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ALA 186: triple issue
A better image rotator. Enhance usability by highlighting search terms. Better invoices for better business. Authors: Dan Benjamin, Brian Suda, Matt Riggott, and Kevin Potts. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on August 10, 2004 at 2:19 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 thomas n. burg | randgänge on August 10, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..

Mobile Profile: SVG Tiny Version 1.2 Updated
2004-08-06: The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released the fourth Working Draft of Mobile SVG Profile: SVG Tiny, Version 1.2. The draft defines SVG Tiny 1.2, a mobile profile of SVG 1.2 suitable for displaying vector graphics on small devices. The Working Group invites comments. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on August 10, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..

Offshoring Hits Journalism

Washington Post: Reuters to Move Editorial Jobs From U.S. and Europe to India. Financial news service Reuters Group PLC said yesterday it will eliminate up to 20 editorial positions in the United States and Europe and hire up to 60 replacements in India in a move aimed at cutting costs. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 10, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..

Fair Use in the Digital Age
Out of concern that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act went too far in restricting fair use in the digital era, I have drafted and introduced along with John Doolittle of California H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act. Among other objectives, the bill would confirm that a person would... From Lessig Blog on August 10, 2004 at 2:15 p.m..

There's One Born Every Minute
Gotta side with Ernest Miller and TeleRead here. Seems as if eReader.com thinks that there's one born every minute: In a move designed to give schools an affordable way to use eBook technology, eReader.com and Lightning Source Inc. developed The Classics Collection CD, a comprehensive collection of 500 titles that includes "The Red Badge of Courage," by Stephen C From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

A new step in the writing process: Preblogging
Welcome to my first blog entry at Kairos. I've decided that my personal blog, http://patriciaspatio.blog-city.com, has become too loose in structure for my professional blogging needs, so I've decided to start blogging here. Of all the listservs and discussions I've joined, I enjoy those at Kairos the most. Something about me: I have just finished my M.A. in English (Literature focus) at the University of South Florida. Now, I'm living, barely, in Massachusetts, looking for a job. I've had some offers, but From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

The Good Old Days of Zines.
The Washington Post has an interesting story about the past, present, and future of zines and their sort of kinda transformation into blogs. This article could be useful in class for helping students get a sense of blogging's genealogy. Thought this quote was a bit provocative: Chip Rowe summarizes the movement of zines onto the Web thusly: "Fanzines became paper zines became webzines became blogs. That's where we are now." But he's not just being blithe. He sees in the current blog From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

House Pushing for Open Access to Science Journals
Some good news on /. today: the House is finally pushing open access to scientific journals. The article claims that Congress is bitter over the high prices of scientific journals, but the vultures are obviously not going to take this lying down, and claim that it will destroy their livelihoods (ooo, sob sob, get a job that doesn't involve gouging public universities) and break up scientific socities (at first I thought the word was "soriorities," a confusion that led to no small amount of mirth later). From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Are Blogs Ready for Prime-Time?
This graphic is from a 16 June eMarketer report of a Blogads survey which claims that blog readers are more mature and affluent than expected and more prone to click on ads and buy online. Some other interesting statistics with the article. Link via Joi Ito. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

