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Global Learn Day 8
Global Learn Day takes place on Sunday, November 21st, and consists of a round the world "voyage" showcasing innovative activities in education and internet technology. There will be presentations and roundtable discussions by educators and thinkers from all parts of the globe. Check it out. From apcampbell News on November 19, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..

Google Top Dogs Selling Stock, Big-Time
AP: Google co-founders, CEO to sell up to 16.6 million shares. Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin each plan to sell up to 7.2 million shares of their stock in the online search engine leader during the next 18 months -- divestitures that would generate windfalls of more than $1 billion apiece at current market prices. They can spin this any way they want, but the message is not a positive one for people planning to buy Google stock -- or some of the current owners who j From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 19, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

Fringe, front and centre
Wired points out a new economic model heralded by the Internet - the rise in exposure and revenue from the non-mainstream blockbuster product. Thanks to the "infinite shelfspace" of online retailers like Amazon and iTunes, niche markets known as the "long tail" in distribution charts, are getting more popular and profitable than the Top 10 megahits. The 80-20 rule doesn't apply on the Internet. Long tail dynamics is good news for the counter culturalists - it means more choice and variety, rather than the often predicted pureeing of culture into a MTV-Walmart-McDonalds mass of blah and ge From silentblue | Quantified on November 19, 2004 at 8:55 p.m..

Alec Couros on weblogs in education
Alec Couros at ID conference Originally uploaded by omegageek. It was great to see Alec again, and a true treat to hear him talking about using Weblogs for educational purposes (Link is to Alec's powerpoint for the session). Here's my summary. Alec talked ... From Just Another Ant on November 19, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment
Here are my notes from Walter Archer's session at the Saskatoon ID conference. This is basically just a notes dump, without bothering to pretty it up (lack of wireless access at the conference forced me to do notes in a text editor instead of straight blogging) See http://www.communitiesofinquiry.com for paper's that ... From Just Another Ant on November 19, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

Saskatoon ID conference
I spent the day at an ID conference in Saskatoon. It was a great time - I reconnected with many friends, and the sessions got a few lobes of my brain that had been dormant fired up again. I have entered my notes for a couple of the sessions for ... From Just Another Ant on November 19, 2004 at 7:59 p.m..

PVR Feature Chart
This chart does not cover unsupported or third-party features because of the extra cost, effort, and/or uncertanties they involve, and because keeping such a yes/no list current and deciding what should and shouldn't be included is a can of worms I don't want to open. However many are mentioned in the full reviews. From unmediated on November 19, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Feedster.tv :: Rich media content for your aggregator
"Just type in below what you want to find and Feedster will search within Media Feeds and find you Feeds with media clips matching your query" From unmediated on November 19, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

RSS Feeds for Educause Resource Centre
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=11 A few people have noted of late that Educause is sporting some blogs, but news to me was their browseable collection of resources. Of particular interest was the fact that each sub-node in their subject taxonomy had its own RSS feed, making it simple to keep track of new Educause-related resources on 'open source' (feed here) or From EdTechPost on November 19, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

Next-Generation Course Management Systems: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy presentation from Educause Conference
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/ 666&ampID=EDU04151 Already the Educause resource centre RSS feeds mentioned below bear fruit - this page points to an interesting presentation from the Educause conference on 'Next Generation CMS.' This is by the same folks who wrote the Educause Quarterly article of the same title a while back. There's a few good things in the presentation (I really liked the graphic of TV From EdTechPost on November 19, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..

Cubs baseball
Cubs baseball Originally uploaded by omegageek. The cubs baseball that Rick brought back for me from Chicago! Oh yeah, next year is the year!! From Just Another Ant on November 19, 2004 at 6:59 p.m..

Have a Ball
Have a Ball #2 Originally uploaded by omegageek. Rick Schwier brought me back a Cubs baseball from Chicago, probably to help me get over the sorrow of not getting to AECT in Chicago. Thanks buddy! From Just Another Ant on November 19, 2004 at 6:59 p.m..

Is a student questionnaire "human research"?
A fasinating article from Pedablogue highlights the problems that can occur when large organizations like universities and colleges take sweeping moral/ethical/political stands. At first blush, making a ruling agains "human research" seems a laudable idea. After all, who really likes the idea of those "cold cure" or sleep deprivation trials which exploit penniless students, or testing the effect of nuclear fallout on prisoners and the like. But what constitutes human research? As a trainee teacher, I&a From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on November 19, 2004 at 6:58 p.m..

