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Do all web sites need usability testing?
D. Keith Robinson has written a blog entry that asks the question: do all web sites need usability testing? To quote: Recently I've been working on sites where I've done little in the way of formal user testing. From what... From Column Two on June 7, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

EPIC 2015: Where’s the World?
I just finished watching the update to Robin Sloan's imaginitive and thought-provoking Flash movie, "EPIC 2015." This project explores one possible future of media, over the course of the coming decade. It's pure speculation, obviously, but it's generated a lot of interesting discussion. I liked it. I love this sort of creative "what if" thinking. My only criticism is that I think the discussion overlooked most of the world... From Contentious Weblog on June 7, 2005 at 8:53 p.m..

A Graphic for the Golf-Obsessed
The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) has published a very fine U.S. Open interactive graphic by multimedia wizard Joe Weiss (illustrated by Tim Lee). This is one of the better interactive guides to a golf course that I've seen.In a guide to the 18 holes of the Pinehurst Country Club, the graphic mixes 3-D illustrations of each hole; 360-degree photos from various points along each hole; graphic flyovers; and optional video of Pinehurst's golf director describing each hole. It' From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 8:53 p.m..

Too Many B2B Media Lack the Will to Interact
In his blog covering trade journalism, Paul Conley touches on the topic of user comments on media websites (a topic I addressed yesterday).I liked this quote from Conley: "The days in which a B2B publisher can claim to be the voice of an industry are rapidly disappearing. The industries we cover have found their own voices. They no longer need a magazine in order to converse. That's what citizen journalism is al From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 8:53 p.m..

Two minute activist
That's the name of a site belonging to the American Association of University Women, where they record the votes of individual members of Congress, along with other legislative news. From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 7, 2005 at 8:50 p.m..

can't believe it
needed to buy a Mac to experience a harddisk crash for the first time ever. Had a recent backup. Just copied the clone over to the new drive after unsuccessfully trying to use the setup assistant. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 7, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Y tú de mayor... ¿quieres ser Gestor de Contenidos Web?
Me cuenta una amiga con más de cuatro años de experiencia en Gestión de Contenidos Web que el mercado laboral está yendo de mal en peor. Según me consta, lleva durante todo este tiempo realizando un trabajo acorde con su categoría profesional pero poco creativo, demasiado atado a un CMS comercial concreto, de forma que se siente limitada en su desarrollo profesional. Por eso, lleva unos meses buscando un trabajo que le ofrezca otras perspectivas, pero los resultados no son al parecer nada alentadores. La (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Home Projects and Episodes of Marital Discord
For her birthday this year my wife asked for a new toilet. OK, a new bathroom vanity, sink, and fixtures are part of the deal, but asking for a toilet for your birthday does at least sound funnier. As I've told a few of my married lady coworkers about my wife's choice of gifts--assuming they would be amused--I found that asking for home improvement projects as birthday gifts is not uncommon. "Hey, I asked for a new roof one year." "I got new... From Brain Frieze on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Vodafone adds Sony Ericsson handset to 3G portfolio
Designed for Vodafone, Sony Ericsson's V600i is capable of delivering 3G services, including video telephony and download of full track music and video and other mobile content. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Worldwide external disk storage systems market reached €3.1bn in Q1 HYPHEN report
In the first quarter, EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with 21.4 per cent revenue share, followed by HP and IBM. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

EPFL, IBM to create digital 3D model of brain
Scientists from EPFL and IBM are to work together using the capacity of IBM's E-server Blue Gene supercomputer to create a detailed model of the circuitry in the neocortex. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Motorola, IBM work together on open systems platform for telecoms industry
Net Plane Core Services software, an open middleware from Motorola, was first introduced with the company's Avantellis 3000 Series of Advanced TCA-based communications servers. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

European international VoIP bypass calls to surpass €25bn in 2005 HYPHEN report
By 2011, VoIP bypass is expected to account for €35.6bn out of some €122.8bn spent on international calling. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Nortel brings voice, video, messaging to Outlook
Nortel's Multimedia Office Client allows for the integration of real-time multimedia communications within Outlook and enables these services to be used with existing business voice systems. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Atos Origin signs IT deal with Wilson Logistics in Sweden
Atos Origin is to provide Wilson Logistics with an IT capacity and infrastructure planning system, based on IBM's I5 series. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

SAP, Accenture launch billing, payments solution for midsize insurers
SAP's Insurance Collections and Disbursements is one of the company's core insurance solutions designed to meet the billing and payments requirements of the insurance industry. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Microsoft proposals satisfy EU
The European Commission is to market test new proposals from Microsoft on interoperability. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Siemens sells mobile phones unit to Benq
Taiwanese mobile manufacturer Benq is to purchase Siemens' mobile division for €350m. However, the phones will continue to be sold under the Siemens brand. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on June 7, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Do You Read Danish?
Hi, everyone. Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I was in Washington, DC to deliver a workshop for a major client, and hobnobbing with several of my media cohorts for a few days. I'm back in Boulder, CO now and am just digging out from under the backlog. Recently, an article ran in the Danish media that included an interview with me. I'd love a translation. I would deeply appreciate it if some Danish-fluent CONTENTIOUS reader would kindly send me an English translation of "Fantastiske muligheder, frygteligt navn," by Karen Grønkjær Kjeldsen, eJour. Thanks! From Contentious Weblog on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

National Education Technology Plan
The National Center for Educational Statistics has recently released information on computer and Internet use among children in nursery school and students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. National Education Technology Plan... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Diversity fuels student enrollment boom.
Fueled by rising immigration and the baby boom echo, U.S. public school enrollment has surpassed the previous all-time high set in 1970 and is expected to increase steadily to a peak of 50 million students in 2014, the U.S. Census... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Professional Development Tips
The best way to help your teachers is to identify what they really need to ensure student success and to improve their teaching practice. How do you do this as a professional developer? Many times we do not have the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

