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Nokia, STMicroelectronics push to standardize camera phones
Nokia and STMicroelectronics (ST) have announced that
they are releasing a comprehensive specification for camera modules, aimed at standardizing this increasingly common component in mobile devices. The specification, dubbed Standard Mobile Imaging Architecture (SMIA), covers all aspects of the modules, including their electrical, mechanical, and functional interfaces, and also address other key areas such as characterization, optical performance, and reliability. The intent is to help standardize the components that go From
unmediated on July 11, 2004 at 4:38 p.m..
New website rents unreleased indie films on DVD
First Look Rentals is a new website that rents and sells unreleased independent films on DVD. The website uses internet rental-by-mail technology to distribute independent films directly to audiences. DVDs rent for $3.99 to $4.99, depending on length, and arrive in two-way postpaid envelopes. Viewers can keep the discs for up to a week. DVDs can also be purchased. Filmmakers earn a generous percentage of each rental and sale made through the site. They are also allowed to opt out of the agreement at any time, leaving the door open for From
unmediated on July 11, 2004 at 4:38 p.m..
i-Bead 1000 1.5GB Hard Disk Player
South Korean firm i-Bead is releasing a new 1.5 gigabyte hard disk player with a built-in 65k-color screen. Although there's no word on price yet, the feature set looks nice, with a built-in FM tuner and recorder, line-in recording, text viewing (something that is missing from way too many players), and USB 2.0, as well as a variety of major From
unmediated on July 11, 2004 at 4:38 p.m..
Video Headstones
A Burlingame, California, entrepreneur has filed a patent for hollow headstones fitted with flat LCD touch panels that will allow the deceased to play messages to visitors from beyond the grave (Reader Bradley Davidson, who submitted this story, dubbed it the 'DIEpod.') Before death -- which makes you look ten pounds lighter on camera, at least -- From
unmediated on July 11, 2004 at 4:38 p.m..
Stephen Downes Q and A
I return - the blog has been dormant for some time for many different reasons (which I may choose to document in the future), but I'm trying to make a return. This article seemed like a good start - Q... From
Just Another Ant on July 11, 2004 at 4:37 p.m..
Canadians worth $1,400 each, USAF says
On the night of April 17th, 2002, two hotshot American pilots detected small arms fire as they flew over Tarnak Farms, Afghanistan. Maybe it was the speed they were taking to improve their reflexes, or plain machoism, but despite being told by AWACS to "hold fire" twice and that friendlies may be in the area, wingman Major Harry Schmidt dropped a 500kg laser-guided bomb. A bomb that killed four Canadians and injured eight others. The Canadians were undergoing a training exercise in a designated zone. His punishment? A reprimand and a $5,600 US fine. That comes out to $1,400 a head, literally. From
silentblue | Quantified on July 11, 2004 at 4:37 p.m..
Mamaseconds later...
"The weekend started with a literal bang here in the Baldwin household, as the nation of Taiwan attempted to kill me and my child." It's the screwball way that Matthew Baldwin explains his altercation with a exploding Taiwanese-made balance ball is what makes this story a winner. The funny thing is, Silverlotus owns the same ball for yoga. Same colour too. Yes, it's still a ball. [from This is Broken] From
silentblue | Quantified on July 11, 2004 at 4:37 p.m..
Robots make it easier to part with your money
In a matter of months, Bell Canada will make it easier for Dexit tag users (like me) to funnel cash into their RFID tags. Using voice recognition and authentication, people can just pick up the phone, dial the Dexit 1-800 number, and say, "Hey, it's me Bob. Stick $20 more in my account." There's been a Dexit stand in the basement of where I work, hawking these tags for the past two days. All the employees even got an email to come on down. Bell Canada has had great success in using voice recognition in fielding their own service calls. When calling 310-BELL, Bell's consumer hotl From
silentblue | Quantified on July 11, 2004 at 4:37 p.m..
Beauty and brains
Something fascinating is created when one fuses form and function. Witness the finalists of the 2004 Idea Design Excellent Awards (IDEA). My favourite is Farm Design's Weight Forward Hammer. It has an elongated, smooth top makes it easier to less damaging to take out nails, while its continuous curved shape makes it easier to pound nails in with less effort. The fact that it looks like it travelled through a temporal distortion from the 24th century doesn't hurt, either. It's a simple concept, yet they managed to refine it into a higher level of usability. Other winners include From
silentblue | Quantified on July 11, 2004 at 4:37 p.m..
Mary-Kate and Ashley Milk Ads Recalled
Mary-Kate and Ashley Milk Ads Recalled Magazine print ads featuring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen sporting milk mustaches and asking "Got milk?" are being pulled because of the "sensitivity to their current situation," Hugh Williams, a director with the Milk Processor Education Program, tells the Associated Press. From
Internet Teen Network : Online Teen Community on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Take the CONTENTIOUS Reader Survey!
CONTENTIOUS is forever evolving – as does its audience. Therefore, I like to periodically check in with my readers. Who are you? Why are you here? Do you like what you find here? What else would you like? Got any suggestions, complaints, kudos, or questions? I've made it easy for you to share this information with me. Please take the 2004
CONTENTIOUS reader survey now. It's a fast (10-question) Web-based form. All questions are optional, and it's completely anonymous (unless you choos From
Contentious Weblog on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Need Writing/Editing Advice? Ask Amy!
The results from the
CONTENTIOUS 2004 reader survey are coming in fast, and they're very interesting. I'll be posting more about that later. But for now, one thing that seems apparent is that my readers generally love practical articles that offer advice on writing, editing, or the editorial process. I haven't been writing that much on those mainstay topics lately, mainly because I've been wrapped up in projects and in learning new things. But also, partly because I've written so very m From
Contentious Weblog on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Open Source and Small Businesses
In a recent article in the
Small Business Survival Guide, Raymond Keating states that the open source software development model will lead to economic stagnation. The underlying question that open-source software brings to the fore is: do we want to go back to those dark days before intellectual property rights were clearly defined and protected? If one prefers robust entrepreneurship, invention, innovation, growth and job creation From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Online education becoming more legitimate
Higher education no longer needs to consist of stuffy professors wearing seedy tweed jackets with faux leather elbow patches as they drone on in some hot, poorly ventilated lecture hall. These days, there are other options. San Bernardino County Sun... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 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... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries
With the development of the World Wide Web, the "information search" has grown to be a significant business sector of a global, competitive and commercial market. Powerful players have entered this market, such as commercial internet search engines, information portals,... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Capturing the Value of the e-Generation
Here’s an interesting article, Capturing the Value of “Generation Tech” Employees [1], I got through Downes’ [2]. The premise of the article is that there is a new generation (< 30 years old) which was born with computers around and thus, thinks and act differently. I’d argue that even if I’m thirty something, I still belong to the tech generation, or rather, the tech natives, whatever it means since I got my first computer as I kid and learned to program assembly and BASIC when I was 13 years old. Other than that, the article seems fairly accurate. It matches my expectations. From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
How to recognize a succesful long term project
Through Lucas’ [1], I got to an interesting article called Who’s Behind This Mess? [2] He applied his ideas to companies, but I claim that it can be applied to long term projects as well. The project must address a pain point, an existing or soon-to-be problem The project must be run lean The project must not require its users to change their behavior in any significant way (I substituted “project” for “company” throughout.) I think the last point is so-so. It is true that it is much easier to meet customer demand without asking people to change the way they work. And y From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Innovation in Montreal
Still looking for creative folks in Montreal. I figured that I’d follow the money. Found Innovatech [1]’s web site. It is particularly nice because they list the companies they’ve invested in. I think it is a Quebec government shop, probably along the lines of IRAP, but with maybe much less of a research strength. Also interesting, maybe, is T2C2 capital [2] which seems to fund IT startups for those crazy folks willing to launch a startup. Of course, money is not the key ingredient. Remember rule number 2 from previous post: keep in lean. [1] http://www.innovatech.qc.ca/ [2] http://w From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Eating poutine in Montréal
Through Seb [1], I found Idle Words [2]. The guy is moving to Montreal and just discovered Poutine. If you know what poutine is, you’ve got to go read his post on his first Poutine experience [3]: hilarious. Actually, last time I ate poutine was one I made myself. Well, at least, I made the French fries myself. It was pretty good, but it is a bad meal if you plan to do any work in the 2-3 days after eating it and you are past thirty. Here’s my recipe for French fries. Buy lots of olive oil. Cut some Yukon gold potatoes (the yellow type) and let the cut potatoes in water a few minutes, th From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:36 p.m..
