del.icio.us bookmarks for Tuesday January 10 2006
10-January-2006
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Archives of JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK [ email list for JISC repositories discussions set up by the JISC Digital
discussion of cross-domain and international repository technologies and activities, plus any other repository-related issues. For discussion and support relating to repository interoperability in e-learning, please use the CETIS Metadata & Digita
/elearning/interoperability email-list opendock standards/metadata webtech/repositories
del.icio.us bookmarks for Wednesday January 11 2006
11-January-2006
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MyGlu | Stephen's Web; January 9, 2006
a script I wrote today (I'll clean it up and add to it over the next week or so) which performs the functionality of SuprGlu - that is, it brings together different RSS feeds into a single display - does it in such a way as to allow you to put your Glu on
/DLA PLE elearning/tools elearning2.0 elearning2.0/issues open-source-product rss/aggregators rss/utilities web2.0/issues -
OUseful Info: Web 2.0 for Who? [ commentary on announcement of Stephen Downes' MyGlu utility
I think it's fair to ask the question: Web 2.0 allows who to do all this neat remixing and mashing stuff?.. there are 3 broad ways of making the most of Web2.0 in an interoperability/mashing sense (rather than a content co-creation sense)
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Alt-i-lab 2005 | IMS Global Learning Consortium: : includes ppt for talks by Diana Laurillard,Paul Clark,Ed Walker,Sarah Porter,Kimberly Voltero,Kevin Riley,Chris Vento,Colin Tattersall,Jeff Merriman,Tom Probert
docs from 2005 event - watch for 2006 call (?)..[incl A Strategic View of eLearning;Measuring the Impact of E-Learning;How will we know we are succeeding?;The e-Framework for Education and Research;Microsoft's and Interoperability in eLearning;Disruptive
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UKOLN - Web Focus - Events - Joint UCIS/UKOLN/CETIS Workshop 2006 - details of a joint UCISA/UKOLN/CETIS workshop on Initiatives & Innovation: Managing Disruptive Technologies which will be held at the University of Warwick on Friday 24th February 2006.
This workshop will explore the issues involved in managing potentially disruptive technologies and will work towards a framework that can be used to balance the demands for innovation and constant development with the need for stability and security.
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TELCERT: Research, Innovation, Education : TELCERT is a research and innovation project under the European Union's 6th Framework programme.
Our aim is to help transform the adoption of standards-based e-Learning products and services. TELCERT supports the European priority to bring the economic and social benefits of more available education to all.
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The Open Group: Boundaryless Information Flow through interoperability [ Over 200 member organizations, with over 6,000 participants in The Open Group activities from 19 countries ]
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ will enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability.
/standards-org standards/evangelism theory/architectures theory/comp-sci
del.icio.us bookmarks for Thursday January 12 2006
12-January-2006
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Subway Web framework [python] : The Subway project aims to create a Web development stack combining the ideas and spirit of Ruby on Rails with a comprehensive suite of prewritten Python web libraries and tools.
Subway builds extensively upon the solid foundation of CherryPy + ships with the fastest Python WSGI (web) server. CherryPy has been gaining popularity - a mature, stable at version 2.1; very clean and elegant framework to develop web applications in
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zopewiki.org Internationalization - links and intros on i18n L10n esp in zope / plone
good but slightly out of date links list resource on basics and tech / frameworks
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zopewiki.org Internationalization - links and intros on i18n L10n esp in zope / plone
good but slightly out of date links list resource on basics and tech / frameworks
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Flickr: PictureAustralia - FlickR and the National Library of Australia are embarking on an exciting initiative to offer individuals the opportunity to include their images of contemporary Australia in the PictureAustralia service through FlickR.
By adding images to this group, individuals are able to, for the first time, contribute to and enrich a valuable collection which has so far been the sole domain of large collecting institutions. This is done by collecting the metadata and thumbnails from
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The Del.icio.us Bookmarklet I’d Like to See | Contentious : Wouldn’t it be great if, when I hit that Del.icio.us bookmarklet, I got a menu of my current accounts on that service. I’d select one, and then bookmark the page as I normally do.
[his use-pattern includes >>1 del accts] update notes that with Del.icio.us extension for Firefox,managing posts to multiple Del.icio.us accounts is no longer a hassle - but I find the firefox extension tagging interface v awkward compared to del's bmlet
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OUseful Info: Peer Review 2.0 [ modest ruminative proposal for hybridising blogosphere-cred-like with peer-review-like metrics ]
if blog posts do have a place at the bottom of the academic publication chain, then it would perhaps be interesting if the academic publishers started exploring ways of introducing academic quality measures such as some form of peer review. The payoff
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Englaze Archive - archive and photoplay DVD for Flickr
Englaze Archive will create a data DVD backup of your original flickr photos, the original uploaded sizes, and preserve titles and captions (not comments). It costs US$29.95 for the first 1000 photos and then $4 for each next set of 1000 (I am now at only
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Learning Objects: RIP or 1.0? at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net
David Wiley just wrote an excellent post about the "death" of learning objects. He's right on the mark, emphasizing the learning part of the buzzword. I just wanted to add some thoughts from the perspective of a "learning objects" software developer
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RIP-ping on Learning Objects | iterating toward openness
There have been lots of articles around the blogosphere of late ringing the death bell for learning objects. I've been doing a lot of thinking about these and come to the troubling conclusion that I don't think I care if learning objects are dead or not.
