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It wasn't a good weekend for FBI computer systems. Report #1, Carnivore scrapped:
FBI retires CarnivoreSaturday, January 15, 2005
The Register FBI surveillance experts have put their once-controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance tool out to pasture, preferring instead to u From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 17, 2005 at 10:59 p.m..
The Committee to Protect Bloggers
Sadly, a
Committee to Protect Bloggers is an idea whose time has come, given what is happening to our colleague bloggers in
Iran, China, and elsewhere. Its goals: : We are concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with the well-being of the bloggers themselves. Press freedom is extremely valuable and will be agitated for, but our primary concern is keeping bloggers alive and free. : We are concerned for them as bloggers, even if some ar From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
New ($400) 16:9 Consumer Camcorders From Sony
I4U has the lowdown on Sony's new line of consumer DV recorders with 16:9 ratio video. Lots of cool new camcorders, and the prices are very reasonable too, with one model (the DCR-HC21) starting at just $400. From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Gaming giant EA wants to be an entertainment giant too
If EA has its way, it will soon become as much of a
household name in entertainment as Disney. However, it plans to do so by dominating the videogame industry rather than branching out into film or music. In the short-term, it hopes to double its revenues from their US$3 billion level by 2009, primarily by making the games appeal to a wider audience than they currently do. In an update to our earlier version of this story, we have now learned that EA has signed a an exclusive deal with ESPN for ESPN-branded games From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Living in the age of EgoCasting
The Me in Media started, not with TiVo or weblogs, but with the remote control, argues Christine Rosen in her fantastic essay,
The Age of Egocasting. As consumers, we expect our television, our music, our movies, and our books “on demand.” We have created and embraced technologies that enable us to make a fetish of our preferences. Now as most of us who debate and deliberate about this customization, might think of it as empowerment of the individual, in reality, Rosen thinks we are l From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Broadcasters Want Digital Music Download Stores As Well
Because there simply aren't enough different and incompatible music download stores out there already, a number of radio broadcasters are
considering plans to enter the game as well. Of course, they hope to leverage their existing broadcasts by allowing users to immediately download a track they're listening to being broadcast. It's an interesting concept in theory, but considering the hodge-podge of different copy protection technologies, music download stores and devices, you have to wonder if people are g From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
P2P Manifesto
Marco Montemagno writes Smartmobs:
P2P Manifesto is a P2P study that I've done and also a project, released under CC license. This study (30 pages, available on a dedicated blog, in pdf format or in .torrent/blogtorrent) explains why: - P2P is unstoppable - P2P is positive for companies - P2P is positive for the market - P2P is good for users All the readers can create their own P2P Manifesto, free to e From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
How To Control Your RSS Feeds
First step: Don't publish one. If you don't want your RSS feed to be read in every RSS reader and news aggregator, if you can't cope with the lack of control, skip it. By their nature, RSS feeds come without a lot of the baggage carried by a web site; that's why people trying to make a living or earn money from their blogs are looking for ways to incorporate advertising into their RSS feeds. Unhappy with the way a couple of hundred people were seeing his feed in Bloglines and dismayed by the possibility that Bloglines
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Sony PSP 'update' adds office apps, browser, email
Early build leaked onto the web Sony may be preparing to release its first PlayStation Portable (PSP) update, if a file that briefly appeared on the web this weekend is what it purports to be: a leaked copy of an early version of the update code. From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Skype calls using regular phones
Sometimes when Skype rings we scramble to find the headset in time to answer the call. This wouldn’t happen with
Actiontec’s Internet Phone Wizard. It connects a regular phone to a computer for making, and receiving, calls using Skype. The box channels the sound through the phone instead of the computer speaker From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Long Tail TV: Conclusion
So far I've been pretty fully in armchair economist mode here (is there any better reason for a blo From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Links for Aspiring 21st c. Media Moguls
I met a Harvard Business School student this weekend who said he wants to be the next Rupert Murdoch. But can there be another Murdoch in this age of disintermediation? This student didn't know too much about blogs and the emergence of participatory media. You may be shocked, but actually most businesspeople out there don't know much about this stuff. Blogs and blogging (even from the marketing perspective) do not seem to be part of the HBS curriculum. I was going to email him some links. But I might as well make it an open blog post for anybody who is int From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
The mark of Z
The Zephyr affair is, let's say, complex. And it calls for upfront disclosures: Disclosures I am a friend of Zephyr. I like and admire her. I also like and admire Joe Trippi. I was an Internet advisor to the Dean campaign; it was an unpaid position. I didn't know about any money changing hands with bloggers and would have advised against it. I have chatted socially with Kos and Jerome a couple of times, and Jerome sent me a brief email yesterday in response to a comment asking for details. For what I think about the need for disclosure statements,... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..
