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Kuwaiti Public Ad-Hoc P2P Systems Over Bluetooth
Our buddy Mark from Kuwait just sent us this little bit, which I thought was interesting.hey joel, there is a new trend in kuwait. since the majority of people have bluetooth phones, if u sit at a food court or at a starbucks in a mall people will start sending you files. its like P2P, totally anonymous and everyone is always giving. it started off by people sending porn to each other but now it has evolved. people are actually make small movies, mostly funny and sending them to each other.While my first thought is how someone else could own your ph From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 10:58 p.m..
Webcams: The Aesthetics of Liveness
Andy Warhol must be jealous that he didn't live to experience
webcams. He would have had a webcam on every corner of The Factory just looking at the watercooler.
(Circa 2000. Nice find, Ryan! -kc.) From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 10:58 p.m..
Jon Hoem's experimental videoblog
I should have done this for quite a while, instead of talkning about doing it, but anyway here is
my (experimental) videoblog. Well, actually the experimental part is far from obvious since the blog is pretty straight-forward, using Blogger all the way, with a little tweak which Svein Høier directed me to. Every post consists of a single shot, normally a short one. This is done in order to make it possible to select the shots individually, and then sequence them in different orders. Next step will be to find/make a script From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 10:58 p.m..
FCC launches Kidszone
What is the difference between AM radio and FM radio? What is Broadband? What is Telecommunications Relay Service? How do Descramblers work? How does a V-Chip work? To answer these, and other questions of significance to American kids such as, "What is unacceptable language for radio and television?" - "Why do all FM radio stations end in an odd number?" - "How does a fax machine work?" -
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 10:58 p.m..
CBS News Purchases Tapeless Cameras, DecksCBS News...
CBS News Purchases Tapeless Cameras, DecksCBS News is adopting Sony's tapeless camera system for its network and O&O operations. "CBS's conversion to Sony's optical disc technology by the news division and its stations represents an investment projected to exceed $20 million over the next two years,"
a press release says. "CBS News will take delivery of more than 75 XDCAM camcorders and 250 decks." Big hat tip to
Lost Remote! From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 9:58 p.m..
Betamax Under Siege - Again
The Senate Judiciary Committee, responding to the hail of brickbats that greeted Senator Hatch's "Induce Act," asked the Copyright Office to propose something that would be more popular with the technology community. Here's the heart of what it came up with:Whoever manufactures, offers to the public, provides, or otherwise traffics in any product or service, such as a computer program, technology, device or component, that is a cause of individuals engaging in infringing public dissemination of copyrighted works shall be liable as an infringer where such activi From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 9:58 p.m..
TreeQ
A set of C-language applications that implement machine learning algorithms using a tree-structured classifier. This approach is particularly effective for high-dimensional continuous data such as audio and video. From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 9:58 p.m..
Phone makers team on mobile TV plans
Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson
have announced plans to cooperate in the Mobile Broadcast Services work, started under Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). Their goal is to figure out how to best bring new push-streaming services to mobile devices as bandwidth to do so becomes available. The quintessential service for such broadcasts is mobile phone TV. The participating companies see mobile TV as the next big thing for the adoption of high-speed mobile connections, although in general, mobile broadcast will enabl From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 9:58 p.m..
Re-inventing Television Summit - Sept. 29-30, 2004, Long Beach, CA
ITV Alliance is hosting Re-inventing Television Summit on the Queen Mary in Long Beach (Sep. 29, 30). They are offering a special NATAS Pass to independent producers and consultants that are not affiliated with a larger company. It costs $1,000 and includes all workshops, meals, overnight stay on the ship, and an annual membership to the ITA and NATPE. For more information, go to
http://www.itvalliance.org/natas.htm. From
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 9:58 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Sep 14
Today's highlights: Treo 650 due October; Media Works Systems Media Messenger; New Customer for Parlano; BlackBerry Enterprise Server for GroupWise; Documentum using Interwise for Web Conferencing; Slideware on Microsoft LCS; Microsoft LCS 2005 Beta; palmOne is apparently ready to launch... From
Kolabora.com on September 13, 2004 at 9:57 p.m..
