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Electronics Arts president resigns From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..


FCC to look at digital radio piracy? Consumer groups say regulators are planning an unexpected focus on content protection for new radio services. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..


Student Learning Entitlement Guidelines The draft Student Learning Entitlement Guidelines have been released to the sector for comment. The draft guidelines are available to download through the 'Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future' website. Comments should be sent to laura.santini@dest.gov.au by 23 April 2004. From EdNA Online on April 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..


[US] OFAC Ruling Exempts Scholarly Material from Embargoes A new US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ruling exempts peer review, editing and publication of scholarly manuscripts submitted to IEEE by authors living in countries that are under US trade embargoes, such as Iran and Cuba from constraint on publication. OFAC determined that IEEE's publications process is 'not constrained by OFAC's regulatory programs.' The full text of the OFAC ruling is available at the site. IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and has 360,000 members in 170 countries. Piscataway, N.J., 5 April From EdNA Online on April 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..


W3C works out DOM kinks The Web standards body recommends a third version of an application programming interface that lets scripts act on part of Web pages. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..


Yahoo hints at social networking service The portal giant predicts a future in which people can share their Web searches with friends. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..


IBM Usability: Role by phase matrix IBM has published a very interesting usability matrix showing which techniques to use in each of the phases of a typical project. To quote: The matrix above depicts the key user engineering roles and the phases of a generic development... From Column Two on April 7, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..


Introduction to stocks and flows (2 of 3): Weblogs, wikis and RSS Lee LeFever continues his exploration of stocks and flows, with the second article looking at weblogs, wikis and RSS. To quote: In the first section of this series, I provided a basic introduction to the terms "stock" and "flow" in... From Column Two on April 7, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..


Introduction to stocks and flows (3 of 3): Back to basics Lee LeFever concludes his three-part series of articles on stocks and flows. To quote: In the first section of this series, I provided an introduction to stocks and flows in online communication. In the second section, I applied these terms... From Column Two on April 7, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..


Do You See Dead People? Want a Million Bucks? Do you see dead people? Do you believe in ghosts? Extrasensory perception? UFOs and alien abductions? Can faith alone heal what modern medicine cannot? Do you fear demon possession or live in fear of crossing paths with Bigfoot on some dark and lonely road? Do you believe in lucky numbers or that the wandering stars and planets hold dominion over your destiny? Do magnets exhibit mysterious healing qualities? If your answer to one or more of those questions is yes, then take heart: you're far from alone. From kuro5hin.org on April 7, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..


Nanotech health probe gets funding boost The Department of Defense provides a grant to researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center to further probe the health risks of nanotechnology, a growing concern in the industry. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


Sun updates Solaris chip support The quarterly update of Sun's version of the Unix operating system runs faster on x86 chips. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


Surgeons Who Play Video Games Err Less I think there's an interesting observation here: one of the reasons why learning in the form of computer games may be more effective is that our tools are also beginning to resemble computer games. Take this example, where doctors who used video game training made fewer errors in laparoscopic surgery, which uses a tiny camera and instruments controlled by joysticks outside the body. As one doctor says, "I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery." Via NewsScan Daily. By Verena Dobnik, Excite News, April 7, 2004 [OLDaily on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


E-ffective Writing for E-Learning Environments One of the architects of IMS's Learning Design specification, the University of Alberta's Katy Campbell is interviewed in this article examining "universal instructional design and user-centered design." Topics covered range from accessibility, cultural sensitivity, usability and planning. The title of the article is taken from the title of Campbell's new book, new book, E-ffective Writing for E-Learning Environments. By Idea Group, Enterprise Networks and Servers, April, 2004 [ From OLDaily on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


Thinking Skills in Primary Classrooms This site leaves me with mixed feelings. It is, in a nutshell, a search system for critical thinking teaching resources available for British primary teachers. On the one hand, the concept and implementation are quite good (though I would want to see LOM metadata or RSS available for harvesting). But while teachers can search according to grade level, subject, and even philosophical approach, the resources - many of which cost money and many of which are paper based - cannot be filtered by price or format. Actually, I conducted numerous searches on the site, and every resource cost a certain n From OLDaily on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


Reuters to go After Infringers On the heels of a story circulating around the online journalism lists about Reuters withdrawing its online content from such syndication sites as Yahoo!, in order to create a subscription based single-site resource, comes this item suggesting that the news syndication agency will follow the RIAA and MPAA's leads and start tracking down people who trade news files illicitly. In a much more competitive environment, it's hard to see how Reuters could be even as successful as industries that enjoy virtual monopolies. My comment, offered to the Online News discussion list, was Reuters wi From OLDaily on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


Don't Let File-swappers Swamp Copyright Law This unsigned comment on the recent Canadian court decision to the effect that file sharing technology is legal in Canada (though - I might add, advertising, promoting or selling copies of commercial content is not) may as well have been written by an unnamed recording industry executive. The author writes, "Parliament should revisit the Copyright Act. Sites that make copyright material widely available without permission should be included in the section on wrongly 'authorizing' copying... Parliament should also revisit Section 80 of the act, which lets anyone copy a musical work fo From OLDaily on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


Sugar Camp Last Friday, after work, the e-learning group took a well deserved break for supper and a tour at the Trites Family sugar camp. For those of you not familiar with maple syrup production, the sap of maple trees, which runs for three weeks each spring, is collected in buckets or piped through (blue) hoses. To obtain maple syrup, the sap is boiled in a large vat. Then it is served on buckwheat pancakes or rolled in snow to create one of the best treats in the world. If you are wondering what you are missing if you are not vacationing in New Brunswick the first few weeks of spring, this is it. Ful From OLDaily on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..


IBM touts new notebooks' utilities The company says three new notebooks feature the ThinkVantage System Migration Assistant; two of them also come with a "rescue and recovery" tool. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..


Dell sees higher first-quarter revenue The PC maker says revenue for its first quarter will be higher than previously expected, thanks to its expanding international sales. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..


Carriers add SSL string to their bow A browser-based VPN technology is gaining popularity among corporate buyers, and carriers are making a bid for their business. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..


BlogTalk proposals The list of accepted for BlogTalk 2.0 is out there. One of our proposals went through, another did not. The accepted one is on shared conceptualizations in weblogs by Anjo, Rogier and me (these two guys can do magic with metadata and all kinds of "smart tool" analysis, so I guess my role will be asking sceptical questions and connecting it to other weblog studies :) From Mathemagenic on April 7, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..


Heraldische Ordnung Das Zeremoniell bei der Wahl König Maximilians 1486 beschreibt ein Stuttgarter Druck, der im Rahmen der Verteilten Digitalen Inkunabelbibliothek in Wolfenbüttel digitalisiert wurde: http://diglib.hab.de/inkunabeln/287-3-hist-2f-b/start.htm Linkliste zum Thema Inkunabeln http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/InkunabelLinks From Archivalia on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..


Use Cases For Interface And Interaction Design "Use cases are widely used in large projects to capture the functional requirements of software systems. In the hands of interaction designers, use cases can serve as a powerful tool for brainstorming workflows and bridging the gaps between design and... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..


Quote of the Day More Meyerson Magic From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 6:50 p.m..


Yahoo beats Street, splits stock The company's board of directors approves a 2-for-1 stock split, as Yahoo continues its momentum in paid search. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..


RIM reports profit, split stock The BlackBerry device and service company reports its third straight quarter of profitability and announces a 2-for-1 stock split. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..


Web services security spec locked down The XML standards body OASIS ratified the Web Services Security as a standard, considered an important milestone in making Web services a viable alternative to proprietary security systems. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..


I fought the law and the law won Wired proposes a Moore's Second Law: Overall net efficiency of any electronic system will double every 24 months. I'm fine with that. There is a tech culture to be faster or smaller or cheaper - but not necessarily better. It's easy to sustain existing technology. So it's a fair criticism to say not enough attention is made to making technology more efficient - use less electricity, generate less heat, produce less waste. Today's CPUs use more electricity than a heat lamp, and belch out so much heat that they need aluminum heatsinks the size of your fist. Consumers are From silentblue | Quantified on April 7, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..


Learning-on-Demand European Meeting Summary Eilif Trondsen hat eine hervorragende Zusammenfassung dieses Meetings geschrieben, auf dem drei Themen diskutiert wurden: 1. eLearning Standards: What's Ahead and What Does It Mean for Learners and Vendors? Hier sehe ich nach wie vor die große Kluft zwischen den... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 7, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..


'Wirtschaftsmathematik für... Das Projekt MaMaEuSch (Management Mathematics for European Schools) hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, angewandte Mathematik in die Schulen zu tragen. Die Seite ist eine Fundgrube für Lehrer - speziell sei auf die Rubrik "Veröffentlichungen" hingewiesen, in der entsprechende Vorträge und Manuskripte zum Download angeboten werden, zum Teil auch mehrsprachig (deutsch, englisch, spanisch). [via Mathematische Kleinigkeiten] From BildungsBlog on April 7, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..


"Free Culture IV" Das "Free Culture Chinese Edition Project", das derzeit aus 12 Autoren besteht, will das neue Buch von Lawrence Lessig "Free... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..


Prometheus und Open Access... Nachtrag zum Beitrag http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/181488/ Holger Simon & Ute Verstegen prometheus – Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung und Lehre. Neuartige Werkzeuge zur Bereitstellung von verteiltem Content für Wissenschaft und Forschung. S. 247-257 Zitat S. 256: "Die Fortführung eines umfassenden Bildarchivs der Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften für Forschung und Lehre ist nur möglich, wenn sich alle Verantwortlichen aus den öffentlichen From Archivalia on April 7, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..


