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Francis Pisani: La prensa tradicional ha tardado 10 años en querer no solamente estar presente, sino participar de la vida muy particular de la web. El problema es que durante esos años, la web cambió. La gente ahora quiere que se la escuche y tiene los medios para ello. Abandonar el ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 9, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..

Intel: Poor Want 'Real' Computers
Dismissing Nicholas Negroponte's $100 hand-cranked laptop, designed for the developing world, as 'a gadget,' Intel CEO Craig Barrett says computer users will be unimpressed. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..

Little Engine That Could
What does an Indo-Guyanese-Christian-American-Texan 'Master Inventor' do for fun? He tricks out and races his 1998 six-speed Corvette, of course. By Jim Lewis of Wired magazine. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..

Bush 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto
President Bush's argument that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions would hurt the U.S. economy is not only parochial but wrong, former President Clinton told a U.N. climate conference Friday. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..

An Event Apart Philadelphia Postpartum
Back from An Event Apart Philadelphia with a head full of ideas, inspiration, and snot. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on December 9, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Vincent Tinto - Student Success and the Building of Involving Educational Communities - MCLI iForum
"Successful education, not retention, is the secret of successful retention programs." Thus argues Vincent Tinto. "Institutions of higher education are like other human communities. The essential character of such communities lies not in their formal structures, but in the underlying values which inspire their construction." [ From OLDaily on December 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Lisa Young and Donna Rebadow - Reusable Learning Objects: RLO The Movie - MCLI iForum
Link to video from the presentation, presented during a conference session called 'Stop Reinventing the Wheel and Share Your Best Instructional Resources: Reusable Learning Objects,' in which Maricopa staff described their efforts to help staff understand, find, and use learning objects. Also a link to the interesting From OLDaily on December 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Ira Fuchs - Needed: an 'Educore' to Aid Collaboration - Eduforge
"The single biggest obstacle facing colleges and universities that want to use open source," argues Ira Fuchs, "appears to be the uncertainty about future support for and improvements in the software. Many administrators and trustees simply cannot accept the idea of relying for maintenance and support on people with whom they have no contractual relationship." Thus he proposes as a solution "the creation of a coordinating body, perhaps called Educore [which] would coordinate the development and maintenance of open source for the benefit of higher education." It's a good idea but as always From OLDaily on December 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Joshua Schachter - y.ah.oo! - del.icio.us / blog
Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us and another Dot Com developer makes good. Good commentary from From OLDaily on December 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Jeremy Price - Object-Centered Sociality, or the Act of Being Kicked - Smelly Knowledge
Good point about online communities I think needs highlighting and clarifying. "The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They&apos;re not; social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object... it's like the idea of an attractor in a dynamic system." (If you want a fun read, look up 'strange attractors' in Google - that's the sort of thing he means here. Anyhow, the clarification: even though the members have an interest in an object in common, it does not follow that you can From OLDaily on December 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Terry Anderson - Online End of Class Party - Virtual Canuck
I enjoyed this description of the sorts of things taken into account in the design of a successful end-of-year party. I especially liked the descriptions of what (in previous years) did not work, such as: "asynchronous parties do not work!" This article is worth reading - it's like the common expression, you learn more from the party than from the class. Heh. [ From OLDaily on December 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - News from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research - Wisconsin Center for Education Research
If you find there's nothing on the radio over the weekend - or over the next month - you can settle in and listen to the 60 podcasts uploaded to this blog. Most of them are pretty short and topics include assessment, school reform, professional development and more. [ From OLDaily on December 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Yahoo buys Delicious - Good all around
The fact that the most visited site on the Net has bought the premier tagging site should confirm that tagging is going mainstream. Yahoo has profoundly not screwed up Flickr, so I have confidence that del.icio.us users are not going to feel betrayed or de-featured by Yahoo. Most important, Yahoo is now in a position to become a tag broker, adding value to the act of tagging, thus driving more tagging, thus increasing the Web's memetic value. With widespread tagging, the Web means more. Congratulations to Joshua Schachter and the rest of the Delicious folks. [Tags: tagging yahoo delicious From Joho the Blog on December 9, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Edublog Awards
If you’re a consumer or creator of educational blogs, you may be interested in participating in the voting for the 2005 Edublog Awards. There are several categories, and the shortlist includes several blogs I follow slavishly, so I’ve cast my ballot. You can too at: http://incsub.org/awards/the-edublog-awards-2005/ By the way, we were honoured to learn that [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on December 9, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..

