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My Book Web Citations Now Fully Linked
Many thanks to Kevin McAllister, who posted this page of links to the websites I mentioned in We the Media. The book's online in a PDF format, but he took the time to put in the hyperlinks in the "website directory" we created for the appendix in the dead-tree version. This is the kind of remix we like to see. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 30, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

CCIA's Fall from Honor
For many years, a Washington lobbying organization called the Computer and Communications Industry Association took a stand for competition and innovation in the technology and communications marketplaces. In the courts of law and public opinion, the CCIA challenged the practices of an unrepentantly abusive monopolist, Microsoft, that violated laws and ethical standards to maintain its dominance and bought off competitors and critics with its monopoly profits. Last month, the CCIA joined the crowd. And according to Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 30, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Cutting Basic Research, Cutting Our Future
NY Times: Congress Trims Money for Science Agency. Congress has cut the budget for the National Science Foundation, an engine for research in science and technology, just two years after endorsing a plan to double the amount given to the agency. Supporters of scientific research, in government and at universities, noted that the cut came as lawmakers earmarked more money for local projects like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleve From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 30, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

GarageBand Quick Tips
Apple has updated its Garage Band "Hot Tips" site at Apple - iLife - GarageBand - Hot Tips. GarageBand is Apple's entry-level recording and music creation software that comes with its iLife suite of software. Apple advances the functionality of... From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on November 30, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..

Searching Smarter, Not Harder
Wired Magazine's introductory look at topic maps. "Topic maps are smart indices that improve search capabilities by categorizing terms based on their relationships with other things. For example, William Shakespeare is a topic that would be mapped to essays about him, his plays and his famous quotes." From elearningpost on November 30, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

The People Process Product Continuum in E-Learning: The E-Learning P3 Model
Straightforward article describing the roles of people (or groups) in the instructional design process and the tasks they perform. By Badrul H. Khan, Educational Technology, November, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on November 30, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

ePortfolios: A Portal Site
Resource site for people interested in ePortfolios. Defines the concept, covers the benefits, and points to examples. Via elearnspace. By Various Authors, November, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on November 30, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

WikiNews
It got enough votes, and not it has launched - WikiNews. The idea here is that writers collaborate to write a news story - as the stories develop they are reviewed and then posted to the front page. By various Anonymous Authors, November 30, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on November 30, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

The Next Rebirth of the Media
The same message offered to media applies to education: "What's vanishing is technical scarcity, and media franchises built on scarcity -- as most are -- will either remake themselves or die." By Edward Wassermann, Miami Herald, November 29, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect From OLDaily on November 30, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Understanding PISA
The headline was dramatic enough to cause a ripple in the reading public. "Students who use computers a lot at school have worse maths and reading performance," noted the BBC news article, citing a 2004 study by Ludger Woessmann and Thomas Fuchs which in turn was an analysis of a 200 study by the OCED called PISA. But did the headline get it right? For a variety of reasons - no. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, November 30, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on November 30, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Philly Negotiates a Cloud
Philadelphia and Verizon are nearing an agreement Tuesday that would allow the city to provide city-wide WiFi as a municipal service for a fee, according to KYW-TV and WNEP-TV. If an agreement is signed, it would relieve pressure on Governor Ed Rendell to veto House Bill 30 that would ban it. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 6:57 p.m..

IBM's On Demand Lab.
I'd love to get into this lab and see their stuff in action. IBM has opened a laboratory to let customers experiment with technology to make computing systems more flexible and efficient, the company announced Monday. The on-demand technology center near Washington, D.C., lets customers simulate their own equipment under the control of unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 6:57 p.m..

Social Networking for Business: Release 0.5
Once-moribund Silicon Valley is suddenly returning to life. On the one hand, there's the Google IPO; on the other, there's the company Google reportedly almost acquired HYPHEN Friendster, which just raised $13 million for a rumored $40-million valuation. Social networks could be the hottest thing since airline miles! Friends are cheaper to get HYPHEN though a lot more work to manage. Is it déjà vu all over again, with multiple companies signing up millions of registered users, and then looking around to see if anyone will pay? Despite all the excitement, the array of social-network From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Social Social Networks: Deodorant for the Soul?
As the world gets more commoditized, as content proliferates and loses distinctiveness, as anything you want can be syndicated anywhere (eBay, Amazon.com and Google are converging), you can still count on individual people to be special and unique. The killer app for people online is...other people online. It's in their relations with others that individuals manifest themselves, so the best way to help or 'manage' an individual is to foster the individual's relations with others. How can software help with that? A variety of self-improvement services are focused on the indi From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

The Semantic Earth
Every business in the world is headquartered on earth. Every employee works somewhere. Every customer is at some location at every moment. Every product is delivered to some spot and every service is performed at some coordinates. Every transaction involves at least one place and usually more than one. And yet, until recently, businesses have systematically managed location information only for processes directly concerned with moving people and goods. Why has the literal common ground of business been largely absent from business applications? The answer is obvious: Integrating information a From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Software on the Brain
Most of the software you use every day harbors a functional theory of how the mind works. It's not the most sophisticated theory you'll find, and it needs some updating, but it's not without its subtleties. The graphical interface revolution, after all, was predicated on a crucial insight about the way the brain forms and archives memories. Cognitive scientists have long recognized that our visual memory is better than our textual memory, because primates happened to evolve unusually acute visual systems, while written language depends on learned behavior. The shift from the com From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

