By Stephen Downes
July 21, 2003
Attack Update
OK, here's where we
stand. I have no email into or out of downes.ca - this
means that if you are sending me email to stephen@downes.ca
it will fail. It also means that newsletter mailouts are
failing (at least, I think they're failing...).
Additionally, all scheduled processes have terminated,
which means that Edu_RSS will be updated manually. I have
no tech support until at least tomorrow, so it looks like
we'll be limping along like this for a bit. Again, please
note, email sent to me at downes.ca is not reaching me. By
Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, July 22, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Attack on
Downes.ca
Downes.ca was off the air for a few
days following a denial of service attack. We are back for
now but things are still touch and go. I'll keep you
posted. By Stephen Downes, July 21, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
IMS and OKI, the Wire and the
Socket
Description of progress in MIT's Open
Knowledge Initiative (OKI). It is important to recognize,
reports the author, that OKI is not an open source learning
environment. Nor is it even an architecture, though as the
author note, OKI's layer-cake archietcture has become
famous. Rather, the heart of OKI is a set of "OSIDs:
definitions of particular slots in a computer program. In
an application that allows you to do searches for learning
objects in repositories, for example, the programmer can
just say 'put the code that talks to the repository here'
without actually having to program very much beyond calls
to the list of commands that the OSID specifies." Cool
stuff. Too bad so much of this work is happening behind
closed doors; as the author notes, "the success of OKI
depends almost entirely on the support it gets," and the
more open the process, the more likely the support. By
Wilbert Kraan, CETIS, July 17, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Government of Canada Newsroom (Phase
II)
Funny how things work. Yesterday I asked a
questions, to which a reader responded and, in passing,
suggested I visit the Canada website. I haven't been there
for a while, so I did, and as I passed the news page, I
sent a suggestion about formatting. I received a prompt
reply which, in passing, mentioned that the Government of
Canada is planning to implement, among other things, RSS
feeds in Phase II of the Newsroom web site. This is
something I have encouraged (and here) for some time, so I asked for
more information. With permission, I have placed a copy of
the fact sheet on my website. "Phase II of the Newsroom
will be launched with a primary focus on a new distribution
strategy for government news and related resources. Phase
II of the Newsroom will give people choices regarding the
types of news that they receive and the technology that
they use to access it." I will of course provide more
information when it becomes publicly available. A French version of the Fact Sheet is also
available. By fact Sheet, Government of Canada, July, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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