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Google's Not a Library, But So What?
Siva responds to my post - there's a lot to chew on there, but I want to focus on one point here. I do support Google Print because it will provide public benefits.  However, my support for Google here has nothing to do with idealization of Google.  I think any company should be able to do what it's doing.  In fact, it's my hope that others will - A Copyfighter's Musings on October 25, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

links for 2005-10-25
Metrics - Weighting the Metrics (tags: metrics) Metrics - Soft Metrics (tags: Metrics) Metrics - Hard Metrics (tags: Metrics) Metrics - Introduction Tristan's series on metrics, which he hopes will stir up some discussion on what Web 2.0 means... From Monkeymagic on October 25, 2005 at 8:54 p.m..

Editors Say It's OK Not to Pre-edit
As expected, and as mentioned in my posting here last Friday, Norway's new journalism code of ethics probably will not demand that online debates and chats are pre-moderated. The Association of Norwegian Editors today voted down such a proposition. According to the editors, the code paragraph governing this issue should read: "If the medium decides not to pre-moderate posting from users, this must be made known in a conspicuous manner together From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

Blogs and Feeds: What’s in It for Science Writers and PIOs? (audio)
On Saturday, Oct. 22, I was honored to be part of a panel at the 2005 conference of the National Association of Science Writers. This panel, "Blogs and RSS" was organized by my friend and feelow content strategist Merry Bruns. (Thanks a bunch, Merry!) My fellow panelists were: Carl Zimmer, who writes the life sciences weblog Loom for Corante Joel Shurkin, a longtime science journalist who recently began his personal weblogs Of Cabbages and Kings and Yussel With permission from all panelists and NASW, I recorded that session and I'm now podcasting it as promised. Sorry it's taken m From Contentious Weblog on October 25, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Karen Schneider's blogging ethics
Liz Lawley blogs Karen Schneider's presentation to librarians on blogging ethics. Sounds like a great presentation. [Tags: KarenSchneider LizLawley libraries blogging]... From Joho the Blog on October 25, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Ed Week's Positive Experience With Paid Content
Over at Education Week, interim executive producer Gary Kebbel reports on that niche publication's transition to paid website content. In a posting to The Media Center's Morph blog, he paints a mostly positive picture: a page-view drop-off of only 17 percent (he expected more); a healthy number of new online and print subscriptions; and a low volume of complaints about going from free content to paid. While that's great, I would ca From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

Freelance Opportunity for Citizen Obits?
Recently I wrote a centerpiece article for Poynter Online suggesting a new model for obituaries. A central point was about introducing "citizen obits" to supplement the work of professional writers who produce news obits. My suggestion was that because not everyone can be written up by a staff journalist, citizen obits can serve to supplement the pros' work -- and give every person who dies a decent write-up, not just a community's most prominent individuals. This is possible because of the "unlimited newshole" on From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

Norwegian Internet Debate Will Not Be Pre-moderated
The Norwegian Code of Press Ethics is being revised, and lately there has been a debate about pre-moderation of chatting and debate on websites. What's problematic is that the debates and the chatting is user generated, but presented on websites that normally would subject themselves to the Code. Some have said that pre-moderation is the only responsible form of editorial control, whereas others claim it is impossible to check tens of thousands of postings every day. Also, measures can be taken so that the From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

An Internet Community Comes to the Rescue
Here's a nice story about the power of the Internet and industry communities. Terry Heaton, a Tennessee-based new-media consultant, recently had a cancer scare and needed to have surgery. But he doesn't have health insurance because of a failed Internet start-up a few years ago that drained his life savings, which he explained in a blog posting about his health problems and financial predicament. He initially didn't ask for help to pay for the surgery, but someone suggested that Heaton put a "tip jar" on his From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

Promoting the Internet
Tomorrow (Tuesday), Spain is celebrating for the first time its Internet Day. This initiative is trying to promote the use of the Internet in a country where 35 percent of its citizens are surfers, but the rest either find it not interesting or useful enough, or they cite financial reasons for not using it, according to a recent survey. Many public activities have been organized for the day, such as giving away a total of 5,000 domains, organizing a Web gymkhana, and driving buses with free Internet connections to many loca From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

