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Ph.D. research from Pretoria
I received a request to participate in some research. I pass it along to you for your consideration. Read on to see their request...... From Rick's Café Canadien on July 4, 2004 at 10:58 a.m..

Conference proceedings on Austrian ejournals
The proceedings from the conference, Digitale Publikationen an österreichischen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen: Zugänglichkeit und langfristige Archivierung - eine gemeinsame Herausforderung [Digital publications at Austrian universities and professional schools: Accesibility and long-term archiving - a common challenge] (Vienna, June 15, 2004), are now online. (Thanks to Petra Turnovsky.) From Open Access News on July 4, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

OA activities of the Austrian Science Fund
Austria's FWF [Science Fund] is willing to let researchers use FWF research grants to pay the costs of OA publication. It is also willing to join universities and government ministries in funding a "countrywide solution" for promoting OA in Austria. It spells out the details (briefly, in English) on a web page, Open Access Activities by the Austrian Science Fund. (Thanks to Petra Turnovsky.) From Open Access News on July 4, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Springer Open Choice is a program that allows authors of journal articles to pay a basic fee to have ...
Springer Open Choice is a program that allows authors of journal articles to pay a basic fee to have their journal article made available to the public. With Springer Open Choice the author decides how he or she wants to be published in the leading and most respected journals in the scientific community. Springer still offers, and recommends, the traditional publishing model as a time-tested way of guaranteeing editorial quality and independence, From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 4, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..

Ovid Technologies has announced an agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA), the ...
Ovid Technologies has announced an agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA), the largest association of psychologists worldwide, to make content from the APA PsycBOOKS full-text database accessible through Ovid's online platform From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 4, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..

Biden Interview
Joshua Micah Marshall is running the first half of an awesome interview with Joseph Biden.... From Joho the Blog on July 4, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..

Daily Show archive
On this July Fourth, let us not forget Lisa Rein's archive of clips from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. And there was laughter in the land, and the Founders were pleased.... From Joho the Blog on July 4, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..

RSS Equalizer- Order Before Midnight Tonight and Get the Free Turnip Twaddler!
Beware of long scrolling web sites that start with: Attention: If you would like to get your Web pages to the top of search results (with very little effort), this letter is for you... "Discover An Amazing 'Technology' That Will Give You An Unfair Advantage Over Your Competitors And Increase Your Rankings... GUARANTEED!" with more of the same for at least 5 pages worth. Yes, with all the fan fare of the old SNL Crazy Eddie faux commercials, sites like --> From cogdogblog on July 4, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

Holy Wiki
(via Tim Wilson) Think wikis are just a passing fad? This is an amazing list of wiki engines that makes me want to play even more. I can't count the number of times I've been showing and talking about Wikipedia lately. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if collaborative construction of content won't be the rule instead of the exception in the future. From weblogged News on July 4, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

Why should we be trusted?
Lou Rosenfeld has written a blog entry on building trust in information architecture. To quote: A colleague recently told me that one of the biggest challenges that she and other in-house information architects face is earning management's trust. Initially this... From Column Two on July 4, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

CMS specification and implementation - setting a realistic timetable
Martin White has written a very interesting blog entry on the timetable for CMS projects. To quote: It never ceases to amaze me how little attention people pay to the time it is going to take them to specify, purchase... From Column Two on July 4, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..

Step 1
Though we missed Matt and Paolo we had lots of fun talking about hypertext, alarm clocks, the Stuwerviertel, weblogs and PhDs, chanterelles , moleskins, Netscape 0.9, riding a bike in Vienna, the web bringing people togeth... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 4, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..

Lovely rain, a reporter's questions & a blogDay greeting to all
I got a request for an interview about eBn from a reporter. Good questions followed. Last night's incredible Paris-like rain in Shanghai had us exploring the former French Concession into the wee hours and I was content to work all today answering the questions. In the middle, I realized homoLudens' fourth anniversary had come and gone. That led to even further rumination on four years and the answers got longer and longer. The whole interminable thing is here for those who have way too much time on From homoLudens III on July 4, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..

Wireless VOIP Not Ready for Prime Time - Matthew Broersma, eWeek
Enterprise might already be using voice over wireless LAN, but the technology is still far from perfect, admitted networking and telecom executives at this week's VON Europe conference here. Even the most bullish said that a host of problems, from sec From Techno-News Blog on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Solar-Cell Rollout - Peter Fairley, Technology Review
On the test benches of Konarka Technologies in Lowell, MA, a new kind of solar cell is being put through its paces. Strips of flexible plastic all but indistinguishable from photographic film bask under high-intensity lights. These strips, about 10 cen From Techno-News Blog on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Mozilla Feeds on Rival's Woes - Michelle Delio, Wired
Hackers have long insisted that steering clear of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is one of the easiest ways to protect computers from many of the security threats that lurk on the Internet. That suggestion is often greeted with apathy or angry a From Techno-News Blog on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

