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Syndication for Intranets
Headline Syndication for Intranets by Amy Gahran, at CMS Watch So you have an intranet. Perhaps it's supported by a costly and complex content management system. It's full of rich, useful content that could enhance many types of projects and collaboration throughout your enterprise. Unfortunately, most people within your organization probably only access a small, narrow portion of the of that information. They aren't aware of what the rest of the From
soulsoup on October 6, 2004 at 11:01 p.m..
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
I was going to write something, but was distracted and ended up downloading Marilyn Manson songs from LimeWire. From
RHPT.com on October 6, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..
Cheney's Weird Lies
Can anyone offer a plausible explanation why Cheney
lied so blatantly when he claimed in last night's VP-candidates event not to have ever met Edwards? Or why he claimed he'd never suggested "a connection between Iraq and 9/11" when of course he
has done precisely that? Bizarre, to say the least. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 6, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
Headline syndication for intranets
Amy Gahran has written an article on content syndication and intranets. To quote: One way to increase interest in, and usage of, intranets is to tell people what's available there in an effective way. On that front, here's an opportunity... From
Column Two on October 6, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..
Content management without a system
D. Keith Robinson has written an article on content management without a system. To quote: It is quite possible, in fact could be preferable, to manage content and distributed authorship without the use of a content management system (CMS). Regardless,... From
Column Two on October 6, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..
Google Launches Amazon-style Book Search Business
I said a few times over the last couple of weeks that one of the web's few examples of centralized success - Amazon - would crumble as soon as some sort of competition ncame into the picture. That may have happened today as Google has very quietly launched a service that allows people to find books for sale. Decentralized marketplace, anyone? By Jeffrey Goldfarb, USA Today, October 6, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 6, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Send Button Fixed
Thanks to those of you who reported the Internet Explorer error in my 'Refer a Resource' page. The send button, which had vanished, has now been replaced. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, October 7, 2004 [
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Research][
Reflect] From
OLDaily on October 6, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Digital Publishing
Magazine-style corporate site aimed mostly at the language learning sector. A blend between advertising and promotional material with some interesting content. Worth a look, but with no RSS feed the magazine won't generate many return visits. By Various Authors, October, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 6, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Protecting Ourselves to Death: Canada, Copyright, and the Internet
"Ironically," wrotes the author, "while professing fear for their cultural sovereignty, and following the paths of their own internal political, bureaucratic, and rhetorical culture, Canadians appear to be constructing a copyright policy in complete harmony with the needs of American and international capital." What follows is a long analysis of opyright law in Canada with particular reference to the impending retification of the WIPO proposals. The author captures much of why I believe to be the case, and especially this: "if we see culture as an ecology including both market and nonHYPHENmar From
OLDaily on October 6, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
CETIS Quarterly Newsletter
The second CETIS Newsletter has hit the streets, arriving in my email today, and although the formatting looks just awful in Firefox readers should bite the bullet, fire up Internet Explorer, and have a look. Author Wilbert Krann gets to the heart of things right away. "It is becoming clear that common e-learning activities such as searching and discovering content, taking a test, or working on a learner profile can't really be done by one application that has little or no knowledge of everything else on the network or the wider internet," he writes, describing two major responses to this From
OLDaily on October 6, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
An introduction to using patterns in web design
Ryan Singer has written an introductory article on using patterns in web design. To quote: There is a better way to manage this vast complexity than by making big decisions up front and hoping for the best. To make better... From
Column Two on October 6, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..
CNET RSS Tutorial
CNET has recently released a useful RSS tutorial. Although, it's in the typical CNET advertising-heavy shell, there is some useful information here, including an instructional video clip, RSS resources, a basic glossary and links to popular RSS software and feeds.... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on October 6, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Oct 7
Today's highlights: Mail Order; META on Oracle Content Management; New customer for Open Text Livelink; The Australian Bureau of Statistics adopted practices in the late 1990s to ensure that tacit knowledge in email was retained for subsequent usage. The article... From
Kolabora.com on October 6, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..
