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Overwhelmed...
Three days away and I feel like there is a mountain of good stuff to get to in my aggregator. I just want to capture some of it here with an eye on making sense of it later. 1. David Weinberger on his birds of a feather at etech: Ask why tagging is happening now. After all, we've been able to tag Word documents forever, but we don't. Why now? I think in part it's because we are tagging not just for ourselves. We're doing it socially, aware that we're making the Web better for others. Together we'reDavid From weblogged News on March 19, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..

No One Knows Why...
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 19, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..

Nothing is excluded
Our campus's master of improvisational electronic music, David Barton, gave a talk on Wednesday about his work, and then performed as one of the (currently) two members of the elastic ensemble called Plato and the Western Tradition. In his talk David described classical music as being composed out of a database of accepted materials, a collection of materials that shifts and grows over time. He described his own work, using sampling, looping, and all manner of computer alteration upon... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 19, 2005 at 9:51 p.m..

No wrap puzzle
Anybody know what this page has decided to stop wrapping? My other comment pages seem to be fine...... From Joho the Blog on March 19, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

IDT Futures update
The meetings just ended, and I'm pleased to say that the IDT Futures Group is alive and well. The Florida State University campus is quite nice, and of course, the program in instructional design and technology is one of the... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 19, 2005 at 8:53 p.m..

Attempt to Consolidate All Weblogging with MarsEdit and NetNewsWire Input
Summary: I am making a 'strategic' self-organization move. If this move works as I hope it will, I will be writing entries for any of my online content in MarsEdit... choosing on the fly which of the RU categories or other weblogs I'm using to Use. Those weblogs are: This one -- with several categories (CMS, Ecology/Marine Ecology, EdSped, Evaluation, Notes, Philosophy, Seeds and Weblogging. A site reserved for "Spirited" Entries and Dialog" For very big From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Get Organized, Tagged and Located: Much Weblog-Related Activity
Summary: Am trying to situate myself in blogspace, in several respects. First, I've added my longitude and latitude to the head section of my home page template so that geourl will be able to pinpoint my headquarters on a map, allowing others in search of Blog locations to find my site. Third, I am learning the del.ico.us tagging system --allowing a search of weblogs by topic of entry and b) organizing my netnewswire list by area of interest (knowledge-making, for example) so that workflow has me scanning, and responding to, NetNewsWire by topic.Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term
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 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Pinging GeoUrl
Trying to "get on the map" of geourl. Second Try. ----------- (Later). Think it's working now. Third try. I've also put GeoUrl Code on my site. As I understand it: If I want to find neighbors to any site (that is in the GeoUrl system) I would use the following format. http://geourl.org/near?p=[web address goes here] The following will therefore give you my neighbors: http://geourl.org/near=?http://radio.weblogs.com/0106698 Or you can put From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Gaia Under Attack By Odd Couple: The Christian Right Is "Supporting" Multinational Corporate Plunderers; Bill Moyers Tells us Why
Summary: The environmental destruction by multinational corporate plundering is unchecked by Congresspersons and Senator who are of or supported by the Christian Fundamentalist Right. Reason? It's Faith-Based , but it's not so much an initiative as a disinclination to act in these last days of existence. Bill Moyers gives details in the New York Review of Books. Emboldening below is mine. SPH Bill Moyers says a lot in this major piece for the New York Review of Boo From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

