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Tighter integration of wiki and weblog
When I write on my blog, I often use WikiWords for names of people and concepts. This behavior is quite natural and usually requires little thought. If those WikiWords exist as pages on my Wiki, then the words link to the appropriate page. If no page exists, I can create the page, just as I would from the Wiki itself. Over time, I may use the same WikiWord in several different entries. If that page exists on the Wiki, and if I look at the BackLinks to that page, it will list all of the blog entries mentioning that WikiWord. In other words, it maintains a li From
Open Artifact on August 13, 2004 at 8:13 p.m..
TV Reporter Can't Stop Blogging
Sometimes you've just go to keep on blogging. Scott McGrew, a technology reporter for NBC's
KNTV in Silicon Valley, says he started a
temporary blog while doing a story about free blogging services. When he quit blogging after the story, people started sending him e-mails asking why he hadn't updated the blog -- so he restarted and kept it going. He says, "I haven't found a particular theme -- I might recount something personal, often I try to give ' From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 8:09 p.m..
The Olympian Task of Finding Olympic TV Schedules
When is so much coverage of an event too much coverage and not enough coverage at the same time? With the Athens Summer Olympic Games under way and hundreds of hours of television coverage ahead of us for the next three weeks on seven separate NBC network-related channels (NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, USA, Telemundo, and HDTV), it's easy to miss something unless you know what to look for and when. For example, I want to watch as much of the men's road race cycling event on Saturday as possible, as well as the men's time trial event on Wednesday.Well, NBC's (...) From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 8:09 p.m..
Degrees and More
Degrees and More provides students with distance learning resources they need to complete their education online. You can research your college degree online, online university or online schools with career training programs, and other accredited online degree programs offering a wide variety of distance learning courses from an MBA accounting degree to exciting online criminal justice degree programs. From
eLearnopedia on August 13, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..
eLearning-Anwendungspotenziale bei Beschäftigten
Der Einstieg dieser Studie trifft sich mit meinen eigenen Beobachtungen: "Verlässliche Aussagen über Lerngewohnheiten der Nutzer beruflicher Weiterbildung sind Mangelware." Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde das MMB Institut für Medien- und Kompetenzforschung vom Kompetenzzentrum eLearning Niedersachsen beauftragt, etwas über die... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 13, 2004 at 8:06 p.m..
Executive Over-reaching Slapped Down
In February I
was deeply uneasy about San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's unilateral move to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. I believe gay marriage should be legal, but that Newsom's action was an example of executive arrogance. So I have mixed feelings today about the California Supreme Court's decision
to overrule Newsom (SF Chronicle), because his instinct was right even if his tactics were n From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 13, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..
Lifestylism: Capturing the Journey
Dax-Devlon Ross is developing a number of interesting ideas. 1-on-1 chronicles a journey toward liberation with the close friend: "I heard a change in his voice, in his perception of the world, and I wanted to encourage him to continue.... From
Experience Designer Network on August 13, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..
Community Blog Project
They may not look that excited, and there were more than are seen here, but I think the group that came to our first "Boro Bloggers Meet-up" last night left with their brains buzzing and some real energy for our project. Shoot, just the fact that we got 25 interested people to show up was enough for me, but the questions they asked and the comments they made were more than enough proof that they were thinking hard about the potentials here.
Jeff&ap From unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
DTV to $70 Billion by 2008
DVD players, LCD panels and plasma display screen sales are driving the adoption of digital television worldwide, according to
new report from IDC. The market is poised to reach sales of $70 billion in 2008. According to the report, the shift from analog to digital TV is in full swing, but consumers' overall awareness and understanding of DTV remains low. Let's review: All HDTV sets are digital, BUT all digital sets are NOT HD. When you watch a DVD you are not watching HD television - even if y From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Where will all the little videos go... PT 2.
