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Outrageously Theatrical Teaching
Earlier in the week Jerz's Literacy Weblog pointed to a news story on The Denver Channel about a teacher who tore a bible in half in front of her classroom during a discussion of Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, in order to illustrate the concept of censorship. Sure, it might... From
PEDABLOGUE on September 18, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..
RFI: Does DVI matter?
I just sold my 22" CRT and have replaced it with a 17" Advueu 723A from NewEgg. (NewEgg has become one of my very favorite online stores. Fast, honest, reliable, cheap...and customer reviews.) I want to add a second LCD. The Advueue is so bright that I'm getting glasses-shaped tan lines on my face.I'm wondering whether it's worth an extra $80 to get an LCD with a DVI interface. Will that actually set fire to my hair? (I'm looking at the Samsung 710T.) I don't do a lot of image work, but I do play 3D games. Does the DVI... From
Joho the Blog on September 18, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..
Semantic autos
I was talking with Mark Dionne a couple of days ago about my failed attempt to create a hand gesture that apologizes to drivers for unwarranted honks of annoyance. Today Mark passed along a link to "a car that can wag its tail" that the Car Talk guys mentioned. Little does Mark know that I was on the verge of publishing my own breakthrough idea about this. A few days ago, I nearly hit a car that was making a left into the street because its turn signal simply was not visible from my direction. See the example below. So,... From
Joho the Blog on September 18, 2004 at 8:49 p.m..
The CBS Implosion
Tim Ruten (LA Times; reg req):
Rather went on faith, not facts. CBS' initial report on President Bush's National Guard service was an embarrassment to Murrow's legacy. But the implications of that mistake pale alongside the potential consequences of the network's continuing refusal to do what the situation now demands: to forthrightly admit error, to undertake an independent inquiry and, then, to give a clear public accounting of how this ha From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 18, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..
Amazon holdings in our library?
How does Alec Couros keep coming up with this great stuff? He has found a bookmarklet (a link you can drag to your browser's menu bar) that will allow you to find out whether the U of S or U... From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 18, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..
The Role of Journalists in the Google Age
Last night I saw Kathleen Hall Jamieson on PBS’s The News Hour. Jamieson is the Director of the Annenberg  Public Policy Center which, among other things, sponsors
FactCheck.org. She made the comment that the mainstream journalistic media today are falling down on the job of being “gatekeepers.” While the observation… From
e-Literate on September 18, 2004 at 7:00 p.m..
Citizen Deliberative Councils (Ross Mayfield)
This week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Future Salon alongside Zack Rosen and Tom Atlee on the Tao of Extreme Democracy, a wonderful fusion of tools, practices and political activism. Zack demoed CivicSpace, a funded continuation... From
Corante: Social Software on September 18, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..
Designing the Anti-Social Interface: A Rant
Joel Spolsky has been getting a lot of attention lately for his
observation that software designers need to think about the impact of their interface designs on communication affordances when the software mediates between people. In general, I’m all for this, as you might gather from my posts
here,
here,… From
e-Literate on September 18, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..
Innovative Entrepreneurs
Dave Pollard has written a concise article on how to stimulate and measure Canadian innovation. He trashes the methods used by the federal government and the BC science council to measure and promote innovation. I agree with his verdict - they're lame.And if you want to stimulate innovation, invest in the people that live and die by innovation -- entrepreneurs. Their profits stay in the community, get reinvested, and create jobs. By all means subs From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on September 18, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..
Improve your outlook
If you want to improve your overall outlook on life, you may want to dissect a Magic 8-Ball. For the rest of us who just want to get through the day with the email-and-kitchen-sink app known as Microsoft Outlook, here's a couple free add-ons you might be interested in. Lookout is a search engine that can search all your Outlook folders at once and display results in a matter of seconds. It was recently bought by Microsoft but still sports its open source license. So maybe you should download it ASAP before it's all gone. DateLens is a spiffed up Calendar written by the University of From
silentblue | Quantified on September 18, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..
