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Free Classifieds Get Old, but Not Weak
Warning: Personal anecdote ahead ...I periodically write about the free-ad trend represented by Craigslist (mostly a factor in the U.S.) and eBay's Kijiji (mostly Europe and Asia), and how that is impacting the traditional purveyor of classified advertising, newspapers. Almost inevitably, when I do I hear from newspaper classifieds folks who want to trash the free-ad model. It won't last, I hear; the model is flawed.A specific criticism I've heard multiple times about Craigslist is that i From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 27, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..

Online Internet High
I do not know how to say this in a politically correct way, but I believe high school as we know it is broken...and I am talking 'Humpty-Dumpty' broken. I was there. I helped push 'ole Humpty off the wall...and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 9:56 p.m..

Effective Color Contrast
This web page contains basic guidelines for making effective color choices that work for nearly everyone. To understand them best, you need to understand the three perceptual attributes of color: hue, lightness and saturation, in the particular way that vision... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 9:56 p.m..

SF Radio Station to Begin Airing Podcasts
On May 16, Infinity Broadcasting's KYCY-AM in San Francisco will drop its talk-radio format and switch to broadcasting its listeners' own podcasts. It'll also stream those podcasts from the domain KYOURADIO.com Open Source Radio.Beginning today, listeners will be able to upload their podcasts of varying lengths for free at KYOURADIO.com, where podcasts will be chosen by the broadcaster. Infinity Broadcasting says that the pod From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 27, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..

Youth abandoning old media.
Youth audiences are abandoning traditional news sources in favour of the Net, threatening the future of 'old' media businesses, according to new research. A new US report reveals that less that a fifth of 18-34 year olds rank newspapers as... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..

Creativity - How can I get some?
Creativity is the lifeblood of innovation and marketing, but where does it come from and how should a company nurture this elusive trait? How does one explore creativity on the job--and use it to one's advantage? HBS Working Knowledge: HBS... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..

Destination Moon
Huhcorp is the world's most dynamic e-business marketing, design and consulting agency. ... Searchscapes Manhattan is special. ... In Green Monster, Paul Goldberger takes on Charles Gwathmey's new luxury apartment building in NYC's Astor Place, explaining how "high-gloss modernism ... attached to the signature of a famous architect and dropped into an old industrial streetscape" got so hot. ... CandyBar 2.5 kicks Tiger's default icons to the curb. ... Plus two new places to find stock photos, each with a story and a deal. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on April 27, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

EduFlickr
I've been doing some research into Flickr in the classroom lately and I came across (once again) this example that I just wanted to note. It's an "History of Western Art and Civilization: Renaissance to the Modern Era" class at FIT in New York City. Barbara had mentioned it last fall, but I didn't get a chance to look at it closely until today. A lot of annotations and discu From weblogged News on April 27, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design
The Dover, Pennsylvania school board recently adopted a policy requiring that high school science teachers teaching evolution tell their students that evolutionary theory, a theory that has been shown to explain the origins of life time and time again, is flawed, and that intelligent design is a valid alternative. The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), along with the AUSCS (Americans United for the Separation of Church and State), and 11 parents, are suing the school board, accusing the board of violating the separation of church and state (Banerjee A16). They are quite right. The sole pur From kuro5hin.org on April 27, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Rasiej for Advocate
Andrew Rasiej is running for Public Advocate of NYC. He would transform this position into a true voice of the people...not to mention that he'll do very cool things with the Net. Heck, his theme is "A New Campaign to Reconnect New York." You can sign up here. And here's the campaign's blog. Go Andrew! [Technorati tags: AndrewRasiej politics]... From Joho the Blog on April 27, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Video-Phone Feeds Getting Into Mainstream Media
In Italy, not only have almost 1 million 3G mobile video phones made their way to the audience, Telecom Italia has also heavily promoted its fixed-line video phones, of which 1.9 million so far have been sold (410,000 of those with a wi-fi connection). Add those with broadband connections and webcams, and you have a huge audience able to make video calls.On Telecom Italia's broadband portal, Rosso Alice, the community channel making use of this gain From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 27, 2005 at 4:56 p.m..

Google: Publisher's Best Friend ... or a Trojan Horse?
Reports from the Ad:Tech Conference this week (Advertising Age, E-Commerce Times, The Guardian) indicate that Google is planning to significantly expand its AdSense program through which it places keyword-search advertising on content sites -- and shares revenues based on a pay-per-click model.If I'm reading these accounts correctly, Google is From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 27, 2005 at 4:56 p.m..

