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Motivating Sales Forces With Enhanced Learning
Motivating Sales Forces With Enhanced Learning by Jeff Thull at CLO Media How does one enhance the learning process to motivate the sales force? To consider this question, let's start with a basic set of four criteria that we teach sales leadership to ensure motivation. Motivated sales professionals have these four traits in common:

They possess a present projection of a desired future.

They understand the costs and are willing to pay the pr From soulsoup on August 31, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

CLO's Case in the CEO's Language
Analytics: The CLO's Case in the CEO's Language by Larry N. Long at CLO Media One measures, of course, to impact decision-making. The purpose of any measurement is to provide meaningful, objective and accurate information to facilitate that decision-making. The context and type of decision drives the measurement effort. This is why it&amprsquo;s imperative that the CLO converse in language that is not only understandable, but also important to the CEO. In order to do t From soulsoup on August 31, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

Greater Meaning of Knowledge
A Theory Of Knowledge, And How It Could Save The World By Dave Pollard In human activities, we now get almost all of our knowledge second-hand, through books, newspapers, television and online, and its relative lack of credibility causes us to develop and assign a trust 'rating' to different sources, based on how often, in our experience and that of others we trust, that report has turned out to be accurate or useful. A blogroll is one manifestation of that need to rate the trust-worthin From soulsoup on August 31, 2004 at 9:42 a.m..

KM Stories: Part Three
KM Stories: Part Three - Reducing the Learning Curve By Bill Ives From Portals and KM A major telecom was undergoing a significant transition. Faced with increasing competition they needed to cut costs and attempt to improve customer service. A strategy consulting firm suggested that they consolidate their small business customer service call centers from over thirty different ones to a single access point. In the process, they could significantly reduce their call center st From soulsoup on August 31, 2004 at 9:41 a.m..

Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox - Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design Behind a website's superficial appearance lies its fundamental understanding of user behavior in an interactive service. Choices such as whether the "buy" button is red or orange or whether the navigation menu runs across the top or down the left side are much debated, but make at most a few percent difference in usability. In contrast, the design ideology can make or break a site. I see three contrasting a From soulsoup on August 31, 2004 at 9:41 a.m..

Special E-Learning Grab Bag
Greetings from St. Petersburg, FL – where they haven't forgotten the true meaning of humidity (drip drip drip drip...) I'm down here for a few days to work on an e-learning project at the Poynter Institute. So I thought I'd take this opportunity to share a few e-learning-related items that have caught my attention lately. TOP OF THE LIST: RSS, Knowledge Management, and Me: Reflections, Aug. 4: Kathleen Bennett explains how she's experimenting with using webfeeds to enhance the NLII Learning Objects Virtual Community of Practice. Read the rest of the list... From Contentious Weblog on August 31, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Forbes, Webfeeds, and Ignorance
A couple of days ago I posted an item on the Poynter Institute's E Media Tidbits blog concerning some weirdness over webfeeds witnessed recently at Forbes Magazine. See: Forbes and Webfeeds: Now They Get It, Now They Don't. Check it out – it's a clear example of how some people in the media (allegedly a fast-moving, forward-looking industry) can be stunningly resistant to the very idea of change. From Contentious Weblog on August 31, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Turning Readers Into Reporters
It's been mentioned before in this weblog, but let's repeat: Readers equipped with picture phones can turn into reporters instantly, anywhere and anytime. Yet another example came from the Danish regional newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende, which recently published a picture of two ban From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 31, 2004 at 9:38 a.m..

Comienzan
Adicta textual de Maite Babia: el lugar donde el tiempo no puede entrar Blog de Magda de Magda Diaz y Morales BlogPeru de Juan Arellano Diario de estos días: Blog feminista sobre la relación entre el cuerpo y sus maltratos... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 31, 2004 at 9:34 a.m..

