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OK, it's finally happening – I'm finally freeing CONTENTIOUS from the numerous deficiencies of Movable Type blogging software, and moving this blog over to a new server. ...Well, rather, my husband/sysadmin
Tom Vilot is handling all of that stuff for me. I'm a content pro, not a genuine computer geek. I'm simply not adept at server-side gyrations, but Tom's a whiz. He just hasn't had much time over the last few months to take on this task, but now it's finally happening. Thanks, Tom! The big From
Contentious Weblog on August 18, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
A Word on Word
We advocates of free software don't have many friends, particularly among those fine people that would likely be our nearest and dearest save for that one fatal point of contention; we "get" open-source, free software, the importance of not only supporting this vital and progressive movement but actually learning to use the damn stuff. Our good neighbors "get" only what they pay for, and not many of our fine and noble administrators who dole out hund From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 18, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 19
Today's highlights: Softros LAN Messenger 3.3; Email for SMBs; Chatter IMAP Email Client for Treo 600; Exostar and Federation; Softros offers LAN Messenger 3.3, a peer-to-peer instant messaging client for LANs and WANs. "Softros LAN Messenger offers strong encryption options... From
Kolabora.com on August 18, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Wednesday: Collaborative E-learning For Results
One of the better articles on collaboration in elearning, a topic I feel myself feeling is the correct approach to be taking. How can we design e-learning programs to overcome the connectivity/isolation paradox? A program that The Otter Group adapted for CDM from a lunch seminar and then reengineered for synchronous online delivery, demonstrates strategies for building connection, interactivity, and relationships via online learning The following design elements were incorporated into the program: Numerous case examples from participants and their co-workers A team project that asked participa From
Shootmouth on August 18, 2004 at 10:43 p.m..
Distributed Cooperation?
An
article in the Harvard Business School publication
Working Knowledge (via
elearningpost) reports that the "that the approaches and outcomes of cooperating groups are not just better than those of the average group member, but are better than even the group's best problem solver functioning alone." While this is no surprise, I can't help but wonder about the nature of cooperation in decentralized, distributed communicative From
apcampbell News on August 18, 2004 at 10:42 p.m..
PC Security? 20 Minutes Is All You Have
Researchers at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center estimate that an unprotected PC will be compromised within 20 minutes of being connected to the Internet, down from an estimated 40 minutes last year. The estimate is based on observations of... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 18, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..
New York Times Features K-12 Ed Blogging
Well, I think the title just about says it all: "
In the Classroom, Web Blogs Are the New Bulletin Boards." Um, I beg to differ. You know, it's amazing how often I get asked that question: "Well, how are blogs different from, like, news groups?" Graphics. Collaboration. Shared space. Digital paper. Syndication. And so on, and so on... But for some reason, so many people still look at them and see, well, bulletin boards I guess. Too bad. The good news is that the article does bring to light so From
weblogged News on August 18, 2004 at 10:31 p.m..
Translation
Speaking of balkanization and translations, this is what appears to be a double translation of Lessig blog. From English to Japanese and back again, as in: "If it will not be able to bear to like him, John Perry Barlow is the man who does not separate only in tedious... From
Lessig Blog on August 18, 2004 at 10:27 p.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 18, 2004 at 10:27 p.m..
Move completed
Well, I've completed the move of wiley.ed.usu.edu over to Plone. I'll make the last entry on my reusability.org blog today and begin blogging here from now on. While I finish tweaking the config a variety of things are certain to be broken; let me know if you find that something is out-of-order. Also, you'll need to create an account to leave comments now, which hopefully will help with the spam problem. Welcome to the new place! From
autounfocus on August 18, 2004 at 10:26 p.m..
Conference Announcement Online
The call for papers for the 16th Annual Instructional Technology Institute is now available online at
http://itinstitute.usu.edu/. This year's program is titled "Reusable media, social software, and openness in education." Keynote speakers include Larry Lessig, Stephen Downes, and Paul Kirschner. If you're faculty or a government employee, registration is only $135 for the three day conference, which includes meals! Please spread the word and I hope to see you at the conference in September! From
autounfocus on August 18, 2004 at 10:26 p.m..
