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There's a Popular New Code for Deals: RSS - Bob Tedeschi, New York Times
For many people, e-mail newsletters are fast becoming the Internet equivalent of the Sunday paper: compendiums of useful information, often left unread in lieu of life's other tasks. E-mail alerts on travel deals, in particular, can be easy to sign up for From Techno-News Blog on February 1, 2006 at 10:48 p.m..

New year brings fresh security fears - Mark Ward, BBC News
Everybody knows that the pace of change in the technology world is relentless and that today's hi-tech hotshot can be tomorrow's also ran. Change also happens quickly in hi-tech crime circles. What was a popular technique or target one month may fall out From Techno-News Blog on February 1, 2006 at 10:48 p.m..

E-Discovery Is Big Business - Wired
Even just a few years ago, lawyers in corporate lawsuits sometimes agreed not to poke around in their opponents' e-mails. Instead they'd confine themselves to paper memos and other documents on file as they pursued evidence. Now, however, with so much wor From Techno-News Blog on February 1, 2006 at 10:48 p.m..

Blogfrustration...Move to WP(?)
Some negative karma things floating around the blog these days...the continuing issues with Bloglines, issues with pinging Technorati, issues with uptime. It's all got me a bit funky, which says much about how important the blog has become in my meager existence. (I need to get a life, I know.) And I'm wondering how much of it is the blogware I'm using. As much as I want to believe that Manila is in my future, both the company Website and the weblogged News on February 1, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

Seven accessibility mistakes (part 1)
Christian Heilmann has written an article on seven common accessibility mistakes. To quote: There are several reasons inaccessible Web products get published. One we discussed in my last article is that some clients just don't care about accessibility. Their reasons... From Column Two on February 1, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

Home page goals
Derek Powazek has written an article on goals for home pages. To quote: Home pages are anxiety-inducing for companies. The home page is your first impression. And like the old saying goes, you only get one chance. So home pages... From Column Two on February 1, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

Arquitectura de la Información y Usabilidad en A Coruña
La Comunidad de Arquitectura de la Información, Usabilidad y Diseño de Interacción (CADIUS) realiza su primer Cocktail mensual en A Coruña, abierto a todos los interesados en estos menesteres: Qué: Una reunión informal, el primer jueves de cada mes a las 20:30, entre profesionales e interesados en la arquitectura de información ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 1, 2006 at 8:49 p.m..

This feed has been discontinued, please unsubscribe. [2006-02-02]
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 February 1, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

Unattributed - DRM: Media Companies' Next Flop? - CNet News.Com
Just another day in the online battles over digital rights management (DRM) and copyright. This article warns of the danger that customers will be lost because of DRM. "A few more incidents like Sony's 'rootkit' flap and consumers may revolt." Signs of that revolt are already evident. Newspapers have handled it so badly they are being called dead. And they ar From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Jan Hylen - Survey on Open Educational Resources--an Invitation - OECD/CERI
I am participating in the conference associated with this survey. It would be anormously useful to all of us to have a comprehensive list of the open educational resource (OER) initiatives that are out there. Via Joseph Hart. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Tony Vincent - Chat Transcript: Elementary School Podcasting - Learning in Hand
Good stuff, and just the sort of think K-12 teachers need in order to convince their administrators that the world won't end if they do this. I like this a lot: "We immediate got great feedback from listeners world-wide! This was great because students really understand that Radio WillowWeb has a real-life audience. In fact, we keep two very important things in mind through the planning and recording of a podcast: audience and purpose." [Link] [Tags: Podcasting] [< From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Dave Cormier - Wikitextbooks - Moving Forward - Daveâx
Update on the Wikibooks project. Dave Cormier writes, "Thus far the project has been an excellent experience in connective learning.... The main commentary that iâxTMve been hearing since the last episode is 'now it's time for a plan.' So, here is a draft proposal." Take a look, and if you feel inspired, comment. [Link] [Tags: Online Learning, Project Based Learning, OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

