Edu_RSS
It's all about rich e-learning experiences
Here are my thoughts on the current
discussion between focusing on tasks and focusing on information in an e-learning course. Amy Gahran points out that a task-oriented approach is more effective in most e-learning than an information oriented approach. My point is that a decision-making or an execution-based approach is even better. Decisions are what business organizations are about. The need to perform a task or to acquire inf From
elearningpost on December 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
More U.S. Torture Detailed
CNN:
ACLU: Records show Marines tortured Iraqi prisoners. The abuse of naked Iraqi prisoners received the bulk of publicity, but those incidents were just some of many clandestine occurrences in which detainees endured shock, burns and mock executions, newly released Pentagon records reveal. Denials from the Pentagon and White House aside, no one can plausibly suggest anymore that the top people in the Bush administration and military did not know about what was going on. This behavior was too wi From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 15, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..
The (Classroom) Blog: A Moment for Literacy, A Moment for Giving Pause
Nice paper outlining work in educational blogging with a good range of reports from other implementations of the same technology. Not surprisingly, the author observes that "blogging will make sense for some and not for others." Not surprising, maybe, but as he observes, "often, in our response to calls to embrace the future, as educators we forget what should otherwise be basic to our own meaning-making and instruction. As a medium/tool, the classroom blog can give students the opportunity to write for a public audience... However, this tool should not be treated as normative, prescriptive, o From
OLDaily on December 15, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Rocketinfo First Search Engine to Release News Search API
Canadian-based RocketInfo has been providing a news aggregation and syndication for some time now, targeting a base of resources that is larger than Edu_RSS or Google News but smaller than the major RSS aggregators. The result is a targeted collection of news-centric resources that can be used to generate high-quality content feeds. RocketInfo also markets RSS aggregators and clients. The company this week announced its news search API "designed for companies creating applications that require embedded search functionality and real-time access to current news and business information." By Pr From
OLDaily on December 15, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Online UK Library Network Goes Live With First Key Phase
From the article: "The first phase of the new People's Network Service was launched to library professionals yesterday. The People's Network Online Enquiry Service will deliver a real-time information service to the public by providing 'live' access to library and information professionals across the internet." Cool. Interesting. You can find the People's Network
here. By Unattributed, PublicTechnology.net, December 15, 2004 [
OLDaily on December 15, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web
The authors, who work for Nature Publishing Group, have been working on RSS content aggregation for a while now. The same group released
Urchine, an RSS aggregator, on SourceForge recently. This article accompanies the soft launch of
Connotea, "a social bookmarking tool like a kind of scientific 'del.icio.us' or 'CiteULike'," according to their email. The authors put the case bluntly in their second paragraph. "The bastion of online publishing is under threat as never before. RSS is the very From
OLDaily on December 15, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..
Swarmstreaming: like Bittorrent for streams
Justin Chapweske is the creator of Swarmcast, the first-ever "swarming" download technology -- the grandaddy of technologies like Bittorrent. He's just released "
Swarmstreaming" -- a technology to make streaming go better if more people use it at once: I'm proud to finally unveil swarmstreaming our third generation of swarming algorithms that are designed for the fastest downloads of web content and multimedia without any special server software or silly .swarm files. This is probably our most exciting advancement since the origin From
unmediated on December 15, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..
Personal Fabbing for Pros
Want to start making actual products, without a factory? We've mentioned eMachineShop.com before as a good personal-fab resource for the artist or the engineer doing a one-off prototype, but what if your needs are more sophisticated (you use your own CAD software, you need more than just machining, you want a few hundred units made, etc.)? Then the place to go is
MFGquote.com, a sort of a Ebay for fabbing-- you post your drawings, fabbers bid on them, you choose who you like. Besides just machining, you can get layup, extrusions, casting, weldi From
unmediated on December 15, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..
Linux vs. Windows Vulnerability Myths
The most common reason for Windows having so many security holes exposed is that since Windows is by far the most common desktop OS, naturally virus writers target it. Not only is the impact much bigger, the reasoning goes, but... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 15, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..
WebCT: a major shift of emphasis
The evaluation reports in this series usually feature several products at once. The current review, however, comes at a time when one of the most widely used (and expensive) online learning management systems is undergoing a major change in its... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 15, 2004 at 9:54 p.m..
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter
The finest journalist ever to get fired for telling the truth is dead at age 49. The official cause of death on the death certificate will be suicide. But, as we shall see, he had much help getting to that point. The story of the life and death of Gary Webb says much about the state of American politics and what passes as "journalism" in today's America. From
kuro5hin.org on December 15, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..
