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What Colorado's Amendment 36 means for America...
During the nineties, our state saw an increase in population, due to "The Californians" (who we like to bitch about) migrating to our low tax/low smog state. Though most of us natives like to bitch about their supposedly shallow, urban sprawl, rude soccer mom, cell phone, and shopping mall ways, they have done something useful and actually turned us backwards hillbilly, gun toting, Republican loving rednecks into a swing state. Now we have to deal with traffic on I-25 being snarled for hours whenever Dick Cheney decides to send his motorcade through rush hour. The most important issue on the From
kuro5hin.org on October 25, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Wikinews in the Works
The
Wikipedia community is debating whether to create
Wikinews, a journalism project in which the audience does literally everything. The project strikes me as naive in parts -- including the legal dangers that need much more discussion -- but it's also well-meaning and thoughtful. Citizen-journalism is on the rise, and if the Wikipedians proceed, I'll be watching with extreme interest. From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..
The Real Threat: Me2Me
Jason proposes an interesting theory
below: he argues that the recording industry's war on P2P may be a distraction from an even more mission-critical battle -- gaining control of "me2me."It looks like David Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix would agree with Jason; in a
recent piece on the RIAA's strategies, Bernstein writes: "[The] labels are missing the fact that store-bo From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..
Bang Bang Maxwell's Silver Ecomonic Model of Copyright Comes Down on First Monday
Terrence Maxwell has a new article in First Monday (
Is Copyright Necessary?) attempting to model the effects of different copyright policies historically and into the future (e.g. authors wanting high-protection copyright vs. the public wanting low-protection copyright). His models are fairly abstract and complex (see image below), but his results are interesting: As indicated in the table, the desired policies of authors, publishers and public domain advocates produce very different outco From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..
Local news ventures will get $1 million in seed money
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism today announced it will launch a pioneering program to seed community news ventures around the country with a new $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.Over the next two years, the New Voices project will help fund the start-up of 20 micro-local, news projects; support them with an educational Web site, in collaboration with the Poynter Institute's News University; and help foster their sustainability through small second-year grants.More info < From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..
SMS voting for which encore at concert
Fans of 70s rock band Wishbone Ash will be given the chance to vote for the song that they wish to hear in the encore at this years AshCon concert via SMS. [via
160characters.org]"AshCon goers will be invited to vote for one of five songs by sending WISHBONE followed the song title to 83248. The song receiving the most votes will be played as the show finale". From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 8:57 p.m..
Steve Johnson: Red Sox Fan
Steve Johnson, resident of NYC, recently switched his fandom from the Yankees to the Red Sox. I can't quote from his most recent post without giving it away - it's one sentence long - but go have a laugh.... From
Joho the Blog on October 25, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..
Near Field Communication - the new handshake
The handshake is an age-old custom. Some say that by showing your empty right hand, you were demonstrating that you did not have a weapon and that your intentions were friendly. There's a new handshake coming in a year two from the nice people at Nokia, Sony, Philips and Texas Instruments. They are working on a new connectivity standard called, Near Field Communication (NFC). The promise of this new technology is truly cool they want to turn your mobile device (cell phone) into a touch-based transmitter. The idea is simple, so you know it's going to be good. Instead From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 6:57 p.m..
It can't be that cool if it's closed
Steven Levy at Newsweek thinks Sony's portable system
is going to rock socks and augur complete digital dominance.Now, I have to admit, a system that can a) play games over a wireless network and b) play video and music is prima facie awesome.But. But, but, but: It's stuck with Sony's g From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 6:57 p.m..
Educational Blogging
The bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. Others attend to their projects in the... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 25, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Rural Holiday
I downloaded a film yesterday that really made my day. It's about
rural holidays (be careful some 650 MB or 40 minutes). A documentary about alternative sources of income for farmers in the US. It's an amazing piece of (a daily) history. Daily practices are screened fully biased since the movie was produced by or for the US Ministery for Agriculture around the early 60s or late 50s I guess. The movie depicts the vision of a blossoming heartland where farmers become business men and the ordina From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 25, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..