YADT - Yet another disruptive technology (Radio Feedback)
Instant Radio Feedback From Your Cell Phone Nokia is set to introduce mobile phone technology that allows listeners to send instant feedback on songs to radio stations, as well as compete in contests. The new phones will have what is called "visual radio" capabilities, according to a Financial Times report. The new technology lets stations send information directly to listeners' mobile phone screens during a song, ranging from a picture of the artist to polls asking the listener to rate the song. Replies are instanta From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Freeplay Lifeline Radio
Freeplay, the same eco-friendly company that makes the
Jonta wind-up flashlight, has another human-powered invention, dubbed the Lifeline radio. But unlike other solar- and crank-driven products from Freeplay, you can't buy this one, at least not for yourself. Instead, each $55 purchase pays for one of the AM/FM/Shortwave receivers to be shipped to a deve From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Center for Community Journallism Home Page
The mission of the Center for Community Journalism is to foster effective community journalism by training working journalists and forging a link between academia and the world of community journalism that strengthens both. From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
RSS Aggravation
Are feeds implied licenses, or can they alter
express ones? I don't think there's an easy answer, but a court could be asked this question before long as businesses built on RSS continue to explore what they can and should be doing with the material they aggregate.
Marty Schwimmer (
Bloglines, no thanks),
Dennis Kennedy (don't make me put ads in my feed), an From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Howard Dean Paid Bloggers
More evidence we're living in a new media world with few rules.
David Akin notes that The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the
Daily Kos and another blog received $3,000 a month for four months from the Howard Dean campaign. The story reports that the bloggers disclosed on their blogs that they received funds from the Dean campaign. UPDATED 1/16/05: Daily Kos yesterday
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
The Depolarizing Power of the Blogosphere
James D Miller believes that although the Blogosphere can politically polarize audiences, in the end it will
reduce political differences among Americans. Why? Because the web is replete with blogs that bypass traditional ideological divides and, like the best Internet dating services, engage individuals who share opinions on certain issues but vary on others. This is the best way to open up more democratic discourse, Miller argues, and to test one's own political views. In doing so, blogs can begin to disassemble traditional me From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Coming Soon to a Mob Near You
Andy Carvin discusses
mobcasting -- combining mobile phone-enabled
podcasting with smart mob-like group action to cover events simultaneously and from a variety of perspectives. Mobcasting would also allow groups of citizens to distribute their coverage instantaneously to a centralized website via RSS. This leads to coverage by bloggers throughout the blogosphere, writes Carvin, which leads to coverage by the mainstream media, w From
unmediated on January 17, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Looking good, feeling good
Many thanks to Christopher Phillips for giving Curb Cut a nice new look and feel. It looks great and I've never liked gill-sans more. Curb Cut's new years resolution is to post even more than it did last year. It would also like to shed a few inches around the waist-line. Or maybe that is me. Anyway, welcome back for another year of Curb Cut and enjoy the new design. From
Curb Cut Learning on January 17, 2005 at 9:52 p.m..
WSJ: How do you communicate with students who have grown up with technology?
