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Live8
So on the spur of the moment we decided to truck on down to Philly to take in
Live8 and it was very, very cool. (More
pics here.) But it was also kinda depressing. We were going to take a picture of the "Philly Recycles" stickers all over the place and then take a picture of the garbage cans that were overflowing with plastic bottles and cups. And while the sentiment of the day was definitely in the right place, From
weblogged News on July 2, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Great New Blog Article
Finally, an article on blogs in schools that gets it pretty much right.
What's in a Blog? is the lead story in this month's
American School Board Journal and it does a great job, I think, of framing the potential of blogs and in accurately reflecting the state of the Read/Write world. Now if every board member in the country reads it, we might start bringing some sanity back to the blogs and safety conversation. (Via
Anne) From
weblogged News on July 2, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Creating Learning Objects from Pre-Authored Course Materials
This article by Anita Petrinjak and Rodger Graham appeared in the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology. The authors present an interesting XML-based method for generating LOs from existing course materials that looks very promising; their work includes the development of an LO authoring tool for users who do not have XML programming skills. However, despite the optimistic conclusions in the Abstract and in the article, no detailed examples of usable, transformed LOs are exhibited and no reports from users are provided--consequently it From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on July 2, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..
A theory of intelligence
I read Jeff Hawkins' On Intelligence today. Fascinating. He gives what seems to be a coherent unifying theory. (Caveats: I don't know any brain science, so I can't tell if he's right, if his facts are right, if he's being fair, if he's saying something old that just sounds new to me, etc.) His theory has the virtue (and possibly the vice, but I can't tell) of simplicity: The same process explains all the senses and all intelligence. As I understand it, our cortex has six layers, each of which stores patterns at different degrees of abstraction. Hawkins emphas From
Joho the Blog on July 2, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Leaving...
So, almost everything is packed - early tomorrow morning I'm flying to Seattle... Next to doing
interesting work I'm looking forward to meeting people, experiencing another culture in not-a-tourist mode and living next to the
number of diving sites. Back to NL 10 September. Email, IM, Skype should work unless something strange happens. From
Mathemagenic on July 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Amazon's capitalized Phrases
Amazon has added a new auto-tagging feature: It's now listing the capitalized phrases in books and letting you see all the books that use those phrases. (More at the You're It blog.)... From
Joho the Blog on July 2, 2005 at 3:46 p.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Flu wiki
Ross Mayfield over at Many2Many notes a new wiki dedicated to gathering and improving information about the spread of flu. It's just getting started, but it's an experiment worth watching... [Technorati tags: wiki SocialSoftware influenza]... From
Joho the Blog on July 2, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..
Free As In Beer ….
Well so much for the saying, “free as in beer, not free as in speech” which has been the classic statement to represent the Gratis vs. Libre distinction. The world’s first open source beer has been announced (via Made).Created by “Vores From
Indiana IT on July 2, 2005 at 8:56 a.m..
LiveLAMP: Open Source Live Server CD
Those familiar with Knoppix know that it is a Debian-based Linux distribution which runs from straight from a CD without requiring installation of files to a hard-drive. Soon, a to-be-released project, LiveLAMP, “aims to do for Linux application and database servers what Knoppix has done for desktops.” Here’s a short ... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 2, 2005 at 8:56 a.m..
The Infiltration Of Advertising
For a second, I thought I was reading The Onion, until I realized, this may very well be true. It seems that Kari Smith, an American, recently sold her forehead as an “advertising billboard” to the Golden Palace Casino. The words “GoldenPalace.com” have been tatooed on her forehead as a ... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 2, 2005 at 8:56 a.m..