Students as Colleagues for Professors
Stephen [1] gave an interview [2] to Clientology about eLearning. Some of his statements should be scaring the h*ll out of some people in universities and elsewhere. First, he points out that gatekeepers are slowly loosing their power: It is important to recall how much of our culture - including political culture, economic culture, educational culture — has been shaped by ‘gatekeepers’, elites who, because of their knowledge and position, are the sole arbiters of what we will read, buy or learn. This gatekeeping function has already been disintermediated; new people — what Robin Go From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon
The people at Carnegie Mellon seem to have the right idea: their Open Learning Initiative [1] offers you to browse right there and now the content of their courses. It seems to be a driving point: they want to make courses free for individuals, and low cost for institutions. By building communities around their courses, I guess they hope to make these same courses, the de facto standards. It could be very powerful and could make some other online schools obselete. A primary objective of the project is to build a community of use for the courses that will play an important role in ongoing cou From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
A must read paper in the Chronicle
A must read paper in the Chronicle Is There a Science Crisis? Maybe Not [1]. The paper is about the oversupply of graduate students in science which is brought upon by universities who have a vested interest in producing more and more science Ph.D.s but don’t necessarily need to adjust to the job market. It brings back memories. At the end of the eighties, they were predicting a severe shortage of science Ph.D. As it turns out, it was totally false and the paper documents very well the fact that life after a science Ph.D. has gotten tremendously worse and that there are clearly an ever incr From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Michael Nielsen: Principles of Effective Research: Part IV
I’ve been reading Michael Nielsen’s Principles of Effective Research, he is up to Part IV now [1]. He makes a very important point about research. When I started out doing research, I thought that research was about sitting in your office thinking up new ideas. God! Was I wrong! Now, don’t get me wrong, research is not about having meetings with other researchers or spending time chatting, or drawing UML diagrams of what is to be done, or spending weeks on funding proposals. We might do these things, but they don’t make us good researchers. But neither will sitting in your office th From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Vacation Time
Off to the Pacific Northwest with the Beautiful Brown-eyed Girls a little later today. My wife and I haven't been back since our honeymoon some 17 years ago, so I'm excited about traveling the Olympic peninsula and seeing Victoria BC again. Of course, the girls are excited about shopping opportunities. Back in action on July 20th, and although I did remember to get my control panel URL saved on the laptop, I doubt that there will be much blogging going on between now and then. From
Brain Frieze on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Flash for e-Learning
A fairly thorough article at Learning Circuits discusses some of the ways that Flash MX can be used for developing learning interactions for on-line courses. By beginning with the included templates it's a fairly easy matter to build on-line assessments directly in Flash MX. I tried this out with my students last year and they really got a lot out of the experience. Not only did they get a chance to do some additional work in Flash, but being required to compose questions and answers... From
Brain Frieze on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
In the Great Northwest
Vacation Day 2 Well, here we are in beautiful Kent WA, at the spacious and sumptuous Day's Inn. Actually, it's neither, but owing to my wife's incredible urge to find the lowest possible hotel rate going, we're here nonetheless. The hotel itself is find, even has free, if not intermittent wireless access in the rooms, but there's not much to be said for Kent itself. A hardscrabble town that appears to have fallen on protracted hard times, our hotel shares a parking lot with a... From
Brain Frieze on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Stop Pointing That Phone at Me!
Industry-funded research organizations, such as the Intel research laboratory at Cambridge, have the mandate to "explore and invent" and often come up with fun new uses of existing technology.
Richard Sharp provides an
interesting overview of some new uses of camera phones. Basically, people could use their existing camera phones to interact with computers and objects in the environment. The researchers at Intel see the phone as a sophisticate From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Online Correspondent Gets Extra CNN Gig
Perhaps because I've worked in Internet media since the early days, today's press release about Washingtonpost.com's Terry Neal making regular appearances on CNN's Headline News and Newsnight With Aaron Brown strikes me as yet another sign that online media has grown up. Neal is the website's chief political correspondent, and before that was a political reporter on the Washington Post's national desk. He'll continue in his Washingtonpost.com role, but also appear on TV to provide political insight and analysis on the news shows. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
A Wonkette Convention
Well, perhaps coverage of the upcoming Democratic Convention in Boston won't be as staid as you might expect. Wonkette (a.k.a., Ana Marie Cox) will be
covering the extravaganza for MTV, in an effort to get young people to actually pay attention to the political process. Foul-mouthed to the extreme in her
blog, Cox probably will have to tone it down a bit for the TV screen, yet still retain her irreverent charm. And, yes, this is yet another example of online m From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Will Young People Enjoy Dirt?
Taking a cue from the likes of the Lawrence Journal-World's
Lawrence.com website and print edition, the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado (home of the University of Colorado), has introduced a free weekday print edition and
matching website targeting the 18- to 24-year-old market. Called Dirt, it's a recognition that the daily paper and its
website aren't a great match to that age group, or to advertisers who want to reach them. The pr From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Trackback or Pingback?
Last week here I again
mentioned Trackback, an automatic way for your website to notify other sites when you publish a link to them -- so that they know you're talking about them. It's an important bit of web/blog technology, but hold your horses! There may be something better.
Matt Mullenweg wrote to me about an alternative that he thinks is superior:
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News.com Extra: Google News Slayer?
Mainstream news websites might want to take note of CNET News.com's recent moves. First, there's the "
Missing Links" group blog -- short items written by a variety of CNET journalists. Since E-Media Tidbits has long been a group blog, I'm naturally fond of the concept and wish more news organizations would try it. (Example: Newspaper assigns all government/politics reporters to participate in a group blog and requires one item a day from everyone. Voila! Fascinating blog with a only a little bit of work fr From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Looking for Gory Pictures on the Internet?
In recent months I've noticed that several hundred people visited my personal weblog based on Google and Yahoo! searches for "gory pictures." This rather disturbing phenomenon was the result of my
commenting back in July 2003 on the media's use, or non-use, of photographs of Saddam Hussein's dead sons after they had been shot up rather thoroughly by U.S. troops.Today the Pew American & Internet Life project has a report showing that
millions From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
Critiques for Multimedia News
NYTimes.com has scheduled a workshop at this summer's
Unity convention (August 4-8 in Washington, D.C.) where a panel of multimedia editors will critique submitted multimedia editorial work of selected entrants. The panelists include editors from the Associated Press, CNN, and Washington Post. The idea is to publicly examine and critique multimedia editorial projects to demonstrate how a news or feature story can be told in a way that takes advantage of the capabilities of the web. Deadline for submissions is July 14. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 11, 2004 at 4:35 p.m..
SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM EMALS AND SPAM
Don't you just hate spam? Because of the way I have my email accounts set up I get a LOT of spam. I have a catch all account that means anythingatall at phoward [dot] com come to my main account. Recently a lot of spammers have started spamming muliple addresses at the same domain name so I, of course, get all of the emails. At last count it was between 5,000 and 10,000 a day. I am heading off for a short break tomorrow and will not be back until Monday afternoon. I am guessing I will have about From
phoward.com on July 11, 2004 at 4:34 p.m..
Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs
We've gone live. Here's the official release note: Announcing---
Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs ed. Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, University of Minnesota This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog commu From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 11, 2004 at 4:34 p.m..
July 13th, Nationwide "Computer Ate My Vote" Day of Action
July 13th, Nationwide "Computer Ate My Vote" Day of Action We need volunteers with experience to organize rallies in support of voter-verified paper ballots (VVPBs) across the country. VerifiedVoting.org joins with Common Cause (CC), DemocracyForAmerica (DFA), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), MoveOn, TrueMajority and other nationwide and local grassroots organizations in this exciting opportunity for direct action to increase election integrity in your town, state, and nationwide. Synchronized events in at least 19 locations around the country, plus From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 11, 2004 at 4:34 p.m..
Should Academic Writing be Copyrightable?
I've been tossing around an idea lately that seems to cause the bile to rise in any academics' throat whenever I put it to expression. I get evil stares, angry tirades, and, probably more often, shakes of the head and something about "Get real." The question is, should scholarly work produced in public universities be copyrightable? I'm thinking here, of course, of the books and articles written by professors (and graduate students!), textbooks, theses and dissertations, and even student essays. Who should control the copyright to these documents? My answer, natura From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 11, 2004 at 4:34 p.m..
Weblogs, Wikis, and Information Literacy
Will writes that he's working on ideas for an article on how weblogs and wikis affect literacy. One interesting point that writing teachers should reflect on is his idea that While just about everything we used to teach with was a finished, edited text, the Web now provides us with a gazillion unedited texts . . . This raises the question of what is "edited" (or not) on the web? Suppose we accept Will's premise that the web has "a gazillion unedited texts" (which I will from the standpoint of thi From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 11, 2004 at 4:34 p.m..
The First Annual 1-2K Interactive Fiction Contest
I know that some of you (Dennis, anyway) is interested in interactive fiction, so I thought I'd pass along something my friends are talking about over at
Armchair Arcade:
The First Annual 1-2 K Text Adventure Contest. The rules are simple--program a text adventure game under 2.999 K. To accomplish this mission, the organizer, Paul, allows game makers their choice of BASIC, C/C++, Fortran, Assembly language--and TADS submissions for text adventures written From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 11, 2004 at 4:34 p.m..
Open Source Alternatives for Blackboard & WebCT
As some of you have probably guessed, I often find myself in altercations with my colleagues about open source software, particularly when it comes to the oh-so-exciting-world of learning management systems like Blackboard and WebCT. My basic position is that public universities should think carefully about spending money on commercial software, especially when free open source alternatives exist that can do the job better. However, is there REALLY a solid and realistic free open source alternative to Blackboard and WebCT? I'm thinking, well, of course there's
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Wiki to reduce demand for support desk?
Forgive me while I ramble. As I am learning to use Tikiwiki I have been reflecting on the sort of site I'd like to build with it. My goal is to help build a site with all sorts of documentation on distance learning and Blackboard that will eventually reduce the emails ... From
Big IDEA on July 11, 2004 at 4:33 p.m..
Annoying discussion list personality type #1
I think I'll do these in installments to keep readers coming back for more! the hit-and-run egomaniac does not engage in discussion with other list members does not ask questions does not answer questions posts updates about personal and/or professional life--as if we care frequently advertises blog or website posts simply to inform the list that a ... From
Big IDEA on July 11, 2004 at 4:33 p.m..
Come in book number 3! ... your time is up
By all accounts the Sony Librié ebook reader could become an object of maximum desire. Apparently, its amazing screen contrast developed in collaboration with the US E-Ink Corporation and others puts it in a league all of its own; it apparently comes very close to the reflective reading experience of paper we all know and love. But ... From
Auricle on July 11, 2004 at 4:33 p.m..
UKeU Inquiry Continues
The next stage of the UK Parliament's Education and Skills Committee inquiry into UK eUniversities Worldwide (UKeU) happens on the 21 July. From
Auricle on July 11, 2004 at 4:33 p.m..
BlogTalk 2.0: Recovery program
Ton on "BlogTalk" dreaming -
Dreamfeed: You know it's been intense.... "cit"......when you dream about blogging the BlogTalk conference.........when you wake up realising you forgot what you were blogging in your dream.........and then think, ah well, I'll check the RSS feed of it later, and copy it from there. ;D It's been great the past three days! Thanks to everyone who made that possible."citc" :))) Did not have any dreams about blogging: travel, From
Mathemagenic on July 11, 2004 at 4:32 p.m..
Back from travelling: thinking themes and lessons learnt
My
three weeks of travel are over. I'm back home, unpacking, tuning into regular rhythms and trying to connect bits and pieces into a whole... Themes to think about:
Networking: from awareness to action, dynamics, scaling Interplays: tools and practices, users and developers Reflective practices (PhD) research methodology: design research, multiple perspectives, Niels Bohr, (in)visibility as a lack of dimensions Conversation From Mathemagenic on July 11, 2004 at 4:32 p.m..
Educación en Internet y derechos de autor
El
IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) de la UOC ha publicado un proyecto de investigación de la profesora Raquel Xalabarder cuyo título es «Copyright and Digital Distance Education: The Use of Pre-Existing Works in Distance Education through the Internet». Está disponible un
resumen en castellano y el
texto completo en inglés (PDF 500 KB). El objetivo de este proyecto ha sido analizar la adecuación de las legislac From
Octeto - Tecnología educativa on July 11, 2004 at 4:32 p.m..
Meta-mail: A Medium for Meaning
We have good tools for getting control of business data: the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the giant financial number-crunching application. The spreadsheet gave users a tool not just to calculate, but to build complex models and, in fact, to do many things that previously could be done only by IT high priests. The first successful spreadsheet was called VisiCalc; where is VisiProcess? We have the equivalent of the calculator for business interaction: It's e-mail (though the analogy does not hold perfectly). And we have corporate workflow applications, business-process design tools, pr From
e-Literate on July 11, 2004 at 4:32 p.m..
Utilitare RSS favorite
Bloglines - in urma cu cateva zile a aparut cu noi facilitati si este listat in TIME - 50 coolest websites; agregator care permite inscrierea la RSS-uri organizate pe ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 11, 2004 at 4:32 p.m..
Urheberrecht im WWW
Eine kleine Auswahl guter Angebote zum Thema Urheberrrecht/Fotorecht habe ich in der
VL Museumsrecht zusammengetragen. Zur Einführung kann das Grundwissen Urheberrecht des Saarbrücker Projekts
REMUS empfohlen werden. Verständlich geschrieben ist aber auch der umfangreiche Leitfaden von M. Veddern, den es als kostenloses
From Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 4:30 p.m..
Urheberrechts-Ratgeber
Der von Michael Veddern geschriebene Ratgeber zum Urheberrecht liegt in zweiter Auflage (an die 300 Seiten
PDF) vor - unbedingt verlinken! (Eine kursorische Webrecherche förderte leider den neuen Fundort des Buchs nicht zutage, daher sei dem Autor für seine rasche Mitteilung gedankt.) From
Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 4:30 p.m..
