RIT press to be on-demand
Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Graphic Arts Press has signed a deal with Lulu.com to print the Institute's publication on an on-demand basis rather than as a standard press run. The plan eliminates the risk inherent with academic publishing: returns of unpurchased stock. More...

Shoeless and Bark Online Project Blog
Jennifer Wagner wrote in EdTech today, "I have never yet had a blog which was not compromised by someone posting inappropriate and harmful information which then becomes available to my students and participants." I know how that feels; I cleaned out more detritus from my own website this weekend. More...

Redland RDF Language Bindings
This has been around for a while, though the Perl implementation appears to be only a couple of months old. Redland is a set of free software packages that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF). It's written in C, but there are bindings to Perl, Python, PHP and more. More...

rel="nofollow"
The rumour floating through the either is that Google are soon to announce that they won't be calculating PageRank for links with a rel="nofollow" attribute. More...

Technorati Launches Tags
There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days about Technorati Tags. Alan Levine offers a summary. More. More. Drawing on similar concepts used by Flickr and del.icio.us, the idea is that you create what amounts to a hidden link in a blog post to point to a Technorati topic: the topics, in turn, are created by users, a type of Folksonomy (if these names and terms are mysteries to you, click on the [Research] link to find more information - my own version of Tags, which I've been using for several years. More...

RSS_LOM
Work on RSS_LOM continues as Brian Sutherland offers another proposed revision. RSS_LOM has tested successfully in RSS aggregators, which means that it can be used to transport learning object metadata. Some open questions remain about the encoding of the metadata within the RSS file. More...

Creative Problem-Solving Process
Dave Pollard writes, "It appears there may be as many as 12 steps in the process involved in solving problems or making critical decisions, whether in a business context or a broader social context." He presents this process in a useful and clear diagram. More...

The Yahoo Problem, And Its Solution
Dave Winer points to what he calls the 'Yahoo Problem' - the need for a website to list a long list of buttons to allow users of different RSS aggregator software to subscribe to a feed, or worse, a content site favouring one particular aggregator (as CNN does with Yahoo, hence the 'problem'). More...

The Blog Blog
Dave Pell launches a blog called the Blog Blog, a blog about blogs (and I set the record for the most uses of the word 'blog' in a sentence). More...

Network EducationWare
Scott Leslie finds the Holy Grail: an open source audio-visual web conferencing system. As Leslie notes, it was developed by Mark Pullen and others at George Mason University and has been around since 2002. More...