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Going Once, Going Twice ... Glamour, Greed and Fraud at Sotheby's and Christie's
Christopher Mason, author of The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Auction House Scandal, thinks billionaire Albert Taubman got a raw deal when he was sent to jail for price-fixing two years ago. But the book is more than a defense of the famed shopping center developer who became owner and chairman of Sotheby's in 1982. It is a detailed, gossipy account of the inner workings of the two firms known for auctioning the multi-million dollar paintings, diamonds, emeralds and other possessions of the rich and famous. While the art world this week buzzes about the Augu From
Knowledge@Wharton on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Guilt is Good: A New Approach to Environmental Problems
Fines, fees, pollution credit-swaps - policymakers have advocated many different approaches for sustaining the economy, often with mixed success. Now two Wharton professors Paul Kleindorfer and Ulku Oktem have concluded that re-framing environmental issues in such a way that individuals feel encouraged to take a personal initiative may be a better approach. They presented their research at the first UN Global Compact academic conference in Turkey. The second phase of the conference, titled "Bridging the Gap: Sustainable Environment," takes place in Philadelphia on Sept. 17 and 18. From
Knowledge@Wharton on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
United Airlines' Pension Problem: Who, Ultimately, Is Going to Pay?
United Airlines' proposal to halt payments to its pension funds suggests serious problems for the nation's pension-guarantee system, according to Wharton faculty and pension experts. The troubled airline, which declared bankruptcy in December 2002, said in July that it would stop funding its pension plans while it struggles to restructure under bankruptcy protection. The question is, how many other companies will renege on their pension obligations? And if the pension system collapses, will taxpayers foot the bill, just as they did for the S&L crisis in 1989? From
Knowledge@Wharton on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Venezuela's Fate Is Tied to Oil, and That's the Problem
The link between the August 15 presidential referendum in Venezuela and the state of the global energy markets is clear. Once incumbent Hugo Chavez demonstrated his ability to get re-elected, oil markets calmed down, at least temporarily, even though Chavez is unpopular among foreign economists and analysts. Uncertainty about the future of the Chavez regime had been one of several factors pushing world oil prices to record highs in recent months. But looking ahead, how solid is Chavez's support, and what would happen to this struggling economy if oil prices drop? From
Knowledge@Wharton on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
How Mutual Fund Managers Exploit Opportunities to Maximize Fees
According to the mutual fund industry's harshest critics, fund managers cannot properly serve investors when they must also serve their own bosses - the management companies' owners, public or private. Fund company owners make bigger profits when investors are charged high fees; investors get higher returns when fees are low. Yet industry defenders have long rejected the critics' charges, arguing, among other things, that the need to compete puts a natural brake on the impulse to maximize fees. Who's right? New research by Wharton management professor Nicolaj Siggelkow supp From
Knowledge@Wharton on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Lessons from Google's IPO
Google's initial public offering, on the surface, seems to be a success. The company did raise $1.67 billion by going public at $85 a share, and the stock went up 15% on the first day of trading. Experts at Wharton and elsewhere say, however, that it's too early to issue a verdict. They add that Google's IPO offers useful lessons to company executives and investors alike. From
Knowledge@Wharton on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Education Observatories, LEONIE
... Education-Obse... - prezinta rezultatele unor proiecte europene de eLearning, care au ca scop imbunatatirea intelegerii schimbarii introduse in educatie prin adoptarea si integrarea ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
EQO, EU Survey
Porn... de la trei dimensiuni in definirea calitatii in educatie, EQO - European Quality Observatory defineste un model/standard EQO. Org... de definire/evaluare a calitatii ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 25, 2004 at 6:12 p.m..
Preparing Professors for Online Teaching: How Long Does It Take?
I recently had some conversations with a small university that is starting up a new distance learning program. The university president is convinced that the two-hour intro course provided by eCollege would be enough for professors to get up to speed on designing and teaching online. This sounded pretty far… From
e-Literate on August 25, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
Doubts about OKI and Sakai
I almost appended this as a comment to
a previous post, but I decided it was important enough to elevate to the top level. I received this email from a person who wishes to remain anonymous but who has at least some first-hand knowledge of OKI: I didn’t want to… From
e-Literate on August 25, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
The ants are united
We're building a web OS::So says Marc Canter. And I think he understands what this is all about: The ants are united in their intentions. All this little grains of informational sand that we are pushing around do create a... From
Just Another Ant on August 25, 2004 at 6:11 p.m..
Returned from Vermont
Returned late last evening from our trip to northern Vermont: Champlain Islands and the Northeast Kingdom. Beautiful part of the Country! Vermonters have many things going for them that much of the rest of the Country could model, i.e.: heavy reliance on small business instead of Big Box stores, group conscience concerning protecting Vermont Nature, many food co-ops, and a overriding lack of commercialism found in so much of the Country.
¶< From Open Artifact on August 25, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Yesterday, I found out that Young Buck – a rapper in 50 Cent's G-Unit and the person who popularized the term "Ca$hville" – recently purchased a house for his mom in the same subdivision in which Emily and I are building our home. From
RHPT.com on August 25, 2004 at 6:10 p.m..
