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Faculty bloggers increasing in number
The Village Voice is carrying a good article about the small, yet growing community of professors who blog. The story includes links to faculty blogs in the disciplines of physics, law and policy, media studies, sociology and communication, musicology, and... From MANE IT Network on April 13, 2005 at 10:58 p.m..

Digitizing a unicorn
Capturing the Unicorn describes an unusually complex digitization project. The richness of The Hunt of the Unicorn medieval tapestries led to supercomputing and higher math. (thanks to Mike Lynch!)... From MANE IT Network on April 13, 2005 at 10:58 p.m..

Where Do You Find Good Content?
This week I'm too swamped to focus on writing for CONTENTIOUS, so I thought I'd highlight an article I wrote last year: "Finding Content Pearls Within Your Organization." It explains why creating online content for your organization needn't be torture. If you approach this task with the right mindset, it can be more like harvesting pearls. I'm drawing your attention to this piece because so many organizations are blogging these days – much more so than when I wrote that article last August... From Contentious Weblog on April 13, 2005 at 10:55 p.m..

Culmination of Business and Culture
In the world today, the changes that are being resolved through the usage of technology and the requirement of communication have rapidly changed the culture as know it. With the recent efforts of India and China to work together in the IT sector and Himalayan border disputes, the two largest populations are heading towards a revolutionary endeavour. Protests by Tibetan exiles remind me of darker years in the past, yet their lack of involvement in the culmination of the future international conglomerate of business which will transcend all nations, makes them an easy oversight. India made From kuro5hin.org on April 13, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

TEL Learning Enhanced by Technology Conference
From Tyson Brown: Interested in learning how to best use WebCT, Dreamweaver, the Luminis portal (PAWS), and multimedia to enrich and support online learning? Then check out the free Learning Enhanced by Technology conference being held May 12 and 13th... From Rick's Café Canadien on April 13, 2005 at 9:53 p.m..

Zur technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands 2005
Deutsche Unternehmen zählen zu den innovativsten in Europa, aber die Luft wird dünner: Schwellenländer investieren immer mehr in FuE, Deutschlands Erfolge hängen zu sehr am Automobilbereich, und dann droht noch der Fachkräftemangel. Das ist der Tenor dieses Berichts der Bundesregierung.... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 13, 2005 at 9:51 p.m..

Computer Associates: dealing with critical protection
De-provisioning software is an undervalued Identity & Access Management (I&AM) technology. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 8:55 p.m..

MusicNet to power HMV digital download service
Scheduled to launch in the second half of 2005, UK record shop chain HMV’s digital service will be enabled by MusicNet, which is providing the back-end technology, software, support and content. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 8:55 p.m..

Ministry of Sound Radio offered via Real's Radiopass
The UK dance label has supplied its Ministry of Sound Radio station to Real's Radiopass service. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 8:55 p.m..

Parent Link
ParentLink is the fastest, easiest, and most effective way to involve parents in their child's education. ParentLink offers detailed messages, customizable print-to-mail letters, comprehensive reports, and more. ParentLink: the school-to-home communication system that increases parental involvement.... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 13, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

National PTA
National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A not-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its obligations... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 13, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

Resources for After-School Programming
At a time when more children are spending the time between 2 and 6 p.m. unsupervised, the need for quality after-school programming is great. A quality before-school, after-school, or summer program can provide a safe place for kids and additional... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 13, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

Mainstream Media Meltdown
Here is a partial answer to the question I had yesterday about the use of TV since the internet. The Long Tail: Mainstream Media Meltdown... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 13, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

Yahoo! Goes Local: Will Newspapers Respond?
Today's big online news is Yahoo!'s new program to offer free business listings (with optional paid upgrades) to any and all companies, which are then integrated into Yahoo! Local. (SearchEngineWatch's Chris Sherman analyzes the announcement.)That's a smart move for Yahoo!, obviously, as it reaches further into doing business in local markets. And, of course, it represents yet another threat to local medi From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 13, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

Star Treatment for Lawrence
The Lawrence Journal-World and its convergence partners got the star treatment on a piece on National Public Radio this morning. The report by David Folkenflik features extensive interviews with Lawrence new-media/convergence leader Rob Curley explaining how a small newspaper (20,000 circulation) in Kansas has become a role model for media convergence.Folkenflik will have a second part of this story on NPR Morning Edition on Thursday, dealing with the larger From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 13, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