From Classrooms to Learning Environments: A Midrange Projection of E-Learning Technologies
Stephen Downes schaut über den Tellerrand. Seine "mid-range projection" geht auf Learning Objects, Repositories, Content Syndication, Personalization und Learning Environments ein und spart auch kritische Einwände und Bedenken nicht aus. Er schließt mit der Feststellung, "that the world of learning... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 31, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

Educational Blogging
Ein phantastischer Artikel, der nicht nur einen umfassenden Überblick zum Thema "Weblogs" bietet, sondern auch ausführlich über deren praktischen Einsatz in Schulen und Universitäten berichtet. Auch einen "Knackpunkt" des Bloggens spricht Stephen Downes an: "What happens when a free-flowing... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 31, 2004 at 9:33 a.m..

SCORM 2004 components download
(8/30/04) Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 2nd Edition Document Suite The SCORM 2004 Document Suite is a ZIP file that contains all SCORM components: the SCORM Overview, SCORM Content Aggregation Model (CAM) book, SCORM Run-Time Environment (RTE) book and the SCORM Sequencing and Navigation (SN) book. From Edutools News: Course Management Systems on August 31, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Users Connect Online with Offline - Robyn Greenspan, Clickz
By integrating online and offline activities, Internet users have been able to extend their reach beyond their previously one-dimensional capabilities. A late 2003 study conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the majority of Inter From Techno-News Blog on August 31, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Active Internet Users by Country, July 2004 - ClickZ Stats staff
Nielsen//NetRatings found that the overall at-home global active Internet universe for 12 selected countries swelled by more than 2.8 million users from June 2004 to July 2004, with the largest loss, once again, attributed to the United States. The UK From Techno-News Blog on August 31, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Internet Turns 35, but Still Work in Progress - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress. University researchers From Techno-News Blog on August 31, 2004 at 9:32 a.m..

Have e-books turned a page? - David Becker, CNET News.com
After more than a decade of false starts and empty promises, publishers may finally be starting to understand what consumers want from electronic books. Although revenues remain tiny, industry surveys show encouraging signs of growth in e-book sales o From Educational Technology on August 31, 2004 at 9:31 a.m..

Pencils still needed at tech-savvy schools - Associated Press
Back-to-school shopping lists are constantly evolving to keep up with technological advancements, many even including cell phones, laptops, Blackberrys and iPods. But one clear staple remains -- the pencil. As 5-year-old children opt to play computer l From Educational Technology on August 31, 2004 at 9:31 a.m..

Fired From Friendster for Blogging (Ross Mayfield)
Joyce Park got shitcanned from Friendster for blogging. Apparently because she blogged about Friendster moving to PHP for scalability over JSP, which got picked up by Jon Udell in a great piece that shitcans the Myth that IT Doesn’t Scale... From Corante: Social Software on August 31, 2004 at 9:31 a.m..

Wikis--"Credibility in Action"
Colin Brooke at Syracuse has some great thoughts about the recent brouhaha about the accuracy and trustworthiness of Wikipedia. How can we trust it, some are asking, when anyone can go in and write anything about a particular topic without editorial scrutiny? Suddenly, studies are springing up to check the accuracy of the posts. People are posting nonsense at Wikipedia to see if it gets edited out quickly or, god forbid, remains a part of the entry for a longer period of time thus confusin From weblogged News on August 31, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

Information Architecture Heuristics
Nice list of points to consider when doing site eval. The points are categorized under the following:

Main page

Search interface

Search results

Site-wide navigation

Contextual navigation

From elearningpost on August 31, 2004 at 9:29 a.m..

XML Activity Chartered Through June 2006
2004-08-26: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. The Activity's Working, Interest and Coordination Groups given below have been chartered through 30 June 2006. New in March, the XML Binary Characterization Working Group is chartered through March 2005. Participation is open to W3C Members. Learn about XML in 10 Points and visit the XML home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Mini Supercomputers, Power Misers
Using low-power chips, parallel processing and innovative architecture, Orion Multisystems introduces personal supercomputers that can plug into a wall socket. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

The Giants of Anime are Coming
The three titans of Japanese animation are all about to unleash monster new films. Watch your back, Shrek. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

