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Empathy: The Way We Treat People
Five lessons to make you think about the way we treat people...... From Experience Designer Network on September 5, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Make: Technology On Your Time
"The First Magazine for Technology Projects: Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This... From Experience Designer Network on September 5, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Love and Survival
Dr. Dean Ornish, founder of The Preventive Medicine Research Institute offers an excellent article entitled Love and Survival. In a society that seems to have developed a dependency on prescription medication, it is both refreshing and inspiring to read ideas... From Experience Designer Network on September 5, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Correction on the Origins of Informational Cascade Research
I was mistaken in an earlier post when I claimed that informational cascades research comes from the “heuristics and biases approach” in psychology. It definitely comes from behavioral economics. Both behavioral economics and the heuristics and biases approach share common ancestry from the work of Herbert Simon. A genuine polymath,… From e-Literate on September 5, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Outsourcing, Rural America's Next Big Opportunity
Here’s a thought-provoking piece on how rural America could benefit from the outsourcing trend if we just get on the stick. There are two pieces to this; one is getting high-speed connections out into the hinterlands and the other is to provide the people with the training required to enable… From e-Literate on September 5, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Bloug - IA Heuristics for Search Systems
Bloug - IA Heuristics for Search Systems Another day, another project, another set of IA heuristics. A client asked me to kick the tires of their search system, so I decided to expand on the search aspects of the information architecture heuristics that we came up with a couple weeks back. This time, I tried to align and categorize these guidelines with some common steps users take when searching a site. This semi-sequence goes like this: Via: --> From soulsoup on September 5, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Online population instant message use at 40%: new Pew study
A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life project charts higher levels of instant message (IM) usage than previously recorded. Findings include: 53 million American adults use instant messaging and its appeal is especially apparent among young adults and technology enthusiasts. Although most IM users still use email more frequently than IM, a significant number are turning to IM more often than they do email. IM is moving into the A From NITLE Tech News on September 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Internet2 experiment sets speed record
A group of scientests working on Internet2 set a record for fast data transmission between the California Institute of Technology and CERN . The team, which included folks from AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second (define) between the CERN facility in Gene From NITLE Tech News on September 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Microsoft's music service may loom large: Manjoo
"One music store to rule them all" argues for the long-term importance of Microsoft's new music downloading service. (thanks to Jason Mittell)... From MANE IT Network on September 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Writing inventively through blogging
Weblogs in Higher Education offers one pedagogical aspect of blogging in the writing classroom: enhancing student invention. ...bloggers have some good starting points. *personal experience *responding to another writer *linking and discussing (a variation) *testing another writer's ideas against personal... From MANE IT Network on September 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Another PurpleNumbers in JS
Steffen has extended Simon Willison’s Javascript PurpleNumbers generator, plinks. Steffen developed this nice bit of Javascript (install geared only for use in WordPress) with some of the same reasoning Simon did; he didn’t want to actually see the pilcrow. Steffen improves, IMO, on Simon’s version by not requiring the author to add IDs to the post. Also, he mentions that the --> From Open Artifact on September 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

RSS Block in Moodle
RSS Block in Moodle. Now that my department has forced me to use a template (I posted about this earlier here) for my Distance courses, I am looking for a non-campus-hosted alternative for my web-supported courses - virtually every course I mentor. Moodle is something I’ve looked into in the past. Wiki is also a possibiity. From Open Artifact on September 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Managing Information Intuitively
I am back home again, safe in Colorado, after outrunning hurricane Frances. I spent Thursday and part of Friday in Orlando, FL with my sister and her family, after spending a couple of days at the Poynter Institute working on a project. It was quite interesting to see gas station after gas station totally out of gas! Well, Frances has been downgraded, so hopefully the winds won't be so severe, although the flooding is likely to be. Keep your fingers crossed for the people of Florida. Anyway, now that I'm back I'm dealing with my own personal flood: my normal backlog of informa From Contentious Weblog on September 5, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Cool Tool: TinyURL
I recently switched this weblog over to WordPress blogging software. Since then, all sorts of interesting things keep popping up related to the switch that I have to learn and/or handle. Case in point: URL formatting – a surprisingly important issue for both my e-mail alerts and for search engines. Let me explain the issue, and then I'll tell you about a really cool tool called TinyUrl that's helping me leverage changing circumstances... From Contentious Weblog on September 5, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Turbine engines and fanboys
Just chilling at home, although apparently the airspace above said home is the flight path for the planes from the CNE Airshow. Have been "buzzed" liberally throughout the afternoon. Kinda creepy hearing jet planes barrelling past you, especially when you're watching CNN. A funny thread on Neowin: the apple product cycle" href="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=48&t=213310&s=?">The Apple product cycle. So true, so true: The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and ligh From silentblue | Quantified on September 5, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Excellent reflection article
I was having a conversation with Helen Barrett about definitions of reflection and she mentioned this article by Jennifer Moon. I found this piece an informative read and it helped my thinking about what reflection is. Reflection in Higher Education... From ERADC Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Emailing Lists, Discussion, and Interaction
Steve is asking for comments on his essay titled "When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Emailing Lists, Discussion, and Interaction." A teaser from Steve's post: I'm not trying to say in this essay that using blogs in classrooms is a bad idea. All I'm trying to say is that they aren't very good at creating a "discussion" among From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on September 5, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

