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Boeing 7E7 engineering to rely on video collaboration tools
Video system to speed 7E7 work by Molly McMillin (The Wichita Eagle, July 4, 2004), says that "Collaboration rooms" will electronically link Boeing's engineers and suppliers in the United States (including Wichita, KS and Seattle, WA), Japan, Italy and Russia who are working on the new 7E7 jetl... From
Kolabora.com on July 8, 2004 at 10:24 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 8
Today's highlights: Novell win in Ontario; the cost of the 'always-on' lifestyle; New customer for Novell's Small Business Suite 6.5 (which includes GroupWise 6.5): The Town of Cobourg, Ontario. Chose Novell GroupWise over Microsoft Exchange due to the higher cost... From
Kolabora.com on July 8, 2004 at 10:24 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 9
Today's highlights: Groove Virtual Office due next week; Smartner Duality; Groove Networks will release version 3 of its peer-to-peer collaboration software, previously called Groove Workspace, next week. The new name for the offering is "Groove Virtual Office", with the professional... From
Kolabora.com on July 8, 2004 at 10:24 p.m..
Feedburner
Interesting... Jane
points to Feedburner who have implemented their own, personal, news-ticker thingy (I guess I'm initially thinking that this could be cool for highlighting weblogs or your weblog in, say, a WebCT course without stressing about importing / rendering all your content). For example...
From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 8, 2004 at 10:22 p.m..
KM becoming RM?
I thought I would post a quick comment on a trend that I've been seeing in Australian public-sector organisations: knowledge management becoming records management. That is, the "knowledge management initiative" is handed across to the library/records management folk, who then... From
Column Two on July 8, 2004 at 10:19 p.m..
Fair Use with DVDs
NY Times: Whose DVD? A Debate Over Copies. The free copying tools are available through Internet sites that are not directly subject to American law, often because the nations that those sites call home permit individuals to copy material for their own use. People seeking such tools need only pose the question in an Internet search engine to find dozens of sites devoted to the subject, including the Afonic DVD Guides site (www .dvd-guides.com), run by Joseph Chatzimichail, a 20-year-old electr From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 8, 2004 at 10:18 p.m..
Americans Find Graphic Images Online
Cultural, gender, and economic divisions are evident among those that approve of the availability of graphic images and those that don't, as millions of Internet users actively search for the disturbing photos and videos. From
ClickZ Stats on July 8, 2004 at 10:16 p.m..
Share Your Politics, Whatever Their Color
ActBlue is a web site that bills itself as an "online clearinghouse for grassroots action." As the name suggests, it's a site designed to help Democratic partisans find candidates to support, both with money and with time. But it also supplies tools to help users band together with like-minded souls --
creating customized lists of important races and spreading them around. What makes the site so cool is that it -- and all of the lists and other content users upload -- is available under the Creative From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 8, 2004 at 10:16 p.m..
Commoner Sightings -- This Weekend
*Creative Commons board member
Joi Ito will address the
Flash Forward 2004 conference at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City -- tomorrow, Friday July 9th, at 9:00am. *Assistant director Neeru Paharia will appear on a panel, "Open Source and Social Action," at the
Awe to Action conference -- this Saturday, July 10th, at 4:15pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street @ Geary, in San Francisco. *I'm looking forward to being in Bo From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 8, 2004 at 10:16 p.m..
Australian Government to Offer Guide to Open-Source
Not only cool, but useful. And reflective of an encouraging trend. "A new guide designed to help federal government agencies evaluate open-source products alongside their proprietary rivals is due to be completed and distributed by September". By Iain Ferguson, CNET News.com, July 7, 2004 [
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OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 10:16 p.m..
