By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Broadcast Machine
User-produced media takes another step forward with the release of Broadcast Machine, an open source application that streams your video as a BitTorrent from your web server. A viewer is also being released. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Guelph
I'm in Summerside, Prince Edward island, for the 2005 Canadian Association of Police Educators conference. Meanwhile, here are my photos from my time in Guelph, Ontario, last week. Thanks to Mike and everyone else in the city for a fine welcome. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, May 31, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. RSS Feeds
Introductory article describing RSS for readers of a national business magazine. The article is essentially composed of clippings from various other articles I have authored on the subject and was assembled Pletsch Prose (my thanks to them for that). By Stephen Downes, IT Business, Apriul 27, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Technology Source Archives Are Under Construction
For those of you who missed the Technology Source archives, fear not, they're coming back. In this email to ITForum editor James Morrison explains where they went and wehere they're going. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Learning Activity Management System
The Learning Activity Management System, better known as LAMS, has been (as promised last year) launched as open source software. Downloads are available for both Windows (143.9 megabytes) and Red Hat Linux. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Case for Creative Commons Textbooks
This is a crime, isn't it? "University of California students now spend 40 percent more on textbooks than they did six years ago." This tells us what to expect from commercial publishers of educational content. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teaching as Performance in the Electronic Classroom
Interesting argument looking at the rights associated with online courses through the lens of a contrast between two models of the course, one depicting the course as object, as a static body of text and image and organization, and the other depicting the course as performance. The battle over rights in the educational context is in this light less a battle over money(except in the eyes of the administration) but rather a battle over meaning. In the former (and this is my interpretation of the argument) the meaning of a course is determined through intention: it is what the author wrote about. More...