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Technology Coordinator in Lloydminster
From Patti Dyjur: Lloydminster Public School Division (Sask.) invites applications for the position of TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR The school division is seeking a person-centered, collaborative, educational innovator with demonstrated visionary leadership ability. As part of our professional learning community, the candidate... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 15, 2005 at 10:53 p.m..

[etech] Wendey Seltzer: Endangered gizmos
Wendy of the EFF talks about technology threatened by copyright-protection laws. (Here's the list.) MythTV is open source TiVo. The HD cards sold after the Broadcast Flag law goes into effect will only output low res images, so build your mythTV's now. (Wendy is one of the lawyers contesting the Broadcast Flag. Go Wendy!) [I've been trying to build a mythTV for months now. Hint: Be sure to get exactly the specified parts.] Her unintroduced co-presenter talks about the game City of Heroes. Marvel Comics is suing because some users make characters who look like Marvel's copyr From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

Where Geeks and Thinkers Meet
"How many people in this room have built a computer from scratch?" Half the people duly raise their hands, and then get a lesson into how to hack your car to add a multi-media system that does not dim the headlights. I am at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in San Diego this week, which brings together an excited bunch of computer nerds, thinkers, and entrepreneurs.The audience is blogging and Flickring away and From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 15, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

Reports of E-Mail's Death Greatly Exaggerated
From ClickZ Stats on March 15, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

[ Creative Commons in the News ]
A recebt article in the Washington Post sheds light on the growing importance, and adoption, of Creative Commons, in many cases by the business and creative world elite: Lessig argues that the current system of copyright laws provides little flexibility... From futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture on March 15, 2005 at 9:00 p.m..

I heart Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ I've known about Thunderbird for a while now, but I never felt the urge to try it out until today. I'm glad I finally did. I love the integration of email accounts and RSS feeds, and it handles message features such as return receipts and html messages more elegantly than Apple Mail or Entourage did. I'm hooked. From Stand Up Eight on March 15, 2005 at 9:00 p.m..

Free video blogging
Jay Dedman points us to two useful, new, and free sites for creating and aggregating video blogs: Freevlog and ANT.... From MANE IT Network on March 15, 2005 at 8:58 p.m..

Creative Commons and Copyright Reform
There is an interesting article in the Washington Post titled "Creative Commons is Rewriting Rules of Copyright". While most of the content shouldn't be anything new to the majority of readers, if it IS new, it's an accessible piece that... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on March 15, 2005 at 8:55 p.m..

[etech] From the Labs
Fifteen minute presentations on what's going on in labs... Rick Rashid, Microsoft Labs. "SenseCam" is a wearable recorder, presumably part of MyLifeBits, the Gordon Bell project. He takes us under the hood. E.g., they wait for stability to take a photo in order to avoid blurriness. "The ultimate blogging tool," he says [if you've confused blogging with living]. He says there are 12 operational units so far. They're building a new generation: Smaller, GPS, continuous audio. He also talks about "surface computing" that lets you manipuate images on a surface. [It's very simila From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

