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Internal Blogs And Wikis At The BBC
Als ich vor einigen Jahren mal Nigel Paine, Head of People Development der BBC, über e-Learning sprechen hörte, war ich sofort beeindruckt. Dort, bei der BBC, passierte offensichtlich mehr als in vielen anderen Unternehmen - und das mit der vollen... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 4, 2005 at 10:50 p.m..
More on Artists and P2P
Patrick Ross posted a
follow-up to
my post below. I think, in some sense, Patrick is absolutely right - this case is not about P2P. It is ultimately about the secondary liability standards by which we will judge all technologies. It is about the far-reaching consequences of the so-called "bad actor" or, perhaps more accurately, bad-business-model standard that Ross advocates, as well as the many other offered alternatives to So From
A Copyfighter's Musings on March 4, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Is Blogging Good for the Brain?
So most of us bloggers just know that the answer to the above is yes. Especially if most of what we're doing is blogging in the strictist sense, not journaling, not just linking, but really synthesizing and analyzing what we read. Now we've got some real live neuro specialists doctor types
who say so as well. (And yes, I did the requisite "can I trust this source?" background check...
they seem to have the credentials.) Here's the overview: 1) Blogs can promote cri From
weblogged News on March 4, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
All-News Stations Online ... and More
First, there was the announcement that WCBS and WINS, and WBBM, Infinity-owned all-news / news-talk radio stations in New York and Chicago, respectively, would broadcast online. Now WTOP in Washington has gone them two better. Its government-focused newsfeed has been online at
FederalNewsRadio.com for a while. Now the station has announced that it's making MP3 files of its street reporters and interviews available online as well at
WTOPNews.com.Frank Barnako of Marketwatch.com reported the n From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 4, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Total Cost of Ownership and Open Source Software
Readers looking for a nice bottom-line favoring open source or proprietary software will be disappointed. Readers seeking to understand the concept and to get a good model in order to conduct their own assessment will be delighted. This detailed review of the concept of TCO (total cost of ownership) is a delight, and while it looked to me that the open source approach was significantly cheaper (see pp. 37-39) establishing this was not the point of the paper. The author observes that the result will vary depending on the nature of the installation and the intended use of the application. PDF. V From
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
AutoLink Again
Google's new Toolbar has the capacity to insert links into web pages. The links point to things like maps from Google's map service and definitions from answer.com. Some in the blogosphere have not reacted well to this development, Dave Winer for example launching a barrage of criticism. There is no question in my mind that Google ought to be allowed to do this - we work under the assumption that Google will allow me to do the same to its pages, and that Toorbar advertisers will allow me to use and repurpose their content. Rip, Mix, Feed. I think the constarnation in the blogosphere From
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Duke Evaluates iPod Experiment
It's still a couple of weeks before we see the results of Duke's iPod experiment, but I think one thing will be clear: in order to obtain a benefit from the technology, you have to use it. But: "Six months after the Duke University iPod First-Year Experience began, a stack of unopened iPods line Lynne O'Brien's office. As the director of the Center for Instructional Technology, her office has become the temporary storage room for the leftover devices." With a $500,000 budget, one would have thought someone would have noticed this. By The Chronicle, Daily Illini, March 1, 2 From
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Search, Serendipity and Bricolage
Someone who finally understands search. "Search that's not anti-learning, not about discrete data points and perfect-fit puzzle pieces, tends to be all about learning. It's about stumbling across seemingly unrelated ideas that sometimes turn out to be strangely related."
Perceiving patterns.
Twilight of the Idols. By Christopher Locke, Chief Blogging Officer, March 3, 2005 [
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Building Online Communities Beyond Dating
Addressing the online dating community, Michael Jones observes that social networks are increasingly taking on a matchmaking function and suggests that, in order to compete, dating services need to incorporate blogs and social networking tools. This item comes up in the course of a
discussion about the introduction in Friendster of Typepad blogs.
Here's an example. The Friendster blogs, being tied to community identity, in From
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
UKeU: The Final Curtain?
Seb Schmoller sent me this link to the
Third Report of the Education and Skills Committee in Great Britain, a fascinating and often scathing discussion of UKeU. "UKeU did not have anyone with e-learning expertise in a senior management position." Recipe for failure. Turn anything over to the beancounters, and they kill it. Auricle, in this item, extracts much from the report, including this: "We have found that UKeU inherited a narrowly focussed definition of e-learning and chose to pursue that appr From
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Educating the Net Generation
I read the EDUCAUSE online book, "Educating the Net Generation" through the course of the week. I had highlighted one paper, the final piece in the book, by Chris Dede, giving it a lukewarm review. My feelings about the work as a whole are similar. But how to put such a nebulous feeling into words?
