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Our house, in the middle of the park
First Excursion: The Humber Bay Pedestrian Bridge. I actually knew the engineer who built it. There are three types of animals hidden on the bridge structure. We took a stroll down the Western Beaches, and it amazes me how beautiful our neighbourhood is. Virtually all the lakeside all the way to Ontario Place is striped with trails amid parkland and beaches. And ice cream stands, which Silverlotus approves of. Finished off the invigorating walk with a dinner at Yumi on Bloor West. It's sugarpops to have a good Japanese restaurant close by, even if it's a bit on the pricey side. Secon From
silentblue | Quantified on August 26, 2004 at 10:57 p.m..
Review of Project Euclid
Gerry McKiernan,
Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals, The Charleston Advisor, July 2004. Excerpt: "By providing access to more than 30 significant mathematical and statistics journals within a common framework, Project Euclid has clearly realized its primary goal of addressing 'the unique needs of independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, professional societies, and academic libraries'. Through its range of access and distribution plans (i.e From
Open Access News on August 26, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..
The problem with collaborative learning
I like
what Evan has to say about collaborative learning; that in many 'real world' contexts collaboration is not encouraged and a reliance on collaboration can be a hindrance. It's a fair comment, and an experience I think most of us will have had. It's also a bit sad. But isn't this where education has a real opportunity to impact on real life... or are we blindly, collaboratively, heading down the wrong path? From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 26, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
Quicksub
You've gotta love this,
quicksub [via
Anol via
Alan] is a most excellent bit of script that allows you to pop a whole host of auto subscription functions onto your orange button... I do wonder to what extent these 'quick subscribe' buttons are actually used (and if someones rolling over my xml button aren't they already going to subscribe?) but its a definite maybe for the redesign. From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on August 26, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
Be Funny Or You're Fired
I was traveling on Southwest Airlines a couple of days ago. It was kind of weird. Seemingly, they have implemented a new corporate policy. From
kuro5hin.org on August 26, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
2004 Minister's Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Literacy and Numeracy
Five exceptional individuals were honoured this morning at the prestigious 2004 Minister's Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Improving Literacy and/or Numeracy. Each of these 'literacy and numeracy champions' has demonstrated a passionate commitment and a major contribution to the development of literacy and or numeracy in their community and will receive $10,000 to further enhance the important work they are undertaking.DEST Media release, 25 August 2004 From
EdNA Online on August 26, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
$3 Million for New Reading Strategy to Help Indigenous Australians
The Australian Government will provide $3 million towards an innovative pilot project to reduce the literacy and numeracy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Yachad Accelerated Learning Project is modelled on Israeli pioneer programmes that combat patterns of educational disadvantage through accelerated learning, teacher training and community involvement, rather than conventional remedial approaches.DEST Media release, 26 August 2004 From
EdNA Online on August 26, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
BannerReport.com - The Internet Advertising Resource Guide
http://www.bannerreport.com/ Een uiting van 'what might be called a mildly unnatural preoccupation with banner ads' (Wired)? BannerReport.com herbergt een enorme verzameling banneradvertenties. De advertenties die de meeste van ons als ergerlijk nevenverschijnsel van het Internet zien, verheven tot een kunstvorm! Het moet gezegd, ook in reclame bestaat er erg en erger. Doorzoekbaar op afmeting, keyword en type. From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 26, 2004 at 7:21 p.m..
Thursday, August 26, 2004
As work has turned into a big farce (more on that later), I spent some time browsing through various blogs this afternoon and found this article, entitled "An Open Letter to the Religious Right – Listen to What Our Country has Become". I love the quote from Mahatma Gandhi at the end. From
RHPT.com on August 26, 2004 at 7:19 p.m..
Toyota reports a silicon carbide breakthrough
Researchers at Toyota have created
near perfect crystals of silicon carbide. The new matrial may eventually replace traditional silicon in semiconductors.Takatori grows the silicon carbide crystals in several different stages. At each stage, further growth is only allowed on the cleanest face of the crystal. Hot silicon carbide vapour condenses on the crystal's flat face and defects are gradually eliminated as the crystals grow up to seven centimetres across. Takatori's crystals contain less than 1% From
unmediated on August 26, 2004 at 7:17 p.m..
