Universal Calls for Papers Collector
This is a very interesting and useful service - a central location for all calls for papers. More...

Today's Optimization, Tomorrow's Bottleneck
There is a never-ending push from the other side to somehow extract more money from internet users, and typically this involves some sort of metering. Thus we see yet again another in a seemingly endless stream of proposals, this one masked as an 'intelligent' network that "can identify users and the applications used." This would be, in my mind, a Very Bad Thing, and not simply because we'd pay more for access (and don't kid yourself, we would pay more for access, if only to pay for the metering system). More...

Web Group Opposes ISO Fee Plan
From time to time I question the wisdom of sending important standards to standards bodies. Sending learning object metadata to IEEE or Dublin Core to ISO seems, to me, to involve a certain degree of risk. People look at me a bit funny - after all, these are standards bodies. Yes, but they're also corporate entities. More...

Sun's Dumbass Trademark Policy
Some ridiculous trademark policy rules courtesy of Sun. These rules define how you can use the Sun trademark. Specific sentences are provided. Now I ask: can Sun tell you how we are allowed to refer to its products? More importantly: will lawyers now advise authors to change their copy in order to avoid a costly lawsuit. More...

Important Learning Must Occur in Groups
The link to this item is messed up, but you can get to it from the blog's main page, to which I link here. The principle, expressed in the title, is largely derived from observations about language. More...

Global Education
EdNA launches Global Education, designed to "provide students with conceptual knowledge and skills, and helps to develop positive attitudes and values and a willingness to participate actively in shaping the future. More...

MySmartChannels
Interesting RSS hosting service that allows you to create RSS feeds (and to allow you to require password assess for private RSS feeds) and subscribe to hosted RSS feeds. There's a lot here; you have to create an account and look around to explore. Some of the tech is irksome: the site doesn't display properly on the Firebird browser, the password constraints mean that I will forget my password, and it's constantly opening new windows. But there is some interesting stuff for those who dig, including SOAP access and a nifty way of converting a channel into a Microsoft Smart Tag. More...

Online Learning 03 Monday
Jay Cross is blogging Online Learining 03 in Los Angeles. Today's installment includes a summary of a talk by RIchard Saul Wurman, a survey of mobile learning technology, and a number of photos. I don't know why people say "Cool is dead." Cool is not dead. Cool is where opportunity lies - though to be sure the terrain is not for everyone. More...

Blended Learning: What Works?
Via e-Learning Guru, this white paper on blended learning. After a couple of plugs for the delivery mode (it "...is really the natural evolution of e-learning into an integrated program of multiple media types...") the paper outlines the blended learning process in four easy stages. Some good (and necessary) discussion of deployment ("The single biggest issue we found which companies spent time and money on is the marketing, launch, and deployment process"). More...

Compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN
This article, written for ISSN registrars, offers a fascinating glimpse into the issues faced by librarians with respect to understanding - and reacting to - the weblog phenomenon. ISSN is, of course, the unique number assigned to a serial publication. Weblogs are classically serial publications, and therefore, should be registered. More...