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Broadband's 50 chart toppers
CED has published their fourth annual Broadband 50 trends, technologies and corporations. Microsoft gets lucky #13 for their push into interactive TV applications like IPTV. Comcast remains at #1 for, well, being large. Rogers and Bell Canada are in #22 and #23 for making the quadruple play of voice, video, Internet, and mobile communications a reality in Canada. From
silentblue | Quantified on December 6, 2004 at 10:52 p.m..
Jigsaw Contact Market (Ross Mayfield)
Its one thing to put your contact information in a social networking service. Its another thing to make connections explicit. But its an entirely different thing to make contact information literally tradeable. The latest YASNS aims to just that, which... From
Corante: Social Software on December 6, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
Lazy Person's Guide to Being a NewsMaster
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 6, 2004 at 9:47 p.m..
Online Science Resources for K-12
This online article describes both free and fee-based online science resources for K-12 teachers (as well as some resources for higher education). The authors (Robert Lackie and Robert Congleton) clearly show the advantages of collections or portals to locate pertinent teaching resources rather than relying solely upon search engines: " we hope that you find this article to be useful for effectively and efficiently locating pertinent, quality online free and fee-based science resources for your K-12 community. Unless you are an experienced searcher, we suggest From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on December 6, 2004 at 9:47 p.m..
Digital Mix Event at Yale This Friday
Decent chance I'll
be there - you should check it out too if you're in the neighborhood: ***********
DIGITAL MIX A Payson Wolff Lecture Friday, December 10, 2004 6:30pm - 11:00pm Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Free Admission Featuring: **DJ Spooky** present From
A Copyfighter's Musings on December 6, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..
10 ways to continuously improve your intranet
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This article outlines 10 practical ways that an intranet can be improved incrementally without yet another redesign. Although some of the methods may require mini-projects to be set up within the intranet team, many of the methods can be applied alongside the team's usual maintenance activities." From
elearningpost on December 6, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..
Malcolm Gladwell's New Book: Blink
Just read an excerpt of Malcolm Gladwell's new book '
Blink' (to be published in Jan 2005). Gladwell says that it is a book "about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye." To me it sounds very similar to what Gary Klein has be writing about for years on the power of intuitive decision making. Klein's first book,
Sources of Power, describes the &ap From
elearningpost on December 6, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..
IBM Plus Apple?
There's a
wildly speculative piece over at The Register about a linkup between IBM and Apple, stemming from IBM's much-reported but still not confirmed decision to spin off its PC division. Quoth El Reg: "(A)n even better and more audacious speculation is that once publicly free of the PC division IBM will either buy, or form a close joint venture with Apple to sell its PCs, which coincidentally are now built around IBM's PowerPC chip."I guess stranger things have happene From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 6, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..
Interesting Jazz Improv advice book
This looks interesting - from
ejaznews. As a bass player, I'm particularly captivated by Hal Garper's chapter title, Playing (Almost) Everything in Half Time - the two-beat is strong! Long Beach, New York (December 02, 2004) -- Jazz Improvisation: Advice From the Masters is the new softcover book published by Outcat LLC in Long Beach, New York. . The book features specific advice and inspiration from 16 noted jazz artists and educators, including Joanne Brackeen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Steve Coleman, Todd From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 6, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..
The How To Blog 101 Series
T. L. Pakii Pierce is writing a series titled
The How To Blog - 101 Series. Here's a rundown of his courses...How To Blog 101 - What is Blogging and Why Should I Blog?How To Blog 102 - Planning Your BlogHow To Blog 103 - Choosing the Right Blogging Tools and SoftwareHow To Blog 104 - Publishing Your First Blog ArticleHow To Blog 105 - How To Promote Your BlogHow To Blog 106 - Blogging For A Living From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..
The online video boom
The online video market is predicted (by Jupiter) to rise by a factor of five by 2009, but it may happen even sooner. That's why this is such an important space to watch. On the Viewpoint acquisition of Unicast this week, Mark Naples
writes for MediaPost:For my money, what this acquisition means goes beyond even such tactical concerns as becoming a one-stop shop for brands and agencies that want all their interactive needs met under one roof. This de From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..
The New Paparazzi
From Guardian Limited.
The New Paparazzi With the public now using their cameraphones to snap celebrities and sell the pictures to the media, privacy has become even rarer. James Herring reports on a new trend Salvation comes in the shape of the new generation of mobile phones, with built-in camera, video, dictaphone and email facilities. Armed with this kind of technology, any ordinary Joe can become a paparazzo. Exponents of this popular new pastime, otherwise kno From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..
