Wednesday, November 30, 2005

eLearning platform Blackboard's WebCT Deal Spurs Antitrust Questioning - Terence O'Hara, Washington Post Staff Writer. A deal by educational software company Blackboard Inc. to buy its chief competitor has raised questions from antitrust experts at the Justice Department. District-based Blackboard and the competitor, privately owned WebCT Inc., each has received two reque [Online Learning Update] 6:47:49 PM    comment

search podcasts Podcast Chaos Be Gone. The anarchic state of audio on the internet is about to become more organized. A handful of new technologies scan entire podcasts for specific words. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News] this will be disruptive big-time because now the oral traditions and the spoken word can be found and used much more easily.  Some of the obvious applications are digital meeting notes that are searchable and verifiable -- your really said that? Combine this with VoIP telephony and integrated information searching takes on new dimensions and conference calls may even become managable in real time with additional processing. 6:28:03 PM    comment