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The Museum of E-Failure
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/mef.shtml Een aardigheidje met een serieuze achtergrond: The Museum of E-Failure. 'An image gallery of some 1,250 screens captured from some 900 Web projects that for various reasons "went dark" during the years 1998 to 2004. Some had a chance to post a self-penned epitaph in the form of a "farewell screen"; others simply expired and drifted lifelessly, with no visible indications for their demise - often for many months. This collection provides a partial, but revealing look at the latter half of the Web's 10 years of existence. Annotations (Web E From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

I Want MemeStreams as a Web Service
I found this cool collaborative blogging site called MemeStreams. Here’s their description of what MemeStreams offers: A democratic view: On the main page you’ll find the most popular recent articles on the net according to our users. There are no editors. Everyone’s recommendations count equally. These recommendations are organized into… From e-Literate on August 16, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Constructivism, Cognitivism, and Behaviorism in the Corporate World
I had an interview with a PhD student today that got me to thinking about various instructional philosophies. Now, I must say that this is somewhat unusual for me, since I happen to think that all three philosophies mentioned in the title of this post (a) are weakly supported (at… From e-Literate on August 16, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Where is a wiki features comparison?
Now that I've been playing with wikis, I notice that there are a lot of wiki engines with different features. Where can I go to research the wiki that's best suited to my needs? I have not found a very comprehensive wiki comparison site, so I'm starting my own, using ... From Big IDEA on August 16, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Warner Brothers Records Attempts to Enter the Blogosphere
The New York Times reports that Warner Brothers Records sent MP3 files to a handful of MP3 bloggers in an attempt to promote the rock band, Secret Machines. Reaction was not favorable; only one blog complied, and that apologetically.... From MANE IT Network on August 16, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..

Humourous Olympics Ad
You may have seen this already but ... in the spirit of the Olympic Games in Athens, here's a great ad for Smith's Hot Crisps. http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/couros/media/SmithsAd.mpg... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on August 16, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

VideoWorks: Blueprint for a National Video DataGrid
The VideoWorks for the Grid project aims to build generic scalable video e-Services for structural and semantic video content analysis, metadata organization, query by content, and video editing and customization of videos from distributed digital video databasesigital video has come of age, but the tools for manipulating video data in a Grid environment are lacking. What are required are (a) methods to catalogue images and videos, (b) methods to extract structural and semantic information from video content to ge From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

Bots, blogs and news aggregators
The brilliant Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a free 20-page whitepaper on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (PDF). Good stuff. I'm working on a similar effort for a new Social Media blog I'm about to announce. From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

airpwn
Airpwn is a tool for generic packet injection on an 802.11 network. From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

OpenMedia.org is heating up
Looks like we'll be able to "open up" the Openmedia.org Wiki real soon now. We've got enough content and momentum - that there's actually something there for folks to grok now. One thing JD and I have found - is the termendous support for this concept and all the existing related efforts that TOTALLY tie into the OpenMedia concept. So now teh hard work commences. We need folks to actually DO soemthing - instead oif just lurk. So we've set up specific sub-groups, focused on particular issues: - Web Site development - Base Sp From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

How to make a videoblog on a Mac
1. Record your video with a digital videocamera or digital still camera that takes Movies. 2. Open up iMovie. Create a project. Import or capture the video files into this project. 3. Edit. (optional) add music. narration. arrange the clips. You've got to know how to do all this, but it's pretty easy if you just read the instructions.(imovie 2 or 3) / (imovie 4) You probably want to make the video no more than 2 minutes l From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

DO Laboratories publishes white paper on camera phone image quality
DO Labs, a France-based software company specializing in software for digital cameras and camera phones, has posted a white paper about camera phone image quality. The white paper provides a good overview of the difficulties of producing a good image and features a variety of photos that highlight such problems as distortion, exposure errors, white balance errors, low light sensitivity, lack of vibrant blacks and whites, chrominance noise and jp From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

portals and km--bill ives
There's a new name in my blogroll today--Bill Ives. Bill's Portals and KM weblog "shares ideas and hopes to generate discussion on the use of portals, blogs, and knowledge management to provide value to organizations through practical applications." Today Bill talks about --> From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

National Museum of the American Indian
A branch of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on August 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

Perhaps video didn't kill the radio star
John Dvorak doesn't like Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma very much. In fact, he calls it "the biggest crock of the new millennium", which is pretty damning in a clairvoyant way, considering we still have 996 years to go, and in a temporal way, considering "Innovator's Dilemma" was published in 1997. His curt behaviour toward disagreeing commentators doesn't help his case. James V. McGee suspects Dvorak hasn't actually read the book, while Corante's Renee Hopkins Callahan diplomatically suggests that perhaps it's not the concept he's ag From silentblue | Quantified on August 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

MSNBC.com Does Classifieds
MSNBC.com has added a comprehensive classified-advertising section, consisting of partnerships with CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com, HomeGain.com, Match.com (covering the major classifieds categories: jobs, cars, real estate, and personals), eBay (auctions), and Expedia (travel). An MSNBC.com press release calls it "a comprehensiv From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

Niles Named New Editor of OJR
Ex-LATimes.com web producer/writer Robert Niles is the new editor of Online Journalism Review, published by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School. Niles left LATimes.com recently to devote more time to his niche site, Theme Park Insider, an online guide to the world's theme parks. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

A Sampling of Gold-Medal Olympic Online Coverage
One of the neat things about planned big-event coverage like the Summer Olympic Games in Athens is all the innovative approaches many sites are taking. For example, I like Jeff Zillgitt's "Athens Watch" on USAToday.com, a live blog (why do they call it a "log"?) of news and tidbits. Zillgitt (getting much sleep, Jeff?) had news of the men's 200-meter freestyle event at 7:47 p.m. Athens time, matching the best time I saw from AP. Also from USAToday.com: an --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 16, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

Daddy's home, with kids
In Daddy's home, with kids, by Meg Richards, Associated Press (Arizona Republic, Aug. 14, 2004), the gulf between the sexes is explored in terms of their use of telework and other flexible work options, and how the rest of the workforce perceives those that take advantage of these options. On the p... From Kolabora.com on August 16, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

GoToMeeting review
I liked the trial enough to buy a subscription. Easier and cheaper (alot) to use than WebEx, though training isn't quite as good. Definately a better alternative to WebEx A good site for the trial download + tutorials on ... From Kolabora.com on August 16, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

Auricle's Mailing List
We've now activated Auricle's mailing list function. So if you want to receive notification of new Auricle articles or other events please self-register your email address in the mailing list field (right hand menu). We will not offer your email details to any other party. From Auricle on August 16, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

NHS University cancels 'virtual campus' procurement
E-Health Insider reports that the NHS 'University' has cancelled its procurement of a 'virtual campus'. From Auricle on August 16, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Ecto Version 2 rocks my world!
This looks great especially WYSIAWYG and improved image handling! I look forward to beta testing in round 2. I would go for Round 1 but I depend on ecto for my job so I want something that's a little more stable (although Adriaans beta's are a lot more stable than a lot of people's shipping software!). From ecto blog: ecto 2: And you thought you saw the last of it?: QUOTEAs hinted in an earlier entry, I have been working on a major upgrade of ecto for Mac OS version 10 From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..

Multifaceted taxonomies needed to help make sense of a complex world
Not quite sure what the point of this article (it's not explicitly stated enough for my sleep deprived brain to pick it up) is but I think it is arguing for multiple taxonomies and mapping between those taxonomies so that corporations can make sense of the ever complex and ever growing amount of knowledge out there. From The corporate taxonomy: creating a new order QUOTEThe failure of companies to r From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..

Blogs are diaries that can be read by the public; bulletin boards are town hall meetings where all issues can be discussed equally
I like the town hall analogy for bulletin boards. Not sure I like the blogs are public diaries analogy (IMHO blogs, in addition to being great diaries, are also great marketing tools, support tools, etc). My favourite definition is still "blogs are digital paper" and "blogs are the unedited voice of a person" better. From TechSoup - From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..

Added Chatango
Inspired by Joi Ito, I added Chatango. So far so good. Looks to be BlogChat on steroids. Chat with me (if you dare)! From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..