Owning the media
I see that the Center for Public Integrity has a data base you can search to find out who owns all the media outlets near your zip code or in your state. Lots of other information there on this investigative site, such as the lifetime contribution totals for Bush and Kerry from their biggest donors. Enron, for example, is third on Bush's list with $602,875, while Time Warner is third on Kerry's list with $169,660. The Document Warehouse has much more from public records of campaigns,... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 11, 2004 at 4:29 p.m..
Preview of the UK inquiry report
James Robinson,
MPs to call for free online access to science journals, The Guardian, July 11, 2004. Excerpt: "A powerful group of MPs will this week call for legislation to force scientific publishers to make their journals available free of charge on the internet. The recommendation will be included in a report by the House of Commons Science and Technology select committee, which will call on the government to support so-called 'open access' websites that do not levy a charge." From
Open Access News on July 11, 2004 at 4:28 p.m..
Another contribution to the Nature OA debate
Bettie Sue Masters and Judith S. Bond,
A professional society's take on access to the scientific literature, Nature, July 8, 2004. Excerpt: "The Journal of Biological Chemistry (
JBC), the flagship journal of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (
ASBMB), will celebrate its centennial in 2005....More recently, JBC has provided free, on-line, full text searchable access to every published article since its inception in 1905. The From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:26 p.m..
Remotely universal
In 1992, I had this idea that someone ought to make a palm-sized device for transporting data from household appliances to computers and back again. That way I could use my computer to configure, say, my thermostat. I thought about patenting this idea and actually got as far as thinking about it. We could now do it right. We could even use our Palms or cellphones for the GUI. Or why not have a dedicated Universal Remote that can talk to all of the electronic objects in our lives? It's a million dollar idea, I tell you! Go ahead... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:25 p.m..
Falconer's pre-epiphany
Timothy Falconer — who has been working on ways to knit people, pictures and words together for a while now — blogs an edge-of-an-epiphany idea that somehow we, collectively, are going to invent new ways to tell stories. Here's what I know so far: there will be a new art form, a new way to tell our stories, a new way to entertain and enlighten each other. Its defining characteristic will be interconnectedness. It won't be sequential, but it won't be haphazard. It won't be some kind of "you choose the ending" lame-o branching crap either. It'll be engaging, From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:25 p.m..
Goin' to Chicago...
My wife and I are taking 3 days of vacation in Chicago, starting tomorrow. I've been there many times on business, which means I'm very familiar with the airport and am fully qualified to operate the remote in the hotel rooms, and my wife hasn't been there in 30 years or so. So, we're going to do the tourist thing. Outside of the obvious, any recommendations? (Three notes: Second City is closed the days we're there, we don't eat meat and we don't much care for the blues.)... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:25 p.m..
Cocktails Needed Feed
Browsing sites registering as users of
Feed2JS I discovered this morning that there is now a
feed to provide updates on the
Cocktail of the Week. Who would know there was such a thing? Apparently
David Berghouse has been publishing this site from Australia since 1995, quite a nice stretch! Good on ya! FYI, the recipe this week is for... a "4th of July" 20 ml B From
cogdogblog on July 11, 2004 at 4:25 p.m..
Outfoxed
When I was in New York on 9/11/2001 I was stunned by the news program FoxNews. US people know that program: I didn't at that time. The only US program we see here is CNN Europe (which is very different from the US as I learned that time). Now it seems Americans start to acutally
learn what media are needed for and that making "good profit" in broadcasting doens't mean having "good journalism". Uh? I had a chance to see Farenheit 9/11. Most of the story was known to me. I loved to get some details that I would not have the chance to see From
owrede_log on July 11, 2004 at 4:24 p.m..
Guerilla News Network
NY Times: How to Make a Guerilla Documentary. ''Outfoxed'' was made in an unusually collaborative fashion. In January, Greenwald rigged up a dozen DVD recorders and programmed them to record Fox News 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for about six months. After scrutinizing the initial footage, Greenwald and a team of researchers compiled a list of what they saw as Fox's telltale t From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 4:23 p.m..
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Lessig Blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:21 p.m..
SAVE THE DATE!
Creative Commons will be hosting a book party to celebrate Dan Gillmor's new book,
We the Media, which (the good) O'Reilly is publishing, and which will also be available under a Creative Commons license. The date is July 30, in the evening. More details soon.
Creative Commons will be hosting a book party to celebrate Dan Gillmor's new book,
We the Media, which (the good) O'Reill From
Lessig Blog on July 11, 2004 at 4:21 p.m..
(My) Three Principles of Effective Online Pedagogy
Bill Pelz, the recipient of the 2003 Sloan-C award for Excellence in Online Teaching, was invited to share some of his thoughts regarding effective online pedagogy. In this article he describes the open, collaborative, educational environments that online pedagogy can permit. From
eLearnopedia on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries
With the development of the World Wide Web, the "information search" has grown to be a significant business sector of a global, competitive and commercial market. Powerful players have entered this market, such as commercial internet search engines, information portals, multinational publishers and online content integrators. Will Google, Yahoo or Microsoft be the only portals to global knowledge in 2010? If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalisation of scholarly information, From
eLearnopedia on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
The Power of Informal Learning
Warum rückt informelles Lernen mehr und mehr in den Vordergrund? Unmittelbarkeit und Relevanz, so der Autor, sind die Vorteile, die Lerner schätzen. Die häufigsten Formen des informellen Lernens sind E-Communities und die Kollegen im Arbeitsumfeld. "E-communities, often called communities of... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
Verständigung über die Strategie für Lebenslanges Lernen
Die Bund-Länder-Kommission hat eine gemeinsame Strategie für das Lebenslange Lernen in Deutschland verabschiedet. Eine Kurzfassung der Strategie liegt vor. Ihre Entwicklungsschwerpunkte sind: - Einbeziehung informellen Lernens - Kompetenzentwicklung - Vernetzung - Modularisierung - Lernberatung - Neue Lernkultur/ Popularisierung des Lernens... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
Alma Mater mit Hörsaal im Cyberland
Der Autor fasst kurz und pointiert die Auseinandersetzung der Schweizer Hochschulen mit dem Thema "e-learning" zusammen. Eine Kostprobe: "Die Schweiz überlebte den E-Learning Hype relativ unbeschadet, da die Richtungsentscheide frühzeitig und unabhängig von der überhitzten Konjunktur der Internetwirtschaft gefällt wurden.... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
Q & A with Stephen Downes
In diesem Interview sagt Stephen Downes über e-Learning folgendes: "A lot of people, when they speak of e-learning, speak of the 15 percent of learning that is done as a part of a formal program. These have in the main... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
Patent Claims Threat to eLearning
Die folgende Nachricht ist heute mit dem aktuellen Newsletter von Elliott Masie gekommen: "A number of small and large companies have been awarded patents that supposedly cover some of the core elements of e-Learning. For example, one company claims to... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
Down with Boring E-Learning!
"E-learning is often boring for the same reasons much traditional instruction is boring. It focuses on content presentation rather than the learning experience. In fact, I find that 99 percent of it all follows the "tell-and-test" paradigm: convey a block... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
The Spreading Of New Ideas: Each One Counts
Does the individual have an effect on society by sharing his ideas and future dreams through email, Web sites, blogs? Can online activists have an impact on new legislation? Are fame and public visibility important to affect change? To really bring about change is it enough to talk and exchange with others within our networks and circles of friends or do we need something more? To these questions and more, my close friend, change and Communication Agent Sepp Hasslberger of Health Supreme tries to provide his best answers and advice. According to his view "We are players of a new... From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on July 11, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..
