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Dave Cormier - Blackboard Patent - The Sky, My Friends, is Falling - Dave's Educational Blog
eCollege has dropped the gloves and come out swinging against the Blackboard patent. "As one of the pioneers of online education, we launched our first customer's eLearning program in January 1997, before Blackboard even existed," said Oakleigh Thorne, chairman and CEO of eCollege. "In fact, we had online programs for numerous institutions up and running more than a year before the filing of Blackboard's patent application. After consulting with patent counsel, we believe the p From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 8, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

John Burton - CMS: Sticking with the Tried and True - University Business
Contrary to reports, open source is not sweeping the educational community. "Its popularity may be broad, but it's not deep." So writes John Burton in this University Business article, arguing that university and college computer systems staff find open source too risky to deploy on campus systems. Also worth noting is the OSS Watch report which just came out in Britain. The report paints a very different story, showing that while proprietary software rules the univerity desktop (with the exception of the browser, From OLDaily on August 8, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Declan McCullagh - AOL's Disturbing Glimpse Into Users' Lives - CNet News.Com
AOL accidentally exposed the search habits of a half million of its users over a three month period, creative a treasure trove for search engine optimizers and material aplenty for those concerned about the direction society is taking. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 8, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Simon Willison - The YDN Python Developer Center - Simon Willison's Weblog
What I like about a resource like this is not simply that it is a useful guide to some Python trickery, but also that it speaks eloquently against those who believe you need hald-holding and direction in order to learn. Who knows how many people will learn from this resource? Good thing they didn't know it was impossible. In the same vein, Steve Lee writes about the InfoWorld review of FOSS Ajax toolkits. Ah, free learning. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on August 8, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..