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Shiny points
Jon Stewart on blogs, thanks to onegoodmove. A photo diary of a day in the life of Tom Peters. [Technorati tags:DailyShow TomPeters]... From Joho the Blog on February 19, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

SG Requests Time at Grokster Oral Arguments
According to James DeLong, "The Solicitor General of the U.S. has petitioned the Supreme Court for 10 minutes in which to argue on behalf of the content industries, who would cede the time from their allotment." From A Copyfighter's Musings on February 19, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

How to Receive and Listen to Podcasts
One of my readers just asked me: "I am not technical, have a Mac and an iPod and I would like to listen to Podcasts, try them out. Is there a step by step explanation that I can access that will walk me through how to get set up?" Here are the basics... From Contentious Weblog on February 19, 2005 at 8:55 p.m..

When to use videoblogging vs podcasting
At the Northern Voice blog conference in Vancouver, two presentations have surfaced a best practice about the selection of video versus sound format. Tod Maffin described podcasting as a form which tends towards longer files, up to one hour. Jay... From MANE IT Network on February 19, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..

Canadian History News
A reaction to the yesterday's blog entry. The Dark Age of Information? - CANADIAN HISTORY NEWS... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 19, 2005 at 6:50 p.m..

The Canadian Civics News
Same entry different blog. A Dark Age for Information? - CANADIAN CIVICS NEWS WELCOMES YOU... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 19, 2005 at 6:50 p.m..

Honesty in Online Education
Article attempts to critically analyze the arguments on both sides of the online cheating debate while presenting techniques for circumventing and alleviating issues related with online education. From eLearnopedia on February 19, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

I Can Snow If I Want To
flickr foto I Can Snow If I Want Toavailable on my flickr The thermometer is pegging 35+ degrees, but snow is falling in nic From cogdogblog on February 19, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Podcaster Request: Feed With a Summary
I continue to put my pennies in a piggy bank towards a future iPod. Until then, in scanning more and more RSS feeds that contain references to the audio enclosures, I am bothered/irked/annoyed by the scant details available to the summary in an RSS Reader: My Views on the Cheese Curdling Controversy Today's podcast on the big stink about cheese. cogdogblog on February 19, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Game-based Learning: x-Learn LAB Perspectives
Kurt Squire's provocative and passionate paper about the current and future roles for Gaming in Learning. From eLearnopedia on February 19, 2005 at 4:52 p.m..

Digital Images on the Liberal Arts Campus coming up in May at CET
CET will hold a one-day seminar on Digital Images on the Liberal Arts Campus this May 3rd. Topics are to include: Hardware and software update ARTstor architecture and news ARTstor hosted collection pilot study Faculty teaching with images Librarians and... From MANE IT Network on February 19, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

Worst watch instructions...ever
I used my Chanukah money from my in-laws (thanks Grandma and Grandpa!) to buy a watch on eBay that I've been admiring for a couple of years. It's a Citizen Eco-Drive — the Eco means it runs on light, thus saving .0000000000000000005 kilowatts per year for the children of Mother Earth — and I like it, except for the instructions. Often watch instructions fail because they're too brief. These fail because, although they are full, they are incomprehensible. Here's an example, under the subhead "O-Position Correction of Function Hand and Date Wheel": The whole thing From Joho the Blog on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

Thursday night blog meeting video
Steve Garfield recorded the Thursday night meeting at Berkman that was taped by Nightline. He's posted a 5-min (approx) version of it. So now the discussion about what's on and off the record is totally on the record. Thanks, Steve! And Mike Walsh has posted an MP3. Thanks, Mike! [Technorati tags: berkman media]... From Joho the Blog on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships in information. MSpace helps people bui ...
mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships in information. MSpace helps people build knowledge from exploring those relationships. mSpace does this by offering several powerful tools for organizing an information space to suit a person's interest: slicing, sorting, swapping, infoViews and preview cues. From The University of Southampton From Peter Scott's Library Blog on February 19, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Experts: Global Warming Is Real
Studies that measure ocean temperature rather than air temperature are more accurate in determining whether the climate is changing, scientists say. And the newest studies conclude that the planet is warming up, and people are to blame for it. From Wired News on February 19, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