The problem with definitions - or how I learned to get over learning objects and start making good e-learning instead
At the risk of labouring yesterday's piece about learning objects, I did just want to write another paragraph or two to address something that has been raised in some feedback I've had. Is there any specific reason that you can think of why there needs to be definition of learning objects (LOs) that's as agreeable to an educational technologist as to an educationalist (assuming we agree what distinguishes those different kinds of people)? I suggested yesterday that perhaps this is why there's so much discord when talking about LOs. Firstly because you can't have more t From
David Davies: Edtech on September 13, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..
Andrew Grumet's dir2rss
I'm doing a little experiment with
audioblogging, partly to try it out and partly to test a new helper script for setting up
rss enclosures. The big idea is this. You have a Web-visible area to which you add files from time to time. You'd like to be able to publish an enclosure feed so that your friends/customers/audience can see and download the new files as they appear. If you're lucky, your blog-authoring tool already supports enclosures.
unmediated on September 13, 2004 at 8:58 p.m..
North Korean Blast, WMD Echoes, and Missed News Opportunities
Over the last few days I've been following the news coverage of the mysterious mushroom cloud that appeared Sept. 9 over North Korea. Was it a nuclear test? A forest fire? An industrial or military accident? A deliberate detonation of conventional explosives? When speculation and quick explanations are rampant, that's exactly when journalists should push to gather hard evidence. In this case, evidence of a nuclear blast would come from scientists who monitor the globe for such events. Unfortunately, most of the world's English-language news outlets seem to have overlooked this o From
Contentious Weblog on September 13, 2004 at 8:58 p.m..
Bloggers as Reporters
Weblogs again are playing a central role in a major story -- this time the uproar over the veracity of old memos cited in a "60 Minutes" report questioning President Bush's National Guard record.But this go-around shows how the blogosphere may be maturing from a medium characterized by just commentary and the usual anti-media hyperventilation to one where reporting skills are also taking center stage.Bloggers with expertise in the arcana of type fonts and typewriters have weighed in on the debate, while others have unearthed old manuals on the capabilities of electric type From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 13, 2004 at 8:58 p.m..
Blogsnow - Now without the US!
I hadn't been to BlogsNow before (thanks for the link, mas ri). It is a rolling aggregation of links harvested from fresh blogs. And now they've added a feature: A version that strips out the .com and .us sites so that links to other countries get some visibility.... From
Joho the Blog on September 13, 2004 at 8:49 p.m..
ICEIS - 2005 conference
This is an invitation to submit a paper to a conference that is being organized in this area: the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS-2005). ICEIS-2005 will be held in Miami (USA) next year, on May 24-28. The deadline... From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 13, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..
Tuition and Financial Aid Increasing
Just released, a National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report for 1989 - 2000 reveals that: · Average tuition increased at most institutions but grant increases did not keep pace. · The percentage receiving some form of financial aid increased... From
Adult/Continuing Education on September 13, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..
NCVER News 108 - Latest News
A regular email newsletter from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd, Australia. In this issue: Request for proposals - National Research and Evaluation Program; Senior Research Officer vacancy; NCVER Research Forum: Young people and VET - 17 November 2004; 13th VET Research Conference papers now available.NCVER, 10 September 2004 From
EdNA Online on September 13, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
1. Fernausbildungskongress der Bundeswehr
Ich stecke mitten in der Lektüre ... aber davon morgen mehr. Heute jedenfalls habe ich mich entschlossen, nächste Woche (21.-23.9.) dem Fernausbildungskongress in Hamburg einen Besuch abzustatten. Wer Lust auf ein (informelles) Treffen hat, schickt mir einfach eine kurze email!... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 13, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Deep linking: firewalls versus contracts
Last week Phil Wainewright discovered IDG's
linking policy, and was not amused: I am starting to regret the several thousand visitors that Loosely Coupled has sent to InfoWorld articles in the past year. It turns out all those links were in breach of InfoWorld's terms and conditions. We shall think twice about linking to IDG titles in the future, even though From
Jon's Radio on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..