In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Kevin Delaney asks the question and answers it with blogs, wikis, RSS and the like. Pioneering teachers are getting their classes to post writing assignments online so other students can easily read and critique them. They're letting kids practice foreign languages in electronic forums instead of pen-and-paper journals. They're passing out PDAs to use in scientific experiments and infrared gadgets that let students answer questions in class with the touch of a button. And in the process, the educators are beginning to int From
weblogged News on January 17, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Knowledge management and risk management
Joy London has written a blog entry that points to some research into the overlap of knowledge management and risk management, in the context of law firms. To quote: Firms considering KM in the context of matter management process: 25%Firms... From
Column Two on January 17, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
The Music of Titan
To wrap up the day's links on a lighter note, this is the world's first piece of music recorded using sounds from Saturn's moon (it also holds the record for the piece of music with the most distantly separated sound sources). Direct link to the
MP3 of the Music of Titan. By Stephen Downes, NewsTrolls, January 15, 2004 [
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ReseOLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
RIT press to be on-demand
Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Graphic Arts Press has signed a deal with
Lulu.com to print the Institute's publication on an on-demand basis rather than as a standard press run. The plan eliminates the risk inherent with academic publishing: returns of unpurchased stock. Each copy is printed as it is ordered and "We can make a profit off of one book." According to Lulu.com's Stephen Fraser, who sent the link, this may be the first North American institution to adapt the on-demand printing model, though as he notes,
OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Shoeless and Bark Online Project Blog
Jennifer Wagner
wrote in EdTech today, "I have never yet had a blog which was not compromised by someone posting inappropriate and harmful information which then becomes available to my students and participants." I know how that feels; I cleaned out more detritus from my own website this weekend. What Wagner does instead is to use a
phpbb bullentin board system instead. So technically it isn't a blog - but maybe blogging i From
OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Scott's Workblog
CETIS's Scott Wilson has launched a blog, a welcome addition to the online learning blog community and sure to be added to many reading lists. His first post, addressing the VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) of the future, aligns brilliantl with the picture I have been painting in these pages: "I think the VLE of the future is going to be less like an information portal, and more like an aggregator." He continues, "as well as coordinating with offerings from learning providers in the traditional sense, the VLE of the future will connect very strongly with informal activities that inform From
OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Redland RDF Language Bindings
This has been around for a while, though the Perl implementation appears to be only a couple of months old. Redland is a set of free software packages that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF). It's written in C, but there are
bindings to Perl, Python, PHP and more. If you play around with the
RDF query demonstration for a bit, you'll get a feel for how it works: there are sample queries using RSS, Learning Object Metadata (LOM), Dubmin Core, and FOAF. The library is free and open From
OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
rel="nofollow"
The rumour floating through the either is that Google are soon to announce that they won't be calculating PageRank for links with a rel="nofollow" attribute. The idea would be that all links in comments would have this attribute, thus reducing the incentive to spam the lists. By Simon Willison, Simon Willison's Weblog, January 17, 2005 [
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OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Technorati Launches Tags
There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days about Technorati Tags.
Alan Levine offers a summary.
More.
More. Drawing on similar concepts used by Flickr and del.icio.us, the idea is that you create what amounts to a hidden link in a blog post to point to a Technorati topic: the topics, in turn, are created by users, a type of Folksono From
OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Media Lab Europe to Close
"The move comes after reports of financial difficulty for the institution, which relied on government support and private investment to keep afloat. At one time, it was hoped that the lab would be able to become self-sustaining, with revenue coming from patents, licenses and continual private sector support." Via
Mark Oehlert. By Matthew Clark, ElectricNews.net, January 14, 2005 [
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OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Pmachine-pro for Free
As James Farmer notes, "PmachinePro (a type of blogging software) has been discontinued in favour of ExpressionEngine which means it's now free! So for some pretty funky features this might be worth a look!" PMachinePro is written in PHP, making it a fairly easy install (and easy for programmers to customize). By James Farmer, Incorporated Subversion, January 17, 2004 [
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OLDaily on January 17, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Why P2P File Sharing Is Good: The P2P Manifesto
Marco Montemagno, an Italian new media communication expert, entrepreneur and blogger, who has worked and collaborated with some of the most established media corporations including Italy's RAI and Murdoch's Sky TV network, has just published online a notable P2P manifesto, in which he shares his uncensored view of what the majors (established media) should expect from P2P and its unstoppable growth. Marco Montemagno on-air on Sky TG24 Montemagno central tenet is that P2P is unstoppable, good, useful, effective and a major disruptive technology able to breach into the oligarchy of es From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on January 17, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..
Three Emerging Technologies and Why They Matter
Monya Baker at Technology Review has an interesting article on three significant IT developments: algorithms that detect alterations in digitized images, 3-D virtual reality displays that don't require glasses and that have objects one can "grab," and new statistical methods for making "sensor motes" more effective. From
Gardner Writes on January 17, 2005 at 4:59 p.m..
elearning in Iraq
The New Yorker ran an article last week about emergent elearning practices - in Iraq. The process described is bottom-up, Web-based, user-driven, and extremely flexible. Junior officers built Web sites to quickly obtain information about the rapidly-shifting battle. Obviously the... From
MANE IT Network on January 17, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..