Altilab 2004
Had a great time with the usual suspects at Altilab, and enjoyed meeting several people for the first time as well. Changed my thinking with regard to the Learning Design specification somewhat, but that deserves a longer post. Among the people I met for the first time was fellow edublogger David Davies: David Davies, Raymond Yee, and David Wiley From
autounfocus on August 18, 2004 at 10:26 p.m..
Conference Call for Papers Update
For a number of reasons the Call for Papers for the Instructional Technology Institute has been updated. We're now requesting a title and abstract only (as opposed to the full paper) be submitted by email to
David Wiley by August 6th. Have an idea for a conference presentation, but not sure about it? Drop me an email. From
autounfocus on August 18, 2004 at 10:26 p.m..
Partial Program Published
Titles and abstracts for the first 25 or so papers accepted for the Instructional Technology Institute are
online. More to come in another two weeks. From
autounfocus on August 18, 2004 at 10:26 p.m..
Distance Learning 2004
Here are the
slides I used as part of the SCORM: A Comprehensive Review workshop at Distance Learning 2004 in Madison. Just in case you care. From
autounfocus on August 18, 2004 at 10:26 p.m..
Complete Conference Program Online
The completed version of the Instructional Technology Institute program is now available online in pdf format
here. I am thrilled. It looks like we're going to have a great time. I'm personally looking forward to the open time as much as the sessions; getting all these people in a room at once and seeing what kind of ideas fly is going to be great. If you haven't decided to come yet, I hope the program pushes you over the top. Let's see you in Logan on September 1! =) From
autounfocus on August 18, 2004 at 10:26 p.m..
China, loca por Internet
Hace poco hablábamos de China, a cuenta del nuevo sistema de control que el gobieno chino habÃa implantado para intentar controlar los mensajes SMS que se intercambia su población con cada vez mayor intensidad. Pero mucho nos tememos (en realidad, mucho nos alegramos) que estos esfuerzos del gobierno chino, como los de controlar la interred, son inútiles a medio o largo plazo. Es un nuevo intento de ponerle puertas al campo (es curioso: en China es el partido comunista quien (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on August 18, 2004 at 7:38 p.m..
America's Workforce: Ready for the 21st Century
Toni Kistner points out a White House press release from August 5, 2004, America's Workforce: Ready for the 21st Century, which calls for increased family-friendly policies like comp time and flex time. 'Many of the Nation's labor laws were designed a generation ago. Provisions in these ... From
Kolabora.com on August 18, 2004 at 7:33 p.m..
Blogging on TaoRiver
Now blogging on http://taoriver.net/ - RSS: http://lion.taoriver.net/wp-rss2.php. From
Lion's Den on August 18, 2004 at 7:32 p.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 18, 2004 at 7:32 p.m..
Workflow Learning is like a Ferrari
They're expensive but if you want to win the race, either is a sound investment. Master craftsmen assemble the Ferrari's components manually. Ferrari doesn't manufacture all the pieces. A car might be constructed with a Brembo brake system, Magnetti Marelli lighting system, Mahle pistons, SKF bearings, ZF Sachs cluch and suspension, NKG sparkplugs, Infineon semiconductors, BBS wheels, CIMA gears, Sabelt seats, Pirelli tires, a Momo steering wheel, and TRW airbags.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on August 18, 2004 at 7:31 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 18, 2004 at 7:30 p.m..
Aufstand gegen die Hüter des Wissens
Jetzt hat sich auch SPIEGEL ONLINE des Themas angenommen, das seit Tagen durch die internationale Presse wandert (zuletzt: Economist) und auf das ich vor einigen Tagen auch schon hingewiesen hatte (hier): die Abhängigkeit der scientific community von den großen Fachverlagen.... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 18, 2004 at 7:26 p.m..