"Mainstream Media Meltdown"
(via BoingBoing) Chris Anderson at The Long Tail offers up these stats about the continuing shifts in our media consumption: Flat to Down to Way Down: Music: sales last year were down 21% from their peak in 1999 Television: weblogged News on April 13, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

Meetup.com's Success Leads to a Decision to Charge
Most local news organizations have been focusing their Internet efforts on hard news and ignoring local social functions such as local clubs and groups. While they've been dozing, a website called Meetup.com has put together a service that enables thousands of groups, many informal, to arrange offline local monthly meetings.Meetup.com provides each local group with a location-indexed webpage, member roster, photo gallery, calendar, online forum, and an array of offline tools such as printable signs and posters. The service is easy to use and ha From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 13, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..

Notes on my PhD methodology: introduction
The way I do my PhD research in unconventional and complicated. Not because I designed it that way. It just came to be. I had done some conscious choices, but most what I have today is a result of taking chances of opportunities and being passionate about my work (and my passions take me into things I would avoid if I would be good enough to make conscious research choices). I wonder if writing this now will complicate my life in the future. I know that often working on scientific publication is constructing a view on research where actions, findings and arguments are logically connecte From Mathemagenic on April 13, 2005 at 5:52 p.m..

Notes on my PhD methodology: reflexive ethnography
In the core of my PhD research approach is active participation, which brings me somewhere between ethnography and action research. I'm still working on positioning what I do between existing approaches, but some elements and connections are getting clear. I study my own people. This is something that would fall into auto-ethnography category.The shared similarities among auto-ethnographies are that, in each case, the researchers posses the qualities o From Mathemagenic on April 13, 2005 at 5:52 p.m..

RIAA Goes After i2hub, Sues College Students
Do check out Ed Felten's analysis of the news.  Here's another angle on why going after i2hub users may be important from the RIAA's perspective.  As Felten points out, we don't know how the RIAA got access to i2hub, but let's assume that, in general, it's more difficult for them to access this P2P system.  If that's the case, perhaps they've had more trouble employing A Copyfighter's Musings on April 13, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Report criticises privacy watchdog for its restraint
A report and survey performed on behalf of the Dutch data protection authority has recommended that the authority, the CBP, should be less concerned with its own image, and focus more on improving the quality of social privacy. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

Crown Castle to open up more slots on Freeview
Crown Castle is likely to release two channel slot son the UK's Freeview free-to-air digital television service in the summer and another in the next few weeks. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..

Teaching as Performance in the Electronic Classroom.
New developments in online educational technology have a profound effect on notions of intellectual property. Theories of the social construction of technology explain the extremely unstable nature of new technologies. Walter Ong's theory of the alphabet effect provides insight into... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 13, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

PTOtoday.com
If you're a school group leader - no matter the acronym - then this is your site for parent involvement insight, resources and community. Welcome. PTO Today | Home of America's 80,000 K-8 School Parent Teacher Groups... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 13, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

From ASNE: A Call to Action for Newspapers
The future of newspapers was one of the topics Tuesday at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Washington, D.C. Panelists included Merrill Brown, former editor of MSNBC.com, Dan Gillmor, former tech columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and author of "We the Media," and professor Philip Meyer of the University of North Carolina, author of "The Vanishing Newspaper."Meyer said there won't be a future for newspapers if companies don't invest in new products. "What we (new From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 13, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

MasterMind Explorer - Issue 93 - Your Online Radio, Digital Content Distribution
MasterMind Explorer - Issue 93 - Your Online Radio, Digital Content Distribution From MasterMind Explorer on April 13, 2005 at 4:52 p.m..

Thick participation
I was pretty excited when I read this a few days ago (via pointer from one of Andrea Handl pages, but lost where exactly): The central method, or bundle of methods, of this project is 'thick participation' (Spittler 2001), the radicalized form of 'participant observation' as brought to anthropology by Rivers (????) and Malinowski (Mathemagenic on April 13, 2005 at 4:51 p.m..

