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I made the switch - Windows is out - Linspire is in!
Well I finally made the switch and got rid of Windows. My laptop now had a nice new instalation of Linspire on it. So far everything is working fine. My graphics card, an ATI Radeon 9000 M, is deteced perfectly and running glxgears gives me a frame rate of about 1900 FPS. The only thing I have not been able to get working properly is the inbuilt Mic but as I rarely use this, I am not th From phoward.com on July 31, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

SIP Phone rocks!
Having used sipphone for a few months to test VOIP software I finlaly took the plunge and bought a handset for my softphone. I got one of these handests and it is fantastic! Calling free US 1-800 numbers and the call quality is fantastic. I also bought some sip minutes so I can call normal phone lines and the rates are even better than the compny I normally use for International dialing. From phoward.com on July 31, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

Broken Laptop
Word has it that I should get this back to me on Monday - but the company that is supposed to deliver it has not got back to me yet! I think they must be having problems fixing it as they have had it for over a month now. Very annoying - and I must say I will be changing insuarance companies at next renewal if this is how claims are handled! From phoward.com on July 31, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

Blogs and Wikis as WebQuest Tasks
It's been a while since we talked about WebQuests here, but I happened upon this presentation calling for integrating WebQuests with blogs and wikis. WebQuests come out of the field of education and invoke Bloom's taxonomy with the taskonomy. I gather that they're mo From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 31, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

Testing Firefox’s update
Firefox has a feature in its bookmarks that allows you to check a site for updates and notify you by playing a sound, changing the bookmark icon, opening the site in a new window, or displaying an alert. While it ain't RSS, if it works it could be better than ... From Big IDEA on July 31, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

Sakai: and now a word from our sponsor
A quick visit to the Sakai Project led me to an interesting article in which Syllabus Magazine interviewed Ira Fuchs the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's vice president for research in information technology. The Mellon Foundation supports the Sakai Project to the tune of USD 2.4 million so Fuchs' views on the future of learning management systems makes for interesting reading. From Auricle on July 31, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Sakai - now let's discuss
Over at Michael Feldstein's E-Literate site he has a couple of articles which are worth a look. The first, What's Wrong with the Sakai User Interface is a polemic less about Sakai than the discussion component offered in the first public release. Michael makes some excellent points about the limitations of 'threaded' discussion particularly: From Auricle on July 31, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Brain vacation
Not able to write - only consuming. It's probably contagious: once your brain sees another brain on vacation it decides to go as well :) Anyway, I'm lucky enough to be able to follow my brain. I'm going to Moscow... Going to have fun with friends, eat raspberries at my parents dacha (my sister says that strawberries are over :(,  read books, go out in Moscow, talk to smart people, do some things I have to do, wor From Mathemagenic on July 31, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

i d e a n t: Online Discourse: Past, Present and Future
This piece makes some nice points about the pros and cons of blogs, wikis, and discussion boards in terms of their relative affordances for conversation. Plus, like me, he has issues with the threaded model for discussion boards. From e-Literate on July 31, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Din lecturile zilei
Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to E-learning and Why - raport publicat la Open University Knowledge Network, care releva faptul ca in ciuda dezvoltarii invatamantului online ... From WeBlog.ro feeds on July 31, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

701 e-Learning Tips Free Digital Book
Thanks to The MASIE Center's TRENDS readers and e-Learning Consortium Members, over 1000 e-Learning tips were received, analyzed, and categorized. These tips are from senior managers and training professionals from major corporations around the world. We have edited and compiled 141 pages and 14 chapters covering the ABC's of getting started to global implementation strategies. We hope you enjoy this free digital book! From eLearnopedia on July 31, 2004 at 9:44 p.m..

Answer Geek: What is Workflow Learning?
Workflow learning (or workflow-based e-learning) is a term that's emerged over the past couple of years to describe a process and ensuing technology. Companies are analyzing workflow in order to reduce the time needed for tasks and business processes, thereby increasing productivity and cutting costs. Embedding learning into the workflow can reduce the time needed for both training and informal learning. From eLearnopedia on July 31, 2004 at 9:44 p.m..

Content Area Literacy Lessons Go High Tech
This article addresses literacy and technology as integral tools within content lessons at all levels. It begins with a brief history of content reading instruction as it has developed over the past few decades. This account demonstrates the importance of content reading instruction as a means of providing teachers with tools that can help them help their students learn content material. From eLearnopedia on July 31, 2004 at 9:44 p.m..

Trends in E-Learning
This article is about trends in e-learning. Yet, just a few years ago, no one had ever heard of the term "e-learning." Many people have heard of terms such as distance education or distance learning, yet with the introduction of e-learning, distance education took on a whole new meaning. From eLearnopedia on July 31, 2004 at 9:44 p.m..

Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to E-learning and Why
The Thwarted Innovation report suggests that educational technology and e-learning have not delivered on the promise of revolutionizing the classroom and making higher education more profitable. It suggests that, despite the rapid growth in the US of online education, many teaching staff at colleges do not use innovative technology on their courses, and that not much benefit has been gained from the investment in educational technology. From eLearnopedia on July 31, 2004 at 9:44 p.m..