dodgy dossiers, astroturfing, they the media
Becky Howard, a colleague of mine, was asking the other day about how she might publish something she's been working on, and publish it quickly, since it's relevant to the Presidential race. After talking about it a while, and coming up with nothing, she's decided to self-publish it on her website. My first response was: well, of course, you blog it. Which would be the perfect solution but for the fact that Becky has no blog. Oops. So my second-best alternative? I blog it. Becky, as some of you probably already know, is one of the country's foremost experts on pl From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Unpopular Culture
Unpopular Culture is one of the cooler things I've seen in a while. It's the brainchild of Megan McArdle, a.k.a. Jane Galt, and it's intended to be an "online literary salon." She takes texts that are in the public domain -- texts that aren't on every required reading list and that everyone's already read, hence the name Unpopular Culture -- and, using weblog software (Wordpress, in case you were curious), posts them in chapter-by-chapter ins From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Armchair Arcade #4 RELEASED!
Here it is! The long expected fourth issue of Armchair Arcade!! Issue 4's articles: The editors speak in this Issue's Hot Topic editorial: Games for Grownups The Rise and Fall of Game Audio by Matt Barton What can you do with a computer that you can't do with an orchestra, and why aren't more people doing it? To answer that question, Matt takes us on a journey through the history of game audio and shows how big business and lack of artistic integrity led to the fall of true innovat From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Add Another City to the List
Preston in the UK has rolled out city-wide wireless access. Users need to subscribe to a fee-based service but it seems that more and more cities are adding city-wide wireless access. This makes me wonder why I work in a library that has wireless access on only two floors--I mean if they can "wire" an entire city how hard is it to set up access points in a building? Especially when the powers that be are doing their best to get rid of all the books. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Matt's Blog Epiphany
Begin Satire that is Satirical and not to be taken seriously by anyone but a total moron: Ah, what a wonderful thing it is to have an epiphany. There you are, just minding your own business (or, at least your colleages' business) when all the sudden something truly wonderful dawns on you. At that moment, some part of your life changes and you realize, like the mold growing on the last yellow region of a stale banana in the Hinterlands From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 10, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Site redesign
In lieu of doing any real work I have redesigned the look of this blog. The most important change is structural: I moved the sidebar below the content, so if there is a problem loading a feed in the sidebar you will at least be able to see the content ... From Big IDEA on August 10, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..

I hate depending on the Internet so much
Our Internet access has slowed to a crawl on account of W32.Korgo.AD. Normally I wouldn't care so much but lately I'm in research mode. Oh who am I kidding, or course I'd care. Our MIS department sent out an email stating that they'd be visiting each PC over the next three ... From Big IDEA on August 10, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..

Analize weblog-uri
Elise Bauer de la elise.com: On the Job a publicat analiza Overv... of the blog software market - via Minding the Planet. In opinia autoarei, weblog-urile reprezinta the breadth and depth ... From WeBlog.ro feeds on August 10, 2004 at 9:43 a.m..

Frau Buhlman und die Studiengebühren: Nicht mehr tragbar
Frau Buhlman, die Debatte um Studiengebühren und ihr Fähnchen im Wind: Netzeitung vom 2. August: Bundesbildungsministerin Edelgard Bulmahn (SPD) ist weiter entschieden gegen Studiengebühren. Ein kostenpflichtiges Studium würde «Studierende vom Studium abschrecken», sagte die Ministerin der Berliner Zeitung. Der Union warf sie Inkonsequenz vor: Sie fordere Studiengebühren, kürze aber gleichzeitig die Etats für Hochschulen, so wie es gerade in Bayern geschehe.< From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on August 10, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

Diccionarios
Una relación de diccionarios y obras de consulta gratuitas en línea para tener a mano: Acronym Finder Britannica Cambridge CIA World Factbook Diccionario de Autores Diccionarios.com DictSearch: Diccionario Universal Online Encyclopedia.com HyperDictionary Merrian-Webster ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 10, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

La consagración política de los blogs
Mientras Ciberp@ís descansa en agosto, podemos leer las columnas de Francis Pisani en su blog. La última: La consagración política de los blogs, analiza la cobertura dada por los bloggers a la convención demócrata. Ver también: Acreditaciones para bloggers en... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 10, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

Langzeitarchivierung digitaler...
http://www.sap.info/de/news.php4?OID=Article-3089140c577c931a92 Neil Beagrie (British Library) sprach mit SAP-Info. Abschliessend hob er fünf Punkte hervor: * Das Wesentliche muss geklärt sein: Maßnahmen für die Systemsicherheit, Backup und Wiedergewinnung der Daten im Katastrophenfall und eine Dokumentation, die es erlaubt zu prüfen, ob alle Daten wieder hergestellt sind * Es gilt, offene Standards und archiv-freundliche Rechte zum Schutz des geist From Archivalia on August 10, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

