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Saga of site redesign
I found some time during the rainy weekend to
update the theme here. It’s not fully completed yet, but it’s far enough along to put into use.
¶ The idea was to lighten the design up a bit, use fonts that were a bit more read From
Open Artifact on October 17, 2004 at 10:59 p.m..
Toogle Retro Back to ASCII Art? Or Not?
Toogle takes a twist and strong copy of
Google's Image search except rather than return images scraped from web pages, it returns a visual representation of the search words made entirely out of text. it harkens back to the old monochrome terminal days of
ASCII art. But this is way more fun... Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images, later we will ende From
cogdogblog on October 17, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..
Toughest athlete is female and unknown
You probably haven't heard about one of the toughest endurance sports around: the deca-ironman. That's 38 km swimming, immediately followed by an 1800 km bicycle ride and a 420 km run. Currently, the world record stands at about 187 hours, held by a German housewife. Nobody else has ever finished the course below 192 hours. From
kuro5hin.org on October 17, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Podcasting, timeshifting, the iPod experience
This panel at Gnomedex spent some time talking about
podcasting. At one point the question of bandwidth came up. Someone mentioned user experience problems for people with 14.4k modems. There's an important point here, something that no one on the panel brought up, and something that a lot of people---smart people---seem to miss about podcasting. Wait...wait...okay, I'm happy now.
Scott Johnson did. Thank you Scott!!! Here&apos From
unmediated on October 17, 2004 at 9:58 p.m..
Total Recall: a Personal Information Management System
The aim for the
Total Recall project is to design and develop a personal information management system which will securely collect, store, and disseminate data from a variety of personal sensors. It will also allow customizable searching, analysis, and querying of this data, in a secure manner. Numerous applications of such systems will play an important role in improving people's quality of life. via
Tripp, who has written up some
unmediated on October 17, 2004 at 9:58 p.m..
KM Asia 2004
Knowledge Management Asia is here again. It is held in Singapore from 2-4 November. Keynote speakers include Peter Senge, David Snowden and Karl-Erik Sveiby. What I like about this year's conference is the
case-study approach taken by all conference presenters. This conference promises to deliver tons of KM practitioner experiences. From
elearningpost on October 17, 2004 at 9:47 p.m..
Being on the cutting age
Forgot to post this: the online site for reserving a spot on the Tall Ship Kajama. It would appear they really really really want to know how old you and your passengers are: By the way, they only have three kinds of fares: Child, Adult, and Senior. From
silentblue | Quantified on October 17, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..
Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation
Clark Aldrich has come up with this
synthesis [PDF] of this research into educational simulations: "Specifically, there are six criteria that are emerging as critical, and ultimately not just to simulations but all educational experiences. Three criteria, linear, systems, and cyclical, describe content. And three, simulation, game, and pedagogy, describe delivery." From
elearningpost on October 17, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..
The end of data?
David Weinberger on his new insight: there is no data;
all is metadata. "There used to be a difference between data and metadata. Data was the suitcase and metadata was the name tag on it. Data was the folder and metadata was its label. Data was the contents of the book and metadata was the Dewey Decimal number on its spine. But, in the
Third Age of Order, everything is becoming metadata." From
elearningpost on October 17, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..
Urheberrecht bildungsfeindlich
Nicht ganz 99 Thesen hat Ulrich Sieber dem Gesetzgeber dazu gerade ans Infobrett genagelt. In einem Memorandum kommt der renommierte Freiburger Informationsrechtler zu dem Schluss, dass "bei den bisherigen Reformen des Urheberrechts die Bedürfnisse des Bildungsbereiches nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt oder klargestellt wurden." Hintergrund der Denkschrift ist die im vorigen Jahr begonnene Modernisierung des deutschen Urheberrechts. Dabei war auch die Nutzung geschützter Werke im Unterricht neu geregelt worden. Nicht immer zum Vorteil von Lehrern und Schülern, wie Sieber From
Archivalia on October 17, 2004 at 7:54 p.m..
Aktenkampf
Astrid M. Eckert: Kampf um die Akten. Die Westalliierten und die Rückgabe von deutschem Archivgut nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004. 534 Seiten, 68,- [Euro]. Kein Buch für die Fachausbildung im Archivwesen. Astrid M. Eckert betrachtet vielmehr die Verhandlungen über die Rückgabe des beschlagnahmten deutschen Archivguts nach 1945 als eine aufschlußreiche Komponente im Kräftefeld der westdeutsch-westalliierten Beziehungen und der bundesdeutschen Souveränitätsbestrebungen. Sie interpretiert die Geschichte der From
Archivalia on October 17, 2004 at 7:54 p.m..
