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Top Ten Online Editing Mistakes
"Sometimes the question of where to put a comma, how to use a verb or why not to repeat a word can be important, even strategic. But most of the time the author either missed that day's grammar lesson in... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 15, 2004 at 3:54 p.m..

Time To Kill Microsoft Word?
Popular PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak launches a timid attack on the most popular word processing application available on personal computers. Microsoft Word Dvorak argues that some of Microsoft Word long time weaknesses have persisted with no signs of recovery... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 15, 2004 at 3:54 p.m..

Blocking Foolish European Software Patents

Jack Schofield (Guardian): We won't kill you unless we have to. The issue is software patents. America has them, and Europe could get more of them - unless the German, British, French and other governments wake up to the stupidity of what they are trying to do. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 15, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

How History Gets Twisted
A short way into this review of a new book about Microsoft, a Boston Globe correspondent writes:"A guilty finding was overturned on appeal, and the government settled with the company, imposing restrictions on its business practices. The resulting introspection persuaded Gates to stand aside as chief executive in favor of Steve Ballmer, who would be his partner in remaking the company."The number From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 15, 2004 at 12:58 p.m..

Flicr and Feedburner do the splicing thing
Flickr and Feedburner have combined to offer a simple but wonderfully useful new RSS splicing service, which involves a combined RSS feed for blog posts and Flickr photo streams, so your RSS feed "might end up with something like blog post, blog post, photo, photo, photo, blog post, photo, blog post, photo, photo, and so on". Flickr and Feedburner are great services on their own (the former makes photo sharing a pleasure, the latter convertsEdTechPost on August 15, 2004 at 12:41 p.m..

Goodbye Groove
Although I have mixed feelings about it, I have uninstalled my trial version of Groove. Groove has the right idea about collaborative work: It makes it super-easy to create shared workspaces, to invite people to join, and to add documents, pictures, and as many or few tools (notepad, calendar, sketchpad, discussion list, text chat, voice chat, etc.) as are needed for a particular project. Plus it seems to do a pretty good job behind the scenes of keeping everything synchronized across multiple computers without requiring that people always have to be onliCollaborative Learning on August 15, 2004 at 12:41 p.m..

Critical Methods Nine
A quick plug for the annual South African critical methods conference - Critical Methods Nine: Trauma in context - to be held in Durban 31 Aug to 2 Sept 2004. By Martin Terre Blanche 2 Aug 2004 From Collaborative Learning on August 15, 2004 at 12:41 p.m..

RSSCalendar new features
I have been contacted by John Pacchetti of RSSCalendar in response to my previous post about publishing event information via RSS and am pleased to report that he has already responed to some of my suggestions, will consider others or has put them on his to-do list, and is very open to further feedback and suggestions. Business ethos: The TM part has been taken out of the RSSCalendar logo and the copyright notice in the RSS feed has been changed From Collaborative Learning on August 15, 2004 at 12:41 p.m..

More on RSS for events
In previous posts I commented on RSSCalendar. As I mentioned there, having the date, venue and such-like information in the RSS description field is fine for human consumption, but limits the degree to which the information can be automatically syndicated. For example, the events feed published by antiwar.co.uk puts something like this at the beginning of the description field: "Aug 29: Time: 9pm", while RSSCalendar puts something like this: "Date: Aug 31, 2004 Duration: 11.0 hrs". Fine for humans, but not good Collaborative Learning on August 15, 2004 at 12:41 p.m..

Convention Bloggers...
CyberJournalist.net: Convention bloggers named The Democrats have started issuing credentials to bloggers. I guess that's all well and good, but I'm wondering if any of the delegates have weblogs? Will there be blog posts from delegates rather than just A List bloggers. Would be kind of interesting to have delegates writing about the conventions...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:40 p.m..

