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Meta-mail: A Medium for Meaning
We have good tools for getting control of business data: the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the giant financial number-crunching application. The spreadsheet gave users a tool not just to calculate, but to build complex models and, in fact, to do many things that previously could be done only by IT high priests. The first successful spreadsheet was called VisiCalc; where is VisiProcess? We have the equivalent of the calculator for business interaction: It's e-mail (though the analogy does not hold perfectly). And we have corporate workflow applications, business-process design tools, pr From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 9, 2004 at 7:05 p.m..
Interaction and Immediacy in Online Learning
Mit dem netzbasierten Lernen haben auch die Möglichkeiten der Interaktion zwischen den am Lernprozess Beteiligten zugenommen. Es ist heute beinahe ein kaum noch hinterfragter Gemeinplatz, dass ein hohes Mass an Interaktion positive Effekte auf den Lernprozess hat. Von daher erscheint... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 9, 2004 at 7:05 p.m..
Growing Virtual Communities
IRRODL HYPHEN International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning HYPHEN entpuppt sich in meinen Augen immer mehr als gute Quelle für Hintergrundberichte und Forschungsergebnisse zu Aspekten des Online Lernens. Auf drei Beiträge der August-Ausgabe sei deshalb kurz hingewiesen:... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 9, 2004 at 7:05 p.m..
Städtische Repräsentation
4. Dortmunder Kolloquium zur Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte in der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt 21. – 23. Oktober 2004 Städtische Repräsentation Das 4. Dortmunder Kolloquium zur Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte in der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt ist dem Thema: »Städtische Repräsentation« gewidmet. Das Kolloquium setzt die interdisziplinäre Erforschung und Diskussion der spätmittelalterlichen Stadtkultur Dortmunds fort. Mit dem nicht mehr erhaltenen Rathaus am Alten Markt und der Reinoldikirche werden zwei From
Archivalia on August 9, 2004 at 7:04 p.m..
More on the BMC consultation on OA funding
Mark Chillingworth,
BioMed Central seeks Open Access advice, August 9, 2004. Excerpt: "Open Access publisher BioMed Central is seeking librarians advice on the future payment methods for Open Access (OA). A special meeting is being held in London, results from the meeting will be published in September....Amongst the institutions being represented at the meeting will be Havard, Yale, Cambridge and Loughborough universities as well as Wellcome Trust, the Council for Central Laboratory of the Research Councils UK, and the Research Council." From
Open Access News on August 9, 2004 at 7:03 p.m..
Protestant Majority Slips: A Sign of Things to Come in the LMS Wars
In what must be the oddest lede to ever mark an article on e-learning, this author introduces the coming diversity in LMS solutions available to colleges and universities by analogy with the apparently increasing diversity of religion in the United States. The emphasis of this post is to introduce
Sakai, an open source LMS building on the SCORM and OKI standards. The proliferation of alternative LMSs, argues the author, serves to increase the importance of standards in the learning community. Via ADL Co-Lab news. By Rob Reynolds, Xplana From
OLDaily on August 9, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
Learning Technology Newsletter
The July 2004 issue of IETF's Learning Technology newsletter is now available but published only in PDF, making it impossible to link to specific articles. Some good reading here, though: Steven C. Shaffer's An algorithm for comparing labeled graphs suggests the possibility of applying graph theory to semantical networks, something someone with a lot of patience and a powerful computer system should try one day. Also worth a read is Juha Puustjärvi's Conceptual Representation of Learning Objects. By Various Authors, IETF, July, 2004 [
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The Devil You Don't Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access
Laden with snide remarks and innuendos, this article suggests that advocates of open access are promoting a simplistic solution with no regard to the long term consequences. The long term result of open access journals, argues the author, will be an increase, not a decrease, in the cost of scholarly publication. This is because open access shifts spending decisions from librarians to authors. "Authors, on the other hand, are acting out of personal impulse. No holds are barred. First they will pay for domain names and blogging software, then for metatagging tools, then for linking networks, the From
OLDaily on August 9, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