Partisan Radio
Adam Curry and Dave Winer started a series of two-head radio talk show called "
Trading Secrets". You can download the
first show (60 MB). They talk about this & that. The show is basically like a long phone call. Dave calls via Skype from USA with his Windows laptop while Adamy Curry records the joined Skype audio output and his own microphone with
Wiretap (free from Ambrosia). Audio HiJack is another utility that allow From
owrede_log on September 18, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..
Repercusiones: un post abierto
Inauguro la categorÃa "Abiertos" para clasificar aquellos posts destinados a ser actualizados con cierta frecuencia (normalmente listas, relación de enlaces sobre un tema o asuntos en evolución). Los weblogs, como le hubiera gustado a Vannevar Bush, son una forma de... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on September 18, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
Day 12 in the Dark (Sept. 15th)
You know, when the power company announced last week that it might be September 17th(!) before everyone in my county got power restored I laughed. "Hah!" I chuckled, "wonder who the poor shlub will be who has to go without electricity for all that time?" Turns out that it just might be me. From
Brain Frieze on September 18, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..
Hurricane Stories
It's been a long while since I posted at my blog here, but for good reason. We've been without power here in West Palm Beach for almost two weeks after Hurricane Frances, and it's taken me this long to get things back in action. I continued to blog during the storm, but in my rush to board up and evacuate prior to the storm I forgot to get my password and username for this blog and put it on the laptop. So, I've been posting over at the new Community MX blog, CMXtraneous. Blogging... From
Brain Frieze on September 18, 2004 at 8:57 a.m..
IT women smash glass ceiling - James Mortleman, Vnunet
Pay and prospects for women in IT are the best they have ever been, according to the 30th annual national management salary survey from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Today's female IT managers earn an average of £47,315 a year, second only From
Techno-News Blog on September 18, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
Tech job market still bleak - ALLISON LINN, AP
Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago have confirmed what many high-tech workers have long suspected: The job market for technology experts remains bleak, years after the U.S. recession officially ended in late 2001. The nation's infor From
Techno-News Blog on September 18, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
Thanks for the Pageviews, Ivan
Bad weather has been very good for business at Weather.com and other popular forecasting sites. They are posting record traffic in the wake of Hurricane Ivan's arrival on the mainland. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on September 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Tech Groups Want Induce Hearings
Over 40 technology companies and organizations send a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee asking it to hold public hearings on the controversial Induce Act before moving forward. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on September 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Convoy for Homeland Security
A federal grant pays for a program that recruits and trains truckers to be on the lookout for safety hazards and suspicious behavior. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on September 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Catching a Virus in the Act
Scientists get their first look at a virus attaching to DNA. Physical proof of this surprising interaction could lead to drugs that can stop some infections. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on September 18, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Registration? For What?
Some mainstream people are now arguing against newspaper website registration policies, people who even get mentioned in Poynter's E-Media Tidbits when they make the case. "Exactly what is the point of requiring registration? Is it to prove that the person exists? Is it to stop bots from scanning the sites, and so make sure that none of the content is properly indexed for everyone to find? Or is it to irritate people and keep them away? I think that in the case of American newspapers, it's done to keep people away." By John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, October 5, 2004 [
OLDaily on September 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Back to School Means Back to Advergames
Bonnie Bracey in WWWEDU raiuses the question of whether advertising ought to be allowed inside educational games directed toward children. "This is flying under the radar screen of most parents and teachers," said Jeff Chester, executive director at the Center for Digital Democracy. Although some may argue that such advertising is innocuous, online games have, as I observed a few months back, the capacity to
sensitize or desensitize their players. By Sue Zeidler, Reuters, September 15, 2004 [
OLDaily on September 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Online Adversaries
Via
MANE IT Network: "The creators of
TheFaceBook, a very successful college student social software system, are being sued by a group of students who allege they came up with the idea first." I had never heard of it, but "Thefacebook has 284,000 users at 99 colleges, and on many campuses it has become the primary tool to get someone's phone number, form a study group, or scope out inte From
OLDaily on September 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Best Practices for Connecting with Students Online
I am not going to say that the author is wrong; in fact, she probably isn't. But this best practice for connecting with online students illustrates that we still aren't completely into the online era yet: "Our action plan includes: welcome calls [and] phone calls on at least a monthly basis..." Soime good items in the 'related links' at the bottom of the page. By Sherry McAuliffe, Tech Learning, September 1, 2004 [
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OLDaily on September 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
E-Learning Business Models in the Web Services Era?
