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December Already?
Raine-Santa Originally uploaded by greekmaninsask. Oh my ... I think I am in shock that December is already here and I have so much to do before the new semester starts. Christmas will be extra special this year with... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 3, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Sony Stomps on Kottke
Bloggers can start feeling like their voice is powerful, but the power may be vaporized in the face of multibillion dollar companies. Jason Kottke, who has had a great running fascination with Ken Jenning's wild Jeopardy marathon, apparently is being threatened by Sony (who owns the show and likely 1/3 of the planet) is spanking Kotke for posting some audio spoilers to the last show. Things may be a little quieter around here in the short term as I deal with some stuff goi From cogdogblog on December 3, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Hear Me on “The Bitterest Pill”
I'm so flattered! A few days ago I submitted my very first audio comment to one of my favorite podcasts, The Bitterest Pill by Dan Klass. Well, in yesterday's show he played my comment!... From Contentious Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..

Designing Instructional Articles in Online Courses for Adult Learners
Verne Morland and Herbert Bivens reintroduce readers to Malcolm Knowles's theory of adragogy, or adult learning. Building on Knowles's work, researchers have identified clear, consistent principles of adult education¬yet these tenets are not reflected in many training programs and academic courses. From eLearnopedia on December 3, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Distance Learning 2005, Aug 3-5 2005
Distance Learning 2004 offers more than 150 presentations, including how-to workshops, cracker-barrel discussions, keynotes, information sessions, course design showcases, and in-depth forums. Thursday and Friday forums will bring together well-known experts to reflect on where we've been as well as look around the corner at how next generation technologies will meet next generation learners. From eLearnopedia on December 3, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Developing On-Line Courses for Visual / Kinesthetic Learners: A Case Study
Theories of learning and instructional design can enhance effectiveness of distance learning. Dr. Clemons designed two visual / kinesthetic courses, one on interior design, a second on color. Multiple modalities enriched learning environment through observation, discovery, internet "field trips", and websites of famous architects, designers, and philosophers. Interaction was facilitated through discussion boards and email. From eLearnopedia on December 3, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

The Dos and Don'ts of Online Learning
From Chapter 8:The Online Instructor's Point of View, by Judy Donovan in The Student Guide to Successful Online Learning: A Handbook of Tips, Strategies, and Techniques by Ken W. White. From eLearnopedia on December 3, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Escaping the Comparison Trap: Evaluating Online Learning on Its Own Terms
Online learning programs have been intensely scrutinized and relentlessly compared to traditional, classroom-based education. Are these two formats equal in quality? John Sener argues that the question itself is specious. From eLearnopedia on December 3, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

The Paradox of Integrating Handheld Technology in Schools: Theory vs. Practice
While handheld computers have been used in a variety of educational settings, such technology needs to be introduced in a way that is palatable to administrators and educators. Therefore, school personnel must have adequate and continual handheld technology training in order to fully integrate it into their classrooms, buildings and districts. From eLearnopedia on December 3, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

You do learn something new every day
And today I learned it's Brussels sprouts, not brussel sprouts. I guess I kinda of knew in the way back of my mind that there was some connection with Belgium, but not enough to realize it was Brussels sprouts. From Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters: Brussels sprouts are a variety, gemmifera, of the cabbage species Brassica oleracea. Because of selective breeding done in the thirteenth century in Belgium, [B]russels sprouts do indeed look like tiny, perfectly formed cabbages. They grow on a heavy stock, several feet tall, with a few large leaves at the top. As with cabbage, there a From megnut on December 3, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Hard disk in a cell phone
I still remember buying my first 5 megabyte hard disk for my 8088 Zenith back in 1985, from Ralph LeVan - used, for $150, if I remember correctly. Now Gizmodo is reporting that Samsung has released a mobile phone with a 1.5 Gigabyte hard disk. Guess that makes me old. From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 7:02 p.m..

The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
I've been working from home today, still recovering from this crud I've had all week. As I work I've been listening my way through the five-CD set of Miles Davis' Complete Jack Johnson Sessions. The original release, "A Tribute to Jack Johnson", recorded in 1970, has always been one of my favorites, being the absolute height of jazz-rock fusion. The complete sessions are also terrific, with an all star cast including Joh From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 7:02 p.m..

