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Scott McLemee - Public Access - Inside Higher Ed
This article rekindles in me a project I have been pondering for a while, though if only by catering to some of my more crass motivations. Book publishers, argues the author, tend, at their peril, to ignore the blogosphere as a means of marketing their works. And this is manifest in their reluctance to furnish desk copies to notable bloggers; even well known writers have received only three or four books in as many years. I have thought about explicitly reviewing books for a while now, not so much because I need new writing projects (heh) but because I want to capture and pass on the From OLDaily on July 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Scott Wilson - How to Harvest Standards - Scott's Workblog
The conversation on standards continues with Scott Wilson offering some much needed correction to the process outlined by Michael Feldstein yesterday. As Wilson says, begin by "Identify[ing] a community which is already tackling a problem. Don't invent a problem, look for people who are clearly trying to do something new and are finding ways..." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on July 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Lucy Gray - Live from San Diego - A Teacher's Life
An ordinary person. An ordinary camera, an ordinary afternoon at a Padres ball game. A postcard from the future. The sound and the image are so clear, it's a beautiful video, beautifully shot, a stunning video all the more so because it's so ordinary. Perhaps you need to be an older observer to see the wonder of this. Perhaps not. [Link] [Tags: Games and Gaming] [OLDaily on July 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Vrious Authors - Washington Business Journal - Blackboard
I followed what turned out to be a pretty uninformative link on a new Blackboard community product and ended up at this page - a summary of stories about Blackboard carried by a local Washington D.C. publication. I can't really explain the results ordering (what's so hard about ORDER BY crdate DESC?). The product? Well, I found the Blackboard press release on the new K-12 starter edition, but it wasn't really From OLDaily on July 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Various authors - E-Learning!
This magazine showed up in my email (maybe I subscribed to it?). The first few pages had me rolling my eyes but the articles were pretty good. The 'private' splash page links to a big 11.5 megabyte download giving you the full glossy version (featuring numerous photos of nameless and irrelevant but very atrractive people). [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on July 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Amanda Congdon - Net Neutrality - Rocket Boom
I was disappointed to learn that Amanda Congdon and Rocketboom are parting ways, as each was perfect for the other. I've linked to the groundbreaking video site a couple of times, and for what is likely one last time, today. In her last episode (actually a week before the show's current hiatus) Congdon argues for net neutrality, balancing in her unique style an accessible delivery and grasp of the issue. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on July 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Alec Couros - Reasons For Not Adopting FLOSS In Ottawa-Carleton - Couros Blog
This item caught my eye partially because the Ottawa-Carleton school board is where I went to school, and partially because the response from a superintendent, Laura McAlister, was described in this post as "clueless". Well, I'm always up for a good scandal. Except that, as I read the letter, it didn't seem clueless at all. These are genuine issues: "central authentication, file storage and security, costs of obtaining software, which for the most part today is free to schools courtesy of the OSAPAC program, adapting new applications into existing From OLDaily on July 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..