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Dave's outline editor
At the Thursday night Berkman blog meeting, Dave Winer is demo-ing his OPML editor, an outline editor. The room is crammed like the cheap seats on an incumbent airline. (OPML is mainly used these days as a way aggregators import/export lists of the feeds you subscribe to.) It lets you work in outline form, press the "save" button and the contents get posted to your blog. To update your blogroll, you open it in the editor, type, link and save. It has nested categories which, again, you edit using the editor. Press "Build RSS" and it does. It's OPML all... From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

H20 - Watering the tree of knowledge (my yuckiest headline ever)
On Wednesday, about 75 people crowded into a seminar room at Harvard Law to talk about H20 playlists, a Berkman project in beta that lets people build and share "lists" of online and offline resources. It grows out of projects started in 1998, including a structured forum ("Rotisserie") for mutliple classes to discuss shared readings. ("H20" originally stood for "Harvard 2.0." Hence, the 0 is a zero, not the letter O.) Jonathan Zittrain says H20 mashes together iTunes (categorization, shared playlists), Amazon.com (reviews, recommendations...and "canonical links" to books, which Zittrain think From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Younger Students Show Gains in Math and Reading
America's elementary school students made solid gains in both reading and math in the first years of this decade, according to test results. From New York Times: Education on July 14, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

The Best Practice Problem
It's an old problem, but many have been obsessed with capturing "best practice" and encouraging others to copy it. And many react against that obsession, pointing out that it prevents innovation. The idea that there is a best way, or... From Monkeymagic on July 14, 2005 at 7:50 p.m..

Weblogs en la Bienal Iberoamericana de la Comunicación
Se han dado a conocer las comunicaciones aceptadas a la V Bienal Iberoamericana de la Comunicación que tendrá lugar en el ITESM-CEM los días 20, 21 y 22 de septiembre de 2005. El evento, convocado bajo la temática 2005 Balance... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 14, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..

Privacy: A graphic model
Privacy: A graphic model. While searching for materials on accountability matrices for a project management article, I came across this. 1. Tools that help me see what others are up to. 2. Tools that prevent others from seeing what I am up to. 3. Tools that help other see what I am up to. 4. Tools that prevent me from seeing what others are up to. From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Java fragmentation issues and m-Learning
Java fragmentation issues and m-Learning. Cell phone manufacturers, in trying to get competitive devices to market quickly, have ensured that a Java application that runs on one cell phone probably won't run on others. Cellphones, from the developer's point of view, are like snowflakes -- no two are alike. This is yet another driving force working in favor of Macromedia's Flash Lite, at least with the new and coming generation of phones. Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

YAPA
YAPA (Yet Another Podcasting Article). Review: Podcasting Easy for Everyone (AP). AP - My introduction to podcasting  the convergence of iPods, broadcasting and the time-shifting that TiVo popularized  came when Apple's iTunes recently began making podcasts available for download. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Running for president makes people stupid
Senator Clinton seeks 'Grand Theft' sex scene probe Hillary, I know you think you can count on my vote if you get the nomination. But you can't, not if you keep up this relentless stream of irrelevant, pandering idiocy. [Technorati tags: HillaryClinton GTA]... From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

An Assessment of the Academic Achievement of Students in Two Modes of Part-time Programme in Nigeria
The latest edition of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) is out. The best article in a weak issue is this assessment of learning outcomes in two part-time programs in Nigeria. The authors warn that the desire to increase access may result in substandard programs, thereby defeating the very objectivce these programs are intended to attain. By Kola Adeyemi and Austin Osunde, IRRODL, July, 2005 [R From OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