A Return to Centralized Learning
"Education functions in multinational organizations have been decentralized to a large extent. The strategy was to stay close to the customers of the learning programs and provide training programs targeted to learners' unique needs. As a result, most international enterprises... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 16, 2004 at 5:42 p.m..

More on the NIH OA plan
I've written an FAQ on the NIH open-access plan, based on my article in SOAN for 8/2/04. It focuses on questions about what the report language would require and publisher objections to the plan. I'm trying to walk a fine line between answering questions that really arise and keeping the document short enough to read or hand out. From Open Access News on August 16, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..

Finnish science journals
The Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board provides free access to a portion of both of their major research journals. Annales Botanica Fennici From Open Access News on August 16, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..

Backfile growth at SciELO
One area where online journals vary tremendously from the print environment is the fluctuation of beginning and ending points. The folks at SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) have added some additional backfiles to a couple of public health journals. Revista Costarricense de Salud Publica From Open Access News on August 16, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..

Keeping up with PubMed Central additions
There are several ways to stay abreast of content additions at PubMed Central (PMC). Some people tend to visit the website (almost) daily, poring over the Full List and New Journals to discern the very latest developments. Another approach is to stay tuned to STS-L, ERIL-L, the SPARC Open Access Forum or Open Access News on August 16, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..

Blackwell continues to yield additional free access
Blackwell Publishing would do well to take a page from HighWire Press and compile a comprehensive, easy to locate listing of free content. HighWire's Free Online Full-text Articles should be considered an industry standard, worthy of emulation. Since such a resource does not currently exist, I'll share the most recent results of my research at the Blackwell website. --> From Open Access News on August 16, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..

Your Papers, Please

Gilmore v. Ashcroft: Meet John Gilmore. On the 4th of July 2002, John Gilmore, American citizen, decided to take a trip from one part of the United States of America to another. He went to Oakland International Airport -- ticket in hand -- and was told he had to produce his ID if he wanted to travel. He asked to see the law demanding he show his 'papers' and was told after a time that the law was secret and no, he wouldn't be allowed to read it. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 16, 2004 at 5:36 p.m..

Information routing
Everybody processes a ton of email. And nowadays, some of us also process a ton of RSS feeds. In both cases, inbound items fall into three categories:

Must be acted on immediately. ... From Jon's Radio on August 16, 2004 at 5:36 p.m..

Piracy's Own Punishment
On Piracy. If it is true, first, that widespread piracy at some point diminishes the incentives for industry to invest in new works; And if it is true, second, that piracy is limited to a demographic, say, 15-25 year-olds (perhaps because people older than that are lazy or value their... From Lessig Blog on August 16, 2004 at 5:35 p.m..

Morning task: Install Subversion Server
My Big Task for the morning is installing a Subversion server for management of APOLLO and Pachyderm source code... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 5:35 p.m..

Supercharged college P2P project expands
I2hub, the file-swapping network on Internet2, wants a piece of ordinary campus commerce. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 5:35 p.m..

Bitter at Microsoft--and this is why
From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 5:35 p.m..

Apple's colorful computer plans detailed
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishes Apple patent for "chameleon" cases that change their look. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 5:35 p.m..

Officials say Linux not a price ploy in Microsoft deal
Local government in UK says it didn't use the open-source OS as a bargaining chip; Microsoft was simply best option. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 5:35 p.m..

Editors' Picks: Would you invest in Google?
Once the darling of the Internet, search giant Google faces new competition and investor skepticism as it nears an IPO. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 5:35 p.m..

Tele2 introduces Dutch flat-fee fixed-line
For a monthly fee of €3.95, Tele2 subscribers are allowed virtually free unlimited fixed-line calls to fixed-line numbers, evenings, nights and at weekends. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

Eltel Networks buys Sofrer Polska
Following the acquisition, Sofrer Polska's name will be changed to Eltel Networks Telecom. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

EMT picks Agilent GPRS solution
The solution, to be implemented by TietoEnator, extends EMT's signaling monitoring system functionality from GSM to GPRS. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

KPN sues Dutch government for 3G licence VAT
KPN is suing the Dutch government for the €120m it paid in VAT on top of the fee it paid for its 3G licence. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

Court rejects prosecutor's challenge to MTS acquisition of UMC
The Ukraine's general prosecutor had charged that MTS and shareholder Deutsche Telekom had broken the law when they purchased a 51 per cent share of UMC from Ukrtelecom in 2002, but the Economic Court of Kiev has rejection the charges. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

Orange Switzerland launches three-button mobile for elderly, disabled
Orange's Mobi-Click is a plain mobile phone with three large buttons: one red, one green and one blue. For each of the buttons, the most important numbers are stored - say, that of a family member, or a senior's carer. That way, they can be contacted with the click of a single button. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

Microsoft moves against SP2 downloads via P2P
A group of activists know as Downhill Battle were distributing the patch using BitTorrent peer-to-peer, aiming to demonstrate how such systems can speed up the distribution of large files, until Microsoft moved against the group's actions. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

New technologies could boost wi-fi speeds tenfold
WWise - the technology proposed by Texas Instruments, Broadcom and other firms - and TGn Sync - supported by Agere, Intel and Atheros - aim to increase data rates of wi-fi past 500 megabits per second, with WWise proponents saying they may be able to boost the rate to 540 megabits per second. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 12:07 p.m..

Will NBC Make a Live Splash?
At 12:43 p.m. ET today, I hope that NBC-TV will beat its own evening prime time coverage with a live broadcast this afternoon of what The New York Times' Lynn Zinser is calling "the single most anticipated race of the (Summer Olympic) Games," the men's 200-meter freestyle. The race features the fastest three swimmers in the world: Australian Ian Thorpe, the current world record holder; the only man to beat him in the event in the last eight years, Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands; and American multi-gold medal hope Michael Phelps. Got From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 16, 2004 at 12:06 p.m..

Community bank uses telework to retain staff
The little banks that could BY Gregg Fields (Miami Herald, Sunday August 15, 2004) spotlights the challenges and opportunities facing community banks in southern Florida. Here's a clip relevant to the telework discussion (my emphasis added): 'Uniformly, community bank say their biggest challenge is... From Kolabora.com on August 16, 2004 at 12:05 p.m..

Assigning Wikipedia
I'm thinking of asking students to contribute an article to Wikipedia this semester -- has anyone tried this with a class? We'd want to study the site and describe the traits of an excellent piece there, then work through some drafts. All in keeping with my new goal of making something of use to others in every class. Stop assigning things meant to be thrown away at the end of the semester, I tell myself, or at least cut back on that practice. From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 16, 2004 at 12:03 p.m..

Draft Scottish Declaration of Open Access
The Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group has written a draft Scottish Declaration of Open Access. The draft will be made final, signed, and probably released after an October 11 meeting at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Excerpt from the draft Declaration: "There are two main routes to achieving open access, and we wish to register our support for both. A growing number of open access journals have been From Open Access News on August 16, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..