This Week's Grab Bag
Once again, here's a smattering of interesting items which have caught my attention lately. TOP OF THE LIST:
The ASTD E-Learning Handbook, edited by Allison Rossett. My Dad just got me this book for my birthday. (See,
my wish list came in handy!) It's fabulous, I've been devouring it in spare moments. I've read several books on e-learning, mostly how-to and theory. This book offers From
Contentious Weblog on August 26, 2004 at 7:17 p.m..
Chronic News Stories
Every metropolitan area has half a dozen news stories that just won't go away: the perennial fight over a new stadium plan, light rail transit, urban sprawl, and so forth. And every website has an opportunity to place the chronically incremental reporting on those issues into a meaningful context by building permanent resource centers. Now Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post has put together
a piece that explains exactly how to do it, with FAQs, primers, and timelines. Froomkin calls beat reporters "news sit From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 26, 2004 at 7:16 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 27
Today's highlights: Snapperfish SnapperMail 2.0; OZ and T-Mobile USA; Snapperfish Limited released Version 2.0 of SnapperMail, its IMAP4 email client for Palm OS devices. Available in four editions: Lite (single combined inbox), Standard (with automatic mail retrieval), Premier (with SSL... From
Kolabora.com on August 26, 2004 at 7:16 p.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 26, 2004 at 7:15 p.m..
HistoryAgent - yet another del.icio.us clone
Nice. I love the screenshot capability and the FireFox extension but I won't be using it until it develops critical mass like del.icio.us has! From
historyAgent: QUOTEHistory Agent is a poweruser's tool to rapidly log, catalog and search websites from any computer, anywhere. There is nothing to install for basic usage and no fee. Additionally history agent provides XML, OPML, Atom, RSS and javascript feeds for recent history and bookmark folders as a service for bloggers and website owners.--> From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on August 26, 2004 at 7:14 p.m..
Put E-Learning Standards to Work For Customers
Der Autor gibt noch einmal einen kurzen Überblick über die laufende Diskussion und zieht Parallelen zu anderen technischen Entwicklungen. Aber sein abschließender Appell irritiert mich etwas: "And for the sake of customers, our industry must press on for one or... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 26, 2004 at 7:12 p.m..
Strategie für Lebenslanges Lernen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Eine erste Zusammenfassung gab es schon im Juli, jetzt liegt das vollständige Strategiepapier der Bund-Länder-Kommission vor. Keine konkreten Forderungen oder Handlungsempfehlungen, um der sensiblen föderalen Struktur unseres Gemeinwesens gerecht zu werden, aber eine systematische Darstellung mit Ergebnissen einer Umfrage zum... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 26, 2004 at 7:12 p.m..
Recap of DASER summit
Two articles in the current Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology recap the Digital Archives for Science and Engineering Resources (DASER) Summit which was held in Cambridge, Mass., in November 2003. Michael Leach gives an overview of each of the sessions and Beatrice R. Pulliam focuses on Clifford Lynch's keynote speech in which he asked his audience to consider "what needs to be in place for digitized content in the way of management, dissemination, continuity and preservation." (Sourc From
Corante: Social Software on August 26, 2004 at 7:10 p.m..
Usability Tips For RSS Newsfeeds
While RSS continues to escalate in popularity as a viable distribution medium for content, issues about how to make newsfeeds more accessible and easy to use are just now emerging. It must be said, that being the application of RSS... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 26, 2004 at 7:09 p.m..
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross dies
I interviewed Dr. Kübler-Ross some time in the mid 1970s for an article for Maclean's in Canada. At the time, she had gone beyond her "five stages of dying" meme and was fully into proving that there's life after death by documenting weird coincidences and poorly substantiated tales. I was disappointed because, although I am agnostic about life after death, her methodology was anecdotal and seemed to me to be aiming at supporting a position she merely wanted to believe. And yet, she did something remarkable. Deeply impressed by her work helping Nazi refugees and by a visit to From
Joho the Blog on August 26, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..
Edu Wikis in the News
Rob Lucas, a sixth-grade teacher in Rocky Mount, NC has started a
wiki for teachers to share lesson plans, files and experiences. It's a great model for how I'd like to present a wiki for articulation in my district, but heck, maybe I'll just point everyone to Rob's space. His wiki got a mention in a
Christian Science Monitor article, and while I'm not positive, it might just be the first mention of a K-12 wi From
weblogged News on August 26, 2004 at 7:08 p.m..