Continental Drift: Why are the Ties that Bind Europe to the U.S. Unraveling?
The geopolitical map of the world is changing and, according to Jeremy Rifkin's latest book, The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, the most dramatic developments may well occur in Europe. Like continents driven apart by shifting tectonic plates, the European Union and the United States are drifting away from each other, straining the NATO alliance and a cultural heritage dating back to the Age of Enlightenment. The "American Dream," says Rifkin, "is losing its cachet ... casting the American people adrift." From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 6, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..
The H-P Compaq Merger Two Years Out: Still Waiting for the Upside
Two years after Hewlett Packard's merger with Compaq, people are still asking some hard questions about the company's prospects. The reason, say experts at Wharton and elsewhere, is that the reconfigured H-P remains a work in progress. Chairman and CEO Carleton (Carly) Fiorina has made strides in integrating the operations and cultures of the two companies. But if H-P's stock price is any indication of the company's future, investors still harbor concerns about whether the merger will ultimately strengthen the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company against its two chief competitor From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 6, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..
For Macromedia, the Future Belongs to Non-PCs
Macromedia started out as a pioneer in multimedia software for CD-ROMs. When the world wide web came along, it was among the first companies to identify its technical and business potential and to develop products, such as its Flash web animation software which is now installed on some 98% of all PCs. For the future, though, Macromedia, which has sales of $369 million, believes its highest growth potential lies in products for non-PC gadgets such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, DVDs, etc. The company is also reaching beyond its traditional customer base of web designers and deve From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 6, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..
When You Wish Upon a Star ... The Eisner Saga at Disney Continues
For traditional retailers, location, location, location is an all-too-familiar mantra, with stores made or broken by factors such as traffic flow, demographics and parking. But what about the brave, new and often perilous world of Internet retailing, where the physical location of a store is meaningless? How, when customers and competitors are geographically dispersed, does an online retailer's customer base evolve? A recent study by Wharton marketing professor David R. Bell, entitled "Social Contagion and Trial on the Internet: Evidence from Online Grocery Retailing," offers some intrigu From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 6, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..
How Serious Was the Fraud at Computer Associates?
The $3.3 billion securities fraud case against Computer Associates has been called the last of the big Enron-era cases, involving alleged practices termed "the 35-day month," "the three-day window" and the "flash period." But the cases of the Houston energy-trading firm and the Islandia, N.Y., software giant are also different. Computer Associates executives are not accused of reporting nonexistent deals or hiding major flaws in the business. The contracts that were backdated by a few days were real. So was this really a crime or should it fall under the heading of no-harm, no-foul? From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 6, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..
Lasting Leadership: Lessons from the 25 Most Influential Business People of Our Times
In June 2000, John Bogle, founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group, spoke about leadership at Wharton. He concluded his talk by quoting a colleague who once remarked that "when all is said and done, it really comes down to this: People are leaders because they choose to lead." Bogle is one of 25 individuals profiled in a new book written by Knowledge@Wharton in collaboration with Nightly Business Report (NBR), titled Lasting Leadership: Lessons from the 25 Most Influential Business People of Our Times. The book, published by Wharton School Publishing, includes interviews with many of the 2 From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 6, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..
Death of a Drug: The Aftermath of Merck's Recall
Wharton management professor Michael Useem, director of the school's Center for Leadership and Change Management, notes that one of the key mantras in corporate crisis management is: "Hide nothing, tell all." Less than a week after Merck & Co.'s voluntary withdrawal of its blockbuster arthritis pain medication Vioxx, following an extended clinical trial that linked the drug to heart attacks and strokes, the jury is still out on whether the pharmaceutical giant followed this cardinal rule. Wharton professors debate Merck's response to the crisis and the impact of the recall. From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 6, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..