Reed Elsevier Chief Hits Back in Scientific Publishing Row
Reed Elsevier is hitting back against the open access publishing model. In this item, company CEO Sir Crispin Davis notes that publisher content continues to hold sway. "After five years, the author-pays model has gained a 1 per cent market share. Libraries do push back on costs, but we are securing a 96 per cent renewal rate, and that tells the real story." In
another item he is quoted as calling "'daft' the idea that British universities should have to make publicly funded research freely av From
OLDaily on August 9, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
Freedom in Learning Innovations
Elliott Masie has caused a flap in the e-learning world by sending a letter attacking the patent litigation campaign launched by
iplearn, "a company with no products and a patent attorney." OLDaily readers will be familiar with iplearn; as reported here, the company has convinced various e-learning companies to settle rather than fight, including
Saba,
OLDaily on August 9, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
China - Traditional Music Sound Archives
This is the sort of thing I would much rather be covering in these pages: the UNESCO project digitizing (and hence preserving for all of humanity) traditional Chinese music has concluded. Clips are available on this website. Or this item:
Lewis Carroll's Scrapbook, digitized and placed online by the Library of Congress. Beautiful. By Various Authors, UNESCO, July 29, 2004 [
OLDaily on August 9, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
More Bookmarks RSS Goodness
As I wrote earlier, I've been hacking on Bookmark4u--a web-based bookmarking app that I personally find more useful than Furl--to export bookmarks as RSS. With help from Gavin from the bm4u mailing list, I can now export bookmarks and use the parent folder name as the category/topic name. So far ... From
Big IDEA on August 9, 2004 at 12:38 p.m..
Is a specialized wiki the way to go?
Alan asks where the shining examples of successful wikis (aside from Wikipedia) are. True, wikis are hard to get your head around--I'm still struggling with the concept--but should we use them because they are there? Obviously there has to be some need for a collaborative space, and I wonder if ... From
Big IDEA on August 9, 2004 at 12:38 p.m..
Virtual School for Independent Teachers
Learning-Park.com is a Classroom-Centered "Virtual Learning Environment." We build your Branded Virtual School in minutes, or your fully featured Classroom in seconds. We also host your For-Fee or For-Free WebCourses. From
Learning-Park on August 9, 2004 at 12:38 p.m..
Cursuri Grundtvig in Malta
Printre cursurile organizate in Malta prin proiectul Grundtvig3 TRAININGMALTA, apar: Internet Marketing for Trainers Developing E-Learning Programmes Using Experiential Learning in ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 9, 2004 at 12:37 p.m..
Carti eLearning - resurse online
Voi incerca sa aduc aici titluri de carti din eLearning, pentru care exista resurse online. Patti Shank - Making Sense of Online Learning - All links ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 9, 2004 at 12:37 p.m..
Let's GoMeme
GoMeme 2.0 -- Copy This GoMeme From This Line to The End of this article, and paste into your blog. Then follow the instructions below to fill it out for your site. Steal This Post!!!! ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 9, 2004 at 12:37 p.m..
Experimentul GoMeme
Daca doriti sa experimentati GoMeme ( vizualizarea primelor rezultate este la Google Blogoscoped ), urmati pasii de mai jos, copiind intregul mesaj in weblog-ul dvs - va rog sa lasati si un ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 9, 2004 at 12:37 p.m..
International LOM Survey
http://phenom.educ.ualberta.ca/n/papers/ LOM_Survey_Report.doc As mentioned by
Stephen, this is the second year Norm Friesen has produced this important report. The survey focuses on two questions: 1) "Which elements were selected for use or population?"; and 2) "How were these elements used, or what where the types of values assigned to them?" Maybe this makes sense as a starting point, but it misses out an even more important question for the buil From
EdTechPost on August 9, 2004 at 12:37 p.m..
Time-to-Market
Workflow Learning is in the same situation as Instructional Systems 25 years ago. It's a powerful technology not many people understand. There's no common vocabulary. It's multidisciplinary. Buyers crave the results -- agility, innovation, speed, and flexibility, but they aren't clear on whether this is the way to get them. Vendors announce breakthroughs every week. A group of visionaries formed the Instructional Systems Association to bake our industry into a bigger pie. It worked. More is better. I think we Workflow Learning pioneers should follow ISA's example.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on August 9, 2004 at 12:37 p.m..
