Time to shift venues...

Not a bad day.  Took my annual plan and placed it within a 1 year plan structure in MS Project.  Now, I can see a little more clearly how all these trivial projects quickly put you in a resource deficient state!  Got the blog clearer... still a neophyte, but so will the others I am convincing to follow this path.  Perhaps out of my pain will come great (ok, I'll take small) successes!

Also struggling with voice -- clearly I flip between using this site to beta applications for my work goals and then I have all this personal stuff too...  Once I get a Frontier server going for work, we'll split the two cleanly.

5:42:07 PM    

And another suggestion comes in...

Phil Wolff recommends Serious Instructional Technology.  Thanks for the tip.  Looks like it is time to create a blogroll just for the Blogs and Education page. Let's see, that means editing the template for that page, creating a different opml file, uhh... back to the learning track!

3:09:21 PM    

Ask and ye shall receive...

I emailed John Robb looking for more info on Blogs and higher ed and he delivers!

If your not reading Sebastian Fiedler's weblogs in education site yet.  You should be.  Very nice group weblog using RSS to fold in guest columnists.   It almost feels like a e-zine with the best minds in online education all in one place.

Weblogs, CMS, and dynamic Webpublishing for learning and education :: blogged by Sebastian Fiedler

 

Thanks John!

11:09:31 AM    

 Working...

Today is get your act together day.  I left a conference of academic geeks (their term) to spend a couple of quiet days laying out the projects I need to manage prior to the legislative session beginning in January.  Even though I blogged a couple of days of the conference (which did lead to the beginning of a blog project connecting our campus cio's and it directors - a plus) I am really behind on the news feeds.  So, we'll clean that up first.

I have also been thinking of providing my read of the news in categories that can help my colleagues stay abreast of information pertinent to their work.  Intellectual property, privacy, new product announcements, political – are some of the areas which might apply.

Well, to work…

11:00:46 AM    

 NEWS

Story in Cnet regarding the growing aggressiveness of parties to assert their property rights on the net.  Mensa went after a site that mentioned the groups name in a parody -- A couple of quotes from a representative from Mensa are telling:

"The Internet offers new and different threats to our corporate identities and our individual identities," said Jim Blackmore, national marketing director of Mensa International.

Well, gee, does that mean we can’t have a conversation without the threat of legal action?

"We did not want to be associated with this man's ravings," Blackmore said.

IF that becomes the test, then we are in for a rather cold, non-informative net.  Course, letting these actions run their course may get Congress to wake up and understand the impacts of DMCA, Bono and other pieces of legislation that so far the general public has not paid attention to.  Can’t imagine what may be happening on the campuses that may bring action like this…

Wired reports applications on PDA’s for the blind priced at levels out of reach for most.  Wonder if we realize what research we have on our campuses that if advertised would find a market? 

Political

Web pages have yet to turn into the panacea promised for campaigns.  NY Times article  notes examples of web page use.  Core argument seems to be that young people are the largest audience on the web, but they are also the least politically active.

10:59:17 AM