A question of scale.
So the other morning I hear all this rumbling out my window. It wasn't the trash guys, but a giant movie crew shooting the next remake of War of the Worlds. See there, from my window - that's Tom Cruise going up the stairs, and to his right, Steven Spielberg watching the take. So much Hollywood power, right in my hood. Beautiful Park Slope is historic, so I guess it makes a good movie set. Of course, it's not my 10-story 'old lady' building they're shooting - but all those expensive little browns From
rushkoff.blog on December 6, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Pulling Sense out of Today's Informational Chaos: LiveJournal as a Site of Knowledge Creation and Sharing
When people think about blogging they usually think of Blogger. But that other blogging site - LiveJournal - has been around at least as long, has as many users, and is as viable a platform as Blogger. Perhaps more so - indeed, after Google took over Blogger it began to incorporate some of LiveJournal's features, such as the need to have a user ID in order to comment. As this article points out, what makes LiveJournal work for its members (and what makes it impenetrable to visitors) is that it acts as a social network as well as a blogging platform. LiveJournal has always fascinated me, p From
OLDaily on December 6, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Generation Raised With Internet Grows Up
Worth noting is that the generation described in this article is not only entering the workforce, it's enetering your classroom. "Assignments are dispersed online. Students are much more likely to do research online than use the library. And even the proverbial class handout has gone the way of the Web, posted on electronic bulletin boards for downloading after class." By Marth Irvine, Associated Press, December 6, 2004 [
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OLDaily on December 6, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Object Oriented Learning Objects
Slides and the
MP3 audio (English and French, 7 megabytes) of my presentation in Monteal are now available (the audio also includes the presentations from other panelists, used with permission). In it, I present again the idea of "e-learning as dynamic, unstructured stream of learning resources obtained and organized by learners." In this talk I extend the idea bit by elaborating on the community aspect of learning resources and outlining how the learning objects should be designed in order to facilitate this. More - much more - o From
OLDaily on December 6, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Citizen Shift
National Film Board of Canada open publishing video site The National Film Board of Canada welcomes you to CitizenShift, a new interactive web site we hope will make the NFB even more accessible to emerging filmmakers, individuals and communities in Canada. CitizenShift is a web magazine that integrates written, audio and visual media and provides a space where filmmakers and citizens can share knowledge, be entertained and most importantly debate social issues. CitizenShift is inspired by Challenge f From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
A Blogger's Defense Fund?
In the wake of the
Jeopardy/Kottke incident, bloggers are starting to feel a little anxious about what protections the law affords them with regard to online speech. Here's another reason to worry: the question of whether a weblog writer can be held responsible for libel charges for simply re-posting potentially libelous material hasn't yet been definitively answered -- at least not in/by the state of California. In a
c From unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Flip-flops remote control
Jean-Luc Marchina 's
Tongs installation plays on the idea of "interactive cinema". In front of the visitor are a monitor displaying a video and a pair of Japanese wooden shoes.You step into the shoes embedded with sensors and move around the space, the way you move will decide how the video is screened. Stop walking and the film slows down then stops too. Y From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
Ditch The Network News "Dinosaur" Metaphors
"To read much of the nation's press these past few weeks you would think you were reading about Jurassic Park," former NBC News president Reuven Frank writes in a
TV Week commentary. "The network evening newscast is a dinosaur. Not a mastodon or a pterodactyl, but a dinosaur." He disagrees. "...As long as enough people watch to keep them profitable, as long as they make more money than any program that might replace them, they will be with us. Not forever, perhaps. But for a while." From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
Videoblog Aggregator: video.poorbuthappy.com
me-tv video browser:OK, so the thing has bugs. Please keep reporting them to me (peter addd poorbuthappy doooot coooom). Mainly, it doesn't pick up new posts... I will be working on it tonight (the day is for my day job). I have a list of 5 things to fix with it before I start doing new features, so that will take this week (at least!) :) From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
War Coverage, Sans Gatekeepers
SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford had an interesting
column on Friday about uncensored photographs from the tragedy in Iraq. He notes the website
Fallujahinpictures.com, which features horrific and sad images from Iraq's most war-torn city -- images often too controversial or shocking to make it past editors of mainstream news organizations.Morford wrote: "The major media ... is often hamstrung and torn. They can rarely run such photo From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 6, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
NITLE at CNI
A group of NITLE delegates is attending the Coalition for Networked Information meeting in Portland. We're experimenting with blogging the event.... From