On Sources of Delight in Business Dealings [or "Get That Smile From Your Heart"]
Summary: I respond to Dina Mehta's thoughts about delight in the context of relationships with customers. In sum I say that delight can come to both "customer" (person category 1) and "provider" (person category 2) in a moment of transcendence of such categories. It occurs in a moment of "I-Thou" on the part of the sender and the delighted [surprised, awakened, pleased all at once] response of the receiver. If this high order delight is deeply important--I think it is-- then I think I will have to reduce strategic business "moves" to second or third priority and raise the "I Thou" to fir From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Creativity, Jokes and Arthur Koestler
Summary: Have pulled out Arthur Koestler's analyses of various acts of creation. In his view the creations of humor, the arts and sciences as well, are acts of paradigm shift; each is an act of creation, involving the juxtaposition of frames of reference hitherto NOT on speaking terms. Arthur Koestler was, in his time, a famous counter-revolutionary, philosopher and novelist. You may have read, for example, Darkness at Noon. But have you read Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Prisons: Insight via Underbelly Inspection
Summary: I gnaw on a grim statistic. It is this: The United States has the highest imprisonment rate of any country in the world. What is it about the "American Way of Life" that has 686 of every 100000 people or at least 1372 male adult prisoners out of every 10000 adult males. The following from Roy Walmsley of the British Home Office World Prison Population List (fourth edition) Roy Walmsley(publications.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk © Crown copyright 2003 ISSN 1473-8406) The World Priso From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Developing Self-Directed Learners, Some Current Work
Summary: A few months ago (12/2004) NWREL (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory) published an informative article on enhancing students self-directedness, written because that issue was on the top category of regional school leaders' concerns. Besides the link to the article (near bottom of entry) there are (a) links within the report for the metacognitive (aka deuterolearning and learning to learn) aspects of the findings, and (b) to weblog entries I've made on the subject. Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Educational Reform: Aiming for Engaged, Involved, Compassionate Graduates.
Summary: Towards the end that education turns around its present tendency to anesthetize and alienate students from their own lives and their own communities, I'm sharing the final passage of a recent article by Svi Shapiro for Tikkun Magazine. His arguments, written from the perspective of a Jewish spiritual tradition, make clear to me that significant contributions are possible and needed from all moral/spiritual communities. (Total article, Shapiro, Svi, Education and Moral Values: Seeking a New Bottom Line, Tikkun (3/3/2005), is accessible Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Making Sense: Taking Stock (1)
I am now doing what I should do far more often: discovering my own big picture. Over the past several days I have been sorting and categorizing all of my weblog entries. (Omnioutliner has been very helpful, wondering if Tinderbox , with it's graphical interface option, wouldn't be better.). My goal is to then cluster, summarize and project future directions. Wish me luck or give me advice, either way! From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Consciousness Better Understood
Summary: Ian Glendinning has been reading up on consciousness, again. Reading Sue Blackmore's Consciousness: An Introduction . I am profiting from her explorations and reportage as well. Terrific book!! His notes are below. Mine will follow shortly-- continuing, entering more fully the river [of consciousness] which was slightly disturbed with my earlier entry< From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Concordance
I find myself once again wanting a concordance of the blogs I read most often. Just like in the back of the Bible, where you can see every time a key word is used, and the dozen or so words around it, and a link to the chapter and verse so you can read the whole passage. That would save steps in doing research. True, this is more or less what Google does for us, except that with Google you have to think of the word you want and in a concordance you can browse and hope for surprises. And... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 19, 2005 at 7:52 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term
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 19, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term
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 19, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Microlearning 2005 conference
Martin Lindner has made me aware of the Microlearning 2005 conference. Innsbruck, Austria, in June. (The submission deadline is March 30.) This conference focuses on Microlearning as offering key answers: learning in small units, developing flexible designs, designing mediated environments and integrating different learning models are seen to optimize the use of technologies for learners. From Seb's Open Research on March 19, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..

O'Reilly ETech...
This past week I had the opportunity to travel to San Diego to attend and present at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference. Tom Hoffman and I presented a short talk entitled, From the Classroom: Remixing Wikis with Rendezvous, Web Services and SchoolTool. Chris Jablonski of ZD-Net has a nice summary of our talk. Tom did a great job introducing SchoolTool, the open source student information system, to the audience and pointed them to the just released SchoolBell, the stand alone calendar component of SchoolTool. Over spring break, I plan to install SchoolBell to run a web based cale From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on March 19, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term
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 19, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term
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 19, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Podcast Mania... And What is Missing
It is no secret for us in instructional technology that podcasting is becoming the raging meme of excitement, a good thing. Maybe it is because of media attention, or just the whole iPod thing is just too cool. I've heard it uttered much more recently in emails and conversation with faculty in our system, and it is seemingly leaping over blogs and RSS and wikis (who's strange-ness is a large hurdle to overcome). Some preliminary observations: * Publishing audio has always been there. Some think that providing audio content online is equivalent to From cogdogblog on March 19, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term
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 19, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