WebGraphics Optimizer
WebGraphics Optimizer are perfect tools for optimizing and compressing images for online and internet use, mainly World Wide Web pages. Most images can be greatly reduced in size, and it's amazing to see how much you can improve the speed... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 17, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..
JPEGCompress
JPEGCompress is a simple application designed to help you compress existing images with JPEG Compression. You can choose any level of compression and see the results immediately, allowing you to preview your images before saving them. Dreamscape Software - JPEGCompress... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 17, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..
More Use of Weblogs by Newspapers in Europe
More and more newspapers in Europe are encouraging their readers to blog.
Kleine Zeitung in Austria started its blogs in December as a feature within the "Vorteilsclub" community that it tries to establish with its online readers. (Readers eventually will pay for the service, but at the moment it's still free.)
Sddeutsche Zeitung's youth magazine,
jetzt, has encouraged readers to participate (and to blog) for a long time (look for the blog From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 17, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..
Between Generating and Publishing Lies Modern Journalism
A good story on a news website often drives passionate and engaged comments from the public -- like the story about British Prince Harry dressing up as a Nazi, originally
broken by The Sun.Of course, we all love it when there are lots of comments. Because we think they convey and reflect the sentiment of the population and because we think that user-generated content is modern and dynamic. And when the story deals with public response to Harry's costume, e-mails from readers are the story.B From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 17, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..
Basic Architectural Principles for Learning Technology Systems Whitepaper
At the present time the large community of educational systems and content providers and their users are having trouble understanding the complicated specifications world. To help in the understanding of this area, we can use a general architectural pattern and functional area breakout to help organize and give a context to this information. This paper provides a conceptual framework to do this. From
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. on January 17, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..
Professional Blogging Grab Bag
An emerging field that should interest writers and editors is professional blogging – that is, creating and writing blogs for organizations, as an editorial service. Or, that can mean finding a viable revenue stream for a weblog, such as advertising or sponsorship. All kinds of organizations (from independent consultants to major corporations and nonprofits) are realizing the value of blogging. Lately I've found many interesting items about this field... TOP OF THIS LIST: The saga of Jeremy C. Wright, author of the popular weblog Ensight. This enterprising blogger made a splash in From
Contentious Weblog on January 17, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..
De-smoking
My home office shares a wall with a guy who smokes a whole lot of cigs. Particles are getting through even though the rooms are sealed. My room smells faintly of smoke and my throat is scratchy. He's not going to stop, and it's fine during the months when we open our windows. Any suggestions for aggregating, deflecting or dispersing the particles?... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
Omnioutliner save to dynamic html
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Summary: Omnioutliner has just gone to 3.0; look and feel are terrific. There are many new features and a nicely improved look and feel. My greatest excitement is over the ability to export home developed many featured outlines--in the form of dynamic html. After tipping my hat to Notebook (another outline-oriented CMS manager) I&apos From
Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on January 17, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Big Ideas
I'm not sure I could do the following from
Dave Pollard justice, at least not without thinking about it for a few days (weeks?) But it seems worth noting nonetheless: Last, but certainly not least, is this remarkable statement from blogger Rob Paterson on the
utility of blogging: "The utility of blogging to me is that it is recreating the lost world of a humanity that is connected to itself and hence to everything." R From
weblogged News on January 17, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Apple's iPod Shuffle Stifles Podcasting
Apple's latest iPod may be winning accolades from music lovers but it is raising eyebrows in the blogosphere. When CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off the flash-memory iPod shuffle, a few gasps could be heard from bloggers who post audio files of their conversations -- a practice commonly referred to as podcasting. For those new to the concept, podcasting is a version of Webcasting that first became popular with iPod owners. According to online encyclopedia Wikipedia, podcasters make their audio programs available for download to portable digital audio devices (iPod, MP3 From
RSS Blog on January 17, 2005 at 12:00 p.m..
