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Edu_RSS ~ May 19, 2003

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RSS feeds on the LA Diet
FuzzyBlog dscusses RSS Bandwidth Usage. Connected to this are two issues I'd like to see addressed by the aggregators because this won't be handled cooperatively by offending bloggers. 1) length of individual items 2) inclusion of images in the items. I'd like to be able to control how many characters I download and view in one item at a time. I don't need to download and view entire multi-page entries in my aggregator. I can visit the blog for that. Also, I&
From carvingCode on May 19, 2003 at 10:45 p.m..

WorldCom settlement--$500 million
MCI, the company formerly known as WorldCom, takes another step toward corporate normalcy with the filing of a $500 million settlement proposal hammered out with the feds.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 10:45 p.m..

SCO - Open Mouth, Insert Foot
I mentioned Caldera (it's another name for SCO which used to be Santa Cruz Operation) about a week ago. So what has changed? Well, for starters, suspicions regarding Microsoft being a player behind Caldera's claims seem to be right on...
From Tim Swanson on May 19, 2003 at 9:47 p.m..

Onyx-RSS update
Thanks to Randy B for noticing that the Onyx RSS parser we use in the RSS to JS demo has been updated. Something about cache-ing issues and line breaks (shrug). Keep up to date. It is a full time job...
From cogdogblog on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 p.m..

HBS Working Knowledge: Organizational Learning is No Accident
HBS Working Knowledge: Organizational Learning is No Accident "But learning doesn't just happen; it takes reflection and thought. Reflection time used to be built into the world. It took three weeks for a head-office communication to arrive via Pony Express, allowing ample time to ponder and rethink decisions. Now we have overnight letters, junk mail, e-mail, voice mail, fax, cell...
From elearningpost on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 p.m..

WIRED: Blog Space
WIRED: Blog Space "Ever since the Web entered the popular consciousness, observers have noted that it puts information at your fingertips but tends to keep wisdom out of reach. In a space organized around connected minds, however, the search for wisdom becomes more promising."...
From elearningpost on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 p.m..

THE: The Web's Impact on Student Learning
Via Sarah Lohnes comes mention of this article in THE. As Sarah points out, this article doesn't go into much depth (typical of THE), but is a good overview of current research on this important topic.
From carvingCode on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 p.m..

New options for adding RSS feeds to course sites
Sharing RSS feeds across multiple WebCT or Blackboard (works the same) opens up a lot of possibilities. I've been working with a number of the RSS feed generating scripts over the past several weeks, trying to decide on one to use. I haven't found any that does what I need. The one 'I've been working with the most recently is rss2js. It's a php frontend to OnyxRSS. rss2js is the main effort of Alan Levine. I mentioned it earlier. Alan has b
From carvingCode on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 p.m..

Developing a Knowledge Capture System Based on Sharable and Self Documenting Learning Objects
Via OLDaily comes mention of....This interesting paper kicks off this week's IFETS discussion. The idea is to capture and make available for reuse the knowledge created by students during the course of a class. Those same students could also review previously created knowledge. The mechanism is the 'sniplet' - a piece of learning material roughly equivalent to what could be placed on one overhead transparency (obviously this definition will have to be updated for those who have never seen acetate). The author descri
From carvingCode on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 p.m..

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Simon Willison is doing a makeover of Scripting News using the latest CSS technology.
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

Exporting extreme IP
This is a great piece about the mistake in the administration's recent trade agreement with Singapore -- requiring it (and us) to stick to the DMCA. Less noticed is article 16.4.4 which increases the term of copyright from 50 pma to 70 pma. (Remember, we had to increase our term to harmonize with the rest of the world; now the administration is pushing the rest of the world to increase its term to harmonize with us). The frustration in a
From Creative Commons: weblog on May 19, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

Sun beefs up low-end servers
Sun Microsystems gets more serious about its effort to sell cheap servers, rolling out two new machines and announcing deeper ties with Oracle and Red Hat.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

Circuit City rings up Microsoft deal
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 9:45 p.m..

Microsoft's un-grand design
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos explains why the software company is scaling down its ambitions when it comes to convincing the rest of the computer industry to adopt design changes.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

Microsoft to license SCO's Unix code
The software maker's agreement to license Unix lends weight to SCO Group's legal claims of copyright violation and helps Microsoft do battle with Linux.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

Sun, HP: SCO probably won't touch us
The companies say SCO Group's attempt to obtain royalties for Unix won't likely affect them, while Red Hat says it will defend itself against any challenges.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

Congress calls to arms against pirates
Three Democrats in the House of Representatives have quietly created a new congressional caucus devoted to combating piracy and promoting strong intellectual property laws.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 p.m..

