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When Was Your Blog-Ha Moment?
I've not had any luck starting any memes. And I expect my streak will continue. But I am curious if perhaps others would share via comments or in their own sites, What was your "Blog-Ha" Moment? (Blog Aha!) What was it the triggered the 10,000 watt light bulb going off in your head that screamed, “Wow! There is something really powerful about this way of expression” A good collection of From
Seblogging News on June 4, 2005 at 10:50 p.m..
Panel on blogs for PR folks
The conference to which my tiny, content-free post referred was a get-together of Big Co marketing communication VPs. I was on a panel on blogging with Rebecca Blood, Alan Nelson of CommandPost (who chaired it), and John Hinderaker of Powerline. This panel was the first time in the group's history that they've allowed any proceedings to be on the record. The discussion went well. Rebecca explained what blogs are and aren't. John gave examples — e.g., Rathergate — of how blogs have beat the mainstream media at their own game. I tried to preempt some of the obvious mar From
Joho the Blog on June 4, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..
links for 2005-06-04
Ideascape Hosted all in one blogwikiIMshebang CafeSpot If you need some good independent coffee near you The Drivers of Employee Engagement: Research based on 10,000 NHS employees Scientific American Mind: Natural-Born Liars -- Why do we lie, and why... From
Monkeymagic on June 4, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..
KM re-explained
The K stands for blogs. The M stands for tags. Put 'em together and you get "KM." [Technorati tag: km]... From
Joho the Blog on June 4, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
Dean Shareski is podcasting
Okay, I'm starting to get the message. Podcasting may have a future and can offer educators some fresh angles on old themes. Dean Shareski recently took the leap and offered his first official podcast. I really liked the "cast" and... From
Rick's Café Canadien on June 4, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..
A Donne A Day 9: “Lovers’ Infiniteness”
Donne fully indulges his love of paradox in this poem. At his best, though, Donne lights on a paradox he seems to have invented, but in reality has only discovered. Listen carefully to this poem, several times, and if my reading holds up you'll gradually become aware that a fundamental question of identity, commitment, and [...] From
Stand Up Eight on June 4, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..
Ideas for RSS News Aggregators
Robert Scoble has done a nice job summarizing improvements that he would like to see in news aggregation software: Feature request for RSS News Aggregators: I want to be able to "clean up" my feed subscription list. I want to remove any RSS feed that hasn't published in the past XX days (default to 30). Or, someone could write me a service. I upload an OPML file and it checks to see if anything was published to each of the feeds included within in the past XX days. If not, it deletes the feed and lets me download the new, cleaned, OPML file. < From
RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..
PubSub Blog Submission
Add your blog to PubSub. After a blog is listed with PubSub, all new entries will be instantly matched against all the subscriptions in the PubSub user base and they will notify users them within seconds that you've got something relevant to say. Details -
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RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..
FeedCombine - Meshes Feeds By Providing a New Url
You can customize a feed by meshing multiple feeds into a single content stream. Simply enter the urls of the feeds, select the entries per feed you would like included in the new feed and generate a new feed url. The combined url will pull entries from all the feeds designated. More on
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RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..
Amazon Price Watch Feed Creator
Do you want to keep an eye on your Amazon.com wishlist or a particular Amazon.com/de/co.uk item, want to be informed whether and how much the price has been changed, but don't have the time? The tools at
Watchcow allows users to paste in the URL of an Amazon wishlist or a single product page and build a feed for syndication. From
RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..
Blog Search
Search for a blog, add your own blog, or grab an RSS feed on the blog topic of your choice.
Blog Search is a new service launched Jayde Online. From
RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..
