Edu_RSS ~ May 18, 2003

Most recent update: May 18, 2003 at 11:00 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: All About Bill Gate's Corbis Image Archive Image ArchivesSource: Washington Post"Buried Treasure"The article asks the question, "Why has Bill Gates stashed millions of the greatest images of the 20th century under a mountain in Pennsylvania?" From the article, Welcome to Iron Mountain, the largest commercially owned underground storage facility in the world. From ResourceShelf on May 18, 2003 at 10:47 p.m.. Reloaded Redux I can admit being wrong, in this case I was not. Hehe, alright well I was a little too enthusiastic when it came to the movie overall. The Matrix Reloaded does not get my highly coveted award or the pinky... From Tim Swanson on May 18, 2003 at 10:47 p.m.. Blogged for reference... Technology and children's development: a course blog. This is a blog site for a class called "New Technology &amp; Child Development" being taught in the Cognitive Studies in Education program at the University of Washington by --> From Handheld Instructional Technology on May 18, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. PDA Searches PDA-Search.net. A new search engine just for PDA-related searches which claims to have indexed over 45,000 pages of websites related to Pocket PC, Palm, and Symbian.Read [Via PocketPCThoughts][Gizmodo] From Handheld Instructional Technology on May 18, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. Untitled Microdoc News: What Google Leaves Out. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. NY Times: Multimedia Section NY Times: Multimedia Section NY Times won the 'Best of Show' award at the recently held Malofiej International Infographic Awards. To know why, check out their multimedia section. Note: Free registration required.... From elearningpost on May 18, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. Business 2.0: Unplug That Projector! Business 2.0: Unplug That Projector! "Just as using a word processor doesn't make someone a better writer, structuring presentations with PowerPoint won't improve the quality of an individual's ideas. If you need to present information to others and you want your presentations to matter, heed what Tufte has to say."... From elearningpost on May 18, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. ASTD, Sunday Sunday, May 18 San Diego The Conference keynote opened with cliches that transported me back to the 80s: Link your... From Internet Time Blog on May 18, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. Interdependencies and Google's page ranking algorithm. "If you want to be in Google, you gotta be on the Web" is a lovely quote and I agree with Dave Winer's new DaveNet piece. Nevertheless, blogs are ranked higher than they should be in my opinion. The solution for Google could be to check out the interdependencies between the links. … From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on May 18, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. Hype! Huh! What Is It Good For? Absolutely nothing! Say it again! James Farmer responds to my previous comments about weblog hype:"[T]he reason I'm interested in Weblogs as VLEs actually comes out of a frustration with other tools and a weblog is a KM tool already, no?... From Ten Reasons Why on May 18, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. Broadband Based On Behavior Research shows a correlation between the things people do online and the need for speed. From CyberAtlas on May 18, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. Collect the k Die quasi neue Variante der LiveTopics. Ziel: stabiler und v.a. mit Gruppenfunktionalit&auml;t. L&auml;uft unter Radio, soll demn&auml;ch... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on May 18, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. Google and the Visible Web Dave Winer, picking up on a major thread in the blogging community, says "If you want to be in Google,... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 18, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. OhmyNews Dan Gillmor reports in his Sunday collumn how OhmyNews is a transformative model for journalism: ...OhmyNews is transforming the 20th century's journalism-as-lecture model, where organizations tell the audience what the news is and the audience either buys it or doesn't, into something vastly more bottom-up, interactive and democratic... ``The main From Corante: Social Software on May 18, 2003 at 4:47 p.m.. Gone! Expect light blogging (or none at all) over the next week, as I will be traveling and will probably be too busy trying not to get lost to be able to blog properly... From Seb's Open Research on May 18, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. Googling for people According to founder Allen Searls, GlobeAlive "at its core aims at being the first opt-in, comprehensive, keyword-searchable database of people available for interaction on the web." This week Allen goes for a Big Passionate Argument to try and generate enthusiasm around this initiative: (emphasis mine) [...] we need to remember that about half the populat From Seb&apos;s Open Research on May 18, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. OhmyNews Changes the Journalism Equation A new brand of journalism is taking shape in South Korea, and it may be the killer app for a... From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on May 18, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. Could Australia be a nuclear power? Australia is sometimes called 'the lucky country'. "Our land abounds in nature's gifts," as the national anthem goes. Our national anthem, when compared to that of America or France, is decidedly tame. It's not about wars or honour. It's basically about how we're pretty lucky to live in a nice country. Our nationhood was gained by a vote, rather than a gun. As a nation, we've occasionally made bad choices and picked up a few friends and enemies along the way. But on the whole we feel that noone's really out to get us. We're generally a peripheral From kuro5hin.org on May 18, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. My Impending Doom Tim points to an HP paper on information flow in social groups to predict my impending doom in the Mayfield-Shirky Cage Match.