The Case for Wireless Commons: AKMA Outside the Library
I've been meaning to blog this for a while, but it's hard to know where to start. For background, see Code Breaking: Spectrum for All by Lawrence Lessig, where he makes the case for wireless spectrum as public property (he also devotes a section of The Future of Ideas to open spectrum). See also Yochai Benkler's The Political Economy of Commons and the Open Spectru From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on September 5, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Forty students with blogs
I helped forty students sign up for free blogs with Blogger this week, and I'm happy with the increased sophistication of that software. I would like to have set them up with more complex ExpressionEngine blogs through the university, but we haven't upgraded yet to EE v1.1, which has the much easier and faster set-up options. The first discussion of traits of a good weblog and good weblog writing was enjoyable, with a good number of students pointing out features they had observed in a... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 5, 2004 at 2:44 p.m..

Invention and student blogs
So when we get back together after the holiday, I want to talk with students about invention, which they will know from other contexts but not from the field of rhetoric. But all writers need strategies for creating ideas for their writing, and bloggers have some good starting points. *personal experience *responding to another writer *linking and discussing (a variation) *testing another writer's ideas against personal experience (a variation) *testing one writer's ideas... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 5, 2004 at 2:44 p.m..

Invention, continued
From yesterday: So maybe here's my point: blogging is not democratic only because it gives each person a place to publish -- it is also democratic because it is a body of practices that help each person invent something worth reading. It is as if freedom of speech is not valuable only or even mainly for its freedom, but rather it is valuable for the social practices that it helps a society cultivate, for the internal and social work it helps individuals do, and for the quality of the... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 5, 2004 at 2:44 p.m..

Layers of cottons
Rick:I must admit that I had no idea who Enzo Baldoni was, not until a few days ago, not until the news of his kidnapping in Iraq echoed through the blogosphere to me. It's strange to know new things from blogs: on one side, they seem as coming through layers of cottons, they come somewhat filtered... but when you try to understand what this "filter" is, you see that it's just the lack of the kind of amplification from the From Mathemagenic on September 5, 2004 at 2:42 p.m..

On being a geek (2): WiFi, Tablet PC SP2, SkypeOut and Bluetooth headsets
As there is no way I can pretend I'm not a geek since I've got my TravelMate TabletPC, I'll write more about technical stuff :) WiFi First thing I found out that learning "how-to" WiFi goes very fast when you actually have something WiFi enabled :) Going through the process of getting connected to Wireless LAN of University of Twente (largest hotspot in Europe, btw :) I've learnt about all From Mathemagenic on September 5, 2004 at 2:42 p.m..

Personal KM at KM Europe
It's time to start preparing for KM Europe. This year it's in Amsterdam again, 8-10 November. Apart from keynotes and specific workshops the conference is free, which turns it into a good networking event since it's easy to join. Talking about personal KM at "BlogWalk3", Piers Young, Ton Zijlstra and me discussed an idea of organising a session on pKM at KM Europe. At this moment I'm talking with organisers to see if something li From Mathemagenic on September 5, 2004 at 2:42 p.m..

USU IT Day 2
Another big day at Utah State. So many interesting conversations. Paul Kirschner was very entertaining, talking more about how every artifact has certain affordances--ways in which it is most effectively used. Great dinner at the Coppermill restaurant downtown. Took a... From Martindale Matrix on September 5, 2004 at 2:40 p.m..

