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Blogs & wikis: Technologies for enterprise applications?
Lauren Wood has written an article that looks at the use of blogs and wikis in the enterprise. To quote: Blogs and wikis are flexible practices and technologies that are increasingly being used within companies and organizations to ease the... From
Column Two on March 2, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Electronic Publishing >> Book 'Em
Useful article discussing electronic publishing in universities: online books, online assignment submission, learning content databases (good links here to a list of commercial academic databases). Good discussion of the move toward open access, noting the institutions' frustration with commercial content. Finally, "a handful of vendors and organizations have made strides toward reconciling the tenets of Open Access with the value of the copyright-protected word." This article is a much better treatment of the subject than most. Via
OLDaily on March 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
When Blobjects Rule the Earth
Scott submits this nice link to my discussion area with reference to the 'Drugs that Speak to You' item from yesterday. Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction and cyberpunk author discusses the concept of gizmos and spimes, objects of the sort described in the other story. Spimes, especially, are interesting; you buy then (where else?) at the drug store, and thereafter the spimes follow you. " The most important thing to know about Spimes is that they are precisely located in space and time. They have histories. They are recorded, tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a s From
OLDaily on March 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Are Instructional Designers Software Architects in Disguise?
I am in the main sympathetic with this article as in comparing the fields of software architecture and instructional design it seems to reveal the deficiencies of each. Posted as an ITForum discussion paper, it has drawn responses mostly along the lines of assertions that 'instructional design is not just another branch of engineering'. Well of course not, but it's exactly that sort of distance from what software architecture really is that leads the author to suggest something like a merger. I'm not saying that a designer should know what an array pointer is, but they shou From
OLDaily on March 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Create A Graph
Via Pete MacKay's Teacher List, this site is a nifty tool that clearly illsutrates the relation between data and graphs. I would like to see something like this accept syndicated data from remote feeds. By Unknown, National Center for Education Statistics, February, 2005 [
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OLDaily on March 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
From E-learning to E-knowledge
Some good stuff in this discussion of the relationship between e-learning and content management. For example: "knowledge-based economies are driven by a free flow and intermeshing of data, information, and knowledge, where value is created from an ever-increasing reservoir of abundance. In such circumstances where resources are themselves not scarce value must be created in novel ways." And his account of the facets of knowledge is basically sound. But I wished for a third section, the upshot. Standards are the same, standards mature: but what is the impact on changing understandings of knowl From
OLDaily on March 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Bodcasting
"The RSS Bubble is here," writes Steve Gillmor, and it's hard not to agree. While I am pleased at the long-awaited recognition of content syndication, let me assert right now that RSS is not the short-cut to easy riches, that it will not replace everything that came before it, that it is likely to get mired in lawsuits over content and use, that if you are just writing your business plan, you're too late, and that if you invest now, you will probably lose your money (note: this is not to be construed as investment advice). You should have been listening in 2000, not following the hyp From
OLDaily on March 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Future of FLOSSE: Interview with Stephen Downes - Part 2
This is the second part of my interview with Teemu Arina. The sound quality is so-so, but it was the first experience for both of us recording a Skype conversation. Arina summarizes, "Stephen talks about communities and what is actually a community and what kinds of communities people belong to. The internet allows people to pick very specific communities by topic out there. Communities are not anymore tied to a place but are more like networks, clusters and clouds." Direct links to MP3s:
Part 1 From OLDaily on March 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Major Fun
Just before the day falls off the cliff it's been teetering on, Bryan Alexander pulls it all back from the edge a little, for a while, with Major Fun. Now it can be a tow cable for you, too. From
Gardner Writes on March 2, 2005 at 9:00 p.m..
The Coming of Personal Media Aggregators: Community-enablers
Personal Media Aggregators are the road to create instant-vertical-communities by way of becoming fulcrum points around which news, commentary, discussion, and networking opportunities around a very specific topic, brand, celebrity or writer can become a cohesive aggregating force. Somewhere at the crossroad between personalized RSS news aggregators, of which a few have appeared during 2004, and what Marc Canter defined as DLAs or Digital LifeStyle Aggregators, that this new community-enabling technology finds it place From
Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Daily Show on the Jeff Gannon and Eason Jordan media fallout
Well, this is from almost a week ago, but I didn't have time to track it down online sooner. If you haven't seen it, you are in for a treat, if you have it's not hard to skip to the next post. Last week the Daily Show hit a homerun, mocking all sides in the blogger vs. traditional media debate and calling it like it is. It's "hysterically accurate". Nothing hit it home for me more than Steven Colbert's mocking of reporters wh From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Worst TV Clips of the Week
This has to be the oddest use of fairuse I've seen. I guess I don't see a better way to do discuss graphic content without putting it online for all to see, but the Parents Television Council is redistributing clips of the most graphic content on TV each week. Sort of ironic isn't it? Here's one to watch. Surprisingly, it's one of the tamest. it's from the January 14th episode of Boston Legal. I love that show, but maybe they have a point. :)
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Keep TV Free - a historic TV advertisement
Right on, I love historic clips... oh the design, the illustration, the orwellian concepts, but especially when they are so right on topic. This is hysterical, though I must admit that perhaps it's because I'm a such a big democratized / decentralized media geek. Anyway, it is my pleasure to bring you "Keep TV Free" a commercial from 1967. Watch it:
keep-tv-free.mov (3.6mb From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
BBC unveils plans for internet delivered TV programing
I'm a little slow on the uptake on this one, but it's via
wikinews on the 4th of February.The BBC today unveiled it's plans for a new iMP player with which people in the UK will be able to download any BBC tv or radio programme for a week after it has been broadcast in the UK. These downloads will have a limited life, becoming inactive a week after the show h From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
AirPort Express for Video?
