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Anti-Rollover Tech Required
The federal government wants all vehicles to have stability control technology by 2012, and bless 'em for forcing the change. In Autopia. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..
Original Star Trek Gets Upgraded
Kiss the miniature Enterprise model goodbye: CBS is releasing digitally remastered episodes of the beloved 1960s TV series. Will modern, computer-generated special effects leave fans beaming? From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..
Proposed definition for "expertise management systems"
Dennis D. McDonald has written an article providing a possible definition for expertise management systems. To quote: Expertise Management Systems help people identify other people who can be contacted to "... answer a question or solve a problem." The system... From
Column Two on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Skype Issues
So a couple of days ago I downloaded the new version of Skype for OS X and now my video camera won’t work with it and I can’t even access the Preferences. No help from Skype seems forthcoming. Anyone having the same issues or can tell me how to get back the older version which [...] From
weblogged News on September 15, 2006 at 6:48 p.m..
Is RIAA Delaying Stiletto 100?
As music industry lawyers apparently debate the finer points of the Sirius Stiletto 100, new details about the device's design continue to whet consumer interest -- despite the satellite radio company's removal of a promotional video. In Listening Post. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
No Dell, Apple Laptops on Virgin
In response to the recall of millions of batteries, the airline is restricting in-flight use of many popular notebooks. In Gear Factor. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Cybercrime Is Getting Organized
If you read the news, you'd think that most cybercriminals are lonely, maladjusted teenage hackers stealing credit card numbers from their windowless rooms. But the real damage is being done by organized syndicates, and they're playing for much higher stakes. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Digital Air
I had the real pleasure of attending a presentation today by Lev Gonick, the CIO of Case Western Reserve University, who spent about an hour talking about the OneCleveland project that he’s been involved in for the past five years. In a nutshell, OneCleveland is all about aggregating unused broadband that’s already in existence and [...] From
weblogged News on September 15, 2006 at 4:48 p.m..
No Dell, Apple Laptops on Virgin
In response to the recall of millions of batteries, the airline is restricting in-flight use of many popular notebooks. In Gear Factor. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..
Monty Python Meets Master Chief
The Monty Python Sketch "How Not to Be Seen" gets the machinima treatment courtesy of the Halo engine. In Table of Malcontents. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Lost in Space? Lots of Junk
There are literally tons of man-made debris orbiting the Earth, from rocket parts to dead satellites to human waste dumped by space station crews. Then there's the stuff that spacewalking astronauts have simply lost out there. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..
Gas Takes Back Seat at Honda
The company develops a new process for creating ethanol from biomass and will manufacture cars that can run on 100 percent ethanol. In Autopia. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..
Cyber Crime Getting Organized
If you read the news, you'd think that most cyber criminals are lonely, maladjusted teenage hackers stealing credit card numbers from their windowless rooms. But the real damage is being done by organized syndicates, and they're playing for much higher stakes. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..
Various authors - D2L Counterclaim - D2L
Desire2Learn has filed its counterclaim against Blackboard in the recent lawsuit. "Blackboard's failure to disclose the Undisclosed e-Learning Products to the Patent Office was intentional and done with deceptive intent." Also, "On information and belief, Blackboard's failure to disclose the IMS Specification to the Patent Office was intentional and done with deceptive intent." [
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OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..
Paul Sobocinski - RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader - XML.Com
This will only work with local RSS files (if you have a nice simple way around this it would be very useful - and, no, having a script on your local server that retrieves and stores files does not count as a way around this). Anyhow, nifty stuff, and if you're hacking arounde with RSS and Ajax, thjis script and article gives you a nice starting point to see how it all works (no word on whether O'Reilly has trademarked the term 'XML' yet, but it wouldn't surprise me - remember: FLW2! (Free-Libre Web 2.0)). [
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Mark Goldenberg - Employer Investment in Workplace Learning in Canada - CCL / Canadian Policy Research Networks
I appreciate the efforts of the Canadian Council on Learning to look at workplace learning. However, I wish they had hired somebody who is, you know, in learning, rather than a policy wonk, to write the report. I will be quite critical, and I'm sorry about this, but reports like this really bother me, as they exhibit a policy agenda, but no particular committment toward learning. Why does this matter? Well, look at this: "Participation rates in employer-sponsored training and firms' spending per employee have remained virtually the same in recent years." Maybe so. Bu From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Mara Rose Williams and Kevin Murphy - Report: College Costs Squeeze Students - Kansas City Star
A fairly typical report (and one that characterized my very first published article way back in 1980). "According to U.S. Census statistics cited in the report, the nation's college students paid 42 percent more for tuition in 2005 than they paid in 2000. Tuition costs are rising at a rate that far outpaces inflation." Of course, this is "a bogus document concocted by a partisan left-wing group." Yeah. Right. Maybe we should give money to corporations instead? Yeah, that will solve the education shortage. Right? Really? I mean, read on. Am I being dogmatic and annoying? Well, perha From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Sarah Schmidt - E-learning Gets Legal Lessons in Battle Over Patents - Ottawa Citizen