More Preschoolers going online.
Before they can even read, nearly one out of every four children in preschool is learning a skill that even some adults have yet to master: using the internet. Some 23 percent of children in nursery school--kids ages 3, 4,... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Blended Learning Resources
Blended learning combines online with face-to-face learning. The goal of blended learning is to provide the most efficient and effective instruction experience by combining delivery modalities. Blended Learning at GrayHarriman.com#1... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

E-learning Resources
E-learning is the effective learning process created by combining digitally delivered content with learning support services. E-Learning at GrayHarriman.com... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Online Learning
Online learning, also referred to as Web-based learning, is learning that takes place via a computer connected to the Internet. Typically the learner logs into a system and accesses information from an instructor or tutorial. The learner then follows an... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Distance Learning Resources
It is learning takes place when the instructor and the learner are not in the same physical location. It can also take place if the instructor and the learner are in the same location but not at the same time.... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

GrayHarriman.com
Information on e-learning, online learning, distance learning, blended learning, adult learning, and related resources. E-Learning Resources at Gray Harriman.com... From Teaching and Developing Online. on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

A New and Updated Epic 2015
EPIC 2014, the already legendary Flash movie made by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson, has now been updated. It's only natural, since the 2014 version had some predicitions for 2005 that didn't happen. Now there's a new, updated version that also has some interesting predictions.Typically, though, the makers can only mix the flavors they already know, which means the new EPIC 2015 ends with a future setting that looks like a mix b From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Smart Tradeoffs for More Local News
On May 22, John Robinson, editor of the Greensboro (North Carolina) News & Record, announced in his blog that his paper is ditching its $34,000 annual subscription to the New York Times news service. He writes, "Given our direction in focusing on local news, we could certainly devote the $34,000 a year we spend on the Times reports better elsewhere."Over at First Draft, Tim Porter explored the implications of Robinson's difficult choice in "< From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

EP3: Visual, Flashy, Just for Youth
If you don't like it, maybe you are too old. That can be one of the conclusions when surfing through the online supplement for young people launched today by ElPais.es, website of the Spanish newspaper El Pais.EP3 is a cross-media project: print, online, and mobile. The website is based on Flash, which allows a very visual interface embedding video and audio in a seamless presentation.The great challenge of the project has been the creation of a back-office tool that enables the dynamic integration of all this multimedia content From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

ONA In, API Out for Cyberjournalist.net
Jonathan Dube's wonderful online-journalism website, Cyberjournalist.net, has entered a partnership with the Online News Association. Previously, Dube had worked out an arrangement where the site was published by The Media Center of the American Press Institute, but that's ended after three years.Cyberjournalist.net focuses on news and analysis of how the Internet, convergence, and new technologies affect the news media. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Repeat Content Becomes Invisible in E-mail
The New York Times for some time now has been running a series of articles on class. Many days in its customizable e-mail newsletter (which I receive) there's a promo for the latest article in the series. But each promo, day after day, is accompanied by the same small graphic, shown below. From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Candidates Get Newspaper Blogs in Colombia
El Tiempo, Colombia's main newspaper, has offered to host blogs for all the candidates in the country's presidential election. The vote isn't until May 2006, but the race is already heating up.Candidates will be able to update their blogs whenever they want, just as any blogger would. However, there are some limits on the content. The newspaper's editors say that while they will not edit the candidates' blog submissions, they will not allow aggressive attacks on rival candidates.The candidate blogs will be linked from Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Ads or No Ads on RSS Feeds? Answer May Be Both
As RSS feeds (a.k.a., webfeeds) become more popular, the debate rages (well, among Web-publishing geeks who care about such things): full content or excerpts meant to entice clicks to a webpage? Well, perhaps the answer is to offer both: A full-content feed that includes ads (so that there's money to be made from people who read a website's content without ever leaving their RSS reader interface). An abbreviated headline-only or headline+blurb feed with no ads, meant to get people to click through to a we From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Roadblocks to User Feedback Still in Place
Warning: I'm stepping onto my soapbox. ... It's just that I was reading Verne Kopytoff's story from the San Francisco Chronicle today about citizen journalism. It's a fine piece, covering many of the early initiatives in this new slice of the media world.However, I have a quibble with one part of the story. Kopytoff uses Barry Parr, who publishes the one-man local news site Coastsider.com covering San Mateo's coas From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

African Students Demonstrate Innovative Blogging Coverage
I found this example of good multimedia conference blogging and moblogging happening at the tip of Africa. It shows how effectively blogging and online multimedia can be used to report on an event on almost zero budget.At the recent launch of Creative Commons South Africa, attended by none other than the father of Creative Commons himself, Lawrence Lessig, a group of Rhodes University (South Africa) new-media journalism From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Ynetnews.com: Where Israelis and Arabs 'Talk'
This is fascinating. Alan Abbey, managing director of Ynetnews.com, the English-language website associated with Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, has noted that the site is picking up significant traffic from the Arab world -- currently about 22 percent.He explains: "We seem to be providing a rare location where Arabs, Jews, Palestinians and Israelis and others can sit in the same 'room' and talk -- well, they're mostly shouting -- to each other." He attributes the Arab traffic to awareness of the Y From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Will Apple Bite Media?
You may remember several months back that Apple sued several blogs for publishing trade secrets. In April, Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that Apple could subpoena e-mail records to determine the source of the leak.One would think that mainstream media would jump all over this to help stop the slippery slope of naming sources. On review, it would appear that they don't need to. Last Friday, CNET From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on June 7, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Reading and independent study course application deadlines
To all current students and faculty in Educational Communications and Technology at the U of S. Grad Studies just sent this reminder about deadlines for 898.3 and 899.6 classes. If you plan to propose one of these courses for the... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 7, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..

Your constituency mailing list
I'm not sure there is currently any way for an American to test the concept, but MySociety.org has set up a site for people to instigate exchanges with their representatives in Parliament. When enough voters sign up at the Your Constituency Mailing List site, an email goes to the representative inviting an update about the work he or she is doing on the... From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 7, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..

