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PLANET Digital Repository
http://ants.etse.urv.es/planetdr/ On the surface just another repository project, but of interest to me because it is a current project from outside of Canada that seems to have picked up the Edusource Communications Layer (ECL) developed by Marek Hatala and others as part of the Edusource project. This is the second piece of information I've had in as many weeks that Edusource isn't maybe as moribund as EdTechPost on January 20, 2005 at 10:51 p.m..

Metis Digital Library Workflow System
http://www-serl.cs.colorado.edu/metis/index.html One of a number of interesting services and tools funded by the NSDL, Metis is "a workflow system designed to support the workflow needs of digital libraries." This Java-based application seems ot only work against its own internal store of users, but different events and roles can be configured to perform actions such as file compression, mvoing files, creating timers and new users and email notification. From EdTechPost on January 20, 2005 at 10:51 p.m..

Games Help You 'Learn and Play'
The article is a bit light-weight, but it does offer a glimpse into the teaching capabilities of games. By Unattributed, BBC News, January 18, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Frameworks: Work in Progress
Brief discussion and some links to the E-Learning Framework project being undertaken by JISC, Industry Canada, Australia's DEST and others. My take is similar to Scott Wilson's: "the work-in-progress ELF website's current incarnation does look an awful lot like another giant system architecture on initial glance, especially as very few outputs from JISC's projects have been linked in yet." As I've suggested to these organizations before: build something simple and extensible, rather than the One True Framework, and let people add on to it. Funny thing. The OLDaily on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Tim Wang's Education Blog
Scott Leslie introduces us to a new education blog, Tim Wang's. wang's focus is on e-learning in China, as this item suggests, or this item about the China Japan Korean Open Source Software Initiatives. Good stuff. By Tim Wang, Tim Wang's Education Blog, January, 2005 [OLDaily on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

University of Arizona's DLearn - DSpace-based LOR
https://www.dlearn.arizona.edu/index.jsp I have wondered out loud a few times whether anyone was attempting an LOR on top of DSpace. I got some lukewarm responses but nothing very concrete to back up DSpace's own claims that it could be used as one. Today I stumbled across this - I don't know for an absolute fact, but this sure looks like a DSpace-powered site, ostensibly serving 'learning objects' hedged as 'digital learning materials.&apo From EdTechPost on January 20, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

Too Much Good Stuff
(Cross posted on ETI) Lately, I've been doing more worrying about the TMI syndrome. Too Much Information. It's great phrase to use when someone tells you just a bit too much about their hygiene habits, but it's also something that I think all of us in education and technology are grappling with these days. Anne's post a couple of days ago regarding the new info lit test being put out by ETS gets to some of the TMI prob From weblogged News on January 20, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Linear time
Finally, after a very nice company for my holidays I'm travelling alone. A bus takes me from Chicago to Indianapolis. I have a funny feeling  the bus feels as a physical representation of hyperlink, connecting not places, but people: I left Denham Grey at the bus station in Chicago while Denham Grey will meet me in Indy (learning to speak local :) This bus is also a link between holiday and work  I'm working on my presentation for tomorrow's meeting with the Mathemagenic on January 20, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..

BROG: blog research, visualisations & sushi
Had lots of fun meeting the BROG group people... Most of our discussions were about weblog research and sushi. In my presentation I was jumping around different topics we study heavily illustrated by visualisations from several papers (notes by Peter Welsch). As promised - references and links: Context - my PhD research on personal KM and weblog rese From Mathemagenic on January 20, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..

The fun of others blogging for you :)
Jack Vinson:Since Lilia is having difficulty posting to her blog while traveling, I am going to take the liberty of blogging a thought she had as we walked around the Art Institute of Chicago's Impressionist collection.  A single blog post is a spot of color in a Mathemagenic on January 20, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..

