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Is there a dongle in your future?
There are three general ways to identify yourself: Something you know. Something you have. Something you are. Item 1, something you know, is the basis for the PINs and passwords we're all familiar with. Item 3, something you are, is the category for fingerprints and retinal scans, technologies still too expensive and complex for everyday use. And so item 2, something you have, is the best short-term hope for com From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 24, 2004 at 5:58 p.m..

Cream of the crop
Millions of users now find it hard to imagine life without the internet - without email, instant messaging, web search engines and online trading or gaming. Over the past decade since Online was launched, it's the web that has made... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 24, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

2005: The Year of the Digital Campus
Today, learning is no longer bound to a fixed location such as a classroom. Thanks to some innovative technology trends, the educational landscape is transforming into a "digital campus" - an information-rich and seamlessly connected environment that brings the world... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 24, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

Groups Debate Use of Digital Information
As more of our personal lives go digital, family members, estate attorneys and online service providers are increasingly grappling with what happens to those information bits when their owners die. Yahoo! News - Groups Debate Use of Digital Information... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 24, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

EXPLORING THE INTERACTION EQUATION
The degree of interaction among participants in distance courses is widely acknowledged to be an indicator of successful learning experiences; interaction has been found to contribute to both achievement and student satisfaction. As an increasing number of distance courses move... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 24, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

this the season: I
"I'm just a student, so I don't have a lot of money to blow, but I donated $165 to EFF, Publ From Lessig Blog on December 24, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

Library Journal - Googlizers vs. Resistors
This is a brief article (Library Journal - Googlizers vs. Resistors) with discusson of ethnoclassification (bags-of-keywords) vs. controlled vocabularies to describe resources. Stephen Downes pointed out the article, with the insightful comment: In a world where tomorrow is different from yesterday, controlled vocabularies (are) not only inefficient, they're dangerous. In a controlled ... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on December 24, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..

Week in review: Lump of coal for Microsoft
Software giant gets an unwelcome gift when a European court orders it to start offering a version of Windows without a bundled media player. From CNET News.com on December 24, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Barlow's round 1
JP Barlow recounts his day in court, on trial for threatening to blow up an airliner with a few grams of pot smuggled in an Ibuprofen bottle. danah weighs in with her own account of the drama.... From Joho the Blog on December 24, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..

An iTunes Christmas
Well, I am just so proud of myself. My one surprise gift for my wife is all set and ready to go. Eight hours of custom iTunes mixes burned to CD and labeled with a nice collage of album artwork, with the help of Fireworks and Freehand. I think she's gonna love them, and it will be the one gift that she hasn't picked out for herself already, or even bought and given to me to wrap for her. (Anyone else's wives help you out by buying their own gifts?) You gotta love shopping like this--or... From Brain Frieze on December 24, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..

I Want My (Adult) Internet TV
Next month, Adultinternet.TV officially launches with a lineup that includes reality shows, news, sitcoms and cartoons -- all with an adult twist. That doesn't mean that every host or actress is going to take her clothes off, but it does mean that adult pioneers are once again developing technologies that will change the landscape of entertainment as we know it. "Nobody has done a real adult TV station, that's like real TV, supported by advertisers and free to viewers," says co-founder Mark Newman. "This isn't just streaming porn. We're trying to run exactly like From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

Communication Grill Chang-tei
Communication Grill Chang-tei, by Japanese artists Kou Sueda and Kouji Ishii, is an electric cooker controlled by a chat software for making Yakiniku (Japanese-style barbecue). The conversation exchanged on a network powers the electric heater. In order to roast meat, you have to continue carrying out a chat with the person that shares your table. Once you stop chatting, th From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

New Sony Camcorder Burns Directly to DVD
Sony plans to release in May a new digital video camera that burns directly to DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW. Called the Sony DCR-DVD7E, it features a cool, round-body design. From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

