Edu_RSS
Learning to live, living to learn
Today is my 11th day in the great city of Buenos Aires and some rainy and windy weather offers just the right context to switch into a more reflective mode trying to think through the impressions I have collected so far and the prelude to this somewhat spontaneous journey. In part this is an attempt to reconnect with parts of my Self and my own history. I currently stay with a friend of mine who shared a house with me in Athens, Georgia, a few years ago. He is visiting friends and family here and my personal guide to and interpreter of native life in Buenos Aires, though he has not b From
Seblogging News on January 31, 2005 at 10:50 p.m..
Conversation Mediator: From Push-To-Talk To Videochat
On The Feature today, David Pescovitz describes innovative software "that detects how engaged you are in your telephone conversations. The aim is for your phone to help you transition between a slew of mobile services, from push-to-talk to videochat." Photo... From
Kolabora.com on January 31, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Letter to Bloglines
(O.k., I promised the one before was my last one today, but you know... procrastination and all that) For the sake of posterity, here is the email I wrote Bloglines tech support today. I would urge others to do likewise who are experiencing the same problem. "Hi, I contacted you a few weeks back about this problem, and since then have canvassed a number of other bloggers and learned they too are experiencing this problem. There is a regular, reproducable problem with bloglines correctly updating the feed count ofr a feed but then not displaying the feed content if that feed From
EdTechPost on January 31, 2005 at 9:51 p.m..
Now THAT Was Fun...and Educational (What a Concept!)
I had an absolutely great time during my online session on RSS with the
Webheads this morning. There were over 20 people from Europe, Asia, South and North America, and the Middle East that participated. The
Elluminate Live software over at
Learning Times is incredibly easy to use and really powerful for presentations like this. I was able to run some slides, take them on Web surfs, and narrate the whole thing as I went. I know they recorded it, and I&ap From
weblogged News on January 31, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Media & Journalism Grab Bag
Here are a few items on the theme of media, journalism, and news that have caught my attention lately. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Out of the Rubble, A Public Housing Drama Rises," a three-part video feature from the Washington Post, Dec. 22, 2004. First-rate storytelling that works well on a very small screen. Now that we're entering the age of TV programming delivered to mobile phones, I hope more news organizations start producing and deliver more of this kind of content. (Read the rest of this list...) From
Contentious Weblog on January 31, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
10 Years: Looking Back, Looking Forward
I'm at the
Poynter Institute this week for a seminar called Web+10. It's an examination on what we've learned (and haven't) in the first 10 years of the Web, and an attempt to harness the brainpower of some 40 new-media leaders and pioneers to come up with a prescription for the media industry in the next 10 years.I celebrated my 10-year anniversary working in the online world about a year ago, and many media companies this year are looking back a decade to the start of their online operations. The Age newspaper just yeste From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 31, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
FreeLists - Free mailing lists with RSS feeds
http://www.freelists.org (This has GOT to be my last post today! If you've ever wondered why my posts are so short, it isn't because I have nothing to say ;-) Thought this would be interesting to the 'small pieces'crowd - FreeLists.org is a free email listserving service (with no advertising and industrial strength admin controls on your lists). I've used it for a number of projects in the past where I didn't have access to my own mail server and wanted to run a list. It provides users with their own web-b From
EdTechPost on January 31, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..
2005 Bloggie Awards
A Washington Post article led me to the 2005 Bloggie Awards website. It's an appealingly modest award competition--prizes seem to be in the $25-50 range at most--and very much in the blog spirit. I was pleased to see the inspiring South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog is a finalist. ... From
Gardner Writes on January 31, 2005 at 6:00 p.m..
RSScache.com
http://rsscache.com/Section/Webmasters/index.aspx "Using RSScache.com: We offer a service that... [[ This is a content summary only. ]] From
RSS Latest News on January 31, 2005 at 6:00 p.m..