Governmental Leadership: Margot Wahlstrom Gives Meaning to the Term
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 19, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Mid-life Crisis: I Don't Think So
I finally--finally!--got the boat of my dreams last weekend. Ys, after at least 10 years of repressed boat lust I am now the proud owner of a Hewes Redfisher 18 foot flats boat. My wife has been pretty patient with me as I went into the death throes of satisfying my long repressed urge for this particular boat. Especially since the funding for said boat is possible without having to dip into... From Brain Frieze on March 19, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Fun with anagrams
TEAM = Tame meta-meat... From Joho the Blog on March 19, 2005 at 1:48 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 19, 2005 at 1:48 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 19, 2005 at 12:48 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 19, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Folksonomy
Although the idea of keywords - more recently called tagging - is not new, thanks to the success of sites like - Flickr, del.icio.us, technorati and not forgetting Elgg the notion of 'free form tagging' is a hot topic. This... From ERADC Blog on March 19, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..

U.S. cell tally: 180 million users and counting - Ben Charny, CNET News
In 2004, U.S. cell phone subscribers topped 180 million, and on average their monthly bills crept upward another 1.5 percent, according to an industry survey of cell phone use in 2004 made public here Monday here at CTIA Wireless 2005, a cell phone trade From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

Hackers Target U.S. Power Grid - Justin Blum, Washington Post
Hundreds of times a day, hackers try to slip past cyber-security into the computer network of Constellation Energy Group Inc., a Baltimore power company with customers around the country. "We have no discernable way of knowing who is trying to hit our sys From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

MIT team creating $100 laptops - eSchool News
Three researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have embarked on an ambitious plan to close the global digital divide: They're recruiting corporate partners to join MIT in designing and mass-producing basic, durable laptops costing $100 or From Techno-News Blog on March 19, 2005 at 10:49 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 19, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Cell Phones Put to Novel Use
Forget conversations and even e-mail. Japanese gadget freaks get literary with their mobile phones, reading everything from sex manuals to full-length classics on the devices, a few lines at a time. From Wired News on March 19, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Euro Software Patents Pending
A U.S.-style software patent system looks set to be introduced in the European Union. Opponents say the legislation benefits industry moguls like Bill Gates and inhibits open-source software. By Wendy M. Grossman. From Wired News on March 19, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

6 Words You Don't Want To Hear When You Walk In The Door
Dad? Do we have a plunger? From Brain Frieze on March 19, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

Peer-to-peer acceptance?
Via Wilbert Kraan, CETIS Peer-to-peer digital repositories have not been widely embraced within higher education, due in part to the bad press surrounding file sharing applications such as KaZaa coupled with the unreliable nature of finding material you want. With... From ERADC Blog on March 19, 2005 at 9:53 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 19, 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 19, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..

Teachers' Union Is Approved for U.S. Tutoring Program
New York State has approved the city teachers' union's request to provide tutoring services to students in failing city schools. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

One in 3 City 4th Graders May Not Advance to 5th
Almost a third of the city's fourth graders have received letters saying they are in danger of being held back, despite a new policy intended to ensure that children who were unprepared for fourth-grade work would be retained in the third grade. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

One Shot Ends the Life of a Prodigy Who Appeared to Be Ordinary
The apparent suicide of 14-year-old Brandenn E. Bremmer left some wondering about the struggle of any life with a foot in each of the two worlds that he inhabited. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Timely Budget Trumps Schools as Lawmakers Race to Deadline
As state lawmakers strive to put together a budget, complying with a court order to pump more money into New York City's public schools has been left out of the debate. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Pentagon Sets New Policy on Reporting Sex Assaults at Academies
Victims of sexual assault at the nation's military academies will soon be able to report to specified counselors without immediately setting off an official inquiry. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Senate Budget Shows Signs of G.O.P. Strain With Bush
The Senate added $5.4 billion in education spending for 2006 - just one more sign that President Bush could not get all he wanted on Capitol Hill. From New York Times: Education on March 19, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

American Web filtering on the rise: new Pew study
American parents are increasingly acting to filter and monitor their childrens' Web experience, according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life . The use of filtering products and services is growing, along with human supervision and house rules. From NITLE Tech News on March 19, 2005 at 7:57 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 19, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

On Demand, In the Soup, and On the Path to Glory
by Jay Cross Forbes magazine (March 14, 2005) throws cold water on IBM's On Demand computing strategy and grid computing in general, quoting a hardware-hawking competitor that "The utility computing model is bull. Hardly anybody is buying that way." Forbes reports that IBM CEO Sam Palmisano is now pushing "business process transformation," and continues... In addition to that, there is a market called "business process outsourcing." Instead of simply running computers, IBM hopes to operate entire parts of a company's business, such as personnel or accounting. Last year at a meeting w From The Workflow Institute Blog on March 19, 2005 at 6:52 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 19, 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 19, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..

