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SSHRC tightening application requirements
For anyone interested in applying for research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), you will want to read the refinements they are making to the application process that follows. It is a long post,... From Rick's Café Canadien on August 8, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..

Tam named head coach
From the "way overdue news about alumni" department, have you heard that Ivan Tam was named Head Coach of the Huskie Athletic Track and Field team? He's replacing Lyle Sanderson, who recently retired after 19 years and five CIS National... From Rick's Café Canadien on August 8, 2004 at 9:21 p.m..

Electioneering? Guardian:A rightwing US pressure g ...
Electioneering? Guardian:A rightwing US pressure group is calling for a ban on television advertising for Michael Moore's controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11, claiming it amounts to "electioneering". People outside US all knows the content and links in the movie, except common people in US. So whether it's for electioneering or not, American should take a look at it. From on August 8, 2004 at 9:20 p.m..

Nunavut Tourism fires web-logging staffer
I am sure that there's more here than meets the eye. But if you just read her blog, Polar Penny, and the article in the Nunatsiaq News, it looks like the Nunavut Tourism folks over-reacted! I am sure that we will have many more of these stories in the future in Canada. It's funny that the traditional media only covers these kinds of stories. I guess the fact that many people like myself, got their jobs, because of their blogs is not news. Onl From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Mark Lemmons et al re-acquire Six Degrees from Creo, restart their startup and rename it to Clarity
Go Mark and company go! I just downloaded Clarity 2.5 and it looks great. It slurped in my many megabytes of emails from my 7 email accounts effortlessly! It truly has become Google for your email. I love how the reverse acquisition was buried; I could only find this mentioned in Analyst calls for more cost cuts at Creo ("In the third quarter, the company closed a Denver facility and took a charge of US$600,000. Apparently, the operating unit From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

The Sky is not falling - Young people are still literate but in a new media stylee!
Beware of old farts lamenting today's youth's lack of literacy! From Read/Write Web: A New Kind of Literacy: QUOTEWhile it is disturbing that reading is apparently declining, there is a new kind of literacy that I believe is rising to take its place. It's like media literacy, but there's more to it as well... The new generation of readers aren't content to be passive consumers of books. They want to be able to interact and communicate with words and other From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Rails - cool new web application framework in Ruby
Some many frameworks so little time. Love to have time to study this; alas I have other things to do :-) From Rails : QUOTERails is an open source web-application framework for Ruby. It ships with an answer for every letter in MVC: Action Pack for the Controller and View, Active Record for the Model. Everything needed to build real-world applications in less lines of code than other frameworks spend setting up their XML configuration files. Like Basecamp, which was launched aft From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Jon Udell explains how to blog audio and video
Lookng forward to some practical hints and tips on multimedia blogging! From O'Reilly Network: Prime-Time Hypermedia: QUOTEIn a series of columns beginning with this one, I'll review and elaborate on a variety of hypermedia techniques I've been experimenting with. I don't know beans about high-end AV technologies, so don't look for expert guidance or Hollywood production values. I come at this from the bottom up, as a web-savvy blogger fr From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Adam Bosworth - SOAP is too complicated
Amen! Does anybody really use the complicated SOAP standards? I don't know anybody who does. And if you do, you should think about how to make it simpler. From Adam Bosworth's Weblog: KISS and The Mom Factor: QUOTEit is interesting to me how this focus around simplicity in the services world could carry through even to the plumbing people use. For example take so called web services. The original impetus behind XML, at least as far as I was concerned back in 1996, was From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

GUI Bloopers
This sounds like a must-read for people who develop software that real people (not techies) use! From Table of Contents - GUI Bloopers by Jeff Johnson: QUOTEChapter 1: First Principles Chapter 2: GUI Component Bloopers Chapter 3: Layout and Appearance Bloopers Chapter 4: Textual Bloopers Chapter 5: Interaction Bloopers Chapter 6: Web Bloopers Chapter 7: Responsiveness Bloopers Chapter 8: Management Bloopers Chapter 9: Sof From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Exploding the Enterprise
Soundbites from a marvellous panel session at the Supernova conference in Santa Clara last month. Moderator: Phil Windley. Participants: John Hagel III, Halsey Minor, Gordon Eubanks, Darren Lee.Impenetrable walls ringed medieval cities to keep invaders out. Once a week, the gates swung open for market day. Want to buy a chicken? Better do it on market day, for Seven-Elevens had not been invented. Stores didn't appear until catapu From Internet Time Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

