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PhD Proposal: Spontaneous Communities of Learning
Here's the lit review stuff for my PhD proposal, for all those who are interested... Basically, I'm going to be studying social gaming practices in massively multiplayer games to study how people learn from each other and bolster each other's mastery of the game, or in other words, studying ... From Relevancy on August 23, 2004 at 8:14 p.m..

Don't talk while I'm interrupting
Don't Talk While I'm Interrupting: Ed Cone's piece today at his blog is laugh-out-loud funny if you've ever indulged your masochistic streak and listened to talk radio or the talking heads on the various cable channels. I was just watching Bill O'Reilly the other night and heard his 1 minute spiel on how he was the "One True Voice That Rises Above All Others and Refuses to Pander to Any Audience". He immediately followed that by accusing the Democrats of running the most vile... From Brain Frieze on August 23, 2004 at 8:12 p.m..

audio blog publishing script
I just wrote a script to cut down on publishing time on the daily Source Code shows. Now when I'm done recording I drop the finished file into a special folder on my desktop, this triggers an applescript that does the following: Change name to dailySourceCode+today's date. Add id3 tags. Upload to server. Create a blog post via metaWeblog api to Radio UserLand. Delete desktop file. Tell me if it worked. Amazing all the steps I used to make to publish the show! This script will work with OSX and any weblog software that un From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Free radio
Doc Searls writes an amazing piece on the possibly doomed fate of radio -- and more than radio -- at the hands of so many competing forces who have it in their crossfire, including Congress, the FCC, the music industry, and more. I can't summarize it and do it justice -- so go read it -- but I will quote thisTo Congress and the FCC, broadcasting isn't speech. It's transport: a delivery system for "material" and "content"..... Think of a metaphor as a box of words. We all thin From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Sanyo Xacti C4
Sanyo has updated its Xacti flash camcorder line from the C1 model to these new C4s, which appear to have a few nice improvements for those who go tapeless, including a video stabilizer, an upgraded four-megapixel CCD for still images, and a slightly larger LCD screen (1.8-inch instead of 1.5-inch). There are some From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Videoblog on TV-- Pt 5
Lucas Gonze of Webjay explains the vision of video from the computer seen on TV. I can't talk about this vision enough. "Question: how exactly is it going to happen that we'll be watching TV over PC, or PC over TV, or whatever the hell it means to go sit on the couch and watch the internet? Answer: you hook up a cheapo flat screen monitor, a pair of cheapo computer speakers, a remote control mouse (so you don't have to get up to fix the volume), and a computer capable of rendering a s From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future
Mark Cuban, owner of HDnet, the Dallas Mavericks, and the guy behind The Benefactor reality show, has a great post over at his site about HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future. Mark brings up a lot of good points about how hard drive space is constantly moving up while price per byte falls, while upcoming DVD formats will be limited in storage capacity and technological imprunmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Micro-Broadcasting in Italy
Pirate TV in Italy. A video report about the Italian micro-broadcasting movement produced by a video collective from Milan. Pirate TV has been growing throughout the country in response to Silvio Berlisconi's, the country's richest man who controls half of Italy's TV market, ascended to the prime ministership. [demandmedia] [Cinema Minima] From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Women's Game Conference, September 9-10, Austin, TX
The Women's Game Conference focuses on women in the computer and video game industry. The conference program includes career paths for women in the industry, gender inclusive game design and women and girls as consumers of games. The Women's Game Conference runs concurrently with the Austin Game Conference September 9-10, 2004 at the Austin Convention Center and is open to anyone interested in the game industry and game development. From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Grassroot journalism at RNC
To cover the voices of people on the street during the Republican National Convention, and let you directly plug in, the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and the Indymedia Network have build their own newsroom: everyday, they produce a newspaper, a television show, a radio webstream and a website with up-to-the-minute reports, videos and photographs about the RNC. From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

RSS-enabled real time VJ performance: RNC-Redux
RNC-Redux is a real time performance project that takes material from RNC-related blog feeds and mixes it into a narrative of events each night of the RNC. There are going to be thousands of people textblogging, audioblogging, videoblogging, photoblogging the RNC, most with RSS feeds and most with open content licensing. With this wealth of material in mind, screensaversgroup will use --> From unmediated on August 23, 2004 at 8:11 p.m..

Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 24
Today's highlights: Oracle Collaboration Suite; New Customers for Xythos WebFile Server; Hummingbird on Legal; Extended Systems OneBridge 4.2; NetworkWorld reviews the Oracle Collaboration Suite. "[We] found it to be a solid performer, offering a number of good tools that let... From Kolabora.com on August 23, 2004 at 8:08 p.m..

Kerry-Edwards pledge support for a national broadband policy
It's great to see support for a national broadband policy coming from either presidential candidate. Now let's see if we can get them BOTH engaged in attacking this critical national issue so we can stop waiting around for the phone companies to do something.  According to a... From Kolabora.com on August 23, 2004 at 8:08 p.m..

Hawaii call extended
Heather Ross was looking at the website for the Hawaii International Conference on Education and noticed that they have extended the submission deadline to September 8. She and Ben Daniel are presenting a paper at the conference. http://www.hiceducation.org/... From Rick's Café Canadien on August 23, 2004 at 8:07 p.m..

Cool Interactive: Olympic Sports
Tolle Informationen und interaktive Grafiken, die verschiedene Sportarten und -disziplinen beschreiben. Leider habe ich nichts gefunden, was unseren Vielseitigkeitsreitern helfen würde. Trotzdem. (via elearningpost) Interactive Graphics, August 2004... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 23, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Not shaken, not stirred : mobilising the offline learner
Ich hoffe, meine Sympathie für die Möglichkeiten des Internets muss ich an dieser Stelle nicht besonders betonen. Trotzdem bin ich etwas zusammengezuckt, als ich folgenden Satz las: "Many of the most promising learning opportunities occur when online access is least... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 23, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..

