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Technologies for Online Public Engagement (Nancy White)
Lars Hasselblad Torres of AmericaSpeaks, shares this fantastic grid of Technologies for Online Public Engagement (PDF). Entitled “Approaches to Online Public Engagement”, the grid summarizes 17 organizations that offer tools for online public engagement. Some are familiar, like Weblab. Others... From Corante: Social Software on January 4, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

First Animation of the World Found In Burnt City
Check this out: "On this ancient piece that can be called the first animation of the world, the artist has portrayed a goat that jumps toward a tree and eats its leaves." From elearningpost on January 4, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Grassroots Cooperative Categorization Of Digital Content Assets: Folksonomies, What They Are, Why They Work
"A folksonomy represents simultaneously some of the best and worst in the organization of information. Its uncontrolled nature is fundamentally chaotic, suffers from problems of imprecision and ambiguity that well developed controlled vocabularies and name authorities effectively ameliorate. Photo credit: Justin Bird Conversely, systems employing free-form tagging that are encouraging users to organize information in their own ways are supremely responsive to user needs and vocabularies, and involve the users of information actively in the organizational system. Overall, transforming the From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on January 4, 2005 at 7:51 p.m..

LOM XML binding
This is a short update on the recently finished recirculation ballot for the IEEE LTSC LOM XML binding. The ballot closed on December 21st of 2004 and continued to indicate support for the LOM XML binding in the ballot group.... From ErikLog on January 4, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..

Which suit are your children? (Kevin Marks)
Jennie's post on how her boys and girls play an online role-playing game differently: ... it&amprsquo;s been just as interesting to watch how the girls&amprsquo; reaction to the game. After the boys became obsessed with it, the girls had to... From Corante: Social Software on January 4, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

District Administration Mag on Wikis and Podcasts
The December issue of District Administration magazine has a short piece on wikis and mentions a couple of K-12 rumblings including Tim's use of wikis at Lewis Elementary. (BTW, Tim redesigned his personal site at some point and it looks great...one of the drawbacks of RSS feeds.) This month, they feature Podcasting. Podcasting is so new that educators and students From weblogged News on January 4, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..

Mired in a Blog
I have long maintained that a society is not democratic if its institutions are not democratic. It follows, therefore, that society is not very democratic, as most of our institutions employ a much older form of governance. "The first amendment prevents the government, not your employer, from abridging your freedom of speech." And so the trend of employers firing bloggers continues, this time with Starbucks invoking the droit du seigneur. By Alisha Berger and Sam Smith, New York Post, January 2, 2005 [OLDaily on January 4, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Stand and Deliver
Short article on a neat idea - using podiums in wired school classrooms, instead of teachers' desks. And podiums are so cheap, I'm thinking of getting one for my home. Via elearningpost, which catches this older link from The Guardian. The Guardian's e-learning page is useful, but it's updated so seldom - why doesn't it have an RSS feed? By Unattributed, The Guardian, November 16, 2004 [Refe From OLDaily on January 4, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Ever Higher Society, Ever Harder to Ascend
While the bulk of this article discusses inequality and social mobility in general, some comments are reserved for higher education specifically. "America's engines of upward mobility are no longer working as effectively as they once were. The most obvious example lies in the education system... The education system is increasingly stratified by social class, and poor children have a double disadvantage. They attend schools with fewer resources than those of their richer contemporaries..." This problem is not restricted to the United States; as public support for education erodes across t From OLDaily on January 4, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

