28 May 2003

Yet another Daily Irrelevant SINTEUR -- Yet another reason to subscribe to the Daily Irrelevant x_ref1256

Weblogs as transformational technology KHM de -- This paper focuses on three questions: How can the weblog format improve discourse? How can weblogs support teaching? What are the institutional benefits of weblogs in universities? Oliver Wrede: Weblogs as a transformational technology for higher education x_ref153

Site traffic bounces back after Google Dance GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- There's a 30% increase in site visits now that the May 2003 Google Dance has finished. For nearly two weeks, site traffic dropped as Google used a legacy database for queries. That drop-off was quite evident in daily global stats. Radio Community Stats: Ranking by Page-Reads x_ref119

Casual Capture Project HP -- Hewlett-Packard is working on a new consumer photography system that could casually capture terabytes of images from a person's daily life and store them in data centres, where they could later be retrieved for conventional printing. Matthew Broersma: Taking the shutterbug out of the picture HP Labs: translations in hand SmartMobs: The era of sentinent things Roland Piquepaille: HP's 'Casual Capture' Project x_ref1256