ICQ offers video chat
Newly released application is product of America Online unit's recently created ICQ developer program. From
CNET News.com on October 25, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Shared Learning Objects
Congratulations to Sandy Cobb and everyone else at Mid-South Community College in West Memphis on the launch of their collection of free learning objects made available on the web for anyone to use. Now - if someone out there could help them set up an RSS feed, we can get these objects distributed and widely shared. By Sandy Cobb, Mid-South Community College, October 25, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 25, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
UF Scientist: Brain in a Dish Acts as Autopilot, Living Computer
Work like this has been going on for a while - read people like Joseph LeDoux and you'll see - but this item has that catchy hook that people like me just can't resist. "A University of Florida scientist has grown a living 'brain' that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network. The 'brain' -- a collection of 25,000 living neurons, or nerve cells, taken from a rat's brain and cultured inside a glass dish -- gives scientists a unique real-time window into the brain at the cellular level."
OLDaily on October 25, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
eLearning Producer 2004
This item is making the rounds of educational bloggers, if only for this line: "Bob is Director, Learning and Strategy Evangelism, for Microsoft Learning. He told us, 'In the hour that I'm with you, two Microsoft training centers will go under.'" Now I notice that this line is no longer on Jay Cross's blog post, but it's too late, it's out there, most recently in today's elearningpost. And Maish didn't get it wrong - and I saw the quote on Cross's blog personally the other day. My conclusion: Bob Mosher probably said it, but then wished he hadn&apos From
OLDaily on October 25, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Sxip Overview
Now that Sxip has a version out in Perl, it counts for me as Real Software. Oh yeah, what is Sxip? Something big: "a simple, secure and open platform for true digital identity. Sites that implement Sxip support are able to easily provide features like single sign-on and automatic form fill. Sxip users gain control over their online identity, conveniently and safely navigating Sxip-enabled sites. Website developers implementing Sxip benefit by being able to share a platform built on open standards and supported by open source tools." In other words, everything that Passport isn't. By Vari From
OLDaily on October 25, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
the wikipedizer
Now wouldn't this be a nice thing to add to an online learning resource. " A month or two ago, Stefan Maglenski released a nifty hack that scanned BBC news pages for proper nouns and turned them into hyperlinks if the phrase in question has a Wikipedia entry. Clever! The Wikipedizer is a simple RESTful web service based on Stefan's idea (and loosely on his code). Pass it a URL, get back a list of related Wikipedia entries." By Scott Evans, October 25, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 25, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
Metadata for the masses
Peter Merholt's "Metadata for the masses" explores a new development in metadata: ethnoclassification ("how people classify and categorize the world around them"). This concept allows the author to contextualize new developments in self-designated, standard-free tagging, including deli.icio.us and Flickr. (via... From
MANE IT Network on October 25, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Exploding porn
: In the discussion of
exploding TV at
Fred and Brad's lunch the other day (my report
here), I said that this was the one case in new media where I could not see how porn was leading the way. But I kept thinking there had to be a way. I kept thinking and thinking until finally I came . . . to the conclusion that, yes, porn is again leading the way. Over c From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..
LAMP and Regulatory Arbitrage
Today, MIT's
LAMP system goes back on line, with a new design. LAMP ("Library Access to Music Project") streams music to the MIT campus via the campus cable TV system. Any student can connect to LAMP's website and choose a sequence of songs. The chosen songs are then scheduled for playing on one of sixteen campus TV channels.According to MIT, transmission of music via LAMP is legal because it is covered by music licenses that MIT has purchased in connection with the campus radio station. In other words, LAMP is just like another From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..
Creative Commons Metadata embedding
Creative Commons licenses are attached to Web pages. But we also want our licenses to be useful for materials distributed in file formats around the Net.The first format we've learned to tag is MP3, the popular audio compression format. Other common formats &mdash; image, video, text, other audio formats &mdash; will follow soon. This is an ongoing process, and we welcome your
feedback. (You can also read a more detailed
technical explanation of From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..
Tom Angelo speech about evaluating teaching
I just left a meeting with this speaker, and if you're interested in the topic, I'm sure he will be well worth the time. Very provocative. All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend the following presentation by Dr.... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 25, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Free Paper Toy Models
Ok, this site is billed as fun for kids, but its fun for adults too. In fact some of the projects are very intricate and complex and require a long attention span. You can build everything from a bacteriophage to an alien. Some of the links don't work, some of them give you the instructions in Japanese characters, but there are plenty of options to choose from, so there should be something for everyone. From
Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on October 25, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..
NSBA Conference Blog
Some of the usual suspects (and a few not so usual) are
blogging the T+L2 conference in Denver this week. Should be a good source of information about what the hot topics are in ed tech. And, what's a blog without
a feed? Right now, go to
Bloglines, do not pass go, paste that puppy in and start getting the timely updates. From
weblogged News on October 25, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..
