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Pew Report on the Future of the Internet
Ernie at Webliminal blogged Monday about the Pew report released this week. The document is essential reading, I think, but the Predictions Database at Elon University is the real cabinet of wonders: a beautifully arranged database that not only maps the development of thought concerning networked computing but does it ... From Gardner Writes on January 12, 2005 at 11:01 a.m..

Rapid E-Learning: A Growing Trend
Da will ich gerade ein paar Zeilen über diesen Artikel schreiben, da fliegt eine Anfrage von Macromedia in meinen Postkorb ("WG: Rapid e-learning"), ob ich denn auch nach meinem "Wechsel" noch Interesse an Breeze hätte. Ja, wenn nur das liebe... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 12, 2005 at 10:51 a.m..

The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity welcomes the help of librarians in encouraging e ...
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity welcomes the help of librarians in encouraging entries for their Peter Pan Awards From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 12, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Berlin 3 Open Access: Progress of Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowled ...
Berlin 3 Open Access: Progress of Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - February 28-March 1, 2005 - University of Southampton, UK From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 12, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

MasterMind Explorer - Issue 80 - Interactive TV Ads, Folksonomies, Rich Media
MasterMind Explorer - Issue 80 - Interactive TV Ads, Folksonomies, Rich Media From MasterMind Explorer on January 12, 2005 at 9:53 a.m..

Car Talk Talk
There's an article, by Joseph P. Kahn, with lots of fun facts about Tom and Ray, the Car Talk guys, in today's Boston Globe. Here's a snippet I enjoyed: Targets of the show's humor sometimes fire back. After Tom made a crack on-air about a tailgate problem the Dodge Caravan was having, suggesting in his usual irreverent manner that Chrysler Corp. had "paid off" investigators to forestall a recall, a highly unamused Chrysler representative demanded a public correction and got one — sort of. Tom did correct the record during a subsequent show, saying something to the ef From Joho the Blog on January 12, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..

Sony PC doubles as TV - John G. Spooner, CNET News
Sony is merging the television and the personal computer in its latest Vaio desktop. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday, the electronics giant unveiled the Vaio V TV PC, an all-in-one desktop that combines the attributes of past From Techno-News Blog on January 12, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

Apple unveils low-cost Mac, iPod - Reuters
Apple Computer Inc. Tuesday said it would begin selling a stripped-down Macintosh computer without monitor, keyboard or mouse for $499 and new iPod digital music players costing as little as $99. Chief Executive Steve Jobs, announcing the new product From Techno-News Blog on January 12, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

'Critical' patches released for Windows, IE - Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News
Microsoft on Tuesday released two critical patches for its Windows operating system, but a patch for the underlying security problems with Internet Explorer 6 is not yet ready for prime time. As part of its monthly update release, the company issued t From Techno-News Blog on January 12, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

The inaugural edition of the PLA blog will cover the ALA Midwinter Meeting which takes place in Bost ...
The inaugural edition of the PLA blog will cover the ALA Midwinter Meeting which takes place in Boston, January 14-19, 2005. The PLA blog effort was begun by librarian, consultant, and blogger Steven M. Cohen, who is best known as the proprietor of LibraryStuff.net and also serves as the Internet Spotlight columnist for "Public Libraries" magazine From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 12, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Openly Informatics, Inc. has announced that it had added OpenURL 1.0 support, along with several oth ...
Openly Informatics, Inc. has announced that it had added OpenURL 1.0 support, along with several other user-friendly features, to an Open Source browser plugin extension that adds linking to web pages in the Google Scholar service From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 12, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Presented at the 6 January 2005 conference of the Arizona Association of Law Libraries (AzALL), Find ...
Presented at the 6 January 2005 conference of the Arizona Association of Law Libraries (AzALL), Finding News Faster examines using XML-based (RSS or Atom) feeds in research. It starts with the basics - what they are, how to display them, and how to find them. It continues with sources and strategies for selecting feeds, or for creating keyword-specific feeds From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 12, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Visualising Communities and Characters
Ancient British Scientist finds Anjo's work on communities or "settlements" a real treat. From Monkeymagic on January 12, 2005 at 7:53 a.m..

Vitamins Prohibition?
Are you, like me, a health-aware person? Do you personally take vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements to enhance health and to prevent common diseases? Photo credit: Pam Roth If so, how angry would you get if your country was going to shut off the opportunity for you to buy and consume these products? Yes, you read it right. How mad (or better, how bad) would you get if new laws forced producers of these nutrients to severely scale down dosages and to require doctors' prescriptions to buy them? Well, the time is coming: and it is not too far... From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on January 12, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..