The Real-Time Enterprise: by Peter Fingar & Joseph Bellini
This afternoon I read The Real-time Enterprise, a prescient new book by Peter Fingar and Joseph Bellini. This is a management book, not a techie book. It's subject is executing strategy, not IT.When I approach a topic that's on the horizon but not fully evolved, my first question is, "Does it matter?" Here's the authors' take on that:"This shift to business process management is the biggest change in the use of business From Internet Time Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Watch out for the big one!
I just finished the first chapter and a skim of Howard Smith and Peter Fingar's Business Process Management: The Third Wave. This post is an amalgam of their ideas and mine. I've been obsessed with the metric of time today, exploring where layers that usually move in tandem seem out of sync. Reviewing Steward Brand's How Buildings Learn and Clock of the Long Now brought up parallels to my thinking about the rhythm of business, the future of work, and the assimilation of the Net into virtually everything, so don't blame Howard and Peter From Internet Time Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Form Factor
This morning, on a lark, I converted several years of Blog entries in several categories into Microsoft Word files. Perhaps these will have some appeal to people who don't like Blogs (even though the format is Last In First Out and the tone is flip).Whoops. I lost the graphics. They worked on my home machine; perhaps it was reading from cache. I'll be back with an update when I figure this out.--> From Internet Time Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:19 p.m..

Elsevier CEO criticizes UK OA plan
Richard Wray, Reed says enforced access plan is daft, The Guardian, August 6, 2004. Excerpt: "Sir Crispin Davis, the chief executive of leading academic publisher Reed Elsevier, yesterday branded as 'daft' the idea that British universities should have to make publicly funded research freely available to all. Last month a committee of MPs recommended that academic institutions must put a copy of any article written by staff and based on publicly funded work on their websites. This recommendation for so-ca From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

More on the Springer open-choice plan
Stephanie Kirchgaessner, New leaf for chief of Springer, Financial Times, August 5, 2004. On Derk Haank's move from Elsevier to Springer. Excerpt: "Like other academic publishers, some of Springer's biggest customers the libraries that purchase its journals are facing increasing budget pressure. A vocal minority of libraries and academics are also calling for a revamp of the traditional 'user pays' publishing model, which they claim is too costly for the end user. Instead, some are promoti From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Elsevier CEO defends company profits
Philip Aldrick, Reed boss denies 'profiteering', Daily Telegraph, August 6, 2004. Excerpt: "Reed, the world's largest publisher of scientific journals, has been accused of profiteering from knowledge. In particular, critics have drawn attention to the company's 34pc operating margin. Reformers want to transform the current 'subscriber pays' model of publishing research into an 'author pays' model, where access From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

