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Spontaneous Learning
There is nothing more gratifying to a teacher than to see a group of students break out in spontaneous, excited, interactive discussion and questioning of the content at hand. When students turn to each other and begin asking and answering each other’s questions, raising new topics, going deeper in the discussion than expected… learning is occurring. It’s moments like these which affirm why teachers do what we do.
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Open Artifact on July 15, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..
Relevancy is Delightful
This word, 'delight', keeps popping up more and more... It's a cornerstone of the experience economy... it's not longer enough to simply provide people stuff -- they want to be made happy, too. That's what relevancy is all about... anticipating needs (like Dina Mehta describes in this ode to her ... From
Relevancy on July 15, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..
The Increasing Risks of Internet Computing
Traditional Web filtering solutions are becoming increasingly insufficient for organizations. This paper looks at the resulting consequences - excessive nonproductive Web surfing, i.e. losses in productivity, potential exposure to security breaches, legal liability etc. HYPHEN and also introduces a Cerberian Web Manager solution. From
Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on July 15, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..
Microsoft Patches Issued
In response to recent actual and threatened exploits, Microsoft issued seven security patches yesterday, including two critical updates termed "critical". These patches come ahead of the major Windows XP Service Pack 2, currently expected to release in August. Users whose... From
Indiana IT on July 15, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
Virus & Worm Forecast: Stormy
While usually worms, viruses, and other attacks spring into view without warning, experts are actually predicting a flurry of activity targeting a particular Microsoft flaw. When Microsoft releases patches, hackers often "reverse engineer" them to see what security flaws they... From
Indiana IT on July 15, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
TEI opportunities
Following the successful June TEI and the liberal arts workshop*, that project's blog posted a list of education and training resources for text mark-up. *pictures are available: (via Scott Hamlin)... From
MANE IT Network on July 15, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
Webinar on undergraduate students and technology
Diana Oblinger, the new leader of NLII, will be giving a free, Web-based session on the new digital undergraduates. Topic: The Next-Generation Learner Date: July 21, 2004 Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT);... From
MANE IT Network on July 15, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
May 2004 IT leaders meeting: notes and concept map
Meeting of Mid-Atlantic and New England (MANE) Instructional Technology Leaders Friday, May 7th, 2004 Center for Educational Technology * Middlebury, VT SUMMARY NOTES 9:15 HYPHEN 10:45 IT leader introductions and roundtable discussion The traditional combination of introductions and leading instructional... From
MANE IT Network on July 15, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
Information disasters and their costs
Portals Magazine discusses information problems and their costs, as constructed by an IDC study on modern organizations. The article covers issues including search failures, the complexity of varied information sites, and coping with too much information. # The time spent... From
MANE IT Network on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Digital Document Quarterly: new issue
The new issue of Digital Document Quarterly explores current issues in digital preservation. ...the technical component of digital preservation research and development should focus on the design and management of digital objects 'hardened' for durability. It leads to today's most... From
MANE IT Network on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
TV commercials, archives, and copyright
Ernest Miller points us to the interesting case of archiving television commercials. TV ads are useful to scholars and teachers in numerous fields, including politics. The Museum of the Moving Image, in upstate New York, makes a variety of materials... From
MANE IT Network on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Information fluency: call for papers
Transformations, the information literacy journal from the Associated Colleges of the South, is calling for papers for its fall issue on "the changing role of libraries in the digital age" in the liberal arts world. In addition to essays on... From
MANE IT Network on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
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nzboards Forums on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Wiki-logged!!!
Wow! I can't keep up with the ways and wonders of the wiki. However, here's a comprehensive article from Information Today that has more information re: the wiki world than I can possibly shake a wiki stick at. If you... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Nokia LifeBlog Beta Released
Nokia has released a free beta version of its LifeBlog software for download, new software designed for quickly adding pictures, text, and movies to your own personal blog. While they say it "works best with the Nokia 7610 phone" (sadly, not yet available in the US), there is an outside change it might work with another phone -- they list the Nokia 6630, specific From
unmediated on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Industries to Form Yet Another DRM Consortium
A group of large movie and technology companies is about to form yet another consortium to solve the digital copyright problem, according to a John Borland
story at news.com. This looks like one more entry in the alphabet soup (SDMI, CPTWG, ARDG) of fruitless efforts to standardize on an effective anti-copying technology. The new entity will fail just as badly as the old ones, and for the same reason: there is no effective anti-copying technology on whi From
unmediated on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Who wants a presentation on citizens' media?
If you're an ad agency or marketer in New York and you want a presentation on citizens' media (weblogs, forums, video) and what it means to marketing... I [
Jeff Jarvis] have it and I'm ready to take it on the road. I'm selling nothing, only spreading the message of this cult of ours. Gave the presentation to Daimler Chrysler, BBDO, and Organic today; been asked to present to another agency soon; if you want to hear the sermon, lemme know via email. : Just to clarify.... I can't reall From
unmediated on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Radio in 2010
Radio in 2010 - "The new emerging consumer devices, (iPod, Treo, cellphone, Gameboy, etc) are going to have radios in them. I'd create a consumer electronics group to go make deals with all these manufacturers to insure that there are stored preset buttons on all of these devices and I'd make sure that they come preconfigured with my stations on them when they are sold in my local markets. There's a lot more that I'd do, but I think you all get the point. I'd reinvent the radio From
unmediated on July 15, 2004 at 10:50 p.m..
Gahhh! (fewer folks watching the news.)
Yeah, so,
on the topic of revolutions not being televised:The evening-news demo has not only continued to get older--he median age across NBC, CBS and ABC reached 60 this year, up from 58.8 last year--but viewership also has been declining since 9/11, falling by 1.3 million viewers a night this past season. Ratings in the 25-54 demographic were down a cumulative 7 percent. Now, there's nothing wrong wi From
unmediated on July 15, 2004 at 10:49 p.m..