A walk on the digital side - Megan Lindow, The Christian Science Monitor
Every time George Solomons walks into the computer lab at Esangweni Senior Secondary School, he wears a smile. Inside the clean but spartan room, 34 humming machines are set up in rows on top of wooden tables. All around him, students dressed in neat From Educational Technology on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Online Course Development: What Does It Cost? - Judith V. Boettcher, Syllabus
Does it cost less to design and develop online teaching and learning today than it did a few years ago? Are the categories of cost different today from the past and from what the costs might be in the future? The costs of developing online programs are From Online Learning Update on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Cost-Effective Distributed Learning with Electronic Labs - J. Olin Campbell, JALN
ABSTRACT: Online learners can study at convenient times and collaborate with others online, but usually can not come to physical labs. We investigated the use of simulated electronics laboratories to increase access and decrease trips to a physical lab From Online Learning Update on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Applying Social Cognitive Constructs of Motivation to Enhance Student Success in Online Distance Education - Marios Miltiadou and Wilhelmina C. Saveny
This article relates findings from a review of the literature on six motivational constructs studied in traditional environments to online education concepts to identify methods for ensuring student success in online courses. The six motivational const From Online Learning Update on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

Launching a new Portal for Women
Women always have strong emotion ... about many things which affect them - their looks,career,health,surroundings,loved ones and peers. How a small team of women professionals joined together to create a directory dedicated for women - with well-researched articles of lasting value and contents appealing to - women - the inside story of Targetwoman. [PRWEB Jul 4, 2004] From PR Web on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

National Ethics Bureau Awards Charles Schwab Corporation for Commanding Highest Standards of Business Conduct
The National Ethics Bureau (NEB) announced today that the Charles Schwab Corporation is the recipient of their "Eye on Ethics" award for commanding the highest standards of ethical conduct for all their directors, officers and employees. [PRWEB Jul 4, 2004] From PR Web on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

TouchSmart Publishing and SOCHE Announce Strategic Alliance
TouchSmart Publishing, LLC and the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) announced a strategic alliance to investigate ways to reduce textbook costs in higher education. [PRWEB Jul 4, 2004] From PR Web on July 4, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..

The Person of Tomorrow
For a healthy society, Carl Rogers (1980) offers us a vision of the qualities that the person of tomorrow will possess:Openness Desire for authenticity Skepticism regarding science and technology Desire for wholeness The wish for intimacy Process-oriented Caring Sympathetic attitude toward nature Anti-institutional Authority lies within Recognition of the unimportance of material things A yearning for the SpiritualHe argues that a person needs the 'awareness of self as From apcampbell News on July 3, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Bit by the wiki bug
I've looked at and played with a few wiki engines but never really had a need to use one--until now. We'll be upgrading our Blackboard implementation before fall quarter, and I think a wiki would be a great way to help with the transitions. The engine I'm testing is Tikiwiki, ... From Big IDEA on July 3, 2004 at 8:10 p.m..

Legitimised theft: le sandwich corse de clotilde
If you didn't talk about it with me face-to-face you don't know that I'm reading quite a few food/cooking weblogs. Reflecting on how reading them changes my own cooking practices provides lots of ideas for thinking about implicit learning and legitimate peripheral participation in a case of weblogs (more on it soon: my presentation at Ed-Media is in two days ;) Chocolate & Zucchini is one of my favourites: it's a great combination of style, inspiration From Mathemagenic on July 3, 2004 at 8:10 p.m..

Travel plans
Finally I'm leaving for so long expected "summer conference tour"... No way I could finish everything in time, so my bags a full of paper and digital pieces to work on. Anyway, it feels much better than working in the office. So, where I'm going to be next few weeks

23-26 June - Ed-Media, Lugano, Switzerland

27 June - Genoa, Italy

28 June - Milan, Italy

29 June - 2 July - I-KNOW, Graz, Austria

3-7 July - "BlogWalk" / "BlogTalk", Vienna, Austria

8-10 July - (still clarifying) Milan, Italy

If you are around and want to m From Mathemagenic on July 3, 2004 at 8:10 p.m..

Ed-Media...
[sent via e-mail on 24 June 2004] My home PC is disconnected again, so I have no idea when I will be able to post. hopefully my friends can fix it before I'm back, otherwise I will be disconnected for two more weeks. Anyway, I need to get all these impressions out of my head. Ed-Media has been a strange experience. The conference is huge - 1500 people - difficult to get an overview and to get around (also presentations are in two buildings with 10 min walk in between). The chances for serendipity should be good, but I really miss a cosy atmosphere and easy-to-establ From Mathemagenic on July 3, 2004 at 8:10 p.m..

Radio troubles
I'm trying to fix problems with Radio. No blogging till 11 July if I don't manage to do it today :( From Mathemagenic on July 3, 2004 at 8:10 p.m..

Blog deprivation
I have no idea for how long Radio will work, but it works at the moment, so I can't miss this opportunity to share :) I'm in Vienna, recovering from another portion of travelling and getting ready for the fun of meeting others. As you probably could guess I wasn't blogging because of some technical problems and it's still not clear if they will be fixed. Apart from that I had a great time :) ...to be continued... going to meet some real people now :) From Mathemagenic on July 3, 2004 at 8:10 p.m..

