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Second in a series : How neurons transmit information
So far, we have covered the propagation of an action potential, but not its source nor its effects. To address these, we will examine the example of the sympathetic ganglia. The sympathetic ganglia (or sympathetic chains, or paraveretebral ganglia) are a conglomeration of lumps of neuron cell bodies, connected by conduits of axons, all of which run along each side of the spinal cord. These are responsible for coordinating, propagating, and assisting in the control of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. Now, for this discussion, it's not so important what the sympatheti From
kuro5hin.org on December 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Who Owns the Weather?
The federal government generates enormous quantities of information, nearly all of which is, at least in theory, "public". Before the Web, agencies typically delivered their data in proprietary formats to private companies which then repackaged it for sale to targeted markets. While the information did eventually get out to the public that way, it was frequently delayed, incomplete, and expensive. And then came the Web, and many agencies immediately realized they had a new way to publish their mat From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 7, 2004 at 9:01 p.m..
Jodi Dean @ Location One
Open House Wednesdays @
Location One Open House Wednesdays continue this month with political theorist Jodi Dean 8 December 2004, 7-9 pm Jodi Dean Politics of Evil
Jodi Dean is a political theorist teaching and writing in upstate New York. Her books include _"Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace" and "Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy". She is currently thinking about fascism, consumerism, and the po From
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..
Jodi Dean @ Location One
Open House Wednesdays @
Location One Open House Wednesdays continue this month with political theorist Jodi Dean 8 December 2004, 7-9 pm Jodi Dean Politics of Evil
Jodi Dean is a political theorist teaching and writing in upstate New York. Her books include _"Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace" and "Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy". She is currently thinking about fascism, consumerism, and the po From
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 8:55 p.m..
I Spent All Afternoon Writing One E-Mail Message
No, I did not have writers block or a novel to compose. Actually the email question was not even mine, but written to be sent under someone else's name. Could this be Alan's Secret Neutron Bomb that would eviscerate spammers? Nahhhh, ya must be dreamin'. Now, these are some messages that get generated from our 100% online
Learning Grants applications system. This is an internal grants program that faculty and staff from our college apply for on a yearly basis, and we are in our 5th year of having this From
cogdogblog on December 7, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..
Tufte Tour
Edward Tufte's short course "Presenting Data and Information" is coming to town in late January... can anyone who has attended one of these or knows a friend who has (or a second cousin of their mother-in-law's dentist) let me know if it is worth it? Or should I just buy the t-shirt? From
cogdogblog on December 7, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..
Follow the money II
Tim Oren
continues the
discussion about where the money is in this new world and adds two buzzphrases: * Enhance the value of the long tail, and extend it further * Every ad a wanted ad From
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
DSL Acronym Madness
While Verizon is running fiber right to the home (FTTH), SBC and Bellsouth are running fiber to the node (FTTN), then copper DSL to the home. In BellSouth's case it's ADSL2+ (10-17Mbps), but
DSLPrime says SBC's solution is really VDSL2, or more accurately, "ADSL3" (20-25Mbps). While Wall Street and many analysts think SBC and BellSouth's solutions won't provide enough bandwidth for decent video, VoIP and broadband, CNET says VDSL is
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
31d1
I just stumbled upon a
great little site for electronic musician 31d1. There are beat loops, mixes, and even great little videos, all under a Creative Commons license. The video "gloucester" was my favorite, with public-domain looking video of a fly doing its thing. From
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
BroadSnatching to a Portable Media Center
Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, not because it's hard, only because no one has ever shown folks how to do it. Engadget is going to show you a way to get some pretty amazing, scary, and completely random videos from around the web, automatically uploaded onto your Portable Media Center. (On a related note, we do think if people don't know how and where to easily get content on their devices, they'll likely turn to file sharing networks and become pseudo-pirates, and now with
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
Upcoming Event: Digital Mix at Yale Law
Public Knowledge and Yale’s
Information Society Project have an event coming up this Friday: Digital Mix – Don’t waste culture, recycle art! […] Digital Mix, a one-of-a-kind musical event, brings the avant-garde of music to the future of law in the digital age. The event is sponsored by the Yale Information Society Project, a center for the study of law and technology at Yale Law School, and Pub From
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
Arranging Ideas Grab Bag, Dec. 7