Is there life after Suprnova? Exeem and other alternatives
While everyone is anxiously waiting to find out more details about Exeem we found on Slyck forum (which seems to be down today) a list of 10 alternatives to Suprnova. #10 Bt.etree.org No Registration Required One of the top torrent links is even 100% legal. This is a music only site that allows fans to trade recordings of live concerts from certain bands. All the bands you will find here actually allow their fans to record From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

More on Home Brew Ads
A followup to this earlier posting: Unauthorized Campaigns Used by Unauthorized Creators Become a Trend [pdf] Coca-Cola is not the only marketer dealing with marketing it did not ask for. New ads and ideas for campaigns are increasingly popping up without client or agency involvement, whether online, on television or m From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

Blog Art
Have I mentioned lately that Anne Davis is an amazingly inspiring teacher when it comes to blogs, both to her students and to me. It's rare to find someone who can make it all seem as fun as she does, and you just know her students are going to fall in love with writing because of it. Her kids have published a whole page of Blog Art to inspire me and, hopefully, some others as wel From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..

US: how did an institution with a brave history of safeguarding democracy become a threat to its survival?
Danny Schechter, editor of Mediachannel.org sent me this article two days ago as a global comment on 2004. His thoughts can be compared with Mark Glaser views (see former posting today). They seem belonging to two different planets. Schechter writes that "It has not been a good year for journalists and journalism... The big fear, as journalists die, is that journalism itself may soon follow. Some years back, I read a book about the emergence of the "post From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Apple Applies For Patent On Drop-proof iPod?
"Apple Computer is eyeing a technology that could make the iPod more likely to survive a fall. The company has applied for a patent on technology that would allow a portable media player to detect when it is falling and then stop reading or writing to the hard drive. Such technology would work by detecting the acceleration that accompanies a drop. "The portable-computing device protects its disk drive by monitoring for such accelerations and operating to avoid usage of the disk drive during periods of acceleration," Apple said in the patent application, which was published Dec. 16. "Throug From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Automakers to develop WiFi on wheels
A group of automakers has won a grant from the German government to help develop a standard for car-to-car data networking. The planned standard will essentially create a mobile Internet, allowing vehicles and drivers to communicate with each other instantly. (There are already ad hoc systems that allow sharing of data especially music on the road, but they don't have this leve From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Consumers Union's Hearusnow.org
Consumers Union has released a new telecommunications and media online resource called Hearusnow.org. The site offers in-depth reading on over 60 consumer related telecom issues, including consumer tips on what to do before you buy and making companies listen when you're dissatisfied (from phone service to copyright rules on digital content). There are also 7 different ways to make a difference in less then 2 minutes (see "Get Heard" on the left bar and click the red link). From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Durl: URL search for del.icio.us
Enter a URL to retrieve information about people who delicious'ed it. From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Boing Boing Podcast #001
I notice that Boing Boing is in the preliminary stages of podcasting. This is the torrent file. I couldn't find a boing boing link that was to just the mp3 file, so here is a link to just the mp3 file. This should be okay according to the creative commons license bundled in the torrent. Its tagged as Boing Boing podcast #001 (inferring that there is potential for only 999 (save fractions)). Cool stuff. The best thing about pod casting is all of the valuable conten From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Notes from ITP: Flickr-as-web-services edition
Been away, working on a bunch of things including, most speculatively, a proposal for a book with the working title Organization in the Age of Social Devices, where devices refers both to our tools and to the things people do with those tools when left to their own devices. The collected themes of the book will be no surprise to readers here. All that is so 2006, however, and this is still 2004, so I want to try to capture some of what I’ve been seeing this semester at ITP. Unlike last From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Wikimedia Interviews Ward Cunningham
Ward, the inventor of the wiki, talks about the evolution of wiki, copyright and wikipedia. From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

