e-Clippings 6.05.2003 "Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate
between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the
vital connection between them." - Leo Buscaglia
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Buzzwords:
Hyperactive Academia
http://www.kairosnews.org/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1925&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Social Software
http://www.headshift.com/moments/archive/sss2.html
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=11-l8riI2-9PLuhBANNF0snu3IhqIRR
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/

RSS
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html?page=1
http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm
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The Future of e-Learning Models and the Language We Use to Describe
Them: The objectives of this study are to establish a baseline of
current e-learning models from all sides of the equation –
producer, purchaser and consumer. The research will explore:
How valid are our current models of e-learning and how do they
limit/enable us in thinking about the future?
Based on those models that are valid – what are some models we
can expect to be prevalent in 3-5 years?
Where are the connections and gaps in our current set of language
that we use to describe the overall environment of e-learning?
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
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Special issue of 'Educational Technology & Society' (ISSN 1436-4522)
Call for papers: Theme "Ontologies and the Semantic Web for
E-learning"
* Important dates:
Deadlines for full papers: December 15, 2003
Review results: March 15, 2004
Final version of papers:April 15, 2004
Publication:October 2004
Submission procedure: All submissions should be forwarded as attached
files (MS-Word or RTF) to Prof Demetrios G Sampson at Sampson@...
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NEWS

Internet is dying - Prof. Lessig By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 15/05/2003 at 21:33 GMT: The Internet is dying, says Lawrence
Lessig, a law professor with a cult following amongst technophiles.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30733.html
and
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_05.shtml#001180

(NY Times requires free registration)
Sony Previews Many Talents of PlayStation: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
May 29, 2003: TOKYO, May 28 (AP) — Sony introduced a PlayStation
2 video game console today that has a built-in DVD recorder and hard
drive for storing data, part of a strategy to combine technologies in
hopes of raising the company's brand and restoring its profitability.
The new PlayStation 2, called the PSX, will go on sale in Japan this
year and is planned for the United States and Europe early next year,
said Ken Kutaragi, Sony's executive deputy president. He declined to
say how much the console would cost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/29SONY.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

Telcos Agree to Lay Fat Pipes By Associated Press: 02:20 PM May. 29,
2003 PT: NEW YORK -- The nation's three biggest regional phone
companies announced an agreement Thursday to standardize the
construction of residential fiber-optic networks, in hopes of getting
ultra-fast Internet connections to homes more quickly and less
expensively.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59035,00.html

**Hmmm, huge HR software company…enterprise-wide integration,
hmm…
Update: PeopleSoft Swallows J.D. Edwards: The new company will have
about $2.8 billion in annual revenue, 13,000 employees and more than
11,000 customers in 150 countries.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81732,00.html?nlid=PM
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2215341


TRENDS SECTION

Smarter, Simpler Social: An introduction to online social software
methodology Lee Bryant : Version 1.0, 18 April 2003
http://www.headshift.com/moments/archive/sss2.html

(NY Times requires free registration)
With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide
By MARK LANDLER: May 31, 2003: MANCHESTER, England, May 29 —
Three years ago, Shirley Hughes lived a life of dreary routine,
collecting welfare checks, bringing up two children as a single
mother, passing her evenings in front of the television. Today, she
teaches her neighbors how to use computers at a local college while
studying for a teaching certificate. At home, she skips in favor of
the Internet, which she surfs avidly, downloading patterns for
patchwork quilts, her favorite hobby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/technology/31WIFI.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

LET'S TALK ABOUT HIGH-TECH TEAMWORK TOOLS: By Patrick Houston
GROUPWARE: What's the best tool for collaborating with coworkers? Pat
looks at one company that says the phone makes the most sense--and
explains Microsoft's upcoming, PC-centric alternatives.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=32-Gx5IIrQC8BgStdEu3fwhUYxCNNuR

Media More Diverse? Not Really By Joanna Glasner: 02:00 AM May. 30,
2003 PT It's easy to argue that media options are more diverse than
ever -- Americans can sit in their living room, turn on the digital
cable set-top box and flip through 500 channels, or surf through a
dozen news sites on the computer.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59015,00.html

D-Lib: Developing a Content Management System-based Web Site
This article describes the development of a content management
system(CMS)-based web site for the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC), a UK strategic advisory body. It gives a nice
overview of the development process.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/kirriemuir/05kirriemuir.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

(NY Times requires free registration)
If You Behave Yourself, I'll Print You a Toy
By PETER WAYNER: May 29, 2003: VIEWED through the fantastic lens of
science fiction, three-dimensional printers seem as amazing as the
transporters in "Star Trek." In goes a digital idea of a thing and
out comes the thing itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29howw.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