Good Advice From a VC
In case you haven't seen it already, venture capitalist Charlie O'Donnell of Union Square Ventures has written a wonderful help document, "10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company." While it's aimed at Internet start-ups, much of the advice also can be applied as well at larger media companies that are developing new Web 2.0-oriented applications and services. Some of O'Donnell From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

Fussy Password Requirements: Grrrrrr!
Today there was an article I wanted to read on the San Jose Mercury News' website. Alas, my browser had lost my password for the registration-required site, so I had to log in anew. It literally took me 10 minutes to get into that site, because I couldn't remember which e-mail address I'd used to register. I tried using Bugmenot.com, a password-bypassing service, to enter, but the website apparently had disabled Bugmenot's site login and password. I tried the "lost password" feature of the s From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

Citizen-Journalism Ghettos
I have a new column at Editor & Publisher Online that addresses the quality issues of citizen journalism -- specifically, how to get good quality from citizen contributors. One issue discussed in the column that's worth pounding on is how many news organizations that are experimenting with citizen journalism segregate such content from the "real journalism" -- which, in my opinion, is detrimental to quality citizen content being created. Andrew Nachison< From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..

SESH auction
As you may or may not be aware the Santa’s Education Student Helpers Auction will take place again this year on Thursday, November 3, 2005 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. In the past and again this year they are looking for donations of items that may be auctioned off. In previous years we have put together [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on October 25, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..

Lista de nominaciones BOBs 2005
Nominees for the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2005 Best Multimedia 1. Ourmedia.org 2. Propagandas Antigas 3. La cueva de Zaratustra 4. Snapshoot the City 5. Blog à la ciboulette 6. Journal photographique 7. I am thumbhead 8. karmagrrrl Best Podcasting Site 1. Podtech.net 2. Audible Althouse 3. Business Audio 4. Pod Castellano 5. Die Gefühlskonserve 6. Ma parole! 7. Antiwave 8. Podemus Reporters Without ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 25, 2005 at 5:53 p.m..

A List Apart 206
A List Apart's Hallowe'en issue takes the scalpel to dead copy, brings life to what were once mere redesigns, and throws in two killer illustrations by Kevin Cornell. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on October 25, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..

