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The Journal of Learning Design
Our mates in Australia are at it again, and this new journal is set to launch in July of 2005. http://www.jld.qut.edu.au/ We wish them well, and expect that JLD will provide a lot of good reading in the café in... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 8, 2005 at 10:53 p.m..
Chopped into timy peices: the "Fuck Natalee Holloway" hate mail
A story entitled "Fuck Natalee Holloway" was posted to our site a few days ago. It is already the 2nd highest-ranked link on a Google search for "natalee". Searching for her full name shows her official missing persons site 1st and our link as 2nd. As such, the administration at K5 has received more hate mail than ever before. Members have demanded that it be published in its near entirety, so here are all email responses received to date. From
kuro5hin.org on July 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Tag Spam Enclosure (Ross Mayfield)
Steve Rubel points out that Yahoo's Social Search is cluttered with tag spam. Further evidence that Clay's definition of social software may be spot on. But take a deeper look. Everyone's Tags are about to be overrun by Nigerians,... From
Corante: Social Software on July 8, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..
A feature I want: Firefox tab list
I end up with dozens of tabs open, and while several Firefox extensions provide a popup list for easier navigation, I'd really like a sidebar listing all the open tabs so I can close them easily. Anyone know of an extension that does this? Anyone want to write one? (I'd do it if I knew how.)... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
Muni wifi ballpark costs
Sascha has done a spreadsheet estimating the cost of covering some square miles with a wireless network. Conclusion: ...clearly, the costs are far cheaper for an open source, open architecture system than are currently being estimated for proprietary networks. [Technorati tags: muniwifi wifi]... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..
A Test of Courage
First off, I know that nothing I can say, indeed nothing the world leaders at the G8 summit could say, could hope to compare with the aftermath of the bombings in London yesterday. One of the saddest aspects of the timing of this disaster, to me, is how it will overshadow the discussion of debt relief for impoverished African nations. I know that no newly-minted London widow or widower can be expected to care much about African poverty tonight as they grieve. However, I feel obligated to point out that Britain is now faced with an important choice. From
kuro5hin.org on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Bloggers Need Not Apply
It's ironic to see this author warning about your blog making you look like an idiot without any warning about doing the same in a column for the Chronicle. That is probably why the article is published under a pseudonym. The real miscreants are the editors of the Chronicle for publishing this drivel, a screed based neither in an understanding of blogging nor in sound advice for applicants and potential employers. Yes, let's keep our lives secret befor we take a new position; that will make it much more certain the job will be a good fit. Rubbish. By Ivan Tribble, Chronicle o From
OLDaily on July 8, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
God's Little Toys
William Gibson gets it, which is why he has added so much to our culture. "Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record..." And, "'Who owns the words?' asked a disembodied but very persistent voice throughout much of Burroughs' work. Who does own them now? Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do. All of us." By William Gibson, Wired, July, 2005 [
OLDaily on July 8, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
RSS Contacts
This is a step in the right direction, but only a step. It recognizes (like FOAF and XFN) that social networking data ought to be distributed, in the form of personal RSS files, and not centralized and bound to a particular environment, as in Friendster and Orkut. But instead of putting your contacts' metadata in your own file, as this system recommends, it should be pointing to your contacts' personal metadata files, stored on their servers. Cf. my post
Metadata. By Unknown, July 8, 2005 [
OLDaily on July 8, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
Metadata
This was intended to be a note to myself, partially to comment on discussion list metadata and partially to frame some throughts for my talk in Colorado in August. But it makes some points that bear wider consideration, and in particular, two principles of metadata: metadata for a given entity should never be stored in more than one place; and metadata for a given entity should not contain metadata for a second entity. By Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, July 7, 2005 [
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OLDaily on July 8, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
The Structure and Function of Complex Networks
I'm pretty sure I linked to this in a presentation somewhere (I know I've read it) but never here in OLDaily. But Geoirge Siemens makes up for that lapse with a reference to this excellent and authoritative paper that examines in detail the formal properties of networks. My one remark at this point is that such analyses - and the state of network analysis in general - is such that they focus on structural or syntactic properties of networks - important, to be sure, but nothing compared to the wealth we will obtain when we look at network semantics. By M.E.J. Newman, De From
OLDaily on July 8, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
Mass Audience for London News by the Masses
Many of us are following the news of the London blasts and how this news is being reported by citizens. One of the first eyewitness pictures was sent by Adam Stacey via his camera phone to Alfie Dennen, the owner of
Alfie's Discotastic Moblog and was from there quickly picked up by TV channel
Sky, which credited it as " a passenger's camera photo." It was also picked up by
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 8, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..
