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This Year's Challenges
Educating your children at home is no easy task. Your challenges this year may include planning out the year's activities,
keeping good records, understanding your childrens'
learning styles, and providing loving discipline. But who is better to take on this challenge than you? You are the right person for this job. We hope that we can provide help throughout the year, from
HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on October 13, 2004 at 11:01 p.m..
Poetry and The Pleasure of the Text
As an English teacher, it's easy to forget about the pleasure of the text -- in fact, a great deal of the difficulties in teaching literature or creative writing is getting students to see that there's much more to a story than the familiar emotional responses we're trained to have... From
PEDABLOGUE on October 13, 2004 at 10:53 p.m..
ICANN breaks budget impasse
The nonprofit in charge of Internet addresses ends a months-long budget battle that pitted small registrars against big ones. From
CNET News.com on October 13, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Quote of the day
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
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Open Artifact on October 13, 2004 at 9:59 p.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... From
Kolabora.com on October 13, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..
The Boys Are in Town
Well the boys are in town...
John and
George are on their way to Tempe (no this is not a Dead Beatles reunion, it is the other John and George). After their
shindig at ASU, I am counting on meeting up for some drinks at the
Billet Bar in downtown Scottsdale and then maybe up for a good ole time at
Rawhide Western Town, where they can join the shootout ac From
cogdogblog on October 13, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..
Art of the Start
I usually peruse the business section in any bookstore and am quite selective in what I decide to buy. There are a lot of business books, but few that stand the test of time. I've just finished reading Guy Kawasaki's
The Art of the Start, and his book is the exception, for a number of reasons. First of all, I use
Furl to mark web pages of interest that don't get on to my blog. My Furl
p From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on October 13, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Oct 14
Today's highlights: Autonomic Launch; Orchestria and Bloomberg; 4SmartPhone Mobile Email; Intellisync on AT&T smartphone; My very good friend Kent Duston has launched Autonomic, a business and IT consultancy company in Wellington NZ. I've known and worked alongside Kent for many... From
Kolabora.com on October 13, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
Writing HTML presentation
I am just putting the finishing touches on my Writing HTML presentation that I will be using in a workshop this evening with some Canada World Youth volunteers who are in North Battleford for a couple of months. I am using Eric Meyer's brilliant S5 presentation system. I am impressed ... From
Just Another Ant on October 13, 2004 at 6:00 p.m..
Podcasting: new device application
Postcasting is a nascent form of sharing digital files, a combination of publication and consumption, like a cross between RSS feeds and radio. Producers shape files for usage in portable devices, such as the iPod. iPodder is a good... From
MANE IT Network on October 13, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Should this need attribution?
http://www.xplana.com/newsletter/newsletter.php I stumbled across this newsletter from the folks at Xplana through my referrer logs (apparently they are also a CMS company in addition to producing the
Xplana blog). If you go through the section titled 'Useful Research' you'll find many posts you have already read before, from many edtech blogs you read. Some of them are just repostings of the original post without anything added; while their link points back From
EdTechPost on October 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
The Brain. Man's Best Friend
Für Liebhaber: Learning Lab Denmark Quarterly widmet sich in dieser Ausgabe ganz den neuesten Erkenntnissen der cognitive neuroscientists. Ein Artikel widmet sich z.B. dem Thema "Emotional Learning", ein anderer der Frage: "How do we learn?" Allerdings sollte man beim... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Beruf der Woche: Personalentwickler
Damit keine Missverständnisse entstehen: jobpilot, die Online-Stellenbörse, hat eine Rubrik, die "Beruf der Woche" heisst. Jetzt war der Personalentwickler dran. Sein Jobprofil enthält einige allgemeine Beschreibungen, denen man vorbehaltlos zustimmen kann. Es werden aber auch Anforderungen gestellt, die den Job... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 13, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
SCO to launch legal Web site
Prosco.net will feature an archive of filings and other information related to the company's many legal battles over Linux. From
CNET News.com on October 13, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Visibility for Web Editors
Who's behind that site?
Steve Outing has often poked at Web operations for not having good online contact information, and that continues to be a problem. But I'd like to go beyond that: Why aren't Web editors visible and known to their users?No one would ever expect a newspaper editor to be a mysterious unknown figure in the community, but few Web editors seem to have any external standing beyond a name on the site's contact page, if there is one.I was reminded of the faceless sterili From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 13, 2004 at 4:56 p.m..