[etech] George Dyson on von Neumann
George Dyson talks about "Von Neumann's Universe." Von Neumann came from Hungary and was appointed to Princeton during the Depression. In the office above him was Kurt Goedel who was stuck in a Catch 22 trying to emigrate. The Germans finally allowed him to leave Austria once they realized he wasn't a Jew, but he got classified as an enemy alien by the US because Germany had conquered Austria. In 1943 he finally got his US citizenship and was immediately drafted. Goedel was, however, paranoid. He would only eat food off his sister's plate because he was worried about being... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Blogging Beyond the Men's Club
A number of people sent me this link raising the question, "why is the blogosphere dominated by white males?" It isn't, of course, as any excursion beyond what we see reported in the media will reveal - roam through random LiveJournal blogs or random Blogger blogs for a few hours and you'll see. But the supposed "Top 100 blogs" is, as noted by a panelist, "white people linking to other white people!" The member From OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Canadian MP Says Extended Licensing Proposal Delayed
Michael Geist reports that "the government has delayed plans to introduce a much-criticized copyright proposal to establish a extended license for educational institutions." Good news. Now if only the government would consult people outside the entertainment and publishing industries we could perhaps approach a copyright environment in this country that balances everyone's needs. By Michael Geist, March 15, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Five Lenses: Towards a Toolkit for Interaction Design
This is a very nice paper that cuts through some of the issues I have felt (but never really discussed) in learning theory. Two major things. The first is the recognition that interaction theory (and by extension, learning theory), can be viewed from five distinct points of view: the cognitive, the anthropological, the artifacts, the social and the ecological. "Big deal," you may be saying, but the issue that has disturbed me is assumption of the primacy of one over another (think of constructivism, Vygotsky and artifacts, for From OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Issues in Federating Repositories: A Report on the First International CORDRA Workshop
Good summary that doesn't waver from the necessary questions facing the CORDRA initiative, "an open, standards-based model for how to design and implement software systems for the purposes of discovery, sharing and reuse of learning content through the establishment of interoperable federations of learning content repositories." Questions like: what will this infrastructure provide that Google doesn't? Why is querying better than harvesting? Who guarantees authenticity, who is responsible for tasks such as archiving and quality control? What about digital rights management? From wher From OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

CURE: The NoRagging Group
In India it's called 'ragging' and it's a problem similar to bullying and hazing in North America. It is equally a problem in both regions. Which makes the website of CURE: The NoRagging Group worth highlighting in today's issue. By Various Authors, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
Newspapers are in a bind. By posting content online, they are basically giving their content away for free. But if they charge for an online subscription, few people will sign up and their content will for all practical purposes disappear from the internet. Similar issues face online learning, where the content is something we really want to have a wider influence but which in a market where it competes with video games and online music is not likely to capture a significant consumer dollar. In both cases, the liklihood is that agencies with a political or social objective will pay for product From OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

FreeScience
According to the website, this tool "allows any researcher to share his scientific papers (as well as notes, data and designs draws, ecc...) into a P2P OAI-PMH compliant network, by mean of which your works will be instantly available to hundred of thousands researchers worldwide. You can also browse the huge OAI archive (about 1 million of documents from the best research institutes) and download the full text for free. Furthermore, the FREESCIENCE software is completely free, as is access to documents in the BdA network. Download it here and install it in your own PC." Cool. Via OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Packaging and Publishing LOs: Best Practice Guidelines
Via Scott Leslie, who writes, "This new guide from Becta gives the grand tour through most of the relevant learning object related standards, and contains a few useful starting points, for instance the 'Packaging and publishing checklist.'" PDF. By Unknown, BECTA, January, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

The Reality of Open-Access Journal Articles
Open access is a reality now, write the authors, and so the academic articles asking what it would look like are now moot. "The strongest evidence that open access to peer-reviewed articles is here to stay, at least in the life sciences, comes from two developments: the increasing number of agencies and foundations that have begun to require or encourage free online access to publications based on research they have helped finance; and the growing number of journals that allow authors to make their papers freely available." Via OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

DrupalED - Corrections
"Definitely not by 'Boris Mann and Will Pate'. Charlie Lowe (http://www.cyberdash.com) was the genesis of all this, and everyone is invited to participate. The site is an organising website to catalyze activity and interest from the education sector in one place. The outcome will be a Drupal "distribution" -- a selection of modules and configuration optimized for use in education. Anyone that is interested in participating...come on over and create an account." Thanks for the correction Boris, and apologies to Charlie Lowe, who OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Using del.icio.us and metadata
Jon Udell offers a good video screencast of using del.icio.us. It features a sample case of using that web service to hone metadata, find more information, and think about folksonomies and the semantic web's possibilities. Udell lets the video demonstrate... From MANE IT Network on March 15, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..

