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As I sit here doing a blog entry for the first time since before New Years, I realize how much of an enjoyable activity blogging has been for me in the last year. I missed very few days in 2004... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 6, 2005 at 10:52 p.m..
Group Blogs Are Not All Alike
This blog (E-Media Tidbits) is now over four years old -- and for most of its life it's been a group blog. I serve as editor, and 21 other writers (currently) contribute whenever they have something worth saying. That is, you read their items when they feel like writing. It's a group-blog format that works, for the most part, assuming everyone doesn't decide to write on the same day, or all take the day off writing.The Media Center of the American Press Institute has launched a new kind of group blog that represents another model.
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 6, 2005 at 10:52 p.m..
Tagalicious
Brian Dear suggests "Taggle" as a future site that would let us type in a keyword and get back all the pages that use that word as a tag. And in the comments people suggest links to a whole bunch of interesting tag work. I think I'll do a long-overdue issue of my newsletter, Joho, on taxonomies vs. tags. All the cool kids are doing tags, you know. But I'm so wrapped up now in researching the Feb. issue of Esther Dyson's newsletter, that I may not get to it. And what's the topic of that Feb. issue? Taxonomies and... From
Joho the Blog on January 6, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Sea gypsies' knowledge saves village
By the time killer waves crashed over southern Thailand last Sunday the entire 181 population of their fishing village had fled to a temple in the mountains of South Surin Island, English language Thai daily The Nation reported. "The elders told us that if the water recedes fast it will reappear in the same quantity in which it disappeared," 65-year-old village chief Sarmao Kathalay told the paper. So while in some places along the southern coast, Thais headed to the beach when the sea drained out of beaches -- the first sign of From
elearningpost on January 6, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..
links for 2005-01-06
Metacrap Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia (categories: Metadata Semantic_Web) interactionary » The Cognitive Cost of Classification Jess McMullin seems to be pretty brilliant (categories: metadata classification Semantic_Web)... From
Monkeymagic on January 6, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
[CSG-Winter-2005] Chandler Westwood Advisory Board Meeting
We had the usual Westwood Advisory Board meeting this morning. It was good to touch base with the OSAF folks, and I finally got to meet Ted Leung face-to-face (after all, he only lives just across the Sound from us on Bainbridge Island). The agenda from the meeting is
here. Some points of interest were work on Chandler 0.5 is proceding, with a March release planned. There's a lot of progress on the draft
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 6, 2005 at 7:02 p.m..
Hear Me, Tom, and Kris on Croncast Today
This morning, Kris Smith of Croncast recorded a discussion with me and my husband, Tom Vilot. He's just published it as today's podcast. It's a great conversation about conversations and other intriguing topics... From
Contentious Weblog on January 6, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Bill Gates is Coming to Your Living Room, Whether You Like It or Not
After having his
presentation crash at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Bill Gates gives a lengthy interview to CNet in which he discusses convergence and the new Media Centre PCs. XBox, Microsoft's gaming platform, plays a large role in this discussion. And it occurs to me that the major purpose of XBox isn't to complete with Sony and Sega but rather to establish a 'trusted platform', where the content vendor (of music, video, games, or text) has control over the hardware. Asked From
OLDaily on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
The Principals' Partnership
Via Pete MacKay's Tecaher List comes another useful online learning resource: a community with news and resources specifically for school principles. People sometimes represent online learning as being nothing other than online courses, but more and more online learning means a site like this. By Various Authors, January, 2005 [
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OLDaily on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
About Light-Weight IDentity
This may end up being the year of personal identity, if the first week is any indication (and I think it is). Today's entrant is a strong contender, a system called Light-Weight IDentity (LID) that instantiates many of the criteria I have stated previously: it is light-weight, it is distributed, it is (somewhat) easy to install, and most importantly, it is in the control of individuals - there is no central directory service that acts as a wek link. I messed around with it this afternoon, installing the software and configuring it for my site - I ran into some issues, as it seems not to b From
OLDaily on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Learning Sciences and Brain Research
The site is still pretty new (I could not resist joining the 'Brain Club' despite the details not yet being available) and the forum only has thirty or so message in it, but this initiative, sponsored by the OECD, looks like it has potential. Or it might be one of those community sites that forever remains a hollow shell. No RSS; tsk. Via European Schoolnet. By Various Authors, January 6, 2005 4:48 p.m. [
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OLDaily on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Is Podcasting the Next New Big Thing?
