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For 'Hoop Dreams' scholars, quitting is the only unavailable option
One woman's work has helped more than 800 inner-city youths better themselves through mentoring, tutoring, and scholarships. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on November 15, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

TiVo Adds Downloads, Movie Share
Is this a YouTube for the set-top box? TiVo is gonna let you download video podcasts and share your home movies. In Gear Factor. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

AOL Chat Catches Up
America Online releases AIM 6.0 -- it integrates social networks, RSS feeds and mobile-device support, plus other features that compete with current Microsoft and Yahoo offerings. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Doc Sued for Accidental Pregnancy
A Berlin court orders the doctor who implanted a woman's contraceptive device to pay child support after she got pregnant before the device should have expired. In Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

New NSA Bill a Trojan Horse?
Outgoing Senate Judiciary chairman Specter introduces a bill making small changes to spying laws, but the ACLU says it's a last-minute attempt to legalize the government's warrantless wiretapping program. In 27B Stroke 6. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

PS3 Compatibility Woes
CNET Japan counts 196 older titles that choke on the new platform. Sony says they didn't expect 100 all the games to work on launch. In Game|Life. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Half of European Union Population Uses the Web Regularly
EU Internet adoption is highest in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden in the home and Finland, Denmark, and Austria at the enterprise level. From ClickZ Stats on November 15, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Mark Wagner - Establish Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals - Educational Technology and Life
When talking about groups and networks recently I have commented a few times that the person who came up with the idea of the 'vision statement' ought to be thrown out the window. That's perhaps an over-reaction, but I still disagree with advice such as this: "In order for any large-scale or long-term change to be successful in an educational institution, the organization must have a sense of mission, or what DuFour and Eaker (1998) also called a shared 'sense of purpose'." I think managers are fooling themselves if they believe they can achieve this. Yes, staff may gi From OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Jay Matthews - What Are the Best Education Blogs? - Washington Post
I'm sure Jay Matthews has a very different idea of what constitutes an 'education blog' than I do (could he imagine it being from overseas and talking about informal learning, for example?) but that's no reason why we shouldn't send him suggestions. Via elearnspace. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Scott Gilbertson - Getting Songs Off An iPod - Monkey Bites
If you are one of those people who thought your iPod was useful, and then discovered you can't get your songs off them, then these apps are for you: iPod Access and iPod Rip. I also read (but cannot verify) that you can get your songs off an iPod using MS Windows as follows: uninstall any iPod or iTunes software, plug your iPod in to the USB port, turn it on, open 'My Computer', open the 'iPod From OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Wesley Fryer - IP, the Information Age and YouTube - Moving at the Speed of Creativity
This gets it exactly right: "We live in an era where people can publish at will. Relevance is and will increasingly be a function of digital accessibility. You want to be relevant? Give away your ideas. Want to become irrelevant? Create a walled garden that keeps out more people than it lets in. You'll be sure to limit your audience, and therefore reduce your relevance and potential impact on the world. Sharing ideas. It's what the Internet was founded for, and what it is still all about." [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Tony Hirst - Online OPML Feed Management - OUseful Info
Link to a list of OPML managers. Because it's going to come up one day, and you'll need this link, and you'll remember that you can simply come back to this site, search for 'OPML', and find it. [Link] [Tags: OPML, del.icio.us] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

John Cox - Software Patent Ignites Firestorm in Higher Education - Network World
Network World covers the Blackboard patent lawsuit. "It's a case in which the level of vitriol and vilification is making the long-running and now-settled patent battle between Research in Motion and NTP look like high tea at the Ritz. There are claims, counterclaims, a civil suit, an extraordinary demand from a higher education IT group and a mounting torrent of blog postings." Via Alfred Essa. Also: "The latest legal move occurred Monday when federal District Court Judge Ron From OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Christian Long - Welcome UVA Students! - think:lab
Christian Long is featuring 7 UVA students on his blog, an arranglement that has resulted in some cracking good content. From UVA 3: "The 5 senses are vital" From UVA 5: "We can continue to fill their brains with core information, or we can begin to help them think... ultimately learning doesn't distinguish between the two." From UVA 6: " The minute From OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Tim Bray, Obie Fernandez and Floyd Marinescu - Tim Bray on Rails, REST, XML, Java, and More - InfoQ
"If you look at WS* there are these huge universal schemas compressing thousands of pages of specifications, mostly cooked up in back rooms at IBM and Microsoft. Many of them are still unstable years into the project, and they are based on XML schema and WSDL, which are two of the ugliest, most broken and irritating specifications in the history of the universe." - Tim Bray [Link] [Tags: Ruby, OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

