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More on Rhapsody
Apropos of
my post earlier this week:
Postplay reports that Real is
planning a major announcement for later this month, likely about a new version of Rhapsody and/or the launch of a portable subscription service. If it's anything less than that, the press release hype will appear even more ridiculous. From what I had read earlier, Real was looking to get a portable sub From
A Copyfighter's Musings on April 14, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Murdoch's Changed Vision
Rupert Murdoch was sounding like a new-media pundit today with his
speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He said all sorts of things that have been said before by people mostly on the new-media side of the news business -- let's get bloggers involved more; let's experiment more with citizen journalism; younger people are not coming back to newspapers, so get over it and move on; most newspapers' new-media efforts to date have been tepi From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 14, 2005 at 9:00 p.m..
Students as Creators
I'm always encouraging teaching staff to think about getting their students to create e-resources for peer and class-room use. There's a whole host of excellent reasons for doing so. Of course, we need to make sure that the students are... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 14, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
I Feel Like I'm Part of Something.
But I wonder how many students are actually participating in this conversation. Are adults once again making decisions for students without their input? Wouldn't it be terrible if the decisions about blog use in classrooms were all made for students,... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 14, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Smashing Heads Does not Open Minds
I've been reading another book by the sociolinguist Deborah Tannen: "The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words" (1998). It's making me think hard about how people interact online and elsewhere; what's assumed to be "the norm" for interaction, and how different groups experience interaction differently. Later on I'll be posting some articles exploring the implications of Tannen's observations to the blogosphere, online discussion forums, and journalism. But for now, to set the context, here's an excerpt from the first chapter which encapsulates the From
Contentious Weblog on April 14, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Training Citizen Journalists: News Industry's Responsibility?
Attached as a comment to an
item posted earlier this week by Amy Gahran is a suggestion (by Washingtonpost.com's
Lindsay Howerton) that I want to highlight, in case you missed it. On the topic of "citizen journalism," Howerton suggests that we consider the idea of "tiers" in community feedback settings.What this might mean is that news organizations would start training the public in how to be citizen journalists, perhaps by offe From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 14, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
Jugando con Flickr
El Flickr Zeitgeist puede configurarse con tus fotos y/o con las de tus contactos: var zg_nsids = '44124365621@N01'; El Flickr Graph - A Social Network Visualization representa las redes de contactos a partir del nick del usuario. Los interesados en... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 14, 2005 at 5:52 p.m..
Gearing Up for TCC 2005 Keynote
Next week, April 19-21, is the 10th annual
Teaching, Colleges, Community (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference, or affectionately known as "the online conference from Hawaii where you do not get to go to Hawaii". I'm ramping up to deliver a live keynote session on April 21 (see below). The theme this 10th anniversary year is "Looking Back Toward the Future": Since the 1970s, the impact of educational technology has been relentless and ever changing. What can we learn from our past? What's hot and what's not? Where From
cogdogblog on April 14, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Implications of Google Video Are Profound
I have to say, I didn't see this coming. Google unleashed
a beta version of its video-hosting service yesterday. Users can upload videos of any size and Google will host it for free. Amazing as that is, it isn't the most interesting feature. It also will allow you to charge whatever you want for users to download the videos.The implications of this are utterly staggering. Any person with a video can now sell that video for any amount they want at no overhead cost. It potentially creates an opportunity for video pro From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 14, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..
The big roundup
Websites that have gone live with embarrassing placeholder text. Plus May 1st Reboot encourages standards-based entries. Plus Style Master CSS editor unveils educational pricing. Also: What are desire lines? And this: Apple should hire John Gruber. (With a dash of Scoble love.) Plus the Unofficial Apple Weblog moves and retools. Last but not least, Acid 2 puts browser makers on notice. (And some browser makers actually notice! Dave Hyatt uses it to start fixing CSS bugs in Safari.) From
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 14, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Murdoch notices that Net thingy
"Rupert Murdoch urged newspaper editors Wednesday to embrace the Internet," says the story on Fox News: "The challenge for each of us in this room is to create an Internet presence that is compelling enough that users make it their home page. Just as people traditionally started their day with coffee and a newspaper, in the future I hope that the way they start their day online will be with coffee and our Web site." Isn't this the headline that every freaking media company ran in the fall of 1996? [Technorati tag: fox]... From
Joho the Blog on April 14, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
"I Feel Like I'm Part of Something"
Bud Hunt gets it right when in mentioning our recent blogging vs. journaling discussion he writes: But I wonder how many students are actually participating in this conversation. Are adults once again making decisions for students without their input? Wouldn't it be terrible if the decisions about blog use in classrooms were all made for students, instead of with them? So what does he do about it? He
asks his studentsweblogged News on April 14, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
TV harms academic performance
Sarah Schmidt of CanWest News reported on a study presented this week at the AERA conference in Montreal. "A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found these television-watching patterns of first graders are having a long-term academic impact:... From
Rick's Café Canadien on April 14, 2005 at 3:53 p.m..