Medienstellen bald ohne aktuellen,...
Medienstellen bald ohne aktuellen, bezahlbaren Content ? oder Öffnet endlich die Archive von ARD und ZDF! von Raimond Schmahl, MedienfachBüro Schulen Leverkusen Gehe ich zu weit, wenn ich behaupte, dass das Institut für Film und Bild, München (FWU) als große Medienvertriebseinrichtung für das Bildungswesen allein aus eigener wirtschaftlicher Kraft die von Medienstellen dringend benötigte Aktualität und Themenbreite kaum noch anbieten kann. Sollten Sie diese Vermutung für überzogen und unglaubh From
BildungsBlog on July 11, 2004 at 9:19 a.m..
The Regina Declaration
This article is a compilation of my contributions to the Commonwealth of Learning conference on copyright From
Pitch Journal on July 11, 2004 at 9:19 a.m..
Cataloging photographic collections
SEPIADES. Recommendations for cataloguing photographic collections: advisory report by the SEPIA Working Group on Descriptive Models for Photographic Collections. Plus beta-version software tool. (SEPIA) Aasbø, K. Ortega García, I. Isomursu, A. Johansson, T. Klijn, E. Klijn, E.(ed) The report gives background information on the SEPIADES (SEPIA Data Element Set) advisory report and SEPIADES software tool. Both were developed in the framework of the SEPIA (Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access) project, an EU-funded From
Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 9:19 a.m..
Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist
Call for Papers [Please Cross-Post] The Digital Medievalist (DM) is a new on-line and refereed journal intended for medievalists working with digital media. The first issue is scheduled for publication this fall, with subsequent issues in Spring 2005 and Summer 2005. The journal is edited by the executive of the Digital Medievalist Project, hosts of the <dm-l@uleth.ca> mailing list: Peter Baker, Martin Foys, Murray McGillivray, Kenna Olsen, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Roberto Rosselli del Turco, and Elizabeth Solopova. Our second From
Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Discussion on Open Access...
In the mailing list INETBIB there was today a little discussion (in German) on the German Open Access-like "Digital Peer Publishing License" (DPPL) provided by the Nordrhein-Westfalen Wissenschaftsministerium:
http://www.dipp.nrw.de/lizenzen/document_view It allows commercial use but no derivative works. This is IMHO an important difference to the Berlin Declaration: The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of acce From
Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Jagd-Memorabilien
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung vom 09.07.2004 Ausgabe: Roslau Kostproben aus dem Archiv Von Vergnügen bis Diplomatie Ausstellung zeigt Fürst Leopold I. von Anhalt-Dessau (1676-1747) als Jagdherrn Dessau/MZ. Anlässlich des 1. Dessauer Leopold-Festes zeigt die Abteilung Dessau des Landeshauptarchivs Sachsen-Anhalt noch bis zum 4. August in einer Vitrine Dokumente über die landesherrliche Jagd zur Zeit des "Alten Dessauers". Die Jagd nahm zu Lebzeiten Leopolds einen wichtigen Platz im Leben eines Landesherrn ein. [...] Detaill From
Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Stadtarchiv Köln: Kleinertz...
Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 07.07.2004 In Sorge um das Stadtarchiv Mit "gedämpftem Pessimismus" geht Dr. Everhard Kleinertz, seit 1994 Direktor des Historischen Archivs der Stadt Köln, im nächsten Monat in den Ruhestand. VON CARL DIETMAR [...] Everhard Kleinertz hat mehr als 30 Jahre seines Berufslebens im Historischen Archiv der Stadt Köln verbracht: Im April 1973 trat der ausgebildete Archivar in den Dienst der Stadt Köln, 1979 wurde er zum stellvertretenden Direktor ernannt, seit 1994 leitet er die ehrwürdige Einrichtung From
Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Genealogentag Leonberg
56. Deutscher Genealogentag in Leonberg, 17.-20.09.2004 Genealogische Quellen jenseits der Kirchenbücher Liebe Listenteilnehmer, nach langen Jahren findet der
Deutsche Genealogentag wieder einmal im deutschen Südwesten statt: in Leonberg bei Stuttgart. Veranstalter sind der Verein für Familien- und Wappenkunde in Württemberg und Baden und die Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft genealogischer Verbände (DAGV). In der Leonberger Stadthalle wird ein vielseitiges Vortragsprogramm unter dem Rah From
Archivalia on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
COWORK materials for students with disabilities
Cowork was a three year collaborative project between Coventry University, the University of Warwick and University College Worcester that ran from January 2000 to December 2002. During that period the project produced a range of staff development materials and workshops... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Knowledge management--good case for it
I ran across an interesting item in Judith Meskill's Knowledge Notes. The Seattle Times ran a piece about corporate theft that sounds a lot like a knowledge management issue to me. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001971627_intellectprop04.html ...... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Burnout Bloggers
Bloggers Suffer Burnout by Daniel Terdiman from Wired Magazine You've only got so many hours in the day, and like most bloggers, I've got a full-time day job, and something had to give. You said it! Blogging for some is an obvious labor of love, and having a forum that belongs to them and enables them to write whatever they want, and have it seen by throngs of readers, is a very attractive proposition. This is especially true because blogging is a timeless endeavor and one that allows authors to vent about whatever's on their minds.... From
soulsoup on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Q & A with Stephen Downes
Q & A with Stephen Downes from Contenology A lot of people, when they speak of e-learning, speak of the 15 percent of learning that is done as a part of a formal program. These have in the main continued in the traditional, linear, instructor-directed form. But the bulk of e-learning is already outside this domain and is advancing in a very unofficial manner. [...] the imbalance between the formally educated and the uneducated in a discipline has shifted. [...] What this means, for example, is that it is now possible for me to talk knowledgably about psychology with a... From
soulsoup on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Winners of Flash Forward 2004
List of winners at Flash Forward 2004 New York Film Festival - Educational: TruthAlthough I still like this one - Application: TreeplannerArt: Weapons of Mass DestructionCartoon: Rendezvous with CandycrackerCommerce: Dockers EuropeExperimental: JungleGym-MDVGame: MicrolifeMotion Graphics: FishouseNavigation: Jac Ziesmer StylingOriginal Sound: Nike Lab HolidayStory: Julia 1926Technical Merit: DENG XML Browser3D: Drum MachineTypography: Fuel IndustriesVideo: Volvo V50People's Choice: Bomb the WorldComplete list of Nominees at Flash Forward's site. Via: Oscartrelles... From
soulsoup on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
From Macromedia Developer Center Newsletter
Lessons Learned from a Former Breeze Newbie Use these presentation tips to create a seamless experience for your users. Building an Online Help System Create a fictitious FAQ website and learn RoboHelp basics in the process. Introducing Flash Lite 1.1 The new version of the Flash profile for mobile phones adds connectivity features, device-specific capabilities, and standards support. Understanding Breeze LMS Adapters Download (PDF, 112K) Get an overview of the Breeze LMS adapter options, capabilities, and workflow.... From
soulsoup on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Blogs to handle information overload
Michael (author of e-Literate) suggested/asked HYPHEN Blog-as-file-cabinet + Google = KM system? Nice wrap-up of the small blogpost from O'Reilly Network Blogs as data stores HYPHEN by brian d foy Once upon a time Dave Pollard blogged - Blogs in Business: The Weblog as Filing Cabinet Although I have some reservation against using the term data! Aren't they are a mixture of Data-information-knowledge-intelligence?... From
soulsoup on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Users, Usability, Usefulness
Users, Usability, Usefulness by Mark Sakalosky from ClickZ networks Via: UI Designer To quote HYPHEN Although the client resisted a usability study, they did consent to a research project. They interviewed customers about their experiences with the offline directories. The project's goals were to determine how customers used the existing print and CD directories, identify things they liked and disliked, and get feedback on additional functionality/content planned for the online version. The results surprised everyone. Although the CD project was a success for the client, the research reve From