Faronics Revolutionizes Workstation Security... Again!
FreezeX is a revolutionary method to address blended threats. Unlike existing solutions, FreezeX utilizes a unique whitelist technology to provide proactive protection against spyware, keyloggers, Trojans, viruses, or any other malware. Powerful and secure, FreezeX is an economical software solution that prevents unauthorized executables from launching no matter if they are downloaded or introduced via removable media or the network. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004] From
PR Web on September 13, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..
Blog post about NIH plan
Robert Stern,
Open Access Articles From The NIH, SternViews, September 13, 2004. Summarizes recent news about NIH plan and makes the following comments: This is a dicey issue for the same reason that drug and clinical trial access is a hot potato. The world is asking for access, transparency and equality on a level playing field. Who would be against that theory? The rub as always: who will pay? From
Open Access News on September 13, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Grammar and Punctuation for the Web: What’s Proper?
Most of us were educated to believe that there is one "correct" (and fairly formal) version of English grammar and punctuation, and any deviation from that is mere sloppiness. Not true! The whole point of grammar and punctuation is to enhance understanding – not to enforce rigid conformity. The way we understand information depends, in large measure, upon how we get that information. Therefore, the rules of grammar and punctuation must bend and evolve to accommodate various forms of communication – including the web... From
Contentious Weblog on September 13, 2004 at 5:00 p.m..
Effective Writing for the Real World
Good writing is largely a matter of motivation and editing. What motivates people to write well? What skills are needed to polish writing? Unless you're writing purely for the joy of self-expression, it's likely that you want your writing to have some sort of effect in the real world. In other words, you want your writing to be not merely "good," but effective. Too often people get caught up in the mechanics of writing, and lose sight of the ultimate goal (desired effect). Similarly, writing experts and teachers often focus too heavily on issues such as style, grammar, outlining, and From
Contentious Weblog on September 13, 2004 at 5:00 p.m..
Worm speaks to Windows users
Using the Windows Speech Engine, the Amos virus greets XP users on start-up, makes a dubious claim, then bids farewell in Turkish. From
CNET News.com on September 13, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Readers as Editors
I know I come back to this a lot, but I just find the whole reader as editor phenomenon to be so powerful and so important for the way we think about the Internet. I mean look at what's happened over the last week with the "60 Minutes" controversy over documents they used in a report about the president's military service. The amount of critical thinking and writing skills that bloggers have exhibited over the last week on this story alone is pretty impressive. Now I know it's not all wonderful, and I know that it's tough to translate all of this down to the classroom. But From
weblogged News on September 13, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..
Comment Spam
Deleted my first comment this morning with Manila's new tool and I have to tell you, it felt really good. After months of reading about Alan's hard fought campaign against the "roaches," I was wondering when it was going to start here, and sure enough, about two months ago they started trickling in. Of course, with
Manila, one option is to have would-be commentors become members and login with a password in order to respond to a post. But I'm hoping it won't get so bad that I have to do that. Having said that, I'm hoping that From
weblogged News on September 13, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..
A New Publishing Format
Rafat Ali, whose
PaidContent.org weblog is a must-read for folks in electronic publishing, is trying a cool experiment: He's bringing in guest bloggers for a week at a time and, if necessary, posing questions for them (or letting them respond to readers' questions). He calls it the
ContentNext Blogview Series. He's starting with Jeremy Allaire, co-founder of Allaire, which created the popular ColdFusion software for coding dynamic webpages. "The id From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 13, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
How About a New Direction for Eyetrack?
