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Blogging Grab Bag, Dec. 19
Here are some items related to weblogs and blogging that caught my attention over the past month. TOP OF THIS LIST: Jay Rosen on BloggerCon III. On Nov. 6 there was a very interesting conference at Stanford Univ. -- the third Bloggercon conference. I really wish I'd gone, but I'm glad NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen was there... (Read the rest of this list...) From Contentious Weblog on December 19, 2004 at 9:55 p.m..

Google and University Libraries...
Google Library (Google Weblog) Much of the discussion around this endeavor has focused on its effect for the largely-affluent and privileged children who go to the major universities from which the books are taken. Will they stop going to the library? Will they miss the smell of dead trees? Will they be able to do research more efficiently? With all due respect, this is the wrong group to think about. The real beneficiaries of this scanning should be the less fortunate people around the world who barely have access to a library, let alone a world-class one. Let us scan... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 19, 2004 at 9:50 p.m..

Virtual street teams
Yesterday's Blog described how some "inadvertent" pre-release P2P filesharing might have contributed to the No. 1 Billboard debut of U2's new album: Critics suggest that the theft of How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and its subsequent pre-release to the peer-to-peer sites might have been done for promotional purposes. That quote is from EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 19, 2004 at 8:56 p.m..

MetaMemes: Play It with Me!
OK, this looks like a lot of fun. I just got the creativity/brainstorming game MetaMemes, created by Kes Sampanthar. The concept is simple, and I think I've figured out how to play this game online among 3-4 geographically distributed players who each have a copy of the 214-card deck. You can buy the game online. ($23 plus shipping, USD) So who wants to play with me online? E-mail me! (editor@contentious.com) Here's a bit about the game... From Contentious Weblog on December 19, 2004 at 7:53 p.m..

Hearing from the big bloggers
I see that Jay Rosen took a bit of time to respond on a student's blog, to provide an approachable way for the student to think more about her subject (press objectivity), and to urge her gently but seriously forward. And he did so not with his own words but with the words of another, one of the wonderful reflexes of a good blogger. He posted this: Hi, Stacy... Here's something else to think about: Brent Cunningham in Columbia Journalism Review: Re-thinking Objectivity. Steven R.... From Weblogs in Higher Education on December 19, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

Web content management comes of age in 2004
Gerry McGovern has written an article summarising web content management in 2004. To quote: 2004 was a year when web content came of age, as more and more organizations recognized it as an asset, not some commodity. More and more... From Column Two on December 19, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..

Emails
Just in case you did send me an email the last 3 days, just resend it please. My local spamfilter ate everything. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 19, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

>>Playing with Taxonomies
Since we are going to roll-out a corporate extra- and intranet-service we will be able to tell you in about 2 months if and how it'll move into the practices of everyday work-life. And particularily how managers deal with it. Our tagspace (that's how I call it) relies heavily on the delicious paradigm with a little gardening in the backoffice. Playing with Taxonomies: "Playing with Taxonomies From thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 19, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..

A Journalism Giant Retires
Bill Moyers has completed his last episode of NOW with Bill Moyers, a PBS program that looked in depth at critical issues. Moyers is a hero in journalism. He's not always right, but he's been asking the tough questi From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 19, 2004 at 3:46 p.m..

Discourse vs. conversations
I had the chance to re-read Elmine Wijnias text &ampraquo;Understanding weblogs: a communicative perspective&amplaquo; where she applies Habermas' theory of communicative action to weblogs. I stumbled across a dispute of a claim of me that I totally overlooked the first time. Elmine disqualifies my argument (made here) that generally &ampraquo;discourse&amplaquo; is not media-specific. Wijnias wrote: Does the weblog serve as an ideal speech situation?Wrede (2003) is not right whe From owrede_log on December 19, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Citizen Journalism: A Newspaper Goes for It
As Jay Rosen explains in his latest PressThink article, the local paper in Greensboro, N.C., is turning its online self into a community square. Bravo. This is a big deal. And as Ed Cone observes -- Ed is a blogger of note and columnist for the paper -- this isn't exactly rocket science. Anyone can do it. Almost every newspaper should try. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 19, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