SightSpeed Going Multi-Party
The guys at SightSpeed have been working hard to make sure that on November 15th you will be able to enjoy multi-party videoconferencing with their impressive technology. Having spent a little time with them this afternoon I have seen how... From
Kolabora.com on October 25, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..
Schule selber verwalten (mit dem PC)
Mark Shuttleworth unterstützt neben
Ubuntu Linux auch das
SchoolTool Project SchoolTool will provide a robust and reliable means of managing their school or classroom, saving time on routine tasks like managing class rosters, tracking student attendance, assessment and demographic information, helping teachers coordinate their schedules and reserve resources like projectors and computer labs. The system will be accessible through a web inte From
BildungsBlog on October 25, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..
Marc's bad idea, and a personal matter
I think Marc Canter's idea is, overall, a bad one because, even though his scheme provides transparency (yay!), as I understand it, bloggers who said bad things about a client would not get their contracts renewed (boo!); "Say nice things or we'll stop paying you" makes you less trustworthy. I'm in favor of bloggers making money from their blogs, but not if I now have to worry that their voice may have been bought. (See Stowe and Jason for more.) And I want to set the record (= the index) straight on a personal matter. Marc quotes me from a... From
Joho the Blog on October 25, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..
Reason to Love Canada #341
Canada's equivalent of American Idol is a show that profiles individuals of great achievement in Canadian history. You then get to vote for your favorite. Currently in the lead position is Tommy Douglas, "the father of Medicare," followed by Terry Fox who ran across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer. Meanwhile, in America we're trying to decide whether we'd rather watch The Swan or Who Wants to Blow Donald's Trumpet? O, Can-a-DA... [Thanks, Tim Bouma, for the link.]... From
Joho the Blog on October 25, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..
Wikinews in the Works
The
Wikipedia community is debating whether to create
Wikinews, a journalism project in which the audience does literally everything. The project strikes me as naive in parts -- including the legal dangers that need much more discussion -- but it's also well-meaning and thoughtful. Citizen-journalism is on the rise, and if the Wikipedians proceed, I'll be watching with extreme interest. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 25, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..
Alternative Compensation Systems
Several of the interesting and challenging responses to my original post focused on the merits and demerits of my contention that an alternative compensation system (ACS) would be superior to the copyright system as a way of compensating the creators of recorded entertainment that is distributed online. I had originally intended to save discussion of that topic for later in the week. But it's understandable that people want to take it up now, so here goes.... I'll begin with a very brief summary (taken from the Introduction to the book) of my variant of this idea, then address a f From
Lessig Blog on October 25, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Photo: Seagate's new pocket drive
The 3-inch Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive has a retractable USB cable and rubber feet designed to keep it still when it's being using with a desktop. From
CNET News.com on October 25, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Exploding TV ... and BitTorrent
Jeff Jarvis continues to
analyze all the implications of Internet frenzy about the Jon Stewart CNN segment. Many interesting questions there, but I will focus on one: ... But in the future, if I wanted to distribute something via BitTorrent, what is the current ability to track views? ... Seems like BitTorrent incorporation into RSS feed seems to be answer to that question. Namely, it is relatively straightforward to include torrent links into the ENCLOSURE ta From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..
WSJ.com to Go Free (for a Week)
How remarkable. In the lasts seven years,
WSJ.com, website of the Wall Street Journal has never before tried its latest tack:
letting everyone into the site for free during the week of November 8-12. Sponsors are helping to pay for the promotion period.It's a great idea for a paid news site to attract new paying customers with a fully open free trial. I'd suggest that subscription-only sites regularly do this once or twice a year. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..
Wonkette Tells All
Here's a fun read:
Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox talked to an audience at Columbia University, and
here's a transcript. Wonkette, of course, is the oh-so-popular Washington, D.C. gossip blog that's made Cox famous inside and even outside D.C.The surprising thing is that Cox complains about how little money Wonkette has made her directly from the blog. I would have expected much more by now, given its clear success. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..
A Glimpse Inside Today's J-School
What's going on in the minds of today's journalism students? If you've been out of j-school as long as I have, you might find the project
A J-School Year to be an interesting read. A couple dozen students at the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications are contributing to this group blog, offering their observations about life in j-school.Submissions include observations about their classes, fellow students and instructors, the state of journalism in general, and balancing school with work, an From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..
