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Holy Rip-Mix-Burn-Churn! I am Feedburned!. I cannot breathe! The feeds are swirling!
Snatding on the shoulders of giants, Brian Lamb and David Wiley (imitation and flattery apply here) I mixed up my furl bookmarks and flickr photos with the cogdog feeds and voila! the uber feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/cogdogblog
This just rocks! I have just skimmed the surface of feed burner, but
they are doing this rip-mix-blend stuff up right. Just provide them the
URLs for your blog RSS, other bookmark services, and flickr info, and
you get a feed where stuiff from all 3 is combined. And that looks like
the tip of the rss-berg. You get stats. You can tweak the feeds. It
attempts to make a HTML viewable version of the feed (mine is plunk
full of HTML... hmm).
But this is it, this is another excellent example of small pieces, nicely joined! [cogdogblog]
10:59:02 PM  Google It!.
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Deep linking: firewalls versus contracts. Last week Phil Wainewright discovered IDG's linking policy, and was not amused:
I am starting to regret the several thousand visitors that Loosely Coupled has sent to InfoWorld articles in the past year. It turns out all those links were in breach of InfoWorld's
terms and conditions. We shall think twice about linking to IDG titles
in the future, even though some of the best writing about the topics we
follow can be found on InfoWorld's pages. But if IDG decided to start barring links from us, we would end up having to rename ourselves Brokenly Coupled and their title might just as well be called InfoWalled. This would not be in the best interests of either of our readerships. [Loosely Coupled]
This was news to me as well, and to others. For some reason, the first round of discussion of this issue, about a year ago, never showed up on my radar screen.
... [Jon's Radio]
7:43:31 PM Google It!.
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Step Toward Universal Computing.
A Silicon Valley company claims to have developed a universal emulator
that's uncharacteristically fast. For one thing, it could mean the
latest games are immediately available for the Mac. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
2:09:36 PM Google It!.
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BMC launches OA institutional repository service. BioMed Central today launched Open Repository, an open-access repository service for universities and research institutions. From the press release:
"The Open Repository service makes it possible for institutions that
could not otherwise afford to, or lack the infrastructure or technical
capacity in-house, to set up repositories....Open Repository offers a
number of different levels of service, to fit with a university or
institution's requirements. For a one-off set-up fee, BioMed Central
will build the repository with open source software DSpace,
with complete customization to the customer's requirements.
Repositories built under the scheme will be able to accept a wide
variety of publication types. It is then up to the institution whether
they wish BioMed Central to host and run the repository or to transfer
operation and maintenance to themselves. The institution remains the
owner of the repository. For an annual fee, BioMed Central offers to
maintain the repository and guarantee ongoing customer support. BioMed
Central's Open Repository service will include converting articles to
PDF and XML. Advanced search functionality will be a part of the
service, as will links to and from databases, for example PubMed, and via CrossRef to the body of scientific literature." [Open Access News]
2:00:34 PM Google It!.
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A Conceptualization of Learning Objects. I'm
reposting this item with D'Arcy Norman's comments about David Davies'
framework for explaining the place and role of learning objects.
Davies' conceptualization is useful, but will make more sense to
instructional designers than it will to instructors. My own view is
that learning objects are mapped data; the map can be very sketchy and
simple or quite elaborate, but it is the act of mapping that
distinguishes raw materials from learning objects. Syllabi provide the
most traditional mappings for courses. Since syllabi are familiar to
all instructors, I find it useful to start with syllabi when explaining
the role of learning objects to the faculty. Syllabi are both reusable
and modifiable but their adabtability diminishes as they become more
deeply nested into texts, programs, and grading systems. JH
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David Davies on Learning Objects.
David Davies just posted an entry on learning objects that has a
reasonable description of what a learning object is (to him). He's also
got a nice, clear diagram showing the reusability paradox, and how
assets, learning objects, and content packages fit along the spectra of
organization and reusability. [D'Arcy Norman @ The Learning Commons] [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]
12:13:29 PM Google It!.
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