SOAP Performance: Three W3C Candidate Recommendations Published
2004-08-26: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three technical reports to Candidate Recommendations, offering an optimal way to transfer binary data like images in Web services messages. Produced by the XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment such as the Web. Comments are welcome through 15 September. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on August 26, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..
Windows XP Service Pack Security: Uh Oh
PC Magazine: Windows XP SP2 Has a Dangerous Hole. Windows XP Service Pack 2 promises to raise the security bar for the sometimes beleaguered operating system. Unfortunately, one of the new features could be spoofed so that it reports misleading information about system security, or worse, lets a malicious program watch for an opportunity to do damage without being detected. Robert Scoble gave me a hard time when I advised peo From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 26, 2004 at 7:07 p.m..
Digital Fortress
...is the name of a 1998 novel by Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code. Digital Fortress is a cyberthriller about the National Security Agency (NSA), which monitors and intercepts electronic communications worldwide. In the book as in real life, the agency is concerned with encryption technologies that... From
Lessig Blog on August 26, 2004 at 7:05 p.m..
Back to "The Matrix" (II)
Good comments, e.g., by "yozhik" and by Prof. Castronova, the economist of the virtual world phenomenon; and for a rich discussion of the laws that govern or should govern virtual worlds, see Balkin. Also a paper by Lastowka and Hunter.... From
Lessig Blog on August 26, 2004 at 7:05 p.m..
Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
This email to WWWEDU by Claude Almansi on the RIAA's school campaign is worth quoting at length. "I checked the BSA material, for kids part, that is linked to in
the article, and which ALA is reacting to. Couldn't play the games because I was invited to download a plug-in and my mom told me beware of unknown plug-ins. so I tried
the tools, gave up on the Anti-Piracy Public Service Announcements (with
--> From OLDaily on August 26, 2004 at 7:04 p.m..
Change Your Mind?
Dave Pollard looks at the implications of a site called
Change This. The idea of Change This is to produce glossy PDF 'manifestos' which are supposed to be passed, meme-link, but without comment (how can you comment on a PDF?), through the web. The manifesto, argues Pollard, is exactly the wrong way to go about changing minds. "On any important issue it will not change anyone's mind. People make up their own minds by reading sources they trust. They don't want to change their minds." Some good discussion From
OLDaily on August 26, 2004 at 7:04 p.m..
Poorer Students Sought
According to this article, colleges and universities are courting poorer students in order to be more accessible. But with statistics like these - "More than 80 percent of students from families earning more than $88,675 annually go to college, compared with less than 60 percent of those whose families earn less than $35,066, according to the College Board" - it's hard to believe. And frankly, I don't believe it. As Anthony Carnevale says, "The dumbest rich kids go to college more than the smartest poor kids do." Via
Universit From OLDaily on August 26, 2004 at 7:04 p.m..
A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing
Carol Twigg tears into Bill Massy's and Bob Zemsky's recent
Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to e-learning and Why, which concluded that e-learning was, overall, a failure. She doesn't like the methodology, she doesn't like the sample, she doesn't like the definitions. These criticisms are valid, but what Twigg doesn't do, unfortunately, is address the authors' conclusion. The one study she cites to support her position, from the
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Permanent Access to the Records of Science Conference
http://www.kb.nl/euconference/ Ter gelegenheid van het Nederlandse EU-voorzitterschap organiseert de Koninklijke Bibliotheek een conferentie rond het thema ‘permanente toegankelijkheid van elektronische wetenschappelijke publicaties’. Voor de Koninklijke Bibliotheek is het lange-termijn behoud van wetenschappelijk materiaal een speerpunt van het beleid. Uit de aankondigingstekst: "Wetenschappelijke publicaties verschijnen steeds vaker in elektronische vorm. De houdbaarheid van digitale informatie is echter beperkt. Software en hardware verouderen snel, waardoor de opgeslagen informatie From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on August 26, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..
Workplace Discontent: The Spread of Bullying
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety has published Workplace bullying harms both employees and employers - a well-written article that adds to the growing amount of coverage of anger and aggression in our world under the banner of... From
Experience Designer Network on August 26, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..