Post-It Virtual style
I looked high and low for virtual post it notes, so I could take the yellow post-its off the outside edge of my monitor...it was starting to look like it had feathers there were so many attach to it. The... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Game-Based E-Learning Gets Real
Trainers, facilitators, e-learning designers, and others engaged in knowledge development could take a lesson from the computer games industry. Gaming shows us that long, traditionally tedious, and difficult tasks can be engaging and fun when they're part of a good... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Games and Activities for Building and Training Teams
Since teamwork involves participants interacting with one another, it makes sense that they should also learn in situations presented by games and activities. Following are some additional reasons why an interactive experiential approach results in effective learning. Games and Activities... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Learning Games
Learning Games let people learn by playing. Learning Games are computer simulations that let learners practice a highly interactive task. Learning Games - Activate Learning... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
SimPlay.net
SimPlay.Net provides the opportunity to join a role play simulation using a unique software provided by Fablusi P/L. The idea is to choose and play a role in a virtual world very similar to the real. You set the objectives... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Social Impact Games
The goal of this site is to catalog the growing number of video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain. These are also known as "serious games." Social Impact Games ::... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
The Education Arcade
The Education Arcade represents a consortium of international game designers, publishers, scholars, educators, and policy makers who are exploring the new frontiers of educational media that have been opened by computer and video games The Education Arcade :: The Future... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Ad/Editorial Ethics, Online and In Print
As my
item here yesterday suggests, I have been thinking a bit about the relationship between editorial content and advertising on the Web. Print publications have wrestled with this for years, and have developed a variety of policies, some of which have been updated for Web publishing. For instance: the American Society of Magazine Editors (
print and
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Web Conferencing: So Many Ways To Use It
Web conferencing works but really there are so many dfifferent ways to use it. But how are people really using it in their work? What is effectitve and what is not? DecisionCast and Wainhouse Research need your help. They're doing...... From
Kolabora.com on October 6, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Telework & Groove
As we wrote in our September email bulletin, telework is a hot topic. This recent Wall Street Journal article reports that in the U.S. the number of people telecommuting shot up 41% from last year. A recent global study by... From
Kolabora.com on October 6, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Schedules and priorities
My plans for the next 5 days include exclusively just my daughter. I'm in charge of her before a critical presentation and workshop of our technologyLog project. Right after that I head for London to the first meeting of
RUISNETan EU-project. My part will be the provision of a colla From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 6, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Barcelona in Creative Commons mode
The University of Barcelona hosted a great conference last Friday in their beautiful Aula Magna to celebrate the launch of the Spanish CC licenses - also available in a Catalan version. Spanish project lead Ignasi Lambastida i Juan had arranged for authorities from the regional government as well as from academia to present their take on the CC project. There was a wonderful presentation - "Carta a Hipatia" - given by Mr Carlos Sanchez Almeida, a Spanish abogado, asking whether we are truly ready to rebuild the ancient library of Alessandria by digital m From
Creative Commons: weblog on October 6, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Job Tracker
Search by zip code or industry to find what jobs in your community have been exported or lost due to trade. From Working America, a community affiliate of AFL-CIO. From
Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on October 6, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..
Now Human-Readable in Many Languages
Due to overwhelming demand, and thanks to the work of our international project leads and tech crew, the summaries of our licenses are now available in nine different languages. Note how this is different from the iCommons process, which involves translating and adapting the licenses themselves (the lawyer-readable part of things) to various languages and legal systems. Just scroll down to the bottom of
any Commons Deed and pick the language you prefer. From
Creative Commons: weblog on October 6, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Geeks in space
Paul Allen was first. Amazon's Jeff Bezos is in the wings. Why do tech luminaries want off Earth? From
CNET News.com on October 6, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Free Airport Videoconferencing: Singapore Is First
Singapore's Changi Airport has announced it would offer free internet video conferencing for passengers in a move aimed at enhancing its reputation as one of the most modern aviation hubs in Asia. Thirty computers enabled with web cameras and audio... From
Kolabora.com on October 6, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..
