Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Excellent article on the fallacious reasoning of the RIAA: http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/ 9:19:27 PM  comment []  Trackback []     P2P group: We'll pay girl's RIAA bill. A Grokster-backed peer-to-peer trade group has offered to cover costs for a 12-year-old girl who agreed to pay record labels $2,000 to settle a file-swapping suit. [CNET News.com] 8:23:17 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Blogging across the curriculum. Weblogs are increasingly being used in education by researchers, teachers, and students. Professors are keeping research blogs, requiring students to blog, or creating course weblogs. Students are keeping course blogs or personal blogs. Scholars are studying and writing about the weblog phenomenon while keeping weblogs about weblogs. The list is growing quickly. Here is a smattering of what is going on in and around Academia. Sebastian Fiedler" height="20" width="20" border="0" /> This is a new (at least to me) resource site on the use of Weblogs in teaching. The author, Pattie Belle Hastings is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Interactive Digital Design Department at Quinnipiac University. Besides general resources Pattie also shares information regarding her practical use of Weblogs with her students. [Sebastian Fiedler] [Seblogging News] [Handheld Instructional Technology] 8:21:36 PM  comment []  Trackback []     A message from God on 9-11. God spoke to me today. Her voice was stern and clipped, sounding very much like Ayn Rand [Blogcritics] 8:19:35 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Ditch these RIAA  guys...stop buying things from them, fight them in every way possible; they are dinosaurs and should be extinct... An Offer You Can Refuse - The RIAA's amnesty deal may n... [Popdex - the website popularity index] 8:16:27 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Watch what Joy does next. His classic essay, reproduced in the link, is a cautionary tale for even the most enthusiastic outside the box thinker. Perhaps particularly for us... Bill Joy: Why the future doesn't need us. [Scripting News] 8:06:39 PM  comment []  Trackback []     An interesting parallel between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor... Two Years On, A Weary Nation Takes Stock. Sunday, December 5, 1943 NEW YORK (Routers) Concerned about inflaming passions that might further widen the war unnecessarily and result... [Transterrestrial Musings] 8:00:14 PM  comment []  Trackback []     ~~~~~~~~~BORN IN THE USAAs I drove slowly up the m .... ~~~~~~~~~ BORN IN THE USA As I drove slowly up the mountain road last night with the car windows open to the late summer air, screaming harmoniously to BORN IN THE USA over and over, the towering crystal chords and pounding drums of Bruce's jewel blasting top-cranked out of the speakers into the always receptive mountain night as Bruce and I rose through lower darkness toward the greater dark of the looming mountains, I suddenly re-realized, as I screamed out BORN IN THE USA one more time with such feeling, that yes indeed, I had been: BORN IN THE USA. "Born down in a dead man's town..." And yes, Bruce's mood in that throat-clenching anthem to the Vietnam era put me so much in mind of my own mood when I'd left the States way back then, gave it all up, left it all behind, went open-eyed off into the world to do something other than what all my friends and acquaintances, colleagues and fellow alumni were doing: becoming parents, lawyers, junkies, brokers, bureaucrats, diplomats, soldiers, movie moguls, theater directors, artists... and here I was dropping it all like an old uniform, dropping it cold and going off into the whole world forever, wearing my own clothes. Back then when I'd been only physically young, living like a Roman candle, with time itself often too confining, I'd left not just for the wander-yearning I was feeling, but for my growing unease at the tightening strictures of America, with the war ongoing and crooks in office and violence growing day by day in a pushy atmosphere and often venomous reactions to simply different strokes... "Till you spend half your life just a-coverin' up, now..." "Down in the shadow of the penitentiary... out by the gas fires of the refinery..." BORN IN THE USA: and so off I went, no turning back, to see what and where and when else there was in the world, "They're still there, he's all gone..." to find perhaps one day a treasure I hoped existed. To my years-later amazement, it turned out that I was the only one of my crowd who did leave the homeland. As a result of that rash and necessarily baseless decision I had seen and lived and felt the other side of many of the things Bruce and I were screaming about right now as we rose along a Japanese mountain named after a Buddhist paradise, on a road metaphoring life and its up-ahead paradises that are in fact here and now as we turn and turn through what appears to be darkness, upward toward the light; I was going home. But home wasn't in the USA: it was here, on the other side of the world. "I'm a long-gone daddy in the USA, now..." As a result of my travels I've had the treasure of many homes and families, all over this one great home we've all got