EaZy RSS reader
An RSS reader for Microsoft Excel. Now, if we can feed RSS into Excel, we can use the same sort of technique in order to feed learning objects into Excel. More...

EC Mulls MS DRM Monopoly Trawl
It's about time somebody looked into this. According to this short article, the European Community is looking at the monopoly inplications of Microsoft's and Time Warner's ownership of ContentGuard, the backer of the XrML digital rights language that has since been adopeted by MPEG as MPEG-REL. More...

First Look at MSN Blogs
Robert Scoble, of Microsoft fame, offers readers a glimpse at his still empty blog (in Japanese) at what is being called 'MSN Spaces' and has it taken apart line by line in this critical article. More...

BSA Explains its Ethos
Referring to Business Software Alliance studies that routinely inflate the cost of file sharing, the BSA VP Bob Kruger argues, "I haven't seen where anyone's pointed out anything about the methodology they disagree with." This despite numerous published complaints about exactly that point. More...

Patchworking - Showing Off Your Assets
This is pretty interesting. The author adapts the concept of 'patching' - a business process where an organization is broken into loosley associated pieces or 'patches' - and applies it to individual learners to create a 'portfolio' of assets. More...

Apple Threatens RealNetworks
Without being overly cynical, without suggesting that a certain company's politics wave with the wind, let me respectfully not respond to Apple's protestations against RealMedia. And in that positive spirit - because I do support what RealMedia has done - let me offer something constructive, something useful. More...

MSN NewsBot
Microsoft has launched a beta version of what it calls NewsBot - essentially a clone of Google News (and another recommender style news service, but I forget the name of it off the top of ny head). The The UK version has been around since last year some time. More...