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Day 3: Someone comes to town
The following is from my journal from our wedding trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for Sunday, Sept. 25th: The food services here are very efficient. One day we'll have fries. The next day, pureed potatoes (which Silverlotus couldn't stop eating). The day after that? Cream of potato soup! I spent the morning riding the waves with Silverlotus. I spent the afternoon waiting for my sister Shell to arrive and get squared away. Later that night, she discovered the liquid bliss known as the Mohito. We played texas hold'em in the sweltering night heat at the bar. I actually won! Silverl From silentblue | Quantified on October 27, 2005 at 10:55 p.m..

Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging
Beth Kanter has a very good and detailed post about Joshual Schachter's (the guy behind del.icio.us) recent presentation at the Berkman Center... Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled “Future of Tagging” with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger, Berkman Fellow, who moderated.&nbsp; (Schachter also gave a luncheon presentation and you can read Deborah Finn's notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.) From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on October 27, 2005 at 10:49 p.m..

New Round of B.C. Online Program Development Funding Announced
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2005AE0065-000834.htm This is mostly of interest to any B.C. readers (and even they will probably hear about through the normal channels) but one of my employers, BCcampus, has just announced another round of funding through the Online Program Development Fund. This actually has a huge impact on me, because content funded through this envelope will be shared with educators through the repository I am From EdTechPost on October 27, 2005 at 9:51 p.m..

links for 2005-10-27
IBM's Management Makeover As its world changes, IBM is studying its top-performing leaders. What do they do differently, and can everyone do it? (tags: IBM Leadership) visualcomplexity.com - A visual exploration on mapping complex networks (tags: Networks maps visualization)... From Monkeymagic on October 27, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..

Jots.elicio.us
So I love Jots, I really do. No really. I love how easy it is, how it looks, the rss feeds, etc. But after reading David Weinberger's update on what's in store for del.icio.us, well, I think it's time I got with the masses and revived my very quiet account there. Delicious is adding social networking. You'll be able to designate people as members of your "network" so you can keep up with what they' From weblogged News on October 27, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

A post from before..
I am trying to put together a blog roll of which has a list of blog whose focus or authors are from the k-12 Online schools group. These blogs will be listed on the Association of Online K-12 schools. If... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 27, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Skype Ideas
So I already think Skype is pretty amazing in terms of facilitating the ever more infrequent Ed Tech Coast to Coast podcasts (though there may be a new one shortly!) But I happened to be watching an online presentation by my friend Alan November yesterday and he suggested a use that just made me slap my forehead in a "Doh!" mo From weblogged News on October 27, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

The Joys of Shallow Thinking
This post by George Siemens really resonated down to my toes. I've gotten to the point where I've started to feel guilty about the way I read these days. My wife gives me grief because I don't spend as much time with books as I used to. And in some ways I miss that. But what I'm finding is that these new reading skills that I'm developing are necessary for the world in which I'm living. What happens when we change how we interact with information? We "ramp up" our processing habits. Instead of readi From weblogged News on October 27, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

Ahora se puede suspender por tener un weblog
Tener un blog es motivo de suspenso en una escuela católica de New Jersey (EE.UU.). Según leemos en MTV.com el reverendo Kieran McHugh ha obligado a los 900 estudiantes del colegio Papa Juan XXIII a desmantelar sus weblogs ubicados en sitios como MySpace.com o Xanga.com. Si no lo hacen, ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 27, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..

Calling Microsoft's bluff
David Berlind suspects Microsoft muscle and money is behind the official opposition to the Commonwealth's standardizing on the OpenDoc format. And David makes the right point bluntly: All Microsoft must do to prove its point " that Massachusetts has some anti-Microsoft agenda designed to keeps its products off its procurement lists " is call Massachusetts' bluff. The company doesn't have to lift one engineering finger. All it must do is issue a press release announcing that it will support for ODF. Call, raise or fold, Microsoft. [Tags: microsoft DavidBerlind opendoc]... From Joho the Blog on October 27, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Bizarro microwave option
My friend w came back from Halloween festivities a year or so ago and found this msg on her Panasonic microwave. She says there is no "child's portion" setting. Odd. [Tags: odd]... From Joho the Blog on October 27, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Blogging on the clock.
This would be amusing if it wasn't so silly: Blogging on the Clock - "Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs." In related news, workers will continue to waste even more time... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 27, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

