By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs
This presentation is about the use of blogs to publosh, as the author says, "more than cat diaries" (which reminds me, it's time my cats had their own blogs). It will take you a second, but you'll soon see that it's not a PowerPoint presentation, though it looks and feels like one. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Conference on Open Source for Education in Europe – Research and Practice
I don't do conference announcements. Just so you know. But this Open Source for education conference is an exception, because organizers of open source conferences usually don't have money for advertsing and publiscity (it's also kinda hard to get corporate sponsorships). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Canada Introduces New Copyright Bill
I am off to the SeaChange conference in Saint John this afternoon where the topic of discussion will be governance and society. While rubbing shoulders with our society's self-proclaimed leaders I will be pondering the wandering (and withering) future of democracy in this country and elsewhere. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Cheater's Guide to LinkedIn v 0.1
While titled to appeal to certain sensibilities (and not the good ones either) this item is nonetheless a pretty good guide on how to take advantage of LinkedIn (or, for that matter, any social network - see the list provided by Scott Allen and David Tetten). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MYTH: Patents Protect Small Companies
This blog, which is new to me, addresses that murky area where enterprise, information technology and health care overlap. Some good content, including especially this item, which asserts, bluntly: "If you don’t have the financial resources to support years and years of patent litigation, then your patents have no teeth." Well argued. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. WebCT Price Increases
No links yet (so this simply links to the WebCT CE home page) but I have reports coming in from more than one institution that WebCT is asking for significant price increases (in the 60 percent range) for its Campus Edition learning management system for upgrades to CE version 6. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open Access Self-Archiving: An Author Study
Report from JISC. From the summary: "Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years in at least one of the three possible ways — by placing a copy of an article in an institutional (or departmental) repository, in a subject-based repository, or on a personal or institutional website." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sakai 2.0.0 Release Available
Sakai, an open source learning management system, has reached another landmark point with the release of Sakai 2.0.0. "This release includes a Gradebook in addition to an updated version of the Tests and Quizzes tool (Samigo). The existing Sakai tools have been internationalized, allowing translation of Sakai 2.0 into multiple languages". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. lashing them together
Foucault on the soul: "the element in which are articulated the effects of a certain type of power and the reference of a certain type of knowledge, the machinery by which the power relations give rise to a possible corpus of knowledge, and knowledge extends and reinforces the effects of this power." More...