e-Clippings 3.09.2003

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff
life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must
regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
John Milton, 1608 - 1674
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I checked the other day and I actually have almost 6 GBs of music on
my laptop. Geez. Anyway, some days I want to burn a new mix cd but
just can't seem to figure out where to start. Well now there is
help for and for tohers similarly afflicted:
Art of the Mix
http://www.artofthemix.org/
is a site dedicated to exactly to what you think- great mixes. Search
by song or artist find your target mood and chances are someone else
has already been the prgram director for the perfect CD. Nice.

more coolness of content:
Henry Jenkins
http://web.mit.edu/21fms/www/faculty/henry3/

Jesper Juul
http://www.jesperjuul.dk/text/

…and Mark wishes he were going to: http://www.gdconf.com/ and
http://www.gdcmobile.com/ - since I'm out anyway, I'll just
swing
by http://www.e3expo.com/.

Welcome to the new online home of The University of California
International and Area Studies (UCIAS) Digital Collection — a
peer- reviewed electronic publications program.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/
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NEWS

Western Governors U. Finally Wins Regional Accreditation: Wednesday,
February 26, 2003: By DAN CARNEVALE: Western Governors University, a
virtual institution, was granted regional accreditation on Tuesday by
a group of four accrediting agencies. Officials at the university
believe the news will legitimize distance education and
competency-based education in the eyes of other institutions.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003022601t.htm

Saba donates free SCORM testing tool to community.: Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS staff March 06, 2003 : Now this is the sort of thing that
benefits everyone. Saba's decision to release the SCORM Detective
tool basically means three things: it demonstrates industry support
for standards in general -and those of specific players in
particular!- it directly helps achieve interoperability and promotes
understanding of the specs in the community too.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030306181724

CTF Launches Publication to Examine E-Learning: The Canadian
Teachers' Federation recently launched a new publication called
"Virtual Education, Real Educators: Issues in Online Learning," which
probes issues related to e-learning and offers guidelines to inform
policy development and technology implementation in Canadian schools.
"This publication is intended to assist teachers to critically
examine the claims for online education in the context of their own
classrooms and profession," says CTF President Doug Willard.
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/March2003/04/c6844.html

Education Group Wants Distance-Education Restrictions to Be Relaxed
Permanently Thursday, February 27, 2003: By DAN CARNEVALE:
Washington: The American Council on Education is lobbying Congress to
let the Department of Education decide which institutions can ignore
distance-learning rules, even as lawmakers consider weakening one of
the regulations instead. But officials at the council argue that
their proposal is the better option for expanding access to online
education while maintaining protections against possible fraud and
abuse.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003022702t.htm

The New Military-Industrial Complex: To arm for digital-age war, the
Pentagon has turned to a new generation of defense contractors. The
hardware is impressive. It's also deadly.
By Ian Mount, David H. Freedman, Matthew Maier, March 2003 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,47023,00.html?ref=bonus

Thinking Outside the Tank: Calif.'s Institute for Creative
Technologies Puts Tinseltown Talent to Work on Military Defense: By
Sharon Waxman: Washington Post Staff Writer: Friday, March 7, 2003;
Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54294-2003Mar6.html

Providing the Technology Vision: Federal Government's Chief
Information Officers at Center of E-Gov Revolution: By Cynthia L.
Webb: washingtonpost.com Staff Writer: Thursday, March 6, 2003; 12:00
AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47136-2003Mar5.html
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TRENDS SECTION

"Guided Discovery Teaching Methods and Reusable Learning Objects" by
Kim Ruyle and Peder Jacobsen: Kim Ruyle, a Masie CONSORTIUM
colleague, teams up with Peder Jacobsen to write part 1 of an
interesting, intensive, and highly useful case study. It details the
e-learning strategy Deere & Company implemented when senior
management shifted its strategic focus to increased Shareholder Value
Added (SVA). The crucial need for employees to understand SVA
fundamentals called for an innovative, learner-centered plan. Ruyle
and Jacobsen articulate two of the plan's goals and their processes
in achieving them while making headway in the world of developing
truly reusable learning objects. http://www.elearn
ingguild.com/pdf/2/020303DEV-H.pdf