Duncan, a new member of our group was smart enough to contact
Archive.org to find out about where we could archive our videos. I did the same. Where else but on the internet can you talk to a real live person? _______________________________ Jay Dedman wrote: Hello-- I moderate a videobloging discussion group on Videoblogging. It's gotten incredibly popular in a very short time. I believe one of our members have already contacted you about
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On2 releases a Video Java Applet
Here is what they say:The
TrueMotion Streaming Java Applet 1.0 is a TrueMotion video player written in pure Java. The Applet offers a truly cross-platform solution--it plays on Windows, MacOS, Linux, and other environments. As on other platforms, the TrueMotion codec outperforms all other competing video compression technologies. Here are my questions: They say "Streaming" which to me means that it should support live video, does it? Also this is an applet which means that it is available through From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Open Source Video Interoperability
BEK : piksel : piksel04 - An interesting set of pages describing a conference, some open source software and documentation regarding efforts to provide interoperability between open source video based applications. Of note is Livido a plugin framework, VideoPiping (sending raw video via named pipes from one app to another), Vloopback and so on.Piksel is a framework of tools and libraries which aims to provide interoperability between various free software applications dealing with video manipulation techniques. The current focuse From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Nice information regarding QuickTime and Streaming
s o u n d s c r e e n..."The purpose of this site is to provide resources information for web developers wishing to integrate QuickTime and MPEG-4 rich media: - Embedding QuickTime, Basic and Advanced Streaming focus on "how-to" information. - Resources & Downloads provides downloads of examples on this site and links to other resources on the web. - Cool Examples demonstrate some of the samples available in the downloads section, as well as links to other sites." From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
vBlog Central to www: go away
Over on the nascent
vBlog Central video blog hosting service, a vogger can have anything they might dream of except to be watched, because entries don't have URLs. The HTML has a URL, but the video URL is not only obscured, it's a one-use ID designed to prevent direct linking. This makes it impossible to use vBlog videos in playlists, to make mashups, to point into them using start and stop times (and thus make them accessible to search engines), and to take advantage of the lazy web. It seems perfectly reasonable for any one vide From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
EBay Buys Stake in Craigslist
An interesting engagement was announced today -- Meg and Craig have gotten hitched.
EBay, headed by CEO Meg Whitman, bought a 25-percent equity stake in
Craigslist, owned (in part, obviously) by founder Craig Newmark. The dollar amount wasn't disclosed, but Newmark
says it was an equity stake that he had given to a previous employee. It's a match made in heaven for EBay, and could be a match made in heaven for Ne From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Make a Mistake, Deliver Again
When you've made a mistake in a print publication, you're of course out of luck in terms of correcting it until the next edition -- while websites can correct themselves instantly. Somewhere in between are digital editions of print publications, delivered in full via the Internet. As Chilean journalist Rodrigo Guaiquil, a subscriber to the digital edition of PC Magazine on
Zinio, noted, print magazines do now have the opportunity to fix their errors. He just received a corrected digital edition of PC that contained a problem the From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Trialling blogs
I'm presently looking into blogs that offer some different functionality than presently available in pMachine Pro for a colleague and I came across this very useful
comparision chart by Owen. From
Auricle on August 13, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Workflow Links Process
We're assembling a collection of the best articles and sources of information on Workflow Learning, Busienss Process Management, Performance-Centered Design, and related topics. Please email us the URLs of any gems that should be on the list.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on August 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Distance or Dis-stancing Education? A case study in technology-based learning
This paper describes case study research into a technology-based vocational program delivered by a Higher Education institution. The research involved three separate interviews with students over a two-year period and an in-depth discussion with the provider of the on-line course. The results in part support the existing literature in distance education, particularly the aspects related to the quality of learning and the cost effectiveness of on-line delivery. However, it is argued that previous research in the field has tended to neglect the important concept of spatiality and adult learning. From
eLearnopedia on August 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
How to Avoid the Pitfalls of LMS Implementations
There are four common issues that companies face again and again when choosing an LMS. These pitfalls will seem obvious to those folks who have already been through a system integration project, but they may surprise some of you who are knee-deep implementing your LMS. So, let's review them now, and discuss ways you can avoid or minimize their impact on your success. From
eLearnopedia on August 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
A Maturity Model: Does It Provide a Path for Online Course Desgin?
Maturity models are successfully used by organizations attempting to improve their processes, products, and delivery. As more faculty include online course design and teaching, a maturity model of online course design may serve as a tool in planning and assessing their courses for improvement based on best practices. This article presents such a maturity model. From
eLearnopedia on August 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Online Course Development: What Does It Cost?
