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Social Media Changes Engagement for Teens and Tweens
Teens develop closer relationships with friends they communicate with on- and offline. From ClickZ Stats on November 2, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Keep Defect Data Public
The government wants to respect the privacy of corporations who sell dangerous vehicles and keep data about defects under wraps. In Autopia. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

See Surreal 'Sketch' Furniture
Watch as phantasmagoric furniture, traced by fingertip in midair, becomes real, thanks to rapid-prototyping technology and a vat of liquid plastic. In Table of Malcontents. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Zune Winning Big With Brown?
The retro styling of Microsoft's upstart music player is turning iPod owners' heads. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Various authors - EDU-Nix Open Source Schoolware - EDU-Nix
I haven't tested this, but applaud the initiative (well, except for the U.S. focus, which I don't get). "EDU-Nix aims to provide U.S. Public Schools with Open-Source alternatives to expensive proprietary software products. By ensuring that all students and faculty have equal access to high-quality Free Software, EDU-Nix will help to bridge the digital divide in American schools." [Link] [Tags: United States, OLDaily on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Learning for the Future: A Vision and Research Agenda - Computing Research Association.
Results of a study from several sets of workshops, released in 005. I found this report to be an interesting read but have to agree with Zhao Lin's comments in IFETS today: "Web-based educational research, particularly, in learning theory and technology, is a very promising solution to this situation of mutual limitations. However, neither the cyberinfrastructure report nor the above 2020 report pays sufficient attention to web-based educational research. Without Web-based educational research, how can those visio From OLDaily on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Tony Karrer - How Do People Interact with Blogs? - eLearning Technology
I comment on other peoples' blogs fairly frequently. It seems a nice thing to do, and I know people appreciate them, even if I am critical. But Tony Karrer has a point. If most people read blogs via RSS (and these days, it seems, they do) then th comments are invisible. You have to click on the link to view them, and people don't click on the link. I too would like to see the comments come through in the feeds. The technology is fairly simple, but mostly it's a problem of timing and flow. I can't imagine RSS readers want to see the post again every time there's a comme From OLDaily on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

David Green - Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning - Academic Commons
A report that considers what may seem to be obvious, the use of images in online learning. Still, it is worth having a reference that tells us that many staff use images, that these images are scattered and disorganized and have little or no metadata, that Google image is popular, that there should be some common source for images, and that people want to be able to determine the copyright status of an image. A longish report, in PDF. Via Kairosnews. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Dan Lockton - Architectures of Control in Design
Scott Wilson points to this new blog, which aims to offer an interesting perspective on design. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Copying Own CDs 'Should Be Legal' - Bbc
See, here's the deal. I can put 5,000 or so songs on my iRiver, so that's about $5,000 worth of music, should I ever fill it up. Now, were my $300 iRiver to cease functioning, or be lost, or dropped in a vat of oil, I would need to purchase all those songs again, unless I can copy my purchased songs. I have gone through three MP3 players already. Certainly, I am not prepared to repurchase the digital files each time. This is simple common sense. And the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) agrees. [Link] From OLDaily on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Mark Oehlert - Education Map of the Decade - E-Clippings
Normally I would not link to this item, because the document Mark Oehlert links to, a graphic by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation called 'Map of the Decade' is released under strict copyright conditions and requires that you supply a (fake) name and email address to access. But it is a very good resource, despite the U.S.-centric approach, which produces some blind spots (eg., "Curriculum on the global market: China, Science and Engineering, U.S., creativity and innovation" - not likely, there's a whole creative and innovative world out there and the U.S. has long lost its e From OLDaily on November 2, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Lawsuit Hits Sex Shamer's Tactics
The EFF sues a notorious Craigslist troll for using bogus copyright takedown notices in an attempt to silence a critic. In 27B Stroke 6. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 2:46 p.m..

Scientists: Bush Muzzled Research
Investigations are under way by two federal agencies into allegations that the Bush administration tried to suppress scientific findings into the politically touchy subjects of global warming and the origin of the universe. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 2:46 p.m..