The Originator of All Thought
Stephen Downes in Online Learning Daily:Google doesn't rank 'first' it ranks 'most' (the one interesting exception to this being Google news, where 'first' counts but 'accuracy' doesn't). And though many articles break first in the mainstream, they are discussed most...
From Ten Reasons Why on May 19, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

The SCO Strategy
Dana Blankenhorn of Moore's Lore on why IBM Should Pay The Blackmailer:If SCO's claims are upheld, Linux simply ceases to be open source until the open source community can rewrite something compatible that uses none of SCO's source code, and...
From Ten Reasons Why on May 19, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

Palm tradein days
Palm kicks off device swap. The company will give $50 rebates toward four of its new models to customers who turn in their old Palm devices. It also trims the price of its Tungsten T. [CNET News.com - Personal Technology]
From Handheld Instructional Technology on May 19, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

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Thanks to Ed Felten for a pointer to the NY Times robots.txt file. Maybe they should run a story about this in the Week In Review next Sunday.
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

Opera ships for Linux
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 7:45 p.m..

Silicon Valley Network Analysis Project
Mark Granovetter's 1973 article "The Strength of Weak Ties" is widely referred to around the blogosphere (see this on Joi Ito's blog, for example, or Google "weak ties"), and forms the basis for much of the interest in and excitement about tools like Friendster and LinkedIn. Granovetter is now chair of the Sociology department at Stanford, and his curre
From Corante: Social Software on May 19, 2003 at 6:47 p.m..

Can Chatrooms, Forums, Mailing List Are Obstacles To Effective Web Communities?
  eLearning - Community Building     Online Collaboration and Exchange   CommKit http://www.commkit.com/ [**] interesting, promising Online Service - Community Platform FREE to try Nonetheless chatrooms, live events, forums and conference rooms have been some of the most typical ingredients of online communities, here are some real- world problems that I have myself encountered when trying to to build a Web community: Chatrooms - They are good for a few people to arrange an online meeting. Not good even for tens or hundreds to try and talk all at once. very
From eLearning - Interactive Learning - Robin Good's Feeds on May 19, 2003 at 6:47 p.m..

Fees rile spam foes
Claiming they helped build a service that was supposed to be free, testers of Cloudmark's spam-blocking system are protesting the finished version, which costs $60 per year.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

Netegrity debuts ID-management tools
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

IBM's Rational cooks up Java plan
A new Java development tool, the fruit of the recently integrated Rational software division, promises to make it easier for programmers to build custom business applications.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

SBC plans public Wi-Fi network
The telecommunications company is shopping for wireless networking equipment to create public hot spots.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

Religion-free zone?
A new law withdraws federal funding from schools that do not allow 'religious expression' on school grounds.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

One grad's trash is another's treasure
From the nation that brought you consumerism comes campus programs to recycle all that junk.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

The book report bounces back
Getting middle school kids to read for fun is no small task.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

'Hey, private, give me 50 brushstrokes'
Even members of the military are surprised to learn that the Pentagon runs an art school.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

Student diversity through busing: Not as easy as it sounded
School districts reevaluate busing partly because it failed to improve minority-student test scores.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

Web Smarts
Learn to play chess - or improve your skills - by making moves via e-mail.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

What's new
Education briefs.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

When the going gets rough
Allow yourself a moment of solitude or quiet reflection at least once a day.
From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 p.m..

NASA LIVE - Free videoconferences (with experts) for schools
The technical requirements are a little antiquated - perhaps for K12 schools they're more appropriate.
From Serious Instructional Technology on May 19, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

ScienceDirect - IJHCS - Trust, Volume 58, Issue 6 (June 2003)
Comment: This latest issue is about trust.
From Serious Instructional Technology on May 19, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

More options for narrated presentations
Another Low Threshold Application.  I found out via this that the latest version of Camtasia produces Flash files.  A good reason to upgrade methinks.  I've wrestled with file sizes on movies and this could be a good solution if the numbers in the article hold true.
From Serious Instructional Technology on May 19, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

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Bret Fausett: "It seems that an article making the rounds on Googlenews -- '.org Registry Vanishes Into Thin Air' -- has no merit whatsoever.
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

Lycos, Bizrate Launch Shopping Site
The search giant and e-commerce specialist introduce a comparison shopping site that scours 32,000 online stores for bargains.
From E-Commerce Guide on May 19, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

Amazon.com Updates SDK with Web Services
Go ahead - steal this cart. Amazon hopes Web services will encourage developers to use its shopping cart.
From E-Commerce Guide on May 19, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

EMC adds options to midrange storage
The company announces lower-cost options in its midrange storage line--part of its effort to win over business customers that still rely on tape drives to back up files.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 5:45 p.m..