Sucked Into a Political Blog
Although I have an interest in politics, along with a relatively unused degree in political science, political blogs are not my cup of joe. Yes, I've posted some of my own political thoughts and experiences here in the past, but I can't work myself into a suitable lather to be a real political blogger, anymore than I can listen to rants from the right or left on the radio. All of that leads to this, a post at the Daily Kos that makes some general comments about how liberal blogs seem... From Brain Frieze on December 3, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..

ESA - Cassini-Huygens
Mission homepage at the European space agency. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on December 3, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..

CICLOPS: Cassini Imaging
CICLOPS is the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations. Site includes images from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, and information about the cameras on board. Hosted at the Univ. of Arizona. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on December 3, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..

Media & Journalism Grab Bag, Dec. 3
åmedia, and journalism which caught my attention over the last month. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Media / Political Bias," an essay from "Rhetorica." Thoughtful discourse by a former journalist who explores, in details, the various kinds of bias that exist in journalism. This completely bypasses the false liberal/conservative dualism and goes right to the heart of the matter. (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..

Tools Grab Bag, Dec. 3
Here is a bunch of cool tools, tips, and techniques that caught my attention over the past month. TOP OF THIS LIST: Pretty purple states. Lately, dualistic, polarized thinking and debate of all kinds has been bugging me big time. The recent slew of inane "red state/blue state" chatter concerning the US election is simply one example of this. Check out "Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results" from the Univ. Michigan. They use cartograms (maps distorted to represent weighting by factors such as population) to visually convey a far more nuanced and accurate version of From Contentious Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Citizen Journalism: Will Entrepreneurs Rule Yet Again?
Earlier today I noted the growth of citizen journalism initiatives like Pegasus News and Backfence.com. I think it's clear that we'll see a wave of entrepreneurial initiatives involving "open-source journalism" in the coming year or two. The success of OhMyNews in South Korea and the incredible growth in blogging have ensured this future.Here's my concern, based on a decade of working in and writing about the new-media news industry: Entrepreneurs, as f From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 3, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Thanks, Adam!
Adam Kalsey of Pheedo volunteered to help me through my recent MovableType upgrade spasm. Comments were showing up in the "pending approval" pile even though I'd configured MT to not require moderation. He talked me through installing the upgrade to MT-Blacklist (Jay Allen's commentspam-fightin' superhero). When that didn't do the trick, Adam figured out that although I'd renamed the old MT-Blacklist files, I hadn't renamed the extensions; MT was still loading mt_blacklist_old.pl because it loads anything with a .pl extension. Thus, MT was using a version of Black From Joho the Blog on December 3, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Silicon Valley AdWare Company's Latest Tricks
The energetic Ben Edelman has uncovered new outrages from a company called Claria, which makes one of the obnoxious "adware" products that finds its way onto PCs. The click through "agreement" is just abysmal, Edelman observes. Quote:"You agree that you will not use, or encourage others to use, any unauthorized means for the removal of the GAIN AdServer, or any GAIN-Supported Software from a computer."Sheesh. To put it mildly. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 3, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

Misbehaving on the page
It started innocently enough, with a manual Olivetti typewriter at the age of 12, a writer's gateway drug if ever there was such a thing. By 1974, at the age of 15, Scott Rosenberg, the left-handed younger son of a physician, was huddled in the basement of his family's Queens house over his latest toy, a hand-cranked mimeograph machine. Now the world of publishing was at his fingertips and the steady thwack-thwack-thwack of copies coming off of the press joined the pungent scent of ink rising up the basement steps. The tie-dyed 60's had given way to the polyester 70's, but From kuro5hin.org on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Lycos Fights Spam With DDOS
Lycos Europe has recently joined the fight against spam by releasing a screensaver as part of its "Make Love Not Spam" campaign, which uses its participants machines to bombard websites that advertise through spam e-mails with data, effectively launching a distributed denial of service attack against them, with the intent being to push up bandwidth bills of the spammers who operate these websites. Is this an effective new front in the battle against spam? From kuro5hin.org on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Endangered archive project in Britain launches Website
The Endangered Archives project has launched a website for its work, which includes funding projects that seek to protect older materials.. It is sponsored by the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund and the British Library. (via CNI)... From MANE IT Network on December 3, 2004 at 5:58 p.m..

