Saturday, September 25, 2004

Rescue Rats to Find Buried Victims [Slashdot:] 8:04:53 PM      .

Nokia Phone Gets Virus Protection [Slashdot:] 7:58:36 PM      Google It!.

8/31/04: Progress report on the open source release. [Scripting News] 7:56:28 PM      Google It!.

Railroad Repository slides from PloneConf available. The slides of the Railroad Repository presentation at the Plone Conference are online. [Plone RSS] 5:48:11 PM      Google It!.

Judge: Live Performance Copyright Unconstitutional [Slashdot:] 5:47:12 PM      Google It!.

Web Services What Web Services?. The author goes exploring for web services and finds some. Good article - it begins with an overview of web services and what their promise is supposed to be for education. He then locates various links and examples illustrating what web services can do. I am not convinced about web services, but this article gives me a lot of food for thought. I just wish, with the author, that we had some samples - not just reference implementations, but actual code, from both the service delivery end and the service use end, and not in Java but in code (such as Perl or PHP) that the average person can use (yes, this is a request for you to send me your latest and greates web services). By Derek Morrison, Auricle, September 25, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 5:45:09 PM      Google It!.

WashingtonOnline Virtual Campus: Infusing Culture in Dispersed Web-Based Higher Education - Shalin Hai-Jew, IRoDL. Started in 1997, WashingtonOnline Virtual Campus (WAOL) consists of a consortium of 34 community colleges around Washington State to provide asynchronous online learning. WAOL bears many of the features of a loosely coupled organization with its geogra [Online Learning Update] 8:43:18 AM      Google It!.

Support for Australian OA thesis database. Louise Perry, Formulating 130,000 theses for your perusal, The Australian, September 22, 2004. Excerpt: "An online directory of all research theses and dissertations from Australian universities will soon be available to the world. After pushing for the improved database for more than 15 years, the patience of postgraduate students and their supervisors has been rewarded: the federal Government has announced $500,000 for the job. The new database will use the Australian Digital Theses Program, which is already in place but only has links to about 2600 theses in digital form. The new version will have records of up to 130,000 theses and dissertations - some will be in digital form and those that are not will be linked to an order form where the database user can order a copy of the research. Anyone with access to the internet will be able to use the database." [Open Access News] 8:40:29 AM      Google It!.

Digital Music Eyewear From Oakley [Slashdot:] This could add a new dimension to academic dishonesty where an mp3 cheatsheet hides in the glasses, but on the other hand it could be the beginning of comfortable borgware -- BL (PS more likely is the deplayment as advanced hearing aids in normalized glasses will help older persons with declining hearing) 8:39:30 AM      Google It!.