e-Development

Outsourcing Score : Bush for, Kerry against use of taxes to support.  Paul Samuelson says benefits assumptions need questioning.  Boeing stars in outsourcing movie.

e-Learning

Cobb School Board to host forum on laptop proposal. Tablets invade classrooms. Wiki as a learning tool.

e-Privacy

Can Spam law can't.   Fresh from success with Can Spam, Congress promotes Anti Spyware legislation.

e-Property

P2P firm sues RIAA.  If you make home moves, you may face the copyright rap.

8:20:42 AM    

A scalability issue with RSS.

This is a problem that should find a solution (more intelligent scans?)...  Minor setback, bet something to be aware of when deploying in an enterprise.

Full text RSS on MSDN gets turned off.

Steve Maine: what the hell happened to blogs.msdn.com?

RSS is broken, is what happened. It's not scalable when 10s of thousands of people start subscribing to thousands of separate RSS feeds and start pulling down those feeds every few minutes (default aggregator behavior is to pull down a feed every hour).

Bandwidth usage was growing faster than MSDN's ability to pay for, or keep up with, the bandwidth. Terrabytes of bandwidth were being used up by RSS.

So, they are trying to attack the problem by making the feeds lighter weight. I don't like the solution (I've unsubscribed from almost all weblogs.asp.net feeds because they no longer provide full text) but I understand the issues.

I know of a major broadcaster that refuses to turn on RSS feeds because of this issue too. We need smarter aggregators and better defaults.

I only pull down RSS feeds once per day -- right before I start reading my feeds.

But, clearly, RSS is losing some of its advantages. More and more sites are not providing full-text feeds. I can't fight this one alone.

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

6:33:27 AM    

Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access: Notice Inviting Applications. The purpose of this program is to support projects that will develop innovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies to collect information from foreign sources. Grants will be made to access, collect, organize, preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries other than the U.S. that address our nation's teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages. [U.S. Department of Education]

Looks like a job for an international wikipedia supported by a network of school blogs...  Any takers?  I'll help connect those that are interested with those that can help write the grant application...  Who knows?

6:27:18 AM