I'm jarvising on MSNBC this afternoon
I'm doing the 90-second "What's new in blogs" segment on MSNBC this afternoon. Now if I can only lose 50 pounds, get the moles sanded off, and have the hair transpants take, all before sometime around 5:15pm EDT. Unfortunately, that won't leave me time to come up with something to say. Ah, vanity, thy name is David.... From Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Collaboration and Content Creation
Yesterday I spent the day at a Microsoft "briefing" about what they are calling their "Learning Gateway Framework." (You'd think their marketers could come up with a better name than that...) It's a suite of tools built around their Class Server and SharePoint products that are pretty amazing. It's SIF compliant which means it could plug right into our Student Information System and deliver some pretty int From weblogged News on April 13, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

De correspondentie van Willem van Oranje
http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/WVO/ Lang verwacht, de digitale uitgave van de brieven van Willem van Oranje bij het ING. Ik stel me voor dat de historici hier zeer mee zijn ingenomen. De brieven zijn beschikbaar als afbeelding, in PDF-formaat. Er is geen poging gedaan om de brieven te transcriberen. De brieven zijn ontsloten via een database, waarmee gezocht kan worden op correspondent, datum, verzendplaats, toelichting, samenvatting van de inhoud, incipit, briefnummer, bron en verschijningsvorm. Bij de zoekcriteria is hulp beschikbaar en ook, heel belangrijk, een lijst met zoekte From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on April 13, 2005 at 3:59 p.m..

Cegetel to roll out triple-play
The service, combining TV, telephony and ADSL2+ broadband internet provision, will initially cover 40 per cent of the population by the end of the year. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

Esat BT becomes BT Ireland
Irish telco Esat BT has announced that it is to rebrand itself as 'BT Ireland'. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

Google launches local services for mobiles
Google Local enables XHTML-enabled mobile users to find business listings and driving directions, view an area using Google Maps with zooming functionality, and offers click-to-call capability. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 13, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

Content spam?
Miles Wolbe of TinyApps.org has stumbled across a site, StarGeek, that re-posts contents from blogs, larded up with with irrelevant ads. For example, here's a page that "repurposes" one of my posts. The site says: projectGrok is a beta portal CMS written in PHP and driven by RSS content. Using MYSQL tables to store headlines and text from a bank of RSS url's from your target niche, projectGrok automatically clusters entries of relavant and timely content. Or possibly it uses other people's content to try to get ads in articles returned by searches at Google. Hard to tell, but th From Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

The Dog Ate My Comments
Yesterday I was trying to clean out a swath of comment spam on a blog we set up for one of our college's sites, wiping directly from the database, e.g.: DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_author like "%poker%" DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_text like "%cialis%" DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_email like "%mail.ru%" It's kind of fun watching them go wooshing down the drain in batches like that. Apparently one of my commands was a little too aggressive (wher From cogdogblog on April 13, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

Blogher's do-ocracy
Gotta love the Blogher conference's idea of a "do-ocracy": Want to get a topic on the agenda of this one day event? Do it! And the political philosophy behind this: "How do you subvert the dominant hierarchy? You give up control." So writes Surfette (Lisa Stone). Sounds like a great event. I look forward to following along via blogs and IRC... [Technorati tags: blogher do-ocracy surfette]... From Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Republican podcasts
The Republican National Committee is pushing a podcast of Bob Dole talking about his new memoir, One Soldier's Story, part of a series on "new books by accomplished conservative authors." When I was a kid and there were still liberal Republicans such as Nelson Rockefeller, the joke about conservatives such as Barry Goldwater was that their idea of progress was putting an AM radio into their buggies. Haha. People were making the same joke about Ronald Reagan. But you sure can't make that joke now.... From Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

Cool sights from above
Nicj has started aggregating cool snippets from Google Maps satellite photos. For example, here's Disneyland, Bill Gates' house, the Grand Canyon, and Mount St. Helens. The site credits the Google Sightseeing site for the idea...where, for example, you'll find a bunch of people who have spotted images with planes flying through them. [Technorati tags: maps google]... From Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

NZ Army lies about faulty bridge, leading to prosecution of innocent citizen
A while ago, a New Zealander land owner was prosecuted for failing to maintain an Army-built bridge on his property, which collapsed causing the death of a person using it. It turns out though that the Army knew the reason for the failure was their own faulty design and construction - and had written as much in the 'Butcher Report'. From kuro5hin.org on April 13, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

iPods, Cell Phones, Convergence
There's a really interesting blog by Wade Roush on the Technology Review site today. The entry concerns a Wall Street Journal article speculating that cell phones will eventually take over the portable music market. I haven't read the WSJ piece yet, but the argument seems to be that cell phones are the killer apps that [...] From Gardner Writes on April 13, 2005 at 1:01 p.m..

