15 octobre 2018

Venture Capital Markets Sink to Lowest Level in Seven Years
I have been hearing variations on this theme for a number of years, and its a trend that is advancing, not declining. It seems to me odd tha Canadian firms - with the advantage of a strong scoial infrastructure and some of the best talent in the world - cannot obtain venture capital. More...

ADL to make a 'repository SCORM'
As reported in OLDaily in January, ADL is planning a 'repository SCORM' known as the "lovely named" CORDRA. More...

The Blizzard of 2004
Snow is piling up outside my door and the entire city of Moncton is shut down as the worst storm of the year continues to hammer the city. It's not a 'state of emergency' - yet - but it's as rough a storm as I've seen in a while. More...

Proposals for DC Rights-related Terms
Some new proposals for Dublin Core element descriptions, including isAvailableAt and Provenance, along with the rights related terms mentioned in the title. I could not find a place to offer feedback on the rights terms, but it's OK, as the method Dubmlin Core proposes, to link to an external rights metadata file (such as a Creative Commons file) works for us here; we do exactly the same thing, linking to an external ODRL file from the rights description fiel;d in elarning object metadata. More...

Real Player
This item was sent to me through the grapevine: "In case anyone was interested; There is a version of Real Player, available through the BBC, that is add free and ready for download. The BBC has strict guidelines on advertising (being a gov't run non-profit news agency) and therefore they provide this special version of real player. More...

TechKnowledge
Jay Cross offers coverage of the TechKnowledge conference almost as good as being there. Day One, Day Two and Day Three. Best bit: "People today want to be doing things. They want control. They want tools. Along with the book review, add a button for buying the book. More...

Two Boyds on YASNSes
I've had one of those days where attention to agreements and intellectual property and licensing prevented any real work from getting done. So I'll leave it to Seb Paquet to refer this quote from Marc Canter: "The business sector is floundering around - trying to 'wrap their arms' around something - that is un-wrappable. Since social software is not a single market or even single trend - the VCs wanna know "where's the beef?" "What's the business model?" "Who do we invest in?" But the thing about it is - social software is more than a trend or fad. It's a raising of the bar - bringing humans into the equation of software. More...

Oats-Based Initiative
As I've said before, "Apple uses music to sell iPods..." and today, Quaker uses learning to sell oats... Yes, of course it is, as Joho points out, an abdication of our responsibility to teach children. More...

We Are Morons: A Quick Look at the Win2k Source
The good news? The Windows source code is better than people thought it would be and not likely to be pirated. The bad news? It was written by... well, better to let the Microsoft authors desribe themselves. More...

Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
This item is a few weeks old, but it's a good article, though very introductory, which is why I didn't run it before now. More...