They work for you
At their watchdog site, They Work For You offers web searches and daily email updates that show everything a citizen's representative says in Parliament. It may just be the difference between British and American English, but I like the aggressive sound of the email link, which looks like this: Email me whenever... From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 7, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..

U of T's CMS Selection Consultation Process
http://www.utoronto.ca/cat/services/lms_rfp.html Early this year the University of Toronto issued an RFI to select an organization-wide CMS. This site is part of the public documentation of the process. The results of the faculty and student surveys are of particular interest to me - in some places there seem to be a slight disconnect (say between the facultys' and students' perception of the need for quiz and test support) while in others I feel rather vindicated by the results (in particular, the overwhelming From EdTechPost on June 7, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Seems a Little Fishy
Is this NPD Group survey consistent with any other similar research?  WinMX on top seems a little odd; has there been an upward trend for them in any other studies?  As Paul Resnikoff points out, the survey excluded eDonkey, eMule, and BitTorrent, so on that level alone the study seems fishy.  Plus, NPD's conclusion is rather overstated. Yes, more and more people are trying out iTunes, but are they becoming long-term customers? How do the total num From A Copyfighter's Musings on June 7, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Gaming @ Your Library Sessions Blogged!
Today's Tech Summits on gaming in libraries were fan-tast-ic! I couldn't have asked for better presenters, as expressed by the participants themselves who noted on the evaluations how enthusiastic and knowledgeable Eli and Erin were (are!). Everyone learned a lot, and the actual game play was a BIG hit. Several people told me that they hadn't expected to enjoy themselves so much, and that you truly don't understand gaming until you experience it yourself. You haven't lived until you've seen a roomful of librarians competing against each other in Mario K From The Shifted Librarian on June 7, 2005 at 4:04 p.m..

Gaming Photos Up on Flickr
I just finished posting on Flickr a set of pictures from today&amprsquo;s gaming in libraries workshops. If you weren&amprsquo;t able to attend, you really missed a great session!BTW, I tagged them all &ampldquo;gaminginlibraries&amprdquo; in case anyone else wants to play along, too. Or maybe we should start a group? From The Shifted Librarian on June 7, 2005 at 4:04 p.m..

NEASIST Podcasts Now Available
If you are subscribed to the NEASIST blog with a podcast-capable aggregator, you already have the MP3s on your hard drive, but for everyone else, the files are now available at the following links:Megan&amprsquo;s Talk (22.8 MB, 1:06:10 minutes)My Talk (20.6 MB, 59:54 minutes)The Shifted Librarian on June 7, 2005 at 4:04 p.m..

Taking the Heat
So Brent&amprsquo;s all angry at me now. When I first scheduled the gaming sessions, we talked about him coming with me for the day, but I hadn&amprsquo;t mentioned it since then, just in case. He&amprsquo;s referred to it a couple of times, asking when it was coming up, but I always just responded with a vague &ampldquo;soon.&amprdquo; This week I found out he had an English test that day, so I didn&amprsquo;t mention it at all. You can imagine how upset he was when he found out where I had been all day. It didn&amprsquo;t help that he watched me upload the pictures to Flickr, ei From The Shifted Librarian on June 7, 2005 at 4:04 p.m..

Innovative Gets Busy!
I&amprsquo;m totally snowed under writing grants and dealing with some medical stuff going on at home, but I just had to post about this. Someone forwarded to me Innovative&amprsquo;s June 2005 newsletter (PDF). See if you can spot why from the following list of just a few things they will be introducing in upcoming releases:A program registration module that uses the patron database to let your users register for events.Spell-check for searches in the catalog (let&amprsquo;s add auto suggest, too, eh?). From The Shifted Librarian on June 7, 2005 at 4:04 p.m..

Being filmed by 3 cameras at once!
Sometimes it's really interesting to live in the centre of the administrative capital of the Netherlands. Today we had a referendum for ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. I had to vote in the city hall. As this is close to the parliament buildings a lot of camera crews had chosen the city hall to film some voters, including me. … From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Working Group Note: SSML say-as Attribute Values
2005-05-26: The Voice Browser Working Group has released SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values as a Working Group Note. The note provides definitions for the interpret-as, format, and detail attributes that cover many of the most common uses for the say-as element in the Speech Synthesis Markup Language. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Working Draft: XHTML 2.0
2005-05-27: The HTML Working Group has released the seventh public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in document structuring. See the introduction for the differences between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 works in existing browsers. The draft includes an implementation in RELAX NG with DTD and XML Schema implementations to follow. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

W3C Celebrates Ten Years Leading the Web in Europe
2005-05-31: The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its European presence with a celebration on 3 June at CERAM in the Sophia Antipolis Science Park, France. The program includes "How it All Started at CERN," "The Web as Unifying Force in Europe," "Policies Shaping the Web in Europe," discussion, a press briefing and reception. Read the media advisory and more about W3C10 Europe. (Photo credit: Bert Bos. News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

W3C Talks in June
2005-06-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Working Draft: SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format
2005-06-01: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Results XML Format. The SPARQL query language offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Working Draft: SPARQL Protocol for RDF
2005-06-01: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
2005-06-05: Addressing comments from the previous Last Call, the XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group released three updated requirements documents and a Last Call Working Draft for the XQuery and XPath languages. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. XPath is used to select parts of XML documents. Visit the XML home page. News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
2005-06-06: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 5-7 June in Mandelieu, France. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29 November - 1 December in Montréal, Québec, Canada. (Photo credit: Bert Bos. News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