Microsoft Tests Broadband TV
"Microsoft has turned to a Swiss telecommunication operator for
the first commercial trial of its system that delivers television signals to consumers over a broadband telecommunications network, it announced this week. Beginning in September, Swisscom's Internet service provider subsidiary Bluewin will deliver 25 TV channels to set top boxes in 600 homes. During the four-month trial, testers will have access to five pay-TV channels and a video-on-demand service through the set top boxes, which also func From
unmediated on August 25, 2004 at 6:08 p.m..
The fog of cable
Alessandra Stanley in today's
NY Times: There is the fog of war and then there is the fog of cable. Over the last few weeks, 24-hour news networks have done little to find out what John Kerry did in Vietnam, but they have provided a different kind of public service: their examination of his war record in Vietnam illustrates once again just how perfunctory and confusing cable news coverage can From
unmediated on August 25, 2004 at 6:08 p.m..
Free Ads Help Hurricane Victims
Here's a novel way to use the Web to help hurricane victims. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is offering
free classifieds for winter residents who are willing to provide housing for Hurricane Charley victims. "Attention snowbirds! If you have a house, condominium, or apartment in Southwest Florida that you can offer for free to displaced Hurricane Charley victims, the Herald-Tribune will run a classified ad for you for free. Discounted rates may be available for those offering the From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 25, 2004 at 6:07 p.m..
Virtually there?
"Virtual teams" is practically an oxymoron: while they?re great in theory, virtual teams rarely work in practice. From
Kolabora.com on August 25, 2004 at 6:06 p.m..
Believe It or Not
Blogs are faulted for their fleeting nature. A great post comes along, is soon forced off the bottom of the page, and is lost forever in the dustbin of archives. Well, maybe. You could say the same for the New York Times. I know, I know... the Times is indexed. Thanks to Google, so are many popular blogs. And you don't have to pay three bucks to dredge up my old blog postings.This morning a reader wrote that she got a
404 when following a link from
e-L From Internet Time Blog on August 25, 2004 at 6:04 p.m..
Blogs are smokescreens as much as windows
Jill Walker:So someone wondered when I’d be moving to Paris to join my French boyfriend. Good grief. Must have been my
I love Paris post set him off, don’t you think? Blogging has hazards I hadn’t even considered. I mean, sure, I love imagining surroundings for bloggers I enjoy reading, but I also realise that that’s where the boundary to fiction lies. Yes, what I blog is (mostly) true, but there is so much that I don’t--> From
Mathemagenic on August 25, 2004 at 6:03 p.m..
The many flavors of OA
Carol Tenopir,
Open Access Alternatives, Library Journal, July 15, 2004. Tenopir argues that and pros and cons of OA depend on how OA is defined. Excerpt: "Journal publishing and payment models are in flux. Author payments, membership fees, institutional commitments to repository development, and self-archiving in e-print servers or other web sites coexist with lease agreements and traditional subscriptions. No one answer is a panacea, capable of solving library budget woes, access to high-quality literature, and collection develo From
Open Access News on August 25, 2004 at 6:01 p.m..
Summary of OA conference presentations
Jocelyn A. Rankin and Sandra G. Franklin,
Open Access Publishing, Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2004. Summarizing the NNLM/CDC/Emory
Open Access Publishing Conference (Atlanta, January 7, 2004). Excerpt: "The open access conference generated discussion about the scientific research dissemination process and the need to strengthen the connections between evidence-based research and healthcare action. With high quality, peer-reviewed scientific research becoming freel From
Open Access News on August 25, 2004 at 6:01 p.m..
Open source science?
Philip Ball,
The common good, news@nature.com, August 20, 2004. Ball considers open projects spearheaded by volunteers, such as the SETI@HOME distributed computing initiative and Project Gutenberg. Could the same approach be applied to scientific problems, scientific publishing and peer review? From
Open Access News on August 25, 2004 at 6:01 p.m..
The Web As A Distributed New Media Factory
Jason Kottke has a valuable view on Web services and the Web as a distributed platform to assemble, splice and publish aggregated content components from multiple re-sources. "...we need tools that create feeds and then let us combine them into... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 25, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Broadband in the bedroom
Hotels are at long last figuring out that broadband in the bedroom is a must-have, according to a report by In-Stat/MDR reported by The Center for Media Research. "Total properties deployed will grow from 5,207 in 2003 to 26,828 in 2008." Apparently, this comes after a three year slump which I assume was due to the hotel industry's assumption that wifi was just a fad and that Real Men Pull Cable. I forget who it was who posed this question, but it's a good 'un: Why are hotel pools free but many hotels charge for wifi? After all, pools are... From
Joho the Blog on August 25, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
DigitalID World coming up again
The third DigitalID World conference, is set for Oct. 25-28 in Denver. The first one was excellent and I hear the second one was also.... From
Joho the Blog on August 25, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Open Source Top Ten
The Letterman Show lets visitors to their Web site suggest Top Ten entries for a weekly topic. This week the topic is "Top Ten Ways New York Is Preparing For the Republican National Convention." Go make merry.... From
Joho the Blog on August 25, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Red-footed falcon - Photos!