oishii
David Wiley created a nifty little tool over the holidays, a script that grabs popular links in del.icio.us and wraps them in an RSS feed. Written in Python, which (thanks to my holiday project) I can now read. A couple of things: first, from what I can see, del.icio.us (and therefore oishii, even more so) are what might be called 'echos' - they don't capture a resource when it first comes out, but rather, later in life, when it has become popular. Second, aggregator spamming has clearly hit del.icio.us (and therefore oishii). Blogdex has been rendered almost useless by Lycos po From OLDaily on January 4, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Researchers
The authors introduce this wiki: "This is a directory of researchers interested in social computing topics. Feel free to add yourself or colleagues who you think belong here. We've seeded the list with LSC faculty and attendees from the 2004 Microsoft Social Computing Symposium." By Various Authors, Rochester Institute of Technology, January, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on January 4, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Capture the Map
Some delicious time-wasting fun - sure, this game could be educational, associating geography with vocabulary, especially if less random results than Google search terms are used. By Ralf Chille, January 4, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on January 4, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems
Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems ( http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/interoperability.html) Chiba, Japan, May 10, 2005 in conjunction with the 14th International World Wide Web Conference Workshop Outline ---------------- Nowadays learning resources are increasingly available via web-based educational systems, such as learning... From ErikLog on January 4, 2005 at 4:51 p.m..

Tsunamis at Wikipedia
This Wikipedia page is very interesting: While the tsunami wave of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was by far the deadliest ever recorded it was by far not the highest: that was recorded 1958 in Alaska and was created by a land slide inside a small fjord (LItuya Bay) causing a wave to reach high as 500 meters (1500 ft). Underwater landslides appear to be a source of much bigger tsunamis than earthquakes. The Wikipedia page about a possible future tsunami:< From owrede_log on January 4, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

December Fools!
I was on vacation the last couple weeks, so I missed the Spanish "April Fools Day" on December 28. In case you didn't know, you should have taken any article you read from the Spanish press on that day with plenty of skepticism.Albert Cuesta had some fun that day, posting an article on his CanalPDA.com website about Apple Computer's plans to become a mobile phone carrier. The story quoted "Albert Slope, Apple's VP of Mobile Platforms and Services," whose name was the Sp From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 4, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..

UBL bubble
Tim Bray points to a presentation by Brian Nielsen and Mikkel Hippe Brun on how Denmark is adopting the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL). Tim writes: Check out slides 4 & 5: they estimate the annual savings achievable from invoicing in UBL at somewhere between 100M and 160M. I may be out of step with the crowd but it seems painfully obvious to me that UBL is going to be huge and I don't understand why more technology vendors (including my employer) aren't refocusing their e-business strategy around it.... From Joho the Blog on January 4, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Visual thought
This chess game shows you what the computer is contemplating. Very cool. (Via Pito who also has some ruminations on folksonomies today.)... From Joho the Blog on January 4, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Great Edublog Projects
I've gotten two e-mails in the last two days from educators who are doing what I think are great things in the classroom with blogs. (I love it when that happens...) At Warren Consolidated Schools in Michigan, they used Weblogs to connect students from 20 different schools to collaborate in an "Authors in Autumn" project where they created an interactive story: The interactive story is designed to allow students to add paragraphs to the main story in "Real-Time". As soon as they type out their part of the story and click From weblogged News on January 4, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

Tsunami Broadband Help Offered
The Media Bloggers Association (MBA) this week announced a Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative, a public service that matches bloggers wishing to publish tsunami videos with Web hosting companies willing to donate server space and bandwidth. Many bloggers can't afford the bandwidth costs that would come if the videos they post for the world to see become too popular.This is one of the first tangible projects of the recently formed MBA, which is co From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 4, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Reagle on the Wikipedia (Clay Shirky)
As if on cue, I got a pointer from Joseph Reagle to his recent paper on the Wikipedia. It’s a fascinating piece, largely concerned with disagreement and dispute resolution among participants, but relative to the current debate about the Sanger... From Corante: Social Software on January 4, 2005 at 1:50 p.m..

Taggle: A proposed Google for Folksonomies (Clay Shirky)
Post at brianstorms about federated folksonomies a la del.icio.us and flickr, with an image-as-thought-experiment that sums up the idea neatly:... From Corante: Social Software on January 4, 2005 at 1:50 p.m..

