By Stephen Downes
February 4, 2004
PubSub Offers a Neat Twist on Eating RSS
Feeds
Discussion of and links to a new RSS
service - "It's like searching the future." - that
aggregates RSS feeds and provides topic-based feeds. By
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, February 4, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
New Practices in Flexible Learning: Framework
for Rights Enabled Learning Object Exchange
Trial
A significant set of resources looking at
digital rights management (DRM) in the Australian context.
"The rights-enabled Learning Object Exchange (LOX) has been
specifically designed to demonstrate possible technical,
legal and business issues concerning the exchange of
learning objects within the Vocational Education and
Training (VET) sector." Worth noting especially is the Project Report, a detailed examination of
DRM issues and proposed solutions. Significantly, "DRM
systems must embrace technologies that are free of
proprietary obligations" and "Any DRM system needs to be
seamless, accessible, cost efÞ cient and transparent for
the user groups." By Tim Hand, Australian Flexible Learning
Framework, February 4, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Learning Technology
The January
issue of this newsletter is out. Lots of good stuff on
learning objects, learning portals, community, learning
teams and games. But since it's only available (which
appears to be a new policy) in that ridiculous PDF format
I cannot link to individual articles. By various Authors,
February, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Study: Broadband 'Killer App'
Found
PwC has this one right - whomever can
create an application that gives people an easy way to work
with video will have the next 'killer app'. Well, one of
them anyway. This is key: the killer application "will not
be distribution of professionally produced content, such as
today's TV and movies, but rather the addition of video to
existing applications such as conferencing, messaging and
gaming and the development of applications that rely on
user- and community-provided video content." People often
forget, the internet is a communications medium.
Nice to see PwC getting it. By Unknown, Silicon Valley /
San Jose Business Journal, February 3, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
ICSEP Latin American Workshop
II
Subtitled 'Strengthening Scientists and
Editors Capabilities in Electronic Publishing', the
proceedings from this conference signify a growing
awareness of - and support for - open source publishing in
Latin America. Papers and presentations are available on
the conference website, mostly in Spanish, but some - such
as Erik Sandewall's presentation of the CDSI recommendations. Not available yet
on the site is a significant outcome of the conference, the
Valparaiso Declaration stressing ways to
improve scientific communication in general and open access
in particular. By Various Authors, February 4, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Is Ad-Supported RSS the Next Big Thing?
Some discussion of the concept and outline of a
company, RSSAds, that is trying to bring
commercial content into RSS feeds. It's a tricky model:
viewership of RSS feeds is based on a subscription to the
feed, and people are not so likely to subscribe to an RSS
feed full of advertising. But insert an RSS ad with a feed
- either as part of the description content or as a
separate link - and now we have the beginnings of a model.
By Janis Mara, Internet Advertising Report, February 3,
2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Summary of the 2004 SIIA Information Industry
Summit
Nice summary of this conference which
gives the reader a good glimpse into the thinking and sense
of the software industry. One senses some movement on
things like licensing, copyright and patents. And excerpt:
"Information vendors need to come up with better ways to
price products. There may be X million people who use the
FLICC (Federal Library and Information Center Committee)
intranet. But there may be only a few people who need to
use a particular product from a particular vendor. Any
pricing that tries to license the millions instead of the
actual users is not going to fly." If the PilotEd site is
new to you, you may want to see Their other items from previous months.
By Mitchell Weisburgh, PilotEd, February 2, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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