Edu_RSS ~ November 29, 2003

Most recent update: November 29, 2003 at 11:15 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: RSS and Marketing - start making more money using RSS today so you can make even more when RSS is mainstream (SOURCE:Dana's Blog: RSS and Marketing via Scobleizer Radio Weblog)- Yadda yadda. Dana's rebuttal is worth reading but to sum it up (for the n-th time!): yes RSS readers are crude in late 2003 and only early adopters will be reading RSS feeds for the next little while; but if you bite the bullet, take the early adopter pain and start using RSS readers now, you will be 1-2 years ahead of the main From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on November 29, 2003 at 10:49 p.m.. (39138) Some Educause presentations Videos of some of the presentations at the Educause conference (Annaheim, November 4-7, 2003) are now online. See for example Anne Margulies speaking on MIT OpenCourseWare: A New Model for Open Sharing or Tracy Mitrano and Steven Worona on Copyright Policies: Past, Present, and Future. Unfortunately, the presentations from the From FOS News on November 29, 2003 at 9:47 p.m.. (39137) Legend's new entry level Palm   New budget priced Palm coming from Legend. The Lenovo P300 looks like it will be pretty thin and light and will have a 200MHz processor, a 3-inch, 320x320 pixel color display, 16MB of RAM, and run on Palm OS 5.3. Like that new Mitac Mio 168 Pocket PC, this is probably only going to be sold in China. Read... [Gizmodo] From Handheld Instructional Technology on November 29, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (39136) Mobile learning   Singapore Polytechnic have a pilot programme in the pipeline that will enable students to receive school notes on their mobile phones.The project leader Mr Chung Ock Jin,a lecturer from the school of electrical and electronic engineering, said that mobile learning will take e-learning one step further by eliminating the need for computers. S'pore Poly to test out learning via mobile phone--> From Handheld Instructional Technology on November 29, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (39135) CoP Theory Overview   Christopher M. Johnson has published a beautiful diagrammatic overview of communities of practice. Well worth a look. [Thanks to John D. Smith.] [Column Two] From Handheld Instructional Technology on November 29, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (39134) Social software collectibles   Ross Mayfield offers a Social Software Reader. Thanks for putting this together, Ross! Assembling these kinds of lists is a low-cost way of adding value (and providing extra exposure) to older pieces of writing. I should do that too at some point. Here are a few of my favorite picks in Ross's list: Stowe Boyd: --> From Handheld Instructional Technology on November 29, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. (39133) Tim Bray: REST API for searching and submitting stuff to be indexed (SOURCE:ongoing · On Search: Interfaces)- Excellent.  A cross platform search API.  I am sure somebody will write something like this soon. QUOTEHerewith an investigation of how search software ought to interact with the outside world. I’ll start with a look at the current state of the art, and propose another (I think better) approach. This is, I think, the third-last On Search piece, so a few words at the meta level about that.UNQUOTE< From Roland Tanglao&apos;s Weblog on November 29, 2003 at 8:49 p.m.. (39132) Weblogging Tools Weblogging can be as simple or as complex as you choose to make it. I hope that the technology will become more and more transparen as it evolves. allowing greater access to all knowledge-sharing, knowledge-accessing features to people in an underserved category (i.e, those who have substantive interest but low technical interest/skill). In this entry I share with other webloggers, some of them new to the enterprise, a partial listing of the kit of tools that I am presently using. I list and explain, speak of my own present uses of each tool and project possible other uses. From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on November 29, 2003 at 8:47 p.m.. (39131) Announcing version 5 of The CMS Report Tony Byrne from CMSWatch has just published version 5 of his CMS Report. To quote: CMSWatch has just released the Autumn, 2003 version of The CMS Report, with updated analysis and product surveys. With this 5th version, we now offer... From Column Two on November 29, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. (39130) Transparenz im Netz Die Kriterien, nach denen Suchmaschinen ihre Ergebnisse präsentieren, sind für den Nutzer kaum erkennbar: Warum sind Resultate dabei, die nichts... From Handakte WebLAWg on November 29, 2003 at 6:49 p.m.. (39129) Xamlon: XAML for .NET 1.1 A former colleague/collaborator, Paul Colton, has just released a new product called Xamlon, which provides a simple XAML implementation on top of .NET 1.1 and the Windows Forms framework.  For those not familiar with Paul, he founded LiveSoftware, and created JRun, the first commercial Java Servlet engine -- he and his team went on to invent what became JSP and JSP Tag Libraries (what they called Dynamic Taglets), and CF_Anywhere, a CFML processor on top of their Java Tag framework.  