Evaluating elearning in different geographical cultures
  So, after many weeks and months of silence, I've decided to start up this blog again. I'm working once again on issues surrounding culture and networked learning, and will be doing some work around how one might go about evaluating elearning initiatives that cross cultural boundaries. How would evaluation of elearning in a cross-cultural context vary from evaluating elearning in single cultural environments? Stay tuned (as they say in some cultures), and if you're interested in contributing, get in contact. From Viral-learning.net on August 23, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Last Call: Architecture of the World Wide Web
2004-08-19: The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition. The document is written for Web developers, implementers, content authors and publishers. It describes the properties that are desired of the Web and the design choices that have been made to achieve them. Comments are welcome through 17 September. Visit the TAG home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on August 23, 2004 at 7:48 p.m..

Fair Use Elaborated
I've received some interesting comments on my last posting. One of the commenters asked me to explain the fair use doctrine; here goes. The doctrine, which has close counterparts in patent and trademark law, permits a degree of unauthorized copying of copyrighted works. Shocking! If a teenager takes a joyride... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 7:44 p.m..

Break Up the CIA?
Enough for the moment on fair use; I'll get back to that. I'm interested in the report of the 9/11 Commission on the intelligence failures that led up to the 9/11 attack. I was asked to do a book review of by it the New York Times, and I agreed... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 7:44 p.m..

EdNA Goes Mobile
EdNA Online has created a demonstrator service to enable EdNA Online News Headlines to be accessible through handheld devices. The service has been designed for handheld devices that have a web capable browser, for example a Pocket PC using Pocket Internet Explorer. The standards-compliant design is in a format compatible with the small screen display of handheld devices. From EdNA Online on August 23, 2004 at 7:43 p.m..

Understanding Online Interaction
With the first part of a course he is teaching in the fall, David Wiley wonders "why we don't peer review each others course materials all the time" and then observes "Oh, right, most people are trapped in proprietary, closed LMSs." There's a certain risk to posting your course on the open net like this - especially when you know I will be one of the first to read it and comment (and you can see my comments in the discussion thread). But the course stands up quite well, and leaves us waiting for From OLDaily on August 23, 2004 at 7:41 p.m..

The Semantic Web: 1-2-3
So I Googled someone who spammed the educational lists with a book review today (a book misleadingly called an e-book, since it's not even online) to see if she was related to trhe author or publisher and got sidetracked. Just as well; revenge surfing doesn't really suit me. But I didn't run into this item by the creator of Amphetadesk (and some of the cleanest Perl code you'll ever want to see - his work is beautiful). It's a good intuitive introduction to what it is that the Semantic Web (and RDF in particular) is trying to accomplish, and a bit on how it does this. From OLDaily on August 23, 2004 at 7:41 p.m..

Are Trainers The Right e-Learning Designers?
Elliott Masie has hit on a winning formula and nobody should be surprised that it involves reader-generated content. In this item, Masies readers are invited to respond to the question, "Are Trainers The Right e-Learning Designers?" And what a surprise to see an old colleague from Assiniboine as the first person to answer! By Elliott Masie, Masie Center, August 22, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on August 23, 2004 at 7:41 p.m..

Universities Beef Up Anti-Downloading Tactics
NewsScan is citing a Wall Street Journal article (which I won't link to, since a subscription is required) describing the increasing use of anti-downloading tactics on university campuses. What's interesting is the take: "We're not content police. We're bandwidth police," says UNLV associate provost Lori Temple. "We make it so downloading music is a horrible idea." Using software that detects the use of peer-to-peer software by scanning network traffic, administrators respond by cutting off internet access for a period of time. Guess they'll have to go back to using IR From OLDaily on August 23, 2004 at 7:41 p.m..

Get HBS Working Knowledge on your PDA!
The Harvard Business School has (finally) created an RSS feed for its 'Working Knowledge' publication. By Unknown, August 23, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on August 23, 2004 at 7:41 p.m..

Urchin
From the announcement (thanks for the heads up, John): "Urchin is a Web based, customisable, RSS aggregator and filter. Its primary purpose is to allow the generation of new RSS feeds by running queries against the collection of items in the Urchin database. However, other arbitrary output formats can be defined and generated using XSL transformations or HTML::Template templates. In other words, the collection of Urchin Perl modules form a foundation for building an RSS aggregation or portal service." I took a look at the code - the install will be a bit daunting, and it requires Mod Perl 2, w From OLDaily on August 23, 2004 at 7:41 p.m..

September Issue of Photoshop User
The September issue of Photoshop User has arrived in The Studio. Features include using the Pen Tool for video designing, Digital Photographer's Notebook, focus on the gradient tool to build color density, a look at three color-adjustment methods (Average blur,... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on August 23, 2004 at 5:06 p.m..

Online tijdschriften over elektronisch publiceren
Links naar een aantal interessante tijdschriften, met een stukje 'blurb' van de website van de tijdschriften: (Er zijn nogal wat grensgevallen: bijvoorbeeld tijdschriften die zich vooral richten op educatieve toepassingen van de technologie, tijdschriften over het Internet, tijdschriften over computers en schrijven, etc.) D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/ "D-Lib Magazine is a solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues. The mag From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 23, 2004 at 5:06 p.m..

Just about enough of the IOC
I'm only half-interested in watching the summer olympics. My interest in the event has declined steadily since they allowed professional basketball players to compete--how funny now to see the Dream Team getting tossed about. Then there was the scandal involving extravagant gifts to IOC members. What a surprise. These summer games, ... From Big IDEA on August 23, 2004 at 5:05 p.m..

Writing on my PDA
I found a cheap cf wireless card and am now able to get online on my pda. I'm not sure I'd type much on this tiny keyboard, but it could come in handy when I might need/want a small computer but not want to lug around a laptop. BTW, the ... From Big IDEA on August 23, 2004 at 5:05 p.m..

Olympics ban blogging the event
The Olympics have officially forbidden live blogging of this year's Olympics. From CNN: Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but... From MANE IT Network on August 23, 2004 at 5:04 p.m..

iPods in the classroom: Duke updates
Several plans for using iPods pedagogically have appeared at Duke, which has gifted the first-year class with them. The overall thinking about using these tools includes several elements, according to Duke's Center for Instructional Technology: * Distribute audio-based assignments with... From MANE IT Network on August 23, 2004 at 5:04 p.m..