Microsoft extends webservices, IMS enterprise and LIP support
The extended support consists of a raft of new, education specific features built on the Microsoft BizTalk 2004 platform. The lot is known as the Enterprise Services Framework (ESF), and essentially aims to be the traffic cop in the heterogenous, multi-platform environment of a typical FE or HE network. It can take information in wide variety of forms, and push it out again in standard and not so standard formats. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on August 16, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:11 (September 2004) is now available ...
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:11 (September 2004) is now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 16, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will receive a collection of some 1,000 recordin ...
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will receive a collection of some 1,000 recordings that preserve the 17-year history of performances produced by fellow Lincoln Center constituent Jazz at Lincoln Center. The recordings will be available for listening by the general public in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center. The collection is being given to the Library by Jazz a From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 16, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Highlights from the Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group's Open Access Declaration (D ...
Highlights from the Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group's Open Access Declaration (Draft) are now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 16, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Passing
Bill Asp, DC punk and new wave promoter, dies. A personal remembrance. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on August 16, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Taking notes
How do people take notes these days? I've poked around this list of outliners and note takers but nothing seems to do exactly what I want. But my needs are pretty simple and pretty common, so surely somewhere there's a piece of software that'll help. I'd like an outliner. It doesn't even have to be very sophisticated. As I read a source, I want to type in brief notes that I can stick into that outline, with some notes stored in multiple places. I only want to type in the bibliographic information once, so it needs some way of annotating... From Joho the Blog on August 16, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Silicon Valley Company's Unconvincing Denial on Tax Deal

NY Times: Tech Company, Rebutting I.R.S. Auditor, Denies Getting Improper Tax Agreement. Micrel, a Silicon Valley semiconductor maker, said that accusations of improper conduct by the company, raised by an Internal Revenue Service auditor and reported last Tuesday in The New York Times, were false. George Zinn, the Micrel chief executive, said in a statement issued late Friday that "the article was filled with outright falsehoods and From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 16, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Windows Update: A Worthy Addition
My colleague Mike Langberg and have done a one-two series of columns on Windows XP Service Pack 2. Mike, in this column today, says: "It's also important to know that SP2 is a floor, not a ceiling, when it comes to computer security. You still need to separately buy, install and update anti-virus software. You'll also be safer with a stronger firewall than what's provided with SP2, either by purchasing a piece of firewall software or installing a home router that acts as From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 16, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

BloggerCon 3.0
Dave and friends are planning a BloggerCon conference this fall in Palo Alto. Count me in. Hope I can help. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 16, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Gateway lands on another retailer's shelves
Company's desktops will show up on CompUSA's shelves later this week, providing more competition for HP. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

Microsoft lists SP2 conflicts
Software giant tells just which programs are having issues with its Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

FOSS in Education
While searching for instructions for how to install Plone on Fedora Core 2 I happened to find this report Foss in Education written by Tan Wooi Tong at the International Open Source Network (IOSN). The report is described as a primer, yet it quite thoroughly covers many aspects of implementing ... From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Brainstorming HowTo
How to run a brainstorming meeting - UIWEB.COM Scott Berkun with a lot of omp when it comes to project management from software dev. In this article he covers how to lead and facilitate brainstorming. The process is important also for creative thinking. This will make a good reading for my ... From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Web Accessibility
Web Accessibility for All is the home for the project "Electronic Accessibility For All--Failure Is Not An Option" at the Center on Education and Work ( University of Wisconsin-Madison). The website contains many resources related to accessibility, tutorials on how to create accessible media for the web. However none of the ... From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Scanning Basics 101
Scanning Basics 101 - All about digital images described by itself as "The purpose is to offer some scanning tips and to explain the basics for photos and documents. It is about the fundamentals of digital images, about the basics to help you get the most from your scanner. How ... From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Bibliography - planning online programs
DEOS-L Archives -- July 2004 (#36) An extensive bibliography on recommended reading for planning online programs. I used some of these sources in my paper for Ed Policy in the spring, but there are also many new references for the future. From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Colorblind Web Page Filter
The Colorblind Web Page Filter will be of great help to make sure that you don't make a poor design for your web log or web pages. Test your site! From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

CSS Accessibility
The people at TSBVI (Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired have written this excellent introduction and how-to guide - CSS Accessibility. It explains not only the usual advantages of using CSS, but it also goes into detail of how to design the structure of your web pages so ... From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Computing made easier
This morning I was web scouting a link from the DEOS list and found Michael Guhlin's 32 Free Software Tools to Make Computing Easier. Now this was a nice found and something to share with my students and fellow faculty next time I get the question - "how do I ... From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

SchoolnetAfrica: Professional Development Course
It is always encouraging to see well designed professional development programs. This program, Course for Technical Service Centre Managers is an Online Professional Development Course offered in different countries in Africa. The people at SchoolnetAfrica has done an excellent job putting this PD program together. Something for us on this ... From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

From ed tech brainery on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Series: Some New (and old) Library Resources for Video Production, Cinematography & New Media
Author: Ablan, Dan Year: 2003 Title: Digital cinematography & directing City: Indianapolis, Ind. Publisher: New Riders Pub. Edition: 1st ISBN: 0735712581 Call Number: TR860 .A25 2003 Subjects: Digital Cinematography... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Web Site Showcase
Sites highlighted in the latest issue of MacDesign Magazine misspato.com http://www.misspato.com A showcase almost 500 well designed web sites categorized by styles like cartoon, clean, futurist, pixel, retro, etc... Conceptual Diagram Symbol Libraries http://ian.umces.edu/symbols "The IAN symbol libraries contain over... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Book Review: Web Standards Solutions
Whatdoiknow.com has a good review of a new book on web standards. The book covers HTML, XHTML and CSS (among other things.) Cederholm, Dan. (2004). Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook. Amazon Link Browse Related Subjects: Web sites... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

New Books in Studio
------------------------------------------------------------- Real world color management : industrial-strength production techniques Browse Subjects: Color computer graphics Color in design ------------------------------------------------------------- Adobe AfterEffects 6.0 Classroom in a Book Browse Subjects: "Adobe After Effects Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing Also in Library... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

New Issue: MacDesign Magazine
The latest issue of MacDesign Magazine has arrived in The Studio. In addition to the usual product reviews and the Design Makeover column, 2004 Crabby Awards winners, there are some great tutorials: Photoshop (creating photographic edge effects) Illustrator (Illustrator blowing... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Content: Stencil Brushes for Photoshop
Andy Budd: Blogography has some Photoshop Brushes for download. Here's a good intro to Photoshop's brush palette.... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

2004 Adobe Design Achievement Award Winners Announced
Adobe has announced the 2004 winners of its achievement awards. The awards celebrate the work of students. There were nearly 1300 entries from 160 schools in the US, UK and Canada. "Winners were chosen in seven creative categories, representing work... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

MacDesign adds daily Photoshop CS tips to site
MacDesign Magazine has added a daily dose of Photoshop tips to its web site. These "tips of the day" (some basic, some not) cut through the interface and conceptual fluff (do you really need to learn about the channel mixer... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Apple Keynote Design Winners
Wow, finally some news about Apple's Keynote presentation software. Keynote is Apple's contender to take on PowerPoint. If you use a Mac, do presentations, like QuickTime, want to use something besides PowerPoint, Keynote is worth a look. Here are the... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Optimal Sight Lines: Blog Subject Recap for July
Whenever possible, I've tried to append entries with related Library of Congress Subject Headings. These headings are links that take you deep into the "controlled vocabulary" that is the heart of the Library's online catalog. George Steiner (in a 1973... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Apple Seminars Online (free)
Topic: Servers/Networks A Blueprint for Tiered Storage (online seminar) Steve Duplessie, recognized independent expert on storage technology, discusses the practicalities of tiered storage & set-up of a solution that works. For more information visit http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/tieredstorage/apple/index.html?s=203... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

New Books in Studio
Illustrator CS for Windows and Macintosh Subjects: Adobe Illustrator (Computer file) Computer graphics ---------------------------------------------------- How to do everything with Illustrator CS Subjects: Adobe Illustrator (Computer file) Computer graphics ---------------------------------------------------- InDesign CS killer tips : the hottest collection of cool tips... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Media Culture and Society v. 26 no 4
The latest issue of Media, Culture and Society is out. Full Text electronic access to this title is available.... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

GNR8: Beyond the Light Fixture to Fixation on Light
From the site: Website: http://gnr8.typepad.com/gnr8_news/ "GNR8 is about the interface between lighting, design & culture. We're not interested in the old paradigm of the light fixture (although some of those can be cool). We ARE interested in seeing how modern... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Visual Democracy: Memory Hole
The Memory Hole lists videos that are available from the Congressional Research Service... "The Congressional Research Service--well-known for its detailed, unbiased, and hard-to-obtain reports for Congress--also uses taxpayer money to create videos. Even rarer than their paper counterparts, the CRS... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Privacy statement
Everything published here is effectively in the public domain. The site is licenced under a Creative Commons License. Your email address will not be published. As the only administrator of this site, I may send you follow-up email if I feel that there is an issue with one of your posts. ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Awards
In addition to the immense satisfaction of discourse with your peers, here is another reason to participate. My initial goal is to see this site work through 10 challenges. If and when we get there, I'll award engraved trophies to the: challenge submitter who generates the most responses and debate, individual who has ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Responding with solutions and comments
To respond with solutions and comments to a published challenge: view the challenge on which you wish to comment; select Add Comment; enter your name, email address (not published) and website (optional); enter your comment in the editor provided; press the post button. The editor allows for the use of most HTML tags, including tables. Text ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Submitting challenges
To submit a challenge: add a comment to this post; enter your name, email address (not published) and website (optional); enter your submission in the editor provided; press the post button. Make your description of the topic as clear and succinct as possible. Use previous challenges as a guide to the scope of your submission. ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

