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Locking Libraries Out of the Digital Loop
Wow, this is pretty scary. The original post: "He says that all mobile phones sold in Japan now have some kind of DRM built in. All content (ring tones etc.) is locked to the device it was downloaded first. If you buy a new phone, there is no way to transfer your files from your old one." [Lenz Blog] The follow-up: "The paper does point to one way in which even unencrypted content's acquirability might be irrelevant. Many of the phones limit the file types you can play and send From The Shifted Librarian on October 31, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..

What is usability?
Donna Maurer has written our KM Column article this month, answering the question: what is usability? To quote: 'Usability' is widely seen as the answer to many of these frustrating interactions with technology. There are usability books, websites, guidelines and... From Column Two on October 31, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..

KM for consistency & innovation
I've written the first of two CM Briefings this month, exploring KM for consistency & innovation. To quote: Much is made of the role of knowledge management (KM) in supporting innovation within organisations. This is also closely tied in with... From Column Two on October 31, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..

How to scope an intranet release
My second CM Briefing for this month is on scoping an intranet release. To quote: The most crucial release is often the initial 'go-live' of the intranet. This must demonstrate the value of the intranet, and build sufficient interest to... From Column Two on October 31, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..

Music Blogs Deluxe
No, they're not really illuminated in the original sense of "deluxe," but holy cow I just learned that two of my favorite music writers, Alex Ross (whom I've enjoyed for years) and Sasha Frere-Jones (whom I'm just discovered), have blogs. Less sleep for me, but more music. What a ... From Gardner Writes on October 31, 2004 at 10:01 p.m..

E-Learning Grab Bag, Oct. 31
Here's a few items that have recently caught my attention on the theme of e-learning. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Categories of eLearning," eLearnSpace, Oct. 18. Whenever I tell people that I've gotten involved in the e-learning field, most of them give me a blank stare -- or think I'm only referring to college courses that you can take online. This excellent primer by George Siemens describes and differentiates each of the main types of e-learning. (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Media & Journalism Grab Bag, Oct. 31
Here are some items on the theme of media, news, and journalism that I've been meaning to write about. TOP OF THIS LIST: "From Pull to Point: How to Save The Economist and The Journal from Irrelevance," by John Battelle's "Searchblog," Oct. 11. Excerpt: "Why, I wondered, were these two august bastions of journalism falling off my reading list? ...Both require paid subscriptions, and therefore, both do not support deep linking. In other words, both are nearly impossible to find if you get your daily dose of news, analysis and opinion from the blogosphere." (Read the rest of this list. From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Net & Society Grab Bag, Oct. 31
This is an assortment of items that demonstrate how the internet is affecting or reflecting society -- including free speech issues. TOP OF THIS LIST: "My FactCheck.org RSS Project," NetNerds, Oct. 23. Finally, someone has created a good scraped webfeed for FactCheck.org, just in time for the election. (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Wiki Grab Bag, Oct. 31
This is a collection of wiki-related items which have caught my attention recently. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Journalism's Future May Be Wikipedia," by Peter Tupper, "The Tyee" weblog, Oct. 22. Excerpt: "Wikipedia.org, an online hypertext encyclopedia to which anybody can add and edit information, could be the future of journalism. Wikipedia is not only a reference work, it also makes a pretty good newspaper." (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Blogging Grab Bag, Oct. 31
Here's a collection of items on the topic of blogging that have caught my interest lately. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Comment Spammers: internet pigs and how they feed," by Steven Streight, "Vaspers the Grate" weblog, Oct. 29. A brilliant manifesto! (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Webfeeds Grab Bag, Oct. 31
Here's a collection of items related to webfeeds that have caught my attention lately. TOP OF THIS LIST: "A culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture," Apophenia weblog, Oct. 10. Danah Boyd cuts through some of the webfeed hype. Excerpt: "Sitting in at Web2.0 for 20 seconds, I was intrigued by the ongoing hype of RSS. ...For this audience, I think that it is certainly true. But I'm wondering if that's really true beyond the info-nerds." (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Podcasting Grab Bag, Oct. 31
I recently started writing about a new way to distribute audio content online called podcasting. Here are some more items related to this emerging field that have caught my interest. TOP OF THIS LIST: It's a tie: "Podcasting: Not Ready for Prime Time" (by John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, Oct. 25) and its counterpoint, "John C. Dvorak Trashes Podcasting and IT Conversations" (by the incensed Doug Kaye Blogarithms, Oct. 25). It a little bit of "Crossfire," right here in the blogosphere. (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Tools Grab Bag, Oct. 31
Here are some cool tools that I wanted to tell you about. TOP OF THIS LIST: NewsGator Online is now free. I know several people who use and love Newsgator, a service that bundles an online feed reader with other neat features and integrates with Microsoft Outlook. I'm not a Microsoft person, so I haven't been inclined to pay for NewsGator so far. However, now that the online version is free, I might give it a try. I'll see if it gives Bloglines a run for the money. (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Writing & Editing Grab Bag, Oct. 31
Here's a collection of items related to writing and editing that have caught my attention lately. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Buzzwordify, by Eric Rice, Oct. 21. Recoiling in horror from yet another buzzword-laden web page, Rice suggests a blogger rebellion. I'm with you on that, Eric -- and I'm doing my part right here! (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