Troublesome Trolls (Online Vermin, Part 2)
Online trolls are distinguished by baiting behavior: Routinely making statements which are intended to push people's buttons and start a flame war. Trolls are the most dangerous type of online vermin because they feed on, and thrive in, discord. They directly benefit from a hostile environment. Trolls are generally averse to constructive discussion -- they find it boring. Any environment which lacks a venomous heirarchical struggle, or which challenges the chosen basis for a fragile self-image, triggers insecurities regarding the troll's own importance or superiority. TIME is the ke From
Contentious Weblog on January 31, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
No woman no country
Mars and China have one thing in common: they both need women. Thanks to a pro-son cultural bias and China's one-kid-per-couple law, China's newest generation has too many males compared to females. While this may mean a lucrative market for the Japanese makers of the girlfriend lap pillow, the implications of the one-child rule are far more ominous for the Chinese. With no women to keep them in check, they'll grow up to be lonely, irritable young men with too much spare time on their hands - a recipe for a rebellion. It is a scientifically provable theory, said political scient From
silentblue | Quantified on January 31, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Infrae 'Railroad Repository' for Plone or Zope
http://www.infrae.com/products/railroad I am really not sure why I haven't seen more of this, as the longer I look at the LOR problem the more sense it makes to me that 'conventional' repositories can be reasonably easily built on the back of existing (large and relatively stable) open source Content Management Systems. This comes as well with a realization that try as one might, it is likely not feasible to omit the content management of learning objects from one's solution. This repository system, from a sof From
EdTechPost on January 31, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..
Guilt is Good (Ross Mayfield)
Dan Bricklin picks up a thread from Shelley to AKMA and Winer on blog post categorization (David Weinberger tracks it, but also see his recent newsletter on tags and Jay's comments) to suggest Guiltlessness as a design criteria for... From
Corante: Social Software on January 31, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
The Burning Retina (A LASIK Story)
About 3 weeks ago, a masked man wielding a high powered laser apparatus decided to slice open my eyeballs and play around inside each of them. The result? I now have better than 20/20 vision without the assistance of glasses or contacts. Inside contains my tale... (Beware, references to demonic creatures lurk inside) From
kuro5hin.org on January 31, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Open Source Radio & School Improvement Plans...
Open Source Radio Tod Maffin's latest radio piece for CBC Radio was done in an Open Source manner. He solicited ideas and suggestions from readers and listeners throughout the creative process. A kind of a public editing. This got me thinking in terms of my school and our School Improvement Planning process. I'd like to incorporate some of the methods Tod and others have used to share our work with the larger school community and gain ideas and feedback on the plan as we are writing it... More later...... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 31, 2005 at 4:50 p.m..
BBN rips lid off my seamy relationship with EthanZ
I ignored Ethan's blogging of a comment about my after-dinner speech last week because it was way too embarrassing. Unfortunately, the bastards at Better Bad News have a 15 minute video (also available as a podcast) that begins there, figures out I'm a schmuck, and moves onto the important issues of blogging and credibility. (Hint: It's very funny and they're right.) Ethan responds with appropriate outrage here.... From
Joho the Blog on January 31, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Will Richardson....Live.
I'm taking part right now in
Will's real time audio/visual presentation at
Learning Times entitled,
What is RSS? He's now telling us everything we need to know about RSS and how we can use it to enhance our learning/teaching experiences on the read/write web. He's also showing us numerous examples of how to use Feed Readers, like Bloglines, and how to subscribe to feeds, and giving us ideas of what we could do with this technology From
apcampbell News on January 31, 2005 at 3:53 p.m..
William and Mary to Require Laptops
A new program at William and Mary will require students students to purchase notebook (aka laptop) computers. The program, called My Notebook, will begin as a pilot in the fall 2005 term; it will be required the following year. Here's coverage from a local TV station's website that's basically the ... From
Gardner Writes on January 31, 2005 at 3:01 p.m..
Tuning Folksonomies
A while back, I
posted an idea for checking to see the degree to which two differently named memes overlap in content. Looking back, what I was really talking about was tuning a folksonomy. What we really want is a way to see how much overlap there is between two… From
e-Literate on January 31, 2005 at 2:59 p.m..
The street where journalism ends
Bernard Weinraub, former entertainment reporter for The New York Times, writes about what it's like to be a journalist at Hollywood and Vine. The basic lesson seems to be that you can't fully stand apart from the world about which you're reporting. Hollywood, despite its excesses, does not seem to be a special case: Reporters embedded in the financial world, DC or in a foreign capital must face the same situation, albeit with fewer Hummers and tiaras in view. Access is the currency and humans remain human. Too bad Weinraub wasn't writing a blog during all those years. We wo From
Joho the Blog on January 31, 2005 at 2:49 p.m..
Yay for democracy
Hooray for the elections in Iraq! The accounts are moving. For example, from the Boston Globe: Wamidh Imad al-Zubaidi, an engineer, almost decided not to vote after death threats against would-be voters circulated in his mixed Sunni and Shi'ite neighborhood, Zayouna. Then, he said, he remembered his brother, who was executed for opposing Saddam Hussein's regime. ''I feel a power inside myself, and there is a voice telling me, this should not happen to my son or to any Iraqi. I have to prevent this dictatorship from returning to Iraq," he said, adding that he braved the poll From
Joho the Blog on January 31, 2005 at 2:49 p.m..