I just read this article about
BlinkX is doing a deal with MovieLink and I thought hey that's great! Just one problem. My computer is in my office and my computer is in my living room. But wouldn't it be nice if there was a version of Apple's AirPort Express that instead of streaming audio, streamed video? I'm sure someone (including Apple) has already thought of this. From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Podcast doubles (!) NPR show listenership
After
WNYC launched the first podcast of an
NPR program in January, NPR's
On the Media, the station's nationally-broadcast media analysis show, has doubled the amount of listeners it reaches online in just four weeks. On the Media says its podcast audience now rivals the number of individuals that listen to the From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Podcasting 101: Audio, Slides, and Transcripts
I gave a presentation today at
Northern Voice about Podcasting 101 and it was great to meet up with everyone doing such great podcasts and writing.      Some of you have emailed me for the slides of the presentation, so I've posted them here. Apologies to Firefox folks; it seems the rendering is wonky on the slides, so maybe flip into IE just for these.      The audio of my session is released into the Creative Commons under a From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Creative Commons releases license breakdowns
Creative Commons has released a breakdown of the types of particular licenses chosen by CC users, when sampled through a search on Yahoo! of CC licenses found through the web. Roughly 95% of licenses request attribution, 74% are non-commercial, while onl From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Sage HDTV Buying Advice
Via DigitalMerging.la, Engadget has a nice primer on HDTV and it's many different technologies that might effect your buying decision. It's the first of a multi-part series, but I've already learned an important blogging tip from the article: don't mess... From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Sanyo Xacti C5 : [Akihabaranews] was there
Totoro and myself were at the HQ of Sanyo Japan (not far from Akihabara) this afternoon where the release of the new Xacti C5 was held. As the name indicates, this C5 is a redesigned Xacti with a 5MP sensor. One of the big innovations, besides the dimensions of the video sensor, are the weight and reduced dimensions of this beast. This C5 is only 23mm thick and weighs only 145g! Yes, you read that correctly, only 23mm thick! This is an absolutely razor-sharp design! For your info, the engineers at Sanyo managed to reduce the electronics by 40% compared to a C4 and still there is a remarka From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Copyrights Keep TV Shows off DVD
For many TV shows, costs to license the original music for DVD are prohibitively high, so rights owners replace the music with cheaper tunes, much to the irritation of avid fans. And some shows, like WKRP, which is full of music, will probably never make it to DVD because of high licensing costs. From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
digging Blogdigger
on eMediaWire --
Blogdigger and Webjay Announce Partnership for Enhanced Audio/Video Search: Blogdigger, Inc., a search engine for blogs and syndicated content, and Webjay, a community playlist site, announced today a strategic partnership. Webjay will utilize Blogdigger's Media Search technology to provide enhanced audio and video search to their users to aid them in quickly finding audio/video content. Blogdigger will utilize Webjay's PlayThisPage technology to enable users of its Media Search to qui From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
EtiVo - TiVo add on for Windows Media Center
Maybe it's because I get 100% of my information about Microsoft from Slashdot, but one of the points that surprised me from
Thomas Hawk's interview with Media Center bloggers was that plenty of Media Center people have TiVos too. Charlie Owen: Also by the way, You might be surprised to hear me say this, but if you try and like a TiVo, buy a TiVo. If, on the other hand you want something with more power, flexibility, adaptability and upgradeability choose a Media Center PC. However, and a big however, I From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Tales of the Sausage Factory: Last Gasp on Unlicensed Order - Wetmachine
As those who follow unlicensed proceedings at the FCC here know, the FCC has been considering opening up the 2650-3700 MHz band to unlicensed use. The rumor is that the FCC will vote on the item at its March 10 meeting. I have also heard that the item is not particularly friendly to mesh networks. We have until Wed. March 2, 2005, 5 p.m. Eastern Time to turn this around.
Wanna help? The 3650-3700 MHz band is relatively open and is under consideration by the FCC for expanded unlicensed use. The FCC proposed to allow fixed oehig From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
WritTorrent: Steal this program!
Consider a product like Lazlo, with an RSS producing or XML-RPC sending remote control software (LIRC, or x10 stufF), and mPlayer all XML-ified, then you could have a completely open source HTPC platform glued together completely in XML... a complete software overhaul is just an XSLT away. Programming along these lines would be beneficial for anyone creating multimedia kiosks, home media interfaces, and special interactive applications. Being completely XML based, and perhaps providing some example stylesheets, would be an incredible goal for HTPC / Videoblogging / RSS media From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Scratch
Minimalist blogging software. Writing is done over the meta-weblog API, reading is done with RSS and Atom. "Scratch is the minimalist's web log. Scratch gives you nothing more than the meta-weblog API for posting. Reading is done via Atom or RSS. That's it. There's no HTML to hack up. You don't have to use the same, tired old web log template that everyone else is using. Break out of that blue, rounded rectangle! Be original! Thumb your nose at those primitive apes still using the web! Use Scratch! Scratch can also serve as a framework for developing your ow From
unmediated on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
One Down ...