The new IN list (Kevin Marks)
Back when receiving a chunk of dead wood in the mail every month to tell you what to think was cool, there was the Tired/Wired list. Now we are much too sophisticated to provide such reductive, glib distillations of... From
Corante: Social Software on October 6, 2004 at 2:50 p.m..
I Want OneNote Online
So I'm reading how
Alan is saving everything to everywhere and I'm thinking about all these cool ways to push information around and I finally started a wiki space where I've been putting some random thoughts for later collaboration...in other words, I'm working hard on the
Newsmaster thing. But I realized there is one more tool that I really want. It's like
weblogged News on October 6, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..
USAToday.com gets into video
The newspaper site has
launched a broadband
video section powered by The FeedRoom -- the same company that got its start by launching video on TV websites. "It's strategically critical that newspaper websites figure out how to incorporate video for the broadband audience, so we're pleased to have provided a solution for USATODAY.com," said Jon Klein, CEO of
The FeedRoom. From
unmediated on October 6, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
2024 - A Media Odyssey
A long story in latest Media Week magazine in UK,
about the future of, what else, media...a great read... Dr Patrick Dixon, the futurist behind the website globalchange.com, said: "We'll have become totally interactive, the age of mass consumption will be dead and the digital audiences will be one, the individual...Companies that are successful will be providing information rather than advertising, sent at the precise point of greatest interest." From
unmediated on October 6, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
The Freecycle Threat
I've
written about the topic of free-classifieds services (especially
Craigslist) threatening paid newspaper (print and online) classifieds in the merchandise category. There's also a threat to newspapers' free merchandise-category classifieds offerings.Mark Van Patten of the Daily News in Bowling Green, Kentucky, notes that initiatives like
Freecycle.org are taking From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 6, 2004 at 1:57 p.m..
10-Second Web Ads: A Fantasy
Tom Hespos wrote something in his
MediaPost column yesterday that's worth pondering: "If you're advertising on a site where people tend to rapidly get in and get out, your ad has to move quickly to get to the point. Animations that take 10 seconds to unfold simply aren't going to work here. ... We cannot assume that simply because an ad is rendered in a browser that it has done its job."That's for sure. And Poynter's recently released
Eye From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 6, 2004 at 1:57 p.m..
Telework amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation
Government contractors, take note. According to the article Let the telecommuting begin… By Gail Repsher Emery (Washington Technology, 10/05/04), "With the publication of an interim procurement rule in today’s Federal Register, federal policy for the first time explicitly permits tele... From
Kolabora.com on October 6, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Open Access Anecdote
A lot of literature on Open Access is published in online-journals only available for subcribers. Would'nt it be a good idea if scholars send requests to the authors for a private copy and asking them to considerate to put the article in an Open Access Archive? What will happen if you are trying to do so? * You will receive a copy quickly. That can be called the HAPPY END case. * The author will ignore requests from scholars unkown to him or by other reasons (I know what I am speaking of ...) * An interesting mail correspondence will beg From
Archivalia on October 6, 2004 at 1:54 p.m..
Talking about RSS in a company
Just a quick recap of some ideas from today's internal presentation on RSS... Questions people ask What's in it for me? Why is it better than existing ways of distributing/aggregating data? How many feeds are there? Where do I find them? What if a website doesn't have an RSS feed? How comes that it is supposed to reduce information overload if it looks like increasing it? Lessons learnt Think of strong arguments that exp From
Mathemagenic on October 6, 2004 at 1:53 p.m..
Voting Safely This Year
If you live in Silicon Valley, get an absentee ballot to vote this year. That's the solid advice from the
California Voter Foundation, a non-partisan and highly credible organization that works for a better elections process. Why? Santa Clara County is one of many counties to have switched to electronic voting machines, which have yet to prove their trustworthiness. There's no paper trail for the voter to verify that his or her vote has been cast as intended. A new state law, signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, will require voter-verifiable From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 6, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..