Olympic broadcast rights contract includes mobile, multimedia
The European Broadcasting Union has secured the rights to broadcasts of the Olympics for 2010 and 2012, for the first time including mobile and multi-media distribution rights. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 5:02 p.m..

KDG head to meeting economic affairs minister to push cable consolidation
The head of Kabel Deutschland is meeting with Germany's economic affairs minister, hoping to elicit ministerial support for his company's proposed purchase of three regional cable operators ahead of a watchdog ruling on the acquisition. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 5:02 p.m..

Laird Group acquires Centurion Wireless
The British electronics company has acquired a US mobile antennae maker. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 5:02 p.m..

BBC reports record interactive viewership for Olympics
The UK state broadcaster is reporting that over 6m viewers have used the red button on their remotes to access extended interactive Olympic programming since the Games' opening ceremony on the 13 August. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 5:02 p.m..

75 WCDMA handsets on market
The Global mobile Suppliers' Association has said that there are now 43 WCDMA networks in commercial service in 22 countries, with a further ten networks at pre-commercial phase. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 5:02 p.m..

Expanded Editorial Focus is Succeeding (Survey Results, Part 6)
(NOTE: This is part 6 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.) Question 6 on the CONTENTIOUS Reader Survey was: Over time, CONTENTIOUS has shifted its main editorial focus from the craft and business of online content to a broader range of communicatio From Contentious Weblog on August 23, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..

Knowing vs. Doing: Time for More Action?
A June 23 posting in the Only Connect weblog, The End of Knowing, discusses the concept of performativity: "knowledge is better linked to what it can do rather than object truth." This has got me thinking about the big picture of e-learning again... (Read more...) From Contentious Weblog on August 23, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..

Samsung DigitAll: Everyone's buying
Three years ago, I was shopping around for a 17" flatscreen monitor, and the dingy little PC shop in London I went to would only offer a Samsung. I was leery at first - after all, wasn't Samsung that company that made those unremarkable OEM products that adorn the nation's Walmarts? However, the price and featureset seemed reasonable, so I purchased it. "Intellectual assets will determine a company's value in the 21st century. The age when companies simply sell products is over. In the new era, enterprises have to sell their corporate philosophy and culture. An enterprise's From silentblue | Quantified on August 23, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..

Amazon Learns How to Spend Money on China
Is the US$75 million that Amazon is paying to enter the Chinese market by buying its counterpart, Joyo.com, well spent? I of course have not been able to do the thorough due diligence that's normal for this kind of purchase, but as an ordinary Chinese consumer I do have my doubts about the profitability of retailing books, DVDs, and music online in China.Compared to the rest of the world, books are cheap, low-margin products that are widely a From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 23, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..

NBC's Tape-Delay Failure
Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org speaks his mind -- that's part of his charm as a new-media industry pundit. I had to laugh at this item of his today: "NBC's Olympic Video Offering Doesn't Make It to the Medal Round" -- My feelings exactly ... die, broadcast, die." I sympathize with that sentiment and that of fellow E-Media Tidbits contributor Steve Klein, who opined here the other day about NB From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 23, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..

Ten Efficient Research Strategies for Distance Learning
The ten research strategies that will be covered are accessing library expertise, books from your or others' library catalogs, academic journals, databases, current awareness services, subscription services, distance education Web portals, associations, listserv/discussions, and use of research assistants. From eLearnopedia on August 23, 2004 at 4:59 p.m..

A web standards checklist
This guide can be used to show the breadth of web standards, as a handy tool for developers during the production phase of websites, and as an aid for developers who are interested in moving towards web standards. From eLearnopedia on August 23, 2004 at 4:59 p.m..

E-Learning in Higher Education ¬ Where Next?
E-learning has opened up new education and revenue opportunities for the UK's universities and colleges. Tim Collin Director of European Sales for WebCT looks at how institutions can consolidate and develop their success for the future. From eLearnopedia on August 23, 2004 at 4:59 p.m..

Scopus demo
Elsevier has launched an online demo of Scopus, its forthcoming bibliographic database. (Thanks to Colin Steele.) From Open Access News on August 23, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..

Not the way to fight high journal prices
Harvey Rice, Lawsuit alleges fraud in sale of subscriptions, Houston Chronicle, August 22, 2004. Excerpt: "Some of the biggest companies in the international scientific publishing business are accusing Scholarly Publications Inc. of fraudulently purchasing individual subscriptions at low rates and reselling them at institutional rates that can be as much as 10 times higher." (PS: The defendants say it's all a misunderstanding. But if it's true, then here's a tip. Spend your court-ordered community From Open Access News on August 23, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..

Another step toward PubChem
The NIH has awarded the contract for the Small Molecule Repository to Discovery Partners International. The Small Molecule Repository will be part of the larger Molecular Libraries Initiative, which will include the open-access PubChem. From today's press release: "A significant aspect of the Molecular Libraries Roadmap will be the development of a large publicly accessible cheminformatics dat From Open Access News on August 23, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..

Disruptive technologies in scholarly communication
Susan Lafferty and Jenny Edwards, Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries? Library Management, 26, 6 (2004) pp. 252-58. Only this abstract is free online: "Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Technologies predicts that mainstream organisations and industries can be made obsolete by new technologies that change the whole paradigm of the industries in which they operate. This paper demonstrates the relevance of the theory of From Open Access News on August 23, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..