A Tale of Two Osamas
There are some interesting, an telling, differences between the CNN translation of Osama bin Laden's speech, and Aljazeera's. From kuro5hin.org on October 31, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Ariadne Article - 'What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?'
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/godby/ Score one for the librarians! This article by Carol Jean Godby of the OCLC is an absolute bombshell and a must-read for folks working with learning object metadata standards. She follows up on works by Norm Friesen and Lorna Campbell that survey existing application profiles of the IEE LOM with a view to answering three main questions: Which elements are most widely adopted? What are the pro From EdTechPost on October 31, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..

Sample Ballots, Anyone
Call me nutty, but I like to make my voting decisions before I step into the voting booth. Unfortunately, after a day of web searching, I can't seem to find a sample ballot for Brooklyn, NY. I've tried League of Women Voters, voter information, and all of the usual suspects, as well. If I can't find a voter guide, I imagine there are many others like me. Anybody out there know how to find out who or what is going to be on any particular ballot? From rushkoff.blog on October 31, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..

Why did you decide to do online education?
Below is a list of reasons why students decided to do online education. These have not been edited and are from a survey the students take before accessing their online course. I chose online education because I prefer to learn... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 31, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

NoteBook
As you may already know, I'm not in the habit of promoting commercial software here. Open source? Fine. But I'm about to make an exception. I ran across a program for Macintosh users that is probably going to be one... From Rick's Café Canadien on October 31, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..

Customer Training Is Outsourcing's Hottest Trend
Der Autor nennt es "the fastest-growing trend in learning HYPHEN the outsourcing and out-tasking of customer training initiatives to suppliers that create e-learning courseware and perform numerous other services". Für mich ist es in erster Linie Teil einer Marketing- und... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 31, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

IM und RSS Programm
Gush ist ein Flash-basierter RSS-Reader und IM-Client in einem und noch dazu gratis. Ausserdem kann man damit ICQ, AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo IM kontaktieren (Achtung, dazu muss man aber bei jedem Anbieter eine Registrierung haben). From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 31, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

Blogs = Zeit, Wikis = Raum?
Ein Zitat aus einem kulturwissenschaftlich def. interessantem Blog. Blogs = Zeit, Wikis = Raum?: Heute eine interessante Email bekommen (danke, Jim!), die mich auf diesen Artikel aufmerksam gemacht hat, in dem Blogs und Wikis den Dimensionen “Zeit” und “Raum” korreliert werden.Blogs sind eindimensional. Ihre Dimension heisst “Zeit”. Die physische Grundkonzeption ihrer Inhalte ist chronologisch linear angeordnet. Die j&uuml;ngsten Inhal From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 31, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..

Tagalicious
This looks to offer strong possibilities for making use of del.icio.us collections for creating usable reference lists. ¶ Taga.licio.us is a tag filter for del.icio.us : it produces a page with links from selected tags, allows to integrate del.icio.us links for one or more tags into an existing page, limited to a spe From Open Artifact on October 31, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..