Editrol from the USA
Several companies have come with MP-3 or MPEG-2 recorders designed for radio journalists. They are all based on the use of flash memory. This is the latest from a US company called EditRol debuted at a Photo fair in Cologne in September. Price in the UK is under 400 pounds as from November. That makes it a lot cheaper than some of the competition. The US$440 unit (street price in the US) includes two electret mics, a 64MB Compact Flash card, an optical-output jack, and 9 recording modes from 64kbps MP3 to 2 From
unmediated on October 6, 2004 at 12:58 p.m..
Microsoft Announces the New MSN TV 2 Internet & Media Player
Broadband-Home-Network-Enabled Living-Room Device Offers Exciting New Entertainment, Information and Communications Options for the Television REDMOND, WA -- The
MSN®TV unit of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News), a group that has pioneered delivery of interactive services to the TV, has announced the debut of the new MSN TV 2 Internet & Media Player, shipping now and due to arrive at majo From
unmediated on October 6, 2004 at 12:58 p.m..
Brad doesn't suck. Brad is our future.
On the 20-minute bus ride from the hotel to the Microsoft campus yesterday, I got to sit next to Brad of Brad Sucks, "a one man band from Ottawa, Canada." Omigod. What a role model. I assume I'm the last person to find and love his site, at least if there's any justice in this world. Just in case, this is from his FAQ: Why would I buy your music when you give it away for free? Well I don't know, but people have been doing it and I hope they continue. Maybe they like a CD to hold in... From
Joho the Blog on October 6, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
3 Bookmark Tools in One
Based on the descriptions elsewhere, in addition to the web bookmark service
Furl I am starting to also use the social bookmarking site
del.icio.us - the latter for its rip-mix use of free form ":tags" to collect bookmarks made bu other del.icio.us-ers (sidebar, I enjoy "furling" sites but do you say "del.icio.us-ing" a site?). In addtion to these, I also toss new sites into a collection I've been compiling since the mid 1990s, our
"Bag of URLs". From
cogdogblog on October 6, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..
Pestiside: King-maker
As Erik D'Amato writes in his Hungarian blog: In a stunning upset likely to send shockwaves throughout the so-called "blogosphere," recently-launched Hungarian-American website Pestiside.hu yesterday beat recently-launched Hungarian-American website www.georgesoros.com in the race to be the first Internet weblog, or "blog," to successfully throw a significant electoral contest. At issue was the presidency of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary: The Hungarian AmCham has ceased to be an institution dedicated to promoting the "American" way of doing business, and is instead now a loc From
Joho the Blog on October 6, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
Brad doesn't suck. Brad is our future.
On the 20-minute bus ride from the hotel to the Microsoft campus yesterday, I got to sit next to Brad of Brad Sucks, "a one man band from Ottawa, Canada." Omigod. What a role model. I assume I'm the last person to find and love his site, at least if there's any justice in this world. Just in case, this is from his FAQ: Why would I buy your music when you give it away for free? Well I don't know, but people have been doing it and I hope they continue. Maybe they like a CD to hold in... From
Joho the Blog on October 6, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
factcheck the urls
From the Vice-Presidenial debate last night (
transcript): "VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Well, the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they're trying to throw up a smoke screen. They know the charges are false. They know if you go, for example, to
factcheck.com, an independent website sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, you can get the specific details, with respect to Halliburton." There is a cool site
factcheck.org which From
Lessig Blog on October 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Blogger Founder Leaves Google
There is a really fascinating interview with the founder of Blogger, Evan Williams. Evan discusses working with Google and the trial and tribulations of being an entrepenaur. Evan is leaving Google and moving experiencing a little more "life". Before deciding what his next venture will be. Take a look at Evan's blog to understand his move. From
RSS Blog on October 6, 2004 at 11:01 a.m..
