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Mixing the metaphors
Kevin points out just how wildly wrong are Susan Cheevers' metaphors when she describes how "intellectual property" works on the Internet. Kevin substitutes his own far more accurate metaphorical description. Our moral reasoning always (?) moves by metaphors, but metaphors are never perfectly accurate (or, if they are, they're uninteresting), so our moral reasoning never is utterly persuasive. Still, metaphors are all we have, and Kevin's are MUCH better than Cheevers'. [Tags: DigitalRights copyright KevinMarks SusanCheever]... From
Joho the Blog on December 21, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..
Microsoft Word: 20 years and still wrong
After twenty years — twenty years! — Microsoft Word still can't do the most basic of its selling points: Placing graphics into text. (Note: I am using Office XP, which puts me a rev behind.) For almost twenty years, I've been trying to tell Word where I want graphics laid out. Word still won't listen to me. I want my page to look like this: But, after twenty minutes of trying, this is the way Word keeps insisting I want my page to look: That happens to be with the layout set to top-and-bottom, but it's what I get for... From
Joho the Blog on December 21, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
Dave Munger - High IQ: Not As Good For You As You Thought - Cognitive Daily
According to this study, "Both IQ and self-discipline are correlated with GPA, but self-discipline is a much more important contributor: those with low self-discipline have substantially lower grades than those with low IQs, and high-discipline students have much better grades than high-IQ students." But what is self-discipline? The examples are not compelling - "Students were given an envelope containing $1, and were told they could spend it immediately or bring it back in a week for a $2 reward." But what if that amount of money isn't important enough to spend a week sitting on? Discipl From
OLDaily on December 21, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Jeff Jarvis - New News: The Fear Factor - BuzzMachine
Funny: "The first job is to instill fear in the newsroom. Oh, there's fear there now. But it is fear of the unknown. What we need is fear of the known." And the author continues on to list a few good reasons for fear, adding, "the first thing I think a newspaper should do is report about the future of news. Assign your best reporters and editors - the Bejesus Task Force - to get all the prognostications." Good advice, not just for journalists, but for everyone in the content business. I try to do it for education and learning, here. But the vast majority of teachers and educators get thei From
OLDaily on December 21, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Scott McLemee - Aiming the Can(n)on - Inside Higher Ed
From time to time I wonder whether anything I write will ever be read beyond next week, and so items like this - a look at the renaissance of the works of Lu Xun - interest me. The author ponders "the simplest model of how a literary canon is formed: An author gives voice to the ideology of the powers-that-be." But "it's not that simple," he says. From
OLDaily on December 21, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
BrooklynJoe Lives...
He also has a Drupal site set up for his school, Flushing International High School. With the ongoing New York transit strike, it is a good example of how a school can use a site to provide timely information to its community. From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 21, 2005 at 6:49 p.m..
Happy Solstice
This is going to be my last entry for 2005 before I fly off to Wales tomorrow to join my family who have been over there for the last 10 days with our inlaws. Just wanted to send everyone sincere best wishes and hope for their joy and successes in the new year. I am totally stoked about 2006 and look forward to more cool projects, collaborations, meetings-up and general rabble rousing with you all in the coming year. - SWL From
EdTechPost on December 21, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..
Weihnachtsgrüße
Dieses Jahr hat viele Veränderungen gebracht. Ich war auf vielen verschiedenen Feldern aktiv und habe sicher an der einen oder anderen Stelle etwas zugesagt, was mit (zu) viel Aufwand verbunden war. Den Weiterbildungsblog habe ich dabei nie in Frage gestellt,... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 21, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..
Interruption #3--Blog Beat Episode #2
So
today's episode is with Doug Symington (
blogger since 2002), an educational designer/technologist in Victoria, BC who responded to my offer last week to add some audio to the post about conferencing with
Skype. We chat about Skype as a classroom tool, why so many Canadians seem to be at the cutting edge of these technologies, the and why (or is it if) Tablet PCs are better than Smartboards. I'd meant to get this posted e
weblogged News on December 21, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
WWJDD?
What would Johnny Damon do? Apparently, it's leave the Sox for the *@!&**&%!! Yankees. Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy has the sad details today in
For Sox, a little off the top. If it's not the Curse of the Epsteino that's bringing this down upon the Nation, perhaps it's a Curse of the Queer Eyes. Of the five Sox who appeared on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," (Kevin Millar, Jason Varitek, Johnny Dam From
megnut on December 21, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..
Microsoft Word: 20 years and still wrong
After twenty years — twenty years! — Microsoft Word still can't do the most basic of its selling points: Placing graphics into text. (Note: I am using Office XP, which puts me a rev behind.) For almost twenty years, I've been trying to tell Word where I want graphics laid out. Word still won't listen to me. I want my page to look like this: But, after twenty minutes of trying, this is the way Word keeps insisting I want my page to look: That happens to be with the layout set to top-and-bottom, but it's what I get for... From
Joho the Blog on December 21, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..