Conferinta internationala la Baia Mare
Pe tren, spre Baia Mare, unde are loc Conferinta internationala si Tabara de vara - Managementul de proiect si noi tehnologii de predare, intre 3-12 iulie. Voi avea maine o prezentare legata ... From WeBlog.ro feeds on July 3, 2004 at 8:09 p.m..

Portal eröffnet: Bildungstechnologie.net
Nach langer Testphase und zahlreichen Ergänzungen und Änderungen ist unser Portal Bildungstechnologie.net endlich der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht worden. Mein Lehrgebiet (Lehrgebiet Bildungstechnologie, FernUniversität Hagen) hat sich zu dieser Lösung entschlossen, da wir dieses Portal zum einen zur transparenten Kommunikation nutzen wollen, zum anderen um etwas mehr Interakionsmöglickeiten mit unseren From BildungsBlog on July 3, 2004 at 8:08 p.m..

Deutscher Doktorhut für...
Ehrendoktor der Hamburger Universität zu werden, ist keine einfache Angelegenheit. Geradezu knauserig sei die Alma Mater der Hansestadt mit dieser Würdigung, heißt es in Universitätskreisen. Bei den Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern hat es in den vergangenen 20 Jahren nur einer geschafft - der US-Amerikaner Robert Cooter, der weltweit als einer der profiliertesten Wissenschaftler an der Schnittstelle zwischen Recht und Ökonomie gilt. Ihm soll jetzt der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin folgen, als Würdigung für seine "erfolgreiche Wirtschaftspoli From BildungsBlog on July 3, 2004 at 8:08 p.m..

Archivleitfaden
soeben ist die überarbeitete Neuauflage des Leitfadens zum Aufbau eines Archivs erschienen. Herausgegeben wird dieser Leitfaden vom Archiv des Bayerischen Landesverbandes des Katholischen Deutschen Frauenbundes in München. Folgende Themen werden behandelt: Aufgaben eines Archivs, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit im Archiv, Fotos im Archiv, Erstellen einer Chronik. Abgerundet wird die Arbeitshilfe durch eine umfangreiche Material- und Linkliste. Der Leitfaden kann zum Preis von 5 € zzgl. Versandkosten bestellt werden bei: Archiv From Archivalia on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Images of England
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk Images of England, working in partnership with over 1,500 volunteer photographers, is building a digital library of photographs of England's 370,000 Listed Buildings. From Archivalia on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Dollar Digests and Awaits Job Data
The EURUSD has been trapped in tight 75 pip trading range as the market reevaluates positioning following the FOMC statement yesterday. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

FX Correlations: How Do Currencies Move In Relation To Each Other?
In order to be an effective trader, it is important to understand how certain currency pairs move in relation to other pairs. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Daily Technicals: The USD/JPY has speculators scratching their heads
The pair seems to have found a top at the monthly pivot (109.40) and the 100-day SMA (109.10) and EMA confluence. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

US OPEN MARKET POINTS: Payrolls Please
Non-Farm payrolls - the most important economic indicator of the month is once again upon us and as usual the European session is very quiet. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Leonardo's Laptop
Haven't read it yet, but Ben Shneiderman has a book out that he discussed at the recent Ed-Media conference in Lugano. You're probably familiar with his earlier work, "Designing the User Interface," and this newer book was released in September... From Rick's Café Canadien on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Inc. Magazine Spotlights Groove Customers
The July issue of Inc. magazine is on newsstands with an excellent story beginning on page 44 on a new breed of collaboration software that lets far-flung employees work as though they're face to face. The story highlights two Groove Networks customers: Alaska Indoor Sports Distributing Ltd., a dis... From Kolabora.com on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Is Groove Notes Done Right?
Internetnews.com yesterday posted an interview with Ray Ozzie. Reporter Susan Kuchinskas caught up with Ray recently when he spoke at Kevin Werbach's Supernova Conference. Her first question to Ray: Is Groove Notes done right? Ray's reply: "The contrast mostly is that Notes, besides being e-ma... From Kolabora.com on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Groove V3.0 Is Fast Approaching
If you don't subscribe to our monthly email bulletin, you should. Here is how you can. It's a great way to stay up to date on what's new at Groove. Here's an item from the issue that should have arrived in your inbox on Friday: The launch of Groove v3.0 is fast approaching. For the past few months... From Kolabora.com on July 3, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Het Blauwe Hart - Flickr Note bug doesn't allow long URLs
As posted to Flickr. I think that this shows a bug in Flickr. I wanted to point to the URL in the note but unfortunately I can't seem to be able to paste the following long URL into a Flickr note: http://www.gelderland.bkdoc.nl/html/kunstwerk/886.html From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

Syndicate everything that matters
I'll save you the trouble of reading the PDF: start syndicating (internally and externally) everything that matters to your organization. If you don't, you will lose big time long term. From GlobeLogger Press and Analysts: Harvard Business Review on Syndication: QUOTEWhile syndication feeds may be a novelty right now, they’re proliferating fast, and customers will soon expect them of every company. I predict that wit From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

All blogging is political
Michael Moore's documentary on the Bush administration may be the first movie in history to turn the tide of the election. I encourage you to see it. In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman explains why with eloquence I envy. There has been much... From Internet Time Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

