Sunday, January 29, 2006

learning University of Nebraska Lincoln prof puts the 'p' in podcasting - MATTHEW HANSEN, Lincoln Journal Star. It’s called podcasting, class, and it may mean you never, ever have to take notes again. Psychology Professor Calvin Garbin is one of the first instructors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to take the college student’s latest favorite gadget, the iPo [Online Learning Update] 11:31:56 PM    comment

honesty Brain Scans to Identify Liars?. [Slashdot] 11:29:59 PM    comment

AI therapy For Sony's Robotic Aibo, It's the Last Year of the Dog. The Aibo Entertainment Robot from Sony, a doglike machine, which walks, barks and recognizes speech, is being put to sleep, the company said. By ERIC A. TAUB. [NYT > Technology] 11:28:11 PM    comment

blog tech Semantic Blogging. I remember reading a report about a proposed RDF-enabled blogging platform; it was a project from the Semantic Web group at HP Labs Bristol. It looks like they built it - see it's called Semantic Blogging. I think the goal here is the same as that of Structured Blogging, although they've approached it from a different direction. Both projects have built publishing tools, but the StrB (which I can't just abbreviate to SB any more!) plugins focus on being able to publish as many different types of data as possible, and making it machine readable, whereas the SemB tool tries to do as much as possible with one microcontent type. This makes the StrB plugins rather more useful to users... while the SemB tool is a nice vision of the future. I guess now we have to fold those features into StrB and all will be well :-) Comment [Second p0st] 8:34:07 AM    comment