Concerts to Raise Money for Battle Against Record Companies
Major publishers and record labels - such as the RIAA - present themselves as fighting for the rights of creative artists. So why are some big name acts - including Elton John, No Doubt, Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks, Weezer, Dixie Chicks, Ozzy Osbourne and the Eagles - staging a series of five benefit concerts to fund a fight against the recording industry? Because artists, they say, are not getting their share of the royalties. More...

Sequential Analysis of Group Interactions in Threaded Discussions
Following up on a post I made to DEOS - see http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0112&L=deos-l&O=A&P=14622 - Allan Jeong introduced readers to a tool he developed to analyze interactions on discussion boards with regard to critical thinking. More...

Top 25
Though the twenty-five educators listed are all American (so their designation as the 'top 25' should be taken with a grain of salt), this article is nonetheless interesting reading as it incorporates a breadth of innovative activity. More...

Text-E
This one comes to me via elearningpost... text-e claims to be "the first entirely virtual symposium dedicated to investigating the impact of the Web on reading, writing and the diffusion of knowledge," a claim, I think, that people in the field would find a bit astonishing in this day and age. More...

Education, Innovation & The Internet: Nobel Laureates Look To The Future
A survey of 71 Nobel laureates says that "universal access to the Internet would bring about enormous benefits and improvements to the educational system because of the Internet?s unparalleled ability to spread knowledge and disseminate information." The internet would also have helped them conduct their research more quickly and it will play a key role in improving the overall quality of life. More...

Advanced Distributed Learning Plugfest 5
Plugfest is an event where companies who are moving toward SCORM compatibility (and who had the cash to register) test their applications for interoperability. Participants included 30 Learning Management Systems vendors, 23 authoring tool vendors and 50 learning content providers. More...

Interface Innovation: The Future of Information Access
Nice little article surveying five innovative ways of handling information, providing examples (and links) to companies who are creating alternative desktop interfaces, automatic file sorting tools, automatic summary and metadata generation, pictures over words, and computers that recognize when you're feeling blue. More...

A year Without Print at Princeton, And What We Plan Next
Interesting article (the HTML page links to a smallish PDF file) in which the author discusses Princeton's first year of experimentation with e-journals. The online versions quickly became the versions of choice, with users searching for print publications only if an online alternative was not available. More...

A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries
I think of these as 'distributed databases' and the intent behind open digital libraries is the same. The idea is that library holdings follow a more or less common architecture, allowing for search and retrieval from multiple repositories. More...

Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry
This good article takes on the issue of adopting a single metadata standard - Dublin Core, say, or IMS - for all digital objects. Such an approach is neither feasible nor desirable. What the authors propose is a type of interoperable metadata that allows for translations between types of metadata. More...