Customers Move to Web to Manage Credit Card Accounts
More credit card users go online to manage accounts, reducing customer service costs for the creditor. From ClickZ Stats on December 9, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

The Beast is Gone to Bed
As I sit here the PC is displaying the last of the files being transferred to the Wiley FTP server for my latest book, Dreamweaver 8 Visual Encyclopedia. Oh. My. God. What a long strange trip this has book project has been. I started this project back in June, so it's been... From Brain Frieze on December 9, 2005 at 3:17 p.m..

Wikipedia Woes
I'm an unabashed fan of Wikipedia. I love the whole idea of a community-based encyclopedia with contributors all over the world adding to the human knowledge base by creating and editing entries on, well, just about everything. I used Wikipedia immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans to gather background on the debate regarding the levee systems and past efforts (or lack thereof) to improve them. When I was reading... From Brain Frieze on December 9, 2005 at 3:17 p.m..

10 Communications Tips For Security Managers
Steve Purser writes this must-read paper for anyone managing Information Security. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on December 9, 2005 at 3:17 p.m..

Perimeter Router Security
Aditya Sood submits this write up on Cisco Express Forwarding, Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding, TCP Intercept, Network Address Translation, Committed Access Rate, and Logging. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on December 9, 2005 at 3:17 p.m..

Encryption is not enough for DRM
This paper, submitted by Alice Pierce of LockLizard, covers why encryption is not enough to protect your electronic documents and why other factors such as the implementation of the system are equally important. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on December 9, 2005 at 3:17 p.m..

Plug-ins - a source of insecurity
Alice Pierce of LockLizard submits this paper which examines and questions the claims often made by plug-ins. suppliers that they are secure, giving published examples of where they are not From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on December 9, 2005 at 3:17 p.m..

Chatting Worm is Latest Hazard
Despite all the warnings, some users still click on email attachments and launch worms. Many, though, have learned their lesson. In an attempt to get around user training, the latest worm arrives in an instant message and appears to converse... From Indiana IT on December 9, 2005 at 3:17 p.m..

Public Domain Movie Torrents
PublicDomainTorrents.com is a decent resource for torrents of classic and B-movies in which the copyright has expired (public domain media). This will be useful for my ECMP 355 course where students perform video editing/mixing. Using sites like this as a resource also help to explain that the Bit Torrent protocol is not to be equated [...] From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Amazing Xmas Lights Show
A video of an amazing, well-choreographed Xmas lights show has been making its rounds via email, and if you've missed it, have a look. I wasn't really sure whether or not this was legit or not, as I thought there may have been some video editing. However, Snopes reports that this is an actual light [...] From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

BT to enhance VoIP next year
In spring of 2006, VoIP will add high definition sound quality and video phones to its VoIP services. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Napster launches service in Germany
Napster launched its digital music subscription service in Germany yesterday. During the initial launch period, German users can sign up for a seven-day free trial of the service. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Virgin Mobile did not ask for better price from NTL
The Virgin Mobile Independent Board issued a statement last night that in rejecting NTL's £817m takeover offer, it did not 'consider or solicit' another price. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Yahoo launches beta of Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers provides users with a free, secuirty protected forum to pose and answer questions among themselves. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Firefox 1.5 flaw not serious, patch in January
The exploit code released by Packet Storm Security is supposed to cause a buffer overflow and crash the browser every time after visiting a malicious URL, which exploits a vulnerability in the history.dat file. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Reducing piracy by 10% could create 2.4m jobs, $400bn in growth
A study commissioned by the BSA and conducted by IDC found that cutting the global piracy rate of 35 per cent by 10 percentage points over four years could generate 2.4m new jobs, $400bn in economic growth and $67bn in tax revenues worldwide. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Mobile WiMAX now IEEE 802.16e
The mobile version of the WiMAX broadband technology has been ratified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and will now be referred to as 802.16e. Fixed location WiMax technology is already called 802.11d. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Symbol, Avaya tie-up for voice over Wi-fi
Symbol and Avaya today announced the availability of a series of products that enable enterprise handhelds and data collection devices to use Wi-fi to make voice calls. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

EA to acquire mobile developer Jamdat for $680m
EA and Jamdat together plan to publish over 50 games for mobile phones in the first twelve months following the completion of the acquisition, including popular titles like Tetris, Bejeweled, Jamdat Bowling, Need For Speed, Madden NFL Football and FIFA Soccer. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Nokia opens Flagship store in Moscow
The handset manufacturer opened its first Nokia Flagship retail store in Pushkin Square in Moscow yesterday. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 p.m..

