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Peanut butter and banana sandwiches
"Damn, I hate these peanut butter and banana sandwiches," said the construction worker for the third time in three days. His foreman asked, "Why don't you ask your wife to make you some other kind of sandwich?" The construction worker replied, "Because I'm not married. I make these sandwiches myself." Likewise, people used to accept the peanut butter [...] From Internet Time Blog on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Search Demonstrates Sales Growth
Keyword buys are driven by seasonality, and consumer search patterns evolve from general terms to branded queries. From ClickZ Stats on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Joachim Niemeier - Social Bookmarking: Pushing Collaboration to the Edge - 7 Days and More
Social bookmarking, social networks - the discussion continues. Social bookmarking fosters collaboration in resource discovery. Also, harnessing collective innovation with web 2.0. Also, five sites you need to know in social networking. Miguel Guhlin links to the Wikipedia list of social networking sites. "MySp From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Tony Hirst - Dynamic To Do Lists - OUseful Info
This is something that appeals to me - the use of RSS to do more than merely deliver content. Tony Hirst captures this thought in this post. "What I like the idea is of adaptively generating the to do list for each user, providing links to things users may need as they are likely to need them." People haven't really explored the idea of personalized RSS yet - but they will. [Link] [Tags: Personalization] [OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Terry Anderson - CreateChange Site Makeover - CIDER
Terry Anderson writes, "The CreateChange site has been renovated and provides more compelling evidence for the very significant change in scholarly production and dissemination made possible by the Net. A great resource for academics and librarians!" [Link] [Tags: Academics and Academia] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Mike Malloch - An Interesting Conversation... - eLearning 2.0
I'v never liked the use of use cases in software design, mostly because they tie the design to specific tasks. Well, comes the rejoinder, you need to know what you want your software to do. Sure. But what users want to do is a different matter altogether. "In the real-world users are almost always doing 'other things' when they come to use a bit of software." Exactly. Which means to me that the best basis for design isn't function but rather enablement or affordance. [Link] [Tags: ] [OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Liz Johnson - Managing Intellectual Property for Distance Learning - EDUCAUSE Quarterly
Note that the University System of Georgia secures a license through a copyright holder only as a last resort - public domain, TEACH Act and fair use are all preferable alternatives. Which means that if the needed materials are available (and discoverable) through the public domain, commercial content can be avoided entirely. See more from the current EDUCAUSE Quarterly. [Link] [Tags: Copyright and P From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jeremy Hiebert - Informal Learning Practices - HeadsPaceJ
Jeremy Hiebert has been looking into informal learning. The first paper, published in 2000, is an extensive survey of adultg learning in Canada and shows that Canadians are extensively involved in it (15 hours a week), want explicit recognition of this work, and are generally underemployed with respect to their informal credentials. He also links to Self-Direction in Adult Learning, a book on the subject from 1991. From the oth From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Wesley Fryer - Creative Commons for MS Office - Moving at the Speed of Creativity
This surprises me a bit. You will now be able to attach Creative Commons licenses to your documents using Microsoft Office products. [Link] [Tags: Microsoft] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jeremy Hiebert - Engagement with Electronic Portfolios - HeadsPaceJ
Catching up on e-portfolios. In this item Jeremy Hiebert links to a paper that looks at how students use them (rather than how institutions iuse them) looking at experiences at UBC and Waterloo. Also, from Sheffield Hallam University, see this description of their e-portfolio project. Meanwhile, Helen Barrett offers some responses to From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Leigh Blackall - Free Ranging and Bill Postering - Teach and Learn Online
Leigh Blackall writes, "I think its quite liberating to let go of the obvious - that digital means recorded, and think of it as a more fluid and transitory medium." I asked myself as I read this, am I ready to cast aside all of my ties to a permanent web presence and permanent data? And my answer, in a nutshell, is no. So am I not living consistently? I'll have to think about that. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jeff Jarvis - Advertisers: You're Next - BuzzMachine
I don't want to miss pointing to this item on the decline of the advertising industry, taken from presentations at a recent conference in Cannes. The article is ripe with advice for educators, particularly those who are invested in large or slow educational institutions. Trust me. And changes may be closer than you think: "For a decade the marketing world has been wondering when the digital revolution would finally cut into networks' upfront payday. The smart money says this is shaping up to From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - Salisbury, NB - Stephen's Web
Here's your mail! Fresh after an invigorating bicycle ride in the country yesterday (click the picture to see the photos), I am catching up a bit with today's newsletter. So it's a bit longer than usual and contains extra resources on e-portfolios and social networking, two topics that have taken the education technology community by storm lately. [Link] From OLDaily on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..