News for Today, Apr 8 Shared spaces news for the day centers on customer adoption of product lifecycle management workspaces: CoCreate obtained an excellent reference customer for its collaborative product development software: the University of Pisa. In a deal worth over 2.5M euro, Pisa will... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..


Teaching with Technology How do teachers move from teaching in traditional classroom settings to online scenarios? Judith M. Smith considers the challenges and offers five tips for teaching effectively with technology.... From Adult/Continuing Education on April 7, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..


A global, OA information resource for biodiversity researchers Jill O'Neill, Barbara Bauldock, and Bonnie Lawlor, MetaDiversity III: Global Access for Biodiversity Through Integrated Systems, NFAIS, April 2004. A summary of findings from the third in a series of symposia sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and NFAIS. Excerpt: "The goal of these ambitious interactive workshops has been to identify, discuss, and resolve challenges facing the biodiversity research community in their efforts to create a global information resource." Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the proposals fo From FOS News on April 7, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..


lack of permanent web links John Whitfield, Web links leave abstracts going nowhere, Nature 428, 592 (08 April 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers) Nature reports on recent studies documenting the impermanence of cited web resources. Jonathan Wren of Oklahoma showed that one-fifth of the web sites noted in Medline abstracts over a ten-year period had vanished. Robert Dellavalle's study of broken links in NEJM, JAMA and S From FOS News on April 7, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..


The Metrics, Reloaded More on metrics, designing for people, and why our industry seems so focused on tools - on how instead of why and for whom. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 7, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..


Flow ... and peer-to-peer computing for Mac OS X Actually i don't remember where I got this information from, but anyway this tool Flow together with its subscription service Near-time.net seems to be some kind of an answer from Mac OS X to Windows-based peer-to-peer sof... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 7, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..


XML Processing Model Requirements Published 2004-04-07: The XML Core Working Group has released XML Processing Model Requirements as a Working Group Note. The XML Processing Model and Language it outlines is an interoperable way for applications to describe the order in which processes should be applied to XML documents. Visit the XML home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on April 7, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..


Software cinema verité A growing number of vendors now use Flash videos to augment the obligatory lists of customers, features, and benefits that they publish on their marketing pages. It's a strategy I highly recommend. What hadn't occurred to me, until it happened this week, was that users might do this for you! [Full story at InfoWorld.com] Here's Paul Everitt, whose spontaneous act of software demonstration motivated the column: It's funny how th From Jon's Radio on April 7, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..


Help megnut find a new home For ages and ages now this site has been hosted by the very generous Matt Haughey. But the load on the server (it hosts Metafilter, among other sites) has been heavy from the beginning. And I think it's time for megnut to find a home of its own. So I'm looking for recommendations for great hosting plans. My requirements are fairly straightforward: I need to host more than one domain and want the ability to create sub domains. I want Apache/Linux. I w From megnut on April 7, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..


Create and Manage Your Store with ShopSite New and experienced online merchants alike can benefit from this simple, yet full-featured, shopping cart system. From E-Commerce Guide on April 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..


Grammar There is so much wrong here, I don't know where to begin. The metaphor is tortured, the sentence structure would confuse Yoda, and it abuses the word "zen" in a cruel and unusual manner. (227 words) From dive into mark on April 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..


Canada leans toward regulating VoIP Net phone service providers brace for regulation in Canada, where a telecom commission tentatively rules that traditional phone rules apply to VoIP in most cases. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..


Microsoft takes security class on the road The software giant kicks off its Security Summits,sending executives to 20 cities as part of its mission to train 500,000information technology professionals worldwide by the end of the year. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..


Cable broadband's political hand From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..


Will HDTV antipiracy plan unplug digital networks? Hollywood wants to control the connections used in new high-definition TV sets. If it wins, home video recording may never be the same again, critics say. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..


Lunch on Tuesday I really should write more about my personal life. It's just not very interesting, in my opinion. Had lunch with the ol' university gang at Duke of Westminster last Tuesday. The Duke isn't my first choice because I just don't feel inspired by their menu, but it happened anyway. It's the closest restaurant to Frenchy's work. Being in the basement of First Canadian Place, the Duke is also noted for being a giant dead zone; cellphones don't work. On Tuesday, I met a businessman outside shivering and fiddling with his Blackberry. The chuckle du jour: businessmen From silentblue | Quantified on April 7, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..


do i really need protools From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School- Forums on April 7, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..


eLearning Sector in BC A recent report on The elearning Sector in BC provides a marketing strategy for the industry. The report covers Global Trends and Market Opportunities; some regional comparisons and strengths and weaknesses. The key recommendations made in the report are: To grow effectively, we recommend that companies: 1. Focus on the United States and Canada. 2. Target three to five vertical sectors, like the Olympics, rural communities, the federal government, healthcare, oil and gas and resource sectors. From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on April 7, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..


Your Portable Solar Panel Here's one of those ideas that you hear and you want to slap yourself upside the head: "Why didn't I think of that?!" As noted on SmartMobs, coming soon are laptop cases, bags, and mobile-phone covers with photovoltaic cells (a.k.a., small solar panels) to provide recharging power for our growing array of portable electronic devices. D'oh! Why didn't we think of this before? (ABC Australia says the technology has been used by the Israeli m From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


A Masterful Masters Tracker The folks at Morris Digital Works and Augusta.com have come up with a really nice Masters (golf tournament) site, now ready for this week's celebrated competition. Most notable is the Flash leaderboard, which will insert real-time scores throughout the tournament. Click on "My Players" and its gets more interesting; you select the players you want to track and the web application gives you a real-time look at their scoring. First time through, you'll see a large Flash ad for a local merchant. But according to Morris designer Nik Wilets, you From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


More of the GMail Debate A group of privacy organizations has sent a letter to Google expressing concerns about the company's forthcoming GMail free e-mail service (mentioned here yesterday), and urging that the service be put on hold until privacy concerns are ironed out. The privacy advocates dismiss comparisons (such as I made yesterday) to anti-spam services, which automatically scan your personal e-mail, as will GMail. I still don't buy t From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


Jay Rosen's Take on the Karen Ryan VNR Flap On March 31, New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen published a detailed, thoughtful article in his PressThink weblog about the controversy concerning the role of "reporter" Karen Ryan in the video news release created on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It's a great exploration of the kind of cognitive dissonance all too common in the world of public relations. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


e-learningwmb "e-learni ... e-learningwmb "e-learning wmb are specialists at producing bespoke e-learning solutions. The company is UK based, with an array of project management, illustration, programming and design skills suited to the corporate client e-learning needs." Added: 7 April 2004 Reviewer's Note: HQ is Nottingham, UK From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


e-Office Safety "e-Offi ... e-Office Safety "e-Office Safety is a health and safety e-learning and assessment program. The system is supplied with its own data management system, which enables administrators to manage the assessments and offer ergonomics advice." AN e-learningwmb demo. Added: 7 April 2004 Reviewer' From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


e-start "e-start is a ... e-start "e-start is a customisable e-learning induction system equally suited to SMEs and large corporations' HR departments. Purchased off-the-shelf, this induction system can be customised to reflect the unique HR training requirements." Added: 7 April 2004 Reviewer's Note: "The e-induction system can From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


New approaches to vocational education and trainin ... New approaches to vocational education and training through sport Date: 10-11 may 2004 Venue: Thessaloniki, Greece EVENTS: May 2004 e-learning conferences From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 7, 2004 at 4:57 p.m..


ePortfolios and Weblogs? In her recent article Maricopa ePortfolio Tool- A Solution? Lisa Williams offered us a brief overview of what we've found out so far about this interesting initiative. In this article I offer an overview of some of the ePortfolio commentary and resources available. I also highlight some of the people and organizations who seem to have recognized that existing solutions could... From Auricle on April 7, 2004 at 4:56 p.m..


TOIA Project -now in Beta The Toia Project has just announced that it's long awaited QTI assessment software is ready for beta testing with the wider HE community. http://www.toia.ac.uk/toia-press-release-2004-04-07.html Presently, interested parties can sign up for testing on the projects own server and then later the system will be available to be hosted within institutions. The JISC funded project is presently free to... From Auricle on April 7, 2004 at 4:56 p.m..


OKLC04: useful links for KM PhDs A couple of links for KM PhDs:

  • EUDOKMA (European Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management, but sounds like EU-dogma ;), partner universities, courses
  • EDAMBA (European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration) and it's Summer School--> From Mathemagenic on April 7, 2004 at 4:56 p.m..


    Blogging as lurking There was something in my drafted posts from January... Something about lurkers vs. creators. Stephen Downes: Blogging Without Writing One tenth of one percent of the people write publicly. Well, OK, I can't validate this figure, but it has been a rule of thumb for me for about a decade. If you have a thousand readers on your Website, one person will post regularly to the discussion board. If you have a thousand mailing list subscribers, one person will post the From Mathemagenic on April 7, 2004 at 4:56 p.m..