I started this blog one year ago today. I committed myself to write for at least one year on a regular basis (~400 actual posts). I had had some other niche or project-specific blogs prior to last year, but almost all of my posts have been on this site for the past 365 days. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the
benefits of blogging for me and there really aren't many negative aspects, other than the time commitment, so here comes year two :-)Thanks to all of you who have helped me stay motivated this past year wi From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Our Own Reformation
Robert Paterson has put together many of his thoughts on social software and societal reform in an excellent synthesis entitled, "Going Home - Our Reformation". Rob's article begins:I was in a meeting this week with a group of oeeducators. We were talking about Communities of Practice. I mentioned blogging several times in the meeting. At the meeting From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
On Education
The
meeting for this evening was cancelled, and I won't be able to attend the next one, so here is my parting shot:"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet." (
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
OpenOffice.org 2.0
For the adventurous,
OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Beta), the free, open source office suite that is compatible with MS Office, is now available for download and testing.This one is our candidate for the first OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta. It needs further testing and QA. If no showstoppers are found, it may be selected as our first public beta release. These builds need testing and your feedback. There are no guarantees. From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on March 2, 2005 at 8:08 p.m..
Assessing Weblogs in Writing Courses
I don't intend this post to be a response to Mike, but a
recent post of his got me thinking about assessment of weblogs in writing pedagogy. I'm asked to give talks on the topic more and more often these days, and people always ask about assessment; I also get a good deal of questions about grading weblog posts in f2f conversation and via email. I'll make my argument for how best to assess weblogs a little later, but for now: What I say is, judging from the responses I get, not really From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 2, 2005 at 8:07 p.m..
Auricle Podcasts
So having nuzzled around the podcasting theme in the last few articles we've finally 'bit the bullet', 'got our hands dirty', 'put our money where our mouth is' and other multi-mixed metaphors. So here we offer you our first podcast. It's an 18 minute interview with Brian Kelly who works with UKOLN and is the holder of the WebFocus post for UK Further and Higher Education. Not content with this as a sufficient challenge, we also recorded the interview via Skype, the VoiP solution so loved... From
Auricle on March 2, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Spam spam spam ...
Following a major spam attack over the weekend we have had to disable comments in Auricle. The ban will be temporary until we can find a better way of preventing this parasitic pestilence which contributes nothing, but debilitates the host if allowed to persist. From
Auricle on March 2, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Learning from the dunes
Our super-size four-wheel drive skids and lurches, following vague tracks in the endless sand. Bump! Slide. Spinning wheels. The giddy feeling of being momentarily out of control. Moving ahead by sliding right, then left, forever in mid-course corr From
Internet Time Blog on March 2, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Parting shots from Abu Dhabi
Paul Mace demonstrates a modular wired classroom at the Higher College of Technology. A plaque on the wall shows alternative furniture configurations. Everything is on wheels. Entertainment break! Hungarian girls playing electronic violins at th From
Internet Time Blog on March 2, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Training 2005, New Orleans
I fly to New Orleans on Sunday to attend Training 2005. I'll be staying at the Avenue Garden Hotel in the Garden District. Price through Quickbook is $90/night. It's on the St. Charles streetcar line, about a mile and a half from the Quarter. Built 1897. From
Internet Time Blog on March 2, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Leaves of knowledge
Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves is an insightful investigation of classification systems by David Weinberger. The tree of knowledge was a useful metaphor from Adam's fateful bite until the advent of the computer. It's the structure From
Internet Time Blog on March 2, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
New Orleans
Bon jour from the Big Easy. Training 2005 is in full swing. You can hear me rant against the term blended on Learning Times Network. Recording: L13 - "Panel Discussion - 2005 Trends in Blended E-Learning" Tom Stewart, editor of Harvard Business Review a From
Internet Time Blog on March 2, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Professors of Practice
I read a news article at Inside Higher Ed today, called "Holding Out for Tenure," which talks about how some schools are dealing with instructors who are employed full-time or nearly so, but not given the opportunity for tenure. Roughly 34% of all full-time faculty are not tenured or tenure-track.... From
PEDABLOGUE on March 2, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Recommending Without Reservation
David Galef's "My 57th Recommendation Letter This Week" really cracked me up...a parody of graduate school recommendation letters that really speaks a lot of truth. It's easy to get cynical about the graduate school advising process, but I genuinely favor helping students pursue graduate studies if they're dedicated to the... From
PEDABLOGUE on March 2, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Futuremedia to Provide Tax-Efficient Benefits Package to Compass Group
New Package Includes Home Computers, Childcare Vouchers and Bicycles Contact Information:Mike Smargiassi/Corey KingerBrainerd Communicators, Inc. 521 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10175(212) 986-6667ir@futuremedia.co.uk Compass Group plcLesley PotterCommunications Director Compass Group UK & Ireland tel +44 1895 55437 From
DEC Daily News on March 2, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Mississippi Picks Pathlore; 60 Percent of U.S. States Run LMS
Columbus, Ohio " February 28, 2005 " Pathlore Software Corporation, a global leader in providing learning management software and services to industry and government, announced that the State of Mississippi has purchased the Pathlore enterprise learning management solution to replace several disparate training systems currently used by the state From
DEC Daily News on March 2, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Gates, governors: Upgrade high school
Implored by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and others to redesign America's high schools to meet the challenges of the new century, governors and policy makers from nearly every state in the nation met Feb. 26 to March 1 to hash out a plan to keep America's high school students from falling behind their counterparts in other industrialized nations, among other goals. From