Weblogs as Website Update
I've got three weeks to finish the foundation and put the finishing touches on our new Manila Website and I think I've actually got my brain wrapped around how this is going to work. Thank goodness. Not that I haven't had the big picture all along, but it's only when you start getting into the details that the complete puzzle starts falling into place. Even though there's a lot to do, I'm very psyched about the unveiling on September 8. (No Labor Day weekend for me, however.) Today we worked out the
departmental "te From weblogged News on August 18, 2004 at 7:20 p.m..
Another Reason for Students to Furl
(via
edblog) Now you can export your Furled sites by department in MLA or APA format, among others. The
export page just got updated to include two new features. First, you can now export items from a specific topic (in any of the available formats). And second, you can now export items in various bibliographic citation formats (MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE). The citations only contain the data that we collect (i.e. title, view date, URL), but we will increase the amo From
weblogged News on August 18, 2004 at 7:20 p.m..
The Two FCCs
As my colleague Glen Robinson wrote in the 1990s, the transformation of the FCC from the 1960s-to 1990s was "one of the stunning achievements of modern public policy," accompanied by "the transformation of a staid and stagnant industry into the most dynamic and rapidly growing industry in the modern economy."... From
Lessig Blog on August 18, 2004 at 7:17 p.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 18, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..
New Format Hastens Textbook Accessibility
From the article: "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 Standard (NIMAS). The standard will make it easier to convert traditional textbooks into formats such as Braille or text-to-speech." By Cara Branigan, eSchool News, August 12, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 18, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..
Perplexing Problem? Borrow Some Brains
It's not mentioned in this article, listed via elearningpost, but the advice here is very similar to that documented in James Surowiecki's
The Wisdom of Crowds. The premise is that, with some caveats, a group of people will consistently find a better answer than a single person, and often a better answer than even the best individual in the group. The upshot for this article is that managers should not think that they are in the uniquely best position to propose a solution - with some very few exceptions, From
OLDaily on August 18, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..
Play and Learning in The Brain
Maish Nichani summarizes this nicely in elearningpost: "Nice article on the importance of play in learning. Learning is not all about external rewards and punishments, rather "the human brain determines our learning potential, and subjective experience is, clearly, more than just stimuli and responses. Furthermore, it has been shown that even the most intricate system of rewards and punishment cannot change certain species-specific behaviour. In fact humans exhibit much behaviour where the reward is only rarely external, but rather 'natural', as in the children's play with crayo From
OLDaily on August 18, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..
More thoughts about where we go from here.
Thanks for clarifying the original stated purposed of this blog, which was to basically recount what happened at NECC 2004. The title of this thread "Where do we go from here?" makes me ask and wonder the same question. Although... From
Edweblogs.org: NECC 2004 on August 18, 2004 at 5:16 p.m..
"Make" or "Buy" or ... what?
I am putting together some notes for a software development course I'm presenting from September, and I want to say something about the broad choices - to help my students understand that software development is often as much about gathering, configuring and "glueing" existing components as it is about writing programs. However, all the writing I can find on the topic seems to phrase it in terms of deciding whether to "make" or "buy". But there's a third way - free or open source solutions. And this third option doesn't fit very well as part of either "make" or "buy". From
Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on August 18, 2004 at 5:15 p.m..