Podcasts 24/7
Here's a cool service. If you want to sample a bunch of different podcasts but prefer not to download the files, check out Podcasts 24/7. This site offers continuous streaming audio that allows listeners to sample a wide range of podcast shows. It's a pretty good introduction from the listener's perspective... From
Contentious Weblog on January 17, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..
Drive by blog entry
In honour of the Detroit International Auto Show, which is wrapping up after an eventful week: Autoblog A general purpose site for checking out the newest designs, and post comments about how you love Mopar and what's with all those cheap faux wood interiors these days?? The Truth About Cars Frank yet eloquent car reviews. What other autojournalist would describe the Chrysler 300C alternatively as "stylish malevolence" and a "bad-ass gangsta-mobile"? GM FastLane Blog General Motors entered the blogging scene this year, and their blog has already turned almost as many heads as the new Corv From
silentblue | Quantified on January 17, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..
Web-Based Collaborative Workspace Review: CourseForum And ProjectForum
CourseForum Technologies recently announced new versions of its collaborative workspace offerings, ProjectForum 4.1 (intended for work and project teams), and CourseForum 4.1 (a tailored version of ProjectForum for e-learning endeavours). There are some definite things to like about ProjectForum and... From
Kolabora.com on January 17, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..
Paper Trail
A detainee held prayer beads while walking in a courtyard at the Camp Delta maximum-security prison at Guantánamo Naval Base, in Cuba, last August. (Photograph by Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
SMELLING RANKIn their slippery pursuit of the top of the prestige pyramid, colleges are shortchanging the students who need them most, writes Clara M. Lovett, president of the American Association for Higher Education.Discussion ForumsForums:Join an From
Chronicle: free on January 17, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..
iPod Shuffle vs. Podcasters
Rui Carmo of The Tao of Mac discusses the new Apple offerings from the past week and make an interesting comment about podcasters and complaints about the iPod Shuffle. I found the quote below pretty funny... Valid points, however, are not being made by the kind of raving lunatics that have such a distorted sense of reality as to go around posting that the iPod Shuffle stifles podcasting - as if podcasting was a driver for any sort of MP3 player sales. Or, let's be honest, of any real interest except for the propagation of self-centric blogosphere memes. The spool,... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 17, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..
Dr. King Day
Monday is the Dr. King Holiday. The image to the left is by a young man named Jackson and is part of the, The Dr. King Timeline, a project I did with my kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students in 1995. We read a book call My Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr by Faith Ringgold and in the back of the book was a timeline of major events in his life. We used the timeline as the basis for a classrom book and also for a web site about the life of Dr. King. The web site... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 17, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..
Blogging, journalism and credibility: The comment thread
There's a, shall we say, lively discussion going on over at the blog for the Berkman conference on blogs, journalism and credibility. It's an invitation-only conference and that's stirred a lot of questions about whether appropriately representative sets of people have been invited. Are there enough bloggers? Are they the right sort of bloggers? Some are saying that not enough big-readership bloggers are there; others say not enough "struggling" bloggers are there. I suspect there is an age skew, with an under-representation of the people under 30 who collectively are doing some From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Web as world
Last night on the short drive to the session I was leading at the Berkman Center, I decided to change the planned topic — is the Web a medium or a world? — because it struck me as just too boring. Also, I'm not happy with how I've been leading these sessions. So, we talked about tagging instead. Here's what I'd planned to say. Sort of. The question of whether the Web is a medium or a world matters if you think it's a medium and nothing more. A medium is something through which a message travels from A to... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Search-ready language
At eBay, if you look for a DVD burner than record on two layers, you'll turn up hits for "dual double layer" burners. No, they don't burn on four layers. They're just trying to be found by people searching on "dual" or "double." I bet there are lots of better examples of this twisting of language to make up for the literal-mindedness of search engines...... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
The tagging revolution continues...
Technorati, a site that indexes 4.5 million weblogs, is now enabling us to sort blog posts by tag. This is way way cool. In fact, it marks a next step in the rapid evolution of the tagging economy. [Disclosure: I am on Technorati's Board of Advisors. But I would have been excited about this anyway.] The tags come from three sources. First, if you've uploaded a photo to Flickr and have tagged it (or if one of your pals has tagged it), it will show up under that tag at technorati. Second, if you've bookmarked a page using del.icio.us, it... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Blog blogging
I'm enjoying Dave Pell's TheBlogBlog, a blog about the blogosphere. Clive Thompson at CollisionDetection, picks up on Daniel Luke's idea that we ought to be able to aggregate all the comments we've left on other people's sites. It's a cool idea that's being implemented at frassle where all content is equally grist for the dynamic publication mill. The comments on Clive's article have links to other work as well.... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Hey, you don't keep studying it after you've passed the test!
NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration]Loses Funding to Gather Long-Term Climate Data Congress has eliminated funding for a fledgling network of 110 observation stations intended to provide a definitive, long-term climate record for the United States. If only terrorists were behind global warming! This comes from Science (subscription required), via Gary Stock.... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
A note on Dave's interview of Trippi
Dave Winer interviewed Trippi (transcript) about the Zephyr affair. In the course of it, Dave says: Let me just say this. The times, the New York Times, interviewed — go back through the archive, it'd be interesting to see — but I believe the New York Times interviewed people who were on the Dean advisory board — like David Weinberger, who was the tech advisor to the Dean campaign without saying that he was basically, you know, not exactly an employee, but although for all I know maybe they were getting money For the record: No, I wasn't paid in... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Jay on removing the Versus between journalists and bloggers
Jay Rosen has a terrific post arguing that the B vs. J debate is over. I don't think it's actually over until we figure out — invent — together the new world that's emerging, but Jay points to five important premises. I'll post the five here, but the piece is worth reading in its entirety: 1.) Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one, and blogging means anyone can own one. That is the Number One reason why weblogs matter. It is the broadest and deepest of all factors making this conference urgent. 2.) Instead of starting with... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
X marks the mnemonic
Our son Nathan, 14, last night figured out a mnemonic for remembering which way the X axis goes on a graph: X is a-cross X is a cross. X is across. Works for me.... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Poynting the way
Bill Mitchell and Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute have put together a paper for the upcoming conference on blogging, journalism and credibility. It's called "Earn Your Own Trust, Roll Your Own Ethics: Transparency and Beyond," and I like it. They don't assume that the only way to stay ethical is to live by an established code of ethics. The idea, in brief, is for bloggers to invite questions from their audience about what questions they have about the blog, what might increase their level of trust, etc. The questions would vary with the blog. The blogger might then build... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Pollard's list
Dave Pollard lists the 10 most important ideas of 2004: Blogs and the Internet. Good list. I'd point out that #10 and #6 are not in perfect harmony, but maybe #10 is the goal and #6 is a present reality we need to fix. (Dave accurately cites me as disagreeing with #6. I think #6 -- forming "echo chambers" -- is a temptation but that we should be careful not to call all conversations except arguments "echo chambers.") I wish I could compile lists. I'm terrible at it. In fact, I once had to ask my boss to stop calling... From
Joho the Blog on January 17, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Patents, Open Standards and Open Source
In the last few months, there's been quite a lot to do about software patents: the idea of claiming intellectual property rights over ideas implemented in software, rather than just copyright over the software itself. An issue that used to just exercise corporate lawyers in the US is now starting to hit educational institutions everywhere, including the UK. From
CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on January 17, 2005 at 10:18 a.m..
Blogging the World News
I think about the evolution of blogs as serious news sources probably way more than I should, but as an educator and journalism junkie, I can't help but try to figure out what effect bloggers are going to have in terms of media literacy and consumption. I'm in the camp that says traditional journalism has some serious problems ahead, that more and more, forms of participatory journalism are going to cover the news that people consume. I think by and large that people who do any thinking at all about their sources of news have lost faith in the accuracy and trustworthiness of what&apo From
weblogged News on January 17, 2005 at 10:16 a.m..
PLA Blog Living Up to Expectations
I’ve really enjoyed reading the
PLA Blog the last few days. I’ve been to one ALA Midwinter conference, and it was mainly so I could attend an OCLC meeting so I really didn’t catch much else. I don’t think I’m alone in not really knowing what goes on at this conference, but I have a much better sense of it now. I’ve really appreciated the event summaries, too, since my organization doesn’t send me to ALA conferences.As an aside,
The Shifted Librarian on January 17, 2005 at 10:16 a.m..
What Else Can We Do with RSS? Lots More!
I was reading the following post, nodding my head, when the following quote blew me away.
