OASIS Advances Web Services Portal Standard
From the never empty bowl of alphabet soup, a new entry: WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets), released Thursday by OASIS. "WSRP defines how Web services plug into portals," said Thomas Koulopoulos, president of Boston-based Delphi Group, a consulting firm which specializes in commerce, portals, content and knowledge management, enterprise wireless, and e-Learning. More...

Identification of Network Accessible Documents: Problem Areas and Suggested Solutions
Document identification may seem like a no-brainer - just give each document a unique number, right? But because documents have multiple versions, because some versions develop in parallel, because documents disappear, because documents are composed of multiple parts, and because the document presented may be only a representation of a document stored, document identification becomes tricky. More...

Inside Baseball: The RSS Backlash
It was predictable, it was inevitable, and it has arrived: the backlash against RSS and against blogging in general. More...

SCORM Resources
A poster on the ITForum asked for resources about SCORM and the results have flooded in. More...

Preview of Next Release of DSpace
Content archiving software development continues to progress as a list of new features anticipated in DSpace 1.2 is announced, including support for sub-communities, delegated administration of communities and collections, and items with METS metadata. More...

The Case Against Micropayments
This is a pretty good article outlining the case against the adoption of micropayments. Some of the arguments are a bit weak - the analogy from America's slow adoption of debit cards, for example, does not presage a similar slowness to adopt micropayments. More...

WGA Policy Resolution 03-20
I hadn't seen this until Chris sent me the link, but the Western Governors (of the United States) have adopted a resolution on sharable digital content for learning. It's a forward looking document, recommending the use of open standards and encouraging that universities provide incentives. More...

First Fame, Then Fortune: An Alternative Look At Micropayments Potential For Social And Economic Change
I think there's a good point here: "If we are really serious about not creating more generations of digital have-nots, the micropayment ethical approach may provide the best way to rapidly spread information of all types while keeping a sustainable, happy and growing system in place." More...

Emaki Productions
Jeremy sent me this, found, he says, with a nice collection of other visual language references on Peter Merholz's site, a fascinating website by Neil Cohn on the subject of visual language. The idea behind this theory is that images in a sequence embody a grammar similar in form to Chomsky's syntactic structures. More...

Oregon is Still a Soft Touch for Microsoft
The interesting bit in this article isn't the description of Microsoft's tactics against Linux in schools. More...