As it happens, the place where I'm staying on Martha's Vineyard for a few days is about a half mile down a dirt road from the tiny airfield where the red-footed falcon is staying...the first and only sighting of this bird in North America, and it's drawing birders from all over. I went out today with my camera and got some startling photos of the little critter... Roosting in the distance Tiny against the cloudless sky Super enlargment of previous photo. Notice the wing markings. Beautiful! Soaring against the sun Coming in to roost. It's not shy of people! Newborn... From
Joho the Blog on August 25, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
The Weeks Prep for "The" Canyon
Completely irrelevant to technology... but I am in a 3 week physical ramp up in preparation for a Grand Canyon backpack, 3 days, 2 nights down the
Hermit Trail. I'm getting my 2-3 day a week
bike commute, some good weekend climbs, like
Camelback Mountain. The park service issues lots of dire warnings about people who have died on this trail. Sounds enticing ;-) From experience, they From
cogdogblog on August 25, 2004 at 5:58 p.m..
Blogvangelism
Gave an "Intro to Weblogging" presentation today to 15 elementary school teachers at a county tech center up the road, and my big surprise came when I set them up with
Blogger accounts to get them started. I really hadn't used Blogger for some time, but the changes are pretty significant. I especially like the turn comments on and off option... And the best thing about Blogger is how easy it is. We were 14 for 15 in terms of creating blogs in under five minutes, and that always helps to sell the concept. So, add a few more to the list. From
weblogged News on August 25, 2004 at 5:58 p.m..
Really Easybank
I thought that
Babelfish translations are bad but yesterday I learned that humans can do worse. Not by translating but by writing off from a webform. The Austrian
Easybank managed to make fun of paratexts used in conjunction with a money transfer. Must be on purpose otherwise I From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on August 25, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..
Semester-In-The-Air Invites Students of All Ages to Travel Around the World Making Their Own Movies, the Trip of a Lifetime
Students shoot "on-location" for 6 weeks while traveling to Ghana, South Africa, Thailand, Bali, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Costa Rica as part of a 12 week semester in the spring, summer or fall of 2005. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004] From
PR Web on August 25, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Patenting Research Tools
Doug Lichtman, a very able IP professor at the University of Chicago Law School, took sharp issue with my brief note on patent fair use, emailing me that my "quick reference to patent fair use...is problematic for the simple reason that, often, the key market for research tools is to... From
Lessig Blog on August 25, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Break Up the CIA (III)?
A further thought, prompted in part by the release yesterday of the Schlesinger panel's report of its investigation of the Abu Ghraib scandal. Under the present system of intelligence, the CIA, although it is not the largest intelligence agency, is the leading agency, and its director is understood to be... From
Lessig Blog on August 25, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Work at USU!
I want to remind everyone coming to the Instructional Technology Institute that the Department of Instructional Technology (where I work) is still looking for two Assistant Professors and an Associate Professor. THINK ABOUT IT! It rocks here, as you'll soon see... From
autounfocus on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
RSS Usability Guidelines
With RSS feeds being viewed directly in services such as
Bloglines it becomes increasingly important to attend to RSS feed usability. This article offers a few quick tips, mostly common sense, to make your RSS feed more user-friendly. Via
Soulsoup. By Helge Fahrnberger, helge.at, July 21, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Liberation Theology for the Lands of Diversity? Free Software in Asia
This resource is from last year, but is nonetheless an indispensible resource for people interested in the development of free and open source software in Asia. After an overview the author provides us with a detailed country by country survey. Did you know there are open source initiatives in Laos? Mongolia? Great stuff, drawn from first-hand knowledge. Via
Courous Blog. By Frederick Noronha, February, 2003 [
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
ADL Update - SCORM 2004 and CORDRA
This update on ADL's SCORM process is a must-view (even though it's a very large PDF of a slide presentation - get yourself a coffee while it's downloading). The thrust is that SCORM is mostly finished and widely accepted (38 LMS's have been certified SCORM compliant; Oracle and Microsoft have about a million tagged objects, Cisco 1.4 million). What is needed next is a system to search for and loacte these resources. ADL's next major initiative, therefore, is CORDRA - "Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture". By Dan Rehak, E-Learn From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Learning Activity Sequences, Content Design and Development
Overview presentation (PDF, slides) of the role of learning design and an introduction to LAMS - the Learning Activity Management System, developed at Macquarie University. I like the use of the recipe analogy to explain learning design: learning objects are like the ingredients in a recipe, but a recipe must also consists of a series of procedures for assembling them into a meal. Embedded in the presentation is a link to a much more detailed
slide show describing LAMS in detail with many scree From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Intellectual property rights management within The Le@rning Federation Initiative
These slides are unfortunately sketchy, but nonetheless provide a useful overview of the approach to digital rights management being taken by The Le@rning Federation. Within the context of seven characteristics of the Australian educational system (a long chain of use, a low understanding of rights by users, immature technology and standards) a system of upfront licensing (rather than an offer - acceptance model) with an emphasis on expression (rather than enforcement) is described. PDF, slides. By Nigel Ward and Nicky Pitkanen, -Learning Interoperability Seminar, August 17, 2004 [
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Digital Rights Expression and Management
