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Video the Vote
I'm encouraged by this one.
Video the Vote intends to get people with camcorders (or even videocam cell phones) to document examples of voter fraud or polling problems, and then post them immediately to the site. While it may not be enough to guarantee accurate results this time out, it does represent a beginning to public oversight. From
rushkoff.blog on October 31, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..
Six words in search of an author
Following in Mark Oehlert’s footsteps: six-word learning plans: do it. screw up. try again. try. reflect. share with others. remember. watch. listen. feel. mimic. perform. teach. What’s wrong with training: Roger Schank: It’s just like school. A short-cut from Goldman Sachs: Michael Lewis: Use your eyes. Plaigerize. From Father Sarducci’s Five-Minute Universityi: Muy bien. Supply & demand. God’s everywhere. From
Internet Time Blog on October 31, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..
About Dan Gillmor
Dan Kennedy's written a terrific story about Dan Gillmor and the Center for Citizen Media... [Tags: dan_gillmor media blogging newspapers journalism]... From
Joho the Blog on October 31, 2006 at 7:49 p.m..
New IE7 shakes up CMS and portal implementations
Tony Byrne and Janus Boye have written an article on the impact of IE7 on CMS and portal products. To quote: IE7 has been available in beta since Spring, 2006. However, early versions were buggy, and seemingly many vendors did... From
Column Two on October 31, 2006 at 7:48 p.m..
Debunking Smash Bros. Rumors
Think you'll catch a glimpse of new Super Smash Bros. Brawl characters at Nintendo World 2006? Forget about it. In Game|Life. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 7:46 p.m..
Amarockin' in the Free World
The free Amarok audio player for Linux now includes an integrated music store, powered by Magnatune, that sells DRM-free music. And it syncs with your iPod, too. In Monkey Bites. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 7:46 p.m..
Top 5 scariest intranet tales
Toby Ward has written an item on his scariest intranet tales. To quote: Boo! Okay, really, that's about as scary as I'm going to get here. After all I am talking about intranets... dull, boring, uneventful intranets. Hell, I may... From
Column Two on October 31, 2006 at 6:47 p.m..
MySpace's Misguided Music Purge
Record labels squander another digital opportunity as the social-networking giant taps Gracenote to identify songs for deletion. In Listening Post. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Konrad Glogowski - They Begin to Build Bridges - Blog of Proximal Development
More reflection on the topic of groups. When I spoke in Castelldefels on Saturday, I noted that education does not have - but maybe needs - a version of the Hippocratic Oath, or at the very least, the admonition to
do no harm. People talk about the benefits of groups to some people, but they forget the harm, and it seemed to me that the forced placement into groups could only be justified of no harm would be caused. As Glogowski says, "I could reinforce teenage power dynamics, but I won't." Because teenage power dynamics are har From
OLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Barry Dahn - Blackboard Stuff - Desire2Blog
Just keeping up on the Blackboard patent stuff. In case you missed it, here is the text of the
EDUCAUSE letter urging Blackboard to drop its lawsuit. Michael Feldstein looks at the
economic impact of the lawsuit - in the short run, things are OK, but in the longer run, things get ugly. So far as I can see, there is no future in the LMS market. To wit:
OLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Paul Reid - Rememberize - Web 2,0's Flashcard App - Digital Chalkie
I saw some flash card applications (who didn't?) pre-Web 2.0 and while useful (flash cards are useful - if you are motivated to learn and have the patience for the repetition) they weren't, shall we say, networked. I want to use flash cards create by other people (to continue, for example, to
learn Spanish). There are still some bugs, some pretty nasty, but the concept is sound. [
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NetworksOLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Mark Oehlert - Six Word Learning Plans - E-Clippings
Fun. I saw the 'six word novel' post on
Dave Pollard's site recently and added my own effort. This recasting is of 'six word learning plans', which already incorporates too much pedagogy for my tastes in the title. Still. It was interesting to note the various educators' efforts, which (not surprisingly) devolved into lists of verbs. Which sort of reminds me of my own five word, "Aggregate, remix, repurpose, feed forward." Or I suppose I could contribute "Teach: Model, demonstrate. Learn: practice, From
OLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Derek Wenmoth - PLEs and MLEs - Derek's Blog
As another one of those diagrams that advance the concept another iteration, this illustration and post "is an attempt to describe the development and potential intersection of these two systems, ie 1. Personal Learning Environment that is "owned", managed and maintained by the individual learner, and 2. Managed Learning Environment that is "owned, managed and maintained by a school or institution." This exploration is worthwhile, especially since it is hard for institutional administrators to see where their technology fits into the personal learning landscape. Read the comments, too. "The s From
OLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Leonard Low - Mobile Learning Ecologies - Mobile Learning
OK, this bit is right: "Mobile learners have the opportunity to retain a persistent network of peers, mentors, teachers, and nodes of content and functionality - to add and remove nodes, and interact with them as and when convenient. This is quite similar to the way our internal neural networks operate: we create connections of information..." But with this correction: this applies to all learners, not just mobile learners. Anyhow, note the use of the ecology diagram to represent the learning environment. [