The OA movement in Germany
Gerd Hansen, Grenzenlos kreativ: Die Open-Access-Bewegung will freien Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Informationen und kulturellen Gütern schaffen, Der Tagesspiegel, August 6, 2004. On the open-access movement in general and its German initiatives in particular, including the new German edition of the Creative Commons. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Elsevier CEO responds to economic and political challenge
Dan Sabbagh, Reed Elsevier chief hits back in scientific publishing row, London Times, August 6, 2004. Excerpt: "Critics argue that the scientific community should abandon seeking publication in journals of the type that Reed owns in favour of the 'open-source' model, in which authors pay to have their research made public. 'After five years, the author-pays model has gained a 1 per cent market share,' Sir Crispin said as the Anglo-Dutch group reported interim results. 'Libraries do push From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Call for Australia to follow UK OA plan
Allan Fels, How to bring knowledge to the entire planet, The Age, August 7, 2004. Excerpt: "The promise of the internet as an easy-to-search, open-access archive holding all humanity's accumulated research and information is not being realised. According to a new report from the British Parliament, much of the best scientific and medical research is being locked away in for-profit journals whose rising costs are increasingly putting them out of public reach....It is time that the Australian Gove From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Priced access to OA journals
Ulrichsweb now has the power to identify open-access journals when searching or browsing. Unfortunately, the feature is only available to subscribers --and subscriptions start at $1,450/year for individuals. (PS: Stick to the open-access Directory of Open Access Journals.) From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Will OA make costs go up or down?
Joseph J. Esposito, The devil you don't know: The unexpected future of Open Access publishing, First Monday, August 2004. Abstract: "With the advent of the Internet and online publishing, the notion has arisen that access to the world's research publications could be made available to one and all for free, presumably by shifting the costs to other places in the value chain and disintermediating publishers, a circumstance called Open Access (OA) publishing. While there are many hopes embedded in this view (lower costs, w From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Survey of social scientists about OA archiving
Eugenio Pelizzari, Academic Authors and Open Archives: A Survey in the Social Science Field, Libri, June 2004. No Libri content is free online for non-subscribers, not even the TOC and abstracts. This abstract was distributed by email: "The paper reports on a survey of the academic staff of the Faculties of Economics and Law of the University of Brescia, Italy. The survey sought to determine knowledge and use of Open-Access archives, and to verify the conditions stated by the staff for their participation in an Institutional Open-Access initiative. The response to the questionnaire was 57.9 From Open Access News on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Celebrating Adult Learners
By Ronald Gross - The Pennsylvania Department of Education recognizes exemplary adult basic education and literacy learners in a heart-stirring publication.... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 8, 2004 at 9:18 p.m..

Hermit Crab Pattern on use.perl.org (Clay Shirky)
A young woman best described as livejournal user manque started using the free journal service over at perl.org to ruminate out loud about her life. On LJ, she would have enjoyed the privacy of the mall, but on perl.org, she... From Corante: Social Software on August 8, 2004 at 9:17 p.m..

del.icio.us mind map (Clay Shirky)
An app to take your del.icio.us tags and turn them into a mindmap: You can see the mind map of my recent links here: delicious_mind/ (note: loads Java applet and takes a little while). The online version lets you fold... From Corante: Social Software on August 8, 2004 at 9:17 p.m..

Web Conferencing Experts Say: It's A Buyer's Market!
Some quite interesting trends emerge from the report I created with the questions and answers collected at yesterday's live event "State of the E-conferencing Industry: Today's Issues and Tomorrow's Solution" organized and presented/moderated by Stephanie Downs of ConferZone. If we... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 8, 2004 at 9:15 p.m..

Marketing Is Part Of The Conversation: Or Not?
Ben Hunt pointed me to this article on Wired and asked with surprise if blog commerce is next up on the list. Yes, Ben, not only blog commerce is coming up next, it has already been here among us for... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 8, 2004 at 9:15 p.m..

Spyware, Adware, Malware: Who Owns Your PC?
Here is one more "enlightening journey into the dangers lurking out on the 'net for the unwary". Spyware and malicious ware of all kinds attempts to install itself on your PC and the more I look, the more I see... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 8, 2004 at 9:15 p.m..

Bush to invade Ireland
Reuters reports that a Swedish scientist claims that Ireland is the lost island of Atlantis. And The Weekly World News, the only American news journal that dares to tell the truth (except perhaps The Onion), last week revealed that President Bush plans on invading Atlantis to prevent them from developing WMDs. You do the math.... From Joho the Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:15 p.m..

Standard dissatisfaction
The ISO organization — the global purveyor of standards — has issued a new standard: A new ISO standard offers a solution for organizations on those occasions when the customer is dissatisfied with a product or service — guidelines for handling complaints in a manner that gives optimal results for both the organization and unhappy customer... ...The standard gives complete guidance — including principles, issues for consideration and structural aspects — for the management of the overall complaints-handling process, with numerous checklists, sample forms and pract From Joho the Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:15 p.m..

URL-ing it your way to easy audio, video clips- John Udell on Hypermedia and Blogging
Sometimes in the RSS grazing you zoom quickly past something that just has a tiny spark, and it registers- this might be big. I had that sensation upong finding this O'Reilly article from uber uber geek John Udell, Prime-Time Hypermedia: In the course of trying to transform my blog from a hypertext publication into a hypermedia publication, I've run into a bunch of obstacles. In the world of tech blogging they are -- ironically -- almost purely technical. Presentations, demos, From cogdogblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:14 p.m..