How To Optimize Your Site For Major Search Engines: The Top 10 Things To Do
The team at MarketingExperiments has been doing a hell of a great job since quite some time now, and the results keep improving. MarketingExperiments is a small research agency who specializes in carrying out in-depth research that is relevant to those who need to market or promote their brand, institution, product or service online. As they say it in their own words, they are "an online laboratory with a simple (but not easy) five-word mission statement: To discover what really works." And yes, I can testify that at MarketingExperiments they do test every conceivable marketing method on the I From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on July 31, 2004 at 9:44 p.m..

Federal Reserve Hike Really a Done Deal or Not
The US Durable Goods number from yesterday reported in stark contrast to recent upbeat assessment of US economy of Fed Chairman Greenspan. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 31, 2004 at 9:43 p.m..

Yen and Japanese Industry Lose Steam
Since Tuesday of last week, the dollar has soared over 400 pips against the Japanese yen. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 31, 2004 at 9:43 p.m..

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS COMMENTARY: Double Doji Appears on Swiss Daily
Daily USDCHF RSI 65.47 has yet to relent its move to high not seen since the last brief foray to the ranks of the 200 day MA. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 31, 2004 at 9:43 p.m..

CURRENCY MARKET POINTS: Wild Week
What is happening to the FX market this week... UK housing data comes out stronger then expected practically assuring BoE rate hike and cable promptly gets pounded for nearly 200 points. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 31, 2004 at 9:43 p.m..

Fuerte impulso al e-learning en Latinoamerica Congreso Edutic 2004
La Asociación de Entidades de Educación a Distancia y Tecnologías Educativas , Edutic, impulsa un congreso internacional en el que participarán más de 140 ponentes de diversas nacionalidades. ... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on July 31, 2004 at 9:43 p.m..

User Experience is More Than Design
User Experience is More Than Design - Jeffrey Veen Clearly, both Apple and Sony understand the importance of the bottom circle; the desirability of their products is undeniable. But desirability from a design perspective is only part of the equation. Clearly, Apple understood that bringing the same deep commitment to user experience to the technological and financial aspects of the product were also required. If you have an iPod, it shows every time you use it. Plug it in and iTunes launches. You'll see that it has the same attention to detail as the hardware, with consistency in interact From soulsoup on July 31, 2004 at 9:42 p.m..

Learning Conversations
Learning Conversations From Dusk and Dawn There is a little know learning theory called Conversation Theory. In brief, it states that learning is about 'conversations' and that effective learning design enables these conversations (I apologies for this awful over-simplification, I think I can hear the sound of someone turning in their grave). There are 3 types of conversation: 1) Conversations with the self 2)Conversations with the world 3) Conversations with others While I may not subscribe to the specific details of this approach, I find it a very useful framework for thinking abou From soulsoup on July 31, 2004 at 9:42 p.m..

information snowflake
The information snowflake - consuming, collating, commenting, collaborating and creating from I, Distributius, Via: elearnspace Nice visual description of information lifecycle By looking at each of these facets, we can start to understand our own use of information or that of other people. Where are the flaws or weaknesses in our own information snowflake? Why would a new information tool help us to process each facet more effectively? When designing a tool that crosses facets, how can we minimise the disruption between user experiences of each activity? Which facets are we particularly good From soulsoup on July 31, 2004 at 9:42 p.m..

Wikipedia Founder Interview
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds : a Slashdot Interview It is my intention to get a copy of Wikipedia to every single person on the planet in their own language. It is my intention that free textbooks from our wikibooks project will be used to revolutionize education in developing countries by radically cutting the cost of content. Those kinds of big picture ideals make people very passionate about what we're doing. And it makes it possible for people to set aside a lot of personal differences and disputes of the kind that I talked about above, and just compromise to... From soulsoup on July 31, 2004 at 9:42 p.m..

Letters at ADP / SB
Today I added a Letters page at the democracy site, the first of several ways of inviting wider participation. Should a school site have unmoderated access? For now, I'm saying no to that one and getting ready to work with an editorial group to publish the best of the letters that come in -- I'm guessing we'll start slowly there. The bloggers and research librarians are providing most of the energy at the site so far. I like the idea that we can publish a bank of web and print resources... From Weblogs in Higher Education on July 31, 2004 at 9:42 p.m..

NorthernVoice.ca - official Feb 2005 Vancouver Blogging conference site
NorthernVoice.ca is the official site of our 2005 Vancouver Blogger conference. Help us make the conference better by contributing your ideas to the conversation! From Northern Voice: QUOTENorthernVoice is a one-day, non-profit community blogging conference that's being held at the UBC downtown campus on February 19, 2005.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 31, 2004 at 9:42 p.m..