Fake News, Courtesy of the US Government (Again)
Longtime CONTENTIOUS readers may recall that last year I had a few things to say regarding a fake TV news story (otherwise known as a video news release, or VNR) produced by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services to covertly promote the Bush Administration's controversial Medicare plan. Well, it looks like the Bush Administration's infatuation with VNRs is still going stronger than ever... From Contentious Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

BBC Worldwide selects Kashya for data protection
BBC Worldwide has chosen business continuity solutions provider Kashya’s data protection and data replication solutions. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Nokia launches I-HSPA solution
Finnish handset maker Nokia has expanded its wide radio access offering and is demonstrating high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA). From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

IBM to acquire Ascential Software for €823m
IT company IBM is looking to strengthen its information integration business with the acquisition of enterprise data integration software provider Ascential Software. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

BT Germany enters mobile market
Telecoms and IT service provider BT Germany is to operate mobile services under its own name and with its own tariffs. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

BT extends Ethernet connectivity across Europe
British telco BT has extended its Ethernet network services in selected cities in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Ireland and the Nordics into the wide area network (WAN). From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

IT marketing budgets to increase 3% in H1 – report
Some 20 per cent of vendors are expected to increase their tech marketing spending budgets by 15 per cent or more. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

T-Online launches desktop search engine
German internet service provider T-Online has introduced “Suchassistent,” a desktop search tool that can search the PC hard disk for files, e-mails and e-mail attachments offline. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

WHSmith selects BT Expedite for IT support
BT Expedite, the British telco’s retail division, is to manage IT and communications systems for WHSmith, one of the UK’s high street retailers. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Samsung unveils music smart-phone with 3GB HDD
South Korean handset maker Samsung’s 3GB HDD embedded music smart-phone can function as a removable hard disk drive. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Keep Harvesting the Goose
University of North Carolina Knight Chair in journalism Philip Meyer, author of the book The Vanishing Newspaper, is interviewed by Leonard Witt for his PJNet Today blog. This exchange is worth highlighting: Witt: "That brings us to the two scenarios you develop in The Vanishing Newspaper. One is to keep squeezing the golden goose, taking all the profits you can, while you can and forgetting about the From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 15, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Mientras esperamos el estreno de Star Wars Episode III podemos ir abriendo boca con el trailer. Más allá de la saga, lo cierto es que Star Wars se ha convertido en una de las marcas más potentes de la historia.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 15, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..

[etech] Morning 3: Firefox
Firefox's Brendan Eich's theme is that the "app is the api." He talks about the extension techniques, but I lose him at contract-id ends in ?type=foo. People here seem quite happy about it, though. He says the new version will have better graphics capabilities and platform improvements. [Technorati tags: oreilly etech]... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

[etech] Morning 4: Danny Hillis
Danny Hillis talks about Applied Minds, his lab for making experimental stuff. There are about 40 different projects going on at any time, with a focus on hardware but including sw. He shows photos of the workshops and movies of little walking devices that get oohs and ahhs. [Humans are such softies.] He shows a techno-pimped out car with every possible gadget in it. Lots of blinking lights and screens. And to make sure we don't think it's all toys and gadgets, the talks about a cancer research project that puts a drop of blood through a mass spectrometer that... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

[etech] Morning 5: Jeff Bezos
Bezos shows a new feature of A9 search that lets you do vertical searches, i.e., within sources (content and search engines?) within particular domains Amazon has access to. And, through an RSS extension, you can syndicate your search. [Technorati tags: oreilly etech]... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

This got me laughing on the plane
Best spam headline in a while, "ChristianMortgages, Saving you more than your soul" From megnut on March 15, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Nokia embeds Avaya mobile office technology in Series 60 handsets
The Avaya Communication Manager on the Series 60 Platform allows a mobile workforce to use office phone features, such as transfer, multi-party conferencing, and abbreviated extension dialing, while remaining accessible to clients and colleagues through a single business phone number. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Western European handset shipments to grow 12% this year
WCDMA handsets are to increase to around 13 per cent of total mobile phone shipments in 2005, predicts market research group IDC. GPRS is forecast to remain the dominant standard for the total mobile phone market and GSM is expected to continue its decline. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Mastercard, Visa agree to common contactless payment protocol
Cards and terminals supporting Mastercard and Visa contactless payment applications will now conform to the same communications protocol and undergo equivalent testing. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Mmo2 becomes just 'O2'
The company announced the rebranding at the same time that it announced it had sold some 300m shares to buy out its small shareholders as part of a restructuring process. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