E-Vote Recount Rule in Dispute
Officials in Florida are once again up in arms over recount procedures. The latest imbroglio follows a controversial ruling on touch-screen voting machines that was delivered days before a statewide primary. By Jacob Ogles. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Cops Put Brakes on Bike Protest
The creator of Bikes Against Bush planned to use his Wi-Fi-Bluetooth-SMS-bike combo to spray anti-Bush messages on city streets. But police intervene before he could start. Cyrus Farivar reports from New York. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Trade Your Wallet for Wireless
If calling, text messaging, web browsing and video filming aren't enough for you, your cell phone may soon be able to perform another function as well: paying for lunch. But is it secure? By Laila Weir. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Astronauts Weigh Acceptable Risk
In the quest for a cheaper route to space, astronauts competing for the X Prize are willing to take risks. But some wonder if blasting off in an untested rocket ship suspended from a giant balloon is taking things too far. By Dan Brekke. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Bush Forms Civil Liberties Board
An executive order issued Friday night creates an agency to safeguard privacy and civil rights laws, but critics see problems with the apointees and the apparent lack of power. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

Election Overseers Want Big Win
Administrators are hoping that the victor in this year's presidential election will win by a wide margin. A close race, they fear, will result in more charges of voter fraud and demands for recounts. Kim Zetter reports from Washington. From Wired News on August 31, 2004 at 9:28 a.m..

It's Not Back to School for Everyone
September is usually back to school, not for homeschoolers. See how a private Homeschooling Consultant can help families home school. [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004] From PR Web on August 31, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Adopt a Library.org Featured in Woman's World - For Some Needy Kids, Back to School Just Got a Whole Lot Sweeter
AdoptALibrary.org, the fastest growing literacy advocacy website on the Internet, is the featured "Hot Website" in the August 24th edition of Woman's World magazine. [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004] From PR Web on August 31, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Laboratory For The Study Of Intercollegiate Athletics Ranks The Best College Sports Universities
The Excellence in Athletics Cup research and award program ranked 68 different athletic departments across eight different indices to establish a ranking of univeristy athletic programs from the big six conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, Big East, Pac-10) [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004] From PR Web on August 31, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

7 of 10 Deaths in USA are from Preventable Chronic Diseases
Recent medical research results are summarized in two practical health guides, by Donald A. Miller, Ph.D. Seven of ten deaths in USA are from preventable chronic diseases. Both books are available as paperback and electronic ebook. [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004] From PR Web on August 31, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Firetrust Limited Launches MailWasher Pro Educators Program, Providing Discounts to Schools for its Popular Anti-Spam Product
MailWasher Pro provides an educational discount to help increase email security and protection for educators and students [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004] From PR Web on August 31, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

New Report Analyses European Aid to Palestinians - Finds Evidence of Foul Play
Funding for Peace Coalition (FPC) report documents dozens of recent disclosures, many from Arab sources little reported in Europe and the West. [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004] From PR Web on August 31, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..

Digitizing the multiplex
A years-long battle over digital cinema technical standards is over. But getting the technology into theaters could be a cliff-hanger. From CNET News.com on August 31, 2004 at 9:26 a.m..

Participate in the RNC from Anywhere tonight and tomorrow night
We're at NYU assembling our interactive cameras and wearable computers for tonights Konscious Convention broadcast. We'll have four crews in the field, one in Madison Square Garden. Also, three of us from Unmediated will be at Manhattan Neighborhood Networks monitoring the four cameras in the field, and chatting with participants that want to ask convention attendees and protesters questions. You can watch and participate tonight at 7PM EST by going to www.Konscious.tv. You can watch a stream of the live From unmediated on August 30, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
I love to post about new wiki resources because I know that I'm also giving blacklily8 a reading assignment And this piece is a good reading assignment for everyone. Bryan Lamb's Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not in the Sept/Oct 2004 issue of Educause Review is a comprehensive overview of wikis. Everything from pedagogy to IP licensing of wiki content. If you needed a detailed wiki overview to share with colleagues or students, this is it ( From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on August 30, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

The evolution of office space
Giving Cubicle Dwellers a Square Deal Sharing Workspace With Higher-Ups, Movable Offices Are Among New Solutions By Amy Joyce (Washington Post, August 29, 2004) delves into the pluses and minuses of the "21st-century workplace experiment where there are no seat assignments." "In one instance, the U.... From Kolabora.com on August 30, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

13 days later...
and now finally back home after my latest hospital stay, this time for a full-on bowel ressection. At least it's done now, and hopefully I can now enjoy a few years of relatively hassle-free life before the Crohn's rears it's ugly head again. Apologies to those who have tried to contact me over the last few weeks - I will get back to you as soon as I can, but even though I am back home now I am still be on the disabled list for a week or two more and likely won't be putting in more than an hour or two a day. - SWL From EdTechPost on August 30, 2004 at 10:41 p.m..