IT Doesn't Matter - Learning Does.
Last May a journalist named Nick Carr stirred up a ruckus with an article in Harvard Business Review claiming that IT Doesn't Matter. Using the telephone and shipping by rail were great sources of competitive advantage - until every business could afford them. Then they... From Internet Time Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

New OA policy at Pediatrics
Michael Clarke, Open Sesame? Increasing Access to Medical Literature, Pediatrics, July 2004. An editorial announcing the journal's new OA policy. Excerpt: "Beginning in July 2004, however, Pediatrics will allow the authors of any accepted manuscript to elect to have their article published in the Electronic Pages [the journal's OA subset, formerly limited to editor-selected articles, OA since 1997]. Their article will be From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

July issue of SOAN
I just mailed the July issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it takes a second look at the Elsevier policy on postprint archiving and some of the controversies that have already grown up around it. From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

OA news from Springer threatens Elsevier
Nick Hasell, Reed Elsevier, Wm Morrison, BAA, Exel, BOC Group, Times Online, July 3, 2004. Excerpt: "Reed Elsevier retreated further from last month's 12-month high as the spectre of 'open access' scientific publishing returned to weigh on the shares. Under this model, pioneered by US academic journals, content is provided free to the user and funded by the author, who is usually sponsored. This is a direct inversion of the traditional relationship, whereby an author contributes their research fre From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

PubMed Central completes microbiology set
PubMed Central has completed the digitization of the complete run of Microbiology & Molecular Biology Reviews and its predecessors, Microbiological Reviews and Bacteriological Reviews. I learned of this development through Carole Myers, courtesy of the Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

Environmental Chemistry - first issue released
Environmental Chemistry, a fledgling journal from Australia's CSIRO, has released its first issue. As I mentioned in April, this is a new, free for 2004, journal from an historically reasonably priced publisher. The editorial board is diverse and spans the globe, including Nobel Prize winners Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland. Environmental Chemistry - Fulltext v1+ (2004+); ISSN: 1448-2517 From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..

Springer's Open Choice program
Springer has launched Open Choice, a program to offer free online access by the article, at the author's choice. To exercise the option, authors or their funding agencies must pay a processing fee of $3,000 US, in addition to any page charges that may apply e.g. for color or extra length. Open-choice articles will receive the same peer review, production, and indexing, as non-open articles, and will appear in both the print and online editions of the journal. However, for Springer "open" only m From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

Swets includes OA journals from BMC
Swets Information Services has started to include BioMed Central's OA journals in its collection. Quoting Natasha Robshaw, head of BioMed Central's Marketing and Sales department, in yesterday's press release: "We are delighted that our journals will now be included in SwetsWise Online Content. Though our research content is freely available from our website, PubMed Central and other archives, this will pr From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

A society publisher defends itself against criticism
Peter Farnham and William Brinkley, Society Publishers Provide More Than Open Access, The Scientist, July 5, 2004. A response from the standpoint of progressive society publishers, especially the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), to PLoS criticism. Excerpt: "[S]ince 2001, a major group advocating the 'author-pays' model, the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has launched a broad-b From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

Draft CURL position paper on OA repositories
The July issue of CURLnews reports that on May 14 the CURL Task force on the Research Libraries Network finished the first draft of a CURL position paper identifying "areas of CURL activity that might have synergy with the goals of the RLN. These areas include...open access repositories." Apparently the draft is not yet available to the public. From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

Access benefits of mod_oai
Phillip Long, Infectious Adoption, Syllabus Magazine, July 3, 2004. The first article I've seen on mod_oai, the tool by Michael Nelson and Herbert Van de Sompel to extend the reach of the OAI-MHP from the comparatively small body of content archived in OAI-compliant archives to the huge body of content streaming through Apache web servers. Excerpt: With mod_oai virally distributed as an Apache module "[l]arge amounts of data stored in digital repositories can then be found by studen From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

At ALA meeting, sparks fly over OA
Open Access? Some Sparks Fly at ALA, a short unsigned news story in the July 6 Library Journal. Excerpt: "On June 27, the day after the New York Times ran a major story on the trend toward open access in STM publishing and the dismay of some librarians toward publisher Elsevier, a panel met at the American Library Association Annual Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

Rank government docs for OA
The US Government Printing Office (GPO) has compiled a list of print and microfiche government documents slated for digitization and open access. The GPO is now soliciting public comments to help put the list into priority order. Comments are due July 23. (Thanks to LIS News.) From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

McCabe and Snynder on the optimal journal business model
Mark McCabe and Christopher Snyder, The best business model for scholarly journals: an economist's perspective, preprint of an article forthcoming from Nature. Excerpt: "On one side of the market, authors benefit from greater impact and citations and thus prefer a journal that has more readers. On the other side of the market, readers benefit from content and thus prefer journals with more articles. Determining the optimal balance between these two sets of From Open Access News on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

Free University
"The Free University Project" helps students prepare for the CLEP tests and get college credit by examination.... From Adult/Continuing Education on July 3, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..

