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Le Stream in Le July
I enjoy July. Great weather. Independence Day: fireworks are fun, but the historical importance of Independence Day and all that led up to it is my reference here. This day only has revelance to White Anmericans, as Native and Black Americans did not fair well in this history. (Diversity… mandated and legislated, but not erasing past sins and bloodshed of the founding of America.) Many White Amercians refuse to own up or admit the attrocities that occurred in their own backyards (literally, for many).
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Baning spybots
This , from Diveintomark, will help me devise a method to cut down on unnecessary spam- and spybots wasting my bandwidth.
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Open Artifact on July 14, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Homogeneous templating of distance courses
Do homogeneous templates - courses designed with the same structure and look-and-feel - produce better results?
¶ Six courses I developed and teach online became an integral part of a grant that my department secured a year or so ago. The grant was to create a distance program in web development and have the courses be ADA compliant and competency-based. Both worthy goals, I converted my cours From
Open Artifact on July 14, 2004 at 8:35 a.m..
Olympic Games Learning Resources
In June 2002, the enthusiasm for World Cup soccer prompted us to put together a newsletter on Web-based Resources in Sports Education ; this year, the surge of interest in the Athens Olympics has inspired a search for Web-based educational resources suitable for use in Olympic Education. From
wwwtools on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Internet Attacks: $2 Million per Company
After each major worm or virus incident, we've heard estimates of the total damage to the economy. This number, often measured in billions of dollars, reflects lost productivity, damaged data, additional IT costs, etc. Now, the Aberdeen Group has published... From
Indiana IT on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Increasing Value of Web Traffic
In the heady days of the Internet boom, "eyeballs", i.e., visitors and traffic, were everything. If your site had traffic, it had value. High CPM ad rates turned those eyeballs into cash, and the promise of infinite growth made those... From
Indiana IT on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Windows XP SP2 to Boost Security
It hasn't been a good few weeks for Microsoft, at least from the standpoint of software security. Although recent months have produced a spate of Microsoft-targeted worms, virus, and other threats, the situation became particularly alarming when a new exploit... From
Indiana IT on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
i-nova ofrece hoy la jornada "Gestión de contenidos empresariales"
Altia, Fatwire y R participan hoy 8 de julio en una jornada de conferencias sobre "Gestión de contenidos empresariales" organizada por i-nova. En el acto se describirá cómo un sistema de gestión de contenidos implementado de manera eficaz puede recopilar los múltiples contenidos dispersos y los convierte en un valor estratégico fundamental para el funcionamiento de las empresas. i-nova es el referente de Caixanova (Caja de Ahorros de Vigo, Ourense y Pontevedra) en materia de (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Adobe gestiona metadatos para empresas informativas
Adobe Systems ha anunciado que está colaborando con el International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) para ampliar las capacidades de los metadatos de la organización mediante el uso del estándar abierto Adobe XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform). Basado en los estándares del World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XMP es una especificación expresada en XML que provee una infraestructura estándar para capturar y administrar metadatos, la información que describe archivos. Los (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
El modelo de negocio que no llega
LeÃa la semana pasada que el vicepresidente de Sun, Jonathan Schwartz, habÃa afirmado en una entrevista concedida al Wall Street Journal que el equipamento informático pasarÃa a ser gratuito en un plazo de unos cinco años. No lo especificaba, pero asumo que esta predicción, que ya se verá hasta qué punto se cumple, se refiere exclusivamente a los equipos informáticos para empresas. No creo que estuviese pensando en el consumidor residencial cuando hacÃa esas afirmaciones. La (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Un estudio dice que los propietarios de páginas web somos personas introvertidas
Lo que me faltaba. Ahora resulta que, si le hago caso al estudio realizado por unos psicólogos alemanes, he de ser (entre otras muchas cosas), tÃmido y reservado. Y todo por ser propietario de una página web. Claro que yo me pregunto que por qué se le presta esta atención a los propietarios de páginas web, y no se hacen estudios similares entre, por ejemplo, los poseedores de macetas de geranios. Igual los resultados hasta nos sorprenden. Ahà va la noticia: los propietarios de (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Decision
I have a critical decision to make that will affect the next two years of my life. It's a decision between going ahead with full-time active duty chaplaincy in the Army early next year or delaying it until a year later. This isn't a decision I want to make. ... From
Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Running Faster
My run this evening was much improved. In fact, I ran the fastest yet. It was a full 61 seconds faster than my recent good. There's still room for improvement--always--but I'm happy to see significant progress. It needs to continue. I've only come this far because of the Lord. ... From
Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 14, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Hooah!