Pressure Mounts on Reed to Open Access to Science Work
This story follows the announcement by the number two company in the field, Springer, that it is moving to the open access model of journal distribution online. "Springer's move to the 'open access' model will ratchet up the pressure on Reed Elsevier, the London-listed market leader, which is desperately clinging to the traditional style of science publishing," Via Open Access News. Now I should note that a tour of the
Springer web site doesn't yield any obvious links to open access content or even a pres release on th From
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
WordPress Plugin: FOAF Output
The Semantic Social Network marches forward. This link is to a Friend of a Friend (FOAF) plugin for the open source blogging tool, WordPress. This allows users to distribute their personal information in an XML format. By Morten Frederiksen, Binary Relations, July 5, 2004 [
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OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
Mapping BlogTalk 2.0
This is very cool - what you see is an interactive map of Vienna with various hot spots on it. Click on the hot spot and you are displayed a blog post with a comment, usually describing what may be found at the hot spot. Even better, if you click 'i' on the map you can also add your own information (at least in theory - I tried to add the location of the cybercafe in the city but it didn't take). What I'm thinking, though, is that the information added to the map needs to be cumulative - that is, more than one person should be able to add to the same location. Maybe a Wiki From
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
Q & A with Stephen Downes
Short interview talking about the impact of diploma mills, disintermediation, and how to learn how to use the web for learning. By GA.Buchholz, Contentology, July 7, 2004 [
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OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
EDCMM courses for 2004-05
We've listed the schedule for courses being offered in 2004-05 in our program on the EDCMM website. The online and blended courses are described, complete with dates for required and optional group meetings.... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 8, 2004 at 6:18 p.m..
Digital art - new marketing idea
The Associated Press just reported that the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia plans to offer cell phone users an opportunity to have reproductions of the museum's masterpieces on their screens. Approximately 100 artworks will be available, ranging from... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 8, 2004 at 6:18 p.m..
Goodbye Internet Explorer
Changing my default browser from IE to Mozilla Firefox. The cool features of the new Firefox 0.9.1 are just mesmerizing. Not convinced yet? Read these HYPHEN How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer by Paul Boutin at MSN Slate! Thanks Microsoft for the honest opinion. Building a Better Mozilla By Michelle Delio at Wired News The article pointed out to the great FireFox plug-ins or extensions.... From
soulsoup on July 8, 2004 at 6:18 p.m..
Deeper meaning of learning
Dax-Devlon Ross: My imagination has become my refuge... I am deeply moved by the post by Brian at Experience Designer Network. Wrapping around the "inspiring weblog entry by Dax-Devlon Ross that wonderfully captures his personal learning journey from education to career" HYPHEN the post revealed the brutal side of our "Darwinian" nature of education system. It was to my disappointment to learn that my scholastic education had only purchased me a ticket to disillusionment, but I'm finding my way back home, so to speak, even if it's by foot." I couldn't say it in a better way. Som From
soulsoup on July 8, 2004 at 6:18 p.m..
Lego Spiderman
This one is really cool! Animated short version of Spiderman 2 done entirely in Lego. Broadband link Narrowband link [Quicktime Video] Found via Boing Boing... From
soulsoup on July 8, 2004 at 6:18 p.m..
Project Weblogs HYPHEN a metaphorical pitch
My Neighbor and The Value of Project Weblogs from CommonCraft A nice metaphor to demonstrate the importance of Plogs by Lee LeFever. I know you don't like the term :-) To Quote - Let's pretend I was working in a big company and meeting with a team I didn't know instead of my neighbor. Ordinarily, I would have to walk into the meeting cold and ask questions to understand the team, the goals, the people, the accomplishments, the culture. Most of our first meeting would be devoted to understanding the team and allowing them to understand me- or making uninformed... From
soulsoup on July 8, 2004 at 6:18 p.m..
Too much and too little
Campaign Desk has it both ways today, citing CNN for reading too much into President Bush's comment today: When asked how the aspiring veep stacks up against the present vice president, the president was brief: "Dick Cheney can be president. Next." [...] Clearly, Bush's statement was an implicit criticism of Edwards. But for what? Bad judgment? Legislative record? Policy differences? Lack of experience in foreign affairs? The truth is, we don't know. And neither does... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 8, 2004 at 6:18 p.m..
More on Springer and Elsevier
Saeed Shah,
Pressure mounts on Reed to open access to science work, Independent, July 7, 2004. Excerpt: "One of the biggest publishers of science journals, Springer, has given authors the option of making their work freely available to everyone. Springer's move to the 'open access' model will ratchet up the pressure on Reed Elsevier, the London-listed market leader, which is desperately clinging to the traditional style of science publishing, where companies charge hefty subscriptions to those wh From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:17 p.m..
