India as outsourcing destination: Not a sure bet.

How far will India's tech juggernaut go?. Having already built a huge successful business on outsourced services, India now has ambitions of becoming an international powerhouse in all forms of technology. Will it become a signficant threat to other technology leaders, such as China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and even the United States? [CNET News.com]

9:53:53 AM    

Formative evaluation: Midcourse feedback procedure.

Implementing a Midcourse Feedback Procedure in the Online Learning Environment - Kelly Bruning, Instructional Technology and Distance Learning. Research indicates that formative evaluation tools serve as a justifiable assessment tool that allows for honest student feedback and an opportunity for the instructor to redirect the class based upon that feedback while also nurturing the learning. [Online Learning Update]

9:50:17 AM    

Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN).

Asnyncrhronous Learning Network (ALN) WebCenter.

"Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this research program aims to increase the quality, quantity, and dissemination of results of research on the effectiveness of Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN)" 
          

9:47:21 AM    

Incoming college students are already blogging.

Gnomedex Does "Blogs in the Classroom". [T]he even bigger news was that there was a presentation on "Blogs in the Classroom" as well! Kathy Gill at the University of Washington gave it, and she gave some surprising stats about the blog knowledge of her incoming students: 89% had sipped the blog juice in one form or another, but only 7% had even heard of Flickr. Sheesh.

[Weblogg-ed News]

9:45:09 AM    

WebEx Automatic Record Retention.

WebEx unveils compliance package.

At the collaborative Technologies Conference last week, WebEx Communications introduced a Web conferencing application designed to record and archive all meeting content in accordance with compliance requirements for financial services companies.

WebEx Automatic Record Retention records presentation content, audio, video, and chat logs automatically and creates searchable indexes of meeting data. In addition, the stored content is automatically transferred to a company’s off-site storage system.

9:42:04 AM    

Microsoft giving a major boost to syndication.

Brent Simmons: "Will Microsoft's support of RSS help make syndication more and more popular? Yes indeed, and that's a good thing." [Scripting News]

9:40:15 AM    

State sales taxes coming to e-commerce.

Days of Tax-Free Online Sales May Be Numbered. A recent court decision, along with other efforts by state tax collectors to focus on Internet sales, could signal that the era of tax-free online sales is nearing an end. By BOB TEDESCHI. [NYT > Technology]

9:37:23 AM    

More reaction to Microsoft RSS announcement.

Microsoft's RSS announcements continue getting reactions.

My comments are down again. Sorry.

The reaction to MS's RSS announcements continue to roil the Internet:

Marc Canter (the guy who started Macromedia): "Incredible things happened!"

Marc, I agree, but the credit doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the RSS team who coded this stuff. I hate it when other people get credit for the work I did late at night. This team has been busting their behinds to get this done. They rock in my book.

Steve Rubel is asking "what default RSS feeds will IE7 and Longhorn carry?" Excellent question. Not mine for one. I'm not broad enough. I vote for the New York Times. They are the big journalism name that first supported RSS.

WeBreakStuff joins the crew who think Microsoft messed up: Why Microsoft is wrong about RSS.

Brent Simmons (the guy who wrote the best Macintosh-based RSS aggregator): Fun at Gnomedex. "Will Microsoft’s support of RSS help make syndication more and more popular? Yes indeed, and that’s a good thing, and so I’m glad."

Rick Segal answers back the Head Lemur with a long post. "I'm either a disgruntled X employee or a kool-aid drinking shill depending on how you read this."

Bill de hÓra: Expect better.

9:36:14 AM