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Position on Vancouver Island
Barb Schindelka sent the following summary information regarding a job advertised on the Education Canada Network: Position: Manager of Educational Technology (e-Learning) Employer: Greater Victoria School District No.61 School/Organization: Greater Victoria School District 61 Location: British Columbia - Vancouver Island,... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 5, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Back in business
Does this happen to you too? You are an addicted blogger. You take a short break (merely 4 days). You come back and your feed reader shows more than 100 unread posts and you feel totally lost as to where to begin! As mentioned earlier, I went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a couple of days. One was a normal sales presentation cum e-Learning primer for a University. Nothing special happened there, apart from a simple, basic question that came from the audience. I was asked HYPHEN what are the "negative points" of e-Learning? A simple and straightforward question, but... From
soulsoup on July 5, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
From CLO July Edition
Some great articles from the July edition of CLO The Future of Learning Technology by Jonathon Levy There is a good deal of confusion over where to bet the budget--and sometimes, one's career--in the world of corporate online learning. Conflicting visions of the future collide in turbulent whitewater as powerful new streams of change and technology intersect. Although Jonathon mentioned technology in the heading, it actually talks about the shifting perspective of organizational learning strategy and culture. To quote HYPHEN For the first time in history the learning requirement is primar From
Kolabora.com on July 5, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Entering Thoreau's ethical realm
I ran across Thoreau's 1863 essay "Life Without Principle" this week and was struck by his sense of the rarity of rich communication. In the first paragraph he says, The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool. Thoreau is devoted to the things of value each person... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 5, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
BlogTalk 2.0 - Panel 1 SnipSnap, Zoomblox, Radio, Videoblogs
Video blogging and questions will be in a follow-up post: ▼ ❑ Stephan Schmidt - Fraunhofer Berlin ▼ ❑ Why KM doesn't work • ❑ most KM is top down: mgmt decides what structures, tools, org, processes are used • ❑ non matching ontologies • ❑ most processes are too complicated • ❑ complex tools - every release, tools are more complicated, no user acceptance ▼ ❑ What is bottom up KM From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 5, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Panel 1 Discussion BlogTalk 2.0 - SubEthaEdit notes
[ROLAND's NOTE: These notes by
Lee Bryant, Stephanie Booth, and Cyprien are much better than mine; all hail the power of community :-) !] Blogtalk 2.0 Session Notes July 5, 2004 Lee Bryant ----------------------------------------------- Panel 1 - chaired by Manfred Tscheligi ----------------------------------------------- Stephan Schmidt (Fraunhofer FIRST): Bottom up weblogs for knowledge management Why KM doesn&ap From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 5, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Lisbeth Klastrup: "'Live'-writing: weblogs and the coverage of reality" - BlogTalk 2.0
Blogs and other media don't have to actually be real or immediate, just have to give the appearance of it! Liveness codes in the blogosphere - nowess of time of writing, referring to discourse (I am writing this now), vividi verbal details of personal experieness) Some form of unmediated behaviour, the impression of "rushedness", the "continuity of text". "Yeah cool, I think I just pe*d in my pants". - lose control and do things live - example of blog post From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 5, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Elmine Wijnia: "Understanding blogs: a communicative perspective" - BlogTalk 2.0
Check out her blog,
Communigations: Disagree with Mark - need to continue to research "what" is the medium Objections - just sites -one sided -just hype Question - To what extent is comunication possible through blogs? -use Habermas's qualitiative good communicative PLUS -VanDijk's aspects from blgos that influence communication Habermas - for good comms need communicative symmetry between participants and ideal speech situation Ideal Speech situation -equ From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 5, 2004 at 12:24 p.m..
Comment Spam
I have had enough Comment Spam headaches. I am moving this site to Bloogger for a while. Come see the new Internet Time Blog!... From
Internet Time Blog on July 5, 2004 at 12:24 p.m..
Note to Bloglet subscribers
If you subscribe to the
Open Access News blog postings by email, through
Bloglet, then you'll notice that the service is up again after a long downtime. You can read the postings you missed in the
blog archive online. Bloglet is unreliable and beyond my control. It's often down without explanation. When it's up, it often sends out corrupted emails that garble the text. When it's working as adver From
Open Access News on July 5, 2004 at 12:24 p.m..
Webpublishing vs. The Rest
"There are two reasons I prefer blogging over web-based discussion. First, it allows me to get my own thoughts in order at my own pace. I lose the thread in threaded discussions. Second, blogs make it easier for me to find and link to others' thinking. The conversation moves at a slower pace and in chunks I find more satisfying." [
McGee' Musings] From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 5, 2004 at 12:23 p.m..
Independent Musicians New Marketing Tools
"Independent musicians are augmenting traditional promotional methods such as touring, word of mouth, fan clubs and posters with Web sites, e-mail lists and blogs. Listener recommendations, online preview clips and samples, shared playlists and other grassroots Web tools are also... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 5, 2004 at 12:21 p.m..