Good overview presentation of digital rights management in learning with an emphasis on issues. The centrepiece of the presentation is the digital rights management ecosystem diagram produced by Geoff Collier, Harry Picariello, and Robby Robson for the Alt-i-Lab conference last month in San Francisco. As you study this diagram, note the unary role students play as consumers of content and the necessary intervention of teachers as distributors of content. What happens when students access content directly, and what happens when students become producers of content? By Jon Mason, E-Learning Int From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Managing Repositories - Response to DEST / JISC-CETIS White Paper
The best bit of this presentation comes after the conclusion, so don't simply shut the viewer when you hit the 'Questions?' slide. Good overall look at content repositiories and shared content, with an extended discussion of why peer-to-peer approaches cause more problems than they solve. "OAI Harvesting," writes the author. "Now that s common sense!" I agree. And I would extend OAI to include RSS. And I would lump federated systems (especially those exemplified by standard LCMS systems) in with the criticisms of peer to peer. By John Townsend, E-Learning Interoperability Semi From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Repository Management and Implementation
Overview presentation looking at the nature and role of content repositiories in education. Though the presentation consists mostly of (useful) questions, it seems to me that the core is in this observation: "Historically, educational resources have existed within an owner centered culture with professional groups or individuals administering key tasks of ownership, acquisition, management and access control. Digital assets are situated within a more user centered culture where ownership, management and access control may be distributed across institutional roles and communities." By Neil McL From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
MyInternet: K-12 View
Looks at technology adoption from the perspective of K-12 schools. Good analysis, with a valuable diagram showing that most schools purchase smallish systems that 'nobody got fired for buying' - a reflection of a relatively slow uptake, small technology budgets and limited time for implementation (and consequent dependence on providers to support technological needs). Tasmania is cited as the exception that proves this rule - I wish I had more details on that. The author concludes with a warning: "Avoid the largest players defining [what services to use] (what if every school decided From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Frameworks and Technical Architectures
This presentation provides a really nice look at what may be called 'common services' - network services that are shared by providers and form the back-end support for user interfaces such as portals or learning management systems. Interesting is the diagram showing standards development in these areas - it's amazing how many common services really need to be defined. Though I notice that 'chat' and 'AV conferencing' are listed as areas where standards exist - this is news to me (beyond things like H.321). If anyone can point me to these standards, I'd a From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Interoperability: Why does it matter?
"Why can't we do it?" asks Evan Arthur to kick off this
astonishing workshop on technical standards for learning education and training held last week in Melbourne. "Because it's just too damn hard." Kudos to the organizers for getting this up so quickly, while it's still fresh. In today's OLDaily I carry nine links from the workshop - yes, nine. That's a lot, and it makes for a pretty heavy edition, but this is the state of the art, this is where the industry is right now. By Evan Arthur, E-Lear From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Europeans Investigate Microsoft's Intentions
The European Commission ""wants to make sure Microsoft can't use the Windows monopoly to establish and control the market for DRM" and so "it will extend an antitrust investigation of a move by Microsoft and Time Warner to take control of technology that could help the music and movie industries fight piracy." Too bad nobody in North America is willing to look at this - or, for that matter, organizations like MPEG or IEEE. By Byron Acohido, USA Today, August 25, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
EdNA Online Passes 1.6M Milestone
This is good stuff and I don't want to sell the accomplishment short. But. "EdNA Online has passed the 1.6 million milestone for quality assured educational materials and training resources by adding ABC Online, PictureAustralia and the Culture and Recreation Portal to its searchable repositories." Ever since MERLOT signed its deal with WebCT I have been a bit bothered. After I questioned the agreement,
Tom wrote in to say, "Merlot, on the other hand is in competition with semantic web development an From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Cool School
Joe writes, "We (COOLSchool) post our courses on the web. The courses were created for grades 8 to 12 and some may be useful for first year college students as well. Have a look at the Chemistry 12 course." I had a browse through the system and while the display was sometimes a little off (it probably runs better on Explorer, and I don't think that the Java really helps) it was fast and worked as advertised -
try the search. There's a lot of freely available content here. I like the model a lot - it's very easy to From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
XHTML Frequently Answered Questions
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#ie Een nieuw W3C-document met Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) over HTML en XHTML: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq Het W3C consortium is het lichaam dat het World Wide Web beheert, en dus de standaards voor HTML en XHTML vaststelt. De vragen op deze lijst met Frequently Asked Questions gaan niet zozeer over 'wat moet ik doen om effect x in browser y te krijgen'. Het zijn meer vragen over de aard en de bedoelingen van deze standaards. From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 25, 2004 at 10:01 a.m..
Beta Release of Encoded Archival Context (EAC) for Name Authority Control.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-08-24-a.html De werkgroep Encoded Archival Context (EAC) heeft een beta-versie uitgebracht van de XML DTD's, schema's, tag library en andere documentatie. Uit de aankondiging: "Encoded Archival Context (EAC) is an ongoing initiative within the international archival community to design and implement a prototype standard based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) for encoding descriptions of record creators. The primary developers of this prototype standard are members of the international archival community. The description of individuals, families, From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 25, 2004 at 10:01 a.m..