New issue of INASP Newsletter
The
June issue of the INASP Newsletter is now online. As usual, it's full of news about OA initiatives in developing countries, in this case including India's UGC-Infonet E-journals consortium, the global review of access to health information, the University of Namibia's new institutional repository, an update on African Journals Online, and an article by Helen Doyle and Melissa Hagemann on the fee-waiver policies at PLoS and BMC. From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:17 p.m..
Review of SPARC's extensive work, esp. for OA
Bas Savenije,
The SPARC initiative: a catalyst for change, a presentation at the TICER workshop,
The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and Medicine (Geneva, June 13-18, 2004). From the abstract: "SPARC was started in 1997 by a number of large research libraries in the US. Its main goal was restore a competitive balance of the STM journals publishing market....Since two years SPARC puts a special emphasis on Open Access, including institution From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:17 p.m..
More on the National LambdaRail
Sometimes researchers need high bandwidth for the same reasons they need open access. "[Tom] Goodale, a research associate at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation & Technology, uses supercomputers to simulate phenomena in astrophysics and relativity, such as collisions between neutron stars. But the data produced by the simulations are so massive -- exceeding a terabyte, or the equivalent of 15,000 music CD's -- that often it is not feasible for Mr. Goodale to retrieve results over existing computer networks. Instead, he and colleagues resort to copying data from the From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:17 p.m..
More on the Springer policy
Mark Chillingworth,
Springer embraces Open Access and choice, Information World Review, July 8, 2004. Excerpt: "The world's second largest scientific publisher Springer is adopting Open Access (OA) publishing....Authors will be able to choose either OA or traditional publishing for their work at a cost of $3000 per article." (PS: This is a widening of access, but it's not OA. Springer will retain copyright and limit the freedom of users to make and distribute copies. Springer was careful not to use the term "open access" for its po From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:16 p.m..
Market report
Rachel Stevenson gives today's
market report: "Reed Elsevier, the publisher, also saw its shares slip 5.5p to 504p, after news that it will come under pressure to allow the authors of its scientific journals to make their work freely available." From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:16 p.m..
The state of citation linking
Péter Jacsó,
Linking on Steroids, Information Today, July 8, 2004. Excerpt: "The greatest advancements in linking have been the links to cited and citing references, the technical counterparts of the intellectual acts of referring to other works, with possibly instant delivery of a full bibliographic record, the abstract of the cited record, or its full text. The last option depends on the subscription status of the users (typically their libraries) to the cited/citing source....Among the inter-host links, one of the most From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:16 p.m..
On effective use of fair use
Donna Wentworth,
Fair Use It or Lose It, Copyfight, July 7, 2004. Reviewing a book reading featuring both Siva Vaidhyanathan and Lawrence Lessig, Wentworth remarks on their relative perceptions of fair use, particularly Lessig's dour view of its prospects. A tale from Vaidhyanathan illustrating his view that people should stand up for their fair use rights is recounted. Wentworth offers four suggestions towards strengthening fair use. (Source:
Furdlog) From
Open Access News on July 8, 2004 at 6:16 p.m..
Enjoy the silence
After 3 international conferences in the last 14 days, countless conversations and many hours on trains, trams and metros I am finally back and enjoy the (relative) silence with me, myself and I. I really feel quite jaded. Well, I am off listening to the
new Morrissey record now... which I expect to fit nicely with my current mood ;-) From
Seblogging News on July 8, 2004 at 6:16 p.m..
Breaks and meals
I'm back from Blogtalk in Vienna. But let me just comment a bit on the second day. It is really too much to just listen to people talking for two days, so it is a bit of a blur on the second day. Would be much better with interactive parts in-between. Not just asking questions, but being able to have more of a dialogue amongst the participants. But the backchannel chat and wiki, etc., make it a good deal more bearable, at least for the audience. Not for the presenters, who are looking at several rows of people glued to their screens, making it hard for them to know From
Seblogging News on July 8, 2004 at 6:16 p.m..