(Nancy White)
Lisa Kimball just pointed me to a networking award her company, GroupJazz, has created in honor of online networking pioneer Frank Burns. Act now: the 2005 deadline is January 7th!The Group Jazz Meta Networking Award in honor of Frank Burns:... From Corante: Social Software on January 4, 2005 at 1:50 p.m..

Audio Writing Tip: Cultivating AHA! Moments
Here's another audio edition of CONTENTIOUS. Today's show offers a tip about how to make the writing process more natural and comfortable. For an in-depth version of this tip, see my Oct. 27, 2003 article, "Clear Thinking, Clear Writing." If this type of advice helps you then consider getting it one-on-one in more detail, fully customized to your needs, through my writing coaching service. Writing does not have to suck! E-mail me to learn more: editor@contentious.com. (More notes on this show...) From Contentious Weblog on January 4, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Designing Online Collaboration Systems For The Large Organization: Understanding Social Processes Is The Key Requirement
Understanding the relationship between communication/collaboration technologies and human behavior is critical for ensuring a higher level of user participation and the effective use of online collaboration systems. The authors of this research paper argue that understanding the relationship of collaborative... From Kolabora.com on January 4, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Screencast guidelines
One of my New Year's resolutions is to produce a number of screencasts in 2005. Now that I've begun to develop a sense of how these should go, it seems like a good time to write down some guidelines for those of you who will be joining me in these productions. Here are the top three: ... From Jon's Radio on January 4, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..

Watching TV while ___-ing
Not only has Internet use cut into this country's sacred TV time, we are not paying strict enough attention to the glowing screens in our living rooms. BIGresearch reports (via Center for Media Research) that a survey of 12,000+ "consumers" shows that we're doing more multitasking while watching TV: # 66.3% regularly or occasionally read the mail. # 60.1% regularly or occasionally go online. # 55.0% regularly or occasionally read the newspaper. # 51.8% regularly or occasionally read magazines. # 0.4% mentally undress Larry King Please, America, let's focus! PS: I made up one of From Joho the Blog on January 4, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Capture the Google Flag
From Germany comes this nicely-done game that pits you against the computer or another human, as you each try to take over the world by doing Google queries that turn up documents localized in various parts of the world. The game uses netgeo which finds the geographic location of the IP address of the page. Once you start the Flash app, you'll get instructions in English...... From Joho the Blog on January 4, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Future of Newsgle
This Flash documentary by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson on the future of media describes a possible path from here to 2014 for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and the NY Times. I think it eventually goes off the rails, but it's well done and, IMO, worth the 11 minutes.... From Joho the Blog on January 4, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

oishii - ephemeral pheromonal del.icio.us-ness
Very simple bit of code hacked together over the holiday to make my life easier. oishii tells you which sites have been bookmarked by 30 or more people according to the del.icio.us front page. Updated every 15 minutes and available in HTML and RSS flavors, oishii means "delicious" in Japanese. You can find it at http://opencontent.org/oishii/. From autounfocus on January 4, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..

Lessig on the Radio
Larry Lessig is on The Connection for an hour, live at 11am, EST. Click for local times and stations, or for WBUR where you can pick up the live stream.... From Joho the Blog on January 4, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

RSS rePurposing
Lieber Herr Schwanitz, stimmt es, dass Sie meinen RSS-Feed kommerziell weiterverwerten? Siehe auch http://blog.schockwellenreiter.de/7558 MfG ----------------------------------------- Thomas N. Burg Head of the Center for New Media Danube University Krems http://randgaenge.net http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/znm From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 4, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

