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Canadian Journalism , Public Policy Forum
A little off-topic, but too interesting to not pass along, this round-table features many of Canada's most well-known journalists talking about the state of the media in our country. There's a lot of criticism - note especially the longish account of newspapers in New Brunswick. But the criticism is, from my perspective, muted. It has been a long time since I considered a newspaper (much less television or radio) to be a credible source of information in this country, and while on the one hand I thank fortune for the web, on the other I express concern about the longer term impact of From autounfocus on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Podcasting at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference ... , Educause
The EDUCAUSE annual conference is now on, attracting everybody who's anybody in online learning. As D'Arcy Norman, who links us to the From OLDaily on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Introducing the LMOS Open Source Project , E-Literate
Interesting. "The Learning Management Operating System (LMOS) will be designed from the ground up focusing on tool interoperability in order to provide campuses, faculty and students with unprecedented flexibility and control in customizing their virtual campus/class environments. In contrast to traditional LMS projects, the LMOS is conceived as a framework for integration and interoperability rather than a monolithic system." The project now has a From OLDaily on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

University of Cambridge Department Bans Skype, Citing Security Concerns , EDUCAUSE Blogs
This might be a sign of more to come, as computing service people are expressing concerns about the free online audio program. Skype, while free, is not open source, and it also sneaks through firewalls using ports normally reserved for web servers. This makes it, in the eyes of system administrators, a security risk. [ From OLDaily on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Electronic Portfolios for Integrative Learning , National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research
This is a very good presentation outlining very clearly not only how portfolios support learning but also shedding light on aspects of different types of portfolios. The centerpiece of this presentation is a diagram, taken from barrett, Wilkerson and Lang, delineating between the 'positivist' approach to portfolios, which stresses 'portfolio as test', and the 'constructivist' approach, which stresses 'portfolio as story'. Also worth noting are the slides near the end of the presentation describing 'ways institutional support matters'. Via elear From OLDaily on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Social Agency and the Intersection of Communities and Networks , Ideant
Interesting paper responding to the idea, popularized by Borgmann and Dreyfus, that online communities are deficient, because they do not enable real interactions. Dreyfus writes, for example, "Like a simulator, the Net manages to capture everything but the risk... " Maybe. But I like Ulises Mejias's rejoinder (also cited by From OLDaily on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Reputation Systems Required , Bayosphere
I'm not sure about reputation systems per se, but it seems clear to me that with the recent splog crisis shaking the blogosphere we need some way to harvest content not only by topic but also by author. What's a 'splog crisis', you ask? 'Splog' is short for 'spam weblog' and is the result of automated processes filling sites like Blogger with fake blogs intended to link to sites they are trying to promote. In order to show up in search engines, these splogs are taking content from other blogs and pasting it, almost at random, in their own. [ From OLDaily on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

E-Learning 2.0
I have presented on the topic of E-Learning 2.0 a number of times in the last few months, but this is the first article covering the topic from beginning to end. Published in today's From OLDaily on October 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

On using email to create an account
To Whom It May Concern (most likely being application developers): If you're going to design a site or application online, and you want to validate the email address a new user has entered, by all means go ahead and send a "validation email." Only for God's sake, send it immediately! On Saturday (please note: Saturday was three days ago, which is like twelve dog days or five hundred internet days!) I tried to sign up for a Bloglines account because I decided to bite the bullet and start using an RSS rea From megnut on October 18, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Exhibicionistas
Por si no hubiera sido suficiente con Mi diario en la Red, la versión inglesa insiste en la misma línea: The 21st century’s exhibitionists. Me gustaría saber si la gente de La Tejedora o el propio Ismael Nafría, por ejemplo, se sienten representados en esta visión tan intencionadamente restringida de ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 18, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..

[blogon] Suw Charman
Suw traces the history of telecommunications from carrier pigeons through email to blogs. She proceeds to talk about the nature and importance of social software behind the firewall, replete with examples. She's quite convincing. (Suw talks without PowerPoints and without notes, in perfect um-less paragraphs.) [Tags: SuwCharman blogging blogon2005]... From Joho the Blog on October 18, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..