RSS2HTML Service
Free RSS2HTML service.
RSS2HTML provides users a very easy way to display feeds as HTML. Select a layout and color scheme and your feeds will be displayed on RSS2HTML.com. From
RSS Blog on January 31, 2005 at 1:58 p.m..
The 'Mediatization' of the Internet
European online newspapers are "subordinate and subservient to print newspapers, and therefore still in search of their own online role," but they have a great influence on the Internet. An interesting analysis recently published by Gazette magazine concludes that there is both an "internetization" of traditional media and a "mediatization" of the Internet going on. But while the former is having less impact, the latter "threatens making the Internet a monological space."This is one of the main conclusions of the
"Impacts of the Inter From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 31, 2005 at 1:53 p.m..
Interlink Headline News: 10 años en la Red
Interlink Headline News, la primera publicación electrónica diaria argentina cumple 10 años. Impulsado por Raúl Drelichman y Alejandro Piscitelli, el boletÃn IHN ha ido iluminando a lo largo de 3.654 ediciones las claves de la revolución digital, desde allá lejos... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 31, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..
A Century of Einstein - Rowan Hooper, Wired
If you think it's sometimes hard to understand how a teenager's mind works, have some sympathy for Albert Einstein's mother. When he was just a teenager, Einstein was pondering what a light wave would look like if he could observe it while moving at l From
Techno-News Blog on January 31, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Estimulante Barcelona
Barcelona siempre me ha resultado una ciudad fascinante, inspiradora y abierta. Una ciudad en la que se respira el diseño. Muy europea y a la vez muy universal. Buenas gentes con buenas ondas en un concurrido Beers & Blogs, del... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 31, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
Activists Urge Open-Source
Presenters at the World Social Forum in Brazil -- a protest to the World Economic Forum underway in Switzerland -- push developing nations to adopt open-source software to avoid dependence on corporate Microsoft and the expense of Windows. From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Oops: Government IT Blunders
Experts blame the U.S. government's tendency to reinvent the wheel, along with poor planning, rapid industry advances and the massive scope of billion-dollar projects for its track record of costly technology mistakes. From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Teaching Computers to Read
Creating a computer that can learn at a sophisticated level -- even that of a 3-year-old with a Dr. Seuss book -- is not easy, though sci-fi stories portray smartypants computers as villains. But scientists keep trying From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Go Nuclear, Young Man
Despite disasters like Three Mile Island, could nuclear power help stop global warming? By Peter Schwartz and Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth
British scientists use the distributed computing power of 90,000 PCs to run the biggest climate simulation ever. Results show a greater greenhouse effect than expected, resulting in dramatic temperature increases. By Stephen Leahy. From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
How to Handle a Burning PC
A new tech-support book explains fixes for common computer woes -- and some not-so-common dilemmas, too. Michelle Delio reviews Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps and Blunders. From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Area Codes Blur Boundaries
Calls can now be made from any area code no matter where the caller is actually located -- using cellular and internet phones. But doing business with pre-selected area codes has troublesome implications for some companies. By Elisa Batista. From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Passenger Screening, Take 10
The Transportation Security Administration continues to push for a centralized passenger-screening system, this time using a combination of airline passenger information, terrorist watch lists and junk-mail databases. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
A Twelve Step Program For Identifying and Eliminating Organizational Change
No matter what side of the management / engineering fence one is on, there comes a time when one may need to stay right where one is, or to engage in the fine art of stalling. Before the reader passes moral judgment on a word with such pejorative connotation as "stalling," let him stop and reflect on reasons that he might want to stall. From
kuro5hin.org on January 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Trees vs. Leaves
David Weinberger on the
differences between the old way of classifying things (trees) and the new way of classifying things (leaves, a.k.a folksonomies): "The old way — trees — make sense in controlled environments where ambiguity is dangerous and where thoroughness counts. Trees make less sense in the uncontrolled, connected world that cherishes ambiguity." From
elearningpost on January 31, 2005 at 5:46 a.m..
Open Source Web Design
Many of my students will soon be developing electronic portfolios. For many beginner designers, visual design is often the most difficult hurdles to overcome. So ... for those less savvy with visual design, it may be useful to check out... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on January 31, 2005 at 4:55 a.m..
Random Records From FETC
Back from the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) with a fistful of memories and lots of things to think about. This is one of the biggest educational tech conferences in the U.S., and a place where lot of new services, software, and hardware are rolled out to attract the megadollars that are spent in this field every year. I've always found the greatest value in these conferences to be found not on the vendor floor or even in the sessions, but in the conversations that take... From
Brain Frieze on January 31, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..