UB Heidelberg digitalisiert...
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/rechtsquellen.html Titelliste Beier, Adrian : Boethus peregre redux conspectibus et indice conspicuus. Jenae 1690 Carpzov, Benedict : Practica nova imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium, Pars 1. Wittebergae 1670 Carpzov, Benedict : Practica nova imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium, Pars 2. Wittebergae 1684 Carpzov, Benedict : Practica nova imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium, Pars 3. Wittebergae 1670 Goldast, Melchior From Archivalia on August 10, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

Laienarbeit
http://www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de/region/objekt_r.php3?artikel_id=1565192 In Eltville kümmern sich acht ehrenamtliche Stadtarchivare ums Archiv. Klar, das kommt billiger. Wissen eigentlich diese verantwortungslosen Kommunen, die ihre Archive in die Hände von Laien geben, wozu andere eine hochkomplexe Ausbildung brauchen? Laien können unglaubliche Verwüstungen in gewachsenen Beständen anrichten. From Archivalia on August 10, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

Online communities
It's still summer, and I'm still running across things I can't believe I haven't already found. Have you seen the Internet Time Blog by Jay Cross? It looks really good, and I only found it because Stephen Downes (he who... From Rick's Café Canadien on August 10, 2004 at 9:41 a.m..

Characteristics of usability and user experience - Understanding Users
Excerpt from Thomas Visby Snitker's upcoming book; "Breaking Through to the Other Side" Usability is not the same as good design or trustworthy programming. Usability arises in the meeting between a user and the web site. The outcome of their meeting is fruitful if the user does not meet obstacles or barriers when performing her tasks. If a web manager, the sender, was able to teach or personally guide all the users of that web site on how to use the web site to perform their tasks, success would be assured. Users, however, come to the web site pursuing their... From soulsoup on August 10, 2004 at 9:41 a.m..

Defining "Collective Intelligence"
Defining "Collective Intelligence" a post by Tom Atlee at Blog of Collective Intelligence Collective intelligence is the INTELLIGENCE of a COLLECTIVE, which arises from one or more SOURCES. Expanding on each of the highlighted terms in the definition allows us to paint an inclusive picture of the whole domain. (In my blog entry, I do that, and then add 17 definitions of CI found on the web.)... From soulsoup on August 10, 2004 at 9:41 a.m..

Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 10
Today's highlights: Five Across Instant Messaging for Workgroups; Aquanta Calligator; Microsoft's New Toolkits for SharePoint; Interwoven E-mail Management for Notes; New Customer for Good Technology; Security vulnerability in AIM for Windows; Five Across, a new entrant player, released InterComm, a... From Kolabora.com on August 10, 2004 at 9:41 a.m..

Response to the Parlano White Paper, "Next Generation Communications: The Val...
I read Parlano's recent white paper, "Next Generation Communications: The Value of Enterprise Instant Messaging" (July 2004, available with registration) with a high degree of interest, as it overlaps directly with a white paper I'm currently working on, entitled "The... From Kolabora.com on August 10, 2004 at 9:41 a.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 10, 2004 at 9:40 a.m..

Scholarship in the digital age
The presentations from the JISC/CNI meeting, The future of scholarship in the digital age (Brighton, July 8-9, 2004), are now online. Many are directly concerned with OA. From Open Access News on August 10, 2004 at 9:40 a.m..

