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24 octobre 2018

A Prescription for Business Innovation

A Prescription for Business Innovation
Pollard's essay (in three parts: Part One, Part Two, Part Three) are chock-full of good insights, like this one: "With the advent of the near-perfect consumer information these tools provide, traditional marketing has no remaining role, and the knowledge-driven transition of power from producer to consumer is complete." But more to the point, his overall conclusions regarding the nature and structure of innovation and business are very similar to my own. More...

24 octobre 2018

ISO Approves MPEG REL

ISO Approves MPEG REL
ISO has formally approved the MPEG Rights Expression Language (MPEG REL), formerly known as ContentGuard's XrML, the cumulation of what this short article calls an "inevitable" processs. This is by no means the end of the story, however, as the competing ODRL has also been widely adopted, including by the Open Mobile Alliance and our own eduSource project. More...

24 octobre 2018

Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage

Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In – Garbage Out?
Overall, a good article which challenges the idea that authors ought to be exclusively responsible for the completion of metadata. The author describes the creation of 'collaborative metadata' in which the author provides some data and an expert in classification (say) provides additional metadata. More...

24 octobre 2018

The Social Life of Echo Chambers

The Social Life of Echo Chambers
The capacity to personalize the web, or at the very least to locate smaller and smaller content niches on the web, has led to the sort of criticism described in this article, that "The Internet is a set of echo chambers in which people get together to talk with people who believe exactly the same thing as they do." The problem with this observation, notes the author, is that it's probably false. More...

24 octobre 2018

Third Pan-Canadian E-learning Workshop

Third Pan-Canadian E-learning Workshop
Video from the CANARIE e-learning forum is now available. It's in Real Media format, so I wasn't able to view it. More...

24 octobre 2018

RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators

RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators
Introduction to RSS for educators that is receiving wide praise in the blogosphere. Provides instructions not only on how to set up an RSS reader but also ideas on how to use RSS in the classroom. More...

24 octobre 2018

File Swappers Win Big

File Swappers Win Big
A Canadian judge shoots at the music industry's legal case and leaves nothing but chicken feathers... woo hoo! "But then, after the industry's case was already weak and wobbly at the knees, he delivered the knockout punch: According to the judge, there is no compelling evidence that either downloading or sharing of digital music files is even illegal. In other words, regardless of the other flaws in the industry's case, the CRIA didn't have a leg to stand on in the first place." More. More...

24 octobre 2018

More Corporate Blogging Resources

More Corporate Blogging Resources
The theme of most advice to corporations considering an excursion into blogging - if you believe, say, Microsoft's Robert Scoble or Six Apart's Mena Trott, is "be honest" - in other words, a complete break from the usual practices in corporate communications. More...

24 octobre 2018

WebFeat technology powers ISI Web of Knowledge Cross Search

WebFeat technology powers ISI Web of Knowledge Cross Search
It is interesting to see Thomson's ISI Web of Knowledge in the race to archive and index open access databases. The service is now up to eleven databases and climbing. I think this is a good development - I have long argued that free online resources should be offered alongside commercial resources, and that publishers are doing their best to keep the free competition out of the marketplace. More...

24 octobre 2018

Metadata Resources Guide

Metadata Resources Guide
I don't think I've run this item before. Even if I have, it's worth passing along again. This metadata guide is a comprehensive list of resources (especially government resources) dealing with different metadata standards and application profiles. More...

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