Citizen Journalism: More Reasons to Get Out
Over at I, Reporter yesterday I wrote about how citizen journalism can be both an excuse and a motivation to get out and about in your community. Here are five ways citizen journalism can get your butt out of the house... Full story at I, Reporter... From Contentious Weblog on December 9, 2005 at 3:15 p.m..

Rare Bird Sighted: The Fact Checker
Over at MWGblog, podcaster extraordinaire Michael Geoghagen noted yesterday that, after being interviewed for 50+ media stories on podcasting, for the first time ever, "I had a reporter contact me specifically to verify a fact regarding a statement someone had made about a podcast I produced." See: "Hope for journalism" Ah, the elusive fact-checker... Here's what I commented over on Michael's blog, plus a few additional tips on fact checking... From Contentious Weblog on December 9, 2005 at 3:15 p.m..

Worthwhile Read - Scott Berkun's Project Mgmt and other wisdom
http://www.scottberkun.com/ I came across this blog via a post from Christopher Sessum (another worthwhile subscription, I'd add), who pointed to an essay titled 'Why smart people defend bad ideas.' It REALLY struck home (for better or worse I am more and more trying to be brutally honest in my personal assessments) and led me to subscribe and read some of Mr. Berkun's other posts. And so far I haven't come acros From EdTechPost on December 9, 2005 at 3:03 p.m..

The Apocalypso is upon us
In 1999, Chris Locke called a chapter of The Cluetrain Manifesto "Internet Apocalypso." In July, Mel Gibson announced he has written and will direct a movie called "Apocalypto." Last night, a show opened in Boston to excellent reviews. Its title: "Apocalpyso." Oh, Johnnie Cochran, where are you in our hour of need? [Tags: cluetrain apocalypso ChrisLocke rageboy]... From Joho the Blog on December 9, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..

Blogosphere Ghosts
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/OE_text_chat.txt Really apropos of not very much, I stumbled across the above transcript during a google search on a pretty unrelated topic (unrelated except for the fact that it is me still thinking about it now, and I show up in this transcript almost 3 years ago when I first started thinking about it). This group meeting on 'open education' issues, organized by George Siemens, never really jelled formally, but informally From EdTechPost on December 9, 2005 at 2:01 p.m..

Hoder & Canadian blogs
After Hoder's blog was held against him by American Immigration, Canadian Brent Ashley holds it against him in a "Canada: Blog it or leave it!" sort of way. Michael O'Connor Clarke blogs a paper by Howard Levitt on how Canadian employment law applies to blogging. For example: Whereas internet use and email use from a personal email account which is done after work hours on a personal computer may not form the basis of a harassment claim because of the reasonable expectation of privacy that exists, because a blog is in the public domain, harassing blog entries made on a... From Joho the Blog on December 9, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

Merriam-Webster Open Dictionary
Wikipedia, Schmikipedia. Too controversial. Let's write the dictionary instead. I mean, how hard could it be to define things like, um, blogging, for instance... From weblogged News on December 9, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Public transit via Google
With Google Transit you can easily access schedules, routes, and plan trips using their local public transportation options. The first release covers my city, Portland, Oregon and the TriMet system, but they plan to expand to more systems soon, and are actively seeking out other transit organizations to partner with. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 9, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..

To a Long and Happy Life
The average American can now expect to live 77.6 years. But though they may live longer, baby boomers between 55 and 64 are also fatter and have higher blood pressure than earlier generations. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

The Rembrandt Code
Identifying true old masters -- and spotting fakes -- is a rarefied art. Dan Rockmore wants to make it a science. By Bijal P. Trivedi of Wired magazine. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Deal Struck to Extend Patriot Act
GOP backers on Capitol Hill cut a deal to give law enforcement four more years of secret access to a raft of personal data. The White House is thrilled, but the threat of a Senate filibuster lingers. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Secret ID Law Goes to Court
Judges grill lawyers for both sides as the fight over a government rule demanding ID from airline passengers boils into federal appeals court. Ryan Singel reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Worker Privacy: You Have None
The vast majority of U.S. employers monitor workers' internet use, a practice that goes almost completely unregulated. Here's a look at your privacy rights in the workplace. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

