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RawSugar (David Weinberger)
You can think of RawSugar as a searchable del.icio.us with automagic, hierarchical clustering. (Users can also manually create hierarchical tag sets.) So, instead of seeing a long list of links on the left and a long list of tags on... From Corante: Social Software on August 31, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

RawSugar
I spent a few minutes on the phone today with Ofer Ben-Schachar of RawSugar. You can think of RawSugar as a searchable del.icio.us with automagic, hierarchical clustering. (Users can also manually create hierarchical tag sets.) So, instead of seeing a long list of links on the left and a long list of tags on the right, at RawSugar you see a list of links on the bottom and your top-level tag categories on the top. The higher level tags are automatically propagated to the lower level ones. So far there is no way for users to publish their tag sets... From Joho the Blog on August 31, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

Off to Ars Electronica
I'm about to get on a red-eye to Linz, Austria, for the Ars Electronica conference (art, technology society). I come back on Sunday. I'll blog from the conference...... From Joho the Blog on August 31, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

Wireless raises security concern
Campuses weigh the desire for openness against the need to protect personal data. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 31, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Manila Matures...
So it's taken me until now to really start digging into Manila 9.5. I'm starting to set up sites for teachers and students for the news school year, and I'm just realizing how much more Manila can do in terms of determining who sees what and how. It's going to take some time to play, and I'm already trying to enlist some teacher volunteers to push the envelope a bit for me here, but here are some pretty cool aspects right out of the box: Teachers and students can set up private posting relationships on From weblogged News on August 31, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Creative Labs patents trees
Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly writes about Creative Labs inane patent suit against iPod. The Creative patent covers browsing a menu of music by narrowing your focus, with each branch being a new screen. Wow. The US Patent Office is stupid. [Tags: ipod patents DigitalRights]... From Joho the Blog on August 31, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

A esto es a lo que me refiero
Ayer le decía a Fernando Irigaray en Dialógica que La escritura para medios digitales en el ámbito periodístico tiene dos grandes asignaturas pendientes: aprender a gestionar eficazmente la interactividad con los lectores y aprender a utilizar con criterio los enlaces... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 31, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..

Who owns the Net?
Scott Bradner has a very interesting column on the meaning of the World Trade Organization's ruling that the US cannot prevent US citizens from gambling online at a casinos based in Antigua and Barbuda. As Scott says: This ruling establishes that the U.S. cannot unilaterally control what people can use the Internet for, even U.S. residents using the Internet from within this country. This is certainly not going to go over well with those people in Congress or other parts of government who think the U.S. should own the Internet because "we built it." Of course, the people who actually... From Joho the Blog on August 31, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Blogday
It's BlogDay, so here are five blogs from around the world that I just came across. I've only read them a little so far, but they seem interesting... Rajeev's Random Musings — "Rajeev on books, science, India, world..." China Snippets - Shanghai Views — Here's the tagcloud: "china chinese coffee english favorite great local money seems shanghai start street yangshuo" Madame Chiang — "Madame Chiang is presently based in Manila but her heart remains in Hong Kong, she has lived in many dark and interesting corners of the globe. Many things interest her includ From Joho the Blog on August 31, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Auto-contradictory words
I've long been amused by words that mean their opposite. E.g., "cleave" can mean to cling to or to cut apart. And "dust" can mean to remove dust or, as when dusting for fingerprints, to deposit dust. Yesterday, an odd almost-example of one occurred to me. Imagine a mob intent on no good has formed. It's going to loot and pillage. But a preacher gets their attention. They stop mobbing and start listening. The preacher delivers the greatest anti-violence sermon ever. Afterwards, the crowd reformed. Yeah, it's too contextual to make it onto the list of auto-contradictory words (AKA From Joho the Blog on August 31, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Blue Skies Ahead - Technology Review
The laser. The transistor. Optical fiber. All are transformational technologies that came into being not at academic labs or at startup companies, but at the research centers of large corporations--respectively, Hughes Aircraft, Bell Labs, and Corning Gla From Techno-News Blog on August 31, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

The Claim: Violent Video Games Make Young People Aggressive - ANAHAD O'CONNOR, New York Times
Republicans and Democrats alike screamed government waste last March when a group of senators suggested spending $90 million to study how video games "and other electronic media" influenced children's behavior. Surely an important question, critics of the From Techno-News Blog on August 31, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

An IPod Cellphone Said to Be Imminent - MATT RICHTEL, New York Times
Apple Computer and Motorola plan to unveil a long-awaited mobile phone and music player next week that will incorporate Apple's iTunes software, a telecommunications industry analyst who has been briefed on the announcement said on Monday. The development From Techno-News Blog on August 31, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