JIBS Discovery Tools Update - 14 July, Diskus Conference Centre, London - This workshop aims to prov ...
JIBS Discovery Tools Update - 14 July, Diskus Conference Centre, London - This workshop aims to provide an update for the UK HE and FE community on bibliographic database issues including authentication, interfaces, and the JISC collections strategy From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2004 - Baltimore, Maryland - 25-27 October. Registration is op ...
Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2004 - Baltimore, Maryland - 25-27 October. Registration is open to DLF members and allies and invited guests only. There is no registration fee From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

xrefer has announced that its flagship online reference library, xreferplus, is now available for pu ...
xrefer has announced that its flagship online reference library, xreferplus, is now available for purchase via a number of distribution agents in many international markets. The service, which contains hundreds of English-language and bilingual dictionaries as well as encyclopedias, thesauri, images and audio files from 36 brand-name publishers, will now be distributed by partners in countries across the world From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

The evalued toolkit is designed to support information services staff in Higher Education Institutio ...
The evalued toolkit is designed to support information services staff in Higher Education Institutions with the evaluation of electronic information services (EIS). The toolkit takes a user-focused approach to the evaluation of EIS mainly through the use of qualitative data collection methods From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

A digital doorway centre has been launched in Mamelodi outside Pretoria to educate South Africans ab ...
A digital doorway centre has been launched in Mamelodi outside Pretoria to educate South Africans about the use and value of computer technology From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of the year 1994. Answers here: ...
This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of the year 1994. Answers here:1. Who became leader of the British Labour Party in 1994?2. Which British singer published her autobiography "Faithfull" in 1994?3. In 1994, who was sworn in as the first black president of the republic of South Africa?4. Which US rock singer and guitarist, a founder member of Nirvana, shot himself in 1994?5. Which US actor, who played the title role in the TV police series "Kojak", From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

The 17th SCOUG Retreat will be held July 30-August 1 in the foothills of Montecito (Santa Barbara,) ...
The 17th SCOUG Retreat will be held July 30-August 1 in the foothills of Montecito (Santa Barbara,) CA. SCOUG Retreats have traditionally offered attendees a unique setting in which to interact with peers and develop unique insights into information industry issues and trends. The Retreats produce forward thinking ideas for new products, services and ways of doing business. This year's theme is What's Next? The Answer's in the Users From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

Swets Information Services has announced that BioMed Central's Open Access journals will be included ...
Swets Information Services has announced that BioMed Central's Open Access journals will be included in SwetsWise, the web-based, modular service for the procurement, access and management of subscriptions and online information. This service will allow readers to access BioMed Central's Open Access and subscription articles among SwetsWise Online Content's 8,242 full text publications from 307 publishers From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:03 p.m..

After IE Is Dead Is The Google Browser Next?
While I have noted this before I haven't seen many picking this up yet: Google's own strategic efforts to become an alternative force on our desktops is critically expanded if you just realize how effectively and discretely Goggle has entered... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

The Interactive Body: BBC Learning Lab
Winner of one of the 2004 Webby Awards in the education category, the Interactive Body interactive study-guide is a very good example of an effective educational resource utilizing interactive games and animation. Each scenario allows the user to effectively explore... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

New Online Free Image Resource: ImageAfter
Lex, Tristan and Stefan (the photographer) are three Dutch guys who have chosen to share their quality images and create an online resource for distributiing and sharing high-resolution raw images. Non-polished images and textures free for commercial and personal use.... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Architectural Digest vs. This Old House (A List Apart 184)
When web designers discuss their craft, they almost always focus on how to do a thing, rather than what things should or should not be done. As an industry, we are more like "This Old House" than Architectural Digest. This week's ALA, on a nifty semantic approach to creating drop-down menus, offers a case in point. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

The Contender
No actor since has possessed such talent and no actor ever threw so much talent away. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Saturn in black and white
The initial photos of the rings ofSaturn — too cool! — are in black and white, with color ones to arrive soon. Why b&w first? Does it take longer to develop the color ones? Do we get double prints if we go with the b&w?... From Joho the Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Mark V. Shaney rides again
Now this is odd. 1st Lt. Mark V. Shaney, of the US Marine Corps, posted a report from Baghdad today as a comment to a blog entry of mine from March 2003. That struck me as odd, as did his almost-coherent sentences and his giving as his URL a conservative site called The National Center for Public Policy Research. It occurred to me that perhaps the National Center was sending Shaney out to various blogs to post the same upbeat posting. I didn't find any similar posts, but Googling "Mark V Shaney" turns up the surprising news that he's... From Joho the Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

How does 20q work?
20q.net is an online game of 20 questions that apparently starts off with no knowledge base. It learns from the interactions of the players. And it is pretty damn impressive. I'd like to know more about how it works, but I'm having trouble finding any explanations, and mail to the address given on the site is going unanswered. Anyone know of a place that discusses how it works? In particular, how does it come up with the questions? E.g., where does "Does it come in packs?" come from? TIA (no, not Total Information Awareness.)... From Joho the Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Annoying the sharks
Where I'm staying, the kids have had the Discovery Channel all morning. It's shark show after shark show. The underwater scientists wrestle them, tag them, measure them, and check their teeth for unsightly plaque. Fine, but I plan on swimming in the ocean this summer, so could we please stop annoying the sharks for a while? Thank you.... From Joho the Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

