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Announcing the commonwealth
A few weeks back, we unveiled a new list for discussing the intersection of Creative Commons licenses and business, dubbed
Commonwealth. It's headed by Marshall Van Alstyne, an Associate Professor of Information Economics at Boston University.
The welcome message to the list details the goals for the list and plans for exploring hybrid licensing systems. If you'd like to sign up,
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Exploding TV
A key issue for media -- news and entertainment -- is being able serve consumers where, how, and when they want to be served. It's an issue not just for TV fun; it's an issue for any form of information and media. But we're seeing the issue start to bubble and boil in TV. See this from
EDN.com (
via Rafat Ali):As broadband gets faster, storage gets cheaper, and home-networking products get smarter and more c From
unmediated on August 17, 2004 at 8:35 p.m..
New MSN Video Launches; MSN Music Details Leaked
MSN has launched a new version of is video portal,
MSN Video 2. The service is ad-supported. MSN Video 2 mimics the Windows Media Player 10 interface, uses regular WM player controls, supports 16:9 videos, and offers a new flash "showcase" to promote MSN video content. Also, some funky drag-and-drop playlists building stuff... Also, earlier yesterday, Windows enthusiast site Neowin
posted a screen grab of the much-anticipated MSN Music service, to be la From
unmediated on August 17, 2004 at 8:35 p.m..
Def ppl luv 2 txt
Sending text messages via mobile phones is helping deaf people to interact with the hearing community, according to Australian research,
reports ABC.net.au. "Short message service (SMS) text is also creating new opportunities for deaf people to form relationships, says Associate Professor Mary Power from From
unmediated on August 17, 2004 at 8:35 p.m..
PHP file uploads (CGI::Upload)
Using PHP to handle file uploads is a bad idea. It does so many aspects of the problem badly that you're never going to win. The single biggest problem is that PHP allows huge file uploads to affect memory even when you're going to reject the file as too big. Perl is better as a whole; this
CGI::Upload class makes more sense at the first look than any of the PHP classes I've seen. But really this needs to be integrated with the web server, using something like
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a vogroll 1.0
I've
just made vogroll 1.0. It is a simple QuickTime movie that is to work as a video blog roll. You mouse into each users image (at the moment most of them are screen shots of their websites), there's a simple rollover going on there, and click to load that person's video blog. I've done it to demonstrate an idea, and because no one was sending me their photos so I figured if I went ahead and made it then they'd get the idea. What I want to be able to do is to have the movie read From
unmediated on August 17, 2004 at 8:35 p.m..
Sanitary engineers anyone?
Big surprise: CNET reports that 22% of all technology workers lack four-year degrees. I remember my co-op job at the Systems & Technology division at a major national bank. My manager had taken Anthropology. That's why you should hire me. I've got my Bachelor's of Engineering, I'm the real deal, all natural whole grain, unlike those other cheap knockoffs. Heck, I spent five years in engineering purgatory to get a Management co-degree, all the while the Arts and Commerce students sat in their 3pm classes on a Wednesday dressed to the nines, ready for another night at the From
silentblue | Quantified on August 17, 2004 at 8:34 p.m..
Tough talk on offshoring
Tough talk on offshoring By Ed Frauenheim (CNET News.com, August 9, 2004) offers an interview with John McCarthy, author of the 2002 Forrester Research study that some say touched off the heated debate over "offshoring." This article, interesting in and of itself, also includes links to much of... From
Kolabora.com on August 17, 2004 at 8:34 p.m..
The Smartphone Primer
A wee bit out of date (7610 is not mentioned for example) but nonetheless useful. From
The Smartphone Primer - NewMobileComputing: QUOTEStep 1: Assess your needs! If you do not assess your needs you might end up spending a lot more money than you intended for features that you might not ever use. Also if you do not adequately assess your needs you might end up a device which is too complicated, that does not work as you intended it to, and it might end up causing stress From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 17, 2004 at 8:31 p.m..