It's Brown But Looks Awfully Familiar
Imitation and flattery aside, just curious if anyone thinks RSS-to-Javascript bears any resemblance at all to our Feed2JS? I do not really care all that much since Feed2JS code is open source but some credit would be nice, egos can always use some stroking now and then... Ours was pretty much inspired by David Carter-Tod's cogdogblog on December 19, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

e-portfolios for the learner
I found Rob Paterson's discussion about e-portfolios and the power of blogging very interesting. I agree with much of what he says - however I am uneasy with the statement: "The ePortfolio is all about providing another person who may... From ERADC Blog on December 19, 2004 at 12:51 p.m..

Die endgültige Lösung gegen Kommentarspams?
Jeremy Zawodny macht sich Gedanken dar&ampuuml;ber, wie das Problem mit den Kommentarspams zu l&ampouml;sen ist. Dabei kommt er zu dem Schluss, da&ampszlig; sich die Grundproblematik &ampauml;hnlich wie bei Email verh&ampauml;lt: Auch wenn die Erfolgsquoten nicht sehr hoch sind lohnen sich Kommentarspams dennoch, da es einfach ist und nicht viel kostet. Er geht weiterhin davon aus, da&ampszlig; sich das Problem nicht auf Seiten der Blogger l&ampouml;sen lassen wird, da sich sch&ampa From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 19, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

National Burns Collection - the first website which allows you to explore Scotland's national collec ...
National Burns Collection - the first website which allows you to explore Scotland's national collection of treasures associated with Robert Burns. This website has been created by a partnership of museums, galleries, libraries, and other organisations across Scotland which together care for over 36,000 objects. These manuscripts, books, art and artefacts help bring us closer to understanding and appreciating Scotland's national poet From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 19, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Search-engine for Digital Libraries (SDL) harvests digital libraries and Open Access Journals in the ...
Search-engine for Digital Libraries (SDL) harvests digital libraries and Open Access Journals in the field of Library and Information Science. The SDL currently has 2693 papers from the 8 digital library archives indexed From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 19, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

The Read/Write Web as Network
Alan points to John Udell's recent essay in InfoWorld, "The Network is the Blog" where, I think, he begins to articulate the effects of blogs and blogging and RSS from a information literacy standpoint: The crush of information we process every day creates a terrible dilemma. On the one hand, we must conserve the scarce resource of attention. On the other hand, we need to become aware of everything that matters. This begs a numbe From weblogged News on December 19, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

New paper on e-portfolios
George Siemens has recently posted a new paper on e-portfolios. This article provides a excellent summary of e-portfolio to date.... From ERADC Blog on December 19, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..

The current complimentary online issue of the AACE Journal (International Forum on Information Techn ...
The current complimentary online issue of the AACE Journal (International Forum on Information Technology in Education) is now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Dialog is seeking applicants from North America for the 2005 Roger K. Summit Scholarship, the compan ...
Dialog is seeking applicants from North America for the 2005 Roger K. Summit Scholarship, the company's scholarship program for graduate students in library and information sciences. Deadline: April 30, 2005 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

OverDrive, Inc. has announced that it has signed agreements with Blackstone Audiobooks and 20 other ...
OverDrive, Inc. has announced that it has signed agreements with Blackstone Audiobooks and 20 other publishers to distribute download audio titles to its growing network of public libraries. Over 10,000 popular audio books, including fiction, business, educational, and children's audio and music titles will be available to library patrons through its Digital Library Reserve service From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 19, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Charities find dollars on the Internet - Michael Coren, CNN
Charities looking to fill their stockings this year over the Internet are encountering a new generation of donors promising to change the face of philanthropy. "There's definitely a difference in demographics for us as you introduce new technology," s From Techno-News Blog on December 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