In search of shared-infrastructure SOA
There's more than one kind of SOA, and the location of services vis-a-vis the firewall isn't necessarily a useful way to distinguish among them. Political taxonomy makes sharper distinctions. Motorola's central leadership was able to mandate shared infrastructure from the get-go. For the federated states of NEHEN, shared infrastructure will unfold much more slowly in a series of incremental steps. In light of these different models, the progress of species of SOA along parallel evolutionary tr From Jon's Radio on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Libraries, directories, short lists, and glue
This morning I spoke with Richard Wallis, who is the technical development manager for Talis, one of the OPAC (online public access catalog) vendors whose clients' libraries are accessible using LibraryLookup. Talis is one of a handful of OPACs for which I'd built static lists of bookmarklets, based on information I'd gathered from libdex.com. Maintaining those long lists was problematic, though, as maintaining long lists always is. So last From Jon's Radio on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

The ultra-thin InfoCard
Over the weekend I needed to log in to eBay from somebody else's machine. The browser was Firefox, but it would have been impolite to install Greasemonkey and Password Composer, or even to install a bookmarklet, so instead I just used the live version of the password generator that has dramatically streamlined my online life in recent months. ... From Jon's Radio on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Web-friendly rich Internet apps, continued
Last fall I asked a question that I'll probably keep on asking in various contexts: Can rich Internet apps be web-friendly?. In response, Macromedia chief software architect Kevin Lynch created an example showing how the state of a Flash app could be exposed on the browser's URL-line, and thus made available for bookmarking, deep linking, and scripted integration. There was also some Jon's Radio on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

A progress report on InfoWorld's del.icio.us experiment
Now that InfoWorld's experiment with del.icio.us tagging has been running for a while, it's a good time to step back and assess how things are going. Let's start with this column on AJAX,which I wrote back in April. If you visit that page, you'll find this widget near the top of the right column: ... From Jon's Radio on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Grand challenges, revisited
In 1995 we ran a BYTE feature entitled The Grand Challenges. The story began: Even using the biggest, most powerful computers available today, we still cannot reliably predict the weather for next week in any significant detail. And this is just one of a number of problems that we would like to solve using computers, but which From Jon's Radio on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

When services go wrong
Third-party billing services should be as fungible as disk drives, and like disk drives, nobody should have to depend on a single source for them. Natural selection will tend to weed out those service providers who require their service consumers to wield heavy debugging artillery. But it's still the early days of SOA, and multiple sourcing isn't always an option. Even when there are multiple sources for general-purpose services, there will always be special cases. When a strategic partnership is unique, the service relationship that From Jon's Radio on June 7, 2005 at 4:03 p.m..

Gladney Presents an Educational and Informative International Adoption Seminar
Gladney presents an educational and informative international adoption seminar. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

To Love Children Educational Foundation to Take Part in International Development Series
To Love Children Educational Foundation International (TLC), a non-governmental organization dedicated to sustainable educational development for girls in order to break the cycle of poverty in the developing world, announced today that its President/CEO/Founder, David Kenneth Waldman, will take part in the upcoming International Development Series in San Francisco. His talk will focus on the importance of girl education as the best investment and as a proven key for development in the developing world as cited by UNICEF. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

PlattForm Introduces Public Relations Department, New Services
Expanding its already comprehensive services, PlattForm, a leader in marketing and advertising within the postsecondary education industry, has implemented a public relations department. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Capstone Partners Advises International Education Finance Corporation on its Acquisition by Collegiate Funding Services, Inc.
Capstone Partners Advises International Education Finance Corporation on its Acquisition by Collegiate Funding Services, Inc. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

World's First Online Memory Course for Everyone
Unique online,interactive Memory Improvement Course. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Harlem's Yasmin H. Cornelius Declares Candidacy for Historic New York City Council Race
Flanked by more than 250 supporters, community residents, and curious onlookers gathered at Harlem's famed 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, Yasmin H. Cornelius today officially declared her intention to become the next New York City Council member representing District 9. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Training Classes - The Training Directory Launches UK Training Portal
Connecting people who want to learn with people who love to teach - Training-Classes.com expands coverage to the United Kingdom - launching http://www.training-classes.co.uk/ specifically for Training in the U.K. The UK training portal provides all the features of http://www.training-classes.com/ but focuses on training providers and training courses in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

They Know What You'll Do Next Summer
School will be coming to an end in June but the opportunities to learn are just beginning. Education Consultant Laura Wood discusses the importance parents place on summer experience programs to give their children a fun and educational vacation. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

New Faculty Bring New Sessions To Rawlings Writing Workshop In Gainesville
The annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Writing the Region Workshop July 20-24 in Gainesville, Florida features new presenters and new sessions for new and returning participants. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Effective Citizens Understand that Today's Children, are Tomorrow's Future - Positive Steps and Wisdom to De-polarization Positions will be Fun for Effective Citizens
Effective citizens understand that Today's Children, are Tomorrow's Future, and can use this wisdom to de-polarize their positions. One would wonder why they let the fringe dominate representative discussions. Our society can be civilized by the "80% center" with a focus on being fair to 100% of age 3-6 children. It would be powerful, and positive to take back this "strength of the middle". [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Workers Offer Advice to New Bosses: Ask Employees What They Think
34% Of 584 participants in a recent Badbossology.com survey sponsored by Development Dimensions International said that if they switched roles with their boss tomorrow, the first thing they would do is ask their employees what they would like to change versus replacing an employee, reorganizing or clarifying expectations with their boss. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Head Coach Joins Empyrean Management Group Team
Empyrean Management Group. Inc. a leading provider of outsourced HR, recruiting, and training services based in Blue Bell, PA announced the hiring of Kevin Faulkner today. Faulkner joins EMG as a Training Consultant with an emphasis on Diversity. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Spelman College Students Compete in International RoboCup in Japan--First Woman's College and the First Black Institution To Qualify For This Competition
Six female Spelman College students have qualified to compete in the international RoboCup competition in Japan in July 2005. Spelman is the first undergraduate school, the first woman's instition and the first Black institution to achieve this honor. The ladies will be practicing with their robots in a RoboCup Soccer field in the science lab at Spelman College until they leave for Japan. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Ohio Governor Bob Taft to Welcome Foreign Nurses to Capital University and OhioHealth
Ten Filipino nurses arrive in Columbus for masters degree, academic and clinical training at Capital University and OhioHealth hositals; Four and a half year program will improve healthcare in Ohio and the Philippines [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Free Piano Lessons Online Every Week for 101 Weeks
Two years of weekly free piano lessons on chords and chord progressions is available from PlayPiano.com in Medford, OR. Piano players of all levels can benefit from these free piano lessons online covering piano chords and chord progressions, including basic music theory such as chord formation, and styles in music such as jazz and gospel. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago Hosts Master Chef Marcel Biro
Cooking School inspires students with European-Inspired Cuisine [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