Sakai: First SEPP Meeting in Denver
(7/7/04) SEPP institutions will have licenses and may implement Sakai 1.0, on schedule for release in July 2004. Sakai 1.0 will be a full production environment based on the existing course management implementations done at each of the four founding institutions, as well as work of the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI), which designed the framework and provided a proof of concept for an open source learning management system for higher education. The four original Sakai developer institutions charged with delivering Sakai 1.0 are MIT, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and Stanford Un From
Edutools News: Course Management Systems on July 8, 2004 at 6:16 p.m..
Slackery, Busyery & Bloglines
Jeez... off my feet this week... have a court case to prepare for September (custody hearing - basically my ex wants fully custody of our daughter, we currently have 50:50 but she's moved over 100ks away!!!) which I need to have all the stuff in for by mid August, a stack of papers to write (which I'm struggling with having not written much 'substantial' for the last year or so (and not having been that good at it then... I'm much better at wandering off on unsupported, unstructured, opinionated directions ;o)) and am not getting to do what I enjoy (this kinda stuff From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 8, 2004 at 6:15 p.m..
extisp.icio.us: mapping user tags (Clay Shirky)
Behold extisp.icio.us, a 2D mapping of del.icio.us tags per user, with font size and position indicating relative importance (here is a mapping of Seb’s tags.) Though del.icio.us is social software, extisp.icio.us isn’t yet. #1 on my request list is to... From
Corante: Social Software on July 8, 2004 at 6:15 p.m..
Public Minds: Generic critical mass (Clay Shirky)
Public Mind is trying to make a general-purpose site for creating critical mass, supporting a number of different patterns — product feedback (there’s a whole category on Skype), commercial petitions (“A better belt clip for my Ericsson T68-i cellular phone”),... From
Corante: Social Software on July 8, 2004 at 6:15 p.m..
Redefining friendship (David Weinberger)
Do I have any friends? No, I don’t mean this in some pathetic “Nobody loves me, I’m going to eat some worms” sort of way. I know that some people like me, that some people don’t, and that the overwhelming... From
Corante: Social Software on July 8, 2004 at 6:15 p.m..
Transferring resourcelists from a VLE to a library (and back again)
In the notoriously unresolvable discussion over what a learning object is, one category that's easily overlooked is the traditional academic article or monograph. Printed or otherwise, these are bread and butter learning resources in many a course, and constitute one of the main intersections between the e-learning and library worlds. Hence the need to exhange lists of such resources between virtual learnign environments and (digital) library systems, which is now addressed by the new public ... From
CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on July 8, 2004 at 6:14 p.m..
What Is Trackback
Steve Outing, at the Poynter Institute E-Media Tidbits provides a good refresher for newbies and self-learners alike on the topic of trackback. "Trackback is an automatic way for your website to notify other sites when you publish a link to... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 8, 2004 at 6:13 p.m..
The Big Health Marketing Machine
"Every day Americans are subjected to a barrage of advertising by the pharmaceutical industry. Mixed in with the pitches for a particular drug—usually featuring beautiful people enjoying themselves in the great outdoors—is a more general message. Boiled down to its... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 8, 2004 at 6:13 p.m..
"Comic" relief
The San Francisco Chronical aggregates the Edwards jokes from the late-night TV shows. I thought maybe one of the jokes was funny. Maybe you had to be there.... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2004 at 6:13 p.m..
Edwards as president?
From the NY Times: When a questioner noted that Mr. Edwards had been described as charming and a "nimble campaigner" and asked Mr. Bush to compare the one-term senator to Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Bush snapped: "Dick Cheney can be president. Next?" I understand the argument that Edwards isn't experienced enough to be president - although he's got more experience than W had in 2000 - but does the Bush campaign really want us to dwell on the testicle-shriveling possibility of President Cheney?... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2004 at 6:13 p.m..
Blogging the convention
Jay Rosen: Know your history, especially what happened to the first regime in convention coverage, why it yielded to television and how it became a degraded media event. Don't join up with the second regime, whose story went dead a long time ago. Pick up from where Koppel walked out in '96, and find a reason to be there. If you have your reason, but you're in doubt on what to write about, ask yourself who sent you and your laptop to Beantown. Post an account for them. Report backwards to whatever place you came from-- including the opinions you... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2004 at 6:13 p.m..