I’m in the Lead of a Monitor Article
This is so exciting... Last night I posted about my new citizen journalism training project with Adam Glenn, I, Reporter. There, I mentioned that I'd been interviewed on the topic of citizen journalism by the Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Randy Dotinga told me he expected the article to run Monday. Much to my delight, I just found out that the online version has already been posted -- and I'm in the lead! Way cool! See "Write the News Yourself." It's an excellent beginner's overview of the emerging citJ field. Now I'll take a little break from building the I, From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
I, Reporter Launches
Last night I published a new blog, I, Reporter (ireporter.org), which will serve as the main hub for my citizen journalism efforts. My partner on this project, Adam Glenn, is traveling at the moment -- but he's online, so I'm sure he'll make an appearance there shortly. I've posted a couple of articles there already, and I've got lots more in the works. FAIR WARNING: I, Reporter is very basic as of today. Be kind: this is my first Typepad blog and I'm just learning their tools. Also, I rushed to put it together in order to have its appearance coincide with today&a From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Having Fun with My Bio
This week has been a whirlwind, for good and terrible reasons. I'll focus on the positive for now. My new venture I, Reporter is off to a meteoric start. That's good, because the topic of citizen journalism is deeply meaningful to myself and my partner in that project, A. Adam Glenn. Also, I've been attracting many intriguing speaking engagements, including the New York Press Assoc. (Just scored that one today.) Given all these new speaking engagements, and given that I've committed to mainly having fun with pursuing that aspect of my career, I've revamped my bio. I&a From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
My Upcoming Events
Recently I've been asked to attend or speak at several events, large and small. Well, I certainly need to get out of my home office more! Here's a quick rundown. If you're in the area and can attend the event, please stop by!... From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
The True Cost of Cowardly Management
OK, I'm warning you, this is a bit of a rant. I'm peeved. I have no tolerance for abject, short-sighted stupidity. Last week a close friend of mine (a senior software engineer) was fired without warning. He didn't embezzle company funds, threaten his coworkers, or indeed commit any major transgression that would warrant such extreme action. First thing on a sunny Friday morning, he was called into a meeting and told that his job performance wasn't acceptable. Believe it or not, this "You're fired, get out now!" conversation was the first time his manager (or anyone at From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
The Gift of Conversation
Yesterday was my husband's birthday -- and I've got to admit, my gift to him was a huge hit. I'll pass along the general idea, since I suspect it might appeal to many CONTENTIOUS readers... From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Catch Me on BBC Radio Tonight
Just a quick note: Tonight my I, Reporter partner Adam Glenn and I will be interviewed live on BBC Radio 5. The topic, of course, is citizen journalism. Here are the details... From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Recent “I, Reporter” Articles
Over the past week or so, Adam Glenn and I have posted several items to the blog for our new citizen journalism training project, I, Reporter. Many of these have attracted some thought-provoking reader comments. Here's a quick rundown of the most recent I, Reporter articles... From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Communicating with Women: Tips
Right now I'm listening to the latest "Church of the Customer" podcast: "Women's word of mouth." The first segment features a lengthy interview with Andrea Learned, co-author of "Don't Think Pink" (about word of mouth and women). Although this conversation relates primarily to marketing communications, there's ample food for thought here for people involved in any aspect of public or private communication – including weblogs, education, live discussions, etc. Learned concluded with three key tips for marketing to women. I've followed each with my thoughts on ho From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
NYT Thinks “RSS” is an Awkward Acronym
It's been a while since I mentioned the whole nongeeky-nickname-for-RSS flap. It's not dead yet! Here's the latest salvo. In his June 23 New York Times piece, "What's in a Product Name?" columnist David Pogue observed: "Some good technologies don't even stand for something that people can agree on. RSS is a terrible name for a great technology; it can stand for either Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, and neither really tells you that it means subscribing to a Web site so you don't have to check it for updates." This wasn't the last word on th From
Contentious Weblog on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Forest Service
Most National Forests and Grasslands offer online maps or instructions on how to obtain a printed map. To find a map, please click on one of the National Forest, Grassland or other area links below. USDA Forest Service - Caring... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Microsoft and RSS
With increasing adoption of RSS, the concept of "subscribing" to content on the Web is becoming more prevalent. As this idea continues to gain in popularity, users will be able to subscribe not only to blogs and news, but also... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Rules for the boss
Little Sarcastic Rules for the Boss: 1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing. 2. If it's really a rush job, run in... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Education Options
Virtual schools offer a wider selection for students and families, and create questions for states. If you can shop, make appointments or register your car via the Internet from the convenience of your home -- or from halfway around the... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Universal Learning
All, regardless of race or class or economic status, are entitled to a fair chance and to the tools for developing their individual powers of mind and spirit to the utmost. HYPHEN A Nation at Risk (NCEE, 1983) Hardly could... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Being everything to everyone.
You can't be everything to everyone, claim the critics, and yet instructional designers are forced to be just that. Instructional design, as an interdisciplinary offshoot of instructional psychology, has undergone major "sea changes" in the last few years, as technology,... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Supporting Different Learning Styles
Due to demands for educational programs that are time and place independent, distance education availability, course offerings, and enrollment increased rapidly during the 1990s. To illustrate this trend, the National Center for Education Statistics (2000) reported 91% of public four-year... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Is Your Child Learning?