BlogTalk Downunder II
As already mentioned earlier on the next BlogTalk is in Australia, and I'll be there as an invited speaker. Looking forward to step on Australian soil for the very first time. Guess I'll attach 2 weeks of vacation once I'm there. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 12, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Taggregator (Seb Paquet)
No Taggle just yet, Clay, but getting closer: the Taggregator, which generates a side-by-side view of recent del.icio.us and flickr input with a given tag. Try pattern. (via Alan Levine)... From Corante: Social Software on January 12, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..

The Future of the Internet in Education
If you believe as I do that the Internet will continue to become the dominant technology tool for schools, then the new Pew Internet study on the future of the Web is must reading, particularly the part on the future of formal education. Here is the scenario they offered and asked whether the experts agreed. (57% did): Enabled by information technologies, the pace of learning in the next decade will increasingly be set by student choices. In ten years, most students will spend at least part of their school days in virtual From weblogged News on January 12, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..

Feds Can X-Rated Spam
The Federal Trade Commission wins a court order to stop the flood of illegal, adult e-mail advertising for six companies accused of violating federal laws governing spam. It's the government's first legal case involving X-rated junk e-mail. From Wired News on January 12, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Ethics for the Robot Age
Should bots carry weapons? Should they win patents? Questions we must answer as automation advances. By Jordan Pollack from Wired magazine. From Wired News on January 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

It's a Small Macworld
Macworld Expo opens with Apple introducing a tiny, flash-memory iPod and a small, no-extras Macintosh computer. Leander Kahney and Daniel Terdiman report from San Francisco. From Wired News on January 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Videos Quick, Easy and Automatic
A new program called Videora combines BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download a computer user's favorite videos. It's another application the entertainment companies will likely hate and consumers will love. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on January 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

IPod Shuffle Sparks Stampede
Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote speech -- and a lack of Wi-Fi -- set off a rush among iPod fans to see who can get to the nearby Apple Store before the newfangled devices sell out. Daniel Terdiman reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on January 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Sniffing Out Things That Go Boom
Unlike its namesake program, the U.S. government's 'Manhattan II' project aims to find better ways to detect bombs, not to build bigger ones. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on January 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Free, Fee-Based and Value-Added Information Services
Dieser Artikel zitiert zwar die unten genannten IDC-Zahlen, aber nur, um einen bestimmten Punkt weiter auszuführen. Denn Knowledge Worker, so die Autorin, laufen in eine Sackgasse, wenn sie im festen Vertrauen auf Google glauben, "anything is available on the Web".... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 12, 2005 at 5:51 a.m..

More small pieces of music, loosely joined
Fabricio Zuardi has made an open source Flash+XSPF+MP3 player. In Lucas Gonze's words, it is "a web-hosted player for web-hosted content linked to in web-hosted playlists, and the player, playlist, and songs can all reside on separate servers." From Seb's Open Research on January 12, 2005 at 5:46 a.m..

Blogs, Tsunami and Beyond
Rebecca MacKinnon: Can this new model of citizen-journalism and aid coordination be extended to disasters and human tragedies that don t get so much mainstream media attention? From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:56 a.m..

WordPress CC
Firas has created a Creative Commons plugin for WordPress, perhaps the most popular open source blog software. Now you can add a CC license to your WordPress blog with just a few clicks. From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:56 a.m..

Ideas for news site as 'public square'
As promised, writer Lex Alexander delivered a detailed report to his editors at The Greensboro News &amp Record on how to make the newspaper's Web site more of a "public square." Here are some of the more innovative ideas he listed to better involve the community in the news site and make the newspaper more transparent: Assign local bloggers to cover in depth some things that we don't -- e.g., community sports by team, business specialties, etc. Recruit a blogger for each neighborhood from among From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:56 a.m..

Building a Better Blog
Brian Bailey's Top 10 ideas for how to build a better blog are essential for any beginner or intermediate. From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:56 a.m..

Long Tail TV
I spent a few days at CES in Las Vegas last week, mostly to get an impressionistic sense of the hot categories in consumer electronics. Aside from the freakish, seventh-seal scene of snow on the Strip and way, way too many huge plasma flatscreens, what struck me most was the explosion in innovation around freeing TV from its distribution shackles. As your thumb crawls through your several hundred digital cable channels, TV may appear anything but shackled. Yet it is. What seems like everything imaginable is instead a very thin slice on the video world. The existing channel structu From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:55 a.m..

