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SCOPE online discussion of WebCT & Blackboard
From Sylvia Currie at SCOPE WebCT & Blackboard Merger: Implications and Moving Forward November 21-December 4, 2005 Facilitated by Elizabeth Wallace, Program Director, Learning and Instructional Development Centre, Simon Fraser University Find out more at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/ From Rick's Café Canadien on November 22, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..

IADIS submission deadline, Jan 6, 2006
Submission Deadline: 6 January 2006 ****************************************************************** IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006 February 26-28, 2006 - San Sebastian, Spain [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on November 22, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..

CMS podcasts
Lisa Welchman, one of the leading CMS consultants in the US, has started publishing a series of podcasts on content management topics, involving interviews with well-known figures. Published so far: Ann Rockley ("Enterprise Content Management") Bob Boiko ("WordSoup")... From Column Two on November 22, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

Back home
I landed back in Sydney this morning, after my three week around-the-world trip that included the UK, Denmark and the US. The trip was a lot of fun, most of all meeting up with the many people I've been chatting... From Column Two on November 22, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

The enterprise user experience -- bridging the IT/marketing divide
Bob Goodman has written an article on "enterprise user experience", discussing how to bring together disparate areas of the organisation to deliver better interfaces and experiences. To quote: Thankfully, the ideas and practices of enterprise UX design are gaining mindshare,... From Column Two on November 22, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

The magic of Vietnamese coffee
Our second morning is only just beginning here in Saigon and since we arrived, I've already drunk three Vietnamese coffees, iced with milk. The coffee was just drinkable in Hong Kong. I blame this on its prior life as a British colony. Bangkok's ubiquitous street coffee stands served a tasty brew, sweetened with condens From megnut on November 22, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Edublog Awards 2005
Teaching and Developing Online won this award last year...It would be great if we won it again. Thanks to all you readers who voted last year. The Edublog Awards... From Teaching and Developing Online. on November 22, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

Read/Write Web Primer
Wes Freyer points to the Fall issue of Interactive Educator (.pdf put out by Smart Technologies) which features a slew of good articles by Wes himself, David Warlick and Dave Weinberger. A couple of quick quotes that resonated, first from Weinberger: Educators therefore face a different set of challenges. Very different. The From weblogged News on November 22, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..

What is Your B.S. Quotient?
Fun rubric, the full title of which I cannot relate without triggering spam filters (I really wish this whole train of thought had received a different appellation). [ From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Feedster Top 500 , Feedster
Feedster's revised top 500 blogs list is now out, and OLDaily is now at a more reasonable 31st place. [ From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Edublog Awards
Nominations for the 2005 EduBlog Awards are now open. Some new rules and categories this year. Need inspiration? Check the From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

ELGG vs. Moodle - Defusing a False Dichotomy , Ed Tech Post
I guess I hadn't really seen that there was a debate between ELGG and Moodle, and so I guess the whole issue passed me by. But Scott Leslie takes up the matter, and resolves it by putting things the way they should be: there is no dichotomy. By way of Terry Anderson: "what is exciting for me is that Terry and Athabasca are putting together a large, production environment in which Moodle and ELGG will seemingly co-exist quite nicely, thank you very much, and take care of different problems." [ From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

New York State to Roll Out MarcoPolo in Every Classroom , Marco Polo
This is interesting. "MarcoPolo's resources, available online at no charge to teachers throughout the United States and around the world, are -- for the first time ever -- now aligned in New York not only at the state standards level, but also at the performance indicator level." Marco Polo has been around, it seems, forever - I From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

FeedBurner State of RSS Report , Niall Kennedy's Weblog
The story is in the diagram at the top of the page: RSS in 2003 it was blogs and RSS, that's it. In 2005 it's blogs, podcasts, watchlists and much more all riding on the RSS platform. A positive development in my view. Via Alberta Delgado. [ From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

COOL - SSE turns RSS bidirectional , CrunchNotes
This is interesting. SSE - Simple Sharing Extension - allows for the use of RSS by applications. "For example, SSE could be used to share your work calendar with your spouse. If your calendar were published to an SSE feed, changes to your work calendar could be replicated to your spouse's calendar, and vice versa." Neat - I'm going to havew to look into this in more detail. Via Albert Delgado. [ From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Google Analytics , Google
Google has found another way to collect information by offering a free service to customers: Google Analytics tracks visitors to your web site and offers a range of statistics and analysis. Good reviews thus far; I haven't tried it myself yet, though. No support for RSS analytics. [ From OLDaily on November 22, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Net Effect On Television
Here's an interesting comment from my (blogless) brother George regarding the convergence of the Internet and televised media. Not only are TV shows ripping off other television shows and doing parodies off of them, but they are also ripping stuff off from the Internet. Maybe it is assumed that the television generation is now moving [...] From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on November 22, 2005 at 4:56 p.m..

