Core Middleware programme Announcement
The 15 successful proposals for the JISC Core Middleware Technology Development Projects (in Britain) have been announced. I am inclined to agree with Rod Savoie on this - if technology requires middleware to operate with other technology, it's broken. But I'll leave that prejudice for another day. More...

PepsiCo UK Launches e-Learning in Key IT Skills
So I guess yesterday (Thursday) was 'Learning at Work Day' and so it is a natural that my website and email systems were down due to the most recent 'upgrade'. But it does let me finish the week with a double issue (and give the Daily readers some sense of how the Weekly readers feel on Fridays) and it lets me talk a little about this initiative. More...

MailFeed
Looking good. Todd sent me this link of a service that accesses your email and converts it to an RSS feed that you can read in your aggregator along with the news headlines. More...

Have Your Google People Talk to my 'Googol' People
In the late 1930s, Columbia University professor Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, came up with the word "Googol" to name the largest number in the world. A googol, wrote Kasner, is 10 raised to the 100th power. More...

Social networking and iTunes
I like nuggets of information that are found through digging. Like this observation of the use of an iTunes fiule system as a messaging platform. One of the oldest rules of technology is this: people will use technology in ways it was never intended to be used. More...

Global Support for Information Society Targets
Results of a survey taken for the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) showing strong (95 percent) support for the notion that "cyberspace should be declared a resource to be shared by all for the global public good." Count me in the 95 percent camp. Priorities identified by the survey include connecting educational institutions, research centres, and people in general. More...

MusickEd
Eugene sent me this link to MusickEd, which, while it is a commercial site (and slow to load on the dial-up line I am using - they should run the large image through Fireworks or consider scaling it down) is worth a mention because it seems to me that a site like this would work really well in conjunction with a site like inDiscover, which allows musicians to share their work with others and allows readers to identify their favorites. More...

Digital Storytelling Cookbook
Via elearningpost, this guide to storytelling is worth a look. I use some, but not all, of the elements. My items always have a distinct point of view and I do from time to time 'experiment' with emotional content ('experiment' isn't really the right word for me). More...

A New Kind of Academic Freedom
Interesting item from Syllabus (though sponsored by HP, so read with the appropriate grain of salt) discussing the evolution of wireless access on campus. In some ways a bit dated (for example, discussing the 'current' 802.11b standard) and a bit wide-eyed (for example, observing that students will access the net from unusual places) but still a good way to catch some of the promise wireless brings to educational computing. More...

New Service Connects Prospective Online Faculty With Institutions Offering Online Courses
When people say 'on demand' as in those IBM commercials they usually mean content or software. But probably the major 'on demand' application will be services, and in particular, people. More...