Blogs Ranking Page Update, Plus Some Thank Yous
We have had a few complaints from within our community about how the Rankings page works.  We presented the Rankings page as a means of sorting, as a way to direct readers to various blogs on the server, and of keeping track of how many hits each blog got on a daily and on a total basis.  Lots of people liked it, but a distinct minority of people did not -- or, at least, they didn't like one of our policies about how to handle the counting when a single blog gets a very large number of hits f From Column Two on August 8, 2004 at 9:14 p.m..

Educators Corner
I just added this resource site to the EduResources Portal (http://sage.eou.edu/SPT); the Educators Corner is a worthwhile collection of resources for teaching about high technology entrepreneuship.  JH___ "The STVP Educators Corner is a free online archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning in engineering and the sciences. The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists and engi From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on August 8, 2004 at 9:13 p.m..

Scheduled Systems Outage 7 August
2004-08-05: W3C's mailing lists are being moved to a new server on Saturday, 7 August at 04:00 UTC. List service will be suspended for a few hours but the majority of the W3C Web site will remain accessible. Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued and posted when the move is complete. The W3C Systems Team expects to have list service restored on the same day. We appreciate your patience. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on August 8, 2004 at 9:13 p.m..

Standards of Honor

AP: McCain condemns anti-Kerry ads, calls on White House to follow suit. Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well. The White House declined. You expected anything different? Neither did I. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 8, 2004 at 9:13 p.m..

GoogleMania Cooling
News columns are full today of news about Google's apparently delayed public offering. There's little doubt that the IPO will happen, but the glitches, technical and otherwise, are not helping the company's reputation. Nor is its methods in handling potential investors. As my colleague Mike Langberg points out today, there's a powerful arrogance at work in excluding From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 8, 2004 at 9:13 p.m..

Open Thread
I'm on the road -- no postings until Saturday sometime. Meanwhile, chat here among yourselves. Try to be respectful of each other. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 8, 2004 at 9:13 p.m..

Disney Asks FCC to Control All Digital Music
The EFF has posted this astounding note about the music industry's latest move toward controlling all digital music content. Disney is the stalking horse for the cartel's wishes."Disney wants the FCC to regulate all devices capable of recording from any audio broadcasting medium or from the Internet. FM radio, XM, Sirius, Streamripper, Total Recorder, you're all in the crosshairs. It's the Hollings Bill all over again. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 8, 2004 at 9:13 p.m..

Probe Set to Test Einstein Theory
After several glitches were fixed, NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft is ready to take measurements, say mission controllers. The results could help prove -- or disprove -- some of Einstein's general theory of relativity. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on August 8, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..

A New Era of Internet Threats - Jack M. Germain, E-Commerce Times
In the earlier age of virus attacks, computer users had to interact with the infection vehicle in order to activate the virus. While those old techniques relied on the ignorance of end-users, in today's world the end-user doesn't have to do anything wr From Techno-News Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..

Wi-Fi phones make a splash - Ben Charny, CNET News.com
Cell phone makers plan to release so-called Wi-Fi phones ahead of schedule, bringing new threats and opportunities to wireless carriers and traditional phone service providers. The highly anticipated hybrid phones let people make connections using a l From Techno-News Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..

Street Access to the Cyberhighway - Business Week
TCC Teleplex chief Dennis Novick says pay phones with high-speed Net connections in New York City are only the start of its plans . Stop and think about it. When was the last time you used a pay phone? If it has been a while, don't feel left out. You'r From Techno-News Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..

Cyberterror impact, defense under scrutiny - Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
A terrorist threat is out there " and not just against physical structures. A coordinated cyberattack against the USA could topple parts of the Internet, silence communications and commerce, and paralyze federal agencies and businesses, government offi From Techno-News Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..