How it works
Every week or two I'll try to publish a situation that describes a discrete topic to be taught online. Some topics are just so difficult, dry or abstract that they defy instruction. That's what the challenge is all about. Most importantly, I want you to submit the topics and generate these ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Introduction
...I realised that I could use a weblog as a collaborative forum to enhance our own experience as e-learning designers. The idea of a challenge was born. From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Challenge 1
To get this site rolling, I'd like to present a case with which I have been involved recently. The project is for the creation of asynchronous online learning for real estate agencies, their sales and property management staff, as part of a professional development program sponsored by their industry association. ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

eLearning Design?
As the eLearning Design Challenges continue, some of you may have general comments or questions about instructional strategies for online learning. Please add them as comments to this post. From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

eLearning Design Challenge: call for submissions!
The inaugural eLearning Design Challenge has received splendid contributions. While it continues to provoke discussion, I invite you to think ahead to the next challenge. Have you encountered a small topic or concept that appeared difficult to teach online? Submit a description of your topic and challenge the elearning design ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Challenge 2
The second eLearning Design Challenge comes from an application that may be familiar to many of you: new employee induction. As part of a complete package, your challenge today is to design an online learning activity that focusses on the importance of punctuality. Imagine you are working for a national retail ... From eLearning Design Challenge on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Bookmarks bij del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/ Soms is werken net spelen. Een kleine bijdrage aan het werkplezier is de faciliteit voor 'social bookmarking' http://del.icio.us/. Iedereen die begint met bookmarks te maken van webpages krijgt na verloop van tijd dezelfde problemen: het worden er te veel (het is meer werk om naar je bookmark te zoeken dan om naar Google te gaan), je kunt ze moeilijk delen tussen de browsers die je gebruikt, sommige staan op je PC thuis, andere staan op je werk - en dan nog te zwijgen van de problemen als je een nieuwe PC koopt. Met del.icio.us kun je je bookmarks opslaan op het From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Instituut Collectie Nederland in Geheugen van Nederland
http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/icn In het Geheugen van Nederland zijn vier collecties opgenomen van het Instituut Collectie Nederland: http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/icn. De vier collecties zijn: (1) 100 hoogtepunten, (2) 2000 werken (!) van Theo van Doesburg, voorman van de groep De Stijl, (3) toegepaste kunst (600 stukken) van meubelstukken tot affiches en (4) 800 schilderijen van oude meesters. From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
http://www.cvma.ac.uk/ Een prachtige site met afbeeldingen van gebrandschilderd glas: http://www.cvma.ac.uk/. Het gaat om de site van de Britse tak van het internationale project Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. De site kan doorzocht worden via een zoekinterface, maar ook via een kaart van Engeland: http://www.cvma.ac.uk/content/archive/countymap.htm. Van elk glas is een afbeelding en een beschrijving beschikbaar. In totaal zijn er ongeveer 10000 afbeeldingen, de meeste in kleur. Van een groot aantal ramen zijn meerdere detailafbeeldingen ter beschikking, maar er is geen zoomfunctie. De iconog From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Om taerten te maken die men in het Spaensch noemt marcepeyn
http://www.kookhistorie.com/index.htm Op http://www.kookhistorie.com/ geeft de diëtiste en neerlandicus Marleen van der Molen-Willebrands een transcriptie van drie Nederlandse kookboeken uit de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw: De verstandige kock (1669): http://www.kookhistorie.com/VK/index_vk.htm Cocboeck (1593): http://www.kookhistorie.com/cb/index_cb.htm Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen (ca. 1514): http://www.kookhistorie.com/NBC/index_nbc.htm De laatste uitgave is de meest volledige, en gaat vergezeld van een volledige inhoudsopgave, een glossarium, een lijst van recepten naar categor From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

dbnl · nieuwe teksten augustus 2004
http://www.dbnl.org/nieuws/opl082004.htm De DBNL meldt de beschikbaarheid van nieuwe teksten. Hoogtepunten deze maand: een aantal kinderboeken van Joke van Leeuwen, Els Pogrom en Annie M.G. Schmidt, de bundel apocrief / de analphabetische naam van Lucebert, de volledige tekst van het tijdschrift Forum, een nieuw deel Vondel. De volledige lijst: Lizzy Ansingh, Tante Tor is jarig Imme Dros, Annetje Lie in het holst van de nacht Forum Annemie en Margriet Heymans, De prinses van de moestuin Margriet Heymans, Lieveling, boterbloem Jan van Hout, Loterijspel Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederla From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Verschenen: Cultureel erfgoed digitaal
http://www.den.nl/Leidraad/ De Mondriaan Stichting en Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland hebben onlangs een boekje uitgebracht Cultureel erfgoed digitaal: Een leidraad bij projecten. Bij de digitale versie van het boekje is ook ondersteunend materiaal ter beschikking, zoals een voorbeeld van een informatieplan, een voorbeeld stroomschema, etc. Uit het woord vooraf bij het boekje: ‘Uit de aanvragen bleek dat veel instellingen problemen ondervinden bij het ontwikkelen van digitaliseringsprojecten: ze hebben geen ervaring met het definiëren en begeleiden van dergelijke projecten, missen expertise in From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

LEADERS: integrating content with context for archives
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/leaders-project/index.htm LEADERS is een toolkit, bedoeld voor archieven die hun collecties electronisch toegankelijk willen maken. LEADERS combineert facsimiles met metadata (gecodeerd volgens de EAD-standaard), transcripties (gecodeerd in TEI) en contextuele informatie (gecodeerd als EAC). Een voorbeeld-toepassing rond documenten van George Orwell toont waartoe het systeem in staat is. Het kan zoeken in diverse indexen. Bij het tonen van de resultaten kan de lezer kiezen tussen verschillende configuraties: transcriptie en facsimile, transcriptie en annotatie (context), From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

SmallZine - e-zine over webdesign en internetnieuws
http://www.smallzine.nl/pagina.php?template=voorpagina SmallZine over zichzelf: 'SmallZine is een maandelijks e-zine met internetnieuws, html, tips voor het bouwen van homepages en besprekingen van andere e-zines. Een abonnement is gratis'. De artikelen in Smallzine verschijnen in twee vormen: als platte tekst in een maandelijkse e-mail nieuwsbrief, en in HTML op de website van het tijdschrift. De afgelopen maand verschenen artikelen over een weblog over de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen, het weinig doortastende IT-beleid van de gemeente Amsterdam, de plannen van de overheid o From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

