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IBM Academic Initiative
Just keeping old items up to date. "The IBM Scholars Program is being renamed to the IBM Academic Initiative to describe IBM's broad interest in graduating students who are aware of, excited about, and skilled in open standards and IBM products." By Various Authors, June, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Userplane Releases Free Webchat Option for Any Website
Just launched, this is a commercial application (the free version is supported by advertising) but well worth a look because of its elegant design and functionality. Userplane's webchat text, video and voice (depending on what you support or want to support). Hosted on Userplane's servers, it is placed on any web page using a simple Javascript. It may take a few seconds to load the application first time, but it's very fast thereafter. Users can chat in the main room or break off into a side room they create. Admins can ban users, create &a From OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

State Services Leads International Charge Against DRM
Quite rightly, New Zealand government officials are expressing concern about long-term access to data and documents created using DRM-enabled software. By Paul Brislen, Computerworld, June 10, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Relatives - Who Needs Them?
Pete MacKay points to this link, a page describing the concept of relative positioning in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He writes, "This is a great article that finally explained to me what relative positioning in a stylesheet is about. Even if you're just thinking about using CSS but haven't gotten there, save this article. It saved a webpage I was trying to fix!" By Jumpbug, csslibrary, June, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata
A new recommendation published by the Dublin Core initiative. Pretty much as the title describes it. "This document provides guidelines for capturing bibliographic citation information within a Dublin Core description. It focuses on bibliographic citations for journal articles, but it also considers other genre." By Various Authors, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, June 13, 2005 [Refer][Research][ From OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Major Implementation of .LRN Open Source CMS
I'll just quote Scott Leslie: "Just to follow up on last week's posts concerning adoption of some open source apps that have been unfairly dissed as not being 'enterprise ready,' this news story from the .LRN site reports that The Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) is moving their approximately 200,000 students onto the .LRN platform." The post contains several links to original sources. By Scott Leslie, EdTechPost, June 15, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Lanny on Learning Technology
Another new learning technology blog (well, it's five months old, but it's new to me), Lanny on learning Technology covers things like the costs and economics of learning and learning technology, information literacy, school choice and more. Good detailed commentaries containing points of view and links not seen elsewhere. Via Scott Leslie. By Lanny Arvan, Lanny on Learning Technology, June, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

The Academic Commons
As Matt Pasiewicz writes, "The Academic Commons has launched a new beta site based on Drupal." Based at The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, the Academic Commons seeks "to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education." By Various Authors, June, 2005 [OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

The Power Of Us
The upshot of this article is that "mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business." For example, the collective action undertaken in the development and use of Skype, a free internet telephony application, is spelling the end for long distance telephony (no, not tomorrow, but the end is in sight). Many view this as a threat, but as the author notes, it should be seen as an unparalleled business opportunity. "If companies can open themselves up to contributions from enthusiastic customers and partners, that should help them create products and services faster, with fewer duds." Scho From OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Learning Innovations
After the CSTD conference a few weeks ago in fredericton I went travelling to Ontario, PEI and Alberta while most of the rest of the speakers (it seems) went to this "small highly-focused symposium" put together by the "US Naval Education and Training Command." We dispersed from New Brunswick with pretty much the same message, which I have summarized recently under the heading of E-Learning 2.0. What's interesting, as Godfrey Parkin notes, is that among the presentaters offering this radical new picture of learning was a stai From OLDaily on June 15, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Now 3,600 internal blogs at IBM
Neville Hobson has posted a blog entry indicating that there are now 3,600 internal blogs at IBM. To quote: Through the central blog dashboard at the intranet W3, IBMers now can find more than 3,600 blogs written by their co-workers.... From Column Two on June 15, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

Debunking five common intranet myths
Paul Chin has written an article to debunk five common intranet myths. To quote: There's no shortage of myths in the corporate world either --- most of which are based on a lack of understanding. Over the years I've received... From Column Two on June 15, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