Anil - it's not about SEO; it's about creating compelling content constantly
Anil nails it. Instead of teaching clients how to 'game the system', SEO professionals should be helping their clients to create compelling content constantly which is what blogs do and which is why they have a high search rank. It ain't no mystery and it's unbelievable how some "SEO professionals" don't get it. From Anil Dash: Optimizing Search Engine Optimization: From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

Access to knowledge
The June issue of the International Association of Universities Newsletter is devoted to "Access to Knowledge". It contains articles on INASP by Carol Priestly (pp. 1, 4), on copyright and access by Séverine Dusollier (pp. 5, 7), on knowledge-sharing between north and south by Bonaventure Mve-Ondo (p. 6), on the DOAJ by Lotte Jorgensen (p. 11), and on Érudit by Guylaine Beaudry (p. 12). There are no deep links to individual articles. From Open Access News on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

Open knowledge management
Yukika Awazu and Kevin Desouza, Open knowledge management: Lessons from the open source revolution, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55, 11 (2004) pp. 1016-1019. Only this abstract is free online: "One might argue that the future of knowledge work is manifested in how open-source communities work. Knowledge work, as argued by Drucker ([1968]); Davenport, Thomas, and Cantrell ([2002]); and others, is comprised of specialists who collaborate via exchange of know-how and s From Open Access News on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

UK launches Research Libraries Network
The UK is launching the Research Libraries Network and funding it with £3 million. From yesterday's press release: "A new national initiative - the Research Libraries Network (RLN) - announced today, is set to transform the way research information is collected, organised, preserved and accessed across the UK. The RLN will bring together the UK's four higher education funding bodies, the British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales and the eight members of Research Councils UK to develop the UK's From Open Access News on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

Five-year anniversary of OA journal
George Lundberg and three co-authors, Happy Birthday to Open-Access Publishing Pioneer MedGenMed: 5 Years Old and Counting, Medscape, April 8, 2004 (free registration required). Excerpt: "Medscape founded Medscape General Medicine on April 9, 1999 as an experiment to test whether an exclusively electronic, primary-source, peer-reviewed general medical journal could attract enough authors and readers to survive and contribute in an already crowded medical information field....Most medical research From Open Access News on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

Profile of the Southampton institutional repository
Jessie Hey, Targeting Academic Research with Southampton's Institutional Repository, Ariadne, July 2004. Excerpt: "The University of Southampton has been one of the pioneers of open access to academic research, particularly, in the tireless advocacy of Professor Stevan Harnad and in the creation of the EPrints software, as a vehicle for creating open access archives (or repositories) for research....Now that change is happening in earnest with new and varied initiatives appearing so fast in th From Open Access News on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

New OA journal
ChangeThis is an open-access anthology or journal that will publish "powerful, rational arguments from leaders in politics and business", starting next month. Excerpt from the site's manifesto: "Our business model. We don't have one. It doesn't cost very much to run something on the Internet. The authors contribute their work. Our systems were built by some very dedicated summer interns. Every once in a while, we'll pay some of our expenses via a sponsorship. But From Open Access News on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

On some OAI service providers
Gerry McKiernan, Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship, a PPT presentation from the WILSWorld Conference 2004 (Madison, Wisconsin, July 27-28, 2004). Abstract: "The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. There are two classes of participants in the OAI-PMH framework: Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers administer systems From Open Access News on July 31, 2004 at 9:41 p.m..

No Two Swimmers Float Alike
"One cannot measure people against each other without creating winners and losers - and while success may encourage, failure clearly discourages ... Insults or negative criticism diminish personal confidence and the desire or even willingness to try new things, while at the same time diminishing one's status in the eyes of other students, producing embarassment and even hostility" [Guy Bensusan - No Two Swimmers Float Alike] Thanks to everyone who pointed to --> From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 31, 2004 at 9:40 p.m..

Snow Patrol
OK, add Snow Patrol as another great 2004 British group. Their first album was good but the second's even better... their website is almost as good as the Streets' but no videos and only samples of songs (mind you... samples of EVERY song!) From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on July 31, 2004 at 9:40 p.m..

Electric Connections 2004 - 26 August 2004 - University of Stirling - Funded by the Scottish Library ...
Electric Connections 2004 - 26 August 2004 - University of Stirling - Funded by the Scottish Library & Information Council and backed by the Confederation of Scottish Mini-Cooperatives From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

A new national initiative, The Research Libraries Network (RLN), is set to transform the way researc ...
A new national initiative, The Research Libraries Network (RLN), is set to transform the way research information is collected, organised, preserved and accessed across the UK. The RLN will bring together the UK's four higher education funding bodies, the British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales and the eight members of Research Councils UK to develop the UK's first national framework aimed at addressing the information needs of researchers From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

The Registry of Digital Masters is intended to assist with access to digital materials as well as to ...
The Registry of Digital Masters is intended to assist with access to digital materials as well as to provide a tool to help librarians reduce duplication of digitization and preservation efforts. The Registry is available through OCLC WorldCat and is based on the DLF Digital Registry documents and MARC 21 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

