Friday, November 19, 2004

<a href="http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000600.html">RSS Feeds for Educause Resource Centre</a>. <p><a href="http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=11">http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=11<;/a></p> <p>A few people have noted of late that Educause is sporting <a href="http://www.educause.edu/blog/1511">some blogs</a>, but news to me was their browseable collection of resources. Of particular interest was the fact that each sub-node in their subject taxonomy had its own RSS feed, making it simple to keep track of new Educause-related resources on 'open source' (feed <a href="http://www.educause.edu/search/rss.asp?Term_ID=511&amp;Title=Open+Source">here</a>) or 'course management systems,' (feed <a href="http://www.educause.edu/search/rss.asp?Term_ID=493&amp;Title=CMS+%28Course+Management+Systems%29">here</a>) for instance. Not like any of us need any more information sources at this point, but at least it's RSS.- <i>SWL</i></p> [<a href="http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/">EdTechPost</a>] 6:53:25 PM      Google It!.

Former AOLers Bet on Private P2P App [Slashdot:] 6:46:02 PM      Google It!.

Tasty del.icio.us feeds with PHP. Via open artifact cam this link to MovableBlog's Integrating del.icio.us with PHP and Magpie describing a way to embed the output of your del.icio.us links in a web page. As always, there are many paths to the same destination. As frequent readers know, this can be achieved via the JavaScript approach using our Feed2JS service or standalone code. Of course there is a round trip delay for this as a PHP script must be called which then fetches a fresh feed from the source (or loads a cached one). Or maybe JavaScript is just too clumsy for your tastes, If you are on a PHP capable server, you can install Magie (which you need to do with the approach described via MovableBlog), but if you also use our PHP version of Feed2JS you can achieve the same effect. The advantage of our approach over the one described above is that it can be repeated quite easily just by creating new shorter series of include statements. For example, below I will use it with my del.ici.ous RSS feed, but 3 weeks ago I used a different set of parameters to the same code. Feed, Rinse, Repeat. [cogdogblog] 1:55:54 PM      Google It!.

RESTful Flash plus Flex history. After Kevin Lynch was gang tackled for failing to integrate his Flash deep-linking example with the browser's history navigation (Back/Forward), I recalled that Flex includes a history manager that's intended to support just that kind of integration. Manish Jethani, a Macromedia developer, has created another example that shows how Kevin's technique can be combined with the Flex history manager. (Manish's source code has now been incorporated into Kevin's downloadable archive.) I tried the new example using Flex 1.0 and, although Manish tells me there were no changes in history management between 1.0 and the new version, 1.5, I'm not having much luck getting it to work. I'm quite curious to see this in action, so I'm upgrading to Flex 1.5 as we speak, but if someone can point to a live instance of Manish's example running on a Flex 1.5 server I'm sure a number of folks would be interested to see it. ... [Jon's Radio] 11:28:41 AM      Google It!.

College on Demand is new Washtenaw Community College venture - JANET MILLER, Ann Arbor News. WCC is going global. A new program called College on Demand combines the convenience and flexibility of distance learning with the personal touch of a classroom instructor. It's open not only to Washtenaw County students but to students around the coun [Online Learning Update] 9:41:26 AM      Google It!.

Will virtual lectures vacate classrooms? - Corey Murray, eSchool News. Pay a visit to any lecture hall on just about any college campus nationwide; chances are you'll notice a few empty chairs. Two years ago, most professors would simply have chalked these absences up to illness or, perhaps, just plain sloth. But, accordi [Online Learning Update] 9:40:17 AM      Google It!.

Taipei to Cloak City in World's Largest Wi-Fi Grid [Slashdot:] 9:30:18 AM      Google It!.