DOAP: Description of a Project
http://usefulinc.com/doap Een initiatief van Ed Dumbill: een XML/RDF vocabulaire om open source projecten in te beschrijven. De reden om het vocabulaire te ontwikkelen is dat informatie over projecten nu vaak op talloze plaatsen wordt ingevuld. Die informatie raakt gemakkelijk verouderd. Wanneer een gestandaardiseerde beschrijving van projecten bestaat, kunnen project registries de informatie uit de gestandaardiseerde beschrijving overnemen. Voor de DOAP gegevens bestaat een RDF schema. Een validator en viewer zijn in de maak. Dumbill beschreef de ontwerpbeslissingen voor DAOP in een serie From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Weblogs over elektronisch publiceren
Elektronisch publiceren is een uitgebreid terrein. De weblogs die zich ermee bezighouden zijn dus ook nogal gevarieerd van aard. Een paar van de collega's die ik inmiddels ben tegengekomen zijn: -=(In Between)=-: 'A weblog on scholarly online publishing, open access, and library related technology' (van Henk Ellermann, Project leader Erasmus Electronic Publishing Initiative EEPI). Nederland. Blog de Libros y bitios : 'Bibliografía, noticias y enlaces sobre edición digital y tradicional, lectura, escritura, libros, ...'. Spanje. eprintblog: 'E-print archives in From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Digitaliseren van fotocollecties
http://www.icn.nl/DIR003/ICN/CMT/Education.nsf/0/5AAB7FC8D2F81ECDC1256DF7003A24D0?OpenDocument&popupmenu=5 Het Instituut Collectie Nederland Amsterdam organiseert een cursus 'Digitaliseren van fotocollecties', op 14, 15 en 16 september 2004. Uit de cursusbeschrijving op de site: 'Theoretische en praktische inleiding in het digitaal ontsluiten en presenteren van fotografische materialen in musea, bibliotheken en (data)archieven. Aan bod komen: het maken van een projectplan, het omzetten van een afdruk of negatief naar een digitale ‘image’, beschrijving en documentatie, toegankeli From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Describe XML content with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-matters37.html Een aardig artikel op IBM developerWorks: Describe XML content with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Het artikel introduceert het Dublin Core Metadata Initiative en beschrijft hoe de Dublin Core metadata kunnen worden gebruikt. Vervolgens bespreekt het hoe ze kunnen worden ingebed in RDF. Een voordeel van het gebruik van ingebedde Dublin Core metadata is dat ze ook kunnen worden gebruikt op het niveau van onderdelen van documenten, in plaats van op het niveau van het hele document. From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

IntraText Digital Library
http://www.intratext.com/ Een Italiaanse digitale bibliotheek: IntraText. De biliotheek bevat teksten in verschillende talen, met de nadruk op Italiaans en Latijn. Een groot deel van de teksten is van godsdienstige aard, en veel materiaal is gerelateerd aan de katholieke kerk. Interessant aan de site is de manier waarop de teksten worden aangeboden. Voor alle teksten is een KWIC (Key Word in Context) concordantie aanwezig. Vanuit de concordantie kan worden teruggesprongen naar de passages in de tekst; in de concordantie zelf kan, in alfabetische volgorde en op frequentie, worden gebladerd. Er From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

These web sites are identical - or are they?
http://phnk.com/design/survey/ Een aardig rapport over website design. De auteur, François Briatte, heeft websites, ontworpen door een aantal goeroes van het web design, op een aantal kenmerken vergeleken. Zijn provocatief geformuleerde conclusie: "75% of web design is normative, the rest is merely color and pictures". Tachtig procent of meer houdt zich aan de volgende regels: links zijn onderstreept, links waarover de muis hangt zijn nog steeds onderstreept, bezochte links zijn visueel herkenbaar, er is tenminste links een 'sidebar' (hoe noemen we dat in het Nederlands?), aan de to From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

CSS Info
http://b10m.swal.org/cgi-bin/cssinfo.cgi Een erg handig hulpmiddel voor wie wil zien welke CSS-definities in een bepaalde pagina worden gebruikt: http://b10m.swal.org/cgi-bin/cssinfo.cgi. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is een technologie waarmee opmaakinformatie voor (onder andere) HTML-pagina's kan worden gedefinieerd. Mensen die websites bouwen, willen dus vaak graag weten wat de CSS definities zijn die op een bepaalde pagina worden gebruikt. (Wat je kunt lenen hoef je uiteindelijk niet meer zelf te bedenken). Tot vandaag moest dat door in de broncode van de webpagina te kijken, moeizaam From LinuxAdvocate.org News on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Linux Book Review for Beginners: "Moving to Linux" by Marcel Gagne
LinuxAdvocate.org reviews "Moving to Linux" from a new user's point of view. Is it the right book to help you make the switch? From LinuxAdvocate.org News on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Linux Book Review for Beginners: "Linux for Non-Geeks" by Rickford Grant
LinuxAdvocate.org reviews "Linux for Non-Geeks" from a new user's point of view. Can it really get you up and running with Linux without a lick of geek-speak? From LinuxAdvocate.org News on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

ACE championing flexible learning
There may be more sheep than people in the small town of Walcha, but access to training that's a high priority for the town's 3000 New South Wales residents. Jan Hatton, Coordinator of Adult and Community Education (ACE) Walcha, is making sure the town's residents have access to as many training opportunities as possible. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Prepared to be flexible - Wodonga TAFE
Wodonga TAFE's CEO Mr Adrian Marron gives his perspectives on implementing flexible training practices that he says have changed the way the Institute does business. The significant investment made by Wodonga TAFE in flexible learning is paying dividends with the Institute achieving consistently high levels of student satisfaction and completion rates. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Panel beating apprentices take to technology
With an Australia-wide skill shortage in the automotive vehicle body repair industry the automotive teachers at Queensland's Brisbane North Institute of TAFE got proactive. Implementing more flexible training is helping apprentices balance work, study and family commitments, making trade studies like panel beating more accessible. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Indigenous training professionals upskilling online
Indigenous TAFE staff from across Queensland have been going online for some hands-on professional development to enhance their technology skills. A positive spin off from the project has been the opportunity for participants to extend their professional networks far and wide. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

NT partners explore flexible learning together
Northern Territory finance company Territory Insurance Office and the Adelaide Institute of TAFE are working together to better meet the learning needs of 250 finance and insurance practitioners employed by the company who say they want more choice about how and when they learn. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Brisbane secondary college puts flexible learning into action
Hendra Secondary College in Brisbane has established a flexible learning centre, upskilled teachers through professional development, developed policies and procedures and invested in technology and infrastructure. A/Principal Ann-Marie Kelly says technology is yet to be fully utilised in schools and the potential is enormous. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Lifeline Australia's trainers learn online
New technology that integrates online communications with conventional teleconferencing is being used by Lifeline Australia to support and train their trainers nationwide. This cost effective technology has the potential to improve the quality and national consistency of the training delivered. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Flexible learning innovation in the child care industry
A small community centre providing child care training to African refugee women is one of the last places you would expect to find flexible learning innovation. Find out how registered training organisation Victorian Cooperative on Children's Services for Ethnic Groups is making a difference with flexible learning. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Elearn.WA delivers for the blind and visually impaired through flexible learning
Elearn.WA, a private training organisation, has joined forces with the Royal Automobile Club of Australia (RAC) and the Association for the Blind of WA to develop a recognised, voice-activated online training program for call centre operators - the Virtual Call Centre. It has enormous potential for placing people who are blind or vision impaired into sustainable employment. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Taxi drivers to get accredited online
Project manager Marty Ord says Yellow Cabs Queensland is a private enterprise that likes to think outside the square. They are the first enterprise registered training organisation to develop an accredited course for the taxi industry in Queensland. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Flexible learning innovation in building and construction training
Brian Gepp, from Douglas Mawson Institute of Technology (DMIT), has been the driving force behind a traditional trades training area taking up technology and providing professional development to staff to become a flexible learning model not only for DMIT, but for the wider TAFE sector and building and construction industry. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Getting started with flexible leaning - one trainer's experience
Getting started with flexible leaning - one trainer's experience Not too long ago, horticulture trainer Wendy Hallinan shied away from terms like 'megs' or 'gigs'. Today, however, she's producing her own digital videos and creating a lively and interactive learning environment for staff and students alike at Sunraysia Institute of TAFE in Victoria. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework Case Studies on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

New look Flex e-News
In response to readers' feedback, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework's (Framework) monthly online newsletter, Flex e-News, has been given a fresh new and contemporary look which includes some new visual design elements, streamlined layout, new features and functions. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

'Get Into Flexible Learning' CD out now
Getting into flexible learning just got a whole lot easier with the release of a new CD from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework). 'Get Into Flexible Learning' is designed for teaching and training professionals within the vocational education and training (VET) sector, industry and enterprise who would like to access the Framework's latest products, resources and support networks. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Cleaning up the data dumping grounds of VET's digital training resources
The vocational education and training (VET) sector is spearheading a push to establish national standards and systems to help teachers, trainers and e-learning resource developers to find, retrieve, reuse and share learning objects - the new generation of digital learning resources. The Australian Flexible Learning Framework's VET Learning Object Repository Project has put forward key recommendations for establishing a sustainable, national system that will provide equitable access to learning objects. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

