Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Robots in Medicine [Slashdot:] 11:13:36 PM      Google It!.

oishii. David Wiley created a nifty little tool over the holidays, a script that grabs popular links in del.icio.us and wraps them in an RSS feed. Written in Python, which (thanks to my holiday project) I can now read. A couple of things: first, from what I can see, del.icio.us (and therefore oishii, even more so) are what might be called 'echos' - they don't capture a resource when it first comes out, but rather, later in life, when it has become popular. Second, aggregator spamming has clearly hit del.icio.us (and therefore oishii). Blogdex has been rendered almost useless by Lycos pollution, and oishii (right now) is displaying some spam links. This is why I say, selective harvesting has a brighter future than global harvesting. By David Wiley, January 4, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:10:19 PM      Google It!.

Setting Up Shop - The Business of Open-Source Software. article by Fred Hecker on turning your company's product into open source [Edubloggers Links Feed] 11:06:50 PM      Google It!.

IDC Proclaims Linux Is Now Mainstream [Slashdot:] 9:53:37 AM      Google It!.

Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp [Slashdot:] cool utilities -- BL 8:54:35 AM      Google It!.

New Pew Report on Blogging Released (Many 2 Many). By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere: 8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online; and 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. Still, 62% of internet users do not know what a blog is. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:49:58 AM      Google It!.

Enthusiast Hacks WiFi Into Treo 650 [Slashdot:] 8:46:51 AM      Google It!.

SBC Builds A TiVo Rival [Slashdot:] 8:44:27 AM      Google It!.

Assessing Discussion Forum Participation: In Search of Quality - Stephen Corich, Kinshuk, and Lynn.M.Hunt; ITDL. The flexibility that e-learning offers and the growing maturity of e-learning management systems has lead to a rapid growth in the acceptance of e-learning as a method of delivering educational and vocational training. The use of computer-mediated com [Online Learning Update] 8:40:39 AM      Google It!.

Educational Podcasting [Edubloggers Links Feed] a good starting point -- BL 8:39:43 AM      Google It!.

cogdogblog: Some ePortfolios Blossoming [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:37:25 AM      Google It!.

cogdogblog: 3 Bookmark Tools in One [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:36:53 AM      Google It!.

Noteworthy Examples of Emerging Technologies in the Classroom [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:34:48 AM      Google It!.

Phones, Cameras & Games in the Classroom [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:33:12 AM      Google It!.

Moving Into Digital Storytelling [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:31:51 AM      Google It!.

Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr [Slashdot:] 8:27:54 AM      Google It!.

Blog reading up 58% in U.S. [Slashdot:] 8:26:33 AM      Google It!.

Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims [Slashdot:] 8:25:57 AM      Google It!.

Parkinson's damage repaired. Monkey stem cells can repair the brain damage caused by Parkinson's disease, researchers have shown. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 8:23:52 AM      Google It!.