Beep Science unveils DRM solution for mobile games
The new DRM solution for mobile gaming from Beep Science enables games to be securely distributed through any channel – including peer-to-peer networks, electronic downloads, or on physical media – and the gamers will then be billed according to the actual usage rules set forth by the publisher or distributor. Any billing method can be used, including operator billing, subscription models, pay-per-use, and pay-per-download. From
Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 6, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..
Americans Denied a True Presidential Debate
Americans did not see a true presidential debate on September 30, 2004. What they saw was a carefully planned bipartisan press conference in which George W. Bush and John Kerry, acting through their corporate campaigns, agreed to appear and respond to questions. Third party candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian), David Cobb (Green), Ralph Nader (Independent), and Michael A. Peroutka (Constitution) were not invited to participate, despite having a mathematical possibility of obtaining enough electoral votes to secure the office of President of the United States. From
kuro5hin.org on October 6, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
Rocket Launchers Allowed in Presidential Debate
The next presidential debate will be held October 8th at Washington University in St. Louis. The notable difference between this debate and the last is that "projectile launchers" are explicitly allowed on the premises. From
kuro5hin.org on October 6, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
AtticLearning, London, UK, is setting up an annual bursary of 15,000 in resources and time to devel ...
AtticLearning, London, UK, is setting up an annual bursary of 15,000 in resources and time to develop an eLearning project that will actively involve and help schools and museums, libraries and archives From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 6, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..
Wanted: Simple home security
Jon Oltsik says the explosion in broadband use forces a rethinking of Internet security. But a lethargic vendor response is not a promising harbinger. From
CNET News.com on October 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Archiv und Wirtschaft 2004/3
Die Zeitschrift Archiv und Wirtschaft, 37. Jg., 2004, H. 3, enthält folgende Beiträge: Aufsätze Ute Schiedermeier: Herausforderung angenommen - zehn Jahre elektronische Archivierung im Siemens-Archiv Manfred Witt: Am Anfang steht der Archivar! Die elektronische Kundenakte der Industrie- und Handelskammer Nord Westfalen in Münster Wolfgang Richter: Standards für Archivformate. Archivische Anforderungen an Dateiformate vor dem Hintergrund der Migrationsstrategie Antje Scheiding: Archiving Websites - Archivi From
Archivalia on October 6, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
Gmail Atom Feed Coming? - Ryan Naraine, Internet News
It looks like Google is set to roll out some new Gmail features, one of which is support for the Atom syndication format. The company added a button to some Gmail accounts Monday that clicks through to an Atom feed, although aggregators did not recogni From
Techno-News Blog on October 6, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
China leads world on broadband - Jo Twist, BBC
China is leading the world in the number of subscribers to high-speed net through phone lines, says a report. The number of broadband subscribers via DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) has doubled in a year to 13 million. Industry analyst David Greggains From
Techno-News Blog on October 6, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
3 Yanks Share Nobel for Physics
Thirty years of research into the forces that hold everything together pay off grandly for the three Americans, and science moves a step closer to a grand unified theory of the universe. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Spyware Bill Gets House Nod
Anti-spyware legislation sails through the House of Representatives, with the bill's sponsor pressing to have both houses approve a law to reign in invasive computer programs by the end of the year. By Michael Grebb. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Making XP a Welcome Guest on Mac
Microsoft's new Virtual PC emulator lets an Apple computer run Windows XP amazingly well. It's a great product for those occasions when you must sully your Mac with a Windows-only application. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
EU Wants Windows Cleaned of DRM
The acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of a company with a significant portfolio of patents covering digital rights management technologies generates scrutiny by European antitrust regulators. The main focus of the investigation: Microsoft. By Wendy M. Grossman. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
The Incredible Shrinking Man