The Big Picture: In Focus
This issue of Release 1.0 served as the documentation for the 2004 PC Forum. It includes interviews and profiles of the conference speakers, including Shai Agassi of SAP, Eric Schmidt of Google, Jon Miller of AOL, Rob Glaser of RealNetworks, Dawn Lepore of Charles Schwab, Shane Robison of HP, Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Associates, Neal Stephenson, and more. The issue also includes descriptions of the afternoon company presentations, ths PC Forum gallery, and the afternoon discussion rountables. From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Triumph of the Ants: Small Business Online
A couple of years ago, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> ran a story (no doubt by a small female reporter) about the secret phenomenon of small women buying their clothes in the kids' department. The clothes were sturdier, better-fitting, less fashion-extreme...and cheaper. In much the same way, small businesses have been buying their IT in the consumers' department. While vendors note the difficulty of reaching the small-business market, those customers have been happily buying their hosting and access from Yahoo!, their accounting from consumer-turned-small-business vendor I From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Do-It-Yourself IT
Rewind history a quarter century, to the early '80s. What we now call IT (information technology) was still called MIS (management information systems). Outside corporate walls, personal computing was an interesting hobby. Inside corporate walls, it was an oxymoron. Vendors dominated and defined enterprise computing. An MIS department was an IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Control Data, Honeywell, Bull or NCR 'shop.' It used not only central-processing hardware from those vendors, but also disk drives, terminals, networking hardware, cabling and nearly everything else. Even From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Meta-mail: A Medium for Meaning
First story: My inbox is overflowing. I have 3158 messages in it, dating back to the last general cleanup, January 2004. I know that I can find them, even with Eudora's relatively slow search. But I want to know more: Which ones of the 3158 new ones should I be paying attention to and looking for? Second story: A couple of weeks ago, analysts following Omnicom Group noted that the company plans to spend an extra $50 to 60 million in audit fees and internal costs to comply with the new Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Presumably it has all the data, but now it needs to make the processes exp From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Politics on the Net: A Three-Way Digital Divide
It's a presidential election year in the US, and the hot topic at dinner tables, on the front pages of newspapers and on television and weblogs is politics. Among the technology set, however, the hot topic is not only politics; it's how to use the efficiencies, communication capabilities and distributed power of software and the Net to implement and ultimately affect the political process in a useful way. Thanks to blogging software and a variety of Web-based tools that support online and offline meetings and political activity, individual participation in politics has become easi From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Autonomous IT: Outsourcing Operations to Machines
Technology is vital and necessary to the conduct of business, but it's costly and increasingly complex. Businesses are demanding more control, accountability and leverage of existing infrastructure. Dealing with that complexity and chaos is the dominant battlefront today for both vendors and their customers. Most IT systems installed in corporations today were designed with the implicit notion that a legion of human beings would be on hand to tell the systems what to do. But continuing to add more IT people to mask the complexity and identify the fault lines of IT infrastructure is econ From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Held Back: The Market for Software in Our Schools
Although education feeds the IT industry, the US school system doesn't use IT effectively. That deprives the IT industry (and the country) of a market and HYPHEN far more important HYPHEN of a future generation of appropriately educated workers and empowered individuals. In childhood as in education at large, trouble begins with early deprivation and persists: Just as children who fall behind in reading in early grades can't catch up, the pre-K-12 market is suffering from its past. Teachers have no time; principals face skill and budget constraints. Kids have no power and get littl From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

The Accountable Net: Let's Take Back Paradise!
E-mail marketing is less effective because of spam and phishing schemes; businesses register their competitors' domain names to woo their unsuspecting customers; individuals are able to steal and use the good credit of people with similar names. As a result, the Net is losing its appeal to many. It's ironic, because the Net should be a safer place than the physical world. You don't need to engage with people you don't want to, and things in theory are more trackable. That has led - in our trusting world - to a very open Net in which strangers roam. But if you change the def From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

ROI - Das unlösbare Problem des e-Learning
Klaus P. Jantke hat sich gewundert und geärgert und, noch wichtiger, aus seinem Herzen keine Mördergrube gemacht. Gewundert und geärgert hat er sich über all den herrlichen Blödsinn, dem man zuweilen beim Stichwort "Return on Investment" begegnen kann. IBM und... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 30, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

The Accountable Net: Let's Take Back Paradise!
E-mail marketing is less effective because of spam and phishing schemes; businesses register their competitors' domain names to woo their unsuspecting customers; individuals are able to steal and use the good credit of people with similar names. As a result, the Net is losing its appeal to many. It's ironic, because the Net should be a safer place than the physical world. You don't need to engage with people you don't want to, and things in theory are more trackable. That has led - in our trusting world - to a very open Net in which strangers roam. But if you change the def From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Design's New Frontier
A look at how design research is helping companies worldwide with coming up with a more emphatic strategic focus. And most of this centers around 'unframed problem solving' -- the process of doing research to uncover solutions rather than have a solution in mind and research how to go about doing it. "With the 'unframed problem solving' approach, challenges are acknowledged as fuzzy situations so solution paths are not known in advance. The design agency takes part in From elearningpost on November 30, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

User-centric GUI Design Explained to All
Again with the slashdotting. But this is a continuation of a topic from last week, and here is some links to a few good articles. Enjoy, and I swear, no more slashdot links for at least a month.... From Curb Cut Learning on November 30, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..