(NY Times requires free registration)
The Internet as Jukebox, at a Price: March 6, 2003: By DAVID POGUE
Befuddlement (n.): 1. Confusion resulting from failure to understand.
2. Loss of sense of direction, position, or relationship with one's
surroundings. 3. The state of the recording industry as it tries to
sell music on the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06stat.html

U. of California International-Studies Program Offers Free
Peer-Reviewed Articles Online By SCOTT CARLSON: An
international-studies division at the University of California at
Berkeley has created a new online- publication program that will
offer peer-reviewed academic articles to the public free through a
Web site.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003030401t.htm

Q&A With Diana Laurillard: By Lisa Neal, Editor-In-Chief, eLearn
Magazine, & Managing Consultant, EDS Learning Solutions
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?arti
cle_pk=6442&page_number_nb=2&title=FEATURE%20STORY

Toward a Smarter Organization: "A comprehensive approach to learning
with an emphasis on productivity should include specific elements to
address all professional development aspects for a workforce. We
refer to the model as a productivity pyramid, which includes
e-communication, e-training and e-assessment. Collectively, these
three components nurture a system that allows organizational
competence and workforce output to be measured and enhanced."
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_col_
pyramid.asp?articleid=123&zoneid=96

British Girl Baffles Teacher with SMS Essay: Sun Mar 2, 9:14 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - An English essay written by a British teenager in
text messaging short-hand has reignited concern among teachers that
literacy standards are under threat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=5
82&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20030303/wr_nm/odd_britain_texting_dc

A New Set of Social Rules for a Newly Wireless Society: Mobile media
are bringing sweeping changes to how we coordinate, communicate, and
share information. Mizuko Ito Posted: 2003-02-14
http://www.ojr.org/japan/wireless/1043770650.php

Toward a Smarter Organization: March 2003 - Tom Kelly and Nader
Najiani Internet learning, or e-learning, will remain a key means for
achieving productivity gains in organizations. A simplistic view,
however, is not only misleading but also costly. A comprehensive
approach to learning with an emphasis on productivity should include
specific elements to address all professional development aspects for
a workforce. We refer to the model as a productivity pyramid, which
includes e-communication, e-training and e- assessment.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_col_
pyramid.asp?articleid=123&zoneid=96

Learning in the Large Enterprise: Centralized vs. Decentralized:
March 2003 - Joe Ellis and Todd Mauldin: The debate over the
centralization versus decentralization of operations within a large
enterprise is a never-ending one. It is an age-old battle of
standardization versus autonomy, corporate efficiency versus local
effectiveness and pressure on costs and resources versus
accommodation of specific local needs. A popular theory states that
organizations vacillate between a strong centralization philosophy
and a strong decentralization philosophy in roughly three-year cycles.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_feat
ure.asp?articleid=128&zoneid=30

"E-Learning ROI: How to Build Your Business Case" by Gili Gordon
Feeling pressure for results but confused about how to prove them?
Gili Gordon understands. The problem, he thinks, is in the roots. He
provides innovative guidelines for creating a "pilot" e-learning
project as a model for measuring the ever-elusive e-learning ROI. He
thinks ROI needs a new definition for e-learning, one which
encompasses all of its measurable components, and details a plan for
applying the six steps of the 80/20 ROI Rule to a control group which
can serve as a microcosm of the company. http://ww
w.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=46418

**This is one of the more ridiculous stories I've read in a long
time! Who are these idiot students PAYING to find out what their
prof.s are like? That kind of info was always the worst kind of
secret on campus – traded like baseball cards in the student
lounge.**
Picking Apart Pick-A-Prof: Does the popular online service help
students find good professors, or just easy A's? By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i26/26a03301.htm