Just Updated: Women in Podcasting Blogdigger Group
Want to subscribe to all the shows in my Women in Podcasting list all at once? Check out the Women in Podcasting Blogdigger Group -- it contains all the feeds in in my list of currently active podcasts that are hosted/co-hosted by women. Here's how you can use that group to subscribe to all those podcasts at once... From Contentious Weblog on November 22, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

[berkman] David Clark - Should the Internet have a future?
David Clark, one of the inventors of the Internet (he says he's not a "father" of the Internet but is maybe a first cousin), is giving a lunchtime talk at the Berkman center. He says that the decisions that will shape the Net are not made by the techies but by the world where business and economic interests reign. Already many of his colleagues are stepping away from the Internet "so they can have some space to innovate." E.g., a friend is putting sensors in the forest instead of in cities so she won't have to face privacy issues. [Yeah,... From Joho the Blog on November 22, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

[mac] Huge favor and a small one
One of the big drawbacks of the Mac for me is that I miss some utilities I'd written, chiefly my blog editor. It has a whole bunch of features (some day I'll publish the documentation for it), but only a couple that I really miss: Automatic linking to sites I've linked to before and auto-html-ing of tags. The small favor is to ask if anyone knows of Mac software that has those features. But even if you do, I still want to be able to write small, amateur programs on the Mac. I've poked at XCode but have made no... From Joho the Blog on November 22, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Site Design & Ad Design
Ken Sands kicked off a discussion of site design about a week ago that has been bouncing back and forth -- as conversations do in this new blog-powered world -- between The Media Center's Morph weblog and Jay Small's website. Sunday's New York Times adds an angle that crystallizes the issue for me. I think the problem is that almost nobod From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 22, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..

Be aware if bloggers defend newspapers...
Hans Kullin, the author of the Swedish media blog Media Culpa (yes, it's English-language), has just published some statistics on newspaper blogs in Sweden. He counted 42 blogs from 17 Swedish newspapers. Sixty percent of them don't allow comments, and some even lack permalinks. Funny, the comment he got from fellow blogger Pelle: "Well, I ain't suprised. If you have looked at the blog who won the Swedish Internetworlds competetion about being the b From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 22, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..

How Important is Print to Onliners?
"Old media" copy Internet trends. In Germany, for example, magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr just launched View -- a monthly print photo magazine that also intends to establish an online photo community: Users can publish photos, rate those of others and comment on them. The editors of the print magazine each month pick some user contributions and publish them in print. View is in it's infancy. And if you look at the functionality available by now, it's by far a Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 22, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..

Xbox Fans Line Up for Launch
In the dead of night, lines stretch around the darkened parking lots of retail stores as customers wait patiently to be the first to grab an Xbox 360. Chris Kohler reports from San Francisco. Also: See Wired News' review of the Xbox 360. From Wired News on November 22, 2005 at 2:45 p.m..

Why $5 Gas Is Good for America
The skyrocketing cost of oil is sending pump prices soaring. It's also subsidizing research into technologies that can change the energy game. By Spencer Reiss of Wired magazine. From Wired News on November 22, 2005 at 2:45 p.m..

La evolución del RSS
Vale la pena seguir la pista a la especificación Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) y revisar Burning Questions: How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and consumed (ver PDF): Vía: The Second Coming of Content and RSS Feeds From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 22, 2005 at 12:52 p.m..

Score one for the Mac
This morning, I was expecting a Skype call. Ten minutes before, I started up my PC (we had an outage overnight). All was fine except Skype didn't recognize the skype name of the person who was going to call me. Odd. So, I downloaded and installed Skype on the Mac, and it worked immediately. On the one hand, this was probably a firewall (ZoneAlarm Pro) issue on my PC. On the other hand, I don't seem to have firewall problems on my Mac. I don't even know if I have a firewall on my Mac, which is how it should... From Joho the Blog on November 22, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

E-Newsletters Must Survive the Preview Pane
About half of all B2B newsletters are read in the preview pane. That leaves below-the-fold content at risk for the trash. From ClickZ Stats on November 22, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Google Earth: bajas en Irak
Google Earth+ infografía: las bajas de la guerra de Irak en Google Earth From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 22, 2005 at 11:53 a.m..