tv experiment (Remote Production via IM)
I wanted to let you know that Chris Weagal(Human Dog) and I had a successful experiment tonight. You may know that on Thursday nights at 11:30pm, I do a a live TV show in Manhattan. But tonight Im in Indiana visiting my little sister and yet the show still happened. The show went live from Chris's basement studio in Michigan. Anyone in manhattan watching channel 56 saw the Human Dog Players do a christmas special. this is huge for our community station as a proof of concept. now, we can go live from anywhere in the world, fre From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Internet Innovation vs. Power
The Nielsen//Netratings organization says broadband is now ahead of dialup access in U.S. homes, and that opens the door to all sorts of innovation. Howard Owens of VenturaCountyStar.com wrote about one big leap, TVIP, on his personal weblog the other day and made a dismissive reference to broadband providers restricting that functionality. "I just can't see that happ From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

FCC: U.S. Broadband Use Up 15% For First Half Of 2004
The latest FCC report on broadband usage shows an increase of 15 percent in high-speed lines to home and business for a total of 32.5 million lines through June 2004. Perhaps most important, 23.2 million of those lines provide advanced speed, two-way access. -- High-speed lines increased by 38 percent for the full 12 months ending June 30, 2004.-- Of the 32.5 million high-speed lines in service, 30.1 million served residential and small business subscribers, up 16 percent from the From unmediated on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Bizarre Grab Bag
Just for fun, here is some miscellaneous cool weird stuff that's caught my interest lately... TOP OF THIS LIST: Letters from Bad Santa. Do you know someone who deserves coal this year? There's still time! Getting a bad Santa letter sent to your personal nemesis costs $2.95, but you can read the letter templates for free -- and they're hilarious! Check it out today. (Thanks to Chris White for this link.) Read the rest of this list... From Contentious Weblog on December 24, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

Why animal shapes make bad candles
To make things even creepier, the eyes didn't melt - they just floated in his brain pan until his skull collapsed and the molten wax dribbled out. Merry Christmas, everyone. From silentblue | Quantified on December 24, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Facilitate Introductions
Five fun activities to help participants get to know each other. These icebreakers work equally well in social and classroom settings.... From Adult/Continuing Education on December 24, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

Does Technology Enhance Inquiry-Based Learning?
This paper tries overly hard to be balanced, and in so doing obscures its most important observation: "If we expect all research studies on education innovations to provide a simple 'thumbs-up or thumbs-down', we are likely to avoid research methods that can yield important insights into the complexities of implementing major innovations in our schools." The context is discussion of the evaluation of the eMINTS program, a combination of learning technologies with constructivist methodology. The authors still call for randomized trials - one wonders how the teacher will 'switch o From OLDaily on December 24, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Schools Chief: State's Districts Need a Shake-up
This is the tip of the iceberg. "Watkins said public schools face the same kinds of problems U.S. automakers faced in the 1980s with foreign competition. As students are lost to charter schools, public districts lose state funds. He said although revenue problems are real for some districts and not the fault of mismanagement, schools must rethink the way they do business." By Chris Christoff, Detroit Free Press, December 15, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on December 24, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Publish or be Damned
Haven't been able to listen to this RealMedia audio track, but Gerry McKiernan gives it raves. "Perhaps The Most Important Overview/Review on Open Access / Open Archives / Self-Archiving) Ever [:-) With All the Key Players [Yep - All!]" Well - not with me. Anyhow, look for this track under 'P' in the extensive list on this page - and if you don't like this item, you'll find a few more here you can listen to. By Unknown, BBC News, December, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on December 24, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

New Patents for ContentGuard
The SCO of the digital rights world, ContentGuard obtains more patents on access control. By Staff, DRM Watch, December 22, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on December 24, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

