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Moodle for Mom
On our last night of "vacation" we stopped to visit some friends in Pleasantville, NY, (where, btw, property values are about as outrageous as you'll find...a two-bedroom ranch for $750,000? Oy.) Anyway, another couple came over for dinner, and before long the six of us started talking about taxes and schools and education and the Web. I was almost amazed because someone actually got not only blogs but also had a grip on RSS...he was thinking of starting a blog with his new investment advice business. Good thing I was sitting down! We also started talking about how little parents reall From
weblogged News on July 24, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Holy mother of china, that is one ugly dog!
No kidding. Before you click on this link to Doc's site, you should be prepared. It is back-from-the-dead, scare-the-blind, directed-by-Tim-Burton, beyond-Photoshop ugly. [Technorati tags: ugliest DocSearls]... From
Joho the Blog on July 24, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
Gmail or Thunderbird
I switched hosts today (thanks, Bill!). As we try to get POP3 working — I know MAPI is better, but the last time I tried it, my client got confused about what was local and what was on the server, and then I got confused, and my client and I ended up eating a whole tub of cookie dough ice cream — it seems like an obvious time to consider switching from Thunderbird to gmail. (I would retain my current email address.) My reasons for preferring Thunderbird are not necessarily invincible: I'm familiar with it I have rules set up... From
Joho the Blog on July 24, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
Pardon the interruption
I switched hosts this morning, resulting in some expected down time. If you're reading this, it's up and working. If you're not reading it, you're missing some mighty fine content-free blogging...... From
Joho the Blog on July 24, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Why are educators "worried" about e-Learning?
Why are educators "worried" about e-Learning? From the article: "Although online learning clearly has a growing presence in higher education, discussions about implementing e-learning continue to lack consensus. Part of the problem, as noted above, is the definition of e-learning. Many educators assume e-learning to mean that an entire course and all the interactions between faculty and students are online. But today’s definition has morphed from a fully-online course to the use of technology to deliver some or all of a course." (Emphasis in italics is mine, not the a From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 24, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
Debate Doesn’t Die
I've been thoroughly amused and intrigued by several aspects of the recent discussion about whether the press release format is a major should be dispatched quickly and mercifully. It's laid bare several common fallacies. One such fallacy is the idea that debate dies. It's true that within the context of a defined organization (such as a club or company), a deliberative body (such as a legislature or peer review panel), or a particular forum (such as an e-mail discussion group), debate can have a defined beginning and end. However, in the public conversation – and especia From
Contentious Weblog on July 24, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..
Online Storytelling
Storytelling ist ein Thema, um das ich bis heute einen Bogen gemacht habe - ohne dass ich erklären kann warum! Vielleicht, weil der Begriff so wenig geheimnisvoll daherkommt ... Wie dem auch sei, diese Woche haben wir überlegt, welches Potenzial... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 24, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Suicide Bombs as Viral Media
Although I've got very little spare time for blogging right now, I thought it important to share a brief reflection on what I perceive to be the underlying mechanism propelling the recent spate of suicide attacks, as well as the common misunderstanding about how these events are coordinated. Yes, these are "networked" events - but not in the sense that the cells are directly linked in a command and control communications network. Cells are not coordinated this way, with "sleepers" waiting for phone calls and taking action. It's not a matter of phone trees, email commands, From
rushkoff.blog on July 24, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..
Compliance and Learning
Ich habe mir gerade ein neues Headset gekauft, so dass das aktuelle Podcast von Elliott Masie ein richtiger Hörgenuss ist. Was die Verbindung von Compliance Training und e-Learning betrifft, so gäbe es eine gute und eine schlechte Nachricht, so Elliott... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 24, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Site Profile: IMLS Digital Collections Gateway
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Registry provides a gateway to collections funded through IMLS, "a resource for educators and cultural heritage professionals." The entryway points to an "array of digital collections from all subject areas - art to science, literature to home economics - and from all types of institutions such as museums, libraries, and historical societies." The site is browsable (by Subject, Object, Place, and Collection Title) and searchable. The subject headings are organized according the classification scheme From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on July 24, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..
Summer Enrichment
Ron Gross encourages you to heighten your enjoyment of summer travels or vacation by composing haiku, traditional Japanese nature poetry.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on July 24, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..
The politics of Web 2.0
Susan writes: Jeff Jarvis has a good post today about all the feeds, conversations, aggregations, and other kinds of thingies that make up what he calls Web 2.0. He says, "This is a new architecture. It's a dynamic architecture." It's even more than that — it's political. These meta-informational thingies are letting us see our online environment in ways we can't possibly see the offline world. What's important isn't just that these thingies are dynamic (although that's clearly important) but also that they can be (1) visualized and (2) affected by the From
Joho the Blog on July 24, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..
Taiwanese President: "China a Threat, Not an Opportunity"
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday that "China's rise over the past years has not been peaceful" and that "China is not an opportunity, but a threat." This boldly contradicts what many 'unificationists' from Taiwan's opposition parties are saying on the island following the recent high-level visits by opposition party candidates to China. And yet, the threats are real. From
kuro5hin.org on July 24, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..
The Judicial-Electoral Comedy Show
RPI's argument that "copy" does not necessary mean "exact copy" is one example of mincing and then stretching the meaning of words beyond reason. Nobody does farce like California does farce. From
kuro5hin.org on July 24, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Final reminder about Open Publish 2005 (Sydney, Australia)
The Open Publish conference is finally here! Starting on Wednesday of this week, there will be three days of web content management, publishing and more. I'll be presenting a half-day pre-conference workshop on selecting a CMS, and then chairing the... From
Column Two on July 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..
Iraqi blogger freed
The Iraqi blogger, Khalid Jarrar, who had been taken in by the Iraqi government has been freed. Look for an update on his blog... (Thanks to GlobalVoices for the link.) [Technorati tags: iraq GlobalVoices]... From
Joho the Blog on July 23, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..