Tips for Wannabe Teachers
Transform your knowledge and skills into profitable teaching opportunities - employment writer Barbara J. Winter explains how.... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 23, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..

libcoop: Pakistan Library Cooperation Group for librarians, library directors, and information profe ...
libcoop: Pakistan Library Cooperation Group for librarians, library directors, and information professionals engaged in Pakistani Libraries who need to share information and common concerns about Library Administration, Library Management, Staffing, Library Cooperation... From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

The 5th Annual Conference of the LTSN Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences aims to b ...
The 5th Annual Conference of the LTSN Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences aims to bring together academics from the computing and library and information science disciplines interested in sharing good practice and integrating innovative techniques to enhance the quality of their learning, teaching and assessment - 31 August-2 September, 2004 - University of Ulster From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

The third beta of IngentaConnect has been launched and now includes browsing by subject categories, ...
The third beta of IngentaConnect has been launched and now includes browsing by subject categories, personal registration, reference linking and forward citation linking, and Fax/Ariel content From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

Find Out EVERYTHING About Any Web Site: URLinfo
Michael Fagan is at it again with one of his great search services. "Fagan Finder's goal is to help people find what they are looking for" and URLinfo, the latest gem in his search collection, just launched overnight and still... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

The Emergence Of Secondary Markets For Digital Media
eBay has just announced that during a 180-day pilot it will allow digital music files for download. "Pre-approved" resellers will be able to offer downloadable music within auctions at eBay. Is this the beginning of a legal secondary market for... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

Order of Magnitude Quiz: Paper readers
If you add the number of readers (note: readers, not subscribers) of the paper versions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and then subtract the number of readers in the metropolitan New York area so as not disadvantage USA Today, what's the total number of readers? (Information from The Media Audit as reported by The Center for Media Research.) To see the answer, drag-select the seemingly-blank space between the x's: X 15 million: 6.1 million for the NYT, 5.3 million for USA Today, and 3.7 million for the WJS. X... From Joho the Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

ActionScript Jabberwocky and the sequel
First, the appealingly-named TurdHead blogger (time for self-esteem class, Turdy) wrote an ActionScript version of The Jabberwocky poem. It's an amusing bit of geekery. Then it got Slashdotted, drawing a bunch of fire form people who consider ActionScript, a Macromedia invention, to be the language Satan speaks when he stubs his toe. So, TurdHead has posted his reply, the punchline of which I won't spoil... (Those of you who got here by googling "Jabberwocky" who actually want information about the miraculous summer Jabberwocky are probably looking for this or maybe these photos.)... From Joho the Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

Socialtext Round A
Socialtext, the wiki and social software company, has closed Round A financing with some investors noted for funding companies that make the world better. Cool! And I say this as a fully biased member of their advisory board.... From Joho the Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..

Verisign Boss to Net Founders: Step Aside
Stratton Sclavos, who runs Internet infrastructure provider VeriSign, took a hard shot at "the people who invented these networks" this morning at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen Summit. Now,"it's time for them to get out of the way," he said. "We need to make some progress here." VeriSign came under attack -- correctly in my view -- from the old guard for its ill-considered --> From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 23, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..

Comments Off Today
We're taking a brief time-out on comments while we decide what to do about the trolling behavior of a tiny number of readers. I can't accept what's been going on: multiple postings under different names by at least one person who uses the comment system mainly to launch gratuitous personal insults rather than discuss the issues. (We've banned his IP address, but I'm sure he'll be back with another one soon, as he seems to have done before.) The insults are trivial. They tell you more about the person writing than about anything else. But I have heard from reader From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 23, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..

Justice Dept. Cautious About Becoming Copyright Police
Fascinating statement in an otherwise news-free talk this morning at the PFF Aspen meeting by R. Hewitt Pate, head of the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division. He seemed to indicate that the department has more than enough on its plate already without also taking on the role the entertainment cartel and its friends in Congress have been urging: copyright cops when it comes to ordinary infringement. Pate urged more self-enforcement -- not a total From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 23, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..

Changing Selves
I did an interview on Changesurfer radio this weekend - mostly about my book Open Source Democracy, but ultimately about the changing nature of the individual in the face of emerging networks and community. As I explained it on the air, it all comes down to the way we define "self." In the past - since the renaissance, really, we've defined "self" in terms of the boundaries we experience differentiating us from others. As we move forward self becomes defined by our connections with others. That's the fun part of doing interviews - you come up with new ideas, a From rushkoff.blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

Eldred Revisited
Larry Lessig from time to time flagellates himself about losing the Eldred case in the Supreme Court. He shouldn't; it was unwinnable for a host of reason (the lopsided vote--7-2--is a clue). Yes, Congress can confer copyrights only "for limited Times," but what's "limited" is a matter of perspective. If... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

Licensing and Fair Use
The conventional economic objection to copyright and other IP propertization is that it limits access and by doing so causes a misallocation of resources: making and distributing another copy of some piece of software might cost nothing (well, virtually nothing), and yet if the copyright owner charges a price of... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

Fair Use and Licensing
"Fair use" is a doctrine of copyright law (with counterparts in patent and trademark law as well) that allows a degree of unauthorized copying of copyrighted works. Shocking! Squatters' rights! Can a teenager take my car for a joy ride and when he's caught plead "fair use"--that I wasn't using... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..

XML Retrieval and Processing Comparison
I'm clearing my whiteboard, and need the space this was occupying, so I'm dumping it here for future reference... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

U.S. Web Usage and Traffic, July 2004
Nielsen//NetRatings examined where U.S. Internet users were going and how long they were staying during July 2004. From ClickZ Stats on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Virus alert: Spies prize Webcams' eyes
Rbot worm doesn't just tap your hard drive--it uses your camera to watch you. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Cisco beefs up broadband offering
Networking giant buys start-up P-Cube, a maker of software for controlling, monitoring and billing for IP services. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

DOJ takes P2P legislation with 'grain of salt'
Justice Department official says recording industry, not federal prosecutors, should take lead in suing peer-to-peer pirates. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

HP inks deal with Finnish energy firm
Eventually, the computing giant will support data center, servers and workstations for all of Fortum's operations worldwide. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Briefly: HP inks deal with energy firm
roundup Plus: Holiday Inn welcomes Priceline...More colleges get cheap online music...Glitches hit some EarthLink-hosted sites...More money for fuel cells. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Distributed Course Design
Plans are coming together for my fall course Understanding Online Interaction. The design is finished, and a little over half the course is actually "built." (All materials are, of course, CC by-sa'ed opencontent.) It's an introductory course I designed for my research team to give them a little broader experience in understanding the ways in which people interact socially over the network. The course design relies heavily on dialogue (the materials are designed to simulate the frightening experience of actually interact From autounfocus on August 23, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Rapid foreign investment growth in Belarus communications industry
Net direct foreign investment in the Belarusian communications industry for the first seven months of 2004 has increased by 55 per cent over last year. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 9:21 a.m..