NISO's newest publication is Understanding Metadata: a general introduction to metadata, that includ ...
NISO's newest publication is Understanding Metadata: a general introduction to metadata, that includes an overview of leading metadata contenders and examples of practical applications From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Successors . Answers here: ...
This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Successors . Answers here:1. Which queen succeeded her uncle William IV as the British monarch in 1837?2. In 1975, who succeeded Edward Heath as leader of the British Conservative Party?3. Who became President of the United States in 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated?4. Who succeeded his grandfather as Prince of Monaco in 1949, and married actress Grace Kelly in 1956?5. In the year 1040, who became Kin From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition report was produced for OCLC's worldwide membe ...
The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition report was produced for OCLC's worldwide membership to examine the significant issues and trends impacting OCLC, libraries, museums, archives and other allied organizations, both now and in the future From Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

How Do You Measure Web Site Success?
How do you measure the success of your Web site? As more and more people ask me this question, I have learned that the answer is never the same. Though there are some effective public indicators of your site success,... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

Video blog
I've blogged a video reply to Charles Cooper's article at CNET. Real Player (7mb...Possibly not working. Sorry.) Quicktime (11mb) Windows MediaPlayer (3.5mb) Why videoblog it? It's an experiment. (PS: Don't forget Dan Bricklin's reply to Cooper.) Chris Lydon captures a lot of truth about the Convention, including by interviewing Jay Rosen.... From Joho the Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

Subservient President
Remember Subservient Chicken? Here comes Subservient President. (Note: You must be able to prove that you're a manager at Halliburton to play.)... From Joho the Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

Tiny game
.krieger is a truly mediocre first-person shooter with a single level of boring game play., although with some moderately impressive graphics. So why mention it? Because it's all done in a 96K file, which is equivalent to packing for the summer and fitting it all into your wallet.... From Joho the Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:38 p.m..

The Power of Grouping RSS Feeds
I've been using my CDB Bloglines site mainly to run a master copy of my regular RSS feeds (keep my home and work computers in synch). But playing with grouping of feeds, I've found some new tricks to play with. I had just been dumping all feeds into one Bloglines folder, organized alphabetically. I run them on the sidebar of the main entry to CogDogBlog-- yes, "blogrolls" are like, so, 2002, but I have used it myself numerous times to share the URL of a blog I read. And when I visit new blogs, I ver From cogdogblog on July 31, 2004 at 9:37 p.m..

Halleulah!? MT 3.1 As Courseware
Recently bouncing around a few edublogs are echos of Liz Lawley's MT Courseware 3.1 is coming: The announcement about new features in the upcoming MT3.1 release has gotten me excited about revising my courseware for this fall. In particular, the multi-blog option (“A plugin which allows you to include template content from one weblog in any other weblog in your Movable Type install”), the post scheduling, and the improved php/dynamic capability will all make it much easi From cogdogblog on July 31, 2004 at 9:37 p.m..

We the Media, Audio Version
Niall Kennedy has put the Introduction to my new book in audio form. I'm flattered. (Cross-posted to We the Media.) From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 31, 2004 at 9:36 p.m..

A Reagan Pounds Bush

Ron Reagan: The Case Against George W. Bush. Politicians will stretch the truth. They'll exaggerate their accomplishments, paper over their gaffes. Spin has long been the lingua franca of the political realm. But George W. Bush and his administration have taken "normal" mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience. On top of the usual massaging of public perception, they traffic in big lies, in From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 31, 2004 at 9:36 p.m..

Book Party at Creative Commons
J.D. Lasica and Brian Dear were among the folks who came to last night's gathering celebrating the book launch and the relocation of Creative Commons to its new offices in San Francisco. I was honored by the presence of so many fine folks. The book was published under a Creative Commons license, permitting non-commercial use of the material as long as people give it proper attribution and add their "remix From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Karate in Madison, Wisconsin. Kicks Unlimited provides Karate training in Wisconsin.
Karate in Madison, Wisconsin provided by Kicks Unlimited. Kicks Unlimited provides quality martial arts instruction to kids and adults of all ages. [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Real-life science in the Lab of Tomorrow
A game of soccer, volleyball or basketball may seem like an unconventional way to start a science lesson, but in the Lab of Tomorrow sports and other real-life activities merge with theory to create a new educational environment based on the premise that if playing is fun, learning can be too. [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Senator John Kerry Accepts Democratic Nomination for President of the United States of America
Senator John Kerry Accepts Democratic Nomination for President of the United States of America. Here are excerpts of Senator John Kerry's Convention speech (As Prepared for Delivery). [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

PoliticsForum.Com: Freedom vs. Equality
I remember growing up in communist Romania how political leaders from the only legal party allowed to exist, preaching how they fought to win power to give all the people prosperity through equality. [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Back To School: Announcing MasterMind Power Learning System Version 5.0 for Windows.
Jack Mason, CEO of Magic Learning Systems, announces the release of Version 5.0 of MLS's flagship educational software, the MasterMind Power Learning System (tm). [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Special Kids Speech & Skill Development Video Modeling Therapies Introduces New, Improved Website
Pre-Schoolers to Teens in 30-Plus Countries and 500-Plus U.S. School Systems With Developmental, Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Will Benefit [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Michael Moore Praises Groundbreaking Book, "The Future of Peace"
Michael Moore has joined a chorus of other progressive-minded leaders in praising 'The Future of Peace,' by Scott A. Hunt. Hunt's story is inspiring. He quit the dot-com industry after negotiating a successful business venture and decided to use all his money to do something good for the world. He courageously traveled to some of the world's most troubled and dangerous war zones to discover the causes of violence and the potential to resolve the conflicts plaguing modern societies [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Woman Affirming Website Recently Launched
The website, www.the goddessnetwork.net was recently launched to connect a worldwide community of women and allow them to share ideas and gain valuable insight about spirit, soul, the Divine Feminine and the meaning of life's challenges. [PRWEB Jul 31, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Whizlabs Launches MCSD .NET (70-316) Certification Exam Simulator
Whizlabs Software, a key solution provider in IT Certification Exam Preparation has launched MCSD .NET Certification Exam Simulator for professionals seeking certification for 70-316. [PRWEB Jul 31, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