On BMJ and OA
Colin Meek,
BMJ's legendary leader moves on, Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 17, 2004. On Richard Smith's departure from BMJ for a European branch of United Healthcare Group. Excerpt: "The movement to make original research freely available online is progressing rapidly with the launch of the Public Library of Science's PLoS Biology and later this year, PLoS Medicine. The latter will compete with general medical journals, such as BMJ. BMJ itself will bring in some user charges for BMJ.com next year, a From
Open Access News on August 17, 2004 at 8:29 p.m..
Authenticity vs. credibility
Evelyn Rodriguez usefully distinguishes authentic voice from credible voice. I still think, however, that the concept of authenticity is a failed attempt to express something important. We've gotten the terms of the equation wrong so no concept quite fits. That's why we have so much trouble defining "authenticity" or even agreeing on it. BTW, Evelyn here links to Tom Peters' candid talk about what's gone wrong with his life and the path he's taking to make it right. It won't be everyone's path, but, then, what is?... From
Joho the Blog on August 17, 2004 at 8:26 p.m..
Information architecture heuristics
Lou Rosenfeld has written a blog entry on information architecture heuristics. To quote: Just finished a brief heuristic evaluation of a client site, basing part of my feedback on a set of questions that I find quite useful for just... From
Column Two on August 17, 2004 at 8:25 p.m..
Last Call: SVG Tiny Version 1.2
2004-08-13: The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile SVG Profile: SVG Tiny, Version 1.2. The draft defines SVG Tiny 1.2, a mobile profile of SVG 1.2 suitable for displaying vector graphics on small devices. Comments are welcome through 17 September. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on August 17, 2004 at 8:24 p.m..
Oh man, this proposal to save the world sounds ALL too familiar...
An excerpt from Bruce Sterling’s speech at SIGGRAPH 2004: “When Blobjects Rule the Earth”… We are filling the atmosphere, and the seas, and the surface of the planet, and our own bodies, with our industrial emissions and our dead junk. In a world with 6.3 billion people, trending toward 10 billion, there is no “Away” left in which we can... From
Object Learning on August 17, 2004 at 8:24 p.m..
EaZy RSS reader
An RSS reader for Microsoft Excel. Now, if we can feed RSS into Excel, we can use the same sort of technique in order to feed learning objects into Excel. I mean, after all, why should you have to go somewhere in order to learn? By Masaru Kaji, Colo's Excel Junk Room, August 17, 2004 [
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It's Just the 'internet' Now
Somebody else in the world finally agrees with me. I have been resolutely using the lower case i and w to spell internet and web since, well, ever. Now Wired News finally agrees. "Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was." By Tony Long, Wired News, August 17, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 17, 2004 at 8:22 p.m..
Internet publishing attracting academics
An odd quirk in the headline, as open access publishing is described as 'internet publishing'. But, truth be told, there is a lot in common. The idea of the internet - as I remind everyone who will listen, and even some who won't - is free and open access to information. So in my mind, internet publishing just is open publishing. By Julie Bell, Baltimore Sun, August 16, 2004 [
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Multiply's Spam-O-matic UI
I got my first invite from yet another social network (YASN) called
Multiply (if you want an invitation, send me an email). What makes this site different is the much more obvious capacity to create blog content (still a centralized silo mode, but still, one step closer to the semantic social network). But as one writer comments, Multiply took the worst feature of Google's Orkut and made it worse. "Unfortunately, 'save' actually means SEND and 'view' actually means EMAIL. And so, I sent, rather than merely posted, the From
OLDaily on August 17, 2004 at 8:22 p.m..
Virtual Community
TechSoup is hosting an online forum about the use of blogs in non-profit organizations all week this week. The event is free and open to the public. By Various Authors, TechSoup, August 16, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 17, 2004 at 8:22 p.m..
EC Mulls MS DRM Monopoly Trawl
It's about time somebody looked into this. According to this short article, the European Community is looking at the monopoly inplications of Microsoft's and Time Warner's ownership of ContentGuard, the backer of the XrML digital rights language that has since been adopeted by MPEG as MPEG-REL.