2005: The Year of the Digital Campus
I don't have a lot of faith in these predictions, despite their pedigree (the author is the V.P. of Education and Global Research at Sun Microsystems). Writes the author, "the educational landscape is transforming into a 'digital campus' - an information-rich and seamlessly connected environment that brings the world to a student's fingertips and lets the student move freely about the globe." Well maybe one day, but not next year. The emphasis on 'campus based non-campus learning' is misplaced. Universities may be providing greater access (or "anytime, anywhere ac From OLDaily on December 24, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Googlizers vs. Resistors
In a world where tomorrow is different from yesterday, controlled vocabularies and not only inefficient, they're dangerous. In a controlled vocabulary, not only can you not classify 'podcasting', you cannot even register its impact. Some librarians are getting this message. Others are not. Oh, and judging the effectiveness of a non-taxonomy based search by what Google can (only) do today? Mistake. By Brian Kenney, Library Journal, December 15, 2004 [Refer][OLDaily on December 24, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

Swoogle: zoekmachine voor het semantisch web
http://swoogle.umbc.edu/index.php De site van de eBiquity Group, een onderzoeksgroep van de University of Maryland Baltimore County huisvest de zoekmachine voor semantisch web-documenten Swoogle. Het semantisch web is onderdeel van de visie van de visie van het W3C op de toekomst van het World Wide Web. Door de toevoeging van gestructureerde metadata aan het web wordt het, ondanks de steeds toenemende omvang van het web, mogelijk sneller de juiste informatie te vinden. Gegevens in RDF kunnen gebruikt worden om zeer verschillende soorten metadata vast te leggen. Daarmee kunnen documenten op From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on December 24, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..

ALA president reacts to Google library collection digitzation project
The president of the American Library Association reacts to the news about Google's library digitization project. (via Homo Ludens)... From MANE IT Network on December 24, 2004 at 11:56 a.m..

Relegent and HealthTeacher Merge
Move will expand Relegent's health content service offering to include schools. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004] From PR Web on December 24, 2004 at 11:41 a.m..

Give the Gift of Music Education On eBay
National Association for Music Education (MENC) Joins Forces with eBay to Support The National Anthem Project: The Campaign to Restore America's Voice [PRWEB Dec 24, 2004] From PR Web on December 24, 2004 at 11:41 a.m..

A Special Holiday Show on December 24th with Dr. Pat Baccili and Sue Storm The Angel Lady
Sue Storm, The Angel Lady, is an author, motivational speaker and consultant specializing in Angel communication. She has made numerous appearances on television and radio, as well as being featured in Chicago newspapers. [PRWEB Dec 24, 2004] From PR Web on December 24, 2004 at 11:41 a.m..

The Pharmaceutical Elephant in America's Living Room
Illicit drugs, prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and addiction all tie into pharmaceutical companies. [PRWEB Dec 24, 2004] From PR Web on December 24, 2004 at 11:41 a.m..

Bashpodder - iPodder Aggregator in 44 lines of BASH
I've tried a bunch of iPodder aggregator programs. None have turned my crank. They've been quirky, unreliable, misbehaving beasts. All I want is a simple, faceless app that reliably sucks down the enclosures from a set of feeds. Bashpodder is perfect! It's a BASH script, with a grand total of 44 ... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on December 24, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..

Database flaws more risky than thought
Newly released details of flaws found earlier in Oracle and IBM databases have some security firms worried. From CNET News.com on December 24, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..

Blade pioneer RLX gets out of servers
It came up with the category, but RLX had trouble making money on blade servers, so it's shifting to software. From CNET News.com on December 24, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..

Exploits released for new Windows flaws
It also releases sample exploit code for the two unpatched flaws--which means that a virus could be on the way. From CNET News.com on December 24, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..

Year in review: Online politics gone wild
In 2004, the Internet finally made a massive impact on U.S. politics. It wasn't just the presidential candidates, though. Animators and bloggers also left their mark. From CNET News.com on December 24, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..

New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow
Mozilla browser's market share growth curve may be steep, but workplace and site restrictions could flatten it. From CNET News.com on December 24, 2004 at 11:40 a.m..

