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Working with rose hips
Did you know you can Eat Your Roses? Last summer and this summer I've spent time on Nantucket trying to learn about native plants and trying to use them in various recipes (so far in the very experimental phase!). There are tons of rosa rugosa on the island and so rose hips are plentiful. My memories of them dodging and throwing them with/at my cousins. Rose hips leave big welts, so dodging is key. Now that I'm more mature, I've turned my attention toward rose hip jam a From megnut on August 11, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Connectivism: Learning as Network-Creation
George Siemens offers another contribution to his copntinuing definition of connectivism. The article describes some basic properties of networks and then the process of forming connections. "Can learning be both an influence and be influenced in the network forming process?" He then looks at the creation of meaning in a network, from the perspective of latent semantic analysis. "Meaning is transferred in a rich, but messy process incorporating the content, the context of learner and resource creator, as well as the cognitions and emotions of the learner at the time of knowledge acquisition." From OLDaily on August 11, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

MSN Blogs Against it's Customers
Microsoft has launched a new service, MSN Filter, which is your one-stop shop for the inside scoop on what's happening across the Web, according to the people who know the most ... you! our team of bloggers will filter the best stories, photographs, links and other interesting tidbits that you've sent in, as well as items that they've dug up." Nobody knows who the bloggers are - the posts are not credited - and in order to comment you have to use Passport. Try again, Microsoft. By Ross Mayfield, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, August 11, 2005 From OLDaily on August 11, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

iterating toward openness
David Wiley has moved his blog to the opencontent.org domain. Sadly, the comments don't seem to have moved with the blog (any hope there, David?) and so you'll have to visit his old blog one more time to see my repsonse to his latest post. By David Wiley, iterating toward openness, August11, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on August 11, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Implications of project, service and institutional deployment of Creative Commons licences in the United Kingdom
Stuart Yeates makes available this draft report on the use of Creative Commons in learning. PDF. His conclusions: "There is no reason to suggest that CC could not be used by public sector organisations in the UK. Not all the outputs from public sector organisations could be made available under CC. The use of CC would require significant changes to current organisational practice." More information and slides are available on the Intrallect website. By From OLDaily on August 11, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
The June issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology was made available August 1 (hey you guys, how about an RSS feed?) and I browsed through a few of the articles. Manjula D. Sharma, et.al., contribute a well-written but dull piece on using handheld keypads in classrooms (right on the edge, eh?). Elizabeth Murphy and Jamie Loveless offer an interesting self-analysis of the usefulness of their contributions to a discussion forum (I've always bee From OLDaily on August 11, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Read/Write Web and Content
So here are some still unpolished ideas about content that seem to have evolved over the last couple of months of presenations and workshops. Obviously, content and the way we create and consume it is what the Read/Write Web is all about. 1. We need to be able to Access Content--The Web is the greatest repository of knowledge and information that we've ever had. The fact that a good number of children in this country (and elsewhere) still don't have access to it is downright sinful. These days, when it seems like knowledge doubles every couple of days, how can those From weblogged News on August 11, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

History of alphabetization
For my book, I've been looking into the history of alphabetization. The major work in the field seems to be Lloyd W. Daly's Contributions to a History of Alphabetization in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, written in 1967. It's a short work of intense scholarship bring a huge breadth of knowledge to bear on a tiny sliver of a topic...like using the Hubble telescope to help you pull out a splinter. Lots of fun. Some stray facts: Daly mentions that a 13th century book, Registrum librorum Angliae, is a list of authors, not in alphabetic order, and of their works... From Joho the Blog on August 11, 2005 at 5:46 p.m..