Paul left Allaire after we acquir From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on November 29, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. (39128) Mehr Rechte für ledige Väter Die Rechte nicht verheirateter Väter werden gestärkt, teilt die SZ heute mit. Nach dem Bundestag billigte auch der Bundesrat eine... From Handakte WebLAWg on November 29, 2003 at 4:49 p.m.. (39127) "Begleitetes Fahren" ab 17 Das Mindestalter für die Fahrerlaubnisklassen B und BE soll demnächst auf 17 Jahre herabgesetzt werden. Die Fahrschulausbildung könnte dann schon... From Handakte WebLAWg on November 29, 2003 at 3:50 p.m.. (39126) Bildungsabbau in Hessen Andrea rechnet die Ausgaben und die Bildungskürzungen der Koch-Regierung Hessens vor. From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on November 29, 2003 at 2:50 p.m.. (39125) Radio TrackBack monitor If you're blogging with Radio and have TrackBack enabled, you'll love this service which provides an RSS feed of TrackBacks to your weblog -  I'm kicking myself for missing it when Phil came up with it a few months back. So I now have a TrackBack feed in addition to my --> From Seb's Open Research on November 29, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (39124) CIOs wake up and smell the coffee John Patrick on Blogs. Insightful. Eloquent. The guy oozes common sense. Heck, I'm almost quoting the whole interview. I think a lot of times people see something come along and they say, "What's the big deal? We had that in 1972,"—like knowledge management or artificial intelligence. When instant messaging started, a lot of people said, "oh, this is no biggie. W From Seb&apos;s Open Research on November 29, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (39123) Internet-Veröffentlichung einer Privatadresse Am 06.11.2003 hat der EuGH entschieden, dass die die Internet-Veröffentlichung des Namens einer Person oder die Angabe von bestimmten Merkmalen,... From Handakte WebLAWg on November 29, 2003 at 1:49 p.m.. (39122) Stupendous iMovie Tutorial #5 - 1.0 iMovie tutorial: blue & green screen [VersionTracker: Mac OS X] Comment: Stupendous is building a gallery of tutorials.... From Digital Hub on November 29, 2003 at 1:49 p.m.. (39121) The mass amateurization of knowledge mapping Robin Good, in collaboration with Judith Meskill: Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data Emergence. Puting a nice spin on the That's *my* data meme. (via OLDaily) From Seb'apos;s Open Research on November 29, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (39120) Take care Self-care flowcharts. Straightforward, hyperlinked and handy, though I wish more branches ended with something other than "see a doctor". An example: cough. Omni says: These patient oriented flowcharts (also known as decision trees) are designed for self-diagnosis and self-care. Taken from "The AAFP Family Healt From Seb'apos;s Open Research on November 29, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. (39119) DocMorris vs. Pharma Die Internet-Apotheke DocMorris hat schon reichlich Erfahrung mit der Justiz, aber meist war sie die Beklagte. Nun plant ihr Chef... From Handakte WebLAWg on November 29, 2003 at 10:49 a.m.. (39118) Presentation Notes Dennis Jerz's Literacy Weblog turned me on to a recent essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "The Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver" by William Germano -- on delivery style for academic lectures. Although it's mostly about how to deliver a conference paper professionally, it also includes... From PEDABLOGUE on November 29, 2003 at 9:50 a.m.. (39117) Anthropology Tutorials Anthropology Tutorialshttp://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/There are 38 different Anthropology Tutorials under the two categories of Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Each tutorial opens onto a broad examination of the topic: several sections to learn about the material, related internet sites, visual aids and "web expeditions," questions the learner can use to enhance his/her understanding of the material. Some tutorials are also augmented with current findings, such as excerpts from up-to-date From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 29, 2003 at 9:49 a.m.. (39116) Anthromorphemics : Anthropology Glossary Anthromorphemics : Anthropology Glossaryhttp://www.anth.ucsb.edu/glossaryThis anthropology glossary defines terms used for Anthropology, and is divided into the sections of Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, and Physical Anthropology. The user can also browse the entire glossary without category restrictions, or use the search form to find a specific word. From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 29, 2003 at 9:49 a.m.. (39115) Forum Antiquum : Ancient World Internet Resources Forum Antiquum : Ancient World Internet Resourceshttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/ForumAntiquum.html"FORUM ANTIQUUM [is] a 'gateway' site providing easy access to hundreds of internet resources related to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world (between ca. 5,000 B.C.E. to ca. 1500 C.E.). The pages within this site are divided into two groups. Group 1 collates links to websites dedicated to an historical epoch and/or geographical region (e.g. Ancient Egypt); each is internall From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 29, 2003 at 9:49 a.m.. (39114) 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04) 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04)http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 29, 2003 at 9:49 a.m.. (39113) Research Services The British Library Research Services The British