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A Message from the Future
In this must-read article, MIS, from Australia, asserts than in 10 to 15 years, we'll be unable to use today's technologies to build electronic devices always smaller and more powerful. Instead, three disruptive technologies will converge and deeply change our lives: nanotechnology, sensors and wireless technology. The author explains how this will influence molecular computing or quantum information processing. She also describes future advances in robotics, including nanobots. A From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 10:49 p.m..

Do-it-yourself anti-municipal broadband kit
To make it easier for state legislatures to pass anti-municipal broadband laws, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has a piece of anti-municipal broadband model legislation entitled the "Municipal Telecommunications Private Industry Safeguards Act". You can view the document here (Word format). (Continued at Muniwireless) From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 10:49 p.m..

Pigeon view
Here's an odd idea. The Urban Eyes proposal by by Marcus Kirsch (UK) and Jussi Angesleva (Ireland) would feed pigeons tiny RFID transmitters embedded in bird seed. When a transmitting pigeon passed close enough to one of the CCTV cameras watching the streets, the camera would transmit a video image to the Urban Eyes server. You would then see how the city looked to a particular pigeon in the 12 hours between ingestion and excretion. This won third prize in the Fused Space contest. The winning project proposed setting up light sticks on a small Swedish island; lights would be... From Joho the Blog on December 20, 2004 at 9:49 p.m..

Deja Vu?
I've been thinking about this over the last few days and noticed Zeropaid's Chris Hedgecock make the same point in this News.com article: Suprnova et al shutting down seems like such a clear parallel with Napster shutting down.  It'll be important for the movie industry for about five minutes.  eDonkey has a similar system for swarm downloading.  The decentralized ExeemA Copyfighter's Musings on December 20, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..

Evolving Technologies Reports from EDUCAUSE
Most of these reports will be mainly of interest to university administrators in information management positions, but I found the report on Learning Objects by Michael Roy to be of more general interest. Roy's report could be used as an overview of the subject to share with both instructional designers and faculty; he identifies major issues and provides links to the best known LO repositories.  "Learning Object use is almost certainly already happening on your campus, and very likely there are early adopters who are busily creating these materials with or without your knowledge. From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on December 20, 2004 at 9:47 p.m..

The State of Distance Education: Observations
Survey article looking at the state of online learning today. The major points: online learning is growing rapidly and it's getting easier all the time. The article also mentions blended learning and takes a look at mobile learning. No mention of blogs or RSS, and the PBS Campus website does not appear to have an RSS feed either. So 2003. By Candice Kramer, PBS Campus, December, 2004 [Refer][Rese From OLDaily on December 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Lehigh XL30 Microscope Now Available to K-12 By Remote Control
It costs $40 an hour to use, and no doubt there are scheduling issues, but I still think online access to this scanning electron microscope is one of the more innovative uses of technology to support K-12 learning. Via NextED News Digest. By Announcement, Lehigh University, December 17, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on December 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Component Frameworks
Scott Leslie sent me notice of this very interesting presentation. The key is on the third slide (edited for syntax): "[The] Web Server paradigm fails lifelong learners HYPHEN How? [The]Stateless browser leaves no trace behind. To manage their learning they need their own records. Lifelong learners attend multiple institutions over time, even at the same time. [They] have to learn a new environment at each. Their record and portfolio is scattered. They need a continuous connection for learning, but, if off-campus, this may be slow, unreliable, expensive. As eLearning becomes more complex, VLEs From OLDaily on December 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Current Directions in Australia's Vocational Education and Training System
From the abstract: "This paper provides an overview of the factors which influence and drive Australia's technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector. It details the objectives of Shaping our future, Australia's national strategy for TVET from 2004 to 2010, and key initiatives of the sector to meet the changing economic and technological environment: a review of training packages, and a review of the national standards for training providers. It also discusses issues facing the TVET sector, as identified in a paper published by the Business Council of Australia (2004 From OLDaily on December 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

OPEN Public Commonwealth Support System of Distance Education (PCSSODE)
E-learning, like everything else in China, must be developed on a huge scale. This paper outlines one aspect of that project, a public commonwealth support system of e-education (PCSSODE). The service works "by setting up a franchise system based on CRTVU system employing satellite transmission and web technology. The ongoing pilot project reached milestone of service 15000 students and 13 Universities by now." By Tao Hou, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, December 20, 2004 [OLDaily on December 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Encouraging Creativity in Student Online Work
The December IJITDL is out; I carry two articles. In this first item, the author argues that "Distance educators could learn valuable lessons about encouraging creativity from today's business organizations." What follows is a bit of an overview of creativity, ranging from Amabile's six myths about creativity to Havvind and Tinker's five types of questions to encourage richer student responses. By Brent Muirhead, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, December 20, 2004 [OLDaily on December 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

2004 In The Rear View Mirror
Something piqued me last year and I came out with 2004: The Turning Point, a foolhardy foray into short-term prediction. I say a lot of things, and some of them might not be true. And people rely on my projections, perhaps not so much as they rely on astrologers, but enough all the same. So how did I do? Let's look at the article. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, December 19, 2004 [Refer][R From OLDaily on December 20, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Skype Me
Maybe I barked and whined about podcasting, that does not mean I'm not interested in audio! I am trying to give Skype another round of tests, but cannot find anyone I know with a skype account. Is anyone up to some internet telephone tag? I'll try to keep the application open the next few days, and I can by skyped as cogdogblog. Woof Woof! From cogdogblog on December 20, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..