K. Eric Drexler was the godfather of nanotechnology. But the MIT prodigy who dreamed up molecular machines was shoved aside by big science -- and now he's an industry outcast. By Ed Regis from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Web Industry Still Flies Blind
The commercial web is 10 years old, yet the online publishing industry still hasn't figured out how to measure accurately the number of people visiting each site. What's at stake? More than $8 billion a year. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Geek Trip Begins at Headwaters
The true beginnings of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota -- a spot that was a source of much debate in the 19th century -- mark the first stop in a 2,500-mile odyssey along the length of the mighty waterway. By Michelle Delio. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Senate Wants Database Dragnet
Lawmakers may soon pass a bill that would set up a huge network of databases that law enforcement officials could tap to find terrorists. But that kind of unfettered access to data about Americans raises eyebrows. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on October 6, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
A Simple Plan
Some here might remember a time when Kuro5hin was full of (arguably) interesting commentary, articles, and diaries. Today, by contrast, it is about half crapflooding and other inane drivel and half (arguably) interesting commentary, or at least commentary written with an earnest intent to be interesting. How can that situation be rectified? And why should we care? Within, I discuss these two questions drawing from observation of the Daily Kos (ignoring its political nature if we can). From
kuro5hin.org on October 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
"How do adults learn?"
Whether you are a teacher or a learner, understanding adult learning patterns can aid your success. Judy Smith presents five of the most common and critical patterns.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on October 6, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
Comparing Australian Foreign Policy With Respect To Terrorism
Australia is facing a federal election on October 9th with the two main parties having little to separate them in domestic and economic policy. Where the Liberal and Labor parties differ greatly is in foreign policy. The Liberal Party adheres to the "Great and Powerful Friends" doctrine while the Labor Party pursues the doctrine of "Asian Engagement". Since the September 11th attacks on the United States, terrorism has been thrust to the fore as the dominant security issue facing western nations. Australia has not had a terrorist attack on its shores; but two attacks in Bali and Jakarta From
kuro5hin.org on October 6, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..
Global Financial Aid Services Joins MaxKnowledge Faculty
Online and blended training courses will be offered to enhance the efficiency of financial aid offices at career colleges. Courses will be delivered through the CCA/MaxKnowledge online training portal: www.maxknowledge.com [PRWEB Oct 6, 2004] From
PR Web on October 6, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
"Getting Published" Panel in New York City--October 20
"After the Manuscript: Publishing Your Book"--a panel sponsored by the New York Local of the National Writers Union--will take place in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, October 20. The panelists will be John Gorman, Jennifer Lawler, and Dr. Charles Patterson, author of the internationally acclaimed ETERNAL TREBLINKA. [PRWEB Oct 6, 2004] From
PR Web on October 6, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Ariadne Genomics Wins $750,000 SBIR Grant for Development of Text Mining Software
Ariadne Genomics, Inc, a leading developer of systems biology tools for a broad range of biologists, today announced that it has received a $750,000 Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant from the National Institutes of Health. The two-year grant will be used for development of new software product based on MedScan, its proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology. [PRWEB Oct 6, 2004] From
PR Web on October 6, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Top Wine Educators Join Forces in Philadelphia
The top wine gurus are now in Philadelphia. The Wine School of Philadelphia is announcing the recent addition of Dr. Lynn Hoffman to its already robust teaching staff this week. [PRWEB Oct 6, 2004] From
PR Web on October 6, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
David Wiley on technology in schools
In his recent article/posting entitled How Technology Will Destroy Schools, David Wiley discusses the obselence of schools in an age of instant access to any information. Admittedly, we aren't there yet, but I think that we are getting closer. In some parts of the world, for some people, and for ... From
Just Another Ant on October 6, 2004 at 4:02 a.m..
