e-Clippings 5.1.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."
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In 1605, Francis Bacon wrote that critical thinking involves:
having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances
of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and
distinguish their subtler differences; being gifted by nature with
desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to
assert,readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in
order; and being a man [sic] that neither affects what is new nor
admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture.
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NEWS

Senate extends Internet tax moratorium: Legislators stop short of
permanent ban: By Grant Gross, IDG News Service April 29, 2004

WASHINGTON - After months of debate, the U.S. Senate has extended a
moratorium on Internet access taxes, but it stopped short of
permanently extending the ban on taxes specific to the Internet,
which the U.S. House did in September.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/29/HNextend_1.html

Google Files For $2.7B Public Offering: Market is agog -- and looking
hard at financial details revealed in filing.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,vdk,1,1n5e,gk5j,kdcl,8t40


'No Child' Law Leaves Schools' Old Ways Behind
By Michael Dobbs: Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 22, 2004; Page A01 WARREN TOWNSHIP, Ind. -- Raymond
Park Middle School lost its two arts teachers last year. Home
economics was eliminated, along with most foreign-language classes
and some physical education classes. The overwhelming priority these
days is getting students to grade level in reading and math.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32348-2004Apr21.html

The April 2004 issue of Learning Technology newsletter is now
available at:
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/april2004/learn_tech_april2004.
pdf

(Found at eLearningPost)
VIRTUAL CHAUTAUQUA: From April 15-30, Brian Alger, author of The
Experience Designer, will be moderating this virtual chautauqua on
"brilliant new approaches for e-Learning and challenges creative
thinkers across business, education, government and culture to
elevate e-Learning to new levels."
http://groupjazz.com/chautauqua/current.html

Google and Akamai: The Cult of Secrecy vs. The Kingdom of Openness
As Google attempts to expand its empire into e-mail, the king of
search is tapping into what may be the largest grid of computers on
the planet. And the company remains extraordinarily secretive about
the technologies it has at its disposal—perhaps because it senses
a potential competitor in dotcom era flameout Akamai.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel042104.asp?trk=nl

Looks like CNET.com has created a free music download service for new
artists..
http://music.download.com/2001-1_32-0.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Visio schemas link data in diagrams: Posted April 16, 6:00 p.m.
Pacific Time Microsoft has released documentation that allows
corporate and third-party developers to take full advantage of the
XML-based schemas, called DatadiagramML, in its Office Visio
diagramming tool.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=61215F:1F4D50E


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

**Honestly, I can't remember if I have sent this out before so
pardon this if it is a duplicate. Great thoughts though.
(found at eLearningpost and more e-learning sites than I care to list)
"I really enjoyed reading Don's presentation on the above topic.
He touches many aspects of ID, like sequencing, that rarely get
analyzed. Here's an anecdote from the article that I will be using
often: Back in the 60s, French director, Jon-Luc Goddard was sitting
on a panel of film luminaries at some or other film festival. A film
critic on the panel felt obliged to defend traditional film narrative
in the face of an onslaught by the French Nouvelle Vague, "Surely,
Mr. Goddard", opined the critic, "A film needs a beginning, a middle
and an end." Pausing only long enough to flick the accumulated ash
from his Gauloise, Goddard retorted, "... naturally I think a film
should have a beginning, middle and an end, but not necessarily in
that order." This article is filled with such refreshing insights,
including why Google is the best learning tool ever, and why ideas
are more important in ID than the straight jacket
fill-in-the-ADDIE-model process.
http://www.morrisonco.com/downloads/What%20Do%20Instructional%
20Desginers%20Design%2001.zip

Handicapping Social Networking Business Models: They exist. But
you'll only find them by asking the right questions: who's paying and
who's invited? BY STOWE BOYD
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/boyd.html