International LOM Survey: Report
The international Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Survey, first announced in the spring of 2003, has been continued into 2004. this survey focuses on two questions: 1) "Which metadata elements were selected for use or population?"; and 2) "How were these elements used, or what where the types of values assigned to them?" From
eLearnopedia on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Networked Game-based Learning Environments
The V-Mule project was started in 1999 by the ICDC. Its aims are to explore the educational possibilities of commercial digital games technology. These technologies encompass games consoles, mobile phones, network gaming, and iTV. From
eLearnopedia on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Learning Management Systems: Are We There Yet?
The LMS has reached maturity but is racing to keep up with changing requirements on campus and to meet the need for integration with other enterprise systems and a more collaborative working environment. Reminiscent of the kids in the back of the car on your family's summer vacation, the persistent question about this technology seems to be, "Are we there yet?" Syllabus asked the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's vice president for research in information technology about his vision for learning management systems and related technologies. From
eLearnopedia on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Online Discussions and Perceived Learning
As major activities in distance learning courses, online discussions play an important role in student learning. Currently, both asynchronous learning courses and some primarily face-to-face courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology require online discussions. Does this requirement improve the students' perceived learning? An exploratory study conducted in Spring 2002 drew responses to a post-course questionnaire designed to explore this issue from 116 students in two undergraduate courses and one graduate course. From
eLearnopedia on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
The Sodium Test
Dr. Irene Berman-Levine is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her virtual counterpart can be found in the Flash-powered "Dr Irene's Virtual Kitchen" created for Nutritional Tidbits website at HealthandAge.com. From
eLearnopedia on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Predictors of Engagement and Participation in an On-Line Course
The use of online learning materials is increasing in both academic and industrial training settings. While the advantages of online learning are exciting and numerous, the problems associated with successful implementation of an online learning program can detract from the educational experience of even the most motivated student. These problems include such factors as poor attendance, procrastination, feelings of isolation, and a general lack of structure in the course. These problems can limit the amount of participation and engagement with the course materials that are offered in the onlin From
eLearnopedia on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Education research in the knowledge society: Key trends in Europe and North America
There is increasing worldwide focus on education reform, driven by rising pressures for lifelong learning, the burgeoning impact of technology, and an escalating pace of change in much of industry and society. This report examines the key trends in Europe and North America in finding more effective means of strengthening the impact of educational research on practice. It analyses trends to accumulate, communicate and achieve stronger interaction and interface between research, policy, and practice. From
eLearnopedia on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
A Quiet Revolt Puts Costly Journals on Web
Wer sich mit der Publikation von wissenschaftlichen Informationen beschäftigt, kommt an Elsevier nicht vorbei. Der Verlag mit Sitz in Amsterdam gibt ca. 1.800 Fachzeitschriften heraus, vor allem zu naturwissenschaftlichen, medizinischen und technischen Themen. Die jährlichen Subskriptionskosten für eine Zeitschrift können... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Rewards for knowledge sharing?