I arrived at Fort Bragg yesterday for 30 days of chaplaincy training. Things are going fine so far. I won't be making any detailed notes here about my training because of privacy and confidentiality issues as well as for security reasons. If you want to know more ... From
Life, Liberty, Happiness on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Toward a Public Radio commons
PublicRadioFan.com is a cool discovery. It tells you what's playing, right now, on a hundred or more public radio stations, along with what format they're using and other helpful information. Way too few use MP3 (the only popular format that doesn't require its owner's proprietary player), but among them are a still-impressive list: WFUV, KKJZ, WEMU, KRVS, WUNC, KCRW, KPUB, WNYC-AM and FM, KUOW, KUSC (to which I'm listening right now), KXPR, KRWG and NRK. The majority of stations and networks (CBC, BBC and NPR itself) req From
unmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Playing an entire directory with m3udo
If there's a song on the web with a URL, let it be itself. Don't download and rename the song, because the minute you do that you break the single most useful thing about it: the URL. Download it, sure, but put the download where it belongs: in your web cache. Don't waste hacking time on code to download and rename. Your time will be much better spent by figuring out how programs can share the web cache.
cd to the directory ls | m3udo mpg123 - I almost always download an From unmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Competing video formats
CNET on
competing video formats: "The fight has put Microsoft on unfamiliar ground, forcing it to compete outside of the computer industry it dominates due to its Windows operating systems. But the software giant has responded with remarkable flexibility, abandoning many of the tactics it perfected in the PC world to adjust to an arena bound by consensus and open standards." From
unmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Digital movieblog includes short films from Chernobyl and Ethiopia
Luuk Bowman's collaborative movieblog
Tropisms is starting to move again, after a long silence. Tropisms started in 2002 as a personal videolog or "vlog," a weblog that integrated streaming video-files with a travel diary. The site has grown into a collective movieblog with a small group of participating filmmakers. Peter Boonstra and Marcel van Brakel (NL) are currently in Chernobyl, where they upload movies in an internet cafe. Josh Koury (VS) traces his aunt and uncle that have been stationed to a small section of backwoods From
unmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Tuning out
Fred Wilson talks on a panel at Infinity Radio (as in Viacom and Howard Stern) about what radio will be like in 2010, for like all big media companies, they're worried about where this is headed. He shares his prognostications
here. The interesting flipside to the discussion he takes part in is what new disruptive opportunities there are for us citizens. Internet radio hasn't taken over the world yet but I think it will grow: Any of us can start a live radio station (but if you play music, you&a From
unmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Exploding TV
MarketWatch's Bambi Francisco speculates that Yahoo will (or should) start online reality TV or sports channels. Didn't they spend a fortune on Broadcast.com and then kill it? But Francisco's not wrong. Times have changed. Yahoo would be positioned to start original programming. It is thick with entertainment execs -- Terry Semel, Jim Moloshok (who was just shifted full-time to the business of entertainment). And, as I've been
blathering here for sometime, the cost of production i From
unmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Canon Announces XL2
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Canon's new XL2 camcorder offers an evolutionary design and new professional features - including a choice of 60i, 24p or 30p frame rates, 4:3 or high resolution 16:9 aspect ratio, new 680,000 pixel progressive scan CCDs, an From
unmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
British tabloid outs bogus MPAA "study"
As I
wrote over the weekend, media outlets everywhere quickly jumped on the bandwagon created by a Hollywood lobbying group last week in order to get favorable publicity prior to the Senate examining the copyright INDUCE ACT. The press release -- built around a "study" -- made the case that movie makers were losing a fortune due to illegal downloads on the Internet. Now comes the clever folks at The Register with one of their patented
iunmediated on July 14, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..
Into the Blogosphere
New Academic Resource on Blogging: Contentious Weblog::Tip of the hat to Amy Gahran for pointing out this online archive of academic papers on the subject of blogging. There are a number of interesting papers, from a variety of fields,... From
Just Another Ant on July 14, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..
seamless communication...
If I had an acre for every mention of 'seamless' in press releases, product descriptions, and/or software 'market'-techtures -- (In this press release alone: "Tools Seamlessly Integrate", "provide seamless communication", "clients become true-believers when they see how seamless", "make collaboration seamless") -- I would have a fairly large piece of property by now... (-:=
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Microsoft wants you to meet your maker
Apparently Jesus works at Microsoft Middle East division. You may be glad to find that Jesus's "job is my passion", and that he has "learned to appreciate different cultures, religions and people." Bet you didn't know that Jesus was a triathlete, though. Maybe the Beast from Redmond isn't so bad after all. Yes, I know it's a common Hispanic name. What can I say, slow news day. From
silentblue | Quantified on July 14, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Heyyy pepto bismol
"Yeah, we've got a lot of people doing diarrhea. I mean, diarrhea is big." - Bill Gates on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health program, dedicated to finding therapies and vaccines to disease in the Third World. Interview from Scientific American, June 2004. "Don't eat spinach, the calcium will make you all constipated. By the time you are 40 years old you'll have hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet for too long." - my mom, self-appointed medical expert "There are two things you can do if you have a mad crush on a boy, you can ask him to propose marriage From
silentblue | Quantified on July 14, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Sexy Webfeeds?