T-Mobile launches SMS pre-paid top-up
T-Mobile Xtra pre-paid customers can now send a text message to a short code in order to purchase new minutes. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 9:21 a.m..

30% of Hungarian businesses have websites
Hungarian companies are steadily recognising the benefits of a web presence, but small businesses in the country remain largely unconvinced. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 9:21 a.m..

Ringtone charts show on TV
British audiences will soon be able to check out how their favourite ringones are faring in the charts. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 9:21 a.m..

Russian IP telephony market to grow by 45%
Rapid growth in the Russian IP telephony market and in internet traffic is to continue, according to Russian research firm iKS-Consulting. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 23, 2004 at 9:21 a.m..

An Online Chat With Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor, technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, was the special guest today for an online chat with readers of the Guardian, and a full transcript is online. His book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, recently published by O'Reilly and Associates, was one of the topics of conversation. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 23, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..

Astroturfing: A Dark Side of User-Contributed Content
News sites with open forums need to keep an eye out for astroturfing -- a "grassroots" movement that's fake. It's been a growing problem for some time, and in this election season there is extra reason to be on the lookout for abuses. It's not entirely new. Newspaper editorial staffs for years have had to examine letters closely because of organized letter-planting campaigns. This week, the Daily Kos blog cited the appearance of a Bush campaign-prepared letter in some 60 newspapers nationwide, over the sig From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 23, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..

Bugmenot Returns
The avoid-website-registration site Bugmenot.com has returned to life after a short hiatus. Bugmenot gives users working login-password combinations to use at free-content websites (including many news sites), so they can avoid going through the user-registration process. The host for the site, which is run by an anonymous programmer, pulled the plug, but now Bugmenot has found a new host. (Bugmenot's operator ann From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 23, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..

Postcards, Blog, Whatever
New York Times sports writer and columnist George Vecsey is writing "Vecsey's Postcards" through the Olympics, live from Athens. The "postcards" are his personal accounts from the festivities. OK, that's great, but it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so it is a duck ... I mean blog. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 23, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..

Government That Works Online
The last time I needed to renew my automobile registration, I followed the state of Virginia's advice: "Get online, not in line." My home state was recently named the third-most digitally advanced state government in the 2004 Digital States Survey, a comprehensive study by the Center for Digital Government. Michigan finished first in the survey and Washington state second. Rounding out the top 10 were Indiana, Arizona, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Arkansas, From ERADC Blog on August 23, 2004 at 9:20 a.m..

Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 23
Today's highlights: InfoWorld review of IM; IntelliReach MessageInsight 3.0 for Novell GroupWise; BIW Technologies and netGuru; New Mail Alert for Gmail; Agendus Mail; InfoWorld published a review of products to enable or secure instant messaging in the enterprise. Products reviewed... From Kolabora.com on August 23, 2004 at 9:19 a.m..

Collaboration Software Clients: Email, IM, Presence, RSS & Collaborative Work...
Collaboration Software Clients: Email, IM, Presence, RSS &amp Collaborative Workspaces Should Be Integrated for Business Communication ... Part 1. Strengths &amp Weaknesses, But Nothing's Perfect is a free white paper from Shared Spaces Research &amp Consulting. The paper was written... From Kolabora.com on August 23, 2004 at 9:19 a.m..

Test Your Web Interface: Navigation Stress Test
If you don't now about the Navigation Stress Test, it is time you consider it for serious adoption within your Web testing toolset. The Navigation Stress Test allows to evaluate the accessibility, usability and navigation framework effectiveness of any Web... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 23, 2004 at 9:19 a.m..

Dylan concert
I got back a few minutes ago from a Willie Nelson-Bob Dylan concert. I enjoyed Willie Nelson, who had a versatile band and toured his hits very nicely, perhaps doing as well as a blues band as anything else they did, I was surprised to see. Then a long break and Dylan came out, with a very tight band, higher volume, and a strong song list covering many periods of his work. The crowd was his from the first song, Rainy Day Women, and remained very much engaged through an encore of... From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 23, 2004 at 9:17 a.m..

Mosaico
Yahoo! puso en marcha su blog Yahoo! Search Blog, aunque fue en el Google Weblog donde encontré el enlace al servicio de Yahoo! Finance que informa de la cotización de las acciones de Google: GOOG. En materia olímpica hay medalla... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 23, 2004 at 9:16 a.m..

Para explorar
1) El RSS Calendar 2) El eBay Searches Delivered by RSS 3) El ListGarden RSS Feed Generator Program 4) Las Manifestaciones Virtuales 5) La versión beta de Blogversations 6) El 9-11 Commission Report 7) Los Six Types of Business Blogs... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 23, 2004 at 9:16 a.m..

The World Wide Blog - Joichi Ito, Ubiquity
Joichi Ito, founder of Neoteny and other Internet companies, finds that cyberspace is embracing it roots - collaboration, community, and personal communications - with bloggers leading the way.... The important thing is to find a couple of blogs about From Techno-News Blog on August 23, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..

RFID: Getting Under Your Skin? - Peter Lewis, Fortune
Chip implants present some intriguing possibilities-and raise a host of concerns about privacy and ethics. Some people consider radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips to be cutting-edge technology. But bleeding-edge? Mexican Attorney General Rafa From Techno-News Blog on August 23, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..

Drag-and-drop flaw mars Microsoft's Latest Update - Robert Lemos, CNET News.com
An independent researcher warned that an Internet Explorer vulnerability could turn drag-and-drop into drag-and-infect, even on computers updated with Microsoft's latest security patch. The flaw affects the latest version of Internet Explorer running From Techno-News Blog on August 23, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..

Blinkx Search Tools
Wouldn't it be nice to have a search tool that retrieves various links or news items related to what you were currently looking at on the Internet? Well, the beta-version of Blinkx does precisely that. Using self-learning algorithms to understand the c From Educational Technology on August 23, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..

Deskport
As most users can attest, a good deal of repetitive searching goes on as individuals move about the Internet in search of various items. DeskPort 1.0 is predicated on just these types of searches, as the application saves users time, as its forms combi From Educational Technology on August 23, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..