Outsource Yourself
Outsource your job to earn more! about a year ago i hired a developer in india to do my job. i pay him $12,000 out of the $67,000 i get. he's happy to have the work. i'm happy that i have to work only 90 minutes a day just supervising the code. my employer thinks i'm telecommuting. now i'm considering getting a second job and doing the same thing. Via:
Helge Fahrnberger From
soulsoup on August 26, 2004 at 2:33 p.m..
Dealing With Creative Conflict Within a Team
Dealing With Creative Conflict Within a Team from Asterisk Also applicable to the learning experience design. Summary: From the trenches advice on how to deal with creative conflict within a team. Working with on a team of creatives can be a real challenge. It’s often hard to take a step back and realize that someone else’s aesthetic taste might just be different instead of worse. I see designs all the time that have rec From
soulsoup on August 26, 2004 at 2:33 p.m..
Jay's Believe It or Not!
Quotable quotes from an
'old' article by Jay Cross - The “e” of eLearning is not the important thing. Neither is the “learning.” What’s important is doing. It’s like the tree that falls in the forest not making a sound (because no one hears it.) If somebody learns something but their behavior doesn’t change, they didn’t really learn anything. From
soulsoup on August 26, 2004 at 2:33 p.m..
The Joy of Craftsmanship
Ten years ago I made my living as a designer and manufacturer of high end architectural woodwork. That's a far cry from the type of work I do these days, but if there is one parallel it is the joy that it's possible to achieve in being a good craftsman. Whether designing and building an English library in lacquered cherry wood, or building a well-structured web site, it's a good feeling to be able to take pride in your work. When I designed furniture it was my job to take the wishes of... From
Brain Frieze on August 26, 2004 at 2:30 p.m..
Human Cop Cams at RNC
Helmet cams will eye GOP confab "During the Republican National Convention, hundreds of cameras will be eyeing city streets as officials monitor people's movements from a handheld computer the size of a palm pilot...As they move their head, the camera is recor From
unmediated on August 26, 2004 at 2:30 p.m..
Personal Hover Cams
Thanks to
Dan I've started reading Rudy Rucker's
Saucer Wisdom just as Rucker started guest blogging at
BoingBoing. So the whole thing has felt quite serendipitous. But now it's getting silly. Rucker's Dragonflies, little personal hovering cameras of the future, are now available for $ From
unmediated on August 26, 2004 at 2:30 p.m..
Gold Medal Coverage
Is Your TiVo or DVR set for 2 p.m. ET this afternoon (Thursday) for U.S.-Brazil gold medal women's soccer game? The Athens Summer Olympic Games are likely to be the last world tournament for five legendary American players: Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Kristine Lilly, Julie Foudy, and Joy Fawcett. With this group, the American women dominated the sport throughout the 1990s, winning the first women's World Cup in 1991 and again in 1999, as well as the 1996 Olympic title in Atlanta (Norway won the gold in Sydney in 2000). But it has been their success that has prompted other (... From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 26, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..
Metadata risks when sharing MS documents
"Our vision is to encourage collaboration around Microsoft documents--but to do it securely. Collaboration is a very important part of today's working practices, but it does present some new risks." says Matthew Brown, Workshare product manager, according to a CNET News.com article by Davi... From
Kolabora.com on August 26, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 26
Today's highlights: Plumtree Case Case Studies; Workshare Protect 3.0; SiteScape Communities of Practice Solution Set; Plumtree released nine customer case studies, including one with an ROI of 564%. Top applications for portals are: expert location and knowledge management workspaces, sales... From
Kolabora.com on August 26, 2004 at 2:29 p.m..
Portal case study reports 564% ROI
An August 24, 2004 press release from Plumtree Software, Inc. caught my attention: Plumtree Unveils Nine Customer Case Studies; ROI Ranges From 564% on One Deployment to $4 Million on Another. Plumtree, a leading enterprise portal provider, details a total of nine case studies in its "No ... From
Kolabora.com on August 26, 2004 at 2:28 p.m..