AOL, Yahoo and MSN to Tie IMs Together
Hooray, finally! From
the WaPo... America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to link their separate instant messaging services for use in the workplace, the first major step by the industry leaders to enable computer users to communicate with one another no matter which of the three systems they use. (Cats and dogs living together! I think I just heard a collective yelp from the
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BitTorrent usurps Kazaa
BitTorrent is now the most popular p2p protocol worldwide, says a new study from Britain's CacheLogic. "BitTorrent now also replaces KaZaA as the most popular P2P protocol on both a per-continent and worldwide basis," it says
here. BitTorrent's traffic has doubled from 26 to 53% of the overall traffic surveyed between January and June of this year, states LightReading
here, going on that FastTrack traffic, used by th From
unmediated on July 15, 2004 at 10:49 p.m..
How to Think Like a Publisher, Part 1
The Web has been around for about a decade. Thoughout that history up to today, one of the most common problems online is bad content – poorly written and edited, not credible, inappropriate for the audience, etc. I believe that faulty self-perception is the linchpin of this persistent plague. Here's what needs to be understood: Once you've created an online venue and posted content to it, you're a publisher. Period. The only way you will succeed in this medium is if you learn to start thinking like a publisher. It doesn't matter w From
Contentious Weblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
How to Think Like a Publisher, Part 2
Stretch your imagination – what kinds of content could your organization be publishing online? A willingness to take content bold (but smart) content "risks," to explore unusual directions, often means that your online content will stand out from the crowd and thus gain more of a following. The rewards can include increased site traffic and repeat visits, a stronger relationship with your target audience, or at the very least valuable lessons that will help you do better next time. Despite this, most online content published by organizations (companies, nonpr From
Contentious Weblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
Updated Link: CONTENTIOUS Reader Survey
I'm pleased that so many people have responded to the 2004 CONTENTIOUS reader survey! More than I expected, in fact. I'm using the free version of
SurveyMonkey (an excellent service) to conduct this survey. however, the free version only allows you to collect a limited number of results for any survey – and the first edition of my current reader survey is already nearing that limit. To ensure that everyone who wants to complete this short 10-question survey can do so, I've created a second edition of the survey. It&a From
Contentious Weblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
Feed Readers: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
Over the past month I've gone through a considerable struggle and learning curve with regard to finding the best
webfeed reader to suit my needs. My needs are:
A clean, intuitive, user-friendly interface The ability to sort webfeeds into folders by topic The ability to easily import and export my extensive feed subscription list Free (or cheap, a one-time fee) Lean, dependable operation No need to rely on Explorer in any way I've gone from preferring FeedDemon, to tryi From Contentious Weblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
Sakai 1.0 to be Released Today
The
Sakai Project will be releasing the first version of its open source learning management system today:The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, and the uPortal consortium are joining forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable educational software into a pre-integrated collection of open source tools. This will yield three big wins for sustainable economics and innovation in higher education: From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on July 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
Freedom in networked research: what does it mean?
When I started out as a researcher, as a young Ph.D. student, I thought research was about “having ideas". Then, it occured to me that it was about “having ideas and ’selling’ them” because “having ideas” is easy and too many people have too many ideas already. But marketing experts sell ideas all the time… surely, they don’t do “research". Then, I changed my mind and decided research was about “taking ideas, validating them, putting them in practice, and building tools out of it” where “tools” is to be interpreted in a very wide sense. Turns out it is not a bad def From
Daniel Lemire's blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
BW Online Readers: Dump Cheney
Should we take informal news website polls seriously? The short answer: no. But
Business Week Online has an interesting survey on its site currently, asking, "Should President Bush find a new running mate to replace Vice-President Dick Cheney?" At this writing, with about 2,400 people responding, Bush is being urged to dump the controversial Cheney by 60 percent of the respondents. That's interesting because the business audience for BW is generally believed to take a conservative tilt. Cheney is faring better in more serious surveys From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
A Mighty Fine Web Database Portal
Perhaps I am the only person in the universe who didn't know about this web resource,
Search Systems, a sort of portal for public-records databases, but it's a new discovery for me. Using its link to property and GIS maps for my county, I was able to find out how much my colleagues paid for their homes. What journalist wouldn't salivate over that when its free and from the comfort of her/his own keyboard? There are links to federal, state, and even some international records. For my area, I found links to databases of ordinanc From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 15, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
E-books: Not There Yet
I truly believe that within my lifetime, portable digital reading devices will be so good that they'll replace paper for newspaper, magazine, and much other reading. A few years ago, I thought that that day wasn't that far off. Early devices like the
RCA eBook (one of which is serving paperweight duty in my office) were awkward and not at all easy on the eyes, but they were a harbinger of things to come. Alas, a few years later manufacturers are still struggling to come up with digital reading devices From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 15, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
The Web Is a Job Machine
Looking for a new job? You'll find yourself in good company. I just learned from the results of a
recent survey that 85 percent of all employed Europeans already have visited a job board online. And about 29 percent of them are looking where they can work other than their current employer every day!In Australia, the web also seems to be a job machine -- for would-be thieves. The Sydney Morning Herald at least raises the question of whether
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Looking for some help
I am currently gathering data/reports/experiences people have on the students' perspective of e-portfolios. Has anyone surveyed or interviewed students to find out what their experiences were like? what functionalilty they liked / disliked? has using the e-portfolio changed anything about... From
ERADC Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:46 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 15, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
Learning Material Repositories - Rafts or Battleships? - Part 1
Let me fling away my muddled thinking and 'get with the programme'. No more resources 'locked-in' to e-learning environments, tools, or multimedia applications. I want my educational applications populated from a 'proper' learning object repository ... don't I? That was the mission, but here's the findings and thinking so far. From
Auricle on July 15, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Trip report (3): knowledge/community mapping
Ideas and presentations from conferences I visited, on community/knowledge mapping (see
other themes). It's difficult to draw the line between community and knowledge mapping: in most cases you want to know not only who is there and what they are talking about, but more precisely who knows what. The two themes are here just for an indication of where most effort goes in a specific case. Community mapping SELaKT - Socia From
Mathemagenic on July 15, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
On human voice, non-tech bloggers and linking
Human voice, non-tech bloggers and linking may be not that connected for you, but they are for me: bits of thinking and feeling provoked by
Heather's "Marketing at Microsoft" Blog :) On human face For me Microsoft is a powerful example of corporate blogging: it destroyed "evil" image of the company that I had (yes, although being on Windows myself, I always had "open source spirit" guys around :). Some time back I articulated it
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New Bloglines
A few months back I left
Radio news aggregator behind: it wasn't scaling anymore. I tried several news aggregators, but ended up with
Bloglines, mainly because I need it from work, from home and from all those strange places where I get online when travelling. Recently
Bloglines selebrated one year anniversary and updated their interface. Between all other things they added three had a lot of impact on me:
mark unread op From Mathemagenic on July 15, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Crossed Wires: The Workflow Intitute Responds and I Apologize
I have had several really gratifying exchanges with folks at the
Workflow Insititute over the last couple of days. To begin with, two days ago, I got an email from Anne Henry at the Workflow Institute responding to
this post, thanking me for spreading the use of the term “workflow learning” and sending me a white paper with more details about how they define the term. Delightful! Not only was somebody actually reading my be-Literate on July 15, 2004 at 10:43 p.m..