Now in OPML: Women in Podcasting List
OK, feast your eyes. I've finished a first draft of the Women in Podcasting List, reworked in OPML so it's easier to maintain (and share maintenance duties). Check it out now via the free online service OPML Manager NOTE: This is only a first draft! It's not completely how I want it yet, but it's a start. I'll be working on it more later. Here are a few important caveats to bear in mind about this first draft... From Contentious Weblog on November 22, 2005 at 10:56 a.m..

Address Book Meets IM, VoIP, eMail And Radio: AIM Triton Is Here
AOL has just announced its new Instant Messenger release which boasts integration with key applications and AOL services. The new AIM Triton service is an integrated communications service that offers instant messaging, free email and SMS mobile texting, as well... From Kolabora.com on November 22, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS
New Orleans, USA, 12-15 June 2006 http://www.Diversity-Conference.com The concerns of this conference - Human Rights, Diversity and Social Justice - loom larger than ever in the light of the terrible events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. In addition to its usual global concern for the dynamics of diversity, the conference will include a specific focus on New Orleans, Hurricane [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on November 22, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Introducing David Clark
Curb Cut would like to introduce and welcome David Clark to this blog. David is now working as a web specialist at the Institute for Community Inclusion and has lots of great experience that he'll hopefully tell you more about. Look forward to some insightful posts from David. From Curb Cut Learning on November 22, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..

A great present for a foodie
Before I left for Asia, I had a change to look over a review copy of Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn. Ma From megnut on November 22, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Telefónica Móviles España delivers 3G video telephony through Acme Packet
Telefónica Móviles España's 3G, SIP-based video telephony service enables subscribers to use both wireless and mobile connections for their interactive video communications. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 9:58 a.m..

Thus launches communications package for SMEs
Thus is targeting small and medium enterprises across the UK with its Demon Voice package which includes business broadband and hosting. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 9:58 a.m..

Sunrise to launch mobile broadband services
A hybrid network based on GPRS, EDGE and UMTS technologies is to enable mobile broadband coverage for around 98 per cent of Switzerland by September 2006. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 8:56 a.m..

Eircom acquisition of Meteor receives Competition Authority clearance
Meteor is Ireland's third largest operator and Ireland's fastest growing mobile business; Eircom agreed to acquire the operator on 25 July for €420m. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 8:56 a.m..

Dutch PC shipments increase 23.3% in Q3 HYPHEN report
Notebook demand has continued to drive overall PC growth in the Netherlands, with mobile shipments boosted by 37.2 per cent year on year growth. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 8:56 a.m..

Ericsson partners with UNDP to promote 'communication for all' goal
Ericsson, in cooperation with UNDP and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), has launched a business model which aims at providing mobile coverage to rural users. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 8:56 a.m..

The Saga of The Saga
In just a week, an elaborate fantasy world has sprung onto a gaming website. The Saga is an exercise in furious, internet-age collaborative creativity. By Joel Johnson. From Wired News on November 22, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Turkey Lovers Gobble Up Tech
Thanksgiving -- a holiday centered around the consumption of a heated, plucked fowl -- seems like a low-tech affair. But geek chefs and gadget makers are ensuring that it won't be. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on November 22, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Investors Bet on Global Warming
Stock pickers are eyeing the rise in world temperatures and regulations to curb carbon emissions when gauging investment risks. Some are even seeking out opportunities tied to global warming. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on November 22, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Outsourcing to the Heartland
Outsourcing IT jobs to India hasn't been wholly successful. Now some companies are realizing there are plenty of outsourcing opportunities here in rural America. By Emma Johnson. From Wired News on November 22, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Cisco to acquire Scientific-Atlanta for €5.9bn
The transaction is expected to close during the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2006, pending approval by regulatory authorities and the shareholders of Scientific-Atlanta. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 7:57 a.m..

European IPTV subscirbers up 66% in first half of 2005
There are currently 658,000 IPTV subscribers in Europe, according to a report from Screen Digest, with the total number of subscribers expected to reach 8.7 million by 2009. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 7:57 a.m..