More, in the form of a PDF. By Andrew Orlowski, The Register, August 16, 2004 [
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PhiloLogic - The ARTFL Project XML/SGML Full-Text System
http://philologic.uchicago.edu/ PhiloLogic is een hulpmiddel voor full-text doorzoeken en analyseren van grote tekstverzamelingen. PhiloLogic kan omgaan met teksten die gecodeerd zijn volgens de TEI-Lite standaard. Bij het zoeken in het corpus kunnen selecties worden gebruikt op bijvoorbeeld auteur, jaar, titel en onderwerp. Bij zoeken op meerdere woorden kan worden opgegeven welke omvang de context moet hebben waarin de woorden samen worden aangetroffen (zin? alinea? of enkele woorden). De resultaten kunnen gepresenteerd worden met een fragment uit de context (300 woorden), als KWIC concor From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 17, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..
Healthcare: Canada Trending Downward
Ipsos Canada: Canada's Market Intelligence Leader has released the results of a survey sponsored by the Canadian Medical Association on the state of healthcare in Canada. I found the release of this poll particularly interesting since the timing of it... From
Experience Designer Network on August 17, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
Link Prediction in Social Networks
I’m afraid this is going to be something of an echo-blog, since I don’t have the paid subscription to the ACM library necessary to allow me to see the original article, but the About Kim weblog has an
intriguing and encouraging quote from an academic article on link predictability within… From
e-Literate on August 17, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
Countdown to MT 3.1
OK - the great project of the summer of 2004 is almost done. My editor is looking it over while sipping her tea. So far, she has not made any marks on the paper so I must be doing well.... From
Just Another Ant on August 17, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
Before Wordpress
Kevin compares Wordpress and Blog:CMS. (Kevin, how about enabling comments? :)) While you can run multiple blogs with Wordpress, you have to manually copy and edit a config file and prepend some text to the database table name to manage it. It's not difficult, but the fact that you have ... From
Big IDEA on August 17, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
Who is the FDA working for?
Dr. Mercola reports on the US Food and Drug Administration's covering up of evidence that suggests that antidepressant drugs administered to children increase the risks of suicidal behavior. The article in the British Medical Journal (the link is broken on Mercola's site) is very disturbing. The published documents confirm earlier news ... From
Big IDEA on August 17, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
New ARTstor overview
The New York Times has a good overview of ARTstor, focusing on practical and pedagogical benefits. Using ARTstor last spring during its test phase, Ms. Keane said she was able to assemble all the images for her semester-long course, "Introduction... From
MANE IT Network on August 17, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
OpenVPN 101: Introduction to OpenVPN
This document will introduce OpenVPN as a free, secure and easy to use and configure SSLbased VPN solution. The document will present some simple (and verified) scenario's that might be useful for preparing security/networking labs with students, for creating a remote access solution or as a new project for the interested home user. From
Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on August 17, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Windows XP SP2 Delayed
Microsoft has announced that they will postpone automated distribution of Windows XP SP2 until no earlier than August 25, 2004. There has been no Windows update more discussed than Windows XP Service Pack 2. On the plus side, early reviews... From
Indiana IT on August 17, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Traffic Tip: Cover the Basics
Here's an interesting thing I've learned through long experience with online publishing (Web sites, blogs, e-mail publishing, more): Content that covers the basics tends to be extremely popular, over long periods of time. "The basics" generally means explanations, introductions, and backgrounders of basic concepts, key issues, and terminology for any topic area. People love this stuff, especially online – where everyone is forever playing catch-up/ A good backgrounder never goes out of style. If you offer simple, clear, and relevant backgrounder or From
Contentious Weblog on August 17, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..
Is There a Market for Blogs Ghostwriting?