Libraryhttp://www.bl.uk/services/information/research.htmlThe British Library can save you time and money by delivering focused information, to your deadline and budget, which will support sustained growth for your business. British Library researchers are experts in finding information in sources typically unavailable through Web search engines. Areas we cover include:* Patents, trademarks and designs* Biology and medicine* Chemistry* From Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker on November 29, 2003 at 8:49 a.m.. (39112) Bilder von der Demo in Kassel am 28.11.03 Hi, ich hab gestern ein paar Bilder geschossen und hochgeladen: http://www.relleom.info/demo Gruß Christian From Gegen Studiengebühren in Hessen on November 29, 2003 at 8:48 a.m.. (39111) Awkward profile introductions Zephoria uses something I wrote to delve into the way in which our profiles in a social network don't well serve the role of small-talk generation so important to building new relationships in the real world.... From Joho the Blog on November 29, 2003 at 8:47 a.m.. (39110) On a Cheap Plastic Grid, Gigabytes Galore - ANNE EISENBERG, New York Times It's just a humble plastic material, often used as an anti-static coating to keep fluff from clinging to computer screens. But researchers have made a property of this plastic, called Pedot, the basis for a new type of compact, inexpensive electronic m From Techno-News Blog on November 29, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (39109) Format approved for 'next-generation' DVDs - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. said Friday that the DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, has approved the two Japanese companies' standard for next-generation DVDs. The move gives Toshiba and NEC a leg up on a r From Techno-News Blog on November 29, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (39108) Norwegian DVD cracker posts iTunes hack - ASSOCIATED PRESS A young Norwegian who became a global hacker hero by writing and distributing a program to crack DVD security codes appears to have struck again, this time against Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes online music service. Jon Lech Johansen, 19, faces a new t From Techno-News Blog on November 29, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (39107) Virtual schools grow, learn: Critics concerned about money, amount of student-teacher contact - ANNE DAVIS, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal For Katie and Bailey Lecato of Grafton, the daily commute to school this year is measured in footsteps rather than miles. Instead of wolfing down breakfast and dashing out the door to a local parochial school, the sisters - now public school students - From Educational Technology on November 29, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. (39106) Research: Nearly one-third of Americans now form 'tech-savvy elite' - eSchool News staff and wire service reports Your stakeholders are more likely than you might have realized to be highly tech-savvy. A study released Nov. 23 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 31 percent of Americans value the internet, cell phones, and handheld organizers mor From Educational Technology on November 29, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. (39105) Traditional colleges court online learners for new revenue - Sheri Qualters, Boston Business Journal Traditional brick-and-mortar colleges in the Boston area, once reticent to offer online courses, are embracing the long-distance student like never before in search of high-margin revenue. Area universities, including Boston University, UMass and Lesl From Online Learning Update on November 29, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. (39104) Former online distance learner signs with Golden Gophers Gymnastics Team - Elyse Kaner She From Online Learning Update on November 29, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. (39103) How business is driving learning change - Learning Technologies 2004 Derek Bembry, of HP's Enterprise Systems Group, will present the opening keynote address at the Learning Technologies Conference on 28 January 2004. Derek will open up one of the conference's key topics: if business is driving learning change how do HR From Online Learning Update on November 29, 2003 at 7:45 a.m.. (39102) Conferences 2004 2004 conferences I'm thinking about: March 25-25 - Web-based communities 2004, Lisbon, Portugal - paper has been submitted, waiting April 2-3 - OKLC04, Innsbruk, Austria - abstract has been accepted, so I'll go there June 21-26 - --> From Mathemagenic on November 29, 2003 at 6:50 a.m.. (39101) Intel Fields Wireless Desktop Hub Taking aim at the market for standalone wireless routers, Intel is building a wireless access point in a forthcoming chipset. The move could simplify the process of setting up networks if the computer itself can act as a hub. From Wired News on November 29, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. (39100) Manhattan's Dead Cell Zones Last month, a hotline recorded calls from New York cell phone users to log places they can't get a clear signal. Nearly 5,000 calls showed the busy city center may be one of the worst places to place a mobile phone call. From Wired News on November 29, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. (39099) Tim Burton's Great Big Adventure The director of Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Mars Attacks! talks about freaks, FX and fantasy -- and his upcoming