Cyprien's best conference moment.../Flickr
My best conference moment last year involved Hydra (now SubEthaEdit), bloggers, rendezvous and macs. [42/0] Cyprien Lomas, who I met at the conference he references, talks about SubEthaEdit and Rendezvous. Cyprien also was at the recent BlogTalk in Vienna and has lots of great pictures up on his flickr site... Speaking of Flickr... Flickr is a photo sharing/community tool that has all kinds of interesting features. For example it utilizes RSS all over the place, photos, comments, comment threads... all have RSS feeds in various flavors including Atom. Here is the RSS 2.0 feed for my public pho From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:40 p.m..

Tom Hoffman's Talk to the Brown English MAT's
More on this later, for now, here's the link. [Tuttle SVC] Tom was going to have iChat up and going with a video stream of his presentation, but it looks like the Brown firewall must be in the way... or maybe they are having him give a talk about the Internet in a room without any connectivity... Come to think of it, that one might be more likely... :-)... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:40 p.m..

Feed Splicing...
FlickrBlog Splicing gives people the ability to offer a single RSS feed which contains a chronologically ordered arrangement of their photostream from Flickr and the feed from their existing blog (so you might end up with something like blog post, blog post, photo, photo, photo, blog post, photo, blog post, photo, photo, and so on). This is pretty slick and easy to set up. I have a new "spliced" feed on the right side of this weblog noted with the Feedburner icon. This feed is a spliced feed with content from my MT weblog and my Flickr photostream. Basically it... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:40 p.m..

Stanescu Family...
Lewis Elementary School: Letter to the Lewis Community Concerning The Stanescu Family I have hesitated to write about this but after talking with Tom Hoffman, I decided to go ahead and let people who might stumble on this weblog know about a tragedy that hit the Lewis School community this past weekend. On Friday, July 16 five members of the Stanescu family were killed in an automobile accident in Northern California. Lewis parents, George and Daniela Stanescu along with 3 of their daughters, Jessica, Tabitha and Miriam were killed in the accident. 3 other Stanescu children were injured in the From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

Your Classroom Wiki
One cool thing that you could easily do with a Instiki wiki is use it to run a wiki in your classroom, off the teacher's desktop or laptop (can you run Ruby on a Pocket PC? It'll work off your phone in a few years...). Anyhow, without bothering your school or district sys admin. Of course, you can do this with any open source wiki or weblog, but Instiki is an unusually simple and (so far) well behaved server.[by way of...Tuttle SVC] Tom Hoffman points to this very interesting wiki and it was a snap to install. His idea of... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

Knee Surgery
Knee Surgery_02Aug04, originally uploaded by timlauer. Yesterday I had arthroscopic knee surgery on my left knee. Am now spending the next few days sitting on the couch with my knee up on a pillow. I came across a great article that pretty much describes what I had done and what I can expect in terms of recovery. The meniscus tear was hurting such that I had to stop running. Am hoping I can get back to doing that in a month or so.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

Hypermedia to help you tell your story...
Tom Hoffman points to an O'Reilly Network article by Jon Udell talking about the convergence of weblogs, which are mostly text, and the posting of various media types such as music, audio interviews, pictures and video. I've been thinking about how multipurpose devices are allowing people to share their experience with not only still images, but video and audio. The nature of tools such as Moveable Type make it very easy to upload these media items and then wrap them around some text with a bit of context and share them with others. In late July I visited Chicago with... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

National Governors Association Clearinghouse of Ed. Policy Issues
KM in Education Liz Lian points to a policy primer on Closing the Achievement Gap from the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices Education Division. The Closing the Achievement Gap document, and supporting documents, are good summaries of the issues and possible solutions that states are employing as they deal with achievement gap issues in their respective states.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

Portland's New Superintendent Starts Today
The city's longest to-do list W ith August still simmering along, today is Vicki Phillips' first day of school. The new superintendent of Portland Public Schools may soon feel like the kid who gets loaded down with five homework assignments, a pop quiz and a term paper before figuring out the bus schedule. The editorial in our local paper, The Oregonian, points out some of the challenges that face our my school district and our new superintendent, Dr. Vicki L. Phillips.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