Copyright and Cultural Damage
Just before Tim Wu resumed his excellent blogsitting at the
Lessig Blog, Rep. Rick Boucher
asked a simple question that sparked many a complex
response: "In thinking about the future of my information availability in our society, am I right to be concerned about the emergence of pay per use as the norm?" The question brings to mind a central difficulty with explaining why the copyfight matters the larger s From
unmediated on August 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
Portent of iTV Search Engines
Every once in a while you see something that makes you think that something else is going to happen. AMC member and open source guru, Tim Halle sent in
this link to a posting on
Jesse Ruderman's blog with a simple question. "How hard would it be to hack this for iTV?" In case you are not technical or don't know what the link is referring to, Firefox is a next generation web browser from the nice people at
Mozilla. It h From
unmediated on August 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
$250 WiFi PCTV - with phone
Raj Reddy, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, has developed a wireless network personal computer for the four billion people around the world who live on less than $2,000 a year. Controlled by a TV remote, his PCtvt would come in at around $250,
says a report in the New York Times. Behind the project are Microsoft and South Korean computer maker Trigem and Reddy's partner's are the Indian Institute of Science, the Indian Institute of Information Technology and researchers at the University of From
unmediated on August 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
Video Streams Up 42 Percent
That's
according to AccuStream iMedia Research. Broadband users accessed an average of 15.4 video streams per month during the first half of 2004, up 42.6% over 2003 for sites with 90% broadband usage. Per unique user consumption of streaming video rose 23% to 3.17 streams on a per month, per site basis. Subscription video offerings such as Real Networks' SuperPass service, professional sports league content (including NASCAR) averaged anywhere from 30 to 80+ video streams served per month, per From
unmediated on August 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
Newbies Outnumber Longtimers (Reader Survey Results Part 1)
(NOTE: This is part 1 of a series exploring the results of the 2004 CONTENTIOUS
Reader Survey, which was completed by 157 respondents as of Aug. 18, 2004. See the complete
index for more survey results. Additional results will be published in future entries.) Here are the results for survey question 1: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN READING CONTENTIOUS?
38.2%: 1-6 months 34.4%: Since before it was relaunched as a weblog (pre-200 From Contentious Weblog on August 18, 2004 at 5:11 p.m..
CONTENTIOUS Reader Survey Results (Intro)
It's been a few weeks since I offered the CONTENTIOUS reader survey, and so far 157 people have taken a few moments to complete it. Thank you so much, everyone who participated! (If you still want to participate, you can
take the survey now.) This information is incredibly valuable. It will help me stay aware of who my readers are and what you want, so I can consider your needs in my editorial decisions for this weblog. I've been poring over the results and considering what they tell me – but I've From
Contentious Weblog on August 18, 2004 at 5:11 p.m..
Finding Content Pearls within Your Organization
When writing for an organization's web site, blog, e-mail newsletter, or other venue intended for an external audience, one of the biggest challenges is finding ways to keep the project interesting – to your online audience, as well as to yourself and your coworkers. At organizations, too often online content ends up mundane or bland. It reads like it might have been written by people who were bored out of their minds, who didn't care about the subject, or who couldn't be bothered to think about it. They just wanted to get the writing over with so they could "put so From
Contentious Weblog on August 18, 2004 at 5:11 p.m..
Website Advice to Media Companies
Len Muscarella of Interactive Media Associates picks up a pet peeve of mine in
this article from his latest newsletter: corporate websites that aren't smart about offering information that's of use to journalists (one of the sites' important constituencies). The most common shortcoming -- and as a working journalist I encounter this often -- is the lack of executive personnel information. As Muscarella suggests, corporate sites should include executive biographies and contact inform From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 18, 2004 at 5:10 p.m..
Helping Out the Mothership
Sacbee.com is participating in an interesting experiment that's aimed at one of the ugly little secrets of the newspaper business: Subscriber "churn" is eating newspapers alive. At big US metro papers, it's not unusual for two out of three subscribers to cancel during the course of a year. Newspapers have to sell hundreds of thousands of "starts" just to stay even. Many newspapers are selling subscriptions online, but the Sacramento Bee is focusing on the hole in the bucket.The program is called "Press Club," and it gives print subsc From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 18, 2004 at 5:10 p.m..
Fortune Cookie Icebreaker
Help students get to know each other and establish a positive learning environment from day one. This fun new icebreaker uses quotations to generate discussion and debate. Just print the instructions and education-related quotes and you're ready for class. Browse... From
Adult/Continuing Education on August 18, 2004 at 5:04 p.m..
Blogging and Writing (Con't)
Seems the blogs as writing tools thread is spreading.
Charlie Lowe offers up this perspective on what happens when students use Weblogs to publish: I was in a workshop today at Purdue where we talked briefly about the idea of students writing publicly in blogs. One of the concerns expressed was that students could be at risk by writing on the web. However, the first goal of public writing is to put the writing at risk, not the writer. Students can post under pseudonyms or anonymously while the writing remains vulnerable to publi From
weblogged News on August 18, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..