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TailRank - TailRank is a social news recommendation system and collaborative filter. We spider the blogosphere finding hot news so you don't have to!
Unlike other global systems we provide custom ranking specific to the user. We're able to do this by monitoring the feeds in which you're interested
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I Wish Blog Comments Were Easier to Follow | AMY GAHRAN: The Right Conversation [ astute take on issues in distributed discussions ]
I see three basic problems with following conversations that occur in blog comments: Finding it; where's it spreading; staying connected. [ looks at partial solutions like comments and search feeds and piggybacking del. to monitor your own comments ]
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Over the Shoulder Learning: Supporting Brief Informal Learning. Michael B. Twidale; Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Vol. 14, No. 6. (December 2005), pp. 505-547.
reviews work on informal technical help giving between colleagues. It concentrates on the process of how colleagues help each other to use a computer application to achieve a specific work task, contrasting this with the focus of much prior work on surrou
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google earth for Mac 0S-X (10.4 +) released | Official Google Blog: Google Earth in a Mac world (PC too)
we have a brand new member of the family -- Google Earth for Macintosh. We're happy to finally have some good news for the, ahem, vocal Mac enthusiasts we've been hearing from. Let's just say that we have gotten more than a few "requests" for a Mac versio
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dom scripting to use Safari search widget with extra-graceful degradation | Re-re-re-re-re-re-design : Chaotic intransient prose bursts (archives/001609)
hmmm - safari allows slick search widget; this post shows one way to use it and degrade well in other browsers. search widget that is supported by Safari mimics the standard OSX search field that was introduced in 10.3. It has a popup menu with recent se
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xoxo - Microformats : XOXO is a simple, open outline format written in standard XHTML and suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. XOXO is one of several microformat open standards
based on the module framework and modules defined in Modularization of XHTML XHTMLMOD. The purpose of the XOXO document type is to serve as the basis for XHTML friendly outlines for processing by XML engines and for easy interactive rendering by browsers
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attentionxml : Attention.XML is an open standard, built on open source (see XOXOSampleCode) that helps you keep track of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to.
Attention.XML is designed to to solve these problems and enable a whole new class of blog and feed related applications: How many sources of information must you keep up with? Tired of clicking the same link from a dozen different blogs? RSS readers colle
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Microformats Primer | Digital Web Magazine; By Garrett Dimon, November 14, 2005
Microformats are about using the standards we all know and love to convey as much semantic meaning as possible. Think of them as semantic best practices. They use current XHTML tags such as address, cite, and blockquote and attributes such as rel, rev, an
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Don’t Invent XML Languages | Tim Bray, ongoing; you can invent your own XML languages to help you solve your own problems. But I’ve become convinced, over the last couple of years, that you shouldn’t. Unless you really have to. This piece explains w
suggests alt starting points, eg XHTML + Microformats · If you’re delivering information to humans over the Web, even if you don’t think of it as “Web Pages”, it’s almost certainly insane not to use XHTML. Yes, XHTML is semantically weak and do
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Crash course in learning theory | Creating Passionate Users: a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design).
EXCELLENT, VIVID, COMMON-SENSE, WELL-ILLUSTRATED as always from Kathy Sierra's writing. 3000+ words. Much of it is based around courses I designed and taught at UCLA Extension's New Media/Entertainment Studies department. This is the long version, and my
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24 ways: Have Your DOM and Script It Too - sweetly devious trick to AJAX in both content + javascript execution, using onload handler in image tag in markup set as innerHTML [eg kupu loads when ajax in an edit form?]
Wouldn’t it be cool if browsers interpreted the contents of script tags crammed into innerHTML? By tacking a tiny image onto the end of the HTML returned by our Ajax call, we can smuggle our arbitrary JavaScript into the existing document.
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S5 1.2a1 | Eric's Archived Thoughts: new S5 version includes NotesView (from Shaun Inman), bug fixes, better Konquerer and much better Opera support, and permalinks to slides (progress-bar)
5 1.2 alpha 1 is now available (177 KB Zip archive), and you can play with either the OSF or XOXO versions of the latest development version if you just want to preview it online. In addition, I’ve set up a contact address specifically for S5 questions
/S5 standards/file-formats tools/presentation
del.icio.us bookmarks for Tuesday January 17 2006
17-January-2006
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RepoMMan : The RepoMMan project, University of Hull, UK, is investigating (amongst other things) the development of a workflow tool to assist users of a highly flexible digital repository.
Thus far we have been collecting together the tools that we will need to develop the software and interviewing researchers about their current practices. Researchers form the first of our target groups.
/JISC elearning/interoperability opendock projects/UK webtech/metadata webtech/repositories webtech/workflow
del.icio.us bookmarks for Wednesday January 18 2006
18-January-2006
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OpenSpectrumUK: News Open Spectrum UK is an ad hoc coalition of non-profit organisations engaged in community wireless networking and the promotion of license-free access to the public airwaves.
The availability of spectrum for license-exempt use has enabled us to develop cost-effective, user-owned networks to provide Internet access and localised information services for the benefit of many thousands of UK residents (January 2005)
/activism/webtech policy/wireless
del.icio.us bookmarks for Friday January 20 2006
20-January-2006
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GPLv3 Draft — GPLv3 | Free Software Foundation
first draft of GPL3 released for comments. see also tim bray's posting of a more printable format at ongoing.org
/documentation open-source/licenses policy/open-source