AUD$160,000 funding available to adapt VET learning object
Expressions of interest are now being called for a share of a total AUD$160,000 funding from the Framework for projects to adapt and customise existing learning object repositories. Successful submissions will receive a maximum of AUD$40,000 each (plus GST) in funding. Expressions of interest close on Tuesday 27 July, 2004 at 11am, Western Standard Time. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Retail industry trainers into e-learning make a good first impression on FLAG Chair
With more than 120 retail companies on their books, private training provider ‘First Impressions’ was bound to make a big impact when they met with Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG) Chair, Mr Jim Davidson, during a one day visit to see a number of Brisbane-based public and private training organisations in Queensland this week. “While we’re right at the starting point now, we don’t see delivering full qualifications online as our goal. It’s more about developing services and consistency and support to clients and to trainers so everyone feels like they’re part of the same e From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

The Northern Territory takes a strategic approach in addressing flexible learning priorities by launching the Territory’s first Flexible Learning Strategy
Minister for Employment, Education and Training, the Hon. Syd Stirling (MLA) has launched the Territory’s first Flexible Learning Strategy attributing it to a need to address the dynamic nature of the Territory’s demography, geography and cultural characteristics. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Flexible learning creates a 'turning point' for better drug and alcohol health services in rural Victoria
Health service professionals responsible for dealing with Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) related problems in isolated Victorian communities can now expect to benefit from the same cutting-edge training as their urban counterparts. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

‘Have you got my number?’ – using communication technology in VET
Tropical North Institute of TAFE teacher Jacqui Conway shares her experience and enthusiasm for using modern communication tools, including text messaging, email and online chatting to enrich student-teacher relationships and engage students located in remote areas. “I've had to learn the language of today's youth to engage the students, which has been fun and now I can type almost as quickly as they can and keep up with the conversations. For example, 'CUL8R O :-)s' is shorthand for 'See you later angels'”. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Roll away the floor plan and log onto the laptop: 3D technology allows home buyers to ‘virtually’ experience how their future houses will look
Seeing your future house in 3D has now become a reality, and today’s apprentices are reaping the benefits by using technology in their training to gain essential computer skills and a sound knowledge of basic building principles. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Give us choice! Today’s great expectation is flexible learning
From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

It's Summertime!
Now that summer is officially here, unless you are a year around home schooler, many of you have made sure that your students have finished their curriculum for the year, done the yearly required testing (if that is applicable to you), and are ready for some relaxation. When I was home schooling my three older children at once, I couldn't wait for summer to come, probably as much or more than my children. It was my time to take that well needed break. A local school district near where we live went through the longest strike in the h From HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Homeschooling Styles
I thought that since quite a few of you are gearing up to homeschool for the first time, this information would be appropriate. There is not just one way to homeschool your children. A lot of people have different styles and approaches. But from our observations it seems that most people fall into one of three categories. See if one of these fits you: Your top concern is a diploma If you choose not to attend a traditional school, you select a curriculum package that is already setup for you by an outside school (on From HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on August 16, 2004 at 9:37 a.m..

Hospitals and Branding: Where is the care in healthcare?
Last Saturday night my father and I had to take my mother to Royal Victoria Hospital. The experience has left me wondering how a hospital can expect to build trust and respect with people, let alone provide meaningful care. Certainly... From Experience Designer Network on August 16, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Groove, Sakai, and OKI
Martin Terre Blanche has an interesting post (found via edu_rss) on why he won’t be using Groove and what he thinks will (and won’t) become a viable alternative. His strongest argument boils down to lock-in and data exchange problems. He believes this to be a fundamental problem that is common… From e-Literate on August 16, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Furl, PDF's, and Creative Commons
I have started to use Furl to create an archive of articles (mostly PDFs) that I find on the web related to informational cascades for myself (and eventually for my blog readers as well). So far I’m finding two significant limitations. First, Furl apparently doesn’t do full text search for… From e-Literate on August 16, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Storytelling in six parts
Storytelling in six parts by Bill Ives Storytelling and knowledge management The Power of Stories Shaping Corporate Culture Documenting and Sharing Organizational Knowledge Enhancing Learning Developing Business Strategies Via: elearnspace... From soulsoup on August 16, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Learner experience
Learner experience from Dusk and Dawn 1) Creating a positive learning experience is NECESSARY but NOT SUFFICIENT. I have been on some excellent training courses, which have excited me, been fun, been motivational but have led to absolutely no long term change in my knowledge or behaviour. A good experience doesn't automatically equal good learning/training. On the other side of the coin, I've found that a well-designed learning intervention that fails to provide an appropriate experience for learners rarely succeeds. A same result is found in the usability world. Excellent usability From soulsoup on August 16, 2004 at 9:36 a.m..

Librarians launch copyright campaign in American schools
The American Library Association ( ALA ) is preparing an educational campaign on copyright aimed at American high schools for this upcoming academic year. The ALA will emphasize fair use of copyrighted materials. From NITLE Tech News on August 16, 2004 at 9:35 a.m..

Contribute 3.0 Review at Community MX
Contribute review at CommunityMX: My review of Contribute 3.0 is live at Community MX today. I struggled a bit with trying to tell the story of what's really significant about this release because it represents a much stronger focus on the core audience for the software--large organizations that want to use Contribute for departments and individuals to easily post their own content to the company/university/school intranet or web site. The publication part has always been easy... From Brain Frieze on August 16, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

BBC workers reject technology unit sale
Members of BECTU, the British union that represents broadcasting workers, have rejected by 92 per cent the sale of the BBC's technology unit to Siemens. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

iPodderb01
I was able to retreive most of my scripting work that I lost a few weeks ago. Today I decided to dig back in and figure out what last changes I had made that were lost. Of course the script now works even better than it did then :) Anyway, I figure I might as well release it today, in the hope someone will take a wack at improving on the theory or perhaps expand it's current capabilities. To that topic, the script can't be run without setting some environment vaiables, I've commen From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship
"As discussed on Slashdot recently, Internet footage of Olympics events are being censored for US citizens. Wired.com is covering the issue in a recent story, discussing ways of defeating these measures. Duane Wessels, developer of the Squid caching proxy, and Len Sassaman, Mixmaster anonymity software author, are interviewed. Are they correctunmediated on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Librarians to the Rescue
"Citing concerns over materials being distributed to American students by the BSA, MPAA, and RIAA's evil minions, the American Library Association will begin distributing its own, more balanced material this winter. The material will deal with insignificant and oft-overlooked details like fair use. More information on Wired News." From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Kendra Initiative: Content Delivery Research
An organisation that has been established to see the creation of an open architecture system that will provide the entertainment/content industry with a platform for content distribution and delivery over the Internet and facilitating revenue generation.By providing reliable, fast and easy to use systems Kendra Initiative aims to offer attractive alternatives for users currently copying From unmediated on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

knowledge worker productivity...
Just received a note from Martin Roell who, in the spirit of knowledge sharing, posted his BlogTalk 2.0 Publication: Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing on the web. Check it out and let Martin know what you think. From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

ibm shared university research grants...
The Arizona Summer Wildcat reports in--Campus briefs--that: ...The Eller College management information systems department at the University of Arizona has received a Shared University Research technology grant from IBM. The grant will support the development of on-demand stored data. ...IBM's highly-selective Shared University Research (SUR) program awards computing equipment (servers, storage systems, personal computing products, et From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

communities of practice, online conference...
From September 14-16, 2004, there will be a Collaborative Communities of Practice 2004 Online Conference "designed to provide practical insights, models and tools for fostering, growing and supporting Communities of Practice." Early bird registration discount ends September 3rd, according to the iCohere website. From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

knowledge footprints...
A recent press release announces--Penn State University's Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department Selects FootPrints Service Desk Software to Centralize and Manage its IT Help Desk. EDISON, N.J. --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 10, 2004 -- UniPress Software, Inc., a leading provider of web-based service desk automation software, today an From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