The Children's Home, founded in 1864 and celebrating 140 years of care, now provides FREE nationwide vehicle donation pickups!
The Children's Home (TCH), located in Mt. Holly, NJ, founded in 1864, is a non-profit residential treatment and special education facility for troubled youth from 10 to 17 years of age. [PRWEB Jul 31, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

The Cowboy Connection - Testaverde, George, and Coakley
What do new teammates Eddie George, Vinny Testaverde, and Dexter Coakley all have in common? All three came up through the football program at Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union, Virginia. [PRWEB Jul 31, 2004] From PR Web on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

Environmental Ad contest
Advertising every day becomes more like cave art. Here's aBetterEarth's new environmental ad contest.... From Lessig Blog on July 31, 2004 at 9:34 p.m..

DNS opens networks to data attacks
The ubiquitous online service allows intruders to communicate across supposedly secure corporate perimeters. From CNET News.com on July 31, 2004 at 9:33 p.m..

How To Increase Search Engine Visibility And Exposure
The Marketing Experiments Journal is a great, free newsletter that I would heartily recommend to anyone involved marketing communications. In the last issue which arrived in my inbox last night there was (among a ton of other very useful materials)... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 31, 2004 at 10:31 a.m..

Transparency And Credibility On The Web: How To Increase Them
Transparency and credibility are probably among the hardest assets to build online. The lack of a physical presence greatly diminishes our normal ability to assess an organization/company credibility by looking at visual clues and by having direct communications with its... From Robin Good's Latest News on July 31, 2004 at 10:31 a.m..

John Kerry (Live blogging)
Hated the hokey salute.. He's being likable and relaxed. Great smile "Trees are the cathedrals of nature"? Separation of trees and state! The work of our generation isn't done yet. I like it! This speech hears so much better than it reads! A plea for complexity. My favorite topic. I'd love to see W's rejection of nuance bite him in the ass. "The future doesn't belong to fear. It belongs to freedom." Perfect. "The flag belongs to all the American people." Continues the Convention theme of the unity of all Americans, odd in the bitterest, most divided election in my... From Joho the Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:31 a.m..

President Kerry
The problem with visionary speeches in politics is the same as with sales speeches that talk about benefits: If the vision is big enough, it's always the same speech. In marketing, you end up saying "SAves time, drives down costs, boosts profits," which works out to the single, unified benefit: "Make more money." In American politics the speech becomes about family, flag and freedom. If the vision is sufficiently grand, the same speech can be given by George Bush, John Kerry, Ralph Nader and your crazy Uncle Bob. I liked Kerry's speech because it wasn't visionary. By giving us e From Joho the Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:31 a.m..

Bricklin on event blogging
Dan Bricklin has a post on what we're starting to learn about event blogging. Dan's doing a service by turning this into a topic... In passing, Dan responds to Charles Coopers' post at CNET. Dan says that we're only at the beginning of learning about event blogging and about the relationship of blogging and journalism. To this I would only add: Cooper is judging blogging as if it were wannabe journalism. What I was doing at the Convention wasn't journalism. I'm not sure what to call what I was doing, except maybe "blogging." Was it worthwhile even thought it wasn& From Joho the Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:31 a.m..

From an Arab-American
From a reader who requests anonymity, and who gave me permission to post this version with identifying info removed: As for your Tuesday night scorecard: My scorecard matches yours. When Barack Obama started speaking, I got goosebumps. But further into his speech — rich with concrete details and a human no-catch-phrase voice — when he had the compassion and, more important, courage to cite an Arab American family as part of HIS e pluribus unum, he won my heart forever. David, life has been at best disheartening or worse, terrifying for Arab Americans since 9-11... ...More at Loose From Joho the Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:31 a.m..

Real's Potential Legal Arguments and Principles
Building off what I said yesterday about Real's press release, I presented two questions to a Real executive on pho regarding a message he had posted supporting Harmony and interoperability. "1. Why did Real sue, under the DMCA, creators of interoperable software products?  Streambox created Harmony-esque software for Real's streaming files.  If interop From A Copyfighter's Musings on July 31, 2004 at 10:30 a.m..