Bad Sex
For the past 12 years, the Literary Review has held an annual Bad Sex competition aimed at exposing "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it". This year's winner, drawn from a shortlist that included Will Self, Andre Brink and Nadeem Aslam, was veteran journalist and author Tom Wolfe. From
kuro5hin.org on December 15, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..
More Costco press - it's a trend!
On Monday I noted a couple of articles from unusual places lauding Costco as a place to shop. Then today, I notice that this week's issue of the
Seattle Weekly (our local left-of-center free weekly rag) has a cover article with the headline
"Company For The People" and the blurb says: Costco is defying Wall Street and whipping Wal-Mart, proving that you can succeed in business with 'blue state' values. Is this what they m From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 15, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..
p2p software in fifteen lines of Python
Ed Felten has
written a P2P application in fifteen lines of Python code - cool! TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless. Pointed out by From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on December 15, 2004 at 8:02 p.m..
Ray Ozzie On Online Collaboration
"The nature of work is changing. You work from home. You work from the office. You work on the road. You work weekends wherever you are." Who is talking is Ray Ozzie, CEO of Groove, one of the most interesting... From
Kolabora.com on December 15, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
A Year in the Life of a Manager
This application is a training tool for managers who work at companies where the Lifescape EAP (Employee Assistance Program) is used. The application trains managers to understand how to use EAP and improve morale and increase worker productivity. From
eLearnopedia on December 15, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..
Outbreak v.2
Outbreak! is an interactive teaching tool for use by students and science educators. Players must use microbial identification techniques to identify the causative agent of an illness outbreak. From
eLearnopedia on December 15, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..
WebDAV
I can't believe that. I'm looking for a manageable (in terms of rights) WebDAV space for 2 or 3 days now. I can't come up with one host that offers the possibility to create subfolder with distinct access permissions. Did I miss something, any ideas? From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 15, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..
The Importance of Being Richard Branson
Richard Branson knows the value of being a global personality. The founder and owner of The Virgin Group told a satellite telecast audience last month that "when you can pick up the phone and call the President of Nigeria, it cuts a lot of corners. You can get things done that you couldn't otherwise." Speaking to a global audience during the telecast, Branson, who was named one of the 25 most influential business leaders of the past 25 years in the book, Lasting Leadership, discussed his views on brand-building, leadership and delegation, among other themes. From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
An Unbiased Way to Rank Schools: Some Changes in the Lineup
Early decision (ED), an increasingly popular and controversial program offered by most private and many public colleges and universities in the U.S., allows applicants to apply to a first-choice college and get an early decision, often by mid-December, if they promise to attend (provided they are accepted). But in recent years, ED and other strategic admissions programs have come under fire, with critics contending that they are an easy way for schools to manipulate their admission and matriculation rates. A recent paper by Wharton finance professor Andrew Metrick and three colleagues offers a From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Ralph Shrader's Leadership Test: Is Anybody Following?
Ralph Shrader, chairman and chief executive of Booz Allen Hamilton, would seem to have little in common with Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones. Shrader, besides being the head of a management consultancy, is a buttoned-down electrical engineer. Jagger, of course, is a strutting rock singer. But a study commissioned by Booz Allen says the Stones represent enduring value, along with other institutions like Oxford University, General Electric and the Salvation Army. According to the study, these institutions share the ability to innovate and adapt, leadership that balances stability From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Clash of the Titans: When Top Executives Don't Get Along with the Team
Testifying in a Delaware court last month, Stanley P. Gold, a former Walt Disney Co. director, joined a long list of company executives who had dirty laundry to air regarding the 1995 hiring of Michael Ovitz as Disney's president and his subsequent firing in 1996. "This was two big volatile egos banging against each other and they just didn't get along," Gold testified, referring to Eisner and Ovitz. While the Eisner/Ovitz scenario presents an extreme case of management dysfunction, it contains all the elements of what companies seeking to build successful management teams From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
What's the Buzz About Buzz Marketing?