What Do You Believe but Can't Prove?
This year's Edge.org question is out, and I had the honor of participating alongside a slew of interesting people. Edge founder John Brockman asked us to respond to the question, "What do you believe is true, even though you can't prove it." Answers here. My contribution, here. "I can't prove it more than anecdotally, but I believe evolution has purpose and direction. It appears obvious, yet absolutely unconfirmable, that matter is gropin From rushkoff.blog on January 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Presentaties van Conferentie Erfgoed in het eCulturele tijdperk
http://www.den.nl/conferentie/presentaties.html Op http://www.den.nl/conferentie/presentaties.html zijn de presentaties te vinden van de Conferentie Erfgoed in het eCulturele tijdperk, op deze weblog hier aangekondigd. Een veelheid aan onderwerpen: Creative Commons, Kennismanagement voor instellingen, Online Communities, Nationale infrastructuur, The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, GIS en andere diensten, Digitale duurzaamheid, Games en educatie, Bronnen voor het onderwijs, Gaming, E-learing trends, CATCH, ECultuur in de komende 5 jaar, ECultuur vanuit het prespectief van de Raad van Cu From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on January 4, 2005 at 10:00 a.m..

Morning Perspective
With access to newspapers and highspeed net access after a week away, the graphic imagery and harsh realities of the post-tsumani impacts make anything complained about here last night seem infinitesimally insignificant. Like others, I have been contacting friends and colleagues with families in Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand, and fortunately for them, their losses have been mostly material. Perhaps, pie in the sky, those engaged in armed aggression might give the same pause and question what they a From cogdogblog on January 4, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..

And Perspective on Bandwidth...
Roll back your time clock to the mid 1990s and consider your reaction to this statement (lifted out of context from a comment about BitTorrent): Yesterday, it took me 2.5 hours to download a measly 39 megs. I remember being hesitant to download something as large as 5 Mb (even on the LAN at work), that used to be outrageously large. "Measly" 39 Mb indeed. What might be measly in 2010? From cogdogblog on January 4, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..

Content rather than container
Rob Reynolds has a good new year's resolution "My suggestion for all educators in 2005 is that we concentrate on content first. I propose that we actually pretend there is no technology available to us other than simple sticks with which we can draw in the dirt." From David Davies: Edtech on January 4, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

e-learning, gestión del conocimiento y trabajo cooperativo en un nuevo contexto
¿Estamos asistiendo a un acontecimiento similar al ocurrido con la enseñanza asistida por ordenador, la multimedia educativa y el e-learning?... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on January 4, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

FeedForAll Newsletter
FeedForAll sent out a newsletter. The newsletter contains lots of information related to RSS, including free tools that the FeedForAll team have made available. From RSS Blog on January 4, 2005 at 8:00 a.m..

Disintermediation and Social Aid: Becoming the Source of Design
A large proportion of our lives have become mediated, or more simply, there's some kind of boundary (physical, geographical, organizational, political, etc.) between us and the experiences that we become aware of, or wish to have. In some cases, we... From Experience Designer Network on January 4, 2005 at 7:58 a.m..

Baldness Explained
So, I'm having lunch with my daughter yesterday, and she looks at me with one of those exasperated looks--something that girls apparently learn early on so they can graduate to withering looks when they become a wife--and she informs me that my hair is "messed up". Now, I don't think too much about my hair, and it's only in these kinds of moments that I think about the fact that I'm pretty darned bald. Not in a Ron Howard full chrome-dome type of way. More of an Andy Sipowicz... From Brain Frieze on January 4, 2005 at 7:56 a.m..

A new iMac for under $500? - Robert Lemos, CNET News
The annual exercise of the Mac faithful--guessing the products Apple Computer plans to announce at MacWorld--has some Web sites predicting the release of a sub-$500 desktop aimed at new users. Two Mac-focused sites--Think Secret and Apple Insider--re From Techno-News Blog on January 4, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

'TiVo-To-Go' Debuts - Michael Singer, Internet News
TiVo launched a new initiative Monday that lets customers transfer shows from its DVRs to a Windows-based desktop, media player, laptop or other portable device. The service, dubbed "TiVoToGo" is available through the company's networked TiVo Series2 From Techno-News Blog on January 4, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Electronics Industry Battles for the Living Room - Eric Auchard and Ben Berkowitz, Reuters
The living room, once the most technologically simple part of the average home, is a high-tech battleground today as the consumer electronics industry seeks to digitize home entertainment and make it available anywhere, anytime. The Consumer Electroni From Techno-News Blog on January 4, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Vocabulario Técnico de Marketing e Internet
Un buen recurso para tener a mano: el Vocabulario Técnico de Marketing e Internet mantenido por Mar Monsoriu de Latencia (dispone de actualizaciones en RSS). La autora promueve el grupo de noticias es.ciencia.marketing y edita el boletín Ezine Margerine. Relacionado:... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 4, 2005 at 6:52 a.m..