More on the DoJ Report
I finally had a chance to decrypt and read through the
Task Force report. A couple points: 1. To me, there's something a little strange about a Task Force whose purpose is to "to examine all of the Department of JusticeÂ’s intellectual property enforcement efforts and to explore methods for the Justice Department to strengthen its protection of the nationÂ’s valuable intellectual resources." The point is to identify potential threats and how to strengthen the law to combat them, without From
A Copyfighter's Musings on October 17, 2004 at 7:48 p.m..
20 miles is a very long distance
My marathon training is entering its final three weeks, and November 7th is fast approaching. I set out today for my final really long run, a 20 miler during which I covered a large portion of the Island. You can see the map of my route. I was going to keep updating this after I put the first 10 miler on, but since then I've been running all my long runs in the same general area, and the lines would have gotten all messy. But since this one was to, 'Sconset, the easternmost point in the United States, I thought I'd redo the map. It was a very long run, but I did it, and I'm From
megnut on October 17, 2004 at 7:46 p.m..
Homes of the rich
This afternoon, my wife and I went on the annual house walking tour sponsored by the Brookline Chorus. For $25 each we got to inspect the insides of six old homes in a beautiful part of Brookline. Gorgeous. So, here's my question: Why are they rich and I'm not?... From
Joho the Blog on October 17, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..
Weblog Yin and Yang
Ran across a site called "
Visit My Class" that seems to be offering up free Weblog space for educators. While there, I found this post from
Chris Burnett: It amazes me how feedback from someone other than "The Teacher" can motivate a student! This morning there were a few feedback comments and I read them to the class. I did that mainly to let the kids know that someone other than me is reading their writing. If you ever wanted to see a room of 28 8th graders be stone silent, you sh From
weblogged News on October 17, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..
Two Quick Points Re: Adam Curry
This Adam Curry
post on podcasting and music licensing (via
JP). A very rough quick response: 1. Perhaps a streaming show would be a performance, but not a downloadable podcast. That's a reproduction, if not also a distribution. 2. For that reason alone, you'd also need rights from the owner in the sound recording (e.g., the record label). Even if it were merely a performance, you'd still need that authorizatio From
A Copyfighter's Musings on October 17, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
READING FOR "HOTSPOTS" IN BLOGS
With what I've come to think of as the date-header-function, the date, typically a minor or ancillary feature of titled and dated texts, is promoted within the genre of blogs to a content-rich feature, or header. Taking note of the date-header-function reveals how the structure of the texts foregrounds everydayness, habitual writing, fresh copy, newness, etc. -- and a particular form of blog.validity ("is it current?") is assessed and maintained through this textual feature. So you check on a blog you read regularly or stumble upon one you've never se From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 17, 2004 at 3:55 p.m..
Fun With Debian
Well, I'm finally starting to make that leap into the world of GNU/Linux. My goal is to at least familiarize myself enough with GNU/Linux to be quite comfortable when Microsoft at last unleashes its "Longhorn" on the world, which threatens to do to Digital Restrictions Management what the Deathstar did for the Empire. My hope is that the "rebel alliance," namely those cats still coding good free software, will have themselves together well enough to pose a serious threat to Microsoft's consolidation of power. I read up on many different Linux distros before settling on From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 17, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..
REMOVE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION
"If you have included access to a web site in support of your candidacy, we would like you to know that, while we would be most interested in reviewing any information on that site related to your teaching, research, or administrative abilities, you may want to remove any personal information that may be outside those areas." Of course, such clean divisions between professional and private seldom take place online ... though I see that
Rich Rice recently pulled the livecam still from his homepage. Probably a good id From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on October 17, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
Glenn Clark Memorial Service
Most of you will have received the sad news that Glenn Clark passed away on October 10. A memorial service for Glenn will be held on Friday, October 29 at 2:00 pm at St. Stephen's Anglican Church in Saskatoon. A... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 17, 2004 at 1:54 p.m..
Radio's Expansive Future
(This is also my
Sunday column in the
San Jose Mercury News.) I'm no fan of Howard Stern's vulgar humor on his radio talk show. But I cheered when he lifted a virtual middle finger to his current employer, signing a deal to take his program to satellite radio. It's almost beside the point whether Stern will justify his extravagant new financial arrangement, which will reportedly pay him $100 million a year starting in 2006. Something bigger is afoot -- an ov From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 17, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..