GAME Is No Dance Revolution
You can lead a gamer to a party, but you can't make him rock 'n' roll. Organizers of the Game and Music Experience try to rev it up, but a rumble of bass, disco balls and smoke do not a party make. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Audiophiles Unite! Draws Feedback
Any unanswered questions tickling your discerning audiophile eardrum? Perhaps one of our knowledgeable readers has answered it. From the Wired News e-mail bag. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

A Music File by Any Other Name
Which format is best? Get wise to the durability of MP3s, the promise of AAC and the pitfalls of Sony's ATRAC. Last in a three-part series. By Michael Calore. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Here Comes Happy Kitty
A robotics engineer in Hong Kong develops a new way to make his girlfriend happy -- without numbing her to his affections. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Spend Money While You Earn It
Online retailers anticipate record sales for the holidays, thanks, in large part, to people shopping from their office computers. Employers grudgingly accept the practice -- and track every click. By Joanna Glasner.PLUS: Worker Privacy: You Have None From Wired News on December 9, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

World Digital Library Planned: Library of Congress Envisions Collection To Bridge Cultures - David A. Vise, Washington Post
The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of other national libraries that would be fre From Techno-News Blog on December 9, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Growing pains for Wikipedia - Daniel Terdiman, CNET News
For Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, last week was a tough one. And he's going to change the ground rules for the popular anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia because of it. First, in a Nov. 29 op-ed piece in USA Today, a former administrative assistant to R From Techno-News Blog on December 9, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Online scammers go spear-phishin' - Timothy L. O'Brien, New York Times / CNET
About a year and a half ago, Amnon Jackont, an Israeli mystery novelist and Tel Aviv University history professor, became ensnared in a mystery of his very own: friends and students were receiving e-mail messages from him that he had never written. A few From Techno-News Blog on December 9, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

ID Position at Queen’s University
Via Tereigh Ewert-Bauer: POSITION TITLE: INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER (GRADE 11) 1 year contract with chance of possible renewal FACULTY, SERVICE, SCHOOL: Teaching and Learning Support Service UNIT: Centre for e-Learning JOB REPORTS TO: Service Manager SALARY: Minimum $51,644 Standard $64,555 Maximum $71,011 _______________________________________ JOB DESCRIPTION JOB SUMMARY Designs mediated teaching tools (courses or parts of courses on the Internet). Analyzes content of courses taught, determines best [...] From Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on December 9, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Presentation: Dr. Kerry Bernes
DEPARTMENT HEAD RECRUITMENT (EDPSE) PUBLIC presentation and discussion *************** oeA Vision for the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education and the Role of the Head Speaker: Dr. Kerry Bernes Date: December 14, 2005 Time: 10:00-11:30 A.M. Location: 2060 ED College Faculty and Graduate Students welcome. From Rick's Café Canadien on December 9, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Where’s the outrage? “Crusade” meet “Jihad”
An opportunity for open dialogue provided by Dr. Frank Van Hesteren, Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology. “Professing truth to power in the war on global terror: The moral educator as public intellectual and culture warrior -or- The fusion of politics and religion: A recipe for disaster in a wilding world.” Friday, December 9, 2005 Room 1004, College of Education 7:30 pm From Rick's Café Canadien on December 9, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Interdisciplinary Studies presentations
Interdisciplinary Studies would like to invite you to attend our next 990 seminar presentation. The details are as follows: Date: Thursday, December 15, 2005 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: ARTS 208 The presenters will [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on December 9, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

The 1st ACEL/Microsoft Online Conference on Innovative Teaching and Learning
Excitement in the Classroom: The 1st ACEL/Microsoft Online Conference on Innovative Teaching and Learning Informative papers and interactive discussions for 7 days on the internet (24 hours a day): Monday 15 May to midnight Sunday 21 May 2006. The Australian Council for Educational Leaders and Microsoft are combining to offer the first ACEL/Microsoft online conference on innovative teaching and learning in [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on December 9, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

A Leaner Tulane Plans to Reopen Its Doors Next Month
Tulane University is coping with the effects of Katrina by laying off more than 200 faculty members and eliminating programs. From New York Times: Education on December 8, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..