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Andy Carvin posts his photos online and tells the WWWEDU board. I visit the site, see a photo I like and, noting the Creative Commons license, snag one and put it on my home page. I send a note to WWWEDU thanking Andy and flagging the Creative Commons project. More...
The Promise and Peril of 'Open Access'
The headline writers put 'open access' in scare quotes, but the author provided a good overview stating most strongly the case in favour: "...Brain Research, which costs more than $21,000 for 2004; Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, which costs nearly $15,000; and Nuclear Physics A and B, at more than $23,000." She also outlines the counter-argument offered by academic societies, whic depend on publication income, and responses from the publishers minimizing the impact of open access publishing. More...
The Horizon Report
This report, an annual summary of emerging technologies released by the New Media Consortium, includes learning objects as among the technologies to watch, especially this year (it is worth noting that NMC also has a separate learning object initiative). More...
Self-Publish And Be Damned? Not Always.
They used to call it vanity publishing, and it was the last refuge of the talentless. But as writers become more frustrated with publishers - their rules, their share of the profits, their slow response time - they are turning with increasing success to self publishing. More...
The Scout Portal Toolkit
This is a very interesting software release with some nifty features. In addition to the usual search request features, it allows user annotation, user rating and user agents. It also adds an intelligent metadata tool to assist submissions. More...
Del.icio.us
It's still a usability disaster (people need more than just headlines), but it has been getting a lot of press, and rightly so. The service is, as it asserts, "a social bookmarks manager. Using simple bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them." The software is "pre-pre-alpha" and changing almost daily. More...
4 Colleges Collaborate on Open-Source Courseware
You have five days to read this before the Chronicle lowers the silicon boom and charges you for access, so copy it now and send it to your friends(*). More...
You Got Google mail - Report
Because of spam, the future of emails and email newsletters is that there is none. Enter Google. Google forbids the use of AdWords in email newsletters (where it would be remarkably effective). Why? Suppose Google created an email service, made it spam free, and allowed it to support advertising. More...
How Dynamic Categories Work
People in the wider community are finally discovering dynamic categories, something I've been plugging for a couple of years now, and which you can view (as always) on my research page and on Edu_RSS Topics. What is a dynamic category? Think of it as a predefined search. More...
Best Practices and Case Studies: Be Very Afraid
I'm not sure I would recommend the fear expressed by the author, but it's easy to forget that reference to best prctices is a form of inductive inference, and therefore, subject to the same constraints as prediction or analogy. More...
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