There's a new marketing catchphrase that's getting rave word-of-mouth reviews. From articles in the popular press to conversations in the classroom, huge companies to boutique marketing firms, suddenly it seems you can't talk about new products without addressing 'buzz marketing.' "People are buzzing about buzzing," says Wharton marketing professor Barbara Kahn who adds, along with others, that word-of-mouth marketing has long been recognized as a way to influence consumer behavior. What's new about buzz marketing is the structure and hype surrounding it From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
The Economic Outlook for 2005
Investors, consumers and businesses have had a fair share of concerns in 2004: high fuel prices, less-than-stellar job growth and volatile swings in the stock market, which remains well below the highs set four years ago. But by many measures the year is ending well. Oil prices dropped in December, hiring has picked up, and the Standard & Poor's 500 returned nearly 8% from the start of the year through mid-December. Will the good news continue in 2005? The smart money says the coming year will probably bring decent, but not terrific, gains in economic growth and stock prices, accordin From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Women in Business: Report from the Trenches
Wharton Women in Business celebrated its 25th anniversary in November with a conference that focused on "Celebrating Achievements and Possibilities." While a keynote presentation by Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, confirmed the success that women are having in corporate America, panels entitled "Walking the Leadership Tightrope" and "Navigating through Interpersonal Conflict" suggested the challenges women still face in today's tough business environment. In this special section, we cover Jung's speech, the "Leadership Tightrope" panel and a second panel on "Building From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Offshore Outsourcing: What's Working, What's Not
The globalization of services, as represented by the sustained growth of business process outsourcing (BPO), continues to thrive. In this special report prepared in collaboration with consulting firm A.T. Kearney, Knowledge@Wharton explores several emerging trends in the BPO landscape. Among them: new competitive models that BPO providers are using to drive growth; the shifting geography of BPO locations; and the challenges and risks that constitute life after BPO. From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
The IBM/Lenovo Deal: Victory For China?
With the sale of IBM's personal computer business to Chinese company Lenovo Group Limited, two emerging trends quickly move front and center: The increasing commoditization of technology and the emergence of Chinese companies as global players. Wharton professors say both trends warrant watching and raise some key questions. Can Lenovo become a global player and integrate IBM's U.S. managers? Will IBM's PC customers defect to rivals like Dell Computer? Can state-owned Chinese companies become dominant in the international markets? Professors from Wharton and Universities in Chin From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 15, 2004 at 5:59 p.m..
Accessible writing links
All the technology in the world won't matter if your web content is hard to read. This can be a particular problem for anyone who uses "insider" talk, like research institutes, colleges, and nonprofits. This isn't a complete list, but I recently found two sites that might help. Crawford Killian's "Writing for the Web" blog -- Discussion and resources from someone who stays informed. The Poynter online-writing listserv -- Low-traffic list for the web-writing community. A couple of people post writing seminar announcements. Readability.info -- Analyzes web text for reading level, From
Curb Cut Learning on December 15, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..
No data base for a few days
This is a test message to see if there is life after server failure. There is nothing quite as much fun as telling big bunches of students that their big projects aren't available and we don't know when they will be available. Ah, such is life. From
Weblogs in Higher Education on December 15, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..
Forbes.com: Extreme Blogging
Now I wonder - in adding just a small remark - if not an integration of different complimentary practices of digesting and emitting information, data, and knowledge is the most needed further development of advanced webpublishing technologies. With integration I mean that the semantics of our outputs are essential not the practices that create them. Thus what we need is an overarching architecture that leverages the different formats of weblogs, wikis, discussions, document management into something I'd call a TagSpace. (Though on the the other hand tag-spam is just around the corner) From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 15, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..
Text, Audio, and Editing: I Stand Somewhat Corrected
In my recent article about podcasting I wrote something that I'd like to retract, clarify, and take another stab at. Here's what I wrote: "Listening to unscripted speech provides a more direct experience of how the speaker is thinking. It From
Contentious Weblog on December 15, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..
Speegle Speaks
speegle.co.uk is a google like search engine that reads the results to you out loud. Not all that usefull, but a pretty good demo of this company's technology.... From
Curb Cut Learning on December 15, 2004 at 3:53 p.m..
Writing: three words
From
What we write and why by Michael Benton, Alan Clinton, Davin Heckman, Subhash Jaireth, Marc Ouellette, and Matthew Wolf-Meyer 1: <4> There are three words that can be invoked to illuminate the urge that compels me to write. The first word is respons(e)/ibility. It seems that I, like many others who write, situate myself within Socratic tradition according to which our place is also in the Agora and the bazaar, the places from and in which we can participate in the "great" symposium of h From
Mathemagenic on December 15, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..
Painting A Vision for the Future of E-Paper News
Vin Crosbie paints
his vision of the 2010 newspaper, seeing a portable, wireless and flexible electronic paper devices that streams enhanced RSS feeds...These wouldn't be today's plain-text, graphically empty RSS feeds. Instead, this future form of RSS would encapsulate publisher's or broadcaster's entire daily report in full graphical, interactive layout. This would include all hyperlinks to video or other multimedia. Imagine a hybrid of digital edition and website; all the gr From
unmediated on December 15, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..
