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16 novembre 2018

opensourceCMS

opensourceCMS
This site allows readers to evaluate open source content management systems (CMS). What's nice about this site is that an administration userid and password are provided so people can see how the system functions behind the scenes (the systems are reinitialized every two hours). More...

16 novembre 2018

Fireworks How To: The Ultimate Aqua Button

Fireworks How To: The Ultimate Aqua Button
Nice step-by-step tutorial on how to create aqua buttons using Firewworks (aqua buttons are those see-through buttons you see on Apple systems). The effect is pretty neat and the lessons show you some things about images in general. More...

16 novembre 2018

State High School Exit Exams: A Maturing Reform

State High School Exit Exams: A Maturing Reform
The Center on Education Policy yesterday released its third annual report on state high school exit exams. The author reports that student outcomes are largely unchanged from last year. More...

16 novembre 2018

Welcome to eMachineShop

Welcome to eMachineShop
This is interesting. The website describes it as follows: "eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need - the first true online machine shop. Download our free software, draw your part, and click to order - it's that easy! Your part will be machined and delivered. More...

16 novembre 2018

In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards

In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards
Surface-level article describing the use of weblogs in the classroom. With a new school year approaching in the northern hemisphere the blog phenomenon is about to go mainstream with not thousands but tens of thousands of teachers using them in their classes. More...

16 novembre 2018

EaZy RSS reader

EaZy RSS reader
An RSS reader for Microsoft Excel. Now, if we can feed RSS into Excel, we can use the same sort of technique in order to feed learning objects into Excel. More...

16 novembre 2018

It's Just the 'internet' Now

It's Just the 'internet' Now
Somebody else in the world finally agrees with me. I have been resolutely using the lower case i and w to spell internet and web since, well, ever. Now Wired News finally agrees. More...

16 novembre 2018

Internet publishing attracting academics

Internet publishing attracting academics
An odd quirk in the headline, as open access publishing is described as 'internet publishing'. But, truth be told, there is a lot in common. The idea of the internet - as I remind everyone who will listen, and even some who won't - is free and open access to information. More...

16 novembre 2018

Multiply's Spam-O-matic UI

Multiply's Spam-O-matic UI
I got my first invite from yet another social network (YASN) called Multiply (if you want an invitation, send me an email). What makes this site different is the much more obvious capacity to create blog content (still a centralized silo mode, but still, one step closer to the semantic social network). More...

16 novembre 2018

EC Mulls MS DRM Monopoly Trawl

EC Mulls MS DRM Monopoly Trawl
It's about time somebody looked into this. According to this short article, the European Community is looking at the monopoly inplications of Microsoft's and Time Warner's ownership of ContentGuard, the backer of the XrML digital rights language that has since been adopeted by MPEG as MPEG-REL. More...

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