Cute (though inaccurate) headline. In this article (printed in the Ottawa Citizen, the Hamilton Star, the Windsor Spectator, and the Edmonton Journal (among others, probably) the Blackboard patent is held up for examination and found wanting. WebCT developer Murray Goldberg makes some good points. "I think the reason there is such a fury (at universities) is they perceive Blackboard is patenting something that largely came out of academic institutions, or was significantly molded out of research at academic institutions," Goldberg says. "I thought that this area was mature enough that nobody w From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Nancy Willard - Youth Risk Online: An Overview - Education World
Nancy Willard, who has been writing quality posts about related issues in discussion lists for years, is writing a series of articles on internet risks for children in Education World. The first item is a list of these risks. I think we need to look at this list fairly carefully. we need to ask, is the risk unique to the internet? Is the stress on the internet risk downplaying a real-life risk (for example, does it make children think that the risk of adult predators is higher on the internet than in the home, when the reverse is the case)? Is the risk even a risk, or is it just some sort of i From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Charles Storch - The Geniuses - Chicago Tribune
Just for the record, I didn't receive the call. It must be because I was on the road, or something. I have long thought something like this should replace those big job creation projects. If you apply, and have a reasonable plan, you get one government grant. Sometimes you don't even have to apply, you just get it. But that's it. If you waste it, and your company folds, that's it. You don't get another grant. I mean - why do we fund million dollar corporate, institute, or university-based research grants when the same money could allow the person the freedom to researc From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Various authors - RDA: Resource Description and Access - Joint Steering Committee
More evidence that people don't listen to me. (*wry grin*) I have written and spoken about the difference between syntacti standards (which are about structure and how things fit together) and semantic standard (which aRE about meanings). Syntactic standards work fine, because you're not committing yourself to an ontology, world view, religion, science or whatever. Semantic standards fair for precisely the same reason. So when someone says (as does Robina Clayphan in an email) "There is more to creating useful metadata than URIs, schemas and syntax. Rules for creating t From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Stephen Downes - How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly - Half an Hour
I wrote this in Johannesburg airport instead of doing work. "I am, in fact, a fairly prolific writer... part of it is a simple strategy for writing you essays and articles quickly and expertly, a strategy that allows you to plan your entire essay as you write it, and thus to allow you to make your first draft your final draft. This article describes that strategy." Enjoy - I might add some bolding and formatting, if the article needs it. [
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OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Stephen Downes - Diddy - Half an Hour
If you haven't been following my articles on my other blog, you will want to have a look at
Diddy (though as I write Blogger is suffering a spectacular server failure). I also have a few photos posted - it has been a while since I had bandwidth so photos are limited; also Microsoft Windows burped and ate all my Kruger national Park photos (the 'sort by' operation failed and the FAT was corrupted - only Windows could manage something like that). So now I'm trying to retrieve them from the flash memory cards. [
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Stephen Downes - IT Integrator's Conference - Stephen's Web
I am in North Sydney, as you may have guessed from the song lyrics, and I had fun today giving two talks. The first, my keynote (
slides and
audio) was on the topic of blogs and learning, and afforded me a nice opportunity to merge some thoughts on the role of blogs in learning with the idea of blog objects as words in a conversation. An hour later I was on the podium again, this time giving a no holds barred address on the subject of copyright, theft, and digital rights manag From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Stephen Downes - Bogota - Google Video
Today is a banner day. For the last four weeks, I have been working on a video recounting my experiences in Bogota. I managed to get it to upload onto Google Video today. It's not perfect - you'll spor some flaws pretty easily - and it would be nice to have edited it more, but they're right. A laptop isn't really a video editing tool. But it's what I've got. Also, this is my first video that I created and edited by myself (I used Adobe Premier Elements). I had to teach myself how to create it as I created it. Learning in action. But this is what I mean - the tools From
OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
And he says it's brilliant there There's something in the air And sunshine everywhere, he's on the beach I know he's changed somehow It's in his postcards now He's in Australia So far out of reach And he says it's brilliant there. -
Kirsty McColl Some bubblegum pop I bought in London when I needed a lift...
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OLDaily on September 15, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Pose Like the Star You Are
Now that everyone's on camera -- webcam, that is -- maybe we should learn how to work it like the pros. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Pimping Your Ride for IPod
Using an iPod in a car isn't a seamless process just yet. Carmakers are aiming to change that, but in the meantime there are other ways to make your music collection mobile. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Play FarCry, Earn $300K
Gamers stuck in the United States have had little chance of going pro. Until now. By Bruce Gain. From
Wired News on September 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
What term do you use for 'user experience'?
Brandon Schauer has published the initial results from an Adaptive Path survey, looking at the terms used for 'user experience'. To quote: There's a range of vocabulary that can be used to refer to user experience: 'usability', 'interface', 'human centered... From
Column Two on September 15, 2006 at 2:46 a.m..
Welcome to Catherine!
Our team has just grown again, with the addition of Catherine Grenfell, who is a former manager of a successful intranet team, along with other roles in the corporate world. In the last 8 years she has been dedicated... From
Column Two on September 14, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..