    Elektronisches Publizieren Die Frankfurter Rundschau hat mehrere Artikel dem Thema - ja, wie soll man es nennen? - "Wissenschaftsinformationen online" gewidmet. Dabei geht es vor allem um das Spannungsfeld zwischen technischen Möglichkeiten einerseits und wirtschaftlichen Notwendigkeiten andererseits. Verschiedene "Open Access"-Initiativen fordern ja... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 7, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..


    bpb: CD-Rom zur Medienpädagogik Arbeitsmaterialien Medien Medienpädagogik 2003 ------------------------------------------------------- Im heutigen Medienzeitalter mit seinen zahlreichen Ausformungen (Radio, Fernsehen, Internet) gewinnen medienpädagogische Maßnahmen an Bedeutung. Die CD-ROM enthält alles Wissenswerte in Form von Texten, einer Literaturdatenbank und Handreichungen speziell zu den Themen Mediennutzung, Gewalt, Werbung oder neue Medien im Alltag von Kindern und Jugendlichen. http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/7GDWGI From BildungsBlog on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    Das Spannende an Weblogs "Ich glaube aber, dass das derzeitig (noch) so Spannende an Weblogs gerade ihre Offenheit für verschiedenste Zwecke ist. Allgemein ging... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    Krankenstand auf Rekordtief Der Krankenstand ist im 1. Quartal 2004 auf ein Rekordtief gesunken; er ging gegenüber dem 1. Quartal 2003 (erneut) um... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    Peinliches Trademark Problem Bei Google hat man die Planung des neuen Webmaildienstes offenbar nicht gerade den Profis überlassen, meldet Nickles. Nach der fast... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    Patientenverfügungen zum Hausarzt? Wenn Patienten eine Patientenverfügung verfasst haben, sollten sie diese im Original oder als Kopie bei ihrem Hausarzt hinterlegen. Das empfiehlt... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    GKV und neue Behandlungsmethoden Das BVerfG hat am 19.03.2004 darüber entschieden, dass (auch) gesetzlich krankenversicherte, auf jeden Fall aber ambulant, mit neuen ärztlichen Behandlungsmethoden... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    Gerichtswesen in Israel Das Gerichtswesen in Israel umfasst neben den allgemeinen zivilen auch religiöse Gerichte, die für besondere Rechtsbereiche zuständig sind. Mit Ahmed... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    Reader Elektronisches Publizieren... HSR-Sonderheft "Elektronisches Publizieren & Open Access" Vor einigen Jahren noch besaßen die "Neuen Medien" in den Sozial-, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften - und spezieller auch in der Geschichtswissenschaft - einen eher exotischen Charakter. Dieses Bild hat sich inzwischen gründlich gewandelt: Aus der Fachkommunikation ist die EDV mittlerweile nciht [sic!] mehr wegzudenken. Mit den in diesem Heft versammelten 16 Beiträgen wird der Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme in Hinsicht auf den Stellenwert der Neuen Medien in den Sozial-, Geistes- und Kul From Archivalia on April 7, 2004 at 4:54 p.m..


    ID positions at Royal Roads Peter Arthur sent a notice that Royal Roads University is looking for two instructional designers. The postings can be viewed at: http://www.royalroads.ca/Channels/about+rru/careers+at+rru/current+postings/04-021-instructional+designers-elm-ais.htm... From Rick's Café Canadien on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Guide To All Interface GUIs Guidebook is a fast-growing online resource dedicated to preservation and showcase of all the major Graphical User Interfaces utilized to this day on personal computers. At Guidebook you can find all of the interface elements of Windows 386, System 6... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    WordTracker Killer: Adwords Clever Wizard Do you need to identify which are they set of keywords that are most in demand in the online niche you operate in? Need to learn what KEI means? The Wordtracker Killer is here! While there is really quite nothing... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Don Norman On PowerPoint Usability What does one of the world's leading authorities on usability say about PowerPoint? As cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group and author of the classic The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman is a strong advocate of user-centered design and... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Better Learn Now What A Real Link Looks Like: The New Ad Wave "Emergence of a new wave of online advertising at a time when Web surfers are finally accustomed to--and armed with the tools to block--the old ones." The new array of solutions and proposed approaches to advertising is both fascinating and... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Newsmap "Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Online Advertisers And Publishers Watch Out For Norton Security: Your Newest Enemy I don't know you, but I was pretty mesmerized when I saw the following just a few hours ago: on a normal Windows PC, running Internet Explorer, I accessed my Kolabora site. On the home page, the top banner, which... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Context-Based Advertising: Through RSS, Highly Targeted Opt-In Is Just Around The Corner One-Shot Searching Is Over: Publish And Subscribe Approach To Gain Momentum. This is a must-read essay from one of the few players in this field that shows to see and well understand where we are actually headed. Bob Wyman writes... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Why Content Management Systems Work (When Given To The Right People) Jeffrey Veen offers an excellent overview of why many content management system solutions fail inside large organizations: "All publications require editorial expertise. Few companies are publishing companies; most provide other kinds of goods and services. Yet over the last few... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    RSS: A Quick Guide For Educators This is an 8-page Word document that illustrates to a somehow techno-savvy user what RSS is and how it can be effectively used in the classroom. While there are a few incorrect items and errors and the number of resources... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Become A Digital Media Reporter Digital Media News for Europe is a new online resource devoted specifically to new media in the old continent. Focusing mainly on news and reporting the new digital media clearinghouse for Europe has different sections devoted to Internet & e-commerce,... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Find Out Who You Really Are One of the easiest ways to take the most respected personality test available (Myers-Briggs) is to go to http://www.christonium.com/ and to take the 60 or so questions that reveal the type of personality you have though an effective test called... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Ready For POD? Booklocker Helps You Out Together with Trafford , Lulu and CafePress, Booklocker is the fourth most interesting Print On Demand (POD) resource to cross my research path and to offer an easy way for independent publishers to get their work out cost-effectively, rapidly and... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Where To Find Public Domain Content Online? Google Answers A valuable list of online resources that provide access to copyright-free content, including image, music and software libraries.... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    How To Identify Good Technology? In this well written essay, Stephen Downes clarifies general weaknesses and limitations of many popular technologies while extracting with precision nine key traits that set apart great technology tools from popular time and money wasters. The essay is part of... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Separating Myth From Facts: Understanding Open Source Software Mark Webbink, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc., wrote this article for corporate attorneys, explaining free and open source software and comparing various open source licenses, detailing how the GPL really works, explaining US copyright law,... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Get Your Favourite RSS News On Your Front Page: MediaScooper MediaScooper is a new FREE service that allows you to display any RSS feed on your Web site with maximum ease. You need to simply log into MediaScooper (no registration required) and to select one of the many RSS feeds... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Virtual Time-Capsule Takes You Where You May Have Not Been Well this is really not my typical spotting, as this beautiful time capsule has been long praised, reviewed and acclaimed by many sites around the world. What strikes the most, in this impressive 360° view of Times Square on last... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    New Ways To Connect People And Content Waypath is the public front end of a busy engineering/think tank lab. conceived to enhance the weblog community by providing new ways to connect people and content. Waypath works around new and fascinating ways to extract more value from content,... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Why Questioning, Testing And Measuring What Happens On Your Web Site Is So Critical To Online Success "I will never be too clever to ever stop measuring how people use our Web site. I don't know what will work with our visitors the first time around. I couldn't have said that one headline would work better than... From Robin Good's Latest News on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Help Me Test Desktop Videoconferencing David Pollard finally gets onto the real-time collaboration train and decides to give a good round of testing to a selected set of one-to-one videoconferencing and VoIP solutions. In his review he includes Viditel, SightSpeed, Yahoo Messenger, Apple iChat AV, MSN Messenger, Vibephone, AIM Video IM. ... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Emerging VAR Opportunity Barb Darrow of <a href="http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.asp?RSID=CRN&ampArticleID=49016">Computer Reseller News focuses on our VAR initiatives in this week's issue.  As Peter O'Kelly, an analyst with the Burton Group points out, one of the big opportunities for VARS revolves around th... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Present Live With C3 Collaborator Virtex Collaborator is one new cost-effective real-time presentation and conferencing solution offering audio and video-conferencing for both the SOHO and enterprise markets. Collaborator is the youngest brother in a fast growing family of live presentation and conferencing solutions that Virtex has... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    News for Today, Apr 6 News on shared spaces for the day: #1. Lotus Domino. #2. Microsoft Exchange Server and related products. #3. Novell GroupWise? Network Computing voted in that order. Network Computing Sybase announced the acquisition of XcelleNet, a provider of management tools for... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Collaborative Strategies Taxonomy, Apr 6 Collaborative Strategies, a market and technology research and consulting house that I did some work for late last year, has revised its taxonomy of the collaborative technology market. What's MOST interesting is the total re-orientation of the taxonomy to put... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Making The Decision To Decentralize As you've read previously, Thomas Malone, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, has recently published a new book called The Future of Work.  The book officially launched last week.  If you're a subscriber to Harvard Business Review you may already have seen this article about the use of ... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Homeland Security & Groove Today's issue of Washington Technology has an excellent article by reporter Brad Grimes on the use of Groove for secure cross-agency communication and collaboration among federal, state and local law-enforcement officials.  Here's how the story begins: Imagine if the federal, state and local agencie... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    PocketSkype Is Here PocketSkype is free software that enables you to make Skype voice calls using your WiFi-enabled Microsoft PocketPC based handheld computer from any WiFi hotspot. PocketSkype is a thin version of Skype, developed specifically for PDA devices, making Skype mobile with... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Cost-Effective Live Presentation Tools Come To Market A good number of very competitive new live presentation and collaboration tools is now hitting the market and leaving some of the traditional large enterprise players off in the dust. Especially in the presentation-related area several new offerings all based on the new Flash Communication Server pl... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    SKYPE Releases PDA Software The folks at Skype have officially released their Pocket PC software as of today. Given my experience with FastChat and the XTEN Softphone on the Pocket PC, the one element I'm concerned about is the sound quality. Based on a... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Cox Goes CALEA Compliant Cox Communications, one the USA's larger cable television and broadband providers has gone CALEA compliant for the VoIP telephony service. For now this means calls placed over the Cox VoIP network can be listened in on by government officials. However,... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Bush's Bold Plan for Broadband Fortune magazine's Peter Lewis provides another perspective on the President's call for "universal, affordable access" for broadband by 2007,  Bush's Bold Plan for Broadband (April 2, 2004). The article includes the relevant excerpt from Bush's campaign rally in Farming... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    IP Future According To Bill Gurley Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley has written an absolutely must read piece for News.com on the future of all things IP that matter. Touching on every major issue and topic, the well written, informative and spot on the mark story is... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Primus Makes Noise About 9-1-1 VoIP provider Primus has made news in Canada by rolling out the first phase of E911 services. The key is they have gone into select markets where broadband usage and penetration is high. E911 is crucial to VoIP if customers... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    News for Today, Apr 7 A few items of interest in the shared spaces world today: ZDNet talks about Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server as components of Microsoft's collaboration strategy. ZDNet Office 2004 for the Mac is due in May. It doesn't... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Sticks and Stones E911 appears to be the telcos best shot right now to deposition VoIP. Expect the stories to come out. But, don't beleive all you read. Next Gen telcos like Vonage are working hard to insure there is a way to... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Microsoft Response To Collaboration Spaces Need This article provides a good overview of the product. The real selling feature of Sharepoint is tight integration with other Microsoft products. If you know Windows and Office, the learning curve is very low. In my experience, I've been disappointed... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Offshore outsourcing risks The availability of high bandwidth around the world is just one of the factors spurring the use of offshore outsourcing (which we consider simply a specialized form of telework). Today's Washington Post article 4 Executives Out in Lucent Bribe Probe (By Christopher Stern, April 7, 2004) showcas... From Kolabora.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:53 p.m..