IMS, ADL and IEEE LTSC will collaborate to update and standardize Content Packaging
During working sessions at alt-i-lab 2005 in Sheffield, UK, representatives of the ADL Co-Lab in Alexandria, Virginia; the Learning Technology Standards Committee of the IEEE, and the IMS Global Learning Consortium outlined the collaborative approach the three organizations will follow to update the IMS Content Packaging specification. The updated specification will be accredited as an IEEE standard and the profile of the Content Packaging specification included as a key component of SCORM 2004, which will be revised to comply with the resulting standard. From
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. on July 8, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..
Non-profit blogging
Since almost all of us have non-profit blogs, let me clarify: The topic at the Thursday night Berkman blogging meeting was blogging by non-profits. Deborah Elizabeth Finn posted a useful roundup in advance of the meeting. Beth Kanter and Brian Reich also presented. Marnie Webb, non-profit blogging superhero (aw, gosh, anyone who works for a non-profit is a superhero), participated via skype and irc. You can see informal notes from the meeting here. And the hot tag to use is nptech. [Technorati tags: nptech DeborahElizabethFinn BethKanter BrianReich MarnieWebb blogs berkman]... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..
Dumb shower puzzle
For many of you the only puzzle will be why I didn't realize this instantly. Anyway: Our shower has a single lever that adjusts the hot and cold. Over the years I've noticed that my preferred temperature is at the 5 o'clock position during the winter but at 8 during the summer, i..e, I move the lever more toward cold during the summer. Since it seemed unlikely that our hot water heater was heating water hotter during the summer, I've assumed I just like a colder shower in the summer. Today I realized that that's probably not the case. What's... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..
Why I just deleted a post
I just deleted a post of mine, something I don't think I've done before. I deleted it because it was substantially and completely wrong, as a commenter quickly pointed out. (Thanks, Max!) It was only up for about 15 mins, so it's highly unlikely that it was indexed or that anyone else pointed to it, so I don't think my deleting the post will break anyone's links. I posted on the basis of a friend sending me big chunks of a column by Fox commentator John Gibson that made it sound as if he wished PAris had been attacked instead... From
Joho the Blog on July 8, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..
Why Wikipedia...Or Not
(Cross posted to
ETI) So in the middle of my Tablet PC training yesterday I got sidetracked and started talking about
Wikipedia. As it happened, the
London bombings was another opportunity to watch collaborative construction of knowledge in process. Here is the first post on Wikipedia at a little after 10 am London time started by
Morwen. On
weblogged News on July 8, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..
Population Explosion!
ClickZ Stats has updated its list of the global online populations, with some new figures for the number of Active Internet Users. From
ClickZ Stats on July 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Trackback No More...Flickr Spam?
I hate spammers. I really do. I flipped the switch on trackbacks just now because it was just getting ridiculous in terms of the texasholdem crud that was showing up. Too bad, 'cause the idea is a great one. But I've been tracking references to this site via RSS feeds and
Technorati already, and I'd say 95% of what turns up here turns up there. Without the spam, of course. More disconcerting is that when I went to
Flickr the other day, an extremely naked woman appeared in my "Photos From My Contacts" From
weblogged News on July 8, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..
Mobile networks bear blast strain - BBC News
Mobile phone networks are recovering after struggling in the hours immediately after the London blasts. Networks in London were running at near capacity as those caught up in the chaos tried to call family and friends. The surge in the number of calls bei From
Techno-News Blog on July 8, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..
Blogs respond to London blasts - BBC News
News of the suspected terror attacks across central London has quickly spread across the net as people try to get information about the chaos. According to blog tracking service, Technorati, there were more than 1,300 posts about the blasts by 1015 GMT. From
Techno-News Blog on July 8, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..