More Than a Quarter of Web Marketers 'Flying Blind'
Marketers understand the importance of measuring marketing performance, though many haven't developed a meaningful metrics framework to see success rates. From ClickZ Stats on August 11, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Luxor unlocked
Luxor, the pretty good Zuma ripoff (um, I mean, a game inspired by Zuma) sends you back to the beginning of a level if you fail to make it through all the stages. 11-4 is my downfall, which means I've gotten way too good at levels 11-1 through 11-3. I am tired of those levels. I tried saving a copy of the data file as 11-4 begins, but Luxor does something funky to foil cheaters like me: It points into some address in a file with data I don't want to monkey with. But it turns out that there's an... From Joho the Blog on August 11, 2005 at 2:45 p.m..

Italian media consolidation
Luca de Biase writes about the attempt to buy the politically independent Corriere della Sera. He reports that some real estate entrepreneuers are trying to buy the newspaper, but that there's reason to believe that Silvio Berlusconi is behind it. (Luca points to stories by The Independent and the AP.) It's upsetting when the world starts resembling a James Bond movie plot line... [Tags: italy JamesBond]... From Joho the Blog on August 11, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Feds pilot RFID controls at U.S. borders - Anne Broache, CNET News
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun testing immigration documents laced with radio-frequency identification chips at five spots on the Mexican and Canadian borders. The goal of the technology is to speed up--if not automate--secure entry an From Techno-News Blog on August 11, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

Daylight-saving change could confuse gadgets - Anne Broache, CNET News
When eBay's clocks failed to jump forward an hour in 2001 to reflect daylight-saving time, the timing on auctions ran into snags, prompting some head-scratching from sellers and bidders. At the time, eBay blamed the glitch on a bug in Microsoft's Visual C From Techno-News Blog on August 11, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

Microsoft urges update for flaws - BBC
Microsoft is urging Windows users to update their systems with the latest security patches it has released to fix three critical flaws in its software. The flaws mostly affect Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer. Users with updated Windows Server 2003 and From Techno-News Blog on August 11, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

First blog in 1982?
Jim Howard writes (in the comments on my posting about Ben Hammersley's light-hearted claim that Richard Steele wrote the first blog in 1709) that he (Jim) might be considered the first blogger. Jim writes: in June of 1982 I setup Howard's Notebook, a bulletin board system, and people could dial into my BBS. At first they had to connect at 300 baud. I posted the sort of stuff you see here now.. information and comments and what was going on in my life. I posted the comments that people sent to me about the BBS and subjects of interest. I... From Joho the Blog on August 11, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

Grand Theft Auto Player Convicted
A young Alabama man is found guilty of killing three police officers. His attorneys had blamed his actions on the hours he spent playing the violent video game. From Wired News on August 11, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap
Space Adventures plans to sell trips to see the dark side of the moon. But would-be space travelers had better keep their wallets handy: Tickets will go for $100 million. From Wired News on August 11, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

It's Not aSmallWorld After All
Denizens of an exclusive online community are crushed when they get banished to a less-exclusive club. But flaming is flaming, no matter who you are. By Xeni Jardin from Wired magazine. From Wired News on August 11, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Google's Boycott Misses the Mark
In refusing to talk to reporters from News.com, the search giant isn't getting its point across -- it's simply creating a public relations disaster. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From Wired News on August 11, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Critics Slam Net Wiretapping Rule
An FCC decision that forces broadband and VOIP companies to enable government surveillance of their networks stretches federal law to the breaking point, civil libertarians say. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on August 11, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Furniture Causes FedEx Fits
Shipping boxes make nifty desks, beds and tables, according to the creator of Fedexfurniture.com. But the delivery company is trying to shut him down. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on August 11, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Saving the World With Cell Phones
Scientists work to turn mobile phones into a distributed network capable of measuring pollution levels -- and possibly detecting biological weapons before they can be launched. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on August 11, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Court Rejects Challenge to Pledge of Allegiance
A federal appeals court panel upheld a Virginia law, rejecting a claim that its reference to God was an unconstitutional promotion of religion. From New York Times: Education on August 11, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

To Woo Students, Colleges Choose Names That Sell
As colleges jockey for market share, they are looking for names that project the image they want or reflect the changes they hope to make. From New York Times: Education on August 11, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..