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Drupal 4.5 Released
Drupal, the open source content management system (OS CMS) that this site is built on, just keeps getting better. This is a dynamic developer community that takes to heart the comments of users in order to build better "community plumbing". With the release of
Drupal 4.5 we are seeing mutiple themes, a tabbed interface and a new look on the Drupal site, as well as many other features. Drupal is a major player in the OS CMS space, and I think will stay the course, due to the commitment of so many in the com From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on October 18, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..
updates to p2p-politics
So lots of great reaction to
p2p-politics.org today, and we've modified in response. In particular: (1) We've changed "Nader" to "Other" so as to encourage other (actually more prominent) candidates to be included without adding too many tabs; (2) Adding a comment link to each ad, so if you have a view about an ad you'd like to express, there's a wiki page to do it; (3) Adding the option to upload audio as well as video; (4) Adding RSS/Atom feeds, so you can subscribe to new content. Still no response from the Bush campaign. And From
Lessig Blog on October 18, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Dell extends lead in PCs
The computer maker is pulling further ahead of second-place rival Hewlett-Packard, according to new third-quarter shipment figures. From
CNET News.com on October 18, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Monday, October 18, 2004
I saw a glimpse of my future this weekend, as Emily and I babysat her four-year-old niece on Friday – which we spent watching Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and coloring in a Tweety Bird coloring book – and Saturday, which we spent running around in the Bellevue Red Caboose Park. From
RHPT.com on October 18, 2004 at 9:00 p.m..
Denver Bound
In a few clicks, I'm off to the airport for Denver heading there for the
EDUCAUSE 2004 Conference Extravaganza. With good wireless connectivity, I hope to blog what I can. Tomorrow
Brian and I will be rounding up some objects in our pre-conference seminar,
cogdogblog on October 18, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..
The Multimedia Election
Hardly a day goes by without someone sending me a link to a video, Flash animation, or MP3 file related to the U.S. political campaign. It may be difficult to apply a single label to the strangeness of this political season, and I won't declare this to be the Year of Multimedia Campaigning, but it's probably fair to say it's the first time that multimedia files have been so thoroughly woven through the national political conversation.
JibJab's hilarious animations, "This Land" and "Good to Be in D.C.," have been widely covered, but From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 18, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
The Talent Myth
In a recent
ChangeThis manifesto, Malcolm Gladwell, author of
The Tipping Point, states that "The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it's the other way around." He cites Enron and WorldCom has examples of the continuing quest for the best individual talent gone awry; while Southwest Airlines and Wal*Mart are companies with inclusive, and more effect From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on October 18, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..
Gaming Ad Network Launches
This was inevitable, but it's still interesting. As the gaming audience has grown -- and as the young males who constitute its core audience become ever
more difficult to reach through traditional media -- advertisers have been trying to get their messages into video and computer games. In the past, this generally has been done through product placement -- including brand-name products in the game, or having cars speed past billboards containing commercial messages. The commercial content could become outdated, though, o From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 18, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Why Is Blogger.com Hiding the RSS? Let it Out!
Under the powerful Google umbrella,
Blogger.com is a huge player in the blog-verse offering totally free, hosted blogs, and they are now even looking less cheesy than a few years back. But for being the heavy weight, they are keeping RSS Feeds a hidden gem only known to those that care to put on their geek headlamps and peer inside the cave. What do I mean? By default, all Blogger blogs automatically generate RSS. You do not even know it is happening. But here is the kicker... the default publishing templates all lack the tiny bi From
cogdogblog on October 18, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..
Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation
This is a very nice, detailed, and what appears to me to be mostly sound analysis of six key elements of educational simulations and even "all educational experiences". The model weaves three types of content - linear, systems and cyclical - into three types of delivery - simulation, game, pedagogy. I like the subtlety of the model. Pedagogy, for example, can be thought of as the guiding or corrective elements in an educational experience, and understood this way, things like diagnostic elements (including scoring), visualization and debriefing. Via elearningpost. By Clark Aldrich, October 17 From
OLDaily on October 18, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
ISO E-Learning Standardization in Dublin
Norm Friesen brings us up to date with this short report on the ISO E-Learning Standardization meetings in Dublin. Of particular interest is discussion of the Metadata for Learning Resources (MLR for short), which represents an attempt on the part of SC36 to "adopt, correct, amend, and/or improve upon the technical work in a related IEEE standard called 'Learning Object Metadata'" By Norm Friesen, September 22, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 18, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
e-learning
Another new e-learning blog as Scot Aldred brings his worthwhile observations into the blogosphere. By Scot Aldred, October, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 18, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..