Microsoft: Linux may mean price cuts, fewer sales - Jo Best, CNET News.com
Microsoft has filed a report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission warning that 2005 could be challenging, as Linux continues to steal business and PC sales remain sluggish. "For fiscal 2005, we believe industrywide factors such as PC unit From Techno-News Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:40 p.m..

SP2 vs. the plug-ins - Paul Festa, CNET News.com
While security experts applaud Microsoft's recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product's introduction with dread and suspicion. For years, software developers have offered appli From Techno-News Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:40 p.m..

PC makers: Look before taking SP2 leap - Ina Fried, CNET News.com
Although Microsoft has recommended consumers turn on Windows' Automatic Update feature to get Windows XP Service Pack 2, PC makers are reminding Windows XP users to do their homework before installing the security update. Major computer makers recomme From Techno-News Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:40 p.m..

Wi-fi nets get security makeover - BBC
The security systems built into wireless networks have had an overhaul. The update uses stronger encryption and does a better job of letting only authorised users join wireless nets. The improvements have been made to re-assure businesses that wi-fi n From Techno-News Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:40 p.m..

Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P bill - Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com
The U.S. Copyright Office has drafted a new version of the Induce Act that it believes will ban networks like Kazaa and Morpheus while not putting hardware such as portable hard drives and MP3 players on the wrong side of the law. The original Induce From Techno-News Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:40 p.m..

'Layering' new biometrics buzzword - Michelle Speir, Federal Computer Week
The latest biometrics buzz is all about layering. Biometric authenticators such as fingerprints can be combined with smart cards, passwords, other biometrics and more. We recently came across a device that combines fingerprint scans with electronic s From Techno-News Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:40 p.m..

Intrallect wins JORUM UK national repository contract
With the awarding of the 250.000 GBP contract, the JISC sponsored JORUM project will start the transition to a national repository of learning materials, to be made available to the UK Further and Higher Education by August 2005. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on September 5, 2004 at 2:39 p.m..

Browser Statistics According To The W3C
I was not aware that the W3C had a public page listing its own browser statistics along with stats data for most popular screen resolutions, most popular operating systems and more. The statistics are made with data coming from the... From Robin Good's Latest News on September 5, 2004 at 2:38 p.m..

Christian solace from Homeland Security
W. David Stephenson blogs that the Dept. of Homeland Security ... ... has chosen "Victim Relief Ministries"which The Baptist Standard calls "an interdenominational nonprofit organization related to Texas Baptist Men" to "take the lead in mobilizing the country's faith community in the event of a terrorist attack or mass-casualty crisis. What is this all about???.. It's actually unclear what it's about. The article David's blog is based on (note the "postnuke" in its url) may be exaggerating a tad, since "taking the lead" may just be puffery. On the other hand, the article s From Joho the Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:38 p.m..

Dept. of Unfortunate Page Breaks
Here's how yesterday's front-page NY Times article about Bill Clinton's heart surgery ends before the leap to page 15: "My husband is doing very well, " she [Hillary] said, nothing that he had beaten her After the jump, we get the rest of the sentence: and their daughter, Chelsea, at card games.... From Joho the Blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:38 p.m..

Frances Approaches Florida Coast
It may have weakened, but this is still one mother of a storm. My thoughts are with the people whose lives have already been turned inside-out and those who will soon be feeling the brunt of this thing. Florida's state government has a page of organizations taking donations. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

Way to Foil Spammers when Posting E-mail Addresses?
Has anyone tried this? Does it work for you? From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

Tech Nation on 'We the Media'
Moira Gunn and I had an interesting discussion about the book on her public-radio show, Tech Nation. Scroll down for this RealAudio link. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

Astroturf Campaigning From the Left
if I were an editorial page editor I'd be watching out for -- and would not print -- letters using the wording from this page. Astroturfing should be no more acceptable from the left than the right. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

C-Span Airing Internet Panel
At last week's Progress & Freedom Foundation Aspen meeting I did a panel with James Taranto, who writes the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com "Best of the Web" blog. The topic was how political operatives are using the Internet, and how regular folks can do the same in their political activities. As I said in the book, I don't agree with him politically, for the most part, but he does write with real style (and is a thoughtful, nice guy in person). I don't think there's a file of our talk on the Web, but here&apos From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

Investing in our Future
(This is also my Sunday column in the San Jose Mercury News.) As first a presidential candidate and now the Democratic vice presidential nominee, John Edwards has described the core of President Bush's economic policy: valuing wealth over work. ``President Bush has a war on work -- you see it in everything he does,'' Edwards said in a September 2003 speech. ``He wants to eliminate every penny of tax on wealth, and shift the whole burden to people who From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