Tools Grab Bag
Here are a few cool tools that have caught my attention lately. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Mind mapping: See what you're thinking," by Dave Pollard, How to Save the World, Jan. 5. Lately I've grown to adore mind mapping tools. This article is perhaps the best introduction to the topic, with no hype. Excerpt: "Recently I've started playing with mind maps as a personal thinking out loud tool, to organize my thoughts and think creatively all by myself. I've always learned best by writing, synthesizing and distilling books and other voluminous materials down to their essence: the mess From
Contentious Weblog on January 31, 2005 at 2:50 a.m..
del.icio.uus Tag Stemming (Clay Shirky)
Matt Biddulph has put up a del.icio.us tag stemmer, which will take your username (or indeed any username) and point out the possible inconsistencies based on word stemming (tag/tags/tagging, etc.) It will also take a URL, scan all users who... From
Corante: Social Software on January 31, 2005 at 1:49 a.m..
Reusable LOs at St. Petersburg College
If RLOs are ever to become widely used at colleges and universities they will need to be promoted and supported by local technology services at the institutions. Here's a good example of how one institution, St. Petersburg College, presents and supports LOs at their institution. The Web and Instructional Technology Services at the College provide access to both local repositories of objects and links to the major repositories: MERLOT, WISC, and CAREO. _____JH From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on January 31, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
How staff look for documents
James Robertson on how
staff look for documents: Observation of typical working environments has identified that there (at least) four different situations in which staff look for documents: known-item searching unknown-item searching own documents other people's documents known-item searching unknown-item searching own documents other people's documents From my own observation on information use in an engineering company, ma From
elearningpost on January 31, 2005 at 1:46 a.m..
Edublogvangelism Goes Global (?)
This week starts a pretty busy couple of months of blogvangelism that should be both fun and interesting. It starts tomorrow with an online session with
Webheads from around the world over at Learning Times. IÂ’ll be webcasting about RSS and how it can be used in the classroom, and IÂ’m really looking forward to interacting with a global audience. Then on Friday, itÂ’s off to Bermuda to do a workshop on the Read/Write Web at the Whitney School in Hamilton. (IÂ’m hoping IÂ’ll get a chance to post some pretty pictures at Flickr.) When I get From
weblogged News on January 31, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..
How To Create Your Private P2P Network: Grouper
During last year several P2P file sharing tools have arisen with a different, somewhat sophisticated twist to it. Among those tools is Grouper, a free, beautifully designed private media sharing program developed under the guidance of ex-AOL executives and Spinner.com... From
Kolabora.com on January 30, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..
Wikipedia has no articles
I have been corrected by the estimable SJ Klein for referring to Wikipedia as "the Wikipedia." I stand corrected and will attempt to avoid mistake next time. I hope I have not caused Wikipedia any the distress.... From
Joho the Blog on January 30, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..
Right brainer
Daniel "Free Agent Nation" Pink (who was also a speechwriter for Gore, by the way), has published a terrific piece in the new Wired on why we need to commit to the right halves of our brains. Best of all, it's from his upcoming book.... From
Joho the Blog on January 30, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..
Among the Natives
Last night we had dinner with some friends whose 12-year-old son is true digital native. He brought with him his dadÂ’s G-4 notebook, his i-Pod, and his wireless mouse, plopped himself down at our dining room table, and cranked up Garage Band. He played us a couple of his compositions, and promised to show us all how to create a new one after dinner. Now, I knew Josh was ahead of the curve on most things technological, but I really thought that I could one up him with the whole Podcasting concept. Guess again. HeÂ’d already tried a couple using Garage Band, and I he promised to compose some i From
weblogged News on January 30, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..
How staff look for documents
The first of February's CM Briefings explores how staff look for documents. To quote: In the earlier article Rolling out a records management system, three critical success factors were identified: the software, classification scheme and message. This briefing focuses on... From
Column Two on January 30, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..
Is workflow the wrong metaphor?
The second CM Briefing for February asks the question: is workflow the wrong metaphor? To quote: While workflow is a key component of content management systems (CMS), the unspoken truth is that workflow often fails (or is only moderately successful)... From
Column Two on January 30, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..
Open Publish 2005 call for papers (Sydney)
The call for papers for the upcoming Open Publish 2005 conference is now open. The conference will be held in Sydney on July 27-29, and will feature a web content management stream for the first time. I am the co-chair... From
Column Two on January 30, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..