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Labels and Metadata Grab Bag
Here are several items on the topic of how we categorize information (labels and metadata) which caught my attention today. TOP OF THIS LIST: D'Arcy Norman's Feb. 4 audio post on "loosely bound metadata." I've heard the neologism "folksonomy" floating around in various circles lately. It sounded vaguely interesting to me, but since I'm already suffering from chronic learning overload, I've been pushing it off my radar screen. ...Until I listened to what Norman had to say on the subject, that is. Now I'm totally jazzed and motivated to learn more about folksonomie From
Contentious Weblog on February 12, 2005 at 8:55 p.m..
AMTEC 2005
32nd Annual AMTEC Conference Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada May 24 HYPHEN 27, 2005 University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta AMTEC 2005 Powering Up New Learning Communities A preliminary draft of the concurrent sessions is now available... From
Rick's Café Canadien on February 12, 2005 at 8:54 p.m..
Subject guides by folksonomy
In another spinoff of the tagging movement, one librarian blogger suggests creating subject guides via folksonomy. (via The Shifted Librarian)... From
MANE IT Network on February 12, 2005 at 5:57 p.m..
New, open-source HTML editor: Nvu
Nvu is a new Web editor, and it's an open source effort. Still an early release, the app targets Linux users, but should also be available for Windows systems. It sprang from Mozilla's Composer program.... From
MANE IT Network on February 12, 2005 at 5:57 p.m..
Lydia's Poster
#2 Originally uploaded by lydiamaria. My oldest daughter is a graphic design student at Seattle University. She uses Flickr to post some of her work. Her is a draft of a submission for one of her classes...... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 12, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
SF: Rest of Day 1
We finished off yesterday by going to The Stinking Rose, and came out reeking of garlic. Mmmm. Then we went to Ghirardelli Square and came out reeking of garlic-tinged chocolate. Then we went to see "Hitch," which was surprisingly delightful. Will Smith will be president in 2016, at the latest... I'm having a little upper back episode that was actually helped by sitting in one of them magic fingered massagey chairs at Sharper Image. I usually just find them creepy, but this one seems to have rolfed off the edge of the pain. That and massive doses of ibuprofen. Why,... From
Joho the Blog on February 12, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Spam Slithered in the MT Cracks
Worrisome. I just got Movable Type (2.661) comment spam on entries in one of my blogs where the database has been set via comment closing routines to turn the allow comments to the value that closes them. How is it possible for the roach to sneak in? I had hoped that was a complete shutoff. I stomped the roach swiftly with
the steel toed boots (it just made that slimy soft crunching spineless sound) and have updated Blacklists (10,000th iteration). From
cogdogblog on February 12, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Halley games the system
Halley's got a new blog: GamerMom. It's about being a mom of a kid who plays video games. My two cents: I'm about two hours into Half Life 2 and am ready to declare it the Greatest Game in History.... From
Joho the Blog on February 12, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Revenge of the Right Brain
Vor Jahren habe ich mir mal ein Buch zugelegt, das "Modelle des Menschen" und im Untertitel "Ein Handbuch des menschlichen Bewußtseins" hieß. Es ist eine umfangreiche Beschreibung sozialwissenschaftlicher Modelle, aber das Besondere war hier der Versuch, die zentrale Botschaft... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 12, 2005 at 3:51 p.m..
LEARNTEC 2005
So, am Wochenende wird für Karlsruhe und die LEARNTEC gepackt, wo ich die nächste Woche von Dienstag bis Freitag verbringen werde. Deshalb wird es an dieser Stelle auch ruhiger werden. Und wer Lust auf einen gemeinsamen Kaffee hat, schreibt... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 12, 2005 at 3:51 p.m..
How to get your story posted to kuro5hin
Some people have whined that it's just too darned hard to get a story posted, particularly to the front page. Well, your troubles are over. There is no need for "administrative action" to get your story posted. Indeed, K5's present membership base is far more lenient about what they allow to be published than some of the dearly departed K5 losers who have committed suicide. Here are ten guidelines to getting enough votes to get your story posted to section, if not the front page. Well, at least to get my vote. Some of these are guidelines, and some are hard and fast rules. W From
kuro5hin.org on February 12, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
Teachers as Free Agents
I've been on this kick this week about how we (the U.S. educational system) fail to properly capitalize on the best teachers that we have, fail to bring together the right combination of direction and resources to allow them to succeed, and how school systems in general fail to see how an economic solution to the question of teacher excellence would be the best approach. The other day I wrote about what a difference it would make if teachers were marketed in the same way that textbooks... From
Brain Frieze on February 12, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..
My Life as an Alpha Male
There's just no question that I am an Alpha Male--at least in my own mind. Trust me when I say that I can produce testosterone, and suffer from the occasional testosterone poisoning episode, with the best of them. I'm a Guy kind of guy, you know? Now, my claim of being a true Alpha Male would probably be met with peals of laughter if I were to disclose it to the women in my life, but for one set of household inhabitants my position is undisputed. That's right, the four legged... From
Brain Frieze on February 12, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..