Ein interessanter, weil widersprüchlicher Artikel! (Ja, das meine ich ganz ernst!) Knowledge Management und Knowledge Sharing sind für Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN) existentiell, so die Autorinnen. Um die aktive Teilnahme der Mitarbeiter an diesen Prozessen zu fördern, setzt... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
E-Learning - Anforderungen an das Bildungspersonal
Über das entsprechende Forschungsprojekt des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung (BIBB) hatte ich schon berichtet. Jetzt hat das BIBB Experten zu einem Fachgespräch über die aufgestellten Thesen eingeladen und die Ergebnisse in einem informativen Protokoll zusammengefasst. Gefallen haben mir vor allem zwei... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
The Malleable Reality: Propaganda, Deception And The Dupe
This is an exercise in thinking. This is an exercise in evaluating how conditioned you are. How much the news and media which permeate much of your life, outlook, attitude and interests shape your ability to see reality beyond them? If you can digest the excerpted article below without ever stopping your genuinely curious-wondering you are a true Robin Gooder. I mean someone open-minded enough to consciously want to challenge his assumptions and strong beliefs on reality. If your social-moral brain will stop you early in the reading don't insist. This is an exercise many don't enjoy. From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on August 9, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Fehlerhaft berechnete Studienguthaben (nicht nur?) an der Uni Frankfurt
Studienguthaben für LangzeitstudentInnen werden anscheinend aufgrund der Inkompetenz der GebühreneintreiberInnen und -verwalterInnen mehr oder minder willkürlich festgesetzt, man spricht dann von einem "Datenbankfehler": Das Referat für Studenguthaben, das die zeitlichen Boni und Mali der Studenten verwaltet, will 500 Euro Bummelantenstrafe von mir. Im März hieß es noch, ich dürfte bis 2006 gebührenfrei studieren, und jetzt das. Was soll denn das bitte? Natürlich hab ich das mit 2006 auch schriftlich. Hab ich gleich durchgefaxt (ans Te From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on August 9, 2004 at 12:35 p.m..
¿Hacia qué Sociedad del Conocimiento?
Hace dos años comencé a publicar eCuaderno (inicialmente lo tÃtulé Cuaderno de Bitácora, pues no conocÃa el famoso blog de rvr), y el primer post fue el anuncio del Congreso Online del Observatorio para la Cibersociedad. Este post del segundo... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 9, 2004 at 12:35 p.m..
Comunidad de lectores VI
Va la sexta entrega de (auto) descripciones de los weblogs de miembros de la comunidad de lectores y visitantes de eCuaderno en Orkut (237 miembros hasta ahora): Daniela (Brasil): Intermezzo About digital journalism. In Portuguese. Fabio (Brasil): Caryorker y BLOGBrasil.com... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 9, 2004 at 12:35 p.m..
Kultur als Fenster zu einem...
Zum 31.12.2003 ist Prof. Dr. Rainer Noltenius, der langjährige Leiter des Fritz-Hüser-Instituts für deutsche und ausländische Arbeiterliteratur in Dortmund, mit Vollendung des 65. Lebensjahres aus dem Dienst im Institut ausgeschieden. Zu diesem Anlass gibt die Fritz Hüser-Gesellschaft eine umfangreiche Festschrift heraus, die ab sofort bei der Fritz Hüser-Gesellschaft (c/o Fritz-Hüser-Institut, z. Hd. Herrn Volker Zaib, Ostwall 64, 44122 Dortmund) oder über den Buchhandel zu beziehen ist. Kultur als Fenster zu einem besseren Leben und Arbei From
Archivalia on August 9, 2004 at 12:35 p.m..
Bertolt Brecht und Hans Tombrock....
Ausstellung des Fritz-Hüser-Instituts im Stadtmuseum Berlin, Nicolaihaus, Brüderstraße 13, 10178 Berlin 04.06.-12.09. 2004 Der Katalog: Rainer Noltenius (Hg.): Bertolt Brecht und Hans Tombrock – eine Künstlerfreundschaft im skandinavischen Exil, Klartext Verlag, Essen, 160 S., zahlreiche Abbildungen, Großformat. Verkaufspreis in der Ausstellung: 14,90 Euro Wer das Stadtmuseum Berlin, Nicolaihaus, Brüderstraße 13, 10178 Berlin; U-Bahn: Spittelmarkt im Sommer 2004 besucht, kann Entdeckungen machen! Bisher z. From
Archivalia on August 9, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Ethical blogging
In a conversation with Andrew Wimmer this week, we talked about the ethical demand that blogging should make on a writer to acknowledge another person's perspective and experience as it has been expressed though the specificity of his or her language. This should be one of the main ways that we can tell the quality of a blogger's work. There is room in the world for such things as parody, satire, and other forms of writing that are based on excess, and these have some fair claim on... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on August 9, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Weblog into wiki
Andrew Wimmer and I were brainstorming this week about software. We sketched a weblog software with a button you could click on to post a portion of a weblog entry into the site's wiki. You'd get a choice of where in the wiki you'd like to post, and once the transfer was complete, the new wiki content would also have a link you could click on to take you back to the original posting on the weblog, for context. Also in the wiki and weblog would be an automatic index, built like... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on August 9, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
The Real-Time Enterprise
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 9, 2004 at 12:33 p.m..
