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Internet Time Blog
If you've wondered why I've been so silent, it's because Stephen's Edu_RSS does not recognize my blog's RSS feed. Since it does pick up Workflow Institute's feed, I periodically list Internet Time posts here. Leaves of knowledge Training 2005, New Orleans Parting shots from Abu Dhabi Learning from the dunes When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. E-ducation without Borders Meta-Lessons from the Net Workflow Learning Gets Real New White Paper Format The Roots of Workflow Learning Training Kills!!! Cooperation trumps competition Quotes from Defense Acquisitio From The Workflow Institute Blog on February 26, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..

Workflow Symposium
When you're on the web, an event ain't over until it's over, even if the fat lady has already sung. Altus Learning Systems hosts recordings of the Workflow Learning Symposium for us on the web. To-date, nearly one hundred times as many people have looked at the Symposium breakout sessions on lline as attended them in person!... From The Workflow Institute Blog on February 26, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..

Teaching Through the Screen
Now I know I link to just about every one of Barbara's posts, but she's just so darned smart and articulate when it comes to the whole blogs in the classroom thing that it still amazes me that she only has 45 subscribers on Bloglines. And today's post is no different, though I feel myself heading down a bit of a different path than I normally would when writing about her reflections. Regardless of what follows here, read her po From weblogged News on February 26, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Mark your calendar
The Defense Acquisition University, in partnership with George Mason University and the US Navy is organizing an "Innovations in Learning" Symposium to be held on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax VA on June 7th and 8th. Workflow Institute will conduct a track on workflow learning on day one. We'll post more information here as it becomes available.... From The Workflow Institute Blog on February 26, 2005 at 6:52 p.m..

Klassic5
heh. as you can see by my uid and userpage, i'm relatively new to this site you call kay-five. i had a dream the other night, though, where i was reading this book. in the dream, i thought its title was 5k. it didn't make sense at the time. rusty, an adjective, as a person? an i and an it certainly is? the book was set up in diary format, covering the last few years on some backwater planet on the outer rim called, quaintly, earth. the pink robots said it was occasionally harmless and that there is no K5 cabal... but i digress... From kuro5hin.org on February 26, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Geniacs at work
A 1955 Geniacs computer kit for kids 1955 is currently selling at eBay for $232.50, and there are four days left in the auction. Geniacs kit I had one of these when I was a lad. You programmed it by placing metal strips on wheels. I also had a plastic computer that consisted of layers like a lasagna that had tubes you slid over prongs to make them longer (where long=on), and then you shuffled the layers. Yes, the memory is a bit fuzzy, but the computer's logic was not. I did not care for either toy. I didn't like... From Joho the Blog on February 26, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

11% of American adults own portable digital music players
A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life project finds that eleven percent of adults own a portable digital music player, such as an Apple iPod. ( via TameTheWeb ) From NITLE Tech News on February 26, 2005 at 1:58 p.m..

Libraries using iPods
Tametheweb blog offers two cases of libraries using iPods. Baylor University is storing "Audio Reserves To Go" in those portable digital sound players. At the same time a Long Island public library is experimenting with loading books on tape... From MANE IT Network on February 26, 2005 at 12:57 p.m..

A series of centers
Happening to be talking about podcasting, Rex Hammock locates the power of the web in its decentered-ness: Podcasting does not want to have a "central place." The web hates central places. I'd like to put that idea in the context of the "Jeff Gannon" affair, or rather the huge amounts of work people like... From Weblogs in Higher Education on February 26, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..

Podcasting with Adam Curry
Wired has a new article on podcasting, offering a good intro to the emergent field.... From MANE IT Network on February 26, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..

New Storage Technologies Hit The Market - Paul Shread, Internet News
They've been talked about and written about for years. Standards groups have fussed over every last detail, industry associations have sponsored endless interoperability demos, and vendors have jockeyed for position with competing prototype announcements. From Techno-News Blog on February 26, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

VoIP Poised to Take Flight? - Rob McGann, ClickZ
If everything goes as projected, VoIP (define) penetration will increase from 10 percent of U.S. businesses and organizations in 2005 to 45 percent by the end of 2007, according to the findings of a study conducted by Osterman Research. The study was bas From Techno-News Blog on February 26, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

Firefox fix plugs security holes - Steven Musil, CNET News
The Mozilla Foundation released on Thursday an update to the Firefox Web browser to fix several vulnerabilities, including one that would allow domain spoofing. The open-source project released Firefox 1.0.1 to fix, among other bugs, a vulnerability in t From Techno-News Blog on February 26, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

Processes, Standards, and IT-Support for Virtual Teams
I finally finished my excerpt (in German only) of a highly interesting article on IT support and virtual teams that appeared in the Journal of Knowledge Management (you can get it by emailing me). The following is a kind of conclusion and abstract.thomas n. burg | randgänge on February 26, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Kilogram Poses Weighty Problem
What exactly is a kilogram? The physical representation of this basic unit of measurement is problematic, so science is fighting over how to redefine it. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on February 26, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

British government launched cybersecurity warning service
The British government launched a web site designed to inform citizens of the latest cybersecurity threats. ITSafe aims to alert readers about imminent virus attacks and other dangers , while offering background information on security issues. The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre(NITLE Tech News on February 26, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

