A Blueprint for Better Copyright Law
Criticism of a recent initiative by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) that would have ISPs terminate Canadian internet accounts where users are suspected of file sharing activities. Not only is the proposal bereft of anything like due process, as the author points out the American experience shows that numerous mistakes in take-down orders are common and that innocent third parties would be impacted. More...

Access All Areas
Summary report on the push toward open access publishing with an emphasis on Europe. An interesting statistic to note: 41% of scientific papers originate in Europe, compared with 31% in America (not sure whether that latter figure includes Canada). More...

First Look at MSN Blogs
Robert Scoble, of Microsoft fame, offers readers a glimpse at his still empty blog (in Japanese) at what is being called 'MSN Spaces' and has it taken apart line by line in this critical article. More...

Blinkx
Some people are saying that Blinkx is the next Google. I downloaded and installed the application this morening, and despite some usability issues, found that it does as promised: it searches both my personal files and the web in a single pass. No sign of the embedded application features, though, possibly because. More...

Word Circle
Open source online learning community software (in PHP). Pretty basic functionality, allowing instructors to add thoughts, calendar items, discussions and files. That said, the foundation seems firm and the code could easily be expanded to do more. More...

Impact on Students of Flexible Teaching & Learning - Quantitative Report
This item popped up in my DLORN Ticker this morning, via EdNA, and while most definitely not a learning object (properly so-called), it is a useful and well-structured study of student reactions to flexible learning in Tasmania. More...

There's One Born Every Minute
Brief report about eReader's offer of 250 public domain ebooks for $995 (for $1,495 you can get 500 titles). The author points out, quite rightly, that you can obtain these titles for free online at the Gutenberg Project. More...

Random Walk in E-Learning
Well-known e-learning researcher Albert Ip has given in to the inevitable ;) and launched a blog. More...

Assessing Understanding With Multiple-Choice Questions
A couple of short posts on writing multiple choice questions to evaluate not just knowledge, but also understanding and evaluation. More...

Protestant Majority Slips: A Sign of Things to Come in the LMS Wars
In what must be the oddest lede to ever mark an article on e-learning, this author introduces the coming diversity in LMS solutions available to colleges and universities by analogy with the apparently increasing diversity of religion in the United States. More...