NYT Analyzes Apple v. Bloggers
The New York Times: Against the backdrop of the Macworld Exposition in San Francisco this week, a series of legal actions filed by Apple Computer over the last month highlights the difficulties of defining who is a journalist in the age of the Web log. From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:55 a.m..

Real Time Media Prosumers
Derrick Oien on User Generated Content reflects, through personal experience, on how we are clearly at the dawn of a period where media turns in on itself and we all become Real Time Media Producers and Consumers or Real Time Media Prosumers. From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:55 a.m..

Watch Out, Traditional Media!
Always On: "The collective intelligence and power of the blogosphere are bringing accountability and competition to broadcast news and journalism." From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:55 a.m..

IBM Turning 500 Patents Over for Free Implementation
IBM has announced that it will turn 500 of its software patents over to a "patent commons" that can be freely implemented by anyone. This is big news for free software authors, since it's often impossible for all-volunteer projects to defend themselves from patent infringement claims when there is a bogus software patent (like the thousands that IBM has accumulated) that overlaps with their work. Groklaw's got an excellent piece on this:IBM has more patents than any of them. And if they have decided to carve out a protected zone for free and open source software, t From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 4:55 a.m..

The high cost of not finding information
In der Regel wissen Unternehmen ganz gut, was sie ausgeben, um wichtige Geschäftsinformationen zu bekommen. Aber was es sie kostet, bestimmte Dinge nicht zu wissen, ist in der Regel eine unbekannte Größe. Die Autorin gibt einige anschauliche Beispiele für daraus... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 12, 2005 at 4:51 a.m..

An Anchor Bookstore for a College and Its Neighborhood
PrattStore is determined to be more than just another college bookstore. Housed in a sleek contemporary building with large glass windows, the new art-and-design store, which will open this month on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, has been purposely built to serve both town and gown. From New York Times: Education on January 12, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

In Surprise Move, SUNY Chancellor Seeks Leave of Absence
In a request that took many officials at the State University of New York Chancellor Robert L. King has asked trustees for an immediate six-month leave of absence. From New York Times: Education on January 12, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Alabama Scholarships for Service, Not Just Grades
An Alabama heiress is providing college scholarships to students with as low as a C average, as long as they have a record of service to family and community. From New York Times: Education on January 12, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Fodder for Reform's Cynics, and a Blot on Bipartisanship
Twice upon a time, or at least twice within the past dozen years, an American president issued the audacious promise to solve a seemingly intractable social problem. From New York Times: Education on January 12, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Regents Approve New Math Criteria for Grades Below High School
The board recommended more attention to the fundamentals for young students and a greater focus on specific concepts in the higher grades. From New York Times: Education on January 12, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Investment Manager to Exit Endowment at Harvard
Harvard University's investment manager said Tuesday that he was leaving to start his own firm. From New York Times: Education on January 12, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

IBM gives away 500 patents
In a bold move in the field of intellectual property , IBM announced the donation of 500 patents . (thanks to Jamie Carroll ) From NITLE Tech News on January 12, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

The Centralization of BitTorrent Networks
Andrew Chen writes: "A couple friends and I did some analysis on the degree of centralization between BitTorrent sites, and put it up on the web. Interestingly, the distribution has a very obvious Long Tail pattern: Key conclusions: * Torrent files are extremely centralized, and do follow a Zipf Law-like distribution * However, instead of 20/80, the distribution is more like 4/80. * The long tail is From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..

Comcast to offer (yet another) IM client
Just in case ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Jabber, or iChat (among others) don't get you hot and bothered about instant messaging, Comcast has the solution: yet another IM client! And get this (are you prepared for wild, mind-blowing features?): Comcast's IM client will support video chat! Did I fall into a coma, or is it already 2025? (Continued at Ars Technica) From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..

Light-Weight Digital Identity (LID)
A quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their digital identities. LID is a mechanism for single sign-on (SSO). LID makes vCards always up-to-date with better privacy LID is a password management tool. LID is a foundation for social networking. And there are many other uses. From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..

In defense of
Absolutely delights to see that the Media Bloggers Association -- via the good work and offices of Robert Cox -- has established the Bloggers Legal Defense Project and appointed an attorney to go with it. The Media Bloggers Association announces the appointment of Ronald D. Coleman, of the Coleman Law Firm, PC as general counsel. Coleman will be build a team of attorney around the country to provide MBA members with first-line counsel on matters relating to the use of intellectual property, defamation From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..