DEC Daily News on March 2, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Mac's Original Designer Dies
Jef Raskin, a computer interface expert who conceived Apple Computer's groundbreaking Macintosh computer but left the company before it came to market, has died. He was 61. From
DEC Daily News on March 2, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
The Virtual HighSchool: America
In this age of advancing technology, educators are challenged daily to rethink their craft. However, such soul searching is no longer reserved only for the practitioner. From
DEC Daily News on March 2, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Create Flash Presentations On The Web: Shaker
Last week Lawrence Lessig sent out a request for a cheap and simple, cross-platform solution to control the delivery of a presentation remotely. The conversations that followed in the blog's comments section are a very interesting read, although no true...... From
Robin Good's Latest News on March 2, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Marqui Final Shot
So, please go ahead...turn on your tape recorders, charge your flash cameras and start shooting. The interview is on: Three months ago Robin embarked on an experimental journey: together with several other bloggers he accepted a paid invitation to...... From
Robin Good's Latest News on March 2, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Interaction Design Meets Online Real Estate
As software applications are increasingly weaved into the Web and within other Internet-aware applications, information and application controls encounter a multitude of opportunities to mesh intelligently into each other. Photo credit: loveu4ever Here are some examples:Alerts RSS news aggregation Route...... From
Robin Good's Latest News on March 2, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Thank You
Thank you for your get well wishes! I am slowly recovering and hope to be back to posting soon. From
The Shifted Librarian on March 2, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
Working Draft: Specifying the Language of XHTML and HTML Content
2005-02-24: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Specifying the Language of Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on March 2, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Working Drafts: XML Binary Characterization
2005-02-24: The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Measurement Methodologies and updates to XML Binary Characterization Use Cases and XML Binary Characterization Properties. The drafts will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data. Visit the XML home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on March 2, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Working Drafts: XML Schema 1.1
2005-02-24: The XML Schema Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of XML Schema 1.1: Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. Please see the status section of each document for changes since the First Public Working Drafts and from the XML Schema 1.0 language. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. Visit the XML home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on March 2, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Internationalization Articles Published
2005-02-25: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand and use W3C technologies. Recent articles are An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses and Language Tags in HTML and XML. Read about W3C internationalization RSS feeds and news filters and visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on March 2, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
W3C Hosts Fifth Annual Technical Plenary Week
2005-02-28: W3C holds its Technical Plenary Week from 28 February - 4 March in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests attend plenary day for talks and demos on extensibility and versioning, XML, test suites, Web applications, Web site usability and design, multimodal interaction and voice. Learn how to join W3C and read about W3C. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on March 2, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Google Maps pushes the envelope
The instant Google Maps appeared, a lot of us knew right away that we'd never use MapQuest again. Google's mapping and direction-finding service is a stunning improvement. The maps are gorgeously readable, and they fill as much of the screen (or the printed page) as you give them. Scrolling the map works in the most natural way, by dragging the image. The mapping service dovetails with local.google.com, which finds businesses by city or ZIP code. In direction-finding mode, each step along the route offers a link that, when clicked, pops up an e From
Jon's Radio on March 2, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Real-world structured search
In the early days of XML, smart search was often cited as a key benefit. Instead of just trawling for single-celled keywords in an ocean of undifferentiated text, the story went, we'd navigate islands of structure looking for more evolved creatures. Product descriptions, calendar events, and media objects are all examples of the kinds of things we were meant to be finding by now. That vision hasn't materialized yet, but I'm not ready to give up on the idea. A year ago I
Jon's Radio on March 2, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Branded RSS Takes Another Step
The branded RSS reader for media sites is one of the
flavors of the month, it seems. As
RSS becomes more popular outside the geek crowd, news companies are realizing that there may be an opportunity to offer a simple news-aggregation tool to their online users, and have their own RSS feeds at the center.Today comes word from
NewsGator Technologies of Denver that it's released the "NewsGate Private Label RSS Platform," ta From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 2, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..
VIP Tone and Softlink Build Strategic Partnership
VIP Tone, Inc., a global education enterprise software and services company, today announced a strategic partnership with Softlink, an Australian-based library software company, to become an OEM partner for Softlink's web-based library automation solution Oliver From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..
Students at a New Orleans Public School in Crisis Receive a Message of Hope & Inspiration
The principal of John F. Kennedy High School, Mr. James Gray, wants parents to know that "We will no longer fail you or your students!" Since an old adage still rings true "it takes a village to raise a child," Kennedy High School, once known for its outstanding academic and athletic programs, has recently seen a steady and alarming decline. [PRWEB Feb 25, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..
California Hypno-Therapy Welcomes Janet Macy, Certified Hypnotherapist
California Hypno-Therapy continues to offer the most professionally competent hypnotherapy service and develop transformational products and trainings, we are excited to join forces with Janet and contribute to the launch of her State of California Approved, Professional Hypnosis Vocational Training School. [PRWEB Feb 26, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..