IRC group decrypts Fizzer commands
Using what is essentially a password that changes daily, members of the chat-security group IRC/Unity have started telling Fizzer-compromised PCs to uninstall the virus.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

HP revs up Itanium offerings
Hewlett-Packard unveils a new version of its OS for Intel's Itanium 2 chip and announces new customers and software partners as it gears up for the next rev of Itanium this summer.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

PeopleSoft: .Net is IT 'asbestos'
The software maker's president and CEO, Craig Conway, warns that running enterprise software on PCs--as Microsoft's .Net strategy calls for--is a "known bad thing."
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

Palm kicks off device swap
The company will give $50 rebates toward four of its new models to customers who turn in their old Palm devices. It also trims the price of its Tungsten T.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

Microsoft sends message with Unix deal
A licensing deal with the SCO Group lends heavyweight backing to Unix intellectual property claims, and helps Microsoft combat Linux, a growing threat.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m..

When W(iki|eblog|orld)s Collide
The Movable Type Knowledge Base at VirtualVenues is a wiki, and from the looks of it, a well-run one at that. Though everyone, self included, points to the Wikipedia when talking about wikis, the Wikipedia is actually a fairly unrepresentative version -- thinkgs like the MT wiki are therefore doubly valuable, both as useful sites in themselves, and as examples of how and where wikis can work.
From Corante: Social Software on May 19, 2003 at 3:47 p.m..

Bray on REST
Tim "Co-Father of XML" Bray has written a clear, concise and understandable introduction to SOAP and the REST of the ways of talking to a Web server. The question is when it makes sense for a program to ask another program for information by sending it a URL or a more complex bundle of data. And this basic process is central to how we're going to build Web services over the next few years. <asbestos>I make no pretense of knowing who's right in the issues Tim raises.</asbestos> Note: Here's Tim's brief piece on why URI is right and URL is...
From Joho the Blog on May 19, 2003 at 3:46 p.m..

Playing With my Kids
School is winding down on what has been a very intense, productive and exhilirating year, one that I will not soon forget. And I'm feeling it in a number of ways, most decidedly by a pull to get back in touch with my kids again and spend more time playing than sitting in front of a computer. I really marvel at the people who can continuously carve out the necessary hours every day to write and comment and continue the discussion. And it is great discussion and thinking that's moving at such a fast pace that it's getting really hard to keep up with. I have learned a lot. But let&
From weblogged News on May 19, 2003 at 3:46 p.m..

McGee's Musings: Weblogs, KM and Learning
A plethora of quality links on these three concepts.
From Serious Instructional Technology on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

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Tungsten T Price Cut by $50 [Palminfocenter]
From Handheld Instructional Technology on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

Blogging Hacks - It's Alliiiiiive
It's decided: Blogging Hacks, my now-defunct O'Reilly book, is going to reborn as a subscription email list and free-for-all website...
From Ben Hammersley.com on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

Adobe buys audio software maker
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

Microsoft drafts allies to squash worms
As a new worm takes its name in vain, Microsoft launches an online antivirus resource with security software partners Network Associates and Trend Micro.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

SCO Group's case against Linux
Unix owner SCO's $1 billion lawsuit against IBM provides a glimpse of what claims the company might make if it takes legal action against Linux users or distributors.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 p.m..

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Interesting comments... A couple of really interesting comments overnight / yesterday: A 'jaded' Lindon Parker says (in relation to RSS, weblogs etc.): "..BUT the ground swell appears to be having little or no impact upon cheque signers..I can build customised RSS Aggregators that integrate with wikis, blogs, XML, swiss cheese(OK maybe not swiss cheese, brie maybe but not swiss...)etc, until I'm blue in the face but so far no one has shown the slightest i
From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 19, 2003 at 2:47 p.m..

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What this is or is not... Greg @ ten reasons responds to my response to his tho
From Bill Brandon: eLearning on May 19, 2003 at 2:47 p.m..

Wedding announcement
On 28 June 2003, Carrie Bickner and Jeffrey Zeldman will marry in a small ceremony in New York City.
From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on May 19, 2003 at 2:47 p.m..

