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National Conference for Dialogue and Deliberation (3)
Poetry, followed by a panel of thought leaders. Snips: oeI am a child of the sixties. The evolution of the World CafĂŠ has been a spiritual journey because I believe itTMs within peopleTMs capabilities. The forty-year old model of citizen dialogue does not work any more. People are seeking new methods. Washington is dysfunctional; it includes the [...] From Internet Time Blog on August 5, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Mihai Parparita - Namespaced Extensions in Feeds - Google Reader Blog
Nice article with a really good list of extensions used in RSS (with links to the namespaces and figures on how popular the extensions are). These extensions allow users to syndicate a wide variety of contents, including music, geo-spatial data, personal information, Digg ratings, and more. [Link] [Tags: Privacy Issues, Ontologies] [OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Dave Munger - Why We Can't All be Divas - Cognitive Daily
Do listen to the two samples of music and see whether you can't tell the difference (and what the difference actually is). The main point, that perception is learned, is I think well established by this item (not that it wasn't before, but sometimes you actually need to see the evidence). [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Ross Mayfield - Jimmy Wales Kicks off Wikimania - Ross Mayfield's Weblog
Outline of Jimmy Wales's Wikiversity announcement at the Wikimania conference. Good quote from Wales: "Apparently, there was an error in Wikipedia (laughter). They dragged me on CNN to yell at me. Just at the time when Wikipedia blew past CNN.com's traffic." P.S. Congratulations are due to Ross Mayfield for Open Sourcing SocialText. [Link] [Tags: Wikipedia] [OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Ross Dawson - Microsoft Kickstarts the Live Brand - Trends in the Living Networks
The flagship of Microsoft's 'Live' brand, Microsoft Live Spaces, has just launched. The first thing it did when I went to access it was to lose my original Spaces site, forcing me to replace it with a new one - I have no idea how to get the old one back, so it's destined to languish, unreachable, until the end of time. The site is just awful on Firefox, I have to say, probably because of the 'missing framework' error that frequently pops up. [OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Nick Lewis - 10 Drupal Modules You Can't Live Without - Nick Lewis: The Blog
As I get nearer and nearer to actually doing work to adopt Drupal (read: maybe when I get back from circling the globe in September) articles like this are catching my interest. Especially the description of the CCK module, at number 9. Watching these modules is a bit like having your own private television peering into the future. [Link] [Tags: Course Modules] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Michael Geist - Setting the IFPI Record Straight
Michael Geist does his usual hard-nosed analysis of a music industry public statement, leaving sliced and diced and bleeding on the floor. So he should; "In explaining the situation in Canada, the IFPI resorts to a series of mischaracterizations and omissions." My problem is that the politicians read the IFPI reports, and not the rebuttals. When's the last time a politician ever read these pages, for example? One of the big problems to be faced with the lobby is their almost exclusive access to decision-makers, and their tendency to flood that access with reports like the much-maligned IF From OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Lilia Efimova - Automatic Translator for Skype Chat - Mathemagenic
I was saying to someone just yesterday that what we need is automatic on-demand language translation, that this was the only way to do it. This is what I meant. Way cool. [Link] [Tags: Cool] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Lilia Efimova - Nancy White on blog communities and more questions - Mathemagenic
Commentary and nice handy-dandy set of five links to Nancy White's recent series on blogs and community. What's interesting is the discussion of the different types of communities that evolve - blog centric, topic centric, etc. Here's the list: Part 1: Framing the Issue Part 2. Blog-centric blog communities OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Paul B Hartzog - Culture Jams, Culture Preserves - Many 2 Many
If you're a Star Trek fan, be sure to check out the home-made Star Trek episodes on this site. If you're not, it is still worth reflecting that the fan video is every big as good as the commercial product. Which means that the message in culture is no longer the sole domain of the commercial media. And that is why we have copyright battles, patent fights, and the rest. "Umberto Eco calls this 'semiological guerrilla warfare' and supports 'action which would urge the audience to control the message and its multiple possibilities of interpretation.'" [ From OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Various authors - Desire2Learn Patent Page, Blackboard Violating Australian Law?
The Blackboard story continues non-stop, so I'm throwing together an extra issue today to keep up. While I'm at it, I'm giving you a glimpse of my Saturday reading, a little more geeky than the usual weekday fare - but remember, this is a day off for me, so this is what I'm reading for fun. Anyhow, first thing this morning came an email from Desire2Learn head John Baker letting me know about the company's patent information page. The text of the message reporduced here a few days ago may be found on the si From OLDaily on August 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation (2)
Things started like this. Wow. A full, exhausting day at the Conference on the new D&D. That's for the old timers who remember when D&D was sort of Dirty Harry Potter, long before Second Life was born.Today's morning session was quite moving, in ways that are popping up in my consciousness twelve hours later. Walking [...] From Internet Time Blog on August 5, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..