Supercomputing goes global
The world's most powerful supercomputer likely will evolve into a grid architecture of loosely coupled systems harnessed logically to a single task across a global network. A grid holds the most promise for delivering the biggest and baddest theoretical supercomputing architecture imaginable, a virtual multiple-instruction/multiple-data, or MIMD, global supercomputer. From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..

How HDV is handled in new iMovie 05 and Final Cut Express HD
So I went by the Apple booth to get the skinny on the HDV support. I asked about how they were editing long GOP MPEG-2, and the first answer I got was that it was put in a QuickTime wrapper. I asked again how they were handling the 15 frame GOP (group of pictures), and was sent to somebody else, who it turns out was a Shake guy. He told me that they were using some kind of an interstitial codec, and sent me over to find someone else. So here's the scoop: The HDV is read in from the tape in real time, but then it is transcoded to an all i-frame intermediate From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

Most Interesting Product at MWSF So Far - Silicon Color's Final Touch HD
Silicon Color announced that Final Touch HD has shipped at MWSF after being announced at Siggraph. Here are some pictures of the UI (at the end of the page). Unfortunately, my carefully written notes didn't show up on the .Mac page. It's the most interesting product I've seen at the show so far. It will do realtime color correction of HD foot From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

freshmeat.net: Project Reviews - Kenosis and the World Free Web
Kenosis is a fully-distributed peer-to-peer RPC system built on top of XMLRPC. Nodes are automatically connected to each other via a Kademlia-style network and can route RPC requests efficiently to any online node. Kenosis does not rely on a central server; any Kenosis node can effectively join the network ("bootstrap") from any connected node. From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

HOWTO: Hack iPod into iPod Shuffle
Now erase all but 240 of your songs. (Thanks, Boogah!) From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

Samsung's speech-to-text and text-to-speech phones
Just last week Samsung announced a speech-to-text phone for the Korean market and somewhat miraculously, the same technology will be available in the US in the next couple of months. The Samsung SGH-P207 is a tri-band EDGE phone with MPEG4 video recording and voice recognition capabilities that let you text message through dictation. When I talked to some Samsung From unmediated on January 12, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

Skypecasting in EFL
Will's latest posting got me thinking again.  When Bee introduced me to Skype a few weeks back, I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of sound and the ease with which calls could be made.  Immediately I began thinking about ways it could be put to use with my Japanese EFL students.  Up until now, I've been having them use Livejournal in r From apcampbell News on January 12, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

Training Needs Assessment Essentials
By Denise M. Ruggeri - what it is, why it's important, and how to perform a training needs assessment.... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 12, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..

Five Of My Fifteen Minutes: “My Favorite Town”
In the spring of 1990 my wife and I were childless and living in Richmond, Virginia. I was a little over halfway through writing my dissertation. I craved a diversion. The warming weather brought just the escape I needed: XL-102, the local FM rock station, sponsored a contest called ... From Gardner Writes on January 12, 2005 at 1:01 a.m..

A beginners Guide to HTML
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 12, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

Web Style Guide
THE FIRST STEP in designing any Web site is to define your goals. Without a clearly stated mission and objectives the project will drift, bog down, or continue past an appropriate endpoint. Careful planning and a clear purpose are the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 12, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

W3 Schools
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, XSL, Multimedia and WAP. W3Schools - The Largest Web Developers Site On The Net W3Schools Online Web Tutorials... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 12, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

W3C World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. On this page, you'll find W3C news,... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 12, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

CSS Tutorial
This short tutorial is meant for people who want to start using CSS and have never written a CSS style sheet before. It does not explain much of CSS. It just explains how to create an HTML file, a CSS... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 12, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

HTML HOme Page
This is W3C's home page for the HTML Activity. Here you will find pointers to our specifications for HTML/XHTML, guidelines on how to use HTML/XHTML to the best effect, and pointers to related work at W3C. When W3C decides to... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 12, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

Aware Center
Welcome to the homepage of the HTML Writers Guild's AWARE Center. AWARE stands for Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education, and our mission is to serve as a central resource for web authors for learning about web accessibility. AWARE Center... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 12, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

What Makes a Design Seem 'Intuitive'?
In a recent usability test, I once again witnessed something I've seen a hundred times before: a frustrated user claiming he knows exactly what is wrong with the interface he was fighting with. What was his suggestion? "These guys need... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 11, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

Course Management Systems >> It's the Support, Stupid!
At the July Syllabus2004 conference in San Francisco, attendees took a day to head to the UC Berkeley campus where they absorbed session and keynote content, shared information with peers, and participated in vigorous panel discussions. One such discussion, "Is... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 11, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