Here are some items related to the theme of "arranging ideas" (information management, design, and architecture) that have caught my attention recently. TOP OF THIS LIST: InfoYou: Assessing and Addressing Information Overload. Over at "Metaforix" (one of my favorite blogs), Lois Ambash is developing a new service for coping with information overload. I was one of the pilot-testers for her survey, and I recommend taking it. It's very interesting! (Read the rest of this list...) From
Contentious Weblog on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
Media & Journalism Grab Bag, Dec. 7
Here are some more items about news, media, and journalism that have caught my interest recently. TOP OF THIS LIST: BBC bamboozled by spoof site. On Dec. 3, the venerable TV news show "BBC World" broadcast an interview with Jude Finisterra, who claimed to be a spokesperson for Dow Chemical. In the interview, Finisterra offered a $12 billion (US) settlement to the 120,000 surviving victims of the Bhopal disaster. Trouble is, Finisterra is a hoaxster... (Read the rest of this list...) From
Contentious Weblog on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
Blogs, Tomorrow's Learning, and Why I Blog
Nice post that puts some pieces together, linking some motivtions for blogging with the idea of self directed learning with an observation on the range of learning available online, from the playfulness of Slashdot to the dedicated seriousness of an MIT course. The author writes, "What we each need to learn is idiosyncratic. The trappings of formal learning environments need to be approached with extreme caution. Learning needs to get back to play to succeed." By Jim McGee, McGee's Musings, December 6, 2004 [
OLDaily on December 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
College Libraries: the Long Goodbye
Whatever replaces the library must be some kind of library, and that whatever replaces the book must be some kind of book. So it seems after reading this article, one in which the writer, a lover of libraries, comes to grips with the decline of the library (and appears to have moved into Stage Seven: Acceptance). But of course there's no reason to expet that online knowledge of the future will resemble the book and the library. But not everybody's ready for that yet. By Dennis Dillon, Chronicle of Higher Education, December 10, 2004 [
OLDaily on December 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
College Board Wants SAT Statistics Taken Off Web Site
Fair use or copyright violation? A group critical of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has posted results showing that minority and poor applicants scored lower than white and upper-class kids. The College Board, which owns the SAT, is demanding that the information be removed from the
FairTest website, arguing that it violates copyright. The College Board should either create better tests, live with the criticism, or get out of the game; misusing copyright to squelch criticism isn't fair ball. Via University Business.
OLDaily on December 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Blink
Some people call it intuition. Some people call it making a snap judgement. Whatever it's called, it seems clear that the human mind has the capacity to reach correct decisions quickly on the basis of very little information. Well - decision, at any rate. Not always correct; it depends on the circumstances. The thing is, the same capacity that makes people suspicious of me because of my long hair is what lets doctors diagnose heart attacks on the spin of a dime. Anyhow, this item is a preview of a book about that phenomenon. I don't typically do book previews (so please don't st From
OLDaily on December 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Thunderbird
Thunderbird 1.0 is a go - which means I can upgrade now from Thunderbird 0.3, which I've been using for the last year or so (Thunderbird is the Mozilla-based email client - just like Outlook (but without the calendar - that's
Sunbird - still in development), except it won't leak viruses or send spam to all your friends). By Various Authors, December 7, 2004 [
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OLDaily on December 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research
I'm not really a big fan of taxonomies - their main use seems to be to give professors something to name after themselves. A taxonomy - being an organization of entities by keying on particular properties - is always relative to a use (and one would hope - but not always find - the properties relevant to the use). The only use identified for this particular taxonomy is that it is "useful to researchers who seek to pursue programmatic research and theoretical advancement from a variety of disciplinary areas," and is is so by virtue of being simple and universally applicable (or so says the From
OLDaily on December 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
MT 3.121, Blacklist v2.01b and Comment Spam Blocking Bliss
I'm probably the last Moveable Type user to realize this, but boy does your blogging life get a whole lot easier by upgrading to MT 3 and using the newly updated MT Blacklist 2.01b release. The new Blacklist plugin very handily throws comments with too many URLs or ones on really old posts into your list of comments needing moderation without posting them to your site (in addition to blocking ones it knows outright to be spam), and the ability to batch delete pending comments in MT means that maybe 1 out 1000 comment spam attempts in the last week or so got through to my site, and deal From
EdTechPost on December 7, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..