FreshED - A Pacific and MÄORI Youth Education Festival 2005
A new innovative approach to showcasing careers is finding favor with many colleges. In response to the success of FreshED in 2004, the one day Education Expo has expanded into a two day Education Festival, incorporating a series of Fa'alogo mai - Listen up workshop sessions, pacific island theatre - Frangipani Perfume, role models and the first Inter College Pacific Island and Mäori Arts Exhibition. The Festival is expected to attract over 5,000 students, youth and their families. On July 8th and 9th 2005, the Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre in Manukau City will open its doors and w From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

SCB Solutions, Inc. Delivers Strong Logical Access as an HID iCLASS Development Partner Program
Protecting access to workstations and networks is vital to the protection of company assets in today's corporate environment. To meet that need, SCB Solutions, Inc. has joined HID Corporation's iCLASS Development Partner Program. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

CME Outfitters Announces Live psychCME TV Activity: "Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: The Convergence of Medication Strategies" Premieres Wednesday, July 6, 2005
CME Outfitters, LLC, nationally accredited provider of multidisciplinary medical education programming and related healthcare communications services, is pleased to announce an upcoming live and interactive CE activity titled "Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: The Convergence of Medication Strategies." Offered as a live satellite broadcast, webcast, and telephone audioconference premiering Wednesday, July 6, 2005, from 12:00 p.m.HYPHEN1:00 p.m. ET, the activity will focus on providing current and clinically relevant educational information regarding the convergence of pharmacologic agents in From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Beasley Enterprises, Carolinas' ALS Association Chapter Produce Significant Returns
Beasley Enterprises and its subsidiary Eastern Fuels directed a yearlong campaign to help support the Jim "Catfish" Hunter Chapter of The ALS Association. The company's staff worked selflessly to raise awareness and funding needed to help search for a cure for ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Teenage Students Right Historical Wrong
Chicago area teenagers help to reopen 40-year-old Mississippi Burning Case; uncover the identity of mysterious "Mr. X." [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Lake Champlain Chocolates Offers Free Factory Tours - Free Chocolate-Making Demonstrations 9/10, 10/22 & 11/12/2005 - Picked As "Yankee Magazine Editor's Choice"
Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC) announced today that it was named an Editors' Choice in the Yankee Magazine Travel Guide to New England, an honor reserved for noteworthy travel destinations. Free guided factory tours are offered weekdays on the hour from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the 750 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont location. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

As Was Publishes "The EverySeller's(TM) Guide to eBay: What Every Seller Should Know about eBay Strategy"
As Was, eBay's first Certified Service Provider, announces their new e-book to help new and veteran sellers develop and evolve their eBay selling strategies. Purchase of this e-book comes with a free half hour of phone consulting time with the authors so readers can have questions answered and discuss how the content relates to their specific businesses. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:02 p.m..

Discover How My Success University is Teaching the Average Network Marketer to Explode their Income Using Internet Marketing Promotions to Generate their own MLM Leads
Everyday average people are generating a minimum of 10 to 30 fresh targeted prospects to talk to about their network marketing company of choice with the next great automated Internet marketing promotions system provided within the professional Internet marketing course, - MySuccessUniversity. Access to the My Success University's turnkey automated marketing system can be viewed through the introductory 9-minute online flash video movie at: http://www.megacash123.com [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Restoring Life Skills is Key to Success in Drug Rehab
Narconon Arrowhead helps addicts improve communication and perceptions as part of its successful drug rehabilitation program [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

The Apogee Foundation Awards Prizes and Grants to World Class Performing Artists in Russia
Apogee has awarded four of its most prestigious Premiere Awards to artists, instructors and directors in the former Soviet Union as part of its ongoing mission of promoting excellence in the performing arts. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

UP Aerospace, Inc. Slashes Cost-Barrier to Space by 95% -- Provides Affordable Space Access to Business and Education Markets
UP Aerospace, Inc. (www.upaerospace.com), the world's only private company with a fleet of space-flying rockets, has dramatically lowered the industry's cost for space access. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

TheFreeDictionary.com Continues One-Stop Destination Strategy with Addition Of InvestorWords.com
A list of 6,000 terms from "The Biggest, Best Investing Glossary on the Web" is now available at TheFreeDictionary.com with a single click. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Power Yoga Getaway with Hollywood Celebrity Trainer
Three-day trip to Los Angeles with one-on-one yoga classes with Mark Blanchard [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005] From PR Web on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

NYPL event with Steven Johnson and Jeff Tweedy
The event I did with Johnson and Tweedy at the New York Public Library is now available in video and audio formats at Wilcoworld. Notice the license. From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination
A little-known piece of intellectual property, the certification mark, provides a viable mechanism for employers to commit not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. With just a few clicks of the mouse, at www.fairemploymentmark.org any employer in the country can license the "Fair Employment Mark." It is an... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Managing Information (and Privilege)
Let me take a stab at mapping out what Ian and I are going to try to accomplish over the next week. As Larry mentioned, we've just published Straightforward - which makes the argument that mobilizing heterosexual support is crucial to making progress on securing equal rights for gay, lesbian,... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Why Would Anybody in Their Right Mind . . .
The Fair Employment licenses and the Creative Comment licenses face similar kinds of resistence. We often hear people say that no employer in its right mind would volunteer for legal liability. But this sounds a lot like people who say that noone in their right mind would ever throw away... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