    Exefen - Automagically create XFN files from HTML pages Useful but even better if this was built into my blogging system. From Photo Matt &ampraquo; Tools &ampraquo; Exefen: "Exefen is tool for easily adding XFN values to hand-rolled links. If you're using a system like WordPress to manage your links, adding rel values is a matter of a few clicks, and this tool brings that ease of use to any page on the world wide web. It parses a given page, returns all the external links, and lets you choose XFN values for each. When you submit it then returns the original markup enhanced with From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..


    Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML in a Lazlo stylee Look ma, no procedural code! Laszlo was there first but it's good to have competition in this area. From joemarini.com .::. Tutorials: QUOTEThe next version of the Microsoft Windows® operating system, code named "Longhorn", contains an exciting new technology called XAML, which is an acronym for the "eXtensible Application Markup Language". XAML (pronounced zam-el) allows you to specify the user interface From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..


    Blog Reader done in Flex Again, Laszlo was there first! But this is cool nonetheless. From Dylan Greene dot com - Blog Reader done in Flex: QUOTEThanks to Foo for find this simple Blog Reader created using Flex. Flex is Macromedia's XML-based UI API, which I talk more about here. This is the first almost-real-world Flex example I've seen. I've played with XAML a small bit, but haven't seen any real-world examples like this. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..


    Pocket Skype available for Windows Mobile 2003 devices Excellent. Go Skype go! Next we need Linux, Mac OS X and Palm devices! VoIP Now Available on Pocket PCs For Free: QUOTEThanks to a beta release of their Windows Mobile software, Skype Technologies is letting PPC users place phone calls using voice over IP (VoIP) for free. The only requirements are a Windows Mobile 2003 device with a 400MHz processor and headset, along with an internet connection and friends who also have the application installed. The PDA version o From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..


    Legal music download prices to increase? homogenized smegma that the RIAA pawns off on the public as music has got to be phrase of the week! Go Terry! Yet another reason not to buy music from the music business whether it's through RIAA sanctioned downloads or through CD shops. I say don't bother! Buy it direct from the artist! From Terry Heaton's Pomo blog: QUOTEAll five of the major music companies are discussing ways to boost the price of singl From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..


    Tonight! Emergent Learning Flashmob Informal emergent learning this evening in San Francisco. 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Gordon Biersch Brewery. I'll wear a black conference badge holder for recognition purposes -- or look for the green tennis ball on the table.... From Internet Time Blog on April 7, 2004 at 4:52 p.m..


    Iraq-nophobia One year after the war began, what does the public think? From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..


    Doddering Fools and Lottsa Bull Why Chris Dodd is no Trent Lott From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..


    Shameful Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..


    Time for the Emperor's Fashion Show Will the press see clearly this time? From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..


    Zellhole Senator Zell Miller would like people to think he's a principled centrist offering a tough-love critique of his party - but he's nothing more than another mindless Republican hack. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 4:51 p.m..


    The first online issue of School Libraries in Canada explores the challenges of building a diverse c ... The first online issue of School Libraries in Canada explores the challenges of building a diverse collection that supports the needs of our school community. This collection of articles brings together research and practice about graphic novels, electronic resources, poetry, and more From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    natureevents.com is a free, fully searchable, multi-disciplinary scientific events database. Browse ... natureevents.com is a free, fully searchable, multi-disciplinary scientific events database. Browse events, order brochures, register and purchase proceedings papers online.The most relevant conferences, meetings, courses, symposia, fora and programs are here at your fingertips From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    The National Academies now offer free online access in more than 100 developing countries to the rep ... The National Academies now offer free online access in more than 100 developing countries to the reports of the Academies, as well as to journal articles from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The goal is to help developing countries tackle challenges such as disease, hunger, and economic transition with enhanced scientific knowledge From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Office of Library Services, is seeking proposals for a ... The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Office of Library Services, is seeking proposals for a national research study on the future of librarians in the workforce. The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2004. The maximum award is $1,000,000 for a two-year project beginning September 30, 2004 and ending September 30, 2006. IMLS anticipates making a single award for the project From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    ICSTI Forum - the Quarterly Newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Inf ... ICSTI Forum - the Quarterly Newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information - No 45, April 2004 is now available From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    OA to primary literature may stimulate the market for secondary literature Adam Hodgkin, A topsy turvy e-world, The Bookseller, April 1, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). On recent changes that affect the fortunes of ebooks and electronic libraries. Excerpt: "The first sea change is that the 'open access' model (primary research being freely available without constraint) for content distribution is taking strong hold in the area of scientific, technical and medical publishing. While most publishers are worried by this --especially if they have profi From FOS News on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    Update to preservation and access report CENDI and ICSTI have updated their report, Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: The State of the Practice (originally February 2004, latest update April 7, 2004). Section 4.4.1 is devoted to Open Access, and 4.4.2 to Institutional Repositories. (PS: Despite From FOS News on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    OA to ALA publications Jason M. Griffey, The Perils of Strong Copyright: The American Library Association and Free Culture, April 2004. A Master's thesis in library science submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Excerpt: "The ALA has thus far gotten away with talking about Open Access, while actually doing very little from within to follow the tenets themselves....So what steps should be taken in order to rectify this? First, the ALA should begin to open its publications, and find a way to shift From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    Areva! Areva! Tight Lipps launch ships. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 7, 2004 at 4:50 p.m..


    Digital Lock-Down (NPR) This is a near-transcript of a commentary of mine that ran on NPR's All Things Considered on April 5. You can listen to it via Real or Windows Media Player. (And please forgive my over-simplifications and overstatements.; I only had 3 minutes, which makes it tough to be subtle.) From the begining the Web has seemed like the Wild West. But now we're being told that it's actually a looting spree, with people smashing-and-grabbing all the music and movies and copyrighted text they can, for free. The irony is that thanks to Big Content companies such as the recording... From Joho the Blog on April 7, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..


    "bt2": and the accepted proposals are ... Dear submitters to BlogTalk 2.0! We had a hard time to sift through those 56 proposals that were sent to us. It is similar to last year as we could have easily designed a three-days-conference if it would have made sense a... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 7, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..


    Kinja, Rollup, and topix.net By now you've surely heard about Meg Hourihan and Nick Denton's Kinja, the "public aggregator for the rest of us". It should be pointed out that Charles and Indi's Rollup has been offering similar functionality for a while. (Example: --> From Seb's Open Research on April 7, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..


    California City Tells Wal-Mart to Get Lost

  • AP: Voters reject big Wal-Mart store. Voters rejected a ballot measure designed to allow Wal-Mart to build a giant Supercenter store in this Los Angeles suburb without environmental review, siding with activists who said the retailer's plans would hurt the community. Finally, folks are starting to stand up to the giant. The Inglewood case was an especially egregious example of Wal-Mart trying to use its overwhelming clout to get what it wants, and it's gratifying to see that vo From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 7, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..


    Experimental Wiki Integration With CAREO I've just added some potentially cool functionality to CAREO. Every object in the repository now has a link to its own Wiki page, where a freeform discussion or whatever can take place. I'm not sure if people would actually use it. I think it's different enough from a traditional threaded discussion to warrant inclusion of both solutions. In my head, I'm picturing the Wiki pages becoming more teaching-oriented than a threaded discussion could. Something more like the Wikipedia. The cool thing about the wiki pages (apart from being more freeform) is the automatic cross-linki From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..


    Patent offers clue in mystery of Xbox hard drive Microsoft may not be planning to ditch the hard drive in its game console after all, judging from a new patent covering the way the Xbox saves game data. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..


