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The elements of a design pattern
Jared Spool has written an article on design patterns for interfaces. To quote: Design teams are discovering that a well-built design pattern library makes the user interface development process substantially easier. A quality library means team members have the information... From Column Two on January 24, 2006 at 10:47 p.m..

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This feed has been discontinued and you should unsubscribe. The feed reader you are using does not support standard HTTP mechanisms for announcing that a feed has been discontinued so you will receive this message until you manually unsubscribe. Please contact the provider of your feed reader and encourage them to support the use of HTTP 410 response codes. Your feed reader identified itself as "Edu_RSS/0.2 libwww-perl/5.79" From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on January 24, 2006 at 8:49 p.m..

New Webmondays ahead! (Webmontag)
There are new webmondays ahead in different cities in Germany (with dates & attendees as of the time of this post): Cologne (30th January; 13 attendees) Frankfurt (6th February; 41 attendees) Munich (06. oder 13. February; 1 attendee) Berlin (20th February; 7 attendees) Hamburg (no date yet; 6 attendees) Leipzig (no date yet; 2 attendees) If you live near those cities check out the From owrede_log on January 24, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

Global Voices email update
Want to get the latest updates from bloggers around the world but you just don't have time to check an RSS feed? Global Voices is now willing to insert daily digests straight into your inbox. [Tags: globalVoices]... From Joho the Blog on January 24, 2006 at 7:51 p.m..

Campuses slow to deal with growth in gambling
TV and the Web make gambling look glamorous to students flush with easy credit, Internet access, and idle time. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 24, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

How much education funding should go directly to classrooms?
A '65 percent solution' is picking up steam in some states. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on January 24, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Amanda Congdon - Rocketboom
I've seen references to Rocketboom pass in front of my eyes a few times - usually when I'm on Linux and can't watch the QuickTime video - but I was near my laptop today so I took a quick look. And - surprise - it's quite good! Certainly better than what passes for news on television. [Link] [Tags: Portable Computers] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

John Lanchester - The Global Id - London Review of Books
Good overview, with some history, of Google. Not as much on the 'global ID' as I would have liked. "On the one hand, Google is cool. On the other hand, Google has the potential to destroy the publishing industry, the newspaper business, high street retailing and our privacy. Not that it will necessarily do any of these things, but for the first time, considered soberly, these things are technologically possible." [Link] [Tags: Cool, OLDaily on January 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Mark Feldstein - More Corroborating Info on Cost of Sales - E-Literate
Data from Jim Farmer's recent study on the cost of selling an LMS is corroborated with an observation, cited here, from Mark Carden in relation to library systems software. "I have long said that it costs the major ILS/LMS vendors an average of about US$50,000 per bid, which means that for a typical mid-sized university deal, five competing bidders will spend US$250,000 between them: and only one will win, so again that is US$250,000 per deal." [OLDaily on January 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Charlie Demerjian - DRM is a Complete Lie - The Inquirer
Yet another article on DRM roughly paralleling my own (radical?) views on the topic. In a nutshell, "They protect their code in every way possible... This is all done under the guise of protecting content, but that is a lie... If you are a rival company though, you can't really violate such things and get away with it for long... So, you have to license it to play ball, or at least play music and movies. That is the true nature of DRM infections, to keep other big greedy companies out." In other words, as I've OLDaily on January 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Michael J. Bugeja - Facing the Facebook - Chronicle of Higher Education
Another anti-technology screed from the Chronicle (do they ever get tired of running these?) this time contra the Facebook, a social network with membership restricted to U.S. college students. To follow this article, everything bad happening on campus - from disengaged students to rising costs to homophobia to media manipulation - is caused by Facebook. The argument is as ridiculous as it is invalid (but shedding the principles of reason seems to be no obstacle to the professoriate these days, a phenomenon that puzzles me by its pervasiveness). Why do I think the author's "ethical concer From OLDaily on January 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Brent Muirhead - Creating Concept Maps: Integrating Constructivism Principles into Online Classes - International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
Am I a morally good person? It's a question I often ask myself - not because I habitually commit evil acts, but because morality is something I still don't fully understand, which in turn leads me to wonder whether what I say and do is morally right. Uncertainty is the constant companion of reflection, I guess. My moral dilemmas won't be solved by the discussion in this paper, but the framework offered by Brent Muirhead - an examination of good character - serves as a nice example for the constructivist use of concept maps in a class. Questions of ethics and morality are, I thin From OLDaily on January 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Larry Sanger - Toward a New Expert Internet: An Open Letter to the Academic Community Online - Digital Universe
Tomorrow I am off to Saint John all day to talk about learning networks, so the newsletter will be a bit late. Today I lead off with an item from Larry Sanger, who is trying to start an expert-written online encyclopedia. In his new blog, Digital Universe, he writes, "My claim is that experts could be mobilized online in the way that ordinary netizens have been mobilized by Wikipedia, to work on content projects far larger and more important than an encyclopedia--and that this suggestion has revolutionary potential." [OLDaily on January 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

VI Bienal Internacional de Radio
El Centro Nacional de las Artes de México albergará la Sexta Bienal Internacional de Radio del 15 al 19 de mayo de 2006. From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 24, 2006 at 1:53 p.m..