Passport ID Technology Has High Error Rate - Jonathan Krim, Washington Post
The State Department is moving ahead with a plan to implant electronic identification chips in U.S. passports that will allow computer matching of facial characteristics, despite warnings that the technology is prone to a high rate of error. Federal re From Techno-News Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:12 p.m..

S.C. attorney general gives new voting system green light - Jennifer Holland, Associated Press
South Carolina's new touch-screen voting machines meet federal requirements, the state attorney general says, despite complaints from a group that promotes voter education and participation. The South Carolina Progressive Network had asked Attorney Ge From Techno-News Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

New high-speed network expands students' learning options - Kym Reinstadler, The Grand Rapids Press
Four Allendale High School students will take Advanced Placement calculus this fall from Hamilton High School teacher Blaine Lugten, as he teaches 45 students of his own. This distance learning feat is possible through the marvels of the Ottawa Area In From Educational Technology on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Online classes a click away for students - Marlene Garcia, Lahontan Valley News
Churchill County students who have dropped out of school and want to finish their education have a new option for accomplishing their goal.The Churchill County School District is offering accredited online classes through the Internet at no cost to ful From Educational Technology on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Bridging the Digital Divide: Teens Help Seniors Go Online - Jim Buie, The Washington Post
Senior residents of the Hebrew Home in Rockville are learning their way around the Internet, mastering elements such as e-mail and videoconferencing, and maybe changing their lives in the process. Ben Avin, a 91-year-old retired history professor from From Educational Technology on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Can you be a techie if you can't type? - Rebecca L. Weber, The Christian Science Monitor
Ms. Eastman's computer classes at this Washington, D.C., elementary school used to focus on using technology to enhance academic skills. But three years ago, after watching some kids spend as long as 10 minutes searching for the letters to enter a sing From Educational Technology on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

UCCP
More than 150 educators gathered at UC Santa Cruz recently for the annual online teaching and learning institute hosted by UC College Prep Online (UCCP). The conference, oeBuilding a Culture of Technology for Learning and Teaching in K-12, took place J From Online Learning Update on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

OK, class please go home and log on: Tight schedules, flexibility spur surge in online learning - REBECCA PIRO, Lowell, MA Sun
Graduation is typically a time of lasts for college students who have reached the victorious end to four long years of study. But for a handful of UMass Online students, graduation last spring was a time of firsts the first time they set foot on campus From Online Learning Update on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Seeking an educational commons: The promise of open source development models - Gary Hepburn, First Monday
Public schools and other educational institutions need to become more familiar with some of the opportunities that are emerging as a result of open source projects. Leveraging the potential of the Internet as a collaborative medium, open source develop From Online Learning Update on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Higher Education Researchers Meet at Microsoft Summit - Syllabus
Bill Gates gave the opening keynote Monday at Microsoft Research's 6th annual Faculty Summit, and participated in an exclusive Q&A along with Rick Rashid, senior VP of Microsoft Research and Sailesh Chutani, director of Microsoft University Relations. From Online Learning Update on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Web-slingers e-learn together - KYRA HOGGAN, CALGARY SUN
Spider-Man isn't the only one taking advantage of opportunities on the Web, as e-learners continue to swing along the course of life-long education. "There has been a definite growth in the e-learning field," says Sue Madsen of Mount Royal College. "W From Online Learning Update on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Online Learning: Social Interaction and the Creation of a Sense of Community - Joanne M McInnerney & Tim S Roberts, ETS
ABSTRACT This paper centres on the sense of isolation that online study may engender among learners, a factor often ignored by many educators, but one that may make the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful online learning environment for From Online Learning Update on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Resolving Conflicts in Healthy Ways-Without Aggression or Violence-is Possible
The International Education For Peace Institute (EFP-International) of Switzerland has recently established an office in British Columbia, Canada. As the first of its activities, EFP-International, in association with the Justice Institute of British Columbia, is offering training seminars on how to resolve conflicts in our personal lives, workplaces, and within our schools. The seminars are entitled: Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution (CFCR) and Creating Violence Free Schools (VFS) and are being held from 16-20 August 2004 at the Justice Institute of BC's New Westminster location. [PRWEB From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Recorded Textbooks Go Digital and Offer Unprecedented Access to Information for Massachusetts Students with Visual Impairments, Learning Disabilities
Massachusetts students who are blind, visually impaired or who have learning disabilities will have unprecedented access to the contents of textbooks and other educational materials with the nationwide release of digitally recorded textbooks on CD from Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic® (RFB&D®). [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Talent R US and Olive Garden Join Forces to Help Talents Find Perfect Opportunities
Olive Garden to participate in educating the local community on how to take advantage of the "Career Advancement Program " from Talent R US as well as other useful services available at talentRUS.com. [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Seminars on Public Speaking and Personal Motivation Offer Tested Strategies for Better Job Performance
Improving communication and motivation skills to enhance job performance topic of upcoming workshops sponsored by Datamatics. [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Music Appreciation 101 HYPHEN For Kids
New DVD Makes College-Level Music Education As Easy as A-B-C"The A to Z Symphony" Waltzes Into Stores August 10, 2004Receives Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products Award! [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Karate - Martial Arts - Tae Kwon Do in Windsor Ontario Canada
Looking for Karate Lessons in Windsor Ontario Canada? [PRWEB Aug 7, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Whizlabs Upgrades its OCP 1Z0-001(Oracle 9i Certification) Exam Simulator
Whizlabs Software, a global leader in IT Certification Exam Preparation, has launched the upgrade version of its Exam Simulator for OCP 9i 1Z0-001 (Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL) exam. [PRWEB Aug 7, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