Online Registries: The DNS and Beyond...
As the world grows more connected and more complicated, we all need ways of defining, identifying and keeping track of things and cross-referencing them with their owners. The simplest way to do that is with registries HYPHEN everything from the Domesday Book, a medieval registry of land, property and people; to current-day auto registries on the one hand and the worldwide Domain Name System on the other. In today's computer world, registries are gaining visibility, even though in some form they have been around for a long time. But now, companies and organizations have to keep track of e From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Online Reputation Systems
Some like to think of the Net as a digital village, but in fact it's closer to a digital city. The ability to interact with a billion people on the Net comes with its own costs: Dealing with strangers is risky, and verifying their trustworthiness is expensive HYPHEN especially on a case-by-case basis. A bigger pool of potential partners and customers implies that a larger fraction of our interactions will consist of one-time transactions. With no reason to maintain a relationship after that first encounter, trade or tirade, there is a greater temptation, ironically, for either truth or From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Social Networking for Business: Release 0.5
Once-moribund Silicon Valley is suddenly returning to life. On the one hand, there's the Google IPO; on the other, there's the company Google reportedly almost acquired HYPHEN Friendster, which just raised $13 million for a rumored $40-million valuation. Social networks could be the hottest thing since airline miles! Friends are cheaper to get HYPHEN though a lot more work to manage. Is it déjà vu all over again, with multiple companies signing up millions of registered users, and then looking around to see if anyone will pay? Despite all the excitement, the array of social-network From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Social Social Networks: Deodorant for the Soul?
As the world gets more commoditized, as content proliferates and loses distinctiveness, as anything you want can be syndicated anywhere (eBay, Amazon.com and Google are converging), you can still count on individual people to be special and unique. The killer app for people online is...other people online. It's in their relations with others that individuals manifest themselves, so the best way to help or 'manage' an individual is to foster the individual's relations with others. How can software help with that? A variety of self-improvement services are focused on the indi From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

The Semantic Earth
Every business in the world is headquartered on earth. Every employee works somewhere. Every customer is at some location at every moment. Every product is delivered to some spot and every service is performed at some coordinates. Every transaction involves at least one place and usually more than one. And yet, until recently, businesses have systematically managed location information only for processes directly concerned with moving people and goods. Why has the literal common ground of business been largely absent from business applications? The answer is obvious: Integrating information a From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Software on the Brain
Most of the software you use every day harbors a functional theory of how the mind works. It's not the most sophisticated theory you'll find, and it needs some updating, but it's not without its subtleties. The graphical interface revolution, after all, was predicated on a crucial insight about the way the brain forms and archives memories. Cognitive scientists have long recognized that our visual memory is better than our textual memory, because primates happened to evolve unusually acute visual systems, while written language depends on learned behavior. The shift from the com From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

The Big Picture: In Focus
This issue of Release 1.0 served as the documentation for the 2004 PC Forum. It includes interviews and profiles of the conference speakers, including Shai Agassi of SAP, Eric Schmidt of Google, Jon Miller of AOL, Rob Glaser of RealNetworks, Dawn Lepore of Charles Schwab, Shane Robison of HP, Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Associates, Neal Stephenson, and more. The issue also includes descriptions of the afternoon company presentations, ths PC Forum gallery, and the afternoon discussion rountables. From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Triumph of the Ants: Small Business Online
A couple of years ago, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> ran a story (no doubt by a small female reporter) about the secret phenomenon of small women buying their clothes in the kids' department. The clothes were sturdier, better-fitting, less fashion-extreme...and cheaper. In much the same way, small businesses have been buying their IT in the consumers' department. While vendors note the difficulty of reaching the small-business market, those customers have been happily buying their hosting and access from Yahoo!, their accounting from consumer-turned-small-business vendor I From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Do-It-Yourself IT
Rewind history a quarter century, to the early '80s. What we now call IT (information technology) was still called MIS (management information systems). Outside corporate walls, personal computing was an interesting hobby. Inside corporate walls, it was an oxymoron. Vendors dominated and defined enterprise computing. An MIS department was an IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Control Data, Honeywell, Bull or NCR 'shop.' It used not only central-processing hardware from those vendors, but also disk drives, terminals, networking hardware, cabling and nearly everything else. Even From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Meta-mail: A Medium for Meaning
First story: My inbox is overflowing. I have 3158 messages in it, dating back to the last general cleanup, January 2004. I know that I can find them, even with Eudora's relatively slow search. But I want to know more: Which ones of the 3158 new ones should I be paying attention to and looking for? Second story: A couple of weeks ago, analysts following Omnicom Group noted that the company plans to spend an extra $50 to 60 million in audit fees and internal costs to comply with the new Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Presumably it has all the data, but now it needs to make the processes exp From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Politics on the Net: A Three-Way Digital Divide
It's a presidential election year in the US, and the hot topic at dinner tables, on the front pages of newspapers and on television and weblogs is politics. Among the technology set, however, the hot topic is not only politics; it's how to use the efficiencies, communication capabilities and distributed power of software and the Net to implement and ultimately affect the political process in a useful way. Thanks to blogging software and a variety of Web-based tools that support online and offline meetings and political activity, individual participation in politics has become easi From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Autonomous IT: Outsourcing Operations to Machines
Technology is vital and necessary to the conduct of business, but it's costly and increasingly complex. Businesses are demanding more control, accountability and leverage of existing infrastructure. Dealing with that complexity and chaos is the dominant battlefront today for both vendors and their customers. Most IT systems installed in corporations today were designed with the implicit notion that a legion of human beings would be on hand to tell the systems what to do. But continuing to add more IT people to mask the complexity and identify the fault lines of IT infrastructure is econ From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Held Back: The Market for Software in Our Schools
Although education feeds the IT industry, the US school system doesn't use IT effectively. That deprives the IT industry (and the country) of a market and HYPHEN far more important HYPHEN of a future generation of appropriately educated workers and empowered individuals. In childhood as in education at large, trouble begins with early deprivation and persists: Just as children who fall behind in reading in early grades can't catch up, the pre-K-12 market is suffering from its past. Teachers have no time; principals face skill and budget constraints. Kids have no power and get littl From Release 1.0 on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..

