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E-Learning in the New Yorker
It looked like an article on military failure in Iraq, and I didn't have the heart for it, so I went right past it the first time. But Bryan Alexander's blog persuaded me to take a look. I found I was wrong. (Excellent demonstration of the usefulness of critics ... From Gardner Writes on January 18, 2005 at 10:59 p.m..

Wanted: Conservative Speech Writer Without a Past
Our esteemed governor--Little Brother Jeb--reluctantly accepted the resignation of a speech writer hired just last month. This after news broke that while working as an editorial page writer for the Jacksonville Times-Union he was accused of viewing pornography online and discussing what he was viewing with an unnamed someone. Oh yeah, and there was some plagiarism going on too. Allegedly. (This article doesn't make it clear if he was plagiarizing the pornography or something... From Brain Frieze on January 18, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..

Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit
I procrastinate. You procrastinate. We all procrastinate. Let's get back to work. From kuro5hin.org on January 18, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Don't use Windows for email and web browsing if you can afford not to
Platform evangelism aside, there really is nothing to do but to get a Mac. As I've said before, use a Mac for word processing, spreadsheets, email and web browsing and you won't have any problems. There's really no reason to have a Windows computer unless you need to run games and software like AutoCad that's only available on Windows. From No More Internet for Them.: QUOTEFed up over problems stemming from viruses and spyware, so From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 18, 2005 at 7:50 p.m..

The VLE of the Future
VLE steht für "Virtual Learning Environments". Und der Autor erlaubt sich an dieser Stelle einfach mal zu "spinnen" - im positivsten Sinne. Wenig überraschend, dass sich e-Learning dabei auflöst, um in einem größeren Bild aufzugehen, dass Tools, Services, Inhalte und... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 18, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..

Nach dem Urteil das große Geschäft
Da mich das Thema auch auf der Learntec (Sektion M: "Zukunft ohne Risiko? - Wirtschaftliche Bewertung strategischer Bildungsinvestitionen") beschäftigen wird, sei der Hinweis auf diesen Artikel gestattet, der einige Informationen zum Stichwort "Bildungskredite" zusammenträgt. Und das auch noch mit Lust... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 18, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..

Ex hypothesis
"How do biological differences in the sexes affect abilities, behavior and social position?" is a totally legitimate research question. Let the evidence fall where it may. And if the president of Harvard wants to be "provocative," heck, that's a lot better than the fund-raising drone emitted from most college presidents' orifices. But (according to The Globe): ''Here was this economist lecturing pompously [to] this room full of the country's most accomplished scholars on women's issues in science and engineering, and he kept saying things we had refuted in the fir From Joho the Blog on January 18, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..

Memeorandum and Newsmap and...
In the never ending search for more mixes and matches of blogs, RSS and "real" news come two pretty creative (I think) entries to the tool box in Memeorandum and Newsmap. Let me just say that Memeorandum, which takes ral headlines and displays them above blogger reactions, is especially interesting to me as it's the first step down the road of bringing blogs and old media together in the "newfangled news tangle" format. I like having the news next to the views; I only wish there wa From weblogged News on January 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Newsmap by Juan Dursteler
In this issue of Infovis Juan Dursteler describes a fascinating graphical tool for the display of news flows around the world.  This tool will be of interest to webloggers and educators. It's appealing to imagine this kind of tool re-fashioned so that it could be applied to scholarly and scientific domains.  JH"Newsmap is an on-line application that presents the most relevant news of the moment,extracted from the EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on January 18, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Image Annotator
This is a beautiful use of Javascript, RDF and XSLT to create a system that annotates images. Go to the image link to see the final result first. Take a look at the page source; you'll see that it is written in RDF, and specifically, a combination of three schemas: Dublin Core, FOAF and an Image schema. Now go to the image annotator itself to see how the RDF file was generated. Follow the instructions on the page and generate your own RDF. The page you are From OLDaily on January 18, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

What's the Message?
Following a link in a comment to this dreadful article describing the McLuhan Festival in Toronto last fall I am taken first to the McLuhan Program home page, and then even better, to this McLuhan Program Blog, called (appropriately) What's the Message? The site contains observations and papers and, most interestingly, a link to the Mind, Medi From OLDaily on January 18, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?
This is just speculation, nothing more. But it would seem to be a natural; Yahoo doesn't have a blogging tool (while both Microsoft and Google do). Six Apart now also brings into the mix the large LiveJournal community, which could be integrated into Yahoo's own family of communities. Yahoo also brings a lot to the table for users of those services, itself having probably the best designed community services on the web. And the blogging sites provide an outlet for text ads, now a better revenue generator than ever. By David Jackson, The Internet Stock Blog, January 17, 2005 [OLDaily on January 18, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

