By Stephen Downes
July 8, 2004
Q & A with Stephen Downes
Short
interview talking about the impact of diploma mills,
disintermediation, and how to learn how to use the web for
learning. By GA.Buchholz, Contentology, July 7, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Mapping BlogTalk 2.0
This is very
cool - what you see is an interactive map of Vienna with
various hot spots on it. Click on the hot spot and you are
displayed a blog post with a comment, usually describing
what may be found at the hot spot. Even better, if you
click 'i' on the map you can also add your own information
(at least in theory - I tried to add the location of the
cybercafe in the city but it didn't take). What I'm
thinking, though, is that the information added to the map
needs to be cumulative - that is, more than one person
should be able to add to the same location. Maybe a Wiki
would be a better back end for this than a blogging engine.
No matter. Community mapping like this is the way of the
future. By Various Authors, July, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
WordPress Plugin: FOAF Output
The
Semantic Social Network marches forward. This link is to a
Friend of a Friend (FOAF) plugin for the open source
blogging tool, WordPress. This allows users to distribute
their personal information in an XML format. By Morten
Frederiksen, Binary Relations, July 5, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Pressure Mounts on Reed to Open Access to
Science Work
This story follows the announcement
by the number two company in the field, Springer, that it
is moving to the open access model of journal distribution
online. "Springer's move to the 'open access' model will
ratchet up the pressure on Reed Elsevier, the London-listed
market leader, which is desperately clinging to the
traditional style of science publishing," Via Open Access
News. Now I should note that a tour of the Springer
web site doesn't yield any obvious links to open access
content or even a pres release on this, so we're not there
yet. By Saeed Shah, The Independent , July 7, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Australian Government to Offer Guide to
Open-Source
Not only cool, but useful. And
reflective of an encouraging trend. "A new guide designed
to help federal government agencies evaluate open-source
products alongside their proprietary rivals is due to be
completed and distributed by September". By Iain Ferguson,
CNET News.com, July 7, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
France Telecom Develops an Integrated
Flexible Screen to Display Animated Graphics on the
Wearer
I'm not sure how this relates to online
learning, but I'm sure it adds an entirely new dimension to
the debates about inappropriate clothing that rage from
time to time in schools. By Press Release, France Telecom,
July 1, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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