Monday, September 27, 2004

Evolution 2.0 Released, Screenshots [Slashdot:] 9:02:00 PM      Google It!.

Open Repository web site. BMC's Open Repository site is now ready for visitors and gives us details about the levels of service, features, and prices. Some of the (optional) features are high-end, like file conversion and XML markup. Institutions that think they can do it all for themselves should at least take a look at what's on offer. [Open Access News] 8:49:51 PM      Google It!.

Nuclear Batteries [Slashdot:] 8:48:23 PM      Google It!.

Intel Shelves Plan to Turn Desktop Into Wi-Fi Hub. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An ambitious plan to turn millions of desktop computers into hubs of wireless Internet access has been shelved after PC makers balked at the price of the feature, Intel Corp. INTC.O said on Monday. [Reuters: Technology] 8:44:11 PM      Google It!.

Proposed mandatory public registry of clinical trials. DRUG RESEARCH: Legislators Propose a Registry to Track Clinical Trials From Start to Finish. Jennifer Couzin. Science [Open Access News] 8:42:02 PM      Google It!.

Does the Patent System Need an Overhaul?. Two professors argue that seemingly innocuous reforms have caused a shift away from encouraging innovation in favor of exploiting patents largely for lawsuits. By By SABRA CHARTRAND. [The New York Times > Technology] 2:40:18 PM      Google It!.

E-Learning Frameworks and Tools: Is it too late? - The Director's Cut. I missed this item when I was toodling around over the Pacific, but you shouldn't. This is a first-rate paper looking at plans for JISC, the state of e-learning technology, and the impending roll-out of web services. It's written strictly within a British context, but it would be well worth reading by anyone in the field. This item was pointed to in another item at Auricle referring to my current Australian tour. By Derek Morrison, Auricle, September 15, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 2:05:39 PM      Google It!.

Spysats Keeping Watch on the U.S. [Slashdot:] 1:44:15 PM      Google It!.

MIT Open Course Ware: Mathematics. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT, has launched this "large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative." The website posts lecture not [Online Learning Update] 1:41:53 PM      Google It!.

Growing Virtual Communities - Debbie Garber, IRoDL. As online collaborative technologies become easier to use, an increasing range of “virtual communitiesâ€� are being established, often for educational purposes. This report stresses that an efficient technology is only part of the process underlying a su [Online Learning Update] 9:40:21 AM      Google It!.

Adobe proposes universal digicam 'raw' image format. 'Digital negative' [The Register] 9:39:06 AM      Google It!.

Canonical URLs and network effects. After retracing his steps in order to correctly credit a link he had recently cited, Darren Barefoot wondered whether it had been worth the trouble: Generally, I just choose the site closest to the source, and credit them. That probably doesn't make sense, as I should be crediting the source where I found them. Or is it important to show the entire 'chain of evidence'? Ultimately, who really cares? [Darren Barefoot: The (boring) problem of attribution] I think that it is worth the trouble, and that publishing platorms and blogging tools ought to conspire to help automate the tedious chore. The reason usually given is that the original source deserves credit, and that it's unfair to redirect that credit. That's true, but there's a deep systemic principle at work here too. Canonical URLs create powerful network effects that we dilute at our peril. ... [Jon's Radio] -- "network effects" are "the disruptive technology" -- similar to meme wild fires --BL 9:36:44 AM      Google It!.

Virus-free, spam-free, secure email a step closer. Holy Grail spotted in Leeds... [The Register] for organizations and adhoc groups this p2p technology may be a reasonable "private line" solution with some similarities to groove and gush but limited to email. 9:31:36 AM      Google It!.

Blogs, Learning Objects, and Other Cool Stuff. As promised, today's OLDaily comes to you live from Uluru - see here for a picture - and I lead it off with slides used for my talk at Alice Springs (and broadcast to nine other learning centers throughout the Australian Outback) this morning. I know it's a bit early for the Monday OLDaily but there's no reason to wait - no guarantees on when Tuesday's will be, though, as I am back in Alice Springs for a chat tomorrow, then off to Adelaide tomorrow evening for meetings Wednesday. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, September 27, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:07:57 AM      Google It!.

Adam Curry will lead a BloggerCon discussion on Podcasting. [Scripting News] 9:04:16 AM      Google It!.

New at ERIC. ERIC, the OA database for the field of education, has announced the resumption of its content-acquisition program, its new content-selection criteria, and its new ability to accept electronic submission of conference papers. [Open Access News] 9:00:47 AM      Google It!.

Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard? [Slashdot:] 8:59:54 AM      Google It!.

AT&T Wireless ships mobile IM gadget. Email, SMS, IM - no voice [The Register] 8:58:35 AM      Google It!.

Creative Commons needs wider exposure among academics. Andrea Foster, Alternative License for the Arts Fails to Catch On in Academe, Chronicle of Higher Education [Open Access News] 8:52:43 AM      Google It!.