Discussion of podcasting and especially a list of things that will be needed: "First of all, the types of media will need to be expanded... Second, the user needs to have more choices for playback and data storage on different devices... Third, we'll need some options for authentication so that content can be personalized... Fourth, for some types of content, there is a need for ecommerce and epayment capabilities." Note: I've covered podcasting quite a bit lately; see the full coverage
here. Note that by From
OLDaily on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Predictions For 2005
Predictions for the new year, with a lot of emphasis on alternatives to courses (Elliott Masie: "More learners are grazing content to select just those modules that they need RIGHT NOW!") and to course management systems (Michael Feldstein: "The three major commercial vendors of Course Management Systems (Blackboard, WebCT, and Angel) will begin to make visibly defensive moves in response to the growing threat from open-source alternatives."). My own predictions ("Consolidation and culture wars") are also included. By Lisa Neal, eLearn Magazine, January 6, 2004 [
OLDaily on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Fukuyama's Penguin (Ross Mayfield)
I have this pet theory, rather grand, and falls into the category of what you believe is true even though you cannot prove it. That open source will realize the end of history. In 1989 Francis Fukuyama wrote the celebrated... From
Corante: Social Software on January 6, 2005 at 4:50 p.m..
Copyrights in the Blogosphere
Terry Heaton raises an important issue: Many of us tend to be, um, lax about copying copyrighted material onto our own servers so that we can make it more broadly available. At some point, we're going to get sued. Just in case you were looking for something else to worry about...... From
Joho the Blog on January 6, 2005 at 4:49 p.m..
Podcast (Kind of...) #3
So having said last week that I was
pretty much done with the podcasting stuff, here I am, back with what I guess is Podcast #3. But, this one is a bit different. After listening recently to an NPR audio-essay on Brian Eno I thought "now there's an application for Podcasts" or something close to that. See, to me the power in this has always been about the audience, the ability to distribute the creation to people in the hopes they'll listen. The Eno essayist had NPR. We, thanks to Podcasting, have the Internet. So, I carved out From
weblogged News on January 6, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Sxip, Identity Commons, and digital identity
If you've been struggling and juggling with dozens of IDs and passwords, you know user authentication is one of the major "pain points" online in this era of multiplicating lightweight services.
Sxip is one of the promising avenues toward solving this problem with minimal hairpulling on either the user or developer end. Martin Terre Blanche explains the user side better than I could in his post "
Single sign-on at last". Here are the first two paragraphs. I urge you to read the last few, From
Seb's Open Research on January 6, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Taking Stock and Fighting Back
Critics say that coverage of the tsunami in South Asia is no longer conducted in good taste. That the media is now wallowing in private tragedies, turning from reporting to disaster voyeurism.Such accusations have made the editors of the Web edition of the Norwegian daily
Dagbladet strike back. They're doing what their paper edition could never do: They're
taking stock by collecting all their tsunami stories and letting the readers decide. Has their da From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 6, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..
Losing It In Public
A lot of us are suffering from having eaten too much and exercised too little over the holidays. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution has
launched a very public weight-loss campaign in which five people are losing it in public -- blogging regularly about what they're going through as they try to shed a few unwanted pounds.It's an interactive feature that's bound to draw an audience into the site's health section. A similar project featuring staffers of Cox's InsideNewOrleans.com (now closed) drew a From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 6, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..
Thursday, January 06, 2005
While watching the season premier of Alias last night, it dawned on me why we have not caught Osama Bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The CIA does not have enough drop-dead-sexy secret agents. From
RHPT.com on January 6, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..
CNN.com ofrece feeds RSS
CNN.com se apunta al presente y comienza a ofrecer fuentes RSS de algunas de sus secciones más populares: CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss CNN.com - Most Popular: http://www.cnn.com/rss/cnn_mostpopular.rss CNN Money: http://www.cnn.com/rss/money_topstories.rss CNN/Money - Most Popular: http://www.cnn.com/rss/money_mostpopular.rss Sports Illustrated: http://www.cnn.com/rss/si_topstories.rss VÃa: CNN does RSS?... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 6, 2005 at 1:53 p.m..