I'm not big on web services - I have yet to see a fast one - but the concept of web services, allowing third party applications exchange data with yours, is a good one. And it's interesting to observe the slow lurch toward that sort of interoperability in the education technology field. Derek Morrisoin has an insightful point here - perhaps it's the emergence of free and open source software pushing the way forward. Perhaps it's causing more of a ripple in our community than we think. By Derek Morrison, Auricle, September 17, 2004 [
OLDaily on September 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Mozilla Live Bookmarks
Here's a great new feature in the latest release of Firefox:
Mozilla Firefox's Live Bookmarks. If you are running the new preview release of Firefox, an RSS button will appear in the bottom left of your browser when on the Kairosnews home page. Click on it to add a "live bookmark" Kairosnews folder to your bookmarks which will contain the titles of the latest headlines from Kairosnews. This is a great feature for those that don't want to deal with a news aggregator but would like to subscribe to just a few From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on September 18, 2004 at 4:56 a.m..
Dragon Lair Secures New Round of Funding and Successful Future
For more than five years, Boston Area mixed martial arts (MMA) students and competitors have trained at the Dragon Lair in Framingham, MA to further their skills in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, grappling, wrestling, Muay Thai and applicable hand-to-hand combat. Recently, Dragon Lair has undertaken some very exciting changes, both to its facility and program structure. Undoubtedly, these new changes will continue to prove that Dragon Lair students are some of the best multi-faceted fighters in New England. [PRWEB Sep 18, 2004] From
PR Web on September 18, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Big Band Tribute November 6, 2004 to Pianist Charlie Palmieri at Lincoln Center
Jazz and Salsa luminaries will meet on November 6, 2004 to pay tribute to one of the music world's most talented, prolific and selfless artists, the late pianist Charlie Palmieri, in New York City's prestigious concert hall, Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The Tribute to Charlie Palmieri concert is part of the Annual Benefit for Global Arts & Culture Series, a fundraising effort by the Multicultural Music Group, Inc. (MMG). MMG is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 that provides free music education and training to inner city youth as they pr From
PR Web on September 18, 2004 at 2:46 a.m..
Taking a stab at Wikipedia
I'm practicing on Wikipedia, taking the first steps in writing an article (possibly with a collaborator, Ross Taylor) about the poet Donald Justice. I notice that the software has become more intricate since I first tried it a year ago, but without, as far as I can tell, losing its intuitive speed. Beyond a basic technical proficiency, here is what seems to be involved: 1. Clarity, organization, accuracy -- basic reporting skills. 2. Teamwork -- collaboration skills. 3. Analysis... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on September 18, 2004 at 1:53 a.m..
Pillow type
I love hugging Silverlotus's pillow. It's warm and cuddly, and seldomly asks for jewellery. And lo, it is not I who enjoys a good pillow now and then: 1. Cool heads will always prevail with the Chillow, a gel-and-water based pillow that wicks heat away from your head, giving a pleasantly cool surface to sleep on all through the night. Just add lukewarm water to it once and off to the sheep counting races you go. 2. The Godfather buffs can enjoy a cute plush pillow shaped like a horse's head. Hopefully it'll be the closest you'll get to sleeping with the fishes. 3. I su From
silentblue | Quantified on September 18, 2004 at 12:57 a.m..