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MS Takes on the Less Relevant Half of Interop Problem
Ernest has a great post up about MS moves in the subscription music arena.  Apparently, MS is considering allowing users to re-download for free in WMA any content they've acquired in FairPlay-locked iTunes Music Store format. Ernest is right on regarding the barriers to entry created by DRM and the DMCA, something I have also refused A Copyfighter's Musings on June 10, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

Scott Shot Object
Commentary on a Scott Leslie post, linked here yesterday. Alan Levine writes, with emphasis, "I fail to find any compelling learning content that has been constructed by non-technical people by assembling together so-called objects, be they web sites, Java things, or 'any digital asset used for learning'." Oh, and Scott Leslie reports of the blog graph, posted here yesterday, "It was something I did back in October 2003 for the BC EdTech Users Group online blogtalk a From OLDaily on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Semantic Weblog Posts With Movable Type
Note the embedded FOAF. It's not exactly the Semantic Social Network I have described, but it's absolutely the same concept. By alf, HubLog, June 8, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect From OLDaily on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Euro Science Frenzy
Launched yesterday, the Xplora portal is "a new European gateway for science education, providing resources for primary and secondary education." By Josie Fraser, EdTechUK, June 9, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

What does the Internet Look Like? Kids' Version
Display and link to a bunch of children's drawings of the internet. Nifty. By Nancy White, Full Circle Online Interaction Blog, June 9, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

It's about the Community Plumbing: The Social Aspects of Content Management Systems
Interestimng article in many parts (follow the links) about the history and esign of Drupal, a content management system. The authors' intent is to "explain the influence of the community itself on Drupal development and the software's influence on the community that creates and uses it." By Charles Lowe and Dries Buytaert, KairosNews, May, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

ESJ: A Strategy for Personal Knowledge Management
Exploration of PKM - 'personal knowledge management' - and its relatyion to e-portfolios. Mostly a summary by Jack Vinson on James McGee's presentation, which has been reproduced on McGee's blog (took me a bit to figure that out, as Bloglines killed the blockquote). Vinson notes, "Denham Grey has argued that knowledge is socially constructed, so personal knowledge management doesn't make sense." But if personal knowledge doesn't make sense, then what am I doing? No, personal knowledge management does make sense - and therefore, knowledge is not (entirely) s From OLDaily on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

E-Learning 2.0 - Alberta Cut
The latest - and last, for the next six months or so - version of this presentation surveying what I have been recently calling e-learning 2.0, delivered at ADETA's 2005 conference in Edmonton. Like my presentation a few days ago, i survey trends, explain what I mean by e-learning 2.0, and project into the future. Some new slides and resources are added. The MP3 audio is also available, which is worth more than the slides as the actual talk came out very differently. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 10, 2005 [OLDaily on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Ask Tony: CMS early adopters
Tony Byrne has written a column on CMS early adopters. To quote: Are there demographics you can generally attach to this market? Are there certain industries who were early adopters or who are now jumping on board? Anything you can... From Column Two on June 10, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

links for 2005-06-10
TagCloud - Home tag based aggregation etc (tags: RSS tags) Psych Central - Psychology of Weblogs: Everything Old is New Again (tags: Blogs psychology) Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services Code yahoo webservice... From Monkeymagic on June 10, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..

Prospects for High School Leavers
Three times as many high school drop outs are unemployed, compared to university graduates.... From Adult/Continuing Education on June 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Qualitative Research Software
Summary: In searching for open source qualitative research software I found TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) and TAMS AnalyzerTAMS Analyzer 3.0 for the Mac. TAMS Analyzer uses Graphviz in order to map qualitative findings. Graphviz converts text (text edit, nisus, bbedit, etc.) into graphs. The flexibility and utility Graphviz itself program resulted in a Big Mac design award. Mathew Weinstein of Kent U is author. His summary remarks appear immediately below. TAMS stands for Text Analysis Markup System. It is a c From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on June 10, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

When Marine recruiters go way beyond the call
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer are reporting that United States military recruiters have found a new way of recruiting new soldiers. From kuro5hin.org on June 10, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

WAGS/UMI Innovation and Technology Award
From the College of Graduate Studies and Research: We did not receive nominations for the WAGS/UMI Innovation and Technology Award. Thus, this is a second call for nominations. Please submit all documentation for the nomination no later than June 30,... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 10, 2005 at 3:53 p.m..

Athabasca University to adopt Moodle
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24831 Michael Penney, the Coordinator of the Courseware Development Center at California State University, Humboldt, sent me an email recently in response to my post on Moodle and "Enterprise Readiness." The note pointed me to this post on the Moodle discussion boards (again, just use the 'Guest' login if you don't already have an account.) I wish I had an official announcement from Athabasca to point to, From EdTechPost on June 10, 2005 at 2:49 p.m..