Most online publishers and entrepreneurs don't like to admit it, but we owe a lot of our success to the porn industry. That's right: Porn. It may be graphic, offensive, sexist, and absurd, but porn has been the cornerstone of many important innovations in multimedia online publishing and commerce. Sex sells – big time. However, webfeeds appear to be one channel that online pornographers haven't done much with so far. Many webfeed users probably are breathing a sigh of relief over that – but is the absence of webfeed porn really a good omen?... (
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New Academic Resource on Blogging
You know that blogging has arrived as a full-fledged player in the media landscape when scholars start writing ponderous, stilted papers about it. Check out
Into the Blogosphere. This online library of academic papers, offered by the Univeristy of Minnesota, describes itself as, "[A] collection [that] explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary From
Contentious Weblog on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Custom Keyword Webfeed Tool: Blogdigger
In case you haven't noticed, I try to stay abreast of new developments on a wide range of topics. One of my favorite ways to accomplish that is custom keyword webfeeds. This means I conduct keyword searches of sites which aggregate massive numbers of webfeeds (RSS or Atom), and then use that search as the basis of a custom keyword feed, automatically generated by the search service. That feed will then alert me about each new occurrence of my target keyword that shows up in the feeds monitored by that site. For a long time I had been generating these customer keywor From
Contentious Weblog on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Michael Allen Rails Against Boring E-Learning
In the July 2003 issue of Learning Circuits features a superb and lively interview with e-learning guru Michael Allen:
Down with Boring E-Learning! I've been a fan of Michael Allen's practical, playful approach to e-learning ever since I became interested in this fast-growing field. This interview sums up many of the reasons I admire his work. My favorite part of the Learning Circuits interview was when Ryann Ellis asked, "Why/how do you find most e-learning to b From
Contentious Weblog on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Today's News: We Need Guides, Not Gatekeepers
In journalism schools and newsrooms, reporters are routinely encouraged to demonstrate "balance" through the "he said, she said" approach to reporting – that is, simply allowing involved parties from all sides to present their view through quotes, without the journalist making any assessments or drawing conclusions. That approach works well enough for many stories – but not so well when the spin doctors are hard at work. Recently in his Pressthink blog, NYU professor
Jay Ros From Contentious Weblog on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
More Recommended Reading
Here's this week's list of items that have caught my attention, and why I recommend that you check them out. At the top of this week's list:
Corporate Blogging, by Fredrik Wackå , for the Danish publication Kommunikations Forum, July 5. Need a good, basic article on corporate blogging to help persuade your boss that your company should try it? One that sounds positive but realistic, and that clearly acknowledges the pitfalls of company blogs? Something that&a From
Contentious Weblog on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
The Utility of Learning Objects
Stephen Downe's post about the value of LO's reflects my own consternation - are they of any utility? (My emphasis added)In the world of e-learning, meanwhile, the systems and protocols look more and more like jibberish each passing day as every possible requirement from every possible system - whether it makes sense or not - is piled into that tangle of 24-character variable names called Java (none of which will work at all unl From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Making Web Browsing faster under Linux
At the office, the network is badly configured. Apparently, name resolution is not a priority and it is really slow. So, what I did was to install bind and use my own name server. Disclaimer: expect bad English or rather, techno-babble to follow. As I use gentoo, I first had to install bind. emerge bind bind-tools Then, you have to rc-update named default so that bind is always started when the machine reboots. Start bind with /etc/init.d/named start I modified /etc/resolv.conf by adding nameserver 127.0.0.1 and I made sure that dhcpcd wouldn’t rewrite my /etc/resolv.conf file by add From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Test Your Popup Blocker
Auditmypc.com has released a
page that will hammer your browser with every conceivable method of popup window and rate your popup-blocking software. I use
Google Toolbar and it received a "good" rating with a score of 85. It couldn't stop several methods, though. This is a good tool if you want to see how well your blocker works, if you are interested in the different methods used in popups, or (I can't believe I'm even saying this) if From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
MSNBC.com Turns First Modest Profit
After eight years in business,
MSNBC.com finally turned a profit, the company reports in a press release issued today. For the quarter ended June 30, the joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News recorded a profit "in the neighborhood of $1 million," according to general manager and publisher Charlie Tillinghast. The company did not announce how much money it has lost since it launched in July 1996. (
Here's MSNBC.com's own report.) From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
The Burned-Out Bloggers of Lawrence
You might have seen
this Wired News article last week about bloggers burning out in large numbers. Even some popular weblogs die off as the writers fatigue of the daily burden of blogging -- especially if they're earning no or little money from the web-publishing endeavors. Well, Wired is probably spot on, if the experience of
Lawrence.com, a local-oriented entertainment website operated by the Lawrence Journal-World in Kansas, is representative. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 14, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Online Newspaper Launched for Zimbabwe, Outside Zimbabwe
African journalists who face harsh and repressive government media laws that limit freedom of expression in their countries increasingly are turning to the Internet as a way to combat media restrictions and continue publishing -- but from outside their countries' borders. A group of Zimbabwean journalists and lawyers recently launched what they have termed "Zimbabwe's first online daily paper" for Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe, but it is registered and hosted in neighboring South Africa, beyond the clutches of the Zimbabwean government.The website, called
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CNET Product Reviews to Appear on NYT
New York Times Digital and
CNET have entered into a new content-sharing relationship. CNET technology news has been included on NYTimes.com before. Now, CNET's reviews of technology products -- in such categories as digital cameras, computers, digital music, mobile phones, etc. -- will be included on
NYTimes.com and
Boston.com. CNET product reviews allow you to review and compare different brands and lead you to direct online purchase. This is an example of the trend toward media sit From
ERADC Blog on July 14, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..
