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CanCore Guidelines v 2.0: Electronic Bi-Lingual Version now Available
Norm Friesen writes: "CanCore released its 2.0 Guidelines in both French and English less than a year ago. These documents have since been available, free of charge, in PDF format from the CanCore Website. Now these guidelines are also available in three different dynamic formats." The versions are: a full-text searchable version, allowing users to locate particular terms and sections in the guidelines; a dynamic version, allowing users to view only certain parts of the CanCore guidelines; and a "help screen" version of the guidelines, provided specifically for use in software tools. By Norm From
OLDaily on March 25, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
DCMI and ODRL HYPHEN A Discussion Paper
How should the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) and Dublin Core work together? This is the topic of meetings between the two groups and of this discussion paper. It is worth noting that the mechanism used by Dublin Core to refer to a Creative Commons (CC) license - a pointer to the relevant CC document within the dcterms:license element - is the approach I favour for rights expression generally. Comments may be made to the
odrl-dcmi mailing list. By Andy Powell, UKOLN, University of Bath, March, 2005 [
OLDaily on March 25, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Trends in North American E-Learning
Rory McGreal sends along the link to this presentation on learner demographics and the rise of online learning. The talk is focused on the United States but points to some resources worldwide. What I like is the author's line of argumentation, showing as she does that open education, such as the OpenCourseware initiatives, is the best way to approach e-learning in the future. What I don't like is the use of Flash to mount a set of slides - you may eventually find the controls in the upper right corner, which helps, but it is an awkward, cumbersome and needless use of a user-hostile i From
OLDaily on March 25, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
The Archimedes Project: wetenschapsgeschiedenis
http://archimedes2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes_templates/biography.html?-table=archimedes_authors Een bibliotheek met gedigitaliseerde werken uit de geschiedenis van de mechanica. Een groot aantal werken, vanaf de oudheid tot en met de Renaissance: http://zope.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes/archimedes_templates. Sommige boeken zijn als afbeelding aanwezig, andere zijn getranscribeerd; voor de meeste boeken zijn afbeeldingen én transcriptie aanwezig. In de transcripties zijn de meeste woorden gehyperlinkt naar een woordenboek (voorbeeld). Er bestaat een gelemmatiseerde zoekmogelijkheid voo From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on March 25, 2005 at 8:59 p.m..
Podcasting nonsense
I think there is too much buzz about podcasting. Technically it is a neat idea to record a voice and distribute that with the RSS feed of a weblog - it is an idea borrowed by the push hype (remember Marimba?) in 1997. And likewise the experience back then I think podcasting will not take off at all. It may be useful for distributing updates and documents. Why? There are several reasons: First, when listening to a podcast you can't scan the stream for interesting items. You also can't quote pieces easily or comment on separate pieces. So you basically listen to the whole story whil From
owrede_log on March 25, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..
Steve Johnson on books and blogs
Steve Johnson has a brilliant post on why he doesn't blog his books as he writes them: The problem for an author is that books are not written the way they are read. They usually take years to write, from original proposal to final proofs; they are rarely composed in sequence; and by the time you submit a final manuscript, you've invariably read every page dozens of times, mostly out context. So for me at least, the trick of writing a book is somehow shedding all the layered, time-shifted contortions of writing, and somehow recreating what it would feel like... From
Joho the Blog on March 25, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..
Metaphilm
A face-to-face talk with young filmmaker (and former student) Andrew Stone brings cool stuff to light for me today: Metaphilm. I've only just glanced at it, but what I've seen looks like catnip already. Film lovers, beware. Time to take the phone off the hook (an expression that will be ... From
Gardner Writes on March 25, 2005 at 6:00 p.m..
Passing of "Circuits"
It's a sad day, indeed. The New York Times announced Thursday the passing of my favorite section, "
Circuits," (registration) its weekly take on all things geeky and gadgety. "Beginning next Thursday, as part of a reorganization of technology news coverage, the weekly Circuits pages will appear in Business Day," the Times wrote in a secton-front box entitled "About Circuits." The item goes on to say where and when a few specific columns will reappear and reports "Circuits will also appear several times a year as a speci From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 25, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Best Practices in K5 posting
I have a three part suggestion for improving the quality and quantity of K5 article submissions: Give constructive editorial advice in the edit queue, and nothing else and nowhere else. Hold your topical comments until an article is voted up. Debate article's worthiness in the voting phase, and nothing else and nowhere else. These suggestions are not meant to be exhaustive; they focus on the simplest things we can do to improve the site while doing the most common activity on the site: posting responses to stories. From
kuro5hin.org on March 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
The News Ain’t What It Used to Be
Today, Online Journalism Review published an excellent analysis by my friend and colleague Nora Paul, director of UMN's Institute for New Media Studies. In "'New News' retrospective: Is online news reaching its potential?" Paul revisits perspectives offered a decade ago by media professionals. She notes that for the most part, news organizations have not pursued online opportunites to the extent hoped. Personally, I suspect that one of the unacknowledged reasons behind the news industry's lack of vigor in pursuing these opportunities lies in how inadequately the news busine From
Contentious Weblog on March 25, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..
