The Bloated, Dysfunctional World of Enterprise Solutions
A little strongly worded, but it taps into my own sentiments on the subject: "And what do we have here? Novell Portal Services - "the industrial grade portal solution for all your enterprise needs"? Sounds solid, all right. More...
What is the Blog Revenue Model and Can Blogs Gather News as Opposed to Pontificate on it?
Roland posts this summary and link to a summary of discussions about blogs at the Davos economic forum, where their concern is (as usual) how to turn something into money. "This creates a classic free-rider problem. If the blogs eventually steal the mass media's audience (or at least, key parts of it) and the Internet as a whole continues to steal its revenues, there will come a time when those big, expensive news-gathering operations will become economically insupportable." Here's a clue: they are already economically unsupportable. More...
House Panel Sparks Database Controversy
It's not law yet, but there is cause for concern after a U.S. congressional committee expressed approval for a bill that would, for the first time, allow copyright protection over data. More...
Repositories Listing
From the ADL News Report: "The Academic ADL Co-Lab has released its learning repository database. This database, designed for those interested the internal policies of learning repository projects themselves, allows investigators to search for projects that use specific standards or have stated policies concerning material submission and review." The page will demand a login - ignore it; just click 'cancel' and continue on through. More...
Learning Repository Community wiki
Because this site is a Wiki, anybody could may add to it. It's a good initiative, launched by ADL. The site currently has some basic information about learning object repositories and links to a number of resources. More...
eLearnopedia
Three items from Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) this week, all culled from today's Academic ADL Co-Lab News Report. This first item is a lot like OLDaily - a daily selection of links and resources in the field of e-learning. More...
The Tyranny of Copyright?
This is a great observation: "The recording industry is a $12 billion a year business, compared with the telephone business, which is a more than $250 billion a year business. That is what economists call a 'revealed willingness to pay,' a clear preference for a technology that allows you to participate in work, socializing and interaction in general, over a technology that allows you to be a passive consumer of a packaged good." This item comes within the context of an article depicting (oh so fairly, mind you) a copyright regime that is out of control. More...
Industry Standard Is Latest Dot.Com-Era Publication to Try a Comeback
Back in the heyday, the Industry Standard was one of my favorite online pubs, along with Wired, Red Herring and Business 2.0. One by one, they all died, of course, or became subscription-only shadows of their former selves. More...
European E-skills Newsletter
Cedefop has launched the first edition of the European e-skills newsletter. Unfortunately, the newsletter is available only as a PDF file, which defeats the whole purpose of launching a newsletter. More...
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