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Letter to the Wikitor (Ross Mayfield)
Okay, I’m still a bit irked that the LA Times Editors shut down the Wikitorials community. I started to become engaged in the community and saw promise. They shut it down without warning and without thinking things through to begin... From Corante: Social Software on June 22, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

links for 2005-06-22
Influence At Work Robert Cialdini's thang (tags: Persuasion) Grafolicious: A webmaster tool to see the evolution of a del.icio.us bookmark (tags: CoolTools)... From Monkeymagic on June 22, 2005 at 8:53 p.m..

WebCT Campus Edition 6: Frequently Asked Questions
Karen Gage, Senior VP of Marketing for WebCT writes (this is the full email, not edited in any way, except to place the link provided under the heading instead of in the text): "I wanted to alert you to some inaccurate or misleading information that you passed on in OLDaily yesterday in your piece on 'WebCT Price Increases'. WebCT customers who license our Campus Edition product are entitled to upgrade from v.4 to CE 6.0 without additional WebCT license fees. We don't license our product by the version. We sell an annual license for Campus Edition, and it is the customer's From OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Publishers' Group Asks Google to Stop Scanning Copyrighted Works for 6 Months
As this article describes it, "The Association of American Publishers has asked Google to stop scanning copyrighted books published by the association's members for at least six months while the company answers questions about whether its plan to scan millions of volumes in five major research libraries complies with copyright law." While they're at it, why don't they ask the public to stop buying and reading their books too, in case our having a permanent and portable copy of their work - a sharable technology - is somehow also in contravention. By Jeffrey R. Young, Ch From OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Digital Debacle
Students at the University of Maryland write, "The university's decision to extend Cdigix's trial does not offer students a genuine alternative to illegally pirated media." The system works only on Internet Explorer. It won't allow downloads to, say, iPods. People aren't using it. "With few Cdigix supporters, it seems like a shameful waste of money." By Editorial, Digital Diamondback, June 16, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Building a Community of Practice
It may look like just another blog, but check out the list of links in the lower right hand column, where you will find transcripts of numerous conversations and interviews, including one with Graham Stanley introducing podcasting. By Numerous Authors, June, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Where Now for Collaborative Journalism?
I'll give them credit for trying. The Los Angeles Times attempted to include readers in their online content by setting up a wiki where readers could rewrite the day's editorial. The experiment lasted one day, and then was pulled, as they said, "due to defacement." This analysis summarizes pretty well what happened. First, when they introduced the wiki, "the focus was on the Times and The Law, not the readers and contributors." Second, "editors seeded the wiki -- a tool designed for collaboration -- with one of the most divisive 'news' topic possible (the Iraq war)." Third, From OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Playing to Learn
Doug levin sends in this link from the latest issue of Cable in the Classroom, now available. Some good insight into how games should be supported. Games require media literacy, for example - they are not real, should not be taken as real, and players need to be able to recognize that. Games can also require support - they may require background knowledge or experience, and players may need to be pointed in the right direction (or designers should make it available inside the game itself). By Eric Klopfer, Cable From OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Microsoft works on own BitTorrent
I don't know, I just find it ironic when I read items like this to think of how much Microsoft complains about piracy and digital rights and all that other stuff intended to protect the creators of ideas and innovation. BitTorrent, of course, is intended to be crushed like a bug under Microsoft's, um, innovative foot. By Unattributed, BBC News, June 20, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Skype Recordings as Learning Resources?
Skype would be just great for creating learning resources, but Skype doesn't have a recording tool. So how to so it? The winner, according to Derek Morrison, is SAM - "Alex Rosenbaum's SAM (Skype Answering Machine) is a brilliantly simple but, neverthelss, very useful tool which becomes a 'listener' for incoming Skype calls and intercepts them." This article explains all. By Derek Morrison, Auricle, June 21, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Sorta Blogging iLaw
So like last year, this iLaw is pretty mind numbing stuff, in a good, challenging way. Jonathan Zittrain was great, Lessig his usual amazing self. Yochai Benkler was the most interesting for me, however. His lecture was on "The Rise of the Networked Economy" (blogged here). What struck a real chord for me was the way he described the culture that we are entering. We have the "radical decentralization of production," and a time when "users are becoming co-discoverers of what they From weblogged News on June 22, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Studying weblogs at Microsoft
So, this is something I was going to write for some time, but wasn't sure how much I could/should tell. Still not sure, but anyway - I'm joining Microsoft Research/Redmond for 10 weeks and will be studying Microsoft blogs. Leaving in less than 2 weeks :))) Excited. Scared of work still to be finished... From Mathemagenic on June 22, 2005 at 4:50 p.m..

