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U.S. Skimps on Americans' Privacy
Europeans enjoy greater privacy rights than U.S. citizens under Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System. In 27B Stroke 6. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 10:46 p.m..

Zack Exley's revolution
Zack Exley—Kerry's Internet manager, co-organizer of the RootsCamp a couple of weeks ago, and co-organizer of the New Organizing Institute that's putting young'uns into the field as political organizers—wants a revolution. It's not that he's calling for the overthrow of the government or death to capitalism. In fact, what he's really callling on us to do is to expand our vision past wondering whether we should have a single-payer health insurance or whether we should stop serving macaroni and cheese in school cafeterias. So, there are no specifics in h From Joho the Blog on December 13, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

Rants: Defending Windows Vista
Readers find fault with Wired News' review of Microsoft's new operating system. Plus: Links to our most popular blogs. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

SpiralFrog Nabs Beatles Catalog?
Does the free, ad-based music service's deal with BMI mean the Fab Four's long-awaited online debut is happening? In Listening Post. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

And Your Brain Said, 'Ha!'
Research suggests that our brains prime us to laugh when others do it. So that's why Adam Sandler is only funny at the movie theater. In Bodyhack. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

Sony Fesses Up to Marketing Scam
The company officially takes credit for a supposedly user-created PlayStation website, a day after the Federal Trade Commission announces its intentions to investigate under-the-radar marketing. In Game|Life. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Thunderbird 2.0 Beta Arrives
Mozilla's updated e-mail client lands with new tools and a slick new UI. The software's still not ready for prime time, but it looks like the final version will be impressive. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Meredith Henson - ePortfolio Project and Mahara Update - Eduforge
The ePortfolio project called Mahara has released its first iteration on EduForge, with a second to follow shortly. Documentation for the project , includingy a PowerPoint presentation. You can can also learn about the project here and at a post on Seb Schmoller's website. 'Mahara' is Te Reo Maori for "`thought' (think, memory, think upon, remember)." [OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jorge Goncalves - Thumbstacks.com - Making and Sharing Presentations on the Web - Learning Online Info
This is pretty interesting - it is a bit like S5 combined with a Web 2.0-ish authoring tool. In essence, it allows you to create web-based slide shows. The authoring tool mostly doesn't work on my home system (Firefox 2.0 and Ubuntu Eft) - it just bogs down and eventually stops responding - but will work on most systems. The slides appear to work everywhere. [Link] [Tags: Web 2.0] [Comment] From OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Small Talk - Closing NY High Schools, more on KIPP - Mike Klonsky
It's not clear why the two items are in the same post, but what caught my eye was the follow-up on KIPP, the school program profiled in the New York Times by Paul Tough (my coverage here). It's the third in a series of reaction pieces (the first two are also worth a look: first, second). In this, a cite from a post by North Dako From OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Clay Shirky - A Story Too Good to Check - Valleywag
Clay Shirky has admirably put into text the reasons to be sceptical about second life. And I like the way he connects the hype with the source: "the press has a congenital weakness for the Content Is King story. Second Life has made it acceptable to root for the DRM provider, because of their enlightened user agreements concerning ownership." Looking beyond the hype, which as Shirkey notes is "push-driven" we see a set of dubious numbers which, even if charitably interpreted, amount to no more than a few tens of thousands of users, and "in a billion-person internet, that population is also a r From OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Will Thalheimer - Assessment Mistakes by E-Learning Developers - Will at Work Learning
The diagram in this post is a lot more insightful than may be grasped at first glance. Here is the diagram: The point Will Thalheimer is trying to make is that "any assessment at the end of the first learning curve is likely to be a poor predictor of future remembering---and show a definite positive bias." Why is that? Well, when learning is tested in the same context it was taught, it is more easily recalled. But introduce the learner to new contexts, and a chaos of variables intervene, making the previous predicti From OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Kruse - New Rules - Gangrey
This is a neat idea. "If you got to blow up your newspaper, effectively immediately, meaning even the potential elimination of the traditional, nuts-and-bolts beats - cops, city hall, school board - and if you then got to rethink completely how we harvest stories... WHAT? What would the 'beats' be?" Some great suggestions, including: "People who keep their baby teeth in tiny boxes. People in their 30s and 40s who work for minimum wage. People who wear sweatsuits." And some better ones, too. Imagine we rewrote the curriculum from scratch. Ditched math, geography, science, music. What From OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - ePortfolio: EduTools ePortfolio Review - WCET EduTools
Helen Barrett reports, "The WCET EduTools study of seven ePortfolio tools has been completed and is online." Pretty good review, with descriptive accounts of the features. The site also has financial profiles of each of the companies (ANGEL ePortfolio, BB ePortfolio, eFolio, ePortfolio.org, LiveText, Open Source Portfolio/rSmart and TaskStream). Related From OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Katy Campbell, Richard A. Schwier and Richard F. Kenny - Agency of the instructional Designer: Moral Coherence and Transformative Social Practice - AJET
Today the moderator of ITForum linked to an interesting and informative set of posts. First, she linked to Katy Campbell, Richard A. Schwier and Richard F. Kenny, who write, "designers have not necessarily recognised their agency in the development of a knowledge economy that reflects culturally biased views of teaching, learning, and the construction of knowledge." She also linked to a lecture by Clare Brant on the topic of Mi'kmaq Ethics and Principles, interesting to me bec From OLDaily on December 13, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Science Leadership Academy Up Close and Personal
On Monday, my colleague and soon to be blogger Rob Mancabelli and I dropped in on Chris Lehmann at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia for a three hour tour and chat. Bottom line is that Chris is building a vibrant community of learners among both teachers and students that has a unique feeling in [...] From weblogged News on December 13, 2006 at 4:48 p.m..