New blog on my roll covers teaching and servlets
I recently found The Squizlog which has promptly been added to my Bloglines list. The author covers Java and teaching, both topics close to my own heart. This post, for example, reminds me that teaching is a very powerful way of learning. The pressure of having to explain to others, and field their questions, is a huge incentive. Certainly helped me learn Excel and Access (and now QBasic!) in a hurr From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on November 19, 2004 at 6:58 p.m..

The Quadruple Play
Cable companies plan wireless venture. The telecom triple-play (broadband, phone, television) is actually a quadruple play if you include mobile phone service; leaving cable companies slightly behind once the bells offer video. To avoid this, the largest cable companies have joined forces to either create their own wireless company, or to resell services from a provider like AT&ampT. Earlier this year Time Warner Cable execs said they'd start exploring wireless From unmediated on November 19, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Audioblog.com's Videoblog Example (Blogware & Typepad)
An example of our streaming videoblog tool. First in a series. Side note: I've also published this to my Typepad site: audioblog.typepad.com. Not just to the blog, but to a category "Television" on my Typepad blog. From unmediated on November 19, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Getting a Read on the News Online
Where do we get our news online? It probably comes as no surprise that the big four, in terms of unique audience for the month of October, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, are CNN (23,914,000), MSNBC (21,019,000), Yahoo! News (20,324,000), and AOL News (16,392,000). There's a big dropoff to No. 5 Gannett at 11,280,000, but if you add No. 8 USAToday.com with 9,556,000, that adds up to 20,836,000, making the combined Gannett properties a major-player powerhouse.Where does online audience linger? The clear leader From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 19, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

M-AUDIO - MobilePre USB - Good for Podcasts?
Boris recommends this (and I can borrow his expensive microphones initially). It sounds good, compact and good fidelity. If anybody has used this for Podcast recording on a Mac, let me know what you think. From M-AUDIO - MobilePre USB - USB Bus-Powered Preamp and Audio Interface: QUOTE MobilePre USB is the preamp with a built-in audio interface that’s designed for laptop recording such as field recording and samp From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on November 19, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

Spam wars, nothing but spam wars
What to give the aunt or uncle who has everything else. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on November 19, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..

Zephyr for president
I love Zephyr Teachout's post over at Personal Democracy about what Net stuff worked in the campaign, what didn't, and what will work next time. Not to mention that she's a heck of writer.... From Joho the Blog on November 19, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

City Council Effort to Save Local Authority from Corporate Rule
By unanimous consent, the Berkeley City Council adopted the "Resolution to Preserve Local Sovereignty and Oppose CAFTA" Tuesday night because the Central American Free Trade Agreement would usurp local authority in the interests of corporate profit. Negotiated by the office of President Bush's appointed U.S. Trade Representative without meaningful input from those likely to be adversely affected, CAFTA "undermines more than two centuries of American constitutional values," per the California State Senate Select Committee on International Trade Policy. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004] From PR Web on November 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

BBC World Service goes RSS
This is way cool — a major news service (hey, we're talking The Beeb here!) distributing its news by letting us view it wherever and whenever we want. And in lots of languages. Here's an informal email (lightly edited) from Ian Forrester: BBC World Service have gone public with RSS 1.0 feeds I'm proud to say we at the BBC World service have launched RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds to the public and automatic discovery of the rss feed is also in place. There is no help or notification page of any type yet because we are tackling the problem of... From Joho the Blog on November 19, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

Evoting tea leaves
Hmm. John Kerry just wrote me a note — it was so personal it was practically in longhand (and, by the way, "longhand" is a good example of a word with a "gh" in it that is not pronounced as it is in "rough" and "bough") — pledging to continue fighting, yada yada. Then there was this sentence: Regardless of the outcome of this election, once all the votes are counted — and they will be counted — we will continue to challenge this administration. What's that intended to signal and/or who is it intended to appease? Meanwhile, here's an... From Joho the Blog on November 19, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

Tasty del.icio.us feeds with PHP
Via open artifact cam this link to MovableBlog's Integrating del.icio.us with PHP and Magpie describing a way to embed the output of your del.icio.us links in a web page. As always, there are many paths to the same destination. As frequent readers know, this can be achieved via the JavaScript approach using our Feed2JS service or cogdogblog on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

British Library goes wireless
The British Library has turned its St Pancras site into the largest wi-fi hotspot in central London. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..

Halebop, Lunarstorm offer joint service package
Mobile services provider Halebop and Swedish portal Lunarstorm are collaborating to offer more services to their customers. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..

BT responds to Ofcom’s proposals
British telco BT has responded to Ofcom’s proposals outlined in the UK telecoms regulator’s phase two consultation document. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..

Dutch broadband penetration increases to 40.4% of households
Broadband penetration in Dutch households has increased from 22.9 per cent to 40.4 per cent year-on-year. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 2:57 p.m..