Site Review: the Microsoft Curriculum Repository
Microsoft's Academic Alliance Developer Center maintains this site to provide teaching materials for higher education. Not surprisingly, most of the resources at the repository utilize Microsoft software. "Use the Curriculum Repository to access teaching materials, such as presentations, labs, and exercises. As part of the worldwide academic community, you can freely use these materials as is or edit them to meet your educational objectives." The site is browseable and searchable. See the How To links to orient to the use of the site. The majority of resources From
World Wide Web Consortium on August 18, 2004 at 5:00 p.m..
Google's New Price
Reuters: Google Slashes IPO, SEC OK Expected Today. Google Inc. slashed the size of its closely watched initial public offering nearly in half to less than $2 billion on Wednesday, splashing cold water on what has been touted as the hottest Internet IPO in years. Cold water, no. But definitely a well-deserved rebuke by the investor community that was being asked to pay way too much in the first place. There's been a significant whiff of greed in the Google IPO From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 18, 2004 at 5:00 p.m..
If anyone is still interested in an Instructional ...
If anyone is still interested in an Instructional Design position here at
Ohio State University, please consider submitting a resume for our re-posted position... We did not recieve a large enough pool for selection, so we will are re-posting for hopefully a combined pool of applicants.Job Description: Supports faculty and staff in the design and development of course web sites and related technologies to meet specific needs of teaching, learning, and administrative activities in the various college and departments; Supports faculty From
blog.IT on August 18, 2004 at 11:50 a.m..
Does This Make It Official?
Wired Goes Lowercase: Wired announced today that it would henceforth spell internet, web, and net all as lowercase words. Guess that makes it official. All snideness aside, they make a good case that web technologies should join other communication mediums like television and radio on the lowercase world. From
Brain Frieze on August 18, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..
Blogging From the School District Office
With full credit to Weblogg-Ed where Will R. wrote about a fictional teacher and how blogs might impact his workday. ------- It's a busy Monday morning at the central office. As the members of the district's Educational Technology Team begin to trickle into their office, Dave has already logged in to his PC and is ready to get to work. E-mail comes first of course, but the next stop after that is Dave's RSS feed where he'll take some time to read through the feeds that he has... From
Brain Frieze on August 18, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..
Eats Re-boots & Leaves
The Berkeley Manual of Style
Wired News has announced, "Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net." Same here. For a while, this will be like trying to write the correct year on checks in Januar From
Internet Time Blog on August 18, 2004 at 11:44 a.m..
Access to botany journals
Kathy Fescemeyer,
Access to International Plant Sciences Journals - An Endangered Species?, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 2004. Abstract: "Access to international resources is always challenging. This project measures the availability of international journals in the plant sciences in libraries in the United States. The availability of 189 journals was evaluated by searching WorldCat. The analysis showed that 55% of the titles were held in 20 or fewer libraries throughout the United States. A subset of 16 titl From
Open Access News on August 18, 2004 at 11:41 a.m..
More on public access to drug trial data
Faye Flam,
Researchers working for full disclosure of clinical trials, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 17, 2004. Excerpt: "In criminal proceedings in the United States, the prosecution is legally required to provide the defense with any information that might be beneficial to the defendant - even if it may hurt the prosecution's case. Scientists are bound to a similar type of disclosure through an unwritten code of ethics. It's part of what separates real science from pseudo-science or folk wisdom....In many cases, it's From
Open Access News on August 18, 2004 at 11:41 a.m..
internet or Internet, web or Web
Via
Kairos comes new of
a Wired declaration that it's just the 'internet' now... first thing I did was scoot round the corner and ask an editor (cheers Cahal :o) To cut a long story short if you wanted to be a pedant and argue for the individual Internet or Web or Net (less appropriate for the last two as their essentially abbreviations) then you probably could but in a practical sense it would seem reasonable especially if, as good decentralists, we From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 18, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..
Forum Feeds
I'm really enjoying Stephen's
DEOS-L &
ITFORUM feeds, with the limitation in characters, links to the web-based archive and the benefit of feedreading them rather than through email I'm back on board both lists (although not through email). It's a very interesting and complex switch though in many ways and as a result I reckon there issues and questions are wor From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 18, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..