URLinfo la FaganFinder
Michael Fagan - weblog Puzzlepieces - a adaugat in urma cu doua zile la FaganFinder un nou tool URLinfo, care permite cautarea referintelor unui site, afisarea PageRank, pagini similare, ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on August 25, 2004 at 10:01 a.m..
MemeStreams Update
Tom Cross of MemeStreams contacted me to let me know that an API is in the works (though it may take them a while to get it done due to workload and bandwidth issues). If you have any use cases that might help the MeamStream folks think through their design,… From
e-Literate on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
Maricopa Learning Exchange Search Plugin
My first attempt at a search plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. Clicking the link below should add a search engine for Maricopa Learning Exchange. More learning object repositories to follow. Add to Mozilla/Firefox searchbar: Maricopa Learning Exchange From
Big IDEA on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
MERLOT Search Plugin
OK, this is easier than I thought :). Add to Mozilla/Firefox searchbar: MERLOT From
Big IDEA on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
Searching for answers on the Web
CNN.com - Searching for answers on the Web Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen talks to CNN's Kristie Lu Stout about what makes a good Web site stand out, and what he believes is the future of the Internet. Lu Stout: What is the biggest mistake in Web design right now? Nielsen: The biggest mistake is really not getting to the point, not telling people what they can do on the Web sites, what it is about (and) smothering the information in hypertalk, in slogans, in From
soulsoup on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs
What Are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs? from Common Craft A comparative study of Blogs and Message Boards in online communities, with a nice comparison chart. ..weblogs and message boards *are* different -- different enough to happily exist together in the same online community web site. My conclusion is that online communities will use the two resources to fill two different roles. Their ability to fill independent niches will make the subtle differences between them make From
soulsoup on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
Constructive Criticism and Some Usability Enhancement
Helge Fahrnberger posted a nice article on
RSS usability guidelines with a list of common feed publishing errors. All of the mistakes mentioned are quite basic but fundamental obstacle for smooth user experience. Unfortunately SoulSoup is mentioned there as an example of 'sites with screwed up RSS' (He never said that! His criticism was absolutely constructive.). quotations not clearly marked as such it has become generally accepted to clearly mark literal excerpts from ext From
soulsoup on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
FeedDemon and Technorati
From Nick Bradbury's Blog -
Get Technorati links for any FeedDemon news item Want to view the
Technorati links for any news item in FeedDemon? Try this:
Select Tools > Keyboard ShortcutsScroll down the list of commands and find the "Technorati Link Cosmos" commandAssign it the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+T and press OKNow that the shortcut has been assigned, you can view the Technorati links for any news From soulsoup on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
Digital preservation: Cliff Lynch on the state of the art
In a recent interview, CNI director Cliff Lynch offers an overview of issues in digital preservation. The text covers a series of issues, ranging from the cultures of different campus sectors, the growth in personal media, the use of canonicalization,... From
MANE IT Network on August 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
15-inch PowerBook G4 Recall
Apple Recalls 15" Powerbooks: Oops. They might catch on fire. But not wanting to be left out of possible marketing opportunities, Apple also announced a new iCasket product and an iDie web service. Early reports on the two new offering sreport them to be "incredibly stylish and cutting edge". iCasket and the iDie service are only available for Mac users. From
Brain Frieze on August 25, 2004 at 9:58 a.m..
Nurturing Innovation
Tim Wu, near the end of his stint as guest-blogger at Larry Lessig's site, offered a typically thoughful entry, entitled "
Who Cares About Innovation?". The gist was that although "innovation" is the mantra of anti-regulation technologists, it may not be clear to the average person what good innovation does. Here's a sampleConsider a question that professor Brett Fischman asks his class about the internet, the central monument for innovationists: "What actually makes the Internet valuable to societ From
unmediated on August 25, 2004 at 9:57 a.m..
Video collage: a storytelling breakthrough?
>I hadn't heard of "revogging" until today. If vogs, or vlogs, are video blogs, revogging is the art of using other people's videoblogs and making something new. Shannon Noble, a "Flame artist" from LA, has created a few. His
best one, which went up just last week, borrowed unrelated video snippets from three video blog From
unmediated on August 25, 2004 at 9:57 a.m..
ipod platform II
Speaking of the "Ipod platform", a lot could be done along lines of linking text/audio/psychogeography - like say an ipod based walking tour of public bathrooms. A good example of this can be seen/downloaded in the London based ppod: "pPod combines text, spoken word audio, and music to deliver a guide to London's public loos HYPHEN truly a convenience for iPod users on the move! Entertaining audio reviews and even accompanying sound tracks such as Handel's 'Water Music' and 'Cosmic Winds' will help users to locate their nearest (and loveliest!) loos From
unmediated on August 25, 2004 at 9:57 a.m..