Robin Good's Jungle Tours At e/merge 2004
If you operate in the academic/educational universe and are interested in participating in an online demo showing some of the more interesting real-time communication and collaboration technologies available today on the market, you may want to check out my two... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 5, 2004 at 12:21 p.m..
Indian birders
No news hook and no earth-shaking points, but I found this article about the two preeminent birdwatchers of India to be charming and evocative.... From
Joho the Blog on July 5, 2004 at 12:21 p.m..
An Interesting Reason to Give Kids an Aggregator
RSS for Kids "Interestingly, RSS also has the potential to route around some of the personal information issues that come with collecting and using email addresses.... What next? I think there's a lot of potential for giving child-safe news, search and directories the RSS treatment. Many parents only let their children navigate to sites they've already bookmarked together. Perhaps a daily stream of sites recently added to CBBC Search and the Yahooligans From
The Shifted Librarian on July 5, 2004 at 12:20 p.m..
Usability and listening to customers have limits
Gerry McGovern has written about the limits of usability, and the importance of focusing on delivering value. To quote: Listening to customers and making sure your website is usable are important to website success. It is much more important, however,... From
Column Two on July 5, 2004 at 12:20 p.m..
Strategic Intranet Management conference
I was very pleased to be invited as the "international speaker" to the Strategic Intranet Management conference held on 28-30 June 2004 in Auckland, New Zealand. The topic of my talk was "Ensuring the success of your organisation's intranet". Powerpoint... From
Column Two on July 5, 2004 at 12:20 p.m..
Public Sector Organisational Knowledge conference
A few weeks back, I gave the opening presentation at the Public Sector Organisational Knowledge conference held on 17 June 2004 in Canberra, Australia. The topic of my talk was "Knowledge management in the public sector: challenges & opportunities". Powerpoint... From
Column Two on July 5, 2004 at 12:20 p.m..
BlogTalk 2.0 - live stream problems
BlogTalk 2.0 is just about to begin. I regret I couldn't make it this year to the conference although I would be happy to contribute to the discourse and meet Mark Bernstein and the Trotts. So I was happy to see that there was a live stream prepared, but unfortunatly even the modem stream doesn't really offer anything but sporadic image updates and dull audio fragments. Probably the organizers did not expect so many people trying to watch live. It's is not possible to understand what the speaker is saying. And - oh dear - most of the im From
owrede_log on July 5, 2004 at 12:19 p.m..
Weblogs and propaganda
Mark Bernstein
quotes a question by Karin Tzschenktke from the BlogTalk press conference: How do we keep weblogs from becoming merely a channel of propaganda? Mark thinks this is a interesting question but answers by speculating about intrinsic motivations of weblog authors, that fundamentally are against propaganda and that the attention economy will filter most things out. But he also thinks there is danger of online mobs! The nature of any historic propaganda is that there are no alternatives available for From
owrede_log on July 5, 2004 at 12:19 p.m..
BlogTalk 3.0 ??
Some people already asked me about BlogTalk 3.0. In fact it is the right time to talk about another conference as you need roughly a year to make an international conference happen. From my point of view it is unclear whet... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 5, 2004 at 12:19 p.m..
"bt2" streaming
Well here we go, this is the link to the conference stream . If everything works out fine we will offer one for modem and one for dsl/cable. You need the Quicktime Player to watch it. But: looking forward to meet you in me... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 5, 2004 at 12:19 p.m..
Punch and Judy Show
Well
BlogTalk 2.0 started this morning. The last time I visited the venue I was 7 or 8 years old. I came to watch the Punch and Judy Show. Thus I thought how can I do something that was similarily fascinating. Then Weblogs and Bl... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 5, 2004 at 12:19 p.m..
Usability and listening to customers have limits
Gerry McGovern on
balancing usability and real value : "Usability sometimes misses the point. If you're trying to sell me red shoes, I don't care how user-friendly your website is, I'm just not interested in buying. If you're charging me 30 percent more than your competitor, all your fancy usability is pretty much irrelevant. If I think this product is cool and I must have it, I will gladly suffer an unusually designed website just to get my hands on it." From
elearningpost on July 5, 2004 at 12:19 p.m..
20Q.net
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20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets." I've tried it out a few times, and it got all of them correct under 20 questions. Fantastic stuff. There's a discussion at David Weinberger's blog on
how 20Q works. From
elearningpost on July 5, 2004 at 12:18 p.m..
Persistent Conversations
Denham Grey outlines why blogs are not knowledge exchanges. He argues that blogs cannot
sustain conversations: "Feel you need a more neutral container, a safe 'knowledge' space to commune, a 'Ba' to build trust and sustain dialog, equal edit access to encourage true collaborative writing (annealing / refactoring / facile annotation), an easier turn-taking flow to practice persistent conversation before you can have full sharing, develop the cohesion & trust to enable creative abrasion, supply suff From
elearningpost on July 5, 2004 at 12:18 p.m..