Fingernails on Blackboard
Here’s a nice informational post on the pitfalls of Blackboard as well as various Open Source and home-grown alternatives (including using blogs as an ad hoc course management system) from Kathleen Gilroy. The analogy I often make with Blackboard is to a classroom where all the seats are bolted to the floor. How the room is arranged matters. If students are going to be having a class discussion, maybe you put the chairs in a circle. If they will be doing groupwork, maybe you put them in groups. If te-Literate on July 15, 2004 at 10:43 p.m..
Wiki vs Weblog
Un articol excelent: Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool in Information Today, Inc. ( via Couros Blog ). De vazut si: ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 15, 2004 at 10:43 p.m..
The New Corporate Learning Ecosystem: Conventional Market Analysis Doesn't Cut it Anymore
In an economic climate characterized by Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), rapid technology convergence, technology and application integration, outsourcing, and customer migration away from courseware, it is necessary to view the market for learning technologies in a new way. The reason why traditional market analysis is no longer useful is that new learning products are now being produced by a variety of different vendors from several different industries. There is no monolithic learning technology industry that can be analyzed.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:43 p.m..
Affiliate Program for my Flash Instrumentation Components
I just started an affiliate program on FlashSim for those with blogs and web sites who want to help me sell my instrumentation components and component skins. Affiliates receive the components for free, and 15% of any sale. I'm also really looking for designers who want to create skin sets (designers get the components and 50% of the purchase price when someone buys the skin set). From
FlashSim on July 15, 2004 at 10:43 p.m..
Guidelines for Authors of Learning Objects: Companion Website
These pages serve as a companion to the monograph Guidelines for Authors of Learning Objects. The resources on this site are organized according to the sections in the monograph. A special page contains downloadable materials used in Guidelines Workshops. This website will also feature updates about the Guidelines as needed. From
eLearnopedia on July 15, 2004 at 10:42 p.m..
Army Training Available to Civilians
Die Nachricht erschien im LC Express, dem e-Learning-Newsletter der American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). Ich habe sie gelesen, an die Seite gepackt, noch mal gelesen und dann meiner Frau gezeigt. So war ich mit meinen Fragezeichen wenigstens nicht... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 15, 2004 at 10:42 p.m..
Wer faulenzt, wird dumm
Ich werde die nächsten zwei Wochen mit sehr hohem Risiko leben: ,,Wer im Urlaub viel faulenzt, muss mit schleichendem Intelligenzverfall rechnen", so die nüchterne Bilanz von Dr. Siegfried Lehr (60) nach unzähligen Versuchen mit Testpersonen jeglichen Alters." Der Intelligenzquotient soll... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 15, 2004 at 10:42 p.m..
Iraq: Archives devasted
Employees of Iraq's National Library and Archives are struggling to overcome the destruction wrought during the first weeks of the U.S.-led war. Many irreplaceable documents, photographs, maps, and books -- some centuries old -- were either destroyed in the fighting or were stolen in the rampant looting that followed. A vital part of Iraq's culture seems to have disappeared forever. [...] Iraq's National Library and Archives once held records dating back hundreds of years. It held records from the Ottoman Empire, handwritten accounts of the Iran-Iraq war, and mic From
Archivalia on July 15, 2004 at 10:41 p.m..
Aktenvernichtungen im Bundeskanzleramt...
Die Staatsanwaltschaft Bonn beabsichtigt die Einstellung der Ermittlung wegen der umstrittenen Aktenvernichtungen und Datenlöschungen ("Bundeslöschtage") im Bundeskanzleramt beim Regierungswechsel im Sept./Okt. 1998 (
Netzeitung). Dagegen bekräftigte der Sonderermittler Burkhard Hirsch in den "Tagesthemen", er sehe keinen Anlass, seinen seinerzeitigen Bericht zu ändern. Kommentar: Eine archivwissenschaftliche Bewertung des von parteipolitischen Auseinandersetzungen geprägten Casu From
Archivalia on July 15, 2004 at 10:41 p.m..
Not a light read, but a good one
Summer is a time for catching up on reading, among other things, and Bob Cram sent this terrific article. If you're looking for a good article that challenges your thinking about how new technology fits into our way of thinking... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 15, 2004 at 10:41 p.m..