AOL Backpedals: So What?
According to this followup article by Ryan Naraine published today in eWeek, AOL has begun backpedaling in earnest regarding its offensive and invasive Instant Messenger (AIM) terms of service. (I covered this yesterday.) According to eWeek, AOL "plans to make three small but significant modifications to the terms of service for its AIM instant messaging product to head off a firestorm of privacy-related criticisms." My opinion? Too late. AOL has already tipped its hand about its unvarnished attitude toward AIM users... From Contentious Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Think Things Have Been Rough for Journalism? Just Wait ...
What a year it's been for journalism, and especially online news! That's Merrill Brown's message as included with the State of the News Media 2005 report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He wrote an essay that you might have missed if you just skimmed the report.Brown, online news pioneer, former founding editor of MSNBC.com, and now a media consultant, ably points From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 15, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Is There an Administration Strategy for Online Media?
The Bush administration's infatuation with video news releases apparently hasn't ended. On March 13, a New York Times investigative feature revealed that "at least 20 federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in the past four years." This news comes after Government Accountability Office Comptroller David Walker issued a Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 15, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Juventud y cultura digital
Enlaces de apoyo a la sesión Los padres, los medios y los hijos: Cervera, José: La culpa es de los padres Dans, Enrique: Internet y los niños Fundación Auna: La generación "e" (PDF) Garitaonandia, Carmelo: Los niños y los jóvenes... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 15, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..

[etech] IRC
If you want to join the chat: irc.freenode.net #etech [Technorati tag: etech]... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

[etech] Morning 1
Breakfast was a gathering of the tribes around great oranges and bad bagels. Rael Dornfest kicks it off by reviewing all the ways we're remixing our stuff. (Well, not all of it is strictly speaking ours.) Remixing content, services, applications, IT. It's a good metaphor: Hacking takes things apart and puts them together in new ways, including with new components. Tim O'Reilly wonders how design patterns (Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language) might affect Internet applications. He is going to find prescriptions based on situations. E.g., "A successful open source software p From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

[etech] Morning 2: Flickr
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, says he has an announcement about the rumored acquisition of Flickr by Yahoo. The announcement is that the next person who asks will get popped in the chin. He says Flickr makes 62 methods available to developers. He shows some of what people have built on top of the flickr API. Very cool. The site gets 250,000 API requests a day, and 3M pageviews a day, so about 5% of their traffic consists of API requests. [Technorati tags: oreilly etech]... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

KEEP Toolkit from the Carnegie Foundation's Knowledge Media Lab
The KEEP toolkit is free for educators; it is designed to assist teachers and students in constructing online displays of what they are learning. "KEEP" stands for Knowledge, Exchange, Exhibition, and Presentation. "The KEEP Toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web. With the KEEP Toolkit you can: select and organize teaching and learning materials. prompt analysis and reflection by using templates. transform materials and reflections i From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on March 15, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

In sunny San Diego
I'm in San Diego at Etech. If you're here, come say hi! I look a little different. According to Xeni -- who didn't recognize me -- I look, "less stressed" that I used to. I think it's also the longer hair that's a big frizzy mess in the oceany yumminess that's San Diego's humidity. I've snapped a photo from my phone so you can get an idea of my new "look" and how tired I am from flying so very far in a horribly old cramped 737 that felt like taking a pick-up truck through the sky for six+ hours. From megnut on March 15, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Links from Etech
This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks at Etech. Newest at top. Flickr Graph "Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com." Flickrfox "flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar." Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager looks really cool but doesn't seem to work in Firefox. It graphs the popularity of baby names over time. From megnut on March 15, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Some Thoughts on Travelling for Work
We have all been there. Well, maybe not all of us, but I am sure that the majority of readers have considered a job travelling (full travel, I'm not talking about you wussies who drive to the next city once a month for a meeting). There are, however, many issues with travelling full time, some obvious, some not. Here are some thoughts to keep in mind if you ever travel for work. From kuro5hin.org on March 15, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Megafon to be MVNO in Russian far east
Megafon is to operate as a virtual mobile network operator in Magadan and Kamchatka, piggy-backing off Russian far east telco Dalsvyaz's networks. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