"What Works" by Ioulia Khitrykh and Eric Nelson
The benefits of e-learning are myriad. But don't be fooled, warn
Khitrykh and Nelson. Not all content is appropriate for online
delivery. Their study will help keep you focused on the facts amidst
the permeating hype surrounding e-learning. They cite reasons
preventing organizational support of e-learning initiatives and
dichotomize content into that more effectively handled in online and
traditional classroom arenas. They based the article on the results
of a 2002 best-practices survey of six e-learning implementers at
major companies and also provide insight into respondents' blending
techniques. http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/jan2003/nelson.htm

(NY Times requires free registration)
For PC Buying, a New Picture: By MICHEL MARRIOTT
GERRIT VOOREN braved an icy Manhattan morning last week to press his
search for just the right new computer. It had to be powerful,
crammed with hundreds of megabytes of memory, and have enough hard-
drive space to hold a vast music library and hours upon hours of
digital video.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06upgr.html

Cyborg logs and collective stream of (de)consciousness capture for
producing attribution-free informatic content such as cyborglogs by
Steve Mann
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_2/mann/index.html

Oregon considers Open Source software legislation: By Robin Miller,
NewsForge.com Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:36 GMT: A bill introduced in
the Oregon State Legislature on March 5 by Rep. Phil Barnhart
"requires state government to consider using open source software
when acquiring new software." Sounds good -- if it passes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29635.html
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Digitized Battlefield Puts Friend and Foe in Sight -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A305
10-2003Mar2.html?referrer=email

Lawmakers' Web Sites Improving, Report Finds - It is not the Internet
Revolution on Capitol Hill that we have been promised. But over the
past year, scores of lawmakers have vastly improved their Web sites,
transforming them from little more than fancy advertisements into
"virtual offices" that provide an array of services to their
constituents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A305
78-2003Mar2.html?referrer=email

What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a
thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model?: Wednesday, January 15 2003
@ 09:12 PM PST: Contributed by: jernst This excellent overview was
contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company. Many
organizations and companies are struggling with these terms and the
ideas behind them; this set of definitions will help to clarify.
http://www.metamodel.com/article.php?story=20030115211223271

As Promised, a Good Internet Phone - Vonage DigitalVoice uses a fast
Internet connection to channel voice phone service all but
indistinguishable from a land line.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A190
83-2003Feb28.html?referrer=email

(NY Times requires free registration)
Making Robots More Like Us: By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE
CALL it crazy, but Monica Nicolescu has taken a robot under her wing.
At a robotics laboratory at the University of Southern California,
she puts the two-wheeled machine through its paces, leading it
through a maze of short plastic pillars to an orange box on the
floor. It follows her around the lab, observing and reproducing her
every step.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06robo.html

One Wireless App, Many Devices: A startup solves a problem that's
vexed mobile- application developers for years.: By Rafe Needleman,
March 06, 2003
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,47730,00.html

Future PDAs: Savvier Tour Guides? By Elisa Batista: 02:00 AM Mar. 08,
2003 PT PALO ALTO, California -- You're standing on a street corner
in San Francisco, and you're craving a gyro. Wouldn't it be nice if
you could whip out your PDA or cell phone and have it point you to
the nearest Greek joint?
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57968,00.html
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

U.S. Set for Mobile Game Invasion By Elisa Batista: 02:00 AM Mar. 06,
2003 PT SAN JOSE, California -- New York. San Francisco. Chicago.
Boston. Pick any major city in the United States and most likely
you'll spot dozens of yammering passersby with cell phones glued to
their ears.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57889,00.html

Don't mess with 802.11g, researcher warns: By Tony Smith: Posted:
07/03/2003 at 17:17 GMT Businesses have this week been warned to
steer clear of 802.11g wireless LAN technology by market research
organisation Gartner.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/29651.html

NEC, Hitachi prep notebook fuel cells: By Tony Smith: Posted:
07/03/2003 at 15:42 GMT NEC and Hitachi have joined the mad dash to
devise fuel cells for notebook computers and other mobile devices.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29648.html