The Vision Thing
I've been thinking more about the whole
barriers to entry thing these last couple of days, mostly because I'm hitting some bumps in my own practice. Nothing as dire as what
James experienced, I don't think, but unsettling nonetheless. And what I'm realizing is that much of what K-12 educators are rubbing up against in trying to figure out the read/write Web has very little with figuring out the technology. It's figuring out the disruption. Not much of an "A Ha!" From
weblogged News on December 7, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..
Fun WIKI Overview ...
If you have a few minutes, and you're interested in a humorous,creative approach to an introduction to WIKIs, check out Brian Lamb's
WIKI Radio. Very good stuff! ;) From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 7, 2004 at 6:01 p.m..
MBAs aren't as exclusive as they used to be
Black cat gets MBA degree from an online college. :devious: And not just any MBA, an executive MBA. Actually the so-called "college" is really a diploma mill. But who can resist a story that features a picture of the talented feline in question wearing a graduate's cap and a deep, deep frown? From
silentblue | Quantified on December 7, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..
Thunderbird goes 1.0
Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client has gone to full official 1.0 release. So far I don't notice a lot of difference from 0.9 (though I do like the new icon for search-based folders). Congratulations once again to the Mozilla team! From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 7, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..
EARLI 2005 submission deadline
Dear colleagues, Please be informed that the final date for submitting your proposal for the EARLI 2005 conference is Friday, 10th of December, 2004 at 24:00 Costas Constantinou, Conference Manager The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (
EARLI) holds this conference every second year. Since they have extended their deadline until th From
Seblogging News on December 7, 2004 at 2:50 p.m..
Video Feeds Follow Podcasting
With the success of podcasting -- a recent technology that lets anyone subscribe to and play back audio feeds on an iPod -- the natural next step is technology that can do the same with video. Now comes video. Already, there are rudimentary applications like
Vogbrowser, which offers video feeds to which people can subscribe, much like they do with RSS feeds. There are more products like this on the way. "We think of it internally as TiVocasting," said Scott Rafer, president and chief executive of the blog search From
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 12:55 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
unmediated on December 7, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..
Thoughts on Handwritten Search
Christopher Coulter of
TabletPCpost.com sent along this
interesting article about a project at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst that allows researchers to search handwritten historical documents, something many TabletPC users do every day.I have to wonder, though: If they have the ability to transcribe handwritten words for the purpose of a search, why don't they just transcribe the entire document so we can all read them online? Better yet, attach the conten From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 7, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..
The semantic web, digital identity, and Internet governance
Consider Eliyon, a company that's gathered public information about more than 22 million people to support sales, recruiting, and other applications. As it turns out, I am several of those people. In addition to my current title, InfoWorld Test Center lead analyst, I show up as executive editor of Byte Magazine and contributor to Linux Magazine. And while those were once accurate descriptions of me, I have never been a member of Blue Titan's board of advisors, and I am not the inventor of RSS. It's true I co From
Jon's Radio on December 7, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Writing, Editing, and Rights Grab Bag, Dec. 7
Here are some items related to writing, editing, content style, and content rights that caught my attention over the last month. TOP OF THIS LIST: "A Kinder, Gentler Copyright Bill?" by Katie Dean, Wired News, Nov. 22. On Nov. 20, the US Senate passed S 3021, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2004. The bill has been passed on to the House of Representatives. S 3021 is a scaled-back version of HR 2391, a far-reaching package of restrictive intellectual property laws. The advocacy group Public Knowledge considera the scaled-back bill a consumer victory. However, with the way Washing From
Contentious Weblog on December 7, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..
Writing PhD dissertation
Terri Senft points to a great essay by William Germano,
If Dissertations Could Talk, What Would They Say? It's about making a book out of your dissertation and it tells a lot about differences between them...A dissertation fulfills an academic requirement; a book fulfills a desire to speak broadly. A dissertation rehearses scholarship in the field; a book has absorbed that scholarship. A dissertation can be as long as From
Mathemagenic on December 7, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..
The Business Of Blogging - Business Week
Just a year ago, blogs were viewed as a collection of off-the-cuff ramblings in cyberspace read mainly by online devotees. Then, as the election season heated up, bloggers gained new prominence, writing up-to-the-minute news and politics nuggets th From
Techno-News Blog on December 7, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..