MANE IT Network on December 6, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
The Future of Student Films
"With professional visual effects tools and technology readily available in film schools across the country, students have been able to do more than ever before. At the USC School of Cinema-Television, SCFX teaches the trade, and helps create VFX for various student films. With endowments from Robert Zemeckis, EA, AlienWare, Intel, and Adobe, cinema students are able to achieve feats never before possible in animation, rendering, and compositing. At the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, students even have access to HD equipment, a Vicon 3-D Motion Capture System, and a green screen stag From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Gmail as download point for Podcasts
As you know Google offers 1gb and bandwidth, i've checked it out and since GMail offers POP acces it's fairly easy to use a google mailbox as a storagepoint for media files I did the following: - opened a gmail account which i don't use for anything else - mailed the show to that address, in this case i used a rasterweb podcast, make sure that the subject is the name of the audio file, (the guid sort of speak), - in reality i would then publize an enclosure with the google protocol (didn't do that for now) (
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
EdTechPost Wiki bites the dust, partially resurrected
After a stressful week last week where I had my hosting company threaten to pull the plug on EdTechPost if the MT Comments script didn't stop hammering their servers (due to comments spammers and my not having upgraded to 3.12 yet) today I had a somewhat contrite (though not nearly enough in my book) help desk worker explain to me that they had a fatal error on one of their primary file servers that corrupted some of the data on *the secondary backup* server as well, and that, yes it was true, a yards-worth of directories on my site had made their way to data-Valhalla, never to be seen From
EdTechPost on December 6, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Whose space is it?
Microsoft's Michael Connolly writes about Microsoft Spaces' policy on censoring content. In order to make the site "appropriate" - and there's a world of values buried in that word! - Spaces is not allowing the use of certain words in the URL you choose, the name of your blog or the headlines you write. You can, however, use all the nasty words you want in the body of your blog. Fucking A! I understand why Microsoft doesn't want casual visitors to be bombarded with blogs with dirty names. And it's not such an unreasonable restriction (although the language it's co From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..
AllaireTV
Scott Kirsner points to the loads of creativity the Boston area is applying to the TV tech. (The link will break soon.) Of special interest: Jeremy Allaire's new company. In the mid-1990s, Allaire's first company, Allaire Corp., helped to simplify the process of building and maintaining a website. Last year, Allaire joined the Cambridge venture capital firm General Catalyst as technologist-in-residence. Now, he's starting a company with backing from General Catalyst. He won't say much, but he's interested in what he calls the democratization of video. "We have this sit From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..
New Media Journalism Ethics And The Marqui Blog Paid Assignment
I am on a paid assignment for Marqui. I have chosen and applied to this paid assignment opportunity because I am specifically interested in cost-effective solutions that can help medium to large-sized international organizations a) migrate from legacy content management systems to new agile platforms that b) empower individual authors, c) eliminate IT from the publishing workflow, and d) provide the ability to cross-purpose content to multiple media: from CD-ROM to print, Web, intranet. With this in mind, as a paid Marqui blogger my goal will be one of dutifully exploring and reporting on Marq From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on December 6, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..
Thoughts from the Open Source Summit
"Fides Quaerens Intellectum"- a Latin phrase used to open DCI’s Java Day (circa June 14, 1996).   That’s the thought that I had when leaving the
Open Source Summit held in Scottsdale, AZ late last week.  The phrase translates in to Faith in Search of Understanding.  It is interesting because it implies less of a religious fervor and more of a disciplined approach to discovery and investigation.  EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 6, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..
WordGeek Grab Bag, Dec. 6
Being an incorrigible word geek, I can't help but share these items. TOP OF THIS LIST: My new hero is Steven Pinker, a linguist and psychologist (or "cognitive scientist") from Harvard. About a month ago I picked up his 1994 book "The Language Instinct: How the mind creates language" just as I was sorting through a thorny style guide revision for a client. I began to see language, and the role of grammar, in an entirely new way. What timing! All editors should read his work. (Read the rest of this list...) From
Contentious Weblog on December 6, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..
Remembering History
Herb Greenberg (CBS Marketwatch):
Have investors learned nothing?Is it different this time? No -- just as it wasn't during the bubble. When the music stops you still need to find a chair. It's remarkable so many investors still haven't learned that lesson. What's happening, after all, is so 1999. Except that instead of Amazon, we have Overstock.Amazing how short our memories are. Perhaps capitalism re From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 6, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..
