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Giving Comfort to the Enemy
Cheney and the people presumably transmitting to Bush through his earpiece during the debates seem to love to accuse Kerry of giving "comfort to the enemy" whenever he recounts how badly the war is going. I certainly hope Kerry's people have realized the glaringly obvious way they can turn this rhetorical device to their own advantage. In his debate with Edwards, Cheney explained that the 9-11 attacks cost America over one million jobs. Of course, this just isn't true. It cost America a few thousand lives, but there's no way it cost us a million jobs. Disasters actu From rushkoff.blog on October 9, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Writing it Right week, Oct. 18 to 22.
The University is sponsoring a number of sessions you might find interesting. Here is how they describe them: Particularly for undergraduate students: Linda Fritz on essay writing (Monday, 1:30 pm, 241 Arts), Gordon Barnhart's video session (Wednesday, 1:30 pm, 241 Arts)... From Rick's Café Canadien on October 9, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..

Innovate - correction
In the earlier announcement of the inaugural issue of Innovate, the editor sent the wrong URL. The correct address of this bimonthly e-journal featuring cutting-edge research and practice in using information technology to enhance education is http://www.innovateonline.info... From Rick's Café Canadien on October 9, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..

Virtual Gamers Revealed!
Thanks to Fractalus of Armchair Arcade for pointing out this BBC article about virtual gamers emerging from their virtual environments to reveal their physical appearance. The photographs in this article are definitely worth checking out. Yes, some of these pictures live up the stereotype--bad ass or super-babe in virtuality, "lowered expectations body type" in reality. However, this is not always the case, as these pictures reveal--I'd say more of these pictures show avatars that look From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 9, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..

The Destruction of Derrida
Jacques Derrida, probably one of the most influential literary theorists and (dare I say it) philosophers of our time, passed away today at the age of 74. I've always felt that Derrida's approach was a rebirth of ancient sophisitry; the sort that Plato despised but was never able to totally refute. Let's hope that Derrida has gotten the chance now to meet Plato--I'd sure like to be around to hear that debate, wouldn't you? From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 9, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..

Get away random thinking
A few strange days. Travelling, relaxed, beauty of Florence, wine tasting, great conversations with people I just met, good food, some geeky talks, sunshine, walking around... Feels so strange getting online after a few hours walking in Assisi, being silent, soaking into the atmoshpere of old wall, stories about saints' lifes, more stories on walls of cathedrals, without beginning and without an end, more sunshine... Was sitting on a wall watching sun going down the valley and reading a book I picked up in a random bookstore in Florence, Mathemagenic on October 9, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Derrida Dead
"Philosophy consists of offering reassurance to children. That is, if one prefers, of taking them out of childhood, of forgetting about the child, or, inversely, but by the same token, of speaking first and foremost for that little boy within us, of teaching him to speak--to dialogue--by displacing his fear... From PEDABLOGUE on October 9, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

Metadata: "Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye"
In his October 2004 Wired article "Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye", David Weinberger paints us the problem that comes with the joy of digital photography: As our hard drives fill up with thousands then tens and hundreds of thousands of digital snapshots, we're all going to face the same basic challenges as the Bettmann Archive. Of course, you won't haul 19 semitrailers full of your decaying family photos into cold storage, as the Bettmann did in 2001. But you can expect to go clicking through folder From cogdogblog on October 9, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Third Party Presidential Candidates Arrested at "Debate"
You know, stuff like this really gets my blood boiling and re-affirms my interest in voting for good ol' Ralph in this upcoming election. We all know that the "debates" we've been watching on television aren't public, as they should be, but private events. Not only are the two major parties the only parties represented in these "debates," but the Commission on Presidential Debates has gone so far as to arrest Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green Party) as they tried From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 9, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

McLuhan On a Dime
Today I picked up a copy of Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. I found it in a thrift store in the small town of Pine, Arizona. It set me back 10 cents. For another dime I got a book from the mid 1970s full of funny predictions for the 21st century... according to a Rand prediction listed on the cover page, by 2004 we should have already Genetic Manipuation (maybe), Large-Scale ocean framing and mining (is that commercial fishing?), household robots for routine c From cogdogblog on October 9, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

Too Telling
Grabbed by Kevin, a quote from a recent article: "Attorney General John Ashcroft has stated that the Justice Department's response to the theft of Intellectual Property 'must be as forceful and aggressive and successful as our response to terrorism and violent crime and drugs and corruption has been.'" From A Copyfighter's Musings on October 9, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

