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Rumors Rife of Internet Mergers
With internet growth tapering off, the industry may be looking at a period of consolidation that could involve some of the biggest players. An eBay-Yahoo merger is the one that intrigues analysts the most. From Wired News on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

In Praise of Car Rentals
It's easy to pretend you're Speed Racer while driving an auto tricked out with steering-wheel buttons galore. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Security vs. Privacy: The Rematch
Let's put an end to this false debate. Privacy and security aren't mutually exclusive -- in a free society, we can have both. Commentary by Jennifer Granick. From Wired News on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

The 2006 Rave Awards
Wired magazine's annual salute to the rebels and revolutionaries shaping the wired world. Music: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Architecture: Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr Podcasting: The Ricky Gervais Show Policy: The intelligent design judge TV: The Lazy Sunday guys Renegades: George Clooney, Mark Cuban, Jeff Skoll and Steven Soderbergh Plus: The First-Ever Steve Jobs Award From Wired News on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

American Idol: Both of them suck
There's a phenomenon with which I became familiar back when I was directing high school musicals, where performers who aren't really any good begin to seem better if for no other reason than we're watching them every day. A marginally talented girl in a production of Grease or Godspell sings her song a bit better on week 6 of rehearsal than week 3, leading us to believe she's not simply better than before, but "good" on some absolute scale. Then we're surprised when an audience who doesn't know her comes in and thinks she's terrible. I From rushkoff.blog on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Violence Goes Unreported in Some Schools, Audit Says
The state comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, faulted the State Education Department and schools for ignoring problems with violence until the audit began. From New York Times: Education on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Rice's Appearance Draws Protests in Boston
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered the commencement address at Boston College, where dozens of students and professors turned their backs on her. From New York Times: Education on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Regents Extend Restraint on Commercial Colleges
The state's Board of Regents on Tuesday extended until September its moratorium on approving new commercial colleges in the state. From New York Times: Education on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

In Search of Standouts Who May Not Stand Out Enough
The nonprofit Posse Foundation looks for students nationwide as likely to excel at a selective college Â— but also as likely to be overlooked by admissions officials. From New York Times: Education on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