soulsoup on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Flash in eLearning
Using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 as an E-Learning Authoring Environment by Garin Hess and Steven Hancock A beginners guide start using Flash MX 2004 as authoring environment for eLearning with some handy tips like HYPHEN Separate HTML pages to link multiple Flash content pieces together. Create an overarching sequential navigation system inside of Flash Create an architecture based on an external text file etc. It's easy for developers to see the advantages of using Flash to build e-learning modules: easy-to-use templates, advanced data tracking, and complex scripting that support reusabili From
soulsoup on July 11, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Sign-Up For e/merge 2004 Jungle Tour - Tuesday July 6th
If you would like to join me in the online Jungle Tour taking place Tuesday July 6th and Wednesday July 7th (4pm GMT+2), during the e/merge 2004 conference (http://emerge2004.net/), here is where to go: http://breeze.emerge2004.net/r81552914/ You can enter as "guest" ... From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Sign-Up For e/merge 2004 Jungle Tour - Wednesday July 7th
If you would like to join me in the online Jungle Tour taking place Wednesday July 7th (4pm GMT+2), during the e/merge 2004 conference (http://emerge2004.net/), here is where to go: http://breeze.emerge2004.net/r81552914/ You can enter as "guest" with no need to ... From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Meeting Place for Today's Jungle Tour
The official meeting place for today's e/merge 2004 Jungle Tour with Robin Good (1.5 hours) is at this URL: http://breeze.emerge2004.net/r81552914/ You can sign in as a guest with your name. No password is needed. System requirements for attending today's event are: PC-Windows Internet connection ... From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Congressional Telework Hearings, Part I
The Government Reform Committee held a hearing today on the status of telecommuting in the Federal workforce. Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) kicked off the hearing with an eloquent speech on the benefits of telework, from reducing traffic, congestion, and pollution, to improving recruitmen... From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
The V3 Countdown
The trade press today began reporting the news that we'll officially announce and ship Groove Virtual Office v3.0 next week. Here is some of the coverage: ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, CRN and ZDNet. In addition to following the trade press, you'll want to stay apprised of what's new through var... From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
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Government Computer News reports on the updated Homeland Security Information Center. In the article, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge touts the Homeland Security Information Network. Groove is a core component of HSIN. From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Congressional Telework Hearings, Part II
Washington Post's Stephen Barr was among the reporters at yesterday's Congressional hearings on Telework. His article in this morning's "Federal Diary" column, Congressmen Plan Measures to Rev Up Telecommuting (Washington Post, July 9, 2004) highlights proposed legislation from Rep. Danny Davis... From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Virtual Offices Are Here: Groove V.3 Joins The Fray
On Monday, Groove Networks will release version 3 of its powerful collaboration technology after several months of beta testing and ongoing refinements. As already reported, the new version is a major improvement over previous releases and realizes in good part... From
Kolabora.com on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Indian Country Today (ICT)
I see that ICT shares a good portion of its print content on its website, including an interesting array of columnists, such as Suzan Shown Harjo, and a free email news alert service. I bet signing up for email alerts for the words "Bush" and "Kerry" would stretch the reading perspectives ordinarily encountered by many of our students. There is also cultural news and even a cooking column by Dale Carson. No RSS that I can see. From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Arts of living
I started reading the recent book by my former employer, Kurt Spellmeyer, called Arts of Living. His writing is clear, intricate, provocative -- I usually read around to gather a broad sense of his project before launching into one of his pieces. He believes that the humanities have not reshaped themselves for the world we now inhabit, and in fact are riding on a decades-old model. I'll note two passages that have caught me eye so far. Concerning the training of college faculty into... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 11, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
OA articles on blogging
On July 5, Laura Gurak and a handful of colleagues from the University of Minnesota launched
Into the Blogosphere, a peer-reviewed, open-access collection of articles on the "discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs". ITB is not itself a blog but is built on the UM Libraries' blogging service
UThink. (Thanks to Wendy Pradt Lougee.) (PS: The editors don't call ITB a "journal", apparently because it's closed to new contributions, though open to reader comment From
Open Access News on July 11, 2004 at 9:16 a.m..
More on public access to drug-trial data
Paula Park,
PhRMA urges more disclosure, The Scientist, July 9, 2004. Excerpt: "A new
set of guidelines issued by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) calling for the release of more data from clinical trials is being met with guarded skepticism by advocates who have been clamoring for increased transparency....An American Medical Association (AMA) trustee welcomed the PhRMA guidelines, but questioned their potential effecti From
Open Access News on July 11, 2004 at 9:16 a.m..
Rubbish Media
Y'know... after a few months of getting email updates (RSS for a while but stopped that for poor feed reasoning) I have come to the conclusion that pretty much every article returned by Yahoo News or Google News under the keywords 'online' and 'education' has been rubbish / useless / dull. There's nothing critical, nothing in-depth, nothing even vaguely interesting. Which is disappointing. Is this down to the sources they use, my search terms or me being a snob? I dunno but as of today I'm whacking those on the head too. From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 11, 2004 at 9:15 a.m..
Blogrolling on a Friday (should you be there?)
Phew... well... have now edited, organised and spruced up my bloglines subscriptions so you can now check out my
bloglines blogroll and know that they're all current and checked! I've categorized them as education focused, technology focused, miscellaneous, journals and repositories (for the moment) - as well as a couple of private ones (purely so as not to bother people with my pubsubs etc.). The more I think about it, the more I think there is value in a blogroll which I don't want to see go ( From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 11, 2004 at 9:15 a.m..
eLearning Design Challenge
Through tha mail comes a very interesting idea from another edtech weblogger Melburnian (woo hoo... we is not alone!)
Ron Lubensky has a new blog called
eLearning Design Challenge (here's the
feed... well worth it!): "Every week or two I’ll try to publish a situation that describes a discrete topic to be taught online. Some topics are just so difficult, dry or abstract that they defy instr From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 11, 2004 at 9:15 a.m..
Public Mind: 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 11, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..
Commercial friends (David Weinberger)
Waxy points out that someone is marketing the movie Anchorman via Friendster by creating “user profiles for each of the characters.” I think I’m supposed to be outraged by this, but I’m not. There’s no intent to deceive: If you... From
Corante: Social Software on July 11, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..
The 22-Color Web-Safe Palette?
Thanks to a news post inside the Lockergnome Web Developers weekly email-based news-dispatch I noticed a short news item referring to the death of the web-safe color palette. As the news item failed to report that the source of that... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 11, 2004 at 9:13 a.m..