&nbsp; The paper studies email use by 30 clients inside the organization and 10 outside.&nbsp; However, the study combines both datasets to simulate a Power-law for the purpose of the study, information flow.&nbsp; The paper identifies that it does not capture the outbound email of the external dataset, skewing the distribution.& From Corante: Social Software on May 18, 2003 at 3:49 p.m.. Untitled Peer-feedback weblogging. Will&nbsp;links to a story posted by a (one of his? creative writing?) student, scroll down for feedback from peers... interesting use, looks cool! [James Farmer's Radio Weblog] The cited item is an excellent example of the collaborative use of weblogs in education. This can be extended to many fi From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 18, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. Untitled A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines.. A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines. By popular demand (OK, OK, for the two of you who asked for it), here's an electronic version of my thesis (PDF, 4 Mb)&nbsp;which I --> From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 18, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. Untitled Open Education &amp; Drupal. Open Education We've changed the platform for Open Education (from PostNuke to Drupal). With Drupal, every new user automatically has his/her own blog...Work Groups can be syndicated individually (same with specific categories)...chat and discus From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 18, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. Untitled Online Instructional Design 'How to...' Course. This asynchronous, online course from Virginia Tech is designed to provide you with the necessary resources to begin investigating the process of designing instruction to enhance student learning. [Ed Tech Dev] Cool, the more open mater From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 18, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. Untitled Lindon, are you listening :o). Aral Balkan wrote a tutorial showing how to build an RSS aggregator in Flash. [Scripting News][James Farmer's Radio Weblog] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 18, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. Blogging Hacks Reborn Well, you guys do know how to bring a warm glow to a man's heart. Since my announcement of the... From Ben Hammersley.com on May 18, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. Untitled DaveNet: If you want to be in Google, you gotta be on the Web. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. Untitled Doc: "The 'googlewashing' Orlowski talks about was done by the Times, not by Google, and not by bloggers." Exactly. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. MediaCon: the internet threat Memo to the few: Two important items for today. (1) This Internet is getting out of control. I just learned that when you search on news in Google, for example, it actually returns results with the work of people, not Incs. This has got to be stopped. Get Google to change its code. Incs. before people. Always. (2) Research shows that the best way to resist the increasing public criticism of Mikey's plan to relax rules on media ownership is to focus on the internet. Why worry about 3 companies controlling all of media when we have the internet as a competitor? (BTW: ever notice?: Mik From autounfocus on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation Web Search--GoogleSource: The New York Times"As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation"What would a week be like without an article about Google in The New York Times? Well, we won't find out this week. Geoffrey Nunberg, a Stanford linguist, writes about the topic of Googlewashing. From ResourceShelf on May 18, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. Two Related Pieces on Blogging and the Private Sph Two related pieces on the way blogging affects our understanding of public vs private life. The first is Warren St. John's NY Times piece, Dating a Blogger, Reading All About ItAfter coming in for some sporting abuse from a friend who told him blogging was a waste of time, Mr. Bruner wrote in his blog that the friend "was fat and runs like a girl," adding that he was sure the friend would not be offended "because he doesn't read blogs." With a push of a button, the comment was published on Mr. Bruner&apos From Corante: Social Software on May 18, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. How I Seek Validation Can anybody tell me why &ltlBLOCKQUOTE> causes my page not to validate as XHTML 1.1 Transitional?... From Ten Reasons Why on May 18, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. Rushkoff the Atheist Kills God and Judaism I'm back from a four-week leg of the tour. It was the longest one I'll be going on, and by far the most expensive and grueling one, too, so I figure this means I reached the apogee of my road experience. I don't think I've ever been as encouraged and discouraged at the same time. From rushkoff.blog on May 18, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. reply to dave You build the hard stuff, and we'll build the middle ground ("Some Rights Reserved)"). As you know, we've been planning our Conservancy Project for sometime, and are eager to find the right code/protocol/content to fuel its launch. From Lessig Blog on May 18, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. On the radio with Doc At noon EDT today, Doc and I are going to be on The Computer Show, "New England's longest-running technology talk show," on WOTW 900 and WGAW 1240. Looking forward to it...... From Joho the Blog on May 18, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. Untitled A note to Prof Lessig. This morning I came up with a new app that that integrates weblogs like Scripting News with search engines like Google in a new way. It's very exciting. I'm jumping up and down and giggling I like it so much. Now if I wanted to really be a jerk I'd hire one of your grad stude From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 11:45 a.m.. "socially aware" software? In a post about Roger Benningfield's new JournURL "community content management system," Shelley Powers writes: I think Roger's software is one of the most 'socially aware' examples of social software I've seen, and not because it uses lightspeed technology, or AI, or even RDF (horrors!). It's because he's done something I've seen few other social software people do -- look and listen to the people who are going to use it. < From Corante: Social Software on May 18, 2003 at 10:49 a.m.. Untitled Two gorgeous days in Cambridge. Crisp weather, perfect blue skies. All the trees in bloom. There's no season in California with weather like this. I spent yesterday looking at rentals. My two-month rental runs out on June 1. It's going to be a hectic period, I do keynotes at OSCOM on May 29, and June 6 at the Jupiter weblogs conference. Inbetween I have to move, location still to be determined. Nothing like living life at the seat of the pants. ";->" From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 10:46 a.m.. Test driving technology: Geeks play, companies win - CHRISTINA DYRNESS, The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C. For companies that make computer software, video games or high-tech gadgets, turning over final testing to the public is a great deal. Put not-ready-for-prime-time technology in the hands of Joe or Josephine Average and sit back and wait for the feedback. From Techno-News Blog on May 18, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. Disney to Begin Renting 'Self-Destructing' DVDs - Reuters This disc will self-destruct in 48 hours. That is the warning The Walt Disney Co. DIS.N will issue this August when it begins to "rent" DVDs that after two days become unplayable and do not have to be returned. Disney home video unit Buena Vista Home Entertainment will launch a pilot movie "rental" program in August that uses the self-destruction technology, the company said on Friday. From Techno-News Blog on May 18, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. Ask Jeeves: Why did you junk Espotting for Google? - Drew Cullen, the Register Ask Jeeves UK is to replace its sponsored search results supplier, swapping Espotting for Google AdWords. The search company has already used Google AdWords "with excellent results" for nine months in the US, a spokeswoman noted. The financial terms offered by Google for Ask Jeeves' UK business was better, she said. From Techno-News Blog on May 18, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.. Adding It Up with Elementary Math Programs - Nancy Tassler, techLearning Two adventure-themed programs plus one smart toy equal three interactive math tools for the K-6 crowd. Computer math programs have long helped students refine their computation skills in a low-risk environment offering feedback and automatic assessment. From Educational Technology on May 18, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Video conference connects fourth-graders - David Frownfelder, Daily Telegram Separated by almost 200 miles, two fourth-grade classrooms made a video connection Friday and learned about each others schools and hometowns. Betty Jo Winters' Addison Upper Elementary class met Pat Franz' Kincheloe Elementary class from Dowagiac via a video conference in the computer lab at the Porter Education Center in Raisin Township. From Educational Technology on May 18, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Putting leadership training to the test - Edward Flynn, Naval Personnel Development Command Public Affairs Tired of playing countless rounds of solitaire on your computer? Is Freecell numbing your mind? How about putting your leadership knowledge to the test with the Center for Naval Leadership's (CNL) latest development resource. To enhance Sailors' leadership potential, CNL is encouraging all Sailors to log onto Navy Knowledge Online (NKO) and take the Leadership Challenge. From Online Learning Update on May 18, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Harvard Theorist sees distance learning going a long way - D.C. Denison, Boston Globe The foreign translations of his books fill four bookshelves just outside Michael E. Porter's office at the Harvard Business School: You can easily glean the word for ''competitive'' in 17 languages just from reading the spines. From Online Learning Update on May 18, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Issues in sustainability: Creating value for online users - Abby Smith, First Monday Based on a talk given at the 2003 IMLS Web-Wise Conference, this paper addresses two issues related to the long-term sustainability of collections that museums, libraries, and other heritage institutions put online. The first is that of building collections and services that are core to the mission of the institution and that are likely to win support among its users. From Online Learning Update on May 18, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. Throw Another Blog on the Wire: Libraries and The ... Throw Another Blog on the Wire: Libraries and The Weblogging Phenomena by Randy Reichardt and Geoff Harder of the University of Alberta From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 18, 2003 at 7:47 a.m.. Ovid's free resource of the month for May 2003 is ... Ovid's free resource of the month for May 2003 is R&D Focus, offering essential up-to-date intelligence on drugs in development worldwide From Peter Scott&apos;s Library Blog on May 18, 2003 at 7:47 a.m.. Firebird Ha, das freut mich, gleich anschauen. Firebird alias Phoenix in Version 0.6 erschienen [ Golem.de ] From thomas n. burg | randg&#228;nge on May 18, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. Doors of Perception Visualizing Flows In Social Networks . Frederico Casalegno, Roberto Tagliabue, and Marco Susani presented an intriguing vi... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on May 18, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. Be careful Dating a Blogger, Reading All About It . While personal blogs have been around for years, their proliferation has caused a... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on May 18, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. Budget Nach der Budget-Rede des &ouml;sterr. Finanzministers und der Stellungnahme der zust&auml;ndigen Ministerin Gehrer ("Notzeiten f&uuml;r d... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on May 18, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. "bl" ModeratorInnen Alles ModeratorInnen sind jetzt auf&nbsp; eingetragen . Ich denke wir haben eine gute Mischung aus Blogger-Szene und Nicht... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on May 18, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. Student auctions off virginity to pay for studies File this under the "Why didn't I think of that" department, shagadelic:A Chilean student is auctioning off her virginity to raise the money to complete her studies. The 21-year-old, from Santiago, told La Cuarta online: "I will provide a certificate... From Tim Swanson on May 18, 2003 at 5:47 a.m.. Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Equilibrium How many of you can honestly say that you know the Kafka behind Kafkaesque? Sure you hear it when agencies like the FBI or TIA or Homeland Security are mentioned, but do you know the meaning behind it? What about... From Tim Swanson on May 18, 2003 at 4:46 a.m.. Help Restore the Public Domain Larry Lessig has posted this important plea for your assistance in bringing back a public domain in the face of... From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on May 18, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Malaysia¡¦s MSC Getting a Peek of WEM 2003 The World Education Market (WEM) is the leading event that brings together educational institutions; government decision makers; education practitioners; and buyers & suppliers of the best & latest in content, technology, solutions & expertise. For the year 2003, WEM will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 20th to 23rd May 2003. Malaysia¡¦s Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) is organising a Malaysia Pavilion for MSC-status companies to showcase their products & services; and to network & benchmark against global partners from both the public & private sectors. [P From PR Web on May 18, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. ASTD hits San Diego ASTD started this evening with a brisk outdoor reception on the terrace of the Convention Center overlooking yachts bobbing... From Internet Time Blog on May 18, 2003 at 4:45 a.m.. Topics and Places What topics would you like to see the eLearning Forum take up? Where would you like to see us meet? (Are you volunteering?)... From eLearning Forum Blog on May 18, 2003 at 3:47 a.m.. NY Times: As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation "James F. Moore, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, wrote in an article on his blog posted March 31, the Internet has become a 'shared collective mind' that is coming to figure as a "second superpower." "Sometimes, though, the deliberations of the collective mind seem to come up short. Take Mr. Moore's use of 'second superpower' to refer to the Internet community. Not long ago, an article on the British technology site The Register accused Mr. Moore of googlewashing tha From Weblogs At Harvard on May 18, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. Untitled NY Times: "Mr. Moore's article was linked to by a number of bloggers sympathetic to his ideas, and quickly became the first hit returned when someone searches Google for 'second superpower.'" From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled BTW, Jim Moore's article is no longer the first result for second superpower. Joi Ito's post pointing to his article is #1. Jim's story isn't even on the first page. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Fascinating post from Evan Williams dated 5/10 re weblog APIs. Must-read, carefully. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Scoble: "Google is getting a lot of pressure from its advertisers to devalue webloggers." Must-read. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled A few articles have appeared recently from print journalists suggesting that Google and other search engines are giving too much weight to weblogs. One even invented a "news" story that Google was going to take blogs out of the index. He didn't have a source at the company, it was pure speculation, a From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Ernie the Attorney says "Help Larry Lessig re-populate the public domain." From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Don Park: "If today's Blogland is LA, tommorrow's Blogland will look like NY with skyscapers reaching for the sky." From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled NY Times: Dating a Blogger. "It's like all your friends are reporters now," said Douglas Rushkoff. Right on. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Paolo Valdemarin emailed me late last night from Italy with an interesting best-practices type idea for the element in RSS. It goes like this. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Diego Doval's review and discussion of blogging APIs is still going strong. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Untitled Now of course some publications probably wish their archive wasn't on the Web. From Scripting News on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Gon Out Backson Bisy Backson 500 wedding pictures. Really. (114 words) From dive into mark on May 18, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. Tom Coates and Duncan Watts: Separated at Birth? In How Do We Find Information In The Blogosphere?Tom Coates posits a "small world" pattern in the blogosphere (he doesn't call it that, but the effect is the same), the result being that even with a random search, we will be disproportinately directed to what he calls "high insight" blogs, meaning that users can understand the important issues being discussed in the blogosphere without reading 100% of the available weblogs. This is related both to Watts original work on small From New York Times: Education on May 17, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. One Big Geometry Exam Compared with the complex and often inscrutable nature of the students for whom it was built, Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, Calif., is, well, kid stuff. From New York Times: Education on May 17, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]