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Scott Johnson of Feedster: "That's right -- just like you can goto http://blogs.feedster.com and search only blogs, you can now goto http://spaces.feedster.com/ and search only the blogs that are found on MSN Spaces. " From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
The Economist on P2P
An
article (subscription needed) in The Economist should appeal to anyone interested in the techno-political underpinning of peer-to-peer, and an examination of how it differs from the internet itself. ”Technically, “peer-to-peer” refers to a computer’s ability to communicate directly with other computers running the same software, without having to go through intermediaries. While this might appear to describe the internet its From
unmediated on December 6, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
A Match Made in Right-Wing Heaven
AP:
Fox to provide news to Clear Channel. Clear Channel Communications Inc., the nation's largest radio station operator, has picked Fox News Radio to be the primary source of national news for most of its news and talk stations, officials announced Monday. Naturally, as a Clear Channel executive told the Wall Street Journal, there's no political element to this deal. Uh, huh. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 6, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..
The Internet: Love It and Hate It
Has there ever been a medium so mutually loved and hated as the Internet? OK, I'm sure the same same argument has been made about print, radio, television, public relations, and advertising. Billboards, too. But two stories today certainly point out the dichotomy concerning the Internet.Let's start with the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project
report called "Artists, Musicians, and the Internet," which found that only 28 percent of all artists surveyed consider file sharing to be a major threat t From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 6, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..
The world's largest whaaat?
The beta of QuackTrack, from the folks at BlogShares, says it's The world's largest blog index330,000 links to 85,000 blogs in a thousand categories It may be an excellent site (it was running very slow this morning) but they really ought to check the numbers at technorati (4,900,199), before making such claims. [Thanks to Troy Worman for the link.]... From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..
World AIDS day in Cambodia
Ed has posted
this over on our
Vietnam Bike Ride Blog. Definitely worth a read. Tom Heller is a Seattle physician doing AIDS work in Cambodia. From time to time he writes to his friends with stories and updates about his work and experiences in SE Asia. Even though Tom's work doesn't have anything to do with our bike trip, his letters are quite moving. I thought you might be interested in hearing what he has to say... From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 6, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
The Becker-Posner blog
Boy - you never can tell who's going to start writing blogs these days. The
Becker-Posner blog is a new entry on the scene.
Gary Becker is a Nobel Prize winning economist on the faculty of the University of Chicago.
Richard Posner is a federal circuit court judge and also a faculty member at Chicago, with an interest in intellectual property issues. This should be an interesting one. From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 6, 2004 at 12:01 p.m..
Why I can't join MSN Spaces
I'd like to join in the commentary about MSN spaces, but two things keep me from getting past the home page. First, I'd have to open a Passport account to join. Once Microsoft dropped its attempt to make Passport a worldwide digital ID standard I lost my rational reasons for refusing to participate. Now all I have are my irrational reasons, but they seem to be doing the trick. Second, I'm uncomfortable with the imagery it uses on its home page. Pretty girls making kissy-face? Please!... From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..
Economics of health care IT
Last week's
column on the dysfunctionality of health care IT drew comment from some folks who deal professionally with the issue. John Rodat, who is president of
Signalhealth and who blogs at
healthsignals new york, reminded me that while we all complain, "we've still got to develop the market." And while I focused somewhat myopically on issues of software architecture, Rodat gets down to the brass tacks of economic reality: < From
Jon's Radio on December 6, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..
George Tenet on who should be allowed online
The blogosphere is abuzz over what George Tenet said last Wednesday (
Washington Times - UPI): "I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control." From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 6, 2004 at 11:02 a.m..
Hätten wir mehr Bildung...
Heute vor einem Jahr war
eine von vielen nutzlosen Demos
gegen Studiengeb&uuml;hren in Gie&szlig;en. Nutzlos deswegen, da die Studiengeb&uuml;hren trotz massiver Proteste nat&uuml;rlich trotzdem durchgeboxt wurden. Absurd erscheint auch die Annahme, friedlicher Protest k&ouml;nnte sich den wirtschaftlichen Interessen einer Landesregierung entgegen stellen. From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 6, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
The ThoutReader, which is distributed at no charge at www.OSoft.com, is an open source cross-platfor ...
The ThoutReader, which is distributed at no charge at www.OSoft.com, is an open source cross-platform publishing system that makes it easy for e-book readers to browse, search, bookmark, and append content in electronic form, and allows publishers to offer rights-managed versions of their books for sale on the OSoft.com web site. Unlike other e-book systems, ThoutReader registration is simple and convenient and does not require the user to log-in or be online every time they wish to use the conte From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 6, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..
