Thursday, January 06, 2005

Plone Gazette 1.0 final. PloneGazette 1.0 final is now released [Plone RSS] 9:44:33 PM      Google It!.

CalendarX-0.4.10(stable) released. New stable release of CalendarX provides easy configuration for restricting content and decorating your calendar. [Plone RSS] 9:43:31 PM      Google It!.

Gigabit Transfer Rates Over Power Lines? [Slashdot:] 9:42:33 PM      Google It!.

Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon [Slashdot:] 5:46:33 PM      Google It!.

Sims 2 Hacks Spread Like Viruses [Slashdot:] 5:45:15 PM      Google It!.

Learning Sciences and Brain Research. The site is still pretty new (I could not resist joining the 'Brain Club' despite the details not yet being available) and the forum only has thirty or so message in it, but this initiative, sponsored by the OECD, looks like it has potential. Or it might be one of those community sites that forever remains a hollow shell. No RSS; tsk. Via European Schoolnet. By Various Authors, January 6, 2005 4:48 p.m. [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 5:43:28 PM      Google It!.

Predictions For 2005. Predictions for the new year, with a lot of emphasis on alternatives to courses (Elliott Masie: "More learners are grazing content to select just those modules that they need RIGHT NOW!") and to course management systems (Michael Feldstein: "The three major commercial vendors of Course Management Systems (Blackboard, WebCT, and Angel) will begin to make visibly defensive moves in response to the growing threat from open-source alternatives."). My own predictions ("Consolidation and culture wars") are also included. By Lisa Neal, eLearn Magazine, January 6, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 5:42:03 PM      Google It!.

Dog Epilepsy Gene Discovery Could Aid People-Study. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gene that causes a rare but severe form of epilepsy in people is also found in highly bred dogs, which could lead to new ways to treat the condition, an international team of researchers said on Thursday. [Reuters: Science] 5:40:33 PM      Google It!.

First Peek at Robosapien V2 [Slashdot:] not quite ready to shovel snow unfortunately -- BL 5:39:42 PM      Google It!.

Press release: "WNYC Radio today announced that NPR's On the Media, which WNYC produces, is now available for podcasting. This is the first National Public Radio program to take advantage of this new technology." [Scripting News] not for profit instittutions will find that this is a very powerful technology for spreading the work about their good works.  -- BL 5:36:05 PM      Google It!.

Ham Operator Sets New Miles-Per-Watt World Record [Slashdot:] 9:56:50 AM      Google It!.

With Cameras on the Corner, Your Ticket Is in the Mail. Sensors and cameras are used in many cities to catch drivers who run red lights. But several studies show the presence of cameras may cause more accidents, not fewer. By By JONATHAN MILLER. [NYT > Technology] 9:49:26 AM      Google It!.

Last Manufacturer of Pro Analog Audio Tape Closes [Slashdot:] 9:48:30 AM      Google It!.

Space Robot Maker MDA Nets Hubble Repair Deal. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said on Wednesday it has signed a $154 million deal to help NASA's controversial repair mission to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope. [Reuters: Science] 9:47:16 AM      Google It!.

Sirius Radio Will Offer Satellite Television Service for Cars. Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. said that it planned to offer a satellite TV service for cars, in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation. By By BLOOMBERG NEWS. [NYT > Technology] 9:46:04 AM      Google It!.

Tags on Speed: 43 Things. Thanks to a tip from Alex I tuned into the now released version of 43 Things, which is addictive, intensive connected, and tagged inside out. I had peeked at the beta a few weeks back, but the released version is wild, social, and amazing. It is tags, tags, and tags on speed. The premise is that you build goals for yourself, 43 Things to do in your life, and it connects you to people who have the same goal, or who have accomplished it (these are things done, that the accomplished can rate as well as write a blog like entry to describe). You can add them as free form entry, by browsing other people's goals by category and saying, "this is my goal too", and by keyword searching. You can invite people to do the goal with you. Okay, mine are not earth shattering and was more or less just playing and I may be the only one for a while with this goal. They have certainly done their homework, taking cues from flickr and del.icio.us, and doing things like building in a function to publish to carious blog tools via their APIs, and providing RSS feeds. So yes, it might be a personal development tools, it might be a unique way to study social behavior, it might be a place to create a persona, well, time will tell what it will be. And wow, I have 32 more things to drum up..... [cogdogblog] 9:44:36 AM      Google It!.

Iron Pumping Iron. Motors whine, barbells groan and gearheads sweat in the battle to become the robo-powerlifting champion of the world. By Brad Stone from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 9:39:50 AM      Google It!.

Prodigem Hosting Service [Edubloggers Links Feed] This type of service has considerable potential as an institutional education model for idstribution of media intensive learning materials outside of the browser viewer model for time-shfted usability. -- BL 9:36:44 AM      Google It!.

LegalTorrents - Your source for legal BitTorrent files [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:32:20 AM      Google It!.

Mobdex - Content for Mobiles [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:29:37 AM      Google It!.

Complete Digital Photography [Edubloggers Links Feed] good resource 9:27:59 AM      Google It!.

Year of the enterprise Wiki. Ward Cunningham created the first Wiki site in 1995 to collaborate with a band of like-minded programmers on the elucidation of common software patterns. That work continues today at Microsoft, where he works in the patterns and practices group. Meanwhile, the Wiki concept -- a Web site that every reader can also write and edit --has flourished beyond all expectations. Flexible, direct, lightweight, and requiring only a Web browser to use, Wikis suit a wide range of applications. There are Wiki implementations for a dozen programming languages and content management systems. Wikipedia, the collaborative encyclopedia project that began in 2001, reached critical mass in 2004. Wikipedia milestones this year included the millionth article, the 30,000th contributor, and an explosion of press coverage. ... As the Wiki phenomenon enters its second decade, it's hard to predict just how the technology will evolve. Two things seem certain: Wiki culture will continue to thrive, and enterprise users will continue to seek lighter, easier collaboration tools. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 9:24:16 AM      Google It!.