Opera Launches New Rendition - Tim Gray, Internet News
Opera Software said the latest version of its browser has so many new bells and whistles that developers decided to skip the traditional version release and opt for a full-scale launch. "We were preparing for the 7.60 release, but as work progressed a From Techno-News Blog on December 24, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

DNA Makes and Breaks Particle Clumps - Technology Research News
Nanotechnology is all about manipulating materials on the molecular scale. Many teams of researchers are using artificial strands of DNA to do so. Researchers from the University of Dortmund in Germany have devised a way to coax DNA to aggregate and From Techno-News Blog on December 24, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

What Bloggers Can Learn From Journalists - Steve Outing, Poynter Institute
Bloggers could better protect themselves if they took a few pages out of the reporter's notebook. Blogging can be not only influential, but also great fun. As Wonkette.com's Ana Marie Cox has said, "It's all chocolate cake and no potatoes." Of course From Techno-News Blog on December 24, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

2005: The Year of the Digital Campus - Kim Jones, THE Journal
Today, learning is no longer bound to a fixed location such as a classroom. Thanks to some innovative technology trends, the educational landscape is transforming into a oedigital campus - an information-rich and seamlessly connected environment that From Online Learning Update on December 24, 2004 at 9:50 a.m..

MythTV
In anticipation of Tivo's presenting ads while we fast forward, I'm looking into building (or buying?) a MythTV, an open source project that turns a linux box into a Tivo++. We love Tivo, but MythTV looks much better. (We're also going to try to buy our next TV before the Broadcast Flag goes into effect in July 1, 2005.) I find myself amazingly confused, however. For example, the EFF says that PC TV tuners will record HDTV off of over-the-air broadcasts but not off of cable boxes. That sounds crazy...crazy like the FCC. (Tivo also doesn't record HDTV, except through... From Joho the Blog on December 24, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

Ostensive definition of a geek
You want to know what "geek" means? This is from a discussion board about MythTV: I found MythTV, Freevo, and WebVCR+ all far too complicated to setup, so I created my own PVR. It is written in C and does not require a separate database process (such as MySQL) to be running. Despite this, it is very fast (faster than any interpreted language can be) and it has a full-featured GNOME front end. It can be found at http://furioustv.sourceforge.net/... From Joho the Blog on December 24, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

Christmas Time Is Here Again
What to my wondering eyes should appear than this news from NORAD: Ringo Starr will help track Santa (or Father Christmas, as he's known in the UK) once again this year. Merry Christmas, Beatle Peatle everywhere. Happy Crimble, and a Merry Goo Year. From Gardner Writes on December 24, 2004 at 9:00 a.m..

Media & Journalism Grab Bag, Dec. 24
Here are some more items about news, media, and journalism that have caught my interest recently. TOP OF THIS LIST: BBC bamboozled by spoof site: On Dec. 3, the venerable TV news show BBC World broadcast an interview with Jude Finisterra, who claimed to be a spokesperson for Dow Chemical. The topic was the anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. (Several years ago Dow acquired Union Carbide, the company whose plant in Bhopal, India killed thousands and injured more than 100,000 in the world's worst industrial disaster.) In the interview, Finisterra offered a $12 billion (US) settlement to the From Contentious Weblog on December 24, 2004 at 8:53 a.m..

VALIDATING A RUBRIC TO ASSESS AND ENCOURAGE INTERACTION IN DISTANCE COURSES - M. D. Roblyer and W. R. Wiencke, JALN
The degree of interaction among participants in distance courses is widely acknowledged to be an indicator of successful learning experiences; interaction has been found to contribute to both achievement and student satisfaction. As an increasing numb From Online Learning Update on December 24, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of The New Year. Answers here. ...
This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of The New Year. Answers here.1. The Millennium Bug was a crisis that faced computer users at the end of which year?2. A survey in 1997 showed that the two most popular New Year's resolutions were to give up smoking and...what else?3. In Scotland, what is the name for New Year's Eve?4. The author of the 1951 book "The Catcher in the Rye" was born on 1 January, 1919. What is his name?5. The Jewish New Yea From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 24, 2004 at 7:48 a.m..