David Reed at the Berkman on Wednesday
Good news! David P. Reed is going to be the guest speaker at the series I'm leading at the Berkman Center on Wednesday. This is from the blurb for the event: The Social Effect of Architecture David Reed is a co-author of the seminal paper on the "End-to-End" architecture of the Net, the creator of what's now called Reed's Law that locates the value of the Internet in its ability to enable groups to form, and is a leading proponent of Open Spectrum research. Series host David Weinberger will interview Dr. Reed about what effect the technical architure of the... From
Joho the Blog on December 7, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
Giant Steps
Flash app displays progressions of Coltrane's Giant Steps. From
Open Artifact on December 7, 2004 at 9:58 a.m..
Blog Torrent
"Blog Torrent is software that makes it much easier to share and download files using the bittorrent protocol. " From
Open Artifact on December 7, 2004 at 9:58 a.m..
Computer games don’t affect kids
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. Kristian Wilson From
Open Artifact on December 7, 2004 at 9:58 a.m..
Homework
December is a good month for doing work around the house. We purchased new kitchen applicances (Mary likes the ice despenser in the fridg...). A new counter top has been ordered and will be installed mid-month -- we'll paint the kitchen soon after. Will probably paint the ... From
Open Artifact on December 7, 2004 at 9:58 a.m..
Zippy coincidence
Mark "Too Much Time on His Hands" Dionne writes, with reference to the zip code map: Once upon a time my zip code and my social security number both started with the same three digits. How many people have exactly the same SS number and (nine digit) zip? I'm no mathematician — as I'm about to prove — but aren't the odds of having them match 1 in 999,999,999? With a US population of 300,000,000, wouldn't the odds of there being a current match be about 0.3? Now, since I've never gotten a fact or a simple mathematical equation right,... From
Joho the Blog on December 7, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..
Dean of the Democrats
Here's how Tim Grieve's excellent article at Salon starts: Harry Reid says Democrats have to "swallow their pride" and move toward the middle. Harry Reid says he admires Antonin Scalia's "brilliance" and could imagine voting to confirm him as chief justice of the United States. Harry Reid says he'd rather "dance" with George W. Bush than "fight" him. Harry Reid says: "I'm the face of the Democratic Party today." Harry Reid may be right. For a party that came within 119,000 Ohio votes of ousting a sitting president in a time of war, the Democrats are sounding awfully de From
Joho the Blog on December 7, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..
The Measurement of Potential (1)
Summary: It’s one thing to say that we will develop the potential in each child. It’s another to know what we’re talking about. In order to see what schools need to build from we will need a means to make an estimate of potential [It will be some early “snapshot” of potential, just how that snapshot is to be taken is our concern. The estimate of potential will be an extrapolation from present behavioral indications]. Ill have to spend some thought on this before I can lay out the specs for an evaluation of how well schools are doing in this territory. Wi From
Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on December 7, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..
New Article Benefits to RSS
The big benefit to RSS is that individuals opt-in to content of interest, totally controlling the flow of information that they receive. If the quality of the content in the feed declines, users simply remove the feed from their RSS reader and they will not receive any additional updates from that source. The RSS reader acts as an aggregator, allowing users to view and scan multiple content streams in a timely fashion. Complete Article -
Benefits to RSS From
RSS Blog on December 7, 2004 at 8:58 a.m..
2004 Weblog Awards
Here's the collection of blogs for the 2004 Weblog Awards. You can vote here also. No edu category, but James is handling that. From
Open Artifact on December 7, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..
15 Minutes At a Connected Teacher's Desktop
Mrs. Maldonado is in a hurry. Of course, as a 7th grade Language Arts teacher she's always in a hurry. It just goes with the territory. There are papers to grade, lessons to review, and of course, she wants to stay in touch with the world outside her classroom door. Soon enough her room will fill with the first group of the 100+ students she'll see today. She smiles as always in anticipation of the mixture of young teen drama and enthusiasm that will descend upon her and her classroom in... From
Brain Frieze on December 7, 2004 at 7:55 a.m..
Tell it like it is
Shawn Callahan has written an article on the use of anecdotes in the corporate environment. To quote: It's a workplace anecdote. A worker is talking about their life at work, about how they get things done, who they work with... From
Column Two on December 7, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..
