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¿Está el futuro en el flash?
Siguiendo con mi manía o superstición de leer hoy siempre la noticia de ayer (o la de hace uno o varios meses...), he asistido hoy (en diferido, por supuesto) a la conferencia que dió el consejero internacional de Le Monde Jean François Fogel en el VI Congreso Nacional de Periodismo Digital que se celebró el pasado enero en Huesca. En términos generales fue una conferencia interesante y bien fundada, que, basándose en la experiencia acumulada durante 10 años por la versión en internet del diario francés Le Monde, (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 5, 2005 at 10:53 p.m..

Identity and Student Bloggers
(via Clancy Ratliff) Interesting couple of threads running through the higher ed universe regarding how students should refer to themselves in their class blogs. It's not so much a safety issue at that level as it is a student being linked to work that is less than excellent issue. Like what happens when someone does a search on them before a job interview and the freshman comp essay full of misspellings and grammar errors pops up. Jill Walker says If a student has to publish under her f From weblogged News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Mon Wiki Dieu!
From the "I Can't Understand Any Of It But I Know It Means Something Department" comes this list of 133 French wikis. (Or is that wikis in French?) And I got there from Mario Asselin's wiki at his school Institut St-Joseph. It looks like the whole school is wiki-ed up. Sacre Bleu! This is one time I wish I'd stayed awake in French 4 class... Allez, wikis! Allez! From weblogged News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Marquette Joins BSA's DefineTheLine.com Initiative
Critical look at Marquette University's decision to join the Business Software Alliance program Define the Line. The program, which adovates against students sharing commercial software, was launched last October and now has one participant - Marquette. The author asks, "Why did Marquette step up to the plate when no one else has? Why did it take 7 months to line up a single school to participate in the program? What's in it for Marquette? Is BSA providing some c From OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Why DRM Sucks (Redux)
I had a similar experience of my own on a similar airplane, except with an actual DVD of Gangs of New York. Legally purchased movie won't play because of DRM failure. So I'm sympathetic. I'm also convinced that the DRM solution, as described here, is not the way to go, for just this sort of reason. By Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, May 4, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

TeacherEd
TeacherEd, according to the website, is a free service, designed to connect teachers with each other. The site uses an ELGG platform (which now has a new development roadmap) and offers teachers a means to connect with other teachers interested in the same subject. Readers may be thrown off, however, when they click on a tag (a link describing a user-defined topic area) and find only a link to an RSS feed. The registration form is also an endless loop (ignore the second iteration and simpl From OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Universities' High-speed Internet2 Used by Students to Pilfer Music
RIAA head Cary Sherman penned this appeal in a Pittsburgh newspaper urging the city's universities to join a commercial music download service in order to counter file sharing, and activity which, he asserts, has now spread to Internet 2. Carnegie Mellon's Roger Dannenberg fired back a letter attacking Sherman's article and saying, in essence, "Lower your prices and pay your artists and we may have something to talk about." I would also question the veracity of Sherman's figures; with the rise of podcasting and o From OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

If Pirating Grows, It May Not Be The End of Music World
Something to note well: Instead of predicting that China will change as it engages with the global economy, "The business model for the record industry worldwide is moving toward resembling what we see in China today." And what we see in China today is that some 95 percent of all music sales are of pirated CDs, where music is not seen to be worth more than a few cents a song, and where music sharing is widely practiced (and not likely to change). So how does the artist make money? "By performing concerts, getting endorsement deals and appearing in commercials." By Kevin Maney, USA Today, May From OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Course Management: Ready for Prime Time
Good look at the changing face of course managements as this article examines cases at four universities (running WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai and Jenzabar) in order to suggest that campuses are scaling up and investing in more complex, more functional, learning systems. By Rebecca Sausner, University Business, May 5, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
If you just don't get things like tagging, folksonomies or del.icio.us then this quick two-page (PDF) guide is just the thing for you. Not too deep, no jargon, and yet a concise and complete explanation. By Cyprien Lomas , EDUCAUSE, May, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Exploring Single Sign-on
This item lists several other single sign-on initiatives, such as A-Select, Lasso and CAS. All three require some sort of 'identity service provider' (as Lasso calls it). It also mentions my own mIDm proposal in passing, which does not require a third party. Scott Wilson, meanwhile, has created a Zope ve From OLDaily on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Yahoo! Focuses on Tech News
Yahoo! has hired another big-name journalist: Patrick Houston, who has been editor-in-chief of CNET.com. According to the Wall Street Journal, he'll lead an expansion of tech content on Yahoo!Houston began covering technology in 1992 and has more than 30 years of journalism experience. His group will be separate from Nei From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 5, 2005 at 8:56 p.m..