RSS is the New WWW“PiNet Library enables teachers to keep bookmarks online, so that they are available from the classroom, media center, teacher's lounge, and home office -- anyplace with access to the web. In my vision, you are creating and cultivating a personal digital library….I use PiNet Library for my online handouts, so that as I a From
The Shifted Librarian on January 17, 2005 at 10:16 a.m..
New team member: Iain Barker
Our office reopens for the year today, and I'm extremely pleased to announce that we now have a new consulting team member: Iain Barker. Iain originally hails from the UK, but has been working over here in Australia for a... From
Column Two on January 17, 2005 at 10:16 a.m..
How to bake usability into your company
John S. Rhodes has written a short article on how to bake usability into your company. To quote: Train your designers and developers to do some of their own usability work. This gets them thinking about users while it frees... From
Column Two on January 17, 2005 at 10:16 a.m..
Management by Design
Richard Farson discusses the need for more
design decisions in management. "Have you ever noticed the difference between a meeting held at a long rectangular table and one held at a round table? The time spent, the agenda, and the participants may be exactly the same, but the meetings are completely different. The discussion at the round table is more informal, the leadership is shared, the communication more personal." From
elearningpost on January 17, 2005 at 10:15 a.m..
R[SS]eading
Given the right title, this would be an interesting exercise for a reluctant reader:
Russell Beattie: “Many of us are too busy to read classic books out there, instead choosing ‘page turners’ or books that are more applicable to our every day lives (like a some new marketing book). But we do have time to zip through our aggregator daily, right? So by taking a 500 page novel and distributing it, a few pages at a time, via RSS, we could read a new book in a month or so without even trying.” [via From
homoLudens III on January 17, 2005 at 10:14 a.m..
FDA Considers Morning-After Pill
Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, is under review again by the Food and Drug Administration after it previously denied over-the-counter sale of the drug. Women's groups charge the decision was political, not scientific. From
Wired News on January 17, 2005 at 10:14 a.m..
New Titan Photos Reveal Surface
A pale orange landscape topped by a thin crust appears in images beamed back 900 million miles by the Titan probe. Instruments picked up a low, rushing sound, possibly indicating winds. From
Wired News on January 17, 2005 at 10:14 a.m..
A New Kind of Evil
Resident Evil 4 reinvents the survival horror game with exciting, original gameplay and creepy atmosphere. By Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on January 17, 2005 at 10:14 a.m..
The Portable Mac OS X Geek
Got a Pocket PC? Then you, too, can control your PowerBook from anywhere on the globe. You travel, it stays. Just make sure you've got someone at home who can reboot. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. From
Wired News on January 17, 2005 at 10:14 a.m..
Photo Sites Share and Share Alike
So, you've got a nifty camera phone or digital camera, and now you want to show off your best shots of your buddy taking a header into a snowbank. Daniel Terdiman looks at several photo-sharing sites. From
Wired News on January 17, 2005 at 10:14 a.m..
Open-Source Biology Evolves
Can a rebel band of scientists pool patented innovation techniques and give them away through the internet? By David Cohn. From
Wired News on January 17, 2005 at 10:14 a.m..
Serial Killers Not New To History
"Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters" a history book by Peter Vronsky recently published by Penguin Berkley Books, reports that the only thing new about serial killers, is the term "serial killer" introduced in the 1980s. [PRWEB Jan 17, 2005] From
PR Web on January 17, 2005 at 10:13 a.m..
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Launches Online University for Employees
Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky (VNA), the largest freestanding non-profit provider of home health services in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky areas, announces a new benefit for nursing and therapists www.VNAUniversity.com. The customized Learning Management System was created by Care2Learn.com, a national provider of online training and continuing education for healthcare professionals. VNA and Care2Learn developed the online solution last fall with the functionality of educating, training, testing, reporting and tracking training CEUS for c From
PR Web on January 17, 2005 at 10:13 a.m..
The Role of Faith in Presidency
In an interview with The Washington Times on January 11th, President Bush stated, "I don't see how you can be president, at least from my perspective, how you can be president without a relationship with the Lord." Can he create a law which states that only a Christian can be president? Of course not. Is it a crime to state that he could not have been president without a relationship with God? No. But is there something disconcerting about the head of the country, the holder of the highest public service position attainable, and a man who From
kuro5hin.org on January 17, 2005 at 10:13 a.m..