The Long Tail Problem in K-12
Tim has a post about the goodness of the "Long Tail," but as I read it I was thinking about how it highlights the issues from yesterday's post. He says: So lets bring this back to the world of educational technology. The most obvious point is that there are a lot of great thinkers out there blogging and working in the long tail. If you restrict your students to using a traditional textbook they will never find the gems o From weblogged News on August 31, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

BlogDay2005: otras lenguas
Mi propuesta para el BlogDay2005: cinco blogs en otras lenguas distintas del español: En alemán blogosfear.org: Un metablog grupal a cargo de Thorsten Mann, Nico Brünjes, Nico Lumma, Mario Scheuermann, Heiko Hebig, Markus Breuer, Jim Basman, Tim Pritlove y Haiko... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 31, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

BlogDay 2005: emotional connection
Badgerings I came across this weblog 12 days ago. Yesterday I found out that she lost her husband to liver cancer. Those 10 days in between were the strongest emotions I had from blogging - a mix of hope and sadness... I wasn't sure if linking to it was appropriate. Still the chronology of the events doesn&a From Mathemagenic on August 31, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..

On the Hunt Icebreaker
Try this new scavenger hunt-type icebreaker to facilitate introductions on your first day of class, by Denise M. Ruggieri.... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 31, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..

New Light at End of the Tunnel
Advances in the field of artificial illumination promise to change the way we light our homes. Future 'smart' lighting devices will have applications in many other spheres of life, too. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Hot Spot Blooms on Saturnian Moon
Scientists' baffling discovery suggests that volcanoes and geysers could dot the icy surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's 31 known moons. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Nanoglue Stickier Than Gecko Toes
The lizards have the stickiest fingers around. Now scientists are finding ways to use nanotechnology to replicate geckos' super-strong adhesion abilities. By Aaron Dalton. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Ride or Die? I'll Take the Latter
The urban gangster crime drama of 187 Ride or Die falls flat, as does the tired, vehicular-combat racing gameplay. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Machines That Can Make Anything
From design to delivery, custom manufacturing is coming soon to a desktop near you. By Clive Thompson of Wired magazine. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Haunting Images From Mercy Ships
A photographer ships out on a floating hospital for eight months, cataloging the work of surgeons who transform the lives of patients once shunned for their disfigurements. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Fest Rocks With BYO Headphones
At worldwide festivals, headphone hubs replace speaker systems, and audiences plug in to listen to performances in mass intimacy. By Keith Axline. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Some Sex With Your Clone Perhaps?
New, unreleased video gets up close and personal with the Raelians, a libertine group of UFO believers whose turn-ons go well beyond making unproven claims about human cloning. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on August 31, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

From Baltimore's Streets to Kenya and Back
"The Boys of Baraka" follows four 12- and 13-year-old boys in Baltimore as they travel 10,000 miles to a boarding school set up in rural Kenya. From New York Times: Education on August 31, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

This is why one chooses compassionate Buddhist friends
monkBlog's Denis writes in an email: Listen to your old friend, Wil Wheaton: http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/003348.php I love the bit about "...almost as unappreciated as librarians..." What a scream! To have the respect (cough snarl cough) of your buddies is a karmic blessing beyond measure. The From homoLudens III on August 31, 2005 at 1:46 a.m..

Astounding Wikipedia
Most edubloggers don't need the reminder, but if you want something astounding to show your students this week, go to the Wikipedia entry on Hurricane Katrina. The level of collaboration, the work over months to achieve the skills and shared understanding necessary to create something like that in a matter of hours, the strong use of images, the clarity of the writing, the systems in place for dealing... From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 31, 2005 at 12:51 a.m..

A university's front page
In class today we looked at the main page of a couple of university web sites. They are torn, these page designers, between providing a portal with all the main links a person would need to enroll -- we dare not miss a credit hour of tuition money in these tough times -- and selling the university one way or another. Saint Louis University sells with a rotating slate of glossy portraits of members of the university community, in... From Weblogs in Higher Education on August 31, 2005 at 12:51 a.m..

''Low Tech High Tea" and sympathy
So I yesterday I mentioned this notion of ''low tech high teas,'' an imagined series of informal gatherings at which SF Bay area teachers, some linked to Galileo Academy, some to the Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley, and others just interested fellow travelers, occasionally hang out in a comfortable tech-rich place. The ''teas'' will (initially) use my Bernal Heights house and garden for stress-free afternoons where can explore technology for classroom an From homoLudens III on August 31, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..