Tags and the Growth of Knowledge/Understanding
Summary: I need to study and think/write more about tags. There is an alternative to my personal project management style: piles, each more or less in sequence of treatment-- most recent on top. The alternative is sorting entries by category; it gives easy, efficient access to information, via an established conceptual map. The map can be personal. or professional or cultural. In the case of information storage, the category map would give access to to entries which relate to certain areas of knowledge and the experience to which it relates. As I understand it, tagging is cate From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on May 5, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Many School Districts have no Policy
Cyberbullying knows no boundaries. Online cruelty may happen off school property via home computers and cell phones, but that hasn't prevented it from infiltrating schools and disrupting the educational environment. In fact, a January study by the MindOH! Foundation, a... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 5, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..

Technology threatens language
The written English language is becoming a lost art among the young people of this country. Keyboarding is being stressed more and more in our schools. As computers reach the next generation, i.e. voice activation, I fear that the ability... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 5, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..

Denver-Boulder: Citizen Journalism Central
Here in the metro Denver-Boulder (Colorado) area, where I live, "citizen journalism" is getting downright competitive. In recent weeks we've seen the debuts of MyTown from Boulder's Daily Camera and YourHub by Denver's Rocky Mountain News. Now comes another entrant.Not content to let the major dailies get down to the micro-local content level without a fight, Mile High Newspapers has created its citizen-journalism site, MyMileHigh From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 5, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..

Tags and the Growth of Knowledge/Understanding
I need to study and write more about tags. As an alternative to my personal style leaving materials in piles more or less in sequence of treatment-- most recent on top - sorting entries by category makes sense; it gives easy, efficient access, via an established conceptual map, personal. or professional or cultural, to entries which relate to certain areas of knowledge and the experience to which it relates. As I understand it, tagging is categorizing on the fly (see the definitions at Techno From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on May 5, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

Thursday, May 05, 2005
It has been a few days, so I thought I would make time to write something. From RHPT.com on May 5, 2005 at 6:57 p.m..

The Commoners' Common Platform
Downhill Battle recently released their Fort Culture site.  It gives me an opportunity to talk out some things I've been thinking about lately in regards to what the Commoners'/Free Culture common platform should be - that is, what planks, from the array of diverse interests involved in the copyfight, can we synthesize into one common cause.  That will partly take the form of criticizing Fort Culture and Downhill Battle, but I really don't mean to pick on them in particular. I don&ap From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 5, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

What the i2hub Lawsuits are About
So we speculated before on why the RIAA was going after i2hub users in particular.  Cary Sherman published this piece in the Pittburgh Post-Gazette.  Here's a snippet: "And while the music industry can sue to help arrest the growth of this illegal activity, the universities themselves can be the most powerful leaders in curbing theft of copyright materials on campus. Through filtering and other technical From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 5, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

Blog Smart Workshop: Live Report
OK, so right now I'm sitting in Dave Taylor's BlogSmart workshop. The big points so far... From Contentious Weblog on May 5, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Against School
John Taylor Gatto is a former New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year and the author, most recently, of The Underground History of American Education. He was a participant in the Harper's Magazine forum "School on... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 5, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Against School as Presently Constituted.
There is a technical high school in Turner's Falls, in western Massachusetts, which has a cooking program (among a wide variety of training options) that teaches kids how to buy, prepare and serve lunch on weekdays to whoever comes in... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 5, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Mosaico
Un nuevo blog de Prisacom para seguir la marcha de la candidatura de Madrid como sede de los Juegos Olímpicos de 2012: Madrid 2012: la cuenta atrás olímpica, asunto que definirá el Comité Olímpico Internacional el próximo 6 de julio.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 5, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..

Blogs as Windows
I got an e-mail recently from Kevin Delaney who is the Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote the article last fall on the movement to implement classroom blogs in classrooms around the country. He's thinking about a new story idea, one that looks at how Weblogs might be facilitating conversations between parents and their children. The idea came out of the interview he did with the father of one of my students who was quoted in the article. Her father had talked to him about how, quoting his e-mail, "in their busy lives and during teenage years when communication between parents and kids From weblogged News on May 5, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Spyware Infiltrates the Enterprise Sector
Corporate firewalls don't snuff all forms of spyware, leaving room for some malicious programs to eke their way onto enterprise desktops. From ClickZ Stats on May 5, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Google Moves to Become the Ultimate Intermediary
Not long ago Google was looking for "dark fiber," basically unused Internet bandwidth that could be put to purposes that Google understands and the rest of us don't.Now we know at least one purpose: a "web accelerator" that would make Google the ultimate intermediary, placing itself between consumers and content all over the Internet.Think of the business intelligence that would flow from a system where you know what millions of people are looking at on the Interne From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 5, 2005 at 4:46 p.m..

