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Remembering the BBS Scene
Ah, those were the days. As now, it was a healthy mix of academics, techies, conspiracy theorists and trolls. Jason Scott has a great website chock full of old BBS textfiles, with no advertising. What does his collection include? Well, it's a lot like K5 if you ask me, but maybe a little more naive. There are some ugly things down in these archives; there are narcissistic ravings from pre-adolescent social misfits. There are calls for anarchy. There's satanism, there's racism, there's all the -isms in the book lurking in the words. But there's hope, too. There&apos From
kuro5hin.org on April 2, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Greasemonkey: Intermediated Web Browsing...
Cross Posted at eSchoolNews... Greasemonkey is an extension for the Firefox web browser that lets you add scripts to any webpage to change it's behavior when displayed in your browser. As stated on the Greasemonkey page, you can think of it as being similar to using CSS to control a pages style. User scripts let you control any aspect of a webpage's design or interaction. For example you could write a script that would insert a link to your local library from any page on Amazon.com. Say you are searching for a book title on Amazon. The search pulls up... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on April 2, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..
A good list of edublogs
When I first started looking at weblogs and considering their use in education a year ago, I wrote a brief post with my thoughts. At the time, I couldn't find many classes that were using weblogs. Made a change. The... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 2, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Edublogs.org
After having a chat with Steve Brooks of edugadget the other day I thought it might be rather a good idea to set up a hub for edublogs. So. me being me and not one to hang around too long... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 2, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Learning Anxiety and the Online Student
Rehearsal and repetition may be bad for learning. They are even worse for learners at a distance for whom external influences such as work stress, frequent travel, deployment to war zones, and personal or family issues are creating learning anxiety.... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 2, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
The long haul
Will Richardson
follows up on Chris Lott's post about the
long period of time it takes to build a meaningful blogging practice and become part of a strong online community. Chris proposes a set of tools that acknowledge that reality and plan for a longer period of engagement: I have in mind something... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on April 2, 2005 at 3:52 p.m..
A New York Times democracy
Somewhere about a third of the way into the Lawrence Lessig talk that
Will Richardson has been discussing, Lessig has a handy phrase about the sort of democracy we want. I can't quote it, but it is something like this -- do we want a New York Times democracy or a blog democracy? We are meant to prefer the second, more participatory model, of course. The talk is about understanding what sort of ownership... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on April 2, 2005 at 2:52 p.m..
Global Voices: Live from Kyrgyzstan
Global Voices has published a remarkable first-person account of the overthrow of the Kyrgysztan government. It's by Elina Karakulova, a 21-year old Kyrgyz student who gives an excellent picture — personal and ambivalent — of what's going on and how it feels. [Technorati tags: kyrgyzstan globalvoices]... From
Joho the Blog on April 2, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
Smile... on a day of rest
Cynthia has been sharing some interesting perceptions about the importance of artistic expression in her life. In A Day of Rest she provides a quote from "The Smile" by S.S. Curry published in 1915. The quote describes the importance of... From
Experience Designer Network on April 2, 2005 at 1:59 p.m..
From the Boston Globe...
The Massachusetts Legislature passed a research-friendly stem cell bill over the objections of Governor and Spokesmodel Mitt Romney recently, so the Boston Globe today turns its op-ed page over to the controversy. Michael Sandel, a Harvard political philosopher, carefully analyzes the ethical objections to the different types of stem cells, and exposes the inconsistency in Romney's position: ...if he believes that embryos are human beings with inalienable rights, he should oppose all embryonic stem cell research, not only research on cloned embryos. If extracting stem cells from a blastoc From
Joho the Blog on April 2, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
Blog Banning Threads
I've been finding some of the other discussions on the Web about the blog banning in VT to be pretty interesting. Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing actually
pointed to the story and from there a host of
other bloggers chimed in. I like Cory's reaction: In 1988, I was the writer-in-electronic-residence for a class of grade 2/3 students in Toronto, reading From
weblogged News on April 2, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
Building Communities of Learners
So one of the frustrations I've felt with my own practice with student Weblogs and the like is the veritable dearth of students who continue to blog after the class is over. I've always felt that for these tools to really become as powerful as they can be, they need to be integrated over the long haul, not simply used in nine or 18 week chunks for one specific class or another. Don't get me wrong, that's a start. And if all the hulabaloo over the blog banning story has shown one thing, it's that we need any and every opportunity to model a thoughtful use of blogs in th From
weblogged News on April 2, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
Nieuwe teksten bij de DBNL
http://www.dbnl.org/nieuws/opl042005.htm De DBNL meldt de beschikbaarheid van nieuwe primaire teksten: Jac. van Hattum, Van Odrimond, Millimas en anderen van Heijningen Bosch, Jan en zijn zusje, of eerste leeslesjes n, Klein Duimpje t van Hogendorp, De spelen van Gijsbrecht van Hogendorp http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa001jaar00_01/">Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 1786-1788 Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 1893-1899 an Lodenstein, Bloemlezing uit de bundel Uyt-spanningen Meyer, Verloofde koninksbruidt Nijhoff, Kritisch en verhalend proza (Ver From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on April 2, 2005 at 10:58 a.m..
Cousteau Sub Mimics Great White
Fabien Cousteau, grandson of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, helps develop a submarine that looks and moves like a great white shark, then uses it to collect documentary footage of the perfectly adapted predators. By Alison Strahan. From
Wired News on April 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Chess Night
[This week's radio essay.] Perhaps you've been there yourself, on a Thursday in the coffee shop of the local bookstore. Around 7:00 p.m. the players start filtering in, looking for empty tables, unrolling their chess boards, and setting up the handsome weighted pieces and the chess clocks. The regular players greet each other, the newcomers are introduced, and pick-up games begin. Usually Roger invites everyone to an informal tournament, and by about 7:30 the pairings are announced... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on April 2, 2005 at 1:52 a.m..
techno-ethics (what is "evil"?) (danah boyd)
We can all come up with ways to justify even our worst behavior. This is why i’m always a bit wary of “don’t be evil”-esque mantras. Evil on what terms? When i heard about Wordpress’ questionable practices, i couldn’t help... From
Corante: Social Software on April 2, 2005 at 1:49 a.m..
Shill Reviews Could Pose Problems
Shankar Gupta
writes for Media Post today about his experience with a moving company. It sure had a lot of positive consumer reviews on the websites he checked. But were they real? Or were they posted by shills?While I don't feel there's anything wrong with a business asking a satisfied customer to post a positive review, as that moving company routinely did -- heck, that's what the entire feedback system on
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 2, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..