7th ISKO-Spain Conference - The human dimension of knowledge organisation - Barcelona, Spain - 6-8 J ...
7th ISKO-Spain Conference - The human dimension of knowledge organisation - Barcelona, Spain - 6-8 July 2005 - The focus of the conference is on orienting users of systems and applications of information organisation and retrieval in companies, public administration, archives and document centres, portals or internet services, databases and digital libraries From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Roughing It: Printing and the Press in the West: A Conference Marking the 100th Anniversary of the F ...
Roughing It: Printing and the Press in the West: A Conference Marking the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of The Bibliographical Society of America at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in St. Louis, October 18, 1904 - October 14, 2004 - A Joint Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America and the St. Louis Rare Book Librarians Group, Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis, and Washington University Libraries Department of Speci From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Ovid's Resource of the Month program allows you to "test drive" different products for free. This mo ...
Ovid's Resource of the Month program allows you to "test drive" different products for free. This month's resource: Analytical Abstracts From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

The 2005 Program Committee and the Committee on Education and Professional Development (CEPD) respec ...
The 2005 Program Committee and the Committee on Education and Professional Development (CEPD) respectively invite submissions for program proposals and pre-conference program proposals for SAA's 69th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 15-21, 2005. Deadline: October 8, 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

The Future Of News? Dan Gillmor Launches Grassroots Journalism Into The Mainstream
"Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet.... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 10, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Information Architecture + Information Design = User Experience Design
E-learning teams are noticing and becoming aware of the immense potential of UXD (User Experience Design) practices in addition to the learning design methods used until now. "This article is an early attempt to define the elements of learning experience... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 10, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

How To Select Your Web Conferencing Provider
Today, Stephanie Downs of ConferZone presents a new live event focusing on selecting a Web Conferencing provider. Entitled "How To Pick A (Web Conferencing) Vendor" the event goal is to "help participants learn to:Decide on the "Category" of e-conferencing that... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 10, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Prerequisite
My son and I climbed Monument Mountain this afternoon, which is more like Monument Molehill, unless you're 53, fat, and afraid of heights. At the top, as I cowered against a rock and used my cap to blot out the view, a teen-aged couple clambored next to me. The boy said, "I wish I had brought a chisel." It occurred to me that couples ought not to be allowed to chisel their names into public rocks unless and until they've tatooed themselves similarly. I mean, if you're not willing to deface your own flesh, then...... From Joho the Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Best Quote (Today) About HTML
Phil Ringnalda provides a surgical view of the new MSN blog pages- beyond the wonderfully dense details, I loved this quote: The HTML is, of course, execrable. The one possible way they could have gotten some approving buzz from tech bloggers was to use extremely clean (X)HTML, but given the apparent total lack of a corporate culture believing that code is poetry, at least when it comes to HTML, there was little hope of that. It might be possible to persuade Microsoft tools to produce valid HTML From cogdogblog on August 10, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Apple and Napster in the News
Following up on all the commotion about Real's "Harmony", Virgin Mega has filed suit against Apple in France for its use of FairPlay.  I'm not exactly sure what claims they're making - sounds like some sort of anti-trust issue. In other news, Roxio has sold off everyt From A Copyfighter's Musings on August 10, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Tech Executives' Cozy Tax Deal

NY Times: Tech Company Settled Tax Case Without an Audit. Remy Welling is a senior auditor for the Internal Revenue Service with 22 years' experience. But when she was handed the file on a company suspected of underpaying its taxes, it contained something she had never seen before in such a case: an agreement to close the audit before it had even begun. Instead of being given tax returns to examine, Ms. Welling was asked to sign o From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 10, 2004 at 9:34 a.m..

Google Settles Patent Suit: Wow

CBS MarketWatch: Yahoo, Google settle legal dispute. As part of the agreement, Google agreed to issue Yahoo 2.7 million shares of its common stock in payment for the license, according to a Google filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. So it looks like there really was something to Overture's complaint (Overture was purchased by Yahoo) that Google was infringing. The size of this settlement tells you that Google From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 10, 2004 at 9:34 a.m..

