Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Hybrid CSS Dropdowns. Half the article deals with how to make nice standards compliant menus for your web page. The other half discusses how to make them work properly in Internet Explorer. In other words, a typical design experience. By Eric Shepherd, A List Apart, March 30, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:28:35 PM      Google It!.

Integrating Library Reserves and Course Management Systems: Aleph, RSS, and Sakai. This is pretty neat - a presentation describing the use of RSS to display library course reserves through CTools, the Sakai-based course management system (Sakai is an open source learning management system). Good discussion, along with results from a pilot project. What I like was the ease with which a short PHP script was able to set this up. Via Scott Leslie. By Susan Hollar and Ryan Max Steinberg, EDUCAUSE Midwest, March 21, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:27:32 PM      Google It!.

'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta [Slashdot:] opensource stored procedures, triggers, and views -- a backend with backbone and a space for intelligence -- BL 12:17:09 PM      Google It!.

Balch Internet Research and Analysis Toolkit. Charlie Balch has created a public domain, open source, online survey system called BIRAT. By Charlie Balch, March 29, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:22:09 AM      Google It!.

Social Life of Students. You can't say this too many times: "What we need to do is rethink our curriculum in terms of interaction, create a consistent, generic toolset that supports the needs of the students and instructors, and instill community practices from end-to-end in the curriculum." Why? Because "it takes more than one class/quarter/semester to start becoming a proficient denizen of the socially networked community." Via James Farmer. By Chris Lott, Ruminate, March 28, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:13:17 AM      Google It!.

Yahoo 360. Yahoo takes a big step toward the semantic social network with a service that blends social networking with blogs. Yahoo 360 is now available in beta. You can connect to your instant messenger, post your photos (unlimited storage, says the web page), display your LaunchCast radio, and more. I've set up a page on the service. Access is by invitation - but if you send me an email, I'll send you an invite (please allow me a few hours to do this). By Various Authors, Yahoo, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:10:39 AM      Google It!.

Third CETIS/LIFE Codebash Goes Public. A Codebash, much like an ADL plugfest, is an event where vendors and developers meet and see whether their products actually interoperate. "Anything from various flavours of content packages, IMS QTI question items, metadata records and (web) services such as SRW, RSS and Atom were posted on a dedicated site and tested." Many files, links, summaries and even pictures. By Wilbert Kraan, CETIS, March 29, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:08:03 AM      Google It!.

School Bans Blogs. Some days you think you're making progress. Others, less so. A high school principal "has banned access to Myspace.com, a blogging site. The reason? Well aside from legitimate concerns about kids publishing personal information, the prinicpal says blogging is not an educational use of computers." By Will Richardson, Weblogg-Ed, March 29, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:06:59 AM      Google It!.

Online, Anything and Everything Can Be a Museum Piece. The age of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, is over. The age of MoOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is upon us. By By SARAH BOXER. [NYT > Technology] 10:03:39 AM      Google It!.

Open Source Social Bookmarking Service [Slashdot:] 10:02:14 AM      Google It!.

Officials Tighten Rules to Limit School Transfers by Athletes. The Public Schools Athletic League said Tuesday that student athletes who transfer would not be allowed to play their team sport for the first year at their new school. By By SUSAN SAULNY. [NYT > Education] 9:49:12 AM      Google It!.

Freelancers Hit the Jackpot. Publishers agree to pay up to $18 million to settle a dispute over stories that found their way into online databases. By Rachel Metz. [Wired News] 9:47:05 AM      Google It!.

Bioterror Victims: Wait to Exhale. People's breath could provide early clues about whether they've been infected in a terrorism attack and might even let doctors identify individuals destined to become Typhoid Mary-style 'superspreaders.' By Randy Dotinga. [Wired News] 9:45:36 AM      Google It!.

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics Competition [Slashdot:] 9:36:13 AM      Google It!.

The architecture of intermediation. When Steve Mallett recently cloned del.icio.us to creat de.lirio.us, the predictable controversy ensued. Here's a capsule summary: Good! del.icio.us is closed-source, the world needs an open-source social bookmarking service. Bad! Geez, what a lame ripoff! Rather than taking sides in this debate -- which I can't do, because I sympathize with both positions while endorsing neither -- I'd like to try to broaden its scope. ... [Jon's Radio] 9:35:03 AM      Google It!.