Position in the Big Easy
Manager of Instructional Media www2.tulane.edu/joblist/ Innovative Learning Center - ilc.tulane.edu Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana President, CCUMC www.ccumc.org Executive Director of the Innovative Learning Center Organization: Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
Singapore goes moBlogging
From Straits Times Interactive Singapore SingTel made the moblogging platform possible with features it added in April. Mobile phone users can register with the online community via the website at www.ndp.org.sg ENTERTAINER Jack Neo wants Singapore to be more creative and he is using his cellphone to nudge this effort along. The 44-year-old veteran actor and celebrated movie director is one of 10 Singaporeans keeping moblogs - online journals via their mobile phones - on the National Day Parade website. They aim to generate discussion on topics close to their heart, such as responsible pet own From
soulsoup on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
RLO - behind the scene
Developing a university course for on-line delivery based on learning objects: From ideals to compromises [PDF] By Wilhelm, Pierre and Wilde, Russ from Athabasca University Via: EdTechPost Abstract Two course developers, a university professor and his research assistant, investigated and described from their personal points of view the complex and immediate challenges they faced as they designed an online university course based on learning objects. They examined whether the process of transferring interoperable learning objects from on-line repositories facilitated course production, both ped From
soulsoup on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
Instructional Design Workbook
Instructional Design Workbook from University of South Alabama Via elearnspace You will get some hiccups with the usability issues (Authorware plug-in to start with!) but.. "Well worth exploring". This tool has developed fairly informally over the last several years by graduate students at the University of South Alabama at my urging. It is intended as a tool to aid those interested in learning basic instructional design principles. This first version of the Instructional Design Electronic Workbook is based on Gagne', Briggs, and Wager's Principles of Instructional Design, one of the From
soulsoup on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
Meetings!
From Johnnie Moore's Weblog... From
soulsoup on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
Simulated Worlds
Simulated Worlds: Rapid Generation of Web-Based Role-Play by Albert Ip, Roni Linser & Som Naidu Found Via: e-Learning Centre Blog Abstract This paper describes and discusses the pedagogical foundations and the technical features that enables rapid generation of role-play simulations on the Web. The pedagogical approach of this learning technology is based on the principles of dynamic goal-based learning, and learning by doing within the context of authentic educational settings where students are allowed the opportunity to acquire the intended learning outcomes by making mistakes in safe envir From
soulsoup on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
User Experience
Brand Value and the User Experience by Kelly Goto at Digital Web Magazine A positive user experience is an end-user's successful and streamlined completion of a desired task. The user experience should be: Comfortable - Intuitive - Consistent - Trustworthy All the attributes required for a successful learning design too... From
soulsoup on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.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 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
Congressional Telework Hearings, Part III
Representative Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), in his Opening Remarks on Telecommuting to the House Government Reform CommitteeJuly 8, 2004, made a strong case in support of continued legislative pressure to get the federal government teleworking. "The federal government must get serious abou... From
Kolabora.com on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
It's Here!
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 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 16
Today's highlights: Microsoft LCS 2005 to link public IM networks; CourseForum ProjectForum 3.7 and CourseForum 3.7; eRoom.net Seminar; Microsoft announced that Live Communications Server 2005, due in 4Q2004, will provide gateway routing services to link users to all three of... From
Kolabora.com on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
The power of medical experts
Tomorrow I will be recording this essay for broadcast on Friday by our regional public radio station, WVPE. An expert is a person who can talk you into something that otherwise, in your right mind, you'd never ever consider doing. I came up with this definition not long ago in my doctor's office. The doctor had just described a little procedure he wanted to run. I said, "You want me to drink what? And then you're going to do what?" But, hey, he's the expert. Pour me another round!... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 15, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..
Pseduo-blog - word of the week
What's your definition of a pseudo-blog?
FCC Chairman Powell's pseudo-blog offends some because it is written in a formal tone with no personality (reads like it's been vetted by a PR department), has no links, is on Always On's self-congratulatory no street cred site :-), is just a 'series', is not using blogging software or on a blog site domain, etc.. Personally, this doesn't frustrate me because it's inevitable that our tidy little blog community will be usurped by the mai From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:39 p.m..
Inactive Blog
This is not the current Internet Time Blog. Rather, it's a relic, an artifact of the idyllic days before cyber-vandals began littering the blogosphere with comment spam. If a link sent you to this page, go to www.internettime.com instead. You'll be re-directed to Internet... From
Internet Time Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:39 p.m..
The archiving option is here now and costs less
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, and Steve Hitchcock,
Letter to the Editor on Open Access, The Independent, July 14, 2004. Excerpt: "Publishers could convert their journals to an OA business model, so that rather than the user-institution paying the publication costs per journal subscribed to, they are paid by the author-institution, per article published. However, out of the 24,000 journals published today, only 5 per cent have so far made the transition to become open access journals, whereas around 80 per cent allow au From
Open Access News on July 15, 2004 at 10:39 p.m..
English version of German OA license
The German Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz (
DIPP) has been
translated into English. Excerpt from the Preamble: "The new communication possibilities allow academic content to be disseminated in a decentralised manner - in a fast, transparent way, closely related to research. Scientific researchers are regularly interested in making their findings widely available at a high level of quality. It goes without saying that the individual's work is respected, and recognised and secured for example by cit From
Open Access News on July 15, 2004 at 10:39 p.m..
June issue of Against the Grain
The June issue of
Against the Grain is now out. This issue is guest-edited by Steve McKinzie and devoted to changes in scholarly communication. Not even the TOC and abstracts are online, at least
not yet. Here are the OA-related articles. (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
Steve McKinzie, Peer Review: Past Present and Future John Ober, Catherine Candee, and Beverlee French, Reshaping Scholarly Communication Barbara Fister, Academic Authors and the Crisis in Publishing From Open Access News on July 15, 2004 at 10:39 p.m..
Profile of ibiblio
Jessamyn West,
Free as in Tibet: ibiblio's cultural cultivation and community creation, OCLC Systems and Services, 20, 2 (2004) pp. 82-86. Only this abstract is free online: "ibiblio is a digital library hosted at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that manages to be both a repository for cultural information and a resource for community building. The project has existed in many forms since the beginning of the web, and has maintained a cor From
Open Access News on July 15, 2004 at 10:39 p.m..