Malappuram drops purdah to climb up the e-learning curve - M SARITA VARMA, Financial Express of India
Muslim-dominated Malappuram is high on population and low in literacy. Half of it seems to live on Gulf remittances, the other half in poverty.... It is this district that has lifted the purdah for its first steps up the e-learning curve. About 560 e- From Online Learning Update on August 23, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..

Effects of Peer Interaction Facilitated by Computer-mediated Conferencing on Learning Outcomes - Deb LaPointe, DEC
Moore called peer interaction oea challenge to our thinking and practice in the 1990s. Garrison predicted that CMC could be the defining technology of the post-industrial age of distance education. Today a major challenge still facing educators is usin From Online Learning Update on August 23, 2004 at 9:13 a.m..

Interaction and Immediacy in Online Learning - Robert H. Woods, Jr., Jason D. Baker; IRRODL
Abstract: This article presents the concepts of interaction and immediacy and discusses their theoretical frameworks, implications, and relationship with one another. The authors propose the development of a new conceptual model and recommend additiona From Online Learning Update on August 23, 2004 at 9:13 a.m..

KIMNET (formerly the Aslib IRM Network) is a community of interest involving professionals from a wi ...
KIMNET (formerly the Aslib IRM Network) is a community of interest involving professionals from a wide range of disciplines in a common quest to learn more about the effective management of knowledge and information From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 23, 2004 at 9:13 a.m..

Weblogs for Student Columnists
Elizabeth Fullerton has her students using Weblogs in groups to report and comments about sports, music, movies, reality television and news. I always think it's interesting to look at how students' writing voices become so audience oriented when they start blogging. These are no From weblogged News on August 23, 2004 at 9:11 a.m..

CMS Myth #2: Big organisations need a big CMS
I've seen this time and time again: big corporations making the automatic assumption that because they are large, they must purchase a similarly large and expensive content management system. This is not the case. In many cases, even large organisations... From Column Two on August 23, 2004 at 9:11 a.m..

The insanity of relocating the Olympics every four years
My friend Venkat pointed out this article on the loss of knowledge associated with having the Olympics at a different venue each time. "The heart of the problem is that the Olympics--for no unassailable reason--alters its location every four years. With every change of venue, millions of staff-hours of know-how are lost. That's not how most other major sporting events are organized. Professional golf tournaments return to the same courses year after year, allowing the staffs there to learn from their mista From elearningpost on August 23, 2004 at 9:11 a.m..

Reporting to Work Mid-Flight
Business travelers will soon take advantage of airborne internet if two companies have their way. Boeing and software maker iPass plan to use satellite and Wi-Fi to connect high fliers to the office. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Satirists Skewer U.S. Candidates
U.S. presidential hopefuls are the target of endless satirical barbs on the web as a host of cybercynics offer comic relief from election politics. Opponents Bush and Kerry appear in fake news reports, multimedia presentations and artwork. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Catching Meth Cooks Pink-Handed
Midwestern farmers welcome a new fertilizer additive that leaves a telltale fluorescent pink stain on the hands of anyone who touches it. Theft of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer, used to make methamphetamine, has become a major problem for farmers. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Electricity Revives Coral Reef
A Balinese project uses low-wattage electrical current to stimulate the regrowth of a badly damaged coral reef. It's the world's largest coral nursery ever built using this technology, in an area where most of the world's coral species live. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

E-Vote Machines: Secret Testing
Even though tax money pays for voting machines, the three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secret. The reason? Their contracts with the voting machine makers specify secrecy. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Mars Probes to Yell 'Geronimo!'
Boeing agrees to design parachutes and software that would help future Mars probes autonomously control their descents, much like earthbound skydivers. Christopher Genna reports from Seattle. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Scientists Breed a Tougher Mouse
Through genetic engineering, scientists have bred a mouse capable of running twice as far as other mice before exhaustion. Medical researchers believe some of their findings could apply to humans. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Politicos Dig Deep for Your Data
This election year, activist groups are targeting undecided voters through consumer databases. But veteran campaigners say no magic formula can predict how people will vote based on where they live and what they buy. By John Gartner. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Army: JetBlue Data Use Was Legal
A report by the Army's inspector general concludes that a controversial data-mining project involving airline passenger records did not violate federal privacy law. Critics say the report misinterprets the law. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

Is Real a Real Hypocrite?
Real's recent marketing campaign purporting to promote choice in digital music fails to rally music fans. Instead, the blitz provokes nasty comments from Apple users and cries of hypocrisy from critics. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..

A Site for Banner Ad Freaks
Most internet users try to ignore banner ads, but web designer Tari Akpodiete can't stop collecting them. She's put her collection of 15,000 ad samples online for all who care to look. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Artists Are Coming To Class in Pajamas: "Teleclasses" Are the Newest Wrinkle in Continuing Education for Professional Artists
Come-as-you-are classes taught on a telephone conference call -- teleclasses -- are now making their way into the art world. Two new teleclasses for artists -- open to any artist with a telephone, from anywhere in the world -- will be launched on September 7, 2004 by Kathy Gulrich, an award-winning artist, art coach and owner of smART Business Coaching, New York. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004] From PR Web on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Optek Music Systems, Inc. introduces the new FG-400 series Fretlight® guitar interactive learning instrument.
Fretlight owners can see songs light up underneath their fingertips and can strum along with their favorite artists. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004] From PR Web on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Federal Student Loans and Financial Aid Not Enough for Fall Tuition
As the fall college semester begins, more and more students are receiving less and less federal financial aid in proportion to rising college costs. Such rapid increases are leaving bewildered students and parents wondering how to cover these costs. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004] From PR Web on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Online Writing Workshop, "Writing for the Real World: A Refresher for Busy Professionals," Begins September 13, 2004
Writing911.com's popular writing workshop, "Writing for the Real World: A Refresher for Busy Professionals," is being turned into an online writing course (e-course), beginning September 13, 2004. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004] From PR Web on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Minimising the Risk in Change with Business NLP
The onset of change can present challenges and risks for all organisations and individual staff upon whom it impacts. Successful change management depends on the 'buy-in' of staff at all levels and their skills in communication and managing change. NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) was developed as a tool for change 30 years ago. It has enabled people to embrace and consolidate change - with outstanding results. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004] From PR Web on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Authors Turn to Lulu.com To Publish Book Attacking No Child Left Behind Act In Time For Election
The Seattle-based father and daughter publishing team of Beth and Ross Yockey wanted to make sure their satire of the Bush Administration's education policy, "Strictly for the Birds: an Allegory of Political Folly," was published in time for the election in November. That urgency led them to turn from traditional publishers to Lulu.com (www.Lulu.com), a rapidly growing on demand publishing tool for books and ebooks. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004] From PR Web on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