Updated Meskill (David Weinberger)
Judith Meskill has updated her Social Networking Services Meta List. ..everything from photo-sharing to pet-networking.... From Corante: Social Software on December 20, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..

Teens take the gavel to judge peers
The US has more than 950 youth courts, where teenagers hear real cases of their peers. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 20, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Men of faith mentor youths
Men from 16 Philadelphia area churches are conducting foot patrols at street corners around Germantown High. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 20, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

Offering a way back to hopes of college
Program targets promising young people who hit a bump on the path to higher education. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 20, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..

OpenDLib
http://arte-sns.isti.cnr.it/ Het ISTI stelt beschikbaar de tentoonstellingscatalogus 'Con Parola brieve e con figura - Libri antichi di imprese e emblemi'. Dubbel interessant: ten eerste vanwege de inhoud (het betreft de catalogus van een tentoonstelling van embleemboeken in de bibliotheek van de universiteit van Pisa) en ten tweede vanwege de software-omgeving. De site is ontwikkeld onder gebruikmaking van het OpenDLib systeem voor digitale bibliotheken. OpenDLib is ontwikkeld aan het ISTI (Institute of Information Science and Technologies) in Pisa. Dezelfde groep die gewerkt he From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on December 20, 2004 at 7:02 p.m..

Slot car track update - fini
I've finished all major work on the redesign to my slot car track. Details located here. From Open Artifact on December 20, 2004 at 7:00 p.m..

Who's Paying Attention To Web Conferencing?
Whether you're participating in an online meeting, or physically sitting around a meeting table with colleagues, how often does your attention slip? For how long? What else do you think about and do? What makes you 're-surface' and start to... From Kolabora.com on December 20, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Contextual editing: not dead yet
Amy Gahran has written a blog entry on contextual editing in a CMS. To quote: In the realm of content management systems, I periodically see discussion of contextual (context-sensitive) editing: fine-tuning the final phrasing or presentation of content to suit... From Column Two on December 20, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

Three steps to teaching decision-making online
Amy Gahran has written a blog entry on teaching decision-making online. To quote: Decisions are a very important type of task. Maybe even the most important type, ultimately -- in business and other realms. I think e-learning can be incredibly... From Column Two on December 20, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..

What is Music?
The brain and the nervous system constitute the body's information processing system. The brain receives input information from the senses (the traditional five plus various internal senses), and its job is to generate output information, mostly in the form of nerve signals which cause particular sets of muscle fibres to contract. We can recognise, or at least attempt to recognise, sub-systems of the brain which perform specific sub-tasks of the brain's information processing task. For example, there is an identifiable colour processing sub-system, which inputs information From kuro5hin.org on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Online Ad Spend Up $45 Million in October
Tech company media buying accounts for 25 percent of online advertising. From ClickZ Stats on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

John & Yoko, reprise
In a box on page A15 of today's New York Times, national edition, in very large letters, I find these words: WAR IS OVER! and beneath, in smaller letters: IF YOU WANT IT Happy Christmas from John & Yoko "Don't need a sword to cut through flowers" J. L. At the bottom of the page, in tiny print: yoko ono, new york city That's the whole of page A15 today. The changes that will make the world better begin in our minds, don't they? The pain we cause... From Weblogs in Higher Education on December 20, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..

Pattern Recognition
Yesterday, I finished reading "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson. I haven't read anything this powerful and relevant for a long time. Can't think of anything else that could be more worth your time than getting a copy and locking yourself... From ErikLog on December 20, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

Least deserved narcissism award
The award for the most narcissistic performance by a recognized actor in a real movie, where the aforementioned narcissism is completely undeserved is .... ...Mickey Rourke, after plastic surgery that pulled his face back so tight that it stretched his nose holes, in The Last Outlaw. (FWIW, I discovered this while lying awake with jetlag at 2:30 am. I may never sleep again.)... From Joho the Blog on December 20, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

Wal-Mart's Linux Push
Wal-Mart is pursuing its own Linux strategy, retail-style, with desktop computers and now this laptop model. For under $500 you can get a well-equipped machine with both the OS and OpenOffice. I'm no fan of Wal-Mart, and I won't shop there. But the Wal-Mart ruthlessness that makes me dislike the company is also responsible for what may be one of the only serious challenges to the Windows monopoly to date. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 20, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

OpenOffice 2.0 Preview Available
UPDATED The OpenOffice folks are giving the world peek-plus at version 2.0, which looks pretty snazzy. Of course, the Mac OS X version is still basically missing in action. At the rate things are going, it'll never be close to ready for prime time, much less at parity with the other versions. UPDATE: More from The Inquirer. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 20, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

Query for OS X Mail Users
Does anyone know a keyboard combination that takes you to the last message in a folder (or the first)? Or to go from one message to the next one in the folder? I've looked at the various keyboard shortcuts but find almost nothing in the way of navigation. Please post any answers below. Thanks. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 20, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

Podcast perils
Wow - I just checked the logs for the site, and I am amazed at the way that podcast #3 is skewing the stats for the site. Since early Sunday morhing when I uploaded the podcast, it has been downloaded 69 times. Consequently, Sunday was my biggest single day of ... From Just Another Ant on December 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..