Hope for RSS searches
I have sung the virtues of RSS Bandit before, and with any luck I'll soon have the perfect aggregator. On one of the forums I recently requested that developers add the capability to export individual feed folders; currently, RSS Bandit only exports the entire feed list. This may not seem ... From
Big IDEA on July 14, 2004 at 8:27 a.m..
Trip report (1): blogs and wikis implemented
Ideas and presentations about implementations of weblogs and wikis from conferences I visited (see
other themes). These are the highlights grouped in themes (relevant for our research); I'll try to link to full sources as much as possible. Weblog imlementations in corporate settings Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing by < From
Mathemagenic on July 14, 2004 at 8:26 a.m..
Trip report: index
An overview of interesting ideas during conferences I visited. Organised by themes. [I'm going to work on it next couple of days. Links and updates will follow. Be patient, please.] Conferences:
ED-MEDIA04, Lugano, Switzerland, 23-26 June I-KNOW 04, Graz, Austria, 30 June - 2 July BlogWalk 3.0, Vienna, Austria, 4 July --> From Mathemagenic on July 14, 2004 at 8:25 a.m..
Nueva versión 2.0 de IMS QTI
IMS ha publicado el borrador de la versión 2.0 de la especificación
Question and Test Interoperability (QTI). La especificación QTI proporciona un modelo de datos apto para representar tests y sus correspondientes resultados. Permite, por lo tanto, intercambiar ejercicios y evaluaciones entre programas y sistemas diversos. La novedades de la versión 2.0 afectan solamente a las preguntas, no a la evaluación. Se ha añadido un perfil XHTML para formatear las preguntas y se han definido métodos para i From
e-Literate on July 14, 2004 at 8:25 a.m..
TU Wien: Weblogs für alle Studenten und Lehrenden
BildungsBlog: Was ist eigentlich aus den an deutschen Unis angekündigten Weblog-Projekten geworden? In Wien werden die Projekte schon etwas konkreter: Schon jetzt verzeichnen die Weblog-Pioniere lukrative Aufträge: Ende des Sommers geht der neue Internetauftritt der Kleinen Zeitung in Graz online: Knallgrau entwickelte eine weblogbasierte Lösung für die Online-Community. Eine Vorreiterreiter-Rolle in Mitteleuropa nimmt die Technische Universität (TU) Wien ein: Ab dem Wintersemester wird sie – mit Hilfe von Knallgrau From
soulsoup on July 14, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..
FreeMind
FreeMind - free mind mapping software Application for creating mind maps written in Java and it is open source too. Fully functional following of HTML links stored in the nodes, be it www links or links to local files. Supports folding nodes Stores maps in XML format. View the FreeMind Development in FreeMind format as an example Found via: High Context... From
soulsoup on July 14, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..
Blog - originally name of a cocktail!
Bartendar, I'll have a blog, please! from evhead Via: BoingBoing You should be aware that Blog was originally devised by British fans in the 1950s. There were two versions. A Liverpool fan named Peter Hamilton came up with the recipe for Blog Mark I, which consisted of "a brandy and egg flip base, to which was added black currant puree, Alka Seltzer, and Beechan's Powder. It effervesced." A second, simplified version (Blog Mark II) was produced by hotel barmen at the first Kettering Eastercon (1955) and consisted of "a half-pint of cider and a measure of rum." No wonder it's... From
soulsoup on July 14, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..
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It's here: Groove Virtual Office v3.0. We also launched this updated web site; we certainly hope you find this site easier to navigate than the previous one, and hopefully it presents the information you need. There's lots of new content. To learn more about v3.0, I recommend, the whitepaper writt... From
Kolabora.com on July 14, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..
Trust me
That seems to be the abiding message from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit when he offers a complete post as cryptic as this one from today: SCOTT KOENIG turns the tables again. That is, trust me to send you to something worthwhile but don't ask me to give you any clue why you should visit it. Surely any blog post with such a substantial dose of "trust me" in its message is either weak, lazy, or manipulative writing -- who knows which? -- and should be offered to students as a... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 14, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..
