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Judge Orders Release of Spy Docs
The White House must fork over details about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program within 20 days to satisfy a privacy group's request for documents. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

First OS X Worm in Wild
The first piece of nasty malware for Mac OS X is spreading. Is Mac users' virus-free honeymoon over? In Leander Kahney's Cult of Mac blog. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 6:46 p.m..

Tid bits
Kevin Oakes has stepped down as president of SumTotal. "As several of you already know, after almost 9 years with this company (under 3 different names), I've made a difficult decision to resign from SumTotal. In consultation with our board of directors over the last several weeks, I have agreed to stay with [...] From Internet Time Blog on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Catherine Howell - The Future of Blogging - EDUCAUSE Blogs
"I HAD TO run a few errands downtown, but I hesitated to go. What if I ran into bloggers?" Interesting. After a recent meetup, Catherine Howell comments, "What was strange was the speed with which our offline interaction was documented, editorialised, and re-presented online. Suddenly our offline meeting had a doppelganger: its online presence or artefacts." Yes, but it's more than that. Not just that as the meetup fades into memory, the artefacts keep it alive. I have always lived my life more or less in public, for various reasons. That's why the blogging, sometimes unexpectedly, From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Brett McLaughlin - Mastering Ajax - IBM Developer Works
This series is now up to three parts (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) and while it's pretty technical (read: if you don't code, you won't like it) it is a pretty sound technical introduction to the new read-write capabilities of the web. For me, well, this is just the sort of link I like to have handy. Also, on a comp From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Lorcan Dempsey - The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After - Ariadne
Good article, from the recent issue of Ariadne, summarizing the evolution of library services in the digital age. What I appreciate most of all, I think, is the understanding in this article that library services need to become dynamic and integrated into the flow of a person's online experience, "supporting the remix of content and services in user environments, and developing digital curation services." There is an enormous need for intelligent information flows - consider this newsletter, for example, which serves just such a pu From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Harold Jarche - Rx for NB Learning
Harold Jarche and I share similar views on how the New Brunswick e-learning industry should proceed. "This Province has the resources, and connections, to create an environment that is friendly for start-ups, especially those that don't require huge sums of money (e.g. Flickr before it sold to Yahoo). This flies in the face of efforts to attract larger companies that can offer more jobs to local people. I believe that using the 'job' as an economic indicator is a crucial flaw in our economic development policy. Instead, we should be helping to create many small, innovative compa From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Josie Fraser - e-Portfolio Roundup - Ed Tech UK
Good overview of e-portfolio activities in Britain, with links. Includes coverage of the UK Government's e-strategy, Harnessing Technology, the idea of Personal Learning Environments, BECTA, Jisc, and the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA). Of note: "My advice? If you are investigating e-portfolios at the moment, hold on to your money." [Link] [Tags: E-Portfolios] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Norm Friesen - Connecting Collections: An overview of approaches
Overview of approaches (specifically, technical standards) for exchanging information between repositories. Central to the document is the characaterization of and distinction between federated search and metadata harvest (which a good supporting diagram). [Link] [Tags: Learning Object Repositories, Metadata] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Richard Hatch - Richard Hatch - Battlestar Galactica - Sci Fi Talk
Off topic, maybe, but I listened to this podcast this afternoon and enjoyed it enough to pass along. Richard Hatch (not the Survivor winner, but rather an actor in the old and new Battlestar Galactica series) brings depth and texture to this interview, going well beyond the laser and lightshow you expect with science fiction. [Link] [Tags: Podcasting] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Surfers Just Wanna Have Fun
This just in: A lot of people -- 30 percent of them -- who go online are just killing time or hunting around for something interesting to look at. That's a 9 percent increase in frivolity from the last time anyone checked. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

Rants 'n' Raves: Kiss and Tell
Momus' whimsy makes us stiff Wired folk look good, but are Japanese really more 'wired' than Americans? Also, sometimes fine irony can slip through the cracks... All in today's Rants 'n' Raves. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 3:46 p.m..

The NAS Steps Up for Stem Cells
National Academy of Sciences will monitor controversial research. Plus: Cloning technology remains patently confusing. In Body Hack. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Hiatus
Yesterday morning friends began emailing me that my blogs, this one and informl.com, were down. I called my ISP's tech support. A fellow told me they were aware of the problem: the control panel server was down. This apparently severed the connection between my blogs and their MySQL databases. Not to worry, they expected to [...] From Internet Time Blog on February 16, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Paul Maharg - Simulations, Baudrillard, serious games - Zeugma
Good article that captures quite well what I've tried to achieve with this site and in turn applies (correctly, in my view) the same thinking to games. Citing Bakhtin: "The novel orchestrates all its themes, the totality of the world of objects and ideas depicted and expressed in it, by means of the social diversity of speech types and by differing individual voices that flourish under such conditions. Authorial speech, the speeches of narrators, inserted genres, the speech of characters are merely those fundamental compositional unities with whose help heteroglossia can enter the novel; From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..

Ewan McIntosh - Would you trust this man with your blog? - edublogs
Ewan McIntosh has deleted his Typepad blog by accident. If anyone can help him, please give him a call. I hate to think of anyone having to rebuild their site from Google cache. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Google] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 16, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..

Tweaking Plants for Better Health
A new technology could increase the nutrition in some plants and reduce the elements that trigger allergies. It manipulates genetics without the controversy that plagues transgenic plants. By Tracy Powell. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

LifeLock Helps Guard Your ID
One company promises to manage the processes that can keep identity thieves at bay -- and clean up the mess if the crooks get you. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Sex Games Get Down to Business
From fantasy-enhancing tech innovations to everyday distribution problems, the adults-only video-game industry faces its future at the Sex in Games Conference. By Bonnie Ruberg. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone
The English language ain't what it used to be, and the Luddite maintains that technology and today's ease of communication must shoulder some of the blame for our current lamentable state. Commentary by Tony Long. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

The Opposite of Doping
Since athletes aren't allowed to inject drugs to improve their performance, a New Zealand company is reversing the flow to gain a competitive edge. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on February 16, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Entrepreneurial Edge: Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Educational Reform
The New Schools Venture Fund in San Francisco is designed for a new breed of entrepreneur Â— the kind who doesn't have to produce a profit. From New York Times: Education on February 16, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..