Telenor launches mobile network in Pakistan
Telenor Pakistan, launched today, is the Norwegian telco's first wholly-owned mobile operation outside Norwar. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

Vodafone acquires MobiFon, Oskar
Vodafone has paid Telesystem International Wireless some €2.6bn for Romania's Mobifon and the Czech Republic's Oskar Mobil. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

Paper - Five Lenses: Towards a Toolkit for Interaction Design
While looking for CFP for persistent conversations at HICSS 2006 I came across a draft chapter from Tom Erickson, Five Lenses: Towards a Toolkit for Interaction Design, which lays out five different perspectives to look at interaction (mind, proxemics, artifacts, the social, the ecological) and discusses multi-perspective approach in design. It's thoughtful and easy read, so you should do it yourself. The rest are m From Mathemagenic on March 15, 2005 at 4:51 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Sony Creates Incompatibility With Own Device
Sony's involvement in DRM and interoperability issues generally makes me wanna retch - this just makes me wanna laugh.  Apparently, Sony was not content with making songs sold by its Connect music store unplayable on basically any other company's music device.  Sony now wants to make Sony-sold songs incompatible with Sony-sold devices. Via PostPlay comes this A Copyfighter's Musings on March 15, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

Crappy CMS
I remeber well Brent Simmons' proposal of a"Law of CMS URLs": The more expensive the CMS, the crappier the URLs. Today I had the chance to work as editor with the WebDB portal platform from Oracle 10g Application Server. It is pretty modular, but it is a pain in the a** to really get to editing content fluently. The system might be powerful - but the front end makes a lot of that power vanish. Yet, nothing I have seen comes close to structured editing a page with the outliner of RadioUserland From owrede_log on March 15, 2005 at 4:46 p.m..

Children's Literatire
Internet resources related to Books for Children and Young Adults CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 15, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..

The Online Books Page
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web The Online Books Page... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 15, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..

Shakespeare and the Globe
Encyclopædia Britannica is proud to present Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now. This Britannica Spotlight commemorates the official inauguration of the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London, where William Shakespeare produced his world famous plays. This Spotlight explores the long... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 15, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..

Dave's ESL Cafe
The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL + EFL teachers + students from around teh world. Dave's ESL Cafe... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 15, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Seb Sets the Gold Standard For Conference Blogging
Sébastien Paquet is blogging the Information Architecture Summit in Montreal and is somehow (speed typist, total recall, good tunes??) blogging out extraordinarily detailed notes-- see just a sampling from March 7 Thanks Seb! From cogdogblog on March 15, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

'Cab-TV' comes to London taxis
Once inside a taxi, passengers can select to view a range of TV channels from Cabvision, the first Public-Carriage-Office-approved in-cab TV system. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 15, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Multi-Faceted Measures of Attendance
In a brick-and-mortar school, daily attendance is generally measured by seat time " that is, was Johnny in school today? Attendance within a virtual school is a more complex endeavor " especially when our program includes schools in several different... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 15, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

New Look
For those of you who may still actually visit this site, I snagged one of the beautiful pictures from Wikipedia Commons and decided to change the look here. Who cares if the banner has absolutely no relvance to the topics discussed herein, right? That's an awesome bird. Change is good... From weblogged News on March 15, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

Optimize Your RSS Feed for Search Engines
Tips for Helping Your RSS Feed Perform! In some ways RSS is very similar to HTML, the language commonly used to create websites. Just as with HTML, webmasters using traditional search engine optimization tactics when creating an RSS feed will find that their RSS feed receives additional exposure and interest. Complete Article - RSS Search Engine Optimization From RSS Blog on March 15, 2005 at 12:58 p.m..

