Edu_RSS Upgrade
My RSS aggregation service, Edu_RSS, has two new features. First, an RSS feed of the aggregated listings is now available for harvesting by other services. More...

New Jersey Institute of Technology Prohibits File Sharing on Its Campus
Probably a sign of a trend, the move by this campus reflects the concern that administrators feel over the recent billion dollar lawsuits filed against students by the music industry. But look, this is a temporary solution at best, because what makes music downloads stand out today is the size of the file. More...

Maricopa Learning Exchange
Maricopa has long been a leader in online learning (an early winner of NAWeb Awards, for example) and so it is not surprising to see it right at the cutting edge of what may be an important trend sweeping through online learning: the syndication of learning objects using technologies like RSS (I will have a lot more to say about this over the next few weeks, so stay tuned). More...

E-payment as Advantage
"It's no surprise," argues this article, "that colleges and universities would pick up on what Amazon.com and other online businesses learned years ago: Make it easy to pay for goods or services online, and everyone wins." The article describes a number of online payment options offered by colleges and universities in the United States (of course, institutions in many other countries are also dabbling in this area). More...

CAREO RSS Prototyle Goes Live
The second institution to offer learning object syndication is the University of Calgary (Maricopa was first; see below. My feeds don't count because I'm not an educational institution). More...

Rich Site Summary (RSS) Links and Information

I'm still on the road in Ottawa, still struggling with slow dial-up lines, and so way behind in my links. So of course it is this week - perhaps prompted by my railing at IMS last week - that one of my long-time passions is coming to fruition. More...

New Technology Could Cut Down on Whistleblowing
More on Microsoft's Windows Rights Management software. The tenor of this article - along with most discussions of the new technology over the weekend - is that the system will be used to protect corporate documents from being released by whistle-blowers. More...