RSS feeds from Nature
The
Nature Publishing Group now offers free
RSS feeds for all its life-science journals and will soon expand the program to its other titles. From the press release: "[T]he listing of newsfeeds is accessible as an OPML file to facilitate the ready import of NPG newsfeeds into RSS newsreaders. A master RSS newsfeed of all NPG newsfeeds is also available for alerting subscribers to new From
Open Access News on August 9, 2004 at 12:33 p.m..
More on the monograph publishing crisis in the humanities
Peter Monaghan,
Presses Seek Fiscal Relief in Subsidies for Authors, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "One proposed solution now gaining ground is that universities and other institutions that support academic research create a pool of money to provide subsidies for authors to help offset the costs of publishing. Under this plan, all institutions would contribute to the pool, and give authors $5,000 to $10,000 in what are called 'subventions' that they could From
Open Access News on August 9, 2004 at 12:33 p.m..
Sakai software is now available
(8/8/04) The Sakai Project released v1.0 RC2 its open source Collaboration and Learning Environment software to the public. This release to the public is Sakai Release Candidate 2, and it puts the full code in the hands of any institution that wishes to begin using or understanding the Sakai software. This seems to be basically a bug fix but the important point is that it was done quickly. From
Edutools News: Course Management Systems on August 9, 2004 at 12:32 p.m..
The Making Of Reality And The Dupe Theory
This is an exercise in thinking. This is an exercise in evaluating how conditioned you are. "...This first level could be called PR/propaganda/intelligence. It involves painting a picture of the world and the forces of power that is completely conventional... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 9, 2004 at 12:30 p.m..
Shortcut Your Desires: AWesome ActiveWords
Thanks to TinyURL's voluntary-distributed human alert service (you may not be subscribed, but I tell you this thing is great) I was informed the other day that may links in the newsletter where not leading anywhere as the TinyURL server... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 9, 2004 at 12:30 p.m..
Comedy of Errors
My family loves Shakespeare & Co. up in Lenox where we're currently on vacation. We've been going to its performances for about twenty years now. A couple of nights ago, we saw a preview of Comedy of Errors. (Hint: It's the one with the two Dromios, no Rosalind, and doesn't take place in Verona.) Shakespeare & Co.'s performances are always lively, bawdy, and understandable. The troupe is first rate. Their performances IMO feel like Shakespeare as he was seen by his contemporaries. Yet, this performance wasn't my favorite. Too much mugging, too broad, too hectic. Y From
Joho the Blog on August 9, 2004 at 12:29 p.m..
Gooey GUI Bloopers- Web Site Must Be a Self Referential Joke?
I picked this one off the pile of RSS feeds,
GUI Bloopers a site supporting a book about software design "mistakes". I have to admit to not doing more than scanning the table of contents, so the book may be a fine treasure indeed, but the web page here just makes me gag up kibbles and bits:
texttured backgrounds repeating tiled GIFs- it is so, like 1997.white text on a dark background, cool on the monitors, ghost like invisible to a printerfancy text headings as embedded images- more useful, less bandwidth w From cogdogblog on August 9, 2004 at 12:29 p.m..
eSchool News on RSS
eSchool News has
this piece on RSS and its potentials in schools. The article also briefly discusses blogs and wikis. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) might not mean much yet to the average internet user--but it soon could revolutionize the medium. Some forward-thinking educators are taking advantage of the burgeoning technology to keep abreast of school-related issues and push important information to stakeholders. eSchool News now has
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Adopting Web Standards (Sydney, Australia)
Forwarded on behalf of Russ Weakley: Adopting Web Standards - Free briefing for Education and GovernmentGovernment and education are at the forefront of the adoption of web standards. To aid in this process, Web Essentials is hosting this free briefing,... From
Column Two on August 9, 2004 at 12:28 p.m..