PBJ Slate Touchpanel PCs
Japan's "PBJ Corporation" has announced
the "Slate" series of touchpanel PCs. PBJ has apparently built these PCs based on the "PaceBook" series from back in 2002. These seem to be competition towards NEC's new VersaPro tablet - as the Slate series not only function as tablet PC, but touchscreen PC, a From
unmediated on October 6, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..
TAPPI Announces New Recognized Education Provider Program
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2004--The TAPPI Recognized Education Provider program is an all new TAPPI service for the pulp, paper and converting industry that recognizes and encourages high quality continuing education activities. Designed to make it easier to locate high quality training providers, the Recognized Education Provider, or REP program, will connect consumers of training and continuing education with providers that have met rigorous, industry-sanctioned criteria for developing and delivering quality learning activities. From
DEC Daily News on October 6, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
Search tool finds scientific content
A newly enhanced, scientific-only search engine gives students, scholars, and other academics another tool to conduct effective, comprehensive internet searches to find bona fide scientific information. The search engine, called Scirus--like a similar service called CrossRef--is free to users. From
DEC Daily News on October 6, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
Melbourne axes campuses
THE University of Melbourne's eight suburban and rural campuses could be reduced to four in response to falling enrolments and increasing costs. From
DEC Daily News on October 6, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
Watch the Vice Presidential Debate
The only vice presidential debate for the 2004 general election took place on Tuesday, October 5th, when Republican nominee Vice Pres. Richard Cheney debated Democratic nominee Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Read the Full Story From
DEC Daily News on October 6, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..
Using Patterns in Web Design
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design by Ryan Singer at 37 Signals The biggest challenge for web designers is the unthinkably huge number of possible ways to solve any given problem. We usually don't think of this because we have our habits and traditions to fall back on, but there are literally billions of possible pixel combinations for each page we make. There is a better way to manage this vast complexity than by making big decisions up front and hoping for the From
soulsoup on October 6, 2004 at 1:59 a.m..
Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent
"Mark Pesce, lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) writes
here and
here about using p2p networks, specifically bittorrent, to create a grassroots television network. He cites as an example the BBC's "Flexible TV" internet broadcasting model using that as the core of a "new sort of television network, one which could harness the power of P2P distribution to create a global television network." Producers of video entertainment and ne From
unmediated on October 6, 2004 at 1:57 a.m..
New Wiki Case Studies (Ross Mayfield)
We just posted a new case-study on using wikis as a People’s Portal at Informative. Also of interest, is how not just wikis are being used at Disney, but how to introduce the cutting edge to regular business folks and... From
Corante: Social Software on October 6, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..
IBM tightens up WebSphere
Big Blue beefs up its WebSphere 6 application server, promising better performance, reliability and simplified administration. From
CNET News.com on October 6, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
Future Curb Cut Posts
I'm still around and thought I would do a dump of all the links I had in my bookmarks folder that were intended for future publication on curbcut. Here they are are semi-organized, unfiltered and uncommented upon, straight from my bookmarks.html file. There are some gems in here, but you may have to dig to find them. On the other hand, if you're thinking of starting your own blog- some of these may be a good place to start... Conferences 2003 Conference Proceedings 20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning Best Practices in e-Learning Conference TXDLA 2004 Conference G From
Curb Cut Learning on October 6, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..
The short life of instaspin
The flood of emails from both sides spinning each detail of the debate has gotten to be hilarious. Email is not the right medium for this. We can wait ten or fifteen minutes. Besides, your chattering makes you sound frightened and like you don't trust us. Shhhh. Drink some cocoa. It'll be fine.... From
Joho the Blog on October 6, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..
Snap search engine
Just came across a link to the new Snap search engine. Not sure if it's doing anything drastically different under the covers, but they are trying some new stuff in the UI (which may be a bit densely packed, actually). The biggest thing they are trying is a javascript live-updating results ... From
D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on October 6, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
I meant to write days ago, but a confluence of events prevented me from doing so any earlier than tonight. From
RHPT.com on October 5, 2004 at 11:59 p.m..
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