Friday, February 06, 2004

A Filter for Your In-Box Sets Passwords for Friends. Spam-fighting experts have long advised having multiple e-mail accounts: one for personal correspondence and at least one for activities like online shopping that can be abandoned when junk e-mail starts piling up. But this is likely to become unnecessary with ZoEmail, a new Web-based e-mail service that incorporates patented technology from AT&T Labs to block unsolicited mail from your in-box. By J. D. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology] 8:57:55 AM      Google It!.

Wolfram's New Kind of Science Now Online [Slashdot] free 8:50:29 AM      Google It!.

Half a billion mobile phones. The Register reports that 2003 was a record year for mobile phone handsets: "[According to IDC], 533.4 million handsets shipped in 2003, up 23.3 per cent on the 432.7 million that shipped in 2002. Fellow researcher Strategy Analytics put the cumulative 2003 total at 516 million, beating the record set in 2000, when 435 million handsets were shipped." It's hard to comprehend that number. Imagine if every man, woman, and child in America bought two cellphones last year! Or to put it another way, there were half as many mobile phones sold last year as there were wireline subscribers in the world. [Werblog] 8:36:18 AM      Google It!.

Blogging is Alive and Well at Maricopa. Interesting sampling of instructional weblogs in use at Maricopa. JH ____We Got Blogs - Maricopa Faculty Demos Friday.   On its own, blogging is nicely permeating among some of our faculty. At this Friday's Ocotillo Online Learning Group meeting, we have 4 demos of different ways weblogs are currently in use at Maricopa. A brief preview for those who cannot be at Phoenix College Friday...[cogdogblog] [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online] 8:34:48 AM      Google It!.

Strong latte and an e-course to go, thanks - Eric Wilson, SMH Australia. Virtual laboratories, cheaper exam fees, e-learning cafes and customised gap training - these are the innovations two of the nation's largest IT trainers will use to keep people churning through their turnstiles. Although John Rogers, Spherion's direct [Online Learning Update] 8:33:02 AM      Google It!.

Should Online Course Design Meet Accessibility Standards? - Peter Paolucci, Educational Technology & Society. Pre-Discussion Paper Slip-Slidin' Away: The Importance of Standards and the Absence of a Definitive Standard For quite some time now, the Internet and its content have been developing in a haphazard way. This is not inherently a bad thing and perhaps i [Online Learning Update] 8:31:14 AM      Google It!.

Test Prep on Your PDA. Handmark® and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Sign Long Term Publishing Agreement "Handmark®, the # 1 publisher of software for both Palm OS® and Windows Mobile™ platforms for handheld devices, has signed a long term publishing agreement with Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, the world leader in test prep and a division of global educational services provider Kaplan, Inc. Handmark will publish a variety of test preparation and admissions testing titles sold through online distribution and in retail packages. The comprehensive agreement covers test prep titles such at ACT, SAT/PSAT, GRE, and others for Palm OS based devices as well as for Windows Mobile for Pocket PC and Smartphone platforms. The first titles, based on Kaplan ACT and SAT test preparation materials, will be available for back-to-school shopping in the summer of 2004...." [Handmark, via Daily Palm] I wonder if libraries will be able to circulate these titles. [The Shifted Librarian] 8:23:21 AM      Google It!.

InternetNews: Is Ad-Supported RSS the Next Big Thing? [Scripting News] inserting ads into RSS feeds will provide a push to the development of intelligent filters to strip the ads back out and use up more of those extra cycles.  In the interim the pending invasion of RSS spam will compromise the beauty of blogs. __ BL 8:20:15 AM      Google It!.