Hubble Instrument Goes Dark
NASA says one of the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments stopped working last week. The failure is a sign of things to come for the ailing space telescope. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Doom 3: A Helluva Tech Demo
Don't listen to the hard-core gamers who knock Doom 3. While the game's objective and plot aren't groundbreaking, its exploitation of technology does manage to dazzle. Suneel Ratan reviews the blockbuster game. From Wired News on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

I, Standard Man
Simulated patients give medical students a risk-free opportunity to explore what happens when they treat -- or mistreat -- patients. The heart and lungs work fine, but the skin is the biggest challenge. By Randy Dotinga. From Wired News on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Tablet PCs bombing, not booming: Prices still too high - INQUIRER
Canalys reported that the market for Tablet PCs is "far from booming" with notebooks outselling the devices by a factor of 100 to one. And, said Mike Welch, a VP at the research company: "The ratio is not decreasing". He said that while there is a clea From Techno-News Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe - Barry Fox, New Scientist
A type of wallpaper that prevents Wi-Fi signals escaping from a building without blocking mobile phone signals has been developed by a British defence contractor. The technology is designed to stop outsiders gaining access to a secure network by using From Techno-News Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Fewer college students choose computer majors - Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY
Tech firms might be rebounding from the dot-com bust, but enrollment in college computer programs keeps falling. San Jose State University in Silicon Valley enrolled 417 full-time computer science undergraduates for the fall semester, down from 525 las From Techno-News Blog on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

College tours with a virtual twist - Jack Gillum, USA TODAY
Come fall, tour guides here will have software for brains. It's not quite a scene from I, Robot, but Arizona State University is providing an alternative to standard tour guides on its 700-acre desert campus: handheld GPS-assisted tours that use satell From Educational Technology on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

What Do You Mean COPYRIGHT Does Not Mean I Have the Right to Copy? - Diane D. Painter, techLearning
....I began to search for instructional materials that would help me present copyright and fair use issues in a manner that elementary age students would understand. A member of our technology committee saw such materials geared for elementary students From Educational Technology on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Harris hooks up with BGSU to complete diploma online - RYAN E. SMITH, Toledo Blade
Josh Harris passed his way into the school record books last year as a quarterback for Bowling Green State University, but he wasn't about to pass on his diploma. So when he decided to pursue his dream of playing pro football, he had to figure out how From Online Learning Update on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

UMassOnline Revenue Grows 47% and Enrollments Grow 30% in the 2004 Academic Year - TMCNet
UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts' web-based learning division, today announced that online education program revenues and enrollments grew 47 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in the 2004 academic year (September 1, 2003 - August 31, 20 From Online Learning Update on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Will the Semantic Web Change Education? - Kendall Clark, Bijan Parsia, and Jim Hendler, JIME
To say that the Web has affected many societies and cultures is to understate its impact along several dimensions. The Web is a technology which not only affects, but in some sense encompasses societies, cultures, and certainly institutions. Higher edu From Online Learning Update on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Bridging the Homework Gap Between School and Home
Announcing the launch of a new website, http://4homework.org . This completely free site allows teachers to post homework assignments right online, where students and parents may view this information. A forum is available for students, teachers, and parents to ask homework questions, and find the support they desire. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004] From PR Web on August 10, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

WHO MURDERED CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMATIST? Perhaps his murderer committed the greatest sin that was ever brought to bear upon the readers of monumental literature. There is an unsolved mystery surrounding the murder of Christopher Marlowe who was a friend of Sir Walter Raleigh. They used to write exchanges of poetry to each other and it can be found in such works as "The Passionate Shepherd" and "A Nymph's Reply." (In Raleigh's reply)to Marlowe, he wrote "If all the world and love were young, and truth in every Shepherds tongue..." etc. Marlowe was probably the gr
Christopher Marlowe the Elizabethan dramatist was arrested on the 12th May, 1593. Marlowe had shared a writing chamber with another Elizabethan dramatist named Thomas Kyd who wrote the forerunner to Hamlet. "The story of Hamlet was taken from a translation first found in Historica Danica of Saxo Grammaticus written in the 13th century (printed in Paris in 1514). It was re-told by Belleforest in Histoires Tragiques in 1570 and dramatised into the English by Thomas Kyd pre-1589." There is a strange mystery connected to what they were working on the day they were arrested by the Privy Councill From PR Web on August 10, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

