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Small Body Holds Big Memory
The Lexar Jumpdrive Firefly holds up to 4 GB -- that means super storage for about 4,000 pictures, 65 hours of music or 540 minutes of video. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Active Home Web Use by Country, July 2006
Active home Internet users went up by a quarter of a point globally. From ClickZ Stats on August 21, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Science Fiction Double Feature
William Shatner and John Lithgow get mashed up in a homemade Twilight Zone music video. In Table of Malcontents. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Blackboard’s Pending Patents
Blackboard has a number of pending patents in addition to the recently granted one. These were posted by Santo Nucifora to the Blackboard list out of ASU. PUB. APP. NO. Title 1. 20060168233 Internet-based education support system and methods 2. 20060026213 Content and portal systems and associated methods 3. 20050086296 Content system and associated methods 4. 20040167822 Method and system for conducting [...] From Serious Instructional Technology on August 21, 2006 at 6:46 p.m..

The Age of Cheap, Plastic Robots
You hear a lot about cutting-edge, high-end bots, but what about a robot you can buy for $30 or less? Time to take a gander at today's budget bots and their many splendors. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Harry Potter Loves Malfoy
In Tokyo's packed doujinshi comic book markets, fan-created manga is king. Unshackled from Western copyright maximalism, creators re-imagine familiar characters in new and interesting story lines. Commentary by Jennifer Granick. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Art Does Not Apologize
Digital photography sure makes it easier for both the amateur and professional lensman. No one in his right mind works in a darkroom anymore. Unless he wants to produce art. Commentary by Tony Long. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Death to Caps Lock
A movement to force hardware manufacturers to eradicate the Caps Lock key from the computer keyboard is afoot on the web. By Michael Calore. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

A Nation Divided Over Piracy
The Pirate Bay survives, and politicians and entertainment lawyers confront a youth movement that embraces file sharing. Who would have thought Sweden would end up the internet's free-content haven? Part two of a series by Quinn Norton, reporting from Stockholm, Sweden. See Also: Secrets of the Pirate Bay From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Gallery: Dharamsala Dreamin'
A cobbled-together wireless network brings a taste of high-tech communications to the Dalai Lama's hometown-in-exile in northern India. By Xeni Jardin. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

God Bless This Lube
A Christian sex-toy shop hopes to help married couples increase pleasure and intimacy through toys, games and Happy Penis Massage Cream. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked
A Tibetan website is attacked -- possibly by China -- after being featured in Wired News. Xeni Jardin reports. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Putting Google-Fi to the Test
Our reporter hits the road to see what free ubiquitous wireless broadband feels like. Griffin Wright reports from Mountain View, California. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

The Bush Power-Grab Scorecard
Thursday's ruling against the NSA's warrantless electronic surveillance of Americans is a blow to the administration's claim that the law doesn't apply in time of war. But other cases have afforded the president more latitude, and some are still winding through the courts. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Tibetans to Teach Wi-Fi Know-How
Tech luminaries and some big Silicon Valley companies are being drawn to an October community Wi-Fi conference in rural India, where the agenda is wiring the developing world with cheap, wireless mesh networks. A special report by Xeni Jardin from Dharamshala, India. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Casting Net For Better Airfares
New websites claim to find the best airfares by mining airfare data and and reversing carriers' own profit-maximizing algorithms. By Dave Demerjian. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Decoding Judge's NSA Injunction
Legal experts begin to decipher a federal judge's ruling ordering the administration to stop its secret wiretapping. A Supreme constitutional battle may be at hand. In 27B Stroke 6. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Automakers Crush Safety Rule
Thousands are severely hurt each year by collapsing vehicle roofs but the auto industry wants no part of more stringent requirements. In Autopia. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Questioning Portable Video
Archos's new 604 portable video player has most of what people expect from a video iPod, but most people don't need either one. In Listening Post. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Holdout Bands Give In to iTunes
Rockers like Metallica and Bob Seger have resisted music downloads, but they're finally making their songs available on iTunes. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

