Grads Return to Campuses to Stay
Like any business, universities, noticing the stagnation of their core enterprise, are branching out. More and more, universities will focus on selling 'quality of life' rather than 'content' or even 'degrees'. More...
Southern Miss may Change E-mail Policy
As the recent controversy over Google's use of email contents to filter advertising has shown, the (presumed) privacy of email is a sensitive issue. At Southern Miss this issue has become front and center. More...
The Belief That More Education Will Create More Equal Opportunities has Been Proved Wrong
There's a bit of a false dilemma in this article, as the author suggests that the choice facing egalitarians is to accept inequality or prevent well-off parents from "reading to their children." It is by no means that simple, but I have seen numerous studies showing that the best indicator of educational success is social class. More...
The Courtship of Atom
Atom is the name of the community driven alternative to RSS that developed in response to the endless conflicts over RSS. Adopted by Google's Blogger system and other major players, it is a viable candidate to replace RSS (eventually) for a number of reasons. More...
Core Middleware programme Announcement
The 15 successful proposals for the JISC Core Middleware Technology Development Projects (in Britain) have been announced. I am inclined to agree with Rod Savoie on this - if technology requires middleware to operate with other technology, it's broken. But I'll leave that prejudice for another day. More...
PepsiCo UK Launches e-Learning in Key IT Skills
So I guess yesterday (Thursday) was 'Learning at Work Day' and so it is a natural that my website and email systems were down due to the most recent 'upgrade'. But it does let me finish the week with a double issue (and give the Daily readers some sense of how the Weekly readers feel on Fridays) and it lets me talk a little about this initiative. More...
Have Your Google People Talk to my 'Googol' People
In the late 1930s, Columbia University professor Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, came up with the word "Googol" to name the largest number in the world. A googol, wrote Kasner, is 10 raised to the 100th power. More...
Social networking and iTunes
I like nuggets of information that are found through digging. Like this observation of the use of an iTunes fiule system as a messaging platform. One of the oldest rules of technology is this: people will use technology in ways it was never intended to be used. More...
Global Support for Information Society Targets
Results of a survey taken for the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) showing strong (95 percent) support for the notion that "cyberspace should be declared a resource to be shared by all for the global public good." Count me in the 95 percent camp. Priorities identified by the survey include connecting educational institutions, research centres, and people in general. More...
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