SoSoPedia: Link Rank
The idea of building a kind of hyperlinked mini-encyclopedia of social software has been running through my head for a while. The cybernetics-flavored
Disenchanted dictionary and
Principia Cybernetica have always been an inspiration, and I sense a need for something similar describing what's happening in the specific, rapidly-evolving space of social software. I've been working alone From
Seb's Open Research on October 13, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..
Massive Dell Recall
In one of the largest computer-related recalls in recent memory, Dell has expanded its laptop power adapter recall to include over 4 million units. The adapters could cause a fire or present a shock hazard to users, although a mere... From
Indiana IT on October 13, 2004 at 3:58 p.m..
Who Are Your Press Contacts? (Online Media Outreach, Part 2)
Human contact remains the core of quality journalism, even though most journalists increasingly rely on the internet for their work. Every journalist knows that when you're on deadline, the best way to get questions answered correctly and fast is to talk to a cooperative and knowledgeable source – that is, a real person, an individual. This is why it's crucial, in your online pressroom, to prominently list the names, direct phone and e-mail, and areas of responsibility for each of your press officers... From
Contentious Weblog on October 13, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
NASA nosiness
On some NASA software that gives you an alien-eye view of where you live. From
Monkeymagic on October 13, 2004 at 3:54 p.m..
Chatting our way through the debate
Don't forget, if you want to join in a general-purpose snarkfest during the debate tonight, tune your IRC client to irc.freednode.net and join #johodebate. (Details here.)... From
Joho the Blog on October 13, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..
Travel and courses
Tomorrow I'm leaving for London. I will moderate a discussion and brainstorming meeting as coordinator of the virtual community workpackage of the RUISNET project. This project is about weaving the net of cooperations between research institutions and firms on an European and regional scale. The project will have two faces one is the internal collaborative workspace the other the portal for the target groups. I'm curious about the meeting but not happy to get up at 5 am tomorrow. As already mentioned my next stop (leaving London at 5 am on Friday) is then the University of Innsbruc From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 13, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..
Briefly: HP to sell PathScale compilers
roundup Plus: Open-source Web tools company nets VC funding...SAP spiffs up small business programs...Piracy crackdown yields $2.2 million...Sun draws Nvidia graphics into Solaris. From
CNET News.com on October 13, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Slashdot down?
Perhaps you first came to know of this by sense a disturbance in the force. I'm not sure what is happening, but slashdot appears to be down (Server Error 503 - Service Not Available). This leads to the dilemma of where one should post the news, since normally this sort ... From
Just Another Ant on October 13, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..
DoJ Endorses PDEA, Induce Act
As most of you are no doubt aware, the Department of Justice yesterday issued a
lengthy report (PDF) outlining its plans for taking the war against intellectual property "theft" to the next level. So what is John Ashcroft's answer to our copyright infringement problems? As Declan McCullagh
writes, "more spending, more FBI agents and more power for prosecutors." Meaning, of course,
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..
Qualcomm pushes multicast CDMA
The company behind most CDMA technology is now planning to go multicast in order to allow faster and more stable streaming content. Qualcomm has announced two new extensions to the CDMA specification designed to improve multicast capability in 1xEV-DO and WCDMA devices. Both tie into previously announced systems to offer cheaper content distribution to wide audiences. The two new systems, 1xEV-DO Platinum Multicast and Forward Link Only (FLO), complement existing CDMA technologies. 1xEV-DO Platinum Multicast is an evolution of the 1xEV-DO network designed to allow a ce From
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..
Portable Firefox 0.9.3 & 1.0PR (USB Drive-Friendly)
Firefox supports running from removable drives with minimal reconfiguration. To make life even easier, I've repackaged Firefox as a complete, removable drive-friendly browser. This grew out of a mozillaZine forum topic back in June of 2004. Any comments or questions can be directed there
...More From
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..
Radio journalism due for a renaissance?
Good article by Mark Glaser just went up at the Online Journalism Review:
Will Satellite, 'Podcasting' Bring a Renaissance to Radio Journalism? The piece looks at the changing shape of radio, focusing on satellite radio, "podcasting" and the promise of more original journalism. "It's a ripe moment for radio. Several trends are converging: digital audio production tools are cheap and accessible; new distribution paths like streaming, satellite radio, digital broadcast radio, wireless and 'podcasti From
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..