Scissors, Scotch® Tape, Post-its®, Magic Markers® and
Colorforms®:"LO-Tec" Tools (and Toys) for Creating Learning
Objects Daniel R. Rehak, Ph.D., Professor & Technical Director
Nina Pasini, Instructional Systems Designer
William H. Blackmon, Ph.D., Systems Architect
Abstract: How do authors really create learning objects? While a
range of sophisticated learning object creation tools is available, do
these fit the needs and processes used? Do the current tools let the
technology of learning objects and XML representations get in the way
of creating good content? Are simple tools and techniques what we
actually need? Can we go from such simple tools to develop effective
learning object authoring environments?
http://www.lsal.cmu.
edu/lsal/expertise/papers/notes/lotec05052003/lotec05052003.html

Patterns in Unstructured Data: Discovery, Aggregation, and
Visualization A Presentation to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by
Clara Yu, John Cuadrado, Maciej Ceglowski, J. Scott Payne
http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/lsa/out/cover_page.htm

Personal Surfing Just Part of the Workday
[April 28, 2004] Internet usage for personal reasons has become as
habitual as morning coffee, as employees are nearly evenly split
between choosing their connection or caffeine.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,vef,1,8ld0,itlk,kdcl,8t40

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Coca-Cola To Deploy 28,000 Symbol Mobile Computers: Coca-Cola
Enterprises plans to deploy 28,000 new, rugged handheld mobile
computers from Symbol Technologies to route drivers in North America
and Europe.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92495,00.html?nlid=PM

How Secure Is Your Handheld? Misplacement and theft aren't the only
security threats you have to worry about.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92338,00.html?nlid=VVR

TOP PICKS FOR POCKET PCS By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: Plenty of you have Pocket PCs, and plenty of you
download apps for them. Which apps get downloaded the most? Jason has
the top three.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=35-d6JTIbIJYioe1zLZcTpTGnnP~HsR

29 Apr - Nokia releases mobile content study
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4893.html

Wal-Mart Begins RFID Trial In Texas: The much-anticipated pilot
program comes after the company set a January 2005 deadline for its
top 100 suppliers to place RFID tags on all cases and pallets
destined for its Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92806,00.html?nlid=PM

GAMING SECTION

4.29.2004 12:53:44 PM
Wall Street Presses Sony for PS2 Price Cut
A sharp drop in Sony's PS2 sales forecast could prompt the company to
cut the console price soon.
http://consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2900

EA REPORTS RECORD FULL-YEAR REVENUES; BREAKS $1 BILLION IN EUROPE
Leading publisher Electronic Arts has reported record revenues for
the full year ended March 31st, with $2.957 billion recorded in
global turnover - while sales in Europe passed the $1 billion mark
for the first time.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/pub/3379

SONY PLANS TO SHIP 3 MILLION PSPS BY MARCH '05 The latest financial
report from Sony has revealed shipment projections for the
PlayStation Portable launch period, with the company planning to
have three million consoles on the market by March 2005.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/ret/3377



COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

Just wanted to be sure that everyone knows about this – there
will be a quiz. Lawrence Lessig, the most widely known and highly
regarded evangelist and attorney on the side of right and sanity in
the copyright wars has published a new book:
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down
Culture and Control Creativity
Here is the kick – you can get it for free.
http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
If however, you choose to buy it, http://www.free-culture.cc/get-it/
you can even designate which of three organizations that fight on
your behalf every day against the forces which seek to lock up
knowledge, will receive the commission from that sale.
So go get it. And read it.

DaimlerChrysler: Dismiss SCO suit
http://ct.com.com/click?q=c5-8BcDQzOtF~lPAk_La9DUKoeouIsR

SECURITY SECTION


ETCETERA

Somebody pointed out to me that I had left this section blank for a
couple of issues – well no more! Warning! Before you visit these
sites, clear all liquid from your mouth because they are so funny,
it'd be coming out your nose.

10 worst album covers of all time
http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html

More album covers. Last one, I swear.
http://porktornado.diaryland.com/covers2.html
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