What do we do...?
I've just been over at Will Richardson's blog - reading his post: What do we do about that? - which is essentially challenging educators or perhaps questioning why we aren't paying more attention to how students are using technology and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 27, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

E-Learning 2.0 by Stephen Downes
E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea"the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven"to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 27, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Grade 4 teacher blog
This is Mr. Redknap's Grade 4 homework board at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Public School in Oshawa. This page is a daily list of activities that we have worked on in class, as well as a list of reminders or events... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 27, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Deliverability Slips At ISP Level
Gross e-mail deliverability rates fell three percent in the past quarter; while false positive filtering rates improved for most ISPs. From ClickZ Stats on October 27, 2005 at 2:45 p.m..

What did we learn!
Looking back at the last five years of building a successful cyber school. What has it taught us From Contentious Weblog on October 27, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Quote of the day
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A. J. Liebling... From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 27, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Amateurs deserve respect
For about as long as I can remember, the cult of officialdom has grated on my nerves. Why is it that we From Teaching and Developing Online. on October 27, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Citizen Writers Groups: Alternative to Formal Training
Should news organizations offer training to "citizen journalists," people who they'd like to contribute content to their citJ initiatives? That sounds like a good idea, but some citJ experts have suggested that perhaps that's not the wisest approach. Backfence.com co-founder Mark Potts recently told me: "I'd argue that the notion that people have to be somehow 'trained' to create citizens' media is journalist-think, and even a little arrogant." He says none of his sites' users have asked for training. J From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 27, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Can You Trust Wikipedia?
The founder of Wikipedia has admitted that some of its entries are "a horrific embarrassment," says an article by Guardian Unlimited entitled "Can you trust Wikipedia?" The article goes on to assemble a panel of experts, including a former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica, literary authors, journalists, and magazine editors, to judge some of the wiki entries for themselves. What emerges is a somewhat lukewarm impression of Wikip From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 27, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Noticias de la Facultad
Nueva edición de teleNatura, el Festival Internacional de Televisión sobre Conservación de la Naturaleza y el medio Ambiente se celebrará del 2 al 4 de noviembre. Las “jornadas” llegan a su vigésima edición: el XX Congreso Internacional de la Comunicación: los desafíos de la televisión pública en Europa tendrá lugar los ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 27, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..

Google Base: Will It Rule the World of Classifieds?
There are some simple facts about Google Base, which both Steve Outing and Amy Gahran commented on here yesterday: It shouldn't come as any surprise. My company, Classified Intelligence, has been reporting on it since June, and we published an "alert" to our clients on September 27 that got wide play in the media. Google has been asking media companies and dot-com classified companies alike to provide feeds of their classifieds. W From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 27, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

How Is Google Talk Doing?
I wonder how Google Talk is doing these days, two months after the launch. Are people using it, and is it as good sounding and handy as everybody said when it launched? The reason I ask is that I uninstalled it fairly quickly because it took too much of my computer's CPU resources, and it didn't give me anything I didn't have before. Anyway, I have the feeling that it's not widely in use. I hardly know anyone who uses it, and there is really no buzz out the From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 27, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Big Media Vs. the 'Amateurs'
In Nicholas Carr's "The amorality of Web 2.0," he says that "promoters of Web 2.0 venerate the amateur and distrust the professional." This echoes my own feeling that big media is often the subject of unfair criticism by sectors of the blogosphere, who see mainstream online media as staid or, at worst, untrustworthy. Carr says that while he is all for blogs and blogging, he is not blind to the limitations and the flaws of the blogosphere -- its "superficiality, its emphasis on opinion over reporting From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 27, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Public lecture: The critical role of education in pursuit of a sustainable future
Chuck Hopkins UNESCO Chair at York University in Toronto on Reorienting Education to Address Sustainability. oeTHE CRITICAL ROLE OF EDUCATION IN PURSUIT OF A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Friday, November 4, 2005 ARTS 241 (Old Place Riel Theatre) from 3:30 " 4:30 p.m. University of Saskatchewan Co-hosts: Department of Educational Foundations Aboriginal Educational Research Centre (AERC) Facilities Management Division, Sustainability From Rick's Café Canadien on October 27, 2005 at 12:53 p.m..