John Merrow on Superintendent Searches
Can D.C.'s Search Make the Grade? (washingtonpost.com) Typically, a new superintendent arrives in a city, hailed as the answer to every problem -- low test scores, poor attendance, embarrassing graduation rates. When change does not occur overnight, or perhaps at all, disappointment sets in. The superintendent departs for the next school district, and the cycle begins anew. [by way of...AssortedStuff] In keeping with my superintendent theme... Tim Stahmer points to an article by PBS education reporter John Merrow about the methodology used by most urban school district when searching for From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

Successful Uses of Wikis...
Big IDEA » Is a specialized wiki the way to go? So this is my thought about wikis: maybe they need to be really specific to a small set of people to be successful. (Wikipedia, then, would be an exception.) This kind of jibes with some ideas I've been playing with a wiki cheat sheet for linux commands I can never remember, one as something of a learning journal but only for a single topic or theme in a class, one for group decision making. In short, what you might call a hit-and-run wiki, one that lives only for a... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 15, 2004 at 12:39 p.m..

Bill Martin Jr.
Arts > Bill Martin Jr., 88, Reading Expert Who Drew on His Own Experience, Dies" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/14/arts/14martin.html">The New York Times > Arts > Bill Martin Jr., 88, Reading Expert Who Drew on His Own Experience, Dies Bill Martin Jr., who could not read more than a sentence at a time until he was in college but later earned a doctorate in early childhood education and led generations of young children to reading with simple stories like "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" and "Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom," died at his home in Commerce, Tex., on Aug. 11. He... From HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on August 15, 2004 at 12:31 p.m..

Homeschoolers Deserve To Be Represented Fairly
There has been a lot of talk about the resolution being promoted by some Southern Baptists for a mass exodus of Southern Baptist children from public schools. Unfortunately, many of the newspaper articles about this resolution so far have implied that both Southern Baptists and homeschoolers are extremists who hate public schools. Admittedly, while every group may have its extremists, it is not true that all homeschoolers or all Southern Baptists are rabid, anti-public school extremists. The real goal of most parents and most homeschoolers is the same From HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on August 15, 2004 at 12:31 p.m..

Education Tied To Student Interests
I love how everything in home education can be tied to the student's interests. As a young child I was fascinated with space. My mom would read space books to me. With the help of my dad I was able to look through my telescope and find Saturn! Because I had such a big interest in this topic I soaked up all the information I could about rockets, satellites, space stations, the sun, moons and planets. When I was in the 8th or 9th grade I had a huge interest in house plans and car designs. I would draw pictures all the time and keep them in a folder. My mom, having great foresi From HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on August 15, 2004 at 12:31 p.m..

Home School Dad
I'm a homeschool dad! While my wife does most of the work, the importance of my role is not diminished one bit. I take the time to look over my daughters work and praise her for her effort and accomplishment. That's an important foundation for the instruction that follows. Kids need positive feedback from Dad, and I am more than willing to supply. Only then have I earned the right to constructively critisize. I used to be more of a negative type of guy but God has convicted me on this and so I kinda changed my ways. As a result my daughter ge From HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on August 15, 2004 at 12:31 p.m..

New OA journal
Vinod B Shidham, Anthony Cafaro, and Barbara F Atkinson, CytoJournal joins 'open access' philosophy, CytoJournal, July 29, 2004. The editorial in the inaugural issue of a new OA journal from BioMed Central. Excerpt: "One could argue whether we need more journals in cytopathology, but without shadow of doubt there is a global need for greater access to scientific information in this field. As an Open Access journal CytoJournal will meet this need, by removing subscription barriers. Communication in general has been revolutioniz From Open Access News on August 15, 2004 at 12:21 p.m..

Getting beyond the next big thing
McKinsey says a post-boom tech industry can profit mightily by taking stock in the operations of many slower-growth industries. From CNET News.com on August 15, 2004 at 12:15 p.m..

