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ThoughtCast
Jenny Attiyeh is starting a series of weekly podcasts with academics and scholars. Take a look at the great list of upcoming programs...... From Joho the Blog on July 19, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

New favorite Wikipedia topic
List of films ordered by uses of the word fuck. (Thanks to Mark Dionne for the link.) [Technorati tags: wikipedia]... From Joho the Blog on July 19, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

fast.forward
This is the kind of email I love receiving. Zach Chandler from Colby College has taken the slides and audio of the talk I gave in Utah las year and remixed it, creating a six minute video. Remix, feed forward. That's how it works. Link is to the .mov file. By Zach Chandler, July 19, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Students refuse to buy a single song from Napster
Heh. You may have read about some universities signing deals with Napster in an effort to curb file sharing. These agreements are foisted on students whether they want them or not, including students at the University of Rochester. The students have now had their own say about these agreements, refusing to buy even one song from the download service. Via EDUCAUSE. By Ashlee Vance, The Register, Julyn 9, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Apertures of Articulation
OK, I've said this before: "We work and learn in living networks. Together, we comprise great bodies of knowledge and expertise." but this author asks the important question: "How does it work?" As a beginning of a response, the author offers the aperture as a metaphor, "A speaker acts as a lens--an aperture for the knowledge of others in the network behind the speaker." But we don't just simply relay information; "the aperture always imprints itself on the light passing through." Via elearnspace. By Steve Barth, KM From OLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

IT Forum Debate on Open Education and Publishing
The copyright and open access debate erupted on ITForun last week, with two of the major discussants being David Wiley and Larry Lipsitz. Wiley offers his summary of the debate at this link, and you can see the entgire spread of comments (numerous people contributed) at the ITForum archive. By David Wiley, Iterating Toward Openness, July 14, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Sun: Make Education Open-Source
According to this article, "Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, is cited as advocating public commons educational texts." Well, yeah, me too. But McNealy is probably in a better position to make it happen. The article refers to the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC) which appears intended to address this objective. One day. For now, well, judge for yourself. Via KairosNews. By M. Madhavan, The Star (Malaysia), July 14, 2005 [OLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

On Data, Schlock Social Science, and Big Brother
Everybody wants to do tracking and reporting of student activities in an online course. But what are they measuring, exactly? Good discussion. By Lanny Arvan, Lanny on Learning Technology, July 15, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Introducing Django
Short version: Django is like Rails for Python. Long version: Django creates a standard framework for creating data driven websites. These frameworks are useful because they make creating a website a lot easier. But they add complexity if you want to share your code, since the framework needs to be installed first. I'm not sure which way to go on this. By Simon Willison, Simon Willison's Weblog, July 17, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Evaluation and the Culture of Secrecy
I have always agreed with this point of view. Assessments and evaluation should not take place in secret. "Open access offers more advantages than a defense against bottom-dwelling character assassins. It also improves the quality of information.... Open access can also help people become better scholars and teachers." By Leonard Cassuto, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2005 [Refer][ResearchOLDaily on July 19, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

A Multimedia Hurricane Blog
Fast-moving news events are appropriate for temporary group blogs, as we've seen over the years from various news organizations. MySanAntonio.com is publishing a breaking-news blog today covering Hurricane Emily, which at this writing is about to hit the south Texas/north Mexico coast.The Emily blog is innovative in a couple ways. First, it's populated by reporters and photographers from both the San Antonio Express-News and from KENS 5 TV, the local CBS From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 19, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..

Flickr Concentration
Over at cogdogblog, Alan Levine points to Mastercards with flickr. Basically the old game of concentration using images from Flickr. Type in a tag and up comes a grid of images. Click on the question marks to reveal an image. Maybe I'll upload images of my staff to Flickr so our students can play Lewis Elementary Staff concentration...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on July 19, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..

IBM extends mainframe training to 150 universities worldwide
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, has joined 24 other institutions in 16 countries around Europe that are pursuing Z-series education through the IBM Academic Initiative. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 6:52 p.m..

Commission finds international calls in Finland competitive
The Finnish market development contrasts positively to other markets in the EU where, in general, the incumbents' average market share on the international calls markets remains relatively high with 59.9 per cent. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 6:52 p.m..

Worldwide consulting spending to reach €48.1bn in 2009 HYPHEN report
The EMEA region is expected to surpass the Americas in 2007 in terms of IT consulting services spending, though the Americas will remain significantly higher with regards to business consulting services spending. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 6:52 p.m..

