Thursday, March 10, 2005

TDA (Tactile Digital Assistant) the new PDA? [Slashdot:] 7:48:16 AM      Google It!.

WikiTextbook. Ian Grove-Stephensen of Chalkface sent me this link to WikiTextbook, a natural evolution of the wiki concept, this time to produce textbooks. According to the site, "we are currently working on 167 articles." Ian writes, "Steve's twist is that he encourages his pupils - and by extension all pupils - to write their own textbook. He's gambling that the peer review principle will keep it accurate and relevant even when used by the most difficult age-group possible." Chalkface is providing server space and bandwidth for WikiTextbook - kudos. By Steve Margetts, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 7:36:17 AM      Google It!.

The Online Universities Weblog. This is getting annoying in a hurry. I use PubSub to find content from a wide range of blogs; I subscribe to PubSub's custom RSS feeds in Bloglines. The Online Universities Weblog publishes an RSS feed which shows up in my PubSub subscription. So far so good. Now Online Universities has recently started running advertisements in their RSS feed. OK, a little annoying. But the ads change slightly each time the feed is published - not the ad itself, but the precise URL that the ad points to. PubSub regards this as new content, with the result that the same item appears over and over in my PubSub feed. Now this is becoming really annoying. I can't filter specific sites in PubSub or Bloglines yet - but when I can, Online Universities is at the top of my list. By Various Authors, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 7:35:19 AM      Google It!.

Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives [Slashdot:] 7:32:19 AM      Google It!.

Changing the Game, PlayStation Goes Mobile. Sony is about to enter the American arena in hand-held gaming with its PlayStation Portable, a machine that can also play full-length films, home videos, photos and music. Will it score with new audiences? By By MICHEL MARRIOTT. [NYT > Technology] 7:30:02 AM      Google It!.

PloneArticle 3.1 released. PloneArticle is a full-featured Archetypes-based content type, providing images, attachments and links support, customizable models, etc. [Plone RSS] 7:19:10 AM      Google It!.

ADL Co-Lab presentation on implementing SCORM [Edubloggers Links Feed] 7:14:11 AM      Google It!.

ADL CO-Lab paper "What Users Expect from Repositories". Colin Holden's summary of ADL Co-Lab's repository meetings and summaries; good place to refer to in terms of justifying certain feature expectations of repositories, based on survey results (though pretty much only 'experts' answered) [Edubloggers Links Feed] 7:13:11 AM      Google It!.

A Gullible Clearinghouse and the Art of Signage. Gullible.info, a site devoted to what is absolutely and completely false; a Web animator brings life to her friend’s childhood diary; an artist’s site takes corporate logos out of their environment. By By LISA NAPOLI. [NYT > Technology] 7:11:25 AM      Google It!.

Stem Cells Cultivated Free of Animal Contaminants [Slashdot:] 7:09:36 AM      Google It!.

CherryOS Re-Released, Still Fishy. Maui X-Stream delivers the CherryOS emulator, which allows Windows computers to run Mac OS X. But despite promises to clear up accusations of plagiarism, the software still smells like a rip-off. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] 7:03:50 AM      Google It!.

Preventing Professorial Plagiarism: How an Online University Uses Technology to Prevent Faculty Plagiarism, Ensure Academic Rigor - Business Wire. The people who have condemned widespread student plagiarism are being found to be guilty of the same crime. Pervasive student plagiarism used to be the dirty little secret in higher education, but the plague of plagiarism by professors is the dirtier secr [Online Learning Update] 7:00:41 AM      Google It!.

Google Adds News Personalization [Slashdot:] 6:56:58 AM      Google It!.