Who gets to go
CyberJournalilst.net is keeping track of which bloggers were credentialed for the Democratic Convention. So far, we do seem to be a homogenous lot — I believe we're all likely to vote for Kerry, but with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Cyberjournalists asks, if the media are not credentialed according to their beliefs, why are bloggers? But is that the case? I've heard that 35 bloggers were credentialed. Do we know of any unfriendlies (so to speak) who were turned down? Mike Lidell, in an article in the Washington Post article, does not list viewpoint as a criterion: It is not c From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2004 at 6:13 p.m..
RB in love
RageBoy has fallen in love again. This time with a book. If you read only one book review this year, make it this one. And then Frank Paynter responds, perhaps I should say amplifies, or is it analyzes? And Kalilily gets on a bus with Frank to wonder whether authentic voice cannot be contrived.... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2004 at 6:13 p.m..
quickSub: A Path Around the Pesky Little Bothersome XML Icon?
Once again serendipity on stumbling into
quickSub - a little piece of CSS and JavaScript code to perhaps add some more usability to the RSS links? I agree mostly with others contentions on the problems with posting an or icon on a web page where the human followed link is a mess of inhuman XML. It rightfully confuses the un-initiated. QuickSub provides a rollover f From
cogdogblog on July 8, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Survey/Quiz Tool inside ePortfolio ("Desert and a Floor Wax?")
Audree has been busy.... she is the developer of the
ePortfolio tool built first at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and also running in our office as "
Maricopa eP" for the rest of our system. Over the last few weeks, she has added new tools and features, based on faculty and student input, especially since at her college, the use of it has grown wider into a personal publishing system as well. The first new thing is the ability to create an item type that is a survey or quiz From
cogdogblog on July 8, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Must-Read Articles
I'm a little swamped this week, so I can't do these pieces justice yet. That shouldn't stop you from doing so. 1. I hope you remember
John T. Mitchell, strong consumer advocate and formerly of Public Knowledge. From what I know of him (
website articles, pho postings, and
an interview I did awhile back), he often points out the free uses, like private pe From
A Copyfighter's Musings on July 8, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
NECC Webcasts Online
If you missed
NECC, you can now access some of the workshops and presentations via Webcast. Included is
Anne's Weblogs workshop, all of the keynotes, and about half-dozen others that pretty much run the gamut. You need to go through a quick
registration process to see the videos. From
weblogged News on July 8, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
300,000 and 3 Million
I think there is a growth trend here.
Wikipedia just added its 300,000th entry.
Technorati is now tracking its 3 millionth blog. No wondering about the viabilty of this stuff anymore, I would think... From
weblogged News on July 8, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
The New Bloglines--Day 2
Just a quick observation on the new
Bloglines... Whereas I used to use the saved folder to quickly store posts that I hope to return to at some point, I find myself now just putting those posts in my
Bloglines blog. It's too easy to do. The saved (now "clipped") posts were always a little difficult to get to...now they're a click away. There's a much larger content management issue that I'm going to have to write about at some point. I must scan at least 2-300 posts a day at Blogl From
weblogged News on July 8, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Blogger Burnout
Wired writes about the pressures of blogging, and, unfortunately, some of it resonates. "I never can post something and say I'm done for the day," said Zuniga, "because I'm always thinking about the next post. I'm always feeling like I'm letting people down if I don't have any new stuff up on the site." Now I know the number of readers of this site pales in comparison to those interviewed in the article. But as this site has grown, I have sensed that th From
weblogged News on July 8, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
The power of informal learning
Bob Mosher writes about the value of informal learning, compared with more traditional approaches. To quote: Although more formal forms of instruction such as the classroom and e-learning will be around for years, it’s becoming more and more important to... From
Column Two on July 8, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
Caracas
I'm finally getting back to normal.
BlogTalk 2.0 was such a great experience that you forget all the hardship that was involved. I thank you all. Things like that happen in the minds of us they just materialize at some point in t... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 8, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
EgoSurfing
I'm honored thanks to all those that link . It's good to know that you are not alone ;-) especially since I understand my blog as being very idiosyncratic. I wonder if there is a way to filter IP-regions. I'd be interested... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 8, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines!