The instinctive president vs. reality-based initiatives
From Ron Suskind's scary article in the NYTimes about Bush's aversion to facts: Forty democratic senators were gathered for a lunch in March just off the Senate floor. I was there as a guest speaker. Joe Biden was telling a story, a story about the president. ''I was in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,'' he began, ''and I was telling the president of my many concerns'' -- concerns about growing problems winning the peace, the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanding of the Iraqi Army and problems securing the o From
Joho the Blog on October 17, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
Oct. 15 issue of Joho the Newsletter
The future of facts (and the rise of fact servers): Are facts going to become as cheap and uninteresting as styrofoam peanuts? The Wikipedia had to freeze the George W. Bush entry a few weeks ago because people were altering it to suit their political viewpoints at an alarming rate. So, the editors pared the page down to the non-controversial "core" of facts. There was still a lot of information there — much more than merely "He was born, he drank, he became president" — and occasional acknowledgements of controversies, such as whether Bush satisfactorily comple From
Joho the Blog on October 17, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
Jon Stewart Attacks the Media through Crossfire
Instead of plugging his new book, Jon Stewart tonight on CNN's crossfire used his time to slam the media's coverage of the election. Although Stewart leans left, he attacked political shows and begged them: "Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America." Is it time to really stop all the political games that both sides play? Torrent of the event is available. From
kuro5hin.org on October 17, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Not inhaling
I was re-reading Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue — I read from it every day because that's how my Liberal Overlords send me their coded messages — and came across this strip from 1976, when Gerald Ford was in office and his son Jack had acknowledged that he (Jack) smoked pot: It got me thinking. Perhaps Clinton's "But I didn't inhale" remark was intended as a joking reference to this strip. Then, once it got taken seriously, Clinton felt like he couldn't correct the record for fear of looking like a liar or like someone who doesn't ta From
Joho the Blog on October 17, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
How To Create An Effective Presentation - Part 4 Of 4
by Geetesh Bajaj Step 8 Beta At this stage, your end user should have a chance to view the presentation. Be present, by all means for the viewing, if this means there are no more than two other people representing the client. If the number is any greater, make yourself scarce and ask them to get back to you with their feedback. Analyse and study this feedback - keep an open mind and don't shy away from experimenting and trying out new ideas - if there is something you can assimilate from the feedback, put those thoughts into action without... From
MasterViews on October 17, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
Graeme Daniel
' ... just 600m of the world's 6.3bn people are wired to the web. Yet those online often forget that they are in the minority... '(Maggie Shiels) From
wwwtools on October 17, 2004 at 7:57 a.m..
Met Google zoeken op de eigen computer
http://desktop.google.com/ Google stelt een proefversie ter beschikking van Google desktop search. Met de desktop search wordt de eigen computer doorzoekbaar in het zelfde interface als we inmiddels gewoon vinden te gebruiken voor zoeken op het web. Nadat het programma de bestanden op de computer heeft geïndexeerd, is het inderdaad mogelijk om er vliegensvlug in te zoeken. Zeer geschikt om snel een document te vinden in al maar uitdijende verzamelingen. Bij zoekacties op het web worden de zoekresultaten op de eigen computer optioneel getoond. De voornaamste beperking van de desktop search From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on October 17, 2004 at 7:00 a.m..
Should All Sites Syndicate? [del.icio.us]
'Numerous publishers of scale are now using syndicated feeds to grow their audience. Yet most are not. News site Topix.net reports only 7 percent of the sites it crawls have Web feeds. "I'd estimate that only a few hundred of the top 3,000 newspapers we c From
RSS Latest News on October 17, 2004 at 5:48 a.m..
IA trends survey results and analysis
Lou Rosenfeld has published the results of his recent IA survey. To quote: Swimming in the wake of disaster is a Good Thing: The surprising steadiness in the number of in-house IAs during the dark days of 2001-2002 makes more... From
Column Two on October 17, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..
Glenn Fleishman's book info blog
Glenn Fleishman, who you know from his work explaining wireless to the rest of us, has started a blog about, well, here's what he says: I'm launching this site in the interests of starting conversations about the way in which book details -- author, title, subject, and even page count -- are collected, sold, disseminated, updated, broken, and misused. Take a look. It's pretty damn interesting stuff.... From
Joho the Blog on October 17, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..