How to Get On Your Schools Cheerleading Team
Have you ever ever watched coverage of national cheerleading competitions? Then you know this is true it is as much a dance contest as art form. To make the cheerleading team, you have to hard work. You need to be physically fit, and train often. [PRWEB Feb 27, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..
Play Guitar Fast by Learning How to Get Free Guitar Lessons Online
Whether you dream of playing "Lead Guitar" in a heavy metal band, impressing your friends at jam sessions in the garage, you can learn to play the electric/acoustic guitar for a fraction of the time you'd take using traditional learning methods online for free! [PRWEB Feb 27, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..
uCertify Announces 50% Pre-release discount on Exam Simulation for 70-272 MCDST Certification
uCertify, a leading provider of e Learning solutions for IT certification exams, today announced the pre-release of Exam Simulation PrepKit for Exam 70-272 for MCDST certification. The full version will be released on 10th March 2005. The company has offered 50% Pre-release discount on the PrepKit. Customer can pre-order this PrepKit for only US$39.99 and save US $40.00. Get 50% pre-release discount on new exam simulation software (practice test) for Microsoft Exam 70-272 (for MCDST certification). [PRWEB Feb 28, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Manhattan GMAT Announces Free Learning Forum
Manhattan GMAT, the world's largest GMAT®-exclusive test preparation company, announces the launch of its FREE Learning Forum, a comprehensive source for GMAT news, preparation and strategy and MBA information. [PRWEB Feb 28, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Top 10 Lift Ticket Deals 2004-05 No. 17, March 1, 2005
Welcome, die hards! The seventeenth issue of the 2004-05 Top 10 Lift Ticket Deals features some of the absolute best season pass deals you'll find anywhere. Not only that, but we will also include the occasional 'special event' and single-day ticket deals. Hurry, because many of these deals are first come, first served and they go fast. Top10 Lift Ticket Deals is not a paid advertisement. Each week during the snow-sports season, our staff of diehard skiers and snowboarders chooses North America's best ski lift ticket values. You'll ski and snowboard more for less with From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Kicking the Smoking Habit After Forty Years Takes Laser Focus
Forty years and a hundred thousand dollars later, author Brian Keelan found a way to break the smoking habit. At fifteen, lured by splashy ads in Life Magazine of John Wayne smoking Camel cigarettes, Keelan took up the habit. Over the years he's smoked an average of 9,125 cigarettes a year or 760 per month. Twenty five years later, while watching the Academy Awards, Brian witnessed the devastating effects of smoking when his hero John Wayne walked on stage in his final weeks of lung cancer. The shock of seeing the once brilliant movie hero looking sunken and ill stunned Keelan into a real From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Gingerbread LittleVersity Conducts Children's Book Fair
Gingerbread LittleVersity, a family-owned childcare facility, will be holding a book fair at each of their three locations, from March 14th through March 18th. The book fairs are open to the public, and will be operating from 2pm to 6pm, Monday through Friday of that week. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
TLT 2005 Symposium
If you have a keen interest in teaching and learning with technology, then join us at the TLT symposium May 1-3, 2005 at SIAST Wascana Campus in Regina. Our theme is transitions and transformation resulting from the power of technology... From
Rick's Café Canadien on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Baby Safety & the Family Dog
Preparation with the family dog before a baby arrives can increase safety and harmony when a new baby joins the family. Jennifer Shryock is a certified dog behavior consultant who is dedicated to helping families prepare their dog for life with kids through her Dogs & Storks programs. http://www.familypaws.com/dogsandstorks/ "Our goal is to increase safety and provide parents with resource so that more companions safely remain in their homes even while the family grows." [PRWEB Mar 2, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Brain of a Blogger
As blogging skyrockets in popularity, we should be asked: Is blogging is good for the brain? Here two physician-learning specialists offer their view. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2005] From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Think Expression 2005 Reading-Writing Contest
T. Martin Ford recently published a children's book, "The Falcon and the Whale". In the book Ford creates an allegorical tale, where two unlikely beings who, by peril and circumstance, come together to become a force for their mutual survival. The 2005 Think Expression Reading-Writing Contest has three competition levels: Level I for students in grades 4 through 12; Level II for grades 7 and 8, and Level III, grades 9-12. Students will write a personal letter to the author, explaining how his work affected their way of thinking about the characters, the world or themselves. There is no en From
PR Web on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
so depressed
I flew my 1,000,000th mile on United. They didn't even notice. From
Lessig Blog on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
more on my failures
Attention to Mr. Orlowski has apparently waned, so his trash is
back. You might not get this from his article, but even though he states "[t]his week Trudeau has turned his attention to the 'Creative Commons' project," in fact, Trudeau does not mention "Creative Commons" at all. Indeed, for anyone who knows anything about what Creative Commons is trying to do, no doubt Thudpucker is a funny character but his views have little to do with mine, or
CC&ap From
Lessig Blog on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Memphis is extremely cool
On my way back from Memphis, where I spoke at the
Rhodes College Institute on the Profession of the Law. This is an annual event (well, my speaking there is not an annual event, but you understand), and I was struck not just by the College (which seems plucked from Oxbridge), but by the seriousness with which 100 lawyers spend a morning thinking, and arguing, about real issues. Maybe its something about the pure Tennessee air (my mom's from Chattanooga), or the distance from Washington, DC. But it is such a pleasure to be able to talk about From