IMS ePortfolio Specification
The IMS e-portfolio specification was recently released. The intent of this specification is to encourage interoperability between e-portfolio systems, as is clear in the use cases. And it seems to reflect a view of portfolios as being used in assessment, or at best, as a sort of resume. I don't know, maybe that's good. What I did like was the idea of support for different 'views' of a portfolio, allowing an owner to tailor the output for different pruposes. Also worth noting is the identification of portfolio owners using the IMS OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Study Great Ideas, but Teach to the Test
The author argues that teaching a standard way to write a paragraph may help students pass the test, but at the cost of lessening their capacity to write expressively and well. One of a series of ten pretty good articles in yesterday's New York Times (follow the links at the bottom of each article). Via Golden Swamp. By Michael Winerip, New York Times, July 13, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Education Week General Manager: How We Came to Charge for Premium Content
Michele Givens, a general manager at Education Week magazine, explains the organization's decision to begin charging subscription fees. Some bits don't ring true - like this: "We definitely took a hit on page views when we introduced registration on edweek.org, although they mostly recovered." While still recovering from the loss registrations caused (note the use of the future tense, as in "the normal decline in page views will be mitigated") it seems the magazine is prepared to take a further hit. "We're poised to take the next big step, the introduction of our paid content mo From OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

EDUCAUSE Review 20-4
It's interesting to read the articles in the new EDUCAUSE Review, especially in light of Ubiquity's interview with Leonard Kleinrock, the father of packet-switching. Kleinrock: "I should be able to talk to the environment. It could respond with voice, or perhaps displays pop up or holograms. Maybe there's a keyboard around. Maybe there's some kind of other input device, or output device. But I want it to be there when I get there and not have to import all of the technology with me." Now read Long and Erhmann: From OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

New Zealand Schools Go Open Source, Linux
A fairly significant announcement: "Novell has signed a national agreement with the New Zealand Ministry of Education to provide all state and state-integrated schools with a range of Novell software, including SUSE linux operating systems." By Stuart Yeates, Open Source in Higher and Further Education, July 14, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

OCW Finder
I like it when David Wiley finds the time to write some code. It's not exactly how I would approach it, but his remix of the del.icio.us director to create an OpenCourseware Finder is still a very nice demonstration of of what to expect in the future. By David Wiley, iterating toward openness, July 13, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Filtered in Iran
Mahzoon is reporting on his blog that downes.ca is filtered in Iran. He writes (in the right margin): "HELP: Stephen Downes site is filtered in Iran. I told the officials that this is an educational site, but it seems that they have no ear. Can anybody subscribe me to his content." Well, I can't help but feel a little hurt by this. Many Iranians have used my services over the years, and I have always respected and admired what they contributed to the blogosphere. I hope that the government of Iran will relent, and to my readers in I From OLDaily on July 14, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Regional Classifieds Coming
While this is still vaporware, I think it's worth noting, as it would fill an important hole in the newspaper industry's online strategy. Online classifieds system vendor AdPay is working on building a network of regional newspaper classifieds websites, which would combine ads from participating newspapers.This sort of thing could be useful in helping to counter the various online-classifieds threats, especially Craigslist, faced by newspapers. Today From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 14, 2005 at 5:50 p.m..

TV Downloads: The Future Is Now
The transformation of the Web from text-centric to multimedia-driven is under way. PBS is producing its first Internet-only, downloadable TV series: "NerdTV."As with other forms of Internet-delivered content, the most appealing target audience at the outset is the techie crowd. But over time, the audience for on-demand content delivered through the Internet will be a mainstream audience. And the old distribution channels will become ever less relevan From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 14, 2005 at 5:50 p.m..

Simplifying Blog Connections
At the risk of taking note of something that everyone in the world already knows about, I find it interesting that ZDNet has a "Blog This" link at the bottom of every one of its blog posts (for instance, here).Click on it and the site generates cut-and-paste HTML that any blogger can use to create a link to the ZDNet post. I know there's a "blog this" button on Google's toolbar, and presumably on other toolbars as well. But this is the first time I've noticed it on a blog itself.I don't know that it&a From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 14, 2005 at 5:50 p.m..

Untitled
Trend: Podcasting in Academic and Corporate Learning - Learning Circuits. Podcasting. You may have heard the term and wondered what it meant. Or you may already be listening to podcasts and pondering how they might be used with learners. This article will provide a basic explanation of podcasting, highlight some uses in learnin [Online Learning Update] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

Untitled
Learning Objects: A Rose by Any Other Name . . . - Susan E. Metros, Educause Review. Over the last three years, the buzz in educational technology circles has shifted from âWhat are learning objects?â to âWhatever happened to learning objects?â Learning objects evolved out of the object-oriented, reusable code protocols of computer scienc [Online Lea From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