PayPal's sense of decency
RageBoy is getting messages from PayPal saying that what he's sellling violates their standards of decency. If PayPal doesn't want to be used for the sale of pornographic items, I guess that's their choice, but in this case, RB isn't trying to sell a thing. He has a "donate" button on his site. Apparently that requires him to clean up the content of his site to meet PayPal's sense of decency. Feels a tad intrusive, doesn't it? BTW, if you've got some spare cash, you might want to consider pressing that big ol' donate button while it still works.... From Joho the Blog on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Small Pieces Loosely Spammed (wiki grafiitti?)
There are interesting threads to read on peeling the layers of RecentChanges in wikis. While reflecting on the Small Technologies Loosely Joined NMC 2004 session we did last month ion Vancouver, I noticed that someone had taken the effort to paste a bunch of porn URLs on the front page, and shortly there after, someone else thankfully removed them (was that you, Brian? You are supposed to be on vacation!). The wiki software records each edit, and its changes from the version before, which a From cogdogblog on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Real Heros
I am enjoying the last leg of a nice long vacation at our cabin in the pine forests near Strawberry, Arizona. Not unique in the west or elsewhere in the world, we are in the ninth year of a drought, and the forests are bone dry. Just 10 miles to the south, the Willow Wild Fire is raging, and the skies here daily are filled with thick smoke, it has rained ash, and we have seen some spooky red haze sunsets and moon rises. What is truly amazing to consider is that while I am here worried about our little piece of heaven, there a From cogdogblog on July 3, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Milestones
Amazing...a million hits to the Bees site. Now I know that doesn't mean a million visitors, but still. Equally if not more amazing...this is the 2,020th piece of content added to this site since I started the Manila version on July 30, 2002. Combine that with earlier iterations of Weblogg-ed and, well, this has turned out to be quite a hobby. From weblogged News on July 3, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Anne Connects Her Students With an Author
Anne got a comment on one of her class blogs from the author of a book her students were reading, and subsequent e-mails seem to have laid the groundwork for the author's participation when Anne's new students read the book next year! How cool! After the NECC presentation last week a couple of people asked me how I managed From weblogged News on July 3, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators-- Vol. 1.1
I finally got around to tweaking the RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators I put together a few months ago. It had a few mistakes and the section on search feeds for Google News had instructions that no longer worked. Let me know if there are any other updates that might be required. From weblogged News on July 3, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

Get Your Furl On
Nice article at passingnotes.com on Furl: However, as a twist, Furl extends this capability to include all of your permission level access sites. This means everything that you are paying for from databases to subscription news sites to online receipts of purchase. Think about this for a minute. If you are bookmarking sites and terminating subscriptions, you are losing content. Furl removes this information access obstacle. You a From weblogged News on July 3, 2004 at 8:01 p.m..

hymnus
Here is the official anthem for BlogTalk 2.0. Kindly provided by Machfeld From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Streaming
If everything works out we will have live-streaming from BlogTalk 2.0. Lauffilm and Machfeld will provide it. Go to Machfeld's site and klick. We will have a 2Mb down/upload connection and an Airport ... if everything works out t... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

BlogEat
Tomorrow evening I will meet Mark , Matt , and Paolo at the Restaurant Una . If you like to join us please send me an email then I can take care of reservations. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Mobile Number Phone Directory Panned

Chicago Tribune: Customers rebelling against plan for cell-phone directory. The proposal for a wireless number directory surfaced in May from the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. Shortly after, legislation was introduced in Congress and some states that were seeking to regulate the directory. For one thing, lawmakers wanted to assure that no number would be listed without permission and that carriers could not charge for unlisting a number, as wired phone companies do. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

China's Latest Censorship Move

BBC: China to censor text messages. China is expanding its censorship controls to cover text messages sent using mobile phones. New regulations have been issued to allow mobile phone service providers to police and filter messages for pornographic or fraudulent content. But analysts fear the real targets are political dissidents. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Moves to Make SpyWare Officially Okay

Ed Foster: The Can-Spy Act? Oh, oh. In case you haven't noticed, there's a very familiar pattern to current legislative activity regarding anti-spyware laws. It's very reminiscent of where Congress was last year at this time on anti-spam legislation, and that ultimately led to the disastrous Can Spam Act. Are we soon to see the enactment of the "Yes, You Can Spy Act" as well? From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Of, By and For
Bart Decrem, Joe Costello and Mitch Kapor have launched ob4.org, which stands for "of, by and for" -- as in words paraphrased from Abraham Lincoln in his timeless Gettysburg Address. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Note to MSDN: make friends with the Lazy Web
A couple of months ago I spoke with Jeffrey Snover, who is the architect of MSH (aka Monad), Microsoft's new object-oriented command shell. At the time, I didn't get to see a demo. Yesterday, Chris Sells pointed to the episode of the .NET show that includes a Monad demo by Snover and Jim Truher. Sells also notes that the beta of Monad is available for XP and Server 2003, so I've registered for the download. The concept is wonderful: a From Jon's Radio on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Diego Doval
In next week's InfoWorld column, I quote Diego Doval, CTO of clevercactus. Or rather, I meant to quote him. For reasons that escape me, I attributed Diego's remarks to Diego Rivera, the famous Mexican muralist. I have no earthly idea how I managed to transpose the living computer scientist and the dead artist. Since Diego Rivera won't be reading this, I'll direct my apology to Diego Doval. For the record: ... From Jon's Radio on July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m..