Videoconferencing With Multiple Viewpoints: MultiView And Interview
Following the interesting report from Roland Piquepaille, covered videostreaming of a subject with 48 cameras, transmitting the images over a network, and implanting them in a virtual world, here is more information about what can be achieved with videoconferencing when... From Kolabora.com on October 31, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..

Voting for Voting
One of the best reasons to vote this in this election is that, if you don't, it may very well be the last time your vote is counted at all. From rushkoff.blog on October 31, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

Never forget
Never Forget brings together full movies and video clips to help you make the right choice on Tuesday. ¶ From Open Artifact on October 31, 2004 at 3:58 p.m..

CTIA announces U.S. Multimedis Messaging interoperability pact
The Cellular Telecommunications &amp Internet Association has announced that cellular operators have signed a Multimedia Messaging Service interoperability pact. The release says, "the Inter-Carrier MMS Working Group established a set of guidelines that will allow wireless carriers to phase-in photo and video messaging services over time....The MMS Industry Working Group began meeting in May with the objective of identifying a common feature set that could be supported by al From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

Videophone dating
Over the past few years courtship has changed with bewildering speed, mainly because of new technology, reports The Telelgraph in an article on videophone dating and how it's going to be the next big thing. The 3G Dating Agency, launched as a trial this year, offers members the chance to send in clips they have recorded on their mobiles and browse other members clips. It then arranges video dates for those who express interest in eac From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

The 2-step tonic for political depression
I've not made any bones about it: This campaign has left me beaten down and depressed. Am I the only one? So, here's my tonic. It comes in two parts: Part 1: Get out the vote. Part 2: Get out and vote. If we get out the vote, we win. We could even win big. And while democracy does not consist merely of pulling a lever in a voting booth, pulling that lever is so important that people have died to give us that right. This will not be the first time I get choked up in a voting booth.... From Joho the Blog on October 31, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..

E-Voting Lies From Bush Team
I was just listening to CNN political coverage, and a lawyer who's a Bush supporter flat-out lied about electronic voting machines, claiming all the questions have been satisfactorily answered about the machines' trustworthiness and reliability. Anyone who knows anything about this subject knows that his statements were absolutely false. Nothing surprises me anymore, but the brazenness of this guy's lies was really something. By the way, here's an easy way to find your voting site. Just plug in your street addr From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 31, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

Why YAML? Why not?
I started a simple project a while back; all I needed to do was store some information about stuff around the office, and since it's a small office, I thought that a RDBMS system was overkill. So I decided to go with XML. After creating a document, I then decided to fight with XML DTDs, and tried to fight with both XML DOM and XML SAX for Python, I finally decided on an approach that built dictionaries using SAX, as described here. After messing with it for a while, I decided there had to be a better way. Almost by accident, I stumbled upon YAML. From kuro5hin.org on October 31, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Moscow TV in New York
Recently PBS's Robert Cringley explored a makeshift TV broadcasting outfit that operated out of an attic and used largely open-source software. This week he zeroes in on TV2ME, a system designed to send live television via the internet from one location to another; done in this case by a Moscow man living in New York who wanted Russian programming. And all for only $6,500! From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

streaming media manuals
Manuals for those wishing to learn how to stream audio under Linux or Windows. Intended to accompany a hands-on self-learning or workshop based approach. No previous knowledge of Linux is assumed. From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

BBC Proposes Broadband Freeband
Delivering the keynote speech at the Broadband Britain Summit, BBC director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield predicted a new era of content delivery by the end of the decade... He suggested that the recent uptake in broadband could be accelerated even further if hardware manufacturers, broadband service providers and the BBC were to join forces. He posited a compelling free content and access package, similar to Freeview or the proposed unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

Teaching Street to Street, Person to Person Journalism
Temple University has started a new urban journalism lab that’s taking its students out into the streets of Philadelphia. Thomas Petner, a long time TV journalist, who in 1999 joined the dot.com revolution, now as an associate professor at Temple directs the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab. Join us as we learn more about street to street, point to point micro journalism in this Journalism and the Public: Restoring the Trust IM Interview. Leonard Witt: From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

