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Google holding the line
I know lots of people don't trust Google, and the company certainly has its faults, but I still think it's the biggest company around that's on our side in the battle over the future of the Internet. Two recent issues trying Google's mettle: 1. Preston Gralla reports that Google has refused to pay special fees to BellSouth and Verizon as part of a tiered service approach that would let the carriers decide who and what type of content gets preference on the Internet. 2. Howard Mintz reports in the Mercury News that Google last year refused to comply with a... From Joho the Blog on January 19, 2006 at 8:48 p.m..

Update: New URLs for elearningpost RSS feeds
After a series of hiccups I finally got elearningpost back up again. Here's a brief chain of events: During Nov-Dec I received over 17,000 spam comments. When I tried to remove them, my database got corrupted. I was using BerkeleyDB with MovableType. So I had to revert to an Oct backup I had taken. Then instead of just importing entries back into a new version of Movable Type, I switched to Expression Engine. And again instead of just importing entries I made them all standards compliant. And instead of using the old interface, I created a new look to elearningpost, hopefully this is m From elearningpost on January 19, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

Internships for Adults
It's never too late to find your true calling. In this new article, Thomas Nixon covers the hows and whys of interships for adults, including how to find an internship and what to look for.... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 19, 2006 at 7:50 p.m..

Building Feature Film Buzz Online
Four weeks out is the best time for a theatrical release campaign to capture a movie-going audience. From ClickZ Stats on January 19, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

A film apart
Couldn't make it to An Event Apart Philadelphia? Curious about what you missed? Our hot, two-minute video reveals all. 19 January 2006 From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 19, 2006 at 6:49 p.m..

Cross-cultural reading
Somewhere last October I tried to search for the roots of my unsettledness and something that could help me to understand what does it mean to travel between cultures and to live far away from those who matter to you. One day, jumping between posts of Nancy White and Beverly Trayner I've learnt about global nomads and TCK (Third Culture Kid From Mathemagenic on January 19, 2006 at 4:52 p.m..

Blogging an IA paper
Jason Toal had a paper accepted for presentation at the IA Summit. It's called "The Life of Tags," (abstract) : "Our paper will pursue potential opportunities for adding a usable layer of rules to the process of tagging." The sorts of rules are like those in cellular automata systems, such as the game of Life. The abstract puts aside using ontologies to disambiguate tags. Sounds interesting. So, the first thing Jason did upon hearing his (their?) paper had been accepted was to set up a blog to work on it in public. I know doing this isn't news, but it... From Joho the Blog on January 19, 2006 at 4:49 p.m..

Wayfinding at UBC
http://tinyurl.com/dac35 I'm lucky to be invited out to UBC tomorrow to give a little talk and meet with a few folks. I've been there maybe a half-dozen times but I really don't know my way around the campus that well - it is truly immense! I was about to email my contact there to ask for direction, but then thought to check the university's own website for maps. Wow! Was I gald I did. I would have felt foolish to be asking after what I found at the Wayfinding at UBCEdTechPost on January 19, 2006 at 3:52 p.m..

Why del.icio.us sucks
That got your attention, didn't it. Actually, it doesn't suck at all, in fact my complaint is that I want to use del.icio.us because of all the cool tie-ins it has spawned, but I am not going to abandon 18 months worth of FURL'd links, and del.icio.us refuses to fix their import feature. There has been a message on the import page for del.icio.us for going on at least 4 months that says "Our import feature has been turned off for a few days while we fix some bugs. Sorry!" and the reply I got to From EdTechPost on January 19, 2006 at 3:52 p.m..

Swiss Army Contraband
Here's a great idea: a USB thumb drive you can't carry on a plane. Duh! Technorati Tags: gadgets gizmo USB From Internet Time Blog on January 19, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

FYA*: Little bloopers of content, metadata and evolution
Headline in the Brookline Tab: Vatican Denies Church's Appeal No, the Pope has not stated that Catholicism is unappealing. Rather, a local church's appeal not to be closed was denied. While I like being told metadata such as what's the maximum number of stars used in a rating system, I found this from the Boston Globe's Calendar section to be odd: Restaurants reviewed by the Globe's regular critic, Alison Arnett, are rated on a scale of zero to four stars, four being the highest. [Emphasis added.] Is there a single instance of a rating system using stars to indicate ne From Joho the Blog on January 19, 2006 at 2:48 p.m..

834 Tips for Successful Online Instruction
A free digital book of advice for online tutors From ScotFEICT on January 19, 2006 at 10:52 a.m..

Content management questions (Kuala Lumpur)
I'm currently running a 2-day web content management workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It's packed, with 29 participants, so clearly there's a lot of interest! For the record, here are the (unedited) questions of the participants: How to ensure the... From Column Two on January 19, 2006 at 5:47 a.m..

Windows Wi-Fi vulnerability discovered - Tom Espiner, CNET News
= A Windows feature that automatically searches for Wi-Fi connections can be exploited by hackers, a security researcher has warned. The feature is part of Windows XP and 2000 and was exposed as being vulnerable at hacker conference ShmooCon on Saturday From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2006 at 3:49 a.m..

Hard Drives Get Vertical Boost - Associated Press
Seagate Technology has started shipping a notebook PC hard drive that overcomes an obstacle many feared would be a major roadblock to the further expansion of disk capacity -- and the overall growth of the storage industry. The new approach that aligns b From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2006 at 3:49 a.m..

Fears raised over digital rights - BBC
A UK consumer watchdog has called for new laws to protect users' rights to use digital music and movies. The National Consumer Council (NCC) said anti-piracy efforts were eroding established rights to digital media. The NCC had little faith that industry From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2006 at 3:49 a.m..

Make City Pay Private Tuition, Queens Mother Asks Judge
A Queens mother of five has asked the judge in charge of a landmark school-financing case to order that the city pay to send two of her children to private school because of a failure of the public schools to provide a sound basic education. From New York Times: Education on January 19, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

In 'Design' vs. Darwinism, Darwin Wins Point in Rome
An article in the official Vatican newspaper called the recent court decision that intelligent design should not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution "correct." From New York Times: Education on January 19, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

One by One
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds -- Chapter... From Monkeymagic on January 19, 2006 at 1:53 a.m..

Natural religion
Child psychology seems to indicate that religion, rather than being a corruption of rationality, springs from the same source. From Monkeymagic on January 19, 2006 at 1:53 a.m..