By Scott Jaschik. Charitable giving to colleges reached $46,730,000,000 in 2017-18, a one-year increase of 7.2 percent, or 4.6 percent when adjusted for inflation. More...
1 mars 2019
1 mars 2019
Government 2.0 Slammed
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Government 2.0 Slammed
I am supportive of the idea of decentralizing government, but not at the expense of placing governance into the hands of undemocratic institutions. I have often made the point that no society is democratic until its institutions are democratic. Its institutions include things like government agencies, corporations, NGOs and non-profits, schools and universities, and the like. More...
1 mars 2019
Revenge of the Blog People!
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Revenge of the Blog People!
American Library Association president Michael Gorman has spoken again, this time asserting that "the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote." Gorman, recall, argued that "Massive databases of digitized whole books, especially scholarly books, are expensive exercises in futility..." He now writes that he is not against digitization. More...
1 mars 2019
Global Digital Divide Narrowing
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Global Digital Divide Narrowing
The global digital divide is rapidly closing, asserts the World Bank, which then uses this information to criticize a United Nations program to increase usage and access to technology in poorer nations. More...
1 mars 2019
A Little More on DRM
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Little More on DRM
A recent paper from the Cato Institute has drawn the ire of copyright activists as it insists that while governments should continue to protect the "property rights" of copyright holders, market solutions should be allowed to define the integration of digital rights management (DRM) with peer to peer (P2P) file sharing technologies. More...
1 mars 2019
Knowledge Management Systems
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Knowledge Management Systems
George Siemens links to this useful course outline linking to numerous useful works on knowledge management. He comments, "When an instructor puts a course like this online (as compared to a password-protected LMS), many people benefit (and the institution doesn't really lose anything by sharing)." Quite right. More...
1 mars 2019
Report Faults Bush Initiative on Education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Report Faults Bush Initiative on Education
A report tabled yesterday by a bipartisan panel of legislators condemns the No Child Left Behind Act, calling it "a flawed, convoluted and unconstitutional education reform initiative that had usurped state and local control of public schools." This New York article also cites criticisms of the report by a representative from the Business Roundtable. More...
1 mars 2019
Markdown
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Markdown
Sweet. A free and open source Perl script that translates ordinary text into correct HTML or XHTML. Works a lot like a wiki script, except that it can function as a plug-in for Moveable Type, Blosxom, or BBEdit (along with, presumably, your home grown Perl programs). More...
1 mars 2019
Music Industry Doesn't Need More Government Protection
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Music Industry Doesn't Need More Government Protection
When the recording industry calls opponents of copyright extension 'communist' or, in this case, 'comrade', it is to hide their own dependence on the big hand of government to defend their interests. More...
1 mars 2019
An Analytical World View: Tsunami Crisis
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Analytical World View: Tsunami Crisis
A lot of people, when they compare blogs (and personal publishing in general), tend to compare on a one-to-one basis: how a given blog compares to a given newspaper, how a given blog compares to a course or program. This article shows nicely the effect of the blogosphere taken as a whole, not as one of its parts. More...
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