Tell Steve Jobs he's a vain, petty tyrant
Jobs doesn't like what a biographer says about him so he stops Apple stores from selling all books by that publisher? Note that he's not just keeping the book he doesn't like out of the store. No, he's de-shelving any book from that publisher in retaliation. You can pre-order the book here. Let's drive it up the charts. (Hey, Amazon, how about pairing this book with a Dixie Chicks album?) [Technorati tags: apple SteveJobs DixieChicks]... From Joho the Blog on April 27, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Les Photos
Doc's photos from Les Blogs 2005 in Paris, the lucky bastard! [Technorati tag: lesblogs2005]... From Joho the Blog on April 27, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

A million deaths from malaria
TotheSource calls for a reform of how the US spends our money on malaria prevention and treatment. It argues that small amount of DDT could save many lives without causing environmental damage. I'm not an expert in, well, anything, so I don't know how much DDT it takes to start screwing up the ecosystem, nor do I know how effective it is at preventing malaria when used in small amounts on house walls, as ToTheSource suggests. But wel over a million deaths a year — most of them children? And apparently the US aid agency, USAID, has not been forthright... From Joho the Blog on April 27, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Introduction to Block Cipher Algorithms and Their Applications in Communication Security
This contribution from Jason Isom gives a brief introduction to Cryptography and Block Cipher Algorithms. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on April 27, 2005 at 2:57 p.m..

100% of Scotland to be broadband-enabled by end of year
The Scottish Executive has signed an agreement with BT that will see the broadband-enabling of all remote and rural regions of the country currently unable to access high-speed internet services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 2:57 p.m..

I-Free launches Jamango mobile portal in Ukraine
Launched in Russia last November, Jamango has won some 700,000 steady subscribers in five months. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 1:57 p.m..

UK text messaging up 21%
Person-to-person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators last month show an increase of 21 per cent on the total sent during the same period in 2004 and a 93 per cent increase on the total sent in March 2002, according to new figures. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 1:57 p.m..

OPML outliner in the pipeline
I'm sure Danny Ayers will not like this, but I'm definitely going to ship the outliner before the end of the month. Two things need to be changed in the application, it needs a new name (more on that in a bit) and it needs an icon. Since the native format of the application is OPML, the icon should be derived from the logo for the format. The icon has to work on both Windows and Macintosh. It should certainly be red. It's possible it could be just the OPML logo itself. And now for the name From Seblogging News on April 27, 2005 at 1:50 p.m..

del.icio.us Serendipity
So this is how it works... I've started playing with del.icio.us a bit more of late, especially as a place to quickly save things I want to read or write more about in the future. Yesterday, I saved a link to Ken Smith, who by the way has been blogging great guns of late. Today, when I went back to del.icio.us, I noticed someone else had linked to the same post. Turns out it was Paul Allison, who I have written about here before and who has a pretty nice li From weblogged News on April 27, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Nokia smart-phones to access Yahoo services
Yahoo data communications services such as e-mail, entertainment services such as ring-tones, wallpaper and downloadable games and Yahoo Search for Mobile, will be the first set of services available through Nokia devices based on Series 60. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Thales extends mobile TV systems capability to support Qualcomm FLO Technology
Thales and Qualcomm entered into a co-development programme to combine Thales’ digital exciter and signal correction experience with Qualcomm's FLO modulation technology to create a FLO compatible exciter. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

VC consortium makes €12bn bid for Auna
UK-based venture capital firms CVC Capital Partners, Apax Partners and the Blackstone Group have as a group launched a €12bn bid for an 83.5 per cent stake in Spanish telco and cable provider Auna. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

New member states, accession candidates integrating mobile research
An EU project led by the Polish MOST Foundation has been launched, aiming to support the alignment of the new member states’ national and regional research programmes with European IST research in the area of mobile technologies, applications, and services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Curriculum is for Kids
I love this quote from Jay Cross: "Curriculum is for kids; exploration is for adults." I brings me back once again to the idea that Ted Sizer expressed about the disconnect between the way the school system teaches kids and the ways in which adults teach themselves. I can't imagine not learning by exploration, which is what I do every day of my life. I've developed my own curriculum of sorts that changes ba From weblogged News on April 27, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Real launches portable music subscription service
Real's Rhapsody service currently offers a subscription service that allows customers to download to their computer as many tracks as they wish from a catalogue of around 1m songs for $9.95 (€7.70) a month. The service is now being extended to portable devices for $14.95 (€11.50) a month. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

Peter Ford on the ECML Blogging Project
Peter Ford, one of the team leaders of the Blog Project at the European Centre of Modern Languages, will be a featured guest at the Blogstreams Salon Special Session at TappedIn ASO on Sunday, May 1st at 21:00 GMT.   Peter will share with us how he and his team have been developing a blogging tool specifically for use in language learning contexts, which is no From apcampbell News on April 27, 2005 at 11:53 a.m..

Volunteer and Learn
By Sharon Daugherty - acquire skills and experience while exploring career paths.... From Adult/Continuing Education on April 27, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..

