Edu_RSS
Information management as a unified discipline
Patrick Cormier has written an excellent article on integrated information management, outlining the many different facets involved. To quote: Until quite recently, Information Management (IM) practitioners have practiced their craft in isolation. Typical stereotypes and perceptions often portrayed records managers... From
Column Two on January 2, 2006 at 8:47 p.m..
SME's and distributed authoring
Lisa Welchman discusses approaches for managing distributed authoring, focusing on the challenges of content quality, currency and accuracy. To quote: I'm a firm believer in distributed web authoring and all that, but you have to be sure that your subject... From
Column Two on January 2, 2006 at 7:47 p.m..
Naming your blog
Regular readers would be aware that a lot of my posts are links to interesting articles, resources, and commonly, blog posts. I confess: I do this primarily for my own benefit, so I can find these resources again later when... From
Column Two on January 2, 2006 at 7:47 p.m..
Robert Paterson - The Dumbing of Society and Corporate Control of Copyright - More on the Long Tail - Robert Paterson's Weblog
Good post with some engaging images looking at what happens to culture when it becomes a corporate commodity. Robert Paterson writes, "I see in this decision the relentless drive to dumb down all experience. The touching beauty and tenderness of the Pooh world and its relationships will soon be lost. As will the tragedy behind the story of a father, Milne, who could not show his real son the love and attention he needed but gave it instead to a son of his mind. Everything becomes crude and one dimensional missing the essence of Pooh. Even the art is now flat and crude." Sad. [
OLDaily on January 2, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Meg Spohn - I Took the Green Pill - Megablog
Leigh Blackall
writes about and links to this post by blogger
Meg Spohn, who was
fired from her teaching position at DeVry over content in her blog (true to form, this happened with no warning and with no indication of what it was about her blog that offended them so). Reflecting on her decision to go public with the story, Spohn observes, "I was in the middle of an amazing community, and I didn't even kn From
OLDaily on January 2, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Will Richardson - Reinventing Ourselves in 2006 - Weblogg-Ed
Will Richardson talks about the trend toward change sweeping through the academic blogosphere. As David Wiley comments, "The notion of teacher as DJ may have been implied when people started applying the 'rip-mix-burn' metaphor to education, but lately I can't seem to get it out of my head." Yeah. Richardson adds, "But there's no doubt there is an energy around all of this right now, an urgency even. I'm feeling it in my own life, not just in the education sense but in a more global sense. What difference do I really want to make? What contribution?" Quite so From
OLDaily on January 2, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Dave Cormier - Wikibooks - A Project Suggestion - Dave's Educational Blog
You get the feeling now that things have been set in motion and that the final outcome is inevitable. Dave Cormier outlines his thinking behind "a well funded wikibook project as a viable alternative to the current publisher textbook hegemony." It's only a matter of time now, isn't it? Sure, there are things to think about, and Cormier begins to engage some of the issues. But the idea itself is inevitable. After all, who could stop it? [
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Books and eBo From OLDaily on January 2, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Graham Wegner - Flattening The Pyramid Of Influence - Teaching Generation Z
In a world that needs millions of learning objects, what's wrong with this math? "My copy of CEGSA RAMpage magazine tells me that both the Aussie and Kiwi governments have committed more than $100 million to the Learning Federation project for 8000 Learning Objects. Using my LO calculator that works out to twelve and a half grand per object." What's more interesting that this reasoning is that it may, possibly, influence policy. "So read, learn, debate, remix, propose, add to and let's take back control of our profession. Do those higher up the totem pole really know what's From
OLDaily on January 2, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Rob Reynolds - Technology Trends for the New Year - XplanaZine
Rob Reynolds consults the oracle and comes up with his trends for the new year. Good safe predictions in a year that, all things being equal, is pretty straightforward to predict: handheld convergence, gaming, blogging, podcasting, vodcasting, and social networking. [
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Networks,
Podcasting,
Games and Gaming,
OLDaily on January 2, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Stephen Downes - Edu_RSS 2.0 - Stephen's Web
Tomorrow I go back to work, and since my productivity will therefore nosedive (more on that below) this seems like a good time to release the current version of Edu_RSS 0.2. In the last few weeks I've gotten a lot done, and the system is now a complete whole, rather than scattered bits of hopes and ambition. This link is to a description; I also provide links to
screenshots and
downloadable code. People subscribed to Edu_RSS by RSS will notice a change in their feed as well, probab From
OLDaily on January 2, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Reinventing Ourselves in 2006
One of the themes thats been on my brain quite a bit of late is this undercurrent of reinvention that seems to be running through so many blogs and books of late. John Pederson brings it to life in his
New Years post describing why he up and quit his day job, and I must admit that much of what he writes resonates profoundly. (See the "Change is not death; fear of change is death" card...) Meanwhile, over the break I read "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink which has me taking a whole new look at From
weblogged News on January 2, 2006 at 4:47 p.m..