Paying for Better Teaching
Here's a radical idea--pay big dollars to get better teaching! This article from Inside Higher Ed (March 23, 2005) reports on grant activities at the Hughes Institute: "The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (with an endowment in excess of $12 billion) ... in 2002 it decided to turn 20 professors at research universities into 'million dollar professors,' giving
them each $1 million to push for real change in the way students are taught at top universities. In terms of grants for curricular From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on March 25, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Berkman's Signal to Noise conference, and Malaysian irc
From the Signal to Noise conference announcement: The conference offers an exciting mix of performances, demonstrations and discussions examining how digital technologies are enabling new forms of creativity by a broader group of people. Cultural, business, legal and ethical implications of new genres and new forms of authorship will all be covered along with an artist's interests and rights in downstream uses of original creations. Scheduled conference participants include New York Times bestselling author Matthew Pearl, copyright scholar Terry Fisher, fanfic author Naomi Novik, David Di From
Joho the Blog on March 25, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
Terri's tube, morals, lies, and justice
For weeks, Terri Schiavo has been featured prominently in local, regional and national news. As many of you know, Terri is a woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for approximately 15 years. After an early experimental procedure failed and it became clear (at least to her doctors and husband) that she had no chance of recovery, her husband decided it was time to disconnect the feeding tube. Her parents have tied up the US legal system for roughly a decade with at least thirty legal challenges to "save" their daughter, including three denied requests for the US Supreme Co From
kuro5hin.org on March 25, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
Building organizations
Of course it a huge effort to rebuild an organization and its processes. Since we have to accept that using an intranet always involves learning. So first you need an agreement on that. Then there is nothing like a self-explaining and intuitive software application like there is no tool or apparatus outside the digital realm that explains itself. We needed to learn almost everything from scratch we do/know except breathing, maybe. Leveraging existing experiences and knowledge is just another element in buliding a new organization. From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on March 25, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..
I hope to hear more from Karina
It is a shame to read about the change of direction at York University. I really enjoyed reading Karina's excellent blog posts, she disseminated intelligent thoughts and insight. I hope we will still hear from Karina as she made a... From
ERADC Blog on March 25, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..
Blogvangelizing the Governor
Next month, two of my former blogging students and I will have the privelege traveling down to our
fair capital city to blogvangelize to the governor and other assorted state and federal legislators. It's all in the name of trying to stave off some serious cuts to the ed tech budget in the state of New Jersey. We'll be one of only eight teacher/student groups from around the state showing off what we're doing technology wise. Pretty cool. But here's the side story...we almost didn't make the cut becuase I didn&a From
weblogged News on March 25, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Adobe Adopted RSS Feeds
Adobe realizing RSS is an important communication channel of the future has implemented RSS feeds for all of their products - Receive automatic updates about top issues and new support documents for your
Adobe products--straight from the Adobe Support Knowledgebase. From
RSS Blog on March 25, 2005 at 11:59 a.m..
Teacher, Student...and Parent Weblog
So remember the teacher from a few weeks ago who started having
grand designs about
using a Weblog to get students and parents talking about the process of the course not just the content? (If you don't, you might want to read those links before proceeding.) Well, he's
made it happen. As Mr. McHale puts it, "it started slow, but it's beginning to grow." I have to say I don't think I've seen an From
weblogged News on March 25, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..
Ourmedia
Ok, so now there's no excuse. We been able to create blog and wikispace for free. But now you can have your audiocasts or videos or other media hosted for free. Forever.
Ourmedia.org is the brainchild of a group of visionary bloggers who are obviously putting their time and efforts where their mouths are. It's great stuff. Time to make the content. From
weblogged News on March 25, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..
Fighting wiki spam
I lost the wiki on this site due to hackers. I didn't have a recent backup so I am trying to recover as much as possible from Google cache. The wiki wasn't a wiki anymore anyway: i needed to close it for public editing due to spam bots. The best solution I have seen for fighting this kind of automated spam is a small Turing test. Ingo Hinterding has good experiences with it and it seems to protect is comments quite well. It may also be easier to implement that captchas. Here is
a german article about the issue quiti From
owrede_log on March 25, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..