The only way to transform K education is not to disintermediate the teacher with technology but to work at the system design level using eLearning the way it is used... Is Your Child Learning What He/She Needs to Know? ::... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Personal media tools
I also like it because putting the personal against the professional helps shine a light on one of the great mysteries of our time -- why professional media people are so completely ignoring the technologies and concepts that are driving... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Death of Hierarchical Folders
Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out. Just take a look at some of... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
In the bag
This weekend, Silverlotus told me, "My purse is too small!" I looked at the bag. It didn't seem to have shrunk in size. But no, she insisted, she now had more stuff to carry. Just the essential stuff, mind you, like the cellphone, iPod Shuffle, Handspring, a notepad, and the usual toiletries. Personally, I think this is my queue to stop buying her gizmos. She had experienced a moment of fashion twin zen the other day when she met a lady with the same handbag, only bigger; Silverlotus wished hers was just as massive, and the lady wished she could have purchased the more compact size. All o From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Games that break new ground
In the D drive: FlatOut. It's a racing game made by Finns and published by Brits. It's sort of like Burnout meets Big Red Racing, where instead of driving exotic supercars, you run rally races with rustbuckets. And the crashing is utterly exquisite: if Burnout 3 is Hooked on Phonics, FlatOut is Hooked on Phonics: The Miniseries. In particularily nasty head-on collisions, your driver is actually thrown out of the windshield! (They even have sick little stunt games to play the yuks up - like the one where you use your poor battered body to knock over ten pins in a oversized bowling all From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
My Japanese Studies course got me a woman
When Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs dropped out of college, he still snuck into some classes for kicks. One of them, Calligraphy, impressed him so much that he later used this serenditipious knowledge when developing the typeface rendering on the Macintosh. Implausible? That's what Jobs told the graduating class of 2005 at Stanford. More from the Stanford Report. From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Critical Thinking: Did the man really bite the dog?
"If you really want to be a critical reader," Paul Graham writes in The Submarine, "It turns out you have to step back one step further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he's writing about this subject at all." Why? Because the news isn't immune from fallacy or deception. For example, a good chunk of non-topical news (especially those describing buying trends) are not spontaneously generated by seasoned, pavement-pounding journalists, but are canned press releases generated by PR firms and fed to apathetic reporters to regurgitate: If anyone is dishon From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
And don't ask her "how much is this with tax"
Running a video store is a particularily heinous form of hell, as Silverlotus can attest to when she worked at EB Games. Even though it was a corporate chain store, profit margins were still razor thin. They made the managers pimp these $40 contraptions called Disc Doctors that supposedly removed scratches off compact discs. So I can sympathize when I read Eric Grissom's Untold Stories of the Indie Game Store: If you wanted to order four PS2s you would have to buy eight copies of Killzone and a half a pound of Celebrity Deathmatch. The same was true for Xbox. Things got even worse by the From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Just 3 million of my closest associates
Jordan Weisman, cofounder of 4orty-2wo, as interviewed in the East Bay Express's The Buzzmakers "Our theory was if we posed the question in the right way, and inspired a group of people -- a small group initially -- to try to find the answers, they would organically start to enlist a larger and larger group. As that group grew, it would come to quickly represent every knowledge base, and every skill base you could imagine, plus a virtually unlimited amount of time, energy, and resources.""And we were right, but by an order of magnitude we were off...Damn, there is nothing they can't From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Chained bikes, set free.