Poetry and science
In today's mail: Announcing the first annual SSE EVOLUTION POETRY CONTEST Any and all poems concerning the theme of evolution are solicited; serious, funny, tragic, elegant, nonsensical, in any style including tanka, limericks, haiku, free verse, couplets, and epic poems. Winner(s) to be announced and poem(s) read at the Annual Meeting Banquet in Fairbanks, Alaska. Prize(s) also remain to be determined, but will be glorious and highly desirable. Judging will be... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on April 14, 2005 at 3:52 p.m..
Hybrid information site
Adam Khan sent me a link to an informative site on world hunger that he's designed --
Food Force. It's an effort of the UN World Food Programme to connect with young people and their teachers by providing several kinds of content, including a simulation game and lesson plans. Adam says that the site uses Expression Engine weblog software, but he also works with some special effects that bloggers might envy. From
Weblogs in Higher Education on April 14, 2005 at 3:52 p.m..
Meetup starts to charge (David Weinberger)
First, I admire the message Scott Heiferman, founder of Meetup.com, posted on the site explaining the change. It’s straightforward and frank. I know Scott a bit (we’re conference buddies at least) and I know that Meetup was founded to realize... From
Corante: Social Software on April 14, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
Meetup starts to charge
Over at many2many I've posted comments about Meetup's decision to start charging groups $19/month. What will this do to the social dynamics that have made Meetup so important to many of us? Will Craigslist will be the new Meetup? [Technorati tag: meetup]... From
Joho the Blog on April 14, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
Wandering for Wireless
So I'm doing some blogvangelism today at the
New Jersey Business/Technology Education Association Conference today and since it's an early talk, I wanted to make sure I beat what is usually horrible traffic on the route. Well, I did, and here I am an hour early with no wireless at the venue. So, instead of sitting around feeling very unconnected and unproductive, I opened up my tablet, brought up the wireless connections box, and drove around the neighborhood until I found a decent connection. Um, thank you
weblogged News on April 14, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Brits fail online phishing test - Iain Thomson, VNunet
A week after the publication of an online phishing quiz to educate internet users about fraud, the first results show that over 90 per cent of us are at risk. The Phishing IQ Test mixes actual phishing emails with letters from legitimate online providers. From
Techno-News Blog on April 14, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
Containing a Killer Flu Virus
Laboratories worldwide destroy samples of the 1957 Asian flu virus they received as part of a proficiency testing program. Between 1 million and 4 million people were killed by the pandemic nearly 50 years ago. From
Wired News on April 14, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Spamming the Wrong Message
Imposing a jail sentence on one of the world's top spammers feels good, but it's really attacking the problem from the wrong end. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on April 14, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
P2P Fuels Global Bandwidth Binge
People across the planet slurped up more bandwidth than ever last year. Internet traffic monitors say the trading of video files over peer-to-peer networks is the biggest factor behind the spree. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on April 14, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Gore's TV Seeks Northern Insights
Al Gore's new cable television network promises to update the boob tube for the internet generation. An experimental Canadian TV show has been doing just that for the last three years -- and it ain't easy. By Niall McKay. From
Wired News on April 14, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Letras de canciones
David Readman de Anzuelo de noticias anuncia la puesta en marcha de +Música: Canciones que han dejado huella. Con las letras originales y traducidas. Con su pequeña gran historia. Si les va la onda nostálgica, no se pierdan Freewheelin de... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 14, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..
Content Week (Ross Mayfield)
Spent the first half of this week at Buying and Selling eContent in Scottsdale and the Gilbane Content Technologies Conference in San Francisco. Provided some Guerrilla Event Wifi, but wasn’t on conference blogging duty, but took some notes: New Content... From
Corante: Social Software on April 14, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
Podcast: Negotiating tip of the week
The Otter Group is experimenting with podcasts for e-learning purposes. Every week, they
publish a 2-3 minute talk by Josh Weiss, Associate Director of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation. This week's topic is on Salary Negotiation. You can subscribe to the RSS feed
here. From
elearningpost on April 14, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..
Marqueze se internacionaliza
Hace algún tiempo comentábamos, en el artÃculo El Secreto está en el porno, que en Internet no sólo Google y similares habÃan triunfado. También era espectacular el caso de algunos modelos de negocio representados por páginas muy especializadas, serias y rigurosas en lo suyo, con una estructura muy limitada o casi inexistente. Y como ejemplo de ello citábamos a marqueze.net, una compañÃa española especializada en contenidos para adultos que nació en Sevilla casi de la nada, con un diseño tendente a naïf y una usabilidad más (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on April 13, 2005 at 11:55 p.m..
