KM in education. Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education Quote: "To help education institutions increase their capacity for knowledge-based decision... [elearnspace blog]

KM in Education, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I will have to check this out over time.
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Search Engine Awards 2002 Search Engine Awards. I'm passing along this Web address about the 2002 Search Engine Awards from the Column Two weblog. ____

Search engine awards. Search Engine Watch has just released its 2002 Search Engine Watch Awards. Google does well, as expected, but there are certainly some notable other winners.... [Column Two] [EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online]

FYI
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Bush Administration hides public data! Why! Bush quashing unpleasant employment stats..

From Business Week, February 10, 2003 issue :

BUSH LEAGUE
Stats: Now You See 'em...

Since President Bush took office two years ago, the economy has lost some 1.7 million jobs, making job creation a sore point around the White House. Now, either by coincidence or by design, two agencies have taken actions that make the Administration's unremarkable record on jobs a little harder to spot.

The President's own Council of Economic Advisers has yanked off its Web site a study predicting mediocre job growth from Bush's proposed $674 billion economic stimulus plan. The study forecast a modest 170,000 more jobs than would otherwise be created--0.1% of the workforce--every year through 2007, on average. The study was pulled within two days of Bush's Jan. 7 speech. In spite of its action, the council says it stands behind the numbers.

And on Christmas Eve, the Bureau of Labor Statistics quietly announced that it would no longer publish the mass-layoff statistics it had been putting out since 1994. The stats used to be used by states to help determine where to spend on job-retraining programs. "We're losing information we really need," complains Henry Jackson, director of Illinois' Division of Economic Information & Analysis. Labor officials say that the resulting savings of $6.6 million annually will be diverted directly to states for job training.
By Peter Coy and Laura Cohn

Something like $60 billion a year is spent by companies and workers making the labor markets work. $6.6m is a rounding error. Government stats are some of the cheapest planning tools you can trust. Government neutrality, longevity, and transparency make the data valuable. This kind of expense, centralized, creates value; spread among 50+ state agencies: paperclips.

Shortsighted.

Can you imagine any non-political reason for supressing the truth? Perhaps terrorists are involved?

Just shrubbery.

[a klog apart]

What is up with this President! One of first places Bush's people took off research was in the Department of Education website. Now this... Looks like the President is the "Emporer with No Clothes" and knows it by pulling these bush league moves. If there was a lot of liberal bias in the media.. they would have had a field day with this President, exposing our "Emporer with No Clothes" and censorship of data paid already by the people. Go figure! I think this liberal media schtick is starting to wear thin.
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Radio moving forward. FYI to Radio users.  We are working on three things right now:

1. A back-up system that makes it easy to reinstall Radio after a crash on a local PC.
2. More storage space.
3. A synchronization system that makes it possible to post to your Radio weblog from more than one PC (solves the work / home problem some people have).

More is on deck (however these are more complex projects and require zealous caveats):  a snazzy Windows interface (potentially an OSX interface too) that takes advantage of slick OS enabled capabilities, a faster comments server, and P2P multimedia weblog publishing.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Sounds like Userland has a plan to make Radio better and seems to be really listening to its users.
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