On Group Blogs, the Writers Come First
Pardon me while I pounce on a pet peeve: writers coming last on group blogs. Here on E-Media Tidbits, where we have more than 20 contributors, items are formatted so that the name of the writer comes first, above the headline. The rationale is that much of the writing on this blog is personal ("I think that ..."), so it can be disconcerting for a reader to launch into an item and not know who's speaking.My peeve is with group blogs that put the writer's name at the end of items. When a blog has a bunch of writers, I (...)Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 20, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..

A Free and Participatory New Newspaper
A new newspaper is born in Spain. This newcomer, created by the press group Recoletos, is free. The paper, named Qu!, wants to make a difference with the rest of free products. First, it is distributed in 12 main cities of the country, more than its bigger competitors, Metro and 10 Minutos. And second, it claims itself as "the first newspaper made by its own readers."The paper's motto is not 100 percent realistic, at least right now, when it has just been launched. But its website gives the chance to any reader to write a From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 20, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

New EdTech blog - Tim Wang's Education Blog
http://blog.loaz.com/timwang/index.php A warm welcome to the blogosphere for a new Ed Tech blogger from B.C. Tim Wang is a Flash developer with the Arts Computing group at U.B.C. For those of you not familar with their work, these are the folks behind a set of Flash-based learning tools they call 'Learning Object Template Tools,' including the flash-based Timeline Tool that EdTechPost on January 20, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..

Not delicious Feeds
Oh, I feel like a bad net citizen. Either due to my own code blunders, or someone else's overly aggressive page reloads or some force of the moon, our Feed2JS site has been banned from accessing del.icio.us feeds. Sorry about that folks, but you cannot display these feeds through our site. This is what you will see. This only affects feeds from del.icio.us. I From cogdogblog on January 20, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Class Blog Makes the Grade
Now I just know there are all sorts of stories out there like this one just waiting to be told...Right??? Since English teacher Stacey O'Donnell embraced blogging as a teaching tool, the days of ducked assignments and terse essays are long gone. She can't get her students to stop writing. "If there were only questions and a notebook, they'd say, 'I did it. It's done. That's it,' " said O'Donnell, 32. "But this keeps raising the bar." English teachers at Nor From weblogged News on January 20, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

The Blog Participation Gap
Yet there is a technology gap between the clued-in and the clueless: 27 percent of Internet users surveyed said they read blogs, and 12 percent have posted comments to them; but 62 percent of Americans said they don't know how... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

Like it or Not, Blogs Have Legs.
Nevertheless, we are in the midst of a new kind of internet boom, thanks in large part to this weblog phenomenon. It's not an economic bubble, where scores of startup companies run by fresh-faced 20-somethings are blowing through wads of... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

Blog Studies
The use of Internet technology to facilitate interaction, communication, and collaboration is well documented but its use in establishing and developing "personal voice" as part of learning is also now being addressed through the use of blogs. Finding personal voice... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

wwwtools for Education
wwwtools is designed to keep you informed and to save valuable time in tracking down information and resources on the World Wide Web. wwwtools for teachers... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

How to communicate...
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... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

Five Evolutions I'd Like to See in LMS Platforms
After giving this some thought, I've come up with a list of five features or functionality sets that are missing from current LMS offerings. I'm certain that some very smart people are working on some of these even as I... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

China's Internet User Growth Drops
China now has 94 million Internet users, and the Chinese media bring this as a great achievement. (They find it very hard not to see anything with rosy glasses.) But the sad truth is that growth has dropped dramatically. Up till now, the number of online users would almost double every year, but the growth rate of 18 percent for the last year is really very low. In the second half of last year, the target was still 100 million users by the en From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

Gillmor on 'The End of Objectivity'
Practicing what he preaches, participative-journalism guru Dan Gillmor has posted what he calls "version 0.91" of a manifesto in which he declares: "I'd like to toss out objectivity ... and replace it with four other notions that may add up to the same thing. They are pillars of good journalism: thoroughness, accuracy, fairness, and transparency." You can take part in the conversation on Gillmor's new blog. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 20, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

it's the social network, stupid! (Liz Lawley)
Seems my post on folksonomic flaws is getting a lot of reading. Now that I’ve had a chance to sleep on it, and read other people’s comments (including the del.icio.us annotations, which I often find interesting—given only a line or... From Corante: Social Software on January 20, 2005 at 4:49 p.m..

