Product Reviews
This is a neat idea, though the incompleteness of it is frustrating. From a database of 760 educational products, readers can search by keyword or product name. the idea is that this takes them to a product review. Or does it? I found no reviews in my searching, just a short description and a link to a website. More...

OneWorld Radio South Asia
Promoting itself as a Napster for development content, OneWorld Radio South Asia is distributing audio programs in south Asian languages that may be downloaded and rebroadcast by local radio stations. More...

A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services
The aggregation of online library resources has grown tremendously in the last year, as this comprehensive report demonstrates. More...

Howard Dean's Plan for the Internet: Collectivism In, Property Rights Out
If you can't establish your argument with reason and perhaps a little data, offer a hefty dose of Red baiting, complete with images of work camps and forced collectivism. This, at least, is the approach taken by the Cato Institute's Adam Thierer, who probably ought to know better. More...

Yahoo, NewsGator Extend RSS Aggregation
A stir has been created in the RSS community as news portal Yahoo! has been working with the format. A short lived trial run appeared on its beta site last week, setting of a flurry of activity. More...

New Digital Initiatives Have Import For All Higher Education
From the short article: One - the Distributed Open Digital Library initiative - will make more holdings of major research libraries accessible universally in an online, collaborative digital library. More...

The Death of Micropayments?
What can go wrong with micropayments? Just about everything. Consider what happened to those companies that tried and failed: ""Some were platform dependent, or asked for unreasonable percentages of the take, or relied on putting everything on a centralized site, which would make them a portal. It seemed like every one of them offered a different road to hell." But that does not entail the end of micropayments. More...

E-Discussion Toolkit
Good overview resource outlining the major steps involved in hosting an online discussion. Each step is described, with additional resources offered. Navigation is at the top of the page, so you'll have to scroll back up to find the next page. More...

RSS Support in CourseForum and ProjectForum
Evidence of the wider adoption of RSS in the e-learning world is provided here as CourseForum now supports RSS feeds. "Starting with version 3.2, an existing RSS feed from a website can be included directly inside any forum page. More...

Report Faults Charter Schools in New York
The good news is that these charter schools are being held accountable for results. The bad news is that they are performing so badly. More...