Ten years from now
Ten years from now, or ten minutes from now, I would like to be able to drag a paragraph from a blog posting into the right place in the middle of a wiki page, all on a single website, and all from the same browser screen, since I'm wishing. When I run the cursor over a blog posting, I'd like to see links to wiki pages where it has been used. When I run the cursor over a wiki passage, I'd like to see links to the blog posts that served as source material. I'd like one engine to... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 14, 2004 at 8:22 a.m..
Elsevier's new CEO faces OA challenge
Elsevier has
hired Erik Engstrom as the new CEO of its Science & Medical Division. This by itself is not OA news. But David Litterick's
account of the hiring in The Telegraph gives more space to open access than to Engstrom. Excerpt: "One of Engstrom's first challenges will be to deal with the potential threat to the Elsevier business of the 'open access' publishing model which From
Open Access News on July 14, 2004 at 8:21 a.m..
Mountain ritual from down under
While in Lugano for the EdMedia 2004 conference
Adrian Miles went with me on a little mountain hike to balance the spate of presentations and the unavoidable feelings of information overload. We chose a splendid day for our little trip with bright sun and wonderful skies. Conversation was effortless and far more meaningful and interesting than most of the stuff that people put on stage down in Lugano. I had a really good time. And even the litte ethnographer in me got his share as I was able to witness a mountain ritual From
Seblogging News on July 14, 2004 at 8:20 a.m..
Community != content (Clay Shirky)
Peter Caputa, guest-blogging at socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com says “Blogging is the Ultimate Social Software.” So far so good, but he makes that statement based on this assertion — “I think it is safe to say that sharing information is at the center of social... From
Corante: Social Software on July 14, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..
Caputa on Wallflowerz (Clay Shirky)
Peter Caputa also posts about Wallflowerz, a dating site that pays people to be active on the service. The unique thing about the site is that it pays you for being active. And people pay to use it on a per... From
Corante: Social Software on July 14, 2004 at 8:19 a.m..
How Can We Help Patrons with their Notebooks?
Weblogs and Wikis as Work Arounds "The Internet really has become my notebook in a big way. Used to be a pretty much just a research tool, but now it's the warehousing and organizing tool as well. I can almost picture what a personal, interactive portal on the Internet might look and feel like...almost. Tom quotes Tim Berners-Lee whose original vision for the Internet was 'to connect every person to every other person.' We're getting From
The Shifted Librarian on July 14, 2004 at 8:17 a.m..
Libraries Have Nothing to Fear [about RSS] but Fear Itself
Fear of RSS "However, whether or not to use RSS on your site should no longer be an option. I believe it has become a necessity if you wish to compete with others in your industry.... For many users today, bookmarks have become useless since we have too many of them. Bookmarks allow for information overload just as easily as RSS does, but the difference is that RSS allows updates through all that information overload. A bookmark gets hidden, but if you update you From
The Shifted Librarian on July 14, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..
Bloglines : RSS as Blogger : Blogging
IE's Failings Point Way to RSS "Opinion: When Microsoft abandoned Internet Explorer development to concentrate on fixing the browser's security vulnerabilities, it opened the door to the emerging RSS revolution. .... Pluck's Trojan horse strategy underlines the profoundly disruptive nature of the RSS transformation. The synchronization genie, once out of the bottle, will act as an accelerant for RSS client market share a From
The Shifted Librarian on July 14, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..
Untitled
Does anyone know of an e-card service that provides a card for eBay condolences (sorry you lost out on your auction)? It seems so obvious.... From
The Shifted Librarian on July 14, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..
Take back enterprise technology
Susan H. Cramm and Mike Clifford have written an article on the issues surrounding enterprise vendors. To quote: CIOs believe that many of the large enterprise vendors have crossed over the line to customer abuse. Because their customers are captive,... From
Column Two on July 14, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..
Gay Marriage: A Deeply Political Morality
Washington Post: Kill This Amendment. Precisely because of the weight conservatives have put on this issue, today's vote, despite its preordained outcome, has become deeply important. It requires senators to take a public stand on a question of deep principle: Are they willing to warp the entire American constitutional structure to prevent people who love one another from marrying? The amendment is going to lose, but it's dismaying that so many senators -- calling thi From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 14, 2004 at 8:15 a.m..