When the Blogvangelist Gets Boring
So what happens when someone in a presentation you're doing
blogs it as it happens and you find it later through your
standing search on
Technorati which you set up for the very reason that you can find out what people are writing about you and your ideas? Speaker insists that the “founding fathers” would love it if they could see a world in which everyone participated and contributed. He m From
weblogged News on February 12, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Bloglines Uh-Ohs
Bloglines is acquired by
Ask Jeeves and my feed goes down for three days (and counting.) Coincidence? I don't think so. Well, actually, it probably is. But what's bugging me is that the Read/Write Web service that I love THE MOST is giving me the "uh-ohs" lately.
I posted about this recently, but now that for some reason my feed isn't being processed, I'm really starting to get a bit antsy. And the quick response customer service just From
weblogged News on February 12, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
The 46th RBMS Preconference will be held June 21-24, 2005, in St Louis, Missouri. "Bridging The Gap: ...
The 46th RBMS Preconference will be held June 21-24, 2005, in St Louis, Missouri. "Bridging The Gap: Education and Special Collections" will explore a crucially important issue in our profession: the rift between the growing variety of educational roles played by special collections librarians, as teachers, advocates, interpreters, impresarios, and the shrinking opportunities for formal training and continuing education available to prepare special collections librarians for these r From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on February 12, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
The Wow! Factor
Friday's talk with
Michael Coghlan at
Learning Times on the use of sound and photos in blogging has certainly stimulated my noggin' again. After calling for a paradigm shift in our pedagogical orientation away from the 'drone on the throne' model of classroom communication toward a learner-centered model, Michael talked about exploiting the Wow! Factor with our students. All this amazing technology can surprise us, capture our attention, and serve as a window into learning From
apcampbell News on February 12, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants
Removing heavy metals from soil can be an expensive, complicated undertaking, so researchers are trying to design plants that draw the toxins out of the ground. By Stephen Leahy. From
Wired News on February 12, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Vlogs: Richer Rich Media?
http://www.clickz.com/experts/media/media_buy/article.php/3454221 Says Clickz.com: Now, at the... [[ This is a content summary only. ]] From
RSS Latest News on February 12, 2005 at 7:54 a.m..
Wiki plus
Steven M. Cohen points out a very nice protocol for wiki users that can invite careful, respectful collaboration: [W]ikis can help in that everyone can contribute, there is a "paper" trail, and everyone can read what is going on on a project. I've been working with a colleague on a wiki and we have one rule: No deleting until the issue is discussed F2F or via IM. Edits (using different fonts and colors) are essential to wiki-work.... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on February 12, 2005 at 4:50 a.m..
Foucault on being used
Martin Terre Blanche points to a good quotation from
Michel Foucault about being used -- that is, being useful: I would like my books to be a kind of tool-box which others can rummage through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own area... I would like [my work] to be useful to an educator, a warden, a magistrate, a conscientious objector. I don't... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on February 12, 2005 at 4:50 a.m..
Attentional spotlighting in user interfaces
Mike Rundle has written an article on the effect of attentional spotlighting, when conducting "eye-tracking" usability tests. To quote: Unfortunately, where you are looking is not necessarily where you are paying attention. The spotlight theory of attention states that you... From
Column Two on February 12, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..
SF Day 1
My daughter Leah, 20 yrs old as of Tuesday, flew out last night. She's never been to San Francisco, so we're spending today and tomorrow as 100% pure tourists. Today we took a cable car to Fisherman's Wharf, went on a one-hour boat tour of the Bay, waved at the sea lions, went through Ripley's Believe It or Not (much of which causes me to opt for the latter alternative), walked through Chinatown, had a mediocre Chinese lunch, had a fantastic, warm coconut bun, walked to and through the Cartoon Museum, and tried to calm the uppe back spasms of... From
Joho the Blog on February 12, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..
Maven Blogs: My Quandary of Self-Promotion
I've been listening to an interesting series of short audio posts called "The Business Blogging Field Guide," by Christopher Carfi over at his weblog "The Social Customer Manifesto." In this series he defines several common types of weblogs offered by organizations or independent professionals in order to directly or indirectly market themselves or influence their field. I just finished listening to the fourth installment in this series, "The Maven." When Carfi started discussing the "maven" blog (a term borrowed from Malcolm Gladwell's classic book "The Tipping Point"), I recognized From
Contentious Weblog on February 12, 2005 at 12:54 a.m..
Google Maps
Google is at it again, and I'm looking forward to checking out their new Google Maps search engine. But, alas, they don't yet support Safari or the old IE versions available on Macs. I guess I should go ahead and... From
Rick's Café Canadien on February 12, 2005 at 12:53 a.m..
Extended Conferences: X-Events
"...unlike the traditional conference that ultimately concludes in a few days, virtual conferences have an element of immortality. Much of that is due to the latest breed of conferencing software that incorporates real-time activities (chat and Webcasting) as well as... From
Kolabora.com on February 11, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..