On Privilege and Straightforward
I really enjoyed reading the comments on my post from yesterday, and the many responses those comments engendered. Several people have already said much of what I would say to explain our references to privilege and the role it plays in mobilizing heterosexual allies. One point I should be up... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Requiring Private Discrimination Warnings
Lots of the comments to Jennifer's posts worried that managing information meant (a) lying or (b) burdening individuals' rights of association. But here's an informational proposal for dealing with the Boy Scouts' discrimination that promotes both honesty and informed association.... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

The Three A's - Acknowledge, Apologize, Act
Our proposal for a new statute requiring private warnings and acknowledgements can also be applied at the individual level. Instead of just thinking of the duty to warn as a legislative mandate, we might start thinking of discrimination warnings as a personal moral duty of both the discriminatory organizations and... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Book Contest
1. We'll send a free book to the first person who gets a business with at least 10 employees to license the fair employment mark. 2. We'll send a free book to the person who gets the largest number of employees covered by the license in the next month. 3.... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Gay Like Me
In his 1995 Chicago Law Review article, The Regulation of Social Meaning, Larry Lessig discussed some of the rhetorical devices that can change a society's shared understanding of the meaning conveyed by a given word or action. One of these, Lessig explained, was "ambiguation," which gives "a particular act, the... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Asking Different Questions in a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Army
Here's a proposal for making progress toward equality in the military that is again an example of both ambiguation and informational incrementalism. It comes from Chapter 6 of Straightforward. Ian and I support the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." But is there anything that can be done as a... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

A New Marriage Decision (for Heterosexuals)
A little over one year ago, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial court made history with its 2004 decision in Goodridge, generating a new option for gay couples: marriage. We all know the controversy (and state constitutional amendments) these changes have wrought. Much of the focus has been on same-sex couples and... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

How can you promote marriage equality?
A quick note: I've heard from a couple of people who've tried to sign the pledge that the form is broken. We're trying to fix the problem and will let you know as soon as the form is up and running again. My apologies for the inconvenience. Despite the Goodridge... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

And Now For Something Completely Different -- Options instead of Property
Larry Lessig has led the charge in showing that the IP law has gone overboard in extending property rights. In lots of contexts, we would do better with mandated licensing fees that give non-owners the option to use and pay a fee. I've just published a book called Optional Law:... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Love, Family, and Fairness, or How to Raise a Gay Friendly Child
Imagine that one day you hear your child at play say to another "The way you throw is so gay." It seems "gay" has become a catch-all insult. How do you respond? You could just let it pass. After all, home and family should provide a refuge from the clamor... From Lessig Blog on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Science Week 2005
This year's National Science Week celebrations will be boosted with an Australian Government grant of $400,000 to help stage 38 innovative projects across the country. Successful project grants include: 'Frying and Flying Physics' in regional NSW, 'Hop To It! Frogs as Friends and Careers' in the ACT, and 'Cow Sense' in Tasmania. From EdNA Online on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Teacher Education Inquiry Begins
Representatives from the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training appeared before the House Education Committee at the first public hearing at Parliament House, Canberra, for its major inquiry into teacher education. The purpose of the Inquiry is to examine and report on the scope, suitability, organisation, resourcing and delivery of teacher training courses in Australia's public and private universities and to examine the preparedness of graduates to meet the current and future demands of teaching in Australia's schools. The first public hearing was held Thursday From EdNA Online on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Latest Literacy and Numeracy Results Available
The 2001 Reading, Writing and Numeracy Benchmark results for Year 7 and the 2002 Reading, Writing and Numeracy Benchmark results for Years 3, 5 and 7 students have been released by the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA). While data for Years 3 and 5 has been available since 1999 for Reading, and since 2000 for Writing and Numeracy, this is the first time nationally comparable data concerning the performance of Year 7 students, measured against the national Reading, Writing and Numeracy benchmarks, has been published. From EdNA Online on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Enterprise and Career Education Programmes
Businesses around Australia are reaping the rewards of inviting enthusiastic young people to participate in their workplaces. Speaking at the Go Career seminar in Darwin recently, Northern Territory State Office Manager for the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Mr Greg Gibbs, explained to Northern Territory businesses how they could benefit from training high school students in the workplace through Enterprise and Career Education programmes. From EdNA Online on June 7, 2005 at 4:01 p.m..

Speakers get thin as a sheet
Blog: PNI, a Korean research firm, has developed speakers made of thin transparent sheets studded with electrodes, according to... From CNET News.com on June 7, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..

'Digital bullying' threatens kids
Blog: One in five kids has been bullied or threatened via their mobile phone or computer, according to a study by U.K. children's... From CNET News.com on June 7, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..

IBM brings Power blades to telcos
JS20 blade server, a model based on Big Blue's PowerPC 970FX chip, is available for use in the BladeCenter T chassis designed for telecommunications customers. From CNET News.com on June 7, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..

Apple opens up open-source effort
Mac maker revamps its software development process in response to complaints by open-source programmers behind Safari browser. From CNET News.com on June 7, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..

Online Student Orientation Demonstration
TEL and the TLC are hosting a Brown Bag lunch session on June 16th in the TLC Boardroom on the U of S campus. Kathy Schwarz will be discussing and demonstrating the Online Student Orientation. This orientation may be of... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 7, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

Halley interviews Megnut
I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but Halley's interview of Megnut sounds like a good 'un.... From Joho the Blog on June 7, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Attention
Tom Matrullo begins a post with this: Walter Benjamin notes that Malebranche called attentiveness "the natural prayer of the soul." It goes on from there, but you've got your money's worth with that one line.... From Joho the Blog on June 7, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Curriculum Foundation (TCF) Grants announced
The Curriculum Foundation (TCF) is helping to bring the Arts alive through literacy. Four Canadian teachers will receive grants up to $2000 each to develop their proposed, innovative ideas into classroom ready materials available free and downloadable at www.curriculum.org by... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 7, 2005 at 2:53 p.m..