Online Video Grows in Popularity
FTV, a Dutch producer of online video news, reports record viewing figures for November, with 2.4 million video clips viewed in two weeks, as much as in all of October. The murder of movie director Theo van Gogh provided an expected spike in traffic, with 870,000 viewers watching the 30 video items put online.FTV offers its video clips to portals such as MSN, At Home, and Nu.nl, as well as to the online newspaper Telegr From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 19, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

International Journal of Web Based Communities
Thanks to Andrew Shaindlin, I just learned about the launch of the International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) . The table of contents looks fascinating: International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) Volume 1 - Issue 1 - 2004 Table of Contents Pages From Seblogging News on November 19, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

New Zealand: Believe It or Not!
For the benefit of my fellow American travelers, I am sharing some key learnings that may save them embarrassment, shame, or international ridicule when visiting this beautiful place. Note- this is very much not to be taken seriously! I am writing this on the plane back before it all starts to fade away to the memory banks. BELIEVE IT OR NOT Kiwis are many different things A "kiwi" may refer to the flightless nearly extinct bird that is in severe endangerment from introduced mammals. Or it may mean the fruit, and sometimes that might be a yellow fruit, not the green From cogdogblog on November 19, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Google launches scholarly literature search service
Google released a scholarly search tool, Google Scholar . This enables searches for content and authors. Results include articles and books. From NITLE Tech News on November 19, 2004 at 1:59 p.m..

Federal government introduces electronic communications bill
A new electronics bill introduced at the federal level in Belgium aims to transpose the package of EU directives on electronic communications into Belgian law. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..

Minneapolis Economic Policy & Development
Part of the City's Community Planning and Economic Development Department, this division focuses on business retention, expansion, creation, and attraction. Look here for city-sponsored business financing and employment programs. Links to Minneapolis Business Toolbox, Minneapolis Business Association Directory, and Starting a Business in Minneapolis. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on November 19, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..

RESTful Flash plus Flex history
After Kevin Lynch was gang tackled for failing to integrate his Flash deep-linking example with the browser's history navigation (Back/Forward), I recalled that Flex includes a history manager that's intended to support just that kind of integration. Manish Jethani -- a Macromedia developer -- has created another example that shows how Kevin's technique can be combined with the Flex history manag From Jon's Radio on November 19, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Google Scholar
I could cover just this item today, and it would still be a full newsletter. Google scholar searches the databases of acadmeic publications and returns listings of published papers. One neat new feature: for any paper, it also shows the cites. The service is still new and so the cites are a bit incomplete, but it is certainly an advance over what was there. CiteSeer could learn a bit from the smooth Google interface. If Citeseer stays in business, that is. By Various Authors, November 18, 2004 [OLDaily on November 19, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Where Ideas Collide, Innovation Happens
The main point of the book The Medici Effect, reviewed here in this article, seems right to me: when and where "different cultures, domains, and disciplines stream together toward a single point," they may "connect, allowing for established concepts to clash and combine, ultimately forming a multitude of new, groundbreaking ideas." By John Stuckey, Ubiquity, November, 2004 [Refer][Research] From OLDaily on November 19, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Schools Our Kids Would Build
Today's theme, at least for me, is drawn from some remarks Bill Clinto made yesterday. "Every person has a story to tell," he said. This strikes me as one of the cores of my own beliefs. Each person is important, each person contributes. So it's in this spirit that we look at this article describing design ideas for schools submitted by children. One passage struck me: "A recurring theme of likening school to a prison is found in competition entries, both past and present, suggesting that, from the point of view of those compelled to attend, little has altered in the basic character From OLDaily on November 19, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

IBM, Apple Deliver Digital Media Standard
From the article: "The software - the Digital Media Framework - has been developed in cooperation with Microsoft competitors, Apple, Adobe and Cisco. It's described as a digital media framework, and is intended for use in creating, managing and distributing rich-media content. It's also being set to enter the market at lower cost than Microsoft's offering." By Jonny Evans, Macworld, November 17, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on November 19, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

New Directions in Learning
Today's brief newsletter is coming from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, in Canada's north where, I'm happy to report, my hotel came equipped with free broadband internet access. Today is just a brief update as I'm off to give a seminar in fifteen minutes; I'll follow up with a fuller newsletter tonight. This item consists of slides and MP3 audio (Part One (7.6M), Part Two (9.2M)). You know you're speaking to the right group when three of them are wearinOLDaily on November 19, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Google Scholar Beta ...
The highly anticipated Google scholar search is now available in beta. It searches a variety of scholarly sources and the search results attempt to link to those works that are citing the material. It looks interesting. From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on November 19, 2004 at 1:02 p.m..