[no title]
Blogging tools and enclosures. "We've been trying to get aggregator developers to support RSS 2.0 enclosures, but I've never written a piece explaining how I think developers of blogging tools should support enclosures." From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

Ubicomp experience guidelines
All watched over by machines of loving grace: Some ethical guidelines for user experience in ubiquitous-computing settingsby Adam Greenfield"Principle 1. Default to harmlessness.Ubiquitous systems must default to a mode that ensures their users (physical, psychic and financial) safety.Principle 2. Be self-disclosing.Ubiquitous systems must contain provisions for immediate and transparent querying of their ownership, From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

The MyoPhone
Rebecca Allen group at MIT lab is called "Liminal devices", it studies the frontiers between the virtual and the real world. The first project she presented yesterday was the MyoPhone. While we are used to displays like those of PC, PDA or mobile phone, the MIT group is working on new displays that would leave our hands totally free, displays embeded into eye glasses, not the kind that make you look like astronauts, but normal eyeglasses. Displays are located both right on the lens and in the frame to give periferal vision. Such displays won't be used to read book From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

announce: audvidsyn
A new mailing list for practical conversations about syndication of audio and video. A place for publishers and consumers to coordinate. RSS 2.0 enclosures are central. RSS and Atom are directly relevant. Playlists may be relevant. From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

video in and out
Little demo of how to control IN and OUT points in Flash video. Source file contains many variations including proximity based and random cut ups as well as dragging. From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

Photo Mapping Tools
Script 1 takes a set of images and a GPS track, and spits out an RDF description of the images, annotated with time and place stamps and the creator's details. Script 2 takes the RDF and another file describing a map, and overlays the photos on the map. From unmediated on October 31, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

Democracy hangs in the balance
In 48 hours the world's most powerful democracy will set an example for the world's soon-to-be newest. Let's hope neither of them screw it up. From David Davies: Edtech on October 31, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

too pathetic
When this story broke, my reaction was the same as Begala's on Crossfire: There was no way that Bush cheated like this in the debates. And just because Doonesbury believes it that doesn't make it true. But now Salon says a NASA photo analyst has concluded that he did. I know on the scale of things -- From Lessig Blog on October 31, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Spring forward, fall back
The UK falls back to GMT today. We gained an hour in bed this morning but will lose an hour this evening. It's now just after 5pm and it's dark already. In a week it'll be bonfire night and then we'll be counting down the days until Christmas. From David Davies: Edtech on October 31, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

election duties
It is astonishing to me how hard it is to talk to friends and family about this election. It must have been easier before we entered the age of the broadcast. People must have expected it. But today, politics is religion -- and neither are to be discussed among people who disagree. We feel free to stuff envelopes at an election headquarters. Or even to blather on in a blog. But the act of directly confronting someone else -- at least if you know them -- and asking them to explain their vote is as rude as asking them to explain their heart. Most of the time, that doesn't bother me. But i From Lessig Blog on October 31, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

calling for a retranslation
So translation is the hardest thing in the world to do well, so no criticism of the translator intended here, but: There's something very weird about the translation of bin Laden's speech. As Aljazeera has translated it, near the end bin Laden says this:And for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Ataa, Allah have mercy on him, that all the operations should be carried out within 20 minutes before Bush and his administration notice. It never occurred From Lessig Blog on October 31, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

According to this poll, Kerry's got a landslide
Dave took a word and turned it into a site: Presidential Enblogment 2004. According to the numbers as of now, Kerry's running 85% to Bushs 11%, and Nader's 4%. And now there are 248 links on Google for "enblogment." There were none two days ago. From Lessig Blog on October 31, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Associative thinking through blogging
An interesting discussion in Kairosnews occurred when one educator wrote that he/she was no longer “in love” with blogs in his/her class. It is worth reading the entire article and comments. I found two points interesting. ¶ From Open Artifact on October 31, 2004 at 12:58 p.m..