Profile of CSB.DB, an OA systems-biology database
D. Steinhauser and four co-authors,
CSB.DB: A comprehensive systems-biology database, Bioinformatics, July 9, 2004. Only this abstract is free online: "The open access comprehensive systems-biology database (CSB.DB) presents results of bio-statistical analyses on gene expression data in association with additional biochemical and physiological knowledge. The main aim of this database platform is to provide tools, which support insight into life's complexity pyramid with a From
Open Access News on July 15, 2004 at 10:38 p.m..
Access to the New York Times
Adam Penenberg,
Searching for the New York Times, July 14,, 2004. The visibility of NYT is reduced by its low ranking in Google. This in turn is due to its required registration and toll-access back-run. "It's not like the Times reaps a whole lot from its Web archive. The archive accounts for only 2 to 3 percent of the profit for its digital division....In fact, New York Times Digital earns most of its money from a pre-existing agreement with Lexis-Nexis, which brings in more than $20 million a year....So it's no From
Open Access News on July 15, 2004 at 10:38 p.m..
Seblogging turned two
Just realized that on July 9th my Seblogging project turned two. My last post had the number 1382 within the Manila CMS. If I take away the pictures and some static pages I should be still beyond 1000 posts. No wonder my dissertation is not written yet and only a handful paper-based publications have my name on it. Do you think I should sue Userland if I am finally thrown out of academia? ;-) [
Sebastian Fiedler] From
Seblogging News on July 15, 2004 at 10:38 p.m..
From Intel Inside to Intel Everywhere: Will the Chipmaker's Strategy Work?
Intel dominates the world of microprocessors, but the company has set itself a much loftier goal. Over the years Intel has quietly been expanding its horizons well beyond chips for laptops and desktop computers. Company executives have outlined a vision for Intel technology that touches "every human on earth, every minute of every day, in every aspect of their lifestyle." This strategy, which might be dubbed "Intel Everywhere," has its risks, say experts at Wharton and elsewhere. From
Knowledge@Wharton on July 15, 2004 at 10:38 p.m..
Bush vs. Kerry: The Economy, Taxes, Health Care and Social Security
There are two Americas, one well off and one left behind, and tax cuts for the rich must be repealed, says the campaign of Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards. America's economy is on the rebound, jobs are being created, and across-the-board tax cuts have been a key reason for that growth, according to the Republican George Bush and Dick Cheney ticket. Yes, it's that time again -- a presidential election year full of attacks and counter attacks, of claims and counter claims, of half truths and less-than-half truths, and sometimes no truth at all. In this issue of Knowledge@Wharton From
Knowledge@Wharton on July 15, 2004 at 10:38 p.m..
What's Behind the Overseas Forays of U.S. Online Giants?
EBay has taken over Baazee.com in India. Yahoo has launched Yisou, a search engine, in China. Google has acquired a stake in Baidu, a Chinese search engine. What's driving the international expansion plans of these Internet companies? More importantly, will the business models of these U.S. companies lend themselves to being exported and transplanted overseas? Experts at Wharton and elsewhere note that localizing a global business can be a daunting challenge -- but if handled right, the payoff can be huge. From
Knowledge@Wharton on July 15, 2004 at 10:38 p.m..
Employers Step up Enlistment of Employees in Battle against Health Care Costs
Though still rising at double-digit rates, health care premium increases are easing a bit, allowing employers some breathing room to explore long-term strategies to rein in medical spending. Much of the slowdown is due to a typical insurance underwriting cycle, but employers have also shifted costs to employees and are emphasizing wellness programs and consumer-driven plans as part of their cost-cutting drive, according to Wharton faculty and health benefits experts. From
Knowledge@Wharton on July 15, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..
Goal setting and Cheating: Why They Often Go Together in the Workplace
From childhood on, individuals are told that setting goals for themselves will make them more successful in whatever they set out to do -- whether it's win tennis games, ace their exams or become CEO of their company. But goal-setting also has a dark side to it, according to a recent research paper by a Wharton faculty member and two colleagues. In addition to motivating constructive behavior, goal setting -- especially if it involves rewards such as bonuses or perks -- can also motivate unethical behavior when people fall short of the goals they set or that are set for them. From
Knowledge@Wharton on July 15, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..
Can We Trust the Mutual Fund Industry Yet, or Is Reform Illusory?
Nine months after the first revelations of trading abuses in mutual funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission in June tackled the cozy relationships that, according to critics, have long prevented fund directors from properly overseeing fund managers. And, in recent months, several fund family executives have been forced to step down, companies have paid more than $2 billion in fines and a string of fund managers has faced civil and criminal charges. Are the enforcement actions and new rules enough to stop late trading, market timing and other abuses? Will governance reforms drive down the From
Knowledge@Wharton on July 15, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..
Enron's Ken Lay: Captain of a Modern-day Titanic?
On July 8, federal prosecutors in Houston made public an indictment against former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, charging him and another Enron executive with conspiring to deceive shareholders, regulators and the public. Lay's arrest surprised no one, but opinions differ as to why it took the government so long to make its case, what the odds are that Lay will get off, and whether it was smart for him to hold a news conference and appear on Larry King Live days after being led away in handcuffs. From
Knowledge@Wharton on July 15, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..
Sakai 1.0
So Sakai is being released today. Article says 1.0 will be rough, and 2.0 won’t be out until next summer. Also says Bb and WebCT are happy to partner with Sakai. Really…... From
Martindale Matrix on July 15, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..
Speaking Searchspeak (David Weinberger)
After a meeting at Yahoo last week, I got to talking with one of the people in charge of search. He said casually that he thinks they’re seeing more complex searches without “stop” words, i.e., the ordinary words like “the”... From
Corante: Social Software on July 15, 2004 at 10:36 p.m..
What's Wrong With Media Consolidation
In a season of politically confrontational movies, documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald is aiming to do to the Fox News Channel what Michael Moore is trying to do to the Bush administration with his "Fahrenheit 9/11. A coalition of liberal-minded groups,... From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 15, 2004 at 10:35 p.m..