Microsoft Security Bulletins via RSS
Microsoft is discontinuing its Security Updates alert e-mail from July 2005 and implementing a RSS feed replacement. Users should subscribe to this RSS feed for all security update information released by Microsoft From RSS Blog on April 13, 2005 at 12:59 p.m..

PhD invasion
Recently I try to schedule a day or two each week to work at home - on my PhD research. This is the only way to get something done: at home I feel less pressure to work on all other things (btw, it's funny how changing location changes my mind :) As a result there are signs of "PhD invasion" everywhere in the house. Papers and books are everywehere: on the dining table where I sit with my laptop, on the desk in the study next to the desktop's big screen, on the table in the living room where I read and even "there is life next to work" bedroom books have to tole From Mathemagenic on April 13, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..

New Alternative Approaches To Online Grassroots Movie Production, Delivery And Distribution
If you are a press journalist covering the Internet, or a passionate independent film-maker hoping to make your next video get some festival awards to finally get you noticed by the "big" guys, I have something that will interest both of you: Photo credit: Pam Roth Next week, on Friday April the 22nd, I will be delivering a live press conference from the prestigious San Francisco City Club. The title of the press conference is: "TheWeblogProject New alternative approaches to online grassroots movie production, delivery and distribution" In my live presentation from the rich From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on April 13, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..

Phishing twist relies on bogus blogs - Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News
A new form of phishing is taking shape and riding on the growing popularity of blogs, according to a report by security company Websense. Malicious virus writers are attempting to lure people to malicious blogs using enticing e-mails and instant messages. From Techno-News Blog on April 13, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Apple to Ship Mac OS X Tiger Software on April 29 - Reuters
Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday that the latest major update of its Mac OS X operating system, code-named Tiger, will be available on April 29. The Cupertino, California-based maker of Macintosh computers and iPod digital music players has long said From Techno-News Blog on April 13, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Microsoft Warns of 5 New Software Security Flaws - Reuters
Microsoft Corp. warned on Tuesday of five new "critical"-rated security flaws in its Windows, Internet Explorer, Word and Messenger software programs that could allow attackers to take control of a personal computer. The world's largest software maker iss From Techno-News Blog on April 13, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

More word on our Staff Directories report
More nice comments on our Staff Directories report are rolling in: "Step Two has published an excellent, insightful and practical report on Staff Directories. This report tells you everything you need to know as you design or redesign the staff... From Column Two on April 13, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Griffin: Shuttle Can Fix Hubble
President Bush's nominee to lead NASA says he'll consider sending a space shuttle to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Lawmakers want to get him on the job as soon as possible. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on April 13, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Music Biz Sues High-Speed Traders
The blazing-fast Internet2 research network has been hijacked for illegal file sharing, according to the entertainment industry. The RIAA and MPAA launch another round of lawsuits against hundreds of students. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on April 13, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Stem Cells Give Horses a Hoof Up
Veterinarians successfully treat injured equines with stem cells derived from the animals' own fat. Their discoveries help advance human treatments at the same time. Kristen Philipkoski reports from San Diego. From Wired News on April 13, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Daily Kos Swings for the Fences
The brains behind the popular and influential political blog Daily Kos follows his other passion -- sports -- and quietly builds his own blog empire. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on April 13, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Surprises Lurk in Satellite Snaps
Google Maps and similar services let users sift through reams of sophisticated satellite imagery. From Burning Man to bombs in Iraq, the results can be captivating. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on April 13, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Presencia remota en el aula
Venezolanos crean un prototipo de robot para el apoyo estudiantil. Es una alternativa al ausentismo académico.... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on April 13, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

Earn College Credit for What You Know
By Thomas Nixon - DANTES / DSSTs exams are widely recognized at colleges and universities around the world and can be taken for free, or at a very reasonable cost.... From Adult/Continuing Education on April 13, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

Del iceberg al géiser: Perseus pronostica 53 millones de blogs para fin del 2005
Ya se conocen los datos de la nueva encuesta sobre weblogs realizada por Perseus: hay 31 millones de weblogs y superarán los 53 millones a finales del 2005. El vertiginoso crecimiento de la blogosfera queda bien reflejado en los títulos... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 13, 2005 at 8:51 a.m..