Week ahead: Tech takes a vacation
The summer doldrums have set in for tech happenings, with only a trickle of conferences and earnings. From CNET News.com on August 15, 2004 at 12:15 p.m..

Friday, August 13, 2004
If I needed any more evidence of my geekiness, then today provided ample proof. From RHPT.com on August 15, 2004 at 9:58 a.m..

More on the UK report
Andrew Albanese, UK Report Calls for Publicly Available STM Research, Library Journal, August 15, 2004. Excerpt: "Open access supporters cheered. Jan Velterop, CEO of open access publisher BioMed Central, called the report the 'clearest political signal yet that open access to the research literature is to be regarded of great benefit to science and society.' For commercial publishers, there was less good news. The report criticized practices such as bundling From Open Access News on August 15, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

Arts Council England, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the Department for Educa ...
Arts Council England, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) have announced the launch of a 120,000 national training initiative to raise awareness of children's literature in primary and secondary schools. Through this initiative, due to begin in January 2005, professional librarians from Schools Library Services will deliver training to alert trainee teachers to the potential of From WeBlog.ro feeds on August 15, 2004 at 9:05 a.m..

Online University Design
An online university is a web site that provides a complete "one-stop shop" for all your employees' training needs. By logging into an online university, your employees obtain information about newly released training programs, guidance on the programs that are appropriate for them, registration services for both online and classroom courses, and immediate access to their training records. Online universities are not the exclusive province of large corporations. Small and midsize firms that do not have their own private networks can provide online university services to their employ From weblogged News on August 15, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Attracting Women to Technical Professions - Joanne Kossuth and Tracey Leger-Hornby, Educause Quarterly
Much has been written about the challenges faced by women in technical and scientific study and professional life.1 A literature search on women in technology or computing shows, however, that the rate at which articles and research reports are publish From Techno-News Blog on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Wireless Directory Assistance on the Horizon - Robyn Greenspan, Clickz.com
Mobile phone users that have disconnected their landlines, along with those lulled into security by the "Do Not Call" list, may be the keys to an untapped revenue opportunity. A report from The Pierz Group found that the addition of mobile numbers to From Techno-News Blog on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Politics Pulls Users Online - Robyn Greenspan, clickz.com
The traffic spikes to candidate sites are to be expected during the presidential election season, but Internet users are also relying on the medium as a political news and information source. While an estimated 24.4 million viewers watched U.S. presid From Techno-News Blog on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Mentor: Students benefit from laptop program - Kennebec Journal
Laura Richter is a regional integration mentor for the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. She is responsible for training Maine teachers to integrate technology in the classroom and has been active in this effort since 1989. Staff writer Darla Picke From Educational Technology on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Virtual High School Program Seen as Net Gain - Christina A. Samuels, Washington Post
Prince William County is adding two Advanced Placement courses to its fast-growing Virtual High School program as part of a state initiative to provide advanced courses to all its students. The county will offer AP biology and U.S. and Virginia govern From Educational Technology on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Capturing and Disseminating What Happens in the Classroom - Hubert Daugherty, Julie Cohn, and G. Anthony Gorry, Educause Quarterly
Universities increasingly employ information technology to distribute elements of their educational programs beyond campus borders and to find new uses for the intellectual capital they produce. Some faculty, with varying support and success, are movin From Online Learning Update on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Online courses growing by degrees - DEREK SANKEY, CanWest News Service
Judy Adams of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology says online access to courses is improving, with most technology schools offering at least five per cent of curriculum online. Online training and education programs are enjoying phenomenal gr From Online Learning Update on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

The Blended Librarian Web Site
Blended Librarianship is a relatively new idea having first emerged as a concept developed by Steven Bell and John Shank in January 2004. In April 2004 Bell and Shank delivered a three-session workshop on Blended Librarianship that was sponsored by the From Online Learning Update on August 15, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

I Know Something You Don't Know (Email Secrets)
Whitepaper: I Know Something that You Don't Know (Email Secrets), A Theoretical Discussion Concerning Secretive or Covertive Methods of Communication via an Unchecked Feature of the SMTP Protocol From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on August 15, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..