Berkman Lunch: National Health Information Infrastructure
Alan Goldberg of Goulston &amp Storrs (and HealthLawyer) is giving a Tuesday lunchtime talk on the national health information infrastructure. He says it's a big deal: Medicare has 1 million providers who are involved in 1 billion claims per year. NHII crosses political boundaries; everyone from Bush to Hillary, from Ted to Newt, all support having an infrastructure that enables electronic record sharing. The NHII will require technologies, standards, systems, values, applications, and laws. The standards are arising from the industry (says Alan), not from the government, although the gov From Joho the Blog on November 30, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Wikipedia launches experimental news service
The increasingly-noted Wikipedia launched WikiNews this week. WikiNews uses the open-editing structure to garner and refine news stories. The result is a multi-feed object, somewhat like Google News . WikiNews is not without precedent, as the Korean OhMyNews service has been in operation for more than a year. Dan Gillmor NITLE Tech News on November 30, 2004 at 2:03 p.m..

Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Many middle class white kids who attend a four year university get a hankering to write a screenplay and produce a movie in and around their early to mid-twenties (liberal arts kids more so than, for example, computer science majors who have job prospects after graduation). From RHPT.com on November 30, 2004 at 2:02 p.m..

Publish Your News by Webfeed (Online Media Outreach, Part 8)
If you think you're succumbing to e-mail overload, imagine how a journalist feels! Journalists routinely get bombarded with solicited and unsolicited press announcements and news by e-mail. Also, conversations I've had with journalists indicate that many of them don't have the best spam filters. The result: journalists get overloaded with e-mail and STILL manage to miss a lot of news they'd like to follow. Webfeeds (whether RSS or Atom format) are a better solution. They present the latest information, sorted by source, in a single and fairly organized interface (the feed From Contentious Weblog on November 30, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..

Postings may be a bit sporadic for the next couple of weeks as I will be in England, with limited ne ...
Postings may be a bit sporadic for the next couple of weeks as I will be in England, with limited network access From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 30, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..

Online Retail Traffic Surges on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday
Thanksgiving Day peak shopping visits are up 27 percent over last year. From ClickZ Stats on November 30, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Online Holiday Purchases to Grow Despite Growing Security Concerns
Indications are that the online consumer market is beginning to mature. From ClickZ Stats on November 30, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

The Ontario government is launching an innovative multi-media campaign to prevent smoking among youth as part of its comprehensive tobacco control strategy, Health and Long-Term Care Minister George Smitherman said today. "Our government is committed to implementing an aggressive plan... From Teaching and Developing Online. on November 30, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

New addition to the Blog
In my other life I remove my cyber glasses and pick up a paint brush. I taught high school art for almost fifteen years during which time I painted. My online art gallery is called SaskGallery. I have decided to... From Teaching and Developing Online. on November 30, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Why Bloggers Get Free Books
As I've noted before, some bloggers are now getting free review books from publishers. It's no longer just the privilege of book reviewers for mainstream media outlets, and it's an indication of bloggers' growing importance. Costa Tsiokos, recipient of review books himself, interviewed Kelly Leonard, executive director of online marketing at Time Warner Book Group, about why TW is now in From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 30, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..

How to de-stink a Volvo
We recently managed to pour a full half-gallon of milk off the front passenger seat in our 2001 Volvo S60 ("The Car that Cluetrain Bought"). Here's how to de-stink it: Use main force to remove the end caps from the four ends of the two runners on which the seat sits. They snap on either on the front or on the inside flaps. Yanking hard on a screw driver did the trick. (Ah, yanking hard...what can't it do?) Get out your ratchet set. The seat is held in by four 14mm bolts. Once you break the lock-tight seal, they should... From Joho the Blog on November 30, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

The Factual Core
I have an article on facts and values (using uBio as an example) up at Esther Dyson's re-done site. (Free registration is required.)... From Joho the Blog on November 30, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Pay Up or Write
Pegasus News looks like a potentially interesting local-news model. Steve Rubel examines what little is known of this start-up, which aims to go up against monopoly newspapers in 25 metro U.S. markets with a combination of micro-local news, open-source journalism (a.k.a., citizen journalism) augmented by professional editing, and pay-for-performance advertising (a la Google AdWords).One idea that struck me as really innovati From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 30, 2004 at 9:54 a.m..