Future Business Models
In many discussions around business model innovation today, three companies are consistently mentioned - Google, Amazon and eBay [no links here, as everyone knows where to find them]. Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, is working on a number of new projects, and if you want to get an indicator of future business models in the digital economy, then consider his areas of concentration: From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on October 31, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..

Insubordinate Survival Techniques
On how WW1 soldiers evolved ways of co-operating with each other, against their officer's wishes From Monkeymagic on October 31, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

When your wifi card doesn't work...
When your wifi card doesn't work under XP, after spending three hours futzing with drivers, I suggest you try this: Control Panel > Administrative tools > Services. Look for Wireless Zero Configuration. Click on it. If it's stopped, start it. If there's no start or stop button, double click on it and change "Startup type" to "Automatic." Or you could get a Mac which, because it is a closed environment, tends to be easier to live with.... From Joho the Blog on October 31, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

Book Talk Next Thursday
I'll be speaking about and signing copies of We the Media on Thursday at Barnes & Noble, 3600 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose (map). I'll also discuss the impact of the Internet on the 2004 election. The event starts at 7 p.m. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 31, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Google's Price Absurd, but Business Model Has a Long Tail
(This is also my Sunday column in the San Jose Mercury News.)The bubble mentality has returned to one small part of the technology business: Google. That doesn't make the online search and advertising company a bad business -- far from it. Yet Google's recent share price has been ridiculous. Don't believe me? Well, Google itself has told the world what it thinks the stock is worth: somewhere between $108 and $135 a share. That's what the company first t From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 31, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..

Critics of DRM copy protection schemes chime in
Following up on my own bad experiences with Apple's copy protection schemes (I'm no longer going to call these technologies Digital Rights Management, the current IT industry euphemism that can only have been thought up by the same people who brought you Military Intelligence), comes a great rant in the Inquirer by Charlie Demerjian. He hits the nail squarely on the head: The fundamental question is simply this. Why would a consumer want to From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..

Spearhead provide a pre-election tonic
A bunch of us caught Michael Franti and Spearhead on Friday night. The band's multicultural deep grooves, heavily partaking of hiphop and reggae, while also making frequent references to the bedrock roots of blues and jazz, combined with Franti's activist politics (not to mention several Bass Ales) for a perfect breather from election anxiety. Though I could've done with a shorter acoustic solo segment... From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..

Including some fun
I am really looking forward to exploring further the data I been gathering on students' perception on their e-portfolio use. After La Rochelle it is so apparent research is needed in this area. Unless students have something in it for... From ERADC Blog on October 31, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

DRM in the Hardware, Minus the Mandates
Karl Lenz points to an interesting article about DRM in the Japanese mobile phone market. I think Karl's statement that the article says DRM works, contrary to arguments like Cory's, is misleading and misunderstands Cory and others a bit.  The question is: does DRM stop piracy - does it stop the acquisition of unencrypted content over P2P/the darknet?&n From A Copyfighter's Musings on October 31, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

Drucker on Schools
Peter Drucker, renowned writer on management and the knowledge society, has these thoughts on school and learning: "Delivering literacy -- even on the high level appropriate to a knowledge society -- will be an easier task than giving students the capacity and the knowledge to keep on learning, and the desire to do it. No school system has yet tackled that job. There is an old Latin tag: Non schola sed vita discimus (We don't learn for school but for life). But neither teacher nor student has ever taken it From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on October 31, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..

E-portfolio 2004 La Rochelle
I have just returned from the second international e-portfolio conference organised by EifEL. The conference attracted delegates from 18 different countries with the programme full of speakers from all sectors detailing their experiences of e-portfolios. One of the big highlights... From ERADC Blog on October 31, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..

Social Software, Semantic Webs, Google, Bootstrapping, and Perpetual Motion
If there really is such a thing as "beginner's mind," I'm pretty sure I can lay claim to it in what I'm about to write. Caveat lector. Brian Lamb's latest piece on social software sparked an interesting little romp for me just now. I find the whole idea of social software ... From Gardner Writes on October 31, 2004 at 10:01 a.m..