WordPress Multi User (WMU)
A long-standing complaint about the use of WordPress, the free and open source blogging software, in an academic environment is that no multi-user version was available. With the launch of WordPress MU, this is no longer true. "Using WordPress Multi-user edition you will be able to [have] people be able to sign up for a new blog and have them securely manage their templates and settings without affecting any other users. Only one blog per user is allowed, but you can have unlimited users, and you can have multiple users on a single blog." Farmer has another comment, which I'll OLDaily on January 18, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Blogfolios
Brian Lamb may have found an eportfolio system (or paradigm?) he can love, one as fast, cheap, and out of control as its creator. I've been reading a lot lately about blogs as front ends for eportfolios, and my first response to the "blogfolio" is that it feels right. Next ... From Gardner Writes on January 18, 2005 at 5:00 p.m..

Javascript.com
JavaScript.com (TM) - The Definitive JavaScript Resource: JavaScript Tutorials, Free Java Scripts, Source Code and Other Scripting Resources... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 18, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

CGI101.com
Would you like to learn: How to decode web forms (such as guestbooks, polls/quizzes, and order forms)? How to send form data to your e-mail address, or save the data to a file or database? How to write a page... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 18, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

One-to-One VoIP-Based Web Conferencing Service: Linktivity MeetNow
Linktivity MeetNow is a one-to-one only Web collaboration tool developed by Linktivity, a company that specializes in Web Conferencing (WebDemo) and Remote Control Software (WebInteractive). MeetNow is a offered as a hosted solution that allows a meeting presenter to collaborate... From Kolabora.com on January 18, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

Oh why cahn't the marketers ... learn ... to ... speak
Over at Worthwhile I've posted a rumination - including a short play! - about why tech marketing-speak goes so wrong.... From Joho the Blog on January 18, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

head-ing
Revealing article by Johann Werfring, historian-journalist (no blog) in an Austrian journal about Franz Xaver Messerschmidt a baroque sculpturist (1736-83). As alway things are different! Museums are not the home of From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 18, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

Group Blogs and Cheap Ads
We like the group-blog concept here at E-Media Tidbits, so I'm pleased to see Advance Internet offer up a local news group blog initiative for its NJ.com, MassLive.com, and OregonLive.com websites. The idea is that a few town blogs will be created in those markets, in which any resident can contribute.The idea, as Advance Internet president and independent blogger Jeff Jarvis Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 18, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

How Organizations can Get Human and Credible with Blogs, Podcasts, and Journalism (audio)
Here is another audio edition of CONTENTIOUS. In this show I discuss how organizations (companies, nonprofits, institutions, agencies, etc.) can communicate more effectively and credibly in the age of online media. The secret is abandoning the common belief that your organization should speak with a single, monolithic voice. Nobody believes that. Organizations are made up of people. If your organization wishes to participate in the public conversation, start communicating like human beings. You can give the people within your organization a public voice (inside and outside your organization) t From Contentious Weblog on January 18, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..

Averages and Emergence
Warning: what follows is highly speculative, not grounded in the literature in any way, shape or form whatsoever. Yet I cannot shake the feeling that it is right. I was asked: It seems that the article does believe in crowds which can answer horizontal questions when the members have deep vertical knowledge. thus one might get biologists, chemists, physicists etc to render an opinion which goes across disciplines. This is the old Jefferson, populists vs... From Learning Circuits Blog on January 18, 2005 at 2:53 p.m..

Paying to Watch Commercial TV
What's the TV industry to do about all those naughty, TiVo/DVR-owning commercial skippers? (Yeah, I'm one.) The Los Angeles Times tackles that perennial question in Meg James' article, "Looking for New Ways to Make Viewers Pay."It seems that the industry is thinking not only of the oft-spoken product placement within shows (Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 18, 2005 at 1:51 p.m..

ALA 192: The Way it's Supposed to Work
In issue 192 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, managing editor Erin Kissane introduces a new feature to the magazine. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 18, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..

Comic Timing & Communication
Here's a question: what, apart from laughs, do we lose when we communicate through medium that doesn't allow for comic timing? Answers on a postcard, please.... From Monkeymagic on January 18, 2005 at 11:53 a.m..