SHRM's Generational Differences Survey Report
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) released a new survey this week, Generational Differences Survey Report (August 2004). A primary finding of the report is that much of the conflict between workers of different generations (Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen X-ers, and Gen Y-ers) comes... From
Kolabora.com on August 26, 2004 at 2:28 p.m..
telework for "people disaster management"
How to work without an office by Adam Turner (The Age.com, August 24, 2004) shows that Australia is thinking strategically about the use of telework for "people disaster management", a parallel idea to "IT disaster management". 'What would your organisation do if your building was suddenly "unavail... From
Kolabora.com on August 26, 2004 at 2:28 p.m..
Mapping your blog mind
"Mindmaps from delicious tags" and "delicious tags from blog categories" should mean "mindmaps from blogs", shouldn't it? From
Monkeymagic on August 26, 2004 at 2:27 p.m..
It's More Than ROI
This evening I attended a meeting of BayCHI (Computer Human Interface Group) in South Hall, the oldest building on the Berkeley campus. The topic: It's More Than ROI: Defining the Business Value of User-Centered Design. Speakers from Leap Frog, World Savings, Adaptive Path, PeopleSoft, and Ask Jeeves spoke of measuring the value of interface design.I've heard precisely the same conversation on the topic of training. How can we demonstrate our value to the business peop From
Internet Time Blog on August 26, 2004 at 2:27 p.m..
Donald Justice poetry audio
Fans of poetry can hear an hour-long recording of Donald Justice reading in 1995, rebroadcast recently on the Live from Prairie Lights series and archived as the August 13, 2004 entry at the University of Iowa's WSUI site. Masterful poems about the Depression are among the highlights. From
Weblogs in Higher Education on August 26, 2004 at 2:27 p.m..
A journalism blogging poster
Leonard Witt points out this poster about using blogs to teach journalism, created by Kim Pearson. Pearson traces his thoughts and experiments with classes and distills the results in a poster format, which I don't think I've seen very often, if ever, outside of conferences, and never quite like this on a web page. I think it's a good genre, a worthy distillation of a line of thought and a body of experience, and I would like to think about asking students to try it along with me.... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on August 26, 2004 at 2:27 p.m..
Preguntas para resolver problemas
Si pueden leer portugués no se pierdan las 32 preguntas para resolver cualquier problema que plantea Edney Souza en (In)formação e (In)utilidade: Problemas. Por su parte, Algernon propone las Leyes de Ferri, en la mejor tradición de las Leyes de... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 26, 2004 at 2:25 p.m..
Wheat and chaff
Roy Tenant,
Metadata's Bitter Harvest, Library Journal, July 15, 2004. Excerpt: "I recently conducted my first harvest. Not pulling in corn or wheat but bibliographic records. Before long I had nearly 100,000 of them on my laptop, all describing free online resources held by five different libraries. Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) it was a breeze --anyone could do it with the right software, o From
DEC Daily News on August 26, 2004 at 2:23 p.m..
Projector Lights Radio Tags - Technology Review
Researchers from Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs have brought dynamic, computer-generated labels into the physical world with a combination of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and portable projectors. Their Radio Frequency Identity and Geom From
Techno-News Blog on August 26, 2004 at 2:22 p.m..
Cat's Clicks: Online Learning - G4 TechTV
The nice thing about finding classes online is that there isn't a shortage of providers. One of my favorites is takeAclass.com. They offer a large variety of classes in professional development and continuing education. Another great site is Element K, From
Online Learning Update on August 26, 2004 at 2:22 p.m..
Udell on Social Software Tools (Liz Lawley)
Jon Udell's got an excellent Infoworld column on social software. Closing paragraph makes a killer point: Armed with such powerful tools, people can collectively enrich shared data. But will they? The success of Flickr and del.icio.us won't necessarily translate to... From
Corante: Social Software on August 26, 2004 at 2:22 p.m..
Folksonomy (Clay Shirky)
Folksonomy, a new term for socially created, typically flat name-spaces of the del.icio.us ilk, coined by Thomas Vander Wal. In commentary on Atomiq, Gene Smith, who generally likes the idea, lists some disadvantages of folksonomies: On the other hand, I... From
Corante: Social Software on August 26, 2004 at 2:22 p.m..
Audio As A Web Marketing Tool
"Most visitors to your website are using computers with audio capabilities. Recently introduced techniques make it easy to take advantage of this capability. In the past, web audio was primarily decorative, consisting of musical fanfares or other clichéd sound effects.... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 26, 2004 at 2:21 p.m..