Broadband trade associations merge to form Broadband Services Forum
The Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCDF) and the Service Creation Community (SCC) have merged to form the Broadband Services Forum, which will on standardisation and the business delivery model of broadband services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 12:57 p.m..

Joe Davis on Secrecy and the Memory Hole
I asked my friend and colleague Joe Davis – editor of the SEJ Tipsheet, which I write for, and respected expert on information access and the media – to comment on my previous article. Joe was at the FOIA breakfast workshop I mentioned. He was not the reporter with whom I discussed The Memory Hole, but he had some interesting points to make when reviewing my article. I share his views here with his permission... From Contentious Weblog on November 19, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..

Evidence of Blogs' Rise
Hylton Jolliffe, proprietor of blog media company Corante, has reason to smile this week. One of his blogs, Carl Zimmer's The Loom, was one of six winners of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual Science Journalism Awards.The Loom is is a news and business intelligence service covering technology and science. Zimmer won the award for a three-part series published on the blog.< From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 19, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..

Getting Even Better Search Results
What can you do to enhance the results you get on your research? Google Scholar (see yesterday's item) might be an answer, but a lot of competitors have come up with new strategies, as the current print edition of New Scientist reports.A look at patents on search technology can help to spot emerging trends and potentially new competitors to the existing major Web search players. Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 19, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..

Hear Academic Presenters Live From All Regions Of The World: Global Learn Day 8 Takes Off Tomorrow
Tomorrow at 6pm New York time, Global Learn Day 8 will take off online while bringing together academics, professors, trainers and technologists from all countries around the world in a real-time non-stop show lasting 24 hours. This is a fascinating... From Kolabora.com on November 19, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..

Archiving and Accessing Web Pages
The GSFC Library as part of its knowledge management initiatives has developed a system to capture and archive web pages for future use. The GSFC Library has developed the Digital Archiving System to support these efforts. The system is based on standards and open source software, including the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Lucene, and the Dublin Core. Future work involves expanding the system to include other content types and special collections, improving automatic metadata generation, and addressing challenges posed by the invisible and dynamic web. From eLearnopedia on November 19, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

Toward a Metadata Generation Framework
This article describes the goals for the Automated Name Authority Control (ANAC) tool, provides an overview of the metadata records used for testing, describes the architecture for ANAC, and concludes with discussions of the methodology and evaluation of the experiment comparing human cataloging and ANAC-generated results. From eLearnopedia on November 19, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

Hot Technologies in K-12 Education
In this guide, the Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) will look at the most promising technologies in store for schools. The committee comprises volunteers from school districts, companies, not-for-profit organizations and institutions of higher education, so we bring the perspectives of both education and industry to our focus on the coming attractions in educational technology. From eLearnopedia on November 19, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

Different Shoes, Same Footprints? A Cross-Disciplinary Evaluation of Students' Online Learning Experiences: Preliminary Findings from the SOLE Project
This paper focuses on online learning experiences of students from a range of disciplines, drawing on and presenting outcomes from the SOLE (Students' Online Learning Experiences) project. SOLE, funded by LTSN and JISC, has undertaken evaluations of the learning experiences of students using virtual learning environments (VLEs) across five disciplines. From eLearnopedia on November 19, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

En Bonn
Hace un rato hemos llegado con Nacho a Bonn. Hoy tenemos visita a la Deutsche Welle y mañana la conferencia del jurado de los premios BOBs.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 19, 2004 at 12:53 p.m..

CWSpace Poster at SPARC Institutional Repository Workshop
http://cwspace.mit.edu/docs/ProjectMgt/Reports/SPARC-IR-Workshop/sparc-poster.html Via a post on the Dspace-LOR mailing list by William Riley of MIT comes mention of this poster concerning various content packaging methods for LOs. The poster was produced for use at the SPARC Institutional Repository Workshop by the CWSpace project, a project investigating the use of Dspace to archive MIT& From EdTechPost on November 19, 2004 at 12:52 p.m..

