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CatchBob!
CatchBob! is an experimental platform in the form of a mobile game for running psychological experiments. [via AdMblog] It is designed to elicit collaborative behavior of people working together on a mobile activity. Running on a mobile device (iPAQ, TabletPc),... From
Kolabora.com on October 12, 2004 at 10:04 p.m..
A Culture of Feeds: Syndication and Youth Culture
The author describes his
crisis of faith in RSS and feed readers, observing that the idea of syndicate content doesn't mesh with the new internet culture where everything is done by instant message. There's a point to this - but a point that, I think, tells us that RSS feed readers should look less like email and more like instant messaging. By Danah Boyd, Apophenia, October 10, 2004 [
OLDaily on October 12, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Beyond Content
Short update on David Wiley's Open Learning Support (OLS), wehere "... learning communities where individuals around the world can connect with each other, collaborate, form study groups, and receive support for their use of MIT OCW materials in formal and informal educational settings," and a tidbit about Gilly Salmon's new job. By Derek Morrison, Auricle, October 12, 2004 [
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Shared Spaces Briefing, Oct 13
Today's highlights: Plumtree Collaboration Server 4.0; PushMessenger; Instant Technologies Queue Manager; JP Mobile SureWave Mobile Office; Plumtree released Version 4.0 of Collaboration Server, its group collaboration offering. New features: integration with the Windows desktop, synchronization of ... From
Kolabora.com on October 12, 2004 at 8:05 p.m..
Adieu, Jacques
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/ story/0,1280,-4540199,00.html Jacques Derrida died on Saturday. I just found out. I hadn't known he was sick. It was primarily his work (and to a lesser extent that of his own inspirations, Freud and Heidegger) that led me to study critical theory for my M.A. I even made a pilgrimage of sorts to Oxford to see him speak (it was during the same trip that he was awarded his controversial honorary degree from Cambridge). People claim he was difficult From
EdTechPost on October 12, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..
RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements Updated
2004-10-12: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements. The draft suggests how an RDF query language and data access protocol could be used in the construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and tourism. Comments are welcome. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on October 12, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..
Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
2004-10-12: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on October 12, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..
U2 pitches for Apple
New iTunes ads airing during baseball games tonight will feature the advertising-shy Irish rockers. From
CNET News.com on October 12, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Intel revenue up 5 percent
The traditional third-quarter bump is light for the chipmaker, as lower-than-expected PC sales offset flash memory gains. From
CNET News.com on October 12, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
Call for Short Articles for Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology Editor: Eileen M. Trauth, Ph.D. School of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University As information technology (IT) has spread throughout all aspects of personal and work life, so too, has grown an interest in understanding more about those who use and develop IT, as well as those who are affected by it. This, in turn, has lead to an increasing interest in the demographics of IT developers and consumers. One demographic category of considerable resear From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 12, 2004 at 7:05 p.m..
Virtual AoIR 05 - Call for Volunteers
I have decided to organize volunteers in an attempt to have some web-streaming or something virtual at the next
AoIR conference in Chicago. If you have been following the discussion on the AoIR list-serv, then you already know this. So, if you are interested in discussing the possibilities of Internet presence at an Internet conference, and perhaps helping (at this point, ideas are good too), then please let me know!! Email me - netwoman at gmail dot com. Thanks! From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 12, 2004 at 7:05 p.m..
Education library drop-in sessions
The Education Library will offer two drop-in sessions on Friday, October 22nd. These sessions are open to any interested persons. The sessions will be a quick review of the Catalogue and the new features under "My Library", and also a... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 12, 2004 at 7:03 p.m..
Working Draft: Web Services Choreography Description Language 1.0
2004-10-12: The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). This XML-based language describes peer-to-peer collaborations between Web service participants by defining their behavior from a global viewpoint. Ordered message exchanges thus accomplish a common business goal. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on October 12, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..
Professional Economists: The Economy is Safer in Kerry's Hands
The Economist is currently reporting the results of a survey of professional economists. When asked the majority seemed to feel that the economy was safer in Kerry's hands than in Bush's. The Bush tax cuts seem to have gone down particularly poorly with this group. On the more positive side for Bush, a significant number of the economists say they don't think the problems of the US economy are entirely his fault. From
kuro5hin.org on October 12, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..