Napster befriends PayPal
Customers of the digital music company can now pay monthly subscriptions or buy single tracks and albums using eBay's service. From
CNET News.com on October 25, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
ArtSTOR session
10/20/2004 10:30am http://www.artstor.org Uses thin-client Wanted to be a web resource, but thin client loads applets to add functionality. Various collections Carnegie Arts of US Architecture Can zoom in on high-quality image. Couldn't wait until we had best image for everything. Wanted to build a bridge. Updating cataloging, metadata, all of the time. Building Search API to allow searching within Fedora, DSPACE, etc. Mike Reese Assistant Director Center for Excellence in ?? Joh From
Stand Up Eight on October 25, 2004 at 2:02 p.m..
Skype Set To Grow In China
Eurotelcobloger James Enck aka "das Enckster" recaps what the Skype-Tom announcement means. For those too lazy to click through, or those blocked by the Chinese (fire)wall, basically given the growth of Skype via a similar partnership in Taiwan, Skype should... From
Kolabora.com on October 25, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
Rearchitect Security: It's A Jungle Out There!
In his latest Alertbox column published just a few minutes ago, Jakob Nielsen acknowledges finally the dire state of the Internet and the urban jungle it has become. Security issues are rampant and if you are to judge by the... From
Kolabora.com on October 25, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
Microsoft in violation?
In order to register a Microsoft product, you must get a .NET Passport. There are no alternative methods. I don't want to support Passport because I'm uncomfortable with Microsoft being in the ID business — and if I'm wrong, then I'll fall back simply on "I don't want one because I don't want one" — so now I don't get the benefits of registration (whatever those might be). Isn't this coercive behavior? Can't someone please sue them? Thank you.... From
Joho the Blog on October 25, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
SchoolMailbag, Which Meets Several of the Guideless of the No Child Left Behind Act
OCISolutions Inc. has the anticipation of creating between 5 and 10 thousand jobs within the year. These jobs will be call center and technical support for the call centers. These jobs will pay a good wage and include benefits for our full time workers. These jobs will be in support of their software products that they have been selling to the individual states Departments of Education. [PRWEB Oct 25, 2004] From
PR Web on October 25, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..
Knitty releases Creative Commons licensed issue
In case you hadn't heard, knitting's all the rage and has been for crafty hipsters for years (last xmas I got my first knitted scarf as a gift). One of the best sources for information and patterns is
Knitty. For the past two years, they have put out quarterly issues that feature about a dozen project how-tos, stories, and articles about knitting. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they put out
a special print (PDF) issue that featured projects specifically tailored to those l From
Creative Commons: weblog on October 25, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Social Software
The session went well. It was as much a "lessons learned" presentation as anything else. There were overviews of many software packages that facilitate RSS-based distribution of information. If I had any critiques, I would say that there was too much in too little time. Everything was great, but we were lacking a bit of the "cruising altitude" organization to tie it all together. There is a very nice
website (based on a
wiki) that was used for the presentation. This was probab From
Stand Up Eight on October 25, 2004 at 1:02 p.m..
CSPAN is good media
Watching Elizabeth Edwards on
cspan this AM while doign some grading. She’s a wonderful spokesperson for Kerry/Edwards. I had not ventured to its web site before, but will in the future. There’s live video feeds from the TV stations, as well as a live feed from the radio program.
¶ Here’s a funny: The last question was from a young boy. He asked, From
Open Artifact on October 25, 2004 at 12:59 p.m..
People Living Cancer
This helpful site has information on 50 different types of cancer. It also has bulleltin boards, chat, support group & coping information, advice on finding an oncologist, a drug database, links to news services with the latest developments in treatment and recent articles on cancer. From
Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on October 25, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
Michael O'Connor Clarke's new blog
Michael has started a Corante blog called "Flackster." Michael's one of the wittier writers around, so I look forward to this chronicle of life in, among and against the PR-osphere.... From
Joho the Blog on October 25, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
The Value and Politics of the Unsaid in Instructional Design
This post on Rick’s Café Canadien is just a teaser for an article that hasn’t been published yet. (Not fair!) But one point he makes really caught my eye: Designs too often try to meticulously define all of the content, whereas a big part of the aesthetic experience is leaving… From
e-Literate on October 25, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
Still more on podcasting
More information and ideas about podcasting: Podcast.net, "the podcast directory", supports sharing podcast information by a registration and search strategy. Engadget offers a handy guide, mostly focused on the Mac universe. PC options are less elegant, but strategies have been... From
MANE IT Network on October 25, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
OpenOffice Celebrates Fourth Birthday
OpenOffice, the free and open source office application, turned four years old this month. I have been using it for two years, and swear by it. OOo (as it's referred to) is similar to MS Office, with a word processing application, presentation creator, spreadsheet and HTML editor. With free software, I can insist that my sub-contractors use it, at no additional cost to them. The applications are just as easy to use as Corel's or Microsoft's, but there are fewer errors. I have developed +100 page documents in OOo and From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on October 25, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..