Gizmondo integrates Ezitap text input technology Text
The Gizmondo handheld gaming console has integrated Ezitap predictive text technology from the Zi Corporation. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Zip Television develops iTV measurement tool
Currently, iTV campaigns only measure those viewers that send information back through the return path. Zip has developed the research tool, "Zip i-Count" to measure every single viewer that presses red. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

The Memory Hole, Secrecy, Credibility, and Journalism
In an age of disappearing information, how can journalists continue to gauge credibility? This question has been sticking in my mind ever since a brief discussion I had last month with a top-notch, old-school reporter... From Contentious Weblog on November 19, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

ASIS&T conference
I spent the day at an academic conference for just about the first time since I left the philosophy biz 20 years ago. And the rush of memories generally weren't pleasant. But, that's just my scar tissue talking. Today was the last day of the American Society for Information Science and Technology conference in Providence. I came to learn about cataloging and classifying, and I heard a couple of really interesting presentations. My favorite was by Frank Miksa of the U of Texas at Austin. He pointed out that we all tend to believe that "there exists a realm of... From Joho the Blog on November 19, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

danah on social interaction
Over at Operating Manual, danah is insightful about designing artificial social networks for interactions instead of for "users." (See disclaimer.)... From Joho the Blog on November 19, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Multimedia narrative at CET, day three: November 2004
Today is the third and final day of the November multimedia narrative workshop at CET. Agenda: 9:00 HYPHEN 11:45 Completing the video 11:45 HYPHEN 1:00 Lunch 1:00 HYPHEN 2:00 Production to DVD 2:00 HYPHEN 2:15 Break 2:15 HYPHEN 3:15 Presentation... From MANE IT Network on November 19, 2004 at 10:59 a.m..

BSkyB launches magazine-style re-design of interactive services portal
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB has reformatted its interactive services portal, Sky Active. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Poland withdraws support for EU software patent directive.
Poland has backed out of support for the European Union's proposed directive on software patents. Due to the new weighted voting system of the EU, the 'Patentability of Computer-implemented Inventions' directive cannot pass. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 10:57 a.m..

Bubble, Bubble...
SF Chronicle: Home prices go higher. Bay Area home sales in October ratcheted down from peaks earlier this year and 2003, but prices across many of the nine counties flew to new highs as persistent, strong demand and low interest rates buoyed the market, according to a real estate information firm. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 19, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

Are You A Comfort Addict?
Do you find yourself unsatisfied, but unable to work out why? Do you find yourself nodding during Fight Club when Tyler Durden tells his recruits that their struggle is a philosophical one... only to be dismayed with his idea of a solution? Is everything okay, but nothing great? You could well be a comfort addict. From kuro5hin.org on November 19, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Create a context
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. Edwin Schlossberg ¶ From Open Artifact on November 19, 2004 at 9:59 a.m..

MPAA sues film downloaders
Taking a page from the music industry's playbook, the MPAA is attempting to repeat the success the Recording Industry Association of America has achieved by suing music downloaders. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..

Virgin Mobile to launch 3G next year
Virtual mobile network operator Virgin Mobile hopes to have a 3G offering in time for Christmas 2005. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..

83% of EU citizens use mobiles - Commission report
Some 379m people in the Union now use mobile phones, according to the Financial Times, quoting the European Commission's annual survey of the European telecommunications industry due to be published later this month. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..

MTS launches of network in Buryatia
Russian mobile operator MTS has launched a mobile network in the Republic of Buryatia in Siberia, which has a mobile penetration rate of just 7.7 per cent. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 19, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..

The Greatest Canadian: The Gratest Cannotian
Being a Canadian, eh, I would like to offer an apology for The Greatest Canadian debacle. In biblical terms, I am reminded of that incredibly profound moment and statement: "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." Ok, that's... From Experience Designer Network on November 19, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

Moonlighting as a Defense Contractor?
You gotta love South Florida. Seems like we can always be counted on to have some strange things going on around us. Today comes a story of a local woman who was moonlighting as a defense contractor and charged with defrauding the government and her suppliers. Now, how exactly does one get started as a moonlighting defense contractor? Do you start a regular business, and then decide to do a little work on the side? What do your business cards look like? How do you answer... From Brain Frieze on November 19, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..

This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Paris, France. Answers here ...
This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Paris, France. Answers here1. Which Parisian landmark was the highest building in the world until 1930?2. Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is in which Paris art gallery?3. In 1831, who wrote a famous novel about the Hunchback of Notre Dame?4. The Arc de Triomphe was originally erected to commemorate whose victories?5. Is the Bois de Boulogne on the east or west side of Paris?6. Which famous basilica or chur From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 19, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

RSS XML Button Maker
If you wish to customize your RSS buttons and are crunched for taking or lacking in artistic abilities take a look at Bill Zeller's free button maker. The buttons color and text can be customized to suit the look and feel of your website. From RSS Blog on November 19, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..

The "Wisdom" of Crowds?
James Surowiecki has released a book called The Wisdom of Crowds. There is a trend toward placing more and more emphasis on ideas about the collective, and safe to day that finding ways to help people learn more effectively together... From Experience Designer Network on November 19, 2004 at 7:59 a.m..