Derrida was not superman
Derrida is dead but not erased. Steve Johnson has blogged a memoir that, in a couple of paragraphs, puts Derrida in a perspective that others have spent volumes trying to get right. Snippet: Ultimately, I came out of that period with the feeling that deconstruction was ultimately an accurate, legitimate, and surprisingly understandable critique of the way language produces meaning. (Or it least it could have been understandable, if its proponents weren't so insistent on having their writing enact the contradictory, self-erasing property they were trying to document -- which is a bit like From
Joho the Blog on October 12, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Finding Licensed Content
If you can't be bothered to open up your web browser and head over to
our search engine, but still have a hankering for licensed content, there's good news. Well, good news if you run Mac OS X. We now have a Creative Commons Search channel for
Sherlock You can connect to the channel at
Creative Commons: weblog on October 12, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Takin' My Country Back
I don't know much about country music, so I can't tell if this song is any good, but I like the idea of it...... From
Joho the Blog on October 12, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..
Securing Windows
Led by Michael Howard (among others), Microsoft has embarked on a serious program of reform and claims it is committed to implementing these best practices. The comprehensive effort begins, Howard says, with mandatory training. Within 60 days of hiring, every developer assigned to a product team is indoctrinated with the principles of what Microsoft calls its Security Development Lifecycle. "The level of security expertise in the marketplace -- in the industry in general -- is abysmally low," Howard says. "So we need to bridge that gap." From
Jon's Radio on October 12, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..
It's all about the iPod
New surveys credit Apple with overwhelming market share and brand recognition, but competitors may find success at low end of market. From
CNET News.com on October 12, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Why RoboDemo 5 Sucks
This post isn’t a litany of the things that I don’t like about RoboDemo, although there will necessarily will be some of that. Rather, it’s my own speculation as to why a smart company with a reputation for good software produced a lemon of a release. Make no mistake about… From
e-Literate on October 12, 2004 at 3:15 p.m..
Enclosures and oral tradition
Jay Fienberg's insight on standards as oral traditions: The "oral tradition" to which I refer is not, as you may think, that of bloggers posting audio. Rather, it is the process by which RSS 2 enclosures are coming into wider use. People are just building software that does stuff with enclosures, and telling each other about it. And, somewhere in there, through word of mouth, some kind of agreement about what enclosures mean is getting worked out. He brought th From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 3:09 p.m..
I am Generation C
Score on finding the Big Articles, lately. (via Scoble) So what is it all about? The GENERATION C phenomenon captures the tsunami of consumer generated 'content' that is building on the Web, adding tera-peta bytes of new text, images, audio and video on an ongoing basis. The two main drivers fuelling this trend? (1) The creative urges each consumer undeniably possesses. We're all artists, but until now we neither had the guts nor the means to go all out. (2) The manufacturers of content-creating tools, who relentlessly push us to unleash that creativ From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 3:09 p.m..
Another Analog to Digital Transition Coming
And one that is likely only to continue to engeder controversy about what constitutes copying (not to mention a host of spectrum issues):
Building a 21st century radio.Digital technology is coming slowly but surely to radio, promising to rock the industry with enhancements such as improved reception, as well as on-demand programming and time-shifting that have begun to tantalize TV viewers even as they terrorize Hollywood. Digital radio growth has been sl From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 3:09 p.m..
Desktop video survey
PaidContent
notes a survey by Maven Networks: According to the survey, 71 percent of consumers would download a branded video channel to their desktop…70 percent of broadband users claim that they would use the service at least once a week, with 25 to 34 year olds being the most likely to use it that often. From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 3:09 p.m..
Community of photos
Tim Bishop's got a
fascinating post about how the
Iraq metatag at Flickr might affect politics and communities: What happens when Iraqis start posting pictures on a popular photo portal where it is easy for Americans to find them? What happens when pro- and anti-occupation Iraqis start posting graphic pictures to make their points? What happens when we have an unmediated, high emotional im From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 3:09 p.m..