The Shame of Adult Male Virginity
My feeling is that somewhere between the ages of 18 and 22-25 society starts expecting men to not be virgins. Well, maybe "expecting" is not the right word, but that's the age range were I started feeling shame about being a virgin. There are many advantages to being a virgin: you know you're not diseased, you know you're not a daddy and you don't have a woman who has reached deep into your inner feelings and can manipulate you with that leverage. A quick side note about diseases: besides the scary lifelong and life-threatening sexually transmitted diseases From kuro5hin.org on August 23, 2004 at 9:09 a.m..

Nielsen/NetRatings to fine-tune research
The market research firm is taking a fine-tooth comb to data, as it seeks more relevant trends for customers. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

BEA packages Web application tools
The company hopes to lure software partners by promising to save them from infrastructure headaches. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Human chips more than skin-deep
Better health care and fraud protection may sound good, but are they worth the potential privacy trade-offs? From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Stopping spam at the source
New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work. From CNET News.com on August 23, 2004 at 9:08 a.m..

Australia’s success in e-learning highlighted for a global audience
Speaking at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum held in Korea last month, the Department of Education, Science and Training Flexible Learning Advisory Group member, Murray Judd, named the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) as a major force in driving the uptake of flexible learning in vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. “Australia has been active in recognising that the application of information communication technologies (ICT) in training requires some stimulus to ensure that its use will quickly become part of mainstream activities. The Fram From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

E-learning on fire within Queensland schools
More than 40 teachers and principals recognised as key drivers in promoting the uptake of flexible learning in Queensland schools were brought together at a recent two-day Education Queensland Forum. It is the first time ever in Queensland or Australia that the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) has united professionals from the schools sector in a strategic state forum to make them aware of the Framework’s products, resources and support networks, and to tie them into to the State’s flexible learning agenda. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

MARVIN marvels: Australian animated e-learning platform one of 15 finalists in international Commonwealth innovation competition
MARVIN (Messaging Architecture for the Retrieval of Versatile Information and News), the animated computer program which is revolutionising the way important health messages are delivered to remote Northern Territory communities, is one of only two Australian innovations among 15 finalists from 157 countries up for a major Commonwealth international innovation award. One of the developers of the software platform, Mr Easterby-Wood will travel to Singapore for the October 21-23 judging of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) International Innovations Awa From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

More than 80% of survey respondents from the VET system say Flexible Learning Toolboxes help them deliver e-learning
More than 80% of participants from the vocational and educational training (VET) system who responded to a national online survey have reported that the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s (Framework) Flexible Learning Toolboxes have had a positive impact on their learning and that they would recommend the e-learning product to other teachers and trainers. Rodney Spark, Victorian representative of the Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG), the national body who manages the Framework, and who is also the General Manager of e-Works, said he was overwhelmed by the Toolbox survey’s high From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

TAFE Tasmania’s FlexiTrain initiative a hit with students
Australia’s smallest State, Tasmania, has taken a big step forward by introducing its successful FlexiTrain initiative, that offers students more flexible ways of learning, to three Campuses of its one and only TAFE Institute. Institute of TAFE Tasmania Learning Project Manager, Kirsty Sharp, is among 64 Flexible Learning Leaders selected by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s (Framework) this year. “The integration of flexible learning and work has become a major feature of the contemporary Tasmanian workplace, not only because of geographic isolation but because of other work- From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

The Framework’s achievements highlighted at the TAFE frontiers’ Flexible Learning Week Conference
The positive impact of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) on the take up of flexible learning by Victorian training providers was highlighted at the TAFE frontiers’ Flexible Learning Week conference. 300 vocational education and training (VET) professionals attended the 2004 Flexible Learning Week Conference held 16 August at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre in Victoria. The conference is a part of Flexible Learning Week which is continuing until 27 August. Victorian Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG) member, Rodney Spark Mr Spark also urged conference delegates to be From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

Using technology to deliver education and training to a global workforce – find out more at the NET*Working 2004 conference
Journalists with Reuters, the world’s largest international multimedia news and television agency, corresponding from hot spot war zones around the world now have access to real-time training support, following the company’s decision to invest in innovative technology-based learning approaches. Charles Jennings, the company’s Head of Global Learning will be presenting at NET*Working 2004, an online conference also featuring local face-to-face events in all States and Territories, to be held from 8-19 November 2004 (Visit:http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/nw2004). Charles will talk about From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

VET innovation a revolution in shared access to education and training resources
As any teacher or trainer knows only too well, the almost daily task of sourcing and developing learning materials to support lesson plans that will interest even the most disengaged students is often the most time-consuming – and isolating – part of the job. Trials currently being carried out by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) are set to revolutionise the way teachers and trainers within the vocational education and training (VET) system gather and use learning resources, by providing them with single portal access to vast, linked repositories containing high qualit From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on August 23, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

Preparing Flash Movies for Breeze Presentations
Embedding Flash movies in Breeze: In my ay job we're at the very early stages of investigating the use of Breeze for conducting distance learning and teleconferencing. As a result I was trolling the Breeze news group for information this evening. I came across this TechNote discussing frame rates in Breeze and was a little surprised to see that the recommended rate was 30 fps. Since we're attempting to use Flash-based learning objects I wanted to post a book mark to this one in case we... From Brain Frieze on August 23, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Learning to Write with Classroom Blogs
Although I no longer teach in the K12 system, the idea of using blogs in the classroom has been a great interest to me and I am hoping that I can pass this idea to the preservice teachers in my... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on August 23, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Most Popular CONTENTIOUS Topics (Survey Results, Part 5)
(NOTE: This is part 5 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.) Question 5 of the 2004 CONTENTIOUS Reader Survey was: Currently, which of our main topics of coverage interest you most? Each of the 157 people who answered this question could From Contentious Weblog on August 23, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

NYT on Online Plagiarism
The New York Times has posted an interesting article on online plagiarism and paper sellers. Writing as someone who's taken several spins through the online mills myself, wondering how much my students might find in such places, I think Jenny Edbauer's recent blog post offers an interesting perspective on how rhet/comp practitioners spin From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 23, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

From Desktop To Collaboration: Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service
Microsoft is trying to make Office less a product and more like an online service From Kolabora.com on August 23, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Web Conferencing Report Finds Opportunity for Smaller Players
Market leaders may not continue to gain market share at the expense of smaller players From Kolabora.com on August 23, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..