Blogging From My Favorite Writer
I love good writing, no matter where I find it, and no matter what the topic. That's why I was so pleased to see that my favorite local newspaper writer has her own blog no. Leslie Gay Streeter, aka "The "Flick Chick" writes a weekly movie review for our local paper, The Palm Beach Post, as well as those fun and somewhat frivolous articles lumped into the "Lifestyle" category. No matter that we are vastly different people--me a middle-aged (did I just say... From Brain Frieze on November 19, 2004 at 7:56 a.m..

Music sharing that's free and legal - Michael Kanellos, CNET News
A new twist on file sharing is holding out the promise of allowing millions of people to share their song collections online, at no cost--and without legal risk. The trick involves marrying peer-to-peer technology with Internet radio. Using that combin From Techno-News Blog on November 19, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Will pocket-size Sony PC take on iPod? - John G. Spooner, CNET News
Consumers in the United States are about to get a crack at a 1-pound Sony PC that doubles as a personal media player. The consumer electronics giant unveiled the Vaio U for U.S. customers on Tuesday, touting a machine that's designed to be as much an e From Techno-News Blog on November 19, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

'Podcasting' set to take off - Corey Murray, eSchool News
From his home computer in Berlin, N.J., 13-year-old computer enthusiast Matthew Bischoff is attracting quite a following. The creator of an online technology news program for like-minded technology-buffs, Bischoff is among a cadre of young technophiles From Techno-News Blog on November 19, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

The British Library has launched wireless internet connectivity in the public areas of its building ...
The British Library has launched wireless internet connectivity in the public areas of its building at St Pancras. The new service offers wireless internet access (WiFi) throughout the 11 reading rooms, the 225-seat conference auditorium, the caf and restaurant and even the outdoor Piazza area. It will enable readers, researchers and business-people to connect to the internet and access email using either their existing service provider or by using the Library's own pay-as- From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 19, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

Four focused search engines from EEVL, the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing ...
Four focused search engines from EEVL, the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing from Heriot Watt University, Scotland, now let you search the content of over 250 free ejournals in engineering, mathematics and computing From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 19, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

The National Archives in the UK presents Gallery of Victorian Prisoners Online - Two volumes of phot ...
The National Archives in the UK presents Gallery of Victorian Prisoners Online - Two volumes of photographs and case details of prisoners in Wandsworth Prison dating from 1872 to 1873 are now online. Each case gives the prisoner's physical description, as well as a photograph, their date and place of birth, the crime they committed, their sentence, the place of conviction and often their place of residence From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 19, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

The Special Libraries Association Innovations in Technology Award, part of the Awards and Honors Pro ...
The Special Libraries Association Innovations in Technology Award, part of the Awards and Honors Program, is an award focused on the innovative use and application of technology in a special library setting. Deadline is January 6, 2005 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 19, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

Tod Maffin's miraculous blog conversion, is there hope for the rest of the Vancouver media ? - Dogma Radio - Friday 19 November 2004
Check out my latest podcast: 3 minutes, 800K mp3 (production notes on barbandroland.com) I seem to have fixed the humming problem. I really think it was the hard drive (later: weird as I typed the last sentence the hard drive started spinning loudly and I could hear the hum in my headphones so it's definRoland Tanglao's Weblog on November 19, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..

Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy
President Bush may have received up to 260,000 more votes than he should have in Florida counties that used touch-screen voting machines, according to an academic analysis. Researchers call on Florida to examine the results. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on November 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Don't Touch That Dial
Plextor's new ConvertX PVR turns a Mac or PC into a digital video recorder. It's a slick product that's easy to set up and use. But inexplicably, the PVR is crippled in a fundamental way. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on November 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Pushing the Male Envelope
Though it seems most sex toys are designed for women, it's the male-oriented ones that nudge the technology to new levels. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From Wired News on November 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Please, More Steam-Powered Games
Perhaps just as good as the release of Half-Life 2 this week is the introduction of Steam, a service that lets gamers buy and download sophisticated PC games. It's the way game retailing ought to be. Commentary by Suneel Ratan. From Wired News on November 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Gamers Rewarded With Another Life
It doesn't break new ground, and the plot is a little sparse, but thanks to its visual quality and ability to suck you into its world, Half Life 2 is probably the best game of 2004. By Suneel Ratan. From Wired News on November 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Trouble for California Cloning?
The United Nations considers a ban on all forms of cloning, a move that could eventually lead to problems for California's 10-year, $3 billion stem-cell initiative. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on November 19, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Differentiating needs: Customer demand for online training
Key MessagesThe Differentiating needs: Customer demand for online training project identified the following key messages: Purely online training is unlikely to be the main driver of demand. Good blended delivery, using a mix of face-to-face, online and paper-based distance approaches will be more successful in the marketplace. Blended delivery will mean a paradigm shift from From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