Revolutionary -- or a Blast From the Past?
There's a lot of talk about the revolutionary open-source journalism concept these days, and Guardian digital media director Simon Waldman rightly asks on his new blog "whether we are looking at a sustainable phenomena or a few wonderful freak incidents that happened to have worked because they were just the right project in the right place at the right time."But is this really all that revolutionary? The technology is new, but From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 3, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..

Mobile Meets Voice over IP
If the service being advertised by Xcelis is for real -- and if so, if it will scale with lots of users -- it could play havoc with the expensive national calling plans offered by mobile phone carriers. Brilliant idea, at any rate. (Via Slashdot) From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 3, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

Assistance Received!
Two days ago, I put out the call for assistance, because the comments area on this blog had become overrun with spam (giant messages with dozens of links). The messages weren't designed to attract clicks - they're not so stupid as that - but rather to fool Google into thinking that their sites had many other sites linking to them, which would make their rankings rise. So, unable to fix this, and unable to find the guy who programmed my comments in the first place, I put the call out. The result, as you'll see in the comments, is a SpamBlock challenge, From rushkoff.blog on December 3, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

Comments are down. Help?
Comments are down because I upgraded to MovableType 3.1 and apparently I have MTArchive set to an undisclosed location. I can't find where the variable is set. If you know, could you please send email to self@evident.com. Thanks.... From Joho the Blog on December 3, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

Tourismusblogs
Wenn ich das recht gesehen habe, dann stammt das Wien-Log von der Air-Berlin. Nice. Tourismusblogs: In Obertauern gibt es Einen. An der Ostsee sind Weblogs (dank der FH Heilbronn) auch kein Fremdwort mehr und mittlerweile gibt es sogar einen eigenen Wien Blog in dem 2 ju From thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 3, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..

Is eBay Customer 'Service' Smokin' Crack?
If you think I get overly torqued about spammers, poor web site from big entities and doofus customer service is right up there as well. I continually deal with some online banking and bill paying service that works marvelously, and yet fight others (hello CitiBank) that offer "service" that is browser dependent or completely dysfunctional. I can be a little patient with sites that do not work, having generated plenty of my own systems that have (fixable) glitches, and GASP typos. But when I think of From cogdogblog on December 3, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..

Lifetime Personal Webspace
(via George Siemens) Now I know I'm kinda strange, but the premise of this article from Educause seriously gives me chills:What do we wish for? That every citizen, at birth, will be granted acradle-to-grave, lifetime personal Web space that will enable connections among personal, educational, social, and business systems.Ok, now I know that's a lot to wrap your brain around, especially on a Friday afternoon. But if you are From weblogged News on December 3, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..

Online Information presentations
It's been great to travel across to London for the Online Information conference. During the event, I gave two presentations, one in the conference itself and the other on the exhibition floor: "Ensuring your intranet is a success"Powerpoint presentation (73kB)... From Column Two on December 3, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..

Michael Powell Doesn't Fool Jeff Jarvis
Jeff has posted a solid deconstruction of FCC Chairman (and national nanny) Michael Powell's insulting and scary op-ed in today's Times. Just read it if you care about free speech in America. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 3, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

A question about web links in Tbird/Firefox
Is it just my imagination, or has the behavior of opening web links from within email messages changed with Thunderbird 0.9? It seems to me that with previous Tbird releases when I clicked on links within email they opened up a new browser window to display the page. Now the links open up in the currently active browser window, replacing whatever content was previously in that window. I think I liked the old behavior better. I don't see any preference settings about this, and a quick google search didn't turn up any obvious help on the question. C From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Why is my layout pooched?
Yikes - I just took a look at the site (normally I only see the admin interface or the RSS feed in my aggregator). What the blazes is going on? I'm going to need to fix this up a bit, so I beg your forgiveness if the site looks a bit ... From Just Another Ant on December 3, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..