A Word from the WWiSE on 802.11n
Industry group including Broadcom, Texas Instruments, propose 540 Mbps 802.11n approach: The Worldwide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) proposal has backing from Broadcom, Conexant (Intersil's Wi-Fi portfolio), Airgo (MIMO developer), Bermai (early 802.11a developer), and STMicro. The proposal combines some ideas first discussed in early July so that it has the highest possible throughput and the maximum possible compatibility through From e-Literate on August 15, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..

Literary radio series on the web
I see that the University of Iowa's radio station, WSUI, teams up with Iowa City's distinguised bookstore, Prairie Lights, to broadcast a weekly reading series called Live from Prairie Lights. The archive includes dozens of poetry and fiction readings and the occasional other event -- I noticed a reading and discussion of MoveOn's book about activism, for example. There is supposed to be a rebroadcast of a reading by Donald Justice soon to remember the poet who died earlier this month, too.... From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 15, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Camino has improved but I still can't use it because it doesn't work with Ecto
Camino is faster and prettier but I still can't use 0.8 and the latest nightly build because still doesn't work with ecto (somehow Camino doesn't set the URL so that I have to manually fill in the URL which is unacceptable!). FromThe Camino™ Project: QUOTE23 June 2004: We have released Camino 0.8!! Download it now! We believe this version is an excellent replacement for Camino 0.7 in terms of features, performa From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 15, 2004 at 6:44 a.m..

PictureM - yet another Flickr competitor
Something to try! From PictureM News: QUOTEPictureM is an online service designed to help you manage and share your digital life. PictureM makes it simple to organize, send, blog, print, and preserve all your digital content, including 1,000's of pictures, video clips, blogs, MMS (w/ photos), files, and more, via the Web, e-mail, and phone. It's free to get started with 128 MB, which is enough for camera phone users. And From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 15, 2004 at 6:44 a.m..

PictureM is rough around the edges but Filmstrips and Slideshows are cool
Check out my PictureM Blog. Looks very rough and hard to use. But hey it's still in beta, right? Isn't everything? The Filmstrip and Slideshow features are very cool but again are unpolished and non-intuitive as well as non linkable (the preceding links to my slideshow and my filmstrip are Javascript links that therefore don't work!). I From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 15, 2004 at 6:44 a.m..

The Future Of Internet Video Distribution
The economics of video distribution may be changing drastically and much sooner than you may expect. Rich Gordon, one of the excellent contributors to Poynter's Online E-Media Tidbits first came across this realization by reading a fascinating report, "Pipe Dreams:... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 15, 2004 at 6:41 a.m..

Money Is Not A Measure Of Well-Being: New Corporate Investors Show Change
Money as the measure of value and consumption as the measure of well-being means that when more money is spent -- that is, when the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) statistic is up -- "the economy is healthy." It doesn't matter... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 15, 2004 at 6:41 a.m..

To San Fran and Back: One Day for Horizon Project
I was a commuter today- a one day trip fro Phoenix to San Francisco for the NMC Horizon Project meeting... I am rather humbled and honored to be a part of a group of heavy hitters in the instructional technology realm- Phil Long from MIT (we first crossed paths at the TLTGroup's mid 1990s summer conferences in sultry Phoenix), Diana Oblinger from EDUCAUSE (long friend of Maricopa and guest speaker here, she is brilliant), Lev Go From PR Web on August 15, 2004 at 6:37 a.m..

Customers of Telco Companies Face Privacy Breach
A security advisory posted on Bugtraq demonstrates how hackers can compromise customers of T-mobile wireless and Verizon (landline) voicemail boxes. The advisory talks about the use of Caller-ID spoofing the customers number, allowing a bypass of the PIN code since the voicemail thinks that the customer is calling to check their own voicemail. According to Secure Science Corporation, there has been no response from the vendors. Comments have been posted that T-Mobile has optional PIN code protection off by default. Better turn it on. From kuro5hin.org on August 15, 2004 at 6:37 a.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 10:39 p.m..