On Education: Game and Theory Converge on a Coach's Field of Dreams
For nearly 20 years, Steve DeCaro had longed to fuse the two parts of himself, jock and geek, and to offer both to the same students. From New York Times: Education on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Science Test Scores Fall for High School Seniors
The falling scores appeared certain to increase anxiety about America's academic competitiveness. From New York Times: Education on May 24, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Tracking Mobile TV Audiences
Cell phone users subscribing to mobile TV service make up 1.2 percent of the U.S.'s mobile population. From ClickZ Stats on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Ewan McIntosh - Will Richardson: What are the changes in the read-write web? - edublogs
Good set of notes from what appears to have been a good talk summarizing what changes when Web 2.0 meets e-learning. For example: "We have to learn not to push information any more. We have to teach our students how to pull information that is relevant to them." And, "It's insane to make kids do their own work. Working together, finding and making connections, learning how to work in a collaborative world (because that's what's out there in the business world) is all that matters." That last is a bit overstated but the set of points is nonetheless generally reliable and worth a From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jay Cross - The Power of Dialogue - Informal Learning
Jay Cross offers a post that stirs a variety of emotions in me as he examines the nature of authentic dialogue. "One individual brought up an aspect of dialogue, vulnerability. She wondered if naked wouldn't be a better term. Another said it was about showing one's real self. The apt term for me was authenticity. In retrospect, maybe the hip term for the honesty present in our discussion is transparency. Whatever it was, the dialoguers got out of their element, were no longer 'on,' suspended their egos, and acted as other-empowered human beings." I know what a powerful expe From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Will Richardson - eLIVE 2006... Live - Weblogg-Ed
Summary of a talk by Alan November at eLIVE 2006. Some interesting points, but I really think the point of view is skewed. Here's a quote: "What is the problem? The problem is not technology or teaching children technology. The problem is that India is ramping up in technology and education, online learning. China outstrips the US by the year 2050." These are not problems. These are enormous opportunities, not to mention a long overdue balancing of wealth and resources worldwide. The quote continues, "It means a lot more people have a lot more money to spend to use up the world's nat From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jonathan Bailey - The New Plagiarism - Plagiarism Today
At the best of times I am pretty sceptical about accustaions of plagiarism. In this case, where the author depicts a type of (what he considers to be) excess block quoting with attribution to be a new form of plagiarism, I am inclined to side with the numerous critics of the piece. To be sure, there are blogs of the type he describes in our field. But I have never detected any loss of readership or confusion about attribution as a consequence. Most people eventually follow the quotes to their source, so unless your only motivation for blogging is Google Adsense click-throughs, you' From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Catherine Howell - Mirror, Mirror: Refining the Element in the IMS e-Portfolio Specification - EDUCAUSE Blogs
I haven't been too involved in the discussion of e-portfolios because I think a lot of that discussion is misplaced. This set of observations on the 'reflexion' element is a perfect example. Catherine Howell argues that the definition, in the IMS specification, is fuzzy, and insufficiently distinguished from an assertion. Quite right, but I would go further and ask what the point is of distinguishing between a reflection and an assertion at all, and even what the point is of placing these (via a form???) into an e-portfolio in the first place. It's this whole idea that ever From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Angela Regnier - Open Letter to Ministers Oda and Bernier - Canadian Federation of Students
In 1985 or so I wrote an article in the student newspaper, the Gauntlet, titled 'CFS is Dead'. It just goes to show, not all of my predictions are accurate. I'm happy to have been wrong, though, because this week the Canadian Federation of Students has come out with a statement urging a "balanced" approach to copyright laws. "Students are concerned that the collectives and the major publishing and recording industries - entities motivated by profit - have been wielding too much influence in the process to-date, thereby drowning the leg From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Student TV Finds Home on Web - ESchool News
Innovative: "Student-produced shows across the country might have gotten their big break.... The Open Student Television Network (OSTN) launched in April 2005, and it has signed up a wide array of schools in the past few months: the network now claims 30 member schools, with access at 208 institutions." the idea is to provide a distribution channel for student productions. "The launch of these broadband channels parallels an explosion of amateur TV and film content on the web, fueled by the ever-dropping cost of producing a professional-looking product." OK, so what we're waiting for now From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jeff Jarvis - Everybody's a Network - BuzzMachine
Question of the day: "what if media isn't a business anymore? What if it becomes like poetry -" lots of people do it, but nobody ever expects to make any money from it." Or, what if education isn't a business anymore - people share what they know as part of their day-to-day routine or part of the job, everybody does a little, and nobody makes any money? "The smart network response to all this is to liquify. You let your stuff be found anywhere, in any medium and any network. You let your public distribute for you (see Jon Stewar's Crossfire rant)." [OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Garret Sern - Time for Higher Education to Be Heard on Net Neutrality! - EDUCAUSE Blogs
I take net neutrality as one of those really obvious things. The attempts to end net neutrality are not about improving things, they are about controlling the marketplace and eliminating the competition, about appropriating the public infrastructure, rights of way, and other easements that we provide them for their own personal gain. When this happens, important public services, such as education, lose out to commercial traffic. So it's no surprise to see EDUCAUSE coming out in favour of net neutrality. No surprise, and really, if we want anything like a public sphere online, no other cho From OLDaily on May 24, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Widgets
The little applications appearing on the Web are addictive. Take a look at Web 2.0 Slideshow. Quickly browsing the left column, I came upon Zoom Clouds. Take a look at the bottom of this page to see the result: a cloud of recent blog postings here. Technorati Tags: clouds web2.0 zoomclouds From Internet Time Blog on May 24, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..