Your software rights or the best tools: often a sad choice
What do we do when we have a substandard free software product that we could use, but would be more productive with a proprietary competitor? What sacrifices should we make in order to use a free software program? Originally the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 11, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Thanks to my Masters Course at Athabasca for these sites on HTML. Bare Bones Guide to HTML -- download page... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 11, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

EchoEcho.com Tutorials :HTML
You can use this tutorial either as a complete introduction or as an A-Z reference to HTML. The pages are packed with: Easy to understand explanations, massive examples, tips, smart workarounds and useful quick references. If you're completely new to... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 11, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

HTML Goodies
HTML Goodies: Free HTML, CSS, PHP tutorials and help, images, color codes and more for the web developer... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 11, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

Writing HTML
By the time you have reached the end of this tutorial you will be able to construct a series of linked web pages for any subject that includes formatted text, pictures, and hypertext links to other web pages on the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 11, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

Bill Gates rewrites Godwin's Law, or Creative Commies
Bill Gates was busy last week. Not only did he get drunk with Conan O'Brien and wake up with a Macintosh, but he did an interview with CNET that's being blogged around the world. The attention-getting quote came in this exchange: CNET:In recent years, there's been a From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 11, 2005 at 10:56 p.m..

Tsunami Satellite Photos
I am a bit late on posting about one of the most tragic events I could imagine, but I was utterly shocked to see this series of satellite photographs that depict the before and after of this devastating tsunami.... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on January 11, 2005 at 9:56 p.m..

Kenyan pundit, live from Kenya
Ory Okolloh, the Kenyan Pundit, is back in Nairobi, working with the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. Her blog entries bounce from what life is like these days in Kenya to why it's like that. Great reading.... From Joho the Blog on January 11, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

What Makes a Design Seem 'Intuitive'?
This is a nice article showing how to bridge the gap between users current level of knowledge about an interface and the target knowledge they need to use the interface intuitively. The biggest challenge in making a design seem intuitive to users is learning where the current and target knowledge points are. What do users already know and what do they need to know? To build intuitive interfaces, answering these two questions is critical. For identifying the user’s current knowledge, we favor field studies... For From elearningpost on January 11, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

Irrationally want an iPod Shuffle
The reality distortion field is working :-) ! Don't really need one, but I want an iPod Shuffle. Why? To listen to podcasts and exchange files. I already have an 2nd generation iPod, but this would be far less fragile and intrusive. From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 11, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..

7th Edition of CMS Report
Ever busy, CMS Watch have just released the 7th edition of the The CMS Report. This includes updated reviews and new vendors. To quote: CMS Watch releases the Winter, 2005 edition of The CMS Report, our semi-annual review of Web... From Column Two on January 11, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Mid market web CMS vendors pull ahead
As quoted by CMSwire, and following on from my last post, Tony Byrne has made some observations on the state of the market in the new edition of The CMS Report: Mid-market vendors now offer comprehensive Web content management packages... From Column Two on January 11, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community
Ulises Ali Mejias has conducted a study into the social classification used on del.icio.us. To quote: Working within the constraints of a very limited data sample, this study attempts to identify some of the information management and meaning construction... From Column Two on January 11, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Why More Women Should Start Podcasting
In this audio edition of CONTENTIOUS, I explain my reasoning behind why I think podcasting has the potential to become and incredibly important and powerful medium. That alone would be reason enough for women to play a key role in shaping the development of this medium. However, there are deeper reasons rooted in the different ways that women and men converse. If more media reflects how women generally approach communication, I believe that media could work considerable good in parts of our society and world that have gone desperately awry. It may sound grandiose and idealistic, but that' From Contentious Weblog on January 11, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

LOST: one learning designer
  I am at the start of a journey during which I intend to find out what learning design is. I`ve been teaching, writing and producing learning materials of many different types for more than twenty years and Ive just realised Im lost. From Viral-learning.net on January 11, 2005 at 6:50 p.m..