PSP comes to Europe 1 September
Sony has finally announced a European release date for its PSP handheld gaming console. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Channel 4 to launch music download site for unsigned bands
Channel4.com/music is being out-sourced to the anonymous production team behind celebrity gossip site Holy Moly in partnership with Peter Robinson, the creator of another gossip news site, Popjustice.com, with concept and design provided by digital design house Holler. Cable and Wireless is to power the site's music download service. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on April 27, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

on precarious employment and the benefits of networks
Yesterday, short before leaving for Australia, I attended an interesting event "The Destruction of the Middle Class", organized by the ÖGB (Austrian Trade Union), together with Jan Schmidt, check his blogpost for his leave-Vienna notice: Flashlights: political jargon that tried to capture the change from thomas n. burg | randgänge on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Life After Darth
George Lucas was born to make underground films. Then a little movie called Star Wars lured him to the dark side. Can the father of the blockbuster really rediscover his avant-garde soul? By Steve Silberman from Wired magazine. From Wired News on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

How Star Wars Changed the World
An interactive map of the people, companies and technologies spawned by the Force (requires Flash). By Michelle Devereaux from Wired magazine. From Wired News on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Street Art Goes Global, Online
The Wooster Collective website is fast becoming the place to showcase graffiti (the good stuff) and street art from around the world. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Psychonauts Run the Laugh Track
The creator of Grim Fandango delivers an action adventure with hilarious characters and a captivating story. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

NASA Funds 'Miracle Polymer'
The space agency is spending $11 million on one meter of power cable. But this ain't your ordinary electrical cord. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Put a Tiger in Your Mac
The new version of Apple's operating system, Tiger, is due out Friday. Wired News' Daniel Terdiman got an unofficial sneak preview. From Wired News on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Podcasting Killed the Radio Star
The popular audio distribution method is about to take to the airwaves. A failing talk-radio station in San Francisco is about to be converted to an all-podcast format. By Xeni Jardin. From Wired News on April 27, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Letras enredadas
Nudos de la literatura entre la red y el papel: Pedro de Miguel comienza el blog Letras enredadas. Pedro, a quien recordarán por Letras en la Red, escribe en su primer post: "Desde que nace Internet se producen nudos entre... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 27, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..

Sit. Stay. But This Blog Has Moved
Well it was easy. In between commercials on Tuesday night TV, and a late night burst of extra excitement, I have moved this entire weblog into its new home, hosted very happily in a WordPress 1.5 blog. I was not sure how much would export over (actually everything did), so I hate to say this is now a forwarding address blog ( as well as a retro record of my blogging from April 2003-2005). So adjust your links accordingly- the new CogDogBlog is at: http://j From cogdogblog on April 27, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..

New Leader at University in Newark
John J. Petillo, who was appointed in November and had been interim president since June, was sworn in as the school's third president on Tuesday. From New York Times: Education on April 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

The Game Within the Games
The N.C.A.A. Division I board of directors will most likely relax the standards for college football teams by modifying the attendance requirement. From New York Times: Education on April 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Often Shunted Into Special Schools, Gypsies Fight Back
Many Roma children attend schools intended for the mentally disabled and receive what human rights groups contend is a substandard education. From New York Times: Education on April 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Tutoring Aid Is of Concern at Hearing
Lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday over the lack of information by which to judge the effectiveness of a federally financed tutoring program. From New York Times: Education on April 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Where Popular Science Is Called Women's Work
A private all-female institution for Grades 7 through 12 in Los Angeles is a forceful rejoinder to conventional assumptions about women and science. From New York Times: Education on April 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Computers are just textbooks on steriods.
I love the fact that people out there are studying the effects of computers on the intelligence of students. See the blog posting before this one; "How computers make kids dumb." The computer combined with the internet is a textbook... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 7:55 a.m..

Do Libraries Still Matter?
Die Entwicklung amerikanischer Bibliotheken ist untrennbar mit dem Namen Andrew Carnegie verbunden; zudem handelt(e) es sich oft um "architectural statements", die vielerorts das öffentliche Leben prägten und Projektionsfläche für soziale und pädagogische Ideale waren. Bibliotheken trifft von daher die Sinnfrage,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 27, 2005 at 7:51 a.m..

Trend: Mobile Reality (A Tale of Two Experts)
M-Learning ist derzeit keine Sache, die mich mitreisst. Aber ich nehme selbst auf Konferenzen nur selten ein Notebook mit und bin von daher sicher kein typischer M-Learner. Chris von Koschembahr (IBM) und Clark Quinn (OttoSurf Labs), die hier interviewt werden,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 27, 2005 at 7:51 a.m..