Will virtual lectures vacate classrooms? - Corey Murray, eSchool News
Pay a visit to any lecture hall on just about any college campus nationwide; chances are you'll notice a few empty chairs. Two years ago, most professors would simply have chalked these absences up to illness or, perhaps, just plain sloth. But, accordi From Online Learning Update on November 19, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

It's easy through e school - JIM CRYNS, GM Today
Heidi Schweizer, an associate professor in the school of education at Marquette and the director of electronic learning, says most of the university From Online Learning Update on November 19, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

DeVry moving online ops
DeVry Inc. has purchased an office building in Naperville for $8.1 million to house its fast-growing Internet-based courses. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Amid Criticism, Santorum Pulls Kids From School
PENN HILLS, Pa. -- U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum says he's taking his children out of a online education program for which the Penn Hills School District had been paying. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Diageo North America Enhances Ethics, Legal and Compliance Education for 2,000 Employees
STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Diageo North America, Inc., the North American subsidiary of Diageo plc, the world's leading premium drinks company, announced today that it has enhanced its ethics, legal and compliance education program by providing over 2,000 Diageo North America employees with a new online education initiative called "e-theBest Ethics and Compliance Center." From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Google Scholar vs. Real Scholarship
Today's release of Google Scholar, an academic search tool developed by a Google engineer in his "20% time," is an interesting and noble but less-than-groundbreaking contribution to research. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Artificial Intelligence Software Delivers Personal Tutoring Help for Struggling High School and College Chemistry Students: Research Indicates Student Test Scores Improve Up to 50%
Contact:Al RenshawPhone: 724-772-8014 e-Mail:al.renshaw@quantumsimulations.com Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania - November 18, 2004 - Quantum Simulations, Inc., developer of artificial intelligence (AI) tutoring software, announced today that students having difficulty with high school and college chemistry can receive affordable, personal tutoring help online and see immediate results in comprehension, problem solving skills and test scores. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

USDLA Announces the Availability of the Learner's Library Coursepack Builder for USDLA Colleges and University Members.
Learner's Library (http://learnerslibrary.com) is an online tool that provides Faculty and Students with efficient access to high quality educational materials via the Internet. Save time and money with individualized classroom coursepacks. Or access full text research with the Learner's Library database saving hours of valuable time for on-site visits to the library. And special incentives are available for USDLA member institutions, faculty and students. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Will virtual lectures vacate classrooms?
Pay a visit to any lecture hall on just about any college campus nationwide; chances are you'll notice a few empty chairs. Two years ago, most professors would simply have chalked these absences up to illness or, perhaps, just plain sloth. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Virtual reality bytes (and it's a good thing): Online courses expand horizons for high school students
Amy Hinkle had already taken every math class offered at John Hardin High School when she started her senior year in August. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Online-education enrollment on rise
Scheduling classes around a part-time job, extracurricular activities and other obligations can be hectic. From DEC Daily News on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

College on Demand is new Washtenaw Community College venture - JANET MILLER, Ann Arbor News
WCC is going global. A new program called College on Demand combines the convenience and flexibility of distance learning with the personal touch of a classroom instructor. It's open not only to Washtenaw County students but to students around the coun From Online Learning Update on November 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

How to Write an Essay in the Electronic Age of Information
"how to write an essay"... "write an essay"... "steps to writing an essay" -- today this is what students in essay writing classes are doing to find essay-writing instruction, typing short phrases into Google rather than flipping through their grammar textbooks' table of contents. In high school and college writing classes, more and more composition students are going online to find the information they need. Students are simply more comfortable with the online medium. Printed grammar books are becoming a thing of the past. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004] From PR Web on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Archive Your Certifications With Certegrity and We Will Validate Your Training Forever
A new training information archival service which provides a safe and secure repository for all your training information. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004] From PR Web on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Celebrate the Year of Foreign Language Study, Winter Quarter Begins January 10, 2005 at Nashville's Tennessee Foreign Language Institute
Registration underway now for Winter Quarter of foreign language Classes in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Beginning through Advanced levels offered. Specialized business classes and private classes also available. Visit www.foreignlanguages.org or call (615)741.7579. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004] From PR Web on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

