Friday, July 09, 2004

Americans Read Fewer Books [Slashdot] 10:07:51 PM      Google It!.

Build Your Own Bluetooth Hearing Aid [Slashdot] 10:05:19 PM      Google It!.

Tim Jarrett explains Microsoft's latest use of RSS and OPML. It's really deep, and really appreciated. I never thought I'd see the day when such a big company adopts community-developed technology, without screwing with it some way. And that Microsoft would be the one, well, that's incredible, but true. These guys are exceeding all expectations. Bravo! [Scripting News] 2:35:45 PM      Google It!.

Toshiba bows out of PocketPC arena?. Reports stack up [The Register] 1:12:37 PM      Google It!.

Public Project page for BCcampus LOR project. http://www.bccampus.ca/Page95.aspx Well, hopefully better late then never, a public presence for the BCcampus/Open School BC LOR project I'm working on. There's not tons of content, but you can see some of our high-level requirements and the results of our product evaluations. I've also included the feed from the Apollo-Dev blog using Alan's handy-dandy Feed2JS script so that people not in the RSS/blog 'know' can still keep track of developments in Apollo (note the page I'm posting on here shouldn't be confused with an official Apollo site, which will probably happen sometime in the future.) - SWL [EdTechPost] 7:25:01 AM      Google It!.

New Google Groups in Beta [Slashdot] development to watch out for -- BL 7:23:55 AM      .

WSJ Mentions Newsreaders. Blogs Help You Cope With Data Overload -- If You Manage Them "To help juggle all those blogs, I've started playing around with a relatively new phenomenon called a newsreader. Rather than forcing you to jump from one blog to another to keep up with new entries, newsreaders bring together the latest postings from your favorite blogs in a single place." [Wall Street Journal (free article)] A throwaway article about RSS and aggregators that focuses entirely on blogs and doesn't once mention the fact that there are some big time news sites that offer feeds. Hmmm... I wonder why they would ignore such an important fact? Could it be because the WSJ has yet to embrace RSS and offer feeds of its own?.... [The Shifted Librarian] 7:20:42 AM      Google It!.

Winwood: Roll With P2P, Baby. Grammy-winning rocker Steve Winwood took an unusual step to promote his latest album when he voluntarily released a song over peer-to-peer networks. So far, the experiment has enhanced record sales. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] 7:17:05 AM      Google It!.

Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism - Neil C. Rowe, JDLA. Abstract: Online student assessment features in many distance-learning programs. The prevention of plagiarism has been the subject of much attention, but insufficient attention has been given to other problems of dishonesty in online assessment. We sur [Online Learning Update] 7:15:30 AM      Google It!.