Thursday, August 25, 2005

New Software Makes Podcasts Mobile . LOS ANGELES -- A California company is hoping to tap into the growing podcasting craze with software that enables mobile phone users to stream audio files directly from their home computer. By The Associated Press. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews] Download Pod2Mob Beta here (confirmed service on SprintPCS and Cingular only) 10:44:54 AM

New Open-Source WebConferencing Platform: It Doesn't Wow But It Works!. Today I have some spent some time testing WebHuddle, a passionately homegrown open-source web conferencing and live presentation system available right now online. The brainchild of John McCaughey (of whom I publish a genuine conversation with me as I first...... [Online Collaboration :: Robin Good's Latest News] 10:42:54 AM

Another view: Jeff Jarvis on Conversation is the Kingdom. "In our media 2.0, web 2.0, post-media, post-scarcity, small-is-the-new-big, open-source, gift-economy world of the empowered and connected individual, the value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is in relationships. The value is in trust. " Will R. at Weblogg-ed News comments: "Schools used to own the content they delivered, but no longer. There is better content, in most cases, to be found on the Web than in standard texts. There are richer databases of information, more knowledgable experts, and more diverse sources of uniquely pertinent material that we can draw upon now. And that renders the one-textbook-for-all approach basically irrelevant. While these resources may at first blush appear more unwieldly and complex than those comfortable, traditional texts, we do our students a disservice by not tapping into their diversity and timeliness. We need to create our own texts, because we can. Our students need to help us, because they can. We need to ask relevant, diverse, living sources to participate, because they can. This is a totally changed world we're entering, and we need to begin serious conversations at our schools as to what those changes mean and what strategies we can use to take advantage of them." [Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom] 10:37:38 AM

The cell phone: One Device to Rule Them All. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. [Wired News] 10:25:35 AM

Copyright 101- Richard Lanham, Academic Commons.  [Online Learning Update] 10:19:02 AM

How To: Use the Moodle Course Management System - Jeffrey Branzburg, techLearning.  [Online Learning Update] 10:18:37 AM

Yahoo Redesigns E-Commerce Solution Checkout. Just in time for the looming holiday season, Yahoo has launched a beta of the redesigned checkout process for its e-commerce platform for merchants, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, Internet Retailer... [MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing] 10:14:15 AM

Advertisers Poised to Pounce on Google Talk. Google Talk, released yesterday, isn't yet ad-supported - but if it were to become so, marketers are saying they would jump at the opportunity, just as they have with other instant messaging... [MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing] 10:13:53 AM

Diana Oblinger: Simple, short podcast from Diana Oblinger: "Students may be unafraid of technology, but the don't necessarily understand it". [elearnspace] 10:12:09 AM

Stephen Downes: Online learning and Web 2.0. Podcast of June 2005 presentation. File is too big for dialup download, unless you can tie your system up for hours and hours, and the quality of the audio is said to be pretty sketchy in places. But some key ideas are presented about where online learning is headed. [The EdTech Posse] 10:09:22 AM

More Tools: Google Gets Better. What's Up With That?. Google announced a new version of Google Desktop Search and a free instant-messaging program, called Google Talk. How good are they? [NYT > Technology] 10:02:00 AM

Rok Hrastnik: According to the latest research from Nielsen/NetRatings, only 11% of blog readers are using RSS for content consumption, with nearly 5% of those using desktop aggregators and more than 6% using web-services such as MyYahoo! RSS is the way for marketers to go today, if they want to be ready for tomorrow, and at the same time leverage the existing RSS user-base, which is measured between 2% and 12% of the US online population. Direct and Related Links for 'Only 11% of Blog Readers Use RSS According to Nielsen/NetRatings' By rss_feedback@lockergnome.com. [Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips] 9:58:31 AM

Rok Hrastnik: Use RSS to capture data and registered users, but do it the right way to generate maximum impact from your feeds. Direct and Related Links for 'Requesting Registration to Grant Access to RSS Feeds - How AdAge Went Wrong' By rss_feedback@lockergnome.com. [Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips] 9:55:13 AM

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