle), Ebony's. AUTHORS: Genna Sapia-Ruffin (David Ruffin: My Temptation), R From kuro5hin.org on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Cassini enters orbit around Saturn!
Last night at some ungodly AM hour on the east coast (slightly less ungodly on the left coast, equally ungodly in Europe), the Cassini-Huygens probe fired its rockets and put itself into orbit around Saturn. From kuro5hin.org on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Indigenous Australians in Vocational Education and Training: National Research Strategy for 2003-2006
Developed in conjunction with the Australian Indigenous Training Advisory Council of the Australian National Training Authority Board, this research strategy aims to contribute to the achievement of the vision and objectives of 'Partners in a learning culture: National strategy from 2000 until 2005'. This report builds on work about Indigenous peoples' engagement with vocational education and training (VET), and the extent VET helps to achieve desired outcomes for individuals and communities. Research undertaken as part of this strategy aspires to underpin practical outcomes to From EdNA Online on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Simply Science theme page
The Simply Science theme page gives science teachers at all levels a page to bookmark. It aggregates a useful and comprehensive collection of science resources for teachers and students, from the evaluated resources in the searchable EdNA Online database. Sections include dates for the diary, Science categories, Science Alerts, Professional Associations, National Science Week, and customised searches. From EdNA Online on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Redevelopment of the IT Training Package ICA99
The National Training Package for Information Technology ICA 99 is a VET in Schools and VET package that can be taught within schools or through a TAFE to senior students. The package is currently undergoing a major review. During the latter half of 2003 consultations were undertaken in all states and territories to receive feedback, suggestions, comments and opinion on a range of issues associated with the Training Package. These issues included revision of existing competency standards, consideration of new and emerging technologies, rationalising of some qualifications and improving pathway From EdNA Online on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Integrating ICTs into Education: Lessons Learned
This UNESCO publication related to the Strengthening ICT in Schools and SchoolNet Project in ASEAN Setting (May 2004) seeks to present the 'cream of countries' efforts to integrate ICTs into their education systems. This practical guide synthesises and analyses experiences in connection with specific lessons learned and highlights best practices and the need for further improvements, based on the experiences of six Asian countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, The Republic of Korea and Thailand. From EdNA Online on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Adult Learners' Week 2004: Resources Now Available
Organisations can now download Adult Learners' Week promotional materials from the ALW website. All downloads may be used free of charge to promote Adult Learners' Week 2004 events. The materials are provided as part of a national campaign to increase awareness of the value and importance of adult learning. A key component of this campaign is the provision of a Campaign Resource Kit, designed to help ACE providers and State and Territory Adult Learning Coordinators to make the most of the national campaign and help celebrate Adult Learners' Week. From EdNA Online on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Project to Increase Indigenous Participation in VET
The Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) is working to increase Indigenous uptake of New Apprenticeships and Training Packages through a new 12-month project undertaken in partnership with CIT Solutions. This will involve consultation with stakeholders, the development and trial of new information resources and the national distribution of resources through workshops and seminars. From EdNA Online on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

ANTA Fulbright VET Scholarship Now Open
Applications have opened for the 2005 ANTA-sponsored Fulbright Professional Award in Vocational Education and Training (VET). The award funds an Australian citizen to conduct VET research in the United States and report their findings on their return to Australia. The award is open to people working in the VET sector, including teachers, managers and administrators in registered training organisations, as well as training leaders in business and industry. To find out how to apply, visit the Fulbright website. From EdNA Online on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Welcome Nathan Yergler
Early last October we launched a revamp of the Creative Commons website, including the addition of a new technology challenges section. A few days later someone called Nathan Yergler wrote with questions concerning two of the challenges. A week later Nathan announced that ccValidator was ready for Creative Commons: weblog on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

DJ Spooky's new book Rhythm Science
DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller), early supporter of Creative Commons, has recently released his new book, Rhythm Science. The subject matter is very Creative Commons in philosphy as he explores ways to think about rebuilding culture. Here's an excerpt from the site: "Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and From Creative Commons: weblog on July 1, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..

Texas Instruments claims win in Qualcomm dispute
The Texas chipmaker says that it will likely be allowed to continue manufacturing products that rely on Qualcomm patents. From CNET News.com on July 1, 2004 at 7:06 p.m..

Cell phones heading into iPod territory
Can your phone replace your MP3 player? That's what some are aiming for, though it's unclear whether a handset will ever be able to hold 5,000 songs. From CNET News.com on July 1, 2004 at 7:06 p.m..

Digital rights market to boom, study says
Companies are ready to buy tools that will protect digital documents, according to a survey of 800 IT workers. From CNET News.com on July 1, 2004 at 7:06 p.m..

Google bans Gmail swaps and sales
Gmail members prohibited from trading, selling account names as entrepreneurs seek to profit on clublike demand for the service. From CNET News.com on July 1, 2004 at 7:06 p.m..

Briefly: Microsoft class-action deals OK'd
roundup Plus: MPAA picks new chief lobbyist...Dell expands recycling grants...Viacom bids for SportsLine.com...Cisco to power Orange Wi-Fi upgrade. From CNET News.com on July 1, 2004 at 7:06 p.m..