Roadrunner culture
Roadrunner culture. Maybe it's time to switch off and slow down. Maybe even in e-Learning. [BBC News|Technology] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

Not as Much Pushing Back on Wikipedia
The good news from my visit to Ohio this week is that it didn't feel like there was as much resistance to the Wikipedia model, even from the librarians in attendance. (At least I didn't get yelled at like in DC a few months ago...) I totally understand the difficulty many people have with the blurring of trusted/not to be trusted sources. And I got more of a sense of "this is going to be hard work" rather than "this is something we can't do." That's the bottom line. None of this information literacy stuff is getting any easier, nor will From weblogged News on July 14, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Wireless Users Want Local Content
Wireless users prefer local alerts to next generation wireless service. From ClickZ Stats on July 14, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

Connection-less in Ohio
It's been a great couple of days at the ILILE Conference in Kent, Ohio except for one thing. Here I am waiting for my plane at the Cleveland airport and it's the first time I've had a connection. It's a sad commentary on my existence that it felt as painful as it did to be offline. Anymore if I go a day without wading through my Bloglines account I get up over 300 posts behind, easy. And I'd still say at least 50% of them are usually relevant or interesting...worth a few minutes at least. I need to get a life. Today the teachers and l From weblogged News on July 14, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

Old-Media Thinking
On her blog, Staci Kramer notes how Time magazine's Matt Cooper and his bosses seem stuck in old-media thinking. Cooper, of course, is the reporter caught up in the CIA-agent Valerie Plame/Karl Rove controversy, and who turned over his notes and testified before a grand jury this week.Kramer notes how Cooper said that he doesn't want to scoop himself and From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 14, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..

FlashMeeting of Thursday Berkman blogger meeting
Tonight Dave Winer is coming back to the Berkman Thursday night bloggers meeting to talk about outliners 'n' stuff. We (= Steve Garfield) are trying out some crazy new FlashMeeting videocasting thing. You'll be able to get the link here sometime before the 7pm meeting (to which you are of course invited to attend physically as well as virtually and spiritually)... [Technorati tags: berkman DaveWiner]... From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Pace Micro unveils 'iPod' for PVR owners
The Pace Micro PVR To Go allows consumers to transfer downloaded content from their PVR set-top box such as television or films to the device and watch them on the go in the same way that owners of portable music jukeboxes such as the iPod carry around music with them. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

French regulator proposes procedure for wireless local loop authorizations
Arcep has adopted two decisions proposing to the country's minister of industry a procedure for the delivery of wireless local loop authorizations, enabling the development of networks based on Wimax technology From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

ISPs do not have to hand over file-sharing customer details to entertainment industry
A Dutch court has ruled that domestic internet providers are not required to submit to entertainment companies the names and addresses of websurfing customers who are thought to be engaging in illegal file-sharing. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

Portuguese mobile penetration passes 100%
Portuguese mobile penetration has reached 10.6m, according to the country's communications regulator, From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

Untitled
E-Learning Standards Update - Ryann K. Ellis, Learning Circuits. Hereâs a non-technical look at evolving e-learning standards, what the standards intend to achieve, the key players involved in developing the standards, and some implications for the future. The e-learning industry continues to expand every day, and the [Online Learning Update] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

80,000 blogs a day
An update from Dave Sifry of Technorati [Disclosure: I'm an advisor to the company]: We are now tracking over 13.3 Million blogs, and there are about 80,000 new blogs created every single day. The blogosphere has been doubling in size every 5 months, and posting volume has doubled in only 3 months - we are now indexing over 10 posts per second, sustained throughout the day - that's about 900,000 posts per day. We've also experienced over 40% month-to-month growth in traffic for the last 4 months.... Some percentage of those 80,000 new blogs are spamblogs. And I find under... From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Yet another reason I'm single
I cooked up an excellent batch of spaghetti sauce today, resplendent with italian sausage and garlic, and was reminded of a spring night about 10 years ago when I'd cooked up a similiar batch in anticipation of generating some fire in a cool redhead named "Terri". I'd met her the week before. From kuro5hin.org on July 14, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..