Blogging Across the Curriculum
A website that is a course resource for the interactive Digitial Design Program about Weblogs. One of the most significant things that happened with the growth of the weblog community is that weblogs became a conversational medium. Many editors would... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..

Making a local scene happen
I'm happy to see Jay Rosen and Ed Cone explain the nuts and bolts and philosphical basis for a local or regional political and journalistic blogging scene. Among the keys are sites that are open to exchange of ideas. Rosen, for example, suggests that the paper host a site addressed to the most pressing stories or issues or problems in the community, and keep those before the community in an interactive forum always, until other issues replace them in importance. He says: You want to... From Weblogs in Higher Education on December 20, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

From Boat Anchor to Windows-Slayer in an afternoon
No, this isn't a 'how to' posting, more a short account of how I spent my weekend turning my clunky old laptop into a shiny new Linux box. I bought my laptop, a Compaq Presario 1246 (don't ask, it was all I could afford at the time) back in 1999. It served me o.k. for a number of years as my primamry machine at home, though it always had problems with its sound card and PCMCIA slot, and it ran an OEM version of Windows 98 that seemed impossible to upgrade. I've wanted to either upgrade the Windows install or better yet do something completely differe From EdTechPost on December 20, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..

Deleuze/Guattari 1000 Plateaus
I like the readings of Clay Spinuzzi it somehow reminds me of what I did some 10 years ago and it helps - again - to picture the world as we know it.(Reading Roundup): "I'm up to my elbows in Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus for the second time, and am getting a little more out of it this time. It's still agonizing, thanks for asking -- sort of like reading the bo From thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 20, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..

Flickr is a social photo blogging service invented from the outside in
As I said in a comment to Steve's post, Flickr *is* a blogging service. In fact, Flickr is a social photo blogging service. And it's re-invented from the outside in. Rather than creating a blog service and bolting on photos, Flickr created a service to upload and share photos and then added blogging infrastructure around it. Flickr has reverse chronologically sorted posts, flexible categories through tags and RSS and Atom: all in all everything you'd want in a blogging service! And BTW Steve, if you can influence the Rojo powers that be, From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 20, 2004 at 3:53 p.m..

You CAN get a college degree
In a series of articles on this site, Thomas Nixon offers advice on getting a cheap, fast and accredited college degree.... From Adult/Continuing Education on December 20, 2004 at 3:51 p.m..

Copyright and the Senate: What's Ahead
We're still several weeks from seating the 109th Congress, but the press is already starting to speculate and predict. Last Thursday, The Washington Post published an article called "Uncertain Landscape Ahead for Copyright Protection". The article's focus is clear from the subhead: Specter to Lead Key Panel as Industry Ally Hatch Steps Down From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 20, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

Chinese strikers use weblogs for their struggle
Labor unrest is increasingly hitting the economy as migrant workers would rather stay at home and work in the booming agriculture. Especially southern China has been hit by a shortage of labor that has made it easier for disgruntled workers to get into action. Ten days ago the 12, 000 workers of a Wal-Mart supplier, a sino-Japanese joint venture walked out. Interesting detail of the story, writen by Howard French of the New York Times, w From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..

EBay Exec Arrest In India Should Set Off Alarm
eBay is "outraged" by the arrest of Avnish Bajaj, CEO of its Baazee.com subsidiary in India and it's hard not to agree or to wonder about the signal Indian authorities are sending to online operators. This time, it's about e-commerce but it might just as easily be about an editorial site that offers classifieds or allows comments. In this case, which has gained a certain amount of noteriety in India, a Bazee.com user offered a pornographic video clip for sale. The clip wasn't poste From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..

The Risk of Being Blogged
Sixty percent of bloggers feel they are at risk of a libel lawsuit for something they have written to their blogs according to this New York Times magazine article yesterday. Now people are afraid to rant in social situations for fear it will end up being published by some anonymous blogger hoping to get a $300,000 book deal like "Washingtonienne" who was identifying high-up-in-the-government lovers by their initials. Couples need to determine what&a From weblogged News on December 20, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

The XboxMediaCenter Project
XboxMediaCenter is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xbox from Microsoft. Currently XboxMediaCenter can be used to play/view most popular video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, GIF plus many more less known formats directly from a CD/DVD in Xbox DVD-ROM drive or of the Xbox harddrive, XBMC can also play files from a PC over a local network and even stream media streams directly from the internet. XBMC has From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Video Over IP at 30K Feet
Boeing is adding a video service to its Connexion in-flight broadband service. "You'll be able to view up to four channels of live TV over your laptop," promises Connexion VP Stan Deal, though the article fails to provide any technical specifics on the product, which should launch sometime in 2005. From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

IEEE VR 2005 Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS
I am co-chairing this workshop and would love to see your submission. . . Emerging Display Technologies - New Systems and Applications: From Images to Sensing, Interaction and Enhancement 13 March 2005 (Bonn, Germany) The recent flurry of display technology development has produced families of technologies that make fixed and projected pixels cheaper, faster, more flexible, and of higher quality. These advances enable smart pixels and enable a number of burgeoning applications ra From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..