Technorati....
... is so slow, has so many bugs (I mean check out this
well titled weblog) and is so unreliable (especially if you're demonstrating to a large group)... I've been getting over the last few months very very frustrated with it but can't really find a simple alternative. What I'm after basically does the same as 'rati without the pain. From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 18, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..
Internet Heading to Light Speed - John Gartner, Wired
A new nanotechnology that eliminates network bottlenecks could help create a web surfers' paradise that is 100 times faster than today's internet. Fiber-optic networks capable of sending information at 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps are being rolled out around th From
Techno-News Blog on August 18, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..
Captainitis (Ross Mayfield)
Psychologist Patrick Laughlin from the University of Illinois has a new study that shows that groups outperform even the best individuals in decision making. Always good to rethink groupthink, but I’m not digging up the echo chamber meme. A cooperating... From
Corante: Social Software on August 18, 2004 at 11:39 a.m..
The Great Scam: Reactions (Clay Shirky)
I pointed to The Great Scam [new cached link] over the weekend, a first-person narrative of a scam perpetrated by Nightfreeze in the online game EVE. (Before I go into what caught my eye about it, I want to rectify... From
Corante: Social Software on August 18, 2004 at 11:39 a.m..
P2P May Help Transparency In Politics Emerge
"The US Congress offers webcasts of their hearings but these often evaporate into the ether unless citizens take the initiative to make live recordings," says Click to Vote founder John Parres, who's spearheading the launch of the non-partisan P2PCongress.org. "The... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 18, 2004 at 11:38 a.m..
Rip. Mix. Feed. How?
Apple had the perhaps now ill-fated
"Rip, Mix, Burn" concept for music-- I am looking for something similar (less lawyer intensive) for RSS feeds. It is taking feeds breaking them apart, and rebuilding them into something new. We can rebuild 'em. Stronger. Faster. The Six Million Dollar Feed.... So it goes:
Rip a few RSS URLs from where ever you find 'em these days.Mix them together into a pile.Feed From cogdogblog on August 18, 2004 at 11:38 a.m..
Blogger is Growing Up (Slimming Down?) New Navbar replaces Ads
It helps to have a little operation named "Google" behind you. The free blogs from
Blogger.com have trashed those big fat ad banners and replaced it with a svelte navigation bar. As
reported by the designer Douglas Bowman of stopdesign, there are 4 flavors to choose from, and the bar adds a blog search function (way overdue), a BlogThis button that helps other bloggers blog your blog (get it?), and a button that jumps to another random blog. Okay, it is not earth From
cogdogblog on August 18, 2004 at 11:37 a.m..
Blogdigger- Wow
Within three hours of
writing yesterday about Blogdigger (an RSS feed combiner that returns a group of feeds as a single feed), I got a nice
comment from Greg at Bloggdigger who let me know that the filtering tools were still being tinkered. It's rewarding to get direct responses like that from the folks directly involved with a trechnology. Okay, I created a quick and dirty
--> From cogdogblog on August 18, 2004 at 11:37 a.m..
Representing content and data in wireframes
Dan Brown has written an article on presenting wireframes, and in specific wireframe data, to clients. To quote: Sample data can make or break a wireframe, whose purpose is typically to illustrate architecture and interaction. Poorly selected sample data can... From
Column Two on August 18, 2004 at 11:37 a.m..
Interactive: Camp Hale
This is a nice online documentary on
Camp Hale -- a site established in west-central Colorado to provide mountain warfare training during World War II. It was developed for the Department of History at The Metropolitan State College of Denver. Also, it is incorporated into at least three different courses taught on campus, thereby giving it a nice reusability factor. From
elearningpost on August 18, 2004 at 11:36 a.m..
Perplexing Problem? Borrow Some Brains
This report "shows that the approaches and outcomes of cooperating groups are not just better than those of the average group member, but are better than even the group's best problem solver functioning alone." There are some nice stories that illustrate the point very well. From
elearningpost on August 18, 2004 at 11:36 a.m..