Deep structure redux
I've been monitoring with great interest the reactions to yesterday's item, to its related InfoWorld column, and to Jonathan Edwards' screencast and paper that I cite in both. I was particularly curious to see what Smalltalk and Lisp folks -- who have in certain important respects been there and done that -- would have to say. Jon's Radio on January 20, 2005 at 4:46 p.m..

Today's Links
TheFeature :: The Battle For Market Share sony up, samsung up, motorola up my prediction is that motorola and nokia (unless they do something dramatic) will be much diminished in 10 years and we'll be left with sony, microsoft, samsung and a chinese manufacturer as major plays. I hope I am wrong since I love Nokia Series 60 phones but I see no indications that Nokia has what it takes and reports that the Razr is t From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 20, 2005 at 2:52 p.m..

A failure of disclosure
Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman PR, the largest independent public relations company, has started a weblog. I noted that fact on Nov. 23, and also disclosed that I've done a little work for the company and know Richard a bit. Recently I've become a consultant to the company on how the Internet and PR intersect. Jay Rosen today posts a good piece that expresses surprise and dismay that the blogosphere — and particularly, the part that blogs about PR — has ignored Richard's posts excoriating Ketchum for betraying the PR code of ethics in the Armstrong Williams propagan From Joho the Blog on January 20, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Technorati now allows free tagging
Technorati now supports free tagging of weblog posts. This is similar to the tagging used at Del.icio.us and Flickr. Of course I like it. But right now I am not quite sure how to add these tags into my weblog layout. Should I replace my very own categories wit them? Hmmmm... I should not forget to mention that Technorati has just finished its first Developer contest where developers were asked to invent ways to utilize the owrede_log on January 20, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

I work, you work, we all work, with iWork
I am doing almost all of my presentations with Keynote - and was waiting for Keynote 2 to show up. Actually I am not missing any feature in this application, but I am looking forward to the Flash export and I wonder if it will be easy to do voice-overs for self-running presentations. What I really would have loved to see in iChat is a way to route the Keynote presentation into the iChat video input so that it would be a snap to do remote lectures. I think there are quite a number of people that would be willing to join a lecture with such From owrede_log on January 20, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

Destructive Wiki spam
I had my wiki locked for anonymous editing to get rid of spammers. Only one or two pages were editable because I wanted people to be able to work on them. I was hoping that spammers would turn down if they can't find an editable page ad hoc. Not so. In "return" they did not only spam the open pages - they also replaced and thus deleted the original content (they used to append stuff to existing content). In addition they also started to add new pages below the editable page (which seems to work if the original page is writable). Luckily I was able to repair the damage, but I wonder From owrede_log on January 20, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

indypeer.org
Few days after my returning home from New York after 9/11 (the day I originally planned to fly home) I felt strongly that the WTC attacks were just a episode and that there is a great deal of background and responsibility on the side of the current (and probably former) US governments and the fact that there were so little questioning about that could only be a result of a profound lack serious journalism (and people actually watching/reading these reports). Now there is a site that offers a huge number of documentaries that may not be broadcastedd o From owrede_log on January 20, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

Liz Lawley on shared vocabularies
Here's Liz with a truly outstanding post on social tagging. I discovered the ESP game too not long ago, and had been thinking of blogging about it, but she does such a fine job that I'll be content to highlight the tension that exists between expertness and specialization on the one hand, and retrievability of information by non-experts on the other hand. I think we may need levels of description for things; accessing them would be a matter of From Seb's Open Research on January 20, 2005 at 1:46 p.m..

"eNaugural" Ball Webcast by TV Worldwide Attracts Sponsors to Help Include U.S. Troops On-Line
TV Worldwide, a fast-growing web-based global TV network, announced today that several organizations were supporting the effort to include U.S. troops worldwide during the webcast of the second quadrennial "eNaugural.com Ball," the Hi-Tech inaugural b From Techno-News Blog on January 20, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..

