Learning Objects Portal
I ran across this item via my referrers a few weeks ago and then forgot to run it here. Or, at least, I think I forgot. It's all blurring together. Anyhow, George covered it in his newsletter today, via CAREO, and since I've read pretty well every page on the site I can attest to its usefulness (and its fine taste in authors to cite). More...

Look Out, Outlook: RSS Ahead in 2004
Steve Gillmor predicts big things for RSS in 2004:

• Metadata-driven directories that dynamically create RSS feeds based on affinity
• Virtual conferences
• IM/RSS presence networks for rich collaboration and e-mail replacement
• Content-generation tools based on small, routable XHTML objects
• A DRM network with enough creative and hardware support to blunt the Microsoft/RIAA DRM threat to peer-to-peer port hijacking. More...

Sharing and Stealing
Litman argues convincingly that "One of the most salient lessons from the copyright wars of the last few years is that if express permission is required before one can post a collection of anything on the Internet, one will be unable to do it." Quite right, which is why such a requirement would destroy the internet. More...

There's a Noose in the Hoose - iTunes Shoppers Discover DRM
Worth reiterating: the battle over digital rights management is not about getting people to pay for resources, it's about control over the distribution of resources. More...

Serence
This Ottawa company has developed an interesting RSS-style headline viewer called KlipFolio. A Klip is essentially an RSS feed, but with scripting options, security and other features wrapped around it. Readers download the application and view the headline feeds on their desktop. More...

Quick! Get Use of RSS Before the Vultures Ruin It
Commentary from Alan Levine referring to David Galbraith's: How to make RSS commercially viable. Levine comments, "there are those that can only look at a useful communications technology and only rub their hands in glee trying to figure out how to squeeze money from it. There was the glory of the web, and now we have non-stop pop-up ads. There was direct connections via email, and now we are littered by spam. Next stop? The vultures are beginning to hover over RSS." Quite right. More...

Reticulum Rex
Flash based animation, nicely put together, intended to introduce Creative Commons remix. Most of the clip, though, restates the Creative Commons creed and outlines the agenda - an agenda I support, mostly. More...

W4 k-collector
From the web page: "k-collector is an enterprise news aggregator that leverages the power of shared topics to present new ways of finding and combining the real knowledge in your organisation." A lot like Edu_RSS, this website aggregates RSS feeds and displays the results as a series of topic feeds. More...