ATA letter to NIH
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has publicly released its August 26 letter to Elias Zerhouni, Director of the NIH, in support of the NIH open-access plan. Excerpt: "The widespread dissemination of medical advances and scientific findings is critical to obtaining the best return possible on our nation's investment in research. Unfortunately, most Americans effectively do not have access to the results of research paid for with their tax dollars....Today's technology From Open Access News on August 30, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..

September 8: International Literacy Day
September 8, International Literacy Day, was initiated by UNESCO in 1965 to promote literacy around the world. Click here to learn more.... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 30, 2004 at 10:40 p.m..

Redwood group maps Managed Learning Environments
When any new technology comes on the scene, there's always a scramble of people figuring out methods, and trying stuff that'll work for them. Service oriented approaches (soa) to Managed Learning Environments (MLEs) are no different. Just as certain, however,is the point at which some structure and coherence is brought to bear. For service oriented MLEs, that is exactly what the Redwood Group is planning to do. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on August 30, 2004 at 10:38 p.m..

Gutless wonder
I don't think I'm going to have the fortitude to watch the Republican Convention. I know that makes me a small person, but I just can't take it. But reading the bloggery about it is a different matter. For example, Jay Rosen is nailing down ideas like a cabinet maker. And Ken Mehlman - a guy who "gets" the Net as far as I can tell - spinning the Kerry campaign as Rip van Winkely. And Oxblog on the Log Cabin Republicans' party (and on a talk with Koch). And here's a photo of Ari "Shameless" Fleischer holding a Blogs... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..

Protest photos
GrannyD has posted some photos of the NYC protests... By the way, the Boston Phoenix has an excellent article by Adam Reilly on her Senate campaign and whether it's good or bad for the Democrats.... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..

Waiting, hoping...
Josh Marshall, whose blogging over the past couple of days has been extra special good, has been saying for a while that we're going to be getting some interesting news about the Niger matter. Today he says it again, saying that news will be coming out in "weeks." I wonder what it is that he knows...... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..

Short Staffed
The CogDog will be doing a lot more running around for the time being. It is not just the zaniness of semester start up, but I am feeling the loss of a valuable part-time student programmer who has been with MCLI for 5 years. This reduces my technology staff from 1.5 to 1.0, and that 1.0 is... ahem, moi. Colen was the third student we have taken on here, and it was a given that he would move on at anytime. He has been the principle programming and database support behind the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), the online application From cogdogblog on August 30, 2004 at 10:37 p.m..

Going Under...
For the first time in a long time I feel just totally overwhelmed with getting ready for school stuff and birthday parties and house repairs and...well, you get the picture. This is a major crunch week...day long training on our new student info system tomorrow, day long workshop on MovieMaker on Wednesday then tons of documentation to write for a full staff training next Wednesday. Oy. What's been interesting to me, at least, is how strong the urge is to let all of that other stuff drop and just write/blog for a couple of hours. Partly because it's become such a habit, and partly be From weblogged News on August 30, 2004 at 10:36 p.m..

New York Visit, Talks at End of September
I'll be in New York City on September 27 to give a talk about the book. It's being sponsored by the Markle Foundation, and will include a reception and book signing. If you are interested, please send a note to the foundation's Stefaan Verhulst at SVerhulst (at) markle (dot) org to be added to the invitation list. Or shoot me an email and I'll pass it along. On Sept. 28 I'll also be speaking at Yeshiva University's Cardozo Sc From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 30, 2004 at 10:35 p.m..

