A Day at the Office in 2013
A cautionary note amid a workplace utopia: "On this day, at 8:30 am, Gregor Samson will receive his first "referral," an auto-generated, monthly employee report from the CSI. More...
12 avril 2018
12 avril 2018
ISPs 'Should Pay' for Music Swapping
ISPs 'Should Pay' for Music Swapping
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is toying with the idea of asking for a tax on internet service providers (ISPs) that allow users to use file trading systems. More...
12 avril 2018
2003 Annual Speaker Survey
2003 Annual Speaker Survey
Promoters of the 2003 Distance Learning conference in Wisconsin have distributed this list of topics previous conference speakers expect to set the agenda for this year. Most of the projections are hit and miss. More...
12 avril 2018
Image Gate
Image Gate
From the website: "Image Gate is The New York Public Library's first full working version of its new digital image database. Image Gate provides free and open access to thousands of The New York Public Library's digitized images, taken from the Research Libraries' collections. More...
12 avril 2018
So Sorry Adobe Urges More DMCA Busts
So Sorry Adobe Urges More DMCA Busts
This white paper touts the benefits of e-learning in supply chain management. If you need ammunition for a business case this paper may help you. More...
12 avril 2018
Preliminary Heuristics for the Design and Evaluation of Online Communities of Practice Systems
Preliminary Heuristics for the Design and Evaluation of Online Communities of Practice Systems
Though they claim to have discovered "uncovered additional issues previously unrecognized", the source for this warmed-over set of best practices for online communities is now thoroughly obscured, recycled as it is as a set of "heuristics drawn from published academic research into online communities of practice." More...
12 avril 2018
Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Together at last?
Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Together at last?
Discussion of the recenrly formed alliance between the technology companies and the recording industry which asks whether it should be up to these two entities on their own to decide the future of copyright. And the answer is, of course, no. More...
12 avril 2018
Getting a Handle on Learning Content Management Systems
Getting a Handle on Learning Content Management Systems
I wish people would stop using the phrase "human capital" as the author does at the start of this article. It implies - as did its predecessor "human resources" - that people can be owned by corporations. I feel the same way when I'm told that "our people are our greatest asset." But I am not anyone's asset! I am an independent agent in a democratic society who has agreed to exchange some of my services in exchange for a compensation package including money, benefits and - yes - learning. More...
12 avril 2018
The Albuquerque Journal as a Bad Paid Content Model
The Albuquerque Journal as a Bad Paid Content Model
Though this article covers paid content for news access, providers of online learning content should read carefully. I have commented frequently that the market for online content is two-time order of magnitude smaller than traditional - that is, if it cost $100 originally, it should cost $1 online. More...
12 avril 2018
The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
Clay Shirkey makes two important points in this article. First, deduction is not nearly so useful as proponents of the semantic web imagine. And second, people will always have differing views. Both appear to seriously undercut the potential value of the semantic web, even when it is realized. More...
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