Better use
Seeing a link I had provided lately show up one or two other places has been nice, but the best part has been thinking for a moment or two about the better use others have made of the link. I essentially passed on a link about plagiarism, while others commented and recontextualized and generally turned the material to their own purposes. This is a very nice little experience I'd want students to think about: not just passing on information, as I did, but adding thought and value to it and... From Weblogs in Higher Education on May 5, 2005 at 2:51 p.m..

What is Workflow Learning?
40 Slides bzw. 15:51 Minuten über Workflow Learning, über Performance Support, Web Services und Netzwerke. Sicher nicht die rundeste Präsentation von Jay Cross, aber sie enthält Bilder wie diese. Jay Cross, Internet Time Blog, 9 April 2005 [Kategorien: Trends... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 5, 2005 at 1:46 p.m..

Defining an E-Learning Strategy
Vielleicht ist es nicht dieser Artikel, der Ihre/Eure Aufmerksamkeit findet. Aber Godfrey Parkin schreibt in seinem Blog regelmäßig über Corporate E-Learning-Themen, wobei er nicht versucht, neue Buzzwords zu entwickeln, sondern grundlegende Prozesse in klaren Worten und Schritten zu erklären. Hier... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 5, 2005 at 1:46 p.m..

One in 20 'fall for online fraud'- BBC
Online frauds are becoming more sophisticated. One in 20 UK internet users say they have lost money through online scams, research into spam emails suggests. Almost half say they have received so-called phishing emails aimed at tricking them into reveali From Techno-News Blog on May 5, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

At Dartmouth, Advanced Wi-Fi - Katie Zezima, New York Times
It's not that he doesn't like them or doubts his teaching ability, but Thomas H. Luxon, an English professor at Dartmouth College here, wants to see his students less next semester, hoping they will learn a lot more without having to look at him in a clas From Techno-News Blog on May 5, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Bandwidth Advance Hints at Future Beyond Wi-Fi - JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times
One barrier that has held back the much-hyped convergence of the computer and consumer electronics industries has been the tangle of wires that is needed to connect the cascade of home video, audio, Internet and game gadgets. Now the drive to unwire the From Techno-News Blog on May 5, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

This Dino Eats His Vegetables
The fossils of a previously unknown species of dinosaur turn up in Utah. Paleontologists believe it's the missing link between meat-eating dinosaurs and their plant-eating relatives. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Cracking the Real Estate Code
A user's guide to home economics and beating the expert industry. By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner from Wired magazine. From Wired News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

The Techno Candidate
Forget Al Gore and Howard Dean -- they just gave lip service to technology. Now, New York is seeing a candidate for public office that really gets it. Finally. Commentary by Adam Penenberg. From Wired News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Jeepers Creepers, Bionic Peepers
An electronic retina returns limited vision to six blind patients. Commercial systems are not far behind. By Cyrus Farivar. From Wired News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Saturn's Odd Moon Out
New discoveries bolster the theory that Phoebe, which travels in a direction opposite that of the ringed planet's 33 other moons, came from the solar system's outer reaches. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Judging a Book by Its Contents
Amazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases aren't just a parlor game that condenses a book to its very essence. They're also a way to move curious readers through the retailer's vast catalog. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on May 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Earn High by Playing it Clean
Google AdSense tips and tricks that aren't what you expect. Webmaster editordude asked: ... is it possible to earn high ($1000+) by 'playing it clean'? By that I mean doing everything I can to make it a great site for visitors, all content is original, easy to navigate, ranks high, updated often etc but not go out of my way to earn, so no popups, no large square banner before content etc. It's very common for website operators to make money - or try to anyway - through underhanded means, for example by gaming the search engines with such "search engine From kuro5hin.org on May 5, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Los efectos online en la formación de los trabajadores
Cada vez más las empresas están apostando por incorporar soluciones online en el proceso de formación de sus trabajadores. La actualización de conocimientos y el aprendizaje en el uso de las TIC es un... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 5, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

Libro:
El libro de Marta Mena, Lidia Rodríguez y María Laura Diez fue presentado en la Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires el 30 de abril. ... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on May 5, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

Air Force Sets New Inquiry at Academy
There are complaints that evangelical Christians at the Air Force Academy intimidate those on campus who do not hold the same beliefs. From New York Times: Education on May 5, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Enterprise information portals: The logical next step?
Paul Chin has written an article that compares CMS and portal approaches. To quote: Are EIPs really an evolutionary step up from a well-developed content managed intranet Web site? I don't believe they are; I believe that EIPs and content... From Column Two on May 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

The Content Management Handbook
Tony Byrne has written a review of Martin White's recently-released The Content Management Handbook. To quote: The gem of White's book is that it speaks directly to the beleagured manager who has just been handed a content management project. White... From Column Two on May 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Lecture Podcasts
"I have found it really helpful to have your lectures recorded and available on the web. I always think that I am taking accurate notes but always find myself with questions when I review them later. Being able to go... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 5, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..