Aura Launch Delayed Yet Again
NASA postpones the launch of the 6,542-pound satellite due to a problem with its recorder, which will store the information Aura collects and beam it back to Earth. When ready, Aura will study the health and pollution of Earth's atmosphere. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
State to Shadow Parolees With GPS
Tennesee moves ahead with a $2.5 million pilot program that will use a global positioning system to track violent sex offenders who have been paroled. The state is expected to award a contract for the project by the end of the year. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Mexican Officials Get Chipped
The attorney general of Mexico and several of his staff implant microchips in their arms. The chips provide access to a crime database and track their bearers if they are kidnapped -- assuming their abductors don't slice out the chips. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Hactivism and How It Got Here
Hactivists at the HOPE gathering remember their roots while pointing out that grass-roots, tech-enabled resistance is a viable way to fight repression. Michelle Delio reports from New York. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Airline Screening System Delayed
Bowing to privacy concerns, the Transportation Security Administration says the airline passenger-screening system it had in mind will be restructured, meaning it may not be deployed any time soon. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Searching for The New York Times
Newspapers are one of the most definitive sources of information, and there's none more powerful than The New York Times. But you wouldn't know it in the online world. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Macworld Boston Opens Loudly
There were concerns that this summer's expo for everything Mac would be a dud, what with Apple not attending and all, but flocks of fans say otherwise. Leander Kahney reports from Boston. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Cable a la Carte Still Half-Baked
Why can't you buy only the channels you really want to watch? The answer is different depending on who's asked. Congress tries to sort it out Wednesday. By Michael Grebb. From
Wired News on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Teachers on the Web - ANNE COOK, THE NEWS-GAZETTE
Teachers are back in school this summer at Champaign's Mellon Building, creating Web sites that will help students and parents know what to expect in class. The teachers are also learning about their own learning and teaching strengths, said David Malo From
Educational Technology on July 14, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Education Top Priority, Not Drugs
Sports heroes such as Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, three-time Olympian Calvin Harrison and several other of our most elite athletes are under investigation for allegedly using banned substances. But athletic drug use isn't limited to Olympians. Surveys taken at four different middle schools in Massachusetts, reported that students as young as 10-years old are using anabolic steroids. What can concerned parents and coaches do? [PRWEB Jul 14, 2004] From
PR Web on July 14, 2004 at 8:13 a.m..
KM as Tracks in the Mud
When I was a tourguide at Rutgers (part of my undergrad experience), I learned an interesting (though possibly apocryphal) story about how the sidewalks were planned on the Livingston College campus. Apparently, the university deliberately refrained from putting down any sidewalks for the first several years. (For those who don’t know Livingston College, there are no roads inside the campus; hence there are no obvious paths for sidewalks.) Instead, the planners waited to see where students wore tracks in the mud from their frequent comings and goings. They then laid sidewalk in…e-Literate on July 13, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..
Open Pedagogy
Carnegie Mellon (apparently sponsored by HP) has created an interesting twist on the MIT “open courseware” (OCW) model. I find the
Open Learning Initiative to be interesting for several reasons:
They are giving away not just content but also pedagogical models, which include “cognitive tutors,” “virtual laboratories,” group experiments, and simulations. They have focused on traditionally lab-oriented engineering courses. They seem to have a very active dissemination pl From e-Literate on July 13, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..
Open Source, Cross-Platform Groove for Academia?
It looks like Penn State is modifying the LimeWire code base to create file sharing with digital rights management (DRM) and authentication built in. They will also add the ability to tie into specific university data repositories as well as adding collaboration tools. Sounds like
Groove to me. The project,
LionShare, will be ready in the Fall of 2005. From
e-Literate on July 13, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..
Parallel Play Grows Up, Part II
Well, the
conversation continues, with an interesting twist. This time, one blogger has
explicitly responded to a request for his input from another blogger. The semantics here are interesting, since the original blogger
(Dave Hyatt) didn’t directly ask for comment. Instead, what he wrote was I’ll be eagerly awaiting the responses of bo From
e-Literate on July 13, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..
Din presa adunate
Gl@asul PC in Glasul Maramuresului, despre Conferinta si tabara Managementul de proiect si noi tehnologii de predare: "A fost o mbinare echilibrat ntre activittile informative, ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 13, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..
Statistici weblog-uri
The Register tocmai a publicat articolul 8,000 bloggers born every day, in care se specifica faptul ca intre 8000-17000 noi weblog-uri apar zilnic, conform statisticilor de la Technorati, ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 13, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..
Tips for webloggers
Sa invatam de la altii: Blog Tips - Central Register: "There are no hard and fast RULES of how to blog - basically its about being true to yourself, getting what's inside ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 13, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..
The Future of Learning Technology
Here are a couple of quotations excepted from an article by Jonathan Levy in the current issue of CLO magazine. "The new platform will do away with our artificial distinctions of 'learning' and 'KM' and 'EPSS,' replacing them with simply 'doing a better job,'" according to Jay Cross, managing director of the Workflow Institute. "Workflow is the metronome that will call up training as needed. This will be accompanied by real-time optimization. No more of this prepare-in-advance stuff. Workflow-based learning will gin out real metrics, business metrics. Fi From
The Workflow Institute Blog on July 13, 2004 at 9:20 p.m..