Social software programming challenge #1: distributed toplists
OK, so I've decided the area of social software is just too ripe with low-hanging fruit that aren't being picked up, so I'm trying to find ways to do my part on that front. The first thing is I've decided to periodically issue programming challenges that are open to anyone out there who wants to cut their teeth on Web service programming. The services I will describe have the following characteristics: (1) they don't ex From Seb's Open Research on January 18, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Mickey's Tribute
We interrupt the regular stream of yammering about rss, wikis, flickr, tags, learning objects, eportfolios, spam (actually it's been a while for that, don't ask why) for something meaningful to me (well it is my blog). It's been more than 3 months since my companion and subject for the "dog" part of this site, Mickey, the Labrador Retriever, cogdogblog on January 18, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

Building stuff on top of stuff
at XML 2003 We had a really interesting conversation with Adam Bosworth last week. Adam elaborated on the model of distributed query that I first heard him sketch out in his Jon's Radio on January 18, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Universities: Teaching the Textbook
I was recently speaking with a university student who commented that he may not attend any of his classes this term. This student is in the top 5% of his class. The reasoning behind it was quite solid. Apparently, all... From Experience Designer Network on January 18, 2005 at 8:57 a.m..

New Mac Update for Skype
Albert Delgado of Educational Weblogs points us to the latest version of Skype (0.14.0.4) for the Mac, which allows users to make conference calls - something for which I've been yearning ever since I started using the software. Now if only the developers at Skype would add the capability for users to 'push pages' as they speak, it would be a great improvement. I have found myself repeatedly sending From apcampbell News on January 18, 2005 at 8:52 a.m..

ADL Presents at I/ITSEC 2004
Members of the ADL Initiative participated in the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2004 held December 6 -9, 2004 in Orlando, Florida..  I/ITSEC promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education programs, identification of common training issues ... From ADL News on January 18, 2005 at 8:51 a.m..

Weblogs en Terra/México y en EFE
El portal Terra/México publica el especial El weblog, la nueva bitácora escrito por Violeta Villar Liste. La Agencia EFE me entrevistó el viernes pasado. El cable lo han recogido entre otros (iré actualizando): Diario de Cádiz: España despierta a fenómeno... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 18, 2005 at 8:51 a.m..

Free RSS to HTML PHP Script
A free PHP script, rss2html.php, that converts RSS feeds to HTML has been made freely available by NotePage, Inc. The rss2html.php script allows webmasters to display RSS feeds on their website. RSS or Really Simple Syndication, as it is commonly known, is a technology that gives webmasters the ability to to easily distribute and publish syndicated content on the Internet. Most webmasters understand the potential benefits of making RSS feeds available for vi From RSS Blog on January 18, 2005 at 7:58 a.m..

Google patches Gmail security hole - Matthew Broersma, Techworld
Google has fixed a bug in its Web-based e-mail service, Gmail, that allowed users to read the contents of other people's messages. HBX Networks, a Unix community group, discovered the bug while testing a Perl script intended to automate sending batche From Techno-News Blog on January 18, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Experts warn of trick to bypass IE download warnings: Unpatched hole could allow remote attacker to access systems - Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
A computer security researcher and an antivirus company are warning Microsoft customers about an unpatched hole in the company's Internet Explorer Web browser that could allow a remote attacker to bypass security warnings and download malicious conten From Techno-News Blog on January 18, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

No More Internet for Them - Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer
A small but growing number of frustrated computer owners are coming to the same conclusion. They're giving up or cutting back their use of the Internet, especially at home, where no corporate tech support team will ride to their rescue. Instead of mak From Techno-News Blog on January 18, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

R.R. Bowker has announced the introduction of Ulrich's Resource Linker, a new tool that integrates a ...
R.R. Bowker has announced the introduction of Ulrich's Resource Linker, a new tool that integrates all of a library's periodicals through a single service and allows library patrons to easily connect to those holdings by following a few simple links From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 18, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

eLit2005 - eLiteracy and eLearning - 4th International Conference on eLiteracy - University of Strat ...
eLit2005 - eLiteracy and eLearning - 4th International Conference on eLiteracy - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland - 15-17 June 2005 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 18, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