Wheeeeeeere's Johnny's blog?
Johnny Carson apparently thinks of five new jokes every time he reads the paper and is frustrated that he doesn't have a stage on which to perform them. Blog, Johnny, blog! Technorati tags: carson... From Joho the Blog on January 20, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

Countering comment spam
Reading Sunir Shah's post on the proposed "nofollow" measure, which will prevent links in comment sections on some blogging platforms from contributing to search engine data, has reinforced my conviction that this will not be effective in bringing down comment spam. One of Sunir's arguments is that it is assuming too much cluefulness on the part of spammers: "Even if savvy spammers stop, naive spammers will still keep coming." And Jay Fienberg do From Seb's Open Research on January 20, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..

Podcasting Explained
Podcasting is quickly becoming a buzz word among the techie crowd. So what is podcasting, anyway? Podcasting is online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Many people liken podcasting to radio on demand. However, in reality, podcasting gives far more options in terms of content and programming than radio does. Complete Article - Podcasting Explained From RSS Blog on January 20, 2005 at 11:59 a.m..

RFID's the Thing at Retail Show - Susan Kuchinskas, Internet News
Radio frequency identification was a hot topic at the National Retail Federation (NRF) trade show this week in New York City. According to a report by BuzzBack Market Research conducted on behalf of Teradata, larger companies are studying whether RFI From Techno-News Blog on January 20, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..

Search Engines, Bloggers Team to Fight Spam - Matt Hicks, eWeek
The Internet's leading search engines and a major Weblog tool vendor are joining together to fight the onslaught of spam in the comment sections of blogs. Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division, Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd. announced late Tuesd From Techno-News Blog on January 20, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has announced that the full text of The American J ...
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has announced that the full text of The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy is now available online. The free trial will end June 30, 2005 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 20, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

The European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery and the European Society for Cardiovascular Surg ...
The European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery and the European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery have announced that the full text of Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery is now available online From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 20, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Narrativas y Metanarrativas en el mundo digital
Los días 28 y 29 de enero tendrán lugar en Barcelona las V Jornadas sobre Arte y Multimedia: Metanarrativa(s)? Encuentro internacional sobre el papel del arte en el desarrollo de narrativas y sintáxis audiovisuales y multimedia organizadas por la Mediateca... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 20, 2005 at 10:51 a.m..

Libraries and Library Systems in the New Information Landscape by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director ...
Libraries and Library Systems in the New Information Landscape by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. Clifford Lynch wrapped up the LITA National Forum with a talk about preservation, personalization, education delivery and learning management systems, and consumer marketplace developments From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 20, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

CLIR Issues - Number 43 January/February 2005 - is now available from the Council on Library and Inf ...
CLIR Issues - Number 43 January/February 2005 - is now available from the Council on Library and Information Resources From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 20, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Geek Love, or Lack Thereof
Actor Scott Rose's first love was the Mac, but falling for a computer didn't teach the young nerd much about relating to women. Now, Rose has written a one-man play detailing his fruitless attempts at applying computer logic to love. By Leander Kahney. From Wired News on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Sundance Online Adjusts Focus
The Sundance Online Film Festival was originally designed for web movies, but quality concerns open the door for big-screen films. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Safe E-Mailing for Dummies
E-mail encryption is a good idea that hasn't taken hold, mainly because it's such a pain to use. The recently released Ciphire Mail aims to make it easy, if not completely transparent. By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs
Blogging can be powerful, akin to free-market capitalism, with information as its currency. And not only do we all get to watch, we can join in. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From Wired News on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Techies Talk Tough in D.C.
Technology companies and consumer advocates gear up for more copyright battles in the new Congress, and there's talk that they need a bigger presence in Washington. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on January 20, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Social Bookmarking using del.icio.us
Are you curious about 'social software' but unsure about how to benefit from a 'social'application?  One of the best ways to learn about social software is the hands on approach.  Get your hands dirty and play with delicious! Del.icio.us is an online bookmark manager that bills itself as a social bookmarking tool.  Del.icio.us combines the best of referrals, public bookmarks, shared information and descriptive tags. From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 20, 2005 at 9:56 a.m..

