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Evaluating the usability of search forms using eyetracking: a practical approach
Matteo Penzo reports on the results of eyetracking the use of search forms. To quote: We held three different rounds of test sessions. In the sessions, each individual user evaluated the user interfaces we were testing in random order. During... From Column Two on January 27, 2006 at 10:47 p.m..

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Isenseuss
Here's the talk David Isenberg gave at O'Reill eTel. It is, rather amazingly, a disquisition about freedom to connect, done in the style of dr. Seuss.' [Tags: david+isenberg f2c freedom+to-connecf]... From Joho the Blog on January 27, 2006 at 7:48 p.m..

Talking Tablets
I haven't mentioned lately how much I love the Tablet PC, so let me just state for the record: I still really, really love my Tablet PC. And so do the teachers at my school who have been taking part in the tablet pilot this year. Love them. Really. Today, I teamed up with my colleague Rob Mancabelli and his wife Gayle Allen and presented on our pilot to a rapt audience of about 30 tech types at NJ Techspo in the smokey, noisy Ballys casino in Atlantic City. Rob went over the project plan, Gayle, who is in From weblogged News on January 27, 2006 at 7:47 p.m..

Ulises Ali Mejias - Is Morality an Emergent Behavior? - Ideant
I didn't mean for this week's newsletters to have morality as a theme, but a post today from Ulises points back to this link, making it three days in a row for me to touch on the topic. Perhaps that's just as well. In this item, he advances the proposition that morality is not based on reason (in fact, reason actually impedes it), but rather, "morality is actually an emergent behavior - in other words, a behavior exhibited by organisms acting according to very simple rules requiring little reaso From OLDaily on January 27, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Tom Hoffman - Wireless Networking in the Developing World: a Practical Guide - ESchool News
It's hard to imagine more important or practical knowledge for people trying to foster e-learning around the world than this. Tom Hoffman comments, "What's beautiful about this book is how well its authors understand the full range of skills and knowledge that a motivated team sitting in a village somewhere in the developing world needs to pull off a job like this." [Link] [Tags: Push versus Pull, Book From OLDaily on January 27, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Mobile/ Cell Phones in Education
wwwtools for education sind eine Quelle, die mich (und jeden, der sie abonniert hat) mehrmals im Monat mit interessanten Links versorgt: entweder über aktuelle Ressourcen zum großen Thema "Web-based teaching and learning", oder die Researcher haben ein Schwerpunktthema gewählt,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 27, 2006 at 5:51 p.m..

Unknown - Disney Launches Online Theme Park - Stuff
I have long warned about what e-learning would look like when Disney got into the picture. That day has come. "Walt Disney has launched an online subscription service aimed at preschool children, completing its plan for what a Disney executive called 'an online theme park'. The advertising-free [except for the ubiquitous branding - SD], Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online costs $US49.95 a year and is the most learning-oriented of Disney's internet subscription services for kids..." Here's the link to it. I tried it out on my desktop From OLDaily on January 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - Guides to Metadata - CETIS
If you find yourself mystified by the offhand references in this newsletter to metadata, LOM, Dublin Core, and other specifications, then this CETIS list of guides to metadata is a good place to get started. It begins with some links on metadata in general (what is metadata? why is it used?) and proceeds through some of the major types. [Link] [Tags: Newsletters, Metadata] [OLDaily on January 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Active Home Web Use by Country, December 2005
The global rate of new active home Internet users slowed in December. From ClickZ Stats on January 27, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

The NYC Shabbos-keeping, crutch-walking challenge!
We're seeing off our daughter who is going to study in Florence (yes, Italy, not Florence, NJ, although I'm sure the latter is totally lovely and rich in Renaissance art) for a semester. So the four of us, aged 15 to 55, are going to spend a couple of days in NYC, since the plane departs from JFK. We're staying near Times Square. Here's the challenge: A couple of us are Shabbos-keeping Jews and thus can't go in motorized vehicles or pay money from Friday evening through Saturday at around 7pm. (There's a great worldwide database of kosher restaurants at... From Joho the Blog on January 27, 2006 at 12:48 p.m..