P2P in 15 Lines of Code
TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless. For more information about TinyP2P, see
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/tinyp2p.html. From
unmediated on December 15, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..
A Citizen-Journalism Pioneer Seeks to Partner
I've been writing
lately about some new "citizen-journalism" ventures popping up -- which prompted Ari Soglin, managing editor of
GetLocalNews, to remind me that his company has been plying those waters for nearly five years now (perhaps ahead of its time).GetLocalNews has established a large network of local websites in the U.S. designed around the contributions of citizen journalists, though initially the model was for each site to have an editor and reporter as w From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 15, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..
OpenVIP
OpenVIP is a flexible video-processing tool for Unix and Windows. From
unmediated on December 15, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Slashdot for TV web producers
Say, I'm thinking about adding a bulletin board/forum on Lost Remote exclusively for TV web producers. Sort of a Slashdot for TV web dev. (We used to run an email discussion group, but there's just too much email and spam to manage.) Your thoughts? Would you use the online forum? (Go leave your thoughts over at
this LostRemote post) From
unmediated on December 15, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Bill is wise. Bill is kind. Bill is benevolent.
"People forget that he is medically, biologically, a genius," Microsoft codemonkey Michael enthuses in Douglas Coupland's fictional Microserfs. "Not one um or ah from his mouth all lunch; no wasted brain energy. Truly an inspiration for us all." It is only fitting then, according to Microsoft Watch, Microsoft today released a FAQ on the man, the myth, the legend...Bill Gates. In a three-page Word document, Gates amically chats about how luck had a major role in his success and the future of artificial intelligence, and urges young readers to not drop out of college like he did. From
silentblue | Quantified on December 15, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
What if...
What if I wouldn't have to work on all the things I have to work and would have as much time for blogging as I like? What if I could follow those interesting links, read all unread stuff in bloglines, comment to all interesting posts, write myself, write on all topics that come as "would be nice to blog", write pieces that would connect bits and pieces from other weblogs and have time to craft writing? Would it change anything? Probably not. I'll always have more to read and more to write about than time to do it. Don't know a better exercise for learni From
Mathemagenic on December 15, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..
Better MT-ing in 6 Bites
I've been at the blogging biz using MovableType (MT) since
April 19, 2003, and along the way I've been putting aside some ideas for things I have done beyond the out of the box set up that might help others. Also, since I am still living in the free land of MT 2.661, I have no idea how much transfers to the 3.$$$$ versions. Quite a good chunk of this is MovableType specific only, but since I have been recommending new blog From
cogdogblog on December 15, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
Keller on cooking and success
There's a great interview with my hero Thomas Keller at Epicurious.com. In particular, his musings on passion and community echo my feelings and experience with food. (Interview questions in bold): One of the great things about bistros, and not just about bistros but about cooking and dining in general, is the sense of community. Do you feel that?It's a real social interaction, whether you're cooking or whether you're eating. You have to feel comfortable in your environment. In the restaurant, we enjoy doing what we're doing together. That's really one of the wo From
megnut on December 15, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
Bigger Photos: A Site for Sore Eyes
Among my online-news industry pet peeves is the unfortunate fact that most news websites run photography too small. Yeah, I know that many site editors feel compelled not to go overboard on image size because many visitors still access the Web on slow dial-up connections. Frankly, I don't buy it, and I think it's time to treat online photography better in this age when broadband penetration is so significant, even if not yet universal.So, I'm heartened to see the newspaper
Dagbladet of Norway institute a redesign for its websi From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 15, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..
Update project database
It has been a while since I have updated my e-portfolio initatives database. So if you would like me to add your project/pilot/initative please send the details in. You can search through the entries currently in. ERADC - e-portfolios database... From
ERADC Blog on December 15, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..
In Google we trust?
Dave Winer today points to an Scott Rosenberg's excellent take on Google's new library venture. Scott concludes: The public has a big interest in making sure that no one business has a chokehold on the flow of human knowledge. As long as Google's amazing project puts more knowledge in more hands and heads, who could object? But in this area, taking the long view is not just smart -- it's ethically essential. So as details of Google's project emerge, it will be important not just to rely on Google's assurances but to From
Jon's Radio on December 15, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..