Tags turning web chaos into categories
Matt Hicks reports on the growing use of folksonomies, highlighting some of the early leaders and adopters. To quote: In the halls and session rooms at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference here, a series of talks this week explored the... From Column Two on March 19, 2005 at 5:47 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 19, 2005 at 4:48 a.m..

On The Road To Ferrum College
I learned many fascinating things today, both on my way to Ferrum College and after my arrival there. I'm at Ferrum to deliver the keynote address for the 2005 Virginia Humanities Conference. My topic is "Tools For Thought: The Humanities In The Age Of Technology," and my shameless crib ... From Gardner Writes on March 19, 2005 at 4:00 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 19, 2005 at 3:48 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 19, 2005 at 2:48 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 19, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Workshop Reflections
So my three day, two night, five presentation blogvangelism worldwind was just way too much fun for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was getting to meet some of the people who are continually teaching me by their willingness to share their ideas online. David Warlick for intstance. And Susan Herzog. And Steven Cohen. And Michael Stephens. And meeting all sorts of other educators who are out there plugging a From weblogged News on March 19, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

Stop the madness!
John Maloney has written a blog entry that highlights the problems with centralised information management. To quote: The wide codification, reposit and syndication of enterprise information for all employees has been a complete failure. Central aggregation and access of vast... From Column Two on March 19, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

Interview with GNU/Hurd developer Marcus Brinkmann
Marcus Brinkmann is a developer in the GNU/Hurd and Hurd/L4 projects (which aim to create a microkernel-based alternative to the monolithic Linux kernel) and recently wrote the code that allowed the execution of programs for the first time on Hurd/L4. He now provided a new interview (Coral cache) answering questions on the Hurd architecture, driver support, security, micro-kernel performance and more. He also gives his opinion on the free software philosophy and the software patents, and he reveals how he learnt programming on a C64 while he was in the elementary school. In the end he is asked From kuro5hin.org on March 19, 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 19, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

Open-Access Journal Articles: Since Knowledge, like Air, Should be Free, A Wonderful Move in the Right Direction!
Summary: The replacement of cosseted information sources with those that are open-access means, I think, that all have fuller access to the universe of search-engine-accessible material. The increase in access doesn't appear to be in proportion to the size of my pocket book. With the information freely available its parsing, extension and interpretation should be speedier and more likely to benefit all. This movement is now in initial stages--starting in the life sciences because of conditions stipulated by public and private granting agencies; the move is aided as well as by the e From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

Consciousness Better Understood
Summary: Ian Glendinning has been reading up on consciousness, again. Reading Sue Blackmore's Consciousness: An Introduction . I am profiting from her explorations and reportage as well. Terrific book!! His notes are below. Mine will follow shortly--continuing, entering more fully the rive [of consciousness]r which was slightly disturbed with my earlier entryConnectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 19, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

AOP Case Studies
The UK-based Association of Online Publishers has created a collection of case studies, showcasing of excellence and innovation in digital publishing. To quote: The online case study bank reinforces our core objective of promoting the online publishing industry. We aim... From Column Two on March 19, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

Book review: What's the Big Idea?
What's the Big Idea?Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak The concept of this book is a fascinating one. Rather than just looking at a single "great idea", it explores the "marketplace of great ideas", investigating what makes a good idea, how... From Column Two on March 19, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

XML content management and single-sourcing
Rick Sapir has written an article on XML content management and single-sourcing. To quote: Creating an XML-based Content Management System to single-source technical publications is as simple as 1 - 2 - 3. Rather than focusing on any single tool... From Column Two on March 19, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

Wireframe UX
UXCentric has posted a blog entry on Dan Brown's poster on representing data in wireframes. To quote: Dan Brown helps us reach that goal with his outstanding poster, Representing Data in Wireframes (PDF). It's a huge (three by six feet)... From Column Two on March 19, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

Someone at Clusty is cursing Peterme
Talk about finding a great, recursive way to prove your point. From Seb's Open Research on March 19, 2005 at 12:46 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 18, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..

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