Very nice article by Wired on future supermarkets where most functions are enabled by
RFID technology. The article looks at 3 different perspectives of RFID technology: Depending who you ask, RFID tags constitute
the best thing to happen to manufacturing since the cogthe biggest threat to personal privacy since the crowbarthe near-exact fulfillment of the Book of Revelation's description of the mark of the beast. From
elearningpost on July 8, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
The Art of Underengineering
This
underengineering advice can be used in any design field: "On average, 70 percent of the cost of any new product is fixed by the specifications and design. In other words, more than two-thirds of the total cost is designed into the product. By identifying what is integral to an automobile's appeal and what is an expensive waste, manufacturers can modify the product design to dramatically reduce unit costs and give consumers the products they want at competitive prices." From
elearningpost on July 8, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
Blog conversations and exploration
These days I keep running into mentions of how conversations in blogspace are hard to follow. From my experience, tracking blogversations is similar to exploring a 3D game world. Look here, go there, find some nugget, backtrack, have a peek over there... Presumably a game wouldn't be as fun if it were turned into a more passive, guided walkthrough. Does this reasoning also apply to blogversations? (P.S. Link-free post - no running around this time! Enjoy!) From
Seb's Open Research on July 8, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
Vacation time
Expect few or no updates for a month starting this weekend, as I will be spending that time in a general state of disconnect from the net. While I dread the withdrawal symptoms, I do believe I will return as a stronger Seb. I've got a few ideas for constructive projects to embark upon when I'm back, and flushing down the cognitive overload of the last months will surely help make my internal focus sharper... From
Seb's Open Research on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Flickr does moblogging
Great move, guys. Notice how photo sharing service Flickr is not in the business of blogging per se but keeps finding clever ways to ride the wave. Integrating pictures is a pain point for the many people who struggle with file uploading, management, and markup. Flickr nicely lowers the barrier to entry here. Of course this synergy could not happen if the bloggin From
Seb's Open Research on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Untitled
"In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Al Rogers From
Seb's Open Research on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Working Draft: Architecture of the World Wide Web
2004-07-05: Addressing a selection of Last Call issues, the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a updated Working Draft of the Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition. The document is written for Web developers, implementers, content authors and publishers. It describes the properties that are desired of the Web and the design choices that have been made to achieve them. Visit the TAG home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Important Win for Trustworthy E-Voting
A federal judge has
ruled (960k PDF) that California's tougher new rules on touch-screen video voting systems are valid. This is extremely good news for everyone except the recalcitrant local voting officials who've been trying to block Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's efforts to clean up a process that invited voter distrust. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Blacklisted Comment Spammers Attack Legitimate Domain
UPDATED It appears that the comment spammers may be polluting new postings with legitimate domains -- including this one -- in order to cause trouble for people who are running programs to cut down on comment spam. In this case, they put weblog.siliconvalley.com and mercurynews.com URLs into spams containing their porn and casino links (or whatever it was the anti-spam program had already flagged), and the comment blacklist software picked our URLs up and offered to ban them. We missed this, and the result was that I couldn't post comments here briefly, and some of my old comments got From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Did Democrats Invite, then Disinvite Bloggers?