Zip codes made fun!
This map by Ben Fry is cooler than it seems at first. Type z to toggle zoom. Type in a zip code. Backspace to delete numbers. Hold down the shift key and type in new numbers. Oooh! The quantitative display of numbers! Or the qualitative display of quantitative numbers. Anyway: Ooooh, zip codes!... From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..
Handwriting Retrieval Demonstration
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~trath/prj/hw_retr/demo_intro.html Op http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~trath/prj/hw_retr/demo_intro.html wordt een beschrijving gegeven, inclusief demo's, van onderzoek naar het doorzoekbaar maken van handgeschreven teksten. De demo's maken gebruik van een collectie materiaal van George Washington. Van cruciaal belang voor het succes van dergelijke zoekacties is natuurlijk de leesbaarheid van het handschrift. Wahington had een zeer leesbare hand, zo blijkt uit de afbeeldingen. De software verdeelt de tekst automatisch in woorden, en op deze woorden kan inderdaad, From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on December 6, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..
Microsoft On 'Blog' Bandwagon - CBS News
Hoping to keep more Internet users in its branded universe, Microsoft Corp. has become the latest company to offer blogging to the masses. MSN Spaces, which debuts in test form Thursday, makes it easy to set up Web journals without needing highly tec From
Techno-News Blog on December 6, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
The religious revival in the US
On a cold December night in Denver, a storm was brewing. The sky was clear, the stars visible to most even through the haze of the downtown lamp lights. But on the sidewalks, on the TV, and on the static of talk radio you knew a battle was about to be waged. From
kuro5hin.org on December 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Article Explaining RSS from The Standard
The term RSS refers to a syndication format, sometimes known as Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. Each RSS feed is simply a text document containing a list of content items. The text document contains the headline, description and link for content items available on a web site. Why RSS? This format may look strange in a web browser, perhaps even unreadable, but there are a range of tools and technologies that leverage this common standard formatting. Similarly, HTML tagging, the code behind a web page, is unreadable unless viewed via a web browse From
RSS Blog on December 6, 2004 at 7:59 a.m..
Shelf Life
Enjoy a stroll through your campus library's stacks, because their days are numbered, writes Dennis Dillon, associate director for research services at the libraries of the University of Texas at Austin. From
Chronicle: free on December 6, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
Hard Won, Rarely Used?
A few states now offer in-state tuition to some immigrant students, but they still face many obstacles to getting college degrees. From
Chronicle: free on December 6, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
Battling the Copyright Big Boys - Katie Dean, Wired
Lobbyists for movie studios and record labels have long dominated the copyright discussion in Washington, using their power and influence to help craft law favorable to their interests. Now, a group of citizens in favor of a more consumer-friendly cop From
Techno-News Blog on December 6, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..
New Netscape embraces Firefox, IE - Paul Festa, CNET News
As of 8 a.m. PST Tuesday, Netscape fans were test-driving a prototype Netscape browser that runs on two different browsing engines: the Mozilla Foundation's Gecko engine, which powers up the Mozilla, Firefox and older Netscape browsers, and Microsoft' From
Techno-News Blog on December 6, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..
Corporate Insiders Enrich Each Other, Continued
Gretchen Morgenson (NY Times; reg req):
In the Timing of Options, Many, Um, Coincidences. As executives have binged on stock options in recent years, academic studies have detailed the opportunities for fatter pay that well-timed option grants represent. By analyzing stock price behavior after option awards, these studies concluded that corporate managers systematically receive options at prices that do not reflect favorable nonpublic information. The binge of insider enrichment From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 6, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..
Who should own the intranet?
My CM Briefing for this month discusses who should own the intranet. To quote: One of the first challenges when establishing an intranet is to determine who should have overall ownership of the site, and where the intranet team should... From
Column Two on December 6, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Navy Probes New Iraq Photos
An online photo album showing Navy SEALS with Iraqi prisoners prompts an investigation. A military prosecutor says they're simply evidence of juvenile behavior, but they may violate the Geneva Convention, which prohibits souvenir photos of prisoners of war. From
Wired News on December 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Who's Recycling Techno Trash?