A Fitful Relationship With Tech
For Muslims unable to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, the humble mobile phone is proving to be something of a godsend. But there's a dark side to technology, too, for this religion of a billion people. From Wired News on January 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Alchemist Fails to Make Gold
The Fullmetal Alchemist video game captures the charm of the anime TV show, but the gameplay quickly wears thin. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on January 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Push-Button Wine Tasting
Pull out a smartcard and don't worry about the argon. One of the world's oldest pleasures gets a modern twist in San Francisco. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on January 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Cell-Phone Shushing Gets Creative
As mobile phones become ever more ubiquitous, so too do those annoyed by inconsiderate chatterers. Designers across the country are finding ways to reduce the risk of coming to blows. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on January 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Race for Next Space Prize Ignites
The Merlin rocket engine could help SpaceX achieve its ultimate goal: affordable space travel. The company is competing to win the $50 million America's Space Prize. Michael Belfiore reports from McGregor, Texas. From Wired News on January 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Middeleeuws Latijn uit Italië
http://www.uan.it/alim/ Een Italiaans archief van middeleeuwse teksten in het Latijn: http://www.uan.it/alim/. De teksten zijn verzameld in het kader van de vervaardiging van een woordenboek van het Middeleeuws Italiaans Latijn. Dat project maakt weer deel uit van een groter project van de Union Académique Internationale, waarin een groot aantal Europese landen een woordenboek vervaardigt van het middeleeuws Latijn in hun gebied; een project waaraan ook het CHI meewerkt met het (bijna voltooide) Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi, het woordenboek van het Nederlands middeleeuws Latij From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on January 18, 2005 at 5:58 a.m..

Rasmus Lerdorf - latest rockstar of the computing world that I have met
I met Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP, last Friday and discovered he took Systems Design Engineering at Waterloo just like I did (he's class of 1993, I am class of 1988). Very cool. So now, I have met the following rockstars: Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 18, 2005 at 5:51 a.m..

Monetärer Nutzen der Personalentwicklung durch Quantifizierung von Trainingseffekten
Der vorliegende Controlling-Ansatz will aufzeigen, wie die durch eine Bildungsmaßnahme ausgelösten Leistungssteigerungen erfasst und monetär bewertet werden können. Vorneweg: Das Ganze ist sehr betriebswirtschaftlich ausgerichtet, benötigt eine Reihe zusätzlicher Arbeitsschritte - und man muss bestimmte Prämissen einfach akzeptieren, um zur... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 18, 2005 at 5:50 a.m..

Jornada Weblogs en la Empresa en San Sebastián
El 25 de enero celebraremos una jornada Weblogs en la Empresa en el Parque Tecnológico de San Sebastián. Al igual que la anterior, organiza Enpresa Digitala y la entrada es gratuita. Estarán también Ibai-Intranets, Accesibilidad.info e Imascé, contando sus experiencias.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 18, 2005 at 4:50 a.m..

Working With the Enemy
Denver's teachers' union did more than accept a plan for merit pay. It designed one. The reason: reform or be reformed. From New York Times: Education on January 18, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Now Performing on Campus: The Dancing Professors
With resources diminishing and costs rising, struggling choreographers are finding a refuge in academia. From New York Times: Education on January 18, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital
The Educational Testing Service has developed a new test that it says can assess technology literacy. From New York Times: Education on January 18, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

After 4 Years, Day Care Workers Await Raise and Contract
The nearly 8,000 workers at 350 subsidized day care centers have not had a contract for four years and have not had a raise since April 2000. From New York Times: Education on January 18, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Harvard Chief Defends His Talk on Women
Lawrence Summers stood by comments he made suggesting that gender differences may explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers. From New York Times: Education on January 18, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

Professional Blogging Grab Bag, Continued…
Yep, I have a bunch more items on the topic of blogging professionally that I'd like to share with you. (Here's the first part of this grab bag.) TOP OF THIS LIST: "Internal Blogging More In Focus - Blog Consultants Beware," Corporate Blogging Blog, Jan. 10. Fredrik Wackå wrote, "If we compare to web communication in general an intranet is for many companies more effective in terms of ROI than an external site. Blogs will, I believe, be another example of this - and that should worry blog consultants... It's one thing to for example build a personal brand with blogging for an in From Contentious Weblog on January 18, 2005 at 1:54 a.m..

Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblog: RSS Market Share
http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000961.html "RSS circulation is growing by about 1%... [[ This is a content summary only. ]] From RSS Latest News on January 18, 2005 at 1:00 a.m..

Podcasting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting "In short, podcasting involves the recording of internet... [[ This is a content summary only. ]] From RSS Latest News on January 18, 2005 at 1:00 a.m..

Adrants: Google Says FU to Blog Comment Spammers
http://www.adrants.com/2005/01/google-says-fu-to-blog-comment.php Blog publishers rejoice! No more... [[ This is a content summary only. ]] From RSS Latest News on January 17, 2005 at 11:59 p.m..