Designer Alan Jacobson has published a
critique of Poynter's
Eyetrack III research. (Note: I was co-project manager of the study.) One of Jacobson's principal points is that Eyetrack III focused primarily on current-day news website design, of which he is very critical. (See
an interview I did with Jacobson for Editor & Publisher Online a while back.) Today's news websites -- most of the From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 13, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
Third edition of OSI Guide to Institutional Repository Software
The
Open Society Institute has released the third edition of its
Guide to Institutional Repository Software. Like previous editions, the updated version of the guide is written by Raym Crow and covers open-source packages for creating and maintaining OAI-compliant institutional repositories. This edition covers nine packages: Archimede, ARNO, CDSware, DSpace, Eprints, Fedors, i-Tor, MyCoRe, and OPUS (Archimede and OPUS are new since the last edition). Th From
Open Access News on September 13, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..
Lemme consult my frog
"I have declared Sunday 'Family Day'," my sister proclaimed when she flew into Toronto for the weekend. It wasn't so bad. Mom even complimented me _twice_ on my driving skills, we had a surprisingly decent authentic Shanghainese lunch at the bizarre landmark known as Chinese Hut (fish in wine sauce), I got to upgrade my mom's PC to AOL 9.0 (Totally different from AOL 8.0! Now with a slightly lighter blue colour scheme!), and rescue my stamp collection from my parent's home. We also went to grandfather's grave to pay our respects. My mom is growing spaghetti squash From
silentblue | Quantified on September 13, 2004 at 12:58 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Sep 1
Today's highlights: New customer for Groove; JP Mobile SureWave; Google IM?; FaceTime: We're winning AOL Enterprise Customers; New customer for Parlano; New customer for Groove Networks: the US Army, with a $5.2 million deal. Boston Business. The new deployment of... From
Kolabora.com on September 13, 2004 at 12:57 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Sep 2
Today's highlights: GroupSense; Plumtree Developer Support Program; Visto Planning for an IPO; No WinFS in Longhorn -- IT Managers Say "So What"; Interwoven on WorkSite MP 4; GroupSense is a Christchurch, New Zealand based firm offering collaboration consulting and software,... From
Kolabora.com on September 13, 2004 at 12:57 p.m..
Centro Nacional de Huracanes: feed RSS en español
El National Hurricane Center con base en Miami, ofrece un Feed RSS en español sobre Ciclones tropicales activos en el Atlántico, Caribe, y el Golfo de México. Ver también el seguimiento del Huracán Iván en Huracan.net... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on September 13, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..
The Blog's True Contribution to Election 2004?
John Borland at ZDNews
writes: When history books are written, bloggers’ real contribution to the 2004 election may well turn out to be in providing leagues of amateur sleuths to fact-check political controversy. In other words, the productive role of political blogging is to break the informational cascade in the… From
e-Literate on September 13, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
About Robin Good: ConferencingNews Gets The Story
ConferencingNews publishes today an interesting interview with me, for which they have patiently waited several months. In it I share some of my background, my career milestones and my present daily work routines. I talk about talk Kolabora, MasterNewMedia and... From
Robin Good's Latest News on September 13, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
BMC launches OA institutional repository service
BioMed Central today launched Open Repository, an open-access repository service for universities and research institutions. From the
press release: "The Open Repository service makes it possible for institutions that could not otherwise afford to, or lack the infrastructure or technical capacity in-house, to set up repositories....Open Repository offers a number of different levels of service, to fit with a university or institution's requirements. For a one-off set From
Open Access News on September 13, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..
Skype Continues to Amaze
I'm in Copenhagen, and just got off the "phone" with someone who's in Beijing. We were both using
Skype, and the connection was just fine. The communications revolution continues. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 13, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..
Are Cell Phone Users the New Smokers?
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101010Â If the newest etiquette surveys are any indication, mobile phones may be going the way of the cigarette. Just to prove how good smokers used to have it, a recent Seattle Times article cited the 1941 treatise on manners, "New American Etiquette." The book, with all the compassion that a high-school football coach bestows upon his third-stringers, admonishes nonsmokers not merely to accept but to accommodate their smoking peers. If unwilling, the auth From
rushkoff.blog on September 13, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..