Yesterday, Paul Chaney of
Radiant Marketing sent me an intriguing question, which I paraphrase here: Is it possible or feasible for a professional writer to ghostwrite a weblog? Is that a potential new career path for content professionals? My short answer is: Possible, yes. Feasible? Probably not. I think ghostwritten weblogs, if people try them, are likely to backfire. However, I do think there are viable options to employ professional writers to write blog content on behalf of others – which would not const From
Contentious Weblog on August 17, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..
Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now
One of the great bones of stylistic contention in online and print media is whether the words internet, net, and web should be capitalized. Well, Wired News copy chief Tony Long has made a definitive and, I think, convincing declaration that none of those terms should be capitalized. See: "
It's Just the 'internet' Now." I've decided to follow suit in my own weblog, Contentious, and I've written a more
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The Overlooked Wiki Web
Hypertext pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee and Ted Nelson always imagined a "read-write" environment. Weblogs have been getting most of the attention lately in examination of that point, but there's another format -- the wiki -- that many journalists may not know about. "Wiki" is supposedly a Hawaiian word that means "quick" or "fast," and I'll confess: I wrote off the wiki far too quickly. The idea is that anybody can update a document -- with some editorial control, changelogs, workflow, and recovery. But like the world of weblogs, the world of the wiki was dominated ear From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 17, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..
The Secrets of Lawrence
Here in Lawrence, Kansas, Rob Curley and his colleagues from the Lawrence Journal-World,
Lawrence.com, and
KUSports.com have opened their books to the participants of the two-day CLIK conferences. The second of three (sold-out) conferences ends today. Some of the many interesting tidbits include their careful design of the Lawrence.com database website of bands and music, and the successful revenue-making for their multimedia operation.The design of the Lawrence.com database includes thousands of From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 17, 2004 at 5:44 p.m..
The Problem with Standardized Testing
This
article at Kairos discusses the problem posed by the use of standardized testing to determine standards of learning. I agree with Joel English's articulation of this situation as one in which pedagogy and authentic assessment are taken out of the equation and are replaced with standardized testing. Large-scale testing cannot assure that all students have learned the same material in the same way; still, teachers who want to keep their jobs react by "teaching to the test" as best they can. In this From
Kolabora.com on August 17, 2004 at 5:43 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 18
Today's highlights: Singlefin and IMlogic; Akonix Blocks BitTorrent; VIACK and GTSI; New Customer for CoCreate; Bloor Research says "Email is only just beginning to realize its full potential"; Windows XP SP2 and Groove; palmOne Wi-Fi Card; Singlefin introduced an outsourced... From
Kolabora.com on August 17, 2004 at 5:43 p.m..
RSS Feeds
RSS also known as rich site summary or real simply syndication, arrived on the scene a number of years ago, but was only recently embraced by webmasters as a means to effectively syndicate content. RSS Feeds provide webmasters and content providers an avenue to provide concise summaries to prospective readers. Thousands of commercial web sites and blogs now publish content summaries in an RSS feed. Each item in the feed typically contains a headline; article summary and link back to the online article. From
Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on August 17, 2004 at 5:43 p.m..
Google AdSense
Google AdSense allows webmasters to dynamically serve content relevant advertisements on web pages. If the visitor clicks one of the AdSense ads served to the website, the website owner is credited for the referral. Google's AdSense program essentially allows approved websites to dynamically serve Google's pay-per-click AdWord results. From
Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on August 17, 2004 at 5:43 p.m..
Laws of the enterprise software jungle
You've read the rumors and the stories. Microsoft+SAP. Sun+Novell. BEA+Oracle. PeopleSoft+Oracle. PeopleSoft+J.D. Edwards. IBM+Crossworlds. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Enterprise IT shops want to deal with fewer vendors. It's easier for a small-fry's technology to be adopted as part of a larger solution than piecemeal.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on August 17, 2004 at 5:42 p.m..
