Wednesday, February 02, 2005

RadioShark for Windows and Mac OS X [Slashdot:] 9:51:53 AM      Google It!.

Skype For Mac OS X and Linux [Slashdot:] 9:50:50 AM      Google It!.

DSpace Filling the Vacuum?. Lisa Williams looks at a study of institutional content repositories. "An April 2004 survey of 45 IRs found the average number of documents to be only 1,250 per repository, with a median of 290. This is a small number when considering the hundreds of thousands of dollars and staff hours that go into establishing and maintaining an IR." Well, yeah, but where does the problem lie - in the design of the repository software, as Williams seems to suggest? Or in an institutional structure that always seems to turn a simple idea into an expensive project? By Lisa Williams, Auricle, January 28, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:49:36 AM      Google It!.

DARPA Contracts For AI Technology [Slashdot:] learning by reading - grand challenge 9:47:06 AM      Google It!.

Stranger Makes Grand Impression. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath puts a bizarre and humorous spin on action-shooter gameplay, and looks great doing it. Game review by Chris Kohler. [Wired News] 9:45:25 AM      Google It!.

Google Defies Its Warning, Growing Briskly. Google, the Internet search company, surprised Wall Street by announcing that its sales and profit margins grew much faster than expected in the fourth quarter. By By SAUL HANSELL. [NYT > Technology] 9:41:29 AM      Google It!.

Today's freshmen pursue 'safe and tried path' to success | csmonitor.com. If you haven't been to a college campus lately, here's a quick primer on the current freshman class: • 26 percent frequently talk about politics. • 48 percent had 'A' averages in high school.• 33 percent say the death penalty should be abolished. • 23 percent say racial discrimination is no longer a problem in America (though at historically black colleges, that figure drops to 14 percent). • 51 percent spent less than an hour per week reading for pleasure in their senior year of high school [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:40:14 AM      Google It!.

4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X [Slashdot:] 9:38:22 AM      Google It!.

Plone Foundation 014 plone.org. governanace model [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:37:42 AM      Google It!.

UBCWiki: SharingContentWebCT [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:36:41 AM      Google It!.

LSB to Provide Standards as Optional Modules [Slashdot:] 9:33:07 AM      Google It!.

Database Fights Diploma Mills. The Department of Education launches an online database of accredited schools to help fight dodgy online institutions. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] 9:27:14 AM      Google It!.

Backroom Tussling Over Biodiesel. Grass-roots environmentalists and soybean farmers agree that biodiesel is the next big thing in auto fuels. What they don't agree on is how to make it happen. Mark Baard reports from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [Wired News] 9:26:26 AM      Google It!.