atg acquires primus...
From CBS MarketWatch in Investor's Business Daily--ATG buying software developer Primus. SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Software developer ATG has agreed to buy rival Primus Knowledge Solutions in a deal valued at $30 million to $33 million, the companies said late Tuesday. From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

red sky at morning...
In the American Scientist Online, Thomas F. Malone writes--The Looming Disaster about Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, by James Gustave Speth, from Yale University Press, 2004. An excerpt from this review: ...Speth spells out eight transitions that will be required to transform society: progress toward a stable or smaller world population, freedom from mass povert From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

training and offshoring...
According to an InfoWorld article written by John Ribeiro, IDG News Service, Cutter Consortium's Edward Yourdon's New book says training can counter offshoring. An excerpt: ...In Yourdon's new book "Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race," the new threat is not only to U.S. software development jobs but to a From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

knowledge economy costs...
Judd Slivka writes for The Arizona Republic: Job training strains schools. Enrollment has risen dramatically in 'occupational' training: "In 1996-97, there were 203,899 enrollments in occupational courses in the Maricopa system. In 2002-03, there were 275,754." More from this article: "The demand for training is in fields that are costly: Biotechnology requires labs, truck driving requires trucks, aerospace requires planes. For just eight weeks o From judith meskill's knowledge notes... on August 16, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

teaching with blogs
From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on August 16, 2004 at 9:31 a.m..

Sound System Lets Listeners Move
University researchers work on 3D immersive sound technology that may power conferencing tools in the near future From Kolabora.com on August 16, 2004 at 9:31 a.m..

Pilot Study Paper
The weblog is officially on hiatus now for a bit as I complete my spring semester work, though I will probably make the occasional entry over the summer. The title link to this article takes you to the final paper for the pilot study for the Interactive Simulations Project (MS Word .doc format). I will be picking up this work again during fall semester. From Holly's Research Journal on August 16, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Actions and deeds
On my love for jargon. From Monkeymagic on August 16, 2004 at 9:30 a.m..

Cool Conceptual Map
Sun Microsystems has a very cool conceptual map of Java on their main site. The map is part definition, part advertising, part propaganda, and tons of information on a one-pager. From Internet Time Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

The U.S. Geological Survey rocks
I spent some time wandering around the attractive, user-friendly, science-rich pages of the USGS web site. You can go quite a ways on this site -- I found a page on reading geologic maps, for example. Some sections are meant for K-12 and others seek a wider audience. From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 16, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Student RSS by category
Will Richardson points out this piece about class blogging, and I'd like to just add one comment here: Noah Wardrip-Fruin's helpful concept of aggregating students' posts by category, as a way of speeding access to different aspects of their work. That's a good idea. From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 16, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Local candidate blogging
I digested Ed Cone's new column on local political blogging for the ADPblog today. From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 16, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Ben Hyde - Cool idea! Now go away
Hilarious and unfortunately true! From Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm &ampraquo; Cool idea! Now go away.: QUOTEA handful of reasons why, Mr. Entrepreneur, your amazingly cool new innovation isn’t going to get funding:

Cool demo! Great price point, what a leap forward! Man making stuff like this dependable is really hard work. You probably can’t see that, having just moved so fast. You know the incumbent is always improving. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

(re) Descubriendo blogs
AlesBlog XXXL: Colección de finos Palm blogs escritos desde la carretera. Artabro: Comentarios a noticias de actualidad y reflexiones. Azul reporta: ¿Qué puede pasarle a una tapatía? Historias acerca de la vida cotidiana y reflexiones sobre la perla tapatía, México... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 16, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

September Cites & Insights
The September issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. By far the largest section in this issue is "Library Access to Scholarship", which is itself mostly devoted to open access. Walt covers the UK and US plans for OA to taxpayer-funded research, the OA experiments at various journal publishers, and several recent articles about OA (including several of my own). Excerpt: "My primary interest in this section is freeing up library funds so academic libraries can maintain humanities subscriptions, buy monographs, other From Adult/Continuing Education on August 16, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Kalam proposes creation of virtual university
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Offshoring shifts base from IT to education
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Wired to Learning Experience
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Homeschooling a course in economics
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Beverly Launches Online University for Healthcare Professionals
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Pepperell nurse honored as online education pioneer
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Alternatives emerge on the education scene
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Online courses growing by degrees
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Less is More in Distance Education - The Contradictory Relationship Between Rapid Adoption and Radical Innovation -
From DEC Daily News on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Do you *really* need an LMS?
George makes a very very worthwhile point in his commentary on the Online Course Development: What does it cost? article. Their first 'rule of thumb' is to use an LMS as "A Learning Management System Reduces Costs for Design, Development, and Delivery—Use an LMS" [syllabus, Boettcher, J. V.] Rather than fuming and throwing chairs around (as I'm wont to do :o) George comments that:--> From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Bloglines Blog
Could do with linking from the blog to the items you've blogged where they were actually written rather than the Bloglines cache of them... would make it A LOT more friendly! See what I mean at mine. From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Email updates update
OK, so, given that no-one claiming to read this blog through email updates said 'please don't take away the email updates' I'm guessing that, unlike others, I am either an almost entirely RSS read blog or that nobody who reads this through email cares. Added with the fact that email updates don't really seem to work as well as RSS (for a myriad of reasons) and are probably better for 'large' type items (like Clay Shirky's NEC list) my conclusion (if anyone cares) is that the next version of this weblog won't have email updates but it From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

In Search of a Browser That Banishes Clutter - JULIET CHUNG, New York Times
For Katherine Sandlin, a barrage of pop-up ads was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back - in this case, her reliance on Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Even before her home page could load, thumbnail-size advertisements would crowd the moni From Techno-News Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Trying to take technology to the masses - John Markoff, The New York Times
Raj Reddy was fed up debating the problem of the digital divide between the rich and the poor and decided to do something about it. Reddy, a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, plans to unvei From Techno-News Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Nanotech funding to grow to $8.6 billion - Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
Corporations, governments, universities and others will spend an estimated $8.6 billion on nanotechnology research and development in 2004, and a growing portion of the total comes from the private sector. Spending on nanotech research will more than d From Techno-News Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

New format hastens textbook accessibility - Cara Branigan, eSchool News
Students with disabilities can anticipate faster access to curriculum materials now that the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has formally endorsed a voluntary national publishing paradigm known as the National Instructional Materials Accessibility St From Educational Technology on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Handhelds in the Classroom : A Web Tour - Karen Vitek, techLearning
Are you interested in using handheld computers in your classroom? Whether you're new to handhelds or you've been using them for a while, the following Web sites will provide you with new ideas on how you can make the most of these versatile tools. From Educational Technology on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

NSU gets a much-needed e-xpansion - Aberdeen News
There was good news for Northern State University's groundbreaking e-learning school Friday as a 30,000-square foot addition to the center was approved by the Board of Regents. The e-learning center enables distance learning for 69 school districts acr From Online Learning Update on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Online learning can revolutionise companies - AME Info
Introducing e-learning into a company can revolutionise training methods , according to Abdulqader al Khaja, CEO of knowledgenetwork (knet), the Dubai-based training and learning consultancy. 'Online learning is not just about using electronic words i From Online Learning Update on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Predicting Learning from Asynchronous Online Discussions -Dezhi Wu and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, JALN
ABSTRACT: Online discussions play an important role in student learning. Currently, asynchronous learning courses and some primarily face-to-face courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology require asynchronous online discussions. Does this requireme From Online Learning Update on August 16, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Must Read: The Great Scam (Clay Shirky)
Terrific account of scamming other players in EVE, a massively multiplayer game set in space. It’s got everything — innocent fun, bitter disillusionment, vows of revenge, close calls, a dastardly plan, a network of mostly invented collaborators, and an ending... From Corante: Social Software on August 16, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..

Social Origin of Good Ideas (Clay Shirky)
Ronald Burt, who created the ‘social holes’ network measure (find out where the connections between groups aren’t, and look for value in bridging, roughly), wrote a paper last year on the Social Origin of Good Ideas (PDF): A theme in... From Corante: Social Software on August 16, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..