EPA Sets Perchlorate Guideline
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets a limit on the amount of perchlorate -- a rocket fuel ingredient -- that humans can ingest safely. Environmental groups say we're headed in the wrong direction. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on February 19, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Email meltdown claims slammed - Dan Ilett and Jim Hu, ZDNet UK
Security vendors have accused anti-spam experts at Spamhaus of hyping a trick that allows spammers to take advantage of Internet service provider mail servers. Earlier this week Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, warned that email infrastructures were o From Techno-News Blog on February 19, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp - RANDALL STROSS, New York Times
Compare our e-mail system today with the British General Post Office in 1839, and ours wins. Compare it with the British postal system in 1840, however, and ours loses. In that year, the British introduced the Penny Black, the first postage stamp. It sim From Techno-News Blog on February 19, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

Study Urges Corporate Caution Before Downloading Firefox - Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com
Popular new browser is not immune to attacks, researchers say. Companies should think twice before jumping on the Firefox bandwagon, says a respected research group. The open-source browser has been gaining market share steadily over the past few months, From Techno-News Blog on February 19, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

Furor Lingers as Harvard Chief Gives Details of Talk on Women
Lawrence H. Summers released a transcript of his contentious remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences. From New York Times: Education on February 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

West Pt. Cadet Is Dismissed and Confined for Indecency
The cadet entered a female cadet's room and masturbated after an evening of heavy drinking last November. From New York Times: Education on February 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

School Audit in Westbury Finds Flaws
A state audit of the Westbury Union Free School District has found a lack of internal controls, which resulted in inappropriate reimbursement to school officials. From New York Times: Education on February 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

City Considers Lottery System for Admission to Top Schools
The principals of some of the highest performing schools on the Upper West Side have been allowed to handpick students, but that practice may be over. From New York Times: Education on February 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Rift Deepens as Professors at Harvard See Remarks
The release of a transcript of the contentious remarks made last month about women in science by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers has increased the mood of uncertainty on Harvard's campus. From New York Times: Education on February 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Times Scholarships Reward Perseverance
The New York Times College Scholarship Program provided 21 winners $7,500 a year for each year of four years of college. From New York Times: Education on February 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Google Toolbar, Desktop Search, and API Topics
A new feature in the Google Toolbar, one which inserts links to useful resources into web pages - whether the webpage author wants them there or not - is drawing the ifre of webpage designers. "How long," asks this writer, "will it be before Google starts offering paid partnerships to certain parters to link their data directly from your pages to theirs?" Microsoft, of course, tried the same thing with Smart Tags a few years back. Here's the OLDaily coverage of smart tags from 2001; I also wrote an article abo From OLDaily on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Exclusive Audio: Interview with Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-Digital Operations, NYTCO
Audio interview with Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-Digital Operations for the New York Times, about the newspaper's acquisition of About.com. "About.com had in 2004 significant revenues and profits. It had great margins, so anybody can start any business at any time but getting it up to the point where it is right now is going to take a lot of time in my opinion... It's a highly complex and very profitable business and it would be time consuming and difficult to replicate it very quickly." All true - but About.com's operating stragety - employing poorly paid 'guides' for eachOLDaily on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Wirearchy
I met Wirearchy's Jon Husband today, and after a conversation and a read of his blog conclude that we're pretty much on the same wavelength (indeed, some of the words that came out of my mouth today were almost word for word from some of his recent posts, interesting when you consider that I had never seen his blog until a few minutes ago). Language warning, especially in the first post, a colourful criticism of a recent speech by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers (a speech that will probably cost him his job). By Jon Husband, February, 2005 [OLDaily on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Reconfiguring Education
In one of the weird artifacts of Radio Userland, Spike Halls's link to an article titled "Sin without Consequence: Corporate Citizenship Needs to Be Redefined" (available here, for now) leads instead to this post, a look at the wisdom of Ivan Illich. The two items are related, and not just by an odd quirk of code. Now I was interested in the corporate citizenship article because of recent news about Google, and how its now being a public company seems to have stripped from it any semblence of social responsibility. And it seems to me that if From OLDaily on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Bloggers, Your`Audience Awaits
We were discussing today, what is an A-List blogger? Friends of Jason Kottke? Or a large enough readership? According to this article, I fall into the category of B-List blogger. But funny thing - if I linked to my own posts (the way most blogs do) instead of directly to articles, I could break the A-List hit rate (as defined in this article) pretty easily. That wouldn't make me an A-List blogger, of course. It would just make me annoying. Via Mathemagenic. By Dave Pollard, How to From OLDaily on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Montreal 2005
My head is full of ideas from today's BlogWalk, some of which will emerge in my talk tomorrow (if I ever get it written). In the meantime, here is a link to photos from Montreal before, after and during the snowstorm. I've also got for your viewing and dowloading pleasure a bunch of photos from Vancouver as well as a set from one of my favorite places in the world, Stanley Park. Personal note: many people are waiting for an e From OLDaily on February 19, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..