Cool Collaborative Weblogs
Barbara points to this collaborative Weblog at ArtsJournal: CRITICAL CONVERSATION: From July 28-August 7, ArtsJournal is hosting a special topic blog called Critical Conversation and featuring some of America's best classical music critics. Our bloggers include: Alex Ross (The New Yorker), Kyle Gann (Village Voice), Justin Davidson (Newsday), Anne Midgette (The New York Times), Scott Cantrell (Dallas Morning News), Charles Ward (Houston Chronicle), Wynne Delacoma (Chicago Sun-Times), Andrew Druckenbrod (P From weblogged News on July 31, 2004 at 10:30 a.m..

Moveable Type 3.1 as Coursware
Liz Lawley thinks the new version of Moveable Type will be a lot more teacher friendly. The announcement about new features in the upcoming MT3.1 release has gotten me excited about revising my courseware for this fall. In particular, the multi-blog option (A plugin which allows you to include template content from one weblog in any other weblog in your Movable Type install), the post scheduling, and the From weblogged News on July 31, 2004 at 10:30 a.m..

CMS Myth #1: Installing a CMS must be hard
This is the first of what may become a series of CMS myths to be tackled (briefly) in this blog. CMS Myth #1: Installing a CMS must be hard In the beginning, content management systems were used to solve leading-edge... From Column Two on July 31, 2004 at 10:30 a.m..

Bringing human information behaviour into information systems research: an application of systems modelling
David Johnstone, Mary Tate and Marcus Bonner have written an article on human information behaviour research. To quote: In their influential paper, Dervin and Nilan compared and contrasted the "traditional" and "alternative" paradigms for human information behaviour research, highlighting the... From Column Two on July 31, 2004 at 10:30 a.m..

disguised as superuser
sudo /etc/postfix/post-install create-missing - that saved me lots of blood, sweat, and tears today. Thanks to Marcus From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 31, 2004 at 10:29 a.m..

Video kills the Radio star
Here we go! A new tool for videoblogging A videoblog Java client to download for free if you use Blogger or MovableType: vBlog Central . See a list videoblogs who use this tool there . (Via mediaTIC blog ). [ Smart Mobs ] From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 31, 2004 at 10:29 a.m..

What is blogging, again.
Just having breakfast. The never-ending story unfolds once again. Mabye it's just another instance of talking about innovation. As long as we have no adequate concepts of talking about an innovation, that means as long innovations are not internalized by a society or community, we struggle to describe it in terms of well-known traditional concepts because it doesn't fit exactly or is even something different . This time it's about writing in/for the public. Is that journalism or just writing or something new called blogging . We can't have an answer as long as we don't From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 31, 2004 at 10:29 a.m..

EmoteMail?
I'm not sure if this is the right way to enhance email. Isn't it that we hide the production process on purpose. Or are we in the midst of changing our habits and cultures of production. Is it all about disclosure? Is email the way we would go to disclose the process of producing or do we have other tools that help us to disclose. After all: I could manipulate the context-messages that are conveyed EmoteMail. (Win and Mac Client available) EmoteMail project: email with facial e From thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 31, 2004 at 10:29 a.m..

NY Times Multimedia Section
The multimedia section of NY Times (free registration required) is turning out to be a fantastic resource not only for visual journalists but also for all web designers. They have a search feature which is great for someone who's coming in from the news perspective (e.g. search for 'Palestine ') but no so good for someone coming in from the design perspective, which is but natural as NY Times is a news website and not a design school. But it would be great if there were a meta search somewhere where I could, fo From elearningpost on July 31, 2004 at 10:29 a.m..

e-Learning to Become Strategic Industry (in Korea)
Guess e-learning has to become strategic in a country where being online is an essential part of everyday life. "Under the law, representatives from the eight ministries, including the MOCIE, the Ministry of Human Resources &amp Education, the Ministry of Finance and Economy and the Ministry of Planning and Budget, will set up a committee for the e-learning industry development. The committee will map out the industry development plans and implement them." From elearningpost on July 31, 2004 at 10:29 a.m..

W3C and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Establish Formal Relationship
2004-07-29: W3C and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling their cooperation on mobile Web specifications. "Together, W3C and OMA are well positioned to lead development toward technological compatibility and the ease of repurposing Web content, known as single Web authoring," said Philipp Hoschka (W3C). In widespread use, W3C Recommendations for the mobile industry include XHTML Basic markup, SMIL multimedia and SVG graphics. Read the press release and more about Device Independence. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on July 31, 2004 at 10:28 a.m..

Convention Bloggers and the Future
For all the occasional self-absorption and recursive coverage of coverage of blogging at the Democratic National Convention, it's clear that the experiment must be chalked up as a success. The bloggers' work ranged from abysmal to terrific, sort of like traditional journalism. What's important to keep in mind is that this was one of those moments when things pivot slightly. The accreditation of bloggers to the convention was an affirmation by a highly centralized hierarchy -- the Democratic Party -- of an evolving kind of information flow. That the even more centralized Republi From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 31, 2004 at 10:28 a.m..

An Election is Also About Issues

Paul Krugman (NY Times): Triumph of the Trivial. Somewhere along the line, TV news stopped reporting on candidates' policies, and turned instead to trivia that supposedly reveal their personalities. We hear about Mr. Kerry's haircuts, not his health care proposals. We hear about George Bush's brush-cutting, not his environmental policies. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 31, 2004 at 10:28 a.m..

