DotGNU Portable.NET
Rhys Weatherley's Southern Storm Software, of Brisbane, Australia, is well known in the open source movement for being a "dotGNU's one-man army." So it is no surprise to learn that his latest project now stands at a quarter million lines of code. More...

By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them
Heh... seems true to me: people tend to remember what their professors wore more than they remember what their professors said. Thankfully, what their professors wore spoke volumes. More...

Ogg Streaming
The BBC is testing Ogg Vorbis audio streams. If you're like me, you've never heard of Ogg Vorbis before. You may hear more about it, though: Ogg Vorbis is a open, free audio codec (a codec is a system for coding audio signals for transfer over the iternet). More...

Trying to Keep Young Internet Users From a Life of Piracy
Follow-up on the recent raids on university campuses. The staid New York Times - not to mention staid professors - ought to know better than to perpetuate this sort of hype. Arguments like this - "If you're willing to bootleg music, you're willing to bootleg anything" - are clearly fallacious, as is the link between people trading music online and large software pirates, as is the estimate that a third of all business software in use today is pirated. More...

2001 Was a Tough Read for E-Books
By all accounts, 2001 wasn't a very good year for eBooks. But that's where the agreement ends. This article surveys a variety of opinions from writers and publishers on the topic and it is evident that there is still a large gap between opinions on how - or even whether - eBooks should be implemented. More...

User Payments: Predictions for 2001 Revisited
I don't know... what would you think if it cost you money everytime you read OLDaily? What would you think if it cost you one cent and the amount was automatically added to your ISP bill at the end of the month. More...

Welcome to UTORcwn (Campus Wireless Network)
This has to be one of the largest wireless network implemtation I've seen - the University of Toronto, with 52,000 students, is rolling out a campus-wide IEEE-compliant wireless network. More...

The Devil is in the Details: Converting Classroom Courses to E-Learning
Nice overview of the sorts of things you need to consider when converting a traditional classroom course to online learning delivery. Realistic in its depiction and supported with links to related Learning Circuits resources, the best thing about this article is its observation that no content survives the transition intact. More...

The Power of the First Person
On a personal note... why is OLDaily so much better than the other online learning newsletters (oh? as there some doubt here? *grin*)? To me, the big difference is that I do more than report the news... I report my reactions and I do so in a personal way. More...

Open Source Schools Projects Work Together to Provide Alternative to Microsoft Offer
You may recall that Microsoft volunteered to donate $1 billion worth of software to American schools as part of its antitrust offer. Critics contented that the offer would merely consolidate Microsoft's already considerable hold on the education market. More...