Cyberspace, the Wild New Yonder
The U.S. Air Force will establish a separate command to safeguard cyberspace, a sphere considered vulnerable to attack yet vital to the nation's communications, defense and financial networks. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Reorganization at CLO
The morning email contained this message from Norm Kamikow, editor-in-chief at MediaTec Publishing: I want to inform you of our decision to make a change at the editorial director position. Effective November 1, Diane Landsman has been elevated to the position of editorial director replacing Tim Sosbe who has left the company. Effective immediately, Diane will [...] From Internet Time Blog on November 2, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Database Pioneer's Privacy Fears
The man who helped establish Britain's DNA database says it now poses a threat to civil liberties because the police have filled it with samples taken from people who have no business being in there. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 12:46 p.m..

The Polling Place Photo Project
A nationwide experiment in citizen journalism. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on November 2, 2006 at 11:49 a.m..

Nature is all joints
I've been using a quote from Umberto Eco about there being many ways to carve a cow, but you won't find many cuts that have the snout and tail attached. This is a direct reference to Plato saying that a wise person knows how to carve nature at its joints. But I'm keynoting the combined KMWorld and Taxonomy Bootcamp conferences this morning and realized that I'm not very happy with what I've been saying. Eco is right that not every way of carving the cow works, but there are so many ways of carving it that the old structures of... From Joho the Blog on November 2, 2006 at 11:49 a.m..

FCC rules in favor of community wifi
The FCC has ruled that landlords can't keep tenants from using the wireless devices and services they want. Harold Feld and Susan Crawford have excellent posts explaining it. (I'm sure others do, too, but I'm in a hotel restaurant leeching wifi...) [Tags: wifi fcc harold_feld susan_crawford -berkman]... From Joho the Blog on November 2, 2006 at 11:49 a.m..

O'Reilly's miscellaneousness
From a Publishers Weekly: Safari Books Online, a California-based company that provides business and technology reference resources [O'Reilly media + Pearson Technology Group- dw], has launched Short Cuts, a series of brief works about emerging technologies not yet worthy of book-length treatment. The service, which complements the company's Rough Cuts program allowing readers to offer feedback on manuscripts not yet completed (PW Daily, Mar. 13 ), will be included in the subscription to Safari's online reference service. That service grants access to more than 4,000 titles by l From Joho the Blog on November 2, 2006 at 10:46 a.m..

Will Dance for Flames
An elaborate hack of Dance Dance Revolution involves a fire-retardant suit, a 12-foot screen and nine propane jets that unleash 3,600 degrees of punishing heat. By Michael Reilly from Wired magazine. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 7:45 a.m..

The Boarding Pass Brouhaha
A researcher lands in hot water for creating a website that allowed visitors to create fake boarding passes capable of fooling airport screeners. Why isn't the TSA in trouble for staging such easily circumvented security theater in the first place? Commentary by Bruce Schneier. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 7:45 a.m..

Science Prays for Midterm Mercy
Wired News weighs in on how the upcoming elections could affect stem cell research, global climate change, energy independence and research funding. By Luke O'Brien and Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 7:45 a.m..

The Virus That Ate DHS
Moroccan malware that crippled sensitive US-VISIT border screening workstations last year also penetrated immigrations systems and border patrol computers. And the government really didn't want you to know that. Plus: See it all laid bare with our interactive un-redaction tool. By Kevin Poulsen. From Wired News on November 2, 2006 at 7:45 a.m..

Card sorting: an inexpensive and practical usability technique
Joshua Kaufman has published an article on card sorting. To quote: If you're designing a system to organize content, you can either come up with your own labeling system -- which may or may not be shared by others --... From Column Two on November 2, 2006 at 4:48 a.m..

The various approaches to evaluation & measurement
IBF has published a summary of my talk at IBF Live on "The various approaches to evaluation & measurement". To quote: Some popular preconceptions about intranet evaluation came under fire in an entertaining and provocative keynote address by James Robertson... From Column Two on November 2, 2006 at 3:47 a.m..

Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study
M.I.T. and the University of Southampton in Britain plan to announce a new joint research program in Web science. From New York Times: Education on November 2, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Regents Exam Grades Were Changed, Teachers at S.I. School Say
Teachers said that toward the end of the 2005-6 school year, some grades were changed by an assistant principal who had taken the exams home. From New York Times: Education on November 2, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

In New York, a Big Divide on Visions for School Aid
Eliot Spitzer, who is running for New York governor, promises that if he is elected, he will resolve a lawsuit seeking billions of dollars more for New York City schools and send more money to other needy districts statewide. From New York Times: Education on November 2, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..