An American OhmyNews in the Making
Mitch Ratcliffe sends along a link to "Correspondences.org -- News for the people by people" -- an American site that...
From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on May 19, 2003 at 2:46 p.m..

Working Full Time
...on important Berkman project due by the end of the month, so postings will be light over the next two weeks. I'd suffer more than a few pangs of guilt, however, if I didn't immediately point you here. In addition, a little bird tells me we will be hearing more from a certain Mr. Edelman 'round about mid-week. So I'll be poking my head in again in a few days. Before I go, a few m
From Copyfight: The Politics of IP on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Zen and the art of CGI::Kwiki
First there was Blosxom, whose zen purity called to many. But what of that bastard child, the wiki? Why isn't...
From Ben Hammersley.com on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Sony takes leash off robot dog
The Japanese electronics giant unveils software that will allow Aibo owners to control the robot dog through e-mail commands.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Swingtide gathers Web services stats
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

If You Want To Be in Google, You Gotta Be On The Web
The Google issue in a different light. Dave Winer wrote the above on Sunday. OLDaily readers will recall that I said the exact same thing on Friday. "Want Google rank?" I said, "Publish good stuff..." But it is, of course, Winer's version of the argument that is all over the Blogsphere. See, Google doesn't rank 'first' it ranks 'most' (the one interesting exception to this being Google news, where 'first' counts but 'accuracy' doesn't). And though many articles break first in the mainstream, they are discussed most in the Blogsphere. So I
From OLDaily on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Buried Treasure
"Why has Bill Gates stashed millions of the greatest images of the 20th century under a mountain in Pennsylvania?" On the one hand, critics allude to a desire to own much of 20th century history. On the other, however, is the fact that the photographs were disintegrating faster than they could be scanned. By Mary Battiata, Washington Post, May 18, 2003 [Refer][Research][From OLDaily on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Microsoft to Buy Unix Technology From SCO Group
Say it ain't so. According to a report published in the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is to license SCO's unix technology. The move is seen as indicative of Microsoft's desire to undercut open source in general. More... By Unknown, Dow Jones Business News, May 19, 2003 [Refer][Research][-->
From OLDaily on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

WebCT Campus Edition Version 4.0 - Key Features
Click on the 'Learining object demo' link on this page to view WebCT's current support for learning objects. What is needed, of course, is a means to tie this system into a learning object repository (I guess plans are in the works) or - what would be better, from my view - a way to link into an external metadata repository to provide maximal selection and search capability. By Various Authors, WebCT, May, 2003 [Refer][-->
From OLDaily on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Developing a Knowledge Capture System Based on Sharable and Self Documenting Learning Objects
This interesting paper kicks off this week's IFETS discussion. The idea is to capture and make available for reuse the knowledge created by students diuring the course of a class. Those same students could also review previously created knowledge. The mechanism is the 'sniplet' - a piece of learning material roughly equivalent to what could be placed on one overhead transparency (obviously this definition will have to be updated for those who have never seen acetate). The author describes a sniplet authoring system and raises a number of questions related to their classification
From OLDaily on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

Learning Object Discussions
Patricia McGee adds this useful footnote to last week's IFETS discussion: "The discussion about learning objects and the many issues related to them is an important one and clearly of interest to a wide audience. As the forum moves onto to another topic, there are other venues to carry on this discussion including ED-MEDIA's Learning Object symposium, NLII's Learning Object Focus Session as well as the EDUCAUSE -->
From OLDaily on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 p.m..

National Library of the Netherlands and Kluwer Academic Publishers Agree on Long-Term Digital Archiving
National LibrariesDigital ArchivesNational Library of the Netherlands and Kluwer Academic Publishers Agree on Long-Term Digital ArchivingFrom the announcement, Peter Hendriks, CEO of Kluwer Academic Publishers, and Wim van Drimmelen, Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, today signed an agreement on long-term digital archiving of the electronic publications of Kluwer Online.
From ResourceShelf on May 19, 2003 at 1:48 p.m..

Justiciability, Ontology, and Other Funny Sounding Words
1.  Talking with Matt about stretching meatspace definitions to fit cyberspace has made me think about The Ontology of Cyberspace.  The author argues that new technologies, particularly software, illustrate how the patent-copyright distinction is improper. As opposed to the way Matt and I have been treating cyberspace, the author's conclusion is that "cyberspace is nothi
From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 19, 2003 at 1:47 p.m..