You say profession, I say passion
Missed this while on my travels. Anjo, Lilia and Stephanie have been doing some interesting things analysing blog communities through terminology rather than links. [Anjo writes it up here, here and here.] One of the upshots of it all is... From Monkeymagic on October 27, 2005 at 12:52 p.m..

Euro Blogging By Post: intercambio culinario entre bloggers
Paseando por Cocinalia descubro un atractivo post sobre un intercambio de alimentos mediante correo postal tradicional entre bloggers culinarios de diferentes partes del mundo, la iniciativa me gusta, y pregunto a Sao Mai más detalles del asunto que me cuenta pormenorizadamente los antecedentes. La historia del intercambio se remonta a la ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 27, 2005 at 11:52 a.m..

Biomimicry
Jeremy Faludi over at Worldchanging has a nice primer on biomimicry. "Most designers, engineers, architects, and other people who build things just don't know that much about biology and the natural world; and even when they do, there's often a... From Monkeymagic on October 27, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..

Consoling Miers
When Pres. Bush accepted the letter of resignation, how do you think he explained to himself and to her the reason she wasn't accepted? Since I can't imagine what he was thinking when he proposed her, I can't imagine what sense he's making of it now. "You would have made a great judge. If only they'd gotten to know you the way I do, Harriet, instead of being rushed to judgment."? "You were a victim of Washington insiders who'll do anything to damage this presidency."? "Gosh, Harriet, I guess the Senate just isn't ready to have a woman on the... From Joho the Blog on October 27, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

How a Web Geek Deals With a Power Outage
I learned my lesson last year during Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne that the primary, number one thing that you miss after a storm is the modern conveniences that electricity brings you. So I was quite happy to have my little power inverter that I could hook up to the truck to bring some simple, but important creature comforts into the house. If nothing else, a lamp and a TV allow you to read and watch the news. This year during the eye of Hurricane Wilma I hustled outside and hooked up... From Brain Frieze on October 27, 2005 at 9:58 a.m..

Helen
The rather brilliant Helen Goulden is getting going with her Green Fairy blog. "[There is no entry].....In Wikipedia for 'Co-operative Inquiry' ... But just about every other type of 'inquiry' is listed. Go on..."Genius.... From Monkeymagic on October 27, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..

Stanford on iTunes
This is really great: While others are still resisting the idea to webcast course content online Stanford moves along by integrating their educational content with the iTunes Music Store. Can you see the iTunes Educational Shop coming up? One-click shopping for lectures and files that use the same DRM protection like the songs you buy at Apples Music Store? Right now the audio clips stream for $0.00 and you can download the pieces with a single click. Now nobody needs to stretch the imagination anymore. It is actually a no brainer - same technology, From owrede_log on October 27, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

First impressions on Ajax frameworks...
I had a (very) brief look into some Ajax/DHTML JavaScript frameworks flying around. There are so many and to really compare them in detail would require time that I don't have right now. So I can only come up with some first impressions: Backbase appears to be a commercial but extremely clean and well designed framework with impressive examples (look in "Demos") and documentation. But it is not compatible to Safari and Opera yet (which is bad From owrede_log on October 27, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

Hurricane Wilma Redux
Ah yes. There's nothing quite like the gentle roar of the generator blaring away in the pre-dawn hours. After 3 days without reliable electricity we have some of the basics this morning. Brewed coffee from a real coffee maker not least among them. A live connection to the web comes a close second for me. Hurricane Wilma struck here in West Palm Beach on Monday morning as the one of the largest hurricanes ever to strike the US. During its passage across Palm Beach County the eye of the... From Brain Frieze on October 27, 2005 at 7:56 a.m..