Lessig Blog on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
these stories are the best
From a friend who is on the Harvard faculty: i take a car service to the airport this morning. driver is an older irish boston type, very talkative; do i know the history of cambridge, the reason behind the establishment clause ("[another Harvard professor] didn't..."), etc. as we're hitting the airport, he hands me his self-published tract on the crisis in public education and how to solve it by canceling the Simpsons. "you should put it on the web," i say, which is what i usually say when handed a self-published tract by a cab driver. "i did," he said, "and it' From
Lessig Blog on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
more "spam" from me
I dumped the following into the veins of the email system, one to each person who had signed a petition asking for reform of the copyright system. Sorry about the intrusion, but an important opportunity has come up for you to have a positive impact on the direction of copyright law and I wanted to let you know about it directly. Thanks to some prodding by a couple of great US Senators, the copyright office is currently considering whether to recommend changes to copyright law that will make it easier and cheaper for you to use "orphaned works" -- works that remain under copyright b From
Lessig Blog on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
well, no one ever called him Jimmy Olsen
Regarding Mr. Orlowski's
breathless rant about Doonesbury and Creative Commons: as the
Surburban Limbo evinces (thanks, Staci!), the plot-line is actually two years old. While you'd have to be a bit clueless to believe that Thudpucker is actually speaking CC-speak, it would be quite amazing to think that he was speaking CC-speak in January, 2003. Sure, CC had been around for six weeks. But even Mr From
Lessig Blog on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Skilling Australia - New Directions for Vocational Education and Training
The Directions Paper 'Skilling Australia - New Directions for Vocational Education and Training' sets out possible models for a new national training system from 1 July 2005 when responsibilities of the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) transfer to the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The proposed arrangements are based on the guiding principles of business and industry leadership; better quality training and outcomes for clients; and streamlined and simplified processes. This Directions Paper sets out a range of views on the future operation of the n From
EdNA Online on March 2, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..
Open source underlying MSN?
An image posted online indicates that some of Microsoft's own developers apparently prefer open-source products to build Web pages than Microsoft's own proprietary software. [Missing Links] From
CNET News.com on March 2, 2005 at 7:52 p.m..
Get yer free land!
The Mid-West is offering free land! To stem the exodus of its populations to cities, many small midwestern towns are offering incentives to folks who'd be willing to move there, according to this New York Times article, Empty House on the Prairie. As a fan of the Little House on the Prairie, I must admit I'm tempted. On my one visit to rural Nebraska, I was stuck by the beauty of the prairie landscape. And then there's this: In some of these towns, a commute to work is four minutes; crime is all but nonexistent; at night you half-believe you can look toward the soundless sky an From
megnut on March 2, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Because you may be crazy about skiing too
In case you're as coo-coo for skiing as I am these days, you might like this New York Times Travel Interest Guide to Skiing. It's a list of skiing-related columns and articles from the past few years. From
megnut on March 2, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Just Say No to Google?
If, like me, you are uncomfortable about Google's beta "
AutoLink" feature on the Google Toolbar, you might consider signing a
petition created by blogger Steve Rubel, which urges Google to drop Autolink.AutoLink has generated quite a bit of controversy among Web publishers because it can turn text on any webpage -- such as street address, automobile VIN numbers, and book ISDN numbers -- into Google-created links. Even From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 2, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Malaysian blogger brought in for questioning
Ethan's got the full story about Jeff Ooi, an outspoken global voice, being pulled in by Malaysia's Criminal Investigation Division for questioning about the content of his Weblog. Says Ethan: Jeff was questioned for two hours and released. It's unclear whether the authorities will close the case regarding Jeff's weblog, or whether he may be subject to future questioning and harrasment. So far, he's continuing undaunted in his blogging...... From
Joho the Blog on March 2, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..
News visualization tool from 10x10
10x10 is a fascinating news visualization tool, displaying a chart of many smallimages aggregated from live news sources. The resulting chart is interactive, letting the user trawl through images to identify news stories, then link to the ones selected. Compare... From
MANE IT Network on March 2, 2005 at 5:59 p.m..
MP3 Cell Phone: Podcasts Edge Closer to the Masses
Just a quick note – I just read that Sony is debuting the first-ever combination mobile phone and MP3 player, the W800i. (Well, they claim it's the first such combo device, but I haven't verified that.) Anyway I'm intrigued by the emergence of this kind of device, because I can see my larger vision for podcasting starting to take root in reality... From
Contentious Weblog on March 2, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
Five Thoughts on Blogging
Guillermo Franco, editor of ElTiempo.com and a professor of new media in Colombia, has conducted an e-mail interview with five authors and journalists who specialize in the topics of blogging and citizen journalism -- Shayne Bowman, Dan Gillmor, JD Lasica, Chris Willis, and me -- with the aim of providing an introduction to blogging to the Latin American market.There's an
English as well as a
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 2, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
Bloggers y Medios
Steve Outing, J. D. Lasica, Shayne Bowman, Chris Willis y Dan Gillmor hablan con Guillermo Franco sobre weblogs, periodismo y medios: La re-blog-lución.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 2, 2005 at 5:52 p.m..