George Siemens - Connectivism: Learning Theory or Past Time for the Self-Amused? - Elearnspace
Asked to review George Siemens's paper on Conectivism, Bijdrage van Plon Verhagen from the University of Twente treats readers to a detailed criticism of the paper. The review prompted Siemens to write a (self-admitted) meandering reply. As Siemens (accurately) summarizes, "Verhagen's criticisms are broadly centered on three areas: 1. Is connectivism a learning theory or a pedagogy? 2. The principles advocated by connectivism are present in other learning theories as well. 3. Can learning reside in non-human appliances? From OLDaily on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Taggy research
Tagedu lets users submit, tag and rank sites that might be of interest to researchers. The sites are reviewed for "appropriateness," and then added to the collection. The idea is that researchers should be able to search by tags, not just by text. I found this link at Library Stuff, which also points to Quotiki, a Digg-ish site for group grouping of quotations. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous tagging tagedu quotiki taxonomy ]... From Joho the Blog on November 15, 2006 at 11:49 a.m..

(Shhhh. A fun day...)
I'm in NYC to talk with my publishers about their plans for marketing my book. That's this afternoon. This morning, i'm going to be a guest participant in a grad seminar Steve Johnson teaches. (Note to self: Buy a copy of The Ghost Map so Steve can sign it...and so I can read it. I am a huge Steve Johnson fan.) So, I've been looking forward to today... ...Except now I've caught the attention of the unswerving god of Irony. Oh mighty swinger of the axe of overturned expectations, enforcer of whim, doer of random acts of randomness, gleeful splasher... From Joho the Blog on November 15, 2006 at 9:49 a.m..

Meta travel site
Yesterday, I gave a talk at a small customer seminar (um, it was the seminar that was small; the customers seemed to be of average height) for Fast, a remarkably successful search service provider. In his talk, the CEO, John Lervik, pointed in passing to ThisIsTravel.com, a travel site that aggregates customer and professional reviews from other travel sites. For example, the page about the Holiday Inn Select Opryland rates it 5 out of 10 on the basis of 25 customer reviews the site found at IgoUgo.com, TravelGuide.com, etc. It also pulls links out of Fodors.com and others. The... From Joho the Blog on November 15, 2006 at 9:49 a.m..

Life Is Complicated at Louisiana School
When they are not playing football, fatherhood and job prospects in the wake of Katrina are some of the issues facing the South Plaquemines Hurricanes. From New York Times: Education on November 15, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..

Return of the Son of XHTML Fist
In praise of bad clients. Gradient goodness without the Photoshop fuss. Strike a pose in new ALA T-shirts. From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on November 15, 2006 at 6:49 a.m..

The best blog in the world
The blog of The Sunlight Foundation, a group I admire, has been named the best blog in the world, in a competition organized by a German broadcaster, with judges from around the world. The Sunlight Foundation has an excellent blog, and it looks great in a swimsuit, but the notion of "the best blog in the world" would sit sort of awkwardly on any site, don't you think? Anyway, congrats to the Foundation and to all the little people who made it possible :) [Tags: blogs sunlight_foundation]... From Joho the Blog on November 15, 2006 at 6:49 a.m..

Note to the three guys in suits at the table behind me
Talk loud. Be foul-mouthed. But please not both. Neither would be ok, too.... From Joho the Blog on November 15, 2006 at 6:49 a.m..