Me, speaking on researching blogs and blogging research, Amsterdam, 21 June
It's titled Lecture/debate on weblogs and the different shapes and colours of academic blogging and hosted by Networked Research and Digital Information (Nerdi), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. I'll be talking about researching blogs and blogging research, more or less as the abstract says:For a researcher who starts studying weblogs getting hands-on experience in blogging may be a natural step, either as part From Mathemagenic on June 15, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Floating as mental ctrl-alt-del
This evening I did something a bit out of the ordinary: I spent an hour in a floatation tank. I'd heard about it in a documentary on Acetylcholine (from Brainwaves a series of documentaries on the chemicals which make our brains work) I listened to during the week and it turned out the centre was right next to Clapham Common tube station. It seemed intriguing so I gave it a shot. When I saw Mathemagenic on June 15, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Microsoft collaborates with Chinese government to censor free speech
Commentary from Dan Gillmor. A Minute with Dan: Don't Mention Democracy From Martindale Matrix on June 15, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Major implementation of .LRN Open Source CMS
http://dotlrn.org/news/one-entry?entry%5fid=101407 Just to follow up on last week's posts concerning adoption of some open source apps that have been unfairly dissed as not being 'enterprise ready,' this news story from the .LRN site reports that The Universidad Nacional de Ed From EdTechPost on June 15, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..

Deadly Duo: May 2005
Spammers use celebrities to grab the spotlight -- and to infect PCs. From ClickZ Stats on June 15, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

RSS por mail
Estoy probando RMail - Feed your inbox RSS, un servicio que distribuye las novedades de una fuente RSS por correo electrónico. De momento los acentos no se ven correctamente.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 15, 2005 at 4:50 p.m..

tails
sometimes knowledge sharing is nothing else than letting it go. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 15, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Saying no to the UK police state
I won't have an ID card. I've decided. My gut reaction to the whole thing is that it's one step closer to a police state type affair when you can be arrested and charged for not having your papers if the police take a dislike to you. I don't like it and I won't have one. I decided that a long time ago.It turns out there are many others like me. From kuro5hin.org on June 15, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

The Costs of Teaching - New worthwhile blog " Lanny on Learning Technology"
http://guava.cites.uiuc.edu/l-arvan/blog/lannyexport.html I have long held to the tenant that technology, especially computer technology, makes process manifest. As much as some of the conversations we are having now in higher ed are the result of new possibilities that technology innovation have enabled, many of them are also conversations about very long standing practices and processes that progressive technologization has brought to light, made manifest, and thrown into question. So for me, the fact that the From EdTechPost on June 15, 2005 at 2:45 p.m..

The Blogger Problem
I got an e-mail from a teacher who had just done a Weblog training using Blogger, and the issue of the "Next Blog" button in the top right corner came up, as in what if students click through to some inappropriate site? Oy. If you haven't tried this of late, you need to. Start here at a test site I put up a couple of months ago and click through to the 10 random "Next Blog" sites that come up. Here's what I g From weblogged News on June 15, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

Estadísticas
Cambio el servicio de estadísticas públicas del sitio: paso de Nedstat Basic a Site Meter y mantengo el servicio de AWStats en el servidor, desde el que informo a Estadísticas de tráfico de blogs en español.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 15, 2005 at 9:53 a.m..

Oldtime radio podcasts
Here's one for our media literacy gang, and anyone else for that matter. If you're a fan of old-time radio broadcasts, I found a Gem of a site. This site has a weekly western serial podcast, and it includes everything... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 15, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

Put Your Academic Past Behind You
By Thomas Nixon - It may not be easy, but it certainly is possible to correct past problems with high school or college.... From Adult/Continuing Education on June 15, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

More Flickr Synchronicity
More Flickr Synchronicity Over at SciFiHiFi, Buzz Andersen has a great story about Flickr, weblogs, and chance encounters...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 15, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

New Chips on the Block - Bruce Gain, Wired
We have embarked upon a new era in x86 PC computing -- so say chip giants AMD and Intel following their launches of dual-core PC processors. So how will dual-core processing change your PC computing experience? Our FAQ should help you decide whether or wh From Techno-News Blog on June 15, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

MS Patch Train Drops Off 'Critical' IE Fix - Ryan Naraine, eWeek
hMicrosoft on Tuesday released 10 advisories to cover a slew of security flaws in a range of products, including a "critical" cumulative update for the Internet Explorer browser. Three of the 10 bulletins are rated "critical," the company's highest sever From Techno-News Blog on June 15, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

The State Of Internet Security - Fahmida Y. Rashid, Forbes
E-mails from Nigeria asking for your help in transferring money. Important information about compromised bank accounts. While the scams that daily flood our e-mail in-boxes show no signs of abating, there is some good news for the users who have to sort From Techno-News Blog on June 15, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