E-learning y universidades corporativas
En el mundo de la formación en grandes empresas, empezó a sonar, en los 90, un nuevo buzzword: la "universidad corporativa". Recuerdo que por entonces, ya quizá en declive el de la dirección por objet... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on April 13, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

Case Dismissed for Principal in Bronx Clash
A popular Bronx principal who was handcuffed in front of his students two months ago will be back at school today, after charges that he pushed a police officer were dismissed. From New York Times: Education on April 13, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Parents Protest Incident Involving Haitian Pupils
A group of Haitian parents and their supporters protested outside a public school in Queens yesterday, asserting that an assistant principal punished more than a dozen Haitian children by calling them animals and making them sit on the floor to eat their lunch without utensils. From New York Times: Education on April 13, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

DNA Tells Students They Aren't Who They Thought
Students in a Sociology class take DNA tests to determine their genetic ancestry. From New York Times: Education on April 13, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Principal Fired for Failing to Report Sex Assault Case
The high school principal in Columbus, Ohio, not only failed to report the incident but also urged the girl's father to avoid calling the police. From New York Times: Education on April 13, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Experiment Begun in New York Is Transformed in Miami Schools
When former New York schools chancellor Rudy Crew took over the Miami-Dade County district last July, he instituted reforms similar to the ones he tried in New York City. From New York Times: Education on April 13, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Study Finds Shortcoming in New Law on Education
The academic growth that students experience in a given school year has apparently slowed since the passage of No Child Left Behind. From New York Times: Education on April 13, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Empathy and Compassion in the Classroom
I mentioned earlier that compassion is a necessary condition in the teacher/student relationship for a movement toward learner autonomy to be possible, not to mention a healthy communicative learning environment.  I then stated that 'creative visualization' practices could be helpful in bringing about compassion, something that Matt just apcampbell News on April 13, 2005 at 2:52 a.m..

Smartest Guys in the Room
I got a preview DVD of a documentary about Enron that's about to be released. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room will remind you just how shameless the Enron guys were. Rather than dwelling on the thousands of people who lost their retirement money, it focuses primarily on the the conscious, willing, and intentional fraud Enron's executives executed. The movie takes us step by step through the games the execs played, as if they couldn't believe that anything guys as smart as them did could possibly be wrong. These were first class bastards. The format of the movie is... From Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..

The sites China censors
The OpenNet Initiative (U of Toronto, Berkman Center and U of Cambridge) is releasing a report on Thursday about the sites China prevents its citizens from seeing. From the press advisory about the press conference: "Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005" documents the degree to which the Chinese government controls and manipulates the information environment in which its citizens including websites, blogs, email, and online discussion forums. Since ONI last released on filtering in China in 2002, the Chinese government has developed far more sophisticated filtering techniques. Using a dist From Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..

Tapping the power of analogy
This article, which appears in the latest Harvard Business Review, is a comprehensive read on understanding and using analogies to make sense of a new or unpredictable environment -- be it for strategy or for learning purposes. It explains why the case based method of business instruction is so effective -- because it provides managers with a repository of analogies to draw from when are in faced with uncertainties in the real world. Much of th From elearningpost on April 13, 2005 at 1:46 a.m..

Blogging and my PhD research
During a really nice conversation on my PhD with Janine I thought of a picture explaining how blogging is related to all other things. Not sure if it's self-explanatory, but it was fun to draw :) Studies are about research I do. Some of them are on weblogs a From Mathemagenic on April 13, 2005 at 12:51 a.m..