Practical WebObjects
Just a note to myself to buy Practical WebObjects (found out about the book here. From the book's page: Written by two expert WebObjects developers, Charles Hill and Sacha Mallais, this book features working, world-tested solutions for difficult problems. Endorsed by Global Village, Practical WebObjects includes many topics not covered ... From
D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on September 13, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Distributed Categories
Distributed Categories sounds something like a cross between the "bag of keywords" approach I've mentioned, and the Shibboleth method of associating distributed content via a shared magic keyword (as used by Stephen Downes' EduRSS Merlot feed aggregator). Michael Feldstein has collected a list of folks talking about this stuff. From
D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on September 13, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Distributed Categories: Something's in the Air
One way or another, it looks like distributed categorization is going to really take off, and soon. There’s just too much chatter going on about how to implement it for it not to happen pervasively. Let’s start by summarizing the stuff that I’ve already posted on the topic:
I quoted… From
e-Literate on September 13, 2004 at 11:03 a.m..
Quote for the day
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
¶ From
Open Artifact on September 13, 2004 at 11:02 a.m..
More on OA to clinical trials
Jennifer Couzin,
Momentum Builds for Clinical Trial Registration, ScienceNOW, September 10, 2004. (Access restricted to subscribers.) Couzin reports on a Sept. 9 congressional hearing with FDA official Janet Woodcock, who "suggested that FDA's hands were tied when it came to releasing negative data about a company's trials." Evidently, bills which would require "registry of clinical trials at their inception" are pending in both the House and Senate. "Pharmaceutical companies, however, are pressing for From
Open Access News on September 13, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
Summer break is over...
and I will probably need a few days to adjust my flow and rhythm. I got back from Bangkok only two days ago and right now everything seems so neat, orderly and quiet over here that I start to wonder if I actually live in a spa town of some sort... ;-) From
Seblogging News on September 13, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
Remedial Administration
Community colleges in general are reaping praise and renewed national support. But one in Baltimore is beset by problems. From
Chronicle: free on September 13, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
Democracy's Shadow
The sociologist Michael Mann, on a detour from his epic study of power in human history, went straight to the horrors at the center of modern life. From
Chronicle: free on September 13, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
Lifestylism: The Coaching of the All
An emerging trend toward the idea of lifestyle coaching seems to be gaining momentum as a viable business opportunity. The purpose of lifestyle coaching is to provide consultative and educational services that help clients to discover and live a better... From
Experience Designer Network on September 13, 2004 at 9:01 a.m..
El TamTam de la creatividad
Se define como "escritor, músico, especialista en juegos de ingenio, programador y fan de la Web". Eduardo Abel Gimenez, a quien conocerán por La Mágica Web e Imaginaria, es el promotor de TamTam, una magnÃfica iniciativa para promover la creatividad... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on September 13, 2004 at 8:53 a.m..
On the bursty evolution of blogspace
Kumar, R., Novak, J., Raghaven, P., & Tomkins, A. (2003).
On the bursty evolution of blogspace. Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 568-576). Budapest, Hungary.Abstract. We propose two new tools to address the evolution of hyperlinked corpora. First, we define time graphs to extend the traditional notion of an evolving directed graph, capturing link creation as a point phenomenon in time. Second, we develop definitions an From
Mathemagenic on September 13, 2004 at 8:53 a.m..
Schulbuch-Aktion bei Klett
Der Ernst Klett Verlag startet daher zum Schuljahresbeginn die Aktion "Ranziges raus!". Mit ihr bittet der Klett-Verlag alle Schulen in den Bundesländern Nordrhein-Westfalen, Schleswig-Holstein, Bayern, Baden-Württemberg und Hessen um die Einsendung aller noch im Einsatz befindlichen Schulbücher, die im Jahr 1990 oder davor erschienen sind (Jahr des letzten Druckes). Adresse: Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH, Kundenservice, Herrn Ralf Wagenblast, Rotebühlstraße 77, 70178 Stuttgart. Einsendebedingungen: Die From
BildungsBlog on September 13, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..