The database of blogs...
blo.gs is for sale (via
Luis) this includes: the blo.gs domain name (and all subdomains) the weblo.gs domain name the database of blogs (and related databases) all rights to the blo.gs software* Having that database of blogs can make life of many weblog researchers much easier... Would be nice if
Techno From Mathemagenic on March 2, 2005 at 5:52 p.m..
Fedora 2.0 now available
http://www.fedora.info/ You'll likely see this a few times today, but the Fedora project have released version 2.0 of what they term their "general purpose repository service." This should prove interesting - Fedora has been talked about at various times as a possible LOR solution, even though its origins are in the 'institutional repository' space. Tip o' the hat to
David Mattison for spotting this. Stay tuned! - SWL From
EdTechPost on March 2, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..
The Longest Formula 1 Season In History
Pundits across the globe (with the possible exception of America) are discussing the latest Formula 1 Grand Prix racing season. Speculation is at fever-pitch over the impact of the latest rule-changes and the aging World Champion. Despite the efforts of some teams, this also looks like the most expensive racing season in history, with the Ferrari's gearbox costing more than most street cars. From
kuro5hin.org on March 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Ok, it may be silly to get so excited over my litt ...
Ok, it may be silly to get so excited over my little research project (a qualitative study examining conceptual change and technology) but each time I leap over a milestone (
IRB approval, each additional participant) I just start doing a happy dance (unfortunately, this is quite literal. I think I actually tore something yesterday). It's my first "real" study. Sure, I did a lot with rats and chickens back in my good ole undergraduate days, but they were all part of someone else's study - either the profes From
blog.IT on March 2, 2005 at 4:59 p.m..
Is EmPRINT Old Thinking?
Yesterday, Laura Ruel
noted the University of Missouri's
EmPRINT project, announced this week as an innovation in online news presentation. It's a weekly downloadable version of the Columbia Missourian.I don't have an opinion of it yet, because I haven't seen it. (First public edition is due out this Sunday.) But Adrian Holovaty (whose opinion I do respect) has some problems with the concept, which
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 2, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..
OnFolio for Firefox
OnFolio's new version supports Firefox. Yay! I had bought rev 1 a couple of months before I switched from Microsoft IE, and I've missed it. OnFolio does something really simple: When you come across a Web page you want to save, it makes a copy and puts it into a folder of your choosing. Of course you can do that yourself, but you end up with component parts all over. OnFolio gives you its own foldering system, lets you add keywords and descriptions, and makes the whole thing hassle-free. (It uses the MHT file format to store all the elements... From
Joho the Blog on March 2, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Handhelds for textbooks in Kenya
According to the BBC, schools in Kenya are piloting using handheld computers in schools. Eduvision has designed these as textbook holders, in order to carry updated content in a nation often lacking basic text materials. "The E-slates connect via... From
MANE IT Network on March 2, 2005 at 3:57 p.m..
ProLearn-iClass Thematic Workshop
Tomorrow and the day after, the workshop on "learning objects in context" is taking place in Leuven. This workshop is jointly organized by the ProLearn Network of Excellence and the iClass project, both funded under the Technology Enhanced Learning program... From
ErikLog on March 2, 2005 at 3:51 p.m..
Web of Ideas tonight: Net Time
Tonight I'm leading another discussion at the Berkman Center, open to all. Last time, we talked about Net friendship, and it went really well in part because I only talked for a few minutes at the beginning. It turned into a very interesting, very informal discussion. That's what I'm aiming for tonight as well. I'm going to open with just a few comments. I'm not sure what I'm going to say, but perhaps something like this: We have an image of time as a series of "nows" that march past the razor blade of the present. That's an incoherent view... From
Joho the Blog on March 2, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
"What if I Did This as a Teacher?" Part II
Think he's getting the bigger picture? Hey, It's 11:30 PM and my head's still buzzing. This Kool-Aid is powerful stuff! I know reality will soon bring me down, but right now I'm in the idealistic possibilities stage: What if....each course had a planning weblog where teachers could not only share lessons and best practices, but reflect and enter into conversations about teaching with each other and administrators? What if...rather than surveying kids after the course was over, they always had a voice in the learning process? We could reflect o From
weblogged News on March 2, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
Kuttner on Summers
Robert Kuttner in the Boston Globe today grades Larry Summers' presentation: C+. It's a well-done piece that takes Summers' remarks on their own terms. (I've blogged about it here, but I heartly recommend Kuttner's comments instead.) [Note: The link will break soon because the Globe has decided it's not worth it to be a long-lasting influence on our culture.'[Technorati tags: summers harvard]... From
Joho the Blog on March 2, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
MediaPost Thinks RSS Might Be Ready for Prime Time
MediaPost offered this analysis related to RSS' progress. For now, less than 5 percent of Internet users currently employ RSS readers. That minority consists mainly of media and tech professionals, and bloggers who contend with information overload on a daily basis. But analysts say that RSS could quickly shed its niche status if consumers realize they no longer have to surf from Web site to Web site, scrolling their favorites menu for content. Instead, RSS readers pull in headlines and text continually, allowing users to create customized content from From
RSS Blog on March 2, 2005 at 11:58 a.m..