Play and learning in the brain
Nice article on the importance of
play in learning. Learning is not all about external rewards and punishments, rather "the human brain determines our learning potential, and subjective experience is, clearly, more than just stimuli and responses. Furthermore, it has been shown that even the most intricate system of rewards and punishment cannot change certain species-specific behaviour. In fact humans exhibit much behaviour where the reward is only rarely external, but rather 'natural', as From
elearningpost on August 18, 2004 at 11:36 a.m..
One More Reason Why People Disrespect Media
The Daily Kos notes a Republican
astroturf campaign in which many newspapers printed a letter, written by Bush operatives but signed by people in local communities, offering political support to the president's campaign. I don't expect much shame from the people who would sign their names to someone else's work in this way. I do expect better of newspaper editorial pages, which should be checking for this kind of stuff. New media, but sleazy old tricks. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 18, 2004 at 11:36 a.m..
Brave AND intelligent
From the
NYT today: A member of the California Army National Guard filed suit in federal court here Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's so-called stop-loss policy, asserting that his pending deployment to Iraq "bears no relation to the threat of terrorism against the United States." From
homoLudens III on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
Scientists Stumble Upon New Bird
Locals call them 'piding,' but researchers say the brown, flightless birds with the distinctive orange-red bills may be entirely unknown to science. From
Wired News on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
Setting Up the Dorm Remotely
The daunting prospect of hauling living supplies from home to the dormitory has many college students turning to online services to make sure they arrive to a fully appointed dorm room. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
This Headline Is Not for Sale
News sites may be tempted by an advertising scheme that lets them profit from ads linked to selected words within an article. But publishers who value a separation of editorial and advertising content should steer clear. By Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
Rejection 2.0
Several new services add a modern twist to the ancient art of rejection. People unable to say 'no' personally to unwanted advances can now sign up for e-mails and phone messages that do the dirty work for them. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
Cloning Kerry's Friend or Foe?
Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry favors therapeutic cloning. If that sounds shocking, the Republicans don't seem to mind. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
Making Free IPods Pay Off
The FreeiPods.com website looks as phony as a $3 bill. In fact, it's at the forefront of performance-based marketing, as advertisers discover it's more effective to spend $50 million on gifts than to blow the cash on TV ads. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
Homeland Security 101
As college students return to campus this month, they'll have their pick of courses tied to homeland security. Options range from a brief history of Islamic jihad to instruction in how to design buildings that can withstand acts of terrorism. By Michael Myser. From
Wired News on August 18, 2004 at 11:35 a.m..
Whales
"A lot of people would like to think of whales as philosopher-poets swimming around the oceans thinking deep thoughts, and that is not true," said Dr. Roger Payne. "But for some reason, people are deeply, deeply impressed by these animals. It may be their size, and grace has something... From
Lessig Blog on August 18, 2004 at 11:34 a.m..
The Loser's Paradox
Economists who study government (public choice theorists) have since the 1970s been interested in the "Loser's Paradox." Can it help explain the content of our copyright and telecommunications laws?... From
Lessig Blog on August 18, 2004 at 11:34 a.m..
Digital Audio & the Copyright Gap
Witness the Copyright Gap in its full majesty. In the UK, Digital Radio has been live at the BBC for about three years now. As the BBC says, "Digital Audio Broadcasting gives you far greater station choice, better reception & clarity of sound with no re-tuning." Yet meanwhile, in the... From
Lessig Blog on August 18, 2004 at 11:34 a.m..
10 features for a perfect browser
There are some great browsers out there. But they all seem to have some slight niggles, different for each, that make it hard for me to kick back and enjoy them. While there are some projects out there to make browsers more useful for some specialised purposes or by bolting on handy extensions, wouldn't it be great if these people could come up with a standardised set of nice features like these? A lot of browsers may support one or two, but I'll bet none have them all. From
kuro5hin.org on August 18, 2004 at 11:34 a.m..
Google slashes IPO price
The Web search giant cuts the price range and the number of shares being sold in its initial public offering. From
CNET News.com on August 18, 2004 at 11:34 a.m..