.edu addresses increasingly gamed
An article in the Chronicle describes abuse of the .edu domain by diploma mills and other non-legitimate entities. In 1997 Network Solutions officials told The Chronicle that anybody who asked for a .edu address received one. Clyde Ensslin, a spokesman... From MANE IT Network on December 3, 2004 at 2:58 p.m..

Strange Matter
Developed to teach children about materials science, this site is a fun and informative place for adults to learn some basic science and new practical applications for recent discoveries. The visitor can squish, heat, batter and chemically bathe a variety of substances to produce new and useful materials through simple simulations. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on December 3, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..

Play It Again SAM! Skype Answering Machine
Stuart Henshall reports: "I&amprsquo;ve been experimenting with different Skype Answer Phones. I wrote some specs over a year ago. And the simple answer is a well developed application will be a game changer... The general wisdom is you won't leave... From Kolabora.com on December 3, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Minor Santa
You don't have to be Christian to get a kick out of Minor Santa, an MP3 with vocals by O'Reilly's Sarah Winge. All you have to be is really tired of the Top Ten Yuletide loop echoing in every mall and many of our skulls. It was recorded in '96 but I just heard it; we Jews aren't as up on the Christmas ditties as we should be...... From Joho the Blog on December 3, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Book Notes
Several items of note: Patrick Frey, whose right-of-center Patterico's Pontifications blog has been a useful thorn in the side of the Los Angeles Times, has posted a kind and thoughtful review of We the Media. (He disagrees, in a separate posting, with one particular line in the book.) The Financial Times ran a long article this we From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 3, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

Sony Bullies Blogger; We Must Fight Back
I am now boycotting anything and everything from Sony Corp., given its heavy-handed treatment of Jason Kottke, whose offense was to post something -- something true and clearly news -- that Sony didn't want public. Jeff Jarvis suggests a blogger legal corps or something of that sort. It's an interesting idea. See also Britt Blaser's posting, the ti From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 3, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

IBM Quitting PC Biz?
NY Times: I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market. While I.B.M. long ago ceded the lead in the personal computer market to Dell and Hewlett-Packard so it could focus instead on the more lucrative corporate server and computer services business, a sale would nonetheless bring the end of an era in an industry that it helped invent. The sale, likely to be in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, is expected to include the entire From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 3, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

The Tangled Internet: Is It Time For a New One?
"The soul of the Internet is up for grabs," says the author, and I have to agree. The wide open free internet has become a haven for spam artists and other low-life. But blocking the spam may result in a closed, proprietary 'secure' and 'trusted' internet that stifles free expression and open content as much as it does spam and viruses. We need to find a happy medium - and that's what's up for grabs. By Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor, December 2, 2004 [OLDaily on December 3, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Multicultural Communications
Interesting interview with Lauren Supraner, president of CAL Culture and Language, on the topic of multicultural communication in e-learning. The interview is spiced with referenced to traits in various "foreign" cultures such as Japan or the Middle East. I found the references to American culture interesting, because that, to me, is the "foreign" culture I deal with most often (and you may have guessed by now, one thing that troubles me is the use of the context-specific and vaguely troubling word "foreign"). By Mitchell Weisburgh, Pilot Online Learning, December 2, 2004 [OLDaily on December 3, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Batch Identifier Infrastructure
An open source tool for generating unique persistent digital object names and other identifiers has been released. Called "noid" (nice opaque identifier), it can be used as an identifier strategy no matter which naming scheme you choose (for example, ARK, DOI, Handle, LSID, PURL, or URN). Technical documentation is available, as well as a software release and a paper describing the motivation for persistent identifie From OLDaily on December 3, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Open Affordances Panel
Please note that my website will be down from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday for scheduled construction work. I will be participating in this online event next week. "How much margin do we, as common users, have in exploiting a technology's affordances? In other words, how far can we change a tool before the tool inevitably changes us, before we run up against a wall of impossibility and learn to operate within the boundaries established by the technology, while continuing to believe that we are the tool's masters?" By Various Authors, December 10, 2004 [OLDaily on December 3, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