Is the web too large for you? RSS can help you cut through the noise
Do you find that as the Internet grows larger, it becomes more and more difficult to get the information you want? Sure, search engines are great when hunting for specific information, but when it comes to surfing to feed my appetite for daily political and celebrity news, the sheer volume makes it a tiresome process. Every morning I scroll through my favourite websites, blogs and podcasts - which number close to 20 - in search of articles and sound clips of interest. Sometimes there's new info, often there isn't. There's an easier way to go about getting your From
RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
FEC treads into sticky web of political blogs
Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online fundraising and political ads, though bloggers who don't take money from political groups would not be affected. Complete Article -
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RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Venture Capital Powering into RSS Sector
Feedster has joined with NewsGator and Feedburner announcing another round of Venture funding. Feedster, Inc., a rapidly growing Internet search engine and advertising network for blogs and RSS feeds announced today it closed a Series A round of venture financing. Feedster will use the money to accelerate development and marketing and greatly expand its server infrastructure in order to serve searchers and customers better. From
RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Patent Mojo - USPTO Searches via RSS
Turn any USPTO (US patent and trademark) search into an RSS feed. Create feeds to: ~ Receive daily notifications of new results through e-mail or RSS. ~ Watch movement in your industry. ~ Learn quickly about new competitive threats. ~ See where industry leaders are headed. Try out
Patent Mojo From
RSS Blog on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Marketbusters: A Call to Arms for Upper-level Managers Looking to Increase Market Share
Coinstar, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company that puts change-counting machines in groceries and discount stores, figured out a "marketbusting" move, according to Ian MacMillan and Rita Gunther McGrath, authors of a new book called "Marketbusters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth." Coinstar took something that had been an annoyance for both banks and consumers -- counting and handling spare change -- and turned it into a profitable business. MacMillan and McGrath's goal in writing their book was to help managers identify similar high-impact oppo From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Those High-flying Angel Investors: VC Panel Talks Up Creative Financing for Start-ups
Software manufacturing, software programs to defeat spam, new business data technology and web services are all areas of opportunity for entrepreneurs, according to venture capitalists taking part in a panel on creative financing at a recent Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference. And those entrepreneurs who cut costs, sign on angel investors and find other creative ways to finance their start-ups will be rewarded with more equity in their firms assuming they become successful. One always promising but often prickly funding source: angel investors. From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Tune in Tomorrow for the Digital Living Room?
When Microsoft introduced its long-awaited Xbox 360 console on May 12 in an MTV special, its intentions went beyond just fun and games. The company called the long-awaited product a "future-generation game and entertainment system." Its market? The increasingly crowded living room. Keeping in step with Microsoft, a long parade of technology companies is targeting home entertainment and selling wares that were typically offered by consumer electronic giants such as Sony. Is the so-called digital living room fact or fantasy? Who will the winners ultimately be? Wharton experts say the d From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Can Your Firm Develop a Sustainable Edge? Ask John Hagel and John Seely Brown
John Hagel III, a former McKinsey consultant, and John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox, are focusing these days on a question that CEOs often ask themselves: How can their companies develop a sustainable competitive edge that can keep them ahead of the competition? Their answer, which they discuss in a new book, involves ideas that enable firms to step up the pace at which they develop new capabilities. Hagel and Brown will speak about these issues at Supernova 2005, a conference of technologists and business leaders to be held in San Francisco later this month. Kevin Werbach, a p From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Insurance, Life Expectancy and the Cost of Firearm Deaths in the U.S.
While the U.S. operates the most expensive health care system in the world, its citizens are neither healthier nor live longer than citizens in other countries. In addition, while the U.S. is considered among the safest countries in the world, deaths from gunshot wounds are staggeringly high. In 2000, the U.S. recorded close to 11,000 firearm homicides. The European Union reported fewer than 1,300 firearm homicides for the same year. In Japan, the number was 22. Jean Lemaire, professor of insurance and actuarial science at Wharton, argues that these facts should be looked at in tandem. In a re From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Is General Motors Running Out of Gas?
For General Motors, it's been a tough year: a $1.1 billion first-quarter loss, junk-bond status for its debt, a largely lackluster lineup of models, and a mountain of health-care and pension liabilities that builds an immediate cost disadvantage into every vehicle that rolls off the line. But experts at Wharton and elsewhere say that GM is not about to file for bankruptcy protection, that it has a talented management team and that some new models on the horizon may rev up sales. For GM to survive and thrive over the long term, however, the company needs more than a few hot models; it requ From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Women's Health Summit Addresses Crisis Of Global Proportions
The numbers alone are staggering: 58% of people infected with AIDS are women; one-quarter to one-half of all women have suffered abuse from an intimate partner, and two million women and girls are bought and sold into sexual slavery each year. But the dismal statistics are not the only reason why the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine convened the "Penn Summit on Global Issues in Women's Health: Safe Womanhood in an Unsafe World." As participants at the recent Summit noted, the "haves" of this world, particularly educated individuals and educational institutions, b From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Revaluing the Yuan: Where Politics and Economics Collide
As the Bush administration continues to pressure China to allow the yuan to rise against the dollar in order to stave off protectionist legislation in the U.S. Senate, Chinese officials continue to reply that they will not be coerced into taking action by a foreign government meddling in a matter of national sovereignty. Faculty members at Wharton and other China-watchers predict that China will eventually revalue the yuan, probably this year, because it is in China's own long-term interest to do so. These experts also note that the United States, by trying to force the issue in a vocifer From
Knowledge@Wharton on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Educating vs. Credentialing
Last weekend was an interesting one. My son and I spent the weekend together and I noticed a deeply reflective look on his face. As I mentioned before in previous entries, my son is in a four-year Commerce Program at... From
Experience Designer Network on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
Extension: Education vs. Credentialing
In the previous entry Education vs. Credentialing a number of interesting comments and insights were provided by Cyn, Rob, Aaron and my son Justin. I wrote the entry in a manner that attempted to link a conversation I had with... From
Experience Designer Network on June 4, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..