Portuguese regulator approves DVB-T, DVB-H, MPEG-4 trials
The Portuguese communications regulator has authorized Siemens, SGC Telecom and Group Media Capital to carry out technical trials of digital terrestrial television and digital television for reception on mobile terminals. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

ATM update service launched in Slovenia
Want to know if a bank machine has cash in it before you trudge down to the local ATM? In Slovenian you can, with a new internet service that updates users on which cash machines are empty. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Two investment groups make €7bn bids for Grupo Auna
Two American investment groups have each bid some €7bn for Spanish telco and cable provider Grupo Auna. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

German regulator rules in favour of E-Plus
German communications regulator, RegTP, has found in favour of E-Plus, saying that there is no right to 'absolutely equal' treatment, even with regards to competition law. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Bulgarian telecoms market up 13%
The Bulgarian telecommunications market saw a turnover of €1.28bn (BGN2.5bn) last year, some seven per cent of GDP. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 14, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

KLEINROCK ON NOMADIC COMPUTING - Ubiquity
Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet-switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT " a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his host computer at UCLA became the first n From Techno-News Blog on July 14, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

Blogging for Business - Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld Blog
I had a conversation recently with Robin Hopper, CEO of iUpload, about how enterprises can leverage blogs to expand the business. After establishing itself in the content management space, iUpload last year launched a corporate blogging platform that bri From Techno-News Blog on July 14, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

On Capitol Hill, the Inboxes Are Overflowing - Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post
If you think you're swamped by Internet spam, pity the poor Congress. According to a new study, electronic messages to the House of Representatives doubled to 99 million from 2000 to 2004. In the Senate, the number of e-mails more than tripled to 83 milli From Techno-News Blog on July 14, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

wikiHow opening up
Ross Mayfield at Many2Many has a terrific post about wikiHow, a project that he's been usefully involved in. The post begins: wikiHow is one of the more interesting cases of opening a proprietary content and community site. A couple of entrepreneurs bought eHow (editorially produced How To Guides, a dot com showcase) out of hock and appended a wiki to it. Today it may be the second fastest growing public wiki and they recently adopted Creative Commons licensing. The real story is the process of opening an asset, transitioning a community and how to be a net-enabled entrepreneur. I poked.. From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..

'Social Machines' Enters the Blogosphere
The ideas in my "Social Machines" feature (TR version, blog version) are starting to provoke responses here and there on the Web. It seems that the story's timing was about right. Of course, I was far from the first to note the growing power of mobile devices, the rapid spread of wireless networking, and the appearance of useful new social software tools on the Web. But what happens at the intersection of those trends was what interested me. I don't think the new Web From Seblogging News on July 14, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Homeland Security Gets Face Lift
The bureaucratic department is undergoing sweeping changes, to renew its focus on terrorism intelligence analysis and bioterrorism. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Delays Dog Energy-Beam Weapons
A dream arsenal of directed-energy devices would stun enemy combatants or blast distant targets to smithereens. Soldiers in Iraq could use this Star Trek-style weaponry, but it's still a long way from the battlefield. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Web Could Unclog Patent Backlog
A New York law professor believes the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could trim its backlog of cases -- and make better decisions, to boot -- by letting experts review applications online. By Daniel Terdiman. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Technorati: A New Public Utility
Blogging is often depicted as a reaction to failures of mainstream media. But it can also be complementary, as shown after the bomb attacks in London, when news agencies and web users alike turned to blogs and photo-sharing sites. Commentary by Adam Penenberg. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Why GM Is High on Hydrogen
The automaker is looking past hybrids to new fuel technology. By Lucas Graves from Wired magazine. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Shuttle Repairs Will Take Days
The launch of Discovery is off for now while technicians try to figure out why the craft thinks it's out of gas even when the tank is full. Amit Asaravala reports from the Kennedy Space Center. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

RFID Foes Find Righteous Ally
Anti-RFID activist Katherine Albrecht has a good reason for opposing radio-tagging technology: She thinks it's the Mark of the Beast. By Mark Baard. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Man Cleans Freezer, Film at 11
Bust out the video camera and start filming your life: It's time to start your own vlog! Here's how to do it. Second of a three-part series, by David Cohn and Katie Dean. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Budding Filmmakers Crave a Break
Digital technology lets a generation of moviemakers create compelling video cheaply. Trouble is, Hollywood can't keep all those aspiring directors employed. By David Cohn. From Wired News on July 14, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

The Economy of E-Learning
"Where do you see the money being made in elearning today?" Diese Frage nimmt Stephen Downes zum Anlass, ausführlich auf die "Economy of E-Learning" einzugehen. Weil es eine gute Frage ist, die ich derzeit mindestens einmal die Woche höre und... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 14, 2005 at 5:46 a.m..