[ECAR 2004] V.S. Ramachandran
One more thing I wanted to note from ECAR was a fabulous talk by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran about his research in cognitive neurology. He's worked extensively on "phantom limb" phenomenon, where people who have had limbs amputated continue to feel the missing limb, and is now working on synesthesia, where people get their various senses "mixed up", like seeing different colors for numbers, or tasting sounds. The conclusions he is reaching from his research is that the human capacity for understanding and using metaphors may be ha From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 2:01 p.m..

Microsoft releases blogging tool
A giant competitor entered the blogging market this week, as Microsoft released its weblog tool, MS Spaces . Spaces is free of charge, requiring only a Microsoft-related login through Hotmail or MSN. From NITLE Tech News on December 3, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..

Google relaunches Groups, formerly Usenet
Google redesigned and relaunched its Groups service. Google Groups has significant historical value, in that it contains much of NITLE Tech News on December 3, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..

Military Recruitment in the NCLBA
Maintaining this blog has helped me keep abreast of issues in High School education that I probably wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Usually I'm interested in literacy issues and preparedness of freshman that come into my classes. But sometimes I learn about policies and trends that surprise me. For example, did... From PEDABLOGUE on December 3, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Good Bye Lenin
The other evening I finally got around to watching Good Bye Lenin!, a German film from 2003. Set in East Berlin prior to and following the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's the story of a boy (Alex) who's mother revives from a coma and can't be told about what's happened while she slept: that her beloved East Germany is no more. It was surprisingly funny, and very touching at times, as Alex and his sister struggle to recreate a quickly disappearing world in their mother's bedroom. It was definitely one of the better movies I've seen this year and I recommend it. From megnut on December 3, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

MSN Space cadet
Microsoft enters the blogging service market with MSN Spaces. It's a market first forged by the likes of Blogger (now part of Google), LiveJournal and Radio Userland, as well as do-it-yourself CMSs like MovableType and WordPress. Some notes: We don't serve your kind here: To upload photos, you need to download a Windows-only tool called MSN Photo Upload. The site also uses non-standard HTML, so it will work properly only with IE 6.0 Wash your mouth with SOAP: MSN will censor posts with inappropriate words - at least according to MSN's definition. All your content are belong to u From silentblue | Quantified on December 3, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..

Getting back on board
I've been remiss on keeping up with blogging for the past couple of weeks - things got really busy after getting back from ECAR, and then Thanksgiving happened, followed by my immediately getting sick. I'll try to catch up over the next few days...really :) From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 12:03 p.m..

Another hidden goodie in the budget bill (a MiniBlog)
As reported this morning by the Chronicle of Higher Education: SEN. ROBERT C. BYRD of West Virginia tucked a surprise into the mammoth spending bill that Congress approved last month. The measure would require any educational institution that receives federal aid to provide an instructional program on the U.S. Constitution each September 17, the anniversary of its signing. See EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 3, 2004 at 12:02 p.m..

Why Stephen Downes Hates “Webfeed”
I'd thought the furor over the "webfeed" nickname had finally died down. Then, a couple of days ago, one of my favorite bloggers, Stephen Downes, posted a vociferous denunciation not just of "webfeed," but of the very idea of offering another terminology option in this area.... From Contentious Weblog on December 3, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

On-demand apps demand a richer browser
A decade ago, the browser exploded many of our assumptions about building and deploying software. We were shocked to discover that less was more and that worse was better. We've yet to fully absorb the lessons that the browser and the Web can teach us. Now, as the on-demand trend heats up and the pendulum swings back toward the GUI -- in the form of RIAs (rich Internet applications) -- it's vital to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Web-style software, and to assess its real potential. ... The From Jon's Radio on December 3, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..