American Buddha Online Library Provides Educational Resources and Forum For Science and Philosophy
American-Buddha.com provides free resources for educators and students. Classical literature, movie reviews and images, and cutting edge commentary vie for your attention in a lively, commercial-free space. Educational use of media permitted for American Buddha Online Library members. [PRWEB Aug 7, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

"Fearless Career Change: The Fast Track to Success in a New Field," by Career Coach and Best Selling Author, Marky Stein, to be Released August 13, 2004 by McGraw-Hill
A practical step-by-step method for quickly transitioning to a new career with minimal stress, time, and personal expense offers a proven model for accelerating the career change process. [PRWEB Aug 7, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

MENC: The National Association for Music Education Listed in 2004 Combined Federal Campaign
Federal Government Employees Given Opportunity to Support Music Education [PRWEB Aug 8, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

I Choose To Stay Receives Silver Angel Award from EIM and Seals Movie Deal with Walt Disney Pictures
Educator Salome Thomas-EL, author of the best-seller, I Choose to stay, was recently honored with a Silver Angel Award from Excellence in the Media. I Choose to Stay (foreword by Arnold Schwarzenegger), the subject of an upcoming Disney movie, will be excerpted in the NY Times Best-selling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul. [PRWEB Aug 8, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

Expert on Raising Bilingual Children Speaks Out
Globalization requires we arm our children with more than the three R's; foreign language skills are in demand as the marketplace shrinks to a global village. Christine Louise Hohlbaum, award-winning writer and mother of two bilingual children, talks with NPR radio host, Bobbi Conner, on the Parent's Journal the week of August 4th on how to raise bilingual children in today's environment. [PRWEB Aug 8, 2004] From PR Web on August 8, 2004 at 9:11 p.m..

The FCC wants out of copyright
The Broadcast Flag regime is, I think, something of an embarassment for the FCC. Many of the commissioners came to the FCC to deregulate telecommunications law, not to regulate the electronics industry. Yet they find themselves in mission creep mode, issuing command-and-control rules for the design of consumer products, surely... From Lessig Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

Another Alt.Induce.Act
Here's another alternative to the Induce Act, and there are others out there.... From Lessig Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

Substantial Non-Infringing Use
P2PCongress' plan to provide access to easy P2P distributed archives of Congressional hearings is both useful and a killer example of non-infringing use. Others?... From Lessig Blog on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

Insecurity: (Or Why Americans Aren't Feeling The Recovery)
The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy. From kuro5hin.org on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

The Austral-Asian Strike Fighter
The Australian Defence Force must defend and project across an air-sea gap. This requires long range autonomous strike weaponry. The Joint Strike Fighter does not solve this issue and detrimentally places added pressure on Australia's limited force of aerial refuelling assets. The world's defence manufacturers are not creating strike platforms that solve Australian needs. For this reason, Australia needs to look to other nations with similar defence needs. In this case, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all face defending an air-sea gap. Australia should enter a partnership with these na From kuro5hin.org on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

