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Rachel Smith - Ninmah Meets World
Rachel Smith,
described by Brian Lamb as "a catalyst and synthesist (among other things) with the New Media Consortium, does a lot of cool stuff with some amazing people," has launched a blog. It's still in startup mode (three posts) but do drop by and welcome her to the blogosphere. I know, more than anyone, I think, how important those
words of encouragement are to someone. [
Link] From
OLDaily on February 6, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Yael Litmanovitz - Students Hit The e-Books - The Guardian
Another one of those articles touting the (coming) benefit of electronic textbooks. Mostly, what we see is that publishers still don't get it - you may have a library of texts, even with 'sticky notes', but as the author notes, you remain locked into a proprietary environment, and sharing is, of course, forbidden under penalty of law. It's hard to overstate the impact of this new regime of electronic distribution; as a
BBC article notes today, librarians are concerned that the new DRM will make it impossible to From
OLDaily on February 6, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Jeff Chester - The End of the Internet? - The Nation
A blunt assessment (which I can confirm through various other sources) of how commercial providers see online content. "The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online... Without proactive intervention, the values and issues that we care about--civil rights, economic justice, the environment and fair elections--will be further threatened by this push for corporate contr From
OLDaily on February 6, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Insatiable Curiosity
This morning Becky Smith, founder and CEO of Triage Training, emailed me, asking "Have you Grokked yourself lately?" Well, no, not that I recall. So I surfed on over to Grokker. Wow! Visual tracking of one's relationships and publications. Ego-boo took over. I had to see what these guys had on me. I entered jay cross learning, [...] From
Internet Time Blog on February 6, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..