Topic Maps (a Quickstudy by Russell Kay)
I've put up several other postings about topic maps and concept maps and mapping software. This short article from Computerworld by Russell Kay is an excellent introduction to the subject. "DEFINITION: Topic maps are a way to represent knowledge structures and their relationships to information resources. Based on XML, topic maps are related in concept to but more powerful and inclusive than book indexes."  The author includes a useful selection of Topic Map Resources (see the enclosure link). I agree with the author's conclusion that topic maps From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on October 9, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

death by a thousand cuts
So there's great excitement about the effective pause that's been pressed on the INDUCE Act. Hatch has pulled back and is regrouping. But has anyone been mapping the bigger strategy here? For the last year, Hatch and friends have been passing these single page copyright acts, getting them marked up and put into the hopper through expeditied procedures. All but one was directly awful; the one is indirectly awful. (This is the bill that explicitly authorizes technologies From Lessig Blog on October 9, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Ephemeral artefacts
Mark Federman, Chief Strategist at U of Toronto's McLuhan Program (where I spent one night a week for a year in the late 70s at a graduate seminar led by the master himself) has put forth a fascinating paper on the way in which the way in which we bind time and space is changing. He asks: In our world of instantaneous, multi-way communication, everywhere is here and every-when is now. What is the nature of the artefacts that are characteristic of our pervasively connected culture? He posits ephemeral artefacts as his answer: "An ephemeral artefact exists precisely in the... From Joho the Blog on October 9, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Shared RSS
We've just added an interesting article about SharedRSS to the RSS article directory. The article discusses a new service that brings the benefits of RSS syndication to all those who publish websites, but who add new material too infrequently to warrant having their own RSS feed. From RSS Blog on October 9, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..

Chatting through the debates
About 10-15 of us had a grand ol' time in a chat room during the debates. Frankly, we were much more entertaining than the candidates. I'll set up another chat room next Wednesday for the final debate before the apocalypse. See you then?... From Joho the Blog on October 9, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

If there were any justice...
...Right before you die, they'd explain all the magic tricks.... From Joho the Blog on October 9, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

RIP Rodney Dangerfield
I received this from a friend and couldn't resist sharing...... From Experience Designer Network on October 9, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..

Discussion of Book and Grassroots Journalism
The Well, the venerable online community, just launched a discussion about We the Media. Feel free to drop by for a visit. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 9, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

On the Road, Open Thread
I'm on the road for the next 18 hours or so. Open chat below, and please behave nicely. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 9, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

Missed opportunity with RLOs
Writing about the questionable usefulness of learning objective repositories, dcannell also adds: ¶ A robot type tagging system has the best chance of success. But once tagged the fact still remains that the majority of learning objects are created by course designers From Open Artifact on October 9, 2004 at 9:59 a.m..

ALADN Conference 2005 - March 6-9, 2005 - New Orleans, LA - Deadline for proposals is November 15, 2 ...
ALADN Conference 2005 - March 6-9, 2005 - New Orleans, LA - Deadline for proposals is November 15, 2004. ALADN = Academic Library Advancement and Development Network From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 9, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and Comparisons - This report, published with the permissi ...
Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and Comparisons - This report, published with the permission of Oxford Journals, documents the results of the Journals Pricing Analysis project, undertaken by LISU for OUP. The project analysed price data on around 6,000 journals from 12 named scholarly publishers, including OUP, taken over a 5-year period (2000 -2004, plus 1993 as a base year) together with a more detailed analysis of titles in the biomedical f From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 9, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

The Serials Interest Group (SIG) and Technical Services Interest Group (TSIG) of CLA are presenting ...
The Serials Interest Group (SIG) and Technical Services Interest Group (TSIG) of CLA are presenting a 2-day workshop on Basic Serials Cataloguing. This hands-on course is part of CONSER's Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program. It provides the basic principles of original and copy cataloguing of print and electronic serials. This excellent introduction to the intricacies of serials cataloguing focuses on the elements contained in the CONSER core record, includ From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 9, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

25% of students describe university teaching standards as 'poor'
Auch wenn sich die Umfrage auf Großbritannien bezieht und der Artikel nur wenig Hintergrundinformationen liefert, darf man doch vermuten, dass es anderswo nicht besser aussieht, oder? "One in four students admitted sleeping in lectures and 58% admitted either skipping lectures... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 9, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

LS training and services in neuen Händen
Keine Angst, ich werde auch in Zukunft Pressemitteilungen dieser Art nur in Ausnahmefällen kommentieren. Hier geht es darum, dass Siemens Business Services seine IT Training-Sparte an die österreichische bit Gruppe abgegeben hat. Dazu passt, dass z.B. auch die Deutsche Bank... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 9, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

Acyrologia, Equivocation and the Global Test
John Kerry's use of "global" in the phrase "global test," triumphantly seized upon the the GOP in the postdebate spin sessions, was a bad choice of words that took the emphasis off Kerry's chief talking point: You have to be honest and transparent in justifying your actions in order to get both domestic and world opinion on your side. I agree with the fellow who said that "smell test" would have been much more effective a phrase. Senators tend to use a lot of MBA-speak these days, like "global" when they mean something like "comprehensive"--which I thought, judging fr From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 9, 2004 at 7:55 a.m..

zero-installation expert system software
As mentioned in a previous post, I've suddenly found myself in the position of teaching "expert systems". Starting a course like this at the last minute is tough. Not least because the college where I teach has a "locked down" policy and won't allow mere users like me to install any software on the student machines. There is, of course, a process for requesting software to be installed, but I've been asking for a Java SDK and runtime for over six months now, and still haven From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on October 9, 2004 at 6:59 a.m..