Russian mobile device shipments increased by 55.5% in 2004 HYPHEN report
With Russia still far from saturation, shipments of mobile devices are expected to expand by 62.7 per cent this year and by 55.9 per cent in 2006, according to an IDC report. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 6:52 p.m..

UK can become tech giant HYPHEN report
The UK has the potential to be a leading technology nation, but success is not assured, says a Deloitte report. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 6:52 p.m..

D-Lib Article - Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html Rarely do you get a chance to read reflections by someone with as much experience as Stuart L. Weibel, the Senior Research Scientist with OCLC, on 10 years of work around Dublin Core and digital metadata standards. And frank too - he concedes that we've all perhaps been too optimistic about the 'author contributed' model of metadata submission, and also that metadata in general has to find its place (if it has one at all) in the full-text searchable From EdTechPost on July 19, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Jabberwocky rocks the house
On the way back from the play, our daughter Leah pointed out that an accurate description of Camp Jabberwocky — something like "It's a summer camp where counselors come and care for severely disabled folks" — doesn't convey any idea what it's like. First, the disabilities range from people with full cognitive powers but bodies twisted like rubber bands to those with upright bodies but narrowed bands of thought. Second, the counselors, all unpaid, don't "care" for the campers. They are friends who delight in them. And as for the story of the camp itself, for fift From Joho the Blog on July 19, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Jerry Michalski on public relationships
Here's a post from August 2004 where the always-one-step-ahead Jerry Michalski proposes that PR start thinking in terms of public relationships, a term I've been bandying about for the past few months, often stating that I don't know where it came from. Maybe now I do... [Technorati tags: PR JerryMichalski]... From Joho the Blog on July 19, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

If monitors were round...
Warren M. Myers in the ACM magazine Ubiquity wonders about the effect the rectangularity of monitors has had on UI design. He suggests that if they were circular, instead of thinking about UI design in terms of a Cartesian grid, we be thinking in terms of polar coordinates and wedges. A snippet: An entire system can be developed wherein the main interface, the buttons that allow you into different segments and levels of the system are based on concentric rings. The middle circle will bring you to the top level of the system. Festooned about the center circle can be... From Joho the Blog on July 19, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

The wonders of a digital memory
Today Jason wrote about memory and digital lifestyle, and then this afternoon I found a half-written entry I'd begun about the same topic earlier this year, which I shall now post as if I'd never forgotten about it and had it saved in my digital scrapbook, aka computer: The amazing thing (OK one of the amazing things) about living a digital media life is the way all kinds of stuff is recorded, even when you don't think about it or mean it to be. For example, I have a lot of ICQ From megnut on July 19, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Hispanic Online Users Adopt Broadband
Half of Hispanic online users have home broadband, 14 percent installed it in the past six months. From ClickZ Stats on July 19, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Cinema-On-Demand: Theater as Social Software (Paul B Hartzog)
A darkened theatre. A full house. A heroic act. A mighty roar from the crowd. This is the delight of good cinema. I love going to the movies with people, even people I don’t know. I love to hear others’... From Corante: Social Software on July 19, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..

The right side.
The newspaper was divided into two columns. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on July 19, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

John Dvorak Reaches New Lows
I don't know where to start.  Just see for yourself. When people miss the point of something like Creative Commons, I try to see it as a failure to communicate on the sender's end, not the receiver's.  Criticisms so ridiculous, so off-point should motivate forming an even clearer message.  But did Dvorak even look at the CC website? From A Copyfighter's Musings on July 19, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

EFF15: The Day I Became A Copyfighter
You can see me in the background of this shot taken by The Economist on July 30, 2001. On that day, over 150 protestors, organized by the EFF, gathered in San Francisco to free A Copyfighter's Musings on July 19, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

Advocacy Advertisers Like Blogs
Obviously, bloggers are an opinionated bunch, less apt than mainstream media to take an objective approach. So it makes sense that blogs are starting to do well at attracting advocacy advertising -- matching advertisers' messages with like-minded online readers. That's according to this article on NationalJournal.com.The piece quotes Henry Copeland of BlogAds, an advertising network representing blogs, as saying that such advertising has s From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 19, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..

HICE 2006 Call for Papers
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education January 6 - 9, 2006 Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA Submission Deadline: August 18, 2005... From Rick's Café Canadien on July 19, 2005 at 2:53 p.m..