Toronto media and blog workshop
David Akin of the Globe and Mail is moderating a workshop at next month's Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Toronto. Dan Gillmor, the Berkman's Rebecca MacKinnon and Jeff Jarvis will be paneling. With that crew - and Jay Rosen in attendance - how could you go wrong? PS: You know who I'd like to see on more panels on blogging and journalism? Ethan Zuckerman (another Berkperson). As his blog's tagline says: "My blog is in Cambridge but my heart is in Accra."... From
Joho the Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:34 p.m..
Tuesday in Chicago
We had a great day yesterday on vacation in Chicago, although it wasn't particularly good in clearing items from our checklist. We got off to a late start because after breakfast I had a conference call I had to participate in. So, it was 1pm before we really headed out. We walked along Michigan and came upon the Millennium Park, due to open on Friday. We couldn't get a good enough view of the new Gehry concert shell, which looked twisty and interesting, but the site is interrupted by large photos of families from around the world, with just a... From
Joho the Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:34 p.m..
Hascii
Want to show video but still in a long-term relationship with ASCII? Try HasciiCam: HasciiCam makes it possible to have live ascii video on the web. It captures video from a tv card and renders it into ascii letters, formatting the output into an html page with a refresh tag, or in a live ascii window, or in a simple text file.... From
Joho the Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:34 p.m..
Wednesday in Chicago
Our second (and last) full day of vacation in Chicago ended well but began with a disappointment. We slogged off to the Museum of Science and Industry. Despite its Stalinist name, it's actually one of those interactive science places that seems to be the offspring of a museum that got lusty with an amusement park during shore leave. You're always just a twist or a yank or a pop away from learning something. Unfortunately, the science seems aimed squarely at the Square Pants set. Why, did you know that DNA is all helixy, that friction generates heat, and that... From
Joho the Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:34 p.m..
Speaking SearchSpeak
Are we being trained by search engines to speak without "stop words"? More at Many2Many...... From
Joho the Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:34 p.m..
Fugu Rocks sFTP- better than the Captain, The Dud, The Truck, The Duck
More and more I have needed a Mac OSX SFTP client for moving web content to various servers- we have knocked off open FTP on all of our web servers, and I need it now for loading content to SourceForge. Pity that my long friend
Fetch, used since the early 1990s, has yet to jump up to SFTP. It has been a road of trying a bunch of different apps, none of which was reliable (many do odd things with file permissions). On the scrap heap is:
The Truck: Transmit it worked ok (I recall) but From cogdogblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..
Pounding the Jade Server
Crikies! We just got around to setting up
AWstats for our
"Jade" server that runs our blogs as well as the
Feed2JS contraption. For just a week of running, in the middle of a hot and slow summer, we see:
561,000 hits (42k per day)99,000 unique visitors (11k per day) It turns out 96% of that traffic is hitt From
cogdogblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..
Phone Cam Fine Art: SENT
Taking place in Los Angeles starting July 10, 2004, SENT brings perhaps your cheesy phone camera snapshots to a level of fine art? Images will be
invited to be submitted by the public. It looks like it may be too let to send your phone snaps, but stay tuned to see the results. SENT will be the first major exh From
cogdogblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..
Nice PHP, with Class: FeedCreator
FeedCreator.class.php- File this one away for future or near future code use. FeedCreator.class.php provides an easy way to create RSS feeds from within PHP using ease to use classes. * creates valid feeds according to RSS 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0 as well as PIE 0.1 (deprecated), OPML 1.0, Unix mbox and ATOM 0.3 format. * configurable feed caching This is code you can use within your own PHP that allows you to generate RSS files from any source you can load data into. I like the options From
cogdogblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..
Furl as Personal Web
Greg Ritter has an
interesting post on the value of
Furl and its function in the creation of what he calls a "Personal Web." However, the most important thing Furl does is allow you to carve out a sub-section of the web that you're interested in and deal with that sub-section in a Google-like manner, meaning being able to search the full text of the web pages.
--> From weblogged News on July 15, 2004 at 10:32 p.m..
NY Times Editorial: Conventioneering.com
H. L. Mencken is said to have guffawed and slapped his thigh in delight at times as he would write about a typical day at a presidential nominating convention. Those long-ago times are enviable for their unpredictability eons removed from the scripted conventions that will soon be offered to the nation once more as lean cuisine for thought. All the more reason to hope, then, that this year's one potentially risky innovation accepting dozens of free-form online bloggers as accredited convention journalists may lace the proceedings with fresh insight and even some Menckeni From
weblogged News on July 15, 2004 at 10:32 p.m..
Me and My Blog
(via
Peter Ford) An
article in Teachers Magazine (UK) highlights the use of Weblogs with younger students in England. The project has generated a lot of pride. "We're the first junior school to do it," I'm told by Stephen, aged 10, who is writing about wrestling. Stephen chose wrestling as his subject matter because he "knows loads about it". His motivation for creating his weblog is the same as that o From
weblogged News on July 15, 2004 at 10:32 p.m..
Web content management market growth
Brice Dunwoodie has summarised the latest META Group report on the web content management marketplace. To quote: META Group have announced their latest findings on the web content management marketplace. Predicting strong growth, they see expansion to USD 2.5 billion... From
Column Two on July 15, 2004 at 10:32 p.m..
Enterprise content management compliance a struggle
Brice Dunwoodie writes about a study into compliance with information management standards. To quote: Recent joint study by AIIM and Kahn Consulting indicates Enterprise Content Management (ECM) compliance is underway, but heavily burdened by new requirements and a lack of... From
Column Two on July 15, 2004 at 10:32 p.m..
Latest Info about MIT's OCW
Here's a section of the the July report about updates to MIT's OpenCourseWare. JH____ --------------------------------------------------------------- The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: July 2004 A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare ---------------------------------------------------------------- The July 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains: 1. New Courses Now Available 2. Digging Deeper: Course 3. A Frequently Asked Question 4. Comments 5. Newsletter Available On From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on July 15, 2004 at 10:32 p.m..