DoCoMo tests 1 Gbps downloads - John Borland, news.blog
NTT DoCoMo, Japan's mobile phone giant, said Friday that it has achieved a 1 Gbps download rate for mobile phone data on a laboratory 4G (or fourth generation) network. The company says it will take the technology into field trials next year. From Techno-News Blog on December 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Buzz-Informed Predictions for 2005 - Pete Blackshaw, Clickz
Expect 2005 to open with a predictable slew of fashionably righteous articles de-hyping and pooh-poohing all things blog related, some even by bloggers themselves. Many will lament advertisers co-opting the medium, as well as the influx of clumsy, les From Techno-News Blog on December 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

e-TQM College highlights regional online learning experience at e-learning conference in Berlin - AME Info
Senior officials from e-TQM College, the Dubai-based electronic college specialized in offering programs in Total Quality Management (TQM), were key participants in Online Educa Berlin.... Online Educa Berlin covered several key aspects of e-learning, From Online Learning Update on December 19, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

Online courses for Philippine judges go on nationwide pilot test - MELVIN G. CALIMAG, Manila Bulletin
In an attempt to make judges familiar with information and communications technology, the judicial department recently put two courses on the Internet for pilot testing by judges located in at least 10 regions around the country. The courses on the R From Online Learning Update on December 19, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

Cost analysis for e-learning foreign languages - Demetra Mantzari and Anastasios A. Economides, EURODL
A cost analysis model for e-learning and a methodology for setting up a virtual foreign languages school is presented. The Total Cost is expressed as a function of the number of months (or quarter, or semester), the number of courses and the number of From Online Learning Update on December 19, 2004 at 4:49 a.m..

A Second Report Shows Charter School Students Not Performing as Well as Other Students
A federal Education Department analysis of test scores from 2003 shows that children in charter schools did not perform as well on exams as those in regular public schools. From New York Times: Education on December 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

City High School Students Lag in Regents Test Scores
New York City high school students were far behind the rest of the state in passing the five Regents exams required for graduation, according to state data. From New York Times: Education on December 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Seymour Melman, 86, Dies; Spurred Antiwar Movement
Seymour Melman, a Columbia University scholar, helped galvanize the antiwar movement with analyses of the social costs of military spending. From New York Times: Education on December 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Learning Early That Success Is a Game
A new book argues that in playing video games, boys are actually training for the new world of work, not avoiding it. From New York Times: Education on December 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis to Google
We can still read words on papyrus; we don't know how long it will be possible to read a text inscribed in a 2004 CD. This is not a complaint, just a reminder. From New York Times: Education on December 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Student Agrees to 20-Year Term After Nonfatal Shooting Spree in High School
Jon William Romano, now 17, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and reckless endangerment for trying to replicate a Columbine attack at his school in East Greenbush, N.Y. From New York Times: Education on December 19, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Podcast #3
I'm just uploading the latest stigmergicweb podcast, which is mostly a stream of consciousness rample about some ideas for my presentation at the AMTEC conference in Calgary next May. Leave a comment if you will also be at the conference. I also mention Mary Dykes new blog, U of S Library ... From Just Another Ant on December 19, 2004 at 3:58 a.m..

WindowsDevCenter.com: Using Extensions in Firefox
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/09/21/firefox.html?page=2 Not happy with Live... [[ This is a content summary only. ]] From RSS Latest News on December 19, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Cyber school student involvement
Below is a list of Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School students responses to the following question: How has Cyber School given opportunities for students to be more involved? Students can take classes they wouldnt normally be able to take (not offered... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 19, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

Cyber school community.
Below is a list of Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School students responses to the following question: How do you think Cyber School has affected the community? brought it more into the 21st century. people realized(and are realizing) that it is possible... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 19, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

Cyber school is special.
Below is a list of Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School students responses to the following question: Is there something unique or special about the cyber school? Very special! i mean it brought online education to saskatchewan, and has been improving and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 19, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..