    IBM tags Trigo to its RFID portfolio Big Blue finishes absorbing Trigo Technologies into its WebSphere middleware line to bolster efforts to offer radio frequency identification technology for supply chain management. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..


    FCC urged to keep VoIP regulation-free Advocacy groups ask FCC Chairman Michael Powell to protect Net phone companies from weighty regulations that blanket traditional phone services. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..


    Red Hat's case against SCO put on hold A federal judge denies SCO's motion to throw out a suit brought by the Linux seller but put the case on hold, awaiting an outcome in a related case. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..


    Japan expands supercomputer cluster The country's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology will add a Linux Networx system to its cluster. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..


    Chipmakers cutting back on use of lead Intel and National Semiconductor say they're getting closer to the environmentally friendly goal of eliminating the use of lead in their products. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..


    Onyx acquires $4 million design tool CRM software maker Onyx has bought tech assets from Visuale in a deal for cash and stock that will make Onyx's programs easier to customize. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..


    Broadband makes inroads into U.S. households More Net users are unplugging their dial-up service for a speedier connection. VoIP, online gaming and home networking boost broadband's growth. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..


    Everyone in Silico Everyone in Silico is a futurist sci-fi novel set in Vancouver, 2036. It came out a couple years ago, but this week the author decided to license it under Creative Commons and produce free downloadable ebook versions. As the author says "So if you like the book, send pals this link, e-mail it to friends, fileshare it on illegal networks -- you'll be helping me out. I know from experience that I From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..


    Real hits play on latest media software The RealPlayer 10 release is aimed at winning back momentum in the multimedia business that had been slipping toward Microsoft and Apple. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..


    Lindows plans name change overseas The Linux company's CEO says that in light of ongoing legal battles with Microsoft, it will adopt a different name for business outside the United States. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..


    Study says execs remain bullish on IT A new study by IDC says senior business executives plan to enhance their focus on information technology this year, in another signal of better times for the tech industry. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..


    IHMC releases CMap v3 From owrede_log on April 7, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..


    Syllabus Defiled Another reason to keep an eye on the weblogs. Bryan Alexander posts on a short case study I wrote about UBC’s use of wikis for Syllabus magazine. The piece is a fairly straight-ahead (and ruthlessly brief) description of how some user communities here have taken the form and used to serve their own purposes… To me that’s the remarkable part... From Object Learning on April 7, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..


    The Polo Parable Below is an online education parable I have been telling in talks for a few years now. I have finally written it down in order to publish it in my BackBurner column of AECT’s Tech Trends, but thought that autounfocus readers might enjoy it as well. From autounfocus on April 7, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..


    Wikis vs. Blogs The more I read about Wikis, the more I know at some point I'm going to have to take the plunge. But I think what's making me hesitate more than anything else is that I keep thinking about how to implement one with teachers at school, and so the big question becomes if teachers won't blog, will they wiki? On one hand, I think maybe they will. The collaborative, working to produce a useable resource aspect of wikis does have its appeal. No pressure on one person, collective experience and knowledge, free sharing of product...all of those things are selling points. And the potenti From weblogged News on April 7, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..


    DOM Level 3 Core and Load and Save Are W3C Recommendations 2004-04-07: The World Wide Web Consortium today released two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications as W3C Recommendations. With DOM Level 3 Core, software developers and script authors manipulate the content, structure and style of Web documents. DOM Level 3 Load and Save allows programs and scripts to load, serialize and filter document contents. Read the press release and visit the DOM home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on April 7, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..


    Nine Rules for Good Technology I believe that we currently are in a transition phase; we are moving away from complicated technologies toward simpler innovations. Stephen Downes writes about teaching technologies; about the need for technologies used in the classroom to be simple to use and understand. His nine rules are superb!

  • always available
  • always on
  • always connected
  • standardized
  • simple (yeah!)
  • does not require parts
  • personalized
  • modular
  • < From carvingCode on April 7, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..


    Intel speeds up low-power laptop chips The chipmaker launches four new low-power processors for small, lightweight laptops known as mininotebooks. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..


    Ballmer the undaunted Never at a loss for words and always passionate about his company, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer describes his attitude as "super optimistic." From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..


    Profiler Jeder Tatort erzählt vom Täter. Nicht immer kann die Polizei die Handschrift des Verbrechers entschlüsseln. Jetzt sollen Profiler Mörder und... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 8:53 a.m..


    The SCORM 2004 Conformance Test Suite Version 1.3 (Self Test) is Available for Download From ADL News on April 7, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..


    Soulsoup Straightoutta Singapore... this looks like a nice new elearning / edublog from Anol Battacharya, here's the feed and here's a nice sampler: "A footnote here. The hyperlinking structure of the web has influenced my conversation style big time (in a positive way). I can feel it. Now I tend to branch my conversation from point to point, contextualize them, open a new thread as the main route or a detour (open a new window!) and still am able to trackback t From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..


    Biomedical Digital Libraries is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal soon to be launched by ... Biomedical Digital Libraries is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal soon to be launched by BioMed Central. It will encompass all aspects of digital library content and usage in biomedical settings, including academic medical centers, research and development institutes, and health care institutions From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 7, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..


    WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey - April 2004 Quarterly Update ... WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey - April 2004 Quarterly Update From Peter Scott's Library Blog on April 7, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..


    Twisted based Weblog system Alan Green does a weblog system based on Twisted and SQLite. From owrede_log on April 7, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..


    Microsoft to Release New Office Software for Macs - Associated Press The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s Office software for Apple computers will be in stores in the third week of May, the company said. The announcement was scheduled for Tuesday. Jessica Sommer, a Microsoft product manager, said Microsoft is schedul From Techno-News Blog on April 7, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..


    Toshiba offers world's first 4-gigabit NAND flash - Reuters Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it would launch a flash memory chip with the world's largest memory capacity in a bid to fend off competition in an increasingly crowded market for easily re-writeable memory chips. Samples of the four-gigabit NAND- From Techno-News Blog on April 7, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..


    Samsung Readies Portable Fuel Cell - Martyn Williams, IDG News Service The device could provide 10 hours of power to a notebook computer. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the research and development arm of South Korea's Samsung Electronics, has successfully developed a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), the com From Techno-News Blog on April 7, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..


    Use of plagiarism-detection software grows - eSchool News For years, educators at colleges and universities have marshaled software tools to ensure that their students' work is original. Now, tainted by scandals or leery of the internet's copy-enabling power, a growing number of newspapers, law firms, and oth From Educational Technology on April 7, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..


    LittleClickers.com Brief Description of the Site: Truly a child-orientated site, littleclickers.com offers a simple-to-use homepage of clickable categories, each with a small illustration. Topics include "Unusual Talents" (how to braid hair, how to make balloon shapes); From Educational Technology on April 7, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..


    Making customers miserable the Microsoft way ITM Associates CEO Ian Altman writes that Microsoft's Software Assurance program is putting a squeeze on customers. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..


    IBM mainframes still chugging after all these years Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..


    Mainframe competitors aim at Big Blue target As IBM tries to consolidate its grip on the mainframe market, competitors see an upcoming product transition as a chance to steal some bones from the top dog. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..


    Mad about mainframes As IBM celebrates the 40th anniversary of the S/360, some competitors are looking to profit from a major mainframe transition later this year. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..


    OKLC04: on narratives I'll write more about papers I liked, but these three made a good session... Knowledge Creation and Learning in Translating a Novel into a Film by Bonet Eduard, Pons Catalina, Sauquet Alfons, Bou Elena The paper is about a story of translating a metaphoric novel into a script for a movie, use of visual artefacts on the way and differences in interpreting them. Thinking of:

  • finding the novel as it should be interesting to read (Sno From Mathemagenic on April 7, 2004 at 7:54 a.m..


    Research on wikis? Is there any (published or in-progress) research on wikis? I've only&nbsp;heard about two papers "under construction", but I don't believe this is it... Just realised - there is some in Seb's dissertation: chapter 4 and 6.3 (evaluation with 2 cases and survey). From Mathemagenic on April 7, 2004 at 7:54 a.m..


    E-Government Alexander Hartmann fragt sich unter Bezug auf Heise zu Recht besorgt, ob E-Government nur ein "kostenträchtiges Prestige-Projekt" ist. Dabei hat... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..


    Bob's Links Eine, wenn auch nur weitgehehend für die USA brauchbare Linkliste, habe ich auf der Seite von Bob gefunden.... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..


    Wozu einen Bundespräsidenten? JoRux stellt unter Bezug auf die FAS diese provokante Frage. Ergebnis: "Nur weil die politischen Parteien in den letzten Monaten... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..