Giving Print Subscribers Free Archive Access
The Internet has upset the apple cart for magazines just as it has for newspapers, and it's interesting to see the divergent strategies being pursued by leading newsweeklies Time and Newsweek. Time magazine has gone to a fairly unpredictable (and often irritating) mix of open and subscriber-only content on  its Website, and is pushing instant print subscriptions with the carrot that you get unlimited access to the magazine's archive of  270,000 articles dating back to 1923. Rival Newsweek continues to From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 20, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..

MLX Package Receives Feedback from Indonesia
How refreshing it is to catch some comment feedback that is not spam. Package #1463 Areal Weighting with Thiessen Polygons was created by Water Resources technology faculty member Lisa Young: a brief tutorial that demonstrates the procedures for determining areal weighting from point precipitation gages using the Thiessen Polygon Method. While I have no clue what this is, apparently a colleague in Indonesia found it useful, and left this cogdogblog on December 20, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..

More Feedback: Addy's Designs
Wow, bonus feedback. This is from someone who has used our free jClicker Slide Show template to customize and use for showing off their model design and fabrication work: Alan, I just upload my personal portfolio on the net that I built my self. I am so happy with it. Base on jClicker slide show, I modified to fit with my need, clean design. I hope you don’t mind with it. If you can put my site, www.asw-design.com in your example list, I will be proud and happy. From cogdogblog on December 20, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Ron Owens: Intervoice
I've mentioned Amtrak Julie a couple of times before. In today's podcast I interview Ron Owens, director of software application engineering and professional services for Intervoice, the company responsible for the Julie application. Topics include voiceprint authentication, SALT and VoiceXML, the relationship between speech servers and IVR (interactive voice response) systems, and design principles for From Jon's Radio on December 20, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..

Metadata emerging in China
A new article in the current D-Lib describes recent Chinese metadata efforts.  Some resemble American and European projects.  One effort is integrated into the national five-year plans. Anothe one of these includes a national learning objects standard, which might suggest... From MANE IT Network on December 20, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

Company lets U.S. travelers 'Go Canadian'
This is a comment by itself... CNN.com - Company lets U.S. travelers 'Go Canadian' - Dec 7, 2004... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Blogmeister
Another new tool. David Warlick writes, "BlogMeister is a blogging tool that will allow educators to establish accounts and start publishing their own blog articles immediately. In addition, registered teachers can establish blog accounts for their students, making them participants... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Epic 2014
Instead, it suggests that over the next decade, Google and Microsoft continue to acquire and interconnect various aggregation systems (Tivo, blogger, Google News, etc.), until they become the dominant sources of information in the world. It's compelling and interesting, and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Guiding Principles, online Learning and Programs
Michelle's Online Learning Freakout Party Zone: Guiding Principles, online Learning and Programs... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Advantages of e-learning
How would you describe e-learning and what is India's role in the e-learning market? Straight answers- The Times of India... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Collision Between F2F & Online Discussion
Social self-disclosure in the face-to-face environment long has been viewed as a positive activity. A person benefits from the affection conveyed, self-knowledge that occurs when talking about yourself and others, and there is a gain of health benefits. Of course,... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Quotable Quotes on Education
This evening I jazzed up the site a bit by adding a small handful of pithy quotes to the ever-present sidebar of various pages in the archives. In my hunt for pith, I came across many more aphorisms than I... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Ideal Content and Technologies for Teaching Online
Effective online instruction, now and in the future, is built on four primary principles -- ease of use, integration, mobility, and flexibility. XplanaZine Ideal Content and Technologies for Teaching Online... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

Bild.T-Online.de business model
It's a rare event in Germany that business models of online media are discussed in public. So if you're able to read German don't miss this article from Faz.net on Bild.T-Online.de, the online service of Germany's biggest tabloid paper. Bild.T-Online.de claims to be profitable since Q4 2003.  Peter Wrtenberger, who is leaving as CEO From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 20, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..

UK struggles with same problems as U.S.
Not really surprising, but still a good read. Web inaccessibility 'creates net underclass.'... From Curb Cut Learning on December 20, 2004 at 11:53 a.m..

New Lab for Social Computing at RIT (Liz Lawley)
Announcement of a new Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology. From Corante: Social Software on December 20, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Invert that benefit!
BlogExplosion is designed to boost traffic to your site by funneling members there according to how many members' sites you visit. I've been playing with it for the opposite reason: It randomly shows me blogs I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. In their latest newsletter to members, they list the following feature enhancement: List blogs by country The directory got an update so that you can now list blogs by country too. This makes it much easier to locate those blogs from the same region as you. Ack! Isn't this feature more valuable as a way of finding blogs that... From Joho the Blog on December 20, 2004 at 11:48 a.m..

Contextual Editing: Not Dead Yet
In the realm of content management systems, I periodically see discussion of contextual (context-sensitive) editing: fine-tuning the final phrasing or presentation of content to suit the situation in which it will be displayed. There's a debate brewing over contextual editing for content that is handled by a CMS. Specifically, is contextual editing a thing of the past – or should it be, at least for organizations that manage a ton of content via CMS? I don't think so, but I do think it's often possible to shift the editorial work to the front end of the process... From Contentious Weblog on December 20, 2004 at 10:56 a.m..

Views on Canada
This just makes me mad... Here are some comments that were attached to it. Note: All the comments are from Canadians...I would like to hear what the Americans think of this? This is not ignorance to me, bur rather exploitation... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..