Newspaper Merchandise Classifieds Move Into the E-Commerce Age
In a move that's important to newspapers being able to compete effectively with online classifieds competition (especially
eBay and
Craigslist),
CityXpress has announced a new program that allows newspapers to offer e-commerce-enabled classifieds.The program is called eClassifiedXpress and it gives sellers the choice, when placing an ad, of selecting from three interactive selling methods: fixed-price purchase, best offer, or auction. Purchasers click on a bu From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 12, 2004 at 3:07 p.m..
Virgin takes on iPod
Company's new player offers 25 percent bigger hard drive and weighs less than the iPod Mini--for the same price. From
CNET News.com on October 12, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
FBI seizes independent media webservers, shutting down sites across Europe
US authorities have seized the UK-based servers of the British branch of Indymedia.org, an alternative newswire and global network of independent news websites. On Thursday morning of last week, a US federal court order was delivered to Rackspace, an American webhosting service provider with a UK unit in Uxbridge, Middlesex, demanding they hand over Indymedia web servers. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for some 20 European Independent Media Centres, or Indymedia websites, at its London facility, complied a From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 2:09 p.m..
Enclosures and oral tradition
Jay Fienberg's insight on standards as oral traditions: The "oral tradition" to which I refer is not, as you may think, that of bloggers posting audio. Rather, it is the process by which RSS 2 enclosures are coming into wider use. People are just building software that does stuff with enclosures, and telling each other about it. And, somewhere in there, through word of mouth, some kind of agreement about what enclosures mean is getting worked out. He brought this up in the context of a s From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 2:09 p.m..
I am Generation C
Score on finding the Big Articles, lately. (via Scoble) So what is it all about? The GENERATION C phenomenon captures the tsunami of consumer generated 'content' that is building on the Web, adding tera-peta bytes of new text, images, audio and video on an ongoing basis. The two main drivers fuelling this trend? (1) The creative urges each consumer undeniably possesses. We're all artists, but until now we neither had the guts nor the means to go all out. (2) The manufacturers of content-creating tools, who relentlessly push us to unleash that creativity, usin From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 2:09 p.m..
Another Analog to Digital Transition Coming
And one that is likely only to continue to engeder controversy about what constitutes copying (not to mention a host of spectrum issues):
Building a 21st century radio.Digital technology is coming slowly but surely to radio, promising to rock the industry with enhancements such as improved reception, as well as on-demand programming and time-shifting that have begun to tantalize TV viewers even as they terrorize Hollywood. Digital radio growth has been slow in the From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 2:09 p.m..
Desktop video survey
PaidContent
notes a survey by Maven Networks: According to the survey, 71 percent of consumers would download a branded video channel to their desktop…70 percent of broadband users claim that they would use the service at least once a week, with 25 to 34 year olds being the most likely to use it that often. From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 2:09 p.m..
Another J-School Tries 'Open Source Journalism'
The University of Missouri School of Journalism has launched
My Missourian, the latest effort to enlist citizens in publishing community news to the Web. Inspired by
NorthwestVoice.com (from the Bakersfield Californian) and South Korea's
OhMyNews, the site has the motto: "News for mid-Missourians by mid-Missourians." The site is staffed by students, who are responsible not just for editing content, but also soliciting it, says Professor Clyd From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 12, 2004 at 2:07 p.m..
MSN Search Champs: Robin Good Reports
Introduction Microsoft generous effort to bring together a unique group of technology users, evangelists, reporters, entrepreneurs, developers and passionate bloggers for a 2-day collaborative review of the new and upcoming Microsoft Search engine tool(s) paid back handsomely to both the hosts and the highly diversified group of participants. Having been invited by Microsoft to participate in this event was as much surprise to me as clear indication that my conspicuous personal investments in independent reporting and knowledge sharing was finally getting some mileage. As Robert Scoble so effe From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on October 12, 2004 at 1:59 p.m..
Hear Hear
Ernest makes a nice point here. Congress came dangerously close to passing some horrible laws. Yes, we're not out of the woods yet, yes, we still lost with the broadcast flag, and, yes, the RIAA/MPAA remain generally more powerful. But look at how far public interest and technology-side lobbying has come.
A year and a half ago I noted how much our side has improved - consider how much more there is than when the DMCA was be From
A Copyfighter's Musings on October 12, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..
Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services Workshop Underway 12-13 October
2004-10-12: The W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services is underway 12-13 October at Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. Attendees will discuss common Web services constraints and capabilities and frameworks for combining them, and their relationships to core Web services work being standardized at W3C and to other Web technologies. Read the press release and more about workshops, and visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on October 12, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
Online Media Outreach: 10 Ways to Meet Journalists’ Needs Online
It's sad how many companies, organizations, and institutions still don't seem to have the first clue about how to effectively reach out to journalists through online media! This includes high-profile outfits as well as miniscule operations. Journalists are always in a hurry, today more so than ever before. They want to be able to find your organization online easily, go straight to your news, and learn who to contact by phone or e-mail for more info – virtually immediately. Most of the journalists I know get remarkably peeved by web sites and other online operations that waste From
Contentious Weblog on October 12, 2004 at 1:06 p.m..
Your Online Pressroom (Online Media Outreach, Part 1)
Every organization with a web presence should offer a prominent, top-level section labeled "Media," "Press," or "News" (or that includes those words, such as newsroom). Here's how that should be positioned, and what it should contain... (NOTE: This is part 1 of a 10-part series.) From
Contentious Weblog on October 12, 2004 at 1:06 p.m..
Innovate - Live webcasts
Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the October-November issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). The webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. All times are Eastern time zone. You... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 12, 2004 at 1:03 p.m..
Emotional Learning
Some wonderful research on
emotional awareness is explored here in this Learning Lab Denmark article. "Some sensory inputs never reach our conscious attention, but brain scannings have shown that they cause brain activity nevertheless. Thus, we register more than we are aware of." From
elearningpost on October 12, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..
Beyond content
When it was announced in April 2001 MIT's Open Courseware initiative certainly caught the attention of the world. The project delivered its first material on 30 September 2002. At the time of writing, the learning materials for 900 MIT courses are now available online with learning material for 2000 courses slated for 2008. But we all know (don't we?) that a load of content online, no matter how prestigious the source, does not e-learning make; a fact recognized by David Wiley's Open... From
Auricle on October 12, 2004 at 12:02 p.m..
Time Furl-ed
Will wrote today about
his mild wonderment on his time spent roaming blogs, furl-ing and webnoting interesting web sites: So I had about 90 minutes of true blogging flow this morning, reading the latest in my Bloglines aggregator, clicking on links, Furling interesting posts, and stealing paragraphs here and there and saving them as a Webnote. When I was in the midst of it, it all seemed to connect, the tools working seamlessly together, each with its distinct purpose. I really did get lost in it, which is either a mo From
cogdogblog on October 12, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
Sony DVD burner skirts PCs
Device can be connected to a camcorder or VCR for transferring taped footage directly to a DVD, without using a computer. From
CNET News.com on October 12, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
MSN, PayPal battle Net woes
The Net's a lonelier place for users of PayPal and MSN Instant Messenger. Blame a software glitch and a suspected virus. From
CNET News.com on October 12, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
Live Webcast: The 2004 Lola Awards
Tonight, 11pm European Time, 5pm New York time a live webcast will be staged to present the winner of the LOLA Award. (Communicast's WebCasting Plattform) The LOLA Award is sponsored by LearningTimes and InSync Center and recognizes: Quote: ....outstanding achievement in the design, deliver... From
Kolabora.com on October 12, 2004 at 10:04 a.m..
Flickr Notes...
flickr object: " Alan Levine talks about the use of "Notes" in Flickr, the photosharing/community web space. Flickr has a feature where a user can assign notes to parts of an image. For example if you had a picture of a group of students, you could assign a note to each student which when moused over would reveal their name. A nice feature for a substitute teacher. Alan talks about creating learning objects with Flickr. I think Flickr is a very interesting platform for education. For example at Lewis, some classrooms will soon be involved in the Flat Stanley... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on October 12, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
Nuisances and lies
Kerry says that we need to do everything we can so we can return to a time when terrorism is merely a nuisance. Bush says that Kerry thinks terrorism is merely a nuisance. Both quotes are getting play on the media. So, will this be the time when Kerry says, "Are you so unconstrained by truth and decency that you will say anything to get re-elected" ... and America listens? Kerry says we need to return to a time when terrorism is merely a nuisance. Bush says we're going to win the war against terrorism. Is this the time that... From
Joho the Blog on October 12, 2004 at 9:53 a.m..
