Yahoo Sets up Standard to Combat Spam
The anti-spam legislation having proven to be an elaborate sham, and the propogation of commercial threatening to choke online communication, companies offering email services are increasingly pressed to offer an anti-spam system. More...

Indiana Essays Being Graded by Computers
Teachers may hate it, but the irony is that students may prefer automated essay grading. More...

Ensemble Collaboration
Launched at the ASTD conference, Ensemble is a system that allows for the integration of 'collaboration objects' into a learning management system for use with an online course. Ensemble's demo site includes sample course content from Skillsoft, NetG, KNet and Mindleaders, and sample LMS displays from the usual popular systems. More...

Building the School of the Future
Streaming media presentation (not viewable in Firefox) from Microsoft outlining its vision of the school of the future. It looks at where children are going online today - a good place to start - and notes that significant numbers of them do things like access foreign newspapers or practice e-commerce. More...

A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
About more than just collections, this framework is a very nice document describing principles for collections, objects, metadata and projects. Nothing in here I would disagree with, quite a bit I would enthusiastically support, and dozens of references to frameworks, metadata schemas, and more. More...

The Semio-grads
Nice article with (of course) hidden layers of meaning and a lesson. When Ira Glass graduated in 1982 with a degree in Semiotics, his parents took out an ad in the classifieds: Corporate office seeks semiotics grad for high paying position." Funny. More...

Ignou Makes Mark Worldwide in Distant Learning
You might be hearing more about Ignou (the Indira Gandhi National Open University) as time goes by. More...

Education Arcade
From Water Cooler Games (via WWWEDU), an interesting blog in itself, comes coverage of the two-day Education Arcade, a conference at MIT held to discuss the use of games in learning. More...

Science.gov 2.0 Launches
This new version of the governmentwide Web portal for science and technology information is a significant improvement over the first. Still a federated search (which means searches may take, as the site says, 'up to 30 seconds'), the site has an improved search engine and now accesses 30 resource portals and 47 million pages in real time. More...

Freedom 0
Movable Type has launched version 3.0 of its blogging software and is getting a bit of a rough ride from the blogging community. Chief among their concerns is its new pricing policy, which as Mark Pilgrim reports in this item, may result in people paying hundreds of dollars to maintain their blogs. More...