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Universal Music Sues Video Sites
Claiming "mass infringement" of its artists' copyrights by Grouper and Bolt, the music company seeks hefty damages. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Universal Sues Video Sharing Sites Grouper and Bolt.com
Today, Universal Music Group sued Grouper and Bolt.com for hosting copyrighted music videos uploaded by individual users. According to Reuters, Universal "made clear that ... [it] retain[ed] the right to add" to the lawsuit Sony Pictures, which recently bought Grouper. And thus the record industry lawsuits roll on, even as they cut deals with YouTube. To learn more about the protections that copyright law might From A Copyfighter's Musings on October 17, 2006 at 8:48 p.m..

IPods Ship With Windows Virus
Apple reports that a "small number" of its music players come with a nasty infection. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Stephanie Dunnewind - Schools Trying to Prevent Harassment in Cyberspace - Seattle Times
Funny. "Mr. Scarpelli does not have a MySpace page, nor will he ever have a MySpace account." This article looks at the issue of fake teacher MySpace accounts in passing as it looks at the impact of the phenomenon on schools in general. "MySpace registered its 100 millionth user in August." Instead of just ignoring MySpace (or blocking it and pretending it doesn't exist) schools are beginning to address real issues - like spoofing and harassing - through education and, in some few cases, litigation. "The most important goals should be to 'stop the harm, get online material removed an From OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Herbert van de Sompel - An Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains - D-Lib Magazine
More on Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE). This article outlines some of the thinking behind ORE and offers a description of some of the major functions (or elements) of the new initiative. Again , I don't see anything particularly new here, except that is is creeping federation entering the world of OAI. And so I ask (as I did throughout the eduSource project) do we need a system of learning and research data exchange that is inaccessible to most people? Yes yes, I know, this sort of thing isn't explicit in the proposal. But why th From OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Artichoke - Personalisation and the Mixed Age Merino
Pretty much it: "the trick in all of this 'personalisation' stuff seems to be in figuring out who identifies the needs of the learner." [Link] [Tags: Personalization] [Comment] From OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Keri - Summary of a Cmap - Writing for Myself: Writing to Teach
My own explanation of the relation between blogs and learning, but this concept map has the advantage of representing what might be considered a much more mainstream view. "Blogs are a social tool with the potential to create collaborative communities. Readers comment, and thus, build knowledge on the subject. Readers and writers work together to add to knowledge." The main point where we agree, though, is in this: "Blogs allow writers to experience an authentic audience." Via Bud the Teacher. [OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Terry Anderson - New Canadian ELearning Project Management Ebook - CIDER
I haven't read it, but the CIDER recommendations are usually pretty good. "This book edited by Beverley Pasian and Gary Woodill, presents authors from both the corporate and educational sectors in eight different countries, to provide a total of 22 case studies of elearning project implementations." [Link] [Tags: Books and eBooks, Online Learning, OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Various authors - The K-12 Online Conference 2006 Agenda
This online conference started yesterday with a pre-recorded keynote by Dave Warlick (to me it's not a keynote unless it's live - but that's just me). It features a number of educational bloggers, mostly (as the title suggests) from the K-12 sector, and mostly from the United States (and not, as one commentator wrote, "top educational bloggers from around the world"). It's kind of like a 'Coming of Age', only presented as a conference. Oh hey wait, it's the same people! Who are - according to themselves - t From OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Mark Oehlert - My New Favorite Thing: Anonymous Conference Reporting - E-Clippings
Funny (a style note: if I say it's 'funny' it's probably also darkly subversive - then again, I was called a neo-Marxist on ITForum today, which is a mangling either of the definition of of my writings). Oehlert writes of the recently posted anonymous conference review on the Learning Circuits blog, "Shockingly its also one of the most honest reviews I've read... What are the possible downsides? Character assasination? Lies? Hurt feelings? Admittedly all possible. What are the possible upsides? Idiotic sessions disappear from conference schedules never to darken our do From OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Helen Barrett - EIFE-L Conference 2006 - E-Portfolios for Learning
Helen Barrett writes, "I took the opportunity to create a new graphic that describes a "mash-up" of different Web 2.0 tools that could be combined together for a powerful ePortfolio system, using a variety of online tools that students might already be using." Now I ask you - isn't this just the 'Future VLE' diagram? [Link] [Tags: Web 2.0] [Comment] From OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge - The Podcast
MP3 Audio and PowerPoint Slides (the slides form a nice summary of the paper, if you didn't want to read the paper) from my session at the University of Prince Edward Island yesterday (also Skypecast, but notice came out so late I don't think we had any attendees). I thought it was a good session, not because of the quality of my discourse (in fact, there are some pretty awkward moments in there) but because it shows some of the thinks I need to think more deeply about. It was a p From OLDaily on October 17, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Broadband Grew 33 Percent Years' Time
Worldwide subscribers to broadband services reached 181 million in June. From ClickZ Stats on October 17, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Retrevo: a Google for Gadgets
A new search engine for consumer electronics geeks puts product reviews center stage while weeding out spam, ads and other distracting nonsense. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Iraqi blogger response to 650,000
Global Voices rounds up the reaction of Iraqi bloggers to the Lancet's article claiming 650,000 deaths due to the violence in Iraq... [Tags: iraq global_voices gv ]... From Joho the Blog on October 17, 2006 at 4:49 p.m..

