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IBSTPI standards session
You may be familiar with the IBSTPI standards for instructional designers. I sat in on a panel made up of current and former members of the IBSTPI Board of Directors to review issues around professional standards in our field. The... From Rick's Café Canadien on October 24, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Nokia's Preminet aims to chill Qualcomm's BREW
The "one-stop shop" lets wireless operators sell ring tones, games, picture messaging and other cell phone paraphernalia. From CNET News.com on October 24, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Problems with Ohio’s butterfly form
If this is true, Ohio could be into big trouble come November 3rd. ¶ From Open Artifact on October 24, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Best five seconds from the conference
My favorite moment at the conference was when a speaker couldn't decide whether to say intermingling or intertwining. What came out of his mouth as if it were the most normal thing in the world was "...they were intertwingling..." I think this word should be added to the dictionary -- I was happy to be present the first time it was uttered on the earth. From Weblogs in Higher Education on October 24, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..

EADTU conference on "mass-individualisation"
The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities organized a conference on "Mass-individualisation of higher education for the knowledge-based society" on October 21-23. I could only participate on the opening afternoon. By far the best presentation in my opinion was the... From ErikLog on October 24, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..

Cybersecurity Awareness and the Need for "Cultural Change"
I recently had the opportunity to serve on panel for a Symposium on Cyber Security Policy held at the National Press From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on October 24, 2004 at 7:01 p.m..

NSBA T+L2 Has a Weblog...
NSBA T L2 2004 Conference Weblog The folks from edweblogs.org are going to be hosting a weblog from the National School Boards Association's Technology and Leadership & Learning Conference from Denver this week. They have done this at the last two NECC's and at other smaller edtech conferences. This is a great way to catch up on what is happening at these events from actual participants in the sessions.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on October 24, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..

Notable Berkman Blogging
Professor Fisher is over at Lessig's to discuss his new book.  Check out his first post. Urs Gasser has been pumping out some full-on essays regarding regulating the Internet and understanding information law.  He also A Copyfighter's Musings on October 24, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Presidential Candidates on Cybersecurity
CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association), a global trade association representing the business interests of the information tec From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on October 24, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..

Laming up
The NYT asks the near-rhetorical question, "Does the patent system need an overhaul?" Professors Josh Lerner and Adam B. Jaffe seem to think so, and have written a book about it called "Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It". "We see people set out to do reforms with one thing in mind, but that have quite an unintended effect...The easier it became to get patents, the more people wanted to apply for them, and that led to a situation where examiners grappled with more patents to review, which led to them bein From silentblue | Quantified on October 24, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Deliberate Tracking
Plazes a rather new service that links your (or better your router's) online presence with geo-locations. It is developed in Cologne, Germany. Felix Petersen who was part of BlogWalk 1.0 is involved in that thing. It's highly interesting because it links virtual places to real places and gives us opportunities to navigate along these lines. With a little javascript-plugin yo From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 24, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Do Your Part to Improve the E-Mail Ecosystem
I'm drowning in e-mail. The sheer volume of messages that I receive comprises an informational riptide that pulls at my valuable but limited attention, often sweeping me off course. I know I'm not alone in this predicament. I also know that I have unwittingly contributed to this deluge... From Contentious Weblog on October 24, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..

New Flickr Features...
FlickrBlog Two new features from Flickr, the photo sharing/community site. First, in-place editing for photo titles and descriptions. You can now edit the title and description information while looking at the photo in context. Another feature is tag relatedness. Flickr already allows you to assign tags to your images to help keep them organized. They have added a feature where related tags are also posted. For example going to the Flickr site associated with the word VOTE, and you will get all the images that have been tagged with that term. Also listed on the page are links to related... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on October 24, 2004 at 2:50 p.m..

Wired CD Now Available
Just got my copy in the mail.  It rocks - not only heroes like Chuck D and David Byrne, but a new track from Thievery Corporation, and much much more.  The articles are also not to be missed, particularly the one on Brazil. (Soon to be available online, I suppose.) Creative Commons gets in Wired and a wonderful makeover for its website - not bad.  I'm thrilled because of what this means for the broader movement, what it means for Creative Commons as an orga From A Copyfighter's Musings on October 24, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Economist Endorsing Kerry?
Is the Economist, a publication that endorsed Bush in 2000 and is about as far from liberal as you can get in most respects, going to endorse Kerry this time? The rumor mill is buzzing that it will. If so, it won't sway too many voters in the U.S. (the Economist is based in London, but I gather that its biggest circulation is in America). But if the Economist does go for Kerry, it will be one more indication that Bush is alienating some of the most intelligent people who normally would support him. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 24, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Entertainment Industry Crisis
Larry has kindly offered me the opportunity to host his blog for a week. My plan is to use the opportunity primarily to catalyze a discussion of the current crisis in the entertainment industry and what potential solutions to it are both attractive and practicable. I recently published a book... From Lessig Blog on October 24, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