Donald Clark - Elliot Masie's Learning 2005 - EPIC
It's a bit after the fact, but this summary of Elliott Masie's Learning 2005 conference, held November in (where else?) Orlando, is too delicious to pass by. Told from an outsider's perspective, with observations on the "cult of celebrity" and "preaching", but still capturing the things Masie did right and recommending the conference for next year, the author brought a point of view that can't perhaps be seen from the inside. Oh, and I learned Malcom Gladwell is a Canadian. I should have known. Via From
OLDaily on December 21, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
Elinor Mills - Reuters Video to Get Mass Distribution - CNet News.Com
This is much bigger news than may at first be anticipated. "International news agency Reuters is launching a pilot program on Tuesday that will allow blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to show Reuters news video on their Web sites." So far as I can judge, the content will be free, though an advertisement will show prior to the newsclip. What we have here is the thin edge of the wedge - a huge shift from the locked-down approach to content access that has characterized previous online journalism efforts. I've applied for the pilot (on one of my other sites; this isn&apos From
OLDaily on December 21, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
Universities as champions
The most powerful institutions in our society don't like the Net much. Oh, they like their reduced IT costs and they like their delusion that they can use it to market their messages to billions of us essentially for free, but they don't like what so many of us feel is the liberating, connected value of the Internet. These institutions look at the Internet and see a mix of threat and opportunity. We — some goodly set of us — look at the Internet and see hope. But one large institution may turn out to be special, as Charlie Nesson... From
Joho the Blog on December 21, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Dan Gillmor's center
Dan writes: Starting in 2006, I'll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism. I'm thrilled and honored that the center will be affiliated with two superb universities in a bi-coastal partnership. The two universities: UC Berkeley's Grad School of Journalism and the Berkman Center. Woohoo! With this sort of backing and Dan at the helm, the CCM is likely to be a hotbed of ideas, innovation, and research. I think this is an ideal situation From
Joho the Blog on December 21, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Marketing Blight award of the week
Apparently — no independent corroboration — Kodak hired women at a convention in Kiev to drop things so they could repeatedly bend over while wearing Kodak-logo-ed panties and short skirts. (Thanks to Jeneane for the link.) [Tags: marketing kodak assvertising]... From
Joho the Blog on December 21, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Gift Your Time
When you volunteer to help the needy, you share the most valuable gift of all: your time. Volunteering is also a gift to yourself as you acquire skills, experience, explore career paths... and make new friends.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on December 21, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..
Computers Still Dominate Chess
But if you're very good and if you don't make a single mistake, you still have a slight chance of winning. You have an even better chance of battling to a draw, says one chess champion. From
Wired News on December 21, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Judge Bars Intelligent Design
A Pennsylvania public school district's mandate to teach intelligent design in its biology classes is shot down as unconstitutional by a federal judge. The ruling is one of the most significant on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial. From
Wired News on December 21, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Stranded, NYC Heads to the Web
Commuters braving New York's transit strike meet online to thumb rides, while others hope to make some spare cash by renting out their apartments as strike pads. Connecting them all is craigslist. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on December 21, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Diebold Hack Hints at Wider Flaws
Election officials in search of a paper trail embrace optical-scan voting machines. But are they really better than touch-screen devices? By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on December 21, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Lawbreaker in Chief
President Bush's warrantless wiretapping of American citizens isn't supported by a shred of law, and his attempt to justify it amounts to little more than a confession. Commentary by Jennifer Granick. From
Wired News on December 21, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Think Away the Pain
A new technique helps patients significantly reduce pain simply by concentrating. Researchers hope this will soon be an option for people suffering from intractable pain. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on December 21, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
NeXT Fans Give Up the Ghost
An influential user group formed around Steve Jobs' doomed NeXT Cube dissolves after sticking together for 15 years -- considerably longer than the computer itself. By Pete Mortensen. From
Wired News on December 21, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Proyecto E-Hospital
E-Hospital es un Proyecto financiado por la Comisión Europea en el marco del programa Socrates/Grundtvig1, en el que participan instituciones educativas de Austria, Francia, Alemania, Polonia y España... (Sigue) From
Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on December 21, 2005 at 5:50 a.m..
E-Learning Top Ten Readings 2005
Es ist fast schon eine vertraute Übung geworden, noch mal in den Eintragungen der letzten Monate zu blättern und festzuhalten, was mich in diesem Jahr beeindruckt hat. Vor 12 Monaten an dieser Stelle hatte ich große Zweifel, ob der Begriff... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 21, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..