to learn to share, no matter where we were born. [Pure Land Mountain] 7:09:23 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Ah, a kindred spirit, this Jane Haddam...well, except for the part about Bush being smart and Reagan being necessary...but you can't agree fully with everyone. Scintillating mind. Gifts in my aggregator. One of the fundamental pleasures of blogging and of having an eclectic subscriptions list is that someone out there is going to point you toward something you would never find on your own that you enjoy immensely. The following comes from Richard Gayle's weblog and fits that aspect of blogging perfectly. My mother sent me a link to some interesting essays by author Jane Haddam. One has a great title Why I Don't Vote Republican which is actually a more mild and well thought-out essay than the title would suggest. Be sure and check out the sidebars: The God Thing, The Money Thing and The Stupid Thing. Her other recent essay, Jane's Rules of the Road, offers some very good points about online discussions. I enjoyed reading all of them. [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog] We live in a world that denigrates thinking. With blogs you can surround yourself with those who revel in it. It's a gift economy where the gifts are thoughts, ideas, and perspectives that can widen your horizons if you're willing to accept the gifts as they appear on the threshold of your aggregator. [McGee's Musings] 6:28:52 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Good article...when you meet a knowledge hoarder, remember this line from the piece below: "Those who feel compelled to hoard their knowledge do so because of the meagerness of their holdings, not because of their riches. Dolly Levi as the patron saint of the knowledge economy. Apropos of the gift economy of weblogs, here's a great little story courtesy of David Gurteen on courtesy among scholars. The scholar's courtesy. A few weeks back I met with a very interesting woman called [Shane Godbolt] who works for the National Heatth Service (NHS) in the UK. As she valued my website and newsletter - she brought me several 'knowledge gifts' in return as a 'thank you'. This is just what I love about Knowledge Sharing - you get back as mcuh as you give - if not more [] Amongst these gifts was a beautiful little story about the importance of acknowledging the sources of your ideas - regardless of whether they are in 'print' or not. I received an early lesson about acknowledging others from my mentor George Spindler. The Spindlers were houseguests visiting me after I took a full-time academic appointment upon completion of doctoral studies. I eagerly shared an early draft of a chapter I had been invited to write, tentatively entitled "Concomitant Learning". Spindler was up early the next morning, but to my disappointment I found him looking through materials he had written (my library contained many of them) rather than reading my new draft. He had already read and enjoyed my article, he explained, but he expressed disappointment at my failure to credit him as a source of inspiration for the concept that provided my title and rationale. He had been searching for the citation I should have made. "But you've never written about it ," I explained, reaffirming what I already knew and he was beginning to suspect. "I got the idea from you, but you only suggested it in a seminar. There was no publication to cite." Technically (and luckily ) I was correct, as his search revealed. That wasn't the entire lesson however. "No matter where or how you encounter them," he counseled, "always give credit for the sources of your ideas. It's so easy to do so : so appropriate to good scholarship ... and so appreciated." Never again have I limited my acknowledgements only to people whose ideas are in print. And I, too, have "so appreciated" that courtesy when extended to me! Harry F. Wolcott, Writing up qualitative research, 1990, pp.72-73). Quoted in Blaise Cronin, The scholars courtesy, the role of acknowledgement in the primary communication process. Taylor Graham 1995, p122. [Gurteen Knowledge-Log] Naïve though it may be, I continue to believe that knowledge hoarding and information hoarding are fundamentally pathological behaviors that have little chance of surviving in the face of healthy organizations. People who really know stuff are always willing and eager to share their interests and knowledge with others. Those who feel compelled to hoard their knowledge do so because of the meagerness of their holdings not because of their riches. Dolly Levi is the patron saint of the knowledge economy not Ebenezer Scrooge. [McGee's Musings] 6:25:39 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Chronicle Jobs in Your Aggregator. Chronicle of Higher Education "Via Paul Kedrosky: 'Even slow-moving academics get RSS. The Chronicle of Higher Education, the trade rag of the academic set, has gone RSS. They are making their ‘career’ pages available through the obligatory bright orange XML button.' " [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] Now if we could just get some keyword filtering going for this kind of feed.... [The Shifted Librarian] 6:19:20 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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