Nachlassarchivierung und Urheberrechte
Wird über die Urheberrechte nicht gesondert verfügt, so fallen sie zur gesamten Hand an alle Erben, was angesichts der (zu) langen Laufzeit des Urheberrechts 70 Jahre p.m.a. dazu führen kann, dass erforderliche Genehmigungen für die Werknutzung, die von allen Erben (Ehefrau, Kindern, Enkeln, Urenkeln usw.) erteilt werden müssen, faktisch nicht einholbar sind, etwa, weil der Verbleib von Erben nicht feststellbar ist oder wenn sich ein einziger aus der Erbengemeinschaft weigert einzuwilligen. Daher ist es unbedingt ratsam, mit Nachlassgebern auch Regelungen über das From
Archivalia on August 17, 2004 at 5:42 p.m..
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Education Primer
This primer covers the use of FOSS from schools to universities. It provides a brief overview of how it can help in setting up the IT infrastructure and administration of educational institutions and considers software (mainly proprietary) which is now used as the basis for IT curricula and alternative FOSS which is available. From
eLearnopedia on August 17, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
Seeking an Educational
Public schools and other educational institutions need to become more familiar with some of the opportunities that are emerging as a result of open source projects. The low cost and flexibility of open source products makes them very attractive, but no less important is the way in which these resources align with some core educational values. This article illustrates this alignment by exploring the promise that open source resources hold in supporting the ideal of an educational commons. From
eLearnopedia on August 17, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
It's a Bugatti
To answer your questions, the car above is a Bugatti Typo 35 from the late twenties. A Bugatti 35 won the first Grand Prix de Monaco in 1929. The little 2-liter, 8-cylinder race car won hundreds of races. One of many masterpieces from the hand of Ettore Bugatti.You can
hear it here!Print by Roger Hector. It's
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The full toolkit
Will mentions an earlier post of mine about combining weblogs and wikis into one site, and he quickly sketches a more powerful version that would also include public bookmarking and an aggregator. This is good: we should continue to sketch our vision of the full toolkit we want for our work and the ways the elements should connect to each other. We should post our ideas on the feature wish list pages of our favorite software manufacturers, too. What else should be in the full toolkit? From
Weblogs in Higher Education on August 17, 2004 at 5:41 p.m..
'Content Management Systeme...
Marco Kalz schreibt: Gemeinsam mit
Peter Baumgartner habe ich in den letzten Wochen an einem Text zum Thema "Content Management Systeme aus bildungstechnologischer Sicht" gearbeitet. Dabei haben wir versucht, verschiedene Content Management Systeme (Blogtools, Wiki, klassische CMS, C3MS) auf der Grundlage eines lern- und handlungstheoretischen Hintergrundes (Searle, Habermas, Baumgartner) zu kategorisieren un From
Open Access News on August 17, 2004 at 5:38 p.m..
XFN Relationships (Clay Shirky)
The madness of the age — making human relations explicit — continues in the form of XFN’s relationship profiles. Here, as a sample, is the entire range of possible romantic categories: - muse - Someone who brings you inspiration. No... From
Corante: Social Software on August 17, 2004 at 5:37 p.m..
i-Neighbors: Local social capital (Clay Shirky)
i-Neighbors, a service to generalize local social networks. Form the About page: I-neighbors was created by a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These services were designed to encourage neighborhood participation and to help people form... From
Corante: Social Software on August 17, 2004 at 5:37 p.m..
W doesn't tip
The ultimate trivialization of democracy or telling character detail? You be the judge. (And, yes, by running the link to this video, I am definitely having it both ways. Feels good.)... From
Joho the Blog on August 17, 2004 at 5:36 p.m..
Book of hope
Paul Loeb may be coming to your town soon to publicize his anthology, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a book on political hope that includes pieces by Nelson Mandela, Tony Kushner, Cornel West, Vaclav Havel, Alice Walker and other moral and literary legends. JOHO Challenge: Show up and see if you can depress him.... From
Joho the Blog on August 17, 2004 at 5:36 p.m..