Blogging strategy reconsidered
I really like this
weblog of Clark MacLeod from Taiwan (he is very much into sound and interaction design). In addition to common blog post keywords. He categorizes his posts in three domains: work, life and play. I think this is a good way to separate social roles and personal motivation in blog posts. I just need to come to a conclusion about this. It would be very easy to add with Tinderbox. From
owrede_log on March 25, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..
Researchers Recover T. Rex Tissue
A broken Tyrannosaurus thighbone gives scientists a rare glimpse into the prehistoric lizard's cellular makeup. Can isolating dinosaur DNA Ã la Jurassic Park be far behind? From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Painting by Numbers
It's high art meets high finance. It's social security for starving artists. A tech whiz kid launches the first museum-quality pension fund. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Hybrid Locomotive Gains Traction
The diesel-electric Green Goat is catching on with railroad operators looking to reduce fuel costs and pollution. The engine is designed for short distances, but its creator is working on a long-haul prototype. By Stephen Leahy. From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Take Your Porn on the Road
Is PSPcasting the killer app for mobile porn? The creator of a program that converts several digital video formats for viewing on the PlayStation Portable is too modest to say. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Hybrids, Movies and Tanks, Oh My
Ever trying to whet drivers' appetite for new cars with the latest gizmos, automakers display their latest wares -- from gas-sipping hybrids to silvery behemoths sporting interior movie theaters -- at the International Automobile Show. Rachel Metz reports from New York. From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Brouhaha Over Kazaa Means Nada
As the case against Sharman Networks, maker of the Kazaa peer-to-peer software, wraps up, P2P technology continues to flourish. What effect will the ruling in this case really have on the music industry? Commentary by Patrick Gray. From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
A CAPPS by Any Other Name
Much is riding on a report about the Secure Flight passenger-screening system that the Government Accountability Office is expected to release next week. Critics hope it will identify significant faults with the system. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
It's Not Graffiti, It's Grafedia
Next time you see blue underlined text painted in a public place, think twice. Chances are it's part of an interactive project that links public scrawlings to images retrievable by e-mail or cell phone. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on March 25, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
IM status: More worms on the way - Matt Hines, CNET News
When Jimmy Kuo gave his 13-year-old daughter permission to begin using America Online's AIM Express, he warned her that if she managed to download any viruses, the result would be no IM for a long, long time. Of course, since Kuo is a research fellow at I From
Techno-News Blog on March 25, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..
Removing simplicity in blogging?
Mark Bernstein writes that Tinderbox is perfectly well suited for
structured blogging. It's basically a concept to add metadata to blog posts. Tinderbox originally was designed with personal content management and hypertext authoring in mind - not blogging. It could be a push for Eastgate if structured blogging is recieving wider attention. Dave Winer also points to
data blogging which he says takes the idea f From
owrede_log on March 25, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..
Book review: The Heart of Change
The Heart of ChangeJohn P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Before starting to review this title, I'm going to go back to the earlier title that outlined the fundamental change process advocated by John Kotter: Leading Change. My review of... From
Column Two on March 25, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..
The Upside of Being Hacked... Well, There is None
Last weekend I discovered the web server that hosts our Ocotillo Blogs+Wikis+boards had been compromised and some nefarious person had been able to change the root password for the server. As I was 90 miles from the machine, I had no way to seize back my root account, no way to shut it down remotely. The only recourse was to contact our security office, admit that I had missed some critical updates, and have them take the server port off the net. So it has been shut down for 5+ days. I am not much of a server admin, and being short staffed (my office is a tech staff of 1.. me, and I From
cogdogblog on March 25, 2005 at 4:48 a.m..
Digest
From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, this small theory of our proper relation to texts: Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Then speak, then act... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on March 25, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..
Amazing Amazon Amaztpye
This is just plain cool, perhaps not essentially useful but plainly cool.
Amaztype Amaztype is using Amazon web services. Created by Keita Kitamura & Yugo Nakamura for Tha Ltd. Well that does not exactly explain it. You type in a keyword search for Amazon (US, Japan, UK, Canada) for books or music by either title or author. So what's the big deal? Well the results pop up as the graphics icons of the book/album cover. So what? Well as the icons appear, the are laid out to form the letters of your search. For exa From
cogdogblog on March 25, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..
initial impression of Yahoo 360 (danah boyd)
Today, Yahoo invited a handful of “influencers” to have early access to their new product 360 degrees. Apparently, i’m one of them so i got to sit around a table at Yahoo, learn about the product and speak my mind.... From
Corante: Social Software on March 25, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..