Paranoia Goes Better With Coke
A promotional campaign that features special Coke cans containing cell phones and GPS chips has the military obsessing over possible security leaks. Coca-Cola shrugs it off, but the generals aren't kidding, apparently. From Wired News on July 3, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

A Lively Open-Source Debate
The assumption that all programmers are open-source advocates falls flat at Sun's 'Big Question' debate. In fact, they're pretty well split on the subject. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on July 3, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Oxygen Bursts in Saturn's Rings
Something's going on in Saturn's outermost rings, where oxygen levels jump explosively then diminish over a month. One theory is crashing moonlets. Amit Asaravala reports from Pasadena, California. From Wired News on July 3, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Microsoft Releases Security Update - ANICK JESDANUN, AP
Microsoft Corp. was delivering software updates Friday to close a loophole that had allowed hackers to convert popular Web sites into virus transmitters. Though the updates do not entirely fix the flaw with Microsoft's nearly ubiquitous Internet Explor From Techno-News Blog on July 3, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Google bans GMail sales - BBC
GMail sellers beware, Google wants to stop people profiting from the trade in popular e-mail addresses. Search giant Google has updated the program policy for GMail on Monday adding clauses that ban the sale, trading, reselling or exploiting of GMail From Techno-News Blog on July 3, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Massachusetts files suit under Can-Spam - Matt Hines, CNET News.com
The Massachusetts Attorney General's office has filed suit against a Florida man suspected of sending spam e-mail to thousands of consumers, in what's considered to be the first claim brought by a state under the federal Can-Spam Act. On Th From Techno-News Blog on July 3, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Spam: Problems Coming and Going - Robyn Greenspan
Spam is not only an incoming threat to organizations worldwide, but an outgoing concern as well. A pair of reports revealed that businesses are unable to stop confidential documents from being leaked via e-mail, and marketers are worried about becoming From Techno-News Blog on July 3, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Unprecedented views of Saturn could ring students' interest - eSchool news
Teachers now have a unique opportunity to engage students in an up-close study of Saturn and its marvelous rings, thanks to a NASA web site following a first-of-its-kind mission. Two decades and $3.3 billion in the making, an international exploration From Educational Technology on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Theft of networking equipment has districts on high alert - Corey Murray, eSchool News
School officials in Round Rock, Texas, are making plans to better protect the district's computer equipment after a pair of thieves posing as network technicians walked into two neighboring elementary schools and walked out with more than $50,000 in hi From Educational Technology on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Faculty Self-Study Research Project: Examining the Online Workload - Melody M. Thompson, JALN
ABSTRACT: Concerns about faculty workload in the online environment are a reported deterrent to participation in online teaching. To date, such concerns have been based primarily on anecdotal evidence rather than empirical research. This paper describe From Online Learning Update on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

College sets up fast-track testing - Wrexham Mail, Daily Post
YALE College is the first in Wales to use a rapid response mobile unit to provide on-line testing in Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Run by learndirect, the UK's largest on-line learning network, the testing unit was used at the College's Second Chance fa From Online Learning Update on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Turnitin to Integrate With Blackboard Solutions
iParadigms, the creator of Turnitin and iThenticate(TM), and Blackboard Inc. announced today that iParadigms has joined the Blackboard Developer Network(SM). This summer, iParadigms will use the Blackboard Building Blocks(TM) application program inter From Online Learning Update on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Interviews
I've been doing lots of interviews, lately. Two or three per day, mostly by email. And about all sorts of different things. Here's an excerpt from one that just got posted, about Club Zero-G, at Newsrama. How did Rushkoff return to comics, like so many lapsed readers before him? "A friend from San Franci From rushkoff.blog on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Online Linux Training for Red Hat Linux Certification (RHCE) Redefined
Whizlabs Software has redefined Linux certification (RHCE) preparation with its award winning instructor-led, online Linux training. Whizlabs Software was declared the First Runner Up in the "Best Linux Training" category in the first annual Linux World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards by SYS-CON Media. [PRWEB Jul 3, 2004] From PR Web on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

The American College's Programs are now Available in India
The American College announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the International Academy of Insurance and Financial Management Private Limited (IAIFM) in New Delhi, India. IAIFM will serve as The College's sponsor in India and provide The College's continuum of educational programs for professionals in the country's life insurance industry. As The American College's local affiliate in India, IAIFM is licensed to adapt and conduct the same programs that The American College makes available to financial services and insurance professionals both in the U.S. a From PR Web on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 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 3, 2004] From PR Web on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Libraries and culture, from a trench
Today (July 1, 2004) marks a new chapter for many libraries across the US of A. Today is the first day of mandatory Internet filtering, if your library accepts federal telecommunications funds. Mine does. From kuro5hin.org on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Rising Sun has Risen
Michael Crichton predicted in Rising Sun that digital imaging technology would make photographs and video irrelevant in court cases. It took 11 years for his prediction to come true. From kuro5hin.org on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

