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Jeffrey Boase, et.al. - The Strength of Internet Ties - Pew
A Pew study is released which casts doubt on the idea that online communication weakens local and family ties. Instead, the internet has assumed a role in supplementing those ties (the report even notes that people with more local ties also use the internet more frequently) while at the same time providing people with access to multiple communities worldwide from which they can draw help and support. PDF. Via Joho. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on January 25, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Brian Lamb - The Network Delivers the Goods - Abject learning
Brian Lamb is still sorting through the results he received from the community after asking for help for an unusually important presentation tomorrow night (which means, yes, you can still flood him with your responses) on blogs and wikis. Naturally, he offers links to it all, including a trackback from Germany, a "groovy wiki-based presentation" and a "Sessums-like tour de force post." Why is this relevant to anything? See the next link. [OLDaily on January 25, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Albert Boswijk , Thomas Thijssen and Ed Peelen - A New Perspective on the Experience Economy - European Centre for the Experience Economy
"The experience economy is more than just 'excite me', 'feed me' and 'entertain me'," write the authors. A meaningful experience needs to be rooted in the individual experience, "his or her everyday world and societal context." But what does that mean? The authors do a good job of drawing this out, characterizing both the sensation, emotional impact and context of meaningful experience. "They have a high emotional impact, they have to do with letting go of old patterns, and discovering new frontiers." The having of a meaningful experience is itself an experience; From OLDaily on January 25, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

David Wiley - My Commission Testimony - Iterating Toward Openness
David Wiley prepares his testimony to the US Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. And, happily, makes it availble to us first. It's a good account overall; I have only one major suggestion for him. I would add another line to the table describing the ways in which the world is changing, somingthing like: managed - autonomous. Or: directed - self-directed. Because I think the new technology empowers in important ways. But I certainly agree with the rest of the items in the table, and especially with this: "openness is the gateway to connectedness, per From OLDaily on January 25, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Mark Hemphill - Network Bias - markhemphill.com
Audio recording of a talk that sounds interesting. It is a "look at the way broadcasting holds critical sway in the virtual world (in spite of the amazing opportunities of internetworking)." There is a summary in PDF. It's dense reading, but the author draws us through a definition of broadcasting and distinguishes it from what may be called mesh networking. He then examines what he calls 'social conditioning' in these two types of communications of network. "Inte From OLDaily on January 25, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Paul Graham - How To Do What You Love
John Stuart Mill talked about this a little more than a century ago - "pursuing our own good in our own way." It is a philosophy that has become one of two great pillars of my own morality ever since (the other: each person is an end in themselves, and hence has inherent value). I still remember exactly where and when I first read On Liberty: in the Devonian Gardens in downtown Calgary in 1983. But, what is our own good? How do we define it, and pursue it in such a way as to not d From OLDaily on January 25, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

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E-Learning in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
Diese Studie des Instituts für Arbeit und Technik (IAT) beschreibt, warum KMU's und e-Learning nur schwer zusammenfinden. Grundlage der Beschreibung sind die Ergebnisse des von der EU-Kommission geförderten Projekts ARIEL (Analysing and Reporting on the Implementation of Electronic Learning... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 25, 2006 at 7:51 p.m..

A Ways to Go...Greetings from Tampa
I'm in the Tampa airport (free wireless!) catching up on some reading after spending the day with about 100 tech coordinators from Pinellas County schools talking about investing in the stock market...er...I mean blogs, wikis, RSS and all that other fun stuff. And it was a great day overall (with the exception of one sobering moment that I'll get to in a bit) that was filled with really thoughtful questions and conversation and From weblogged News on January 25, 2006 at 7:47 p.m..

E-learning: progress and prospects
Eine kurze, einführende Übersicht zum Thema, fast lexikalisch, wie alle "factsheets" vom Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Interessant ist die Unterscheidung von drei e-Learning-Formaten: Web-based Training, supported online learning und informal e-learning. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 25, 2006 at 6:51 p.m..

The Internet makes friends
Ok, so that's not quite the appropriate take-away from the new Pew Internet & American Life study. Its subtitle is more accurate: The internet and email aid users inmaintaining their social networks and provide pathways to help when people face big decisions The first nine pages summarize the findings. Here's an almost-randomly chosen snippet to give you a taste of its flavor: Robert Putnam argued in 2000 that people are seeing friends and relatives much less than they were in the mid-1960s. For example, family picnics decreased by 60% between 1975 and 1999, and card playing went dow From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2006 at 6:48 p.m..

Personal Relationships Expand with Use of the Web
It's been said the Web limits personal contact, but new research finds it enhances relationships and facilitates more personal contact. From ClickZ Stats on January 25, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

El blog de McDonald’s
McDonald’s abre el blog sobre responsabilidad corporativa Open for Discussion: Perspectives on McDonald From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 25, 2006 at 4:52 p.m..

Guide To Open Content Licences
Revisando la información del evento Copyfight Revisited que impulsa la gente de Elástico.net, doy con A Guide To Open Content Licences de Lawrence Liang. La guía está disponible en línea y también puede descargarse (PDF). From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 25, 2006 at 1:52 p.m..