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Jim Waldo: "Common wisdom, especially in distributed computing, says that the right approach to all problems is to use a standard. This common wisdom has no basis in fact or history, and is curtailing innovation and rewarding bad behavior in our industry."
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 1:45 p.m..

Towards an eLearning Market...
Many of us have talked about a way to broker access to courses, creating a public elearning marketplace. Here's a...
From Learning Circuits Blog on May 19, 2003 at 1:45 p.m..

Pressplay To Become Napster
Universal and Sony throw in the towel on their online music subscription venture, in an ironic twist of ownership for the New York-based Pressplay.
From E-Commerce Guide on May 19, 2003 at 1:45 p.m..

Pressplay bid points to Napster remix
Roxio announces plans to buy the Pressplay online music service and merge it with another recent acquisition, the once controversial but long-muted Napster.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 1:45 p.m..

The 19th Annual Computers in Libraries conference ...
The 19th Annual Computers in Libraries conference and exhibition will be held at the Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., March 10-12, 2004.
From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 19, 2003 at 12:47 p.m..

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Read the closing paragraph of the Guardian piece for an idea why yesterday's Times piece was so dangerous. We watch Google carefully for good reasons, and spurious claims like the one by Orlowski, and repeated in the Times, create confusion, and increase the risk that we'll miss a real problem when it comes up. This should have been caught by the Times before the piece appeared in Sunday's issue. They have no issue with Google, their issue is with their publisher.
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

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Heather Armstrong: "The amount of hate mail you might receive from high-minded Times readers could be a little daunting."
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

Australian Government Department Tries to Censor Mailing List Archive
An Australian state government department, the South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service (SESAHS), has been trying to censor the archives of the LINK mailing list. Why? In 2000, film-maker and political activist Adam Todd discovered (during a wider discussion on government Internet censorship) that SESAHS was running an open news server and apparently distributing child porn newsgroups.
From kuro5hin.org on May 19, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

Realtor.com Does a 360 on Visualization
Window shopping for a house on the Web? More virtual home tours are coming this summer thanks to a new deal by the Homestore division.
From E-Commerce Guide on May 19, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

Embraceable News
Embraceable News There has been much gnashing of teeth in blog space over Google's announcement that they'll create a blogs tab in the UI, discussions on Slashdot among other places seem to think of blogs interlinked nature as a problem that must be solved by search engines to bring more weight back to  to "legitimate media" content in search results.  The term "printwashing" has been coined to describe the way blogs are able to push more authoritative content down. Doc Searls
From Corante: Amateur Hour on May 19, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

Gateway to recycle corporate PCs
The company introduces a recycling program aimed at corporations, offering to haul away old PCs, delete data from hard drives and give credit toward future hardware purchases.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 12:45 p.m..

Blog Meets BBS in Beijing
More from the fascinating BLOG.schee.info, this time on a blog-like BBS system in China , where BBS software is still a going concern. Running the site through Bablefish's Chinese->English filter translates the software as "Lily Blog", and makes some aspects of the interface clear (you can find the XML flamewars easily, for example), but it also produces strangely poignant partial translations:Today was thin inside muddled opens my individual blog, also d
From Corante: Social Software on May 19, 2003 at 11:47 a.m..

Way to Go, Mario!
(via "Joe") Mario is featured on Apple's Educator pages. From Mario: "I also realized that an emphasis must be placed on differentiation. Students can't all learn the same way at the same time. Starting in grade 4, the students (and their parents) know more about how they like to learn and what their comfort zone is. To attain academic success, this differentiation must be recognized." Bravo, Mario..truer words were never spoken! Mario's school will be
From Edublog News on May 19, 2003 at 11:47 a.m..

No stand-alone market for Wi-Fi access
An SVP from Verizon commented in a Q&A in the Boston Globe (no link, it's behind a paid subscription system like NYTimes.com) that he didn't believe there was a standalone market for Wi-Fi access: Q. Any chance you would offer WiFi as a stand-alone service unconnected to Verizon Online DSL or dial-up Net service? A. We don't view WiFi as a service per se. It is an access technology. It is something our customers want [in order] to be untethered from the network. We have yet to see a business model
From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on May 19, 2003 at 11:46 a.m..

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Guardian: The blog clog myth.
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

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Doyen: "A man who is the senior member of a group."
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace
A short story drawing on some of my own experiences, but set in the universe of Prime Intellect.
From kuro5hin.org on May 19, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

Dell makes a Latitude adjustment
Dell Computer on Monday launched a new Latitude notebook, aimed at offering performance in a small package.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

Worm dupes with fake Microsoft address
A new e-mail worm, which feigns a Microsoft.com origin, is spreading rapidly. Antivirus vendors say it can also spread via a LAN and can install spyware on a victim's PC.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 11:45 a.m..