Pimping yourself isn't easy
V has a fairly nice job. Problem is, it doesn't pay to well. He was promised a raise if he received a good quarterly performance review. His boss hasn't given him a quarterly performance review in one and a half years. Well, until two weeks ago. He good a highly favourable rating. As thanks, they bumped up his bonus limit. On Saturday, I spent most of the afternoon helping V out with his resume. Time to look for greener pastures. Here's some tips I have: Make your name in a bold, big font. Place your name as a header on the second page, too. This is your time to shine, baby. Pla From
silentblue | Quantified on August 25, 2004 at 9:57 a.m..
When the Weather Becomes a Game
British Broadcasting Corporation weather forecast presenters will be using three-dimensional online game technologies to give TV viewers closer looks at real-time precipitation and cloud covers. "We are trying to take weather data and generate weather graphics on a 3D map that actually looks like the weather,"
said Colin Tregear, project director at the BBC's Weather Centre. The BBC's old weather graphics system took three to four hours to prepare each 1-minute 30-second forecast on flat map displays that used wea From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 25, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
E&P Online Editor Moves On
Carl Sullivan, longtime editor of
EditorandPublisher.com, is moving on to become an associate editor at
Newsweek.com. Under his leadership, the website of Editor & Publisher magazine has grown significantly; it drew a record 2.3 million (audited) page-views in May and July. Sullivan's new job is as the No. 3 person at Newsweek.com, assigning and editing stories, managing the look of the site, and handling special projects such as newsletters and special editorial features. "I've ha From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 25, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
Olympic Searchers Find Their Favs
What are the names filtering into the general consciousness from the Athens Summer Olympic Games? One barometer is the
Lycos 50, where the Games are, for the time being, No. 2 overall, trailing only the latest reality show superstar, Latin soap opera star and model Michelle Vieth. (Some would say that given the lack of live coverage of the Games in the US, they are little more than a packaged sports reality show themselves -- but that's another story.) American Olympic athletes being accessed online include swimmer Amanda Beard at No. 12, hi From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 25, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
Taking a Very Local Angle on Weblogs
Most newspapers, in the United States at least, are fundamentally local, and many publishers will tell you that they believe the paper should be at the center of community life. But how many newspapers are aggregating local weblogs on their websites? Not weblogs written by staffers, but regular local people who are writing local observations about local life.Nature abhors a vacuum, and bloggers naturally are taking things into their own hands. In the big city,
nyc bloggers organizes more than 3,500 locally written weblogs
-- From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 25, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
Blogging: Tipping the Scales of Society
The less you are and the less you express your life, the more you have and the greater is your alienated life. -
Karl Marx In
To Have or To Be?,
Fromm defines two different human modes of existence: having and being. In the having mode, life is seen as a substance and the self is seen as a separate, permanent entity. The result is a mindset that equates the pursuit of happiness and self-affirmati From
apcampbell News on August 25, 2004 at 9:55 a.m..
Are We Raving Yet?
Rave wasn't just about electronic music, but about an alternative to a top-down music industry, economy, and social environment. Rave is an effort to generate a collective experience that still respects individual autonomy. Not an easy task. -
Douglass Rushkoff via
Stephen's Web Sounds like what we're trying to do with personal webpublishing...bottom up, decentralized, grassroots, organic expression. From
apcampbell News on August 25, 2004 at 9:55 a.m..
Miracles abound
My new ThinkPad should arrive tomorrow; I'm like a kid in a candy store. I've lost track of how many computers I've owned -- an early Apple ][, a original disk-less IBM-PC, several more IBM PCs (often with exotic storage media), a Toshiba 1000, a Gateway Handbook, a Dell portable, a Compaq luggable, three or four Gateway desktops, two SONY Vaio laptops, a SONY Vaio desktop, and two ThinkPads. Still, getting a new machine is as exciting as hopping into a new car. The way prices are From
Internet Time Blog on August 25, 2004 at 9:54 a.m..
Cerveza en botellas de alumnio
Esta semana la empresa estadounidense Pittsburgh Brewing Companny comienza a distribuir cerveza en botellas de alumnio: Beer in Aluminum Bottles on the Way. En España se lanzó hace algunos meses la Estrella Damm Fórum Barcelona 2004 en envase monoblok de... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 25, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
Meeting Survival
For the past two days, we've had a whirlwind of faculty meetings and workshops in preparation for the school year, which kicks off when classes begin next Monday. I noticed that these "returning" ceremonies often begin with a great deal of adrenaline and excitement about bonding with colleagues who have... From
PEDABLOGUE on August 25, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
E-Learning an deutschen Hochschulen - Trends 2004
In der Pressemitteilung zu dieser Studie heisst es: "Nur fünfzehn Prozent der Hochschulen setzen konsequent auf E-Learning." Und an anderer Stelle wird der Geschäftsführer des Auftraggebers, das Multimediakontor in Hamburg, zitiert: "Die Studie zeigt, dass viele Hochschulen trotz intensiver Förderung... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 25, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
Doctors rely on online medical info
Wendy Lee,
After shakeout, medical websites find new health, Boston Globe, August 23, 2004. Excerpt: "In fact, 64 percent of all US practicing physicians use online technologies for pharmaceutical-related products and services, according to a study released last week from New York market information firm Manhattan Research. The majority of these physicians -- 87 percent -- believe the Internet is a critical resource on information for prescription drugs and treatment options, wit From
Open Access News on August 25, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
The Journal of Educators Online
Hey cool, nice new journal
via JH,
The Journal of Educators Online: "The Journal of Educators Online (JEO) is an online, double-blind, refereed journal by and for instructors, administrators, policy-makers, staff, students, and those interested in the development, delivery, and management of online courses in the Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, Medicine, and Sciences." [
JEO] They've got a search facility which is gr From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 25, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..