You Look So Much Like Your Mother! 21st Century Genetics
The importance of genetics in the 21st century, the influence that genetics will have on us throughout our lifespan and the increasing desire for a genetics education for everyone will be the focus of a free public lecture at the University of Melbourne on Wednesday, September 1. Ms Dawn Gleeson from the Department of Genetics will present 'You look so much like your mother! The importance of genetics in the 21st century' in the first lecture of the Faculty of Science Deans public lecture series 2004.The University of Melbourne Media release, 26 August 2004 From EdNA Online on August 30, 2004 at 10:34 p.m..

IDEA Interoperability Demonstration for Education - Australia 2004: Presentations
The event was held in August 2004, at Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It illustrated the importance of using technical standards to support the sharing and reuse of learning systems and content for education and training in Australia; gave Australian organisations the chance to test, demonstrate and improve the interoperability of their online products and services; provided input to the development of standards and specifications used to support e-learning; highlighted international developments in the application and management of learning technologies; and demonstrated From EdNA Online on August 30, 2004 at 10:34 p.m..

Philosophy: hot major at two-year college
How professors at a New Jersey community college created a philosophy department success story. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 30, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

Does the state have a right to monitor?
Home-schooling parents in Pennsylvania fight the state's required reports on their children's progress. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 30, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

Cell phones could keep atomic time
Miniaturization advance could lead to highly precise atomic clocks being installed in cell phones and other consumer devices. From CNET News.com on August 30, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design
Jakob Nielsen has become less relevant over the last couple of years - an expert on usability should have a better website. Really. This column, though, is a nice take on three design approaches. My own website - both before and after the redesign - is based on the 'mastery' meme - it is intended to be open and navigable, without making it difficult to find links or get to the items you want to read. By Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox, August 30, 2004 [Refer][--> From OLDaily on August 30, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

Sun, Microsoft Meet on SOAs
Coverage of the activities of the Redwood Group (of which there haven't been many so far), the group that "was spawned from an IMS Global Learning Consortium Inc. meeting held in late July in Redwood Shores." The article plays on the theme of a Microsoft-Sun rapproachment. "At the meeting, developers from both companies decided to try to set some basic rules of engagement for Web services, starting with educational systems." By Darryl K. Taft, eWeek, August 30, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on August 30, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

The Presentation
Barbara (Bee) Dieu writes from Brazil: "Last Wednesday August 25th, I had the audio workshop on blogs for Cyberlangues on Alado (details posted in the previous message). Together with me in the computer room at the Lycée Pasteur in Sao Paulo, nine teachers and two students of mine, who came to give their testimonials on how they view blogging in the classroom." Many links on this page including some to some presentations. Dieu's own slides are available in French in HTML format. By Barbara (Bee) Dieu, Bee-coming a Webhea From OLDaily on August 30, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

FirefoxIE
It never bears repeating enough: if you are using Internet Explorer, switch to Firefox. There. Now that I've convinced you, you may be wondering how to get all those doo-dads that made Internet Explorer so nice. This page covers many of them - GoogleBar, ChromeEdit, Luna Theme, and many more. Via Robin Good. By Dan McTaggart, August 30, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on August 30, 2004 at 10:33 p.m..

People are America
There has not been protests like this since the Vietman War. I truly hope those who are blindly voting for the GOP ticket wake up to the fact that this country can’t afford 4 mores years of this administration. ¶ From Open Artifact on August 30, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

E-book sales €2.7m for Q1 2004-08-30
While still peanuts compared to paper book sales, the e-book market has seen a sharp 28 per cent increase since last year. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Dutch ISP experiments with e-mail encryption
Dutch internet service provider Xs4All is piloting e-mail encryption for customers, while ensuring e-mail tapping is possible for law enforcement agencies. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

BT opens Warsaw office
BT is to offer services including application management and call centre provisioning from its new office in Warsaw. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Vodafone makes bid for Virgin Mobile...maybe
A number of different sources have published conflicting reports on an attempt by Vodafone to buy Virgin Mobile. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa trials 3G in Warsaw
PTC is the first telecom operator in Central and Eastern Europe to provide UMTS 3G mobile telephony services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

