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The Historical Significance of TiVo
How many times have you read about the threat that digital video recorders (DVRs) pose to traditional television and its business model that relies on commercials? You might think it was only recently that people were using technology to avoid commercials, or that it was only recently that people found commercials so annoying that they wanted to avoid them. It ain't so.In the process of preparing a presentation on the evolution of media, I came across Jeff Jarvis'
comment that the most revo From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 8, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Intranet teams survey -- only 2 days to go
It is only 2 days until the Intranet Teams Survey is closed. We've had over 250 responses so far, but it would be great if you could spend 5 mins to add your organisation to the results... The topics covered... From
Column Two on March 8, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
From the “It just works” department
Why isn't everybody talking about Hamachi yet? I can't think of an easier way to create VPNs. It looks great and it has a very nice start-up quick tutorial. It's great for playing games with friends over the internet. No more wrestling with configuring routers and firewalls, it just works! … From
Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on March 8, 2005 at 10:20 p.m..
The on-demand blogosphere
What if the blogs we read didn't just scroll past us in our RSS inboxes? What if we could consult the wisdom of our networks of bloggers on demand, in realtime, relative to topics of current interest? And what if we could consult their networks too? ... From
Jon's Radio on March 8, 2005 at 10:19 p.m..
Annotating the planet
When I finished making the
interactive version of my neighborhood tour, along with a
screencast, it was clear that Google Maps is every bit as revolutionary as my first instincts told me. Not because Google invented a new geospatial engine or compiled better data. They didn't. But simply -- and yet profoundly -- because Google Maps is a framework we can all use to annotate the physical world. In the very near fut From
Jon's Radio on March 8, 2005 at 10:19 p.m..
Karate Has a New Meaning in Boulder, Colorado
Mile High Karate is now in Boulder Colorado. Stephen Oliver's Mile High Karate offers the best program for increasing your child's Confidence, respect, focus, and Discipline. [PRWEB Mar 5, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Bowling Green State University Offers New Online Courses - Web Based Career Training Now Easier than Ever with Self-Paced, Non-Credit Programs
Bowling Green State University has partnered with Gatlin Education Services, the largest provider of web-based career training courses, to offer online, career training certificate programs in healthcare, business, construction technology, internet - design and technical, IT certifications and video game design and development. [PRWEB Mar 6, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Community Uses Hip Hop Dance to Fight Gang Violence
With increasing gang violence afflicting their school system, the Bridgeton, NJ community invited Chosen Dance Company, a Philadelphia-based professional Hip Hop dance group, to reach out to their children and let them know that there are alternatives to violence. With several hundred of Bridgeton's youths in attendance, Chosen provided important messages to combat negative behaviors and gang violence, while offering a performance rich in innovative, cutting-edge Hip Hop dance. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Nothing Ever Changes at My Hospital
Nurses can change healthcare, but it starts from within and not from the outside in. Validating your nursing knowledge and skills is the first step to personal and professional development that creates change. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Winning Online Poker Strategy by Danish Poker Star
Poker star reveals his winning poker strategy for beating your foe's in online poker rooms. The undisputed champ of online poker is ready for his first world series of poker. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
E-Learning to Roll Through Training in 2005: A Bold New Frontier for Students and Workers
In companies, schools, and governmental agencies, evidence is mounting that e-Learning and blended learning programs are poised for rapid growth beginning in 2005. Experts see three important elements driving this growth: reliable web technology, user understanding of the Internet, and the continued desire for high quality, affordable training. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
New Summer School Program Designed to Save School Districts Money by Offering Courses Online
Global Student Network has developed a summer school study program that reduces public, private and charter summer school budgets. Typically, summer school programs are prohibitively expensive to operate. In addition to normal teachers' salaries and benefits, schools have to heat/cool buildings, pay utilities, and provide maintenance & security staff along with additional support personnel. [PRWEB Mar 8, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Top 10 Lift Ticket Deals 2004-05 No. 18, March 8, 2005
Welcome, die hards! The eighteenth 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 T From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Feed Your Body, Feed A Child's Mind
The Reading Tub, Inc. has now enrolled in Food Lion's LionShop & Share Program. Now, by linking your Food Lion MVP card to the Reading Tub(tm), shoppers can donate to this invaluable organization dedicated to children's literacy. [PRWEB Mar 8, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