movie, Big Fish. By Bill Desowitz of Wired magazine. From Wired News on November 29, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. (39098) Comin' In on a Wheel and a Prayer Snowmobile-maker Bombardier envisions a futuristic personal transport vehicle called Embrio. It would use gyroscope, electronic and fuel-cell technologies to whiz around in traffic on one wheel. Will it fly? By Kari L. Dean. From Wired News on November 29, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. (39097) Abandon all integers, ye who enter here! There has been a lot of talk lately about the comment rating system shortcomings and a new and elusive rise of the trolls. The story rating system and the queues have also been harshly criticized during the on-going Fiction overload (an interesting phenomenon per si, since the queues are winning the Fiction battle - no one of the dozens of Fiction submissions has been posted; actually no Fiction article has been posted since November 19th). In my view, most enhancement proposals fail to capture the users interest because they are far too simple and easy to understand. There is a long standing From kuro5hin.org on November 29, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. (39096) RSS Enables Simple 'Headline News' on the Run I'm beginning to envision the future of "headline news" -- RSS style on handhelds. This is a new Treo 600,... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 29, 2003 at 4:46 a.m.. (39095) Blogs can easily create ad hoc communities around specific problems - great way to build your resume online (SOURCE:Ryan Lowe's Blog: Ad Hoc Communities for Specific Problems)- I've noticed the same thing with my posts about Frontier, Radio and Manila.  If I put the exact error message, then invariably, I get hits from people searching for this message.  Blog enable ad hoc community forming.  One could argue that it's a best community practise to blog about specific technical problems and how you solved it.  It's yet another way to build your loosely coupled online résumé! From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 29, 2003 at 3:48 a.m.. (39094) From Discordant Notes, Reformers Hear One Song Although there are increasingly vocal reformers of college sports, there is no consensus on what form a wake-up call should take. From New York Times: Education on November 29, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (39093) SUNY Seeks a Tuition Rise For 2nd Time in Two Years The State University of New York, which raised undergraduate tuition $950 this year to $4,350, is proposing a tuition increase for next year. From New York Times: Education on November 29, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (39092) Yonkers Parents Growing Tired of School-Financing Cliffhangers For four years in a row, Yonkers officials have played chicken with school funding, and now for the fourth year in a row state officials seem to have blinked. From New York Times: Education on November 29, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (39091) Catholic Center at N.Y.U. Won't Be Moved The Archdiocese of New York changed its mind about moving the Catholic Center at New York University off campus to nearby St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village. From New York Times: Education on November 29, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (39090) A Sketch of Arab-Americans: Who Should Study Whom? A survey to produce a comprehensive view of Arab-Americans has reignited an old controversy among social scientists: the gap between those who live in a community and those who study it. From New York Times: Education on November 29, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (39089) India's Poor Bet Precious Sums on Private Schools From slums to villages, the march to private education, once reserved for the elite, is on. From New York Times: Education on November 29, 2003 at 3:45 a.m.. (39088) Haystack Home Haystack Home A new build for OSX available. It is in alpha. A PIM on steroids with a portal look.... From Disruptive Technology on November 29, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (39087) New study reveals 187 key web design rules From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on November 29, 2003 at 2:48 a.m.. (39086) E-Learning Trends 2003 From Distance-Educator.com&apos;s Daily News on November 29, 2003 at 2:48 a.m.. (39085) Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on November 29, 2003 at 2:48 a.m.. (39084) Exclusive Interview With Dr. Melody Thompson, Director Of The American Center For The Study Of Distance Education From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on November 29, 2003 at 2:48 a.m.. (39083) Cliptoon Which of these, if either, do you prefer?... From Joho the Blog on November 29, 2003 at 1:47 a.m.. (39082) Thanksgiving 2003 They brought babies. (4 words) From dive into mark on November 29, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (39081) :RSS and Weblog Resource Sites | MySmartChannels (SOURCE:RSS and Weblog Resource Sites | MySmartChannels)- Very cool list QUOTEI'm asked frequently which sites are most useful for finding RSS content or Weblogs - this pretty much sums it up. Everything you ever needed or wanted to know about RSS - all in one page. And here's a link that transforms this link list into an RSS feed itself.UNQUOTE From Roland Tanglao'apos;s Weblog on November 28, 2003 at 11:49 p.m.. (39080) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]