"What do we do about that?"
So after spending a great couple of days exploring Monterey and the Salinas Valley area, yesterday started with a keynote (blogged in amazing detail by the estimable Jenny Levine) and ended with a white knuckle landing into a windy, rainy Philadelphia just before midnight. (Good to be home.) But here is the moment that has my stomach roiling (aside from the nasty "snack" the airline gave out): at the end of my presentation, a woman in the audience related the problem with blogs at her school. "The kids are posting questions and answers to te From weblogged News on October 25, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Behavioral: Fewer Clicks, Higher Conversions
Behaviorally targeted ads get fewer clicks, but more conversions, in three sectors. From ClickZ Stats on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Skype banni des facs par la sécurité nationale , 01net
I've mentioned some of the questions being raised about Skype before and now the other shoe has dropped as the French government has told all universities they must stop installing Skype. The order cites security concerns, magnified by Skype's proprietary protocol, but some are suggesting that the order has more to do with lost telecom revenues than with fears about security (after all, we haven't seen a similar order regarding Windows). In French. Via BNA's Internet Law News. [ From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Reflections: ALT-C 2005 , ALT Online Newsletter
Summary of the Alt-C conference a few weeks ago in Manchester with outlines of the keynote addresses and an overview of lessons learned. For example: "Perhaps we need to start looking for alternative, innovative methods and techniques rather than adopting one solution. Staff need time for reflection and to beable to apply new technology in appropriate ways HYPHEN this seems to have been forgotten in many institutional plans." [ From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Multi User Blog Tools - Overall Ratings and Reviews , Blogsavvy
For institutions considering the installation of a multi-user blogging system, James Farmer provides this set of capsule reviews and 5-star ratings. The results accord roughly with my own experience, though I would probably have rated Drupal slightly higher and WordPress slightly lower. [ From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Edublog City , Ed Tech UK
The 20 millionth blog indexed by Technorati turns out to be a school blog from an elementary school in Reims, France. [ From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Visual Complexity
Familiar work for those who have followed the study of networks, this gallery of images and descriptions is nonetheless a valuable reference to the types of networks and how we represent them. [ From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Peter Morville: the Tagsonomy Interview , Atomiq
What is the relation between authority and findability? This question - central to the role of librarians - kicks off this interview on the subject of indexing and folsonomies with Peter Morville, author of the book Ambient Findability. The future is multi-algorithmic, says Morville. "Last week I went to the shopping mall for the first (and last) time this year. It was a horrible experience. I had to physically drag my body from store to store in search of a specific product. I desperately wanted to Google the Mall." [ From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Lemmings and Similar Phenomena , CJs
I am in b road sympathy with this post, though I would probably have worded it very differently. The language is inflammatory, the points telling. For example: "With Secondary schooling we have a system which, in my view, is increasingly difficult to justify. It is a form of what might be called organised child abuse which repeats itself over and over again, year in, year out. The only beneficiaries of this system are a handful of private schools in each capital city." Via From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Parkin Space: Who Says Learning Should be Fun? , Random Walk in E-Learning
Godfrey Parkin seeks to poke some holes in recent educational theory: "Engagement is intense mental absorption; interactivity is often just busyness or sugar-coating." Well, sure, intently reading a book or a technical manual is of more pedagogical value than idle chit-chat or time-filling ice-breaking activities. But that merely makes the observation that not all interaction is equal. From a communications-theoretic standpoint you can measure this by measuring the amount of information transmitted; from a network perspective you can gauge the impact on one's interpretation of patterns of From OLDaily on October 25, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

[berkman] Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us is giving a lunchtime talk. His presence has sold out the small conference room at the Berkman Center so we've moved to a bigger room. What follows are paraphrases of what he said; I am certain not only to have omitted much but to have gotten stuff wrong, so before you get pissed at Joshua for saying x, you might want to check that he in fact didn't say y and I said he said x. He built delicious in 2003 to manage his own links. He had been using a text file, but twenty entries... From Joho the Blog on October 25, 2005 at 4:46 p.m..

Ponencia Maracay 2005
Acceso a la ponencia: Los weblogs como medio y su impacto sobre el periodismo From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 25, 2005 at 12:52 p.m..

The rise and fall of frameworks
I think the next 6-12 month we will see an incredible buzz about web application frameworks - some on the server side and some on the side of the client: OpenLazlo is competing with Macromedia Flex. for the so called "Rich" Internet Application market. I am somewhat sceptical about thie RIA-approaches. If you can establish a channel to deliver anything useful - fine. But these systems - while cutting development time - are extremely monolithic and they sort of hijack the user experience for y From owrede_log on October 25, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

TDC enters Norwegian mobile market
TDC Mobile's services will be offered to Norwegian customers in the first quarter of 2006. The mobile services will be provided via TDC Song while TDC Mobile will provide the MVNO services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 11:56 a.m..

Microsoft, Siemens launch European MES centre in Genoa
The manufacturing execution systems centre will provide customers with information about Siemens Simatic IT solutions and integrated Microsoft and Siemens technologies. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 11:56 a.m..

What used to be large
They agreed with [Tim] Bray that the number of pages is increasing dramatically, finding that the size of the Internet seemed to double between October and November, 1995, going from 1.3 million to 2.6 million HTML documents. Tim also noticed that average page size had remained consistent at 6,500 bytes. (From "The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework: A Review of the Literature, March 1995 - September 1997" by Harold Thiele.) [Tags: internet TimBray OpenText]... From Joho the Blog on October 25, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Capgemini, SAP to offer solution for logistics service providers
Aimed at addressing logistics service providers' needs to improve core operations such as transport and warehouse and event management, the offering is based on the SAP for Logistics Service Providers solution portfolio. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 10:56 a.m..