CME Outfitters Announces Encore psychCME TV: "Raising the Bar for Patient Outcomes: When Switching Antipsychotics Makes Sense" Airs March 23, 2005
CME Outfitters, LLC, nationally accredited provider of multidisciplinary medical education programming and related healthcare communications services, is pleased to announce an encore presentation of an evidence-based CE activity titled "Raising the Bar for Patient Outcomes: When Switching Antipsychotics Makes Sense." Offered as a satellite broadcast and telephone audioconference airing Wednesday, March 23, 2005, from 12:00 p.m.HYPHEN1:00 p.m. and 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET, the activity will focus on implementing strategies for successfully switching atypical antipsychotics. [PRWEB Mar 8, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
When You Think 'Creativity', What Comes to Mind? IdeaFisher 6.1 Has the Answer... and Over 9,000 Questions
Creativity, that illusive process of developing ideas seemingly out of thin air, can actually be taught, developed and inspired. IdeaFisher software is one such "creativity catalyst", prompting users through both 'stream of consciousness' word associations that follow threads of ideas and specially developed series of questions and 'set-ups'. What's next for these creativity pioneers?... [PRWEB Mar 8, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Lights of the Democracy Blind Egypt from Seeing Mubarak's Acheivments
President Mubarak can say kefaya to the opportunist and to all the people who wants to cause instability in Egypt and use certain issues to create problems and can ask them to unite under one slogan of democracy to take Egypt forward and allow reforms to take shape in steady and stable progress. [PRWEB Mar 8, 2005] From
PR Web on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
Boston Legal's wimpy network
There's a great stew brewing at
Boston Legal. Next week's episode has an
OutFoxed plot. A school principal uses
FOXBlocker to block Fox on televisions in his school. David Kelley's original script explicitly mentioned Fox and Bill O'Reilly. ABC
apparently forced him to remove the references. The network has also refused to run an
Lessig Blog on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
make my day, bill-ites
So there's a
blog first created by the volunteers who watched Fox to create the data necessary to produced
OutFoxed. They posted an
item about a Bill O'Reilly column, which itself was posted on the web. The company syndicating O'Reilly's column wrote them a nasty letter, telling them to take the column down. They did, and replaced it with a link. The same company wrote again, insisting that the blog was guilty of "u From
Lessig Blog on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
the "democracy" that is Europe
So despite the fact that the EU Parliament
has rejected software patents for Europe, and despite the fact that there is
not a qualified majority of member states supporting it, the EU Council has now
endorsed their draft of the "Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions." This struggle continues to astonish me. There's no good economic evidence that software patents do more good than ha From
Lessig Blog on March 8, 2005 at 10:18 p.m..
iPod Mini, Mac Mini, iBook Mini?
Ignoring threats of a lawsuit, an Apple Computer-focused Web site called PowerPage reported Tuesday that the maker of the iPod Mini and Mac Mini is prepping a diminutive laptop. [Missing Links] From
CNET News.com on March 8, 2005 at 10:17 p.m..
Use Age to Your Advantage
Being an older student can give you an edge in class, and enrich the college experience for you and for your classmates. Sharon N. Daugherty shares five ways to use age to your advantage.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on March 8, 2005 at 8:50 p.m..
Positions at University of Wollongong, NSW Australia
CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES University of Wollongong NSW Australia http://cedir.uow.edu.au/ LECTURERS IN EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Two positions: one full time and one .8 position Continuing appointments The Centre for Educational Development is seeking two lecturers who can provide... From
Rick's Café Canadien on March 8, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
A Source Narrates the Story at NYTimes.com
File this one, perhaps, under quasi-citizen journalism.Attached to the New York Times story "
Among Friends: Buying and Rehabbing a Town House," by Penelope Green, is a multimedia slide show. (Look for the link to it in the "Multimedia" box in the right column.) The slide show features audio narration and a series of photos by Times photographer Samantha Storey of a Manhattan townhouse purchased and renovated by five friends.This is a routine Web slide show, but what's unusual From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 8, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..
Madrid indoors and out
After a particularly crummy of upright, intermittent sleeping on a crowded flight from Newark to Madrid, the day took a decided turn for the better when I went for a long walk with Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. We're here for the Internet portion of a conference on democracy and terrorism. It starts tomorrow, in closed session, and then moves to open session session on Wednesday. What we saw of Madrid was beautiful. And it was a perfect day — maybe 50F and not a cloud all day. We walked, we had lunch (a delicious veggie paella for me at... From
Joho the Blog on March 8, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Where's My Personal Newspaper Page?