    Near-Time Flow From owrede_log on April 7, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..


    tigrai.org An Ethiopian News and Information site focusing on educational communications, and technology. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business Business counseling and guidance for entrepreneurs from volunteer retired executives. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Medzilla Looking for a job (or someone to hire) in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare or science? This is the place to go. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    LMRDA Reporting and Public Disclosure This site from the Office of Labor Management Standards of the U.S.Department of Labor contains annual financial reports of labor unions and provides links to labor related laws and regulations. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Laurel Poetry Collective A self-funded collaboration of twenty-three poets and graphic artists living in the Twin Cities area dedicated to publishing books, chapbooks, and broadsides. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Assessor Links USA State by state guide to tax assesssor Web sites. From Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Tax Information at MPL From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    RSS Feeds From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Poetry and Lunch at City Center Visit the Poetry Corner, a lunchtime lounge dedicated to poetry, created by City Center and the Minneapolis Public Library in celebration of National Poetry Month. From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Online Databases (updated) New services include Testing and Education Reference Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    New Central Library Construction Photos (updated) View progress on the new Central Library construction site. From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Mission, Vision and Key Results To guide the library system through these challenging times, the Library Board developed new mission and vision statements, identified key results, and delineated how we will achieve our mission and vision. Based on input from patrons, key stakeholders, and employees, these guideposts chart a new course for the Minneapolis Public Library and its role in helping shape a positive future for the city and its residents. From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Library Board Agenda, 4-7-04 From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    How Can I Help the Library? Here are some of the many ways you can help the Minneapolis Public Library. From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Bird Brain: a List on Bird Migration for Children and Families Birds are back! Book and videos about bird migration are available here at the Minneapolis Public Library. And--join us for four events about bird migration, in partnership with the Walker Art Center. From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:58 a.m..


    Architects Shape the New Minneapolis: Jean Nouvel Join us for a conversation with Jean Nouvel, architect of the new Guthrie Theater, Sunday, April 18, at 2:00 p.m. at the Historic Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis--part of the Architects Shape the New Minneapolis series in partnership with the Weisman Art Museum. From What's New at the Minneapolis Public Library on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    EMI to Cut 1,500 Jobs And Outsource Work From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    reFX Launch Vanguard From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Famed 'ABBA studio' reaches end of era From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Manage for Success: Production From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    BPI Send Anti-Piracy Message To Filesharers From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Research shows impact of illegal file-sharing From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Recording Industry Starts Legal Actions Against Illegal File-Sharing Internation From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Anniversity Death of Nirvana Lead Singer Kurt Cobain From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    University Releases Names Of File Sharers to RIAA For Lawsuits From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    ItsFun.com to Display and Sell Music From the Eroica Label From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    RMJ file to MP3 or WAV From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School- Forums on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Muddy sound From AudioCourses Distance Learning Online Sound Engineering School- Forums on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Kids with Asthma Need to Exercise Title: Kids with Asthma Need to ExerciseCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04Last Editorial Review: 4/6/04 From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Life Expectancy with Alzheimer's Disease Title: Life Expectancy with Alzheimer's DiseaseCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04Last Editorial Review: 4/6/04 From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Brain Freeze Title: Brain FreezeCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:43 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Should Preteens Pump Iron? Title: Should Preteens Pump Iron?Category: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:44 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    When Your Memory Is Likely to Fail You Title: When Your Memory Is Likely to Fail YouCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:44 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Nailing Down the Cause of Nerve Disorder Title: Nailing Down the Cause of Nerve DisorderCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:44 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Toddler TV Time May Shorten Attention Spans Title: Toddler TV Time May Shorten Attention SpansCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:44 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Arthritis Patients Benefit From Aggressive Treatment Title: Arthritis Patients Benefit From Aggressive TreatmentCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:44 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Heavy Kids, High Heart Risk Title: Heavy Kids, High Heart RiskCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:45 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Smoking Bans May Cut Down on Heart Attacks Title: Smoking Bans May Cut Down on Heart AttacksCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:45 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    ADHD Drugs May Slow Growth Title: ADHD Drugs May Slow GrowthCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:45 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Less Breathing Is More in CPR Title: Less Breathing Is More in CPRCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:45 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Doctors: Beware Drug-Testing Kits Sold on Web Title: Doctors: Beware Drug-Testing Kits Sold on WebCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:45 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Food Likes Programmed in Infancy Title: Food Likes Programmed in InfancyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:45 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Double Mastectomy Likelier With Genetic Diagnosis Title: Double Mastectomy Likelier With Genetic DiagnosisCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/6/04 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/6/04 1:58:46 AM From MedicineNet Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    My Big Blogging Questions In a couple of hours I'll be moderating a panel entitled "Alternative Media: Attack of the Blogs." Since my panel (Kim Spencer of LinkTV, Declan McCullagh of News.com and the Politech discussion list, and tech journalist/blogger Andy Ihnatko) appears to be brilliant, I'll generally stay in the background and let them to all the talking. However, I have a few big questions up my sleeve to get the discussion rolling... (My questions, and links to my panelists' sites...) From Contentious Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    Passover Googlebomb Given yesterday's fire bombing of a Jewish school in Montreal, I'm doing my part in "Googlebombing" to ensure that racist propoganda is pushed off the web. From Liz Lawley's Blog, I've discovered that the top-ranking Google search for "jew" is a racist site. Therefore I'm linking to Wikipedia's definition, in order increase Wikipedia's Google ranking. This in turn will decrease the racist site's Google ranking [note no link]. From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on April 7, 2004 at 6:57 a.m..


    iParadigms iParadigms is a pioneer in the rapidly expanding field of digital information tracking. The Internet, though an invaluable resource for services and information, is unfortunately also an unparalleled environment for all varieties of intellectual property theft. We have developed a... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    My DropBox.com MyDropBox.com provides the world's leading technology to detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism. We are dedicated to helping the higher education market meet the growing challenge of digital plagiarism by implementing an upscale technology that ensures no single... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Plagiarism Resource Site The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to detect plagiarism and provides links to other resources. Plagiarism Resource Site Home Page... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Center For Academic Integrity The Center for Academic Integrity provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers and administrators. The CAI Web site is divided into a public tier, which contains general information about the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    12 Step Blogging Program I spent most of the night tonight immersed in learning about weblogs. I swore to myself this was going to be for fun only. But, the professional side of me grabbed the fun side by the throat and threatened it bodily harm if it didn't learn more about blogging and more about how to do it well. I hooked up with the blogging group at Orkut and found quite a few interesting links that led me on my hours long... From Cause I Like to Hear Myself Talk on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Google News Tells How Well Your Site Is Doing Last year I noted how Newsknife's "Google News Watch" monitored how Google News' story selection rated compared to that of human editors. Newsknife's methodology caused some debate, however. Now, reports the company's Neil Pharazyn, Google News is being monitored on how it sorts news-item sources by relevance. Each news item on Google News links From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Custom Print Publishing In Action I left the print world more than a decade ago, in part because I simply found online/new media to be much more interesting -- the potential so much greater for innovation. But perhaps print can in part take on some of the characteristics of online (and re-spark my interest). John Roberts' Clock weblog pointed me to last week's New York Times article about Reason maga From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Automated E-mail Scanning: Acceptable Risk? Google's upcoming "GMail" free e-mail service is raising the hackles of some privacy advocates, because it will insert contextual text advertising alongside mail based on an automated scan of the mail, in exchange for a gigabyte of free e-mail storage space and fast e-mail search. As the BBC reports, a European privacy group has called GMail "a vast violation of European law." And columnist/blogger Dan Gillmor --> From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    A Triumph over Reason The key ingredients to beating the argument seemed to be: judge the audience, make them laugh, say a few highly-charged jingoistic remarks, and belittle the opposition. From Monkeymagic on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    elite: 2nd Annual Conference E-Learning in Educati ... elite: 2nd Annual Conference E-Learning in Education Dates: 6-7 July 2004 Venue: Staffordshire University, Beaconside Campus, Stafford, England From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Maple T.A. "Maple ... Maple T.A. &quot;Maple T.A. automates many time-consuming elements of modern post-secondary mathematics education. Derived from the legendary Maple software, Maple T.A. offers a Web-based system for creating tests, assignments, and exercises, automatically assessing student responses and performance. Mapl From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Desperately seeking software simulations ... Desperately seeking software simulations &quot;At a time when there are more simulation authoring tools available than ever, it's good to ask the question, &quot;Just want do we want our simulations&#151;and simulation authoring tools&#151;to do?&quot;&nbsp; Michael Feldstein, eLearn Magazine, Added: 7 April 2004 From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 a.m..


    Case Studies on Copyright & IP At CCCC-IP this year, Andrea Lunsford called for detailed case studies of writers' and educators' encounters with copyright law. It occurred to me as I was looking online for citations of articles for my Technical Communication Theory and Research prelims reading list that Davida Charney has posted pdfs of most of her publications on her site, as has Carolyn Miller, which I knew already. I'd be very interested in talking to bo From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 7, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..


    The weblog as the model for a new type of VLE? (update 7) Whilst surveying references to Auricle on the web I came across a useful comment about The Weblog as a Model for a New Type of VLE? on Charlie Lowe's blog site. It would have been nice to have his comments posted directly into Auricle but because Charlie is experienced in the use of e-learning tools and environments including Blackboard, PostNuke, and Drupal I'm reproducing... From Auricle on April 7, 2004 at 6:54 a.m..


    How to advise EU and do research in other countries Jill Walker:Did you know an individual can sign up as a potential expert advisor to the EU's research programs? You register your field, what you'd be willing to do (review proposals, monitor existing programs, etc) and if they need someone in your area they might contact you. The workload would be up to 10 days a year with pay and expenses and trips to Brussels. Thought that it wa From Mathemagenic on April 7, 2004 at 6:54 a.m..