Libro a la venta y presentación
El libro Blogs. La conversación en Internet que está revolucionando medios, empresas y ciudadanos ya está a la venta en casa del Libro y Fnac, y será presentado en Zaragoza en la Mesa redonda: “Blogs. La conversación en Internet” (que me pilla en Coruña). From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 24, 2006 at 1:53 p.m..

Reemerging and Relocating
Just about 3 years ago, I started this blog. I began writing in part to reinvigorate my academic studies, which had become remarkably unfulfilling.  Blogging helped change that to some extent. As it turned out, school and writing could be fun after all.At least in the formal sense, the school part comes to an end for now.  I took my last final exam today; pending any unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances, I'm a Harvard graduate.  This last push of exams From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 24, 2006 at 1:48 p.m..

A journalistic practice that needs to die
Two paragraphs before the end of the AP story about the Canadian national elections, the reporter, Beth Duff-Brown, writes: William Azaroff, 35, voted for the left-of-center New Democratic Party but conceded a Conservative government was likely to win. ''I think it's a shame," said the business manager from Vancouver, British Columbia. ''I think the last government was actually quite effective for Canadians. I think a Conservative government is just a backlash against certain corruption and the sense of entitlement." I'm sure that William Azaroff is a perfectly ni From Joho the Blog on January 24, 2006 at 11:49 a.m..

In thanks - George, Laura and Jack
Since the Bush Administration will not release White House photos of Bush and Abramoff, even though the pitctures were taken with tax payer money, I figure it's our patriotic duty to release our own. (Hasn't anyone already photoshopped a Brokeback parody photo of George and Jack? They have the hats for it.) [Tags: gerogeBush jackAbramoff]... From Joho the Blog on January 24, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

Was können wir aus der Gehirnforschung für das Wissensmanagement lernen?
Das war der Titel des 50. Wissensmanagement-Stammtischs, der am Donnerstag in Frankfurt stattfand. Und ich will an dieser Stelle Werbung für zwei Dinge machen: Erstens, wer die Gelegenheit hat, in seiner Nähe an einem dieser Stammtische teilzunehmen, sollte es tun!... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 24, 2006 at 3:51 a.m..

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote Generator - Dashboard - Reference
The Martin Luther King, Jr.... 100 random quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 24, 2006 at 2:49 a.m..

Survey Finds Google Is Strong in China - JOE McDONALD, Associated Press
A survey of Chinese Web surfers found U.S.-based search giant Google in an unexpectedly strong position to challenge domestic rival Baidu.com, according to results released Wednesday. Google came in first in 11 of 13 categories in the survey of 1,200 Inte From Techno-News Blog on January 24, 2006 at 2:49 a.m..

Opera, Bytemobile speed up wireless surfing - Nancy Gohring, Computer World
Future mobile phones that come with Opera Mobile browsers should get a speed boost from a partnership announced Tuesday between Opera Software ASA and Bytemobile Inc. Opera Mobile browsers will be compatible with Bytemobile's Optimization Services Node M From Techno-News Blog on January 24, 2006 at 2:49 a.m..

Firefox gets a fifth of European market - Ingrid Marson, CNET News
The Mozilla Firefox browser has achieved a market share of more than 20 percent in Europe, according to the latest figures released by French Web metrics firm XiTi. XiTi, which based its figures on a sample of 32.5 million Web site visits that took place From Techno-News Blog on January 24, 2006 at 2:49 a.m..

Conservative Alumnus Pulls Offer to Buy Lecture Tapes
A conservative activist who had planned to pay students to tape-record the lectures of left-leaning professors backed down. From New York Times: Education on January 24, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

ASTD TechKnowledge
If you're attending ASTD TechKnowledge in Denver, drop by my session at 1:45 on Tuesday 1/31, for a preview of the workshops I'll be offering starting next month. We'll set up a blog, play with a wiki, talk about informal learning, mash it up with Web 2.0, and give you something to take back home. [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 24, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..