Report Questions Education Hire in Yonkers
The hiring of a man with little accounting experience as a senior accountant for the Yonkers Board of Education violated state civil service laws, a report concluded. From New York Times: Education on February 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Yale Protesters Seek Reform of Financial Aid Policy
At Yale, students have been waiting, to little avail, for something dramatic to happen. From New York Times: Education on February 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Case of Former SUNY Official Points to Ethics Law Loophole
A loophole in New York State law grants most employees immunity from ethics inquiries when they leave the state payroll - no matter what their actions while on the job. From New York Times: Education on February 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Questions at SUNY Albany on Why Ex-President Left
Dr. Karen R. Hitchcock was Topic A on her former campus after revelations that she had faced a state ethics inquiry into her actions while she led the university. From New York Times: Education on February 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Amid Uproar, Harvard Head Ponders Style
Lawrence H. Summers finds himself trying to become a new kind of man as he seeks an end to a controversy centering on his leadership style. From New York Times: Education on February 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

As Autistic Children Grow, So Does Social Gap
Autistic children face a host of problems as they approach adolescence, when social interactions become more complicated. From New York Times: Education on February 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Identity Assurance in a Virtual World
According to the Gartner Group, victims of Phishing attacks are three times more likely to suffer some form of identity theft than the general population (May 2004). Once you have access to someone's personal data and then move on to impersonate them, you have near anonymity to commit your crime! In addition to monetary losses from fraud committed by Phishers, Phishing tarnishes brand image and destroys customer confidence in doing business over the Internet. As one of the most prolific attack vectors over past 12+ months the success of the Phishing attack can in part be attributed to t From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on February 26, 2005 at 5:53 a.m..

Designing for Usability (Canberra)
Just a quick reminder that it's only a few days until the early-bird rate closes for the Designing for Usability workshop to be held in Canberra on 6 April 2005. To quote: This one day workshop provides an in-depth examination... From Column Two on February 26, 2005 at 5:46 a.m..

XBox 360 - A new media distribution platform
While there was a little buzz last week about the emerging next-generation XBox, to be called XBox 360, much of it focused on the industrial design and basic facts like wireless controllers and that there will be an edition with a hard-drive and one without, etc. What was not talked about broadly was the much more important details on how the XBox is going to help transform digital media distribution on the Internet.  While many have lauded the mini-mac as a potential consumer-friendly, possibl From Jeremy Allaire's Radio on February 26, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..

Chocolate: The Natural Aphrodisiac
Women Who Eat Chocolate Daily Have Better Sex Lives: An Italian research study confirms what many women may already have suspected--a little chocolate goes a long way towards making the mood just right. (Maybe there's a new marketing campaign for the makers of Viagra here. You know. A pill for him and a box of Godiva for her.) The article states that ...chocolate-fed women had... From Brain Frieze on February 26, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

Release 1.0 - Taxonomies and Trees
I wrote the current issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 newsletter, a looong piece on taxonomies and tagging. Esther has given me permission to post the introduction to the article. It attempts to give an overview of taxonomies, trees, faceted classification, tags and folksonomies. Here's how it begins: The narrative that tells of the first man and woman encountering the tree of knowledge focuses on its tempting fruit. But after we took the bite, we apparently looked up and got the idea that knowledge is shaped like the tree's branching structure: Big concepts contain smaller on From Joho the Blog on February 26, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..

I've been Skyped, Flossed
A few weeks ago I was audio interviewed via Skype by Teemu Arina, a 1 hour plus session between me in Arizona and Teemu in Finland that was remarkably clear, had no dropouts. In an almost heroic effort, Teemu edited this to a pod/webcast, painstakingly removing my frequent "umms" as well as abstracting my free form meanders to a coherent set of possible ed tech futures. Thjis is now posted on a new site FLOSSE (Free/Libre and Open Source SoftwarE) which is the F From cogdogblog on February 26, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..

Wow! What a Portfolio-lific Day
Just wrapping up from today's event "ePortfolio Dialogue Day: Digital Stories of Deep Learning for Students and Faculty" with our excellent guest Helen Barrett, and it was a rousing success. Wish I could have been blogging it all, but other duties called. Helen gave an outstanding overview of the eportfolio landscape, and hammering the not so subltu or semantic differences between assessment for learning versus assessment of learning, andcogdogblog on February 26, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

Visiting Auckland in late March
At this point, it looks like I'll be traveling across to Auckland (New Zealand) in late March, to run an in-house intranet alignment day for a local non-profit organisation. If anyone else would like me to run a similar session... From Column Two on February 26, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

Save Toby/Kill Toby
Wow ... I don't know how true this is, but it's bizarre (thanks Trudy). SaveToby.com has been set up by a (seemingly) anonymous author who will reportedly cook and eat his pet Rabbit Toby unless $50,000 USD is donated through... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on February 25, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

Counterculture vs. Culture
I did a little conversation with RU Sirius over at The Raw Story, as the third part of a series he was doing with Tom Franks, Joseph Heath, and me. The stuff I said to him makes less sense out of context (I was to react to the conversations he already had) but here's a taste:There From rushkoff.blog on February 25, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..