BioChem Hub
Great place to start for information on biology, chemistry and related disciplines. There's even a link to an interactive Periodic Table. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Caught in the Web
Cathy Frye, a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, won the 2004 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for nondeadline writing. She took first place in the category for her four-part series, "Caught in the Web." Unfortunately, the version of the story that appears on Ardemgaz.com is poorly formatted for online viewing. Conversations that were written in instant messenger or e-mail run together in a confusing manner. Words are needlessly bolded, and sentences of poetry are missing From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Cashing In on 'Hot or Not'
A lot of folks have wondered how to take the Hot or Not concept and make it a commercial success. For those who somehow missed it, Hot or Not is a "user-contributed content" site where people upload their pictures and allow others to rate them. It's been incredibly successful from a traffic perspective, and claims "9 billion votes counted and 13,300,000 photos submitted." Now an advertiser, the Gap, is taking the idea and turning it directly into a commercial. Here's the pitch: Dress up in Gap clothes showi From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on August 30, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 31
Today's highlights: iCollaborate 3.5; Sonexis ConferenceConnect and ConferenceManager Plus; Open-Xchange Server Available; New Customer for Groove; CoCreate ra-ra; New Customers for Omnipod; The Data Corporation released Version 3.5 of iCollaborate, a collaboration solution. New features: improved s... From Kolabora.com on August 30, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..

Aboriginal achievement awards
I just received the following announcement from Monica Goulet. ************************************** Saskatoon is fortunate to be selected as the host city for the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards on March 31st, 2005. There are many Aboriginal people in our province and nationally... From Rick's Café Canadien on August 30, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..

Blogademia - weblog research blog by Scott Nowson
Another weblog research blog - Blogademia by Scott Nowson (via Torill Mortensen). Scott is doing PhD research on weblogs. More specific:What am I doing with blogs? As I said above, I am interested in studying personal blogs. Blogs which are, for the most part, the thoughts and words of one From Mathemagenic on August 30, 2004 at 3:44 p.m..

BROG papers
Elijah Wright lists papers by BROG (blog research on genre) group: I'm posting these here for convenience's sake - and because it is really hard for people outside of our smallish research group to track what we've been up to. Herring, Susan C., Kouper, Inna, Paolillo, John, Scheidt, Lois Ann, Tyworth, Michael, Welsch, Peter, Wright, Elijah, Yu, Ning. (2005). Conversations in the Blogosphere: A S From Mathemagenic on August 30, 2004 at 3:44 p.m..

Affirmations for the First Day of Classes
Today's our first day of classes at Seton Hill U. I'm teaching a Freshman Composition class after a blessed year's hiatus from the course after teaching composition annually at one campus or another since -- could it be? -- 1992. I'm also beginning my sixth year of teaching at Seton... From PEDABLOGUE on August 30, 2004 at 3:44 p.m..

NIH Fact Sheet for Public Access Publishing
The NIH has prepared a Fact Sheet on Public Access Publishing that it sent to participants in today's invitation-only stakeholder meeting on the open-access plan. Excerpt: "The goals of the agency specifically include expanding the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences, in order to enhance the Nation's well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research. The sharing of ideas, data, and research findings has always been encouraged by NI From Open Access News on August 30, 2004 at 3:43 p.m..

Open letter from 25 Nobel laureates
The Open Letter to the U.S. Congress from 25 Nobel prize winners has been released to the public (and I've posted a copy to SOAF). Excerpts: As scientists and Nobel laureates, we are writing today to express our strong support for the House Appropriations Committee's recent direction to NIH to develop an open, taxpayer access policy requiring that a complete electronic text of any manuscript reporting work supported by NIH grants or contracts be From Open Access News on August 30, 2004 at 3:43 p.m..

Enabling new scholarship
Amy Harbur and Abby Smith, Enabling New Scholarship: Scholarly Communication Institute Highlights Collaboration and Technology, CLIR Issues, September/October 2004. On CLIR's second annual Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI). Excerpt: "The presentations made it clear that digital scholarship cannot exist in a vacuum....Scholars today provide the content, but administrators must provide the institutional support, and librarians, technologists, and publishers must provide the structure, for digital information dissemin From Open Access News on August 30, 2004 at 3:43 p.m..