Entre la subjetividad asumida y la falsa objetividad
Escribe Ignacio Ramonet en Le Monde Diplomatique sobre los Medios de comunicación en crisis: Existe además el fenómeno de los “blogs”, característico de la cultura web, cuyo número ha aumentado de manera impresionante en todo el mundo durante el segundo... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 4, 2005 at 6:52 a.m..

Sobre los errores del e-learning en la empresa
Confiemos en que 2005 sea un buen año para el avance del e-learning en nuestro país. De los errores que se han venido denunciando por algunos expertos les hablo a continuación, pero, sobre todo, muest... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on January 4, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..

Academia and Wikipedia (danah boyd)
[In direct response to various points in Clay’s K5 Article on Wikipedia Anti-elitism which responds to Larry Sanger’s Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism] First, let me acknowledge that i have excessive privilege in this lifetime. That said, i’m not... From Corante: Social Software on January 4, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..

Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant a ...
Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 4, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..

The BlackBerry Brain Trust
First he reinvented the way we get e-mail. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself. By Duff McDonald from Wired magazine. From Wired News on January 4, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

British ID Card Gains Ground
The U.K. government sees a national identity card now making its way through Parliament as a way to fight terrorism, but opponents see it as an expensive waste of time. By Wendy M. Grossman. From Wired News on January 4, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Golden State of Privacy
California laws that went live on New Year's Day keep cell phones unlisted and rental cars unmonitored. The effects could be felt nationwide. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on January 4, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Call Centers Ride Out Disaster
Some U.S. customer support lines outsourced to India experienced a brief failure in service following the deadly Asian tsunami, but economists say U.S. companies won't have to move their call centers. By Elisa Batista. From Wired News on January 4, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Sat Radio Recording Moves Ahead
Once seen as the embodiment of evil, devices that record satellite radio are making inroads without much fight from the recording industry. By John Gartner. From Wired News on January 4, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Back in the Saddle
I've been on a bit of a self-imposed exile the last week or so, sort of like one of the Duvalier family members. Was it Poppa Doc or Baby Doc? At any rate, the holidays and traveling and reminiscing and eating (!) are all over with now and it's back to the real world of work and all that other stuff for me. It's been a great holiday. You can say one thing for being in the education field, even if the pay isn't comparable to private industry, at least we do get some good time off. I've... From Brain Frieze on January 4, 2005 at 5:56 a.m..

worldKit :: easy web mapping :: Home
Mikel Maron, who presented his worldkit at the last BlogTalk 2.0 just announced a revamped version of his geo-tagging software kit. It's a tool for distributed geographical classifications. Or ethnoregional classification or geo-folksonomy or ... see my last post on this matter. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 4, 2005 at 5:47 a.m..

Juegos para bloggers
Están en marcha: 1) El Amigo Invisible: Extendido el plazo de inscripción hasta el 6 de enero y reorientado a ayudar a los damnificados por el Tsunami. 2) Participaciones en la Lotería: regaladas por fernand0, JJ y Xaxi. 3) BloggIMG... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 4, 2005 at 4:52 a.m..