Moodle, Open Source, and the "Mission Critical" Bugaboo
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=22640&ampparent=107125 One of the favourite weapons in the "Fear Uncertainty and Doubt" arsenal is the claim that such-and-such open source app is maybe nice, but not quite "enterprise ready," not able to support "mission critical" computing. And certainly, in the realm of Course Management Systems, it's one you will hear levied at all of the open source contenders. more... From EdTechPost on June 7, 2005 at 2:51 p.m..

China's effect on the Internet
Fascinating informal discussion at the Berkman Center this morning about the effect the next billion users will have on the Internet. What will it mean if and when standards are no longer driven by the US and Europe? Which devices will dominate? Whose routers? Will the new dominant hardware come with control hooks built in? (As noted in the discussion, CALEA and Intel's burned-in DRM capability show that it's not only non-US/EU states that want to control and/or monitor communications.) Will GSM becomes the basis for non-mobile communication? Will government filtering of access becom From Joho the Blog on June 7, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Rosen (and Others) on Journalism
As a journalism major in the 70s, Watergate was always central to my image of what it meant to be a journalist. Even in the 20 some odd years that I taught high school journalism, I pointed to the work of "Woodstein" at the Washington Post as a model of the Fourth Estate, the watchdog function of the press in action. After dozens of screenings of "All the President's Men," I still get almost mesmerized by the process those reporters used to help bring down the presidency, and I love that moment when Jason Robards looks at his two young reporters From weblogged News on June 7, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

Edutopia On Blogs--AARRGGH!
Now don't get me wrong, I reeaaalllyyy appreciate the mention of Weblogg-ed as a "smart site" in the "Blog On" story in Edutopia's new July issue. Really. But can anyone tell me why, in a magazine that is all about education, is the act of blogging represented by this picture: Anyone? ANYONE????????? And this definition of blogs: From weblogged News on June 7, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

Phil Edwards, apparently
have just found Phil Edwards' blog, Apparently... . It's a place to collect my thoughts on user-centred ontologies, ethnoclassification, folksonomies, emergent semantics and so on. I'm looking at this area as part of a project for a repository of social... From Monkeymagic on June 7, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

A Blog Post Says "Here It Is, Dig It"
"Lee Lefever picture "A while back I posted about the differences between message boards and blogs. Being that it was one of my most popular posts ever (and something I use in meetings often), I still think about the differences.It's so interesting to me how their respective design and semantic differences send messages regarding their use. Here are some examples and other thoughts...A blog post says “Here it is, dig it”A message board post says “your turn&rdq From Seblogging News on June 7, 2005 at 10:50 a.m..

BridgeBlog aggregator
Global Voices has set up a Bloglines page that aggregates feeds from "bridgebloggers" — bloggers giving insight into their countries. Very interesting to poke around in. For example, From the Rock in Libya has been writing about trying to reconnect with a friend after communication was cut off by sanctions. At Amarji - A Heretic's Blog the Syrian author Ammar Abdulhamid gives a vivid picture of the life of dissent. And at Indonesia - Everyone's Tagged Photos you'll find Flickr's Indonesia tagstream. . [Technorati tags: blogs GlobalVoices]... From Joho the Blog on June 7, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Blogs Mean Business
Another snippet to add to the board memo for schools who have banned the Read/Write Web. My reading in brackets: According to Kathy Harris, group vice-president and specialist in applications manager analysis at technology research firm Gartner, knowledge workers are picking up new technologies on their own faster than enterprises [schools] can begin to understand them. Employees [Students] have been using a lot of technologies such as instant messaging and blogs in their jobs [personal lives], but b From weblogged News on June 7, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

What's at stake
Here is one reading of what's at stake in society today, by Kurt Spellmeyer: If culture is where we live, so to speak, if it gives form to our values and extends them into the future, then the promise of democracy remains unrealized so long as most of us are uninvolved in the making of culture itself. (Arts of Living 7) Most education bloggers don't have any trouble connecting with this task, I suspect, for themselves and, more and more, for their students too, in... From Weblogs in Higher Education on June 7, 2005 at 9:53 a.m..

Teaching and Learning With Digital Resources: Web-Wise 2005
This month's issue of First Monday features the Web-Wise conference, running transcripts from selected papers presented at the conference. It's a bit of an odd choice of conference, and the papers are all case studies of e-learning projects or products. By Various Authors, First Monday, June 6, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

New Macs: Intel Inside
There has been a wave of commentary across the internet about Apple's decision to switch to Intel processors. See the Edu_RSS Apple category for coverage. My own take is that Apple is getting on the inside of the barrier that's about to be created by Intel's in-chip DRM support. I don't see any other commentators raising this, though. By John G. Spooner, eWeek, June 6, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

SUNY's Learning Environments Task Force Report
Interesting report documenting a study group's recommendations for future development at State University of New York (SUNY). As Michael Feldstein says, "it provides some rare insight into a large system like SUNY." Don't skip the appendices; that's where most of the content is. By Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, June 5, 2005 [Refer][Research< From OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