The Bourne What's-Happening-acy redux
I know I've already blogged about how confusing I found The Bourne Supremacy, but here's an email (slightly edited) I sent to Sam Allis at the Boston Globe today in response to his "Critic's Notebook" that luxuriated in that movie racking up bigger grosses than either Collateral or The Manchurian Candidate, two movies he considers to be smug, predictable, and coasting on their star power: Sam, I enjoyed your piece today and am glad to see Damon get the credit he deserves. But one thing you said irked me enough to write to you, primarily because I just can't... From
Joho the Blog on August 26, 2004 at 2:20 p.m..
Objective words
According to Editor and Publisher today: Two days ago, in a front page news article, two New York Times reporters referred to the Swift Boat charges as "mostly unsubstantiated." The paper went a step further this morning on the front page, when reporter Elizabeth Bumiller flatly called the charges "unsubstantied," without a qualifier, in the first sentence of her story on the resignation of the national counsel for President Bush. Other newspapers were not nearly as bold today... So long as we have to choose words for sentences, objectivity is impossible.... From
Joho the Blog on August 26, 2004 at 2:20 p.m..
If There's a Wireless Signal in the Woods but No One Around to Use It, Can It Still Be Stolen?
So Weirdly Wrong "A few minutes ago, a police officer passed the bench where I was sitting outside the Athenaeum, enjoying the mild temperature and the wifi signal, and he said, 'Sir, you can’t use the Internet outside the library.' I said, 'What?' (I’m pretty clever under pressure.) The officer in question (whose conduct was entirely professional, firm, and calm behind those mirrored shades) solemnly assured me that in order From
The Shifted Librarian on August 26, 2004 at 2:19 p.m..
RSS Screen Saver for Libraries!
C# Express RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit "One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS Screen saver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll find the RSS Screen saver a great way to start programming. In a nutshell, the RSS Screen saver is a screen saver that lets you select and validate an RSS feed, select a background directory for imag From
The Shifted Librarian on August 26, 2004 at 2:19 p.m..
Another Forced Hiatus
Radio is acting up yet again, for what is still apparently no good reason. I have three big deadlines in the next two weeks, so I just don't have time right now to keep messing it with it to get it to post what I'm writing. Even though I have a lot I wanted to post about, it's not worth the loss of my time and the frustration when so much else is going on. I'll try to address this in a couple of weeks, and hopefully Radio will wake up and publish this notification at some point to let all of you know what is happening. From
The Shifted Librarian on August 26, 2004 at 2:19 p.m..
Deadline Extension: Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services
2004-08-23: The deadline for position papers has been extended one week to 3 September for the W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services to be held in Redwood Shores, CA, USA on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss the establishment of a framework for describing Web services constraints and capabilities, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future work. Read more about workshops and Web services. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on August 26, 2004 at 2:18 p.m..
Follow Up on Swift Boat Saga
Spinsanity's Brendan Nyhan
says I've contributed to the mis-impression that John Kerry knew he was volunteering for "particularly dangerous" duty when he took command of a Swift boat in Vietnam. He cites a
Boston Globe story quoting Kerry's observation that the Swift boat duty he thought he was signing up for was relatively safe for a Vietnam posting. I have some quibbles with his interpretation of what I w From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 26, 2004 at 2:18 p.m..
Amid Hurricane, News Organizations Get Readers' Help
UPDATED
TBO.com, the website of several Tampa Bay area news organizations, asked its readers for help during Hurricane Charley. The readers came through, says Jim Riley, senior editor for content at the organization, who says:The links can be viewed from
http://www.tbo.com/hurricanecharley/ ...look under the blue Special Reports stripe under "Your Voice" and you'll see five user photo galleries followed by "Damage Reports" and "Riding Out The Storm."Direct links: Throu From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 26, 2004 at 2:18 p.m..
Whew: HTML View/Source Not in Jeopardy
Brendan Eich offers welcome reassurances in a posting entitled
"Everyone remain calm" -- an explanation of the (thankfully) short-lived idea to remove the ability to view the HTML source code of a Mozilla-based Web page. He says, in part:Throughout the explosive growth of the web, View / Source has played a crucial role, hard to appreciate if you dumb down your user model based on myopic hindsight and a static analysis of the majority cohort of "end users". Anyway, I wanted to reassure everyone, from our From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 26, 2004 at 2:18 p.m..