UPDATED That's what two right-leaning bloggers say. See
this and
this. If true, and especially if it's related to the politics of the bloggers, the Democratic convention organizers are making a mistake. UPDATE: Jay Rosen got a note from a Democratic official who offers an explanation. It's way, way down in
this posting on Jay's blog. Key lines: From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
WHATWG
Tim Bray has
thrown down the warning flag with respect to the Dashboard-related HTML extensions in the next version of Safari. "I'd be really happy if someone explained to me how this is different from what Netscape and Microsoft did to each other so irritatingly back in 1996," he writes. ... From
Jon's Radio on July 8, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Groups Sue to Allow Vote Recounts
The ACLU, Common Cause and voters' rights groups sue Florida election officials to reverse a rule that bans manual recounts of touch-screen ballots. Plaintiffs say the rule is illogical and the voting machines are faulty. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
Coalition of the Billing
Military contractors will gladly fight terrorists -- for a price. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
SpaceShipOne Back on Course
Burt Rutan's craft in the X Prize race had control problems in its initial launch, but that's fixed now, and SpaceShipOne is on target for another space attempt. By Dan Brekke. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
Single Post Wins Google Contest
A blogger comes out the victor in a contest to garner the top Google ranking for the term 'nigritude ultramarine.' His strategy: one blog entry asking readers to link the term to his site. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
Bloggers Suffer Burnout
Authors of some of the most popular political and general-interest weblogs are calling it quits or scaling back their sites, claiming that the pressure to post or moderate reader feedback is too much to handle. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
GMO-Food Foes Turn to Film
Opponents of genetically modified crops are attracting support for their movement with a controversial film, The Future of Food, which argues that the practice undermines the safety of our food supply. By Jason Silverman. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
Feds Weigh Role in Net Telephony
Federal legislators attending a hearing on Internet telephony consider the role state governments should have in controlling the technology. Some argue states should stay out of VOIP regulation entirely. By Michael Grebb. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
Data Nightmare at Pentagon
The General Accounting Office looks at how the Defense Department keeps track of its supplies and finances, and the picture is not pretty -- even with more than 2,000 databases and billions spent. By Noah Shachtman. From
Wired News on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
Building a Better Mozilla - Michelle Delio, Wired
Most people who switch to Mozilla or Mozilla's Firefox browser quickly notice that the browser is pretty bare. It contains exactly what you need to browse the Web -- no less and no more. And while there's a lot to be said for running a lean, clean pro From
Techno-News Blog on July 8, 2004 at 6:09 p.m..
Rescott Group Services Introduces Rescott Education training for employees.
Rescott Ed introduces interactive training in technology, customer service skills, sales,and business communications. Rescott provides a variety of structured classroom style and hands-on group training classes covering a wide breadth of technology products and experience levels. [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004] From
PR Web on July 8, 2004 at 6:08 p.m..
The Evergreen State College Campus Children's Center Opens New Facility to Public for Summer Enrollment
The Evergreen State College Campus Children's Center is now extending enrollment opportunities in their nationally accredited (NYAEC) childcare program to the public for summer. The opening of the new environmentally designed building and playground brings more space and rare vacancies to the popular program that usually boasts a long waiting list for students and staff of the Evergreen State College. The expansion allows the Children's Center to share the Evergreen experience with families outside of the college for the first time, while fulfilling the demand for high quality sum From
PR Web on July 8, 2004 at 6:08 p.m..
Help Your Child Avoid Getting Lost in A Foreign Professor's Translation
The increase in graduate assistants and foreign professors has begun to demonstrate an effect on students. The combined cultural and linguistic discrepancies between professors and students seems to be affecting the academic performance of many students. However, the new educational program "Guaranteed 4.0" may alleviate the concerns of parents and students alike. [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004] From
PR Web on July 8, 2004 at 6:08 p.m..
Friendster: We Have a Policy that We Are *Not* Being Hacked
Buried near the bottom of an article in last month's Wired is this little gem; Friendster rep Lisa Kopp insists, "We have a policy that we are not being hacked." I don't know if it's sad, scary or funny, but I can see someone in some corporate highrise somewhere actually saying this with a straight face. From
kuro5hin.org on July 8, 2004 at 6:08 p.m..
Metadata for the Desktop
As more parts of the desktop start to utilise metadata to provide a better user experience, we run the risk not just of redundancy, which is tiresome to the developer but not often directly irksome to the user, but more importantly lack of integration. In the web world, work has been done on metadata for at least six years now, which could be leveraged in the desktop environment, and especially so as the boundary between desktop and web diminishes From
EdNA Online on July 8, 2004 at 6:07 p.m..
E-portfolio Gives Savvy Students the Jump on Jobs at QUT
Students at QUT are abandoning paper and going high-tech in their search for jobs. The QUT Student Portfolio has been launched to enables students to compile a comprehensive online record of their achievements - for their own access and employer's. The sophisticated, fully integrated e-portfolios are controlled by students and contain their academic results as well as details of projects, skills and attributes developed during their university years. The system is the first of its kind for an Australian university and has also attracted the attention of Queensland secondary schools intere From
ClickZ Stats on July 8, 2004 at 6:07 p.m..
