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FOSS Primer
Brian Campbell sent me this useful primer which covers the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in educational institutions. "This primer covers the use of FOSS from schools to universities. It provides a brief overview of how it... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on August 14, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
University: Milkshake Learning
In Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses in the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (August - 2004) we are invited to revisit the notion of blended... From
Experience Designer Network on August 14, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
Waking up to a Hurricane
The sun is just coming up here in West Palm Beach--about 100 miles due east of Sanibel and Captiva Islands. Two places that you're about to hear an awful lot about. As the TV trucks roll in this morning the absolute devastation that happened across the state last night will start becoming real to all of us. There will be destruction on the scale of Hugo and Andrew, but with an even higher cost as tens of millions of people have been affected by this storm. What really strikes me though... From
Brain Frieze on August 14, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Book Recommendation: Common Knowledge
I’ve read a lot of “practical” KM books (including a bunch by Laurence Prusak and whomever he happens to be collaborating with on a given week) and, frankly, most of them leave me cold. A little too theoretical to be useful, a little to mired in the details to provide… From
e-Literate on August 14, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
De la Gladna si ...Stephen Downes
Pentru cateva zile suntem la casa noastra de la Gladna, asa incat insemnarile le voi scrie din mijlocul acestui peisaj minunat. Citind dimineata noile note ale weblog-urilor la care sunt ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 14, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
A Web Standards Checklist
Web Standards Project BUZZ mentioneaza A Web Standards Checklist publicata de Max Design. Nu sunt neaparat lucruri noi, dar este o lista bine construita pentru aspectele ce ar trebui ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 14, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
Beyond blogger burnout
I haven't been very close to blogger burnout most of the eighteen months I've been keeping this site, but in the last couple of weeks I have been enjoying trying to write for a completely different site, with much more political content, and working with other writers on a just-beginning vision of community publishing, and I find the change energizing. I can see that turning aside to new material is a great way to refresh oneself, and not only that, but trying a new sort of blogging --... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on August 14, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..
Yes or no, not maybe
A few months ago I read
de Bono's Thinking Course on a long flight. I'd picked it up at a used book sale for fifty cents and the topic was intriguing. Thinking is a skill. It's like driving; you can get better at it with practice. After you do, you'll begin doing it automatically. People confuse thinking with intelligence. Bad mistake, for it leads to intelligent people squandering their potential.Before I recount lessons learned from de From
Internet Time Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..
Catching up
Done, dusted, filed, stamped... now to wait for the response (2 weeks) the case outline (3 weeks), the second family report (3 and a bit weeks) and the 2-3 day hearing (4 weeks on Monday). Not that I'm counting or anything. In the meantime it looks like
Bloglines have come up with another corker with their 'email a friend some feeds' option (I'm guessing that this also includes a Bloglines account)... I'm going to be trying one person each day :o) the emailing bit feels like it could go a bit better though, perhaps allo From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 14, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..
Utah State Institute conference program set
The 16th annual Sep. 1-3 USU IT Institute conference program is ready and there are some very interesting sessions. The 3 themes are reusable media, social software, and openness (open source, etc.). I'm giving two talks: 1. Obstacles on the... From
Martindale Matrix on August 14, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..
Rapa-Nui petroglyphs
Or shark tales, acrylic on canvas, 201 x 139 cm, edition 5, Request Price. Inspired by Rapanui petroglyphs - art carved in rocks - especially from a motif of a deeply carved shark with a smaller shark inside located on a flat lava flow inland at Anakena Beach, where the Easter Island's first settlers, Hotu Matu'a and his family, are believed to have landed, by the Pacific Ocean - and from wondering. From
Asbjorn Lonvig's Easter Island Exclusive Selection of Paintings on August 14, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..
Rapa-Nui tattoo
Acrylic on canvas, 201 x 139 cm, edition 5, Request Price. Inspired by Polynesian tattoo art - in particular from a Rapanui woman's tattoos, black and white triangles in the forehead, black and white stripes on the neck and black dots all over her body - and from wondering. From
Asbjorn Lonvig's Easter Island Exclusive Selection of Paintings on August 14, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..
Shirky on why light shouldn't be owned
Clay has posted the clearest, sober-est explanation of why it's time to regulate spectrum as a public good and not as property. It's a brilliant piece of writing in which every sentence tells.... From
Joho the Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:44 p.m..
Worthwhile Magazine opens its doors
For the past few months, I've been a contributor to the Worthwhile Magazine blog where a bunch o' bloggers — including Tom Peters, Halley, David Batstone and the magazine's editors — talk about what makes working worthwhile. Interesting idea (all hail Halley): Do the blog before the magazine. Now the magazine itself is getting ready to launch in October, and for US$11 you can have a postal employee slap a copy down on your doorstep (or outside your carton depending on how the Bush economic recovery is working out for you) once a month for a year. There's a subsc From
Joho the Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:44 p.m..
Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism
Jay has blogged an atypical piece that is typically brilliant. He asks: Did 9/11 change journalism? Should it have? What story do journalists tell themselves about their role in the "war on terrorism"? Are journalists who inform citizens of the most powerful and influentual nation in the world participants in the war on terror, in the worldwide struggle for democracy, freedom and markets, because their country is a participant—the biggest by far—and they inform it? Don't miss the discussion in the comments. I only have a simple-minded answer to the question Jay poses in his nu From
Joho the Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:44 p.m..
XSLT + RSS: Why Pretty for only some browsers or is some implementations?
I've been mildly curious about some of the new attempts at making RSS feeds more human readable at first click- rather than seeing ugly XML code, these "new" feed displays use CSS (Style sheets) and some sort of magical
transform method called XSLT -- basically it means if you click a link that points to an XML file, it has some nicer formatting applied. I want to believe. The problem is that I think a lot of folks doing this are not widely testing, because while it has pretty formatting on a PC with MSIE, or perhaps From
cogdogblog on August 14, 2004 at 6:43 p.m..
IndyJunior - maps of travels per year
It's been a while since I updated my data files for the nifty Flash mapping app-
IndyJunior. This application reads coordinate data from an XML file, and maps locations and current geographic location. Check out the CDB travel maps for
2003 and
2004. By turning the template for this MT page from a *.html to a *.php, I was able to create a year by year IndyJunior map, and a menu to switch the data files for different years. It is From
cogdogblog on August 14, 2004 at 6:43 p.m..
8 Quick Ways to Fix Your Search Engine
Jeffrey Veen has written an article on fixing your search engine. To quote: Our finding, not surprisingly, is that almost every site's search engine could use improvement. We also found that most organizations' Web teams couldn't really affect the quality... From
Column Two on August 14, 2004 at 6:43 p.m..
Corruption Ascendant
The New America Foundation's Steve Clemons has a new blog,
The Washington Note, that's well worth reading. In his early postings, he's taken on the insider sleaze that permeates so much of the national-security establishment -- on both sides of the political aisle. Read
this item about former CIA boss James Woolsey, in which Clemons argues that America is "in an era of profound structural corruption." From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 14, 2004 at 6:42 p.m..
AVP: Fancy Meeting You Here
Halfway through this movie you realize that the title monsters, the Alien and the Predator, have no reason to be in the same place at the same time. This ridiculousness ruins whatever else may be cool about the movie. Jason Silverman reviews Alien vs. Predator. From
Wired News on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..
Wrong Time for an E-Vote Glitch
An embarrassing snafu with an electronic voting machine surfaces during a demonstration for California officials. Voting activists say it proves the point about why the machines need a paper trail. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..
Modern Students Devour Old Math
Competition to get into India's top engineering schools has students turning to Vedic math, a set of Sanskrit shortcuts with a disputed origin. Manu Joseph reports from Mumbai, India. From
Wired News on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..
Britons embrace digital lifestyle - BBC
Britons are spending more time than ever using digital goods, like mobile phones, DVD players and the net, says a comprehensive Ofcom report. The communications watchdog found people spend more time on mobiles than they do on landlines, with nine out From
Techno-News Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..
QUEEN CATHERINE DE MEDICI OF FRANCE 1536-1589(?): The unfortunate Roman Catholic Queen, Catherine de Medici,did in truth suffer a life of sorrow and misfortune at the Palace of Fontainbleau in France. Queen Catherine was advised by the seer, Nostradamus who resided at the French Court, to seek a remedy for childlessness, because she had been married to King Henry II of France for nine years and at the age of 23 she remained childless. The King had engaged in an affair with Diane of Potiers, Diane having captured the King's heart when he had been just 17 years old and Diane had been 37, b
Queen Catherine de Medici was born at 11 am on Wednesday April 13th,1519 and named Caterina Maria Romola. Her mother was Madelaine de La Tour D'Auverne, her father was Lorenzo,Duke of Urbino, (a Medici). Catherine's mother died of Puerperal fever on April 28th, 1519. Her father died five days later. They had married at Fortress of Amboise, overlooking the Loire, on April 28th, 1518. [PRWEB Aug 14, 2004] From
PR Web on August 14, 2004 at 6:40 p.m..
Barlow
Whether you like him or he drives you nuts, John Perry Barlow is incapable of being boring. From his interview with Reason, on reality TV, intellectual propetry, and his decision to leave the Republican party: "If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that... From
Lessig Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:40 p.m..
Clouds over Google's IPO
special coverage As market debut draws near, search giant is under intense scrutiny. Ill-timed interview in Playboy magazine casts yet another shadow. From
CNET News.com on August 14, 2004 at 6:39 p.m..