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Marqui Mission Completed: Good Reports
The Marqui paid assignment mission is behind me. It is time to draw some conclusions, to evaluate the results and to understand whether this was a wise choice or an error of youth. This reporting effort is part of my paid assignment for Marqui. The research and reporting work done so far by me on the Marqui CMS (see list at the bottom of this article), has been entirely paid for by Marqui as part of its awareness and promotional blogosphere program. More than anything, I need as I have been kindly invited to, to express my view on the... From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on February 28, 2005 at 10:50 p.m..
Ten best intranets of 2005
Jakob Nielsen has announced the results of their latest intranet awards, summarising some of the key findings. To quote: Selecting the ten best intranets gets harder every year because the number of great designs keeps increasing. While tough on the... From
Column Two on February 28, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Why tagging matters — Notes
The Berkman Center has a lunchtime speaker every Tuesday, and this week it's my turn. I'm talking about — guess what? — taxonomies and tags. It's an informal venue, and with luck I'll be interrupted after ten minutes, but I need to have a full talk prepared, just in case. I've been having trouble structuring it. Here are the notes I have so far. Comments? Criticisms? Rude suggestions? Why Tags Matter I want to talk about three ways tags matter. If necessary: Brief explanation of tags. Show del.icio.us and Flickr. [Yes, I'm confident Berkpeople know wha From
Joho the Blog on February 28, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..
Stephen Downes on tags and communities
Terrific speech — provocative, funny, asking great questions — by Stephen Downes (transcript mp3) about what we can do to keep tags from forming power laws that suppress community. How can tags encourage community? He suggests embedding a pointer to FOAF files in RSS feeds, but the presentation is much broader than that. (Here's a post of mine that relates to one point he makes.) [Thanks to Scott Rosenberg for the link.] [Technorati tags: tags taxonomy Downes ]... From
Joho the Blog on February 28, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..
Connecting people with content
Shawn Callahan has written an article on getting information to the sales force, without the use of a 'knowledge repository'. To quote: Organisations are still jumping to the conclusion that they absolutely need a 'knowledge repository' to successfully harness employee... From
Column Two on February 28, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Blogs - Risky Business
Does your organization have a blog policy? Does it need one? While much of the attention lavished on blogs over the last year has been related to political commentary and the role of blogs in spreading news and opinion, blogs... From
Indiana IT on February 28, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Would You Buy a Used Car From This Blogger?
I'm in the process of selling an old car, and my experience confirms in my mind how newspaper classifieds are at the precipice of a long decline (perhaps a slow one, but I'm beginning to think it will happen more quickly). If newspaper executives and classifieds managers aren't scared yet, they should be.Here's how it's played out so far. I looked to my local newspaper, the
Boulder Daily Camera, and found that a minimum 3-line ad in the newspaper and its website would cost $35 and up for a 30-day run. (The price a From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 28, 2005 at 5:53 p.m..
ED-MEDIA 2005 final call
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm NOTE: The Advance Program/Registration will be online by mid-March. _______________________________________________________________ ED-MEDIA 2005 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications June 27-July 2, 2005 * Montreal, Canada FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** Submissions Due: March 31, 2005 **... From
Rick's Café Canadien on February 28, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
The RSS Feed Licensing Mess
As more media companies hop on the RSS bandwagon, we're going to have to confront some legal questions: Who owns the feeds, and what can be done with them? Ownership is easy -- it's just copyright. But licensing is complicated.Many early RSS feeds were set up by "geeks in the backshop" without any real thought devoted to permissions and restrictions. The feeds exist but it's not clear what permissions are granted. Are they only for single-user RSS readers, or can they be embedded in a website? Are they for personal websites and not corporate? What about other media sites From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 28, 2005 at 2:53 p.m..
Web of Ideas: The Time of the Net
This Wednesday, I'm leading yet another in a series of discussions at the Berkman Center. This time the topic is: Many of our metaphors about the Internet treat it as a place, which is perfectly appropriate. But many - or perhaps all - Net phenomena have a temporal dimension which is not "merely" metaphorical. For example, weblogs are able to become proxy selves because they have permanent addresses, IM's distinguishing characteristic is that it's interruptive of the now, and discussions are presented as threaded as a way to sort through overlapping chronologies. How else does t From
Joho the Blog on February 28, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
How Not To do e-Customer Service: "Call Us"
Our local telephone service provide,
Qwest, has these smarmy tv commercials with customers gushing how great the Qwest "Spirit of Service" is. I will not be starring in any of these soon. Regular CDB readers will know we periodically bark and growl about bad online customer service, so here is chapter 22 in the novel. Three times in a 30 day span our home telephone service wigged out and went dead. It is no longer a big deal since we average one cell phone per occupant. And Qwest was fairly good at dispatching a repair person in a From
cogdogblog on February 28, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..