Meinungsforum "Rapid eLearning"
Im Untertitel zu dieser Sammlung von kurzen Statements heisst es "Neue Killerapplikation oder nur quick and dirty?" Wo Anhaltspunkte für die erste Option sein sollen, kann ich nicht sehen. Ich halte es mehr mit den Worten von Andreas Vogel vom... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 13, 2004 at 9:20 p.m..
Stell dir vor du bloggst und keiner macht mit
Ruth Bettina Müller war auf der zweiten BlogTalk in Wien und berichtet von einer "gedrückten Stimmung" auf dem Podium. 15.000 deutschsprachige Blogger soll es geben, doch das Ganze kommt hierzulande nicht richtig auf Touren, so ein Teilnehmer, den die Autorin... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 13, 2004 at 9:20 p.m..
e-Learning in Financial Services - A Benchmark Report
Nun, überraschende Neuigkeiten sind natürlich nicht unbedingt zu erwarten, wenn ein Anbieter den Markt beschreibt, auf dem er sich selbst bewegt. Trotzdem enthält dieser Report einige nützliche Stichworte zum Stellenwert von e-Learning in der Finanzbranche sowie daran gekoppelte Empfehlungen.... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 13, 2004 at 9:20 p.m..
Slow Life Can Be Good: Japan Shows How
In Iwate, in the north part of Japan, the governor has been re-elected for three years for his pro-relaxation campaigns. Many people are relocating here from Tokyo. At a certain point Hiroya Masuda said: let'stop giving it up. A strange attitude for one who is the boss of one of the largest Chinese provinces, Iwate, in the north part of Japan and who says such things in fron of a stagnating economic situation, and with such a large public debt to have any politician fired. Masuda has resisted instead. The second thig, that then he decided to say was: we... From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on July 13, 2004 at 9:20 p.m..
Archiv und Wirtschaft 2004/2
Die Zeitschrift Archiv und Wirtschaft, 37. Jg., 2004, H. 2, enthält folgende Beiträge: Aufsätze: Ralf Stremmel: Bestandserhaltung in Wirtschaftsarchiven. Probleme und Lösungsstrategien am Beispiel des Historischen Archivs Krupp Wolfgang Wimmer: Erschließung für das Internet: Das Beispiel Carl Zeiss Archiv Alexander Schug: Erinnerungskultur, Vergangenheitsbewältigung und History Marketing als nachhaltige Faktoren der Identitätsbildung und Selbstdarstellung von Unternehmen Horst A. Wessel: Sanierung von Altlasten - From
Archivalia on July 13, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..
Archivführer Kuba
In HSozuKult wird auf einen Führer durch die Archivlandschaft in Kuba (!!) hingeweisen. Es handelt sich um Pérez, Jr., Louis A.; Scott, Rebecca J. (Hrsg.): The Archives of Cuba/ Los archivos de Cuba (= Pittsburgh Latin American Studies). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2003. ISBN 0-822-94195-3; 217 S.; $ 45.00. Der Text der Rezension findet sich hier
hier. From
Archivalia on July 13, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..
Uniseum - Freiburger Universitätsmuseum...
In der FAZ (9.7.2004, S. 34) wurde das Freiburger Universitätsmuseum "Uniseum" (Markenschutz beantragt) besprochen: "eine umfangreiche Dauerausstellung zur Freiburger Universitätsgeschichte, opulent aufbereitet und würdig untergebracht in der Alten Universität - just an jenem Ort, an dem die 1457 von Erzherzog Albrecht VI. gegründete Alma mater 1460 ihren Lehrbetrieb aufnahm. [...] Man staunt über die Schätze des Universitätsarchivs wie Urkunden, Szepter, Monstranzen, Kelche, die solch eine prachtvolle Schau möglich gemacht haben". Leit From
Archivalia on July 13, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..
Paper Conservation
http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/ "The Book and Paper Group Annual is published once a year by the Book and Paper Group (BPG), a specialty group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)." Full text of all volumes is available. From
Archivalia on July 13, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 14
Today's highlights: ePeople CTmail; Siemens OpenScape 2.0; Centra on pricing; Visto Mobile Enterprise Server 3.5; ePeople announced CTmail, a system that captures email content to create a centralized knowledge base with expertise management and collaborative workspace capabilities. Targeted at orga... From
Kolabora.com on July 13, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..
Weblogs and Wikis as Work Arounds
Tom says: ...it is more accurate to think of weblogs and wikis as work arounds for the broken parts of the web, rather than a new innovation. Well, they are new innovations that repair some of what's broken with the original intent of the Internet. But I can't disagree that the shelf life of blogs and wikis as we know them probably isn't too lengthy. It's happening already, the seamless integration of these tools into browsers and Internet based networks. I sti From
weblogged News on July 13, 2004 at 9:13 p.m..
