SMIL: Multimedia Rides the XML Wave

The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") is XML language used to describe the layout and synchronization of multimedia. More...

Boalt DRM Conference Report

I have already covered the Berkeley conference on copright a few times but I cannot pass up this great summary by James Grimmelmann. Weaving a tapestry of themes, questions and presentations, he takes us through a wide range of proposals, criticisms, arguments and debates. More...

The Tipping Blog
Nice analysis of how a meme (that is, a catchy article or idea) posted in a weblog can spread like wildfire through the internet. It happens every day and it happens something like this:

1. An Expert (one might call her a Content Maven) Writes or Creates something interesting and puts it online (creating the critical component of any online ideavirus: the link)
2. A Link Maven comes across the link, and blogs it to their site
3. A Connector finds the link and blogs it to their site (or the aforementioned Link Maven has Connector-like traffic levels)
4. The link starts to Tip within the weblog community
5. The link Tips beyond the weblog community, as the rest of us find out about it."

All these terms are neatly defined in this article, with explanations. More...

Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC)

In Canada, the Treasury Board corordinates metadata and information management activities for the federal government (no, I don't know why; it just does - I'm sure there's a reason). More...

The CMSWatch "Top 40"
The 40 "most significant" (though not necessarily the best) content management systems, as listed by CMS Watch. Each item features a link to the system's home page. More...

Copyright and the Web, 2003
Summary by the moderators of the recent online conference on copyright and education sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning. There's no simple way to summarize even this summary in a paragraph since so many points of view were expressed. More...

Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge

This short email looks at three ways companies try to capture the knowledge of their employees in a central knowledge base. More...

The Tyranny of Email
This nice article, picked up in Slashdot, takes the goodness of email for granted and takes a long, lingering and declicious look at why email is bad. The first problem with email, writes the author, is that it interrupts you, especially email that rings or dings or says "You've got mail" when it arrives. More...

Roogle
I'm not sure I should even call it Roogle any more - the site's original title (short for "RSS Google", I guess) lasted about a day. As the name implied, this site searches RSS feeds for specific items. More...

Open Access to World-Class Knowledge

Overview article describing MIT's Open Courseware project, including some feedback on the initial release. More...