David Wiley - On The Inanimate Nature of Learning Objects - Iterating Toward Openness
You can't blame readers, really, for thinking that a post titled "RIP-ping on Learning Objects" might have had something to do with burying them, but David Wiley advises that people should read the text after the title, which I suppose is only reasonable. "Learning objects are neither alive nor dead," he writes. "I'm as firm a believer in the value of reusable educational resources as I ever have been. Actually, my feelings have not changed significantly from those I expressed in the conclusion to my 2000 paper." [Link] From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Marketing Indian eLearning: Crabs In A Bucket - The Learned Man!
A call for a national Indian e-learning body. "We need to learn some lessons and learn them quickly. Lets begin by considering Canada. Canadian eLearning companies band together under the umbrella of the Canadian eLearning Enterprise Alliance (CeLEA). According to the website, 'CeLEA is an industry-based organization, established in 2003, to help Canadian elearning companies increase their share of revenues from the growing global elearning market place.'" [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Unattributed - iTunes U - Apple
OK, this sounds like a good idea: make university classes, seminars and lectures available as audio feeds. Except that it's iTunes, which means you have to take the Apple iTunes pill (or, as the website says, except variable results on other players). There's obviously also a strong commercial component to this as well, which pretty much cuts out the service for those who need it most. Or as Miguel Guhlin says, "iTunes and Windows Media Player: Two sides of the same coin - Tyranny." Don't be lulle From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Terry Anderson - Comparing Formal, Open and Self-directed Learning - Virtual Canuck
Terry Anderson bridges the gap between formal learning and informal learning with open learning. He looks at the properties of each, and concludes that open learning offers more advantages than either other alternative. One wonders, though, at the valuations; they seem a little arbitrary, and not entirely accurate. Anderson rates open learning a 3 out of 3, for example, for "Freedom of Pace." Unless things have changed since I was at Athabasca, though, students face time limits (it was six months per course while I was there). Open learning is also offered through paced seminar courses; I know From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Clark Quinn - Learnlets
Clark Quinn has started blogging. Based on what I've seen from him in the past, this should be a good read. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Various authors - Working Draft for ISO/IEC 19788-2 Metadata for Learning Resources - ISO
The International Standards Organization (ISO) is rewriting learning Object Metadata; this link (to a PDF file) is a draft of the new standard. The draft has been circulating for a few days among the standerati and has received, well, a bit of a rough ride. The standard doesn't resemble what I would do, but there are some good bits - for example, the rights section now allows the document to point to a URL of a rights statement. Still, I expect a lot more discussion (though ISO is predisposed toward passing whatever it sees and limits discussion to only authorized country spokespeople, so From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Jeff Lebow and Dave Cormier - Connectivism and Connected Knowledge - Elearnspace
George Siemens has posted a transcript of our conversation from Sunday. It's quite a good read (in my humble opinion). And it takes a lot less time to get through than listening to the audio. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 1, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Steve Johnson on Clinton and McCain at Davos
Steve Johnson blogs about a Bill Clinton talk at Davos, and about the question Steve asked Bill Gates. Entertaining and perceptive, as usual. [Tags: steve_johnson bill_clinton bill_gates games davos]... From Joho the Blog on February 1, 2006 at 6:48 p.m..

Easing the burden of school fees in Africa
In developing countries they are often a barrier to the classroom. But aid groups are trying to help. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on February 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Maestros del cómic: Will Eisner y Frank Miller
Norma Editorial ha publicado la versión española del libro Eisner/Miller, una extensa conversación entre el ya fallecido Will Eisner (The Spirit) y Frank Miller (Sin City) que tuvo lugar en mayo de 2002 en Florida. El texto, traducido por Raúl Sastre y profusamente ilustrado con fragmentos de la obra de ambos ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 1, 2006 at 3:47 p.m..

Survey on Open Educational Resources--an Invitation
Jan Hylen of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has issued an invitation to users and producers of open educational resources (OER) to take a survey and participate in the project. ______JH **********************************OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation is carrying out a study on Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. As one part of that study we are launching a web based survey for individual teachers, instructors and researchers using or producing OER. We would like to invite anyone working in a higher e From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on February 1, 2006 at 12:47 p.m..