Ericsson acquires Marconi telecoms assets for €1.8bn
Ericsson is to acquire assets representing about 75 per cent of Marconi's turnover. Marconi, which will be renamed Telent, is to have a business focus as a services provider to telecoms and enterprise customers. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 10:56 a.m..

The rounded vision of a child
Holiday reading quote #3, from Ziauddin Sardar's Desperately Seeking Paradise. On the one hand, it's an autobiography detailing one moderate Muslim's struggles to find paradise; on the other, it's a fascinating view of the some of his struggles with fundamentalists,... From Monkeymagic on October 25, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..

Western European HSDPA subscriptions to reach 40m in 2009 HYPHEN report
Many mobile operators are expected to launch high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) in 2006, but a minority are seeking to open their respective networks by the end of 2005. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

T-Mobile Czech Republic to test mobile TV
T-Mobile Czech Republic is to use Siemens equipment for interactive mobile TV with music charts, news, and live transmissions. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

Worldwide IMS market to surge to €11.7bn in 2010 HYPHEN study
IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is emerging as a viable, long-term standard as an architecture that will fulfil the idyllic promise of converged fixed and mobile services that provide a seamless end-user experience across various access networks, says a report. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

Answers.com to create co-branded Wikipedia version
Answers is create a software-based co-branded version of Answers.com to be called 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition, from which advertising revenues will be split with the Wikimedia Foundation. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

KPN acquires NTT DoCoMo stake in KPN Mobile
In return KPN has agreed to allow O2 in Germany to use NTT DoCoMo's mobile internet technology under the O2 label. KPN's E-Plus will retain the exclusive right to the use of the I-mode brand. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

Easy Mobile launches in the Netherlands
After launching the service first in the UK, Easy Mobile enters the Dutch market. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on October 25, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

Design guru
Well not quite. But am playing around with the styles and templates after an upgrade to 3.2 so things might look a bit wangy in between lunch breaks...... From Monkeymagic on October 25, 2005 at 9:52 a.m..

Rosa Parks
My children can't imagine what it was like before Rosa Parks. They are appalled when we tell them. I mean that as a tribute to her. The story for which Rosa Parks is famous is not as I was taught it. I was five when she refused to move out of the whites-only seats at the front of the bus. I was told that she was a humble Black woman who, after a hard day of work, was too tired to get up. In fact, she was a committed civil rights worker, a secretary in the Montgomery office of the... From Joho the Blog on October 25, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

Ethan on Africans on PopTech
Ethan does a superb job blogging and reflecting on a presentation at PopTech by ten young African innovators the conference — to its great credit — brought to the conference. What a great idea! Ethan live-blogged the whole conference. Fantastic coverage. And IT Conversations streamed it and will make the sessions available as podcasts. (I skipped the conference this year because I need to work on my book. But from all accounts, it seems to have been as thought-provoking and eclectic as ever.) [Tags: PopTech EthanZuckerman africa]... From Joho the Blog on October 25, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

Tomorrowland: When New Technologies Get Newer
So kann es gehen: Da habe ich noch vor einigen Tagen die September/Oktober-Ausgabe der EDUCAUSE Review als "aktuell" bezeichnet, da liegt bereits die nächste Nummer vor. Im Leitartikel werden dieses Mal die Ergebnisse des EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committees präsentiert,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 25, 2005 at 7:51 a.m..