Watchdog-attacking Bagle ramps up - Dan Ilett, CNET News
A new variant of Bagle is spreading rapidly, security companies have warned. Rather than a mass-mailing worm, BagleDl-L is a Trojan horse that damages security applications and attempts to connect with a number of Web sites. It has been sent via spam lis From
Techno-News Blog on March 2, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Yahoo! cumpleaños y pelÃculas
A la semana de que Google estrenara el operador "movie:" (ver una prueba con Hitchcock), Yahoo! lanza en fase beta un servicio de recomendaciones de pelÃculas: Movie Recomendatios on Yahoo! Movies. ¡Feliz 10º cumpleaños Yahoo!, el increÃble directorio menguante! Ver... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 2, 2005 at 10:51 a.m..
Experimental Jet Soars Over Libya
Steve Fossett gives the 'all's well' from the GlobalFlyer as he attempts to smash several aviation records. The trail-blazing millionaire is about one-quarter of the way through his planned 23,000-mile flight. From
Wired News on March 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Collective Detective Police Work
Law enforcement agencies increasingly turn to the net for tips from the public. Watch out, America's Most Wanted: There's a new sheriff in town. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on March 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
The Book Stops Here
Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyper-addictive library of the future called Wikipedia. By Daniel H. Pink from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on March 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Planets Lurk on Your Desktop
Scientists team up to create a distributed computing program to search for extrasolar planets. Their offer to volunteers: You find it, you name it. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on March 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Penrose: The Answer's Not 42
One of the world's greatest physicists, Roger Penrose, publishes a new book taking on the grand unifying 'theory of everything.' By Mark Anderson. From
Wired News on March 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Carbon-Dating Clock Reset
New data will help anthropologists discover the true age of 26,000-year-old fossils, setting the stage for better understanding of Earth's past. By Randy Dotinga. From
Wired News on March 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Meta Request: Diary-Story crosstalk
Diaries should be allowed to turn into story submissions given enough demand. Readers should be able to click 'move to edit queue' on diaries that the author has flagged to allow this. Like 'move to vote', once enough votes are accrued, the action is taken. Also, Dead stories should always turn into diaries that can't be moved to the edit queue again. This is better than deletion, for sure! That is all. From
kuro5hin.org on March 2, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Going Home - Our Reformation
Weblogs, Wikis, Social Software, Google. Welches Potenzial steckt in diesen Anwendungen? Es gibt immer mehr Stimmen, die sagen, dass wir es hier nicht nur mit Innovationen zu tun haben, sondern dass wir am Beginn einer neuen Ära stehen - vergleichbar... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 2, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Druker on Schools
"Delivering literacy -- even on the high level appropriate to a knowledge society -- will be an easier task than giving students the capacity and the knowledge to keep on learning, and the desire to do it. No school system... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 2, 2005 at 4:54 a.m..
Plagiarism experience
I was explaining to a student today why a passage was still plagiarised even though there was a link at the bottom to the source. The structure of the thought was borrowed directly from the source, but this was not indicated in the writing. The series of ideas were paraphrased, in the original order, without indicating this. A person who followed the link would realize, in time, that this was the case, but no clue was given by the writer. The student seemed genuinely surprised by... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on March 2, 2005 at 4:52 a.m..
MANE IT Leaders May meetings agenda update
Here is agenda material for the MANE IT Leaders meeting this upcoming May 2nd. Following the meeting is a seminar on digital images. MANE IT leader introductions and issues roundtable Leading instructional technology issue, based on MANEblog preparatory discussion (starting... From
MANE IT Network on March 2, 2005 at 3:57 a.m..
Gonna Write Me a Novel
I've been reading a little junk food for the brain lately. You know, those frivolous books that have no real redeeming value other than the simple fact that they're tasty. Right now it's Michael Crichton's latest. An anti-ecologist rant that finds the wise and learned scientist battling eco-terrorists and misinformed Hollywood liberals. (Methinks that maybe Michael had his butt kicked in court over some land use dispute or something. He's quite angry with the tree huggers of the world... From
Brain Frieze on March 2, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..
Folksonomic Video: Vimeo
I am supposed to be out the door about 5 minuntes ago when I get to curious to click on
vimeo (tip of the blog hat to
David Weinberger, thanks for making me later for dinner ;-) In a nutshell, it looks like a filckr for video, and it semms there are a lot of other folks moving "theirmedia" in this direction. What caught my attentions was that vimeo is taking tags applied to video clips, and assembling them dynamically into QuickTime flicks, such as the
cogdogblog on March 2, 2005 at 1:46 a.m..
Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam
The EduResources Weblog was hit by comment spam last month (the execrable "help me claim my inheritance" messages). I was able to delete the spam comments and have left the comment feature turned on for now. Here I'm referencing a guide to coping with comment spam from Six Apart. Although some of their guidelines apply specifically to Movable Type (MT) others are more general and may be of use to bloggers who do not use the MT platform. ____JH From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on March 2, 2005 at 1:46 a.m..
Stop the pendulum: i want to get off
Lou Rosenfeld has written some pragmatic comments about the natural home for the intranet. To quote: I'm not sure that any single department can be the home for a multi-departmental intranet or, for that matter, a large public web site.... From
Column Two on March 1, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..
The Information Architecture Institute is public
After some discussion, AIfIA decided to rename itself to just the The Information Architecture Institute. This is a much better name! To quote: To achieve wider recognition for information architecture, the Institute's leadership embarked on a process to create a... From
Column Two on March 1, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..