Cognitive Dissonance does the work for me. "My contention is that nobody likes being talked down to. The same people who think instant messaging is disruptive and who don't like answering email on weekends are the ones who are designing From
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
The Jeff Gannon Scandal and the Blogosphere
Don't worry, this article is not about Jeff Gannon. Rather, ti deals with changing trends in jorunalism. We are moving from an era in which people pay to read (or consume) content to an era in which people pay to produce content. And this has as a consequence a transfer of infleunce over the medium from those who adhere (at least ostensively) to a principle of journalistic integrity to those who can afford to pay for coverage. I raise many of the points I raise in Community B,ogging, but in a more accessible manner. Discussion on the Online News list is covered by
OLDaily on March 4, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
APA tips
Earl Misanchuk passed along this website that may be of use. There is some helpful information drawn from the APA guidlines. But to get to the good stuff on referencing, etc. they require $$. Be warned: http://www.apastyle.org/pubmanual.html... From
Rick's Café Canadien on March 4, 2005 at 8:53 p.m..
[wk] Last session: Five years hence
We divided into three groups and talked about what we think the news media will/should look like in five years. The groups tended to believe that citizen reporters will be integrated into the "ecosystem," with the media operating as aggregators of information, or as places, perhaps clustered by topic. Open source content. Creative Commons licensing. Training the young. Niche reporting and advertising. On demand. Cross platform, off PCs and onto mobile devices. Slice-and-dice. More globalized. Conversation is the entry point to the culture. Jeff Jarvis summarizes each of the three groups' From
Joho the Blog on March 4, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..
Keep Your Brain Busy
Get inspired by these seventy-something scholars and their enthusiasm for learning. Studies show that your brain continues to develop new connections as long as it is stimulated.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on March 4, 2005 at 7:50 p.m..
Journalism.org
An initiative by journalists to clarify and raise the standards of journalism through research and education. Journalism.org - Journalism Tools: Reporting - The Art of Interviewing... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Cyber Newseum
The world's first interactive museum of news whose mission is to help the public and the news media understand one another better.Newseum:... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Media Awareness Network
Media Education in Canada. Access to guidelines and classroom resources to help students verify the truth and accuracy of online information Media Education in Canada | Introduction... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Project Censored.org
This is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, they compile an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
The ARt of the Simple Idea
Uncomplicate your life! Take this short quiz to test your art direction and creative thinking skills. You'll link to a series of screens posing six newspaper art direction challenges. Think about what your visual solution to the story would be;... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Classzone
Are you Web-savvy? You may already use the Internet to e-mail friends and find the latest information on movies, news, sports, or music. Take the Internet Basics Quiz to determine what you know about the Internet and its uses. Then... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
NoodleQuest
One of the hardest parts about doing academic research on the Internet is figuring out where to start! A search engine is usually the first thing to try, but what search engines are the most useful for your topic? Fill... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
CanTeach: Writing Prompts
Written specifically for Canadian elementary teachers, but appropriate for a much wider audience, this long list of more than two hundred writing prompts is enough to keep anyone writing for years. The prompts are organized into questions that ask "Who,... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World
Thanks for the today's entries goes to Judy Byers: Project Leader: Online Learning Saskatoon Public School Division. Laid out in a timeline from first pyramid to last, this National Geographic site makes excellent use of multimedia to explore the pyramids... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Jay Rosen, Fake-Media Star
Readers of E-Media Tidbits probably are aware of Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at New York University,
Pressthink blogger, and leading new-journalism thinker. Rosen was interviewed for a Rob Corddry segment on
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, an experience Rosen says "was fun and a little unnerving."For a laugh break, take a few minutes to watch Corddry's report From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 4, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
Media ecology
Rebecca points to Kent Bye's New Media Ecosystem. I haven't read it, but the snippet looks interesting, and I look forward to reading it. I have an overly simple view of the media ecology: News is getting commoditized. The momentum — for better or worse — is on the side of voice, passion, connection and bias. The space between commoditized news (the AP) and the voices expressing that news increasingly belongs to aggregators, not to the news media.... From
Joho the Blog on March 4, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Austrian Publishers Spot New Content Competition
We've have been getting used to newspapers complaining about losing classified advertising revenues to online competitors. But to hear a publisher name "the 'Googles,' 'eBays,' and 'Yahoo!s' of this world" as the main competitors of traditional media in the content area is fairly unusual still.But that is just what Horst Pirker did, since autumn 2004 the president of the Austrian newspaper publishers association,
Verband sterreichischer Zeitungen (VZ). While presenting his association's new yearbook yesterd From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 4, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..