Bodies on line
danah boyd, Michele Chang and Elizabeth Goodman are running a workshop in Chicago, Nov. 6, on Representations of Digital Identity: This workshop will address the many ways by which online presentations of self have been — and could be — constructed. In the absence of the body as a source of accountability and social legibility, individuals project a sense of self through multiple layers of mediation, including email addresses, graphic avatars, "friend lists," and results from search engines. How can we use the body in a mediated world? Or alternately, how can we promote rich modes From
Joho the Blog on August 17, 2004 at 5:36 p.m..
Sometimes Delay is Good
Microsoft is
delaying (CNet) the auto-download update procedure for Windows XP Service Pack 2, wisely. This is mainly being done for businesses, but I strongly encourage home users to hold off just a little longer on this as well. Let the other guys find the bugs, which are sure to appear once widespread deployment begins. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 17, 2004 at 5:34 p.m..
The architecture of participation
Discussions about open source and innovation tend to cluster around two opposing memes. One says that open source can't innovate; the other that only open source can innovate. Both are wrong. Sometimes large, well-funded R&D programs can achieve breakthroughs that lone geniuses can't. And sometimes the reverse is true. Either way, the real innovation of the open source movement is the architecture of participation. It can help turn a good idea -- wherever it came from -- into a best-quality implementation. Software companies that don't From
Jon's Radio on August 17, 2004 at 5:33 p.m..
We Don't Need Another Hero
Just back from an Omega Institute weekend I led with Grant Morrison, Paul Laffoley, Richard Metzger and Howard Bloom. Interesting combination of people - I ended up hanging out and resonating most with Grant this time out. Where we seemed to connect most was in our shared sense that Aristotle's narrative arc - the male heroic narrative - no longer adequately describes our experience of this world. It's something I've been thinking and speaking about for a long time, but it was very rewarding for Grant to respond so favorably to this notion. He's experienced it, From
rushkoff.blog on August 17, 2004 at 5:33 p.m..
Mercury Wars Autism MS ..AMALGAM ?50PC. MERCURY
This is the 5th article in the series trying to get the UK Gov. to seek the truth about Mercury and its effects. It was published on the BNP site three days before the UK Gov. announced the withdraway of mercury from vaccines [PRWEB Aug 11, 2004] From
PR Web on August 17, 2004 at 5:33 p.m..
The return of the manifesto
A new site's recently launched called ChangeThis which hopes to, "challenge the way ideas are created and spread." They propose to do this by creating and disseminating manifestos on various topics of interest and importance. We're betting that a significant portion of the population wants to hear thoughtful, rational, constructive arguments about important issues. We're certain that the best of these manifestos will spread, hand to hand, person to person, until these manifestos have reached a critical mass and actually changed the tone and substance of our debate. I've b From
megnut on August 17, 2004 at 5:32 p.m..
Online Course Development: What Does It Cost?
Angeregt durch den Artikel "Online Course Development: What does it cost?" hat George Siemens (elearnspace) folgende Differenzierung gemacht (und breite Zustimmung gefunden): "LMS' are most useful for an organization to monitor and track learning and for sequencing content. If that... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 17, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..
17. Sozialerhebung des Studentenwerks:...
Soeben ist die
17. Sozialerhebung erschienen, die auf ausgewerteten Fragebögen von 21.060 deutschen und 364 ausländischen Studierenden basiert und von 251 Hochschulen unterstützt wurde. [...] Die Sozialerhebung kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Studenten im Erststudium 34 Stunden pro Woche für den Besuch von Lehrveranstaltungen und deren Vor- und Nachbereitung aufbringen. Dazu kommen während der Vorlesungszeit 7,4 Stunden, die in die Ausübung von Nebenjobs investiert werden. Über From
BildungsBlog on August 17, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..