Yesterday in the (postal) mail I received a letter from an auto dealership, in response to the first time they had worked on a car I recently purchased (elsewhere). The letter had instructions for viewing my car's service-history page, which records whenever the vehicle is worked on at the dealership; it also stores data on manufacturer recalls and offers reminders of upcoming service intervals. Very nice. (The dealership uses
MyServicePage.com, in case you're interested.)Now, why is it that more newspapers don't have something From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 8, 2005 at 3:53 p.m..
Breaking Down the LMS Walls
Zum einen enthält dieser Artikel einen interessanten Vergleich zwischen der Einführung von Learning Management Systemen und den Arbeiten von Frederic W. Taylor: "The use of all-purpose learning management systems in distance education has had adverse effects similar to those unintentionally... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 8, 2005 at 2:51 p.m..
Let Us Now Praise Famous Wikipedians
Is there a Wikipedian National Anthem? Here's a story in Wired about Power Wikipedians. I prefer to think of that status in the altruistic sense of "powerful givers" rather than the Foucaultian sense of "circulators of power via discourse." Their mini-bios sure don't read like those of career "discourse initiators." ... From
Gardner Writes on March 8, 2005 at 2:01 p.m..
Planning for Neomillennial Learning Styles
"If civilization were to invent higher education today, rather than centuries ago, would we create campuses as they now exist, dominated by lecture rooms, libraries, and labs, with learning centered in fixed time blocks? I suspect instead we would... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 8, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Everybody Posting - Invite the World to Author Your Blog?
This is curious and interesting-
Everbody Posting is a blog set up to use the e-mail to post functionality of Blogger so that anyone can send a post via e-mail. Is it sort of a Wikified blog? A public wall open to graffiti? A Spam target (the email address is presented as an image to discourage auto scavenging, wonder if that will hold). How many "U Suk" messages will appear? Will it contain real conversation or just people playing? Who knows? That's what makes it interesting. See the details on
cogdogblog on March 8, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
RFID Invades the Capital - Mark Baard, Wired
A new smartcard, the type privacy advocates fear because it combines biometric data with radio tags, will soon be one of the most common ID cards in Washington. Department of Homeland Security workers in May will begin using the new ID card, called the D From
Techno-News Blog on March 8, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Hacking Google Print
Many people are curious about the inner workings of Google, but they are mostly interested in keeping it a secret. So, any information we can glean comes from "black box" analysis. Recently, I wrote a short article that explains how I wrote some simple code that can instantly create PDFs of entire books from Google Print. Maybe some k5ers have more ideas on how to expand the concept, but, as you'll soon find out, I probably can't help in the efforts. Read on ... From
kuro5hin.org on March 8, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..
DNA Testing Goes DIY
Online companies are exploiting a new direct-to-consumer medical marketing niche: at-home genetic testing for predisposition to a number of ills. Critics say the companies, and consumers, are ill-prepared to interpret the results. From
Wired News on March 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
The Sham Economy
Take a walk through Belgrade, where the criminal underground beats aboveboard capitalism. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on March 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
SLAPP Fight Over Mac Rumors
The publisher of a website that specializes in Apple news asks the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the computer maker. But that's just one front in Apple's battle against rumor sites. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on March 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
MoSoSos Not So So-So
Last year, social-networking services like Friendster were all the rage. Now their on-the-go equivalents, mobile social-software services, or MoSoSos for short, are also taking off. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on March 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Pigs Hold Clues to Man-Made Flu
Pigs in Korea may have contracted a human form of flu created in a lab in 1933. How it happened is a mystery that scientists are working to solve -- too slowly, according to one researcher. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on March 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
SXSW's Torrent of Free Tunes
The South by Southwest music festival is embracing file sharing and iPods big time. It's offering more than 750 free MP3s on BitTorrent in an iPod-friendly format. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on March 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Wiki Becomes a Way of Life
More than 16,000 people contribute to the ever-changing Wikipedia, but few are as dedicated as these folks. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on March 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Online Teaching Tips
A little dated by still a good resource. The following tips apply to standard websites and to course materials presented in WebCT. Many of the WebCT tips would apply equally as well to other courseware packages. Some tips have more... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 8, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..