Wikipedia & Collective Memory
Kim H. Vetman has written an interesting
paper that illustrates how distributed resources are changing not only the nature of knowledge, but the ways of knowing. Vetman points out that knowledge may be more than something dynamic that changes over time: "A deeper implication of this revolution is From
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..
Hit Maps
On where y'all are (or at least where I am) From
Monkeymagic on October 13, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..
Britt on Going Upriver
I missed Vietnam by virtue of the quirky granting of conscientious objector status, but reading Britt is like remembering what I never lived through. His review of Going Upriver within our political context and his Vietnam experience is reality-based and remarkable.... From
Joho the Blog on October 13, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..
Sharing with Granny D
So
Granny D, the extraordinary 94 year old activist from New Hampshire running for the United States Senate, wants to guest blog @ Lessig Blog. I'm honored to welcome her here for the next week. I'm scaling back a bit, preparing for the KAHLE argument, while she's pushing ahead, preparing for November 2d. Her first post will come soon. Please welcome our first candidate for US Senate. From
Lessig Blog on October 13, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
The Promise of Online Simulations
Online simulations have the potential to add enormous value to corporate training environments. Simulations are fun and engaging and allow learners to internalize knowledge by applying new skills in a risk-free environment. This can dramatically increase motivation and retention... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 13, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
Twitch Speed.com
Hi, and welcome to the wonderful world of Digital Game-Based Learning. This is the companion site to the book. My intention is to provide as much information as possible on all forms of Digital Game-Based Learning, its users and providers,... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 13, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
Squeakland
Squeak is a "media authoring tool"-- software that you can download to your computer and then use to create your own media or share and play with others. Welcome to Squeakland!... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 13, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
New Rapid Solutions Exchange
Yesterday, we launched Phase I of our Rapid Solutions Exchange. The Exchange is a collection of Groove Virtual Office templates containing custom Forms-based tools. Over the next few months we will be adding many more. Forms functionality was significantly enhanced... From
Kolabora.com on October 13, 2004 at 1:57 p.m..
New England Insitute of Technology position
The Multimedia Program at New England Institute of Technology, Warwick RI, seeks a new faculty member with cutting edge digital production skills to teach in our innovative undergraduate program. Teach interactive production courses in Multimedia, including web design, interactive CD/DVD/... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 13, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
LiveTopics wishlist or topic-based blogging support
One of the directions that keep on popping up when I'm thinking about blogging in KM context is topic-based blogging. There are a couple of reasons behind it: personal - if blogs are used as a personal knowledge management tool than ability to tag posts is important to be able to organise, retrieve and share them corporate - once weblogs are used in a company one would want to be able to slice an aggregated stream of posts into topic-based streams to support knowledge sharing
Mathemagenic on October 13, 2004 at 1:53 p.m..
Gonzo Marketing revisited
I've been re-reading Chris Locke's Gonzo Marketing and I've been struck again by what a damn good book it is. Chris writes so well, and so entertainingly, that it's easy to forget how profound his ideas are. Gonzo is a visionary work, which is not a word applied to many (any?) marketing books. And it's got more ideas in its little finger than most marketing writers have in a lifetime. So why didn't Gonzo knock Who Moved My Stinky Stinky Cheese off the best-seller list? It didn't help that Gonzo was published a couple of weeks after 9/11. (Oh, thank... From
Joho the Blog on October 13, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
When everything is known
David Isenberg points us to an amusing Flash envisioning of what it'll be like when databases fall in love and get married. Um, a little more literally, it depicts a phone call to a pizza delivery place.... From
Joho the Blog on October 13, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
EU takes aim at Intel--again
The European Commission has asked four more countries for information on how they buy computers. Rival AMD applauds the move. From
CNET News.com on October 13, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Web-Enhancing the University in Departmental Blocks
The new online journal Innovate has a
thought-provoking piece (registration required) on what what can be accomplished when universities roll out web-enhanced programs on a departmental rather than course-by-course basis. What I take away from it is that departments that have committed to cultivating a cohesive approach to instructional philosophy… From
e-Literate on October 13, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Blog Your Undergraduate Major
The
suggestion on blogsperiment that students should be encouraged to create blogs that transcend individual courses fits well with the idea in my
last post about approaching the web-enhancing of a university on the departmental level rather than on a course-by-course basis. However, unlike the other idea, this one can… From
e-Literate on October 13, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Hello
I am a professor of Classics who has been fooling around with instructional technology for almost ten years now. I have the scars to prove it. My current whizbang is a chaotic Wiki project I have set up for the students in my Senior Honors Capstone Course. One night as I was googling for guidance, I stumbled upon this blog - more specifically, Heather James's article about her "brilliant failure" teaching with a Wiki. I am very happy to be here. From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 13, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..