2004 salary survey for user experience design and usability professionals
Spirit Softworks and Peak Usability have released the results of the 2004 salary survey, for UxD and usability professionals. To quote: In the Spring of 2004, Spirit Softworks and Peak Usability conducted an international online survey of salaries for user... From Column Two on January 11, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

What makes a design seem 'intuitive'?
Jared M. Spool has written an article exploring the meaning of intuitive, when it comes to designing systems. To quote: Users can complete their objective when current knowledge equals target knowledge. There are two ways this can happen. You can... From Column Two on January 11, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

ED Outlines New Tech Priorities
The U.S. Department of Education has released its latest National Education Technology Plan (NETP). The report makes seven recommendations: - Strengthen ed-tech leadership at the state and local levels - Consider innovative budgeting - Improve teacher training - Support eLearning and virtual schooling initiatives - Encourage broadband access - Move toward digital content; and - Integrate data systems. Mark Oehlert's OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Embodied Interaction and Seduction
This is a bit disjointed - you'll probably want to read the short Guardian article first, then this extended version, both of which describe the use of the camera (or eye toy) to create 'embodied interaction' in games. Then return to the main item, which reports on the use of such devices in game-based learning by boys and girls. "The excitement and intensity for the girls seemed to r From OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Course Management Systems: It's the Support, Stupid!
"Until you've had to sit and listen to irate faculty members coming to you, you won't really understand about support." So said Ann Watts, Instructional Design coordinator for Des Moines Area Community Colleges, at a recent Syllabus conference. The topic of discussion was open source content management, but according to the report, support isn't any better for commercial products. Scott Siddall, assistant provost for Instructional Resources at Denison University (OH), agrees. "Often, in fact, almost all of the time, proprietary vendors provide inadequate support for their produc From OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

eLearning in 2000 and 2004: Two Different Pictures
According to the authors, "eLearning (in Europe) has almost completely disappeared from top-level policy speeches, both as a term suspected of having lost its impact, and - more seriously- as a significant component of educational policy." This comes four years after the onset of a significant e-learning initiative in Europe. But there was, in fact, "lack of persistence on the concept and practice of the eLearning Initiative: in fact real co-ordination of the EU intervention in this domain has been given up." The emphasis was on European competitiveness, rather than learning, and on formal ins From OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

University Decentralization Debate to be Watched Closely
This is one of those things that's the thin edge of the wedge, a development that should be, as the headline suggests, watched closely. In general, I favour decentralization and institutional autonomy. But I have also commented that the university system is headed toward a funding crisis. Now there's no necessary connection between decentralization and the triggering of the funding crisis, but my belief is that it makes it more likely, particularly if universities find themselves unwilling or unable to meet committments regarding access, tuition or financial aid. All of that said, I From OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Slope One Predictors for Online Rating-Based Collaborative Filtering
As the title suggests, this paper describes an algorithm for rating-based collaborative filtering. This system calculates what readers like separately from what readers dislike. Such systems play an inmportant role in content filtering, and content filtering is a more robust and efficient mechanism for content selection than is a metadata based keyword search. It is the existence of work like this that gives me confidence in the use of aggregator technologies rather than search-based technologies for learning object syndication. Via OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Your Software Rights or the Best Tools: Often a Sad Choice
One of the major reasons why I like having windows on my laptop (all my desktops are Linux) is, in addition to a wireless application that works, I can run Paint Shop Pro. The Linux alternative, the badly named GIMP software, is fairly comprehensive, but I identify with the author when he talks about the user-hostile interface. And that raises the key question: when you're in a production envrionment, when the decisions you make translate into dollars and cents (or in my case, decent issues of OLDaily), what are you willing to give up in order to support free and open software? Via OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Stop Sketching, Little Girl -- Those Paintings Are Copyrighted!
Imagine being a little girl and being rousted by museum security guards because the image you are sketching is copyright. Sure, the museum relented - but when little girls even need to worry about such things, our social consensus has become dark and twisted. By Joi Ito, January 8, 2004 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Microsoft's Consumer Electronics Endgame
This is an important article because it paints very clearly where Microsoft is headed with its consumer electronic - and consumer content - strategy. "As consumers get more intwined with Microsoft DRM content, they will start to migrate towards more Microsoft OS devices: set-top boxes, smart phones, video gadgets, etc. Just like in the PC world, Microsoft will sit back and collect royalties on all this software." I would add, as well, that when the migration to 64-bit software comes about, as it will shortly, Microsoft will have its operating system OLDaily on January 11, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Very cool new Apple stuff!
I've just perused the announcements of the new Apple gear that Steve Jobs must've announced this morning at MacWorld (why did they decide not to broadcast the session?). The coolest new thing in my view is the Mac Mini - a G4 Mac that's 6.5 inches square and 2 inches high for $500 - wow! (no keyboard or monitor included). I think this will sell a whole bunch for personal media servers, low cost web servers, etc. The iPod Shuffle is a flash-memory based iPod with 512 MB or From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 11, 2005 at 6:02 p.m..