Pale Male and the City
I missed a great essay yesterday from MUG entitled, Why Pale Male Matters. (For those who aren't aware, Pale Male (and his mate Lola) are red-tailed hawks that have lived for 11 years in a nest they built on the cornice of a Fifth Avenue co-op overlooking Central Park. A week ago, the co-op board removed the nest, leaving the hawks homeless. Protesters have been at the scene ever since, as the hawks float overhead.) Editor Charlie Suisman writes: 'What sort of city shall we be?' isn't a question that most New Yorkers take time to answer in their course of their daily lives From
megnut on December 15, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
The joy of a nice knife
One of the things I realized while working at the restaurant on Nantucket was how dull my knives were at home. At Fifty-Six everyone's knives were razor sharp, and it made slicing and dicing nearly effortless, albeit dangerous. When I got home I got a stone and spent about an hour sharpening my two knives: an http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RFLI/ref=nosim/megnutcom" title="Henckels Pro S 8-Inch High Carbon Stainless Steel Chef's Knife">8" chef's and a 4" paring, both from Henckels. (I have a few other knives, but I find I never use them. These two do the trick for From
megnut on December 15, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..
Chronicle exposes widespread plagiarism
In password-protected articles, The Chronicle of Higher Education devotes a good part of its current print issue to exploring plagiarism in academe and what is (and is not) being done to curtail it.... From
MANE IT Network on December 15, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..
Linux vs. Windows Vulnerability Myths
The most common reason for Windows having so many security holes exposed is that since Windows is by far the most common desktop OS, naturally virus writers target it. Not only is the impact much bigger, the reasoning goes, but... From
Indiana IT on December 15, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Google's Advertising Model Has Big Impact in Africa
As a sign of
Google's growing success in the pay-per-click contextual advertising arena, the search engine recently moved its way into the list of top five online advertisers in South Africa. This was according to statistics by
Nielsen Media Research South Africa for the period January-September 2004. For the same period last year, Google wasn't even represented in the list of top 100 online advertisers, so Google's rise to become one of South Africa's top five online advertisers has been nothing From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 15, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..
LeMonde Lets Users Blog
LeMonde readers can now
start a blog on the French newspaper's website, and see their unedited writings published under the LeMonde brand. Some 300 readers have started blogs since the launch of the service, which uses
Sixapart technology.An online subscription to LeMonde costs 6 per month (almost US$8), and provides full access to the website and a number of other services, including the option to have your own blog. Half of the top 10 most popular blo From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 15, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..
Wednesday in Singapore
Ah, sleep! Amazing what a full night of it can do. For example, it turned my exhaustion into sleepiness. I work up early and re-wrote my presentation, as I inevitably do before a speech. I'm at the first International Conference on Knowledge Management, a truly international gathering of practitioners and academics. I, of course, am neither, so of course they had me keynote it. Nevertheless, it seemed to go well. I bugged out at 11 to see if I could see just a little more of the city. After a quick cab ride, I was in Little India, the streets... From
Joho the Blog on December 15, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
The reappearance of Green Spot
When I was a boy, during the summers in Great Barrington, Mass., my mother used to take us to the Green Spot bottling plant in town where Maybe 40 years ago, they shut down the plant and that was the end of Green Spot for us. This afternoon in Singapore, at a food stall in Little India, I drank a can of Green Spot. It's the same oddly-named, non-carbonated orange drink. The can says it was made in Thailand under the authority of Green Spot International. It seems that, somehow, Green Spot left Great Barrington and landed in Asia. Ealy... From
Joho the Blog on December 15, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
Interview with Stephen Downes
If you haven't heard this
this interview with
Stephen Downes by
Robin Good, it is definitely worth a close listen: RSS and and learning object metadata bring to us the capacity to learn quickly. We don't need to spend as much time in preparation, for content streaming changes the flavor of learning from being based on static resources to being based on dynamic, fluid resources. We need to think of learning as
apcampbell News on December 15, 2004 at 8:54 a.m..
Fuentes sobre software libre
El Libro Blanco del software libre en España (Implantación del software libre en la sociedad y en especial en la administracion publica) identifica los siguientes Medios sobre software libre (sólo incluyo los que disponen de presencia en la Red): Barrapunto... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 15, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..
Feedster
No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 15, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..
Kommentarspammer enttarnt?
