By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Andrew Nachison, Director: Digital Think, MediaCenter November 9, 2005

Interesting presentation of this book in an online format (though the static pop-up window was tiny on my screen). You'll probably enjoy the video and the navigation and the photography, though I fear the message is lost behind the presentation. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ina Fried: Gates Memo Warns of Disruptive Changes, ZD Net November 9, 2005

If the changes are disruptive for Microsoft you can count on them being disruptive to the rest of us. "Developers needing tools and libraries to do their work just search the Internet, download, develop and integrate, deploy, refine," [Microsoft employee Ray] Ozzie wrote. "Speed, simplicity and loose coupling are paramount." That's totally not the Microsoft way of doing things, of course, and Ozzie's memo, cited by Bill Gates, lists a bevy of missed opportunities for the software giant. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Luigi Canali De Rossi: The First RSS Newsmastering Engine For Search Professionals: MySyndicaat, Robin Good November 9, 2005

I tried out MySyndicaat this morning and while it boasts some impressive features - most notably the ability to bring together RSS feeds, searches, and group bookmarks into one environment (complete with filtering and other goodies), I found it hard to use and unintuitive. Six or so hours later it had not yet harvested my feed (greatly exceeding the 30 seconds promised). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. D'Arcy Norman: Intro to Weblogs and RSS Presentation, D'Arcy Norman dot Net November 9, 2005

This showed up in my podcatcher this morning with no sound and no context (I use a very basic application to listen to podcasts - well, OK, it's a handwritten bash script that snags the files and dumps them into a directory). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Chris Clark: Learnitology Podcast @ Notre Dame November 9, 2005

Just launched. As Chris Clark observes, "The Learning Technology Lab at the University of Notre Dame has released its first "Learnitology" podcast. The goal is to encourage faculty to consider exploring use of technology in their courses. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sebastian Rahtz: OSS Watch, Jisc November 9, 2005

Jazzy new website with RSS feeds and everything. "OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance about free and open source software for UK further and higher education." Seriously, it looks great, is easy to read, and has some interesting content. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Graham Attwell: Personal Learning Environments are Getting Closer, The Wales-Wide Web November 9, 2005
Kudos to the Personal Learning Environments Blog for posting the best logo I've seen in a long while (if you don't see it, your email reader does not support .png images). As Graham Attwell says of personal learning environments, "Instead of the learner logging in to a university based system the leaner is able to integrate multiple contexts and sources of learning and develop their own 'learning mix'. More...