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OLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Dave Berlind - Whether It Meant To Or Not... - Zdnet
Jotspot, a site I've used in any number of my presentations, has been acquired by Google (and Socialtext, a sit I never used, was acquired by Microsoft - coincidence? I think not). Maybe Google can do something about the hundreds of spam comments it has acquired. What I'm not looking forward to is seeing my login messed up, the way Google did to Blogger and Yahoo did to Flickr. What's interesting with all this buying of sites is that the sites then
switch sides in the the battle over intellectual property rights, as From
OLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Graham Attwell - The New Pedagogy of Open Content - The Wales Wide Web
Downloadable version of this paper presented at the OECD conference on open educational resources this week in Barcelona (I wish I was still involved - and it would have been handy! - but NRC and OECD could not agree on a contract, so I'm out). Anyhow, "One of the most often cited barriers to the development of Open Content and Open Educational Resources is that of persuading users, in the form of teachers and trainers to share. We are unconvinced that this is a real obstacle if we can develop a community to support such social processes. It is this community which is the real promise of From
OLDaily on October 31, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Sex Scares NASA Silly
Why did Laura S. Woodmansee's Sex in Space book signing get shut down? In Sex Drive Daily. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Hybrids Geared for Growth
Analysts say gas-electric cars could make up 6 percent of new vehicle sales within a few years, but that is a conservative estimate. In Autopia. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
[berkman] Wendy Seltzer on copyright technology policy
Wendy Seltzer is leading a lunchtime discussion at the Berkman Center about how copyright works not just as law but as technology policy. Copyright tech has been shaping law and culture, she says. [As always, I'm paraphrasing, missing big chunks, making the elegant clunky, etc.] She looked recently at the 1995 federal policy statement on the "national information infrastructure" (= da Net). It reads as if the Clinton administration wanted to promote the Internet by protecting "intellectual property." But it turns out that the Internet has even more value by letting us communicate with one From
Joho the Blog on October 31, 2006 at 3:49 p.m..
Hubble Rehab Gets Green Light
NASA decides there's life in the old telescope yet, reverses itself, and will dispatch a crew to perform repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, probably in 2008. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Reddit acquired
Reddit, one of my favorite social front pages, has been acquired by CondeNet, the CondéNast online group. Good news for the Reddit folks. And maybe a very very smart move by CondeNet...if they let the Reddit folks heavily influence how the service is developed. [Tags: reddit news condenet media everything_is_miscellaneous ]... From
Joho the Blog on October 31, 2006 at 2:48 p.m..
Ethanz on Google Coop
Ethan Zuckerman discovers that Google Coop's roll your own search engine has high precision but poor recall, i.e., it gives few irrelevant returns, but misses stuff it should find. A little poking solves the mystery pretty quickly. Google Coop Search works by searching against the main Google search catalog, retrieving 1000 results and filtering them against the sites you've included in your catalog. This makes sense, computationally - these searches are fast, almost as fast as normal Google searches. Rather than conducting 3000 "site:" searches and collating and reranking the result From
Joho the Blog on October 31, 2006 at 2:48 p.m..
Bill's Excellent TED Adventure
Former President Clinton joins a biologist and a photojournalist as a recipient of the 2007 TED prize, which acknowledges individuals who have had a profoundly positive impact on society. In addition to a cash award, Clinton gets to make one wish for the benefit of mankind. What will it be? By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..
How far we've come
Yesterday, the Berkman Center hosted a small party for local political bloggers. John Palfrey had us pause for a moment so the attendees could introduce themselves. A sampling: Betsy Devine has tracked the NH phone bank scandal. A professor from Northeastern blogs as a media watchdog. Rick Burnes of FaneuilMedia is plotting political donations on Google maps. Several folks from BlueMassGroup, a Democratic blog that's also a community, were there. Matt Margolis, founder of Blogs for Bush, a site that's kept its flame alive two years after the election, was there; he runs a Massachuset From
Joho the Blog on October 31, 2006 at 10:46 a.m..
Echo Chamber Tars Apple
Complaints about mooing MacBooks and shoddy iPods abound these days. But the growing sound and fury reflects the expansion of Apple's customer base rather than slipping quality control. Commentary by Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Coolest Games Tap Wii's Weirdness
Ubisoft's copious lineup of launch games for Nintendo's coming console will show how -- and how not -- to use the motion-sensing controller. By Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Ohio Election Portends Trouble
Lost electronic voting machines, cab drivers ferrying ballots from precincts, crumpled and illegible paper trails, numbers that don't add up.... Ohio's populous Cuyahoga County could play a pivotal role in next week's election, but it didn't do so well in last May's primary. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Attack of the Bots
Autonomous programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud and espionage pose the latest threat to the net. Here's how one company fought the new internet mafia -- and lost. By Scott Berinato from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on October 31, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..