Academia's information sharing future
Grant Buckler,
Open access: Academia's information sharing future, Information Highways, July/August 2004. A very good survey. Excerpt: "From the writer's viewpoint, though, academic publishing is quite different. Where journalists and novelists are paid for writing and many live on this income, academic journals pay neither the authors of the papers they publish nor their peers who review them....Meanwhile, the Internet removes the printing and distribution costs From
Open Access News on August 17, 2004 at 10:53 a.m..
Wikiwork
Ken
blogs his idea to get students contributing to
Wikipedia as part of an assignment... it's a good one and I would have dropped off a comment if I hadn't had to log in, forget my username, lose my password, get reminded about it and eventually get it in the email as I'm writing this... c'mon Ken, there's levels of control and levels of control :o) (I hate the way
Manila does that by default too... if From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 17, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
Bloglines emails... just don't go there (at least not yet)
OK, doesn't look like the
bloglines email invites are quite up to the mark, ahem:
First they start off 'Fellow Bloglines User' (who said that I was sending these to Bloglines users... according to the site it's about "If you like Bloglines, spread the word! Tell a friend about Bloglines and get them started with the feeds you select."????) Kiss goodbye to any formatting in your personal message, it'll just turn up as a bunch of text (perhaps most irksome) The blogs are listed with images... From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 17, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
RSS gets down to business - David Becker, CNET News.com
Primarily the province of bloggers, RSS is moving into the business realm, with the release this week of a new application for sharing calendar data over the Internet. Developer John Pacchetti released a trial version of RSSCalendar late last month, a From
Techno-News Blog on August 17, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
University of Illinois offering online degrees
"Knowledge is exploding so rapidly that people need to keep training to keep their job or to get their next job," says Dr. Burks Oakley II, director of U of I Online and associate vice president for academic affairs at the University of Illinois. "We'r From
Online Learning Update on August 17, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
How to apply for IA jobs
Michael Angeles has written an article on how to apply for IA jobs. To quote: Someone who recently made my acquaintaince asked me to help provide some pointers for breaking into IA after having worked on visual design. I gave... From
Column Two on August 17, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..
Open-Source Political Activism
Extreme Democracy, a book and website is: "a political philosophy of the information era that puts people in charge of the entire political process. It suggests a deliberative process that places total confidence in the people, opening the policy-making process to many centers of power through deeply networked coalitions that can be organized around local, national and international issues. The choice of the word "extreme" reflects the lessons of the extreme programming movement in technology that has allowed small teams t From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 17, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
It's Just the 'internet' Now
By changing its style to lowercase the 'I' in internet, Wired News is placing this medium squarely where it belongs: on an equal footing with radio, television and Gutenberg's wonderful innovation, moveable type. From
Wired News on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Florida a Big Test of E-Voting
All eyes in the e-voting debate will be on Florida between now and the end of the month. The state is relying heavily on e-voting equipment to store the early votes in a primary election. Jacob Ogles reports from Orlando, Florida. From
Wired News on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Flight ID Fight Revived
Civil liberties activist John Gilmore, rebuffed by the court earlier, tries again in his battle to board airplanes without showing identification. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Dinar Brokers Boom in Iraq Chaos
Business surges for online merchants selling Iraq's newly minted currency, as speculators' optimism about the country's future trumps the steady stream of bad news coming out of Baghdad. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Internet Heading to Light Speed
If you want a faster internet, you need faster switches. A new nanotechnology opens the door to optical switches and a much speedier network. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Real Bites Apple on Downloads
RealNetworks is selling half-price downloads in its music store -- and they play on the iPod, much to Apple's dismay. Real says digital-music fans should not be locked in to a particular device. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
Hackers Take Aim at GOP
Online protesters threaten to gum up the web servers of Republican sites at a time when they will get the most traffic -- during the GOP's national convention. By Noah Shachtman. From
Wired News on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
The Balkanization of the Internet
So how often do you actually visit sites in other countries? How about in other languages? If you're like many users, the answer may "not that often" (apologies to the foreign readers of Lessig Blog). Its a small sign of the Balkanization of the Internet, a process that is happening... From
Lessig Blog on August 17, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..