BBC and Linnaeus
I spent a fascinating day at the BBC yesterday, and much of the day before, researching an article for Wired. There is so much stuff going on there, both technically and culturally. The Beeb is making a serious effort to serve its constituency by moving beyond the traditional broadcasting model. Wherever it can, it's using the digitizing of content to give control back to their audience: Control over the when, what and where of listening/watching (on-demand, interactive, on multiple devices)and control over what you can do with their content (remix it, redistribute it non-comercially). Ra From Joho the Blog on June 15, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

U.S. Tweaks Passport Requirement
Homeland Security, reacting to complaints from friends abroad, will revamp the new biometric passport program in order to make it easier for foreign visitors to enter the country. From Wired News on June 15, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

EBay Bans Live 8 Ticket Scalpers
Music fans bid for tickets to next month's London mega-concert, prompting some saboteurs -- apparently offended by the money-grubbing sellers -- to disrupt the auctions in the name of charity. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on June 15, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Batman Begins on the Right Foot
The latest turn in the superhero saga does the caped crusader's back story right, but things start to fray when the action starts. Jason Silverman reviews Batman Begins. From Wired News on June 15, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Porn Peddlers Won't Bare It All
Online pornography is maturing and so are the people who run saucy sites. But what to tell the other parents in the PTA? Randy Dotinga reports from the Cybernet Expo conference in San Diego. From Wired News on June 15, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

The Man Who Keeps Nintendo Cool
Legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto talks about the future of the industry, his favorite character and the coming Revolution. Wired News interview by Chris Kohler. From Wired News on June 15, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Congress Must Deal With ID Theft
A series of Senate hearings this week examines the growing problem of identity theft. Here's what should be done to stop the scourge. From Wired News on June 15, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Humankapital wichtigster Wachstumstreiber
Es gibt, so die Autoren, (mindestens) zwei Theorien, was den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Humankapital einer Volkswirtschaft und ihrem Wirtschaftswachstum betrifft. Die einen sagen, dass ein hohes Niveau des Humankapitals eine hohe Wachstumsrate des Bruttoinlandsprodukts bewirkt. Demnach hätte Deutschland beste Voraussetzungen,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 15, 2005 at 4:51 a.m..

International conferences
Looks like I'm going to be on the road for a bit at the end of this year, having been lined up to present at two conferences: KMWorld & Intranets 2005 (San Jose, California) Content Management Forum Annual Conference (Aarhus,... From Column Two on June 15, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Abschied von E-Learning?
Vielleicht braucht es wirklich nicht mehr als diese Grafik, um das Potenzial von e-Learning zu unterstreichen. Und um darauf hinzuweisen, dass e-Learning nicht nur formale Lernprozesse unterstützt (Lernmodule), sondern auch individuelle und informelle Lernprozesse (E-Community/ virtual Community) sowie das... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 15, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

On the road
Joshua "Outlandish" Koenig and two of his friends are spending the summer driving around the US and promises to regale us with tales via email. The first post is here. In it Joshua says the road trip's been around "for maybe ten years or so." Uh uh. National Lampoon's road trips may be that young but traveling as a type of freedom goes way back. At the very least Joshua should bring along a copy of Kerouac's On the Road. But here's how much of a dreary parent I've become: I'm worried by the boys naming their trip's site —... From Joho the Blog on June 15, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

e-poche.net
I am moving the blogging activities on this site over to http://e-poche.net, a new domain hosted at Incsub.org.  This will be my last post on this site.  Please update your RSS feed subcription to the new address: http://e-poche.net/?feed=rss2 From apcampbell News on June 15, 2005 at 1:53 a.m..

Rell Vetoes Junk-Food Limit in Connecticut's Public Schools
Gov. M. Jodi Rell rejected a bill that would have restricted the sale of some snack foods and beverages in all public schools. From New York Times: Education on June 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Princeton Class of '55 Wants Graduates to Change World
A group of Princeton alumni created a program that places graduates in fellowships at nonprofit organizations. From New York Times: Education on June 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Holdouts Against Standard Tests Are Under Attack in New York
In his 10-year tenure, the state education commissioner has turned New York into one of the most test-driven public systems in the nation. From New York Times: Education on June 15, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..