Blog Flow
So I had about 90 minutes of true blogging flow this morning, reading the latest in my
Bloglines aggregator, clicking on links,
Furling interesting posts, and stealing paragraphs here and there and saving them as a
Webnote. When I was in the midst of it, it all seemed to connect, the tools working seamlessly together, each with its distinct purpose. I really did get lost in it, which is either a moment of higher understanding of all of t From
weblogged News on October 12, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..
Bloggers Cashing In
Whether a blogger's focus is to communicate with customers or just to have fun, they have begun looking at ways to earn revenue from their blogs. The most popular ways for bloggers to earn some added cash for their pet projects are: read more about
Bloggers Cashing In. From
RSS Blog on October 12, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..
Volunteer for duty at IT Kitchen
Shelley Powers has
started something interesting; a 2-week wiki editting spree will begin Monday, October 25 and end the following Friday. There is a list of topics to be written and discussed throughout the event. Should attract a lot of interest from around the universe and could be an interesting reading project for IT students.
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Open Artifact on October 12, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Quote of the day
“I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.” ~ An English Professor
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Open Artifact on October 12, 2004 at 9:10 a.m..
Some Questions from a High School Student
Stephanie, who is working on an article for her high school newspaper, posted some comments to my post from back in May titled Grades vs. Learning. I'm going to repost her comments and questions here along with my responses. I don't solicit comments too often, but if you'd like to help Stephanie out with her article you can post your own answers to her questions in the comments section. From
Brain Frieze on October 12, 2004 at 9:07 a.m..
my post from saf seminar
I'm really enjoying this! I learnt a lot about Napoleon's conquest from a colleague here. He said that it was a logistic problem not anything else. From
elearningpost on October 12, 2004 at 6:50 a.m..
Backup Voting -- Could Be a Mess
A new national backup system meant to ensure that millions of eligible voters are not mistakenly turned away from the polls this year as they were in 2000 could cause Election Day problems. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..
U.S. Spies on Chat Rooms
Could terrorists be plotting their next move online, obscured by the 'noise' of chat-room chatter? The U.S. government thinks that may be the case and is funding a yearlong study on chat-room surveillance. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Indecency Rules Enter Digital Age
The FCC leads the campaign to rein in 'indecency' on the airwaves. But in a world of unlimited spectrum, some think shackling the First Amendment is what's obscene. By Frank Rose from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
School Ups Grade by Going Online
A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Undecided Voter? Try This Quiz
While most voters have chosen their favorite candidate for president, several sites offer online tests for the undecided. In some cases, the results can be quite contradictory. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
IPod Users Go Into the Closet
As Apple's iPod moves fast into the mainstream, many users shun the telltale white earbuds. Behold the closet iPod lover, some of whom are not too keen on the growing hordes of plebes with new iPods. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Jacket Grows From Living Tissue
Put off by the idea of wearing jackets made from dead animal skins, a team of Australian researchers attempts to grow a stitchless coat from live cells. By Lakshmi Sandhana. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Diebold and the Disabled
Among the promoters of electronic voting machines are advocates for disabled voters. But critics say money connections between disability groups and voting-machine companies suggest the groups may be concerned with more than independent access for the disabled. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on October 12, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
BBC Wants Help With Dirac Codec
"According to
The Register the
BBC wants help to develop their open source video codec Dirac. '[Lead developer Dr. Thomas] Davies said the codec could live on anything from mobile phones to high-definition TVs but not before a lot of further work is completed. For one thing, Dirac doesn't currently work in real-time. Davies also reckons that the compression offered by the technology could be further optimised. The BBC is working on integrating the technology with From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 6:07 a.m..
Jarvis meets Indtv
I had the good luck to go to the brand new headquarters of
Indtv, the network aimed at young Americans started by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. This week, they moved into an old coffee-roasting factory across from the city's new baseball park. This was to be eTrade's HQ and they spent a fortune making it gorgeous and cool -- but we know what happened to companies that spent lots of money showing off; it sat vacant for years. Now, there are just a few people scattered in a sea of sleek cubes. The first floor is a cafe and they plan to expo From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 6:07 a.m..
