Clear Channel Limits Live CDs
Selling a CD of a concert right after the show - seems pretty obvious, right? Not to the U.S. Patent Office, which granted a patent for it, and not to Clear Channel, which now intends to enforce this patent. More...

Improving Metadata Quality: Augmentation and Recombination
Nice paper looking at some of the issues faced by the National Science Digital Library in the process of incorporating from diverse sources. The problems encountered are typical of those documented elsewhere: missing data, incorrect data, confusing data and insufficient data. More...

The Educational Semantic Web
I haven't had time to write summaries for each of the papers in this issue, though they certainly deserve that (maybe next week). But I don't want to delay announcement of this special issue of JIME, featuring some of the major writers in the field, including Diana Oblinger, Rob Koper, and yes, myself. More...

Interim Report on Copyright Reform
This disappointing report (PDF) on copyright was published by a Canadian parliamentary committee and, as columnist Michael Geist says, "would transform the Internet from the incredible open source of information that it is into a predominantly commercial medium available primarily to those willing to open up their cheque books." The report is also bad news for educators. More...

The ESP Game
This is a link that came up during this week's conference. The ESP Game addresses the problem of creating metadata for images. Basically, nobody wants to spend hours and hours creating data for images. More...

Social Software Ideas
Some good suggestions for the design of social software, including: colloquial mapping, geographical opinion systems, collaborative consumed media, and extended reputation management. More...

Open Source a new way to Manage Classroom Computing
It's not that new any more, though I suppose to a number of people it will be. In any case, this article is a nice outline of how open source can be used to manage classroom computing. More...

Something Wiki This Way Comes
Via elearnspace and elearningpost, this article provides a brief introduction to the use of wikis in the workplace. More...

The Knowledge Tree
Rod sent me this link to the newsest edition of The Knowledge Tree. My flight leaves shortly, there's no neat table of contents, and so I can't really assess it. But according to the announcement it contains "voice technologies, Vygotskian learning for creativity, knowledge management for e-business improvement, employability skills, collaborative community partnerships, digital 'multiliteracies', regional health service transformation, RTO sustainability, games using mobiles - GUMS for 15-19 year olds, ROI from simulation training, change management, and stories of innovative research and good practice in corporate and public sector flexible learning." Yeah. More...

Da Vinci's Notebooks
This genuinely is the beauty of the web - an RSS feed showing one page of Da Vinci's Notebooks per day - a project that will take a little more than four years to complete. More...