Policasting
I have an article on the political implications of podcasting at Personal Democracy. It's mainly about what podcasting is, and then it does the predictable political speculation. There's a terrific article on the same topic at CampaignAudit.org And while I'm plugging me, over at Worthwhile I just posted a couple of paragraphs about some really interesting work being done by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps on mapping business hierarchies.... From Joho the Blog on December 3, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Untitled
Most people who maintain professional weblogs act as "newsmasters," i.e., they pass along information that they come across from on- and off-line resources, sometimes with comments and expansions. Roland Tanglao continues to define the role of newsmaster and discusses  tools for making the gathering of targeted information easier. I especially appreciate Roland's step-by-step instructions for efficiently using tools such as PubSub and Feedster. JH______  Lazy Person's Guide to being a NewsMas From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on December 3, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..

This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Cartoons in Print. Answers here. ...
This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Cartoons in Print. Answers here.1. Ronald Searle is best known for his cartoons of the outrageous girls at which school?2. Which newspaper cartoon series created by Al Capp in 1934 takes place in the town of Dogpatch?3. What was the nationality of the cartoonist who created Tintin?4. Which American cartoonist created the series of cartoons called "The Far Side?"5. British cartoonist David Low created a famous c From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 3, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

Search & Find: Ways of Exploring A Weblog Archive
One of the challenges I have in weblogging is to find ways of bringing a greater sense of connection and continuity across the various entries. The writing style in a weblog, for me, is more oriented toward the creation of... From Experience Designer Network on December 3, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..

The Next Language
The Next Language is an article describing the evolution of corporate systems and languages. It focuses on Java's role, current and future, and the role of other other platforms. It appropriately ends with: ...there will probably be a troika of .NET, Java, and PHP/Python/Perl. From Open Artifact on December 3, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..

Competition Heating Up in Micro-local Citizen Journalism Space
Earlier this week I mentioned the citizen-journalism start-up Pegasus News, which is currently operating in stealth mode pending its official debut. Well, it seems that all the talk about what's also called "open-source journalism" has gotten a few entrepreneurs in action mode.Online-news pioneer Mark Potts tells me about a venture he's involved in called Backfence.com, which is also in stealth mode currently. He explains From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 3, 2004 at 8:55 a.m..

Blogging as breathing or how to find time for blogging?
From Ton's write-up of BlogWalk in Umea:On the use of time for blogging The most asked question when I speak to people who don't blog, is where I get the time to do it. In Umea we discussed time consumption and listed a number of time-consuming factors. Time is needed: To get used to the tools To grow a network To get into action with others To grow trust For getting to know From Mathemagenic on December 3, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..

UXnet meeting in London
Since I happened to be in London, I attended the first local meeting of UXnet. This was excellent, featuring a talk from Kevin Cheng of OK/Cancel, and plenty of chatting down at the pub. We had a great turnout, and... From Column Two on December 3, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..

Open Access RSS Directory Proposed
Robin Good has proposed an interesting idea related to RSS - "It is important to acknowledge though the issue of free content re-use when many of the content originators want to enforce tight controls on the use and re-syndication of their news. I have recently catalyzed some attention around the issue of content re-use by engaging relatively small traditional publisher who uses the Internet for syndicating press-releases from major outlets, into evaluating whether my RSSification of his content headlines and further public distribution was legal, appropriate and beneficial. Additio From RSS Blog on December 3, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..

Free MS Word Video Tutorials
I've been listening to the murmurs coming from Lee Keller in the cubicle adjacent to mine for the last few weeks as he records a series of Camtasia Studio videos on various topics. This is part of an initiative within our District to get as many short "snippets" of training information onto the Web for any-time training of our staff, students, and even parents. But hey, once it's on-line why not share it with the world? Lee is about three quarters of the way through his... From Brain Frieze on December 3, 2004 at 7:56 a.m..