BitTorrent Over?
So as of yesterday, it seems the biggest BitTorrent servers, SuperNova.org and TorrentBits.com, have been shut down. BitTorrent is basically a peer-to-peer filesharing protocol, that allows a whole bunch of different computers to host the same files so that people can download them from multiple places at the same time - reducing the load on machines with popular files. The more popular a file, the easier it was to download, because BitTorrent required everyone who downloaded files to share them. BitTorrent was the way a lot of people got to see my last two documentaries, their f From rushkoff.blog on December 20, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

OAI update
A new article in the current D-Lib outlines the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)'s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and a complex objects approach to maximizing its benefits.... From MANE IT Network on December 20, 2004 at 9:59 a.m..

Weihnachtsgrüße
Ein spannendes Jahr geht für mich langsam zu Ende. Einige hundert Einträge und Links habe ich an dieser Stelle gemacht. Das hat Zeit gekostet, die ich investieren konnte und gerne investiert habe! Die nächsten Tage werde ich überlegen, wie... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 20, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..

Mainstream noticing podcasting
The front page of the Boston Globe has a good article on podcasting by Peter J. Howe, a staff writer — they didn't farm this out to one of their (excellent) tech writers. Peter writes: If Internet-based weblogs turned everyone into a potential newspaper columnist, and digital cameras let them become photojournalists, podcasting is promising to let everyone with a microphone and a computer become a radio commentator. After the fold, he gets to what the effect podcasting will have on broadcasting: With the ability to mix home-grown creations with an increasing choice of mainstream off From Joho the Blog on December 20, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

Situate Follow-Ups in Context
Jakob Nielsen's Alert Box: "Make new or follow-up information easily accessible from the location of the original information or transaction." Jakob gives an example of an e-learning site: "We recently tested an intranet's e-learning area as part of our new round of intranet usability research. One of the e-learning area tasks was for users to cancel their scheduled participation in a certain course. Rather than use the intranet's registration management feature, almost all users went straight to the course pag From elearningpost on December 20, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

NewsU: e-learning for young journalists
NewsU offers e-learning courses for the budding journalist. Very nice and sincere effort here. Check out this E-learning Rocks Flash introduction. From elearningpost on December 20, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

E-Learning Top Ten Readings 2004
Brauchen wir e-Learning noch? Ich meine als Begriff? Reden wir noch über dieselbe Sache, wenn die einen an Learning Management Systeme und Bildungscontrolling, die anderen an Online Communities und Weblogs denken? Was hat denn die Frage, wie man e-Learning organisatorisch... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 20, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..

Protect Your Passwords - Brian Livingston, Internet News
Quick! Can you remember all the user names and passwords that you've used at every Web site where you've ever registered? I'll bet you can't. But it's no shame not to remember all these things off the top of your head. No one can. That's why people wr From Techno-News Blog on December 20, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

5 Tips for Tapping XML's Integration Power - Vance McCarthy, Integration Developer News
A growing number of devs are finding benefits in learning hands-on XML skills. For example, devs at Quadrix Solutions have found that the more devs know about XML, they have in their hands the best "applications glue" they've ever worked with. Take a From Techno-News Blog on December 20, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Blogging begets books - Joshua Kurlantzick, New York Times
Like many aspiring authors, Marrit Ingman had a tough time convincing publishers that her big book idea--a wry, downbeat memoir of postpartum depression--could sell. "I had to convince the publisher that an audience for the topic really did exist," s From Techno-News Blog on December 20, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

On the Advantages of E-Learning - Nick Van Dam, Times of India
Broadly speaking, e-learning refers to net-enabled learning targeted to achieve business goals. On-line virtual classrooms, on-line learning self-study guides or on-line books, all constitute e-learning. The e-learning market is relatively young and p From Online Learning Update on December 20, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

The Web and Wireless Provide New Tools for Assessing Student Learning - Paula Murphy, TLtC
With the web, and more recently, wireless computing, instructors have new tools at their disposal to help students keep pace with a course without creating a huge workload for instructors or their teaching assistants. From Online Learning Update on December 20, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Collision Between F2F & Online Discussion - Dean Pape, techLearning
Social self-disclosure in the face-to-face environment long has been viewed as a positive activity. A person benefits from the affection conveyed, self-knowledge that occurs when talking about yourself and others, and there is a gain of health benefit From Online Learning Update on December 20, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Great Article About Creating an RSS Feed for a Podcast
Podcast Bunker wrote a great article about creating an RSS feed in order to podcast! Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular. First of all let me say that after trying most others methods of creating the needed files for Podcasting. I purchased FeedForAll, due to the ease of use and simplistic layout. I just needed to get it done, and not mess around. After attempting to explain the method of creating a Podcast RSS feed via email, to several people who contacted me at The Podcast Bunker. I searched for the easi From RSS Blog on December 20, 2004 at 7:58 a.m..

Sadly, I am giving in
It has really annoyed me that it has come to this but I see no alternative - I am going to need to remove comments from my weblog - I am getting up to 100 spam messages a day and... From ERADC Blog on December 20, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..

Flickr: a day in the life of ...
Morgen ist DILO-Day bei Flickr: A one day only event. Submit a minimum of five photos and a maximum of fifteen. All photos must be taken on the specified date and should document your life that day. Next DILO: 21st December 2004. From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 20, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

The new IngentaConnect now has RSS feeds for both the latest issue and recent issues of its over 28, ...
The new IngentaConnect now has RSS feeds for both the latest issue and recent issues of its over 28,000 hosted e-journals. See the entry for Abacus as an example From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 20, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..