Englische E-Universität entpuppt sich als E-Verschwendung
Dieser Artikel über das Scheitern der englischen "E-University" (UKeU) enthält wenig Neuigkeiten und konzentriert sich ganz auf die inzwischen gut dokumentierte (z.B. hier) Geldverschwendung. Aber auf den heise-Seiten nutzen Leser die Möglichkeit zu kommentieren, und das ist oft interessanter als... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 15, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Cool Stuff I Wish I Had More Time To Blog About
Gigapxl Project--Oy. Amazing what cameras can do nowadays. (Via Alec Courous) Human Clock--Wouldn't it be cool to do something like this at school? Maybe a calendar instead of a clock? (Via David Jakes) Google News Customized--Now you can include your own searches in the Google News interface. Interesting... From weblogged News on March 15, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Manila Supports Enclosures
Another small step for Manila users...we can now include enclosure tags in our posts. So, I guess that means that if I ever create another Podcast I can just plunk it in my post without using the Feedburner feed I had set up for it. Nice. As luck would have it, I was talking about just this capability with a teacher in my current Weblogs class here at my school. He wants to pilot Tablet PCs with his kids next year and is envisioning a paperless class where kids access work from his blog, complete it on their tablets, po From weblogged News on March 15, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

My Blog is Mad at Me
My blog has been a bit pouty for the last few weeks. It was finally time to utter those words that no man enjoys saying. "Honey, what's wrong? Something's been bothering you." "Oh no," she said, sighing, "Nothing's wrong. I'm just tired." "Come on now. Something's been bothering you. Let's get this out in the open and talk about it." "Well, there are a few things." Uh oh, I thought. Here it comes. I guess I asked... From Brain Frieze on March 15, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

The Journal of IA Failures
Lou Rosenfeld has been pondering the concept of a Journal of IA Failures. To quote: Something I'd like to see: reporting on IA failures, and what was learned from the carnage. Failure stories are a literary genre in and of... From Column Two on March 15, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..

Underused IA tools
Peter Van Dijck has written a blog entry looking at underused IA tools. To quote: Us IA's have a lot of tools at our disposal (personas, sitemaps, task analysis, …), most of them taken and adapted from other disciplines. But... From Column Two on March 15, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

Stem-Cell Craze Spreads in Russia
Despite the dangers involved, people suffering diverse woes -- from multiple sclerosis to cellulite -- seek out pricey, experimental and illegal stem-cell treatments. Some of the injections may not even contain human stem cells. From Wired News on March 15, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Chlorine Treatment Seen as Risky
Using chlorine to disinfect wastewater has long been standard practice. Recently, however, debate as to whether the benefits of chlorine outweigh toxic side effects has intensified. By Erica Gies. From Wired News on March 15, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Clone Game Fails to Excite
Star Wars Republic Commando, LucasArts' latest release, offers colorful graphics and some exciting gameplay. But the game, which centers on the battles of an elite squad of clone soldiers, fails to capitalize on its full potential. By Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on March 15, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Need a Building? Just Add Water
A new design for a 'building in a bag' promises to provide quick emergency shelter in war and disaster zones. Simply add water, inflate with air and move on in. By Rowan Hooper. From Wired News on March 15, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Bioterror CSIs Target Germs
Pioneers in the emerging field of bioterrorism forensics say chemical signatures could hold clues to the origins of deadly bacteria and viruses. Randy Dotinga reports from the American Chemical Society annual meeting in San Diego. From Wired News on March 15, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Deakialli reloaded
Catuxa Seoane y Vanesa Barrero mudan y rediseñan Deakialli, ahora están en Deakialli DocuMental. Ya están tardando en actualizar sus feeds.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on March 15, 2005 at 9:51 a.m..

Zombie PCs being sent to steal IDs - Robert Lemos, CNET News
Bot nets, collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware, according to a Honeynet Project report. The report, released on Monday, su From Techno-News Blog on March 15, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

Government Searches Get Clusty - Michael Hardy, Federal Computer Week
Officials at Vivisimo have added a government section to their clustering search engine, called Clusty. Clusty searches the Web and specified resources to provide results grouped into categories, rather than a long, undifferentiated list.The new governmen From Techno-News Blog on March 15, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

Bush hands out technology awards - Grant Gross, IDG News Service
U.S. President George Bush on Monday awarded the National Medal of Technology to three individuals, including Ethernet inventor and former InfoWorld Publishing chief executive Robert M. Metcalfe. InfoWorld is a unit of International Data Group, the paren From Techno-News Blog on March 15, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..