Unknown - How Do Developers Use HTML? - Google
Absolutely fascinating analysis of how HTML markup us used by developers, based on a Google study of roughly a billion web pages. Authors of metadata standards should look at these results (though they certainly should have observed these trends long before now, and yet, for some reason, don't take them into account). Perhaps the most telling - and characteristic - remark in the Google study comes in the discussion of the use of the body element: "One conclusion one can draw from the spread of attributes used on the body element is that authors don't care about what the specification From OLDaily on January 27, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

Is E-Learning 2.0 For Real?
I have been participating in an online forum called the "Learning 2.0 Summit," a discussion that is (ironically) invisible to the wider web. Participants include people like Jay Cross, Robin Good, Mark Oehlert, Howard Rheinhgold, George Siemens, and a couple dozen more. This article collects some of my posts to date in that discussion. [Comment] From OLDaily on January 27, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

RageBoy fan notes
All I know about Krugle.com is that it's launching at Demo, it has something to do with "vertical search" and code, and it's had the incredibly bad judgment to hire RB to blog for it. Also, my friend Steve Larsen seems to be involved. (These are all actually very good signs.) [Tags: rageboy steve larsen krugle]... From Joho the Blog on January 27, 2006 at 10:48 a.m..

Blogging in Theory and Practice
From the "Courses I'd Love to Take (or Teach)" Dept. comes this class from The University of Missouri taught by Dr. Donna Strickland: The goal of this course is to provide you with the tools and incentives to take up blogging as a reading/writing practice and to use blogging generatively for gathering and commenting on ideas and events. With that goal in mind, we'll spend time throughout the semester on three categories of tools and incentives: Technology: use blogging soft From weblogged News on January 27, 2006 at 7:47 a.m..

Slogging
So I'm back into slogging rather than blogging mode. This seems like a pretty rhythmic thing anymore. About every few weeks I seem to hit a wall where I just find it impossible to keep up with what other people are writing and doing and I get envious as heck because I want to be writing and doing that stuff too. Take for instance this very cool Flickr presentation that Alan and Brain put together. I mean, my goodness...I'm in awe. Where do they find the time to do that and keep their day jobs? My brain ha From weblogged News on January 27, 2006 at 7:47 a.m..

Netizen: revista sobre blogs en Francia
Acaba de salir a la calle la revista Netizen para comprender y describir la revolución blog.Impulsada por los autores del metablog Pointblog, es otra muestra de la vitalidad de la blogosfera francófona.Vía: APMRelacionados: Liberté, egalité, blogalité y Lanzan un Who From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 27, 2006 at 5:52 a.m..

Announcing the Unworkshops
Informal Learning and the Web were made for one another. I want to show you how. Join our online "unworkshop" next month and learn how to use web tools to improve learning effectivenss. You will:  set up your own blog and wiki  record a podcast  syndicate sites  experiment with Web 2.0 sites like Del.icio.us and FlickR [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 27, 2006 at 4:45 a.m..

Berkeley Blogger Dinner
Tonight about 40 of us attended a Blogger Dinner at Taste of the Himalayas, a Nepali restaurant in Berkeley. It was too noisy to hear and too cramped to move arounnd. Steve Gillmor walked in, couldn't find a seat, and walked out. I had interesting conversations with half a dozen people, a disappointingly small number [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 27, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..

Students Are Leaving the Politics Out of Economics
Graduate students in economics are focusing on small insights about the economy rather than broad theories that explain how the overall system works. From New York Times: Education on January 27, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Content management problems and open source solutions
Seth Gottlieb has written an article that compares open-source content management systems. To quote: The open source community has produced a number of useful, high quality content management systems which presents an opportunity to deliver tailored content management solutions without... From Column Two on January 27, 2006 at 12:47 a.m..

Online Banking: How Safe Is Your Money? - Robin Arnfield, News Factor
Avivah Litan, a financial-services security analyst at Gartner Group, said that a rise in online banking fraud attempts has followed banks' efforts to step up their security systems for debit and credit card payments. "It's too early to tell how the crimi From Techno-News Blog on January 26, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

RFID May See 'Explosive' Growth - Ed Sutherland, Internet News
Auto makers and retail giants are in the driver's seat of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), an industry expected to experience "explosive growth" over the next five years, according to analysts. Used to track everything from Pepsi to people, 33 billi From Techno-News Blog on January 26, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

Bush Talks Broadband - Roy Mark, Internet News
President Bush made one of his rare public comments on broadband Thursday, promising that the United States will "do better" in increasing broadband penetration rates. But he didn't say how. Taking audience questions after an economic address in the Was From Techno-News Blog on January 26, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..