Opinions
Fang Wu together with B. Huberman released another interesting paper, this time on networks and opinion formation. Should be interesting for all who are interested in the microphysics of the diffusion of innovation. if tha... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 15, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
On Conferences
Ton Zijlstra raises some interesting and important questions with respect to a possible BlogTalk 3.0. He is mainly arguing about the format of conferences in general. I for myself asked the question if there should be a Bl... From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 15, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
IA and Requirements Gathering
Good advice for communicating the
requirements gathering strategy -- differentiating between the 'what' and the 'how' of requirements: "The hierarchy between what will be accomplished (the business requirement) and how it will be accomplished (the functional requirement) makes both types of requirements much easier to grasp. Sticky, easily understood requirements lead to arguments and arguments lead to solutions. These solutions then lead to a well From
elearningpost on July 15, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
Brand Value and the User Experience
Brand experience is an important facet user experience design. In this article, Kelly Goto explores 4 principles that go into providing a powerful brand experience:The user experience should be:
ComfortableIntuitiveConsistentTrustworthy For those interested in exploring further, David Aaker's book,
Building Strong Brands is a good read. From
elearningpost on July 15, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
Agenda: Workshop on Multimodal Interaction
2004-07-12: The agenda and list of accepted papers have been announced for the W3C Workshop on Multimodal Interaction to be held in Sophia Antipolis, France on 19-20 July. Attendees from user and research communities will discuss current plans, and provide feedback and suggestions for future multimodal work. Read about Workshops and visit the Multimodal Interaction home page at W3C. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 15, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board
2004-07-15: The W3C Advisory Committee has filled five open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG), Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard), Klaus Birkenbihl (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve Zilles is the interim Advisory Bo From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 15, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
2004-07-15: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 27 August 2004. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 15, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
Software for the Long Term
Dan Bricklin: Software That Lasts 200 Years. We need to start thinking about software in a way more like how we think about building bridges, dams, and sewers. What we build must last for generations without total rebuilding. This requires new thinking and new ways of organizing development. This is especially important for governments of all sizes as well as for established, ongoing businesses and institutions. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 15, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
FCC's Powell Talks Common Sense, but Where's Policy?
Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, talked a great game last night at the
Always On conference at Stanford. He spoke out for an open architecture on the Net; indicated that the broadcast "indecency" rules are at best questionable from a Constitutional and logical framework, and generally impressed a crowd of technologists and tech constituents. I'll be happier when his views translate more firmly into FCC policies, and when Congr From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 15, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Network access for guests
Here's a scenario that I've come to call "the coffee-shop problem" because it pertains to a local coffee shop, though it also applies to a home office that might receive visitors. You have a single DSL or cable connection. The challenge: offer Wi-Fi to visitors without exposing your connected computer (or LAN). ... From
Jon's Radio on July 15, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Deposit Your Stem-Cell Hopes Here
The government says it will open a 'national bank' to accelerate research on the only stem cells approved for research by the Bush administration. Scientists say it's nothing more than window dressing. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Demand for Paper Trail Escalates
Activists hand over more than 350,000 signatures to election officials, demanding that electronic voting machines have voter-verified paper trails. They also hold rallies around the country to make their point. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Suit Against Napster Backers OK
A federal judge permits a lawsuit against past Napster investors to proceed. Plaintiffs say the song-sharing service cost music publishers billions of dollars in lost sales; defendants still hope for a dismissal. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Macs, Music Boost Apple's Profits
Apple Computer more than triples its quarterly earnings compared with the same period last year. Sales of Macs, iPods and iTunes all contributed to the profit. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Battery Problem Scrubs Launch
NASA aborts the launch of its Aura research satellite for the third time -- this time only minutes before liftoff Wednesday -- after detecting a problem in its rocket battery system. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
Documenting Moore's Oscar Chances
A strangely worded rule covering the Oscar eligibility of documentaries could spell trouble for Michael Moore, thanks to illegal Internet downloads. Then again, it may not. By Staci D. Kramer. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
More Disks Lost at Los Alamos
Los Alamos National Laboratory, America's leading nuclear lab, lost track of four disks possibly containing sensitive information. Two turned up, but the others remain missing. It's the third such incident in less than a year. By Noah Shachtman. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
Can Odd Alliance Beat Pirates?
Several movie studios and technology companies say they are working together to protect upcoming high-definition video formats from piracy, while letting customers share the video among many home devices. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
Cable Debate Generates Static
A House subcommittee hears what's good and bad about roll-your-own cable, but little is expected to happen until the FCC weighs in. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
The Little Rumor Site That Could
Spymac has gone from being a poster of supposed upcoming Apple products to a large and fast-growing community website, and it has one of the biggest profiles at Macworld. Leander Kahney reports from Boston. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
Make a Killing From Antiterrorism
Business is booming as law enforcement reaches for military technology. But getting federal money is far from easy. Randy Dotinga reports from the Homeland Security Conference in San Diego. From
Wired News on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
Windows update hits a new delay - BBC
A major update to the Windows XP operating system will be available to download from August, two months later than originally expected. The update, called Service Pack 2, is intended to make the operating system from Microsoft much more secure. The co From
Techno-News Blog on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
Windhaus Associates Business Plan Workshop Startup Awarded $10,000 Micro-Loan
Ms. Patricia Flaherty, Proprietor of PatriciaCooks, a catering and packaged-meal delivery service in Vero Beach, Florida, has successfully secured a $10,000 micro-loan from the Treasure Coast Enterprise Fund. Ms. Flaherty's business plan was developed as a participant in the Business Planning Workshop Series provided by Windhaus Associates, a business planning firm specializing in small existing and startup business ventures. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004] From
PR Web on July 15, 2004 at 10:29 p.m..