Collaboration Technologies
Collaboration Technologies. The Future of Collaboration Technologies At CTC2005. Collaborative technologies are changing the way people interact, and key elements of successful implementations will have both presence - to allow communities of people to interact with "one click"- and persistence - which will enable a memory or continuity of...... [Online Collaboration :: Robin G From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 22, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Enterprise Software
I don't like that meme that Social Software is bottom-up by definition. And that enterprise software is simply bad. As long as there is something like a corporation or an organisation it'll have high interests to provide tools that fit the enterprises needs. It is nonetheless a cultural question if that has to be controlled by the enterprise or imposed from above. It is an issue of competitveness to provide an environment that supports those that you work with. If you miss that that your overhead will get big. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 22, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..

Back home again
The flights from Sydney to Singapore and then to Frankfurt were actually rather pleasant. Just riding the train from Frankfurt to Nürnberg after 22 hours of air-travel felt a little bit too much. I managed to stay awake all day and went to bed around midnight yesterday... and to my surprise I feel pretty much alright today. Yes ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... I am officially up and running again from my home office. From Seblogging News on June 22, 2005 at 2:50 p.m..

Worlds collide
Sometimes the universe just seems to turn in on itself. The Ed Tech Posse has been discussing the topic of its next podcast (look for it next Tuesday or Wednesday), and we're generating a bit of heat about course management... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 22, 2005 at 1:54 p.m..

You thought Google was an e-Learning application? Think again.
In the last year, I have heard at least one well-known "expert" on e-Learning state (during a presentation to managers) that "Google is the most widely-used e-Learning application in the world." And I've heard similar sentiments from other experts, educators, and people who really ought to know better.  Statements of this sort are just irresponsible. Here's a study that makes my point. A search engine brings the user information. That's all. It isn't learning, it's information. What people learn from or do with that information is up in the air, From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 22, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

See the next post too
This relates to my previous post here. I don't have a problem with social learning, in fact I wish more designers used it as a model. But be careful, the learners still need to know how to evaluate, experiment, and apply what they learn. Learn Together, Grade Individually. [T]he first Dave ... spoke briefly about how Web 2.0 is changing his kids' education and learning habits. Basically, they are practicing social knowledge acquisition, sharing answers and ideas over IM, yet getting graded primarily by how much t From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 22, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

[supernova2005] Seely-Brown
I'm actually getting to sit in on a session at Supernova. John Seely-Brown is talking about the themes of his book with John Hagel, The Only Sustainable Edge. For an excellent overview and probing of these themes, see Kevin Werbach's interview of the co-authors at Knowledge@Wharton.... From Joho the Blog on June 22, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

ILaw made fun
Irina leaves the serious content blogging to others and instead presents the lighter side of the Berkman ILAW conference now underway... [Technorati tags: ilaw berkman]... From Joho the Blog on June 22, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Design Case Study: East Carolina Chemistry Laboratory Preparation
East Carolina Chemistry Laboratory Preparation - Dorothy Howse Clayton, Laurie Godwin, Chia Li, Joyce Joines Newman, Syllabus. The creation of an online Chemistry laboratory preparation Web site at East Carolina University was a collaborative project between faculty members in the Chemistry Department, the Harriot College of Arts and Sciencesâ Instructional Technology Consultant, [Online Learning Update From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 22, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

Fair, but snippy, play
From USA Today: With boy safe, searchers celebratePrayers answerd in Utah mountains as lost 11-year-old is found after 4 days Maybe I'm feeling snippy this morning, but in the interest of fairness, I expect to see a headline like the following soon: Body of missing pretty white woman foundGod turns deaf ear to distraught parents Yeah, I guess I'm feeling snippy.... From Joho the Blog on June 22, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

NECC Philadelphia...
Tom Hoffman, Steve Burt, Will Richardson and I will be presenting a 3 hour workshop at NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) next week in Philadelphia. With the rather long title of... TA307 Effective Weblogs in Education: How to Create, Manage, and Communicate! the workshop session will discuss and demonstrate how schools are using weblogs and discuss the strategies and solutions for challenges created by their instructional use. We are hoping that Anne Davis can also join us via a video hookup... We did a similar workshop last year at NECC and I'm looking forward to working w From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 22, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..

Have you taken the MIT weblog survey yet?
Cameron Marlow (creator of Blogdex and a friend) is running a survey about weblogs. If you're a weblog author, it will take you about 15 minutes to complete and asks some straight-forward questions about when you started blogging, what you link to and why, etc. Don't worry, no essays are involved, you j From megnut on June 22, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..