THIS WEBLOG IS DA FUNKT
Alright… a few months after the fact, I’ve finally moved, migrated and cloned this weblog to a new location. http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/brian/ RSS: http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/brian/index.rdf Maybe I’ll get around to posting on it now and then. Thanks to David for letting me crash on his couch for the past eighteen months. Sorry about the mess. Peace out.... From
Object Learning on August 26, 2004 at 2:18 p.m..
Porn Law Draws Adult Sites' Ire
A Justice Department proposal to require more stringent record-keeping of porn stars' identities draws fire from webmasters who run adult sites. If enacted, they say, the regs may make it tough for them to stay in business. By Xeni Jardin. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Weapons of Mass Mobilization
A quiet couple in Berkeley, California, got sick of being ignored by the system. So they built a new one. How MoveOn.org changed the face of fund raising, brought P2P to political advertising and reinvented grass-roots activism. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
There Turns Off Road to Nowhere
After big layoffs and management turmoil, the developer of the metaverse There looked near death. But $14 million in new funding has pumped some life into the company. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
RSS Attracts Really Serious Money
Really Simple Syndication technology, which lets news junkies get instant info feeds from multiple sites, is grabbing investors' attention. The latest evidence: a multimillion-dollar funding round for RSS developer Technorati. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Seas Seen as Viable Power Source
Escalating oil prices and global warming concerns have shifted the quest for renewable energy sources into high gear. While wind and solar claim most of the attention, the dark horse in this race may be the restless energy of the sea. By Stephen Leahy. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Where Do the Extra Embryos Go?
Every year, in vitro fertilization clinics produce more embryos than they use in helping women get pregnant. A new study shows a wide discrepancy in what happens to the extras, from incineration to freezing. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Selling the High Life in Iraq
More than a year after Saddam's ouster, a website hawking real estate in Iraq is seeing something of a mini-bubble. Asking prices in the swankier neighborhoods of Baghdad and Najaf are surging against a backdrop of civil unrest. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Induce Act Draws Support, Venom
Hollywood loves it. Techies hate it. And now, nine senators are signing on to help it pass. That's the latest chapter in the short history of the Induce Act, a bill aimed at cracking down on technologies that can be used to steal copyright works. By Xeni Jardin. From
Wired News on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Local businessman signs up for charity board in Aylesbury
National educational charity Young Enterprise is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris Underwood, Managing Director of Smooth Design, to the voluntary board that runs Young Enterprise in Aylesbury Vale. [PRWEB Aug 26, 2004] From
PR Web on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Local businessman signs up for charity board in Aylesbury
National educational charity Young Enterprise is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris Underwood, Managing Director of Smooth Design, to the voluntary board that runs Young Enterprise in Aylesbury Vale. [PRWEB Aug 26, 2004] From
PR Web on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Top Seven Tips for Back-to-School Success
Parents play a crucial role in their child's success. These seven tips from http://www.goalsettingforstudents.com explain how to help your child set and achieve goals for the new school year. [PRWEB Aug 26, 2004] From
PR Web on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
The New Curiosity Shop announces a new online course - HIV/AIDS and Society: What you should know and what you can do
A recently launched online course aims to dispel the myths and confusion surrounding HIV/AIDS. The course, HIV/AIDS and Society: What you should know and what you can do, aims to promote understanding and encourage informed discussion about HIV/AIDS. The course publishers, Edinburgh based The New Curiosity Shop, are making the course available world-wide from 1st September 2004. The course is led by course writer Sarah Pouezevara, a US academic now based in France, who has many years experience working in Africa and elsewhere. As she explains: "When I learned about the New Curiosity Shop, I de From
PR Web on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
New Book to Test Bush, Kerry on Patriotic Values
The Patriot Test: Americans Grading George W. Bush and John Kerry © 2004*, is a one-of-a-kind self-scoring book designed to prepare Americans for one of the most important decisions of their lives. Who will be our next president? Instead of relying upon junk mail or television ads developed by paid-for hire campaign consultants, this book empowers readers to keep their own score in evaluating the performance and promises of the two major candidates for the presidency of the United States.This is the only book currently on the market that allows readers to compare and contrast the records of P From
PR Web on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
Holistic Financial Planning - Good for the Body and Soul
Since SPIRITUS, Financial Planning Inc, opened for business one year ago, it has been non-stop for company founder Mark Zaifman. Although Zaifman, a former tax accountant, had a strong sense that people need help with money issues, he had no idea how confused many people are and how physically and emotionally stressed they become when dealing with their own personal finances. So much in fact that, the national magazine, Natural Health featured Zaifman, along with local authors Deborah Price and Lynne Twist in an article titled, Money Changes Everything, in their September 2004 issue. [PRWEB From
PR Web on August 26, 2004 at 2:17 p.m..