Is Google a Copycat?
Voices.com detects a whiff of déjà vu as the search giant makes its move into radio advertising. In Listening Post. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

Fox Dethrones Yahoo
MySpace's explosive growth pushes News Corp.'s web properties to the top of the pageviews-per-site heap. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

Zune Spot Spoofs Apple Ads
Microsoft flexes its parody muscles with another in-house lampoon. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

Cars Make Hydrogen From Water
Vehicles that electrolyze water onboard to produce hydrogen fuel could provide an easier alternative to fuel-cell vehicles and building out a hydrogen infrastructure. In Autopia. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

Will IPhone Be Just Another IPod?
Forget pushing the envelope: Apple is likely to take it easy on its allegedly forthcoming phone, an analyst predicts. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Three-Quarters of U.S. Web Users Are In the Fast Lane
Broadband serves 78 percent of American active online at-home Web users. From ClickZ Stats on December 13, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

One Phone Per Child (?)
A couple of weeks ago, someone, somewhere noted the interesting phenomenon of schools finally catching on to the 1-1 laptop initiative just when cell phones are starting to come into their own as the heir apparent in computing devices. I wish I could remember the link, because a couple of stories have really made me [...] From weblogged News on December 13, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Sexy Geeks: Vote for Your Fave
The nominations are in! We've sifted through your suggestions and reflected on our own geeky fantasies to come up with 10 of the sexiest geeks of 2006. Vote for your favorites at Bodyhack. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 1:46 p.m..

Israeli Army Hates D&D
Recruits who like Dungeons and Dragons are routinely labeled as "delusional minds" by the Israeli Army and sent in for psychological evaluation. Yet where will Israel be when the magic missiles start flying? At Table of Malcontents. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

eLearning for Kids
Nick van Dam (right) is Deloitte Touche Tomatsu’s CLO, the world’s tallest man, and the founder of eLearning for Kids. e-Learning for Kids is a global nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free online learning for children ages 5 " 12. The curriculum includes math, science, language arts, english, computers and most recently health and life [...] From Internet Time Blog on December 13, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

The ICS Intranet 2006 Research Report
The Irish Computer Society has published the results of an intranet survey. To quote: The Irish Computer Society is delighted to introduce the first ICS Intranet Report. The response to this initiative from ICS Members and the wider IT professional... From Column Two on December 13, 2006 at 6:47 a.m..

Startup Makes Spammers Pay
A new e-mail-forwarding service wants to force marketers to shell out hard cash to get their commercial messages through, and give you most of the money. By John Hudson. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Bruce Sterling's Final Prediction
If you had to call it right now, what does the future hold? By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Google Plants Solar Trees
The search giant joins a growing trend by landscaping its headquarters' parking lots with pole-mounted panels that provide shade and generate clean power in one fell swoop. By Marty Graham. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

What Your Cell Phone's Made Of
Elements from more than a dozen different countries go into that magical comm unit in your pocket. Discover the origins of your orphaned mobile. By Seán Captain from Wired Test. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Long Live Low Tech
All this hullabaloo about the latest gizmos. What about those less technologically advanced items that stand in defiance of the immersion blenders and robotic bartenders of the world? Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

The Pernicious Price of Petroleum
In his new book, Lives Per Gallon, former secretary of the California EPA Terry Tamminen examines the health, environmental and national security costs hidden in every barrel of oil. Wired News interview by John Gartner. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Choose Your Final Fantasy
Three new role-playing games in the legendary series hit store shelves this holiday season. Which is right for the special geek in your life? By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Gallery: Windows Vista Tour
See screenshots of the Ultimate version of the new, visually sleek Microsoft operating system before you make the upgrade leap. By Bruce Gain. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Why You Don't Need Vista Now
When Windows Vista becomes widely available next month, it will have been more than five years since Microsoft released a new operating system. So, is Vista worth the wait? By Bruce Gain. From Wired News on December 13, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

800,000 Affected by Data Breach, U.C.L.A. Says
The university is the latest among a growing list of companies, colleges and government agencies to reveal that its computer security had been breached. From New York Times: Education on December 13, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

On Education: Adjusting a Formula Devised for Diversity
College officials in Texas worry that admitting all students who ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school classes may be yielding weaker, less interesting student bodies. From New York Times: Education on December 13, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Weighing the Costs in Public vs. Private Colleges
As parents and students cope with the ever-rising cost of higher education, many debate whether attending private institutions is worth the expense. From New York Times: Education on December 13, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Apocalypto: Myths and Facts
Mel Gibson's Mayan action flick is about as true to human history as Lord of the Rings is -- only without the orcs. In Table of Malcontents. From Wired News on December 12, 2006 at 11:46 p.m..