Wikis in Business
Amy Cortese of the NY Times reports on the use of wikis in business. The creative anarchy of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate groupware software. Groupware's highly structured rules and processes do not always reflect the way people really work. Employees often ignore costly corporate-sanctioned software and revert to informal social networks -- whether simply e-mail or impromptu water-cooler discussions.(The article also features quotes from our own Ross May
From Corante: Social Software on May 19, 2003 at 10:47 a.m..

Virus warning: Beware email from support@microsoft.com - Will Sturgeon, Silicon.com
Computer users are being warned about a new worm doing the rounds which arrives in an email purporting to be from support@microsoft.com. Major anti-virus vendors have already issued highest-priority warnings for the self-replicating worm, called Palyh, which is spreading via global email and around local area networks.
From Techno-News Blog on May 19, 2003 at 10:45 a.m..

"Star War Kid" Found and Funded
"Star War Kid" Found and Funded Some bloggers started a fund for the "Star Wars Kid" to try to make up for his embarrassment.  They claim to have raised almost $1,000 and are buying Ghyslain an iPod and some other goodies.  Who knew the internet could be so warmhearted.
From Corante: Amateur Hour on May 19, 2003 at 10:45 a.m..

Amazon updates Web services tool
A new version of the online retailer's Web services software allows third parties to embed Amazon's shopping cart technology into their own Web sites.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 10:45 a.m..

PubMed Training Materials Available
Professional Reading ShelfPubMedUpdated Training Manual Available: PubMedTraining materials for the NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.Gov are also available.
From ResourceShelf on May 19, 2003 at 9:47 a.m..

Presentations from the BioOne Publishers & Partner ...
Presentations from the BioOne Publishers & Partners Meeting, March 14, 2003 are now available online
From Peter Scott's Library Blog on May 19, 2003 at 9:47 a.m..

Live Webcast today: The Symposium on Electronic Sc ...
Live Webcast today: The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications via The National Academies
From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on May 19, 2003 at 9:47 a.m..

Issue number 4 of the PULMAN Express is now availa ...
Issue number 4 of the PULMAN Express is now available. PULMAN is Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks
From Peter Scott'apos;s Library Blog on May 19, 2003 at 9:47 a.m..

RB's New Blog
RageBoy's got a brand new blog. It says it's actually a blog for both RB and Ann Craig, but so far it's all RageBoy all the time. But it's RB in fine form, funny right from the tagline......
From Joho the Blog on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 a.m..

Microsoft Now Controls Unix
Cue the Darth Vader heavy breathing sounds:Microsoft to Buy Unix Technology From SCO Group Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy rights to Unix technology from SCO Group Inc. , a boost to SCO's controversial campaign to exact royalties for a...
From Ten Reasons Why on May 19, 2003 at 9:46 a.m..

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Ed Cone: Guidelines for journalists with weblogs.
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 9:45 a.m..

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Register: "BT wants to bring wireless broadband to thousands of boozers across the UK."
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 9:45 a.m..

Colo no go, may go solo
A downright nightmare here at bh.com towers, as my hosting company suffers a global power failure - backups too -...
From Ben Hammersley.com on May 19, 2003 at 9:45 a.m..

Einstein Papers to Be Published on Web
Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text DocumentsDigitization ProjectsOnline Today: Einstein Papers to Be Published on WebFrom the article, A collaborative effort of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech and the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Web site will allow users access to 3,000 digitized images of the Nobel prize winner's writings, Einstein Papers editor Diana Buchwald said.
From ResourceShelf on May 19, 2003 at 8:48 a.m..

One more presidential accomplishment
Here's something else W can add to his presidential resume: He is the first president to know how to roll a joint with one hand....
From Joho the Blog on May 19, 2003 at 8:47 a.m..

Flowerbox Wifi
That old memester, Nicholas "Mr. Bits" Negroponte, is at it again. In an interview in today's Boston Globe (here today, gone the day after tomorrow), he says that at an FCC technical advisory committee meeting he responded to the charge that there's no economic model for wifi as follows: ...I raised my hand and I said, "There's not only a precedent, there's a very strong economic model...flower boxes" Think about it. If you put a flower box outside your house, you're first of all using your own money to buy the flowers. You're hanging it out there. You're doi
From Joho the Blog on May 19, 2003 at 8:47 a.m..