(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Agregadores Planeta Asterisco: Tudo o que lhe interessa The House of Blogs Comunicación Cobertura Digital Las comunicaciones online y offline Pro-Scriptura Educación Educación y TIC Que Universidade? Fútbol Pasión Redonda Grupales Alquimistas del Diseño Estonova Innovación Héctor Milla Logicola WebDosBeta Letras El Florido Byte El Forastero Metablogs Blogs de Bolivia Blogscolombia.com BlogsPerú: Noticias y Novedades El Blog d’los Blogs Personales La hormiga remolona Ur From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 27, 2005 at 7:51 a.m..

Fill 'er Up -- With Beer
Engineers expand a beer-to-fuel facility near a Coors brewery. Plus: GM's vehicle-to-vehicle communications system could create a P2P traffic-monitoring grid. From the Wired News blog Autopia. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Deal May Stoke Video Blogging
Six Apart and VideoEgg come together. Plus: The Vibrato converts music into vibrations that allow the deaf to listen to and compose music on a PC. From the Wired News blog Gear Factor. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Prostitution Can Be Fun
So argues an unconvincing Nerve essay. Plus: Men and women react differently to web design. From the Wired News blog Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

IBelieve's Divine Inspirations
The brain behind the $13 iPod-crucifix lanyard says it celebrates both Apple and Christianity. Plus: Hacked iMac photo tools appear on BitTorrent. From Leander Kahney's Cult of Mac blog. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

How to Fight Those Surging Splogs
Fake spam blogs are becoming the scourge of the blogosphere. Here's what we can do to fight back. By Nicole Lee. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Sting Operation Targets Terror
There's a new weapon in the war on terrorism: explosives-detecting wasps. Scientists can train the insects to sniff out bombs, drugs and even disease. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Sir, the Gamers Are Revolting!
A former student leader who helped topple Serbia's Milosevic teams up with a company that designs combat simulations for the military. The result? A game that teaches how to topple governments through nonviolent resistance. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

You Know What? Just Shut Up
Incoming call ... ooooOOOOoooooo! TV dinner's done ... beeeeEEEp! There's just too much noise out there, and most of it is completely pointless. Commentary by Tony Long. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show
It's been hyped to death, but now problems are emerging. Will Web 2.0 suffer from the same old scams that doomed Usenet and e-mail? By Xeni Jardin. From Wired News on October 27, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Gates getting his Groove on in SF - Ina Fried, CNET Blog Windows
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie are scheduled to headline a Nov. 1 press event in San Francisco. The software maker was vague as to the topics the pair will discuss, saying only that "Gates and Ozzie will discuss Micro From Techno-News Blog on October 27, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs - Christopher Null, Wired
Robert Mason (not his real name) would love to spend a few minutes during lunch catching up on blog posts from around the web, but his company doesn't allow it. The financial institution where Mason works as a vice president has security filters set up to From Techno-News Blog on October 27, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

Poor Nations Are Littered With Old PC's, Report Says - LAURIE J. FLYNN, New York Times
Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental problems in some of the world's poorest places, accord From Techno-News Blog on October 27, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

Offering Hope to Students Whose School Is a Hospital
The children of the only school in New York State located entirely within a hospital held their first Career Day program. From New York Times: Education on October 27, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

City College Gets $26 Million From Former Intel Chairman
The amount was the largest gift City College has ever received and the largest single cash gift to the City University of New York. From New York Times: Education on October 27, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Mayor Runs on Schools, but Verdict Is Still Out
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's assessment that "by virtually every number, this school system is getting better" is hardly universal. From New York Times: Education on October 27, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Blogs on vacation
I see that Clotilde at Chocolate & Zucchini is on vacation, and she's republishing some posts from previous years to fill in while she's gone. This might come across a little differently on a food blog than on some other kinds of blogs -- there seems to be less of a sense of community in process on food blogs: there is plenty of community feeling, but people tend to... From Weblogs in Higher Education on October 27, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..