The Spreading of Ideas
How much do I count in the spreading of new ideas? Am I a change agent? Can I really help this planet become a better place? Sepp Hasslberger, a change agent by explicit mission, author and editor of Health Supreme,... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
Show The Character In You
Draw-me is an express caricature design service that takes a photograph from you and converts by hand into a promotional illustrated character. Turnaround time for a caricature is only a few hours and if you like Draw-me style the price... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
The Future Of Content
Rob Glaser of Real Networks, the company which has developed Real Audio says: "The combination of these three developments - universal wireless connectivity based on the IP standard that's connected in a worldwide broadband network - will allow us to... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
More transparency please
Shelley wonders how many of the bloggers credentialed are women. Good question. How many women applied? Did the credentialers notice or care? And was political position one of the considerations? And where's the list of those who got credentialed? We really need more transparency from the folks who did the credentialing...... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
E-Voting 2004
Mark Fiore's animated editorial cartoon for 7/7/04 is pretty funny.... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
Separate and distinct
So, it turns out the Clive Owen is not the same actor as Jason Statham, although he is the guy who played the driver in those online BMW movie shorts, which I was sure was the same guy who starred in The Transporter (= Statham). I frequently get certain actors confused, as in the old Saturday Night Live sketch that featured Fernando Lamas, Ricardo Montalban and/or Cesar Romero. But usually they have more in common than being British and having once driven a car.... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
RSS made even easier
Yahoo has added a new link to its search results: "Add to My Yahoo." Click and the page's RSS feed is added to the list on your My Yahoo site, the personalized portal from Yahoo. Then, if you're at, say, About.com, you'll see an "Add to My Yahoo" button that does the same thing. Yahoo reports that the pickup of this new feature has been excellent...... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
Flash mobs is official
"Flash Mobs" has made it into the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, according to Smart Mobs. Maybe it'll be able to get its smarter cousin inducted soon...... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
On the road, with bad TV
I'm flying back from California all day today after a product advisory board meeting. The day was under non-disclosure, but I feel free to tell you what I learned from 3-3:30am this morning: One Crazy Summer is the stupidest movie ever made.... From
Joho the Blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
North of the Border....... (eh?)
It's been more than a while since our return from visiting 2 weeks in Canada, so before all the brain cells rot, here is an attempt to summarize a glorious trip. I managed to snap more than 600 photos (tossed about half), and still they really do not capture the experience. It is a generalized summary, but I must say the Canadians we met, in city and tiny towns, in the mountains and on the coast, were all gracious, friendly, and genuine-- in fact, beside one woman who cut in front of us for a line on a train, we did not meet one rude Canadian. They must have hid them all away w From
cogdogblog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
Free PDF Creation Tool (Yawn...)
pdfMachine is a $49 PC app for generating PDF files: Our pdf writer pdfMachine converts a print stream from an application directly into a PDF. Once you have installed the pdf writer, open your document that you want to convert, then click “print”, select the “Broadgun pdfMachine printer” and that’s it! A free, Lite version,
PDFMachine White (rather odd choices of names) offers basic functionality. Amazing! From
cogdogblog on July 11, 2004 at 9:12 a.m..
It's the Collaboration, Stupid
I've been participating in a pretty interesting (I think)
thread at
Jeff Rice's Weblog about new literacies and I wanted to pull some of the thoughts over here for some further thinking. (If you surf over there, read the comments from the bottom up.) One phrase he uses does a good job of naming this blog and wiki produced writing: "open text." He defines it as texts created "within a network which writers and readers tap into, alter, appropriate, confiscate, download, share, etc." < From
weblogged News on July 11, 2004 at 9:11 a.m..
Policy, scourge of the people
Peter Seebach has written an article on corporate policies, and the negative impact they can have. To quote: Company policies have gradually grown from a way to keep practices consistent into a catch-all excuse for inappropriate behavior. In this instalment,... From
Column Two on July 11, 2004 at 9:11 a.m..
GMail invitations left
I have some GMail invitations left. Comment if you want to have one (by clicking on the date above). From
owrede_log on July 11, 2004 at 9:11 a.m..
roots of knowledge
@terminology: the knowledge literature distinguishes between the commodity view and the community view. The first perspective is rooted in the positivism of the mid-19th century conceiving of konwledge as something you can... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Call for Participation: Public Workshop on Metadata for Content Adaptation
2004-07-08: Position papers are due 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Metadata for Content Adaptation to be held in Dublin, Ireland on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss how metadata can help the adaption of Web content to fit user needs and device characteristics, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future W3C work. Read about Workshops and Interaction at W3C. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published
2004-07-09: Through joint efforts the XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released the First Public Working Draft of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text. The use cases have been updated. The drafts define a language that extends XQuery and XPath to allow full-text searching of XML text and documents. Comments are invited. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
BlogTalk Redux
Sorry to have missed this year's
BlogTalk gathering in Vienna. I participated in the one last year, and got some eye-opening material from European bloggers. Joi Ito set up
this wiki about the event. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Newspaper's Election Blog-by-Readers Experiment
My colleague Mike Bazeley alerts me that the Seattle Times has announced an
"Election 2004 Backyard Blog project," inviting readers to be part of the journalism process. The newspaper asks:"Are you interested in this year's elections? Know your community? Like to talk politics with your friends, colleagues and neighbors? Want an opportunity to blog about your observations? "Apply to join a grass-roots campaign coverage effort by The Seattle Times. We want fresh thoughts and pe From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Scare Tactics
In this
scare story in today's Guardian, the movie industry claims one of every four Internet users has downloaded movies, and says, "The MPAA's findings are backed by a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which says more movies were illegally downloaded last year than music tracks." Given that the average movie -- even after being heavily compressed -- is still not much less than a gigabyte in size, and that the average song is a couple of megabytes, this OECD From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
'Patriot' Act Intact
UPDATED
NY Times: Effort to Curb Scope of Antiterrorism Law Falls Short. The library proposal, tacked onto a $39.8 billion spending bill, would have barred the federal government from demanding library records, reading lists, book customer lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations. The antiterrorism law expanded the government's authority to secure warrants from a secret intelligence court in Washingto From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Another Top Exec Blogs
Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun Microsystems, has
a new blog that's off to a good start. There's a human voice on the page, and some actual insight into the person speaking. I'll be watching this one, for many reasons. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Intelligence Derailed
NY Times: The Senate Report. The panel's investigation into how President Bush handled the intelligence has been postponed until after the election. But the bottom line already seems pretty clear. No one had to pressure analysts to change their findings because the findings were determined before the work started. By late 2002, you'd have had to have been vacationing on Mars not to know what answer Mr. Bush wanted. The p From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Right Wingers for Nader
SF Chronicle: Candidate says he's keeping money. The increased pressure for Nader to support Camejo's position and renounce a spate of recent donations from wealthy backers of President Bush came after The Chronicle reported Friday that 1 in 10 of Nader's biggest contributors as of May 31 also were major donors to the president's re- election campaign and the Republican Party. It's been obvious for some time that Ralph Nader's ego trip i From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 11, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Prevaricators
The OED offers this as definition #2: "One who betrays a cause or violates a trust; a renegade; a traitor." Military records that could help establish President Bush's whereabouts during his disputed service in the Texas Air National Guard more than 30 years ago have been inadvertently destroyed, according to the Pentagon. It said the payroll records of "numerous service members," including former First Lt. Bush, had been ruined in 1996 and 1997 by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service during a project to salvage deteriorating microfilm. No b From
homoLudens III on July 11, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..
Passing on the 'blog pearl' to China
School's out and it's hot. Too hot, hot, hot. Hotter than a rainless July in Jersey. So forget trying to make the image background transparent. Kudos to King Chen, btw, recent Gal graduate and budding illustrator for edBlogger's and the beastie's artistic confrontation.
BAWP in China did hand off the "blog pearl." Granted, an unusual cla From
homoLudens III on July 11, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..
Hybrid Tries to Escape SUV Stigma
Ford is ready to unleash a new species of car, the SUV hybrid, in September. While the Escape is designed with greens in mind, there are other reasons folks don't take kindly to SUVs. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on July 11, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..