Zazelenchuk shoots and scores!
Rob Wall sent me this note yesterday, and it took me a day to figure out what he was talking about. "I saw this yesterday in my bloglines list - I thought you might want to add it to the... From Rick's Café Canadien on August 14, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..

Who pays for this blog?
David Akin has started something that ought to become standard issue for all blogs: An upfront disclosure statement of who pays for the blog and where the conflicts of interest might be. (This should make Zephyr Teachout of the Dean campaign happy; I spent some time with her at the Demo Convention and she wanted to see something just like this happen.) So, now we can argue for the next 9 months about exactly what ought to go into one of these statements, and who's more dislosive than whom, but let's at least get started. Here's a first draft of... From Joho the Blog on August 14, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

Book review: Leading Change
Leading ChangeJohn P. Kotter It is widely recognised that organisations are under greater pressure than ever before to adapt to meet new conditions and challenges within their marketplaces. This has spawned many change management projects, reorganisations and strategic realignments. Most... From Column Two on August 14, 2004 at 10:32 p.m..

Fodor's has a travel blog
I just noticed tonight that the travel site Fodor's has a blog, Right This Way...The Fodor's Blog. Who knows how long they've had it, but it looks chock full of helpful information. On August 9th there's a post entitled, Get Far Away From It All which links to a New York Times article about rustic cabins that can be rented from state parks. Handy! And just the kind of thing I like. I'm going to keep my eye on the Fodor's blog for sure. From megnut on August 14, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..

Protection at the Perimeter HYPHEN One Link in the Defense-in-Depth Chain
This paper describes a facet of firewall configuration that is missed a fair amount of time - not only limiting what comes into the network, but also what is allowed out. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on August 14, 2004 at 6:57 p.m..

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..

Job Fairs
Calendar of job fairs in the Twin Cities area from the Minnesota WorkForce Centers. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on August 14, 2004 at 6:54 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..

Donald Cox, The Economics of "Believe-It-Or-Not": Library of Economics and Liberty
This is a great piece on the utility and cost of belief. It sounds heavy, I know, but it is actually very well written and easy to follow. I found it while doing research on informational cascades, but the piece is about a much broader KM problem; namely, what is… 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..

International Open Source Network, Software Freedom Day
O resursa importanta si un reper pentru discutiile de la Seminarul Linux si Mediile virtuale de instruire de la Arad: Internati... Open Source Network - Center of Excellence for Free/Open ... 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..

MasterMind Explorer - Issue 58 - For Independent Publishers and Change Agents
MasterMind Explorer - Issue 58 - For Independent Publishers and Change Agents From MasterMind Explorer on August 14, 2004 at 6:50 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..

Registration is false advertising unless all links are clearly labeled "Registration Required" - Stephen Downes
Amen Stephen! I am going to stop linking to sites that require registration but don't have their links clearly labeled "Registration Required". Stephen's piece is a great rebuttal to Yelvington's rant where he states "One of the large growth areas is targeted advertising. Without registration, we have 0 percent demographic targetability. I can't tell if a visitor is male or female, lives in market or out of market, is young or old.". I say that is old paradigm thinking. Who cares about ads that target d From Roland Tanglao's Weblog 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..

Info@UK Issue 41, August 2004, is now available. Info@UK is the guide to major UK Information Societ ...
Info@UK Issue 41, August 2004, is now available. Info@UK is the guide to major UK Information Society developments and news. The bulletin is compiled by the Information Management Research Institute, Northumbria University on behalf of the British Council From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:44 p.m..

The 2004 CBC Literary Awards Competition is now open. CBC Radio and Radio-Canada invite you to put y ...
The 2004 CBC Literary Awards Competition is now open. CBC Radio and Radio-Canada invite you to put your talent to the test and enter your short stories, poetry, and travel writing. The deadline is November 15, 2004 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:44 p.m..