Slick wiki
Very very slick. Be sure to try it out. (Thanks to Marc for the link.)... From
Joho the Blog on August 25, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..
It's not just about searching -- it's about findability
Martin White has written an article on findability and searching. To quote: It would seem that the search engine industry would have a vested interest in promoting the effective use of search technologies within the context of findability, but I... From
Column Two on August 25, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..
Four practices for great performance
Lauren Keller Johnson has written an article on employee performance, from a knowledge management perspective. She identifies four key practices: Involve employees Focus on achievability Build measures that help meet goals Tap into employees' deepest motivations [Thanks to elearningpost.]... From
Column Two on August 25, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..
Six great ways to ruin a brainstorming session
Paul Sloane has written an article on how to ruin a brainstorming session. To quote: The brainstorming session is the most popular group creativity exercise in business. It is quick, easy and it works. But many organizations have become frustrated... From
Column Two on August 25, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..
What are the differences between message boards and weblogs?
Lee LeFever has written about the differences between message boards and weblogs. To quote: First, I believe that weblogs and message boards *are* different -- different enough to happily exist together in the same online community web site. My conclusion... From
Column Two on August 25, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..
What Are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?
Nice table on the differences between
message boards and blogs. "Perhaps the most compelling difference in weblogs and message boards is the locus of control. Weblogs are individual or small group resources- the control of content and value is driven by a single person or small group. Message Boards are group resources- the control of content and value is shared equally across all users." From
elearningpost on August 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..
Sorting through Net noise
Interesting read on
analyzing public disclosure on the Web and looking for patterns that can be leveraged. "In their study, Admati and Pfleiderer develop an economic model to address what happens when consumers, for whatever reason, want to share information with fellow consumers and they have a simple avenue to transmit their opinions. Will information be transmitted in the most efficient way when forces are allowed to work unhindered? And will results be distorted if it costs something to send th From
elearningpost on August 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..
Outsourced Training Begins to Find its Niche
This article analyzes the current and emerging trends in
outsourcing the training function. Something to watch out for: outsourcing of business processes: "Yet interest is growing in a third category of training outsourcing: the selective outsourcing of multiple learning tasks. Such engagements may include tactical management of some portion of learning but not all of the business processes included in an organization's training operations. For example, a company may outsource its content development and the From
elearningpost on August 25, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..
The New American Idol
Politics as usual? Hasta la vista, baby. The radical center has flexed its muscle in California, short-circuiting the parties and going directly to the people. Now it could sweep the nation. By Jill Stewart from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Music Services Score an A-Plus
More colleges and universities are embracing music services for their students in an effort to cut down on peer-to-peer traffic that clogs school networks and puts students at risk for lawsuits. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Master of the Nerdiverse
Craig Newmark could become a dot-org millionaire. He'd rather help you find a cheap sublet, a cool job and maybe even a date. By Josh McHugh from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Attacking the Fourth Estate
A series of subpoenas issued to reporters as part of the Justice Department's investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's identity seems more like a tactic of intimidation than legitimate information gathering. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Service Mixes Ads in Blog Chatter
A new service wants to match up popular bloggers with marketers to create the online equivalent of magazine 'advertorials.' Some worry it would bring blogs' integrity into question. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Poll: Voters Want Paper Trail
Almost three-quarters of likely voters think electronic voting systems should produce a paper record the voter can verify, according to a new poll. But that's not likely to happen for many of them in November. By Laila Weir. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
JibJab Is Free for You and Me
Turns out that Ludlow Music, which claims to own the copyright on a classic Woody Gutherie song, may not actually own it after all. Which means JibJab, a scrappy web animation site, gets to use 'This Land Is Your Land' to its heart's content. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Copyright Bill Needs Big Changes
Technology companies and public-interest groups want to narrow the scope of the controversial Induce Act to focus on those who engage in 'mass, indiscriminate infringing conduct.' By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Reactors Trim Radioactive Waste
Researchers at a Department of Energy lab are developing fuel rods that could halve the amount of nuclear waste produced. That's good news for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where 40 years' worth of radioactive material is slated to be stored. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Indian Kids Finally Get TO Make Their Own Movies At The Blue Mango Movie Makers Workshop
Blue Mango Young Moviemakers Workshop is a creative movie making workshop for children between 7-17yrs of age.Kids will be taught the basics of filmmaking and shall get to make their own movies. They will also be part of the first 3D film made by kids.The Workshop has tied up with 3 international youth film festivals and the best films will be sent as entries to these festivals. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004] From
PR Web on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Japanese Language Manga Course
Japanese Language Center (JLC) will be providing a new and unique Group Japanese Language course in September 2004. Please check out "Manga Course". [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004] From
PR Web on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Real Leaders...Real Results
The mission of the Center for Leadership Transformation Inc. is to enable client organizations to establish and execute leadership development programs that produce measurable, sustainable business results on a global scale. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004] From
PR Web on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Mom Writer Offers Ways to Beat the Back-to-School Blues for Toddlers
As parents ready their children for back-to-school, their younger, non-school age siblings often feel left behind. Parenting author Christine Louise Hohlbaum talks with NPR's The Parent's Journal to tell parents how to start a toddler playgroup to ease the transition from home to school. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004] From
PR Web on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Integrity: Do You Have It?