Big Media Notices Iraq Bloggers, but Only American Ones
Today's Los Angeles Times has a roundup of on-the-ground Iraq blogging. Great idea, but incomplete execution. The bloggers quoted are all Americans. It would also have been useful to note some of the indigenous Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

Across the great divide
I first pointed to this stunning Valdis Krebs infographic back in March 2004, when the New York Times published it. Krebs has long been fascinated with the clusters that emerge from an analysis of Amazon's related-purchase data. I was reminded of his chart the other day when I heard < From Jon's Radio on September 5, 2004 at 2:36 p.m..

The Real Threat of Blogs
I believe that the most dangerous thing about blogs to the status quo is that so many of them exist for reasons other than to make money. A thriving community of people who are engaged for free, to me, have a certain authority that people doing things for money don't.Writing a book for money is always suspect. (Disclosure to all: I have written books for money and for free.) Writing it for free is very different - and might still be suspect, but for other reasons. What made the early Internet so very threatening to the mainstream media was not just the new opinions From rushkoff.blog on September 5, 2004 at 2:35 p.m..

Rapid Phoenix Area Growth Calls For Updated School Technology
Fast growth in Deer Valley Unified School District calls for immediate technology upgrades [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004] From PR Web on September 5, 2004 at 2:35 p.m..

Writing as Therapy HYPHEN Leona M Seufert Shows You How to Access Your Inner Therapist
Leona M Seufert, writer and published author will be doing a free presentation on the topic of using Writing as Therapy, September 15, 2004 at the Rahway Public Library, Rahway, NJ. This presentation will focus on how writing can be used to help solve personal problems, work through grief, and heal your soul. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004] From PR Web on September 5, 2004 at 2:35 p.m..

International Sephardic Journal, the official publication of the International Society for Sephardic Progress wins the 2004-2005 Fromer Award.
The International Society for Sephardic Progress (ISFSP) announced today that it has been awarded the 2004-2005 Fromer Award for its official publication, the International Sephardic Journal. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004] From PR Web on September 5, 2004 at 2:35 p.m..

A New Book on Higher Technical Education
A new book on university level technical education has just been released in electronic form for immediate download at powells.com. The emphasis of the book is on excellence and the point of view is International [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004] From PR Web on September 5, 2004 at 2:35 p.m..

CECredits Online engages iTech Management, LLC (iTM). ITM and The Watson Group team to develop business planning and overall strategy for CECredits Online, a leading online multi-media continuing education company.
iTM is providing executive consulting services aimed at improving CECredits Online performance, examining business and technology stragtegies, and evaluating ways to improve the financial performance of CECredits Online. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004] From PR Web on September 5, 2004 at 2:35 p.m..

Active Duty Military Attending the RNC
A recent report filed by the Associated Press contained a startling bit of information: About 15 percent of the 4,800-plus delegates and alternates to the convention in New York are veterans, organizers said Monday. An additional 3 percent are active military personnel. This report was displayed prominently on the Republican National Committee's website, and lauded gleefully by the fine folks at Free Republic, among others As it turns out though, it's actually not such a good thing to have active-duty military anywhere near a political convention - if you value From kuro5hin.org on September 5, 2004 at 2:35 p.m..

Shrook 2 - RSS and Atom for Mac OS X
This must be the Big Month Of Changes for me... After switching my weblog from Blosxom to Wordpress, I'm also switching RSS readers from NetNewsWire to Shrook 2. I really like the implementation of smart folders in Shrook, and the way it handles column-display of RSS items is pretty sweet. It's ... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Wordpress plugins rock!
I've just been playing around with some Wordpress plugins. There is a cool one that gathers a list of related posts for any post, and displays them when viewing an individual post entry (go ahead and view the page for this entry - look down - see that list?). I've also ... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Week ahead: Chips take the stage
The Intel Developer Forum will steal the limelight this week, but there are some side acts. From CNET News.com on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

ITI Remix
Several people blogged the Instructional Technology Institute. Here are links to a few of the write-ups, including my own annotations about the writers themselves. If you are aware of anyone else who has published about the conference please let me know (who was it that was audio blogging the conference?!?). Ulises Ali Mejias. Absolutely excellent fellow who I'm hoping will provide years of insight into the use of discourse to support learning online. It's great to meet completely new people who rea From autounfocus on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