Multidimensional categorization of music
danah boyd posts about her
disjointed playlisting habits, and the impact such habits have on the output of
last.FM's collaborative filtering algorithm. One of the commenters writes, "Maybe it is just that the software is revealing the shockingly deep and secret connection between Johnny Cash and PsyTrance?" The connections most often drawn between musical pieces are based on stylistic resemblance From
Seb's Open Research on January 6, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
Impact of ICT on Education
One could probably argue that the impact of technology on the way people learn has been least in the school context, and minimal in a university setting (with the exception of maybe a few "open" universities). Corporate training, especially so-called... From
ErikLog on January 6, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Year of the enterprise Wiki
Ward Cunningham created the first Wiki site in 1995 to collaborate with a band of like-minded programmers on the elucidation of common software patterns. That work continues today at Microsoft, where he works in the patterns and practices group. Meanwhile, the Wiki concept -- a Web site that every reader can also write and edit --has flourished beyond all expectations. Flexible, direct, lightweight, and requiring only a Web browser to use, Wikis suit a wide range of applications. There are Wiki implementations for a dozen programming language From
Jon's Radio on January 6, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
Reverse Salients
An interesting term for an interesting concept with interesting ramifications. Even its origins are interesting. In "Tuning in to Technology's Past" , and article in today's Technology Review, Thomas Hughes defines "reverse salients" as oecomponents in the system that have fallen behind or are out of phase with the others. Why ... From
Gardner Writes on January 6, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..
KSoft Announces New RSS Submission Software
KSoft's
RSS Submit Software will automatically submit your RSS feeds to all the popular RSS search engines and directories. I've tried this software out and it is a definate time saver! RSS Submit supports the following RSS Search Engines: Yahoo, Moreover, News Knowledge, Syndic8, Newsmob, Sourceforge, YellowBrix, Genecast, Blogdex, Popdex, Blog Street, Blog Wise, Boing Boing, 2RSS, Blog Digger, Bloogz, Easy RSS, Edu RSS, Fyber Search, Memigo, News Tro From
RSS Blog on January 6, 2005 at 7:57 a.m..
Cabir cell phone threat worsens - Paul Festa, CNET News
Reporting a new crop of variants, a security firm warned that the Cabir cell phone virus is becoming more of a threat. Earlier versions of Cabir, which spreads through phones running the Symbian operating system and Bluetooth wireless technology, won From
Techno-News Blog on January 6, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..
King Tut Mummy Scanned for Clues
Researchers employ modern technology in hopes of solving a dusty mystery: Was the famous Pharaoh murdered? The examination begins a process aimed at restoring and preserving the boy king's blackened remains. From
Wired News on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Iron Pumping Iron
Motors whine, barbells groan and gearheads sweat in the battle to become the robo-powerlifting champion of the world. By Brad Stone from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
An Obscene Waste of Energy
The FCC has some meaningful duties, but regulating content shouldn't be one of them. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Search Looks at the Big Picture
Tracking down online images is mostly hit or miss thanks to inaccurate text tags, but a new technology could help you find what you're looking for more precisely. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Tsunami Tests Limits of Forensics
Despite advances in DNA analysis, the nature of the Indian Ocean disaster may prevent investigators from reuniting thousands of victims with their identities. By Randy Dotinga. From
Wired News on January 6, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Tags on Speed: 43 Things
Thanks to
a tip from Alex I tuned into the now released version of
43 Things, which is addictive, intensive connected, and tagged inside out. I had peeked at the beta a few weeks back, but the released version is wild, social, and amazing. It is tags, tags, and tags on speed. The premise is that you build goals for yourself, 43 Things to do in your life, and it connects you to people who have the same goal, or who have accomplished it (these are things done, that the accomplished can From
cogdogblog on January 6, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
Virtual Schools for Jocks
More high school athletes are taking online classes. Does electronic ed work? Ten or so years ago, budding athletes only had an "either-or" option when it came to considering education and sport. As
this article reveals, e-learning has empowered such people by giving them an "and also" option. This is exactly the type of change we need in developing countries where for many the very existence of only the "either-or" leads them to a path of inaction. From
elearningpost on January 6, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..