The Angst of Student Blogging
Barbara posts about the discomfort that the transparency of student blogs create, and if she's thinking about it on the college level, imagine what it must be like down here in K-12 land. The days of emphasizing process over product seem to be a distant memory what with the specter of one-correct-answer standardized tests hanging over all of our heads. And now that we're asking students to publish to an audience that might actually be engaged in what they are writing, errors become even more accentuated. God firbid t From weblogged News on October 31, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

Hillary Rosen Loves Larry Lessig (and other improbable tales)
In Wired, Hillary Rosen, the former head of the Recording Industry Ass. of America, writes of her love affair with... no way dude. Yep. Larry Lessig, her long time foe who started the Creative Commons. From kuro5hin.org on October 31, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

RSS Usage
Fascinating post on Topix.net about RSS reader popularity. RSS Usage of Topix.net by Feed Reader We've been measuring on-site vs. off-site story clicks for a while, and have noticed a steady increase in the number of users who are consuming Topix.net newsfeeds via RSS. Taking the last week's logs shows our RSS usage at 12%. Recently we instrumented our feeds to track story clicks per client. This is a better measure of actual use than simply counting RSS feed fetches, since it measures user clicks on stories in our feeds rather than robot activity. Cl From RSS Blog on October 31, 2004 at 9:00 a.m..

Getting Out the Vote
Well. What a lot of walking I've done over the last week or so. I've been hitting the bricks here in West Palm Beach for MoveOn.org, and I've knocked on hundreds of doors, talked to dozens of voters, and logged lots of time with the MoveOn database, entering my results, creating walk lists, talking to my handler, and working hard to get all of our Kerry supporters to the polls. Whew! Seems to me that there has to be a better way to get voters out, and so in between working and knocking... From Brain Frieze on October 31, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

Americans Click Their Way Toward Elections - Sean Michael Kerner, Clickz
A pair of new reports from the Pew Internet even volunteering to work on the campaign (21 percent). From Techno-News Blog on October 31, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Bagle.bb prevention and cure - Robert Vamosi, CNET News
This version appears as an e-mail message with a smiley face : )) More of an irritant than a real threat, another variation of the Bagle virus is loose. Bagle.bb (w32.bagle.bb@mm, also known as Bagle.q (Norman, Computer Associates), Bagle.at (F-Secur From Techno-News Blog on October 31, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Reheated Bagle smokes out antivirus defenses - Dawn Kawamotok, CNET News
A new version of the fast-spreading Bagle mass-mailing worm was discovered Friday, with its threat level quickly rising to a moderate level, according to security experts. Bagle.BB, also known as W32/Bagle.bb@MM, was raised to a medium risk assessment From Techno-News Blog on October 31, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

The Other Kids on the Block: Commercial Providers Grow Up in the eLearning Space - Syllabus
In a market that has been dominated by two big players, WebCT and Blackboard, how will other commercial vendors gain market share and thrive? Syllabus interviewed key executives at two companies"Unicon and Desire 2 Learn"about how they plan to continue From Online Learning Update on October 31, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

What Do ICTs Represent: A Bridge To Knowledge Or A New Exclusion Factor? - D. Segarra, elearningEuropa
The new technologies obviously offer new, interesting opportunities for access to knowledge. Their application may also however become a new exclusion factor. This paper sets out to offer a first examination of this issue, based on articles published o From Online Learning Update on October 31, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Electronic Repositories of Marked Student Work and their Contributions to Formative Evaluation - Eva Heinrich
The educational literature shows that formative assessment is highly conducive to learning. The tasks given to students in formative assessment generally require open-ended responses that can be given, for example, in essay-type format and that are ass From Online Learning Update on October 31, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

British library bookbindings database
The British Library has published a gorgeous, rich Web resource on historical bookbindings: (MeFi)... From MANE IT Network on October 31, 2004 at 7:55 a.m..

Grasping at Those Things To Do
I watched a little bit of The Matrix on TV the other night, and the scene where racks of guns go whizzing by the characters Trinity and Neo reminded me of how my life feels these days. Just a blur as things go flying by, things that need to be dealt with, habits that you used to have, but somehow got lost in all the recovery following the hurricanes of September. It's been a month, roughly, since the last storm blew through, and it's taken all this time to get my life back into some sort... From Brain Frieze on October 31, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..