Another Great Student Panel
We're getting some great responses and interest in a second student panel we assembled in the last two weeks. Back in February 25, 2005, we had a
5 member panel for our ePortfolio Dialogue Day. For that one we even managed to capture and post the audio from the 55 minnute session. The following Friday (March 4, 2005), our
Ocotillo Online Learning Group (OLG) convened a
cogdogblog on March 8, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
The Process of Curriculum Development for Information Architecture @ IA Summit
I am at the
Information Architecture Summit in Montreal, blogging the sessions I'm attending. Panelists: Thomas J. Froehlich, David Robins, Don Turnbull, Andrew Dillon, Nancy Kaplan, Peter Morville [SP: this is a partial transcript.] Thomas Froehlich, Kent State U, LIS/IA/KM program: Curriculum Planning Process at Kent Our program started about 6 years ago, when I raised my hand at a meeting. It's been going downhill since. (Or uphill, depending on your p From
Seb's Open Research on March 8, 2005 at 4:46 a.m..
Practical Global Information Architecture @ IA Summit
Peter Van Dijck, Jorge Arango, Livia Labate [SP: these notes are kinda sketchy] Peter: We thought about global websites and websites all over the world. We've been talking with practitioners. It's a really deep subject and there's lots going on. We've been looking at the wide range of IA, things like "can you translate a taxonomy"? Culture, George Lakoff, people have different categories. Strategies. Methods like our IA practices, how do they work in a global setting. I know a lot of you have really good ex From
Seb's Open Research on March 8, 2005 at 4:46 a.m..
Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World @ IA Summit
[SP: Very interesting session on knowledge sharing across organizational boundaries through a pattern repository.] A Yahoo! Case Study Erin Malone, Matt Leacock, Chanel Wheeler We have a paper in the proceedings that provides more detail on what we'll talk about today. Is there anyone who doesn't really know what a pattern is? It's a "Reusable solution to a problem in a context", as Christopher Alexander has described it in the field of architecture. You can use that fo From
Seb's Open Research on March 8, 2005 at 4:46 a.m..
Creating the Experience: When Does Empowerment Become Oppression? @ IA Summit
[This talk is about increasing flexibility for users of content management systems (CMSes). Not sure whether the oppression term is really the right one here.] Rosalie Ehrlich: First two phases of content management: 1. Webmaster; 2. Templates. AIfIA CMS survey: If you could make one significant improvement to CMSes, what would it be? Answer: FLEXIBILITY. Because we can identify needs now, but we can't always identify future needs... Stewart Brand on a design problem: Buildings ar From
Seb's Open Research on March 8, 2005 at 4:46 a.m..
Two years
Today is the second anniversary of this blog. There are more than 800 posts, including writing almost every day for the first 18 months, and then an irregular stretch of about five months, and now a shaky return to daily writing, a problem I've not entirely solved due to my general workload. The whole thing has been a pleasure, a great learning experience, and an opportunity to stretch that I have not come close to exhausting. I hope someday to meet some of the people I've enjoyed... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on March 8, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..
Student to Student interaction.
An excess of teaching presence will limit student-student interaction" Joe Ugoretz has a provocative piece out in Innovate regarding the importance of letting students start worthwhile tangents in online class discussions. (Registration required.) It would be easy to flatten his... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 8, 2005 at 2:54 a.m..
WHAT DO YOU WANT THE INTERNET TO BE?
From Michael Geist today: "The Minister of Industry, together with Liza Frulla, his Canadian Heritage counterpart, are also reportedly about to finalize new rules that may reshape the availability of Internet content to educational institutions. Acting on the recommendation of... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 8, 2005 at 2:54 a.m..
What Should Everyone Know About Journalism?
Sometimes when I talk with my neighbors about journalism, I want to sing the old Animals tune: "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good ... Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."If you had a chance to speak clearly about journalism to the general population, what would you say? How would you explain our goals, our standards, our processes? Would a greater understanding help our troubled relationship with the general public?Maurreen Skowran, a
Wikipedia contributor who also happens to be a copy editor at From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 8, 2005 at 12:54 a.m..
Session Review: Computer Hacking as an Educational Tool
Whew! I found a stellar presentation session today.... all hope is not lost . Margaret Hvatum and Gayla Stewart from
St Louis Community College presented "Computer Hacking as an Educational Tool" (no web links ;-): For education to happen, students must be interested and engaged in the subject material. Computer hacking interests students and motvates them to read, do research, talk in class, and present their findings on hackers. Since both white-hat and blach-hat hackers exist, students also learn to develop their own value systems From
cogdogblog on March 8, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..
How To Get Rich & Famous By Blogging At Work
Many bloggers enjoy writing about their place of employment. This Internet rage is making a lot of employers upset, as bosses want their nice little drones to keep churning out products & services without all the pesky independent thought. From
kuro5hin.org on March 8, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..