Best of the Best in Online Journalism
Finalists
were announced today in the 2004 Online Journalism Awards competition, with sites ranging in size from
BBC News to Jay Rosen's
Pressthink weblog making the shortlists in 16 categories.The ONA's announcement includes a complete list with links to all of the finalists. They were selected from some 500 entries by a team of 70 first-round screeners and 13 final judges. The winners will be an From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 6:07 a.m..
Configuring technologies and users
User-Centered Design and the Normative Politics of Technology (pdf)by Karin Garrety and Richard BadhamReflecting on the application of UCD methods to particular design projects, the authors describe the advantages and limitations of such modernist and normative tools. While their very abstraction and formality allows them to be applied in a variety of contexts, the associated conflation of knowledge and certitude is considered to be ill-conceived. The discrete categories of UCD methods work not because they ar From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 6:07 a.m..
Battles from within Big Radio
This huge article takes a look at a David-vs-Goliath battle in San Francisco's urban/hip-hop radio scene, which didn't end well. Anyone who is involved with micro-content, open-media, blogcasting or podcasting should take a look. It's not just about corporate radio. There's something deeper and this article gives so many hints and signals, that I urge my colleagues to step outside the echo chamber. Upstart rap station Power 92.7 had its eyes on big, bad KMEL, but didn't watch its back.
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 6:07 a.m..
ViPodder, a videoblog aggregator
I whipped up a script this week based on Adam Curry's
iPodder for aggregating videoblogs from RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosure tags. It should download the videos (or any files, really), and organize them into a ViPodder directory on your desktop. It will then import the videos to playlists in
Cellulo , much like iPodder does for iTunes. ViPodder is written in Applescript, and sure to be rather buggy. It requires Mac OSX, Cellulo 2.0.0 Beta, and
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 6:07 a.m..
The screwed up economics of the free broadcast spectrum
In the late nineties, Washington policymakers took up a noble cause. There was a new technology, digital television, that almost everyone agreed would eventually revolutionize TV, but quelle horreur almost no one was adopting it. Among other things, local TV stations couldn t transmit digital signals on their existing analog channels. They needed digital spectrum. (If you think of the electromagnetic spectrum as a highway, digital and analog signals travel in different lanes.) So Congress decided to give the stations a leg up or, rather, a handout. Instead of auctioning off the From
unmediated on October 12, 2004 at 6:06 a.m..
Private messages
If I receive a private message is there somewhere that indicates whether I have received one when I login? I sent a private message to myself to test the system and the only thing that notified me of it's presence was the email alert facility. Am I missing something ? ... From
Kolabora.com on October 12, 2004 at 6:04 a.m..
Nations Plan for Net's Future - Wendy M. Grossman, Wired
National governments, with input from nongovernmental organizations, are laying the groundwork for a new internet governance structure. Hosted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, the World Summit on the I From
Techno-News Blog on October 12, 2004 at 4:55 a.m..
Psychiatrist Blames Bad Gene Pool for Massive Drugging of Foster Care Children in Texas
Does this Indicate the Resurgence of Eugenics in America? On October 4, 2004 in a Texas Committee hearing on Psychotropic Drugs and Foster Care Children, human and children rights advocates were stunned when psychiatrist, Joe Burkett, informed the committee that one of the main reasons so many foster kids need to be on psychotropic drugs is "they are very sick, from a Bad Gene pool". Another psychiatrist, Dr.Sargent, re-emphasized how very sick these kids are, and how these children's brains are wired differently, requiring them to receive "expert" psychiatric care. [PRWEB Oct 12, 2004] From
PR Web on October 12, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..
Asheville's First Free University Celebrates Release of First Monthly Catalog of Classes
The Blue Mountain Schoolhouse, Western North Carolina's first free university, presents "Up on Blue Mountain"--a community festival and learning fair--on Sunday, Oct. 17, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Greenlife Grocery in Asheville. Visitors can preview Blue Mountain's first monthly Catalog of Classes and speak directly with teachers. [PRWEB Oct 12, 2004] From
PR Web on October 12, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..
eLearners Selected to Speak at First Sloan-C Online Marketing Seminar
eLearners.com Inc., creator of the leading website for connecting learners to education, announces their participation in the Sloan-C Online Marketing Series. Pre-workshop activities are held throughout this week and the Series' live event will take place on Friday, October 15. C.J. DeSantis, founder and president of eLearners, together with UMass Online and Eduventures, will be discussing the basics of marketing online post-secondary programs, key facts about online program marketing, a case study of marketing an online program, and other hot topics. [PRWEB Oct 12, 2004] From
PR Web on October 12, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..