Kerry and the IP extremists
One of the exciting thing about the early days of the Democratic primary was that there was at least some debate about whether the Democratic Party would continue to be led by IP extremists. Some of the worst in IP came, after all, from the Clinton administration. Reflecting on that, many were hopeful we'd see some new thinking. Many of the most passionate
Deaniacs were eager to see new thinking on this issue. Senator Edwards
addressed some of this on this blog. Word now is that
Lessig Blog on September 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Static over RFID
A key patent holder wants royalties. If that starts a trend, adoption of radio frequency identification technology could suffer. From
CNET News.com on September 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Grading Bush on tech
CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh gives the president an "incomplete" and says Kerry's stances on everything from VoIP wiretaps to file swapping differ very little. From
CNET News.com on September 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
RSS Feed Creation & Editing Tool
Interested in beta testing FeedForAll? FeedForAll is the latest and most innovative RSS feed creator and editor. FeedForAll will fix errors in malformed feeds (to a point) and properly format feeds. All you need to do is enter information into the appropriate fields. From
RSS Blog on September 13, 2004 at 8:16 a.m..
Hands on Blended Learning Customer Service Workshop
Hands on Blended Learning Customer Service Workshop Date: 30 September 2004 Venue: Boston, USA The hands-on workshop will demonstrate how you can implement strategic customer service training in weeks - that's tailored to your business goals and personalized to learners' most critical needs - without any technology investments or increased staff resources. At this free, breakfast workshop you will: Take part in objective-based surveys, robust online learning, and interactive workshop exercises to get the full experience of blended learning. Learn how to involve supervisors throughout From
What's New at the e-Learning Centre on September 13, 2004 at 8:14 a.m..
Paying for College
Curb college costs with these tips and learn how a diploma can positively influence your future employment opportunities and earnings.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on September 13, 2004 at 7:54 a.m..
Nano Memory Scheme Handles Defects - Technology Review
Electrical components that are two or three orders of magnitude smaller than E. coli bacteria promise ultra-high speed at ultra-low-power, but they also present several challenges. Nanoscale electronics devices have a fairly high defect rate, and archi From
Techno-News Blog on September 13, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society - Review by John Stuckey, Ubiquity
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society, Rich Ling, (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies), Morgan Kaufman Publishers, an Imprint of Elsevier, San Francisco, CA 94111, 2004, 244pp. American Rich Ling is a senior rese From
Techno-News Blog on September 13, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
The Business Singularity (2)
Networks are defined by the quality of their connections. The measure of network success is its rate of error-free throughput. The successful business has high bandwidth and connections so good that value flows without friction.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on September 13, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..
New Windows OS Boosts Security
After years of trying to make it easier for peripheral devices to work smoothly with computers, Microsoft is building in some difficulty. The upcoming Longhorn OS should allow companies to keep gizmos like iPod from stealing data. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Idaho Hot Potato: Tech Companies
A sparsely populated western state best known for potatoes is becoming a magnet for tech entrepreneurs. The slow pace, absence of traffic and low-rise landscape has helped lure 800 tech companies to the state. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Web to Handset: Easy Data Dump
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs want a simple way for folks to populate their mobile devices with data. As cell phones become the one thing to carry -- part phone, part PDA, part camera, part MP3 player -- using Vazu might do the trick. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Robot Spider Walks on Water
MIT researchers produce a tiny water-skimming robot prototype they think could monitor water supplies for toxins or skim contaminants off the top of water. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
U.S. Exports DMCA Down Under
Negotiations for a trade agreement between the U.S. and Australia are raising a ruckus among Aussie digital rights activists. At issue is a plan to enact a law there modeled on the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Patrick Gray. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Public Fiber Tough to Swallow
Cities that try to set up their own broadband networks are facing staunch opposition from cable and phone companies, who see publicly funded fiber-optic networks as a threat to their own bottom line. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Frozen Eggs Showing Promise