MSNBC piece
This is what I wrote out, intending to jarvis it on MSNBC this afternoon. I'm not sure what I actually said. There's been a fair bit of discussion about the fact that tech conferences, for all their good intentions, haven't been able to attract enough women onto panels or into the audience. So a group of women bloggers have started a conference, called Blogher, July 30 in Santa Clara. One of the contributors to the Blogher blog, Surfette, or Lisa Stone, says that the conference is being organized as a do-ocracy - you want a topic on the schedule, then... From
Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..
German-American-Romanian-etc. bridgeblog
John D. Erickson points to Halfway Down the Danube, a group blog by a German-American couple living in Romania with lots of comments from expat Americans and Europeans... [Technorati tags: BridgeBlog GlobalVoices]... From
Joho the Blog on April 13, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..
Wired Seniors
This article from the April 2005 issue of eLearn Magazine is subtitled Online Learning is Not Just for Kids Anymore: "... the online presence of Americans now aged 65 and older jumped 25 percent over the last year, to a total of almost ten million surfers, according to a new study by Nielsen/NetRatings. Seniors are logging on more than ever and will surely create a new market for online learning." "The recently released Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled 'Older Americans and the Internet' provides much From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on April 13, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..
Podcasting and Vodcasting
A definitive white paper, this essay begins with definitions of podcasting and vodcasting, explains how it works, outlines the skill sets required, and lists a number of potential applications. There's enough information in here to enable most people to learn how to podcast, and yet the writing is clear enough to allow non-technical people to follow the description. Good list of links and resources. By Peter Meng, University of Missouri, March 2005 [
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OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Digital WPA Website
It's not for me, but the new Council of Writing Program Administrators website went live yesterday. "The Council of Writing Program Administrators is a national association of college and university faculty with professional responsibilities for (or interests in) directing writing programs." By Charlie Lowe and Dave Blakesley, April 12, 2005 [
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OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Golden Swamp
Judy Breck, who wrote the Small World Network Primer I listed yesterday, writes today to let me know that she relaunched her blog, Golden Swamp, about a week ago (the archive lists posts from April, 2004). On the left, you can read 'Sample the Gold', which posts open content webpages for learning. On the right is her coverage of learning and networks. She signs her email with this bit of wisdom from John Adams: "As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved." By Judy Breck, Golden Swamp, April 13, 2005 [
OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
The Carrick Institute
The Carrick Institute launches its new website. The institute's
mission is to "promote and advance learning and teaching in Australian higher education," which it accomplishes via the usual means of supporting research and disseminating information. Via
James Farmer. Brochureware. By Various Authors, April, 2005 [
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OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Creative Archive Licence Group
Seb Schmoller sends along this link to a new licensing scheme launched in Britain. Pretty clearly modeled on Creative Commons (though you won't find that on the site anywhere, or at least, I couldn't find it), the license offers rights to content created by the BBC, Open University, and other British public institutions. One thing I'm not thrilled about is the addition of a 'UK-only' provision to some licenses. And the 'no endorsement' condition is just odd: "not for campaigning, soapboxing or to defame others! So don't use it to promote political, chari From
OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Mainstream Media Meltdown
Many people have scoffed about predictions that the internet would mean the end of traditional media. Even as journalism has been given a rough ride by a horde of fact-checking bloggers pundits have continued to hold that the media themselves are not in jeopardy. Well, the end is coming, and it's not just creeping forward, it is steamrolling. Music sales down 21 percent. Television audiences down a third. Radio listenership at a 27-year low. Via
James Richardson. By Chris Anderson, The Long Tail, April 10, 2005 [
OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
Collaboration and Content Creation
James Richardson briefly describes the content of a briefing from Microsoft on their
Learning Gateway Framework. He notes, "It's SIF compliant which means it could plug right into our Student Information System and deliver some pretty interesting tools to teachers and students." Microsoft has a large learning program, but they haven't been very good at getting the information out (from my perspective; your CEO's experience may vary). If anyone knows of a blog or RSS covering this area of e-learning, please let From
OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..
NCQ Talk
I never link to content from Learning Times because of their login requirement - not simply because readers get enough spam, but also because I have long since forgotten my userid and password (who can keep track of hundreds of accounts?). So it's a bit of a surprise (and possibly temporary) to find this content available on the free and open non-spam internet: NCQ stands for 'Nerd - Canadian - Quaker' and consists of a set of biweekly podcasts along with some supporting documentation. I haven't listened to the podcasts (and am thinking about agitating more forcefully for p From
OLDaily on April 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..