Getting Inside Einstein's Head By Michelle Delio, Wired
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible," Albert Einstein once remarked. Perhaps the world is indeed comprehensible to a genius like Einstein. And -- with the launch of a new website on Monday -- at least Einstein himself will be a bit more comprehensible to the world.
From Techno-News Blog on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Privacy vs. Convenience: It's Up to You - Jane Black, Business Week
So much for the trustworthy computing that Microsoft has vowed to deliver so that personal computers can at last be a haven for personal data. On May 7, a researcher in Pakistan discovered yet another hole in Microsoft Passport, an authentication technology that holds the key to the user names, passwords -- and, sometimes, the credit-card numbers -- of more than 200 million PC users (see BW Online 4/12/01, "Watch Out for this HailStorm").
From Techno-News Blog on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Start-up aims to improve Wi-Fi calls - Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
TeleSym is trying to clear the static out of Wi-Fi calls. The Bellevue, Wash.-based start-up is marketing software that lets users make what are basically free telephone calls over a Wi-Fi network through a laptop, PDA (personal digital assistant) or cell phone.
From Techno-News Blog on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Follow-up: Board OKs instruction by computers - From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
...Connecticut Board of Education has ruled there is nothing illegal about a controversial program for at-risk students in Woodbury, Conn., that relies on computers instead of educators for instruction. The May 7 decision was handed down in response to ...
From Educational Technology on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Student puts new technology to the test - From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
Forest City, Iowa, high school sophomore Liv Anderson isn't using any paper for classroom notes or assignments for four weeks. Instead she's using the latest in portable computer technology, a Compaq Tablet PC T1000 from Hewlett-Packard Co., as an experiment.
From Educational Technology on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Simulations on a Shoestring - Tita Theodora Beal, Learning Circuits
Must pressures to control the cost of e-learning doom corporate learners to slide lecture? If you're an e-learning designer yearning to break free of linear lectures that pose as performance development, here are two designs for cost-effective learning simulations.
From Online Learning Update on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Exemplars of the E-Learning Courseware Certification (ECC) Standards Standard One: Orientation - Darin E. Hartley and Ethan Sanders, Learning Circuits
While great strides have been made to improve the technical aspects of e-learning, the issue of quality has remained principally uncharted. Although it's important for consumers of e-learning to be able to reuse objects, create storehouses of content, integrate courseware with learning management systems, and have reliable products, those issues pale in comparison to the issue of quality content and effective delivery of materials.
From Online Learning Update on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

LoD Survey: Quality and Effectiveness of E-Learning - Tom Barron, Learning Circuits
How do e-learning practitioners rate the quality and effectiveness of their e-learning programs? Where are the soft spots among e-learning technologies used by practitioners? How do perceptions of quality and effectiveness of e-learning vary by region? ...
From Online Learning Update on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

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News.Com: "Goldman has a problem. He's betting his company on the validity of the two patents, both of which are questionable because of other work that was published well before the filing dates of the Mailblocks patents."
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

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NY Times: "The wiki, a quirky software technology that has been kicking around the Web since the mid-90's, is starting to gain respectability."
From Scripting News on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Start-up aims to improve Wi-Fi calls
TeleSym's software lets users make more or less free phone calls over a Wi-Fi network with a laptop, PDA or cell phone. And, it says, users don't sound like they're in a tin can.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

In-boxes that fight back
A technology that makes e-mailers jump through hoops may help kill spam, but CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh says patent lawsuits could keep the technique caged.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 8:45 a.m..

Blog Bucks Aid Laughingstock Kid
Guilty about laughing at a geeky teenager whose private video has been downloaded millions of times off the Net, a pair of webloggers is raising money for the young man they call the 'Star Wars Kid.' By Leander Kahney.
From Wired News on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..

Spy Plan Faces Critical Deadline
Architects of the federal government's controversial Total Information Awareness project must turn in a report to Congress on Tuesday outlining their goals. Without lawmakers' approval, the program could be toast. By Ryan Singel.
From Wired News on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..

Getting Inside Einstein's Head
How does one begin to understand the mind of the man who came up with the theory of relativity? A new website peers into the world and the work of Albert Einstein with a collection of personal correspondence, notes and scientific papers. By Michelle Delio.
From Wired News on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..

Med Schools Cut Out Cadavers
As institutions cancel anatomy classes and shy away from offering students hands-on experience with actual dead bodies, critics worry that doctors in training will miss out on a valuable rite of passage. By Randy Dotinga.
From Wired News on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..