Saved by the Cell - Eric Hellweg, Tech Review
Emergency alerts of bad weather or terror attacks could be sent to cell phones of people in the affected areas. Where will you be when the next weather emergency hits your area? Or, God forbid, when the next terrorist attack occurs? If you From Techno-News Blog on October 9, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

Building a 21st century radio - John Borland and Evan Hansen, CNET News.com
There's more at stake in Howard Stern's flight from the FM dial to a cutting-edge satellite broadcaster than fuddy-duddy programming restrictions: The shock jock's high-tech leap underscores a widening digital divide between the old world of radio and From Techno-News Blog on October 9, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

Spilling the beans - the Guardian
Last year saw anonymous weblogs hit the headlines. Salam Pax brought the world an insider's view of Iraq, while Belle de Jour racked up readers with the salacious diaries of a London call girl. Thanks in part to these secretive success stories, anonymo From Techno-News Blog on October 9, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

Using Flash MX To Create E-Learning - WebProNews
Using Flash MX to create e-Learning is a comprehensive treatment on creating interactive courseware using Macromedia's popular web development tool Flash MX 2004. Authors Sharon Castillo, Steven Hancock, and Garin Hess are e-learning developers and ins From Online Learning Update on October 9, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

New Jersey Institute of Technology professor to develop supersized virtual library
Imagine, with the single click of a mouse a smorgasbord of reference listings consolidated from public, university and on-line digital libraries. Such an indepth reference option will be coming your way soon thanks to a professor at New Jersey Institut From Online Learning Update on October 9, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

Digital Libraries: The Catalyst to Transform Teacher Education - CHERYL MASON BOLICK, et al; AACEJ
Digital libraries are changing the way academic disciplines within universities are conceptualized. The nation From Online Learning Update on October 9, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..

Hollywood Files P2P Appeal
The entertainment industry asks the Supreme Court to reverse the Grokster decision, which held that peer-to-peer networks are not liable for copyright abuses of their users. By Michael Grebb. From Wired News on October 9, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

New PC in Old Mac Clothes
Tinkerer Iain Sharp couldn't bear to part with his first computer -- a Mac SE/30 -- so he turned it into a powerful media server using a mini PC motherboard and a software emulator. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on October 9, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Curtain Call for Junk-Fax Blaster
The nation's most notorious junk-fax sender agrees to the terms of a court order forcing it to stop its ink-depleting ways. But that hasn't convinced a longtime Fax.com foe to drop a $2.2 trillion lawsuit against the firm. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on October 9, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Forty-six Percent of Adults Participate in Education
The participation of adults in educational activities continues to increase in the United States, and more women than men enrol in courses. These findings were announced by the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES) in a new report, Participation in... From Adult/Continuing Education on October 9, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..

iPodder, the cross-platform Podcast receiver
The first item that popped up as I opened my news reader tonight was the del.icio.us link to an new application by Adam Curry called iPodder. This app receives RSS feeds with attached audio files and immediately sends them to... From Kolabora.com on October 9, 2004 at 4:54 a.m..

Microsoft to Muscle Deeper Into VOIP?
I predicted that Microsoft would go after the telephony market since so many pieces of its technology are pointing in that direction. Their MSN IM client is voice and video enabled while also providing all the functionality of a text-based... From Kolabora.com on October 9, 2004 at 4:54 a.m..

Hospitality Sales Professionals - Prepare yourself now so that your 4th quarter presentations and closes are smooth and effective.
There may only be one chance to present your product and close the sale - this web cast will prepare you to ensure that you get the business! [PRWEB Oct 9, 2004] From PR Web on October 9, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Demonstration and Press Conference About the ZEC-Mass Evacuation Technique
Demonstration and press conference about the ZEC-Mass evacuation technique on Friday October 15th in Lerma, Edo de Mexico. Starting 11 AM until 15 PM ( 30 miles from Mexico City) [PRWEB Oct 9, 2004] From PR Web on October 9, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Surviving Change, Hurricanes and Floods
Management consultant Scott Love shares specific ways to cope with extreme change in organizations, using his community's flood experience as a metpahor. [PRWEB Oct 9, 2004] From PR Web on October 9, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Saturday, October 09, 2004
Apparently, I spent too much time studying during my high school and college careers.. From RHPT.com on October 9, 2004 at 1:58 a.m..

The Buntine Oration: Learning Networks
Text of the Buntine Oration, delivered to the at the Australian College of Educators and the Australian Council of Educational Leaders conference in Perth, Australia. MS Word version. This is the unpolished version; links and references will be added over the next few days, slides will be made available and an audio feed added."I had this vision, you see, that the use of learning objects would, in effect, make learning content seamlessly and effortlessly available not only to all stud From OLDaily on October 9, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..