Apple Distinguished Educator Podcasts From NECC
2005 National Educational Computing Conference Podcast NECC takes place in Philadelphia next week. Apple will be providing some podcasts from the conference. The Podcast page has an RSS feed... (Via D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog.) Update: David Warlick posts about this also...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 22, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

Mario did it again
the German journalist of Social Software, Web 2.0, and blogging just published a nice one in the German Technology Review. Disclosure: I'm quoted on the issues pf presence and power (even in the real world) that are involved when talkin about such phenomena. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 22, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

Spoofing Flaw Haunts IE, Firefox, Safari - Ryan Narainek, eWeek
A newly discovered flaw in all the major Web browsers could allow Internet scammers to successfully launch phishing attacks, according to a warning from security research outfit Secunia Inc. The vulnerability, confirmed on fully patched versions of Micros From Techno-News Blog on June 22, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

AOL.com Beta Site Unveiled - Kevin Newcomb, ClickZ News
America Online's future unofficially began today, with the beta launch of its new AOL.com portal marking the turning point between its subscription-based business model of the past and its ad-supported future. The beta site is available for some users at From Techno-News Blog on June 22, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

The Many Faces of Spyware - Paul F. Roberts, eWeek
They have innocuous-sounding names"ShopAtHomeSelect, CoolWebSearch, Searchex, IEDriver"and are called many things: spyware, adware, scumware or the euphemistic PUPs (for "potentially unwanted programs"). But there's no disputing that, by any label, progra From Techno-News Blog on June 22, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

Learn Together, Grade Individually
So thanks to everyone for their podcast suggestions for the drive up here to Harvard. (Now I need five hours more for the trip back...) And thanks especially to Bud for the pointer to Open Source by Chris Lydon whose interview with Doc Searles, Dave Weinberger and Dave Winer got me thinking more than any other. Especially the first Dave who spoke briefly about From weblogged News on June 22, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Loldibus de fernandezcoca.com
El diseñador web e ilustrador Antonio Fernández Coca, buen amigo y colega en el claustro del Máster en Creación y Comunicación Digital, ha lanzado nueva marca y website: loldibus.com by fernandezcoca.com. El sitio loldibus funciona como portfolio del artista y... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 22, 2005 at 4:51 a.m..

Learning from Google
"Training, as we have known it, is not driven by consumer demand, has uninteresting ROI, provides really fuzzy benefits, and cannot be easily differentiated. But that can change. Education focuses on helping people know more; training focuses on helping people... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 22, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Das Web sind wir
Das Schöne an diesem Artikel: Man kann ihn auch bei über 32 Grad wunderbar lesen! Es geht um einen tief greifenden Kulturwandel, den der Autor beschreibt, es geht um das "Web 2.0" und damit um ein "menschlicheres Web". Im Mittelpunkt... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 22, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Register of Copyright Proposes Revision to Section 115 Compulsory
Check out Marybeth Peters' testimony before the House Subcommitte on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.  It includes a draft bill, dubbed the "21st Century Music Licensing Reform Act," which would repeal the mechanical compulsory license and alter the roles, rights, and obligations of rights collectives. As you may recall, several < From A Copyfighter's Musings on June 22, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..

Extracting Video from Cat Brains
`The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, `in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.' William Gibson, Neuromancer - 1984 It was still very much a 300 baud universe when I jacked into Gibson's future for the first time. In 1984 there were very few systems I could connect to with the surplus CAE acoustic modem I had access to, and almost all of them were a forbidden long distance telephone call away. My borrowed deck suffered from sensory deprivation and just like a person, it hallucinated. It hallucinated g From kuro5hin.org on June 22, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

How Does Their Garden Grow? Very Well, Say Junior Farmers at Bronx Science
A teacher at Bronx Science in New York has changed the direction of many of her students by introducing them to horticulture. From New York Times: Education on June 22, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Change Agents With The Balls: The Rise Of The Amateur Professionals, Prosumers, Pro-Ams
As access to powerful and low-cost new media, electronics and digital technologies becomes easier and easier thanks to innovation and lower and lower prices, creating value, products and good content is not anymore the exclusive property of large corporations, or financially equipped teams of investors. Amateurs professionals are figuring out in more than one way, that they too can be effective and even sustainable products creators without needing to tap into large budgets, expensive machinery and highly paid professionals. Are you one? Thanks to the Internet and to the ongoing growth of form From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on June 21, 2005 at 11:51 p.m..

For CMS vendors: Product costs and license terms
Product costs and license terms Importance to consumers? Very important56% Important24% Somewhat important16% Not important4% How do vendor websites rate? Very good5% Good13% Acceptable13% Poor39% Very poor30% It would seem obvious that customers are looking for prices. Our survey... From Column Two on June 21, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..