I'm Baaaack!
After several months of being absolutely buried in SUNY work that I couldn’t yet talk about publicly, I am finally re-emerging. Over the next couple of months (starting on this coming Wednesday), I will be able to start talking about the stuff we’ve been working on. And some of it… From
e-Literate on June 4, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
Learning Objects and Stutter Points
A while back I had the opportunity to hear
Kevin Harrigan speak about
CLOE, an Ontario-based feeder repository system for
MERLOT. The group in attendance had just finished a quick rehash of the old and not terribly illuminating “what is a learning object” debate. Kevin (and From
e-Literate on June 4, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
e-Portfolios and Personal Content Management--Rip, Mix, Burn
Last week I had the pleasure of spending most of my working week at
CIT, which is SUNY’s instructional technology conference and also the largest SUNY-wide conference of the year. It was really exciting to see so many folks from all across the system engaged in thinking about how to… From
e-Literate on June 4, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
SUNY's Learning Environments Task Force Report
One of the projects at work that has been keeping me very busy is finally finished and in shape that I can talk about it publicly. The SUNY Learning Network is in the process of planning a transition to a new learning management platform, yet to be identified. We took… From
e-Literate on June 4, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
New CMS mixes in eportfolios and social software
ELGG is a new course management system (CMS), a self-described "hybrid of weblogging, e-portfolios and social networking". It's open source, and can either host or be downloaded for local installation. The designers comment on their work on their own... From
MANE IT Network on June 4, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
Early 20th-century songs for downloading
Turtle's "78 RPM" Jukebox makes available for free downloading a series of songs from 1900-1930. The content is fascinating, and should be useful for students of the period. Moreover, since the tunes were generally recorded long enough ago to be... From
MANE IT Network on June 4, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
Multimedia narrative at Juniata
Quick notes for getting from iMovie to DVD 1. Seting up the movie for sharing In iMovie, click File>Share -pick Format: QT -pick Compression quality Email smallest Web smaller Web Streaming needs streaming server CD-ROM nice, biggest Full Quality: far... From
MANE IT Network on June 4, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..
IPTV vs. Internet Television: Key Differences
What is the difference between IPTV, the Internet Protocol-based TV paradigm heralded by major telecom providers and large media groups (Microsoft included) and the Internet Television painted by the Long Tail phenomenon, Ourmedia, the Internet Archive, Brightcove, and the availability of amazing new technology opportunities such as faster and faster net connections, free unlimited storage space, BitTorrent, MPEG4 and powerful low-cost hardware and software production tools? Photo credit: Alessio Vairetti Are they two opposite and diverging forces or are they the different aspects of the same From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on June 4, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..
Cigarettes kill...bad guys
The Financial Times reports that India is going to start pixellating cigarettes in movies to avoid glamorizing them. Alternatively, they may run health warnings on screen whenever a cigarette appears. Doesn't the Indian government know that in American movies smoking is a sure sign that you're a bad guy/gal whose comeuppance will come long before lung cancer can take hold? The regrettable exception are action heroes who substitute not shaving and smoking for acting talent.... From
Joho the Blog on June 4, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..
Pod Radio
So I went out and got one of those iTrip antennas for my iPod which lets me play all of my podcasts through my car radio. The good news is it's made listening more enjoyable. The bad news is that my normal 20-minute commute to work just isn't long enough consume a full show which means there are plenty of times I start but never end up finishing a particular show. But the other day as I was cruising down I-70 in my really stylin' white mini-van rental from Indianapolis to Greencastle, I was in pod radio heaven. (
weblogged News on June 4, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..
The Digital Divide
"Today, in the fast-changing, affluent nations, despite all inequities of income and wealth, the coming struggle for power will increasingly turn into a struggle over the distribution of and access to knowledge."... From
Adult/Continuing Education on June 4, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..
MSN Snared in Korean Booby-Trap
Hackers plant code in Microsoft's popular South Korean MSN site in what investigators believe was an attempt to steal passwords. The extent of the penetration is unknown, and MSN in the United States is unaffected. From
Wired News on June 4, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..
007 Spacesuit Found in Storage
NASA finds two spacesuits from an old Air Force spy program -- and one of them bears a striking reference to James Bond. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on June 4, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..
Cool Stuff, Made in Taiwan
China's manufacturing boom helps transform nondescript components suppliers into slick gadget makers aiming to take on the biggest U.S. brands. Simon Burns reports from Taipei, Taiwan. From
Wired News on June 4, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..