Beyond War News, AOL's Broadband Plan May Face a Struggle
AOL has been desperate to attract new revenue, so much so that it has even been selling access to video available for free from indy news sifes (Indy San Fancisco, to be precise). It is moving its online magazines into subscription-only services and has unveiled a new voicemail online service. More...

Macromedia Unveils Future Direction for Internet Applications

To be released in the summer, Macromedia Central will allow Flash to be run on the desktop as well as on websites using a web browser. More...

I Shot the Woolly Mammoth
Some Microsoft staff I met this week have tried to tell me that the software giant has changed its ways. But this item - describing how the company was forced by a South African court because its claims could not be justified - proves otherwise. More...

Repository in a Box
This link is mostly a reminder for myself: I need to spend much more time here to evaluate whether it is what it appears to be after a quick read. "Repository in a Box is a software package for creating WWW metadata repositories. Metadata is information that describes reusable objects, such as software. More...

Five Obstacles to Technology Integration at a Small Liberal Arts University

The five obstacles are:

1. lack of a clear (institutional) vision
2. lack of leadership
3. lack of critical mass (of technology)
4. lack of incentive (for teachers)
5. lack of direct faculty participation. More...

Major SCORM Stakeholders Unify Message
A sooper-dooper information site created by the IEEE Learning Technologies Task Force will answer all the questions you may have about SCORM. More...

UnivAtty

Just launched, this blawg (b-law-g, or law blog) by an attorney at Baylor University will focus on copyright issues and file sharing. More...

From XML to Storage and Back
If you are used to working with relational databases and are wondering how to store XML data, this article is worth reading (if you don't work with databases, don't bother). For a variety of reasons, XML doesn't store well in relational databases and as a consequence companies are coming out with XML databases. More...

North Arkansas College (Northark), a community college located in Harrison, Arkansas, selected Colleague® by Ellucian for its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. More...