KM salary survey in law firms
Joy London has written a blog entry on a KM salary survey in Australian law firms. To quote: Salary ranges for knowledge managers at top tier Australian firms are: National Manager: AUD 120,000 - 250,000 (US $85,660 - 178,459) Manager:... From
Column Two on August 9, 2004 at 12:28 p.m..
Fiscal Danger and Opportunistic Politics
(This is also my
Sunday column in the
San Jose Mercury News.) In politics, nothing succeeds like irresponsibility. It works wonders in the short term. Irresponsibility permeates the fiscal policies that now dominate in Washington and Sacramento. Last week, the Bush administration confirmed that the federal budget deficit would be the largest on record, and a few days earlier California's governor and Legislature enacted yet another smoke-an From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 9, 2004 at 12:27 p.m..
Tragedy of the network commons
A recent survey found that 75 percent of Dartmouth students have shared their network passwords. They like having people who know their password, explained Denise Anthony, a sociologist who spoke at the PKI summit conference I attended earlier this month. "They like having someone who can check their e-mail for them or log them in to places where they're supposed to be." ... As security technologists, we’re easily dazzled by our shiny cryptographic swords. But while we’re brandishing our swords, our users -- like Indiana Jones in that famous scene from Rai From
Jon's Radio on August 9, 2004 at 12:27 p.m..
A strategic vision for dynamic languages
As operating systems consolidate around managed interfaces, they'll choose the Java and .Net VMs, not the Perl, Python, or PHP VMs. But the agility of the dynamic languages and the collaborative energy of their open source communities are two of the pistons that crank the engine of progress. These worlds need to converge -- and at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference there was new evidence that they will. Jim Hugunin, father of Jython (Python for JVM), made a pair of dramatic announcements. He has released the first version of IronPython (Python for CLR/Mono). And by the From
Jon's Radio on August 9, 2004 at 12:27 p.m..
Microsoft Releases Service Pack 2
The security update for Windows XP is finally upon us. Available to some customers in the next couple of days, the automatic updates will reach about 100 million XP users over the next two months. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Record Industry Duel: Disc Duos
Legal and licensing snags threaten to scuttle a mass rollout of combo CDs sold with bonus DVDs. The music industry wants the next-generation product to boost declining CD sales. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Paid Search Growth May Slow
A new Internet advertising forecast shows a slowdown in paid search listings in the next five years. Will the projection affect Google's prospects when it goes public? From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Pentagon Focuses on Troop Vote
The potential for nearly a half-million troops overseas to count as absentee voters in the upcoming election is being tapped by the Pentagon with an improved website, fax-ballot acceptance and promises of faster mail service. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Wildfire Prediction Heats Up
A new agency in the Pacific Northwest is in the business of forecasting wildfires. It's one of 11 such units across the nation using current weather data and past fire patterns to predict which blazes will grow and where to put the resources. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Bad Date? Use Your Cell Excuse
Two cell-phone providers offer fake rescue calls to help the mobilely connected wiggle out of an uncomfortable situation. One company calls the service a 'lifestyle accessory.' From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
A Personal Operator From Verizon
Verizon plans to offer a service that would act as a virtual switchboard operator, letting customers stay in touch at all times. The program would send phone calls, voicemails and e-mails to wherever customers designate. By Elisa Batista. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
The War on Cyberterror
The nation's defenses need a major rethink. Here are four ways we must protect the electronic frontier. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
The Right Taps Blogs for Bucks
Conservative bloggers try to replicate the fund-raising and organizing success of left-leaning sites by setting up RedState.org. Not that the Republican Party needs any fund-raising help, progressives retort. By Louise Witt. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Drug Problem? Try a Brain Dump
Although we know a lot about how the brain works, what we don't know is staggering. Researchers are building a brain database to help predict how drugs will affect patients. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Mac Keeps Lead on Linux
This year Linux will surpass the Mac as the No. 2 desktop operating system, PC giant Hewlett-Packard predicts. Some analysts say it's already happened. But not so fast: nobody's accounting for piracy. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Big Business Becoming Big Brother
The ACLU says the government is using private companies to snoop on Americans, bypassing legal safeguards. What's worse, Americans share information with companies freely, not knowing where the data may end up. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on August 9, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Help for Small Businesses Working in the Government Sector