Bogus patents
What if you invent a web site creation and maintenance system that permits distributed control and centralized management of a web site? What if the physical implementation of the web site resides on a database maintained by a database administratorand the web site system permits a site administrator to construct the overall structure, design and style of the web site? Well, you would be in violation with
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Conclave
Again, just back from 2 rainy and frosty (and offline) days in conclave with my department. Things will change. In the meantime Ton rants about a possible BlogTalk 3.0 . I'll get back to that as well as to other blog-relat... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 13, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..
History of Knowledge Management in Six Parts
Bill Ives takes on the
history of KM in six parts: "This serialized work attempts to puts the current state of knowledge management in context, providing a brief historical overview of knowledge management and communication media, and offering a framework for examining issues based on cognitive psychology." From
elearningpost on July 13, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..
Reputation and Trust (aka "Network Closure")
An interesting read relating
structural holes and network closure. Structural holes are gaps between groups. They offer many opportunities for innovation. Network closure, the counterpart to structural holes, represents the level of trust within groups. Here's an excerpt: "The power of reputation rests on the idea of network closure, which is the degree to which everyone knows everyone else in a network. In a subgroup or "clique" where everybody knows everybody else, reputation can have curren From
Syndication News from Bill Kearney on July 13, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..
Public Radio Exchange
The Washington Post has a
nice article about the innovative and all-around-fantastic
Public Radio Exchange today. PRX bills itself as "an online service for peer-review and digital distribution of public radio programming": it's a low-friction clearinghouse for great radio. In the words of the article: Every minute of every hour, great gobs of fantastic, imaginative and compelling programs are being produced. Unfortunately, listeners rarely hear or learn of th From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 13, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..
The Platform for Online Deliberation
This is an interesting effort. The Platform for Online Deliberation (POD) "is a freely available, open-source web tool for conducting asynchronous meetings that include discussions, document collaboration, polls and voting among small to medium sized groups of people." So the project is worth doing, but I think that the authors would have done well to look at some of the more popular open source community applications such as
Drupal or
PostNuke. These applications provide much the same functi From
OLDaily on July 13, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..
Ethnography and Anthropology in the Media
Now, if somebody searches for 'anhropology' on my site, they'll get a positive result. Heh. In all seriousness, there is a current of new thought linking anthropology and online social networking, as typified by Jame's Surowiecki's The Wisdon of Crowds (an interesting read, but the paen to capitalism in the middle seems to go on forever). Some of this has made it into the mainstream, and this page cites links from the
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Interactive Unit Planner
This is interesting. This planner steps you through the process of setting outcomes and learning objectives, selecting readings and identifying assessments. There's a bit more cut-and-paste than I would like (it would be nice to just insert the suggested outcomes into the text box, for example) but it's nonetheless a ncie step along the road. Of course, for me, the ideal is reached when most of this happens behind the scenes and when the student can generate his or her own lesson plan using a tool such as this. But, one step at a time. People interested in this item would probably be From
OLDaily on July 13, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..
DMCA Hammer Comes Down on Tech Service Vendor
The question you need to ask when you read this short is item is this: are you willing to buy a product from a provider who uses the Digitral Millenium Copyright Act to enforce a monopoly on servicing your hardware? "The court found that third party service techs who used the key without StorageTek's permission "circumvented" to gain access to the copyrighted code in violation of the DMCA, even though they had the explicit permission of the purchasers to fix their machines." By Jason Schultz, LawGeek, July 9, 2004 [
OLDaily on July 13, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..
Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) Breakdown
This taxonomy of technology integration is designed specifically for the instructional context and provides examples and links. Very teacher-centered. Oh, if I could only reword the highest level. It reads: "Technology is perceived as a process, product (e.g., invention, patent, new software design)." I want to reword it slight to read: "Technology is perceived only as the process or product (e.g., reading, writing, design). In other words, technology use is at its highest point when it disappears. People don't want to invent and patent a better phone; they simply want to call their frien From
OLDaily on July 13, 2004 at 9:08 p.m..
A Copyright Battle Kills an Anthology of Essays About the Composer Rebecca Clarke
The logic of withdrawing work from circulation iin the face of lawsuits - in this case, the withdrawal of an anthology of essays about the composer Rebecca Clarke - is summed in this one observation: "No one has $11-million to test the gray areas." So long as there is justice only for those who can afford it, there is no justice. By Richard Byrne, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 16, 2004 [
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Assessing Discursive Writing
What I have tried to do in this paper is mostly to describe the way I mark papers (and these days, criticize blog posts - and of course I wonder what sort of mark I would give my own paper...). But as in everything, I do it this way because I think it ought to be done this way. And though I have kept the argumentation in this work to a minimum, I believe that what I offer here provides a greater degree of precision - and fairness - in the marking of papers. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, July 13, 2004 [
OLDaily on July 13, 2004 at 9:08 p.m..