Does it cost less to design and develop online teaching and learning today than it did a few years ago? Are the categories of cost different today from the past and from what the costs might be in the future? The costs of developing online programs are significant, yet there are few resources to help planners. Here, Judith Boettcher proposes a few guidelines for predicting the costs involved in the design and development of online instruction. From
eLearnopedia on August 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 14
Today's highlights: PeopleSoft Licenses IntelliSync; Intranets.com Review; Socialtext Case Study; PeopleSoft licensed the IntelliSync Mobile Suite to enable PeopleSoft users to synchronize data from PeopleSoft applications to a laptop or Tablet PC for disconnected or offline usage. It also will... From
Kolabora.com on August 13, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
The Economist on the (post)-monkeymind (Clay Shirky)
The Economist has a review of Paul Seabright’s The Company of Strangers, concerning the surprise of human collaboration along non-genetic lines (unlike our ape cousins, where family groups largely sets the dynamics of collaboration.) . Co-operation of a sort among... From
Corante: Social Software on August 13, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
Transparency And Credibility In The Blogosphere
The openness of Weblogs could help explain why many readers find them more credible than traditional media. Can mainstream journalists learn from their cutting-edge cousins? The article "examines reasons why bloggers are more trusted than journalists. "Bloggers are more trusted,... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 13, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
From VHS To DVD In Four Simple Steps
Converting VHS tapes to digital DVDs is any amateur videomaker secret desire. Tools and technologies are here that make this once difficult black art a straightforward set of simple steps. CNet editor Lee Koo and the CNet Forum community contributors... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 13, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Online Publishing: The Long View
"We live in a time in which the media business is undergoing its greatest change in the 500 years since Gutenberg. ...One main factor affecting media is the sheer supply of news and information available to consumers. Thirty years ago,... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 13, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
The blog beat...
Dan Gillmor's We the Media arrived in the mail today — ah, the lovely sound of organized atoms hitting the carpet. This got me thinking about the artificiality of "articles" as a rhetorical form for newspapers. They are a result of a scarcity that no longer exists. Reporters often have beats they cover, producing articles when something happens of sufficient importance to warrant taking over some of the limited real estate of the newspaper. Online, there's no scarcity of real estate, so we can publish more than the occasional article. In fact, blogs are more like beats than lik From
Joho the Blog on August 13, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Doom III, part 2
I did what seemed like a pointless driver upgrade for my ATI Radeon card to get rid of the Doom III dandruff (a swarm of bright specks) that was making the game difficult to play. But what really seemed to have done the trick was upgrading to DirectX 9.0C. Of course, that (or perhaps the Radeon driver upgrade) mysteriously locked all the icons on my desktop. No, "Lock icons" wasn't checked, and setting it and unsetting it only made my icons blink angrily (truly). For some bizarre reason, going into Display Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web and... From
Joho the Blog on August 13, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
CraigsList and eBay
eBay's bought 25% of CraigsList.org. Craig blogs about it here, and set up a forum to talk about it here. I love CraigsList both as a service that I use and as an example of what's so damn right with the Web. And I have complete faith in Craig Newmark as someone who has put years of labor on the line to build a place that benefits the community. I have slightly mixed feelings about eBay. It, too, is a service I use all the time, and they've innovated in some really useful ways, especially with regard to reputation systems.... From
Joho the Blog on August 13, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Unveiling of the Open Media Project
Do go check out
JD Lasica's and
Marc Canter's posting about the Open Media project. I (we?) often focus first on music, then on text (blogging) when it comes to digital media. Come pervasive broadband, video will play an increasingly important role. This is an exciting project that will hopefully harness video's potential in the personal/grassroots media ecology. From
A Copyfighter's Musings on August 13, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..
Wikis as Articulation Tools
I was showing
Wikipedia to one of the supervisors this morning and he said, "Hey, a wiki would be great for articulation." Yes! Since our high school is a district unto itself, it's a struggle to communicate very well with our sending districts. A wiki could be a very cool tool for this... ...in about three years. Let's say this supervisor wants to give it a try. The first articulation meeting is in November. Maybe I sell the district supervisors on the idea. Training happens in February. With any luck, those supervisors play and add to it in From
weblogged News on August 13, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Community Blog Project (Con't)
They may not look that excited, and there were more than are seen here, but I think the group that came to our first "Boro Bloggers Meet-up" last night left with their brains buzzing and some real energy for our project. Shoot, just the fact that we got 25 interested people to show up was enough for me, but the questions they asked and the comments they made were more than enough proof that they were thinking hard about the potentials here.
Jeff's n From
weblogged News on August 13, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Open Source Blogware
Kevin Jarrett has converted his site to
Blog CMS and he says it has some edu-features (new word!) worth checking out. The big news is that you can approve comments before they are posted. It runs on PostNuke and requires PHP and mySQL. Anyone else out there using this as a school solution??? From
weblogged News on August 13, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Technology Skills Assessment
I'm looking for a tool to measure the technology skills of our teachers and students, one that would cover basic hardware operation stuff as well as ability to manage files, do basic functions in Office type software, and use the Internet. Preferably it would be something we could offer online. Anyone using or know of a tool like this that they would recommend? From
weblogged News on August 13, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Local, Local, Local
I can't believe
Barbara Ganley only has 8 subscribers on Bloglines. She's a constant source of good thinking about education in general and in specific the use of these technologies with kids: It's what we're talking about with blogs in the classroom--how their very mutability and the fact that they are socially based allow them to adapt to whatever learning situation we are in--bending to personalities, tasks, disciplines and goals--and move students to think in terms of community instead of i From
weblogged News on August 13, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
I never thought that could happen ...