The blogging Canadian
Garth Turner, the Canadian member of parliament who was kicked out of the Conservative party for blogging (ok, so I'm probably oversimplifying) is still blogging away, and more committed than ever to using connective technology to reinvigorate democracy. [Tags: garth_turner canada politics blogging ]... From Joho the Blog on November 15, 2006 at 6:49 a.m..

A river of feeds
Brad of BradSucks has thrown together an RSS aggregator for himself that he calls his Temple of Ego (because he is the most self-deprecating person around). It puts out a feed of all that's been outputing—his delicious tags, his Google shares, his Flickr photos, his blog posts. So, if you subscribe you get a stream of everything Brad, and you can be assured of continuing to get, say, his photos even if he switches from Flickr to some other photo site. (Brad says he saw the idea at Adactio.) [Tags: bradsucks rss ]... From Joho the Blog on November 15, 2006 at 6:49 a.m..

Presenting at Online Information (London)
Just a quick note to say that I'll be back in London again in a few weeks, for the Online Information conference. There's plenty of good stuff at the conference, but I'll highlight that I'm running a half-day Intranets as... From Column Two on November 15, 2006 at 6:48 a.m..

Rants & Raves: iWant my iPhone
Readers chime in on the idea of making Apple's iPod do new tricks. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Flex Fuel Hybrids Gain Speed
Toyota and Ford are planning hybrids that can run on E85. Hybrid and flex fuel owners are ready to buy today. In Autopia. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Playstation as High-End CD Player
MSNBC's Gary Krakow claims the PS1 is high-end audio, so long as you "break it in" for 3 days. A sonic symphony or pseudoscience? In Gear Factor. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Four Brains Are Better Than One
Chip maker Intel has announced that it's shipping the new Core 2 Extreme microprocessor in time for the holiday season. Whether you need a quad core chip to run Sims 2 is your call. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Seeking a Call on Secret Law
Civil liberties maverick John Gilmore gets help from media organizations in his bid to have the Supreme Court rule that the government must publish its ID-or-extra screening airport rule. The feds say publishing the rule would help terrorists. In 27B Stroke 6. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Hands-On With Zune, Part 2
Microsoft's "social" Zune player is here. It'll appeal to the younger set, but the advanced features and foxy design could magnetize some wired adults. In Listening Post. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Complainers of the World Unite
If you love World of Warcraft or other online games, never visit the forums. The gripers will ruin it for you. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Startups Start Over
If a newly minted company is in trouble, what's the best course of action? One answer is to tear up the business plan. By Chaddus Bruce. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Guarded Hope for Dope Reform
Democratic victory doesn't necessarily spell a new dawn of "San Francisco values" on the drug front, but some things might change. By Randy Dotinga From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..

Kevin Mitnick's Security Advice
The hacker-turned-security consultant shares his best tips for securing your desktop against internet villains. By Kevin Mitnick. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Fly Silent, Fly Cheap
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an integrated wing-body concept aircraft that's quieter and more fuel efficient than anything aloft today. Here's why you won't be boarding it any time soon. By Dave Demerjian. From Wired News on November 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

School Districts With Officials but No Schools? New Jersey Has Them
More lawmakers and educators in New Jersey are calling for the elimination of "nonoperating districts," which are school districts without schools. From New York Times: Education on November 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Hardships of School Cellphone Ban Are Detailed in E-Mail Messages to Public Advocate
Some e-mail messages by parents opposed to Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs ban on cellphones in schools provide a snaphot of the dangers that lurk in New York City. From New York Times: Education on November 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

On Education: She Found Abuses in U.S. Plan for Reading
Cindy Cupp has become one of several whistle-blowers who uncovered evidence of conflicts of interest and favoritism in the Bush administrations $6 billion Reading First program. From New York Times: Education on November 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Even With Internets Influence, College Fairs Continue to Play a Key Role in Recruiting
Even as the Internet has taken over nearly the entire college application process, one vestige of pre-Web days survives: the college fair. From New York Times: Education on November 15, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..