Open Media Streaming With CC Metadata
The
Open Media Streaming Project has added CC metadata support to their streaming audio server and player. OMSP's NeMeSi player displaying license info for a stream. They say: Please note that the CC stuff in the source code is in very alpha stage: no more than IETF's-style "running code" to test a soon-to-be-released specification proposal for streaming Creative Commons licensing meta-data over RTSP/RTP protoc From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 8, 2004 at 6:07 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 8, 2004 at 6:07 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 8, 2004 at 6:07 p.m..
"A combination of innovation and infringement"
Annalee Newitz has
a great article in Alternet about Mash-ups, going over the copyright laws involved and how the laws are viewed in the mash-up scene. It's an interested clash, where restrictive laws loom over digital musicians armed with low-cost computers and software that makes mixing easy. In this realm, Newitz sees mash-ups as a form of protest, where DJs knowingly violate laws in order to spread their art in the world. As a masher on [Get Your Bootleg On] recently posted, "Everything is illegal." Und From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 8, 2004 at 6:07 p.m..
UK Independent Private Schools
Sparticus links to this site with the following comment: "Recent research suggests that the average cost of a private education is £7,500 a year. This is three times what is spent on the child receiving a state education. If they gain power the Conservative Party have claimed that they will encourage parents to take £5,500 out of state coffers to pay for private education. The plan forbids its use on any school with fees higher than this. It is difficult to see how this will work. With private schools costing up to £9,000 a year and From
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 6:06 p.m..
36 Percent of Software Worldwide Pirated, Trade Group Says
I don't know how long newspapers will continue to publish the fabrications of organizations like the Business Software Alliance, but I wish they'd stop soon. Once again, for the record: the illegal use of a $100 software package does not represent a $100 loss to the company that produced it. A person who would use the illegal copy might not buy the legal copy - particularly when the cost of the legal copy represents a month's wages. On the other hand, the use of free versions of software by people who could not otherwise afford it actually represents a net gain for the company, From
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 6:06 p.m..
Hand Scanners to Keep Tabs on Students at Boca Middle School
The hand scanners will be used by teachers to take attendance. Though I don't really see how it really improves anything; my recollection of attendance is that it was over in a couple of minutes (in other words, more quickly than it will take a class of students to line up to have their hands scanned). En passant, notice this bit of wording in the article: "Don Estridge is a choice school, designed to use the latest technology to teach traditional subjects." The word 'choice' is the newest code-word for 'private' and the use of that word by this newspaper clearl From
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 6:06 p.m..
Private Sector Contributions to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Mauritius is just a dot - a group of dots, actually - in the Indian Ocean. More recently, it has become one of the international conference destinations of choice. It's warm, it's exotic, it's safe. And it is becoming more wired daily. Andy Carvin, who writes today's entry, is attending the the ICT Stakeholders Forum on the island. And his coverage is outstanding and insightful, as usual. But I can't help wondering what sort of definition of "Stakeholder" filters for only those people who can fly to Mauritius. From
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 6:06 p.m..
Enterprises Slow to Dump IE
In a story that most institutional readers can relate to, the use of Internet Explorer continues despite its critical security flaws because many enterprise systems depend on ActiveX and other Microsoft-specific features for functionality. Be sure also to follow
a link within this article describing a new initiative by Microsoft rivals to allow non-IE browsers to support ActiveX functionality (but without the hazards). By Matt Hicks, eWeek, July 6, 2004 [
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 6:06 p.m..
Bloglines Bows Redesign, Ad Model as RSS Heats Up
As the ClickZ article says, "RSS feed aggregator Bloglines has redesigned its interface and launched a blog creation tool, called Clip Blog." Bloglines allows you to create an account on its website and read RSS feeds; the blog tool is an obvious spin-off, as users of Radio Userland know. It's also adding a commercial capacity; "Fletcher said the company will use its substantial knowledge about its users' interests to target ads." But, as the story notes, web browsers are beginning to support RSS. This could hurt sites like Bloglines - why go to the website when the feature is alread From
OLDaily on July 8, 2004 at 6:06 p.m..