Another Commercial Partner for Ed Tech Open Source - The Longsight Group
http://www.longsight.com/open-source/sakai I take the formation of companies like this to be indicators of increase health and viability of open source educational technology initiatives. This Ohio-based company is supporting a suite of apps similar to another U.S.-based firm I've mentioned before (in this case they support Sakai, OSPI, uPortal, Drupal, Stanford CourseWork, and CHEF, though one might expect a change in regards to the latter two as Sakai matures From EdTechPost on June 10, 2005 at 2:49 p.m..

[reboot7] Long Tail of fashion
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen applies the long tail to fashion. She's going to connect craftblogging, fashion and the long tail. Craftblogging is, obviously, blogging about one's crafts. She takes us through some sites. But, she asks, does all this craftbloging constitute a new market? Is it part of the long tail market? She summarizes the long tail as: 1.Most of us want more ethan jst hits. 2. The market of non-hits is bigger than the market of hits. 3. Most successful businesses on the Net are about aggregating the Long Tail in one way or another. Yes, she concludes, these craftblogs are... From Joho the Blog on June 10, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

[reboot7] Overview
Four hundred techies are gathered in a pleasant exposed-brick building in Copenhagen. And although the group is as geky as it gets, the topics so far are wider ranging than at a tyupical US tech conference. Here's what the conference's site says Reboot is about: reboot is a community event focused on digital change and culture Reboot is the European meetup for the practical visionaries who are building tomorrow one little step at a time, using new models for creation and organization ó in a world where the only entry barrier is passion. Reboot is two days in June filled... From Joho the Blog on June 10, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..

[reboot7] Science Commons
Paual Le Dieu who describes herself as an "(i)commonist" talks about the science commons. She works on the BBC's "creative archives" — the generous licensing of BBC content — and is the director of Creative Commons International. (I'm writing an article for Wired on the BBC's progressive content policies, so I will be tracking her down...) There are 12-14 million web page swith a Creative Commons license. Science Commons aims at enabling "the creation of an open, accessible commons for scientific knowledge." There's obviously lots of scientific information onlin From Joho the Blog on June 10, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..

Enabling Knowledge-Making in Personal, Instructional and On-The-Job Contexts
Summary: I would like to see some explicit discussion amongst research-oriented and instruction-oriented "personal web publishing" theorists and practitioners. The topic: knowledge development strategies for individuals and groups. To jump the gun a bit: In order to accelerate an individual's learning provide, and train to use, two pieces of software, in addition to general web access software: a weblog and a content management system like Omnioutliner Pro. (Assuming s/he is already proficient with general productivity and web access so From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on June 10, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..

What Blogs Should Students Read?
So here's a question...if you were a teacher and you wanted to introduce your students to the joys of blogging, and you wanted to do it by having them read some blogs first, where would you point them? From weblogged News on June 10, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Raich and the Future of Medicinal Marijuana
Since the passage of California's Proposition 215 in 1996, medical marijuana has become an increasingly important political issue in the United States. Today, 10 states have recognized medicinal Cannabis and enacted laws protecting patients. Unforunately, the recent Supreme Court decision in Gonzalez v. Raich is a major setback for the medical marijuana movement. What follows is a discussion of related issues, as well as a plea for your assistance at this critical time. From kuro5hin.org on June 10, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Network Enabled Capability: Promise and Practise
There's a great, short article hereRUSI- Network Centric Operations Today: Between the Promise and the Practice that looks at some of the findings the US military (and others) are making trying to put Network Enabled Operations into practice. A coupe... From Monkeymagic on June 10, 2005 at 9:51 a.m..

Israel espionage case points to new Net threat - Bob Sullivan, MSNBC
Executives of top telecom firms accused of spying on each other. A jealous ex-husband suspected of monitoring his former in-laws. Private investigators implicated in computer-hacking-for-hire; one now involved in a possible attempted suicide. So much bad From Techno-News Blog on June 10, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Microsoft preps 'critical' Windows patch - Joris Evers, CNET News
As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft plans to release on Tuesday 10 security alerts for flaws in Windows and other programs. Seven security bulletins and fixes apply to the Windows operating system, and at least one of those is deemed "critica From Techno-News Blog on June 10, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Honey, I Shrunk the PC - Mark Anderson, Wired
Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered how to use quantum mechanics to turn molecules into working transistors in the lab, a breakthrough that might one day lead to high-powered computers the size of a postage stamp. Results of the as-ye From Techno-News Blog on June 10, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

The Tim and Tom Podcast
So long-time edbloggers Tim Lauer and Tom Hoffman, both of whom will be on the panel I'm leading at NECC in a few weeks, scored the big time this week when the audio of their presentation "Remixing Wikis with Rendezvous, Web Services and SchoolTool" at the O'Rei From weblogged News on June 10, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

Praying for Aussie burnout
OK. So they don't really play Twenty20 , but the Aussies still make it look easy."Matthew Hayden has some ominous news for English cricket supporters, Australia are starting to get the hang of twenty20 cricket. The Australia opener proved once... From Monkeymagic on June 10, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

Blogging Bolivia
Del amplio listado de Blogs Bolivianos que hay en el blogroll de El Forastero, rescato aquellos más actualizados y que opinan sobre la crisis o están realizando su cobertura: En español Almada de Noche Blog de Bolivia Bolivia...lo mejor que... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 10, 2005 at 7:51 a.m..