Business Week: Macromedia updates e-learning tools: "The new
Authorware version, 7, includes a number of enhancements intended to
streamline the process of putting together such presentations, most
notably the ability to import files created in Microsoft's PowerPoint
software."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/1011757.htm

Real-time apps: Collaboration only a click away: We take an in-depth
look at presence-based applications, which are starting to come
online in the enterprise. DocFinder: 6146
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/0602presence.html

Web-services technology transforms staid CRM apps: And we analyze the
way Web Services are helping to create "composite" applications that
could also transform collaborative computing in the enterprise.
DocFinder: 6147
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/0602composite.html

Allied Data Technologies Introduces Wristwatch with Memory Capacity:
Tornado UMW: SPIJKENISSE, NETHERLANDS - June 2, 2003 (INB) - Allied
Data's retail division TORNADO continues expanding its product
portfolio. Tornado will soon introduce its latest ultra portable
solution: the Tornado USB Memory Watch (UMW). The Tornado UMW is a
stylish designed wristwatch with built-in memory capacity.
http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/archives/2003/june03/wristwatch.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Research In Motion (RIM) Monday unveiled two new BlackBerry wireless
handhelds, including its first model with a color display. http://www.
thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6762

Challenges And Opportunities For Wi-Fi: UCLA Professor Rajit Gadh
outlines the opportunities and challenges currently facing the Wi-Fi
community. Gadh oversees UCLA's wireless and mobile consortium.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81574,00.html?nlid=MW

IDC Pictures Strong Growth For MMS: Multimedia messaging services
(MMS) that allow mobile phone subscribers to send pictures, voice
recordings and video clips to each other will enjoy strong growth
over the next few years, according to a new report from IDC.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6764

HP's Summer of the iPaq: Hewlett-Packard plans to keep busy this
summer with the release of a slew of new iPAQ Pocket PCs, including
up to five new models in the low-end h1900 series, a new mid-range
h2200 series, and an addition to its high-end h5000 series.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6758

Palm to Add Net Phoning to Wi-Fi Device - CNETNews.com
Palm is joining forces with several partners to make more services
available on its Tungsten C handheld, which comes with built-in Wi-Fi
support. Palm is looking to add Net-phoning capabilities to the
Tungsten C as well as additional security and the ability to more
easily identify and use hot spots--areas where wireless Internet
access is available through Wi-Fi.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1011216.html
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6754

Fujitsu's versatile mobile workstation: The Celsius Mobile H is the
big daddy of Fujitsu's diverse notebook line. It has features that
you just won't find in most laptops, including a workstation-class
graphics chip and a removable wireless keyboard.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=4e-0Y95InZ1aFMui6mBnryT01qlnErR

From AvantGo:
Nokia 3650 smart phone: Jennifer Weaver: Taking snapshots with your
cell is, like, so last month. But Nokia's 3650 smart phone may
inspire a whole new fad. Its camera captures and displays movie clips
and still images, and lets you email them to friends and family. Four
MB of internal memory plus an in-box 16 MB multimedia card hold up to
1000 lower-res pictures. Best of all, My AvantGo works great on the
Symbian OS (sync wirelessly or via Bluetooth!), as do other games and
productivity apps. There's even a Midi synthesizer to compose your
own ring tones. Get all this mobile madness for $149.99-$299.99,
depending upon service plan.
http://nokiausa.com/phones/3650?searchkey=av

Witnet Adds Video to VoIP Software: Korean software developer Witnet
International Friday announced that it has added video capability to
its new mobile voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6755

Broadband A Go-Go: In city after city, high-speed wireless access may
be the next Internet revolution.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun03/bb.html

Cingular Chats Up Yahoo! Messenger: Cingular Wireless Thursday
launched a partnership that will let its subscribers with SMS-enabled
mobile phones communicate with Yahoo!
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6757


GAMING SECTION

GOT GAME?: the future of play By Andrew Phelps
Friday, May 30, 2003: A New Kind of Game: I keep reading about the
positive/negative aspect of 'online games' as if, somehow, they are
completely devoid of any relationship between any other kind of
game…
http://www.corante.com/gotgame/


SECURITY SECTION

E-mail Virus Getting 'SoBig': Anti-virus firms are reporting 30,000
interceptions in 84 countries.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/2215451

Protecting Organizations From Prying Wi-Fi Crackers: Some tips on
what you can do to make your Wi-Fi network more secure from a man who
insures such things for a living.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81739,00.html?nlid=MW

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Artful Displays Track Data
Technology Research News May 27, 2003
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_052703.asp
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