The Technological Juggernaut
As Larry Lessig has long and presciently emphasized, law and technology are substitute methods of protecting an interest. You can sue a trespasser; but it may be cheaper just to put up a strong fence. We used to think that if the technological substitute was adequate, it would be superior... From
Lessig Blog on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
Back to "The Matrix"
First example: how technology will bring us to the world of The Matrix. The matrix is a video online world that is so realistic that if one's "avatar" (one's electronic self, the player in the video world) is killed, one dies of shock. The current video online worlds, in which... From
Lessig Blog on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
Global Warming
At last, high-level Administration acknowledgment that global warming is real, and that human activity (mainly the burning of fossil fuels, principally oil, natural gas, and coal, and deforestation in Third World countries) is a principal cause because such activity emits carbon dioxide. (See also Times article.) Greenhouse gases, such as... From
Lessig Blog on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
The Olympic Drug Problem
Just eleven days into the 2004 Olympics in Athens, we have already been confronted with the seemingly common problem of drug use within sport. So much so, in fact, that it has been dubbed "The Gene Games" by chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's ethical issues review panel, Thomas Murray. In a recent interview conducted by the New York Times, Murray talks about the impact of drugs in sport, and what effect they have on the athletes involved. From
kuro5hin.org on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
Baltimore's "Free Books!" Charity in Dire Straits
I spend anywhere from three to eight hours every week sweating along with a motley crew of local misfits, shelving, sorting, and hauling ton after ton of written matter in a rowhouse basement in Baltimore. We have no heat nor air conditioning, but still, every week, we come and work. Volunteer night is Wednesday, but many of us also work on the weekends, when we're open to the public. There are times when we're freezing and we have to wear coats and gloves inside, making handling books somewhat tricky; other times, we're all soaked with sweat, since it's 90 degrees out and From
kuro5hin.org on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
National Literacy and Numeracy Week 2004
This year's National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW) is on from the 30th of August to the 5th of September. NLNW celebrates and acknowledges the progress Australian schools, teachers, parents, individuals and the community have made towards raising the literacy and numeracy levels of all Australians. To find out more about the Week, when it is happening, who is involved, key events, the awards available to schools and individuals in the community, and who is supporting NLNW 2004, visit the NLNW website. 25 August 2004. From
EdNA Online on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
Year 12 - What Next?
A new Australian Government website and guide have been launched that will help more than 200,000 Year 12 students across the country answer the question, 'What next?' This resource is designed to give students and their parents information about the available post-secondary options, which will assist them in their planning and decision making. The guide and its website highlight the range of rewarding, highly skilled and sought after positions available through vocational education and training, New Apprenticeships and university. 'Year 12 - what next?' will be distributed From
EdNA Online on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
EdNA Online Passes 1.6M Milestone
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. EdNA Online's distributed search facility is available free to the education and training community. It now allows searching across seven major high quality digital repositories, in addition to EdNA Online. A visitor to EdNA Online can search just one repository, or can mix and match repositories. See the search at work http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/search?SearchMode= From
EdNA Online on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
Web Server Statistics Page
Jupitermedia's ServerWatch reports on surveys that examine the number and types of servers being used to power the Internet. Check the results of the monthly surveys right here. From
ClickZ Stats on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..
Free Time at the ITI?
As I noted earlier today. Many of you are coming to the Institute next week. My quesiton to you is this -- what should we do in our free time? As program chair I tried to make sure there was plenty of it, since this is where the real action is at conferences... From
autounfocus on August 26, 2004 at 2:16 p.m..