NextUp.com Announces TextAloud 2.0
NextUp.com (www.NextUp.com), the leading provider of innovative Text-to-Speech (TTS) software for consumers, educators and business customers, today announces the release of TextAloud From
PR Web on October 12, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..
Tiny fish make big splash in e-learning
Subtle changes are occurring throughout Australia's universities as e-learning forges new links between academics and students - both off and on campus - sometimes blurring the boundaries between educational sectors. From
DEC Daily News on October 12, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..
Conference Attendees to Gain Hands-On Experience with SCT Luminis Content Management Suite 3.0
MALVERN, Pa. October 11, 2004 " Attendees at the upcoming EDUCAUSE 2004 education technology conference will have hands-on access to the newly released SCT Luminis Content Management Suite 3.0. A limited number of eighty workshop seats are available for technical and non-technical users who want to create, manage, and deliver content more efficiently on their internal and external (.edu) Web properties. From
DEC Daily News on October 12, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..
Schools online for internet
BY the end of October, all elementary and secondary schools in Slovakia will have at least one fully equipped computer room, thanks to the "Computers for schools" project, which is now in its final stage. From
DEC Daily News on October 12, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..
Penn State improves life for those with special needs
University Park, Pa. -- In 1997, the Pennsylvania Department of Education held a focus group of parents with autistic children throughout the state to learn more about their needs. George Shadie of Luzerne County was one of those parents. From
DEC Daily News on October 12, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Let us pause for a few moments from all this talk of politics - although it produced an entertaining back-and-forth between Counselor and Munkeigh. From
RHPT.com on October 12, 2004 at 2:09 a.m..
Walk the walk
I heard a brief talk today by Beth Loffreda, author of Losing Matt Shephard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder. Reflecting on the struggles in many communities for justice and opportunity for all, she asserted, with a fervor that seemed rich with realism, that "you get power when you act like you have it." Stand in the city council meeting and speak as though your voice matters, and it will begin to, she said. I'm tempted by that line of thought, especially... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on October 12, 2004 at 2:00 a.m..
Losing the connection
The Internet is a lonelier place for users of PayPal and MSN Instant Messenger, thanks to a software glitch and a suspected virus. From
CNET News.com on October 12, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
Constantly spontaneous self-expression
A PhD student in the (completely open)
course I'm teaching about online interaction described blogs as "constantly spontaneous self-expression" in an assignment this week. [Note: you can read
the post itself, or see all the student blogs in the 7150 folder on
bloglines. If you have the time, check out what they're saying - there are some great, fresh voices in here.] If you're not a profess From
autounfocus on October 12, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
Viacom is The Man (in the bad sense)
Outlandish Josh reports that Viacom is refusing to run ads (see one here) from Compare, Decide, Vote that compare Kerry and Bush on some Youth-Oriented Issues and find Bush wanting. Viacom has not said why they've rejected the ad. Sumner Redstone, the owner of Viacom, is a Bush supporter.... From
Joho the Blog on October 12, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..
Is the Colorado race really this bad?
I'm in SF for half a day to keynote an e-learning conference. Since I'm in a hotel room, the TV is on. I'm watching a rerun of Sunday's Meet the Press featuring the two candidates for Senate from Colorado, Ken Salazar (D) and Pete Coors (R). Man, it makes me glad I'm from Massachusetts. Based on this joint interview, they are a sorry pair. (Here's The Advocate's coverage of the show.)... From
Joho the Blog on October 12, 2004 at 12:52 a.m..
Bush on Hard Work
This
remix of George Bush on "hard work" is wonderful. (I should have been doing this before, so forgive the unkindness before but: Thanks, John Driscoll!) From
Lessig Blog on October 12, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..