FDA OKs Viruses to Treat Food
Certain microbes like to live on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages. Certain viruses feast on those bad bugs, and now the bacteria eaters (bacteriophages) can be sprayed on the ready-to-eat meats before they are packaged. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Blimp Cell Service Idea Floated
If robotic airships floating in the stratosphere could replace unsightly telecom towers and expensive satellites, they just might improve earthly communications. One company is lofting a test dirigible. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Korea Casts an Eye Heavenward
Keen to be the 35th nation to put a citizen into space, South Korea is searching for its first astronaut. No experience required, except a willingness to eat experimental space kimchi. James Card reports from Daejeon, South Korea. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Screwed for Sure
Why Microsoft's new Zune digital music player will force the next sale of Napster. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame
AOL's decision to release hundreds of thousands of search records ranks among the worst privacy breaches of all time. We surveyed the field and offer 10 other examples that rival or even exceed it. By Annalee Newitz. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Heads Roll in AOL Affair
The troubled company's chief technology officer, a researcher and a supervisor are gone in the wake of the accidental release of users' search data. AOL is also forming a task force to review its privacy policy. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Perpetual Motion Claim Probed
History offers a discouraging guide for an Irish company hoping to demonstrate an exception to the first law of thermodynamics. Can cleverly positioned magnets create more than hot air? By John Borland. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

This Global Warming Fix Stinks
A Nobel laureate gives credence to a malodorous solution to global warming: shooting sulfur into the Earth's atmosphere. By Elizabeth Svoboda. From Wired News on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Reviews!
I haven't had time to post, lately. I'm being swamped by the kinds of life challenges that most bloggers use their space to write about. Read any of them and assume I'm somewhere in the same boat. The new Testament collection is doing really well, though, and getting some great reviews. Here's two of my favorites so far, one from Silver Bullet" and both an rushkoff.blog on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

In Stock Trades (dot.com)
FYI - I just found this site that sells tradepaper comics collections at a considerable discount. 35% below Amazon. Here's the link to by the first trade paperback collection of Testament for $6.49 instead of 9.99. Meanwhile, I'm finally working down the email cue - it had gotten up to 4100 emails in the "to do" folder. So if you've emailed me in the past few weeks and haven't heard anything, you should by the end of today. As for the good news, I'm finally emerging From rushkoff.blog on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

For SAT Maker, a Broader Push to the Classroom
The company is reaching deeply into high school and even middle school classrooms nationwide. From New York Times: Education on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Basics: Back to School, With Cellphone and Laptop
In addition to college students, young children and teenagers are going to school with more electronic gadgets than ever. From New York Times: Education on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Suozzi Calls School Financing a Moral Crisis
The two Democratic candidates for governor of New York sparred over state funds for public schools. From New York Times: Education on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

In Elite N.Y. Schools, a Dip in Blacks and Hispanics
Fewer black and Hispanic pupils are passing an admission test for elite high schools, despite efforts to prepare them. From New York Times: Education on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Public Schools Fail State Energy Survey
Connecticut's aging public school buildings leak heat in the winter and cold air in the summer, giving them a failing grade in energy efficiency in a report released this month. From New York Times: Education on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Rough Start for Effort to Remake Faltering New Orleans Schools
The first school year after Hurricane Katrina is off to a shaky start for a group of schools taken over by the state after the storm. From New York Times: Education on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Hours in class meaningless as a measure, especially if a lawyer is the instructor
“Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold’s campaign has a new slogan: ‘Win one for the groper.’” "David Letterman Arnold Calls His Acts of Sexual Harassment a Joke October 2003. In a “Dateline NBC” interview aired Sunday evening, Schwarzenegger [...] From Internet Time Blog on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