The power of a good brand story
There are some ready useful articles at
Brandchannel. This one is on the need to craft your
brand story. "[Brands are] a special kind of story--they're strategic; they build on themselves chapter by chapter, over time; they grow as they respond to changing customers and changing markets." From
elearningpost on October 25, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..
Cross the street to vote
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
~Bill Vaughan
¶ From
Open Artifact on October 25, 2004 at 10:59 a.m..
MPEG Streamclip (Freeware)
Apple - Downloads - Video - MPEG Streamclip 1.1 "This application converts MPEG-1/MPEG-2 files and transport streams into QuickTime movies and DV streams, with professional quality and synchronized audio. Video can be scaled, cropped, and even deinterlaced with a motion-adaptive... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
Red Sox question
I don't know anything about baseball — for example, are there rules about when you can use a pinch runner, or is it just random? — so pardon me if this is a naive question, but: Is this the first time that winning a World Series would make a team normal?... From
Joho the Blog on October 25, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..
Best Fonts For An Effective Presentation
Though this is a general issue familiar already to most skilled presenters, I still am surprised at the number of people who ask me what fonts they should use inside a presentation. Though the approaches that can be used are literally infinite, there are a few basic ground rules which, if applied consistently, do provide guaranteed effectiveness in terms of readability. The basic "mantra" to be learned is:... From
MasterViews on October 25, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..
Shedding Light on Dark Fiber- Peter Coffee, eWeek
Free and nearly infinite bandwidth sounds like a futurist's dream, but it's almost the present-day reality of dark fiber"vast numbers of fiber-optic channels in the ground but as yet unlit by lasers and network protocol encoders.Combined with the plumm From
Techno-News Blog on October 25, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Bush, Kerry Agree on P2P -Roy Mark, Internet News
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) may be highlighting their differences as their presidential campaigns hit the home stretch, but both apparently agree on at least one technology issue. The solution to copyright theft over peer-to-peer (P2P From
Techno-News Blog on October 25, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Chips Coming to a Brain Near You -Lakshmi Sandhana, Wired
In this era of high-tech memory management, next in line to get that memory upgrade isn't your computer, it's you. Professor Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California, is creating a sili From
Techno-News Blog on October 25, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Spam Woes
Well, nothing save shutting this site down for a period has been able to stop the spammers from getting through...about 50 comments a day that I've been trying to stay ahead of. Not fun. For Manila users out there, I've tried closing the site to membership, shutting off comments, even blocking and deleting the offending "members" but as I said, nothing has worked. And I see
I'm not the only one out there having this issue. It's not especially hard to delete the messages in Manila a From
weblogged News on October 25, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..
NEW RSS Publishing List
New RSS-Publishing List for publishers. The list is focussed on marketing/publishing/operational issues rather than hardcore tech stuff. Meaning that coding issues, and dispuates over the merits of RSS vs. Atom are not the focus ;-) If you wish to participate in the list and receive emails of posts simply subscribe by sending and email to: rsspublishing-subscribe@topica.com From
RSS Blog on October 25, 2004 at 8:01 a.m..
La bitácora del Quijote
El próximo año se conmemora el IV centenario de la primera edición de "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha". Hace unos dÃas se ha presentado una ambiciosa edición defintiva. Hay varios sitios web conmemorativos como IV Centenario Don... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 25, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
Beers & Blogs en Pamplona II
A la vista de las comunicaciones y ponencias previstas en el XIX Congreso Internacional de Comunicación: La comunicación en situaciones de crisis del 11M al 14M, parece que tendremos por aquà un buen grupo de bloggers: Arcadi Espada, Antonio Delgado,... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 25, 2004 at 7:53 a.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 you can tell the From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 25, 2004 at 7:48 a.m..
Labeling game
Try this:
ESP Game "Labeling an image means associating word descriptions to it.. Computer programs can't yet determine the contents of arbitrary images, but the ESP game provides a novel method of labeling them: players get to have fun as they help us determine their contents. If the ESP game is played as much as other popular online games, we estimate that all the images on the Web can be labeled in a matter of weeks!" From
elearningpost on October 25, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..