College Recruiters Lure Students With New Online Tools
Frustrated by the failure of e-mail solicitations, admission directors are looking for new ways to incorporate the Internet into their marketing plans. From New York Times: Education on January 4, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

City Cites Gains in Combating School Violence
Five of 16 schools singled out for special attention have been removed from a monitoring program, but six more have been added to the list. From New York Times: Education on January 4, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

State-Backed Candidate Ends Bid for Ramapo College Post
State Senator Joseph Doria has abandoned his quest to become president of Ramapo College, ending a clash that had pitted the school against Democratic officials. From New York Times: Education on January 4, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Montana Universities Must Offer Health Insurance to Gay Employees' Partners
The majority in the Montana Supreme Court's 4-to-3 decision said the ruling had nothing to do with the rights of gay couples to marry. From New York Times: Education on January 4, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

The Seller of the Goose That Laid a Golden Egg
After a long career in the liquor business, Sidney Frank has turned to giving away his fortune, making a $100 million gift to Brown University, the largest in its history. From New York Times: Education on January 4, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Early Gains and Losses at City's Themed Schools
Four months into the school year, some themes are working better than others, but at even the best-run schools, the future remains unclear. From New York Times: Education on January 4, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

EMEA WLAN revenue reaches €258.6m in Q3
The residential market continues to drive the EMEA WLAN market in the third quarter of 2004. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

MTS launches network in Magadan region
Russian mobile operator MTS launched services the Magadan region in Russia, which has minuscule mobile penetration rates in comparison to the country’s average penetration. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Man sending deceptive tsunami e-mails arrested
Police have charged a man who had been wrongly informing relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami disaster that their loved ones had died. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Teliasonera lays off 300 employees
Mobile operator Telia Mobile Denmark is to lay off 300 employees in 2005. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Mobile modem market grows 167% in 2004
Western European expansion of UMTS networks has created a significant new market for mobile modems in the last year. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

British game developer knighted
UK computer games maker Peter Molyneux, who has helped create games like Populous, Theme Park and Dungeon Keeper, has been recognised for his contribution to the games industry. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Another setback in KPN battle for cable-TV access
The Dutch telecoms regulator has turned down KPN’s request to force Dutch cable operator UPC to provide the incumbent telco access to its cable network. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Ericsson supplies EDGE, WCDMA upgrade to Polkomtel
Ericsson is to upgrade Polkomtel’s mobile network, enabling the operator to offer such services as video telephony, mobile music and mobile broadband internet access. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Tele2 consortium awarded Croatian 3G licence
A consortium led by Tele2 has been awarded a a combined GSM 1800 and UMTS licence in Croatia. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

AMD launches mobile multimedia solution
Microprocessor maker AMD has launched its Au1200 processor, which can store, manage and play multimedia content on the go. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 4, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

AT&T Wins The CogSogBlog All Time Customer Service Hall of Shame
Readers of the CogDog may know we are not that gentle towards bad service from big corporate entities. My recent experience with AT&T Universal and Phone Company (and whatever the other percentage of the universe they own) has earned them the all time Pile of Stinky Poop Award for doing just that with their service. Bear with this tragic tale... The December statement on my AT&T Universal MasterCard showed a November 11 phone call charge to my AT&T Universal Calling Card from a pay phone in Vermont to some number I did not recognize in Wilmington Delaware. The minor prob From cogdogblog on January 4, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..

No Photoshop At All
flickr foto No Photoshop At Allavailable on my flickr This looks like something one does by compositing and feather-edging layer From cogdogblog on January 4, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

See Spot Run.
Here's a noteworthy announcement from England, courtesy The Guardian: BSkyB offers prospect of ad-free viewingMonday, January 3, 2005 The satellite group BSkyB has patented new technology that allows television viewers to record favourite programmes without any ad breaks. News that the pay-television comp From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 4, 2005 at 12:00 a.m..

Moving to Movable Type?
I'm experimenting with a parallel weblog setup for a few weeks. I've installed Movable Type on my server to see how it compares to Radio Userland. The MT installation was a bit more involved compared to Radio but the docs were fairly straightforward and I got it working. What prompted me to try this was that I just get the feeling Radio Userland is going nowhere. The underlying technology, Frontier, is still a great application and I use it for most of my web-based scripting/database apps bu From David Davies: Edtech on January 3, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..