    Kosten - Konten - Kommissionen Die aktuelle Ausgabe der DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Bildungsfinanzierung. Leider gibt es nur wenige Artikel online. So berichtet z.B. Mechthild Tillmann über die phantasievollen Anstrengungen von Volkshochschulen, trotz sinkender Zuschüsse ein zeitgemäßes Programm anzubieten ("Sicher... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Rechtsberatungsgesetz XVIII - SAT1 "Es steht mit der Rundfunkfreiheit nicht im Einklang, publizistische Betätigungen, die nicht zu einer Gefährdung des vom Rechtsberatungsgesetz geschützten Rechtsguts... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Patent Alert Dienst Patente sind eine strategische Waffe im globalen Wettbewerb. Das Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe bietet jetzt einen neuen, hoch interessanten Patent-Informationsdienst an.... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Channel9 Seit 26.03.2004 steht Channel9 im Netz - und ich habe wohl kaum etwas gesehen, was noch vielfältiger ist: Weblog, Wiki,... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Taliban klagt vor Supreme Court Murat Kurnaz aus Bremen, mutmaßlicher Taliban-Kämpfer, wird seit Oktober 2001 in Guantanamo Bay gefangen gehalten. Nun haben seine Anwälte Klage... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Blawgs, hier: Ergebnisse Gestern hatte ich nach der Zahl der deutschprachigen Blawgs gefragt. Hier nun die Ergebnisse (alphabetisch): RA Mustafa Bakrac Martin Drechsler... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    EU prüft Online-Angebote von ARD und ZDF EU-Wettbewerbskommissar Mario Monti will nach einem Bericht des Spiegel prüfen, ob es sich bei den Kooperationen von öffentlich-rechtlichen Internetangeboten mit... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Persönliche Eignung eines Notars Die Landesjustizverwaltung handelt verfahrensfehlerhaft, wenn sie die persönliche Eignung eines Mitbewerbers um ein Notaramt unter bloßer Bezugnahme auf ein Vorstellungsgespräch... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    NAIIN-Jahresbericht 2003 Der Verein "no abuse in internet" (NAIIN) hat vor kurzem seinen Jahresbericht über den Internet-Missbrauch 2003 (7 S. PDF) vorgelegt.... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Phonette "Phonette freephone is a new concept in the field of Internet telephony and probably one of the best things that's... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Agregadores: los nuevos metamedios La sinergia que se ha producido entre weblogs y RSS esta conduciendo a la emergencia de nuevos metamedios online: los portales de weblogs. From eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 7, 2004 at 6:53 a.m..


    Fussballvereins-Archiv im... Der Fu&szlig;ballclub Basel 1893 (FCB) und das Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt haben eine Archivierungsvereinbarung unterzeichnet, welche die Aufbewahrung historischer Dokumente des Basler Stadtclubs dauerhaft sichert und deren Benutzung durch die &Ouml;ffentlichkeit im Staatsarchiv regelt. [...] Im Rahmen eines gemeinsamen Projekts, das f&uuml;r die Schweiz Pioniercharakter hatte, &uuml;bernahm das Staatsarchiv das Schriftgut und das Schweizerische Sportmuseum die Objekte sowie das Bildmaterial zur dauerhaften Archivierung. Der Stadtclub bezahlte einen nennenswerten Teil der Kosten f&uuml;r die OArchivalia on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    Digital Document Quarterly H.M. Gladney, digital preservation iconoclast and consultant, announced to DIGLIB (April 1, 2004) that his self-published periodical Digital Document Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1 (First Quarter 2004) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_1.htm From: Ten Thousand Year Blog http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/index.php?p=457 From Archivalia on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    International Criminal Records The Management of International Criminal Justice Records: The Case of Rwandan Tribunal (pp. 1 - 10) Tom A. Adami Abstract The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has been widely criticised for the slow pace of justice and for mismanagement. On the contrary, much has been achieved in an African context to assist in achieving peace and reconciliation for the people of Rwanda. The information management programme of the ICTR has developed some unique and innovative ways of dealing with its large and varied collection of judicial records. There is mu From Archivalia on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    Pixelprojekt Ruhrgebiet Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet / Digitale Sammlung fotografischer Positionen als regionales Ged&auml;chtnis - ein Projekt der freien Fotografinnen und Fotografen http://www.pixelprojekt-ruhrgebiet.de/ From Archivalia on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    La UOC abre en México la primera de sus oficinas en Iberoamérica La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) ha abierto en México la primera de sus oficinas en Iberoamérica, que facilitará las gestiones académicas, consultas y trámites ... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    El WBCSD y la Universidad de Cambridge editan en castellano su programa interactivo sobre desarrollo sostenible El World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) y el Programa para la Industria de la Universidad de Cambridge ... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    Ft Lauderdale Wireless If you're like me, you spend a lot of time wandering around airports looking for wireless connections. Minneapolis and Detroit are regular stops, and they sell 24 hours of access for $6.95 (USD). Great service for a long layover. But... From Rick's Café Canadien on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    CNBlog.org now has a English faceThe "Blog on Blog ... CNBlog.org now has a English faceThe "Blog on Blog" now has an English Edition. Thanks to Wenxin and Zheng. CNBlog.org, founded in 2002. "Blog on blog" on cnblog.org is the very first window introduce blog related information to Chinese people from every perspective, synchronizing the development with English blogsphere . Since then, more and more blog hosting services emerged in China, mass media as well academic researchers also pay a lot of attention on this new genre of web application. And obviously, including gove From Meta on April 7, 2004 at 6:52 a.m..


    Google is a single, very large custom computer Fascinating! From Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's Power: QUOTECompetitive Advantage Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer. It's running their own cluster operating system. They make their big computer even bigger and faster each month, while lowering the cost of CPU cycles. It's looking more like a general purpose platform than a cluster optimized for a single application. While competitor From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..


    Why Google Will Probably Win over Hotmail Way too early to call this race! But an interesting article about Gmail vs. Hotmail. From Gmail:The Tao of Mac - blog/2004-04-02: QUOTEIt's getting late (and it was a very exausting week to be doing guesstimates about a webmail service at 1AM), so I'll make this one a shortlist: It will be as great as using Zo&#235;. You can compress the messages - especially if you index them for searching, as Google aims to do. They will not try to stick it to a p From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..


    Near-Time: Flow Totally grok the vision. Let's hope the implementation lives up to the hype! Can't wait to try this! From Near-Time:Products: QUOTENear-Time is proud to introduce Near-Time Flow&#8482;, the first peer to peer collaborative content manager for Mac OSX Panther. Near-Time Flow enables individuals and groups to collaborate via the web with unprecedented power and ease. With web familiar interfaces and standards based services, Flow extends the Internet. Whether your interest is From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..


    Core versus Context - Core creates value that competitors can't replicate From :: Under the Buzz - "April 2004 - Vol 5, Number 1 - The Unattainable Real-Time Enterprise (by Geoffrey Moore) (PDF): QUOTEMy analysis in a nutshell is that core activities are those that increase the sustainable competitive advantage of a company. Core activities create value for customers in a way that is hard forcompetitors to replicate, and by doing so increase the market power of the company. Investors notice this, and reward the company with a higher stock price. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..


    Knowledge Roundtable 2004: e-Learning Knowledge Roundtable 2004: e-Learning: From Practice to Profit Wednesday, May 5th - Friday, May 7th Radisson Harbourfront Hotel, Kingston, Ontario Speakers: Dr. Maryam Alavi, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research, Emory University Dr. Roberto H. Bamberger, Solutions Architect, Microsoft Corporation Jay Cross, CEO,... From Internet Time Blog on April 7, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..


    "This is business," said Michael Corleone eLearning Benefits Realization: What It Takes To See Results April 1, 2004 The Issue: Fewer than 20% of companies recently surveyed have the three critical elements necessary to ensure that their eLearning projects further the company's top business transformation goals. Training departments continue to... From Internet Time Blog on April 7, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..


    Lindows Shopping for New Name Lindows founder Michael Robertson bows to pressure from Microsoft to change the Linux operating system's name. From Wired News on April 7, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..


    ACLU Says No Go to No-Fly List The American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit Tuesday to challenge a list maintained by the feds that prohibits certain travelers from flying. The group says some people are wrongfully identified as threats. From Wired News on April 7, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..


    When Play Money Becomes Real Traders in goods from massively multiplayer games are thriving, but such transactions are blurring the line between real and virtual economies. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on April 7, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..


    Putting Blogs in Their Place This chief of New York Times Digital once famously planned to spin off the online division and take it public. Didn't happen. Now that his operation is turning a tidy profit, Martin Nisenholtz is back to making declarations. Wired magazine's Josh McHugh investigates. From Wired News on April 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..


    States Rethinking Virtual School Government officials in three states are squabbling about money being paid to a privately held company to operate online public schools. By John Gartner. From Wired News on April 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..


    Using Capitalism to Clean the Sky A handful of environmentalists have found a way to keep sulfur dioxide from turning into acid rain -- they're buying up the pollution allowances that were meant for power companies. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on April 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..


    Big Concern for Very Small Things A recent study on buckyballs and fish adds fuel to critics' arguments that nanomaterials might be an environmental hazard. Some seek special regulations, but others aren't concerned. By Stephen Leahy. From Wired News on April 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..