THE AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESS COALITION (sm) gives entrepreneurs and companies much needed technical assistance, mentoring and training to enhance their level of competitiveness in doing business with Federal Government agencies and Government Prime Contractors. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004] From
PR Web on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
New Autism & Asperger Syndrome CD Launched by Mindscape Productions Educates with Positive Twist
Innovative, educational audio CD about Autism & Asperger's entitled, "Living In the Spectrum", helps educate parents, relatives & teachers about Autism & Asperger Syndrome with insightful and inspirational interviews from specialists, parents, and individuals who have Autism & Asperger's. Poetry and music by those in the autism spectrum are featured as well as captivating stories full of hope and optimism regarding those with Autism & Asperger Syndrome. Informative & educational for parents, relatives, teachers, clinicians. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004] From
PR Web on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Publisher v. Author
As Mark Frauenfelder and others have documented, the Guthrie family and probably Woody himself think the JibJab parody just fine. In the words of Grandaughter Cathy Guthrie (pictured here), "this parody was made for you and me." But here's the thing: much of the JibJab Brouhaha was actually caused... From
Lessig Blog on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Introducing Congressman Rick Boucher
I'm pleased to remind everyone that Congressman Rick Boucher will be running the Lessig Blog this week. Rep. Boucher is a hero to many for his opposition to the DMCA and authorship of the Digital Media Consumer Rights Act. And yes this is a Virginia conspiracy. I will return next... From
Lessig Blog on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Induce No More
I have tremendous respect for the scholarship of Professor Larry Lessig, and I am honored to be asked to host his blog this week. I hope that over the coming 5 days, we will have a series of thought-provoking conversations. Your views and suggestions will be helpful to me as... From
Lessig Blog on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
The Visual World of Michel Gondry
A month ago I was introduced to the works of Michel Gondry. In short, I was amazed and tantalized by his short films and music videos. Even if you haven't heard of him, you've probably seen his many works in Gap commercials, various music videos, and the recent movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Many of his works explode with visual elements that, when taken alone, are simple and mundane. However, under his masterful guidance, these elements come together to form a highly mesmerizing visual experience. He never ceases to push visual technologies and challenge our ide From
kuro5hin.org on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Biased Against Whom?
Liberal bias versus right-wing conspiracy is a wonderful distraction. There is evidence enough on both sides. How can opposite claims be true? Confront a physicist with evidence supporting contradictory hypotheses and she will go looking for a more basic cause. Let's try that. From
kuro5hin.org on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Assessing Learning and Teaching Excellence
The Australian Vice-ChancellorsÂ’ Committee released important recommendations it would like to see incorporated into the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, part of the GovernmentÂ’s Backing AustraliaÂ’s Future higher education reform package. The Fund will provide more than $100 million a year to universities by 2008 based on the assessed level of excellence in learning and teaching in each university. From
EdNA Online on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Scholarships for Career Teachers
The Government has announced funding for the delivery of 54 scholarships for school career advisers to participate in study or industry placements. The scholarships will support teachers in their own professional development as well as empower them to provide high quality careers advice to students and help build links between the world of school and business. There are 27 Study Scholarships and 27 Industry Placement Scholarships. For those undertaking study, $5,000 is available to contribute to the cost of tuition; and for those undertaking a short-term industry placement, $10,000 is availabl From
EdNA Online on August 9, 2004 at 12:25 p.m..
Fahrenheit FBI
CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh says law enforcement's plan to extend wiretaps to the Internet raises a new set of questions that nobody has yet answered. From
CNET News.com on August 9, 2004 at 12:24 p.m..
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..
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.
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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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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 [
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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 [
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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..