The Continuous Environmental Scan: Where Do You Get All Your Ideas?
Sie wollen wissen, wie der weiterbildungsblog entsteht, woher die News und Artikel stammen, wie man interessante Artikel findet und verarbeitet bzw. "veredelt"? Die Antworten auf diese Fragen hat Dave Pollard jetzt für mich aufgeschrieben. Es ist ein Prozess in neun... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 27, 2005 at 7:51 a.m..

Feds Rethinking RFID Passport - Kim Zetter, Wired
Following criticism from computer security professionals and civil libertarians about the privacy risks posed by new RFID passports the government plans to begin issuing, a State Department official said his office is reconsidering a privacy solution it r From Techno-News Blog on April 27, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

McAfee: Vulnerabilities still worst threat - Matt Hines, CNET News.com
Unpatched computers continue to represent the IT world's biggest security problem, keeping threats that target software vulnerabilities at the top of McAfee's latest industry analysis. In its report covering security threats during the first quarter, McA From Techno-News Blog on April 27, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Microsoft launches 64-bit Windows - Ina Fried, CNET News.com
After revving the engine for quite a while, Microsoft is hoping to take 64-bit computing into the fast lane. The software maker, which has been tooling around with the 64-bit version of Windows for the better part of two years, is announcing the general a From Techno-News Blog on April 27, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

How computers make kids dumb.
A study of 100,000 pupils in 31 countries around the world has concluded that using computers makes kids dumb. Avoiding PCs in the classroom and at home improved the literacy and numeracy of the children studied. The UK's Royal Economic... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 6:54 a.m..

Some Additional Points Re: Rhapsody 3.0
1.  We've noted the general shift away from Helix-wrapped AAC, with Real now turning to WMA for To Go and selling both AAC and WMA.  News.com also reports that Real has reestablished compatibility with the iPod for purchased content.   Another interesting aspect of the new Rhapsody is reliance on Janus DRM for Rhapsody Unlimited downloads.  Napster 2.0 uses Janus for its portable subscrip From A Copyfighter's Musings on April 27, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..

A Wild Theory About Apple and Subscription Services
Apple has consistently said they don't have interest in the music rental-subscription market.  There's speculation to the contrary, and, to many, Apple's line seems like a silly business move. Many iPod users are totally uninterested in Napster To Go because of the incompatiblity and would jump at an Apple subscription, not to mention Apple's significantly superior catalog.  So maybe Apple isn't resisting the rental-subscription model exactly.  The major record labels, whi From A Copyfighter's Musings on April 27, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..

Maximun Infomation Overdrive
Among the things I've been brooding over lately is the notion of information overload... It's one of those tricky concepts that most people intuitively understand on some sort of common sense level, and it's widely acknowledged to be a defining... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..

Why Moveable type??
In a few minutes I'm going to a meeting which should push forward the long-overdue upgrade to UBC-OLT's weblog and wiki hosting environments. As of now, our plan is to install the latest release of Movable Type as our weblog... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..

New RSS Mix
Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed! You can then point a parser at the new feed and display a mix of stories from various sources on your website. RSS Mix - Mix any number of... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 27, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..

Community-minded genres
In a paper on genre, Leen Breure sketches Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas about the genre as shaping tools for communication: For Bakhtin genres are not simply sets of rules and conventions, but ways of conceptualizing reality, forms of seeing and interpreting particular aspects of the world. They are connected with expectations about length and compositional structure. They are... From Weblogs in Higher Education on April 27, 2005 at 5:52 a.m..

More on the Napster 2.0 DRM Decryption Utility Development
I want to make sure to point once again to the comments following my post on the development of a Napster 2.0 DRM decryption tool.  Alex Goodwin made a series of clarifications, repeating that the decryption utility is only in development and is not complete.  Many commenters railed against my post as premature, but, in my own defense, it was other news sites that From A Copyfighter's Musings on April 27, 2005 at 5:47 a.m..

IBM Joins the Sakai Project
For those of you who aren't familiar with Sakai, it's a an open source collaboration and learning environment (CLE) geared for higher education. The origins of the project come from the University of Michigan and Indiana University, but now involves... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on April 27, 2005 at 4:54 a.m..

USFA Scholarship
Students who want to be considered for the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association (USFA) Scholarship must submit an Application for University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association (USFA) Scholarship http://www.students.usask.ca/moneymatters/awards/apply/usfa.pdf to Student Central http://www.students.usask.ca/contact/ by April 29, 2005.... From Rick's Café Canadien on April 27, 2005 at 4:52 a.m..

Investigate Rumsfeld, Tenet for Torture
PressEsc carried this story about Human Rights Watch calling the US government to name a special prosecutor to investigate the culpability of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and ex-CIA Director George Tenet in cases of detainee torture and abuse today. From kuro5hin.org on April 26, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..