How To Create An Effective Presentation - Part 2 Of 4
by Geetesh Bajaj Step 4 - Content. Content includes text, font, charts, pictures, music, video, graphs, etc. Let's consider text first - although text is the most important part of any presentation, try to keep it in small doses - use direct speech, bullets, concise information, etc. Create the text outlines in a word processor - make sure that the progression of slides has a flow to it. Now, about slide backgrounds - how they reflect on projectors or monitors - about colour combinations and corporate identities. Avoid fluorescent and very bright coloured backgrounds. Consider the type of From
MasterViews on October 13, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
Halley's bed-and-breakfast rant
Halley is hilarious (and ribald) about why she hates b&b's. I hate them too, but my reasons don't require me to use the phrase "doggy-style." In part it's because, as Halley puts it so well, "The kooky couples who decide to run them are eavesdroppers at best and psychotic quaintmongers at worst." Ok, that's a tad harsh (but funny), but it's true that, in my experience, the owners often trangress the lines. For example, the owner of one b-and-b carefully pointed out to us a coffee table book the cover of which had a photo of a baby emerging from... From
Joho the Blog on October 13, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
Proselytizing for blogging
I gave our guest writer the 25 cent tour of my little acre of the blogosphere today, taking a look at the book review site for kids my 10-year-old daughter and I just set up, the site where we post our group's weekly radio pieces, this site, my class site, the site of a student she had met, and the university's democracy site. I gave a quick overview of feeding page templates from data bases, which means you can have dynamic pages and RSS feeds, and we zipped into Bloglines for a quick... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on October 13, 2004 at 10:54 a.m..
XML play-doh
A universal canvas requires a universal way to represent data. Other solutions are conceivable, but let's accept for now that XML is a reasonable one, and that it's here to stay. How does XML become Play-doh? The first answer, for me, was Perl with its XML::Parser module. Then came XSLT (XSL Transformation), which traded away procedural idioms to gain declarative transformational power. Then came Python with its libxml/libxslt modules, which married the procedural and declarative styles in a highly interactive way. That's been my weapon of choice lately, but now there's a n From
Jon's Radio on October 13, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
All Pages
Yellow pages, yellow pages and even more yellow pages from across the United States are available for comprehensive or individual search needs. From
Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on October 13, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
Going Plazes
I'm not a big fun of joining YASNs just for the sake of it, but my discovery of
Plazes has a little story behind it. I guess I heard about it first in a conversation about geotagging weblogs between
Martin and
Rick. Then I've got an invitation from
Matt, registered, but was too lazy to install Plazes launcher that you need to make it work. Then the story took a From
Mathemagenic on October 13, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
Debate chat
I enjoyed chatting with a bunch of you during the previous debate. So, let's do it again. I'll set up a channel at irc.freenode.net called johodebate, starting around 8:45pm (Boston time). You're all invited If your chat software works the way mine (HydraIRC) does, you go to File -> Connect, and then click on Freenode as your server. Beneath that you should see irc.freenode.net. Click on that one. Once the window opens indicating that you're connected, in the type-in field at the bottom, type "/join #johodebate" except without the quotes. Play nice. No trolling. And I get t From
Joho the Blog on October 13, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..
Los bloggers se preguntan...
4Colors: Hace buen tiempo, ¿no? ALT1040: ¿La muerte de Netscape es buena? Awacate: ¿Porqué el pollo cruzó la carretera? Balance: ¿Y después del carnet por puntos, qué? Bitácora de las Indias: ¿Por qué los ciberpunks queremos abolir el copyright? Bitacoras.org:... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 13, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..