Geek GIs: How the War Was Wired
Servers on the fritz in 100-degree tents. Chat rooms filled with busty blond avatars. Lethal missile attacks. Go behind the lines with the Army's tactical Internet brigade. By Joshua Davis, from Wired magazine.
From Wired News on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..

Broadband Growth Seen Slowing
High-speed Internet adoption, although still steadily on the rise, is not growing at the torrid rates of the recent past, according to a new study. One reason: most experienced Net users already have signed up. By Joanna Glasner.
From Wired News on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..

WiFi Road Not Paved With Gold?
A wireless 'land grab' reminiscent of the dot-com days is underway, with operators big and small anxious to plant their WiFi transmitters wherever laptop-toting travelers dwell. Although WiFi is cheap to install, so-called hot spots may still find profits elusive.
From Wired News on May 19, 2003 at 6:45 a.m..

CM Briefings: CMS usability / Roles in an intranet team
As it's the middle of the month, here's my latest two CM Briefings: The importance of CMS usabilityThe success of a CMS depends it being used, and whether authors create content. It these two challenges makes the usability of the...
From Column Two on May 19, 2003 at 5:47 a.m..

Crater Software at WEM 2003:World Education Market
CRATER SOFTWARE to take part in the World Education Market From May 20 to 23 in Lisbon, Portugal. [PRWEB May 19, 2003]
From PR Web on May 19, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

ASTD Conference
FYI, I'm blogging the ASTD International Conference on my Internet Time Blog. Tina Sung...
From Learning Circuits Blog on May 19, 2003 at 4:45 a.m..

Microsoft to license Unix code
The software giant is acquiring the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could dramatically impact the battle between Windows and Linux.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..

Microsoft to license Unix code
Microsoft agrees to license Unix after SCO Group sends ripples through the Linux industry with claims that its Unix code has been illegally incorporated into the open-source OS.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 3:45 a.m..

Indian man creates new world record for longest ear hair
Before you read this, grab a pair of scissors, a mirror and a measuring stick:An Indian man has set a new record for having the longest ear hair in the world. Radhakant Bajpai's ear tufts measure 13.2cm, or 5.19ins, at...
From Tim Swanson on May 19, 2003 at 2:47 a.m..

Iraqi Students Try to Turn Page on a Difficult History
As change settles over Iraqi society, one of the quieter shifts in the nuts and bolts of life is happening in school.
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

As SARS Eases, Beijing Classes Resume
With the threat of SARS apparently easing, Beijing students will start returning to school over the next several weeks.
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Scholars Feel Helpless as They See Their Campus Destroyed
The professors and students at Basra University have had to stand by and watch as looters pick the institution apart book by book.
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Views Differ About Aides in Classrooms
Supporters say aides are valuable because they know the local culture. But New York principals and teachers say that aides' academic contributions vary widely.
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Teachers' Union President Turns Against Schools Reform Plan
Randi Weingarten withdrew her support for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's school improvement plan, saying the mayor and Chancellor Joel I. Klein are out of touch.
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Former Writer for Kennedy Laments Hawkish Strategy
At American University, John F. Kennedy's speechwriter told graduates that the nation had turned away from "Kennedy's policy of avoiding war and all its horrors."
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

New Fund to Support Education
The Anheuser-Busch Companies have donated $1 million to create a college scholarship fund for dependents of American and British soldiers killed in Iraq.
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

Clinton Tells Graduating Class That U.S. Has Obligation to Lead
The United States should lead the world in the fight against poverty and infectious disease, former President Bill Clinton told students at Syracuse University on Sunday.
From New York Times: Education on May 19, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..

IBM stocks its business software lineup
Big Blue is set to introduce new versions of its business integration software designed to address the needs of 11 specific industries--from automotive to electronics.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 1:45 a.m..

Yahoo searches for the public eye
The search giant will blanket billboards, radio and TV broadcasts to promote its newly updated Web search technology, a move aimed at recapturing ground lost to rival Google.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 1:45 a.m..

Laptop or portable Unix workstation?
Tadpole Computer's new Sparcle workstation looks like a large home or office laptop and is priced as low as $2,995. The company thinks that's enough to net some new customers.
From CNET News.com on May 19, 2003 at 1:45 a.m..

Pioneer broadens DVD support in drives
The electronics giant aims to reduce confusion in the DVD rewritable market by incorporating support for several major formats with its next generation drive.
From CNET News.com on May 18, 2003 at 11:45 p.m..

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