Jay Cross on eLearning Producer 2004
Jay gives this
nice account of the eLearning Producer Conference. Here is a snippet: "Bob is Director, Learning and Strategy Evangelism, for Microsoft Learning. He told us, "In the hour that I'm with you, two Microsoft training centers will go under." Why? Because the learners have changed; they are no longer newbies; they don't want courses. Today's learners are building on foundation knowledge, not starting from scratch. They want to fill in the gaps, not take a course." From
elearningpost on October 25, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..
Web-apps are the legacy apps of the future.
Back in the days of stone knives and bearskins applications were things that were written in cretinous languages like COBOL that ran on wierd 71 bit architectures and used messed up file formats like JCL and VSAM files or whatever. What's a 'Data Division'? Some whiny 80s band from Manchester? Of course today we are so much smarter. If you look at the evolution, from ML, to branched languages to structured programming to OOP, and from 3270 applications, to PC apps to client server to web apps, you can clearly see how the applications programmer transformed himsel From
kuro5hin.org on October 25, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Verizon Television
Verizon Communications has
plans to extend a powerful new fiber-optic network capable of delivering cable television to 1 million US homes and businesses by year's end, including more than 100,000 in the Boston suburbs. The upgraded network will allow Verizon to sell ultrafast Internet access and packages of interactive television programming. Essex and Middlesex counties north and west of Boston could see services launched sometime this winter, Verizon declined to positively identify which cities and towns it will target first. From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 4:57 a.m..
FlashPoint USB Drive with PC-Less Copying
The
FlashPoint USB flash drive has such a simple trick it's surprising nobody else has gotten to it first. In addition to being a Mass Storage Device, it also has a female USB port on its backside that accepts other flash drives. Just push the nondescript button on the top and the FlashPoint uses its internal battery From
unmediated on October 25, 2004 at 4:56 a.m..
Using training during CMS selection
I'm really pleased when I come across a new idea that can help people select a content management system more effectively. Now, the key challenge when choosing a CMS is building sufficient confidence that it's the right tool for the... From
Column Two on October 25, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..
Dr. Suellen Reed at the 6th Annual Stacey Toran Foundation Dinner
The Stacey Toran Foundation (STF) is having their 6th Annual Dinner on November 11, 2004. The goal of STF is to raise money to provide scholarships for Indianapolis Public School (IPS) students who wish to go on to college. So far, STF has awarded over $30,000 in scholarships to help IPS students attend college. [PRWEB Oct 25, 2004] From
PR Web on October 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Learn More About Attention Deficit Disorder
Learn more about ADD from the comfort of your own home by participating in ADD Teleclasses. The Website www.addclasses.com connects people who want to learn about ADD with those who know about ADD. [PRWEB Oct 25, 2004] From
PR Web on October 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
20 Scholarships for Study Abroad Offered to Educational Institutions Actively Promoting the Learning of Spanish
don Quijote, Spain's largest provider of in-country Spanish courses in Spain and Mexico, is offering 20 scholarships to educational institutions presenting aggressive plans to promote the learning of the Spanish language. From today through December 14, universities, colleges, community colleges, high schools and language schools world-wide are invited to present their plans in Fundación don Quijote´s second annual scholarship programme. Winners will be announced January 17, and will each receive a 2-week Spanish course in Spain and Mexico for the student of their choice. [PRWEB Oct 25, From
PR Web on October 25, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
DOT e-learning ready to go
Transportation Department officials will begin a staggered release of the Web-enabled portion of the agency's Learning Management System in two weeks, said Deb Hanlon, the learning services manager at the Federal Aviation Administration. From
DEC Daily News on October 25, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
Monday, October 25, 2004
It was quiet the eventful weekend here in Ca$hville, as Saturday was the day of the bachelor and bachelorette party. I would like to thank my two future brother-in-laws, Josh, Gary, and Andy for taking me out. From
RHPT.com on October 25, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..
Duke U's Journalistic Antisemitism Uproar
In a Chroncle editorial titled "The Jews", Trinity senior Philip Kurian has created a global uproar. The editorial complains that Jews are, as a community of special interest, stifling free speech. The response of the Jewish community to this oped has been to stifle free speech. From
kuro5hin.org on October 25, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..
TV to the rescue
Cell phone executives say new data-oriented services such as TV will help bolster an industry in a precarious state. From
CNET News.com on October 25, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..