Instructional Design 101
What you need to know about writing and implementing learning objectives - a crash course in curriculum.... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 23, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Learn Through Videos
This article gives tips on how to use videos as effective teaching or self-instruction tools. Sources for educational videos include the extensive Libraryvideo.com and the Educational Video Network.... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 23, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

Guidelines for new bloggers
Alan produces a nice set of guidelines for wikis and weblogs in the Ocotillo project, I especially like these: "Blog often. Our suggestion is that everytime you do something related to Ocotillo activity, whether a meeting, reading a paper, just day dreaming an idea, that you blog it down at the time. Your blog then becomes a record you can use to track progress, to search for tidbits, and the voice From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 23, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Three degrees to freedom
Here's the formal relationship: My wife's cousin knows the mother of Micah Garen, the American journalist who was being held hostage in Iraq until a couple of hours ago. Here's the same situation, this time expressed truthfully. My wife and her cousin are very close. They are the same age, grew up together, and live within a couple of miles. You know how it can be with cousins: they are the closest relatives we're allowed to dislike, but they can also be a friend so close that you share DNA. This weekend we're together here on Martha's Vineyard along with... From Joho the Blog on August 23, 2004 at 1:46 a.m..

Reading by porchlight declared illegal
AKMA writes a must-read post about the police preventing him from using the public library's free wifi while sitting outside the library: I closed the computer in order not to constitute a threat to established order, but engaged this peace officer in a discussion of the complexities of the topic. "I did notice several other open signals in the area -- am I allowed to connect to them?" "Maybe if you had permission it would be all right, but it's a new law, sir; 'theft of signal.' It would be like if you stole someone's cable TV connection." I responded,... From Joho the Blog on August 23, 2004 at 1:46 a.m..

Grokster, Intent, and Cert
C.E. Petit has some interesting commentary post-Grokster.  See his two posts. I don't quite understand Petit's distinguishing Napster and --> From A Copyfighter's Musings on August 23, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Speaking of Judge Posner (revised for silliness)
He's blogging over at Lessig's.  UPDATE and edited: Whoops, thought he had already started, but Tim Wu posted, "Who Cares About Innovation?" (thanks Peter).  Silly me.  This post was originally written with Judge Posner in mind.... Let's add a few more questions to [corre From A Copyfighter's Musings on August 23, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

P2P User Defended by EFF Chooses to Settle with RIAA
Almost a year ago, the EFF agreed to defend Ross Plank, who claimed that the RIAA had mistakenly identified him as an infringer.  According to this article (via Furdlog), Plank paid an $11,000 settlement "after lawyers found on his computer traces of hundreds of songs that had been deleted one day after he was sued."  Ouch for Mr. Plank, and perhaps From A Copyfighter's Musings on August 23, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

The Countdown Begins
School doesn't start for a couple of weeks yet, and there just doesn't seem to be any way I'm going to get everything done that I need to before the teachers and students come back. This has been such an intense summer that I'm actually looking forward to the start of regular classes. We've put in a brand new student information system and upgraded to Windows XP on 1,500 machines, trained or planned training for over 300 staff members and been tweaking and troubleshooting the whole way. On the side, I've been redesigning and renovating the school Website, which ge From weblogged News on August 23, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Blogs and blogging: advantages and disadvantages
Another excellent read from Gerry McGovern. This time he takes on blogs and blogging. Here's something that I'm going to be thinking about: "I have often found that the people who have most time to write have least to say, and the people who have most to say don't have enough time to write it. Thus, the real expertise within the organization lays hidden, as you get drowned in trivia." From elearningpost on August 23, 2004 at 1:44 a.m..

Hyperlocal Online Journalism Can Work
Students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism have been conducting a terrific experiment in what some are calling "hyperlocal citizens; media." As I reported in my book, they set up a site called "goskokie" ("news for the people, by the people") to cover the Chicago suburb of Skokie. Working with local people, they've created something valuable. Now they've written a paper with rec From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 23, 2004 at 1:44 a.m..

Back from holiday
Back from a week's holiday in our usual haunt, Pembrokeshire. The pick of the pics will be online soon. While I was away I had no mobile phone signal and no Internet. I didn't miss either as much as I expected, which was good because it's a sign I'm not totally dependent. Even the TV didn't have satellite or cable so we just had good old 5 From David Davies: Edtech on August 23, 2004 at 1:43 a.m..

Timing & Vested Rights
Doug Lichtman is an information law scholar at University of Chicago and one of the best of our generation (I recommend in particular his information platforms piece). He and I agree on many things, but disagree on some too. And when you boil things down, the differences come down to... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 1:42 a.m..

Wu Blog No More
This is the end of my stewardship of the Lessig Blog. It has been a pleasure to meet many of you and I thank you for reading the web-log in Larry's absence. For the rest of the year you can find me either on the 7th floor of Columbia Law... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 1:42 a.m..

The Changing of the Guard
Tim having vacated the premises early, I thought I should accelerate my entry, especially to correct his statement that "Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag" is my favorite movie. It was my favorite movie, but that was before I saw "The Matrix," which is my current favorite (though just the... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 1:42 a.m..

When Judicial Lips Are Sealed
Sad to say, there are two things that, as a judge, I can't talk about in public (and this is in public). One is pending cases, which means (in any court, not just mine) cases in which all possibilities of further proceedings, such as an appeal to the Supreme Court,... From Lessig Blog on August 23, 2004 at 1:42 a.m..