* Full Tsunami Video Footage, Pictures, Clips And TV News Stories
Seven days after the tsunami started hitting the poor northern tip of Sumatra, hundreds of video clips, TV news stories and thousands of images have stood as the only direct witnesses to such a tragic event. Backward Flow in Qian Tang Jiang River, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China - 10/2002 - Source This is meant to be a comprehensive clearinghouse to the visual content coming from all accessible online resources, amateur and professional, and covering the December 26 Asian tsunami. This is a simple, annotated mini-guide to access all of the videos, news clips and images made available in the last 7.. From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on January 20, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

President Who Guided Citadel Transition to Retire
Maj. Gen. John S. Grinalds, who helped the Citadel move forward after its tumultuous fight over the admission of women, is retiring from the post on Aug. 1. From New York Times: Education on January 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

A Second Ex-Official Is Accused of Theft From L.I. School District
A retired administrator in one of Long Island's largest school districts has been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the twilight of his career. From New York Times: Education on January 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Meaning of 'Proficient' Varies for Schools Across Country
Comparisons of performance on state tests versus national tests suggest how widely the definition of "proficient" varies from state to state. From New York Times: Education on January 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

2 School Boards Push on Against Evolution
A school district in Pennsylvania and another in Georgia have pressed ahead with their challenges to the teaching of evolution in their public schools. From New York Times: Education on January 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Tuna on Rye, Transported With Panache
With back-to-school season long over, the Web is the place to go to replace a lost lunchbox. From New York Times: Education on January 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Harvard President Apologizes Again for Remarks on Gender
With the furor over his remarks suggesting that women may not have the same innate abilities in math and science as men, Harvard's president issued an apology. From New York Times: Education on January 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

A blog, you see, is a little First Amendment machine. - Jay Rosen
Amen, Brothers Jay and Jeff! Slogan der Woche! From BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis.: QUOTEIn the old days, if you wanted to publish or broadcast, you had to have expensive equipment and expertise; you had to know the guy who owned the means of distribution (printing press or broadcast tower or cable); you had to have a fortune for marketing. Now, anyone can create content (and, better yet, conversation) and do it inexpensively with new equipment and tools; they can distribute it onli From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 20, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

Rules for remixing - Rael Dornfest
Right on Rael! Remix or die!From Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon DevCon - Rael Dornfest.: QUOTERules for remixing: If it ain't broke it soon will be Need to focus on why it is broken, how is not enough Look to the alpha geeks If you are an alpha geek, look to the consumer Remix even if you have no ear for music Kepe it open and hackable Think of the end-to-end It is ai From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 20, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

iPod iFad? iDontThinkSo!
Kevin Rollins has been CEO of Dell Computer for about six months. A couple of days ago he gave a lengthy interview to CNET, reported under this headline: Dell's Rollins dismisses iPod as a 'fad'. A fad??? Why would he say that? "It's interesting the iPod has been out for three years and it's only this past year it's become a raging success. Well, tho From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 20, 2005 at 6:56 a.m..

Measuring Blog Marketing
Zachary Rodgers with ClickZ just published the second part of his two part series on measuring blog marketing. Big brands are quickly adopting either official or C-level blogs. Google and Yahoo! maintain company blogs. Microsoft supports both official blogs and individual employee blogs. Executives at General Motors, Sun Microsystems and Jupitermedia all write blogs of their own. And smaller companies are using the medium to From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 5:55 a.m..

how to pimp ones torrent
I've been trying to come up with a good general recommendation for how people should advertise their torrents on their blogs and webpages. The overall problem is overload. Per each entry item you start with at least the direct link to the content (.mp3, .avi, .etc). On top of this now you also want to direct people to the torrent for that item to try to save your bandwidth. Do you link to unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 5:55 a.m..