Porn on Campus
Koala TV anchor tests boundaries with live sex on camera. Plus: Test tries to establish whether your brain is male or female. From the Wired News blog Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Toyota Challenges Segway
Conceptual i-Swing vehicle aims to improve human transporter potential. Plus: Buggy performance, bewildering content offerings and lack of focus conspire to make Gizmondo a failure on two continents. From the Wired News blog Gear Factor. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Save Lives, Not Gas
Hummer is giving the Red Cross 72 monster vehicles to use in relief efforts during times of fire, flood or famine. From the Wired News blog Autopia. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

IPod: Scratch Me a Whiner
The class-action lawsuit against Apple over scratched nanos strikes me as petty and greedy. Plus: IPod video clips for Sin City, Amityville Horror, Lost and others appear on BitTorrent. From Leander Kahney's Cult of Mac blog. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Apple Sued Over Screen Scratches
Consumers press a class-action suit against the maker of the nano portable music player, saying Apple knew the screens were defective and prone to scratching before the product even shipped. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Writers Side With Google in Scrap
Some authors break ranks with publishers and peers to take the search engine's side in the furor over its library project. The lesson: One writer's copyright infringement is another's salvation from obscurity. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Give Up, Gizmondo
The latest entry in the crowded portable gaming market just can't measure up to its fierce competition. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends
An assortment of forward-looking thinkers share ideas about where technology is headed in the near future and in the long term. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Space Elevator Low Down
The first attempts to build an elevator to the stars don't get far off the ground -- but supporters' hopes are still high. By Mike Nowak. From Wired News on October 25, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Rosa Parks
There are certain topics I never covered much in this weblog. Human Rights is one of them. Today news tells us that Rosa Parks died and she will probably remain in history forever reminding us that one moment of courage can change so much.Related: From owrede_log on October 25, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Read these blog entries
Aaron Campbell, Marco Polo, and JH (whom I found via Marco and am adding to my blogroll) have all written very interesting and thoughtful peices that any teacher should read. From Language, teaching, and all things EFL on October 25, 2005 at 4:53 a.m..

Web Software Challenges Microsoft - Associated Press
A quiet revolution is transforming life on the internet: New, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail. Such tools make computing less of a chore because they From Techno-News Blog on October 25, 2005 at 4:48 a.m..

Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With Growing Up - MIREYA NAVARRO, New York Times
Katherine Keliher, 9, of Lakeville, Minn., could sleep an extra hour every weekday morning if she wanted to. But she would rather get up early, sit down at her computer and spend that time trading instant messages with her best friends, five girls she wil From Techno-News Blog on October 25, 2005 at 4:48 a.m..

Sony wins major DVD studio ally - BBC
Sony's Blu-ray DVD technology has won over another heavyweight supporter in the battle to be Hollywood's format of choice for the next generation of DVDs. Film studio Warner Bros has said it will release DVDs in the Blu-ray as well as Toshiba-backed HD D From Techno-News Blog on October 25, 2005 at 4:48 a.m..

E-Tutors: Outsourcing the Coach
Wired has more on the burgeoning tutor outsourcing industry or e-tutoring. “It's called e-tutoring -- yet another example of how modern communications, and an abundance of educated, low-wage Asians, are broadening the boundaries of outsourcing and working their way into the minutiae of American life, from replacing your lost credit card through reading your CAT scan to helping you revive your crashed computer.” From elearningpost on October 25, 2005 at 3:47 a.m..

Intranet Portals Get Streamlined
Jakob Nielsen on the changing face of portals: “Information architecture (IA) is becoming streamlined. For example, Sprint has reduced the number of tabs on its portal from eight to five due to a corresponding reduction in the number of major categories. As we discover more about how to build a good intranet user experience, portal teams can take advantage of accumulated usability findings across companies and emphasize the most useful areas.” From elearningpost on October 25, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

JournoBlinkers driving me bonkers
Cathy Young, a contributing editor to Reason magazine, in her column today in the Boston Globe goes on about how irresponsible bloggers got the facts wrong when John Henry Hinrichs killed himself, whipping up terrorist hysteria and undoubtedly making matters even worse for Hinrich's family. Let's for now assume that Young is right that the bloggers saying there's a coverup are wrong. (She cites a Wall Street Journal article and a Congressperson as her sources.) So, she's found an example of bloggers getting something wrong. What exactly are we supposed to conclude from that From Joho the Blog on October 24, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..