For The Children: Biometric School IDs
What's worse than leaving a child behind? Leaving them untracked. From kuro5hin.org on July 3, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day is being held in conjunction with opening weekend of Spiderman II (man was there a crowd at the opening the other night at the Buckhead Backlot, first run movies and beer are doing some business in... From Corante: Amateur Hour on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

XStreamDB 3.1 Released!
Bluestream just released the next version of their XStreamDB XML database server... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

NMC 2004 Photos
I just posted some pics from our trip to Vancouver and Victoria for the NMC 2004 Summer Conference... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

Consumers Not Listening to VoIP Yet
Internet users are becoming aware of the communication technology, but will domestic callers want to adopt it? From ClickZ Stats on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

Sony, Panasonic, others stump for Linux
A consortium of companies releases software to advance use of Linux in consumer electronics devices. From CNET News.com on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

Drive maker Maxtor to ax hundreds of jobs
More hard times for a hard-drive maker as Maxtor sends out a second-quarter warning and says it will make job cuts. From CNET News.com on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

IBM plans July launch of Power5 Unix server
Big Blue is set to kick off the second phase of the debut of its Power5 processors July 13, sources say. From CNET News.com on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

Microsoft's patchwork mess
ZDNet's David Berlind explains why a sometimes infuriatingly complicated patch process reveals both timing flaws and potential vulnerabilities in Microsoft's thinking. From CNET News.com on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

No trophy for cell phone at Wimbledon
Maria Sharapova upsets the defending champ at tennis tourney, but can't overcome tech hurdle. From CNET News.com on July 3, 2004 at 7:57 p.m..

Conferene Announcement Online
The call for papers for the 16th annual Instructional Technology Institute is now available online at http://itinstitute.usu.edu/. This year’s program is titled “Reusable media, social software, and openness in education.” Keynote speakers include Larry Lessig, Stephen Downes, and Paul Kirscher. If you’re faculty or a government employee, registration is only $135 for the three day conference, which includes meals! Please spread the word and I hope to see you at the conference in September! From autounfocus on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Can-Spam Act a Failure
There are some important lessons in this item. "The U.S. Can-Spam Act is a failure... of the 547,685 messages examined, only 71 - 0.013 per cent - complied with Can-Spam." When the internet was first unfolding, advocates argued that it transcended national borders and legal restrictions. Then as it became a more established and safer medium, people scoffed at these early wide-eyed predictions. It took spammers - of all people - to hammer home the truth. What now, then, of other legislation intended to regulate the internet? By Jack Kapica, Globe and Mail, June 30, 2004 [OLDaily on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Managing the Connected Organization
Good article on internet-age organization, which begins with an observation from Shapiro and Varian: "There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks..." (from Information Rules - if you haven't read this book I do recommend it). Most of the article is concerned with networks of information ploy between groups within companies. I have one observation: If knowledge is power, as the article suggests, and everybody has full access to knowledg From OLDaily on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Thomas Malone: Perspective
George Siemens points to this blog post quoting extensively from this article published in Fast Company last week, a transcript of a talk given by Thomas Malone (did you get all that?). The essence is that very large organizations are developing through decentralization. "150,000 of its sellers make their full-time living on Ebay. If those people were employees of Ebay, it'd be one of the largest employers and retailers in the world. But they're not employees." The author attributes thi From OLDaily on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Capturing the Value of "Generation Tech" Employees
It's yet another explanation of "digital natives," the young people who have grown up with computers, and consequently, a new way of thinking and learning. But this bit is interesting: "Have you ever noticed that digital natives, unlike digital immigrants, don't talk about 'information overload'? Rather, they crave more information." The lesson here is that many of the concerns being expressed about online learning - I just heard someone talk about the 'fear of IT' - are concerns expressed by a generation, the last generation, of a pre-computer world. These concer From OLDaily on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Learning Objects in a P2P Cross Institutional Framework
The P2P bit occupies only three short paragraphs near the end of the article and doesn't really satisfy. Experienced practitioners won't find anything new here, but the article will be useful for those looking for a short overview of learning management systems, learning objects, and learning object metadata. By John Perry, Australian Flexible Learning Community, June 25, 2004 [Refer][Resear From OLDaily on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

CETIS Quarterly Newsletter
A new initiative from CETIS, this quarterly newsletter will be usefully read by busy people without time even to read OLDaily. But I suspect that the CETIS staff will have more difficulty writing the second issue than the first, as in the first the topics covered the broad range of e-learning (assessment, accessibility, content and metadata) and drew upon developments over the recent years, not months. I think that if the authors let the news dictate the organization and content of the newsletter (for example, if font size becomes a big issue in blogs and at conferences over the next four mont From OLDaily on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Moulin Ching
It was three years ago I wrote this, three years ago I entered it in some writing contest, lost, and filed it away. I don't handle rejection well - even if it could be called writing only by the widest stretch of the imagination. Anyhow, I was just thinking of it recently (and somewhat surprised to find it was almost to the day since I wrote it), so I pass it along to you - to read for your amusement or to use as an oracle to guide your life. Your call. MS Word document. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, July 4, 2001 [--> From OLDaily on July 3, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..