Yesterday two young guys broke into our appartement. Unfortunately my powerbook stood right in the entrance hall ready for take away. Luckily our neighbor did frighten them away. They took some electronic stuff (the Powerbook, digi-cam, ...) and the presents our daughter got for her baptism and a pair of shoes, a shirt .... Most shocking besides being robbed per se was the loss of my working horse. But thanks to the god of backups I did one the day before the burglary. Now it's just the loss of money, and ... beware ... all the passwords that are stored in the browser are open now. Yeste From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 13, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..
Microsoft and Spyware
My older, wiser brother Steve
points out: "Although Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides fixes for many of Internet Explorer's persistent security flaws, it does little or nothing about spyware, where "free" software adds code to your system that can capture keystrokes, monitor e-mail and IM traffic, and send the resulting data back to the invader's home base without your knowledge." From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 13, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..
Just What Were They Thinking?
The Register: SEC to examine Playboy for boobs. The boobs in question are Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have punctuated the company's mandatory pre-IPO period with an extensive interview with the monthly. The interview itself was conducted on 22 April, at the end of a Spring publicity campaign. Google filed its initial public offering a week later. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 13, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..
Google this: disaster
Fund manager Tom Taulli says the comedy of errors leading up to Google's IPO is as much about management hubris as it is bad fortune. From
CNET News.com on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
Learning Management Systems: Are We There Yet?
Interview with Andrew W. Mellon Foundation vice president Ira Fuchs which tackles head on the question of why learning objects have yet to be widely adopted. "All I can say," he writes, "is that technology is making it easier to package, search for, and utilize learning objects. But whether we will ever completely overcome the NIH, 'Not invented here,' obstacle, only time will tell." But, "However, a new business model will be required. The model we have today is that you buy a software black box and you get tied to it. If you want extensions, you hope that they'll be in a futur From
OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
Open Access Journals: Revenue Beyond Author Charges
The author considers alternatives to the 'author-pays' model of open access journals. Most of the suggestions are tiny steps back toward the traditional model. But he does raise a major point: "we can save significant funds if we reconsider the entire Promotion and Tenure process, with its publish-or-perish emphasis. The existing system encourages unlimited scholarly publication, and enormous numbers of editorial boards with little guarantee of quality control from many commercial operations. It is clear that at the present time there is a market for any author if they are willing to From
OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
Our Education System is Lacking Competitive Assessment
I confess that I don't understand the faith that competition always produces the best result. Cooperation often makes more sense. If you and I both want to go to Adelaide, the most efficient thing for us to do is to share a car, not to race. I think education is an area where cooperation, rather than competition, is more efficient. Competition discourages the sharing of resources. It encourages schools to fudge results and to jettison troublesome students. Yes, schools should be held accountable. And yes, marketplace approaches, such as granting maximal autonomy to schools, are worthwhile From
OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
MPEG LA Releases DRM Reference Model 2.0
There is no doubt a lot going on behind the scenes here as the MPEG Licensing Authority (MPEG LA) releases Version 2.0 of its DRM Reference Model "to create a pool of licensable patents on DRM-related technology, so that would-be DRM implementors can license relevant intellectual property.... to cover DRM implementations that conform to the Open Mobile Alliance's OMA DRM 1.0 specification" What this article - oddly - doesn't mention is that the OMA has based its work on the open source alternative, ODRL. I am also curious about how this will impact the deliberations of the IEEE-LTSC From
OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market
Very good article describing the size and distribution of the weblog tools market (where a weblog tool is a system that allows you to build a weblog). Leading the way, with about half of all blogs between them, are Blogger and LiveJournal. What's very interesting are the different demographics the different systems have attracted; LiveJournal, for example, tends to attract a younger and more female client, while Moveable Type attracts a much broader range of user. By Elise Bauer, elise.com: On the Job, August 6, 2004 [
OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
College Tours With a Virtual Twist
It's the analogy I like. Think about how you would create a mobile digital campus tour. The old way of doing it (still widespread) involves giving people a specific route to follow and a tape or CD-ROM that is played as you follow the route. Being able to turn it on or off gives you some flexibility, but it's not much use if you don't follow the route. Contrast that with the tour technology described in this article. Using GPS, the system determines where you are and then tells you about it. It may suggest where you might go next, but nothing breaks if you follow your own path. From
OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
Free/Open Source Software in Education
This 55 page PDF is an authoritative guide to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in education. The author describes the advantages of open source, surveys major open source tools, discusses migration to open source, and adds a section on educational open source applications. This work is not to be missed. Via Education-India. By Tan Wooi Tong, IOSN, August 13, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
List Feeds
Just for fun, and in view of some recent discussion, I have created an RSS 2.0 feed for IT FORUM. I have also created a feed for DEOS-L. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, August 13, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
Olympia 2004
Ich weiss noch nicht, wie mich die Olympiade, die morgen beginnt, in Anspruch nehmen wird. Heute habe ich jedenfalls zur Einstimmung mal versucht, eine Verbindung zwischen e-Learning und Athen hinzubekommen. So bin ich nach einiger Recherche beim ZDF gelandet,... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 13, 2004 at 9:26 a.m..