Comments on Weblogs, Wikis, Webfeeds: what do we need to communicate?
Thanks to Matthias Melcher, David Carter-Tod and Alan Levine who all took some time to share their thoughts on what we should try to communicate about Weblogs, Wikis, Webfeeds in an introductory lecture on the topic.If you have some additional thoughts and comments I would be happy to hear from you. I will brood about this issue again this after From Seblogging News on November 30, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

Place dream
I woke up with a start this morning. All I remember from my dream is the image of a satellite above the beautiful earth and the idea that a place is not where you are but what you see.... From Joho the Blog on November 30, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

Braff Blog
Garden State (the movie) has a blog written by Zach Braff, its author and director. He's also the star of Scrubs, of which my son and I are inordinately fond. Zach's latest post tells how he drunk-dialed an Australian movie reviewer. Yes, the blog takes comments...lots and lots of 'em. Yes RSS. No blogroll. No Creative Commons. Yes, a video thank-you to bloggers (yes, complete with a plug for the Garden State dvd).... From Joho the Blog on November 30, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

Open document formats, revisited
The XML-enhanced version of Office has been on the scene for two years now. When a Microsoft spokeperson contacted me recently about a status update, my response was: "Hmm. Now that you mention it, where are the third-party XML-enhanced Office apps?" His reply: "Let me get back to you on that." While the rolodex is spinning, it occurred to me to put out a public invitation here. Have you done a groundbreaking application of Word 2003 or Excel 2003? Something that not only benefits from the openness of XML, but that leverages custom schemas? If so, Jon's Radio on November 30, 2004 at 9:46 a.m..

Blogger Selling Self on Ebay
"Blogging gives your customers a real view into your company in ways that newsletters and seminars simply aren't able to do." says Jeremy Wright, who writes the popular Ensight business and technical blog, which is read by more than 60,000 readers a month, and is up for auction on the internet auction site eBay as a professional blogger for. Mr. Wright confesses on his own blog that what he is doing is nothing more than a stunt to raise the profile of blogging. Plus, being a writer as well as a consultant in a past life, he knows that he can help companies figure out if blogging From RSS Blog on November 30, 2004 at 9:01 a.m..

PubSub Launches new features for online blog tracking
PubSub Concepts, Inc. announced that its "matching engine"—online for free at http://www.pubsub.com—is now tracking more than 6.5 million Weblogs, which the company said makes it "the Internet's most comprehensive blog-monitoring service." Every day, PubSub's matching engine performs billions of matches of new items against user subscriptions. The instant a match is made, PubSub alerts the user via RSS (really simple syndication) or through the instant messaging (IM)-based PubSub Sidebar, now available as a plug-in for the Firef From RSS Blog on November 30, 2004 at 9:01 a.m..

Looking at J2ME
J2ME seems to be moving into its own. Here's a collection of resources for future reference. From Open Artifact on November 30, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let's spy - Reuters
New Internet-based technology could soon turn regular computer users into armchair spies, a Canadian inventor said on Monday. Vincent Tao, an engineer at Toronto's York University, said he has invented a mapping and surveillance tool called SAME (see a From Techno-News Blog on November 30, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Security officials to spy on chat rooms - Declan McCullagh, CNET News
The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet chat rooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal. In April 2003, the CIA agreed to fund a series of research projects that the doc From Techno-News Blog on November 30, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank - Graeme Wearden, ZDNet UK
Coders who give up their spare time to contribute to open source projects are the virtual equivalent of lifeboat men, according to latest research from Demos. Britain's open-source software developers make a valuable contribution to society and the Br From Techno-News Blog on November 30, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite! - DANIEL AKST, New York Times
This is not science fiction. With little fanfare and (so far) no appearances at Barnes Noble, computers have started writing without us scribes. They are perfectly capable of nonfiction prose, and while the reputation of Henry James is not yet threate From Online Learning Update on November 30, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

e-learning becoming embedded - Paul Justice, eLearning Scotland
E-learning is now accepted as an essential feature of training delivery, but more practical work needs to be done on the implementation side if it is to be successful, according to a new survey carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and De From Online Learning Update on November 30, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

The true potential and promise of online learning - Jack Wilson and David Gray, Mass High Tech
It has been said that it is easier to move a graveyard than to change the culture in higher education. Today, however, even the most steadfast late adopter of technology in academia will probably admit that e-learning and the Internet have become inext From Online Learning Update on November 30, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..

The InfoToday Blog is reporting on the Online Information 2004 conference in London. Don Hawkins is ...
The InfoToday Blog is reporting on the Online Information 2004 conference in London. Don Hawkins is covering the conference for Information Today newspaper; Editor of ONLINE Magazine Marydee Ojala is blogging the conference; Jim Ashling, Information Today's International Columnist; Dick Kaser is blogging the exhibition; and Nancy Garman, ITI's Director of Conference Program Planning is blogging the sessions From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 30, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Micro distributions as e-learning tools?
The Guardian Online recently ran a story Risk Free Rebellion (11 November 2004) which I thought was quite interesting. The story described how 'Live CDs' provide a risk free mechanism for testing distributions (distros) of the open source Linux operating system without having to install it on your system and run the risk of giving the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows a seizure. But there's more. From Auricle on November 30, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Lying Makes Brain Work Harder
Researchers expose differences in brain activity between people who fib and those who don't. Brain scans reveal that it really is easier to tell the truth. From Wired News on November 30, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Trial to Unmask Kazaa Owners
In a copyright-infringement trial under way this week in an Australian federal court, music industry representatives say they plan to make public the secretive ownership structure of the Kazaa file-trading network. By Patrick Gray. From Wired News on November 30, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

To Hell and Back
Bill Stone has invented diving gear and roving robots to explore the deepest -- and deadliest -- caves on Earth. In the icy water 4,500 feet below Mexico, he had to figure out how to bring his dead friend home. By Jeffrey M. O'Brien from Wired magazine. From Wired News on November 30, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