More feedback on the Intranet Roadmap
I've just received some more positive feedback on the Intranet Roadmap: "The folks at Step Two Designs have released an excellent resource for those involved in the planning, creation, maintenance, and implementation of corporate intranets. It's called the Intranet Roadmap... From Column Two on December 3, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Resting up in London
Well, things have finished up at the Online Information conference in London. It's been busy, but enjoyable. The best aspect of this trip has been finally meeting up with some folks that I've been conversing with via e-mail for some... From Column Two on December 3, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Outline View Benefits In A Powerpoint Presentation
Most of PowerPoint users often spend lots of their precious time in inputting the textdraw content directly into the final visual slides. This creates a cumbersome process because they never see all of their content at once like when they work at preparing a report, or an outline, or a summary for a speech. Although inputting text into individual slides is the spontaneous approach that most users take, due to the above reasons, it is not the most efficient one. An easier approach is offered by PowerPoint thanks to the so-called "Outline View" which can help you decrease dramatically From MasterViews on December 3, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..

Prying Into FBI Activities
The ACLU files Freedom of Information Act requests to find out why antiterrorism task forces have been monitoring activists. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Fight for Public Domain Goes On
Archivists who want to digitize 'orphan works' -- books, movies and films that are no longer commercially viable but remain under copyright -- lose a court battle. But they vow to continue the war to rebalance copyright law. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Not Tonight, I've Got an Advisory
The FDA probably will not approve a patch for women suffering from hypoactive sexual desire disorder, as an advisory board believes more evidence is needed to prove the drug is safe. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Wired Tools 2004
The coolest geek shopping list ever: 129 of the best screens, cams, phones, games and gadgets of the year, from Wired magazine. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Flaws Don't Scuttle Pirate Game
Pirates, the latest release by game developer Sid Meier, offers plenty of addictive play for those who want to virtually pillage the Caribbean. But repetitiveness and design flaws dampen the experience. Game review by Suneel Ratan. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Daggers Sharp but Not Penetrating
You're unlikely to find a martial arts movie as beautiful as Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, but you'll need to look elsewhere for passion. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

How Long Is Your Digital Trail?
Relationships in the information age work best when you exercise restraint and courtesy. Especially after you break up. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Army Wages War on Modern Menaces
New ways of protecting U.S. troops from RPGs, biological weapons and more take center stage at a military science conference. There's even a morphine substitute that emerged from the rave scene. Noah Shachtman reports from Orlando, Florida. From Wired News on December 3, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Court Panel Says New York Schools Need Billions More
A panel has found that an additional $5.6 billion must be spent on schoolchildren every year to provide a basic education. From New York Times: Education on December 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Web Sites Satisfy Late-Night Campus Snack Attacks
College-age entrepreneurs are mixing the Web into businesses like late-night snack delivery. From New York Times: Education on December 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Teachers' Leader Hurls Criticism at Mayor
New York City's most powerful labor leader said that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to overhaul the school system had only made things worse. From New York Times: Education on December 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Student Files Left at Curbside Were Meant for the Shredder
Hundreds of pages of confidential special education records were left on a curbside outside a Department of Education office last month when they should have been shredded. From New York Times: Education on December 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

On the Bus, Going Round and Round
For special education parents, who often have every minute of their child's day planned out, the bus trip to school is the day's weak link. From New York Times: Education on December 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Study Faults Abstinence Courses
Some federally financed sex education programs that teach an abstinence-only approach have factual errors and are ineffective, a Congressional report says. From New York Times: Education on December 3, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market
International Business Machines, whose first I.B.M. PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said yesterday. From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Penn State Public Broadcasting Presents Tracks Across The Sky New Documentary Details Construction And Destruction Of Pennsylvania's Kinzua Viaduct
A revered national landmark collides with nature's most powerful forces in TRACKS ACROSS THE SKY, a documentary about Pennsylvania's Kinzua Viaduct. From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

ITAA Says Pennsylvania Law Pits Wi-Fi Against Competition
Arlington, VA- The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) today criticized a legislative deal done to bring Philadelphia residents city-owned Wi-Fi services while granting dominant telecommunications providers veto power over similar arrangements in other parts of the state. From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

UW-Madison's engineering online program honored
An association of more than 900 institutions and organizations of higher education that offer online learning, The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), has named the Master of Engineering in Professional Practice (MEPP) program at the UW's College of Engineering as the 2004 Most Outstanding Online Teaching and Learning Program. From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

OC [Odessa College] to partner in distance education project
$3,345,661 grant will help fund televised courses From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

