By Stephen Downes
August 17, 2004
EC Mulls MS DRM Monopoly
Trawl
It's about time somebody looked into this.
According to this short article, the European Community is
looking at the monopoly inplications of Microsoft's and
Time Warner's ownership of ContentGuard, the backer of the
XrML digital rights language that has since been adopeted
by MPEG as MPEG-REL. More, in the form of a PDF. By Andrew
Orlowski, The Register, August 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Virtual Community
TechSoup is
hosting an online forum about the use of blogs in
non-profit organizations all week this week. The event is
free and open to the public. By Various Authors, TechSoup,
August 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Multiply's Spam-O-matic UI
I got
my first invite from yet another social network (YASN)
called Multiply (if you want an invitation, send
me an email). What makes this site different is the much
more obvious capacity to create blog content (still a
centralized silo mode, but still, one step closer to the
semantic social network). But as one writer comments,
Multiply took the worst feature of Google's Orkut and made
it worse. "Unfortunately, 'save' actually means SEND and
'view' actually means EMAIL. And so, I sent, rather than
merely posted, the journal entry to everyone on my contacts
list - as an email." By Unattributed, chandrasutra, August
17, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Internet publishing attracting
academics
An odd quirk in the headline, as open
access publishing is described as 'internet publishing'.
But, truth be told, there is a lot in common. The idea of
the internet - as I remind everyone who will listen, and
even some who won't - is free and open access to
information. So in my mind, internet publishing just is
open publishing. By Julie Bell, Baltimore Sun, August 16,
2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
It's Just the 'internet' Now
Somebody else in the world finally agrees with
me. I have been resolutely using the lower case i and w to
spell internet and web since, well, ever. Now Wired News
finally agrees. "Why? The simple answer is because there is
no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words.
Actually, there never was." By Tony Long, Wired News,
August 17, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
EaZy RSS reader
An RSS reader for
Microsoft Excel. Now, if we can feed RSS into Excel, we can
use the same sort of technique in order to feed learning
objects into Excel. I mean, after all, why should you have
to go somewhere in order to learn? By Masaru Kaji,
Colo's Excel Junk Room, August 17, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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