New Test Shows Internet Skill
California State University implements procedure to determine collegian's ability to navigate online, assess Web site credibility and use spreadsheet New test shows internet skill - The Daily Aztec - City... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 5, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..

How to get started edublogging
A colleague just asked me by email how she could get started edublogging. She wants to build contacts with 'peers / students/ friends / strangers' in her area (education, culture), get feedback on her PhD research and generally 'get into'... From Teaching and Developing Online. on May 5, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..

Charging for Media Streams from Live Events and Live Blogging (Nancy White)
Stowe Boyd posted a ”blink” on Corante about an event he was going to that he thought was charging for a live video stream. On the train en route to NYC, for the Blogging Goes Mainstream conference, hosted by Business... From Corante: Social Software on May 5, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..

Functional usability of web content management systems
Tony Byrne has written a second article exploring usability and web CMS products. To quote: So here in Part II, I'll examine usability through the lens of system functionality. What does it mean to have a usable workflow? Can a... From Column Two on May 5, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

AECT Summer Leadership Conference
Orlando, Florida July 21-23, 2005 Registrations for the Summer Conference are now being accepted. The regstration fee is $200.00 which includes participation in one of two workshop tracks.... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 4, 2005 at 11:53 p.m..

It's a grand Tam slam!
Ivan Tam is a proud papa again, with the arrival of future EDCMM alumnus Joshua on May 2. Congratulations to the entire Tam family! http://www.ivantam.ca/joshua/... From Rick's Café Canadien on May 4, 2005 at 11:53 p.m..

Rhapsody Downloads Pricing Quirks
Last week, I pointed out that Rhapsody 3.0 introduced what amounts to a price hike and a price drop for purchasing individual tracks and albums.  At least for the time being, there is a way for Rhapsody users to have their cake and eat it, too.  Because many users were dissatisfied with the 3.0 beta, Real posted a link to downloads for those who'd rather run v2.1.  I now have both a copy of Rhapsody 3.0 and 2.1 installed on my system and, ap From A Copyfighter's Musings on May 4, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..

Hollywood Creates Boy Scout Merit Badge on Copyright
Propaganda with a capital P. One by one, our social institutions are being subverted by the copyright industry. That it's this easy to do should be sufficient to give people pause. Or scare them outright. By Declan McCullagh, CNet News.Com, May 3, 2005 [Refer][Research][Refle From OLDaily on May 4, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

Edublogger Praxis
A welter of new (or at least, new to me) education and ed tech blogs have recently come online. Many of them have been listed on this site; others have been sent to me by email or via other weblogs. The list of new blogs this week includes: * Scott Sorley's Education Technology Guidebook * Prufrock's Gifted Education Blog * Scott Adams @ Arkansas Tech * Teachers SpeakOLDaily on May 4, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

SMEX-D
As the Tim Bray reports: "SMEX stands for Simple Message Exchange, and SMEX-D for SMEX Descriptor, an XML language designed to provide simple descriptions of a wide range of Web-Service message exchanges, both REST-based and SOAP-based..." Something to keep an eye on. By Tim Bray, May 3, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on May 4, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

You Own Nothing
Michael Robertson - founder of the Linux company Linspire (formerly known as Lindows) - explains why he funded a $200,000 prize for the first person to install Linux on a Microsoft Xbox. "With an Xbox, the user is merely renting the box. Microsoft decides what software (games) users can load and even how they can use it. When it connects to the net, Microsoft can and has instructed the machine to change its behavior to block certain users, functionality or software that it does not agree with. They are changing the rules after you purchase it to suit their needs and not your needs." I agree wi From OLDaily on May 4, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

mIDm - Self-Identification the World Wide Web
Yesterday I wrote that authentication is not needed and not desired - self-identification would do the trick. Today I would like to explain how a system of self-identification would work. Moreover, I provide in this article some samples of working code and a demonstration that prove that the sort of system I am describing is possible. Even if you didn't agree with yesterday's article (or missed it - I'm told I didn't promote it enough), do read this one. Even if we don't follow what I am writing here to the letter, something like this is needed and From OLDaily on May 4, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..