21st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
CALL FOR PROPOSALSAugust 3-5,2005Madison, Wisconsin From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

ECU [Eastern Carolina University] leads state in distance education
ECU's Distance Education program has been described as one of the best in the state. From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Three dozen districts to offer distance learning
HELENA -- Advanced physics and other specialty classes could be just a click away for thousands of public, private and home-schooled students next fall under a new distance learning program. From DEC Daily News on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Reflections on the Limits of Artificial Intelligence - Alexandru Tugui, ACM
Nature is very simple and efficient in everything she makes, and is extremely obvious. We humans like to simulate in an extremely complicated manner what exists quite simply in nature, and what we succeed in simulating falls in the category of artifici From Techno-News Blog on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Cingular to Offer Faster Wireless Service - Associated Press
Cingular Wireless LLC will begin deploying a speedier wireless Internet service next year, a move made possible by the network capacity gained with the recent acquisition of AT&T Wireless as Cingular tries to catch up with to catch up with rivals led b From Techno-News Blog on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Fast Internet Service for The People - Jonathan Krim, Washington Post
For the millions of people who cannot afford high-speed Internet access, some local officials think they've hit on the answer: Build government-owned networks to provide service at rates below what big telecommunications companies charge. From San Fran From Techno-News Blog on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Cyber learning in full swing at Blackfeet Community College - John McGill, Glacier Reporter
"I'm here to support the WebCT," said John Usher, technical coordinator for the Burns Center at Montana State University-Bozeman, Monday at Blackfeet Community College. He and BCC Distance Learning Coordinator Cheri Valdovino have set up computers at B From Online Learning Update on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Alarm over loss of vital UK college courses - John Clare, Telegraph
University degree courses of national strategic importance should be protected from closure, Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, said yesterday. At the same time, MPs accused ministers of failing to prevent the closure of more than 100 science dep From Online Learning Update on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Encouraging Interaction in Online Classes - Brent Muirhead, Instructional Technology
Promoting and maintaining interactivity within online classes continues to be a vital concern among distance educators. The current discussion will explore instructional strategies to foster online interaction. Research literature continues to affirm From Online Learning Update on December 3, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

FERPA and Electronic ID's
FERPA is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the law that limits the release of student information. It's also known as "the Buckley Amendment". Every college administrator who ever deals with student records has heard of FERPA. So have all the faculty. FERPA is administered by the Family Policy Compliance Office of the U.S From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 3, 2004 at 2:01 a.m..

Using events-per-second as a factor in selecting SEM tools
Events Per Second, or EPS, as it is commonly referred to in the world of network security, is a measurement that is used to convey how fast a network generates data from its security devices (firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), servers, routers, etc.), and/or how fast an SEM product can correlate data from those devices. A savvy buyer will match the EPS his network is generating to those that can be accommodated by the SEM tool that he is purchasing. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on December 3, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

More Flickr...
'Flickr' is in an online photo class by itself | csmonitor.com The Christian Science Monitor writes about Flickr. Also today on the Flickr blog, Caterina Fake of the Flickr team points to some more recent press for the popular photo sharing web tool...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 3, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

Necessity: A computer, a data projector and a file cabinet...
Necessity: A computer, a data projector and a file cabinet... Originally uploaded by timlauer. My good friend Andy is one of the best teachers I have ever met. That being said, he does have a tendency to drop is laptop from time to time. This morning he came to work and discovered after another drop that his Powerbook screen would not come to life. I find his approach to solving this problem both novel and frightening. Thanks to Melissa for the image...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 3, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

Unlocking Potential of eLearning?
Here's an interesting article I came across today, discussing benefits of open source elearning software. Notice the second chart: it's interesting what can be done with the funds one would spend for commercial licenses to improve training and staff development. [via EdtechPost] In fact, Educause 2004 will probably be ... From Open Artifact on December 2, 2004 at 11:58 p.m..

Blinky's House of Mirrors
I am not sure if this is educational or could be used in e-learning but it is one bizzzzzzarrrrrr site Blinky's House of Mirrors!... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 2, 2004 at 11:55 p.m..