The current Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Federal Register (FR) are now available via scienc ...
The current Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Federal Register (FR) are now available via science.gov, the US Federal interagency science Web portal, which provides a federated search across multiple databases from multiple agencies From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:44 p.m..

Open Source Media Repository For Creative Content Creators: Open Media
JD Lasica and Marc Canter have announced the launch of their Open Media project for which I would like to provide all of my support. Open Media wants to provide easy and free access to multimedia authors of all kinds... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 14, 2004 at 6:44 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..

Biometric tech puts ID at your fingertips - Associated Press
Stuffing something in a public locker usually isn't a memorable experience. You drop a coin, take the key and move on. But at the Statue of Liberty, recently reopened after a two-year closure, stashing a package offers a glimpse into the future. To ren From Techno-News Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..

Kids Add Gadgets to Backpacks - Robyn Greenspan, clickz.com
Despite limitations in the classroom, teenagers are adding a spectrum of consumer electronics to their back-to-school lists. InsightExpress's back-to-school August 2004 survey of 312 teenagers took a look at the most popular gadgets for the age group, From Techno-News Blog on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..

Long-term cost of laptops estimated at $28M per year - Victoria_Wallack, Times Record
Of the state's 118 public high schools, 34 have agreed to foot the bill to get laptops into the hands of ninth-graders this fall, but the question remains: Who will pay to continue the program long term when the cost reaches $28 million or more annuall From Educational Technology on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..

What Do They Need to Know About Cyber Safety? - Diane DeMott Painter, techLearning
Each school year in celebration of October's Computer Learning Month, we focus on Cyber Safety and Ethics Awareness issues at our school, Deer Park Elementary. This paper outlines our cyber safety and ethics initiatives, and addresses what we have lear From Educational Technology on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..

'Time bomb' warning over student numbers - FIONA MACGREGOR, Edinburgh News
University chiefs in Scotland have been warned they are "sitting on a population time bomb". Fears that the nation From Online Learning Update on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..

Pepperell nurse honored as online education pioneer - Don Erikssonk, Pepperell Free Press
Rachel Boersma, PhD(c), MS, RN, CARN, a resident of Nashua Road, is one of 17 professors from Massachusetts state and community colleges who were recently recognized as e-learning pioneers at the first annual Massachusetts Colleges Online (MCO) E-Learn From Online Learning Update on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..

The Importance of Policies in E-Learning Instruction - Shirley Waterhouse and Rodney O. Rogers, Educause Quarterly
Most professionals interested in the use of technology in education understand the importance of an e-learning course site, whether the course is taught totally online or in a hybrid environment where the instructor has some face-to-face contact with s From Online Learning Update on August 14, 2004 at 6:41 p.m..

A Vote for Senator John Kerry is a Vote for a Strong National Defense. Or is it?
An independent voter requests assistance in determining whether information being disseminated on the internet is a true reflection of Senator Kerry's voting record on national defense issues. [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..

Dan Gillmor interview up
We caught up with Dan Gillmor this week and conducted a short interview about the future of journalism and his new book, We The Media. From Creative Commons: weblog on August 14, 2004 at 6:39 p.m..

Judge moves to unseal documents in Oracle case
Says certain documents, which Oracle and others want to keep from eyes of rivals, may be necessary to decide case. From CNET News.com on August 14, 2004 at 6:39 p.m..

HP partners with 3G gear maker
Major cell phone infrastructure provider plans to use HP's telecom software in 3G mobile network gear. From CNET News.com on August 14, 2004 at 6:39 p.m..

Briefly: HP partners with 3G gear maker
roundup Plus: AMD starts shipping 90-nanometer chips...ABC.com to air on Real's SuperPass...Lenovo revenue grows, but problems persist. From CNET News.com on August 14, 2004 at 6:39 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..

If this is a tech rebound, pinch me
Knowledge@Wharton goes inside the IT conundrum to examine why capital spending--and corporate confidence--remains low. From CNET News.com on August 14, 2004 at 6:39 p.m..