SMBmeta
Now I have touted this plan several times in different offices: get businesses to adopt a metadata format describing themselves. Have each business maintain such a file just as it maintains a web site. Generate up to date business information and statistics merely by harvesting these files. More...

Safety Patrol Readied for Dot-Kids
As the .kids.us domain is set up, establishing a 'safe zone' for kids - "designed to be free of pornography, hate speech, gambling, discount tobacco sales and other content deemed inappropriate for young audiences" - it becomes appropriate to ask about what kids should be protected from. More...

Major Internet Standards Group Working On Fast Plan To Can Spam
This brief article describes the Anti-Spam Research Group's plans to combat the growing nuisance. The plan is significant because, as the article points out, "The ASRG has the prestige to get its proposals put in place." One major initiative: enabling technology that makes it diffocult to send emails with false email addresses. More...

Drafting COL's next Three-year Plan
The Commonwealth of Learning has a new three year plan and would like your input. The plan, in a nutshell, involves a shift in focus from projects to programmes, or in other words, a shift from specific works to capacity building. More...

Universitas 21 Global - World-Class E-University Opens for Student Registration
It has been a long time coming, but Universitas 21 Global has finally opened its doors to its first student registratrions. For those of you who may have forgotten, Universitas 21 Global is a joint venture between Thomson Learning and a consortium of 16 universities. More...

Read Before You Cite!
This is pretty funny. From the abstract: "We report a method of estimating what percentage of people who cited a paper had actually read it. The method is based on a stochastic modeling of the citation process that explains empirical studies of misprint distributions in citations. More...

Have We Lost the 'Public' in Higher Education?
I think there is merit to this argument. In the last decade or so, argues the author, colleges and universities have been increasingly seen as vehicles through which students could obtain economic advantage. More...

The Truth of Weblogs
Short article that makes an interesting point. Before weblogs, we had two choices: objective reporting, conducted by independent professionals, or subjective opinion, conducted by partisans or advocates. More...

Student Publishing & Privacy, Take ... Oh Whatever
A nice discussion of privacy and student publishing has been bouncing back and forth for the last week or so. This page lists the major contributions to the discussion - click on the links from the bottom up. More...