3G Phone Rival Calling Collect
Europe has been slow to adopt 3G mobile-phone services, and now the opportunity for cashing in may have passed. A new Wi-Fi design from a British company threatens to cut away the ground 3G has gained. By Wendy Grossman. From Wired News on November 30, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Searching Smarter, Not Harder
When it comes to searching, more is not always better. Data experts are honing topic maps to better classify the information that's out there. By John Gartner. From Wired News on November 30, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Sleep Disorders Traced to Genes
Can't wake up before lunchtime? Blame your ancestors. Researchers now suspect that night owls inherit their sleeping patterns and are launching a study that could lead to new gene therapy for sleep disorders. By Randy Dotinga. From Wired News on November 30, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

Battling the Copyright Big Boys
A new political action committee supports candidates who speak for the consumer when it comes to copyright law. The group doesn't have the big bucks of the entertainment companies, but it's just getting started. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on November 30, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

e-Portfolio virtual guests discussions
All this week Ben and I will be the guests answering e-portfolio and ELGG related questions on this forum set up by Alan Levine and his team at Maricopa College.... From ERADC Blog on November 30, 2004 at 5:55 a.m..

One-to-One Videoconferencing, Image Sharing And Presentation Tool: Logitech VideoCall
Thanks to Niels Damgaard for pointing my attention to the newly released Logitech VideoCall for Broadband videoconferencing service. Here is a sleek-looking one-to-one videoconferencing, image-sharing and presentation tool that is ready for any non-technical user. The interface is probably the... From Kolabora.com on November 30, 2004 at 5:55 a.m..

Retransmisión en directo del Congreso de Santiago
Acceso a la retransmisión de las sesiones del II Congreso Iberoamericano de Periodismo Digital: Ciberperiodismo.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 30, 2004 at 5:53 a.m..

Weblogs y Medios
Referencias y enlaces de apoyo a mis exposición El impacto de los weblogs sobre el ecosistema mediático. La fotografía junto al título de la conferencia es de la Dra. Jill Walker (Dept of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Noruega), autora... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 30, 2004 at 5:53 a.m..

Python Imaging Library (PIL)
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 4:56 a.m..

PlayStation 3 'The Cell' chip
Some of the key concepts of the Cell advanced microprocessor for next-generation computing applications and digital consumer electronics have been revealed by partners IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba. Optimized for compute-intensive workloads and broadband rich media applications, including computer entertainment, movies and other forms of digital content, Cell is a multicore chip comprising a 64-bit Power processor core and multiple synergistic processor cores capable of massive floating point proces From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 4:56 a.m..

NewsBluntly Debuts, Tracks Broadcast Journalism Industry
The NewsMarket, an online platform PR pros use to deliver broadcast-standard news video to television journalists, launched a blog for the media community called NewsBluntly. The blog features original content by for broadcast-news staffers with succinct, riffs on major - and not so major -- "inside-the-newsroom" stories. Naturally, in addition to posts and relevant links to other media blogs and useful sites, NewsBluntly also links to the latest VNRs and B-roll provided by The NewsMarket. A sou From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 4:56 a.m..

Bit Torrent Comment: Engadget, NPR, and CBC
Three examples of informative listening about Bit Torrent: Engadget’s Podcast number 17 NPR’s Joel Rose comments on the future of Bit Torrent CBC on why Bit Torrent makes Bid Media sad (this link is the MP3 file) Engadget’s Podcast number 17 unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 4:56 a.m..

AfterDawn.com: Glossary
Glossary of A/V-related terms and acronyms. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 4:56 a.m..

Calculating the impact of ad skipping
An internal CBS study found that DVR viewers can recall commercials just about as well as viewers without DVRs. While CBS calls the results "pretty astounding," keep in mind recall is defined as recognizing a spot (either by brand or category). The network's advice to Madison Avenue? Produce commercials with "identifiable visual elements." But I have to wonder if recognizing a spot on fast-forward will still justify the high CPMs the networks continue to charge. Plus: unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 4:55 a.m..

Is 'Transitional Fair Use' The Wave Of The Future?
All Your TV has a great piece running now called Is 'Transitional Fair Use' The Wave Of The Future?. In it, they touch on HBO's recent moves to curtail the consumer rights on recordings, where recorded episodes can't be saved forever, and will have a mandated delete date. I'm guessing HBO thinks a large drive TiVo with a whole season of Six Feet Under would cut into DVD sales of that season, but From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 4:55 a.m..

Top ten tips for implementing e-learning
Eine nützliche Erinnerung für alle, die gerade mit der Entwicklung oder Implementierung von e-learning beschäftigt sind: 1. e-learning is more than online courses 2. Content is not the answer to every learning problem 3. Beauty is in the blend 4.... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 30, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..

Drug Co. Priority: Protect Executives after Harming Customers
Reuters: Merck Execs Protected in Case of Takeover. Merck & Co. Inc. has adopted a severance benefits plan aimed at protecting key managers in the event the company is taken over -- a growing possibility since the withdrawal of arthritis drug Vioxx sent shares tumbling. Just when you imagine that corporate America couldn't get any more arrogant and self-serving, something like this comes along. Astounding, and wrong in almost every way. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 30, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..