Welcome Back Rays
Major League Baseball's All-Star break is over. Corporate sponsor, American Collegiate Financial Services (ACFS) is eager to see the Tampa Bay Devil Rays back in action. The returning series features a division match-up against the Baltimore Orioles at Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004] From
PR Web on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
Child Care: A Temecula, California Success Story
The recent opening of Our Kids Child Care and Preschool in Temecula, California is a testament to fact that hard work still empowers women of even modest means to live the American Dream. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004] From
PR Web on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
Radcliff Joins Schwartau's Security Awareness Team
Deborah Radcliff, the award-winning Information Security and Computer Industry writer, has joined Winn Schwartau's InterPact Inc., The Security Awareness Company, as a subject matter expert for the company's newly expanded security awareness programs. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004] From
PR Web on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
Zend in the clowns?
PHP has gone from strength to strength over recent years. Reputable sources have demonstrated both its phenomenal growth rate, and indicated that it is the most-used Apache module by quite some way, flooring even the twin titans of mod_perl and OpenSSL in the popularity stakes (a fact which some people seem quite keen to gloat about) [1]. Tiobe Software's "Programming Community Index" (a nominal measure of the popularity of programming languages and skillsets) ranks PHP as having climbed so far as to be tussling with Visual Basic over fourth position, only being clearly bettered by From
kuro5hin.org on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
The First New K5 User
A while after new user registration was closed I wrote this story about the last K5 user. As you might have noticed, new user registration has now re-opened. So someone out there must be the first new user ... From
kuro5hin.org on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
Report on Evaluation of School Based Management (ACT)
This evaluation was required to: provide an overview of current school based management (SBM) arrangements in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), including a broad comparative comment on arrangements in other jurisdictions; analyse the effectiveness of SBM arrangements in meeting stated objectives; and identify the scope for further supporting schools to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery. The report found that major impact of SBM has been to improve local decision-making at the school level. The evaluation identified a set of issues that need to be addressed as p From
EdNA Online on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
Population and Development Curriculum Kit - Free Teaching Resource
Thanks to the generous support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance has developed the Population and Development Curriculum Kit and is able to provide it to teachers at no cost. Targeted at high school students the kit focuses on population, development, environment and gender equity issues. From
EdNA Online on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
Online Educa Berlin - e-learning conference
Online Educa Berlin, 1-3 December. Now in its 10th year Online Educa Berlin has confirmed itself as the world's most international e-learning conference, attended by delegates from 68 countries spanning all continents. Educators and students who join this year's Australian delegation will receive significant benefits including savings in registration costs together with a range of supported networking opportunities. From
EdNA Online on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
Schooling Issues Digest - School Effectiveness
This report is one of a series of School Issues Digests produced by DEST. The author of this digest is Dr John Cresswell, a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The digest focusses on effective schools, teachers and principals; the nature of school effectiveness research; descriptions of school effectiveness; characteristics of effective schools; and issues currently facing those involved in the desire for improved school effectiveness. From
EdNA Online on July 15, 2004 at 10:28 p.m..
DSL Has Record Growth Spurt
After three consecutive quarters of high subscription increases, the global DSL population reaches more than 73 million. From
ClickZ Stats on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
Lou Reed loves remixes
Lou Reed is another artist that should check out
the Recombo license. Here's a great quote from him about his most recent recordings being remixed
in this story: "I've been getting all these great mixes sent to me out of the U.K. for years and years," he told Attitude magazine, "and I just started saying to the record company, 'Look, I really, really love what they are doing.' I think that my rec From
Creative Commons: weblog on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
Do the Recombo. In Brazil. Now. Again.
Renaldo "Recombo" Lemos of Creative Commons Brazil reports more good news: "Following the same steps of
Gilberto Gil and
Mombojo, the Brazilian electronic group Gerador Zero has decided to go Recombo. Gerador Zero is one of the most inventive music projects in Brazil. Fabio FZero, their mastermind, has managed to create music that is hard to define. They combine elements of rock, pop and electronica in a smart way, without pre-conceived ideas or formulas. Everything very From
CNET News.com on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
RSS Feed Has Moved
The new RSS feed for my blog is available at: http://wiley.ed.usu.edu/index_html/RSS From
autounfocus on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
Democracy in the Balance
Not quite my usual fare, but I wanted to share this article that identifies many of my concerns, concerns I feel not just when I look south of the border but also when I look at the environment here at home. "Money has democracy in a stranglehold and is suffocating it.... That's why so many people are turned off by politics. It's why we can't put things right. And it's wrong. Hear the great Justice Learned Hand on this: "If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'"" It should be noted that when people opt From
OLDaily on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
Ethiopian Teacher Education Portal
This site is a trove of information about teaching and for teachers in Ethiopia. The site contains news, information, links and more, including resources for the Teacher Development Program (TDP) and for the Teacher Education System Overhaul (TESO) program. Built with
PostNuke, it recently won a
Gold Award for Ethiopian websites. Just shows what you can do with free software and a little participation. By Various Authors, July, 2004 [
OLDaily on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
Lord of the Rings Domain Fight Enters Realms of Fantasy
J.R.R. Tolkien's books will not pass into the public domain for decades, and the movies will take even longer, but the studio's and publisher's assertion that they own the rights to the word 'Shire' ought not last much beyond next Tuesday. As the Register explains, "it would be impossible to argue with the legal letter's initial assertion: 'shire' is extremely well known in the UK. In fact, it has been well known since around 600AD - not long after the Romans had wandered off." Not to be missed, if you haven't seen it already, is a link to Groucho M From
OLDaily on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
UK Department for Education and Skills Hosts Launch of LAMS Roadmap
Big news today as the roadmap for the development of LAMS - the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) - is announced by the UK Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and its inventor, James Dalziel of
Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. LAMS is a "software program that allows teachers to design, manage and deliver online collaborative learning activities. They can sequence individual tasks, small group work and whole class activities, and incorporate 'Learning Objects' into sequences where appropriate." A key point of From
OLDaily on July 15, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..