[wk] Friday morning #2
Discussion of how user-led coverage ought to be. Occasional, isolated, and relatively random points: Jarvis: On the blogs, you'll find lots of discussion of social security and not much of Michael Jackson. In the mainstream newspapers, it's just the reverse. Brian Reich: There's a generation gap here. We need to start training the younger generation in journalism. That's the only way the news business will accept young people as credible journalists. Lisa Stone: Don't forget email. It's key. Jim Kennedy (AP): Let's not throw journalism out. Instead lets rethi From
Joho the Blog on March 4, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Judicial goblins
I do not support the death penalty; it is a barbaric practice better left to a more barbaric age, and the fact that the US persists in practicing it both dishonors us and betrays us as unwilling to face our better instincts as a people. That said, the Supreme Court's logic is troubling, and the way they are measuring "evolving standards of decency" is perplexing. 30 states have banned the execution of juveniles. But 12 of those don't allow the death penalty at all. So, really, 18 of the 38 states which do allow execution did not allow the execution of juveniles before today. From
kuro5hin.org on March 4, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Coverage
A quick post — swinging unpleasantly between the obvious and the wrong — during the first morning break at the Whose News conference: Don't a lot of the MSM's woes go back to their commitment to "coverage," i.e., the idea that there's a set of events that the MSM are morally and professionally obligated to report on, even if it's not of particular interest to readers? That creates a bunch of news that no one wants to write and no few want to read. In contrast, bloggers, and Jon Stewart, get to talk only about we want to. There's a... From
Joho the Blog on March 4, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
Documentation, reflection, learning & design
Interesting paper here I thought, from some folks in Strathclyde using Tikiwiki. The abstract is :As product development teams become global in scale, more of this process is carried out in the digital domain. This paper examines the impact of... From
Monkeymagic on March 4, 2005 at 2:52 p.m..
Regulating the Blogosphere
In an interview at CNET news, Federal Elections Commission chair Bradley Smith said: "The real question is: Would a link to a candidate's page be a problem? If someone sets up a home page and links to their favorite politician, is that a contribution? This is a big deal, if someone has already contributed the legal maximum, or if they're at the disclosure threshold and additional expenditures have to be disclosed under federal law." Omigod. Have we completely forgotten what democracy is about? Scary. (Thanks to Salon for the link.)... From
Joho the Blog on March 4, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
[wk] Friday morning #1: Jon Stewart
We begin by watching Rob Corddry's piece on how to become a new media person, on the Jon Stewart Daily Show. Some of us are dismayed that he's taken as news, but most of us seem to think the media need to learn from it. People ask if The Daily Show is popular because it blurts out the truth, is irreverent, is passionate... (Obviously, it's also because it's funny.) Craig Newmark says one of his favorite quotes now is: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Or else they'll kill you." Anonymized comments: Jon Stewart, someone... From
Joho the Blog on March 4, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
F1: Fernando Alonso y los bloggers calientan motores
Con el Gran Premio de Australia arranca el calendario del Campeonato del Mundo de Fórmula Uno de la FIA. Los aficionados españoles muy pendientes de Fernando Alonso y de la evolución del Renault F1 Team, y los bloggers listos para... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 4, 2005 at 1:51 p.m..
Knowledge Management Systems
Plant jemand ein Seminar zum Thema "Knowledge Management"? Sollen idealerweise folgende Stichworte abgedeckt werden: "Foundations of KM", "KM and Technology", "Social Networks", "KM Infrastructures", "Email", "Personal Information Management", "Personal KM", "Intranets, Portals and Organizational Knowledge" und "GroupWare"? Dann gibt es... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 4, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..
Google's AutoLink: getting to the real issue
Recently there's been something of an explosion in the weblogging world over the "AutoLink" feature in Google's new toolbar. If the hype is to be believed, AutoLink is pure evil. Except you shouldn't believe the hype, and it's not AutoLink that people are really up in arms about. From
kuro5hin.org on March 4, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
Out of Control in the Classroom
No, this time it's not the students, but the teacher who goes into a red-faced rage over those smart-aleck kids who won't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. That probably happens more than we educators would care to admit. Not that I know anyone who would ever scream at their students like that. Unh unh. Not me. So what's the difference this time? Ah, this time the students are equipped with technology. After videotaping the teacher's rant, and his physical confrontation with one of... From
Brain Frieze on March 4, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..