Interests, not demographics
Science Roundup summarizes an article in Science: Social networks are dynamic processes that evolve over time depending on the shared characteristics, activities, and affiliations of their members. In a Report in the 6 Jan 2006 Science Kossinets and Watts offered an empirical analysis of social network evolution in a large university community. Over the course of one academic year, the team compiled a registry of e-mail interactions between more than 43,000 students, faculty, and staff. In combination with encrypted information about personal attributes, as well as lists of classes taught and From Joho the Blog on February 1, 2006 at 11:48 a.m..

Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in December, 2005
Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in December, 2005 From ClickZ Stats on February 1, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Worst. Recycling. Ever.
The Boston Globe has reported that it distributed the names and credit card numbers of some of the 240,000 subscribers who pay for the Globe and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette by credit card....people like me. This was not an online security breach. No, the paper the Globe used to wrap bundles of this Sunday's newspapers had the information printed on the back of them. If you were trying to come up with ways to shake our trust in the daily paper, this wouldn't make it onto the list only because it is too outrageous and absurd even to contemplate.... From Joho the Blog on February 1, 2006 at 10:49 a.m..

OneWebDay: September 22
The OneWebDay site is up. OneWebDay is a day to celebrate the Web and what it means to us. Like Earth Day, it's up to each locality — virtual or real-world — to come up with ways to celebrate. Perhaps on this first OneWebDay your community can set up wifi for a local school, hold workshops for newbies on how to use the Web, or collect online stories to capture part of your local history. Perhaps your company can sponsor an online gallery of creative works or connect with an unexpected part of the world. Better yet, invent your own... From Joho the Blog on February 1, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

Sorpresas de antiguos y nuevos alumnos
Me reencuentro con Amaia en el MCCD, que prepara un interactivo sobre mis clases y nos cuenta en Jugones de la Web la buena noticia del Goya 2006 en la categoría Mejor película de animación para El sueño de una noche de San Juan, en la que Bea tiene créditos ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 1, 2006 at 8:50 a.m..

Blogaddiction
John is doing yeoman's filtering with all of his free time and I for one really appreciate it as I have no free time. Yesterday he posted a link to this nugget on Steve Gillmor's blog: We're in a glorious moment of time, one where time stands still while we stretch our minds and play. And there are many playersall great, all young and old enough to From weblogged News on February 1, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..

Das Publikum als Medium
Angefangen vom Titel herrscht ein rechtes Durcheinander in diesem kurzen Artikel. Er zitiert Brecht's Radiotheorie, fragt, ob diese Utopie (den Rundfunk "aus einem Distributionsapparat in einen Kommunikationsapparat zu verwandeln") jetzt mit dem Internet realisierbar scheint, zweifelt die Nachhaltigkeit der bloggenden... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 1, 2006 at 5:46 a.m..

ASTD TechKnowledge 06
This morning, hundreds of us packed the ballroom of the new Hyatt Regency Colorado Convention Center for the opening of TechKnowledge 06. Incoming ASTD president Kevin Oakes thanked the Rocky Mountain Chapter, advisory boards, hard-working staff, platinum sponsors, silver sponsors, planning committees, and others. Kevin and I go back quite a ways; Oakes Interactive was [...] From Internet Time Blog on February 1, 2006 at 4:45 a.m..

N.A.A.C.P. Is Bush Ally in Connecticut School Case
Association officials said that states do not have the right to ignore federal legislation that aims to help minorities. From New York Times: Education on February 1, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Staten Island Principal Is Reinstated After Inquiry
The popular principal of a Staten Island high school will return to work after an investigation of her responses to two events involving security. From New York Times: Education on February 1, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

On Education: 2 Universities Trade Ideas Across Armed Checkpoints
An improbable partnership has been forged between Brandeis University and the Palestinian university, Al Quds. From New York Times: Education on February 1, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Weblogs accumulating
Stuart Dunlop has been photographing the flora and fauna around Donegal for more than three years now, posting nearly every day with vivid close-ups of what's in flower and what bursting out of the ground and what's crawling about. Now he's added a new layer, accumulating a series of shots of particular species, presumably drawn from the hundreds of days of records he's gathered in his posts, and he's renamed the project Weblogs in Higher Education on February 1, 2006 at 12:52 a.m..