Der Schockwellenreiter ver&ouml;ffentlicht folgende Pressemitteilung von
TECHNIKdirekt.de: Pressemitteilung W&uuml;rzburg, 15. Dezember, 2004 Wir erhielten in den letzten Tagen mehrere Hinweise, da&szlig; sogenannte "Blogs" im Internet mit Spamkommentaren von TECHNIKdirekt.de versehen wurden. Wir haben sofort recherchiert. Das Ergebnis brachte zu Tage, da&szlig; eine von uns beauftrage Firma, (
Hurra Communications), entgegen unserer From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 15, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Free Online Tool to Customize RSS Feed Buttons
Spice up RSS links with FeedForAll's customizable RSS buttons. Bright and colorful graphics have long been the trademark used to raise the visibility of RSS feeds. NotePage has made a free online RSS graphic tool available that allows users to quickly customize a button by selecting their own text, and color scheme. Once the colors and text is entered a button graphic is instantly created. Webmasters can easily match the style of the RSS button to a website's theme. Graphic experience is not required, simply select alternative colors and insert text to personalize RSS feed From
RSS Blog on December 15, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..
Feeding Firefox and Thunderbird
I have just taken a closer look at the new breeds from the
Mozilla farm.
Firefox 1.0 (Browser) and
Thunderbird 1.0 (email client) are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. Both products demonstrate a new type of Webfeed integration which should be of interest to the personal Webpublishing and Weblog authoring crowd.
Firefox, for example, introduces the concept of
Seblogging News on December 15, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
The Deadly Duo - Spam and Viruses - Rob McGann, Clickz
Spam volume spiked upward a full 19 percent from October to November, accounting for 88 percent of all e-mail sent in November, according to e-mail security vendor Postini. Of the 6.9 billion messages processed by Postini in November, nearly 6.1 bill From
Techno-News Blog on December 15, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..
BlogTalks
I'm also busy working on BlogTalks 2, the book the completes the first round of "bt2" -conferences. It's a 352 pages volume and it'll be out by Feb 2005, I hope. From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 15, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..
The Joy of K5: Recipes
As many of you have noticed, there has been a deluge of recipes and food related stories. It's as if a floodgate of anecdotal recipes and comments has been unleashed upon the queue. Both balsamic vinigga's and Trollaxor's stubble stories were meant to discourage this swell of Christmas time cheer. Now, I present for the meek, scared of e-backlash, a guide to making your very own K5 recipe from scratch. From
kuro5hin.org on December 15, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..
Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead
The film studios' lobbying arm files lawsuits against the operators of sites and servers that help users of file-sharing networks locate movies and songs. By Xeni Jardin. From
Wired News on December 15, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Fun of Mario Party Doesn't Last
Mini games that use a mic and players' voices make Mario Party 6 a raucous game. Just don't expect the novelty to last long. Game review by Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on December 15, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Anime Freaks Now Have a Guide
Fans of Japanese animation get a travel book tailored to their interests. With Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo, geeks can pursue the ultimate pop-culture fix. By Chris Baker. From
Wired News on December 15, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Star Wars Sequel Lacks Force
The follow-up to last year's hit game, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, offers more proof that sequels often pale next to the originals. While it boasts addictive gameplay and rich character development, the sequel suffers from numerous technical glitches. Game review by Suneel Ratan. From
Wired News on December 15, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Ecobot Eats Dead Flies for Fuel
Researchers are working on autonomous robots that eat to produce energy. The problem right now is that batteries are much better. By Lakshmi Sandhana. From
Wired News on December 15, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
A Magnetosphere of One's Own
Magnetospheres, the giant magnetic fields around planets, are extraordinarily good at trapping plasma. To study them, and gain insights into how to produce fusion power, a group of scientists builds a mini magnetosphere at MIT. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on December 15, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Unhealthy to blog?
Thanks to hamish for pointing me towards this interesting study. I wonder if this has implications for blogging? "Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. They found that regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to... From
ERADC Blog on December 15, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
I want an outliner that outputs the MetaWeblogAPI
I want MarsLiner! I think in outlines so all I want for Christmas is an outliner like MORE or Radio that outputs the MovableType MetaWeblog API extensions so I can post to my blog text with simple markup (links, bold, italics, paragraphs and break, other tags would be nice but I don't need them!) and simple media (pictures, and audio and video for podcasts). That's it, that's all. Brent, please change your mind because I think you could sell a ton of these things. If not maybe
the open source outliner based on From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 15, 2004 at 2:52 a.m..
Usability & IA Fundamentals workshops
We will very shortly be publishing a full calendar of workshops for the first six months of 2005. As a starting point, we've announced two pairs of "Fundamentals" workshops, as follows: Usability testing fundamentals (Canberra, 21 February 2005) Information architecture... From
Column Two on December 14, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..