Bill Gates rips US high schools
Bill Gates on US high schools: The most blunt assessment came from Microsoft chief Bill Gates, who has put more than $700 million into reducing the size of high school classes through the foundation formed by him and his wife,... From
MANE IT Network on February 28, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..
(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Activismo Atocha Workshop Jorge Cortell Nesemu UN Dispatch Artes Blogdecine El observante Islas en la Red Katarsis La telaraña Super Mag Bookmarks iFavoritos: Novedades Comunicación Corresponsales ecologÃa... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 28, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
RSS Feed Submissions
We have recently added a number of RSS directories and search engines to our list of
RSS feed submission sites. Please be sure to submit your RSS feed URL not the URL of your blog to those listed in the right-hand column. These directories will catalogue your feed so that site visitors can easily find topic specific feeds. From
RSS Blog on February 28, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..
Who's afraid of Wikipedia? (Clay Shirky)
danah said, in Academia and Wikipedia, “All the same, i roll my eyes whenever students submit papers with Wikipedia as a citation.” I didn’t comment on this at the time, but grading papers over the weekend, I had a student... From
Corante: Social Software on February 28, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
New Therapies Boost AIDS Arsenal
In the face of mutating drug-resistant HIV infections docs need new potions to suppress the virus. Researchers at the Boston Retrovirus Conference report progress on a couple of new treatments. From
Wired News on February 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
The Mind Takes Control
Matt Nagle is paralyzed. He's also a pioneer in the new science of brain implants. By Richard Martin from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on February 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Telemedicine on the Cheap
Doctors are once again making house calls -- a new program by MyMD gives 1,000 doctors Apple iBooks and iSight cameras so they can make home video visits, even when they're at the golf course. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on February 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Positive About Negativland IPod
Artist Francis Hwang takes a beating from Apple when he tries to sell his special-edition Negativland iPod. In round two, Hwang fights on his own turf. By David Cohn. From
Wired News on February 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Known Hole Aided T-Mobile Breach
Looks like a hacker was able to break into the wireless giant's customer records and private e-mail last year because the company neglected to patch a security hole in a commercial software package. By Kevin Poulsen. From
Wired News on February 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
No More Crash-Test Surgery
A Stanford researcher says his computer simulation system can transform surgery from a trial-and-error process to a more predictable undertaking. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on February 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Triumph for Education
Triumph for education Manchin pushing distance-learning technology The campaign by some small communities against consolidating their schools got a boost from West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin this week when he expressed support for distance-learning technology. Saying he does not oppose... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 28, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..
Resources for K-12 Earth Science
one of a series of reports based on data from the 2000 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education, a survey of 5,765 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United States. The Earth Science report is organized into... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 28, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..
Chem4Kids
Thanks for visiting! Right now you're on CHEM4KIDS.COM. If you are looking for chemistry basics, stay on this site. Chem4Kids will remain a free site even though we moved our other sites into our subscription site, KAPILI.COM. If you are... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 28, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..
E-Learning and Economic Development
Educators need to see the world behind the text created by the Internet. The physical reality of working with students, in real time, across time and space is a staggering idea. The world it creates in the interpretation and application... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 28, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..
Fixed (not bloggy) podcast
If there is some virtue in making a blog-like series of audios, there is probably also some virtue in making one or more static or fixed audios for certain kinds of sites. I'm thinking of a site tour, for example, of the rather complex
democracy site, and I'll mention it again when I have it built. Also for a complex site, audio highlights once a week, to point out quickly what's on the site? Once you start making fixed... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on February 28, 2005 at 5:51 a.m..
Why the US Intelligence Reforms Are Not Enough
The US Intelligence Community is currently undergoing various reforms in the wake of events of September 11 2001, and issues of poor intelligence in the lead up to the Iraq war. These reforms include a new Intelligence Director to oversee all the agencies that make up the US intelligence community, but little real change to the existing structures. Currently there are 15 agencies, services, organizations, or bureaus that make up the US Intelligence Community. That's right, 15! People usually think of the CIA, the FBI, and maybe the NSA, but you should not forget the likes of Coast Guard I From
kuro5hin.org on February 28, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..
Educating the net generation: new book
Educating the Net Gen is a new collection of articles on the rising undergraduate population, edited by Diana Oblinger, new leader of NLII. The whole book is available as a pdf download.... From
MANE IT Network on February 28, 2005 at 2:58 a.m..
Brightcove Launched
As
noted on PaidContent, we're launching
Brightcove, a company I started last summer and have been stealth until now. While we're not getting into too much detail about what we're actually doing, we are starting to talk about the themes and ideas behind the company, which one can clearly use to deduce what we might be up to. The theme of the "democratization of media" is one that goes all the way back to my origin interests in the Internet, and From
Jeremy Allaire's Radio on February 28, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..
User experience diagrams
Luke Wroblewski has published another list of user experience diagrams. This points to thirteen different ways of representing user experience, usability and information architecture in the context of real-world projects and problems. [Thanks to InfoDesign.]... From
Column Two on February 28, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..