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1st-T1-DSL-Broadband.com offers customers *The world's only real-time T1 price tool *Low Price Guarantee - We will not be undersold *Free unbiased price research will save you money [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004] From PR Web on August 10, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Premio Introduces New Desktop Computer Systems Featuring Intel 915 Chipsets
Premio Introduces New Desktop Computer Systems Featuring Intel 915 Chipsets. The Athena 915P, Shadowhawk G2 915P and Minos 915G Desktop systems Raise Performance Levels with Integrated Next-Generation Technologies [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004] From PR Web on August 10, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Academic and Personal Development Coach Is Helping To Build Healthy And Successful Families, One Family Member At a Time
Smart Bee Coaching LLC is an alliance that helps parents to reclaim their lives and students to unlock their academic potential. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004] From PR Web on August 10, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Think an ellipsis is when the moon moves in front of the sun? Celebrate National Punctuation Day on August 22
New national holiday -- National Punctuation Day -- celebrates the lowly comma, correctly used quotes, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons and the ever mysterious ellipsis. It's a day for librarians, educators, and parents HYPHEN people who are interested in teaching and promoting good writing skills to their students and their children. It's also a day to remind business people that they are often judged by how they present themselves -- and proper punctuation is an important part of good writing skills. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004] From PR Web on August 10, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

September 1st Deadline for First Industrial Maintenance Mechanics Certification Exam Application
ISA is accepting applications for its first Certified Industrial Maintenance Mechanics certification exam until September 1st. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004] From PR Web on August 10, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Collage Mania
While it doesn't carry a Creative Commons license or promote licensed work exclusively, the new website Collage Mania is worthy of mention here because it's the first time I've seen a blog focused solely on great collage work found online. Most Creative Commons licensed photographs (the ones that don't carry the No Derivatives clause) are open to collage, and this site showcases a lot of great work and may give you ideas for your next collage project. From Creative Commons: weblog on August 10, 2004 at 9:31 a.m..

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..

Welche Rechtschreibung in akademischen Abschlussarbeiten?
Die gegenwärtig wieder mal aufschäumende Verwirrung um das Schicksal der Rechtschreibreform erfasst auch den gemeinen Student. In welcher Rechtschreibung möchte die geschätzte Hochschule wohl die Abschlussarbeit? Ich lasse mich - ganz Demokrat - von der Mehrheit der LeserInnen leiten und habe die Frage zur Abstimmung gestellt. Alexander From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. 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..

FOREX MARKET POINTS: Bombed Out
Not only was the actual number of 32K payrolls well below the consensus forecast of 240K, but the figures for May and June were revised downward by a total of 61,000 jobs. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX on August 9, 2004 at 7:04 p.m..

WEEKLY OPTION STRATEGY: August 9, 2004 - August 16, 2004
The market had been anticipating an increase in Non-Farm Payrolls of 220,000 but was surprised to see a meager increase of 32,000 for the month of July, with downward revisions to the June figure. From Currency Trading News by DailyFX 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..

Adam Greenfield: Social networking post-mortem (Clay Shirky)
Adam surveys the state of social networking, and finds that things are Not Good: And the invitations! Invitations to hip-hop fashion shows (“now with extra bling!”), invitations to parties six time zones away. Though unintentionally, the YASNS’ messaging functionality offers... From Corante: Social Software on August 9, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..

Assessing Understanding With Multiple-Choice Questions
A couple of short posts on writing multiple choice questions to evaluate not just knowledge, but also understanding and evaluation. The link to the second part is at the bottom of the first page. By Ian Grove-Stephensen, Chalkface, August 10, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on August 9, 2004 at 6:55 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 [--> From OLDaily on August 9, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

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..