Weblogs en el aula
Algunas experiencias de cursos universitarios que incluyen el desarrollo de weblogs de alumnos: Alternativa: Nuevas bitácoras de alumnos JornalismoPortoNet: Dos blog-jornais para o ciberjornal Sonia Blanco: Weblogs de alumnos Tíscar.com: Blogs de alumnos El trabajo desarrollado este curso por los... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 10, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..

JP is everywhere
I read The Times of London this morning on my flight from London to Copenhagen for Reboot. There was an article about a squabble over who owns the "sandwich" domain name. And who gets quoted as a legal authority but John Palfrey of The Berkman. How far do I have to go before I can escape his evil influence? [Disclosure: In some sense, JP is my boss.] [Technorati tags: berkman JohnPalfrey]... From Joho the Blog on June 10, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..

Patriot Act Works, Bush Claims
Describing visions of terrorist mayhem thwarted by the authorities thanks to the act, the president dismisses accusations that it erodes civil liberties and pushes for its extension. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Voice Actors Win Bigger Check
Although unions representing the performers who supply voices to the video game industry didn't get the profit-sharing they wanted, the actors will get a hefty raise in a long-term deal that averts a strike. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Group Creates Pro-Evolution Site
The National Academies' new website for educators is intended to help hinder religious activists who want U.S. schools to downplay Darwin. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Miyazaki's Castle Crumbles
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki delivers another animation in the winning style of his earlier classics, but the dreamlike narrative eventually bogs down in confusion. Nicholas Schager reviews Howl's Moving Castle. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Spray-On Mud Makes a Splash
A U.K. marketer calls the pricey grime harmless makeup for milquetoast 4x4 drivers, but others say it's a dirty tactic to beat speed cams. By Robert Andrews. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Keeping Up With Uncle Sam
Because the United States locks up creative works for 95 years, European music labels want to extend copyright terms in their neck of the woods. By Katie Dean. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

When Nanopants Attack
Environmentalists worry that new commercial products utilizing microscopically engineered materials pose a serious threat to humanity. But research -- either for or against nanotechnology -- is hard to find. By Howard Lovy. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Rodents' Talk Isn't Just 'Cheep'
Researchers work to decode a complex language of chirps and squeaks that prairie dogs use to warn each other of predators. But we're still a long way from Dr. Doolittle. By Jeff Rice. From Wired News on June 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Blog de la Deutsche Welle sobre el Mundial de Alemania 2006
La Deutsche Welle, organizadora de los premios internacionales BOBs, sigue apostando por los weblogs y acaba de anunciar el lanzamiento de Futblog Mundial 2006 escrito desde Munich por Daniel Martínez. Se trata del primer weblog en español de la DW,... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 10, 2005 at 4:49 a.m..

Google creating information architecture XML format?
Joshua Porter reports that google has published a new XML format for site maps. To quote: Google is trying out and releasing to the world (via Creative Commons license) a new XML format for site maps. This new format is... From Column Two on June 10, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

For CMS vendors: Product demos and samples
Product demos and samples Importance to consumers? Very important47% Important37% Somewhat important13% Not important3% How do vendor websites rate? Very good2% Good24% Acceptable38% Poor29% Very poor7% Product demonstrations and samples provide an opportunity for customers to get a sense... From Column Two on June 10, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..

BlogWalk 9.0 topic is fixed
The conversational topic of the BlogWalk 9.0 Salon in Innsbruck, Austria, on June 25 2005 is: Personal Stories, Collective Histories We will be taking a historic spin this time. Looking at predecessors of Weblog authoring, social software etc.We have started to send out invitations. If you want to participate, please send a no From Seblogging News on June 10, 2005 at 1:50 a.m..

Lawyer in School Funds Case Is Leaving Job for Wider Role
Michael A. Rebell was named to lead a new effort by Teachers College at Columbia University to address similar equity issues in education across the country. From New York Times: Education on June 10, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Wikipedia, Authority, and Astroturf (Clay Shirky)
Slashdot, one of my few ‘must scan three times a day’ sites, has notoriously poorly coordinated and unskeptical editors. As a result, they often run stories that are different from ads only in that /. doesn’t charge for the service.... From Corante: Social Software on June 10, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

Still fragmented, after all these years
Tony Byrne has written a blog entry commenting on the continued fragmentation of the CMS market. To quote: As I've said repeatedly, the number of viable Web content management vendors continues to expand. It turns out, for example, that the... From Column Two on June 10, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..

Boards Get Brains, Chalk Vanishes
I've used this type of board and find it quite useful for explaining concepts. But I find it more useful in participatory decision-making workshops where different viewpoints are put on the same 'map' and participants see how their perspectives relate with that of their colleagues. I find the ensuing discussions during these workshops to be more focused and productive. "All across the country, chalkboards are being ditched in favor of interactive, computer-driven whiteboards that allow s From elearningpost on June 9, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..