    Blackboard Inc. and Open Universiteit Nederland Announce Strategic Alliance From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    Consortium for School Networking Hosts Congressional Briefing to Focus on Data-Driven Decision Making As an Education Tool From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    Power over Ethernet Pioneer Launches Educational Grant Program in United States and Canada From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    New website offers free resources for high-technology entrepreneurs From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    ERIC gets $34.6 million upgrade From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    California Connections Academy Schools Approved to Open for Fall From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    New Web Resource for Faculty from University of Maryland University College (UMUC) on Accessibility in Distance Education From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    Stocks and Flows: Weblogs, Wikis & RSS Second in an excellent series of articles from Commoncraft on the concept of 'stocks' and 'flows' (here's the first one) basically (from the first article): "Flow: Information flows to the user; timely, emergent and engagingStock: Information exists at a specific location, static, archived and organized for reference. From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    In Praise of Movable Type Derek Powazek (according to share your OPML I'm the only one subscribed to this feed of his... there's a lotta people missing out out there!) waxes lyrical on the beauty of movable type in empowering clients in web design... perhaps it time I started figuring this out... I think so. I know Lindon's doing some cool stuff with it in a University context... is it the answer?--> From James Farmer's Radio Weblog on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    Is Iraq Bush's Vietnam? Or could it be even worse? From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    Fact of the Day Corporations don't pay taxes - surprise, surprise. From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    So by that logic... The President of Chutzpah strikes again From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 7, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..


    listing of free online content resources for psychology students Martin Terre Blanche, Free online journals, Collaborative Learning Environments, April 2, 2004. Blanche solicits suggestions of freely accessible research sites for one of his collaborative learning courses. He lists six, including Genamics Journal Seek, Social Science Online Periodicals (of UNESCO) and Open Access Journals in the Field of EducationFOS News on April 7, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..


    Precursor to CC and perhaps OA Matt Haughey, Woody Guthrie free culture, April 5, 2004. Haughey relays a message from a friend quoting Woody Guthrie's copyright notices, which were either way ahead of their time or in the spirit of 1790, as CC might put it. From FOS News on April 7, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..


    On link resolvers and facilitating access to electronic content John McDonald & Eric F. Van de Velde, the Lure of Linking, Library Journal, April 1, 2004. Excerpt: "Reference linking is necessary because library and information users today expect to move seamlessly among library content and information on the Internet. Libraries present users with disparate databases, different user interfaces, various searching capabilities, and changing institutional subscriptions. Reference linking is largely succeeding in removing these barriers." (Source: FOS News on April 7, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..


    The digital data lockdown Last night NPR's "All Things Considered" ran a commentary of mine on the danger that the convergence of three technologies - Digital Restrictions Management, Digital ID and "Trusted" Computing - threatens to make content on the Net far more owned and restrictive than in the real world. Here are links to the RealPlayer and Windows Media Player versions of it. (Please keep in mind that I had three minutes to cover a lot of territory, so, yes, what I say is waaay over-simplified.)... From Joho the Blog on April 7, 2004 at 5:49 a.m..


    That's "Vacation" with a Capital "V" So, my site is on the new LISHost server, just in time to sit idle for a while. I'm heading off to a much anticipated vacation, sans laptop, so things will be even quieter around here than they have been lately (at least until the 19th, maybe later). Please also note that I won't be reading any news during that time, and I'm already so far behind in my email it's no longer a joke, so responses will be delayed even longer than usual. Sorry, but it's vacation, don't you know. One last pointer that I've been quite From The Shifted Librarian on April 7, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..


    Call for Participation: Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents 2004-04-06: Position papers are due 30 April for the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents to be held in San Jose CA, USA on 1-2 June. Attendees will discuss two topics: application development using the Web as a platform-independent environment, and standardization of documents created in multiple markup languages. Read about Workshops and Interaction at W3C. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on April 7, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..


    XML Key Management (XKMS) Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation 2004-04-05: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and its Bindings to Candidate Recommendation. The documents specify protocols for distributing and registering public keys for use with the XML Signature and XML Encryption W3C Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 1 October. Visit the XKMS home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on April 7, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..


    In My Gadget Bag Gizmodo asked me what's in my gadget bag. Here's what I replied. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 7, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..


    ACLU Asking Hard Questions on 'No-Fly' List The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the government on behalf of seven U.S. citizens who've been subjected to a Kafka-esque security system when trying to fly. Read the documents on the ACLU's site and you'll see that the system is sloppy and unfair, and probably counter-productive in stopping actual terrorists when it wastes such time on entirely innocent people who get on these watchlists and can't get off. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 7, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..


    How to Opt Out of Plaxo I hope, having gone to this opt-out page on the Plaxo site, I'll never, ever be subjected to another one of those annoying update-your-contact-info requests. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 7, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..


    Customer demand for a ubiquitous InfoPath runtime The last time I asked Microsoft why there's no plan to make the InfoPath runtime ubiquitous, the answer I got was: "We don't hear customers asking for it." Well, I do. Here's a typical rant from one customer who, because his company has a relationship with Microsoft that he doesn't want to jeopardize, asked me to anonymize his comments: I believe a primary requirement of a forms application is to make it possible for the form to be completed by a wide audience of people from whom I wish to gather data. A key driver, at least in the world of my customers, is to From Jon's Radio on April 7, 2004 at 4:47 a.m..


    smALL FLAGs Announces "Down-Under" Celebrations In honor of ANZAC Day, April 25, smALLFLAGs will be presenting flag lapel pins to members of the US based consulates of both New Zealand and Australia. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2004] From PR Web on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    WestEd Recognized as One of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area Education and healthy human development nonprofit, WestEd, has been named one of the 10 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, and Deloitte. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2004] From PR Web on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Care2Learn Gains APTA Approval Through the Ohio Physical Therapy Association for 6 Physical Therapy Courses Launched Online Care2Learn gains APTA approval through the Ohio Physical Therapy Association for 6 Physical Therapy Courses launched online!! Care2Learn's Accreditation and Operations team has received approval from the Ohio State Board of Physical Therapists to offer a total of 6 accredited courses online. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2004] From PR Web on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Coaches May be Hurting Female Athletes, Study Reports Athletic phenoms such as Marion Jones, Serena Williams and Michelle Kwan have caused a tremendous increase in female sports participation. But, for many young female athletes, this increase in sports participation brings bad news. The latest research reveals female athletes spend $646 million each year on knee surgeries alone, compared to an estimated $81 million for male athletes. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2004] From PR Web on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    The Business Development Group Launches the Next Generation of Predictive Modeling Predictive Modeling is a very defined process, a very effective tool and it has taken client companies from $1 million in sales to over $600 million in sales; from middle market share to #1 in market share in usually less than 24 months", stated Peter Lytle of The Business Develoment Group. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2004] From PR Web on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Inner Strength Can Heal a Troubled World Terrorism, war, natural disasters, and deadly epidemics fill the newscasts -- and if you listen to Alan Mesher, the secret to overcoming these threats is inside every one of us. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2004] From PR Web on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Are Your Bowels Irritable? IBS Awareness Month is Here This April marks the 8th annual Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month, designated to publicize avenues of help for a condition so prevalent that, though rarely talked about, is the leading cause of worker absenteeism after the common cold. For too long, IBS sufferers were dismissed by physicians, ignored by researchers, and given no alternative to suffering in silence. In recent years this situation has changed, with a rising awareness of the profound differences lifestyle modifications can make. In particular, significant patient self-help avenues such as HelpForIBS.com have been created t From PR Web on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Studies in Chicago Fault Holding Back of 3rd Graders Chicago's efforts to end social promotion, a model used by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, proved enormously expensive and yielded no clear benefits, studies say. From New York Times: Education on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Kennedy Demands Full Funding for School Bill The No Child Left Behind law gives the nation until 2014 to render all students proficient in reading and math and warns of penalties for schools whose students do not make sufficient progress. From New York Times: Education on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Taking Science Lab on the Road, And Bringing Some Magic, Too A mobile educator sends lab equipment to 250 high schools, and captivates students with science. From New York Times: Education on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    UConn Fans Can't Get Enough Basketball Success UConn mania has spread from the campus throughout the surrounding area, where local businesses have caught the fever. From New York Times: Education on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    New Lesson for College Students: Lighten Up Colleges are responding to the rising number of students seeking help for stress by offering treatments far beyond traditional medicine. From New York Times: Education on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Asbestos Left From 1990 Cleanup Closes L.I. High School for Week A sprinkling of asbestos left over from a botched cleanup 14 years ago forced a 1,500-student high school on Long Island to shut down. From New York Times: Education on April 7, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..


    Let's hear it for the al-Mahdi Army!! I was watching the news last night, and among the usual vagueness of "insurgents" and "attacks on coalition forces" was some footage of a march by the al-Mahdi Militia. This is apparently some group of supporters of the Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The footage itself was pretty impressive: thousands of men marchin in black, pressed military uniforms. They were apparently unarmed, but the march took them through streets lined with buildings on which they had placed their own snipers, and past a reviewing stand of Shi'ite clerics. From kuro5hin.org on April 7, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..


    National Skills Shortages Strategy The DEST National Skills Shortages Strategy is a new co-operative and comprehensive approach to addressing current and future skills needs of industry, particularly in the traditional trades. This website contains information on skills shortages and regional skills projects, details of best practice strategies, labour market forcasting and details of the New Apprentices Roundtable. From EdNA Online on April 7, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..


    Teaching and Learning Performance Fund Issues Paper The Australian Government has introduced the Teaching and Learning Performance Fund to reward institutions which best demonstrate excellence in teaching and learning. A consultation program associated with the paper will be undertaken in capital cities in June and July 2004, and written submissions can also be made. From EdNA Online on April 7, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..


    IBM speeds Java on mainframes The new zSeries processor serves as a dedicated processor for Java applications, and debuts in time for the 40th anniversary of Big Blue's--and the world's--first mainframe. From CNET News.com on April 7, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..


    Interoperability OpenOffice.org interoperates with Microsoft Office better than Microsoft Office interoperates with itself. (432 words) From dive into mark on April 7, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..


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