Social Software Top 10 (Ross Mayfield)
Ev: …With the caveats that Alexa’s data is not comprehensive"and even if they had perfect stats, “Alexa Rank” is still just one definition of popularity (a combination of reach and pageviews)"here’s the 10 most popular social media sites (with corresponding... From
Corante: Social Software on January 2, 2006 at 3:49 p.m..
Classification by crocodile
An illustration that you can never tell how people are going to want to classify things: When Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt and J. Gilbart Smyly discovered the mummies of the "papyrus enriched" holy crocodiles in Egyptian Tebtunis, they sensibly decided to include in the first volume of their publication a "classification of papyri according to crocodiles," for papyri in the belly of the same animal might reveal relationships reflecting their administrative provenance and an original arrangment. In Ernst Posner, Archives in the Ancient World (The Society of American Archivisits: Chicago, From
Joho the Blog on January 2, 2006 at 2:48 p.m..
Bloglines Down
Did you save your
Bloglines OPML lately? Messages like this always scare me: I'm the Bloglines Plumber. We've had a database multiple hardware failure. We'll update this when we have more information. Amazing how much this makes me queasy. The only good news is I've gotten in the habit of doing an export at the end of every month. Phew. And, how many people will even see this post before Bloglines comes back up??? Here's to a quick fix before the shakes start... UPDATE: It's back.. From
weblogged News on January 2, 2006 at 11:47 a.m..
Rageboy's Web2.0 business card
Why do I find Chris Locke's new business card so cool? Click for full-size image Possibly because I am a dork? [Tags: web20 googlemaps christopherLocke RageBoy businessCards]... From
Joho the Blog on January 2, 2006 at 10:48 a.m..
New issue of JOHO
I just published a new issue of my free newsletter, JOHO. Why the media can't get Wikipedia right: In the wake of the Seigenthaler Affair, Wikipedia made some changes. Why did the media get the story so wrong? When the mainstream media addressed the John Seigenthaler Sr. affair — he's the respected journalist who wrote an op-ed in USAToday complaining that slanderously wrong information about him was in Wikipedia for four months — the subtext couldn't be clearer: The media were implicitly contrasting Wikipedia's credibility to their own. Ironically, the me From
Joho the Blog on January 2, 2006 at 10:48 a.m..
NoteTaker and NoteShare...
He discusses a piece of software called NoteTaker, from Aquaminds Software and notes an additional piece of soon to be released software called NoteShare.... He notes ...Its design expresses two impulses that are both the history and the future of the computing business: letting people connect more thoroughly, broadly and richly; and making it steadily easier for them to do so. From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 2, 2006 at 4:49 a.m..
Subscribe by email
The old Internet Time Blog had an email subscription box for years. At one time several hundred people subscribed that way. Little did I know that Bloglet, the free service sending out the emails, disappeared. The founder stopped posting to the support blog in March 2004. His last entries were apologies for the service not [...] From
Internet Time Blog on January 2, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..
Agradecimientos, homenajes y nostalgias
Recojo de Kirai.net un buen meme para estas fechas: Blogs que me han influído y ayudado. Mi peculiar selección se remonta a una época en la que navegaba usando el blogroll, cuando aún la lectura de fuentes RSS no se había convertido en una necesidad pues la blogosfera hispana era una ... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 2, 2006 at 1:52 a.m..
All the News That’s Fit to Print
Cuando lanzó su edición web, The New York Times preguntó a sus lectores qué lema usar y, se impuso el sentido común, y mantuvieron el centenario All the News That’s Fit to Print. Siempre he querido ver un doble sentido en la frase: “todas las noticias que merecen ser publicadas” ... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 2, 2006 at 1:52 a.m..
Las mejores webcams del mundo
La Red de Webcams de la Web Oficial de Turismo de Valencia enre las 25 mejores webcams de mundo: EarthCam - 25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2005 [vía] From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 2, 2006 at 1:52 a.m..
El año que vivimos digitalmente
El suplemento ABCD Las Artes y Letras del diario ABC me pidió un desarrollo de mis Pronósticos para 2006 y hoy se publica en pp. 62-63: El año que vivimos digitalmente. From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 2, 2006 at 1:52 a.m..
Guiones de cine
Base de datos de guiones de cine: The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) [vía]. Dispone de fuentes RSS From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 2, 2006 at 1:52 a.m..
China to require cell phone users to register - Reuters
China will require all mobile phone subscribers to register using their real names next year, in a bid to curb rampant spam and growing fraud conducted over mobile services, the official Xinhua news agency said. The much talked-about move is mainly aimed From
Techno-News Blog on January 2, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..
A finger in the eye for biometrics - Techworld
Researchers at Clarkson University appear to have confirmed what a number of recent experiments into the reliability of biometrics have strongly hinted at " in its current form it can be easily, almost routinely, fooled. With funding from the National Sc From
Techno-News Blog on January 2, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..