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Cell-Only Population: Young and Tech Savvy
The 7 to 9 percent of the population who opt for a cell phone instead of a landline skews younger, less affluent. From ClickZ Stats on May 16, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Michael Feldstein - There's No Such Thing as a Learning Object - ELearn Magazine
Michael Feldstein succinctly captures the problem with learning objects: "I believe the term 'learning object' has become harmful. It hides the same old, bad lecture model behind a sexy buzz phrase.... We learn by doing. We consider. We compare. We measure, discuss, debate, critique, test, and explore. We try, fail, and try again. Learning is an activity. It's a process. Given this undeniable fact, the term 'learning object' can only be an oxymoron. An object is a thing. We don't learn from things. We learn from doing things." [OLDaily on May 16, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Scott Karp - Live Blogging at Mesh - Publishing 2.0
Good summary of the discussion at Mesh, a media and Web 2.0 conference being held in Toronto yesterday and today, with presentations from Om Malik and Michael Geist. A lot of short information nuggets, not all of which ring true, but which are certainly worth a read. This is probably right: "There's a lot of value in advertising to small, pure, targeted audiences -- an extension of Google's AdWords. The value of blogging is in promoting other businesses." [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on May 16, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Andy Carvin - Eszter Hargittai on What College Students Actually Do Online - Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: The DDN Edition
Interesting though brief summary of what (American) students actually do online. Interesting: "When asked how often students visit blogs, 29.1 percent visit personal blogs of friends and family on a daily basis, with 60 percent doing it sometimes. Interestingly, the least likely category of blogs they access are political blogs, even though these are the blogs emphasized in mainstream media." [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, OLDaily on May 16, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Directory of Australian Edubloggers
This site is a listing of all known Australian educators who have blogs or podcasts. Currently there are 31. Via Jo McLeay. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Schools, Podcasting] [C From OLDaily on May 16, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Christian Long - A Weekend Reflection: Jodie Foster, Eminem, Middle School Cheerleaders - think:lab
I have always liked Jodie Foster, but maybe that's just an appearance thing. And I've always liked Eminem, and that's a lyrics thing. Like this: You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo And this is what Jodie Foster liked, and what Christian Long thought about From OLDaily on May 16, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Kathleen Gilroy and Bill Ives - Preparing for Intranet 2.0 - the otter group
Good paper showing how web 2.0 technologies (and especially blogging) can be used in a corporate context. Contains one of the best one-paragraph descriptions of a learning network I've seen: "A learning network uses the intranet as a platform to tie together a set of services that support collaboration and communication, and it uses the web 2.0 tools we ve described so far. Learning networks make information in networked databases easy to access and to combine and display in new ways." [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on May 16, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Tom Morris - iBeebSpacr 2.0
Tom Morris comments on the BBC's widely publicized plan to embrace Web 2.0 technologies: "What the BBC don't seem to understand is that user-generated content is happening all around them, and that we don't need 'BBC Blogs' or 'BBC Flickr' or 'BBC YouTube' for that to happen." Quite right, and as Catherine Howell observes in her follow-up to her Facebook.edu" post, "we don't need institutional versions of them, squirrelled away in a CMS, either." She goes on to observe that "For the older academics, identity is protected through restricting acc From OLDaily on May 16, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..