OCLC releases update on library information trends
The OCLC released an update for its 2004 information format trends report, which focuses on rapid changes with implications for libraries. One key insight is that information consumers (i.e., students, faculty, staff) are increasingly format-agnostic.... From MANE IT Network on January 11, 2005 at 5:58 p.m..

Project management case from a liberal arts college
Building a Technology Classroom is a case of project management on a liberal arts campus, Allegheny College. The site breaks down how the project used PM principles to organize its operations effectively. (thanks to Jodi Millin!)... From MANE IT Network on January 11, 2005 at 5:58 p.m..

Not So New National Technology Plan
The new National Technology Plan was released last week. I love this part: Yet students of almost any age are far ahead of their teachers in computer literacy, according to the report, which is based on comments from thousands of students, teachers, administrators and education groups. Students say they see this knowledge gap daily... Students across the country see technology as an essential p From weblogged News on January 11, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Are we knowledge activists?
David Wilcox may have found a common thread running through what we do (via Nancy): If your job or passion is to do good communications work using new technology, how do you think of yourself? Others may call you variously a blogger, online journalist, community manager, information worker, editor, researcher, even hacker. Perhaps we'll find some shared interests wearing the badge of knowledge activist. From Seb's Open Research on January 11, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Wanted: Webfeed storage service
I want a site where I can specify webfeeds that I want archived. It will spit them back out when I ask for them, with as many items as I like. Reliable archiving, no loss, all the data that was in the original items is present. Back to the first day I entered the feed into the system. What would I do with this? For starters, I'd use it to keep a backup of every feed that I produce. This would also minimize the pain of migrating my data to other tools, as all of it would be trivially retrievabl From Seb's Open Research on January 11, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Nieuws van de DBNL
http://www.dbnl.org/nieuws/opl012005.htm De Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren bericht de oplevering van nieuwe edities: Max van Amstel, Duizend jongens zien ze vliegen Louis Couperus, De berg van licht Fiore della Neve, Eene liefde in het Zuiden Han G. Hoekstra, Het verloren schaap Wim Hofman, Het vlot Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 1873, 1879, 1880 Dick Laan, De avonturen van Pinkeltje Willem van Swaanenburg, Parnas, of de zang-godinnen van een schilder Herman Teirlinck, De vertraagde film Truwanten Bovendien, in de serie thema's, een afle From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on January 11, 2005 at 5:00 p.m..

Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct
Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct Summary: Dewey was not easily pigeon-holed; was he a philosopher, an educator, political theorist, all three and more? We do know that he had academic credentials and was employed as a psychologist. At the University of Chicago he [as faculty member and theorist] and his wife [as principal and school leader] earned much deserved early fame for the Laboratory School. I won't summarize his 1918 Stanford lectures here (Hum From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on January 11, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Mac mini
Well, here is the future - in terms of hard- and software - of home-computing. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 11, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

There's hope yet
"...the Pythons weren't afraid of looking smart, which isn't allowed so much in the U.S. We like our elected leaders dumb, and we like most of our comedy dumb. Python did plenty of dumb comedy, but it had a context. They'd be talking about Genghis Khan and Marat one minute, and the next there'd be a sixteen-ton weight falling on someone's head. Given the erudition, it actually made the stupid stuff funnier." - critic Dave Eggers, on how Monty Python broke the fourth wall, and made it OK to be smart. "Years ago, when 'interactive TV' trials were busy failing, From silentblue | Quantified on January 11, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

When Your Brand Name Isn't Your Domain Name
Over at GetLocalNews.com, a five-year-old "citizen journalism" enterprise, they're pleased about a domain-name ruling made by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) which allows the company to keep BettendorfNews.com.GetLocalNews has several thousand cityname.com domain names. Its business model is to set up community sites, filled mostly with content from community members, for cities and towns around the U.S.Bettendorf News also is the name of a small weekl From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 11, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

To every thing, a blog
SplitCoastStampers is a site for people who create art using rubber stamps. The site's nicely done, with a blog, and a gallery to share ideas. You can upload or download free cards, create your own album, share tips and techniques ("Faux Leather with Masking Tape"), and "Send cards to soldiers in Iraq through Splitcoast's very own Stamp Your Heart Out campaign." In a sign that this is a true community, members turn to one another for off-topic advice: Tips for flying with toddlers, support for Floridian members hit by the hurricanes, a discussion of why our kids their parents are... From Joho the Blog on January 11, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Simple collaborative filtering
Daniel Lemire has a paper out on a new, simple algorithm for collaborative filtering, which is the technology underlying the inDiscover.net free music site. "The current trend, in academia, is to develop crazy algorithms that require not 10 lines of code, not 100 lines of code, but several thousands. I think the same is true in some industries: think of Web Services or Java From Seb's Open Research on January 11, 2005 at 3:46 p.m..