Ariadne - Issue 41, October 2004 is now available. Ariadne is targeted principally at information sc ...
Ariadne - Issue 41, October 2004 is now available. Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community. Its main geographic focus is the UK, but it is widely read in the US and worldwide From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 31, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

CoLIS 5 is the fifth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a br ...
CoLIS 5 is the fifth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analysing research in areas such as computer science, information science and library science. The theme for CoLIS 5 will be the nature, impact and role of context within information-centred research and technologies - 4-9 June 2005 - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 31, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

The University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries has announced the launching of Southern Nevada and Las ...
The University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries has announced the launching of Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps, a digital project featuring over 80 historical maps from the UNLV Libraries Special Collections Department, documenting the cartographic history and context of southern Nevada, telescoping in scale from the Western Hemisphere to the streets of Las Vegas From Peter Scott's Library Blog on October 31, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Doom the Movie
1. The Doom movie is in pre-production in Prague. Andrzej Bartkowiak (Cradle 2 the Grave, Romeo Must Die) is directing and Karl Urban ("What business does an elf, man, and a dwarf have in the Ridder-Mark? Speak quickly", LOTR 2) will play the lead. The script is not the same as the script of Doom 3, which is the same as the script of Doom 1. which is the same as Die Hards 1-7, Rambo's 1-12, and every psychopathically sympathy-free mow-'em-down tale ever told ... and I say that as a fan. The writer, 26-year-old Dave Callaham, has no other... From Joho the Blog on October 31, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Graeme Daniel
Information technology... is a powerful force that can and must be harnessed to our global mission of peace and development... over the long term, the new economy can only be productive and sustainable if it spreads worldwide and responds to the needs and demands of all people. (Kofi Annan) From wwwtools on October 31, 2004 at 5:56 a.m..

top up button down
Joe Trippi one of the fore-runners of change-the-world-tools on the hopes of software as emancipaton. Might sound cynical but it's rather skepticism in technological determinism. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 31, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..

How To Convert PowerPoint Presentations Into HTML/ Web Pages
by Geetesh Bajaj PowerPoint confers the title of 'presentation browser' on Internet Explorer. Yet, to effect a faithful PowerPoint HTML incarnation, one needs to closely understand and apply various configurations hidden within the Web Options dialog box of PowerPoint. Access to these configurations is not as easy or obvious as expected - choose Tools -> Options. This opens the Options dialog box with its various tabs. Choose the General tab, where you'll click a button called Web Options. The same options are also available from the Options button in the Save As HTML dialog box From MasterViews on October 31, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..

Columbia to Check Reports of Anti-Jewish Harassment
"Unbecoming Columbia," a video documentary, asserts that some professors have intimidated Jewish students during discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From New York Times: Education on October 31, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Reaction Time to Fixing Lead in Schools' Water Is Disputed
A state official charged that the state's health and education agencies did not follow up on reports that dangerous levels of lead had been found in water at several schools. From New York Times: Education on October 31, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Neil A. Campbell, Who Wrote Major Biology Texts, Dies at 58
Neil A. Campbell was a botanist who wrote college biology textbooks that sold in the millions and became popular in high school honors courses. From New York Times: Education on October 31, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

College-Bound, 8 Heed Their Inner MapQuests
Whatever the county's high school seniors may have felt about Halloween until now, this fall they are coping with something spookier: college application time. From New York Times: Education on October 31, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