This presents information compiled in a book titled Integrity: Do You Have It? It identifies the process that created one set of criteria to evaluate segments of society and/or us. It provides one reader's comments on the content of the book and provides sample subjects included in the book. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004] From
PR Web on August 25, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Break Up the CIA (II)?
Many excellent comments on my posting. I can't respond to all of them, but I do want to respond to two of them. One commenter said (I'm paraphrasing): why would breaking up the CIA be a big deal? It accounts for only 12 percent of the national intelligence budget. What... From
Lessig Blog on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
More on Fair Use, with a Note on Patents
Many great comments on my fair use posts; can't discuss them all, but let me make a few points in response: With regard to the Patry-Posner proposal for creating a new fair-use defense for unauthorized copying of old copyrighted workers if the copier was unable with reasonable effort to discover... From
Lessig Blog on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
Fair Use and Misuse
Here is a very worrisome problem concerning fair use. It has to do with a dichotomy long noted by legal thinkers between the law on the books and the law in action. They often diverge. And fair use is an example of this divergence. As I said in an earlier... From
Lessig Blog on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
ASCAP Shakes Down Burning Man for Music Royalties
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Officials from ASCAP today indicated they intend to pursue music royalties from the organizers of Burning Man, an artist's gathering and celebration held over the Labor Day holiday near Reno, NV. The unconventional event, held annually since 1986, has never paid fees for any of the music played at the event, says ASCAP. "We intend to pursue all available avenues to get this issue resolved," said Tony Wilcox, ASCAP spokesperson. From
kuro5hin.org on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
Teacher Magazine Launched by ACER
Teacher, a new national magazine for the education sector, was launched by ACER on 6 August following ACER's acquisition of Educare in May. Teacher, although Australia's newest professional magazine for teachers and school leaders, has been in the sector for seventeen years, starting life as Educare News . Speaking at the launch, ACER chief executive Professor Geoff Masters said backing by ACER means all state, Catholic and independent schools now have access to a broad-ranging national magazine that addresses their professional needs.ACER, August 2004 From
EdNA Online on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
Audit of Science Skills in Australia
The Australian Government Science Minister Peter McGauran announced the skills audit during the 22nd International Entomology Congress in Brisbane. 'The skills audit will be undertaken by the Australian Government in collaboration with the CSIRO, universities and industry groups to determine the extent to which Australian industry and research bodies are meeting the needs of graduates in science, technology and engineering,' Minister McGauran said.DEST Media release, 16 August 2004 From
EdNA Online on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
NET*Working 2004 - Inclusion and Inspiration, 8-19 November, Online
Do you want to learn about using technology to deliver education and training but haven't got time to attend a physical conference? Then NET*Working 2004 is the conference for you. It offers the best of both worlds - it's an online conference also featuring local face-to-face events in all States and Territories. NET*Working 2004 is the premier national conference specifically designed to highlight how technology can be used to deliver education and training flexibly. From
EdNA Online on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
SharePoint Links Updated
Microsoft's
Sharepoint is an application that helps users "easily create, manage, and build their own collaborative Web sites and make them available throughout the organization." It seems like a natural environment for syndication technologies, and RSS has come to Sharepoint, both in the form of
feed generators (
More) and
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
There's AdSense in My Blog!
The message from Blogger (aka Google): "We are going to start paying bloggers. Soon you will be blogging for dollars." The move comes only a few days after Google removed the advertising bar from Blogger blogs (to the cheers of bloggers everywhere). They write, "We were making money from those ads but you weren't getting any of it." The AdSense program is not restricted to blogs served by Blogger; any blog is eligible. But don't expect any ads here anytime soon. NRC probably has some squiffy rules about it. And although I get a fair amount of web traffic, most readers use the email s From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 9:44 a.m..
The Semantic Web Meets The Blogosphere
Let's begin with the end on this one, a very Kantian thought: "each animal in cyberspace is a placeholder for a human being with a certain unique sphere of interests. This way, no node in the network is ever redundant or obsolete: everybody contributes, and there is no dead weight." This is right, and deeply right. Now how does this come to be? "Blogs make the perfect basic units for a human-driven semantic web (just like neurons are the perfect basic units for a brain). Of course, this kind of a semantic web is an emergent behaviour rather than an intentional construct (anthill vs. bridg From
OLDaily on August 25, 2004 at 9:43 a.m..