TI Imaging Processor Powers Samsung's World's First Camera Phone with HDD
Texas Instruments today announced Samsung Electronics has selected TI's imaging processor technology for the world's first camera phone with a hard disk drive for storing images and video. Samsung, a global leader in telecommunication, semiconductor and digital handsets, has also selected TI imaging processor technology for three additional camera phones.Samsung has chosen TI s OMAP-DM270 processor, an extension to TI s widely adopted OMAP processor portfolio, to power its new camera phone model. The camera phone with hard-disk drive includes a video-on demand feature. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Consumer Electronics Firms Give In To Hollywood
Unfortunately, right now, this story is only appearing in the Wall Street Journal, so most people won't be able to read it. I'm assuming it'll get picked up elsewhere during the day, and will add an open link as soon as I can find one. However, the WSJ is reporting that most of the major consumer electronics firms have agreed to team up and develop a single copy protection standard. Sony, Samsung, Philips and Matsushita, along with copy protection company Intertrust, are From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Video on your nose with Icuiti's V920
Icuiti has announced the North American introduction of its V920 Video Eyewear product, a binocular video display which offers semi-immersive viewing of both 2D and stereoscopic video. Offering VGA resolution, the V920 accepts several types of video in, and can be powered both by a pair of AA batteries or directly over USB when connected to a PC. Weighing in at a slinky 3.5 oz or 99 g, the V920 is to proffer an image equal to viewing a 42" display at a distance of 7 feet. Two LCD displays offer 24-bit colour depth at a resolution of 640 x 480 pi From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

New free video on clearance and copyright
A video by Brigid Maher, "Stories Untold" is a crisp introduction to the issues of copyright and rights clearance. It combines clips of endangered or altered films, interviews with filmmakers, and animation illustrating the kinds of problems filmmakers have in clearing rights for documentaries. All quoted material in the film was used by invoking fair use. The 8-minute video is designed both for teaching and for discussions. "This is a terrific tool," said filmmaker Peter Wintonick. "I want every doc filmmaker to see it. We From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

CJR: Saving Journalism
If we are to preserve journalism and its social-service functions, maybe we would be wise not to focus too much on traditional media. The death spiral might be irreversible. We should look for ways to keep the spirit and tradition of socially responsible journalism alive until it finds a home in some new media form whose nature we can only guess at today. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Targeting Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
A new study released by Deloitte's Media and Telecommunications division points to a future in which mass marketing shifts to micro targeting. While not surprising, the report speaks to the convergence of of media and the continual merging of electronic devices into one, through which all content will flow - likely the cell phone. Along with the merging of devices will be the transference off all media to digital form coupled with the rise in consumer conversation afforded by weblogs and wikis. This nichification of co From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Copyright Kills Culture
The Globe and Mail: How copyright could be killing cultureThe high cost of getting permission to use archival footage and photos threatens to put makers of documentaries out of business I'll say it does. This article shows how the definitive documentary on the American civi From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Megasources: Surfing for Information and Journalism Resources
A list of sources for pretty much everything. Online since 1994. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Will Citizen Journalists Want to Be Paid?
In commenting on an item I wrote yesterday, Barb Iverson brought up an important issue: "When the citizen bloggers get over the initial excitement of seeing their work online, and begin to realize it takes time and that they are part of the audience draw, won't they think about getting paid for their work? Are you thinking about micropayments for the best as time goes on?"The idea of identifying your best From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