What's to Dislike in Stem Cell Ballot Item? Too Much, Unfortunately
(This is also my Sunday column in the San Jose Mercury News.) Like most California voters, I'm willing to be persuaded when it comes to ballot propositions, and have been convinced to support some of this year's unusually large crop. But I'm voting no on two that particularly affect the business and scientific communities. More... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 24, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Operating System Security, a Clear Winner
Nicholas Petreley (The Register): Windows v Linux security: the real facts. Reliance on a single metrics is a major feature of Microsoft's Get the Facts campaign, and this is perhaps understandable if we consider what the campaign is. It is essentially a marketing-driven campaign intended to 'get the message across' with data used to back up the message (note that Microsoft would not necessarily disagree with us here). However, by their nature marketing campaigns push specific, fav From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 24, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Membrane potentials, action potentials, and neurons
Neural impulses, synaptic transmission, and drug action : A 3 part series Part I : Membrane potentials and action potentials Part II : Synaptic transmission, some neurophysiology Part III: Action of selected drugs How does cocaine work? How about THC? Amphetamines? X? Ketamine? How does Alzheimer's cause memory loss? Why do people with Parkinson's get the shakes? What is pain? What are the endorphins, and how do they work? Some of these questions have been worked out, some are still inder investigation, and some are the topic of heated debate in the scientific community. T From kuro5hin.org on October 24, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Jay Rosen's list
Jay compiles a fantastic list of "What's going on here that we don't understand, do we, Mr. and Mrs. Jones?" He asks for help understanding what thread runs among the topics. I left a comment, basically repeating a post from a few days ago: Great list, and I agree with Shrinkette: Sounds like you're gestating the blog entry we're all waiting to read. I think you can see one of the pivot points in Stewart's refusing to be CrossFire's "monkey": The journalists want to entertain and the entertain wants to tell the truth. The entertainer is the pivot here because... From Joho the Blog on October 24, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Disgusting
Just landed back in the U.S. and find in my e-mail a link to something truly foul by a columnist for a newspaper I normally admire, the Guardian in London. I won't pass along the link, but the columnist in question has not-so-obliquely called out the assassins against George W. Bush. Shameful. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 24, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Registration No Longer Required for Comments
Several people (most recently James Farmer) have complained that the registration requirement for commenting on e-Literate discourages them from posting comments. Obviously, this isn’t good. So I’m turning off the registration requirement. For the moment, I’m viewing this as an experiment. As a result, I’m going to leave the various… From e-Literate on October 24, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..

Personal Democracy blog
The new Personal Democracy site and blog lis off to a strong start. E.g., Cory takes the first solo with an article called "Will Congress Outlaw Your iPod?" The list of contributors looks great, starting with Micah Sifry, one of the organizers of the site. [Note: It's a little awkward for me to tout this site since I'm one of the contributors, but, well, take a look at it and judge for yourself. Of course.]... From Joho the Blog on October 24, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Not knowing
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. ~ Richard Feynman ¶ From Open Artifact on October 24, 2004 at 10:58 a.m..

Codex Manesse
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cpg848 Beschikbaar bij de universiteit van Heidelberg: het Grote Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse, Cod. Pal. germ. 848). Een volledige facsimile van de prachtig uitgevoerde codex, waarin onder andere de liefdespoëzie van Heinric van Veldeke en Hertog Jan I van Brabant. From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on October 24, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..

The Society for Endocrinology has announced that the full text of its journals Journal of Endocrinol ...
The Society for Endocrinology has announced that the full text of its journals Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrine-Related Cancer, are now available online with revised site designs via HighWire Press From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 24, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

Home phones face uncertain future - BBC
The fixed line phone in your home could soon be an endangered species. Research by handset maker Nokia shows that more and more people are using their mobile phone for every call they make or take. According to the study, more than 45 million people From Techno-News Blog on October 24, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Wanted: Digital History - Roy Mark, Internet News
Failure is a large part of David Kirch's game, and the Library of Congress just gave him $235,000 to work harder at it. As an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, Kirch is the driving force behind a project to create t From Techno-News Blog on October 24, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

American Passports to Get Chipped - Ryan Singel, Wired
New U.S. passports will soon be read remotely at borders around the world, thanks to embedded chips that will broadcast on command an individual's name, address and digital photo to a computerized reader. The State Department hopes the addition of the From Techno-News Blog on October 24, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