Call for global action on spam - BBC
Only more global co-operation will help stop the scourge of spam, say experts. At a conference called to debate anti-spam measures, US and UK government bodies said they had to work more closely to stop spammers. Most spam originated overseas, so cross From
Techno-News Blog on October 13, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Fluid Chip Does Binary Logic - Technology Review
Colorado School of Mines Researchers have constructed microfluidic gates that use the relative flow resistance of liquid rather than electricity to carry out the basic logic operations of computing. They have also combined a pair of basic gates into a From
Techno-News Blog on October 13, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
South Africa: Smart boards and smart kids
It's widely recognised that this country lags behind in effective maths, science and technology teaching. Too few teachers and too few resources compound the problem. The result is learners leaving school without the ICT skills essential in today's ma From
Online Learning Update on October 13, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Netscape: bowed, but not broken
The browser that brought the Web to the masses then virtually disappeared is 10 years old. Now it's set for an AOL makeover, News.com has learned. From
CNET News.com on October 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Unearthing the origins of Firefox
Firefox lead engineer Ben Goodger explains the behind-the-scenes decisions leading to the release of this increasingly popular alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. From
CNET News.com on October 13, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Blog Connection
New site:
Blog Connection. Premier resource for all things related to blogs. Blog Connection is your source to connect to the blogging world. The site contains all types of information related to blogging! Blogs are the latest craze in communication Personal Blog - share your thoughts and ideas with the world. Create an online journal to communicate Business Blog - another way to keep in touch with customers, suppliers or prospective customers. Announce new products, feature tips, or post a jobs opportunities. Post From
RSS Blog on October 13, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..
Optimal Sight Lines: September 2004
Below is a list of subjects related to blog entries for September 2004. Adobe InDesign Desktop publishing Adobe Photoshop Computer graphics Image processing -- Digital techniques Photography -- Digital techniques Adobe Illustrator Computer graphics Adobe Indesign Desktop publishing Adobe Photoshop... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 13, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..
Final Cut Pro QuickTip #42
Digital Producer has a brief article on how to replace the built-in Final Cut countdown when using the Print To Tape option. If you are looking for some old leader footage, check out the public domain material from the Prelinger... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 13, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..
Smogdance Film Festival 2005
Smogdance, the Seventh Annual Pomona Film Festival, is making a call for entries. The entry deadline is DECEMBER 15, 2004. Smogdance is proudly sponsored by dA Center for the Arts, a community nonprofit arts organization serving the Pomona Valley since... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 13, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..
Reeve Was a Super Activist
Christopher Reeve's death Sunday deprives stem-cell research advocates of one of their most effective champions. But the wheels he help put in motion will continue turning, they promise. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Music Industry Spurned by Court
The Supreme Court declines to hear the music industry's appeal of a case that forbade it from trying to force phone and internet companies from turning over the names of people suspected of copyright infringement over peer-to-peer networks. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
You Need a Robolawyer
Stop reading all that 'clickwrap' fine print! A browser bot will accept or reject agreements on your terms. By Mark D. Rasch from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Campaign Donor Data Goes Mobile
Political wonks no longer need to hunch over their PCs to track the political leanings of different regions. A new service sends that data to cell phones and PDAs, so people can find out instantly if they're in a Democratic or Republican stronghold. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
UCLA File Swappers in Quarantine
The school's tool for fighting piracy on campus automatically isolates students fingered by the entertainment industry for allegedly sharing copyright files. It's another example of a university cracking down on illegal file trading. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
New Tack Wins Prisoner's Dilemma
The winner of this year's competition in the classic computerized strategy game shows that a tactic based on cooperating with team members can succeed over one that relies on echoing rivals' moves. By Wendy M. Grossman. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Vote Early and Often Online
Polls run by news sites to gauge public opinion of politicians are turning into partisan tools for political spin doctors. People voting, often repeatedly, in response to e-mails from their favored candidates can skew the results. By Louise Witt. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Click Fraud Threatens Web
Someone could make the argument that watchdogs have better things to do. But click fraud -- endlessly clicking on ads to generate cash or hurt a competitor -- is a serious threat to the web business, and no one's doing much about it. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
A Mall for America's Geeks
A road trip detour to the Mall of America offers a look at some remarkable feats of modern engineering. Marvels range from genetically modified glowing fish to roller coasters that no sane human should ride after lunch. Michelle Delio reports from Bloomington, Minnesota. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
WanderPod Brings Wi-Fi Anywhere
A Wi-Fi hot-spot builder develops a decked-out trailer capable of delivering broadband access even in the middle of nowhere. The WanderPod gets its first test run at the launch of SpaceShipOne in the Mojave Desert. By Dan Brekke. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Now, for Your PC: Mac OS X
A Hawaiian company claims to have developed a $50 software emulator that allows a Windows PC to run Mac OS X. A legal expert says it's likely Apple will have some objections. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on October 13, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Open Thread
I'm getting into several planes for the next 18 hours or so. Back online Wednesday night or Thursday morning California time. Meanwhile, chat below. Please behave. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 13, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..