First Diversity Group Conference Diversity - Dare to Win! - 4 October 2004 at the University of Wolv ...
First Diversity Group Conference Diversity - Dare to Win! - 4 October 2004 at the University of Wolverhampton Science Park, UK. Programme now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on August 30, 2004 at 3:41 p.m..

CMS, Findability And The Importance Of Making Your Content Be Found
"The current emphasis on content management is not about content management at all but rather about content publishing - and there is a difference. Organizations are aware of the problems in getting current, reliable information into an intranet but feel... From Robin Good's Latest News on August 30, 2004 at 3:41 p.m..

Which circle of Zell?
Why is Zell Miller, who prominently links to his idiotic "Beethoven for Babies" bill that says more about his willingness to sell out to Sony than about his grasp of science, a Democrat? His site touts his exempting two Georgia counties from EPA regulations because it would have "a negative impact on the sitting [sic, I think] of new industry and the procurement of federal transportation funding..." He wants to push Bush's right-wing extremist judicial appointments through. He has a barbaric attitude about our treatment of Abu Ghraib prisoners that blames having men and women serve togeth From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2004 at 3:40 p.m..

DirectorWeb at Ten
In another of our self-serving web celebrations, August 2004 marked the 10th year since we created the DirectorWeb, a resource site for users of Macromedia Director. We have an irregular scrapbook of the site showing some its evol From cogdogblog on August 30, 2004 at 3:40 p.m..

Unfair, Unbalanced and Thin-Skinned

NY Times: Fox News Rejects Left-Wing Magazine Ad. While the ad will appear on Time Warner's CNN, as well as NBC Universal's MSNBC and Bravo, it will not appear on Fox News, a division of the News Corporation whose chairman and chief executive is Rupert Murdoch. "They rejected it out of hand," said Arthur Stupar, senior vice president for circulation at The Nation. "I find it ironic. They are the G.O.P. cable station, a champion of free markets, and they got spooked at the thought of running From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 30, 2004 at 3:38 p.m..

What is Longhorn?
Dave observes:When you ask a Microsoft person to say what Longhorn is supposed to do, you get rambly hand-wavy words that mean nothing. A product with a purpose has a two-sentence description that gets everyone so excited they can't wait. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 30, 2004 at 3:38 p.m..

Defining Chutzpah
Henry Blodget, the infamous Wall Street "analyst" who was hyping Internet bubble stocks to the public while telling his colleagues how lousy the companies actually were, is now writing for Slate magazine, which should know better. Blodget's latest missive is entitled, "When They Say 'Buy,' Sell" -- part of his "How to Understand Wall Street" series. Ironic? Try grotesque. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 30, 2004 at 3:38 p.m..

JOHN TALBOT OF 5 BELL YARD, LONDON, ENGLAND (b. 1574),WAS A SERVANT TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, ELIZABETHAN KNIGHT (1552-1618)and his name appeared on a Warrant issued by The Tower of London: The King's Quinto: The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) ISBN: 1413708285 by Barbara O'Sullivan (originally written for Hollywood Actor Walter Sparrow for a screenplay)
John Talbot describes himself thus:I, John Talbot will say that I was born into this evil World in the Autumn of 1574 without ambition. I had no thought of raising myself up from my own humble background, and acknowledged with thanks, all that the good Lord had to offer me, when I attended Mass each Sunday at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street in the City of London. There I knelt on the cold stone floor, for an hour or more, breathing in the cold air, as the Priest filled my willing ears. I deemed that on each Sunday, I had caused a good act to be performed on my own soul in that Church, From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 30, 2004 at 3:36 p.m..

AT&T chief refuses to 'miss' VoIP
David Dorman, AT&T's chief executive, is determined to turn voice over Internet Protocol into an HBO-like service that it can sell. From CNET News.com on August 30, 2004 at 3:36 p.m..

E-Learning Queen
Started five days ago, E-Learning Queen is a new blog, with three posts to its name. The first, a look at the ethics of video game-based simulation, is well worth a read. The next two posts introduce readers to the world of educational blogs, including this one. By Susan Smith Nash, E-Learning Queen, August 30, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on August 30, 2004 at 3:36 p.m..