Self-Taught Pilot Going to Space
Wild Fire -- a manned spacecraft made by volunteers for less than $4 million -- is eyeing a September launch date to propel passengers 70 miles above Earth's surface. If successful, developers are in line to win $10 million. By Dan Brekke. From
Wired News on July 11, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..
What, FUD again?
Now that Winer's been tossed out of Harvard he's apparently turning his eye back toward stirring up the shit again in RSS-format-Land. sigh. Has he nothing better to do with this time? Doubtless he'll again start practicing his ban-and-delete form... From
Syndication News from Bill Kearney on July 11, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..
Commercial Cybercafés: A Useful Weapon Against the
In some countries of the developing world, cybercafés are by far the main way to connect to the Internet and to interact with computers. This is the starting point of this interesting analysis on the role of Internet in less developed countries. Inter From
Techno-News Blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
Lessons Learned from Students
This article highlights the lessons learned from recent research into the use made of an online learning environment by workplace-based students. The findings show a lot of interesting things, such as the tendency to study the materials linearly althou From
Online Learning Update on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
Bad Grammar Reveals Crooks
Like most of you, I receive many fake emails from people spoofing Ebay and Paypal, asking for account information, passwords, credit card numbers, and more. Their art, complete with site logos and characteristic fonts, is quite good - good enough to fool many users. And so is their url spoofing, which usually has ebay.com or paypal.com somewhere in it. Sometimes, they'll even create a link that appears to end in ebay.com - and only if you copy the link beneath it and paste it into a browser, you can see it goes somewhere else.But the dead giveaway on almost any of these fraudu From
rushkoff.blog on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
The Great American Pay Raise
www.accuratedebteliminator.com teaches America how to get a pay raise and get out of debt! [PRWEB Jul 9, 2004] From
PR Web on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
Cineville Acquires Oscar-Winning Film, "Two Soldiers."
Cineville has acquired all North American rights to Aaron Schneider's war drama "Two Soldiers," which was recently honored at this year's Academy Awards with the 2004 Oscar® for best live action short film. [PRWEB Jul 9, 2004] From
PR Web on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
Can Schools in Canada look to Bosnia as a Model for Reducing Violence?
A model of education being applied in Bosnia is changing the way students see themselves, others and their role in the world. Education For Peace International has now established an office in Vancouver, Canada and believe they can impact Canadian youth, schools and communities in a similar way to reduce the amount of school violence in Canadian schools. [PRWEB Jul 10, 2004] From
PR Web on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
in4mation Teams With Cincinnati Public Schools
Cincinnati Public Schools has a 10-year plan to build 31 schools and fully renovate 35 other. GBBN Architects' in4mation has teamed with CPS to ensure they reach that goal. [PRWEB Jul 10, 2004] From
PR Web on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
TecAccess Presents at E-Learn 2004
Debra Ruh, president and founder of TecAccess, has been invited to present at the E-Learn 2004: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), the conference will be held from November 1st to November 5th, 2004 in Washington, D.C. [PRWEB Jul 11, 2004] From
PR Web on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
More of a good Blue Hill thing
New York has a review of the new restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, located 30 miles north of New York City in Pocantico Hills, New York. I'm a big fan of Blue Hill in Greenwich Village, and when I first heard about the new spot, I added it to my list of restaurants to investigate, it sounds delicious. Also if you're interested in Blue Hill, be sure and check out the article (not available online), "Back on the Farm" in the July 2004 Gourmet by Blue Hill chef Dan Barber. It's all about going to his family farm with his staff to plant and pick veggies. Sounds wonderful. And yu From
megnut on July 11, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..
Literacy in the New Millennium
The conception of literacy is changing to reflect the profound economic, social, political and cultural changes of the past half century. In this report, the authors examine three broad literacy ideologies - cognitive, individual-based model, economics-driven model, and sociocultural model. While current research situates literacy in social practice, government policy aligns more with the cognitive and economics-driven models of literacy. The authors find the need for a new national literacy policy which is flexible and accommodates current and future literacies, and supports community cap From
D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on July 11, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..
mozCC 0.8.1: a small number with big performance
mozCC 0.8.0 was an attempt to fix performance problems with many sites, and it succeeded. For the most part. Shortly after it's release, users brought to my attention the fact that when browsing
Wikipedia with mozCC, the browser ground to a halt while mozCC retrieved the CC license information from the web server. This problem actually effected any page using <link ...>'d metadata. Wikipedia was the most obvious case due to the size of their metadata file (it's comparatively large). mozCC 0.8.1, released this m From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 11, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..
Open Learning Initiative
There is a lot to like about this site, and even if it falls short of "creating a new paradigm for online education" it nonetheless provides a valuable service. The site offers five courses for now (logic, causal reasoning, chemistry, statistics and economics). There is an open version of each course (and I mean a truly open one, without registration or other special conditions) and 'academic versions' containing proper exams. The creators also intend to build a community of interest around each course, but the only evidence I saw of that so far is a sign-up sheet (on which you can i From
OLDaily on July 11, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..
e-Literate
Via elearningpost we take note of this new e-learning blog, e-Literate, created by Michael Feldstein. By Michael Feldstein, June, 2004 [
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OLDaily on July 11, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..
On Extending HTML
Part 3. Now here's where it really gets interesting. As Dave Green in NTK writes, "Apple made a deal with Opera and Mozilla the same week to add enough to the browser plugin API to provide the same javascript objects on other platforms and browsers." What this means is that HTML will be extended, a move defended in this article, to include slider controls, search fields, a composite attribute on the img tag, and a canvas tag. Normally these would go to the W3C, but the W3C is more interested in XML and SVG and other stuff for which it takes years to develop. So the Apple, Mozilla and Oper From
OLDaily on July 11, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..
CARL Institutional Repository Project: Online Resource Portal
Launched about a month ago (sometimes the news just trickles in), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Online Resource Portal will "enhance public access to scholarly journal articles through the use of 'pre-print' servers." The service harvests e-prints from six Canadian university libraries. According to the launch press release, "The Harvester was developed by the University of British Columbia s Public Knowledge Project and is hosted by Simon Fraser University Libraries. It works by aggregating the material from each participating institution and enables users to From
OLDaily on July 11, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..
Down with Boring E-Learning!
Interview with Michael Allen, CEO of Allen Interactions. According to Allen, "although it's sometimes denied, an effective and practical approach for e-learning must differ greatly from traditional ISD." Specifically, e-learning must be meaningful, memorable and motivational. And "it's the essential aspects of dynamic interactivity that are often given far too little attention and development." It's like Zemsky and Massey said in a recent Chonicle article (behind a subscription wall, sadly). Students "want to be connected, principally to one another. They want to be entertained From
OLDaily on July 11, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..
Using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 as an E-Learning Authoring Environment
Quick overview of how to use Flash animations in e-learning. I'm not completely sold on Flash - it's not searchable, it messes up scrolling and you can't cut and paste text properly. And it has been a pain to install on Linux for Firefox. But you can do a lot of things with Flash that you can't with ofther software and it's especially good for presenting audio and video content without worrying about installed players. This article won't give you all the details (and you couldn't do it in a single article) but it's a good survey, By Garin Hess and Steve From
OLDaily on July 11, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..
Springer Open Choice
Peter West sent me this link last night and so I've had all day to think opf it. Essentially, the deal is this: when your paper is accepted by a journal published by Springer, you as an author have the option to make it open access by paying $3,000. This link fills in the details of the program. More coverage is available at
Information World Review, including some naysaying from Oxford University Press. Now, on reflection, this is probably as good as we're going to get from the publishers. Indeed, it's as much as w From
OLDaily on July 11, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..