Graeme Daniel
Literacy used to be such a tidy idea - literate people were seen to be those who could competently use language skills to communicate with others, and in turn make sense of reciprocal communications: reading and writing skills seemed to have it covered, though speaking and listening competences hav From wwwtools on July 19, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Security Incident Handling in an Academic Medical Center
A well defined process for handling Information Security Incidents within academic medical facilities submitted by David Mckelvey. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on July 19, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Easy Audio Blogging for a Virtual Radio Station
I love an idea that's both simple and brilliant. Here's one: Unite podcasting with "live listening" and make it point-and-click easy on a platform that supports community contributions. Drupal for Artists and Musicians has done exactly that with a little open-source Flash applet and a bit of documentation. You can see and hear the results on a demo site.Here's how it works: Drupal, a free c From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 19, 2005 at 1:54 p.m..

'Citizen Authors' Experiment
Here's an interesting angle on citizen journalism/grassroots media as being practiced by the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio: "Create a Classic." The newspaper asked several members of its editorial department to write the first chapters of several novels -- ranging from contemporary fiction to mysteries. Then it asked writers in the community to write subsequent chapters, spinning off the first.Contributing writers are being asked to write chapters of between 1,000 and 1,500 words, and the goal is to ultimately complete seven, 10-chap From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 19, 2005 at 1:54 p.m..

France Telecom mulling bid for Amena
French incumbent telco France Telecom is reported to be considering a €9bn bid for Spanish mobile operator Amena. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Volantis supplies O2 with content enhancement solution ahead of I-mode deployment
UK-based mobile content adaptation solutions provider Volantis has announced the launch of I-mode Express for mobile operator O2. The website of the Financial Times, FT.com, is the first customer to sign up for the new package. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Pricelince.com buys Bookings for €110m
US-based online travel service Priceline.com has acquired Amsterdam-based Bookings, one of Europe's largest internet hotel reservation services for €110m. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

5.6m broadband connections in Italy
As of the end of June, 19 per cent of Italian families had broadband access, as did 37 per cent of companies and 61 per cent of the public sector. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 11:56 a.m..

TMN launches video sharing service
TMN's service, powered by Nokia, allows 3G mobile handset users to share a live camera view while speaking on the mobile at the same time. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 11:56 a.m..

ITunes hits half-billion download mark
ITunes customers have subscribed to some 5m podcasts from the iTunes Podcast Directory since the latest edition of iTunes was released. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 11:56 a.m..

Voda UK launches roaming plan with same tariff as home-country calls
Following the payment of a one-off connection fee per call, customers who sign up to Vodafone Passport are then charged the same rate they would be for domestic calls in their home-country. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Voda Germany launches mobile episodes of '24' TV series
In a joint venture with Fox Entertainment, Vodafone Germany has launched a mobile phone version of the US live-action series 24. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Croatian regulator rejects Syrian bid for fourth GSM licence
The Croatian Telecommunications Council said that the Adriacella consortium bid, the sole one for the 20-year GSM-only licence, did not meet the authority's minimum requirements. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on July 19, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

The Future of RSS is Not Blogs
Blogs vaulted RSS into the limelight but are unlikely to be the force that sustains RSS as a communication medium. The biggest opportunities for RSS are not in the blogosphere but as a corporate communication channel. Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly evaluating RSS are beginning to realize the power and benefit of the RSS information avenue. The inherent capacity for consumers to select the content they wish to receive will be the driving mechanism for keeping advertisements to a minimum and content quality consistent. Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on July 19, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..

Why I'll probably never leave where I live.
The paperwork moved slowly, but it moved, and a VPN connection is working here at CUHK. The WrITE Institute is over on Friday. Each trip over here demonstrates how little I know about China. I'm back in the cool fog on Saturday morning. From homoLudens III on July 19, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Mark Federman's blog has moved
Mark Federman, whose most excellent comments on this blog often come from his McLuhan-steeped perspective, has moved his blog here: whatisthemessage.blogspot.com. [Technorati tags: MarkFederman McLuhan]... From Joho the Blog on July 19, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

Online Communities Workshop Reflection
I spent six hours with teachers from around the world yesterday talking about blogs and wikis and RSS and it was an exhausting, educational day for me as well as, I hope, for them. One thing I find when I give workshops like this is that I always learn something from the conversation, and I really appreciated the way this group probed and pushed back and thought hard about the changes we're seeing. I'm still amazed at how amazed I am by these technologies. I From weblogged News on July 19, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

Apuntes sobre redes sociales
Algunos apuntes para mi intervención Introducción a las redes sociales virtuales en el curso de verano Nuevas tendencias en Internet: la web semántica y las redes sociales virtuales: La Red son las personas y lo que las personas hacen con... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 19, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

Los blogs como soporte publicitario
Esta disponible el informe Blogvertising: los blogs como nuevo soporte publicitario (registro gratuito) elaborado por Neus Arqués y Eva Sanagustín para la agencia de comunicación Manfatta. Relacionado: Sobre publicidad y blogs.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 19, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..