The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) has announced that the full t ...
The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) has announced that the full text of its journals JPEN - Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and NCP- Nutrition in Clinical Practice are now available online. Both have free trial periods which end February 2005 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 20, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..

Nintendo Surgeons More Precise?
The director of a New York med-tech institute believes surgeons who play video games make fewer errors. He's asking surgeons, movie makers and video game designers to work together on better medical training tools. From Wired News on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

War Games: Army's Hollywood Sim
A new breed of military simulator that's part video game, part Hollywood sound stage creates the illusion of urban warfare. The Army claims it saves money on live-fire training with its multi-million-dollar shoot-em-up compound. From Wired News on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Making Modern Art Seem Ancient
Scratch Code shows that 'new media' art isn't so 21st-century -- many of the works were done decades ago. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Virtual Trade Tough Nut to Crack
Blizzard makes noises about cracking down on real-money sales of items from the virtual World of Warcraft, but such transactions may impossible to stop. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Ohio Recount Stirs Trouble
A report that a voting company employee dismantled an election computer before Ohio's recount last week has a congressman calling for an FBI investigation into vote tampering. But an election official behind the report says her words are being misinterpreted. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

IPod Fans Get Into the Picture
A new web-based service will turn any digital picture into an iPod-style silhouette ad. It costs $20, but customers eager to turn themselves -- and their babies, friends and pets -- into adverts for Apple. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

NASA to Smack a Comet
The space agency will fire an 820-pound projectile into a comet at 22,000 mph on July 4. The resulting explosion and debris could answer fundamental questions about how planets came to be. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on December 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Videoposts
Gemma Ferrerés cuenta en TintaChina cómo crear tus propios videoposts, a partir de su experiencia con el videopost Javier Marías, Escritor del Año 2004.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 20, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..

Learning Early That Success Is a Game
A new book argues that in playing video games, kids are actually training for the new world of work, not avoiding it. From New York Times: Education on December 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading
A new program is rooted in the view of autism as an alternative form of brain wiring, rather than a devastating disorder. From New York Times: Education on December 20, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Rice University Computer Scientists Find a Flaw in Google's New Desktop Search Program
The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is the kind of flaw that emerges when separate components interact. From New York Times: Education on December 20, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

For Some Parents, It's Never Too Early for S.A.T. Prep
The Time Tracker, a device whose purpose is to help children improve their performances on the standardized tests, has turned into a surprise hit this holiday season. From New York Times: Education on December 20, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Symantec acquires Veritas for €10.2bn
Information security firm Symantec and software company Veritas are to merge, with the resulting company expected to deliver information security and availability solutions across platforms, from the desktop to the data centre. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Teliasonera to build Sweden's largest IP network
Telco Teliasonera Sweden and gaming company Svenska Spel has signed an agreement that is worth €22m and is to run until 2010. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Samsung develops removable, thumbnail-sized memory card for mobile phones
South Korean mobile handset maker Samsung MMCmicro device is one-third the size of today's common reduced-size multimedia cards (RS-MMC). From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

O2, Vodafone sign WLAN roaming agreement in Germany
Mobile operators O2 and Vodafone in Germany have entered a deal that is to give customers access to a network of more than 600 hot-spots in airports and hotels nationwide. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

O2, Nortel conduct HSDPA test calls
UK mobile operator Mmo2 and Canadian telecoms operator Nortel have completed HSDPA test calls as a first step in their broadband wireless network roll-out plans. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

MTS launches network in Republic of Mordovia, Stavropol Krai
MTS networks in the Republic of Mordovia and Stavropol Krai are to cover some 35 per cent of the population in each of the two regions. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Microsoft enters anti-spyware market with acquisition
US software company Microsoft plans to make available to Windows customers a beta version of a spyware protection, detection and removal tool within a month. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Intel hires HP Itanium processor design team
HP is to end its processor development efforts within the company, but it is to invest more than €2.3bn over the next three years in Intel Itanium 2-based Integrity servers. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Energimidt, Nortel to bring ultra broadband triple play to Denmark
Danish utility company Energimidt plans to offer combined voice, data and TV in early 2005 using Canadian telecoms equipment maker Nortel’s passive optical network (PON) fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Deutsche Telekom reduces holding in MTS
The sale is expected to be completed today and should raise some €1.13bn for the heavily indebted telco. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 20, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Newspapers as TV stations
Not only is this going to happen, but the ground floor is already being built. Here's an excellent article from Editor and Publisher . Here's a taste: Online editors at newspapers across the country are looking to add video clips, video reports, and even online TV newscasts to their sites, taking advantage of the recently exploding popularity of broadband Internet access. Kinsey Wilson, editor in chief of USAToday.com, calls "continued, expanded use of video, and real experimentation around how video is best deployed on the Internet" the top trend t From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 3:55 a.m..

Quotable Quotes on Education
This evening I jazzed up the site a bit by adding a small handful of pithy quotes to the ever-present sidebar of various pages in the archives. In my hunt for pith, I came across many more aphorisms than I could ever hope to use on Pedablogue, so I thought... From PEDABLOGUE on December 20, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..

