The Great Blogger Relaunch
Blogger has upgraded its software, probably the largest upgrade since Pyra launched the service. The new interface (I tried it out this afternoon) will feel familiar to Blogger users, and some of the new features - comments, syndication using the Atom format, enhanced templates, email blogging, personal profiles - will be well received. More...
Google Blog
For the last few week, this page has served as a place-holder with one word suggesting what was to follow. The Google blog has finally launched with what I think is the best single response to complaints about outsourcing to India and elsewhere: "It's not their fault they have a lot of brilliant computer scientists who don't care to relocate to the States." Speaking as another person who does not care to move to the United States, it's worth observing that one person's outsourcing is another person's home, family and local industry. More...
IMS/SSP Comes So Close...
David Wiley is back to doing cool things with the launch of his Open Learning Support pilot project, which adds discussion board support to half a dozen or so OpenCourseWare courses at MIT. More...
Scholars and Scripts, Eyeballs and Epistemes: What it Means to Publish
These PowerPoint slides are well worth a quick view, displaying graphically as they do the increase in journal prices and the increase on open access publications and requests. Some neat discussion as well about the different publishing traditions in different disciplines. More...
Chalk, Talk and Customer Service
The Economist offers a description of, and more or less endorsement of, low-cost private education as offered by Sunny Varkey, a wealthy Dubai-based entrepreneur, through his firm, Global Education Management Systems (GEMS). More...
RSS News Ticker
James Farmer asked for an Edu_RSS news ticker, and I was happy to oblige (thanks to the coding work already done by the good people at BBCi) - you can find my new ticker (with instructions on how to place it on your own site) here. More...
Writing for Google
This is an interesting item because it captures the flavour of writing content for an unknown audience. Typically, articles are written in the context of a certain journal - or in our field, for a certain course. More...
Paypal No Friend of FreeNet
On the one hand you could say that a private company like PayPal should be free to conduct business with whomever it chooses, and you would be right. But on the other hand, when control of the financial infrastructure is used for political purposes, that's another thing. More...
inDiscover RSS
Sometimes when you ask, you receive. inDiscover, covered here a few days ago, now has 4 different types of RSS feeds: newest artists, newest songs, songs for a artist and favorites. There will also be a feed for the top 10 in all genres against all attributes. More...
Welcome from Embrun
NRC is taking most of its web services offline in just a few minutes (so my web site may be unavailable this evening until tomorrow morning), so I have to rush. I'm still in Embrun on vacation, visting my family. More...
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