Controlling agent societies with Ruby: Rich Kilmer and Dana Moore
In his talk Controlling and Testing Distributed Systems with Ruby, Rich Kilmer shared details of a DARPA-funded project he's been working on for about a year and a half. His team has built up a rich set of "control surfaces" -- in Ruby -- for a cluster of 150-odd Linux machines that run large-scale simulations of military exercises. The simulation platf From Jon's Radio on July 31, 2004 at 10:28 a.m..

Lost Florida Voting Records Found
The Miami-Dade County case of the missing electronic-voting records has been solved. Elections officials found the 2002 records, previously believed lost in computer crashes, on a compact disc in the Elections Supervisor's office. From Wired News on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

NASA Waffles on Kerry Photos
The space agency raises the ire of presidential partisans by posting goofy photos of Sen. John Kerry in a bunny suit on the Web, then removing them, then putting some of them back up. Also: China may recruit female astronauts.... and more. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

9/11 Report Iffy on Tech
The 9/11 Commission made recommendations for technology solutions in its final report -- some specific, some fuzzy -- to bring government into the information age. By Michael Myser. From Wired News on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Cable, DSL face threats - Jim Hu, CNET News.com
"We're competing with companies that are exponentially bigger than us," said Bill DeMuth, the chief technology officer at SureWest. "The competitive advantage we have over SBC and Comcast is the fiber." SureWest is one of a handful of broadband companies From Techno-News Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Has the Microsoft of Today Become the IBM of the Late '80s? - Espen Andersen, Ubiquity
Back in 1987, I attended a large meeting at IBM's newly built Norwegian headquarters, where the company presented what would be their main software platform " OS/2, particularly OS/2 Extended Edition. This was a 32-bit operating system with a database sy From Techno-News Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

A court ruling triggers an angry outcry, and the House of Representatives files for a legislative fix - Deborah Asbrand, Technology Review
It's rare that the words "hoopla" and "wiretap act" wind up next to each other. But the First Circuit Court of Appeals achieved just that on June 29. That's when the Massachusetts court ruled that it is not a violation of wiretap law for Internet servic From Techno-News Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

'Tighter controls' for tiny science - BBC
Tiny carbon nanotubes can be used to make strong composite materials Tighter UK and European regulation over some aspects of nanotechnology -manipulation of molecules - is needed to ensure its long-term safety. A Royal Society and Royal Academy of Eng From Techno-News Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Into the Blogsphere
Various professors, independent scholars, and technology gurus have developed a keen interest in the use of weblogs as pedagogical tools and as virtual communities. The Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota has gone one interesting step From Techno-News Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Business blogging moving mainstream - Reuters
In a sign blogs are moving mainstream, major technology companies, including Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.came together at a recent conference to discuss the profit potential of the Web publishing format. The growth in the n From Techno-News Blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

New technology offers help for ADHD students - eSchool News
An Asheville, N.C.-based company says it has created an alternative to traditional treatments for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The new treatment involves asking users to move images on a computer screen using only their minds. Built From Educational Technology on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Student tracking system has fans, foes: State lauds progress; costs worry districts - Pat Kossan, The Arizona Republic
The Arizona Department of Education is declaring victory, but few schools are celebrating. The promise of the Student Accountability Information System was to make it easier for district and charter schools to track student enrollment and send the inform From Educational Technology on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

The National Math Trail
The National Math Trail, funded by the US Department of Education's Star Schools program, through the Satellite Education Resources Consortium (SERC), and NEC Foundation, combines mathematics, technology, and students' communities. The project is based From Educational Technology on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Teaching with Electronic Technology
Michael Hall, an adjunct lecturer in the University of Maryland's Honors Program, offers this website with various articles addressing "the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching." The articles From Educational Technology on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Shorthand on the web - Alan Plews, Evening Gazette
Elaine, who has taught in further education and universities for about 30 years, got the idea when she taught trainee journalists on a course at Darlington College of Technology. From Online Learning Update on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

New Degree Program the First of Its Kind to Utilize Innovative Online Classroom
The University Alliance Online and Florida Institute of Technology started enrollment for the newly created online degree program, Master of Science in Systems Management, with an IS Concentration. Melbourne-based Florida Tech began collaborating with t From Online Learning Update on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Sydney Uni gets serious on e-learning - Claire Doble, InformationWeek
The University of Sydney is moving to mix conventional teaching with online learning and has hired 12 people in the past year to support its e-learning infrastructure. Professor Peter Goodyear, co-director of Sydney University's Research Centre in Compu From Online Learning Update on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Indigenous leaders discuss higher education changes - 612 ABC, Brisbane
An international consortium of Indigenous leaders has urged more Aboriginal Australians to take part in higher education. More than 80 delegates from countries like Hawaii and Canada are meeting in Brisbane to discuss ways to increase the Indigenous ro From Online Learning Update on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Promethean Offers U.S. Educators Free CD-ROM Guide to Selection and Use of Interactive, Electronic Whiteboards
A comprehensive guide to the purchase and implementation of electronic whiteboards in K-12 schools is being made available, for free, to U.S. educators by Promethean Inc., supplier of the ACTIVboard Collaborative Classroom System. "The Good Guide to In From Online Learning Update on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Best Practices for Online Information-Literacy Courses - Thomas J. Tobin, JIOL
Abstract: Remote access to resources has become increasingly important in academic libraries, spurred largely by the growth of online education. Through bibliographic instruction (BI) courses, librarians must prepare both on-site and remote patrons in From Online Learning Update on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Spawn
Science told us it couldn't happen, but guess what: a future Rushkoff is making her way to this dimension. From rushkoff.blog on July 31, 2004 at 10:27 a.m..