How Much for the Clone?
A cat cloned to replace a dead pet for a Texas woman stirs ethical debate. Also: Scientists discover monster cockroach and mini crab in Indonesia.... EU caves in on stronger fishing limits.... and more. From Wired News on December 24, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Supercomputer to Test Aging Nukes
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab are responsible for ensuring that U.S. nuclear weapons are safe and reliable. Using the massive computing power of BlueGene/L, they plan to simulate the explosion of an aging nuclear bomb in 3-D. From Wired News on December 24, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

I Want My Internet TV
An upstart adult industry venture pioneers a revolution in technology and entertainment. Again. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From Wired News on December 24, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Countdown to Mystery Moon Begins
The European Space Agency prepares to send its Huygens probe hurtling through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. What the probe will find on the other side is anybody's guess. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on December 24, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

U.S. Slips in Attracting the World's Best Students
American universities find themselves facing intense competition as other countries aggressively recruit foreign students. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Why Students Struggle When Pressure Is On
Psychologists are reporting that intense exam pressure is actually more likely to impair the performance of very good students than mediocre ones. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Smoking and Drug Use by Teenagers Drop Again
Smoking and drug abuse among teenagers declined again this year, according to a federal study that also found the same trend over the last decade. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

2 School Aides Accused of Having Sex With Students
Two aides at a Bronx high school had sex with students and made inappropriate sexual comments to another, investigators said. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Students to Bear More of the Cost of College
At least 1.3 million students will receive smaller Pell Grants, the nation's primary scholarship for those of low income. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Some Parents Say a $5 Gift Is Not Enough for Teachers
A $5-per-student spending limit for holiday gifts to teachers, a regulation imposed early in 2004, was largely ignored by parents and students. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Looking for Good Teaching
Here's a good resource: an adapted version of "Looking for Good Teaching: A Guide to Peer Observation," by B. B. Helling (1976). It is a surprisingly lengthy checklist for teaching observations that focuses on the "good" elements of the teacher's performance, in the name of specific and positive criticism, rather... From PEDABLOGUE on December 24, 2004 at 2:51 a.m..

My Merry Christmas Publicast - and some predictions for 2005
Merry Christmas to all. Hear my words (very small MP3) in a Publicast stylee! The golden age of RSS, and blogging text, audio, video, etc. for fun but not $ is over. 2005 will be the year of $ in the blogosphere, RSS-o-sphere and podosphere and that's a good thing! A lot those people toiling away for free and just to play around who haven't made some money of it heretofore will make some money off it somehow in 2005.Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 24, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Seasons Greetings!
I'm just about to close up the office, and go on three weeks of holidays. The office will be reopening on January 17. So it would seem to be the right time to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a... From Column Two on December 24, 2004 at 1:47 a.m..

Outlook Outlook
In a couple of years, we may look back on this headline as the early sign of a trend: Internet Explorer market share drops below 90 percent in EuropeFriday, December 3, 2004Tom's Hard News Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to steal market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer around the globe. Accordin From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 24, 2004 at 12:59 a.m..

Season’s Greetings
I'm spending a couple of days off-line for the holidays. If you are celebrating any kind of holiday at this time of year, I hope its a good one. Even if you don't celebrate, I hope you are having a good time! And now, a picture of my daughter serenading the ... From Just Another Ant on December 24, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..

W isn't hungry
According to the NY Times, Bush has cut our contribution to global food aid by $100M. As Mathew Gross comments: "While he flushes billions into his war in Iraq and trillions into his senior-fleecing scheme. Nice man. Great moral values, there."... From Joho the Blog on December 24, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..

Intranet Planning Day
As our final piece of work for the year, we've released a new workshop titled the Intranet Planning Day. This day is designed to give you the opportunity to step back from the day-to-day running of the intranet, and to... From Column Two on December 24, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..