Heading to Sonoma to visit the Pachyderm
Getting ready to take off for the weekend, and on Monday we're heading down to Sonoma to have some Pachyderm development meetings... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

Keep it Simple
Adam Bosworth has a good post on architecture/design and the KISS principle (thanks to Tim Bray for the pointer)... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, July 2004
The spam ratio remained flat, while the volume originating from the U.S. dropped 10 points. From ClickZ Stats on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

Interview with Wikipedia founder
Slashdot is carrying a great interview with the founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is only about three and a half years old, but in that time it has already grown well beyond the size of most standard printed encyclopedias. In the interview, Jim Wales talks about how they manage all that content, how they collect and spend donations to keep it running, and what the future holds for Wikipedia. While Wikipedia isn't Creative Commons licensed content, it is licensed in a si From Creative Commons: weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

Creative Commons and The Plains
There's a been good discussion about music and Creative Commons licenses happening on the pho list the last day or so. The most novel post comes from Jim Griffin: Here's an example from my new reality: In our neighborhood (The Plains, VA, population 266) and in our region there are many people who adopt for their land a conservation easement, essentially signing away (sometimes with certain modifications) their right and any future owner's right to develop the land o From Creative Commons: weblog on August 8, 2004 at 9:10 p.m..

EDS reveals deal to regulators
The embattled technology services firm reports a transaction to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is conducting a probe into EDS. From CNET News.com on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

Yahoo's Anti-Spy toolbar feature buggy
Web portal admits error in newly released product billed as protection against invasive online marketers. From CNET News.com on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

Briefly: Google prices its stock buyback
roundup Plus: Storage firm Panasas taps veteran for CEO...EDS reveals deal to regulators...Boingo brings Wi-Fi to Olympics. From CNET News.com on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

Week ahead: Dell, other tech titans to report
A number of industry bellwethers are scheduled to post earnings. Quarterly profits are expected for most. From CNET News.com on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

How IT spending is changing
IT customers are buying again, but not as extravagantly as they once did. McKinsey examines how some tech companies are adapting. From CNET News.com on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

Nature RSS Newsfeeds
The Nature Publishing group, which produces top-flight scientific journals such as Nature, has announced a raft of RSS feeds linking to journal articles. Unfortunately, viewers will require a subscription or to pay fees in order to read the articles. More information on the RSS-DEV Yahoo news group (you may have to sign up to view this item). By Announcement, Nature Publishing Group, August 6, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

NSDL At a Glance
The National Science Distributed Library (NSDL) has made access to its collection available through a nifty interactive graphic. The visual view requires Java to be enabled in your web browser. Though interesting to look at, though, it is unlikely that anyone will use this display to actually search for resources. Just my feeling. By Various Authors, NSDL, August 6, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

Community Engagement Techniques and Tools
What should be noted in this chart is the big orange arrow designating "increasing level of public impact" for the various collaboration tools described. Below the arrow is a grid with many tools familiar to educators: plain old content sits at the lowest level, serving only to inform, while more interactive tools engender greater empowerment, right up to the point where citizens make decisions for themselves. Which is where - in both government and learning - we want to be. By Unknown, Government of New South Wales, February 23, 2004 [OLDaily on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

Democracy, Community, and Youth Activism in K-12 Schooling
One of the major arguments for a public education system is that society has a stake in instilling certain values in its citizens, and in particular, citizenship and democracy. But what does that mean? This page links to articles by Joel Westheimer, mostly with Joseph Kahne, that explore the subject. One issue that crops up repeatedly is the lack of agreement on what constitutes a democractic citizen; the authors, for example, identify three types - personally responsible citizens, participatory citize From OLDaily on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..

Internet Time Blog
Jay Cross has moved his blog to Blogger (so change your RSS feeds) because of the incessant spam on this other site. By Jay Cross, Internet Time, August, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on August 8, 2004 at 9:09 p.m..