What Commercial?
Watching "Desperate Housewives" on Sunday night (I'm embarrassed to admit, it's a "guilty pleasure"), I totally missed the product placement for Buick, which was pointed out in this story by the New York Daily News.Glamorous character Gabrielle, in an attempt to earn money while her husband is in jail, gets a temp job at a mall as a model touting the benefits of the Buick LaCrosse to shoppers. Buick is an advertiser on the sho From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 11, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..

Browserless Screen-Sharing And PC Remote Control: PCvisit
pcvisit falls into the category of remote control and screen sharing software that focuses on providing a lightweight solution. This type of software allows someone to sit at one computer and to be able to view the screen and take... From Kolabora.com on January 11, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..

Security is Top Campus Concern
The Campus Computing Project stated in its October 2004 report (available on the site as a PDF) that the security of campus networks is the main concern of information technology administrators. "The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative... From MANE IT Network on January 11, 2005 at 1:58 p.m..

Overlay Ads Just as Annoying as Pop-ups
No surprise here. A new survey of online users finds that overlay ads -- advertisements that upon visiting a new webpage appear on top of requested content, typically scrolling into view -- are just as reviled as pop-up ads. Sometimes such ads go away after a few seconds; sometimes they stay visible until the user clicks a close box (just like pop-ups). From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 11, 2005 at 1:54 p.m..

Newspaper Falls Victim to Hoax Tsunami Pictures
Among the basic rules for journalists are not to take anything you see on the Internet at face value, and to check your sources. A major South African daily, The Citizen, which has a readership of about 466,000, committed the cardinal sin of doing neither.On Monday it published a dramatic front-page photograph purportedly taken by an amateur photographer in Sri Lanka, one of the countries tragically hit by the massive tsunami on December 26. But a five-minute Internet search by an online journalist from a Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 11, 2005 at 1:54 p.m..

ALA 191 (double issue)
Big, Stark & Chunky by Joe Clark. Designing for low-vision users. Plus: Cross-Column Pullout II, by Daniel M. Frommelt. Wrapping web text around non-rectangular images. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 11, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Tinkering Again With Feed2JS - Help With Char Sets?
For those the care to feed, I have been doing more minor tweaks to Feed2JS, and inside you will find I use the very same to display the latest updates to that site, since it now has its own feed. The main thing to look for (beyond coverups for my typos) was Seb Paquet's suggestion to populate the hypertext links attached tp the feed item titles with the title= attribute set to a part of the item's description. This is don From cogdogblog on January 11, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

November IT leaders meeting: report
The MANE IT Leaders met at CET on November 14, 2004. This is a summary of that day's discussions. MANE IT leader introductions and issues roundtable An identification and reflection leading instructional technology issues was focused by a preliminary discussion... From MANE IT Network on January 11, 2005 at 12:57 p.m..

Riding Online with Lance and the Discovery Channel
Heaven. I'm in cycling heaven ... thanks to the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team website, which debuted Monday. Lance Armstrong and his teammates were on Capital Hill Monday for a reception, where the new team jersey was on display.You can check out the website for yourself, but features include half a dozen videos (what else would you expect from the Discovery Channel?), Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 11, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

MP3 ins and outs
While discussing this topic offline with Marc Canter, I had an idea. Could a version of the Laszlo SoundBlox, a lightweight Flash-based MP3 player, serve as a universal tool for defining and expo From Jon's Radio on January 11, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..

Comics, tebeos, historietas: los premios de La Cárcel de Papel
Álvaro Pons me anuncia la convocatoria de los 2dos. Premios La Cárcel de Papel: Por segundo año consecutivo, el weblog La Cárcel de Papel convoca sus premios, que buscan reconocer lo mejor que ha dado el mundo del tebeo durante... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 11, 2005 at 11:52 a.m..

Open musiclogging mini-primer
Prentiss Riddle recaps and ties together MP3 blogs, Webjay, podcasting, and Play this Page in one neat post. Someday I'm sure the preceding hodge-podge will exist in one system; iTunes is most of the way there. But such a system is likely to be for pay and limited to the content available in somebody's master library of licensed material. As klugey as MP3 blogs, podcasting and Webjay are, they're open-ended and limited only by the content the web at large chooses to make availab From Seb's Open Research on January 11, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..