IRRODL new issue
There is a new issue of IRODL out (available at www.irrodl.org) You can join to receive an email when new issues are published by subscribing at this site. Volume 6, no. 2 is full of good stuff. Here's the table... From Rick's Café Canadien on July 14, 2005 at 2:53 a.m..

BlogHer: booked!
It was a long time since I was wondering if I ever could make it to BlogHer conference. Those uncertainties are in the past - I booked the trip (and, to make it clear - it's sponsored by Microsoft :) I'm very excited - not only because the program looks interesting, but mainly because I can meet people I wanted to meet for such a long time. Especially Dina and Mathemagenic on July 14, 2005 at 2:51 a.m..

Culture blogging
Funny - just when I blog about life in Seattle Korby Parnell writes doing business in Amsterdam. And Liz catches me in the corridor to tell about reading both :) Btw, Liz will be in London soon and wants to meet other bloggers... From Mathemagenic on July 14, 2005 at 2:51 a.m..

Usable content manifesto
D. Keith Robinson has written a blog entry that outlines his usable content manifesto. To quote: One of the things I've spent much of my time working with is content, mainly the written variety. How its structured, how it's delivered,... From Column Two on July 14, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..

Focus group conversations - are they dead?
A thought provoking post by Dina Mehta on some disillusions in using focus groups and other qualitative methods. [via ColumnTwo] From elearningpost on July 14, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..

Learning Development Cycle
I have not gone through this George Siemens article in detail, but it seems to provide the basis for his theory of Connectivism. "Instructional design (ID) serves only a small part of the entire learning experience. The pace of information development exceeds courses as the primary delivery mechanism of learning, challenging established ID. Alternatives to courses, like learning networks and ecologies, are developing as an informal learning approach. From elearningpost on July 14, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..

We're #1 in broadband...as long as you've forgotten how to count
David Isenberg — with whom I had dinner tonight — a couple of days ago blew apart FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's assertion that the US "leads the world" in broadband growth, as well as a bunch of other Happy Talk. Says Isenberg, we are #12 in broadband per capita. China's growth rate is substantially greater than ours. Switzerland and the Netherlands have higher per capita acceptance and much faster growth. It would have been nice if the new Chairman had started out with some straight talk... (PS: David is starting his term as a Berkman Fellow any day now.) [Technorati... From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Bush's loyalty strikes him dumb
"I also will not prejudge the investigation based on media reports. We're in the midst of an ongoing investigation, and I will be more than happy to comment further once the investigation is completed." So said our President with Karl Rove seated four feet behind him. I agree it'd be wrong to judge Rove based solely on media reports. So, W, here's an idea: Turn around and ask him. [Technorati tags: KarlRove plame]... From Joho the Blog on July 14, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Summer Camper
Around the country, counselors are struggling to please campers eager to dive into the forthcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." From New York Times: Education on July 14, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Could Googling Become Illegal In Canada?
There was an interesting article by Jack Kapica of the Globe & Mail yesterday which discusses the possibility of Internet search and archiving being an illegal activity which infringes against an ammendment to the Canadian Copyright Act (Bill C-60). Section 40.3 (1) of the bill states that "the owner of copyright in a work or other [...] From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 14, 2005 at 12:53 a.m..

BuddyBuzz: High-speed text for tiny screens
BuddyBuzz: High-speed text for tiny screens. Another interesting technology for m-Learning? News.Com: Reading phone text one word at a time. The technique, known as Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, or RSVP, makes up for the tiny screens on mobile phones by presenting just one word at a time in the center of the screen for a fraction of a second before moving on to the next word. [Tomalak's Realm] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 14, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..

Karl Rove is fucked
So you might have heard by now that Karl Rove was named by Newsweek as the source of the leak that outed undercover CIA agent Valerie Wilson Plame. As of now the internet is a flurry of speculation From kuro5hin.org on July 13, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..