Blogs y Medios
Online Journalism Review: Mark Glaser dice que los medios han dejado de estar contra la blogosfera y ahora trabajan con ella: Dear Bloggers: Media Discover Promotional Potential of Blogosphere. Wired: Xeni Jardin entrevista a Dan Gillmor a propósito de su... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 13, 2004 at 9:26 a.m..
Pay Per Use Society
Whenever I speak with librarians about fair use or the Copyright Act more generally, I inevitably hear them express concerns that we run the risk of becoming a pay per use society, one in which content is available only for a fee. I am concerned that the bookmobiles we all... From
Lessig Blog on August 13, 2004 at 9:18 a.m..
Live Modern
Live Modern is a new community site that describes themselves as "a free and open community for modern home buyers, architects, builders, developers, lenders, realtors"anyone interested in modernist housing." They've got a Creative Commons license on all their own content, a section devoted to a new, affordable, custom modern home called
The Glide House,
a blog started by someone purchasing a Glide home of their own, as well as
-- From Creative Commons: weblog on August 13, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..
Monday, August 09, 2004
Here is my dream job. "Take Vegas.com, which sells airline tickets, hotel rooms and other travel products to Las Vegas visitors. From
RHPT.com on August 13, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
Blog market coverage
Elise Bauer has published a survey of weblogs and market share. Blogger and Live Journal together account for more than half of all blogs. Blogger.com, an early-to-market free ad-supported service bought by Google in 2002, is the big guerilla in... From
MANE IT Network on August 13, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Community WiFi summit in Denmark, 3-10 September
">The Wireless4Development conference (3-10 September 2004, Djursland, Denmark) is an activist summit wherein WiFi hackers of all description can plot the downfall of the Man and the rise of the unthethered network.The wireless4development seminar & workshop brings together many of the people who are doing exactly that. Using low-cost wireless technologies to bring Internet connectivity to parts of the world, and to parts of society, where there are no real alternatives. For one week in September, wireless and free networ From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Clearly
J.D. Lassica writes in the OJR about
transparency and trust, blogs and news media. He also gives us a fascinating chart from Technorati tracking inbound
links to big media v. blogs. For the story, JD asked me to riff in email (a very dangerous thing to do!). If you dare, click on "more" to see what I sent (soundbites you've heard before if you've made the mistake of hanging around here). From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Beyond Smart Mobs
Always something interetsing form Howard Rheingold. This time he's
interviewed by Business Week Online"Never before in history have we been able to see incumbent businesses protect business models based on old technology against creative destruction by new technologies. And they're doing it by manipulating the political process. The telegraph didn't prevent the telephone, the railroad didn't prevent the automobile. But now, because of the immense amounts of From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
iCritique
This looks interesting:
iCritique is a web application that streamlines the process of publishing and viewing Digital Video work on the Internet, and that easily enables online discussions of the work published.iCritique is a web application (developed by Steve O'Hear) that allows for the creation of an online community of viewers. Put simply, it's From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Some "Web as platform" noodling
In
the discussion of Flickr and Feedburner's
spliced RSS/Atom files,
Harold said:I'm beginning to think that feeds (and content tagging) should be the starting point, not an offshoot. Until now, our tools have produced web pages then feeds. I'm thinking we need tools that create feeds and then let us combine them into web pages.To put this another way, a distributed From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Copyright and Digital Media
America's
CBO (Congressional Budget Office) says its raison d'etre is to give congress "objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and with the information and estimates required for the Congressional budget process." It goes on:"Compared with the missions of the Congress's other support agencies - the Congressional Research Service and the General Accounting Office - CBO's mandate is relatively narrow." This month it released
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FCC opens wireless in buildings
As
Computerworld reports, the FCC has reversed a previous ruling, so that now the owner of a building no longer owns the wireless spectrum within that building. Enacted for airlines, the reversal will also apply to office buildings and commercial space, so expect more free/cheap wireless in the coming years. From
unmediated on August 13, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Grab Bag: Miscellaneous Cool Stuff to Read
Yet another list of interesting content from around the Web that I'd like to share. TOP OF THIS LIST: UK Guardian political commentaries by Terry Jones, formerly of Monty Python. His latest, published July 7:
In Iraq, it's already July 9th. Here, Jones observes, "...Perhaps the most important lesson to be learnt from the handover of sovereignty ceremony in Iraq is that on no account should any ceremony actually mean anything." Also, content professionals are especially From
Contentious Weblog on August 13, 2004 at 8:43 a.m..
