Required Reading

As Gillmor notes, everyone is talking about this piece.  I just skimmed it.  Although, I seem to remember a different take on the power law and social networks as discussed in Linked than Shirky takes.

Blogs, Links and Readership. Clay Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality. The system assumes that later users come into an environment shaped by earlier... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

1:59:51 PM    

Teacher Tech Training takes a hit

PT3 is proposed to be eliminated in the federal 2004 budget and may be cut in the 2003 budget.  Thanks to alterego for the alert.

11:58:43 AM    

How the rest of the world does it...

Computers take over the classroom. Computers are increasingly becoming a fixture in classrooms across the world and changing the way children learn. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

8:53:38 AM    

Thinking outside the box...

Donna Wentworth: "I don't think I can express how excited this makes me." [Scripting News]

8:49:11 AM    

I pohsted mah script in Hahvard Blahg...

Progress on the CSS for the Harvard weblog template for Manila thanks to Aaron Swartz, Simon Fell and Michael Zajac. Just a one more problem, now the links are at the bottom of the page instead of in the right column. I must have mis-typed something. For what it's worth, here's the OPML for the template. [Scripting News]

8:48:00 AM    

The dark side...

Article has some insight as to the difficulty in fighting a menace, including legislation and technology.

Fighting Child Pornography. Digital technology, which helps child pornographers ply their trade, is now being turned against them. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Technology]

8:45:06 AM