London bombings get speedy entry in Wikipedia - CNET News
Real-time is turning into history faster than ever before on the Web. In what may be one of the quickest turnaround times for an online encyclopedia, the Wikipedia site posted a very detailed and comprehensive Web page on the bombings that rocked London o From
Techno-News Blog on July 8, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..
Users Wising Up to Spyware
Fear of spyware, adware and viruses is finally penetrating the consciousness of most internet users, a study concludes, causing them to avoid certain websites and become generally more tech-savvy. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Heavy Toll in London Bombings
At least 40 people are dead and another 350 wounded in coordinated rush-hour bombing attacks on the city's transportation system. An al-Qaida group claims responsibility for the attacks, which may have been timed to coincide with the opening of the G8 summit. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Saving the Killer Chopper-Plane
Twenty-two years. $16 billion. Thirty deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true. By Ron Berler from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Guns, Germs, Steel and Now, TV
Jared Diamond, author of the controversial book and upcoming PBS series Guns, Germs, and Steel, shares his thoughts on why civilizations rise and fall. Some lessons from history seem eerily relevant today. Wired News interview by Jason Silverman. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
We Don't Talk About Sex? Ha!
Online, in e-mails and during podcasts, Americans spend more and more time gabbing about sex. As federal regulations make it harder for sex sites to publish images, erotic talk may blow up bigger than ever. By Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Crises Strain Cell-Phone Networks
After Thursday's bomb attacks, many Londoners couldn't make calls on clogged mobile networks. Communications experts say the problems could be a wake-up call for U.K. and U.S. regulators to work on securing wireless networks in crises. By Michael Grebb. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Shuttle Set to Soar Again
NASA is just days away from attempting its first space shuttle launch in two-and-a-half years. Amit Asaravala takes a look at the mission and what it means for the space agency and the United States. PLUS: See our expanded space shuttle coverage. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Cops Watched Sex Offender's Blog
As they searched for fugitive sex offender Joseph Duncan, law enforcement agents say they hoped to glean clues about his location from Duncan's online journal. By Kevin Poulsen. From
Wired News on July 8, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Food and bloggers coming Sunday
Just in case someone local missed
this post at Nancy's blog: So lets have a potluck. SEATTLE! Sunday, July 10th, 3pm at my house. Bring some food and drink. We'll have the BBQ fired up, all the cups/plates/utensils handy plus a huge green salad. Email to RSVP (I'd really appreciate that) and to get directions (nancyw AT fullcirc DOT com). Kids are welcome as Liz has kids in the 8-11 range. If things get crowded, we can walk down to the neighbor From
Mathemagenic on July 8, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..
Walking on ice
You are probably wondering how does it go at Microsoft... Well, may be you should start from posts by
Liz Lawley - we started on the same day and share many experiences (only my Tablet is not online yet :(
first impressions of microsoft settling into msr My experience is multi-layered. First, it's learning about another culture and new place. Se From
Mathemagenic on July 8, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..
10 Steps to a Disastrous Technology Training Session
Recently I sat through a day-long training session on a software service. Maybe sat-through doesn't really capture the experience. Endured. Survived. Suffered through much in the same way that you grip the arms of the dentist chair as the Novocain is wearing off and you can start to feel each movement of the drill and every little poke from those surgical instruments. Bad? It was awful. The thing is, the presenter doing the training really knew the topic. So what... From
Brain Frieze on July 8, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..
Food Force
Play the game, learn about food aid, and help WFP work towards a world without hunger. WFP Foodforce - The Game, The Reality, How to Help... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 8, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..
WayBack. Flight
As America marks the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first airplane flight, this site will help kids learn about the stories behind the celebration. Visitors can find out about how Orville and Wilbur Wright became interested in flight and... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 8, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..
Cyber bullying
Welcome to this web site! Cyberbullying is sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the Internet or other digital communication devices. Cyberbullying... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 8, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..
You Talk
Speech to text technology has been around for a number of years, but the technology was not advanced enough for most computer users to want to use it or try to use it. I am happy to say that is... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 8, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..