No current figures exist for how much e-junk is recycled, but industry experts believe it's a sliver of the total. People don't know where to take their used electronics, and toxic components are a mounting problem. From
Wired News on December 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
The Cuban Biotech Revolution
Embargo or not, Fidel Castro's socialist paradise has quietly become a pharmaceutical powerhouse. (They're still working on the capitalism thing.) By Douglas Starr from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on December 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Cell-Tower Emission Risks Probed
After nearly a decade of debate, no one can say for sure whether radiation from cell phones is harmful to humans or not. So researchers are conducting a series of independent studies to try to settle the matter. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on December 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Study: Musicians Dig the Net
A new study finds that artists and musicians love the internet, using it to promote themselves and their work. But they are divided on whether illegal file sharing helps or hurts them. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on December 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Blogs May Be a Wealth Hazard
If you've got a blog and a job, beware. The two sometimes don't go together, as many ex-workers are finding out. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on December 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Spyware on My Machine? So What?
There's a reason why so many PCs are infected with spyware and adware: Users seem to have stopped caring about having online privacy. Many are saying spyware is a small price to pay for free applications. By Michelle Delio. From
Wired News on December 6, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
10 ways to continuously improve your intranet
Our KM Column article for December has been written by both Donna Maurer and Tina Calabria, and it explores how to continuously improve your intranet. To quote: The amount of work involved in designing a new intranet or redesigning an... From
Column Two on December 6, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..
Best of Blogs Awarded
The winners of the
Best of Blogs Award of the Deutsche Welle Onine. Being part of the jury was a challenging but fun task. The international appoach in different languages sets this award apart from other existing awards and it is determined to have a political touch especially with a foucus on the freedom of speech issues. From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 6, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..
BOBs: los premios del jurado
Ya se han revelado los weblogs premiados por el jurado en los Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2004: Chinese Blog Wins Best Weblog Award. Los premios en las categorÃas mejor tema (El hombre que comÃa diccionarios) y mejor diseño (La... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 6, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..
Firefox: the new browser contender
After years of sluggish innovation in the Microsoft-dominated world of web browsing, a new open-source internet browser called Firefox has emerged to challenge the software giant's Internet Explorer (IE). From
DEC Daily News on December 6, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
MT Blog Search Bookmarklet
I am a bit amazed I never thought of this earlier... the primary use for CogDogBlog is pure selfish- tracking things or projects so I can have a record I can find later. More often than not, i am trying to remember a site or reference from a few months/years back, and the only way to look for it is go to my, ahem,
overloaded main page, and using the search form. But in the last 15 minutes, I wrote a quick little JavaScript that allows me to do a quick search and bypass the main page. Actually I ripped it pretty much from the
cogdogblog on December 6, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
The Day Blackboard Died
Ouch, can you feel the pain, of faculty, students, tired techies... The servers hosting the Blackboard Enterprise system 6 of our colleges share had some sort of "cataclysmic" failure of the SAN- the data storage. It has been down and out about 2 weeks before finals. Ouch. I am not directly involved with Blackboard in our system, but it did mean it is unavailable for a few days while scrambling goes on to notify students. get replacement hardware, and try and resurrect the databases. I know there are folks out there pulling all nighters to get the system back, but you can bet that From
cogdogblog on December 6, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Catalan TV Live on the Internet
Watching any channel of Catalan Television from anywhere, anytime will be possible by December 15. Only a broadband Internet connection will be necessary to watch real-time TV programming on the Internet. Users also will have the possibility to watch any past program as well as to create their own programming selection. (
Here's the news in Spanish.) From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 6, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..
Wikinews in English and German
Probably everybody knows of
Wikipedia, the open-source encyclopedia, which on occasion has been named the best and most up to date source for background information on the Web (for example, the Madrid terrorist train bombings). Could this concept of a free content source where everybody can contribute be extended to a news site? It's worth a try. In November,
Wikinews started its English version (still beta), and the
German version j From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 6, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..
Wisdom Quotes Site- Smells Like a Blog... And It Is?
For those who have swirled around the blog-verse a while, the question of "what is a blog?" may feel archaic. But there are more than not who are just stumbling into it, especially now having been
deemed a word of the year. And quite often you see blogs commonly referred to as "online diaries" relegating them to the status of teen angst and cat lover clubs. Blogs can do quite a bit more- they can efficiently serve as simple web publishing tools for many sorts of sites, and often it may not be directly clear that a web From
cogdogblog on December 6, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..
Dylan talks
Bob Dylan gave his first TV interview in almost twenty years tonight, to Ed Bradley on Sixty Minutes. It was an interesting few moments with Dylan. I found the most interesting comment where he was talking about how his early songs just came to him and how he can't hope to write those kinds of songs now, but that now he can do different things (though Bradley didn't ask him what he can do now that he couldn't then - that would've been interesting). "I don't know how I got to write those songs. Those early songs were almost From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 6, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..