Gay Students Force New Look at Homecoming Traditions
Driven by protests from gay students, colleges and high schools are re-examining the ritual of crowning homecoming kings and queens. From New York Times: Education on November 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Contracts Keep Drug Research Out of Reach
Academic institutions and researchers are often seen as impartial actors in drug trials, but sometimes independence comes with strings attached. From New York Times: Education on November 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some
A government proposal to create a database of enrollment records on college students is raising concerns that the move will erode the privacy rights of students. From New York Times: Education on November 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Business Week Editor to Lead CUNY's New Journalism School
Stephen B. Shepard said the new job combines three things he cares deeply about: journalism, public education and New York City. From New York Times: Education on November 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

School Aid Impasse Sets Stage for Courts to Decide City's Share
A late round of negotiations stalled, opening the door for the courts to decide how many billions of dollars more schools will be owed. From New York Times: Education on November 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Crime in Schools Fell Sharply Over Decade, Survey Shows
School crime dropped to an annual rate of 24 violent incidents per 100,000 students from 48 violent incidents, a report found. From New York Times: Education on November 30, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Four Hollywood Studios Back HD DVD Format
"Toshiba Ltd. said that four major Hollywood studios had signed on to release titles in the HD DVD format, a decision that should have a significant impact on the next-generation DVD forum battle. Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. Studios all released commitments to support the HD DVD format, Toshiba executives announced at a press conference in Tokyo on Monday. (Continued From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Nintendo DS gets some hacker loving
You knew it would happen. The Nintendo DS has so many features, it’s a hackers dream come true. Sure, Nintendo is notorious for dodging hacks but when they added Wi-Fi to their repertoire, they were just asking for that special attention. The beginning of the process starts here. It’s nothing too sexy; just a method to capture Pictochat sessions. But it will lead to From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Korea: Ohmynews' first figures released
We have already written about the Korean news website Ohmynews a few times on the Editors' weblog, but until now we didn't know the precise figures concerning this website. "According to Min, director of international development, OhmyNews is generating almost US$500,000 a month in advertising revenue."We broke even last year and since then kept generating a monthly profit of about $27,000," The website is ranked in the top 15 in South Korea. According to a website message from the founder, Oh Yeon-ho, after three year From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

My Movies: Windows MCE indexing app
My Movies is a DVD/Movie indexing application, where you add movie titles by either inputting data yourself, or downloading them from the internet. After adding titles you can browse your DVD/Movie collection from Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005, with covers, descriptions, runtime and ect. When you have found the DVD/Movie you whish to watch, you can press "Watch" to watch it. Both online movies stored on your computer, and offline movies stored on DVD discs can be added. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Welkin
Welkin is a graph-based RDF visualizer. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Wireless Cities
If cities evolve, what will shape their evolution over the next few decades? Salon has an interesting article today about the use of wireless technologies as the drivers for urban change. "Urban Renewal, the Wireless Way< From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Solar Cell Doubles as Battery
Technology Review reports that scientists from Toin University of Yokohama have designed a single device that can both convert solar energy to electricity and store the electricity. The photocapacitor can also capture energy from weak light sources like sunlight on cloudy or rainy days and indoor lighting. The light-driven, self-charging capacitor could eventually be used to power phones, cameras, and PDAs. "Users can just bring the device anywhere and expose it to indoor and outdoor ambient light wh From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

WiFi Planet Expo: November 30 - December 2: San Jose, CA.
The Wi-Fi PLANET Conference &amp Expo takes place Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The three-day event features nearly 50 cutting-edge sessions with a pre-conference workshop on November 30 followed by two days of intensive sessions within the following tracks on December 1-2: Building the Network; Technical Topics; Wi-Fi Outdoors; Hotspot Central; RFID; Securing the WLAN; Wi-Fi Telephony &amp Convergence; and Special Interest. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

AACS
There's finally some public information about AACS, the successor to the CSS DRM system that's used in DVDs. It looks more or less the same as CSS but with AES as the underlying cipher. Gentlemen, start your debuggers. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Chilean Indymedia group leaves the network
The Santiago, Chile-based segment of Indymedia, santiago.indymedia.org, announced its departure from the Indymedia network on Saturday, citing differences in opinion on various topics. It seems that the Santiago group's hardline beliefs apparently don't mesh with the core Indymedia standards or values. From unmediated on November 30, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Why Is Google News Blocked in China?
Google News was officially blocked by the Chinese Internet censors this weekend. That move has sparked wide speculation on what might be the reason of this highly symbolic move. The technology to circumvent blocks is so widespread that everybody can join the guessing game.The major mining accident in Shaanxi province was no reason for the block. (Up to two years ago, all such news surely would have been banned.) Since earlier mining accidents were disclosed by Internet sources, now the official newswire Xinhua runs to bring that kind of news immedia From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 30, 2004 at 3:54 a.m..