Fine tuning your enterprise search
Martin Belam has written an article on fine-tuning enterprise search, based on his presentation at the recent Online Information conference. To quote: The result of this is the necessity to fine tune your enterprise search system once it has been... From
Column Two on December 7, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Squeezing Out Monkey Clones
Researchers who once dismissed another team's cloning method used the disputed process to create monkey embryos. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on December 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Site Bars Black Box Voting Head
A politically progressive website at the forefront of discussions about electronic-voting machines and election irregularities is barring Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris from posting to its site. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on December 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Roads Go Wild, Get Safer
No street signs. No crosswalks. No accidents. Surprise: Making driving seem more dangerous could make it safer. By Tom McNichol from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on December 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Video Feeds Follow Podcasting
Just as people currently use newsreaders to read syndicated text from blogs and news sites, a few hackers are creating applications that let users view syndicated video feeds. Think of it as TiVocasting. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on December 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Second Career for Old Robot: Art
A German art group reprograms old assembly-line robots to become autonomous artists. The machines draw, spin tunes and dance in public. The group wants to show that the industrial beasts can create beauty. By David Cohn. From
Wired News on December 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Florida E-Vote Study Debunked
Statisticians release an analysis debunking a previous Berkeley study that said President Bush received more votes than he should have in Florida counties that used touch-screen voting machines. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on December 7, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Sunlight to Fuel Hydrogen Future
Solar power these days comes from cells that turn light into electricity, but researchers are now working on materials that can crank out hydrogen. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on December 7, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Convoq Does It Better: ASAP 2.0
Convoq ASAP has just released version 2.0 of its conferencing/collaboration/live presentation tool. I have therefore contacted Christopher Herot, Convoq Chief technical Officer and in a live VoIP session online I have asked him about the new products features and improvements.... From
Kolabora.com on December 7, 2004 at 5:54 a.m..
Philosophy and Wine
El ejemplo de los encuentros informales Beers & Blogs cunde más allá de la blogosfera. La Universidad de Londres organiza Philosophy and Wine: from Science to Subjectivity (patrocinado por Corney and Barrow y Ridge Vineyards). VÃa: Atrium.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 7, 2004 at 5:52 a.m..
Premio a la mejor investigación de un caso de corrupción
El Instituto Prensa y Sociedad con sede en Lima, ha convocado un Premio latinoamericano a la mejor investigación periodÃstica de un caso de corrupción en América Latina y el Caribe. El premio a la mejor investigación sobre corrupción publicada en... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 7, 2004 at 5:52 a.m..
'Blog' picked up as word of the year
Gab's diesen Ritterschlag nicht schon letztes Jahr? Egal: "The term 'blog' has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher." Dieser publisher ist kein Geringerer als Merriam-Webster, und er liefert seine Definition gleich mit:... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 7, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..
British Library's Online Learning Package Now Live
A new online learning package showcasing the British Library's services for public librarians across the UK is now live. The package - supported by the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) - has been designed as a virtual 'tour' showing public librarians From
Online Learning Update on December 7, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..
IR Recognized for Training Initiative Powered by GeoLearning LMS
GeoLearning customer receives 2004 European Electronics Industry Training AwardGeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of managed learning servcies and hosted learning platforms, announced today that its customer, International Rectifier Corporation (NYSE:IRF), a world leader in power management technology, has been recognized with the 2004 European Electronics Industry Training Award sponsored by Reed Electronics Group and Electronics Weekly magazine. From
DEC Daily News on December 7, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..
Always Online -- Virtual World
Massively multiplayer virtual worlds are transforming the game industry, and changing how its players interact with each other and the real world around them. From
DEC Daily News on December 7, 2004 at 2:49 a.m..
A Sense of Self as Audience
My freshman composition class just wrapped up a three-day series of speeches, where students present and share their research to the rest of the class in a relatively formal address, before a videocamera. After they're done, they have to field questions from the class. Later they will write reflections based... From
PEDABLOGUE on December 7, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..
Visiting the (Your Word Here) Empire
I'm looking forward to giving a talk tomorrow at
Microsoft Research in Redmond. The topic, not surprisingly, is how technology and journalism are colliding and what that means. In addition to my standards points, I'll offer a few suggestions for the Microsoft folks on how they could make their technology better for tomorrow's emerging grassroots media creators. Several people I know, upon hearing that I was visiting Microsoft, wondered if a detente was in the works between me and our favorite monopolist. I always reply to questions l From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 7, 2004 at 1:46 a.m..