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Auction TV
In the Netherlands, the online classifieds market has long been dominated by
Marktplaats.nl, which was founded by the owners of a second-hand goods chain, and is now part of
eBay. Dutch Newspaper Telegraaf was late to the game when it launched its own classifieds/auction site,
Speurders.nl, last summer, but it is working hard to catch up. Today, Marktplaats boasts 1,500,900 ads, and 590,000 daily visitors, and Speurders has 871,064 ads an From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 21, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
The Gates
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon: The Gates Picture gallery by Sebastian Delmont: The Show. God bless you.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 21, 2005 at 10:52 p.m..
Hunter S. Thompson
He was a ferociously talented writer and a truth teller. I'm sad to hear he's gone.... From
Joho the Blog on February 21, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..
KM as a framework for managing knowledge assets
Lynda Moulton has written an article on KM as a framework for managing knowledge assets. To quote: In spite of the mostly negative things we had to say about KM, we did recognize there was a real, identifiable problem that... From
Column Two on February 21, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Million download baby
To me, Bram Cohen - the creator of the P2P technology BitTorrent - is inarguably a uniquely precise individual, the kind of character you would find among the profound hyperlexics in a Douglas Coupland novel. His hobbies include "recreational mathematics", juggling, and solving strategy games and twisty puzzles. If you read his blogs at Advogato and LiveJournal, you'll see him espousing pragmatic mathematical advice on everything from electoral votes to military-strength cryptography. This is a guy who wrote an entire algorithm, in pseudo-code, on how to wagering in Final Jeopardy. It&apo From
silentblue | Quantified on February 21, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Mobile City Guides
Are you visiting Amsterdam soon? I work in a city full of wandering tourists and am often asked for guidance. On the way to my office, I gladly put groups of lost Americans back on track to canals, the Red Light District and the Anne Frank house. And I warn them not to walk in front of the unexpected trams. Notwithstanding the touristic value of these short encounters with not-too-dangerous looking locals, you may wish to consider using the 'World's first mobile city guide' next time you are in town. Timespots,
www.timespots.com, i From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 21, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Post-conference Reflections on NorthernVoices
There was no way I could pass up attending the
Northern Voices blogging conference given that it was only a ferry ride away, and for the most part I came away glad to have made the effort. Here are some reflections, in no particular order. The High Points - Dinner with
Brian,
D'Arcy and other friends the night before. In truth, the whole trip was worth it for me for a few hours of good food and conversation with some old From
EdTechPost on February 21, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..
Social Physics (.org) (Clay Shirky)
Fascinating new effort called Social Physics, affiliated with Berkman, with two large goals: - Create a robust, multi-disciplinary, multi-constituency community for addressing, vetting and conducting experiments in such issues as privacy, authentication, reputation, transparency, trust building and information exchange. -... From
Corante: Social Software on February 21, 2005 at 5:50 p.m..
Smaller than a googol
Enter a mathematical expression into Google and it will return the results. E.g., if you enter "1+2" (no quotes), it will tell you the answer is 3. Enter "half a cup in teaspoons" and it tells you that that's 24 US teaspoons. So, the lunatic journal, WordWays (I'm a long-time subscriber and love it) writes briefly about Eric Iverson's attempt to see "which alphabetic phrase without any repreating letters generated the largest and smallest number." Why? For that we'd need a psychiatrist and a pick axe. But who cares? Eric has found that the smallest is nm to parsec =... From
Joho the Blog on February 21, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Music Industry Doesn't Need More Government Protection
When the recording industry calls opponents of copyright extension 'communist' or, in this case, 'comrade', it is to hide their own dependence on the big hand of government to defend their interests. Canadian Recording Industry Association president Graham Henderson, for example, recently "argued that the industry was fundamentally opposed to proposals that would replace a market-oriented approach where sales determine revenues with new alternative compensation systems." The day the Canadin recording industry is ready to free itself from government interference, it should l From
OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
An Analytical World View: Tsunami Crisis
A lot of people, when they compare blogs (and personal publishing in general), tend to compare on a one-to-one basis: how a given blog compares to a given newspaper, how a given blog compares to a course or program. This article shows nicely the effect of the blogosphere taken as a whole, not as one of its parts. And when you look at it as a whole, the picture changes dramatically. The blogosphere is more responsive, more creative, more varied, more inclusive, and ultimately, more accountable. This, now, is the standard to which both journalism and learning must look to, must look up to. By U From
OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Getting to Grips with Learning Design
Summary of the IMS Learning Design workshop in Valkenburg, essentially a fest where people tried out some new learning design authoring tools. Some 'person on the spot' reviews reflecting a reasonable level of comfort with the tools. But here is the kicker: "Completed Units of Learning are available from the
OUNL's Moodle site. The site requires free registration, and it should be emphasised that the units only make sense if you have installed Reload 2.0.1 and CopperCore 2.2.2." It's XML! Why should you From
OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Blogging and Benefiting
Overview of blogging in education written for ASCD's Education Update which looks sound at first but suffers from questionable research. As
Will Richardson notes, the author's assertion that "Of the 10 million to 15 million people who blog daily, technical experts estimate that only a few hundred thousand are educators" is questionable - the "technical experts" are not identified, and none of the people I know in the field would place the figure so high. The author also gets some acronyms wrong in the (short) glossary (and actu From
OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Balancing Personalization
This
argument is as old as the hills: "customized personalization-- smart, self-adjusting, filtered system--limits discovery." The idea is that if you get only the content you want, you will never get anything new. The author and several of the links he cites eventually wind their way to the response: social networking allows discovery via relationship, not content, hence allowing novel information through the filters. By Ross Mayfield, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, February 14, 2005 [
OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
The Cost of Ethics: Influence Peddling in the Blogosphere
J.D. Lasica takes an extended look at what is going to become a real problem - the use of blogs by corporations, politicians and others with a message to sell. The problem isn't that it's advertising, it's that the advertising content is hidden, unknowable. Lasica explores the deployment of ethics as a means to counter the worst of this phenomenon. But let's face it - most of the entities we're talking about here won't behave ethically unless compelled by law, and will obey the law only if caught. Look at spam. The blogosphere response will have to be structural, From
OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Increasing Visual Literacy Skills With Digital Imagery
I very much agree with this statement: "Visual literacy is becoming more important from a curricular standpoint as society relies to a greater degree on images and visual communication strategies. Thus, in order for students to be marketable in modern society, they must acquire visual literacy skills." All part of
the new literacy. By Lance Wilhelm, T.H.E. Journal, February, 2005 [
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OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Community Blogging
So anyhow I have been stranded by the weather for the second time in as many weeks, this time thanks to a snowstorm in Toronto. I'm on my way home from Northern Voice where I delivered this talk, an analysis of community as it emerges in blogging: how it is formed, how it should reshape the blogosphere, and how it can be implemented (quite easily) technologically. And along the way, deflating a few pet concepts of the blogerati, such as the value of the long tail and the utility of tagging. The main link is to the slides (about 9 mB); I have also posted an
OLDaily on February 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Anti Star Wars rally
This is an announcement I'm passing along to the blog from one of my colleagues. If you're interested in this issue, you might find the session illuminating. **************************************** From Richard Julien: Anyone interested is invited to participate in the debate... From
Rick's Café Canadien on February 21, 2005 at 3:53 p.m..
Flick and RSS Feeds
I'm playing around with RSS feeds from Flickr. Just about anything you have in Flickr can generate an RSS feed... Comments, tagged images... it is a pretty powerful feature... The link below leads to a display of the images I have tagged in Flickr with the term kids. I also use the tool to display my del.icio.us links on the right sidebar of this page and utilize it quite a bit on the Lewis Elementary site. To display the RSS feed I am using a tool developed by Alan Levine called Feed to JavaScript. It is web based tool that... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 21, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..
Part of the long silence from here is because this ...
Part of the long silence from here is because this is my fifth week of
being sick.Fifth frigging week!Two rounds of antibiotics later, and while I have knocked out the bronchitis, I'm still struggling with whatever bacteria crawled up my sinus cavity and built vacation home. And it seems to get worse after each round of drugs. Not to mention the fact that I'm having some "issues" with my doctor (part of which a story to be told later bemoaning the problems From
blog.IT on February 21, 2005 at 2:58 p.m..
HP and the Dignity of the Individual
This from John Maloney (an ex-HP man)"In the sixty years before 'CarlyCo,' HP led incredible growth through highly distributed, individualized models. The dignity of the individual was paramount. This single solitary value pioneered legendary worldwide practices as flex time, open-door,... From
Monkeymagic on February 21, 2005 at 2:52 p.m..
eLearning-Journal
In einer Zeit, in der viele e-Learning-Magazine bereits wieder von der Bildfläche verschwunden sind und Kongress-Veranstalter gerne auf das "e" im Titel verzichten, ein neues e-Learning-Journal aufzulegen, ist mutig! Wenn das Ganze zudem im strukturschwachen Bremerhaven passiert, darf man... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 21, 2005 at 2:51 p.m..
Bloggers Code of Ethics
J.D. Lasica has a
great article on
OJR about the ethical considerations that bloggers are being faced with more and more these days. Defintely a part of the blogs growing up meme that seems to be running through my aggregator lately. While they may not have a rulebook, bloggers have evolved a loose-knit set of general tenets. These principles seem to be widely held: * Disclose, disclose, disclose. Transparency – of actions, motives and financial considerations – is the golden rule of From
weblogged News on February 21, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
London KM Cluster - April 2005
Via the KM Cluster, there's going to be a London Symposium on "Enterprise Value Metrics and Measurement: Advancing Intellectual Capital Leadership". Time and Date: Friday, April 29, 2005 8:00am - 5:00pm More details here, though not yet seemingly. Still, if... From
Monkeymagic on February 21, 2005 at 12:53 p.m..