Times Senior Editor Becoming Scholarship Program Director
Soma Golden Behr will become director of The New York Times College Scholarship Program, which gives four-year scholarships, mentoring and summer jobs. From New York Times: Education on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Harvard Faculty Voting Tuesday on Confidence in President
After weeks of discontent over the leadership style of Lawrence Summers, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will consider a resolution of a lack of confidence. From New York Times: Education on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Study Finds Poor Performance by Nation's Education Schools
Nine of every 10 principals consider the graduates unprepared for what awaits them in the classroom, a new survey has found. From New York Times: Education on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

State Regents Adopting New Approach to High School Math
New York State's Board of Regents is expected to reorganize high school mathematics into three one-year courses, each with a single focus. From New York Times: Education on March 15, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

[etech] Why I'm at etech
A whole bunch of people I like and admire are at sxsw. I went to that conference the previous two years, but this year it overlaps with O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. I'm currently in a Days Inn in San Diego, ready to go to etech tomorrow. I've been going to etech for the past couple of years because it's over my head, so I learn a lot. After talking with some women, I considered skipping etech this year because it's too much of a boy's club: Only 9% of the speakers are women, by my count. That sucks. So, I... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Report Card for Ocotillo Small Pieces
Our Ocotillo project's use of blogs+wikis+boards, coined last summer as "Small Technologies Loosely Joined". The premise of this was that each of our 4 working groups would maintain a regularly updated blog as its public "face", use discussion boards for some asynchronous dialogues (and guest experts), and the wikis for brainstorming. The suite of tools (MovableType for blogs, UseMod for wiki, and phpBB for the boards, plus a From cogdogblog on March 15, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Bogus Contest:: Tag...Not just for geeks any more
Bob Filipczak was browsing AdCritic.ccom and came across a couple of commercials for a body spray for men called Tag. I don't subscribe to AdCritic ($100/yr), but here's the stub of an article from AdWeek: * The budget was not disclosed, but sources said initial ad spending would be at least $50 million. * The campaign employs broad humor and sexual innuendo in an effort to appeal to teens and young adult males, the key target market for the product. * Commercial scenarios include advances from the mother of a prospective date and reactions to the product's scent in public... From Joho the Blog on March 15, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 4:48 a.m..

A Conversation with Crowded House’s Neil Finn, Part One
Crowded House was a great band that actually had considerable success worldwide, and that's pleasant to report. I also like to reflect on when they first emerged in America, in 1986. At the time I was a DJ with a late-night radio show at WWWV, an FM AOR (that's ... From Gardner Writes on March 15, 2005 at 4:00 a.m..

Mixed and remixed
In a substantial post about his decision to establish a Creative Commons license for his new blog, John Miles Foley used this lovely phrase: living language -- mixed and remixed This intersects with something I've been musing over today. I have been wondering about those blogs that maintain a list of highlights -- see... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 15, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 3:47 a.m..

Monday, March 14, 2005
The Joys of Cat Ownership IX: You can take the cat out of the jungle, but you cannot take the jungle out of the cat, especially if the prey is a slice of three-meat pizza. From RHPT.com on March 15, 2005 at 2:57 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..