ElementTree
The Element type is a simple but flexible container object, designed to store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets, in memory. The element type can be described as a cross between a Python list and a Python dictionary. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Usability Basics
Usability is the measure of the quality of a user's experience when interacting with a product or system, whether a Web site, a software application, mobile technology, or any user-operated device. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

the McLuhan Vortex
What is The Message draws a clear picture of the Academic McLuhan. It points to The McLuhan Program home page, and the McLuhan Program Blog, called (appropriately) What's the Message? The site contains observations and papers and, most interestingly, a link to the Mind, Media and Society blog. For those who are interested in more traditional - that is P.O.B.-or From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Forbes names VideoBlogs as a Top Tech trend for 2005 (and why they are wrong)
In a positive note of recognition for an emerging section of the blogosphere, Rich Karlgaard at Forbes has named video blogs as one of his three pics for tech trends in 2005, stating “this year video Weblogs are sure to be the “it” thing". In justifying the decision he sites a number of Tsunami video blogs and the clip of comedian Jon Stewart on CNN’s Crossfire in October as examples where Video Blogs are making an impact. Which is true, both examples demonstrate where From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

WiMax Certification Delayed
WiMAX Forum's plugfest -- scheduled for this month -- has been delayed for about 6 months, reports America's Network. Chipmakers like Intel and Fujitsu have yet to release the crucial silicon. Without silicon, there's not much to test. Plugfests for 802.16-2004, explains Telephony Magazine, have been reschedul From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

How Blogging Software Reshaped the Online Community
Rebecca Blood takes a thoughtful look at how software developments are driving the evolution of blogs into densely interconnected online communities: In early 2000, Blogger introduced an innovation that would forever change the face of weblogs: the permalink. From the start, webloggers had frequently referenced other blogs. It was awkward ("Scroll down to the third entry on September 12th�") but this crossblog talk was so compelling it became a primary focus of entire weblog clusters. Permalinks gave eac From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

California Senator Wants To Throw Ed Felten In Jail
While the headline might seem a bit extreme, it seems accurate. A California state Senator with ties to Hollywood has introduced a law that could mean jailtime for any developer of a file sharing application. That's right -- it's not about anyone who actually used the app to do something illegal, but whoever develops an application. This, despite the fact that courts have found repeatedly that you can&a From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

Vloggercon is booked - solid.....
As I understand it - Vloggercon is booked solid. That's a trick many NYers do - make something look so coolio and exclusive that EVERYONE wants to attend. :-) Anyway - for those of you who can't get in - feel free to come to Katz's Deli Friday night at 7. We'll be holding a "micro-content" dinner - to dicuss how video blogging is part of the futur From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

Quicktime player next
An XML Reading Quicktime Linker Movie is a Quicktime-based tool for reading XML playlists. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

RatcliffeBlog: Mitch's Open Notebook: Interesting transparency experiment
David Berlind at ZD Net is putting his interviews online in podcast form so that readers can check his reporting. See the special report, Media credibility: Where podcasting meets transparency. Imagine a time when you get The New York Times and listen to the reporters' research to get your own insight into the source material. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

Riding the Media Bits: A practical guide to digital convergence.
The target reader of these pages is non-technical, but this does not mean that technical people would not benefit from being exposed to the breadth of issues laid down in these pages. Non-technical people are warned that, since these pages deal with matters that are strongly influenced by very sophisticated technologies, some understanding of them will be required, if knowledge is not to be reduced to thin air and tool building to apodictic statements. In order not to scare these readers, I guarantee that efforts have been made to reduce technical explanations to the minimum necess From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

MovieGallery: Organize, Watch & Share all your movies in a snap
MovieGallery takes care of all your movies in a powerful and easy way. Just drag and drop to organize. Create playlists and watch movies in full-screen. Publish and share your movies on the web and on mobile phones with playlists, preview thumbnails, information and everything intact, in just a few simple steps. You can even work with multiple galleries simultaneously. In contradiction to almost all other shoe-box applications MovieGallery is designed as a document-based application. From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