I've always wondered why bikes get abandoned. My bike is very personal to me. Did their caregivers die, did they forget, or did they just become enamored with a shiny new distraction? CBC Radio 3's "Left Behind: When the Wheels Stop Turning" photo montage likens it to heartbreak. But earlier this month in Toronto, a bunch of urban guerillas called the the City Beautification Ensemble took to the streets to give these abandoned wheels one last chance at glory. They are the Pedals and Paint, and these are their loving creations. From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Going mainstream to go indie
Om Malik notes the irony surrounding the new iTunes Podcast Directory, which hides the actual podcasts under the vague "Audio Blogs" genre while headlining regurgitated talk radio shows. I can understand the Apple marketer's thinking though - you gotta go with what people know. Fortunately, indie podcasts will probably survive since they're only a hop and skip away from anyone with a RSS aggregator. iTunes cannot monopolize the conversaton. It does make things easier, though. For the first time, I subscribed to the CBC Radio 3 weekly podcast, which features independent Canadian bands From
silentblue | Quantified on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
MSM Arts & Culture Blog War
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Jose Mercury News' and the San Francisco Chronicle's websites are thinking along similar lines. About three weeks ago, the Mercury News officially launched a group staff blog covering arts & entertainment, called
A+E Interactive. Two weeks later, the Chronicle debuted its arts group staff blog, called,
Culture Blog.Bravo to both, as I think this concept represents From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Newspapers' Big Mistake: The Historical View
Fellow E-Media Tidbits blogger (and Medill School of Journalism associate professor)
Rich Gordon has written an important essay about the similarity between how newspapers are conducting business today and the introduction in the 1950s of the portable transistor radio. I encourage newspaper folks to
read it.In a nutshell, Gordon argues that when the transis From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Of Tigers and Newspapers
I just love this quote from The Guardian's article, "
Internet's new wave proves hard to catch," by Rafael Behr:"Now the old media see the new as a circus tiger. It is cute, it does tricks, people pay to look at it -- but one day it might rip your throat out."Nice phrasing. Behr is referring to the Los Angeles Times' ill-fated "wikitorial" experiment last week, the one marred by some wiki participants posting pornographic images and profanities to the open online edito From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Life on Google Earth
Google today launched its
Google Earth, an installable program that lets you search for or zoom in on areas, places of interest, or specific addresses around the globe. In addition to looking at places, you can fly over them, as it were. You also will get a pretty good idea of the topographical situation, with mountains, hills, and ehhh ... fjords if you're interested in Norway.This initiative of course comes after Google's
purchase of Keyhole last year. The program is From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Purchasing Reprint Rights: We Have a Problem
Here's a new one on me: Lots of websites, especially newspaper and magazine sites, now offer instant republication rights. Click a few buttons, sign up with the provider, tell the rights-management company what you want to use the article for, put in a credit-card number, and off you go.Until today. I hit the "permission to republish" button on
Washingtonpost.com for an article that might be of value to the clients of Classified Intelligence, my consulting group. Unfortunately, the site offered only four options: "Republish it o From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
A Content Management System for Users
Yahoo! has
unveiled a new tool that is pretty much guaranteed to be misunderstood. Called "My Web," it looks like a bookmark-sharing service wired into Web search. But that description misses the real point."My Web" actually is a content management system for users. It combines a number of new ideas -- folksonomy tagging, social networking, recommendation engines -- into a tool that helps users organize information around their own interests.We all struggle with content management when producing our news websites. R From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
What's With All Those Inserts?
Have you noticed this in your local newspaper? My
hometown paper for some time has had a healthy number of inserts. You know, the flyers and print inserts for grocery stores, stereo retailers, office-supply stores, etc. Meanwhile, the classifieds section continues to get thinner.The anemic classifieds section is no surprise. The effect of free online classifieds sites, mostly the
local Craigslist site, is having an effect on print editions. But I have to wonder, if the print inserts are a cash cow for l From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Topix Goes to Canada
Topix.net, the news aggregation service that
Knight Ridder,
Gannett, and
Tribune recently purchased a majority stake in, has expanded its reach to Canadian news sources. It's the first time the company has utilized its technology to search outside the U.S. Topix.net now will search through local news from 4,200 Canadian cities and towns.According to the company's press release, this is the first From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Questionable Data, Worse Reporting
A couple of weeks ago, Nielsen//NetRatings put out a
press release (PDF) that has spread throughout the blogosphere (at least 17 citations on Technorati) and through Web and traditional news sources (40+ links on Google News). The key sentence, picked up in virtually all of these citations, is this: "The research shows that a significant 21 percent of Web users who read newspapers have transferred their readership primarily to the online version, while a majority, or 72 percent, of online users who consume newspapers primari From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Newspaper Podcasting 2.0
Some of the early
podcasts by newspaper websites weren't terribly compelling. Newspaper podcasting "version 1.0" often was a reporter reading the top headlines of the day. Now we're starting to see more intelligent experimentation by newspapers with podcasting.Case in point: The website of the San Francisco Chronicle,
SFGate.com, has begun offering