Webcomics Attract Spit, Fans
Thousands of comic artists publish their work online, but only a handful make a living at it. Those who succeed find plenty of fans, along with people who hate their work. Randy Dotinga reports from Comic-Con International in San Diego. From Wired News on July 19, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Mushroom Cloud Marks Nuke Horror
The Simnuke project re-creates atomic bombs' apocalyptic calling card on the 60th birthday of the weapons that changed the world. Daniel Terdiman reports from the Nevada desert. From Wired News on July 19, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Darknet Casts Hollywood as Heavy
Author J.D. Lasica's new book takes a critical look at the entertainment industry's tactics for preserving its iron grip on content in the digital age. By Jason Silverman. PLUS: Excerpt From Darknet From Wired News on July 19, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Mind May Affect Machines
Researchers at a Princeton University laboratory believe they've demonstrated that peoples' thoughts can have a miniscule but measurable effect on machines' output. Skeptics remain dubious. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on July 19, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Terror Forum Sows Seeds of Jihad
In the wake of London's bloody subway bombings, law enforcement agencies and antiterror watchdogs scrutinize a pro-Islamist website. By John Lasker. From Wired News on July 19, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Chess vs. Chess960: A PC's View
The random setup of pieces in Chess960 makes the game in many ways a better match for computerized play than conventional chess, where opening moves are usually stored in a database. By Kevin Poulsen. From Wired News on July 19, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Unorthodox Chess From an Odd Mind
A variant of chess invented by former champion Bobby Fischer is gaining ground with grandmasters, and luring coders eager to test their programs in battle. By Kevin Poulsen. From Wired News on July 19, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

IT professionals are more valued than they think says new study
A new independent study carried out on behalf of global online learning provider, SkillSoft, indicates that employees working in IT and technology are more valued than they think they are. The survey also shows that IT professionals are more strategicall From Techno-News Blog on July 19, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

Gates: No magic answer to tech worker shortage - Ina Fried, CNET News
In its annual gathering with university researchers, Microsoft executives again bemoaned the lack of computer scientists, both globally and in the United States. Part of the problem, say both academics and Microsoft executives, is that the technology fiel From Techno-News Blog on July 19, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

ICANN Delays Non-English Letters - Associated Press
Concerns about "phishing" e-mail scams will likely delay the expansion of domain names to non-English characters, the chairman of the internet's key oversight agency said Friday. Vint Cerf, head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, From Techno-News Blog on July 19, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

Enlightening keyboard
Would be nice to have it one day - Optimus keyboard with each key as a small display, lighted and programmable. It comes from Art. Lebedev studio. which is Russian, does a lot of cool projects and has a constitution. It's strange to pick it up from Scoble - I used to frequent their website a From Mathemagenic on July 19, 2005 at 2:51 a.m..

After Protest, Cornell and Students Reach Accord in Parking Lot Dispute
The agreement allows the university to build a parking lot in exchange for a pledge to pursue other environmental initiatives. From New York Times: Education on July 19, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

A New Microchip Project Is Begun at Albany Center
New York State officials plan to announce a $600 million partnership with the computer industry to develop technology to make transistors even more unimaginably tiny. From New York Times: Education on July 19, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

School Officer Is Shot to Death in Newark
The officer was shot and killed by one of two assailants who drove up as the officer and his partner were trying to break up a dispute between two girls outside a high school. From New York Times: Education on July 19, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Mayor Plans New Standards For 7th Graders
The move is part of what the mayor called an intense new focus on middle schools, which have long been viewed as a Bermuda Triangle of American education. From New York Times: Education on July 19, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

History in clips
Michigan State University has hundreds of historical clips with a nice interface for letting you view them side by side. It's called EASE History ("Experience Acceleration Support Environment"...yech) and there's tons of stuff to poke around in. For example, you can see Eisenhower and Stevenson's campaign ads from 1952... [Technorati tag: history]... From Joho the Blog on July 19, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

In-House Training
Sharon N. Daugherty - Don't overlook accessible, practical and affordable learning available in your own workplace.... From Adult/Continuing Education on July 19, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..

Just in Time Computer Skills
By Catherine Chambers - Animated computer tutorials help you learn what you need to know, when you need to know it.... From Adult/Continuing Education on July 19, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..