ITAA [Information Technology Association Of America] Praises Lawmakers for Move on Telework
Arlington, VA- The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) today applauded a move by Congressional lawmakers that would withhold $5 million in budgetary funding from agencies without telework plans in place. From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Schools go online to identify cheaters
BIRMINGHAM -- Kathleen Reeves scans the Web pages of turnitin.com to see if her high school English students have been plagiarizing. From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Learning by remote, in a remote prairie town
Family and consumer sciences teacher Charlotte Mohling takes a modern-day one-room schoolhouse approach to her job. From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Home schooling is attracting mainstream families
about 30 hours a week running her own consulting business and managing a small production company. She recently finished a master's degree in human development counseling. From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space
Rather than limit people to the e-portfolio model, why not develop a model providing a personal Web space for everyone, for their lifetimes and beyond? From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Blograising Campaign for Iraq
Here's my strong endorsement of the Friends of Iraq Blogger Challenge, a fundraising affair with a valuable purpose. It's aimed at helping the estimable Spirit of America organization (I wrote about them earlier this year) in efforts to help Iraq come back to economic and social stability. You can pick which project to support. I've just contribut From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 30, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Radio Boycott of Skinny Puppy's new album urged
Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood has sent letters threatening a boycott against radio stations playing the new Skinny Puppy album, The Greater Wrong of the Right. From kuro5hin.org on November 30, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

3Dsolve's Frank Boosman to Speak at Upcoming Online Educa Berlin 2004 Conference
Boosman Will Speak on the Evolution from Video-based Training to Game-based Simulation Learning From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..

Polycom and Edgewater Team to Address Enterprise Video Firewall Issues with Standards-Based, Open Solutions
Solutions solve majority of enterprise requirements today at large-scale deployments; Polycom also helping to drive next generation ITU standards for NAT/Firewall traversal From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..

Online driver's ed is on the horizon
The state Motor Vehicle Administration is considering computerizing the 30 hours of classroom education required for a driver to get a first license, enabling students to learn on the Internet the rules for everything from lane-changing to signaling. From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..

Racing for a cure: College of Vet Med searches for methods to regain top position
With students and professors vying for limited space in outdated facilities and using equipment that is more than 30 years old, officials in the College of Veterinary Medicine say it's not hard to see why it has slipped in rankings and prestige. From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..

Medway schools chief is high-tech booster
The Medway public schools need to be more technologically savvy, provide more training to teachers, and improve lines of communication with the public. From DEC Daily News on November 30, 2004 at 2:50 a.m..

EPIC and the practical limits of decentralized media
EPIC 2014 is a fantastic future documentary showing the convergence on online media into a single personalized, customized media source/filter. Much is currently written about the dangers of an overly centralized and privately controlled media, but what would happen if our media became overly decentralized and publicly created. The name ... From Just Another Ant on November 30, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Gmail works fine on my 7610 with Profimail and the standard email client
Cool, now I definitely don't need a Blackberry! From Ocasta: GMail &amp the Series 60.: QUOTEThe standard Series 60 mail client on Series 60 v2 phones such as the 6630 and 7610 works, althought the 6600 does not. The client can be configured for POP over SSL (Mailbox, Settings, Security - On). Although the GMail instructions indicate that TLS is necessary to connect to the SMTP server I didn't find it so when I tried. Of course, Google may change this and implemen From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on November 30, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

Juvenile Tricks Help the Bad Guys
CNet: Hackers deface SCO site. Hackers defaced SCO Group's Web site on Monday, targeting the company's controversial claims to elements of the Linux operating system. This kind of stunt doesn't even rise to the level of lameness. Whoever did this should grow up and understand that it's only helping SCO, not hurting it. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 30, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Wikinews Demo
Newest WikiMedia project is citizen journalism.... From unmediated on November 29, 2004 at 11:58 p.m..

The next rebirth of the media
We naturally assign great importance to things that are right in our faces. With the media, we're impressed with all those new television channels because we see all the programs they carry. We know that high definition TV is big because we see the flat screens and the flawless pictures. We may notice that more and more music, radio and TV are poking onto the Internet. But we don't really get it, not the big picture. In fact, the entire media landscape is undergoing basic, fundamental, change. A d From unmediated on November 29, 2004 at 11:58 p.m..

Hitchcock and Hyper-Hitchcock
Hitchcock is a system to simplify the process of editing video. Its key features are the use of automatic analysis to find the best quality video clips, an algorithm to cluster those clips into meaningful piles, and an intuitive user interface for combining the desired clips into a final video. To simplify the process of editing interactive video, we developed the concept of detail-on-demand video as a subset of general hypervideo where a single button press reveals additional information about the current video sequence. Detail-on-demand video keeps the authoring and viewing interf From unmediated on November 29, 2004 at 11:57 p.m..

Samsung Anycall Theater
It's great to be back in New York. Every time I leave, I come back to a city that is a little bit more my home than before. Since I've got a lot of catching up to do today (not nearly as much if Brendan Koerner hadn't kept things in check last week, though!) expect quite a few short clean up posts. I'm sure you'll be able to live without my erudite insights into the latest From unmediated on November 29, 2004 at 11:57 p.m..

Three Qustions about BitTorrent and RSS
* Could BitTorrent / RSS be a winning combination for cable companies (providing both TV and Internet) and Bells, in order to give them significant advantage over satellite TV distributors? Links: Fortune article by Frank Rose (similar article just appeared in December issue of Wired), set:TOP of DV Guide ... * Does BitTorrent/RSs combination makes sense in the context of cell phone IP based network? Mentioned DV Guide From unmediated on November 29, 2004 at 11:57 p.m..

Dear SFPL,
Privacy Advocates to Fight Electronic Tags at SF Library Anonymous Patron writes "CBS5.com - Privacy Advocates Promise to Fight Electronic Tags in Library Books A plan to put radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into San Francisco public library books has drawn sharp criticism on grounds ranging from privacy for library patrons to the health and safety of library workers. A provision in the San Francisco city budget approved last June allocated $300,000 to begin a pilot RFID program at the San Franc From The Shifted Librarian on November 29, 2004 at 11:47 p.m..

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