Blackboard Discovers Blogs (but not where you think)
Hey! Have you heard about this new cool thing called "blogging"? Well, shucks, it looks like the folks down at Blackboard central have stumbled on to it! Innovation! Yup, with all the expertise and license bucks piled up down there, they have set up "The Blackboard Weblog" at ... Blogger.com? http://www.blackboardblog.blogspot.com/ And all those Bbig Bbad Bbroad misspellings down in Bbaltimore are intentional. Bbbbbbbbbloggin' Have fun with this one, From cogdogblog on April 13, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows users to add DHTML capability to given web pages (I'm told there is also an Internet Explorer version). Inspired by Google's AutoLink feature the script basically gives users the capacity to change the content of web pages on the fly. User scripts do things like remove advertisements, change the page layout, From OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Oh, the Things They'll Know
Jenny Levine points us to Runescape, a Java based virtual world. Accounts are free (there is some advertising and an upgrade to a subscription version) and the system is apparently used by thousands of people. I spent some time learning how to make fire and catch shrimp - essential survival skills in this world. Watch how the game leads you along, never pressuring, but always there to guide you. Nice. By Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, April 12, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

A Roadmap for the Personal Learning Landscape
Elgg is, as the website says, "a fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog and social networking system, connecting learners and creating communities of learning." Recently released as an open source application, Elgg forms the basis for this article charting the future of personal learning. Readers will recognize the resemblance to Scott Wilson's version of the same concept. "This type of personal learning landscape really d From OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Piercing the PeerHYPHENtoHYPHENpeer Myths: An Examination of the Canadian Experience
This argument won't be new to readers of OLDaily but it's nice to see it placed squarely in a Canadian context and spelled out so clearly. According to the author, "music downloading is not responsible for the ills of the music industry and Canadian artists have not been harmed by the sales declines that have occurred over the past five years." By Michael Geist, First Monday, April 5, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Canadian Association of Research Libraries
We move ever closer to a harvesting-based open access model of research and learning materials. In my email today: "The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has developed a metadata harvester to facilitate searching of the CARL institutional repositories. This is in addition to participating in international metadata harvesting initiatives such as OAIster, naturally." I took a look at the site - nice simple interface and a fast search. The harvester currently has 4509 records from 9 archives indexed, and is updated daily. By Various Authors, April, 2005 [OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

The AUgmented Social Network & Smallness
James Farmer reads an old article on First Monday and from it finds this: "the software and systems we choose for our communications carry with them, in subtle ways, the values we care to achieve as a society." I think this is true, which is why I attach so much importance to the choice between, say, a federated search network and a harvester based serach network. And I also agree with this, that people should have "a persistent identity as they move between different Internet communities, and to have personal control over that identity." I think this is coming, but it's hard. It's t From OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Small World Networks
Some of the recent work on small worlds networks can get complex - read Duncan Watts, Mark Buchanan, and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, among others. This site offers a simplified primer "for non-scientists". It's pretty simple, perhaps too simple. And it doesn't explain why these networks are interesting. Via George Siemens. By Judy Breck, April, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Bblog: The Blackboard Weblog
Launched yesterday from the look of it, the long awaited (and oft-requested) Blackboard blog is supporting the 2005 Blackboard Users Conference, April 12-14. Let's hope the blog continues after the conference. It's a whole 'nother world over there - meet the Blackboard Celebs, read about Project Caliper (more here), learn how Blackboard OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Enabling Self-Directed Learning
Discussion paper for the IFETS mailing list. Mostly a discussion of the the REBEL system (Reflective, Evidence-Based Evaluation and Learning) as used at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) in a competency-based learning management system. "REBEL is a comprehensive learning environment focused on competency-based, reflective learning while encouraging independent learning skills. It features tools related to competency assignment and tracking, learning activity support, threaded discussion, evaluation, journaling, and portfolio building." According to the article, a competency is "a combination of s From OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Is the Phoenix the Future
Corrected link for this item posted Friday. By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Education, April, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

'Citizen Journalism War' in Colorado? I Doubt It
Cyberjournalist.net (a publication of the Media Center at the American Press Institute, published by Jon Dube, also a Poynter columnist) reports that a "Citizen Journalism War" has broken out in my state, Colorado. I'm sorry to report that this does not appear to be the case, because we could really use a good citizen journalism war here.On Sunday, the Rocky Mountain News announced its planned May launch of YourHub.com -- which sounds much more like an online local ed From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 12, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..

Hypertext writing
Lois on writing her quals paper:I keep wanting to add links. Links to definitions, links to more information, links to blogs that have discussed the academic article that I'm presenting, links to other sections of the paper itself that build upon this section. I have been subsumed by hypertext linking. Somewhere along the line I have stopped just thinking non-linearly and have begun expecting my world to function on multiple planes. I think this is good...but frustrating since this paper has t From Mathemagenic on April 12, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..