MIT iCampus Outreach Initiative
This is a set of tools developed at MIT in collaboration with Microsoft. This site, just launched, "seeks to disseminate" the tools - it doesn't seek very hard, though, as you have to go through an email exchange with the MIT iCampus Outreach Director in order to even see them. The tools lookminteresting, though - one allows you to design robots, another is a sketch tool for notepad computers, and another is an XML-based course authoring tool called iTutor. Via Syllabus. By Various Authors, MIT iCampus, September, 2004 [OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Techno tag team
The response has been overwhelming, but I'm not sure I'd like the job. This article describes a program at USC whereby tech support is offered by 'live-in' tech support people. Worth noting, too, is that the tech support people are intended not just to fix problems, but to teach students. "If we can educate students as freshmen, then hopefully they will still retain enough of the information to solve computer problems they may have in the rest of their college career." Via Syllabus. By Michael Villasenor, Daily Trojan, August 30, 2004 [--> From OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Intranet Trends to Watch For
Some good observations on the short-term future of corporate intranets, including the increasing role of lawyers (sheesh) and the return of intranets to departmental control. Worth noting is the suggestion that all employees will (finally) become intranet publishers with blog-like tools and that users are demanding a more aesthetic intranet experience. Via elearningpost. By Shiv Singh, Line 56, August 31, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Blocking Moodle
The people at Bath have been running the open source learning management system (LMS) Moodle through its paces. This article describes the addition of a 'block' on Moodle that can import an RSS feed. Nice work. Other items in the series include Moodle Meanderings One, Two and Three. By Derek Morrison, Auricle, Septem From OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Open Admin for Schools
As Les Richardson writes in school-discuss: "Our/My software called Open Admin for Schools is a lightweight web based SIS package based on MySQL/Perl. It is GPL'd. It is currently being used in 4 divisions (that I know about) here in Saskatchewan, Canada and by some international schools." By Various Authors, September, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Educhaos: Facilitating the Unpredictable!
This item arrived in my email yesterday morning via Rod Corbett's Best Practices in E-Learning Newsletter just in time for me to include the link in my presentation. In a word, Marie Jasinski gets it. "Educhaos HYPHEN connecting educational practice with chaos and complexity theory. It's that dynamic space between order and disorder where educators embrace contradictions like stability and instability, structure and flexibility, planning and improvisation." Great stuff. HTML page linking to a Breeze presentation with (sadly) dubious sound quality. By Marie Jasinski, University of Ca From OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

How Social Is Computer Supported Collaborative Learning?
I got this item in my email, and I thought I'd pass it along with my comments. The emailer writes: "If I take Intro Computing Science from ABC University, I do not care one bit about the 'social' aspect of it. If I want to learn Socialization 100 there are social science courses I can take." My response outlines the role of 'socialization' in computer science and learning. Short. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, September 4, 2004 [Refer][--> From OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Synchronous Collaboration tools for the Academic World
Longish (50 minute) Breeze presentation from Robin Good. George Siemens summarizes it nicely: "Robin's central tenet is that large, full featured enterprise synchronous tools don't meet the needs of most users...and as a result, a new breed of simpler, specialized, connected tools are gaining popularity (interesting to see if a similar trend will take hold with LMS')." By Luigi Canali de Rossi, Robin Good, September, 2004 [Refer][--> From OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Apple's iTunes Opens Wider -- By Hook or By Hack
Short article that describes additional hacks into the Apple iTunes DRM system. "The various hacks to iTunes are further evidence that no DRM scheme is hackproof, and that the schemes most likely to be hacked are the ones that are most popular." But also: "it is evidence that Apple is gradually bowing to considerable industry pressure not to repeat the mistakes it made in the personal computer world by keeping the Macintosh proprietary." By Staff, DRM Watch, August 26, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

Instructional Technology Institute Conference, 2004
Overview of the Instructional Technology Conference in Utah. None of the summaries is particularly detailed, but the author provides a lot of links that I missed. By Ulises Ali Mejias, Ideant, September 3, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on September 5, 2004 at 2:34 p.m..

ITI: Stephen Downes Keynote
Today is a bit of a catch-up day as I recover from the intensive ITI conference in Utah. This item summarizes my presentation - my slides and an MP3 audio version will be available next week when I get FTP access to my server again. But if you can't wait, read this item, which is a very goot and fairly detailed outline of what I said. By Rick West, The Edu-Blogger, September 3, 2004 [Refer][Resea