A.C.L.U. Hypocrisy
Excerpted from the nytimes (free registration required): The American Civil Liberties Union is using sophisticated technology to collect a wide variety of information about its members and donors in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a bitter debate over its leaders' commitment to privacy rights. Some board members say the extensive data collection makes a mockery of the organization's frequent criticism of banks, corporations and government agencies for their practice of accumulating data on people for marketing and other purposes. From kuro5hin.org on December 20, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Free Press : media reform through outreach, activism, lobbying and networking
Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector. From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Boeing Eyes In-Flight Live TV on Your Laptop
cobravenum2 writes "Boeing is planning to add live television to its Connexion by Boeing service during 2005, The television programs will be delivered across the Connexion network, which uses satellites to provide high-speed data connections between aircraft in-flight and ground stations linked to the Internet. The service entered commercial use earlier this year and provides a 5 megabits per second shared downstream and 1 mbps shared upstream connection to suitably equipped aircraft. You'll be able to view up to four channels of live TV over your laptop."... From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Scenario Building Experiment for Year 2010
A discussion has started on where the telecommunications industry is going, and where it will take us (humans). An interesting topic, one which I think will be played out between various forces: consumer, technology and industry. By industry I mean companies such as large movie studios, which will probably attempt legal restrictions on technology - or at least usage of it. From the discussion: Today the revenue for value-added-services gets shared between the content provider and the service provider such that From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

TV Anytime
The global TV-Anytime Forum is an association of organizations which seeks to develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other services based on mass-market high volume digital storage in consumer platforms - simply referred to as local storage. The TV-Anytime Forum was formed at an inaugural meeting held in Newport Beach, California, USA, on 27-29 September 1999. It has started work to develop open specifications designed to allow Consumer Electronics Manufacturers, Content Creators, Telcos, Bro From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

2005 - the year enterprises realize that they must syndicate and aggregate everything that matters using RSS
The mantra is: Syndicate everything that matters and aggregate everything that matters. And soon most organizations will be doing this with RSS. So anybody who provides products and services that enable this will win big. From GlobeLogger Vendors: Paddling Out to Catch the Enterprise Wave.: QUOTEForm the shore, they look like tiny dots slowly making their way out past the breakers. They're the software vendors positioning themselves to catch the Enterprise RSS wave. My, that's a lot of From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Friendster, Eurekster Team Up for Personalized Search
Friendster rolled out a new internet search service powered by Eurekster tapping into online social networks to personalize and enhance search results. The Eurekster technology uses the Yahoo web index and also includes Overture sponsored listings. The new service takes advantages of the preferences and interests of Friendster members and their friends to From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Who'd Buy the Public Domain for a Dollar?
Apparently a lot of bargain shoppers, according to USA Today (Hot off the shelf: DVDs for a dollar): According to Videoscan, the national point-of-sale tracking service, last week, 19 of the 50 top-selling DVDs were dollar DVDs from Genius Products, a leading supplier of budget videos. Compilation discs of Popeye cartoons and The Lucy Show episodes came in at No. 17 and No. 18, right below the Star Wars Trilogy and Dawn of the Dead [I suppose they mean the recent remake, not the origi From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

More Undercurrent: Action in Greensboro on Open Source Journalism
With the local blogging scene rapidy coalescing on its own, the local newspaper, led by a blogging boss, decides to act. He wants to remake the site as "an online community or public square." E-mail from the Greensboro newsroom "...in many ways we've waited 10 years to do this and aren't going to wait any longer. My report is due next Friday." If you care about such things, there's a recognition moment underway right now among the bloggers in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the strange thing is we can follow it, even though it's a very local thing-- me From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Fair use of photos on blogs
Fascinating discussion going on at Weblogs Inc.'s Nanopublishing weblog: Fair use of photos on blogs the photographers speak out. Jason Calacanis writes: I had dinner with two big name photographers in L.A. recently. These are folks who s name you might recognize even if you are not in the photography industry. I asked them both under what circumstances could use their images without paying them, they both immediately responded emphatically under no circumstances! Inte From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

New agent of change in N. Korea: cellphones
In a country where nearly every facet of society is controlled, North Korean authorities are encountering a new foe: the cellphone. A fascinating article from the The Christian Science Monitor via Telecoms Korea. "Mobile phones, which are ubiquitou From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

6 to 7 Megapixel Camera Phones on the way
LG Plans for 6 to 7 Megapixel Camera Phones With the digital camera megapixel race heating up fast, camera phones are destined to follow the same path. Telecoms Korea is reporting that LG Electronics has plans to bring the first 6-megapixel camera phone to market in Japan. From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..

Design for Disassembly
"Designing products in order to minimise their impact on the environment is becoming increasingly important. Many designers are beginning to recognise this fact and are therefore demanding tools and techniques which enable them to design more responsibly. From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Suprnova.org folds with nary a wimper
Suprnova.org has closed up shop (not to be confused with supeRnova.org the domain spammer). Recently mentioned in the popular press as the most well known "torrent archive" for movies, games and apps, frequent users probably thought that it would remain immune from MPAA and RIAA pressure for a while yet, however the owner unexpectedly pulled the plug and has so far provided few details. Presumably Suprnova.org, as the most accessible and comprehensive torrent archive, was going to be public enemy number 1 for in From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Stun guns will soon capture video
Two stun gun manufacturers, Stinger Systems and Taser International, will soon be adding video recording capabilities to their guns, which ll let law enforcement officers capture incidents much like they do with dashboard cameras. C mon, this is so just a Fox TV show waiting to happen. From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Participation just isn't on the mind map
Why does a lot public participation fail? Doodling with some mindmapping software the other day brought home to me - again - that it may be because, for most people most of the time, that sort of exercise is literally off their mental map. Public participation, community consultation and stakeholder engagement are the stuff of programmes to develop social capital and c From unmediated on December 20, 2004 at 1:56 a.m..