July 4, 2004
(This is also my
Sunday column in the
San Jose Mercury News.) On Independence Day, 2004, how fares American liberty? Brilliantly, if you compare the United States with the tyrannies that still control the lives of countless people. Not badly, if liberty means the right to seek economic gain in a capitalist system -- especially i From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 5, 2004 at 12:18 p.m..
Fourth of July greetings from Old Edgar
'Harry Wilmans'I WAS just turned twenty-one,And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent,Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House."The honor of the flag must be upheld," he said,"Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe of TagalogsOr the greatest power in Europe."And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he wavedAs he spoke.And I went to the war in spite of my father,And followed the flag till I saw it raisedBy our camp in a rice field near Manila,And all of us cheered and cheered it.But there were flies and From
homoLudens III on July 5, 2004 at 12:18 p.m..
Microsoft Posts Security Update
An interim fix issued by the software giant does not repair the flaw that makes a new technique for spreading viruses possible, but it changes Windows settings to disable hackers' ability to deliver malicious code with it. From
Wired News on July 5, 2004 at 12:17 p.m..
Israeli Nuclear Complex Online
The world got an official look at Israel's top-secret Dimona nuclear complex Sunday through a new website launched by the country's Atomic Energy Commission. But photos show only the exterior of a building. From
Wired News on July 5, 2004 at 12:17 p.m..
Violent Video Games Under Attack
Legislators and activists who want some titles kept out of kids' hands are on the warpath again against the video-game industry. Game makers, however, seem to delight in amping up the virtual gore. From
Wired News on July 5, 2004 at 12:17 p.m..
The Micro-Multinational
Worried about jobs going overseas? Don't. A new offshore recipe cooks up U.S. jobs. By Jason Pontin from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on July 5, 2004 at 12:17 p.m..
Paid Inclusion Losing Charm?
Microsoft and Ask Jeeves are dropping paid-inclusion links from their search engines, a move that's winning praise. Yahoo is the last major search engine that champions paid inclusion, but for how much longer? By Chris Ulbrich. From
Wired News on July 5, 2004 at 12:17 p.m..
Marketing Yourself
I was asked: 1) I have a portal a) I make money on the portal by having a captive and vocal audience interested in the results of research paid for by others b) participants in the portal get access to each other and to the research c) adoption of the portal has been slow (even though there is no fee) d) once people sign-up for the portal they are not as vocal as I'd like... From
Learning Circuits Blog on July 5, 2004 at 12:17 p.m..
ISPs Can Check E-Mail - Roy Mark, Internet News
Backed by the clear, though perhaps out-of-date, language of the Wiretap Act, e-mail providers have the right to read and copy the inbound e-mail of their clients, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The decision sparked howls of protest from priv From
Techno-News Blog on July 5, 2004 at 12:17 p.m..
July 2004 issue of Kmareka.com now online
Autism, Thomas Pynchon and Capitalism as Cosmic Law, Review of Plan of Attack by Kevin Marek, Fiction by Michelle Dobbs, Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake original recipe by Kiersten Marek [PRWEB Jul 5, 2004] From
PR Web on July 5, 2004 at 12:16 p.m..
Distance Learning, Inc. (DLI) Attacks Barriers to Education with New, Affordable Web Site
DLI announced today the launch of ScribeStudio, an easy-to-use, affordable Web site that allows anyone to quickly create, offer and manage courses and training materials online. The site is located at www.ScribeStudio.com . "We are very enthusiastic about the opportunity to bring many educators to the exciting world of e-learning," said Chairman and CEO John Cervieri. [PRWEB Jul 5, 2004] From
PR Web on July 5, 2004 at 12:16 p.m..
Michael Moore Makes the Same Movie Again
Something few people seem to have noticed about Michael Moore, whether they love him or hate him, is that he keeps making the exact same movie over and over. And surprisingly, it gets better every time. From
kuro5hin.org on July 5, 2004 at 12:16 p.m..
The K5 Debates
The debate is a fun, interesting and balanced way to explore a topic. A formal debate gives equal time to proponents of both sides of an issue, and forces them to think very carefully about their position and express it as succinctly as possible. This could prove to be an interesting way to collaboratively author a story for k5. Here I propose a simple way to run a debate, ask for suggestions and votes on the first topic, and call for participants. From
kuro5hin.org on July 5, 2004 at 12:16 p.m..
Michael Moore: pirate my film, please
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has
recently gone on record stating that downloading and watching his films was fine as long as people didn't try to make money off them. In a way, it's a classic struggle between a filmmaker creating works he wants the world to see, while the studio that produced it would rather everyone pay to see it instead of downloading. Other directors have backed up his position and the current distributor is allowing the downloading to take place. Here are Moore's full quotes on the subject of From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 5, 2004 at 12:15 p.m..
Can VoIP survive Congress?
Washington this week will try to figure out what rules should govern VoIP, a process that CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh predicts is fraught with problems. From
CNET News.com on July 5, 2004 at 12:15 p.m..