Madeleine Lefebvre, University Librarian, Saint Mary's University, is writing a book to be published ...
Madeleine Lefebvre, University Librarian, Saint Mary's University, is writing a book to be published by Scarecrow Press in 2005 called The Romance of Libraries. It will include true stories of people who met and fell in love in a library setting, which could be a library, or library school, or other related locale. She wants to hear from people with a story to tell From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..

Niche Blogs Can Be Outstanding Advertising Channels: Rich, Relevant, Discrete
I don't know much about others, since everyone is so secretive about profits and advertising returns, but I am rather curious, and outside of Google imposing policies to its publishers and advertisers (not to disclose detailed information about their accounts)... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 16, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..

How To Build A Site To Web Standards: The Official Checklist
"The term Web standards can mean different things to different people. For some, it is 'table-free sites', for others it is 'using valid code'. However, Web standards are much broader than that. A site built to Web standards should adhere... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 16, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..

Tom's ok
From Tom Matrullo, after suffering the worst or Charley: Thanks to everyone who tried to call or write - apologies to those of you who have been worried about the impact of hurricane Charley on us here in appropriately named Charlotte County, Florida, for the slow reply. I had to drive 50 miles today to get to a working internet connection. We are all alive and ok. Our house, like many in our area, has suffered a lot of damage - roof is half off, wall caved in, ceilings down - i.e. not very habitable. The county is without water,... From Joho the Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..

Is Someone Calling Us?
flickr foto Is Someone Calling Us?available on my flickr Cadu and Mickey hear the sound of a bag of potato chips being opened... 3 miles awa From cogdogblog on August 16, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..

Web-Unwieldly And Bowl Driving Ear
(I am reaching for an all-time obscure title for this entry). Out of curiosity, I followed a link from a TrackBack notification to this entry on Rino's Blog (in dutch): Weblogs voor studenten OK, we zijn het er na de posts van Alan Levine , Scott Leslie, Sybilla, Pierre, en ondergetekende en de bijbehorende kommentaren zo'n beetje over eens dat: weblogs zonder kommentaar optie een belangrijk deel van hun funktionaliteit missen, zeker in. Without From cogdogblog on August 16, 2004 at 9:06 a.m..

Appointment to DIMIA panel
I'm pleased to report that we've been appointed onto a Department of Immigration (DIMIA) panel to provide usability and accessibility research, including: focus groups user testing user needs analysis information architecture evaluation business analysis, including the development of technical and... From Column Two on August 16, 2004 at 9:05 a.m..

Re-Activist Judges Make Laws, Too

Dahlia Lithwick (NY Times): Activist, Schmactivist. Re-activist judges are the ones trying to roll back time to the 19th century. Re-activists are the judges who have reactivated federalism by rediscovering the "dignity" of states. Re-activists view Lawrence v. Texas - last year's gay sodomy case - as having all the jurisprudential force of a Post-it note. When the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld an From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 16, 2004 at 9:04 a.m..

Play Boys: Google IPO a Go Anyway
Even though Google's two founders gave an interview to Playboy magazine in the midst of its IPO filing, the SEC allowed the company's offering to go ahead. The boys filed the interview with the SEC and corrected mistakes in it. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:04 a.m..

DVD Jon Strikes Again
The Norwegian hacker famed for developing DVD encryption-cracking software has gone after Apple's wireless music-streaming technology. Jon Lech Johansen releases a software key on his website that cracks Apple's AirPort Express. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:04 a.m..

Charley's Force Tricks Experts
Forecasting a storm's intensity is still a shaky science, as Hurricane Charley showed in a big way when the storm escalated quickly from a category 2 to a 4. Experts blame media focus for misleading residents about its track. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:04 a.m..

Election: Science Plays Politics
More than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel winners, have signed a statement opposing the Bush administration's use of scientific advice. The scientists claim the Bush camp has consistently distorted science to fit his agendas. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Kids, Play With Your Food
The Fantastic Food Challenge, a package of four computer games, aims to teach families who get food stamps how to make better use of their food. Developers hope the games help will educate the nation's neediest kids. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Downloads on the Move in Europe
Europeans are digging the ability to download music tracks on their cell phones. Several companies offer the service, and some think the end-of-year launch of third-generation networks is likely to accelerate the popular trend. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Is AM Radio Harmful?
A Korean study says more leukemia deaths occur in regions near AM transmitters. But no definite link can be proven, and scientists can't agree on whether the transmitters are a hazard. By Stephen Leahy. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Careful With That Petri Dish
The road to Mars is rough, and astronauts may need replacement body tissue on the way. British researchers are teaming up with NASA to find ways to grow it. By Lakshmi Sandhana. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Rock the Vote Goes IM
An MTV partner is reaching out to young voters with instant messages to try to get them -- and their friends -- to the polls on Nov. 2. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Synapse SE and Siemens form a new channel relationship to collaborate on delivering end-to-end online learning solutions
Synapse SE, a Minnesota-based provider of technology staffing/consulting and integrated e-Learning solutions, and Siemens Medical Solutions, an operating unit of Siemens AG, have inked a collaborative agreement that will allow for the delivery of end-to-end online training services to Synapse SE customers using an Application Service Provider (ASP) model hosted in one of the largest data-centers outside the US Government. [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004] From PR Web on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

WHO WOULD UNBRAID HER HAIR book about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, by Antoinette Nora Claypoole, STILL available.
WHO WOULD UNBRAID HER HAIR: THE LEGEND OF ANNIE MAE, by Antoinette Nora Claypoole, a book about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, leader/warrior of the American Indian Movement is still available. Visit www.clearlightbooks.com, Native American catalogs. [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004] From PR Web on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Dietary Doctor Says "Feed Problem Child More Fat"
If your kids are "bouncing off the walls" or having concentration difficulties at home or school, the advice from a leading dietary doctor is, "Don't give them medication -- feed them more fat at the dinner table." [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004] From PR Web on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Antietam Anniversary Weekend to Include Appearance by Artist Jeff Fioravanti
Release provides information pertaining to the 142nd Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Antietam. The focus of the weekend and the appearance by the artist is to make people aware of the history, ecological and recreational benefits of the national park. [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004] From PR Web on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Students can learn to follow goals, rather than feelings
Students go back to school thinking they will succeed, but soon in the school year find their motivation failing. This is because too many students follow their feelings, rather than sticking to their goals, resulting in them being sidetracked from achievement. [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004] From PR Web on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Successful U.S. Firm Ships Cutting Edge Cold Calling Sales Training to Asia Pacific
Live cold calling sales training workshops coming to Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne in September. [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004] From PR Web on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Question for Libertarians
An interesting question raised by comments: What do self-proclaimed libertarians say about intellectual property laws nowadays, and have things changed since the 1990s?... From Lessig Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

The Telecom Act of 2006
Ongoing August chatter: what should the Telecom Act of 2006 look like? Below are 6 items and some of the papers making the rounds.... From Lessig Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Cyber-Ethics Champion Code
Take the pledge here.... From Lessig Blog on August 16, 2004 at 9:03 a.m..

Olympics Theme Page
Students and teachers are monitoring the EdNA Online theme page for the Olympics as it keeps them informed of breaking news and other items of interest. News is updated daily. From EdNA Online on August 16, 2004 at 9:02 a.m..

Griffin RoadTrip: BINGO!
This looks like the perfect traveling companion for an iPod... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 16, 2004 at 9:02 a.m..

Sybase looks ahead to RFID
The database and mobile software company is set to reveal details on updates to its flagship products and outline RFID plans. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 9:02 a.m..

Nanotech funding to grow to $8.6 billion
Spending on research will more than double this year, with a growing amount coming from the private sector. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 9:02 a.m..

Why cyberscofflaws get off easy
CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why convicted virus and worm authors are more likely to do Club Fed than hard time. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 9:02 a.m..

Survival of software's fittest
Darwin may work in the flat enterprise software market--mergers and acquisitions are expected to increase the clout of leading firms. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 9:02 a.m..

Playing the convergence game
Sony and Microsoft confront consumer apathy as they attempt to turn game consoles into multipurpose entertainment gadgets. From CNET News.com on August 16, 2004 at 9:02 a.m..

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