Smart claims a first for text message response system to TV advertising
DaimlerChrysler's Smart claims to be the first car manufacturer in the UK, and possibly the world, to use SMS responses in its TV advertising, allowing viewers to arrange test drives, request brochures or locate dealers by sending text messages from their mobile phones, reports Just-auto-com. (Continued at textually.org) From unmediated on January 20, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

social consequences of social tagging (Liz Lawley)
So, if my del.icio.us inbox is any indication, the blogosphere has been abuzz lately with opinions and commentary on “folksonomy.” It’s interesting stuff, no doubt, especially for those of us who come to social computing from a library and information... From Corante: Social Software on January 20, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

Portal Software Solutions--Good, Bad, Indifferent
Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value?: This article is geared at the business world, but it has value in the world of education where similar portal solutions are being heavily promoted. I wrote about this a while back at an article title 15 Minutes at a Connected Teacher's Desktop and have some strong feelings in this area, most of them positive, on the value of a system that provides customized content and a single sign-on method for users. The author raises some valid points... From Brain Frieze on January 20, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

Web Pages that Suck
I went through every Daily Sucker for the last year and I've come up with a list of what I think were the biggest web design mistakes. These mistakes apply only to real sites -- not personal, band, music, art,... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 1:54 a.m..

How I Spent My Tuesday Evening...
Education marketplace They and thousands of other parents and students found information, reams of it, at the annual Portland schools open house, a sort of school supermarket called "Celebrate! Portland Public Schools."... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 20, 2005 at 1:49 a.m..

Bless You, Google
Google has spoken: Web links tagged with rel=nofollow shall not get PageRank. A grand rejoicing has been heard across the land. Well, at least from my office. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comm From cogdogblog on January 20, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

More Berkman Center Digital Media Project Papers
Today, the Berkman Center and Gartner|G2 released an update to Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World, which "examines the transition from analog/offline to digital/online media from a U.S. legal and market perspective."  This edition reflects important changes since the whitepaper's original publication in August 2003.  The new edition also From A Copyfighter's Musings on January 20, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

Death Row Cam
Bangkwang prison, referred to as the Bangkok Hilton by Westerners, has installed cameras for the purpose of broadcasting on the web the daily lives of the prisoners as well as the moments leading up to an execution. They do not plan on broadcasting the execution itself. Officials hope that it will highlight the risks of drug dealing. From kuro5hin.org on January 20, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Picasa: Free Photo Management Software
I heard about this a while back but Steven Downes helped to remind me. Picasa, free software from Google, allows you to scan your PC, organize your collections of photos and then easily allow you to share your photographs with... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on January 20, 2005 at 12:52 a.m..

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
Jakob's column on Web usability Durability of Usability Guidelines (Jan. 17) About 90% of usability guidelines from 1986 are still valid, though several guidelines are less important because they relate to design elements that are rarely used today. useit.com: Jakob... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 12:51 a.m..

Double the usability of your web site
You can double the usability of your web site by following these guidelines: for two sample sites studied in Sun's Science Office, we improved measured usability by 159% and 124% by rewriting the content according to the guidelines. Sun Microsystems... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 12:51 a.m..

Global Usability Service
Leveraging on our international experience, we will be sharing our insights for working in cross-cultural environments. Please join us in Montreal for the following four sessions at the upcoming Usability Professionals Association conference, Bridging Cultures: Human Factors International--ensuring usability through... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 20, 2005 at 12:51 a.m..

Blogging vs. Journalism Debate is O-V-E-R
I realize I'm on a bit of a journalism bender here lately, but I can't help myself, especially when Jay Rosen announces that the debate is officially ended. Bloggers vs. journalists is over. I don't think anyone will mourn its passing. There were plenty who hated the debate in the first place, and openly ridiculed its pretensions and terms. But events are what did the thing in at the end. In the final weeks of its run, we were getting bulletins from journalists like this From weblogged News on January 19, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..

BlogTalk downunder cont'd
This is very nice. Like a virtuous cycle. I exactly remember when Rebecca decided to be part of the first BlogTalk 1.0 - thanks again for being part of it. Looking forward to see you again. Although, what bothers me most are those box jelly fish up north in queensland - where I intend to stay beginning form May 1. While I'm sure they're not interested in ICT the are ab From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 19, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..