I have exceeded my Flickr Pro upload bandwidth of 1 Gigabyte for October 2004
At 2MB per 4 megapixel image, I guess that would be approximately 500 photos. Aargh. I guess either I need a super duper Flickr Pro account, or I have to only selectively upload some photos or upload at at lower resolution. Thinking! From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Weblog research challenges
This is a note to myself (because I woke up thinking :); to be expanded later. Weblog research challenges: Moving target Sociotecnical system (technology and practices of using it evolving together) Heterogenity: technology, practices Subcultures without clear borders (lots of "fussy logic" :) Population is unknown --> sampling "Teasing data" - lots of out there in public, but getting it is a challenge (distributed, heterogenious formats) Interpreting data - underlying practices are oftenunclear (invisible that ma From Mathemagenic on October 31, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Read Anything Easily -Just Point
October 22, 2004, Premier Assistive Technology unveiled its latest product at the Closing the Gap Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, its new Talking Pointer. The Talking Pointer has been integrated into the Universal Reader and Universal Reader Plus products. The Talking Pointer will start to ship on November 1, 2004. [PRWEB Oct 31, 2004] From PR Web on October 31, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Two Hundred Plainview Preschoolers March in 30th Annual Parade of Costumes
From goblins, to super heroes, nearly two hundred 2, 3, and 4 year olds will show off their Halloween best in Plainview Pre-School's 30th Annual Parade of Costumes this Friday October 29th at 10:00 a.m. Since 1974, the parade has culminated the October curriculum of fall related themes at Plainview Preschool. "Here, we take children's interest in a popular celebration like Halloween and use it as an opportunity to teach important learning concepts -- like teaching about life-cycles, nutrition, and art as children plant pumpkin seeds and watch them change into good things to eat and From PR Web on October 31, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Do NCLB Results Match Promise? FCS Teachers Poll Says No
After conducting a Poll of its teacher-members to examine their experiences with and opinions of NCLB, AAFCS reports that most FCS teachers say the new initiative has not been very effective. [PRWEB Oct 31, 2004] From PR Web on October 31, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

The Rumors on the Internets
A shadowy group of nerds calling themselves Internets Vets for Truth have collected a pile of video clips related to the current US election. Named after Bush's statement in the second debate, "I hear there are rumors, uh, on the internets," the site includes clips from Going Upriver, Fahrenheit 9/11 (also available for download here), and a number of other odds and ends. If you haven't already been saturated by enough media this year, here's your chance to see the greatest hits. From kuro5hin.org on October 31, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

The Youth of Today have no attention span.
I have heard in the last couple week a common statement in the halls of a high school from two different teachers, this comment was; The youth of today have no attention span. The reason the comment was shared with... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 31, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

D is for Dries
This last week I really enjoyed meeting with Dries again and meeting with a big chunk of the Drupal community including the CivicSpace guys. It was exhausting but in the end it shows why tools like easy to update websites, blogs, CMSes and RSS are worth building: to build communities online and offline. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on October 31, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Video game teaches street smarts
A company in New Brunswick has launched a new computer game to teach children about street safety. CBC News: Video game teaches street smarts... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 31, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

E-learning passport to future
The PASS-port e-learning scheme is a new system that allows those who cannot - or are not allowed to - go to school do their work at home. The scheme, run by Norfolk County Council's education department, has reached a... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 31, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..

Urheberentrechtung
Martin Vogel (Eur. Patentamt) übt in der FAZ (25.10.2004 S. 35) heftige Kritik am Kotau des Referentenentwurfs zum UrhG Korb 2 vor den Interessen der Verwerter. Der Schwerpunkt der Darstellung liegt auf dem Urhebervertragsrecht. Auch bei der Regelung von § 31 IV (unbekannte Nutzungsarten), der wegfallen soll, werde die Position des Urhebers geschwächt. Bei der für die Altverträge ab 1966 vorgesehenen Regelung würden Interessen der Allgemeinheit vorgeschoben. Von der ursprünglichen Initiative der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten, die ihre Archive From Archivalia on October 31, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Writings of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski
The ACLU of Northern California filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of librarians and archivists urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court's decision allowing the government to preclude public access to the original writings of Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski, who pled guilty to the "Unabomber" crimes, plans to donate his journals to the University of Michigan. The University, which has agreed to receive them, houses a special collection of materials on radical social and political movements, known as the Joseph Labadie Collection. The Freedom to Read F From Archivalia on October 31, 2004 at 12:53 a.m..

Our moon
Liz points us to a beautiful sequence of photos of the lunar eclipse, taken by Amy Desiree Goldstein.... From Joho the Blog on October 31, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..