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Digital Libraries
This article from Campus Technology by Matt Villano includes MIT's DSpace in its overview of digital library projects. ______JH ___________ "Digital libraries are not new, but open source, video, and collaborative digital repositories are changing the face of library science." "While many schools have responded with efforts to digitally scan their physical collections, a new wave of digital repositories designed to save only certain types of content are changing the face of library science everywhere. In particular, efforts at Stanford Univers From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on September 3, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
ETC2C Podcast #2
Steve Burt is vacationing in Peru, but the other three of us got together Thursday night via
Skype for a discussion centered around barriers to implementation of some of these technologies in our schools. I've been writing quite a bit about this lately, and I worry that I'm starting to paint a picture of teachers that they are more resistant than they really are. Listening to this discussion again, I think the time issue is really such a big part of it.
weblogged News on September 3, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
[ars electronica] Marko Ahtisaari
Marko, head of design at Nokia, who exerted benign natural leadership at the Madrid conference this spring, is talking about the seven obstacles to our "mobile future." He has thoughtfully blogged the whole thing for us. Thanks! (This the permalink, but it only leads to the intro. For the moment, to read the whole thing, go to the front page of his blog.) [Technorati tags: ArsElectronica2005]... From
Joho the Blog on September 3, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
[ars electronica] Carmin Karasic
Carmin "Hactivism" Karasic of the Electronic Disturbance Theater talks about artists using the Internet to create art. (She has posted links here. She talks about some incidents and ideas. Floodnet auto-visits a site it doesn't like, aiming at a Denial of Service attack. [This was back before DoS was a crime, although it sure sounds like a bad idea to me.] Stateless Half Life shows you the number of refugees fleeing a particular country. Note: It's a site you can only visit once; it bans your IP after you go. "I've taken away one of your assumed sites." [I have... From
Joho the Blog on September 3, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Flickr fans have Yahoo fear eased - Jo Twist, BBC News
The team behind the successful online photo sharing community site, Flickr, has moved to soothe fears over changes to member accounts. A protest group was set up within the community after it was announced that that from sometime in 2006, users will need From
Techno-News Blog on September 3, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..
A Disaster Map 'Wiki' Is Born - Ryan Singel, Wired
Of all of the websites tracking the Katrina disaster, surely one of the most remarkable is Scipionus.com. Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that's awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical poi From
Techno-News Blog on September 3, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..
Satellite photo of New Orleans
This post-flood satellite image has one-meter resolution. (Note: It's a BIG graphic.) [Found at www.Reddit.com] [Technorati tags: katrina]... From
Joho the Blog on September 3, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..
Opera web browser thinks small - BBC
As the Opera web browser celebrates its 10th birthday, technology correspondent Clark Boyd looks at how it is not only fighting for space on desktops or laptops, but also on handheld devices and mobile phones. The boss of Norwegian company Opera Jon von From
Techno-News Blog on September 3, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..
[ars electronica] Melanie Puff
The confrontation between self and other, Melanie Puff says, is paradoxical. She says that communication systems that enforce conformity (and avoid hybridity) are motivated by the will to power. [Isn't it more complex than that?] The recipients of such systems believe in stereotypes and are too simple-minded to see any further. [ Is she describing the existing established culture or that culture's view of itself and its recipients?] But that's not the only possibility, she says. "The number of subversive systems is increasing." These are both inside and outside the system; they From
Joho the Blog on September 3, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..
[ars electronica] Ollivier Dyens
Olliver Dyens says: "Art is the sensitive questioning of metaphysics...Science is the objective questioning of metaphysics. When metaphysics is changing, art changes also." He says there are three historical realities: Biological reality, technological reality, hybrid reality. He says we all agree on biological reality. [No we don't. Are fetuses people? Are people in persistent vegetative states alive? How about animist cultures?] Technological reality is the perception of the world through human and machine senses. We see more than just the biological slivver of reality. Hybrid reality ( From
Joho the Blog on September 3, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..
[ars electronica] Jens Hauser
Jens Hauser begins by pointing to DNA11.com, a company that creates art from a sample of your DNA. Why do we think of bio-art as a type of art? Why classify it based on its content since we don't think of Monet's paintings of a cathedral as "cathedral art"? Bio-art has changed greatly in the past ten years. We are viewing life more as software/code than as hardware. Bio-art is increasinly re-materializing itself — less on code and more on a "phenomenological confrontration with wetwork." It is increasinly interested with transformation processes. Body art is increasing. And it& From
Joho the Blog on September 3, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..
Recipe for a CMS disaster
InfoWorld has published a case study of a CMS disaster, caused by a lack of author involvement in the project. To quote: The new system I was developing would be an improvement, but I knew it would take time for... From
Column Two on September 3, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
They Knew What to Expect
Computer models accurately predicted what would happen if the levees gave way. Lavish exercises supposedly had agencies ready to respond when they did. But when Katrina slammed into New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the emergency response was almost as chaotic as the hurricane itself. Why? From
Wired News on September 3, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Opera Takes On the Atom Bomb
Composer John Adams set off a chain reaction in the opera world with his explosive works on Nixon and the Middle East. Now he's taking on the father of the A-bomb. By Jonathon Keats of Wired magazine. From
Wired News on September 3, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
A Disaster Map 'Wiki' Is Born
A simple web tool has given hurricane victims and their families a way to see what's happening in the flood zone, house by house. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on September 3, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
All in the Family's Money
The wealthy have traditionally attended seminars on how to make the most of the family money, but now universities are offering courses on the subject, according to this month's Worth magazine. From
New York Times: Education on September 3, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..