How to Think Like Publisher, Part 4
(NOTE: This is the final part in a series. Parts
1,
2, and
3 are also available online.) So what's the bottom line? What makes content good HYPHEN or not? Although this is a practically infinite topic, it can be broken down. Here are a few practical and philosophical guidelines that seem to apply pretty much across the board, regardless of the type of online venue or conte From
Contentious Weblog on August 13, 2004 at 8:42 a.m..
Techlearning: The Mandate of Digital Literacy
The Mandate of Digital Literacy: Another insightful article from techLearning. Short on time to post my thoughts, but these paragraphs really struck home with me: With the drive to remain globally competitive, setting and attaining standards for these "digital" skills has climbed on the agenda of education priorities in the U.S. and countries worldwide. These issues eventually point to K-12 education scenario where schools play a key role in developing the computer skills needed... From
Brain Frieze on August 13, 2004 at 8:42 a.m..
E-mail and the V-word
I wonder if spam-filter nonsense will ever end. In today's e-mail came another example in a health newsletter I receive. The author was criticizing an ad campaign for Viagra, the male virility drug. But because she knew that spam filters would likely block her newsletter if it contained the V-word, she danced around the problem like this: "The name of the drug starts with a 'V' and rhymes with Niagara, but I'm going to avoid using the drug's name because many spam filters block e-mails that contain the word anywhere in the text. For today, then, let's just call it From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 8:42 a.m..
Online to Print
The Swiss Book Publishers' Association has a very successful website called
Rubikon, and it has decided to cross the river to the print side. A circulation of 40,000 for the tabloid free paper will be produced as a result of the great response from the public. In the beginning we used to have lists of print publications that had entered the online field. Now it might be time to keep an eye on print publications whose genitor is online. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 8:42 a.m..
News Sites Fail at On-Site Search
As if we didn't already know that search is important,
Pew has another new report highlighting the fact that people use and like search engines. But what about search engines on our own sites? You don't have to look very far to see that on-site search is in a dismal state.Try this on your favorite local newspaper website. First, find the search box -- which may be a challenge. Then type in "Chevrolet Suburban" or "Princess Diaries 2" or "Chinese restaurant." Most newspaper sites have classified ads, local m From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 8:42 a.m..
The Blogger and the Hurricane
Some people have odd jobs. While most people in the path of Hurricane Charley are trying to get out of its way,
Weatherbug meteorologist Ryan Towell traveled from his home in Washington, D.C., to Fort Myers, Florida, to experience the storm as it passes through. Towell is
blogging the hurricane for Weatherbug, armed with a laptop, digital camera, and two cell phones. I hope the company has good insurance; Towell reports that the rental-car companies wouldn't sell him insurance From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 13, 2004 at 8:42 a.m..
Learning plans
Thanks Paul for pointing me towards this interesting news letter. There is definately a big link between e-portfolios and learning plans people are discussing. Each of us learns something every day, or has the opportunity to do so. At work,... From
ERADC Blog on August 13, 2004 at 8:42 a.m..
Shameless Capitalism Comes to e-Literate
Since I seem to be sending a lot of business in Amazon.com’s direction with all of my book recommendations, I figured it’s only fair to ask them to cut me in. So I’ve become an Amazon Associate. All that means is that when you go to Amazon from a book… From
e-Literate on August 13, 2004 at 8:40 a.m..
Definitive Workflow Learning
Repurposed from today's TRAINING DIRECTORS' FORUM E-NET Workflow learning evades precise definition. As Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material ... but I know it when I see it." This morning, a vendor called me seeking a spot on the agenda of the Workflow Learning Symposium. I explained that I didn't consider his project to be workflow learning.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on August 13, 2004 at 8:40 a.m..