Law Enforcement Puts Handhelds to Work on the Road: By Frank Yacano,
SYWARE on Saturday, March 1, 2003: SYWARE's Visual CE and Crossroads
Software's handheld application give police officers a new tool for
writing citations, collecting information.
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?action=expand,9388
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GAMING SECTION

The Games-to-Teach Project is a partnership between MIT and Microsoft
to develop conceptual prototypes for the next generation of
interactive educational entertainment. In our first year, we
developed conceptual frameworks of games for math, science, and
engineering education. This year, we are developing prototypes of two
of these titles for testing and developing five more conceptual
frameworks of games in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
http://cms.mit.edu/games/education/

Video games without frontiers: Friday, 31 January, 2003, 10:21 GMT
By Mark Ward: BBC News Online technology correspondent: Keen gamers
can rejoice as US scientists are working on ways to make computer
games that never end. The researchers are adapting AI techniques used
for robot navigation to manage game worlds that constantly
present fresh challenges to players.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2708995.stm

The PLAY research studio investigates and invents the future of
human-computer interaction. As computers become more and more a part
of everyday life, the previous view of computers as strictly a
work-oriented tool will change. We believe that in the future,
computation will become just another material for design, and take a
natural place in human existence alongside other basic technologies
such as writing and electricity. The research in PLAY will prepare us
for that future.
http://www.playresearch.com/

International Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation: a web-based
publication of the University of Wolverhampton UK and The Society for
Modeling and Simulation International (SCS Europe BVBA)
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/ijigs11.htm

Games anti piracy bot fingers ZX Spectrum archive site: By John
Lettice: Posted: 07/03/2003 at 13:58 GMT: Hot on the heels (actually,
earlier, but we only just heard about it) of yesterday's BSA robot
busts OpenOffice story we have a doppelganger - a games antipiracy
trawling operation with mesh so small we feel sure it must be in
breach of European fisheries legislation.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29646.html

Microsoft preps Xbox for arcades: By gamesindustry.biz
Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:20 GMT: A project within Microsoft's Xbox
division aimed at creating arcade systems based on the console's
hardware is coming close to bearing its first fruit, according to
reports from sources familiar with the plan.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29634.html

Games' copy protection cracked in days, says newsletter: By John
Lettice Posted: 06/03/2003 at 14:42 GMT: Russian copy protection
specialist StarForce Technology has stepped into the gap left by the
DoJ's repurposing of ISONews. Not, we presume, deliberately, but it's
a funny coincidence all the same.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29619.html
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SECURITY SECTION

Windows Root kits a stealthy threat: By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Online Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:53 GMT: Hackers are using vastly more
sophisticated techniques to secretly control the machines they've
cracked, and experts say it's just the beginning, say SecurityFocus'
Kevin Poulsen.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29638.html

Google closes Blogger security holes: By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Online Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:46 GMT: Internet search giant Google
confirmed this week that it closed several security holes that could
have allowed hackers to substitute their own musings for any of the
over one-million electronic diaries maintained through the popular
"Blogger" online publishing tool.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29637.html

Scan your browser's security for free: By John Leyden
Posted: 06/03/2003 at 15:39 GMT: Surfers are being offered a check on
the security of their browser with a free security tool.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29621.html
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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Google WebQuotes annotates the results of your Google search with
comments from other websites. This offers a convenient way to get a
third party's opinion about each of the returns for your search,
providing you with more information about that site's credibility and
reputation.
http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes

Senate Leader scraps website war poll, blaming hackers: By Andrew
Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 07/03/2003 at 22:55 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29654.html

RIAA's 'Hide The Website' game moves to Virginia: By Andrew Orlowski
in San Francisco Posted: 07/03/2003 at 20:41 GMT: The RIAA's
travelling "Hide The Website" gameshow rolled into Virginia this
week, with a new hosting company given the privilege (or curse) of
looking after one of the world's most reviled web destinations.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29653.html
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