Blog-giving Thoughts
That to me has been the beauty of the Web, (what I have been blogging about lately), and of Thanksgiving when we're at least supposed to be thinking of sharing, of embracing the contributions of the group to the common good. I love the free spinning out of ideas, the way they ripple out from blog to blog and come back again in new form. When have we ever been able to gather the expertise, the imagination, the potential from so many minds and experiences together with our own flawed, individual musings? Blogging lets us float ideas--sometimes half-baked--however we want. From weblogged News on November 22, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

Microsoft to open Office document format
Microsoft is releasing the specifications of this format to a standards body called Ecma, supported by industry leaders like Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, Intel and Toshiba, which will then publish detailed documentation about how to integrate the format into other apps, including open source software. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..

(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Actualidad Crónicas Guatemaltecas otromundoesposible Pistas SinEmbargo Agregadores Blogpocket Suprglu Indexes Noticias de Chile Planeta de blogs de aula21 Planet Murcia Remix Cibercultura Nativos Digitales Pablo Mancini Comunicación Bloginmedia Delante de las noticias Estudios de Comunicación I, Reporter Karma Peiró Media, Cidadania e Proximidade Nipho PL Segovia Pressnet Weblog Educación Becas, Concursos y Cursos Octeto Fotoblogs Grão João Sabino La sonrisa del pelicano V From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 22, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..

TiVo to transfer shows to iPod, PSP
This feature would be an extension to the TiVoToGo service already available to transfer recorded TV shows to a user's computer or laptop. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on November 22, 2005 at 3:56 a.m..

Control the Internet? A Futile Pursuit, Some Say - JOHN MARKOFF, News York Times
Working with Pentagon funds in the 1960's and 1970's, a small group of designers created a pioneering research network called the Arpanet and a software framework that could let an unlimited number of computers exchange data. Their creation, which came to From Techno-News Blog on November 22, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Profits May Rock Podcasting World - Steve Friess, Wired
A trade show seemed dangerously close to breaking out here over the weekend, as vendors lined up to tout the latest podcasting wares to the milling masses. But nifty products and gizmos were ultimately a sideline at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting From Techno-News Blog on November 22, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Supercomputers set processor pace - BBC
IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has kept its position as the most powerful number cruncher in the world. Its hold on the top slot was revealed in the latest list of the Top 500 supercomputers on Earth. Blue Gene/L was top of the biannually produced list From Techno-News Blog on November 22, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Email eLearning- Using Email as a Course Management System
For distance education, online course mangement systems are often appropriately used to facilitate discussions and other activities associated with the instructional process. Course management systems are also often used to add an online component to face-to-face instructional experiences. Some of the oft-used features in this type of a blended/hybrid learning setting include discussion board, file sharing/storage and the sending out of announcements. Often, a simple email discussion list could just as well provide at least the same functionality of the features mentioned above witho From Curb Cut Learning on November 22, 2005 at 2:52 a.m..

Paris Accelerates Move To Open Source
InfoWorld reports (thanks Michael) that the City of Paris is stepping-up the move toward open source software alternatives to its current, mostly-proprietary environment. The city of Paris is accelerating its move to free and open-source software as part of a strategy to reduce its dependence on suppliers. It plans to replace more of its server software [...] From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on November 22, 2005 at 1:56 a.m..

Making Artists: Video Games Are Their Major, So Don't Call Them Slackers
In recent years a small but growing cadre of well-known universities have started formal programs in video game design. From New York Times: Education on November 22, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

OpenCD 3.1 Released
I've mentioned the OpenCD project before, and it's only getting better. And, the project continues to get better. For those of you who don't know what this is, please read the following description. The OpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common [...] From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on November 22, 2005 at 12:54 a.m..

Tagged sports
From a press release: BroadbandSports.com, the world's first-ever, video-only sports portal, was launched today by the founder of Webby Award winning sports site, MountainZone.com and former ESPN.com and Amazon.com staff. The destination sports website allows viewers to watch professional and user-generated sports videos and empowers them with ways to "tag", search, find, store and replay their favorite video any time, anywhere. Haven't tried it — I did a round trip to NYC today to spend the day talking with a client about knowledge management, and I'm beat — but sou From Joho the Blog on November 22, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..

Killer's blog
Letitz, PA, is trying to figure out what to make of the blogs kept by an 18 year old who murdered the parents of a 14-year-old who also blogged. Should people have known? Did the Internet somehow contribute? I thought the article about it was straining to find something to say, but the discussion afterwards is interesting. (Thanks to Ryan Olah for the link.) [Tags: blogging]... From Joho the Blog on November 22, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..