CME Outfitters Announces Upcoming Live CE Activity: "Raising the Bar for Patient Outcomes--Mixed Episodes in Bipolar Disorder: Trapped Between Two Worlds" Premieres Wednesday, December 8, 2004
CME Outfitters, LLC, nationally accredited provider of multidisciplinary medical education programming and related healthcare communications services, is pleased to announce an upcoming live and interactive evidence-based CE activity titled "Raising the Bar for Patient Outcomes--Mixed Episodes in Bipolar Disorder: Trapped Between Two Worlds." Offered as a live satellite broadcast, webcast, and telephone audioconference premiering Wednesday, December 8, 2004, from 12:00 p.m.HYPHEN1:00 p.m. ET, the activity will focus on recognizing the entire clinical spectrum of bipolar disorder and improving From PR Web on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Renowned Vascular Surgeon Frank J. Veith Named First Jacobson Awardee by Vascular Disease Foundation
Renowned vascular surgeon Frank J. Veith, MD, The William J. von Liebig Chair in Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, NY), and Professor of Surgery, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) is the recipient of the first Julius H. Jacobson II, M.D. Award for Physician Excellence, given by the Vascular Disease Foundation. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004] From PR Web on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Bentley, A Premier Business University, Exhibits at 2004 Fall Greater Washington, DC, National College Fair
Bentley, one of America's top-ranked business schools according to leading national surveys, will participate in a national college fair at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, November 30, 2004. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004] From PR Web on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars
Google Scholar is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports. From New York Times: Education on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Conferees Pass Compromise for 6.5 Million Special Education Pupils
A House-Senate conference committee gave near unanimous approval to major changes in the law that governs special education for disabled students. From New York Times: Education on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find
A national survey shows that Democratic professors outnumber Republicans by at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. From New York Times: Education on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Bush Nominates a Close Adviser for Top Education Post
President Bush named Margaret Spellings, who currently serves as chief adviser on domestic issues, to take over as secretary of education. From New York Times: Education on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

City Schools Getting Free Advice From a Public Relations Firm
One of the nation's highest-priced public relations firms, known for its expertise in crisis management, is advising the New York City school system free of charge. From New York Times: Education on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Council Members See Flaws in School-Admissions Plan
City lawmakers said that the public high school admissions process remained deeply flawed, despite an overhaul last year. From New York Times: Education on November 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Building 21st Century Websites with Weblogs and RSS with Darren Barefoot
Had a great time at New Media BC tonight co-presenting Building 21st Century Websites with Weblogs and RSS with Darren Barefoot. Over at my Bryght blog, check out the Powerpoint presentation, and my Notes, Reflections, Redux where I take about Flickr, digital identity with sxip, web 2.0 with syndication, aggregation, search and clear APIs and interfaces and lots of other cool stuff. Roland Tanglao's Weblog on November 19, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

So, these are our students
1. A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat, but it was dead. "How do you know that the cat was dead?" she asked her pupil. "Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move," answered the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on November 19, 2004 at 2:54 a.m..

A New Times Blog
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue has a new blog, Pogue's Posts. While not NYTimes.com's first blog, it may be the first that the blogging community accepts as a real blog. As he explains in his debut post, "I'll be here each day with my musings on the state of consumer technology. Sometimes, a weekly print column, a weekly e-mail column, and a weekly online video just aren't enough avenues of expression."A big part of the blog for Pogue app From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 19, 2004 at 2:53 a.m..

Sorting Out the Content Tail
The content tail this article talks about it the conversations than ensue in blogs around a published article. It is this tail that is becoming more valuable than the head and media companies have to realize its potential. "Media companies that understand how to make money on the long tail their content creates are very likely to outstrip the money they make selling content in its original form, perhaps exponentially. Massive distribution and redistribution by other organizations and people of all From elearningpost on November 19, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

E-learning becoming embedded, but more work needed on implementation
More needs to be done on the e-learning front, but at least its moving. A survey carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel at Development (CIPD) finds that "Five years on and e-learning still remains work in progress. Organisations need to address the implementation of e-learning to ensure they have support from line-managers and to develop a structure that meets the needs of both the organisation and the employees". From elearningpost on November 19, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..

A Fair Tax
Some say a "fair tax" that removes the need to file tax returns from the vast majority of the citizenry is a national sales tax. This doesn't seem to be very fair to people trying to feed, house and clothe themselves and seems to subsidize large land holders (Bush's favorite constituency). There is a tax that lives up to the promises broken by Bush's proposal for a national sales tax. From kuro5hin.org on November 19, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..

Rolling (Electronic) Paper
My latest article for TheFeature is about the development of incredibly flexible displays for mobile devices: "Flexible displays are a staple of science fiction. Imagine unrolling an electronic newspaper that’s automatically updated via the wireless Web. Or unfurling a screen stored in your location-enhanced mobile device so you can cons From unmediated on November 18, 2004 at 11:57 p.m..