Italian researchers have achieved 13 human births using previously frozen eggs. It's encouraging for women who want to preserve their fertility, but efficiency is still low. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Study: Recycling Cost Overstated
Nova Scotia makes a name for itself as a rigorous enforcer of recycling. Now a study finds that while the province may be spending millions on its garbage program, it's actually saving far more. By Stephen Leahy. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Step Toward Universal Computing
A Silicon Valley company claims to have developed a universal emulator that's uncharacteristically fast. For one thing, it could mean the latest games are immediately available for the Mac. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Pentagon Revives Memory Project
The Department of Defense is handing out contracts for a project to record what soldiers see and do in battle zones. The new initiative closely resembles another, called LifeLog, that the Pentagon scrapped months ago. By Noah Shachtman. From
Wired News on September 13, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Open Source Law and National Security
How many paragraphs of rules and regulations can a society have before no one can predict how it will respond to critical situations? The answer, as demonstrated on 9/11/2001 is: "Not very many." Lawyers need to go open source and let the public bang on their code. From
kuro5hin.org on September 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Comunidad de lectores VII
Va la séptima entrega de (auto) descripciones de los weblogs de miembros de la comunidad de lectores y visitantes de eCuaderno en Orkut (272 miembros hasta ahora): José MarÃa: SimDalom :: WyP Es un weblog con poco tiempo de existencia... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on September 13, 2004 at 4:53 a.m..
New Guide Advises Writers on "Low-Residency" Programs in Creative Writing
A new guide for those considering graduate study in creative writing, "The Practicing Writer's Primer on Low-Residency MFA Programs," offers expert advice and program assessment strategies, plus a directory of nearly two dozen programs in the United States and Canada. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004] From
PR Web on September 13, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Jimmie Sherman to be Profiled in a Marquis Who's Who Publication
Jimmie Sherman, mathematician, educator, author of "Principles Of Immortality" will be included in the 2005 edition of Marquis Who's Who In America, which will be available in October 2004. For more details, go to: www.greatworksofsherman.com [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004] From
PR Web on September 13, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
We Have DNS, Sep 13
The DNS settings for www.shared-spaces.com now work correctly, and the site has been re-published. Access to shared-spaces.com will divert to sharedspaces.typepad.com/blog, but the full and correct address now works. Thank you for your patience. Thanks to Bruce for the initial... From
Kolabora.com on September 13, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..
Standing searches
I'll be in the computer lab with students tomorrow introducing standing searches on Bloglines and Google News, and I'll be asking them to use these tools in their blogging and research in the weeks ahead. It seems to me that standing searches, whether these or others, must be part of the essential toolkit these days. Our library's online data bases offer standing searches, too, but they haven't been (to me) very user-friendly yet and I can't assign them until they I can get them to... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on September 13, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
RSS Blender: the Prototype
Robin Good
pointed out the web tool called
Blender, that offers RSS publishers a way to monetize their feeds by associating related products and ads with individual items, developed by
Thinktank23, who developed
Waypath too. The prototype uses Amazon to create related book links in your From
soulsoup on September 13, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..
Dan Gillmor: What's Next For the Web
Dan Gillmor: What's Next For the Web from The Online Journalism Review It's a mistake to judge value by inbound links. ... It may be gratifying to have a lot, but it doesn't mean what you're doing is better or more important than someone with no inbound links because if you're writing something that's quite personal for your immediate circle of friends and family, if you have inbound links, that might be a problem. For them, it would be intensely valuable -- p From
soulsoup on September 13, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..
The Need for Web Design Standards
The Need for Web Design Standards from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, September 13, 2004 Users expect 77% of the simpler Web design elements to behave in a certain way. Unfortunately, confusion reigns for many higher-level design issues. The entire concept of "Web design" is a misnomer. Individual project teams are not designing the Web any more than individual ants are designing an anthill. Site designers build components of a whole, especially now that users are viewing the entirety From
soulsoup on September 13, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..