ICT & Creativity
You could spend all day with this resource: streaming video from the ICT & Creativity conference, held in Vienna from 2-3 June 2005. Don't be thrown off by the German text; much of the content is in English. Via Laurent Straskraba in WWWEDU. By Various Authors, June 6, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Learning Technology
The April, 2005, issue of Learning Technology is now available and contains a number of useful (albeit short) articles, as usual. In particular, readers will wnat to look at CASLO: Collaborative Annotation Service for Learning Objects, by Carmen L. Padrón and two others in Madrid. As the title suggests, this article describes a mechanism that allows groups to annotate learning objects. Content is in XML; "Metadata can be used to describe, certificate, annotate, retrieve, extend or keep an updated history o From OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Teach and Learn Online
Seb Fiedler points us to this e-learning weblog by Leigh Blackall in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Backall's coverage of the recent Blogtalk Downunder points us to Mark Bernstein, who has been blogging since 2001. By Leigh Blackall, June, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Merritt Workshop
Breezy coverage of an all-day workshop on e-portfolios at the BC Campus Workshop in Merritt, British Columbia. The session, by David Tosh and Kele Fleming, and the associated discussion brings us up to date on e-portfolios in Canada and elsewhere. By Jeremy Hiebert, HeadsPaceJ, June 5, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Interface 2005
I'm off to Edmonton today for the Interface 2005 workshop being hosted by the good people at NAIT. Hence the early newsletter. By Various Authors, June, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 7, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Clásicos Área Estratégica Betolog El ciprés en el patio Reflexiones e irreflexiones Weblog d'en Xavi Caballé Comunicación Columnas de humo Dez Anos de Jornalismo Digital em Portugal... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 7, 2005 at 8:52 a.m..

Finalistas de los Favoritos de Expansión
Se ha dado a conocer la relación de los 10 finalistas en la categoría mejor weblog tecnológico/negocios de los premios Favoritos de Expansión.com: Blog de Gonzalo G. Cotorruelo FayerWayer ALT1040 El rincón bursátil de Lvengador Microsiervos estratega El Rincón del... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 7, 2005 at 8:52 a.m..

CitiFinancial Data Goes Poof
Computer tapes with bank account information for 3.9 million people are missing. The consumer finance division of Citigroup starts notifying customers that UPS lost their records on route to a credit bureau about a month ago. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Fetal Cells Nix Rules, Fix Hearts
Scientists inject fetal cells into heart failure patients for the first time, leading to dramatic signs of recovery. But the Barbados clinic funding the research is raising some eyebrows. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Apple and Intel OK With Coders
The seismic shift to Intel chips isn't going down as badly with Mac programmers as one might expect. Daniel Terdiman reports from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2005 in San Francisco. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Jobs Drops Da Intel Bomb
It's official: Steve Jobs says Apple is going Intel. Daniel Terdiman and Leander Kahney report from Apple's developer conference in San Francisco. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Rubik's Cube Feeds Need for Speed
Two decades after the madness, people are still solving the classic 3-D puzzle as fast as possible. When that gets boring, they do it blindfolded. By John Geirland from Wired magazine. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Hollywood Foots Bill for Spy Cams
DVD bootleggers become targets of a police-operated surveillance system paid for by the movie industry. Xeni Jardin investigates in Los Angeles. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Films Capture Iraq's Brutal Truth
Vivid documentaries like The Dreams of Sparrows challenge U.S. media portrayals of the Iraq war -- and spark an unusual indie revolution. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

PSP Hackers Go Retro
Sony struggles to stay a step ahead of programmers who write unauthorized software that lets them play old-school games on the portable console. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on June 7, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Don't Listen to "Yes"
HBS professor Michael Roberto on creative conflict, taken from his new book, Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus: "the lack of good conflict—constructive conflict—within an organization makes it that much harder to accurately evaluate business ideas and make important decisions." From elearningpost on June 7, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Question Authorities
From not listening to 'yes', to questioning authority, these are interesting times: "For nearly four years - steadily, seriously, and with the unsentimental rigor for which we love them - civil engineers have been studying the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, sifting the tragedy for its lessons. And it turns out that one of the lessons is: Disobey authority. In a connected world, ordinary people often have access to better information than officials do." From elearningpost on June 7, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Study of the e-learning suppliers' "market" in Europe
Eine sehr offene Analyse des europäischen e-Learning-Marktes liegt vor, die auch gleich mit der Feststellung beginnt, dass es diesen Markt eigentlich gar nicht gibt, sondern nur eine Reihe von nationalen oder technologie-bestimmten Teilmärkten. Detailliert wird auf die Erscheinungen hingewiesen, die... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 7, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

LMS Survey Results
Gefragt, warum ihre Organisationen ein Learning Management System eingeführt haben, antworteten 78,6% der Leser von Learning Circuits/ ASTD: "Centralize management of learning activities". Die weitere Reihenfolge der Motive: "Track regulatory compliance" und "Measure training usage". Konsequenterweise sind für die Befragten... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 7, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

Protests Slow Cornell's Effort to Build a Parking Lot
Years of efforts to prevent Cornell University from turning a piece of its land called Redbud Woods into a 176-space parking lot came to a standoff Monday. From New York Times: Education on June 7, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

School Policy in New Jersey to Take Junk Off Lunch Tray
The policy will apply to all public schools and private schools that provide federally financed meals and cover students from pre-kindergarten to high school. From New York Times: Education on June 7, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Test Scores to Be Used to Analyze Schools' Roles
The schools chancellor said a more sophisticated analysis of annual standardized test scores will provide a clearer picture of which schools are helping students and which schools are lagging behind. From New York Times: Education on June 7, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Grant to Increase Number of Nursing Teachers Is Announced
The $1.1 million grant will be used to train new nursing instructors and mentors, who will then be available to teach more nurses. From New York Times: Education on June 7, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Experts say Microsoft's XML play won't backfire - Matt Hines, CNET News
Microsoft's move to create new XML-based file formats for three of its flagship Office products may make it easier for customers to consider rival software, but industry watchers aren't predicting an exodus just yet. Conventional wisdom has long held tha From Techno-News Blog on June 7, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Get ready for the 9-to-5 notebook - Michael Kanellos, CNET News
The magic number for notebook designers in the near future just might be eight--as in the hours of a full workday. A somewhat outlandish idea a few years ago, the eight-hour notebook is moving closer to reality as promising trends in battery materials an From Techno-News Blog on June 7, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Skype Takes VOIP Upscale - Associated Press
The company that makes the Skype software that lets internet users call one another for free anywhere in the world is launching two premium services, as the number of downloads topped 100 million on Friday. SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail are built into the From Techno-News Blog on June 7, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..