The black smoke issuing from my computer was a valuable diagnostic aid
Yes, I had a scary moment last night. The case for the linux computer my nephew Greg and I put together a few weeks ago - I'm using the computer initially for writing my book - came with a little board with eight LEDs that dance in joy when the computer starts. Those wires shorted, melting their insulation and making me realize I don't yet have a backup routine for the computer. After disconnecting the melted wires and cracking a window in my home office, all is well.... From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2006 at 12:48 p.m..

Google in China
"...purity is an idea for a yogi or monk¦Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows, I've plunged them in filth and blood"JP Sartre* Google is going to censor results for Chinese users. Andrew McLaughlin, Google's Senior Policy Counsel, puts the problem well: "While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission." It's a tough world. Most of what we do is morally mixed. The consequences aren't unambiguously good and From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2006 at 10:48 a.m..

StopBadware
The Berkman Center, along with the Oxford Internet Institute, Consumer Reports Webwatch, and a bunch of corporate sponsors, have launched StopBadware.org, an attempt to organize volunteers to create a database of purveyors of malware. Sounds good! And it's got a great set of people/organizations behind it. [Tags: adware malware berkman] (Disclosure, I'm on the board of advisors of SiteAdvisor, a company using a different technique to compile a similar database. The initiatives seem to me to be complementary.)... From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2006 at 10:48 a.m..

Congress' secret spec
Ed Felten writes about his attempt to find out about the VEIL content protect technology specified in the Sensenbrenner/Conyers bill that would mandate that electronic devices plug the "analog hole." (The analog hole is the fact that analog playback can be converted into digits. E.g., point a digital camcorder at a movie screen. Or, play a DRM'ed mp3 on your computer and use digital recording software to intercept the analog signal on its way to your speakers. More here , here and here.) Ed contacted that company that sells VEIL and asked for a copy of the specification. He was... From Joho the Blog on January 25, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

MyStickies
There are thousands (millions?) of new Web tools coming online every day it seems, and thanks to TechCrunch and Tim Lauer, I think I do a fair job of keeping up with the most interesting ones. MyStickies is one of those tools that I think has some cool thinking behind it, and one that I can see immediate application to the classroom. It's a Firefox extension that basically allows you to create Sticky Notes on the fly, tag them, and archive them with links back to the or From weblogged News on January 25, 2006 at 8:47 a.m..

Podcast it In
Steve Dembo is noting another way the tools are pushing us to reinvention: Some professors posting their lectures online as podcasts claim their seeing a rise in absenteeism. Professors are responding by having more pop quizzes or giving extra credit for attending class. Am I missing something? Whats the problem here? If students can get all of the necessary information and pass the final exam just by listening to the podcasts, then A ) the student should get a cookie and B ) the professor do some serious thinki From weblogged News on January 25, 2006 at 8:47 a.m..

Matt Mullenweg at BlogTalk
I'm very happy to announce WordPress (t d f)' founding and lead developer Matt Mullenweg (thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 25, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

New Program Takes Aim at Purveyors of Malicious Software
Internet research centers at Harvard Law School and Oxford University plan to unveil a program aimed at outing the shady companies that produce spyware. From New York Times: Education on January 25, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Scuttle: Open Source Social Bookmarking Tool
The great thing about Scuttle is that you can download the source and run the application on your own server. Today my friend, Dick McPartland, came by and installed the necessary software and we now have Scuttle running locally at school, Lewis Elementary This means that we can provide our students with a social bookmarking tool, running locally in our building. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 25, 2006 at 1:50 a.m..

One in Four College Students Cite Unwanted Sexual Contact in Survey
The online survey included a broad definition of harassment, its authors say, capture episodes that might otherwise have been shrugged off. From New York Times: Education on January 25, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts
Podcasting is rapidly becoming a standard teaching tool. And students are not the only ones doing the learning. From New York Times: Education on January 25, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Journalist Gives Yale Gift to Aid Budding Journalists
Steven Brill, the founder of American Lawyer, Court TV and the defunct Brill's Content magazine, donated about $1 million to Yale University. From New York Times: Education on January 25, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

On Education: Inspiring Rikers Teacher Runs Afoul of Jail's Rules
Jeff Kaufman's students have won citywide competitions, but he can no longer teach at the prison after giving a student his home address. From New York Times: Education on January 25, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Internet Explorer 7 to have history flush feature - Jeremy Kirk, IDG NEWS SERVICE
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 browser will have a thorough flush feature that clears its history and all associated files stored after a Web site is accessed. In IE 6, a user has to spend a lot of time trying to expunge the informatio From Techno-News Blog on January 25, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..

Business blogging ready to hit the road - Christopher Elliott, The New York Times
Hurricane Katrina was a defining moment for Rachel Gradwohl, a frequent business traveler. A consultant for a national accounting firm, Gradwohl blogged about being made homeless by the disaster in her Web journal, the Princess Diaries. Gradwohl says the From Techno-News Blog on January 25, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..

DOD Eyes Network Revamp - Paul F. Roberts, eWeek
The U.S. Military's point man for global network operations says that a total overhaul of the government's classified and unclassified information networks may be necessary to ward off legions of hackers and adequately protect the military from crippling From Techno-News Blog on January 25, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..