McGraw-Hill Teams with Cisco for Online Courses - Strategy
McGraw-Hill Higher Education has announced it was teaming up with Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Through this relationship, McGraw-Hill will deliver a large and growing portfolio of interactive, online courses From Online Learning Update on October 24, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Contemporary Online Education Challenges - Brent Muirhead, Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
The online setting holds potential for vibrant interaction and rich dialog. Unfortunately, online educational experiences can become quite wooden and lifeless at times, like a boring traditional classroom. Distance educators and their students can beco From Online Learning Update on October 24, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Bricks and clicks: New approaches blur the line between traditional classrooms and online learning - Anne McGrath, U.S. News
The mechanical engineering students in Jan Helge Bohn's class at Virginia Tech regularly huddle with teammates at the Technische Universitat in Darmstadt, Germany, using synchronized computers, shared databases, and videoconferencing to brainstorm desi From Online Learning Update on October 24, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the histor ...
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Museum's curatorial, conservation, and education staff research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects. First launched in 2000, the Timel From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 24, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Aqua KE is a web-based information and communication venue designed to advance knowledge and balance ...
Aqua KE is a web-based information and communication venue designed to advance knowledge and balanced information sharing concerning the science, policy, and practice of aquaculture. It is one of several KE's managed by the Knowledge Environment Collaborative, a partnership of Island Press, a non-profit publisher of information on environmental issues, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Stanford University Libraries and its web-publishing division, HighWire Press From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 24, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Liberty's Candidate
While most polls, interviews, discussions, and debates only focus on two presendential candidates (although two more candidates were present outside the St. Louis presidential debate until they got arrested), there is a third party candidate that seems to be capturing a significant percentage of votes on many polls that his name appears on. He is not Green. He is Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik, and compiled below are some real life responses he has given in interviews that may give you perspective into his person and policies that you can't get from his website. From kuro5hin.org on October 24, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Agent Support for Online Learning
Die Autoren beschreiben ein Learning Network (LN), das aus Lernern, Lerneinheiten in Form kurzer, unabhängiger Module und einer technischen Infrastruktur besteht. Wenn sich zukünftig Lerner in diesen Umgebungen bewegen, werden sicher Fragen auftauchen, die, so die Autoren, mit "Support", "Positioning"... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 24, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..

Landmines Blow to Present "I Love Peace" at Nairobi Summit
Chicago based organization Landmines Blow will present a screening of the film "I Love Peace" by award winning director Osawa Yutaka at the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World. [PRWEB Oct 24, 2004] From PR Web on October 24, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Practical Bedwetting Advice is Finally Just a Mouse Click Away
Almost half of all children still wet the bed at the age of 3. In this article http://pottytrainingsolutions.com will provide some general information and useful advice regarding bedwetting. [PRWEB Oct 24, 2004] From PR Web on October 24, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

City Students Found Less Likely to Indulge in Risky Behaviors
Students in New York City public high schools use condoms more consistently than teenagers across the country, and they are less likely to smoke pot and binge drink. From New York Times: Education on October 24, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Top Colleges, Rated by Those Who Chose Them
A group of economists has compiled a new college ratings system that is based on where America's best and brightest decide to go to school. From New York Times: Education on October 24, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Public University Tuition Is Up Sharply for 2004
Tuition at the nation's public universities rose an average of 10.5 percent this year, the second largest increase in over a decade. From New York Times: Education on October 24, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Court Rejects Voluntary Desegregation Plan
A federal appeals court rejected a suburban Boston school system's voluntary desegregation policy on Wednesday. From New York Times: Education on October 24, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Open Thread
I'll be on planes for the next few hours. Talk below. Please behave, and don't feed the troll. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 24, 2004 at 3:47 a.m..

Sometimes You Spend So Much Time and Effort Thinking of a Cute or Clever Title for A Blog Post That You Completely Forget What You Were Going to Write About
I found this to be very funny...I laughed out loud, very few blog entries can get me to do that. cogdogblog: Sometimes You Spend So Much Time and Effort Thinking of a Cute or Clever Title for A Blog Post... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 24, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

Schools report puts IT at the centre of curriculum.
Technology should be moved to the heart of the school curriculum, according to a far-reaching education report. Schools report puts IT at the centre of curriculum - WhatPC?... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 24, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

Finding Stuff on Your Desktop
I save a lot of stuff, especially far too much e-mail, on my computer. Remarkably, my file system is fairly well organized, and my memory hasn't totally failed me -- yet. But when I can't find something ... well, you know what it feels like when you can't find your car keys. Fortunately, I've received a lot of help lately on desktop search from three very big hitters:David Pogue of the New York Times, Leslie Walker of the Washington Post, and Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. Starting with Mossberg, he provides Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 24, 2004 at 2:55 a.m..

Chicago Football Team Defines 'Selfish'
Chicago Tribune: Uproar over Bears receiving flu shots. Though the Bears' official stance is that all matters of medication and treatment are private, a team official said only those players who might be at risk with "asthma-type conditions" received the vaccine. The rest of the vaccine, he said, was returned to the distributor. But Bears players indicated all of them were given the option of receiving a shot. Less than half of the roughly 6 From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 24, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..

Genres to nurture fragments of insight
In this morning's keynote talk at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference (IS-SOTL), Randy Bass said that he and his colleagues at CNDLS (Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship) were looking for ways to use the web to help with the process of making new knowledge. He said that some familiar genres, like the scholarly article, can end up feeling flatter, less rich, than the body of knowledge, experience, and practice they grow out of.... From Weblogs in Higher Education on October 24, 2004 at 1:46 a.m..

Epstein on "open source" (and it also turns out bumble bees can't fly)
How many mistakes can be made in 800 words? Read and count. From Lessig Blog on October 23, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..

The WIRED CD: Yes, We Have Arrived
You can now get your copy of the WIRED CD, free with the November issue of WIRED, at your newstand. Get yourself two copies: one for you and your friends, and one to save, in plastic, for your grandchildren. See the full track list. From Creative Commons: weblog on October 23, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..