Count On
The Count On website is managed by the University of York and provides access to a number of resources for teaching matehmatics. From
eLearnopedia on August 13, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 13
Today's highlights: Notes 7 for Mac; IBM Activity Explorer; Opinion - HP and Palm Watch Out for RIM; Spyrus and Akonix on Enterprise IM; Autodesk Buzzsaw; eGroupWare 1.0 Released; IBM confirmed that it is planning to offer a version of... From
Kolabora.com on August 13, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Agile Development
On today's walk, I listened to
an interview with
Alistair Cockburn, whose concepts of Agile Development, designed for creating software, are perfectly applicable to Instructional Design.Manifesto for Agile Software DevelopmentWe are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:Individuals and interactions over processes and From
Internet Time Blog on August 13, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..
More on journal price increases
Dee Ann Divis,
Journals torque library budgets, United Press International, August 11, 2004. Excerpt: "Prices for scientific journals have continued to climb, with package deals by the biggest firms forcing smaller publications off the shelves. Libraries, facing budget cuts and angry over ever increasing prices, are organizing buying consortia, sharing pricing information and even using cancellations to strike back directly at publishers they consider abusive....From the libraries' perspective, it does not matter if From
DEC Daily News on August 13, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
CommonSpot Training
Finished day two of CS training today. CS is the university's new content management system. Coincidentally the new ECU home page created with CS went live today. CS is a neat tool, particularly since I can now create web forms... From
Martindale Matrix on August 13, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Frassle
I just heard Shimon Rura give a highly informal talk about frassle, an open source project he's working on. Fascinating. It's a blogging platform, but also an aggregator, community blogger, and publishing system. It's able to pull together blogthreads across multiple feeds, and lets you build blogs out of queries across feeds. Very cool. (It's in alpha and "built out of duct tape and drinking straws," as one of its tag lines says, so don't bang on it too hard.)... From
Joho the Blog on August 13, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Doom III
It has arrived. I've played 10 minutes of it so far. Incredible graphics and scary use of light and darkness. Mainly darkness. Looong load times. Very amusing to see the old Doom characters re-rendered. (Also, there's a game within a game that's no fun except it uses an old Doom texture and the face of the original Doom Space Marine.) Also, with a Radeon 9800XT, I'm getting bothersome white speckles in many of the scenes; they come and go in the darkest areas depending on the slightest variation in viewing angle. I thought I had the latest driver installed... The... From
Joho the Blog on August 13, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Not because he's gay
You know what sucks about James McGreevey resigning as governor? Him blaming it on being a gay adulterer. Since when do adulterers have to resign? Since when do gay men who come out of the closet have to resign? No, obviously he's resigning because there's some real dirt that's going to come to light, rumored to be about sexual harrassment. Resigning because he's gay would be like Madeline Albright resigning because she discovered that she's a Jew. Sheesh! (Note: I am aware that the analogy is not perfect.)... From
Joho the Blog on August 13, 2004 at 8:33 a.m..
Community Journalism Project
Just finished a great Meet-up here in beautiful downtown Flemington with about 25 or 30 interested community members who seem to be leaving pretty excited about the prospects of starting a group of Weblogs via
nj.com. For those who attended, here is the
promised handout that we ran out of. Thanks to
Jeff Jarvis for doing a great sales job in an overheated room. From
weblogged News on August 13, 2004 at 8:32 a.m..
Pub/sub, tags, and human filters
In 2002, InfoWorld gave a Technology of the Year award to "publish/subscribe" technology. In the
writeup (registration required) I mentioned Kenamea, KnowNow, and the Flash Communications Server. The
del.icio.us bookmarking system has some of the pub/sub flavor of those systems, as well as some of the blogging flavor. ... From
Jon's Radio on August 13, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..
Virus Writer Pleads Guilty
A high-school senior admits he created a variant of the Blaster worm that laid waste to a lot of Windows-based networks last year. He's probably looking at some jail time, and a pretty hefty fine. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:31 a.m..
