e-Clippings 7.5.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."
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Folks, I am wrestling with something here. As you may have noticed,
this newsletter has been intermittent of late. Work, life, etc. have
all been rudely interrupting the publishing schedule here. The other
dynamic has also been the e-Clippings' blog.

Doing the newsletter and the blog really does seem like serving two
masters but every time I think about stopping the newsletter, I get
the feeling that the blog and the newsletter both serve different but
complementary purposes and audiences. So the question is, how can I
continue to try to do both and everything else and keep some
semblance of a regular publishing schedule?

One thing that I am going to try is to cap the newsletter at 5 pages
per issue period. Overflow items, etc. I will post to the blog but I
will try to distill the items down to a good digest. This will help
me to have a target to aim at and a finish line to cross. We'll
just try that for awhile and see if it helps.

So read on and thanks for sticking around.

Mark Oehlert, Editor
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Microsoft Posts Security Update / Associated Press
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,64099,00.html
Patch available here.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
08:41 AM Jul. 03, 2004 PT
NEW YORK -- Microsoft issued an interim security update Friday to
protect users of its nearly ubiquitous Internet Explorer browsers
from a new technique for spreading viruses.
The update does not entirely fix the flaw that makes the spread
possible, but it changes settings in Windows operating systems to
disable hackers' ability to deliver malicious code with it.
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NEWS

(From elearningpost) E-LEARNING DASHBOARD
Check this out. Thanks to Kevin for including elearningpost on the
list of e-learning blogs.
http://www.e-learningguru.com/dashboard.asp

BLOGGING BEHIND THE FIREWALL
Insights from Infoworld's use of weblog in projects: "Weblogs
are not just for the hard-core techies. Our editorial staff recently
started its own Weblog to share updated style guides, edit calendars,
and other tools of the trade. I'm looking forward to seeing what
unexpected points of leverage they achieve with their Weblog.
It's amazing how a system so simple and easy can produce such
profound results."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/21/21OPconnection_1.html

SOMETHING WIKI THIS WAY COMES
Good to see grassroots technology like the Wiki finding its way into
businesses: "Peter Thoeny, creator of TWiki, a leading
open-source wiki program, says at least 35,000 people have downloaded
TWiki since 2001. Two-thirds of his programs are going into
businesses — Walt Disney, SAP, and Motorola among them."
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886138.htm

MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING: A ROADMAP
Interview with Jen Friedberg, a photojournalist at the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, on online visual storytelling in the newsroom. Here,
Jen shares his method of creating visual stories.
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=47


EMERGING TECH SECTION

TextAloud MP3 is the exciting new program that converts any text into
spoken words and MP3 files. It resides in your Windows tray, always
ready to read aloud your text from email, web pages, and documents.
You can listen immediately, or save to .wav or MP3 files to hear
later at your convenience.
http://www.voicefactor.com/txtaloud.asp

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(From elearningpost) WHO KNOWS?
Jay Cross on the need to get social networks going: "Now that
business organizations have been de-layered, downsized and
re-engineered to the bone, how will they transfer their special ways
of doing things to new employees? The answer lies in exploiting the
savvy of seniors, the wise elders who have `been there, done
that' and can offer counsel and know-how to the newcomers. Old
hands
often make outstanding sales and service coaches, too."
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_col_effectiveness.asp?
articleid=519&zoneid=105

(From elearningpost) DESIGNING COLLABORATIVE E-LEARNING FOR RESULTS
Nice description of the tasks that go into designing collaborative
e-learning. I can't stop thinking about the possibilities that
lie at the confluence of weblogs (see previous post) and the
collaborative strategies mentioned in this article. It points to a
move away from designing for discrete events to designing for
collaborative experiences.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/may2004/mohr.htm

(From elearningpost HOW TO USE WEBLOGS TO CREATE ENGAGING LEARNING
EXPERIENCES In this article for the Australian Flexible Learning
Community, I describe a simple method for using blogs in a corporate
learning situation. The method uses the 3 important aspects of blogs:
1) personal point of view, 2) chronological nature and 3) byte-sized
posts.
http://learnscope.flexiblelearning.net.au/learnscope/golearn.asp?
category=12&DocumentId=5723

Research: What's the Business Case for New Technologies?
June 1, 2004
By the Editors of CIO Insight
5.5% more CIOs called themselves early adopters this year than last
year
79% of CIOs say they've received a significant payoff from emerging
technologies
54% say business executives get involved in testing and deploying new
technologies
42% of companies won't adopt technologies if it means changing
business processes
55% of CIOs say they don't seek technologies developed outside the U.
S.
http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article/0,1406,a=129268,00.asp

BRINGING RADIO TO RURAL AFRICA
Story about hand-cranked radios from FreePlay: "In places without
electricity, the radio is still a vital source of information,
education, and entertainment. But, they are considered a status
symbol because they are expensive to own and operate – batteries
are not free… That is why a radio that demands no money to run
because it operates on hand-generated power is opening the airwaves
to
a new generation in Africa."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4953281/

(From elearningpost)
PICK AND CHOOSE MIGHT BE KEY
An important message lies in this Australian experiment — mixing
both information and instruction are essential for public use of
e-learning material. I wrote about this strategy in 2001 under the
title of Blending Information and Instruction. What I did then, and
guess what is still relevant today, is to look at companies that were
providing exemplar online support. I chose Macromedia, Adobe and
Apple back then and analyzed their online support strategy. These
companies offered both information in the form of knowledge bases and
instruction in the form of small modules and full-blown courses. This
is the same strategy the Austrade pilot has implemented with success.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/14/1087065076850.html?
oneclick=true
http://www.elearningpost.com/features/archives/002088.asp

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION


GAMING SECTION

In These Games, the Points Are All Political
By MICHAEL ERARD, Published: July 1, 2004
BY day, Jeremy Kenney, 33, fixes Web sites and databases for the
Republican National Committee. By night, on weekends and in his spare
time he dabbles in an emerging form of political marketing: the
online game. Part advertisement, part journalism, part cartoon, such
games put fun in the service of ideology - with varying
sophistication.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/technology/circuits/01poli.html?
ex=1246334400&en=46f28ed3481ccfa6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

COOL INTERACTIVE
Plan Your Future Park from the Gotham Gazette is an interactive game
that let's you "plan your own park, making choices that
communities all over the city have been facing."
http://www.gothamgazette.com/parksgame/

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

EFF Publishes Patent Hit List By Daniel Terdiman
02:00 AM Jun. 30, 2004 PT
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is spoiling for a fight, and on
Wednesday it named the top 10 patents it wants killed, or at least
redefined. The EFF said all 10 patents are in some way illegitimate
and are being used to limit free expression.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64038,00.html

BBC TO OPEN CONTENT FLOODGATES
Nice things are happening in the world: "The British Broadcasting
Corporation's Creative Archive, one of the most ambitious free
digital content projects to date, is set to launch this fall with
thousands of three-minute clips of nature programming. The effort
could goad other organizations to share their professionally produced
content with Web users."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63857,00.html


SECURITY SECTION

Net Attack Aimed at Banking Data
By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 30, 2004; Page E01
Computer security experts warned yesterday of another new Internet
threat that can steal the passwords and account information of people
who bank online -- the second such discovery in a week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16023-2004Jun29.html?
referrer=email

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