Blowing My Mind: Jon Udell
Consider this an enduring blanket endorsement of Jon Udell's weblog. His screencast on annotating the planet with a GPS device and Google Maps is amazing. His screencast on how del.icio.us is creating the semantic web right in front of, or should I say, alongside us is amazing. In the ... From Gardner Writes on March 15, 2005 at 2:00 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Call For More SkyperViews (some females would be helpful)
Thanks for those who have volunteered so far for my 5 minute web audio interviews (see details). I have a few more days leeway in the process, and since the audio can be added as an online supplement, I can keep on doing them for the rest of the month or more. So far it is working out well- I have done 3 using my iRiver mp3 recorder, two via iChat and one via Skype. For the latter, I use WireTapPro to record just the audio out (as the interviewer questions are edited out), and it is pretty quickcogdogblog on March 15, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

The Problem with Learning Objects in Courses for the Military
Some discussion of the Susan Smith Nash article over the weekend. Albert Ip writes, "That is the fundamental problem in finding things. If a repository claims to contain everything, it contains nothing useful" because different metadata would be required for different types of objects. And D'Arcy Norman comments, "Reusability is pretty much a fallacy, especially when attempted with highly complex "learning objects" like website From OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
e_Literate links to S5, a standards based system that creates HTML slide-shows without using PowerPoint. To Jay Cross - this is the system I referred to a while ago in a comment but couldn't find. I think this sort of approach has a lot of promise, much more than may appear at first glance. By Eric A. and Kathryn S. Meyer, Meyerweb, March, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Creative Commons Search
I think it's absurd that we should need some sort of separate search engine for this - where's the Google version? - but applaud its existence - a serach engine that finds Creative Commons content that anyone can use. I'm proud to say that I generate more than 1800 results on this search engine. Via Creative Commons blog. By Various Authors, March, 2005 [OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

LionShare Releases Personal Repository Milestone
This is a very interesting project that picks up where POOL left off - a mechanism that allows people to build their own personal repositories, manage their own content, and yet share it with the rest of the world. It's not perfect. It is unfortunately written in Java 1.5. It aims to employ Shibboleth for authentication rather than a genuinely distributed system such as LID or SxIP. But these do not detract from what is a fairly significant step forward. By Wilbert Kraan, CETIS, March 13, 2005 [OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Results of future of FLOSSE
This document - or set of documents, as there are links to two PDF files, the second of which you must view - is a remarkable achievement. The FLOSSE Posse captures much of the essence of the vision people like George Siemens, Alan Levine and others have been expressing over the last few years, crafting three scenarios describing what I have been calling learning networks. The PDf is a bit sketchy - it is a set of slides for a presentation - but a must-read for anyone interested in where all this stuff about blogs and wikis and social networks in learning is headed. By Teemu Arina, FLOSSE Pos From OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

DrupalED - Drupal distributions for Education
D'Arch Norman links to the new educational distribution of Drupal. He notes that "it looks like a pretty much stock Drupal distro, with FOAF and buddies thrown in" but even this would give it some interesting capacities. By Boris Mann and Will Pate, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Building the ELF (e-Learning Framework) Community
A report on the JISC/CETIS Conference on e-Learning Tools, Standards and Systems held in Oxford last November focusing mostly on the E-Learning Framework (ELF). As Scott Wilson summarizes, "the framework is a road map of functions that could be used in planning institutional e-learning systems." Dan Rehak noted, "we still do not have a common language to talk about developing e-learning system models," and that ELF would address this. In the summary slides, Rehak also notes that "Federated repository implementations f From OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Segesta
Segesta is the site of a 2400 year-old temple and aplitheatre located in western Sicily. My last day on the island I visited this site and also Erice, a monastary perched on a mountain high above Tripani. I have photos of Segesta and Erice. I have added many additional photos to my OLDaily on March 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 15, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

JD Lasica Interview with Napster CEO
Engadget posted JD Lasica's lengthy interview with Napster CEO Chris Gorog (via PostPlay).  Two particularly interesting quotes: In response to a question about music licensing: "[A] compulsory licensing of the music publishing would be a tremendous windfall for digital music. It would be a win-win-win for everyone. It would get more content out there for consumers to enjoy. It would help propel our business, letting us get clo From A Copyfighter's Musings on March 15, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term "Accessible"
Summary: Margot Wahlstrom is an official of the governing commission of the European Union. She writes a weblog. (Here's a link to the government itself, (Note the front page statement on corporate responsibility). Her openness and accessibility could well be copied with good effect in the US. Here's her most recent entry(click here for comments). From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 14, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..

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