Let's Go: Second Life
So you've decided to visit Second Life. Our guide tells you where to go and what to do. From Wired magazine. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

[berkman] Timo Hannay on Web science
Timo Hannay is director of Web publishing at Nature magazine. His job is to help try to "make the most of the Web as a scientific communications medium." He's giving a Tuesday lunch talk here at the Berkman Center. He says that most scientists think about the Web in terms of open access. But he's not going to talk about that today, only because he wants to talk about some longer-term trends. He does think open access is incredibly important. He thinks it will happen primarliy through mandatory archiving into accessible repositories. 70% of scientists didn't respond to a request. From Joho the Blog on October 17, 2006 at 3:48 p.m..

Let the Conference Begin!
David Warlick’s keynote video for the first annual K12 Online Conference is now available for viewing. It’s the first of over 40 presentations in the next two weeks that will be posted to the conference blog, and David’s video is a great way to get prepared to participate. And even if you don’t check out [...] From weblogged News on October 17, 2006 at 2:48 p.m..

The TV Phone
DoCoMo's latest handset lets you watch digital broadcasts on the go. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Tiny Projector Boosts Video IPod
A palm-sized video projector from Toshiba points to a time when you'll be able to turn any surface into a temporary viewing screen, making for a more compelling video iPod experience. In Listening Post. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Supplies Limit Oil Alternatives
Moving away from petroleum to cleaner alternatives requires infrastructure investment that anticipates consumer demand. In Autopia. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Chertoff's 'Web of Terror'
The Homeland Security chief declares the internet a potential hotbed of terrorism, a place where radicals can go to train themselves to become terrorists. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

Students take aim at global problems
The Global Challenge teams up US and Asian students to solve real-life issues. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 17, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Real learning in a virtual world
Harvard has joined the ranks of colleges offering courses with 'Second Life' virtual classrooms. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 17, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Muppets teach children a land mine lesson
A British charity helps avert tragedy with a children's video on how to spot mines buried throughout Afghanistan. < From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 17, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Online college texts are free, but not free from ads
Some see them as 'ad creep,' while others view them as a way to make pricey books accessible to all. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on October 17, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

James Baker: Enemy of democracy?
Jon Stewart nailed James Baker but didn't pound hard enough. Baker was on The Daily Show the other day to plug his book and talked briefly about the report on Iraq he's prepared for the Bush administration. It's being released after the elections so — said Baker, the architect of Bush's Florida post-election "victory" — it won't be perceived as political. Stewart noted that its delay would also be perceived as political. And besides, said our Jonny, in a democracy, aren't we supposed to be informing the voters? Baker chuckled. Gary Kamiya has a terrifi From Joho the Blog on October 17, 2006 at 10:46 a.m..

Zittrain on One Laptop Per Child
Seb Schmoller's blog has an excellent write-up by Steve Ryan of the Berkman Center's Jonathan Zittrain (also of Oxford) talking about what to put on the One Laptop Per Child laptops. Quite typically, JZ ranged wider, deeper and funnier than anyone could reasonably expect of a fellow human being. [Tags: jonathan_zittrain berkman olpc]... From Joho the Blog on October 17, 2006 at 10:46 a.m..

Install Vista, Buy Graphics Card
If your PC doesn't have a video card installed, the newest OS from Microsoft almost certainly will require you to get one, thanks to its graphics-heavy interface. By Bruce Gain. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..

Sam & Max Start Strong
The debut installment of serial adventure game Sam & Max packs lots of hilarity into a few short hours of gameplay. But we've got a wish list for the sequels. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..

Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth
The magical music player wasn't plucked from a stone by Steve Jobs. Here's the story of how a team of designers and engineers produced Apple's groundbreaking gadget. Commentary by Leander Kahney. From Wired News on October 17, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..

University for Deaf Resumes
Classes resumed at Gallaudet University, the nations only liberal arts university for the deaf, though protesters opposed to the boards choice of a new president continued to block the main gate. From New York Times: Education on October 17, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..