MANAGEsmarter
VNU, the publisher of Training magazine, has a new website entitled ManageSmarter, which is shared with several other magazines. I just noticed the site today when the August issue of Training arrived I like the fact that many stories from the magazine are online. Seeing Sales & Marketing Management here is also a plus. On the downside, [...] From Internet Time Blog on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Qumana
At Gnomedex, I’d talked with Fred Fabro, president and CEO of Vancouver-based Qumana. We talked training stuff but Fred’s company was selling some blogging tool I didn’t quite understand. Today I came upon Qumana while searching Del.icio.us for a tool to streamline by blog-posting, and I didn’t realize it came from the same place until [...] From Internet Time Blog on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Today we had a wonderful family outing at the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City, about 30 miles northeast of Berkeley. A group of volunteers have restored dozens of streetcars and interurbans, and maintain 22 miles of their own track. We rode in the 1904 beauty to the right. Austin got to exercise his new [...] From Internet Time Blog on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Alfred Essa - The Patent Crisis Widens with New Attacks - The NOSE
As usual, you can obtain a full background on the Blackboard patent issue here. And the issue, argues Alfred Essa, has widened into a full-blown crisis. "We are now in a full blown Hot War that threatens all software development, commercial and open source. Blackboard's offensive patent attack against Desire2Learn is only one among many emerging lawsuits that will soon rock the entire software industry. FireStar recently filed a lawsuit (also in Eas From OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Unattributed - ADL Releases SCORM 2004 3rd Edition Public Draft - ADL
Yes, you read that headline correctly. ADL is making available the third edition of its 2004 Conformance Test Suite, Sample Run-Time Environment and documentation. After a 30-day review period the final specs will be released. And you'll be right up to date! Um, sort of. [Link] [Tags: SCORM, Metadata] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Ayo Kusamotu - Professor Nicholas Negroponte's Technological Dance With the Developing World - The Vanguard
Point by point refutation from a Nigerian writer of Indian economists' criticisms of the $100 laptop project (reprinted in OWL, the story is titled 'NIGERIA: A Response to India's Rejection of One Laptop Per Child'). Like Emma Duke-Williams, I too would buy one for $300 if it meant two were delivered to people who need them for free. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Ian Delaney - 10 Definitions of Web 2.0 and Their Shortcomings - twopointouch
The correct answer is, of course, that Web 2.0 is a little of all of those definitions (as one commenter offers, the idea of trying for a definition at all may be misplaced, a la Wittgenstein). My own definition, if it could be called that, identifies the salient features of a network (like this) found in the new internet technologies and offers four standards of good practice: openness, diversity, autonomy, and connectivity. Of course, these are rough approximations too. Don't forget to read the comments; lo From OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Christopher D. Sessums - Stop Making Sense: Paradox as a Teaching Tool - Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog
Should I feel pleased to have solved a koan, or disappointed? Christopher D. Sessums observes, "Paradox provides an opportunity to explore the unconscious assumptions associated with much of reality. They allow us to play with notions of sense/nonsense, misconceptions, disequilibration, and other cognitive conflicts. This is where is where real learning, real action, begins." I like his writing, but I liked Seung Sahn's Twelve Gates more. Should I then have not read the Sessums article? [OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Alan Levine - We Can All Be Radio Stations - Cogdogblog
Another item on the theme of content consumers becoming content producers, this short item outlines the process with a useful and intuitive Gliffy diagram and, of course, links. "Limelight provides us a username, password, and server to send our audio streams to. We get a cryptic looking URL we can use to plug into iTunes to listen to a live stream, or attach in Second Life as an MP3 stream URL. To make it easier for people to connect, we embed this URL in a playlist file." [Link] [Tags: ] [OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Julie Lindsay - ELGG Spaces and PLEs - eLearning Blog
Julie Lindsay ponders the role (and readiness) of ELGG Spaces and personal learning environments and, in that context, launches a new blog, In Touch With a Flat World. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jay Cross - MANAGEsmarter - Internet Time
Jay Cross introduces us to MANAGEsmarter and to their new blog, Training Day. The whole thing seems, well, so angry to me. Maybe it's the headline on the Training Magazine Cross has pictured on this post: Don't worry, be angry, which explains "why smiley sheets stink." Or the headline in MANAGEsmarter: OLDaily on August 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..