Contrabandwidth - Kate Palmer, Foreign Policy
People can get almost anything on the black market"drugs, passports, even human organs. Now add Web sites to the list. Inside many authoritarian regimes that closely monitor and censor the Internet, access to blocked Web sites has become a black market co From
Techno-News Blog on March 4, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Fossett Completes His Quest
Exhausted but exhilarated, Steve Fossett touches down safely in Kansas, becoming the first person to fly around the world alone without stopping or refueling. From
Wired News on March 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
A Cut Above
Why wait for a sports injury? The next-gen performance enhancer is not steroids but elective surgery. By Steven Johnson from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on March 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Scra-Scra-Scratching Thin Air
Researchers have cooked up a new tool for digital DJs: a device that converts movement into music. Clubs may soon be MC'd by DJs who produce the signature scratch sound by waving their arms in the air. By Jonny Evans. From
Wired News on March 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Comfortably Numb Relations
Is 'egocasting' changing our fundamental approach to how we relate to each other? Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on March 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Rainbow Coalition of the Brain
New research suggests people with synesthesia may be better problem solvers. Tasting sounds and smelling colors could be good for cognition. By Rowan Hooper. From
Wired News on March 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Censor Services Push Forward
The Supreme Court's Grokster decision looms later this year, and Congress is hurrying to legalize services that can remove racy content from movies viewed in the home. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. From
Wired News on March 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Domain Owners Lose Privacy
The U.S. government says owners of .us domains can no longer register using proxy services. Critics say the move violates the First Amendment right to anonymous free speech. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on March 4, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Online Poker
Enlazar la expresión Online Poker a un artÃculo de la Wikipedia es la celebrada iniciativa de planetOzh para combatir a los spammers. Ver: Online Poker ?.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 4, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..
Prisacom lanza el blog La Tejedora
La empresa Prisacom, que gestiona los contenidos digitales del Grupo Prisa, ha lanzado el weblog sobre tecnologÃa La Tejedora, a cargo de los responsables de tecnologÃa de Elpais.es y de CadenaSer.com. VÃa: Ismael NafrÃa.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 4, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..
Tag des eLearning 2005
Auf zwei Veranstaltungen sei an dieser Stelle kurz hingewiesen, auf denen ich in den nächsten Tagen sprechen werde: zum einen hat mich das Kompetenzzentrum eLearning Niedersachsen eingeladen, die Keynote auf dem Tag des eLearning auf der diesjährigen CeBIT zu sprechen,... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 4, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
The Implementation of Passive Covert Channels in the Linux Kernel
The goal of this paper is to describe the idea of so called passive covert channels (PCC), which might be used by malware to leak information from the compromised hosts. This idea has been implemented in a proof-of-concept tool, called NUSHU. The primary goal of the PCC is to be as stealth as possible by not generating its own traffic at all. To be actually useful PCC should be combined with some kind of password sniffer or other information gathering software running on the compromised host. From
Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on March 4, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..
And I want some of these too!
Hoping the new Adidas 1 will be to the sneaker industry what Apple's iPod has been to digital music, Adidas will put on sale March 18 what it bills as the world's first computerized "smart shoe." USATODAY.com - Adidas puts... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 4, 2005 at 4:54 a.m..
Leapfrogging Abstractions
Since nearly the beginning of modern computing programmers have used what have traditionally been called high level languages to make the task of developing large applications a manageable task. As computers have grown in power the tasks which we attempt to accomplish with them have grown in proportion. Language development has progressed towards higher and higher levels of representation. Near the high end we have a fairly recent set of languages which are designed to run on virtual machines (VMs), allowing the hardware and even the operating system to be largely abstracted away. But is this From
kuro5hin.org on March 4, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..
Evolution as a Team Sport
Here's my first Arthur column. (Arthur is a free magazine. More info at
ArthurMagazine.com.) If you're familiar with the magazine, my contrarian position may feel a bit more pointed.Nothing is around the corner. There's no threshold to reach, event horizon to cross, or moment of novelty to await. The change has happened. Indeed, you're soaking in it. Those of us who like to think of ourselves on the progressive or countercultural end of the spectrum can't help but try to fomen From
rushkoff.blog on March 4, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..
Return to call centres
It has been a while, and it's good to get back into some call centre work. I've been conducting a review of an existing call centre as part of a knowledge management project, and have just delivered the final report... From
Column Two on March 4, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..
Distance Education Growing in Popularity
The popularity of distance education has spread from colleges to earlier grades, as students in more than one-third of U.S. school districts take courses over the Internet or through video conferences, according to the first federal study of the issue.... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 3, 2005 at 11:53 p.m..