HP and the Dignitiy of the Individual
This from John Maloney (an ex-HP man)"In the sixty years before 'CarlyCo,' HP led incredible growth through highly distributed, individualized models. The dignity of the individual was paramount. This single solitary value pioneered legendary worldwide practices as flex time, open-door,... From
Monkeymagic on February 21, 2005 at 12:53 p.m..
RSS2HTML.com : Free Service Displays RSS Feeds As HTML
A free service at RSS2HTML.com has been launched. RSS2HTML.com displays RSS feeds as web pages. In three short steps site visitors can convert their RSS feed, into a viewable web page. They simply select the webpage template, the color scheme and then enter the URL of the RSS feed. The RSS2HTML.com site then generates a new URL based on the user's choices. Once entered into a web browser the generated URL will display the RSS feed as a regular webpage. Webmasters can use the service to create a static web page that will display RSS feeds containing text, images and even an a From
RSS Blog on February 21, 2005 at 11:59 a.m..
Blogging as creating space for important
Last couple of weeks I did an experiment. I had big pieces of work (mainly PhD-related thinking and writing) and lots of small things for a variety of tasks. I decided to postpone starting on big piece and to focus on all the small things, so I could
get them out of my way. Somehow it didn't work. Doing small things was painfully slow and was frustrated as well since I tried not to get into a bigger work. I guess the main reason that those "big tasks" are really important to me, so they were "hanging in the b From
Mathemagenic on February 21, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..
West Africa Goes After Polio
Three African nations team up to immunize children in 23 countries. They hope to stem the polio epidemic that resulted from a 2003 vaccine boycott by northern Nigerian Muslim leaders. From
Wired News on February 21, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Toys R Kids: High-Tech Playmates
Competing with iPods, cell phones and video games to attract kids' interest, toy makers hope electronic chips that enable dolls to learn your name, display 'emotions' and interact in other ways will bump up sales. But others ask, what about the imagination? From
Wired News on February 21, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
U.N. Calls for Clone Ban
A divided United Nations committee asks for a worldwide ban on all forms of human cloning. The U.S. religious right is jubilant, but many scientists take the occasion to blast political pressure on science policy. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on February 21, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Recordatorio: Jornada Weblogs y Empresa en San Sebastián
Este miércoles 23 de febrero 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... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 21, 2005 at 9:52 a.m..
Sentido común en espacios públicos
La primera ronda del debate sobre la ética en la blogosfera mostró las dificultades de este medio para establecer conversaciones, la falta de acuerdo sobre conceptos básicos, y cómo era previsible, diversidad de maneras de enfocar las aplicaciones prácticas de... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 21, 2005 at 8:52 a.m..
Hello, Del.icio.us!
I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that my current approach to providing lists of interesting links (via "grab bag" articles) is not sustainable. I'm forever behind. I'm serious. In my Furl archive, my CONTENTIOUS-to-do category was up to nearly 225 items! Also, while it helped simplify presentation to group items into topical lists, that approach also has disadvantages – namely, I could only assign categories to the list as a whole, not to specific items in the list. My goal with my grab bags has always been to enable my clients and readers to learn from my never-end From
Contentious Weblog on February 21, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..
Pop Loc
Everything old is new again... Watch the music video for K-Os's "Man I Used To Be" lower down on this page. There's lots of good breakdancing inside, including a two man breakin' battle. After that, take a look at Kottke's interview with David Bernal, one of the dancers behind the VW Golf GTI commercial featuring a reanimated Gene Kelly poppin' and lockin'. From
silentblue | Quantified on February 21, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..
Building fudgable IT systems
Jonathan Boutelle has written a blog entry about building fudgable IT systems, by which he means providing similar flexibility to paper processes that are being replaced. To quote: It turns out that there are really two types of fudgability: the... From
Column Two on February 21, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..
Survey of Instructional Designers from Pretoria
I received this request to participate in a survey from a Ph.D. student at the University of Pretoria. If you're interested, read on. But don't feel any obligation. This isn't a request on my part for you to participate. SKILLS... From
Rick's Café Canadien on February 20, 2005 at 11:53 p.m..
Lawrence Summers: Worse than I expected
Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, talked semi-informally to a conference held at the university, offering three hypotheses about why women are under-represented in science and engineering: 1. They are less willing than men to work the long hours because they value family more than men do; 2. Women are inherently worse at science; 3. There are "different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search." The discrepancy between the transcript and the public statement Before Summers released the transcript, I blogged that, from what he said and what others reported, I thought he wa From
Joho the Blog on February 20, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..