podcast channels from its Datebook, Food, and Opinion sections. (Business podcasts hav From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
German Online-Only News Site Sold to Nordic Media Group
It was only two weeks ago that Michael Maier, publisher, CEO, and chief editor of
Netzeitung, Germany's most successful online-only news website, which reaches about 1 million unique visitors a month, told newspaper publishers about being profitable with news on the Internet. The company claims to be in the black with income from ads and syndication. However, the audience wasn't entirely convinced and today's news seem to back that perception: Netzeitung just announced that
it h From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Magazines Get Serious About the Web
A survey of 71 consumer magazines by the International Federation of the Periodical Press begins to identify
success factors (PDF file) for magazine websites. It's a timely report, because many consumer magazines have been slow to develop coherent Web strategies -- they've been wary of cannibalizing print readership but unwilling to invest much in developing new online content.The survey isn't scientific, and relies on self-reporting by publishers who consider their sites to be "successful" by whatever From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Lebanon's Daily Star Asks for Donations
The Daily Star of Lebanon has had a
difficult history, matching the turmoil of the region. Currently, it has an arrangement with the New York Times Co.-owned International Herald Tribune, in which it represents the IHT in the countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, and Iraq. But even with that, the paper still struggles.This week, the paper's website started a campaign to solicit donations from online readers to support The Daily Star. You'll From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Podcasting: The Time Is Now
This week Apple Computer added
podcast features to its
iTunes music software, the free application that everyone who owns an
iPod uses. I dutifully downloaded my updated copy of iTunes, and I'm impressed.What this means is that podcasting has taken a big step toward being mainstream. Rather than consumers having to jump through hoops and find a separate application in order to listen to podcasts, it's simply part of an application that millions From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
From Greeley to Harvard
Greeley Tribune (Colorado) editor Chris Cobler is heading off to Harvard for a prestigious Nieman Fellowship, where he'll study the topic of how newspapers will better utilize and adapt to modern Internet trends. Colorado Public Radio has an
audio interview with Cobler by host Dan Meyers that's worth a listen. The interview is largely about Cobler's
editor's blog; he was one of the first From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
Don't Assume Your Readers Understand
I suspect this is a problem more for American writers than for those in other countries. It's sometimes an issue for me. ... I wrote an
item earlier this week and mentioned the "NPR model." While most of my U.S. readers would understand that I was referring to National Public Radio and its local affiliates and their penchant for begging for money from listeners, those outside the U.S. won't know what NPR is.A reader from Morocco e-mailed me to ask what I meant, and I realized that I violated one of my own sel From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 2, 2005 at 8:55 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Jack Kilby's momentous contribution - InfoWorld
At the time when Jack Kilby's experiments resulted in the first integrated circuit that was about half the size of a paper clip, computers were about 50 feet long, weighed eight tons, and used more than 5,000 vacuum tubes. The internal storage capacity of From
Techno-News Blog on July 2, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
home page - it seems to be displaying some forma From
OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..
Taking questions
Carolyn Elefant suggests, among other things, that profession-oriented bloggers offer occasional days in which they invite and answer questions. In an article in
GPSolo Magazine for June 2005 she says: Any requests? Increasingly, bloggers offer "all-request days" when they'll respond to questions from readers. Law tech blogger Dennis Kennedy offers an all-request day every... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 2, 2005 at 1:52 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
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OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..
What's the big idea?
Peter Andrews has written an article that looks at how to put new ideas into practice. To quote: It may be odd, aggravating, attractive or frightening. It may make perfect sense or none. It may even come from that mysterious... From
Column Two on July 2, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..
The worst thing about best practices
Michael W. McLaughlin has written an article about the issues with "best practices", from a marketing perspective (but relevant for all). He identifies four main problems: They rarely work It's a follower's strategy Change comes from within They don't come... From
Column Two on July 2, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
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OLDaily on July 2, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..
The Internet Sales Tax is here
The Internet Sales Tax is here. If you sell goods or services on the Web (products, e-Learning, whatever), pay attention to
this article in The Washington Post. The eighteen states involved in the network are Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, New Jersey, Arkansas, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming. You can bet that any other states that aren't already collecting s From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 1, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..
RSS and Media: Can't we All Just Get Along?
Useful discussion of RSS extensions offered by Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple to support the distribution of multimedia content. Each is slightly different and the author proposes something like a common approach. Historically, when one standard is proposed to replace three divergent standards, the result is four divergent standards. What is demonstrated most of all, though, is what RSS does that other metadata formats don't seem to do: it adapts. (Note: if this link takes you to a blank page, click on the blog
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OLDaily on July 1, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..