More Big Boobs in Playboy
An interview with Google's co-founders due out in the current issue of Playboy may delay the company's IPO. Securities regulations restrict what executives can say while preparing to sell stock for the first time. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
No Green Light for Hubble Rescue
NASA's chief says he's ready to send a robotic mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope, but the agency has no formal plans or funds to do so. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Biology Enters Fourth Dimension
A new microscope sees deeper into life processes than any other and will allow biologists to study 3-D gene and protein expression over time. By Daithà Ó hAnluain. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Building Blocks for a Tiny World
Ribonucleic acid, or RNA, is no longer just a slave to DNA's commands. It may be the strongest building material yet for making nanostructures. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Net Publishing Made Profitable
Adam Engst of e-publisher TidBits has tried it all: ads, subscriptions and tip jars. Now he's hit pay dirt with a series of quick and dirty e-books distributed using a system he calls 'extreme publishing.' By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
For years, content owners have provided schools with curricula that promotes their antipiracy messages. Now the American Library Association counters with its own classroom material to give a more balanced perspective. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Let the Web Games Begin
The Web is worldwide, but that isn't stopping Olympics officials from trying to set up regional boundaries. However, you may be able to watch live event coverage even though NBC doesn't want you to. By Ann Harrison. From
Wired News on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
WIRED TO A LEARNING EXPERIENCE - Khaleej Times
The future of education lies in virtual schools according to Dr Milad Fares Sebaaly, provost and founder of the first MENA Virtual University.... "E-learning must become a lifestyle because no one can afford to leave their employment for the sake of st From
Online Learning Update on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Hispanic Woman-owned Business works with NASA to train Pre-Service Teachers.
NASA Ames' Education Office, Moffett Field, California, is providing funding for the workshop through a grant to California State University, Fresno and Integrated Space Technologies (IST), Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama. The workshop will take place from August 8-20, 2004. Pre-service Teachers Institute is a two-week program set up to increase knowledge, skills, and competence in teaching mathematics and science using technology. College students will be exposed to problem-based learning, mathematics and science enrichment activities. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004] From
PR Web on August 13, 2004 at 8:30 a.m..
Mozilla To Add Support For XForms, World Yawns
It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards. At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike. From
kuro5hin.org on August 13, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Students Shown What WorX in Food Science and Technology Careers
Cutting edge food industry careers were put on the menu for Australian school leavers by Australian Government Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Warren Truss and Minister for Science Peter McGauran. The Ministers launched a new interactive CD aimed at raising awareness amongst school leavers of the wide range of career opportunities in the Australian food industry – our biggest manufacturing sector. From
EdNA Online on August 13, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
The Arts - Helping Students to Embrace Learning
School-based arts programmes can play an important role in encouraging students to embrace learning and prompting Indigenous students to spend more time at school, a new study has found. Released by the Minister for Education, Science and Training, Dr Brendan Nelson, and the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, the Evaluation of School-based Arts Education Programmes in Australian Schools shows participation in the arts has a positive impact on students' engagement with learning and helps to build students' confidence and team-work s From
EdNA Online on August 13, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
$600,000 to Kick Start Accelerated Literacy in the NT
More than 10,000 Indigenous students across 100 schools in the Northern Territory (NT) will benefit from a literacy programme which will further accelerate and enhance their academic and personal development. The Australian Government has allocated $600,000 to kick start Stage 1 of the Scaffolding Literacy programme known in the NT as the National Accelerated Literacy Programme. From
EdNA Online on August 13, 2004 at 8:29 a.m..
Securing the gold in Athens
Despite age-old Olympic truce known as the ekecheiria, or "holding of hands," security experts aren't taking any chances. From
CNET News.com on August 13, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..
Style: a Pleasure for the Reader, or the Writer?
Because I write for an audience every day (a discipline that wonderfully focuses the mind) I find myself attending to questions of style on a regular basis. According to the author, the vast majority of students cannot write (or, at least, cannot write clearly). Writing to make the meaning transparent to the reader is a noble goal. But it is not the only goal. Via ArtsJournal. By Ben Yagoda, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..
Issues arising from DCMI Abstract Model
This paper is obscure but will be found worthwhile by the metadata community. It is essentially a list of issues raised in the Dublin Core metadata architecture. Worth a more general readership (but unlikely to get one) is the last section. The author writes, "It is important to remember that there are two kinds of schemas - syntactic and semantic. A syntax schema will be associated with a record and will define how the syntax is being used.... A semantic schema defines what classes of resource are being described, which terms are being used and what their semantics are." By Andy Powell, UKOL From
OLDaily on August 13, 2004 at 8:28 a.m..
Copyright Issues in Digital Media
For people familiar with the copyright debate this essay won't introduce a lot that is new, but is worth a read nonetheless in order to view the issues from the point of view of economic efficiency, the only consideration countenanced by the authors. Overall, and in this light, what follows is a balanced and subtle consideration of the issues. People new to the issue will find this an excellent starting point, though they should be aware that other considerations, such as privacy, due process under law, and freedom of expression, also have their place within the debate. By Various Autho