Mom brought Google to its knees
This past Monday, July 26, Google was Unavailable to many if not most internet users. The cause was a virus named mydoom, which causes infected PCs to send spam, and in the case of this variant, went to Google and other search engines looking for email addresses to spam. Even the mighty Google couldn't handle the load. Mom called me a week ago. "I want you to take this firewall off of my computer." From kuro5hin.org on July 31, 2004 at 10:26 a.m..

Kerry Worse Than Ashcroft on Civil Liberties?
Reason Online has an article about, among other things, the debate in the 1990s over export restrictions on strong cryptography. Senator Ashcroft and Senator Kerry were on opposite sides of the issue: Kerry was in favor of the export controls and Ashcroft sided with the ACLU in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software. Even more interesting is a Kerry camp press release that answers critics' attacks on his defense record by stating, "John Kerry stands by his vote for the Patriot Act. In fact, he authored most of the money laundering provisi From kuro5hin.org on July 31, 2004 at 10:26 a.m..

Comments temporarily disabled due to spam
Some casino spambot pigsucker decided to spam the hell out of my weblog again tonight... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on July 31, 2004 at 10:26 a.m..

APOLLO Deployed on Solaris
I just finished an initial test deployment of APOLLO, including all frameworks and a sample searching application, on a Solaris server for use by the folks in BC... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on July 31, 2004 at 10:26 a.m..

Workforce Challenges Ahead
High-level executives express concern about whether their workforces are prepared for a more competitive business environment. From ClickZ Stats on July 31, 2004 at 10:26 a.m..

Seems fair. Share and enjoy!
Last month Norman Walsh started using a Creative Commons license for his essays (consistently informed and provocative on XML, Semantic Web, and other technical topics) and photographs. Norm does us the favor of explaining his choice:When I started writing this collection of essays, I slapped on a quick copyright statement asserting "All Rights Reserved." That was simple and easy to do, but it has always struck me as overly conservative.I wouldn't release From Creative Commons: weblog on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

Hackers plan global game of 'capture the flag'
Online attackers will take on one another in a massive Internet exercise. Could it spill out into the real world? From CNET News.com on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

Lining up the defense
At Black Hat confab, security experts talk Google, RFID, e-voting; at Defcon, hackers hone strategy. Also: More patches for IE. From CNET News.com on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

Shareholders: Salesforce.com misled us before IPO
Three lawsuits allege that the company made false statements about its financial prospects in the run-up to its stock market launch. From CNET News.com on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

Microsoft customers back in the Money
The software giant comes up with a workaround to a glitch that shut some Microsoft Money users out of their accounts for almost five days. From CNET News.com on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

Intel's vision: A wireless melting pot
All the different wireless technologies will one day work together in harmony, the chipmaker says as it outlines its vision of the mobile future. From CNET News.com on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

How to run a brainstorming meeting
Via the Cogdogblog Furl, this item provides some useful advice on holding a brainstorming session, including what to do after the session is over. By Scott Berkun, UIWeb.com, July, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

Apple Threatens RealNetworks
Without being overly cynical, without suggesting that a certain company's politics wave with the wind, let me respectfully not respond to Apple's protestations against RealMedia. And in that positive spirit - because I do support what RealMedia has done - let me offer something constructive, something useful. I have the perfect campaign slogan for Real's new product line. Catchy, short, to the point, and expressive. What is it? Just this: Rip, Mix, Burn. By George V. Hulme, InformationWeek, July 29, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

Spiral Dynamics and Education
Marcus Barber responded to my Vygotsky link yesterday with a longish email, which I appreciated, and a link to this presentation. It's a longish PDF (a format my distaste for which he acknowledged) describing an off-shoot known as spiral dynamics. The bulk of the paper is devoted to dividing learners into six colour-coded groups, ranging from the deferential purples to the lone wolf reds. Value systems, according to the paper, are "wave-like processes that oscillate between a focus on the external world and how to master it and a focus on the inner being and how to come to peace with it." From OLDaily on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..

DLORN Upgrade
I have made a minor upgrade to DLORN, the site that harvests learning resources RSS files. Specifically, DLORN listings are now available by RSS (0.91), Javascript and in ticker format. More changes coming. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, July 30, 2004 [Refer][Research][Ref From OLDaily on July 31, 2004 at 10:25 a.m..