Eight Approaches to Technology-Rich Learning
There's not just one way to infusion technology into the curriculum. There are many ways. From using Inspiration as an advanced organizer in science to incorporting inquiry-based WebQuests into a social studies unit, the possibilities are endless. The key is... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Digital: The HAL-9000
Communicating intelligently with computers and appliances still seems the stuff of sci-fi. But Stanley Kubrick's intelligent computer entity HAL-9000, may not be that far away. Due to a five-year collaborative link between Edinburgh University and California's Stanford University, Scotland is... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Focus On Stakeholders
What does it take to create a successful e-learning system that meets the needs of all stakeholders? An e-learning system is successful when it is meaningful to all stakeholder groups, including instructors, trainers, learners, support staff, and the institution. An... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

How Do Teachers Become Tech Wizards?
have had many teachers ask me, "How did YOU get to be so good at computers?" Many assume, erroneously, that my husband, who is a true tech genius, does all of my work for me. However, there is way... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

SimSchool
Video game developers often boast about the research involved in their games. They bring in famous footballers or racing car drivers to deliver the inside knowledge that generates the authentic feel of whatever you're playing. At the peak you've got... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Roles and Competencies of Online Teachers
With the great demand for online courses, there is an urgent necessity to reflect upon the roles and competencies of teachers who plan to deliver courses via Internet. This reflection is important due to the fact that some teachers believe... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Ways to use weblogs in education
You might like to create a reflective, journal type blog to...ADE Bloggers: ADE Bloggers... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

How Computers Change the Way We Think
The tools we use to think change the ways in which we think. The invention of written language brought about a radical shift in how we process, organize, store, and transmit representations of the world. Although writing remains our primary... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Technology in the Classroom
Summary: Recent studies have shown that use of technology in the classroom is increasing. This study investigates the effect of the changing role of instructor as this trend continues. Findings indicate that, in order for technological integration in the classroom... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Mental Models and Strategic Choices
What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges' DE strategies? This qualitative study compares DE strategic thinking and strategic choices at three community colleges. Two propositions are investigated: (1) each... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Building the School of the Future.
This is a streaming media presentation with audio and slide presentation which looks at Microsoft's vision of the school of the future. Building the School of the Future... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 20, 2004 at 1:55 a.m..

Switch to Firefox, Tim; it's better than Safari at the moment
I used to use Safari because of ecto. I used ecto because it has lots of cool features (such as pictures) and a cool AppleScript and bookmarklet combo to post to ecto from Safari. But then MarsEdit came out (and although it doesn't have WYSIWYG that's not a bug because the ecto WYSIWYG is great but doesn't work with nested lists which I use often via cut and paste from Omni Outliner so I can't use it. I really need to fil From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 20, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Yawncasting
I feel pretty much late to the dance with podcasting. It is a technology phenomnma that seems like it happened more or less while I was out of the country 3 weeks in November. My colleagues D'Arcy and Brian are all over it, and I have give high credence to things my trusted colleagues get excited about. But I'm not quite ready From cogdogblog on December 20, 2004 at 1:48 a.m..

An Open Letter to a Digital World: Time to Switch to Linux
Chris Spencer posted an interesting open letter to LinuxWorld a couple of days ago, and it's worth circulating to those a bit outside of the Linux world. "Spencer had become so fed up with spyware, trojans, viruses, and spam, that... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 20, 2004 at 1:00 a.m..

Vote for Troy's Technology Buyer's Manifesto
I second Boris' emotion. Vote for Troy's manifesto if you care about having technology that actually works, which you should! From B. Mann Consulting | Technology Consulting in Vancouver.: QUOTETroy wrote up a manifesto and submitted it. Now it's time to go vote: Would you like to have a world where the technology that we buy is stable, reliable, and actually serves From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 20, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

There are far fewer regrets once you have chosen Macintosh
Interesting theory: the over abundance of choice in the Windows world leads to stress that you don't have in the Mac world. There is definitely some truth to it. I have found that when looking for Windows software, there are usually hundreds of choices most of which are crap (and it's hard to figure out which ones are crap). But in the Mac world, there are far fewer choices and it's much easier to figure which software is crap. So you have less stress when deciding on what software to use. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 20, 2004 at 12:55 a.m..

Chuck Baldwin, prominent Baptist pastor: "The Religious Right Scares Me"
Dr. Chuck Baldwin, vice-presidential candidate on the Constitution Party ticket in the 2004 U.S. election, wrote a “Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon” entitled I Am A Conservative Christian, And The Religious Right Scares Me, Too. Chuck Baldwin starts off demonstrating his Christian roots, e.g.I am currently in my thirtieth year as the Senior Pastor of the Crossroad Baptist Church (Independent) in Pensacola, Florida.Then he explains his opposition to the "Religious Right."Sadly, the Religious Right is now a movement without a cause, except the cause of advancing the Republican From kuro5hin.org on December 20, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..