Eliminate Eyeglasses In 8 Weeks
"Free 'Program to Eliminate Eyeglasses in 8 weeks' download now available. By letting people do all the work, we have devised a way to distribute it almost free; consumers are required to create their own tools at home. It's a clone of the full-price version, but without the support; as of now everyone on the planet can eliminate their eyeglasses for life with the only risk-free alternative to eye surgery and laser in the world today." [PRWEB Oct 13, 2004] From
PR Web on October 13, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Theological Book Sparks Controversy; Offers New Ideas
"The Gospel of the Four", an innovative new theological book by Peter B. Jones, lays the books of the four gospels side by side for comparison, revealing startling new information that could turn Christian theology on its ear. [PRWEB Oct 13, 2004] From
PR Web on October 13, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
School-tech fans cheer T+L² rebound
Education-technology enthusiasts cheered word of an attendance rebound at one of the field's premier school-technology conferences--the National School Boards Association's (NSBA) T+L² Conference to be held in Denver Oct. 27-29. From
DEC Daily News on October 13, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
Add Functionality to Your Blogs
We've recently come across some free tools avaialable to non-commercial bloggers. The tools are called Blogboxes and come in a variety of tools. They have a photoblox, soundblox, weatherblox, clockblox, and linkblox. From
DEC Daily News on October 13, 2004 at 3:50 a.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 Clyde Bentley. From
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..
You are silly.
eWeek columnist David Coursey says podcasting is cool for commercial content, and silly when used by "egomaniacal" bloggers. From
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..
Satellite Radio Could Become 'People's Medium'
Writing in MediaPost's
Online Spin, Tom Hespos posits satellite radio, with its seemingly limitless bandwidth, could become the new Internet allowing anyone, through satellite company lease, to broadcast their own radio show. Internet publishing and recently, weblogs, have provided a global voice to individual inclined to shout loud enough. Satellite could do the same for wannabe radio personalities. (Let them eat Satellite? -kc.) From
unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:56 a.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
sherlo From unmediated on October 13, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..
Compete With Craig Using Practically Free Software
OK, I haven't tried this out myself, but I'm taking the word of e-publishing expert Dan Pacheco, who let me know about
Noah's Classifieds. Want to compete with
Craigslist in your town, or set up a free Craigslist-like online classifieds service before Craig gets to your community? Noah's gives you a classifieds site that's roughly equivalent to what Craigslist does.The amazing part is the price for the open-source Noah's package: free. If you want some custo From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 13, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..
Debates Bring In the Big Page-view Numbers
Kathy Park, public relations manager for the New York Times Co., passed along some interesting nytimes.com stats. It seems that after the first U.S. presidential debate, there was a big surge in traffic to the
Washington section: 2.1 million page-views on Friday, October 1. Section traffic also peaked after the next two debates: 2.0 million on October 6 (vice-presidential debate) and 1.5 million on October 9 (second presidential debate).Compare that to the traffic levels to that section after the Democratic and From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 13, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..
BTN Returns in 2005
The Australian Broadcasting Commission has announced that Behind The News (BTN), the education news program broadcast to schools around the country, will return to ABC TV in 2005. The updated youth-orientated news series will be broadcast on Tuesdays at 11.30am and repeated at 11am Wednesdays throughout 2005. BTN will also be available on the ABC's new digital TV channel when it is launched in March next year. 12 October 2004. From
EdNA Online on October 13, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..
Competitions and Awards
This new School education theme page features a newly created calendar, Competitions for Schools and also provides links to the EdNA categories of Teaching Awards and Awards, Challenges and Scholarships (Students). From
EdNA Online on October 13, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
Cyber-schools
For some technology-savvy parents, there may be a way to get answers to these questions that doesn't involve rustling through a child's backpack or getting sucked into the verbal vacuum of an uncommunicative teenager. That solution: the Internet. You can... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 13, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..
Student-Centered Intranets
Technology has truly found a home in our nation's schools. Computers are in classrooms, in libraries, in computer labs, and in other common areas around each campus. They are connected to the Internet as well as to each other. They... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 13, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..