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25 octobre 2018

Reuters to go After Infringers

Reuters to go After Infringers
On the heels of a story circulating around the online journalism lists about Reuters withdrawing its online content from such syndication sites as Yahoo!, in order to create a subscription based single-site resource, comes this item suggesting that the news syndication agency will follow the RIAA and MPAA's leads and start tracking down people who trade news files illicitly. In a much more competitive environment, it's hard to see how Reuters could be even as successful as industries that enjoy virtual monopolies. More...

25 octobre 2018

Don't Let File-swappers Swamp Copyright Law

Don't Let File-swappers Swamp Copyright Law
This unsigned comment on the recent Canadian court decision to the effect that file sharing technology is legal in Canada (though - I might add, advertising, promoting or selling copies of commercial content is not) may as well have been written by an unnamed recording industry executive. More...

25 octobre 2018

Sugar Camp

Sugar Camp
Last Friday, after work, the e-learning group took a well deserved break for supper and a tour at the Trites Family sugar camp. For those of you not familiar with maple syrup production, the sap of maple trees, which runs for three weeks each spring, is collected in buckets or piped through (blue) hoses. More...

25 octobre 2018

Updated OFAC Ruling Removes Government Restrictions

Updated OFAC Ruling Removes Government Restrictions
The U.S. government has relented; IEEE publications are no longer under the embargo rule, which means papers from authors in such countries as Cuba and Iran may now again be edited for publication. More...

25 octobre 2018

Humanoid Robot Conducts Beethoven Symphony

Humanoid Robot Conducts Beethoven Symphony
We may not have robot teachers yet, but we have robotic conductors. More...

25 octobre 2018

Distance Education in Turkey

Distance Education in Turkey
Good survey article that shouldn't contain any surprises for readers but manages to back up intuitions with solid data. The Turkish distance education has focused traditionally on mass instruction with one-way broadcasting. More...

25 octobre 2018

Project-based Distrubuted Learning and Adult Learners

Project-based Distrubuted Learning and Adult Learners
I have always been partial to project based learning - some of my most cherished memories in education are of the elaborate projects I put together while in school. This paper describes project based learning, outlining briefly some founding literature, and considers the application of project based learning in a distributed environment. More...

25 octobre 2018

Degussa AG Will Work on USC 'House-Printing' Project

Degussa AG Will Work on USC 'House-Printing' Project
This is pretty interesting: a system that will 'print out' an entire house in hours (furniture and house pets extra). More...

25 octobre 2018

Blogs Put Developers in Microsoft 'Cockpit'

Blogs Put Developers in Microsoft 'Cockpit'
When I flew back from Phoenix last least I was able to listen to 'Channel 9' on the internal sound system. Instead of music or business programming, the staples of in-flight fare (remember: your tax dollars subsidize business class passengers), I got to listen to all cockpit communications. More...

25 octobre 2018

Pulitzer Prizes Show Strength of Big Journalism

Pulitzer Prizes Show Strength of Big Journalism
The Pulitizers are announced and Dan Gillmor points to the winners - all from major newspapers - as evidence that traditional journalism is better than blogs, asking whether readers think bloggers "could pull off" the sort of work demonstrated by the winners. I don't know. More...

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