E-Learning – What's Wrong With Distance Learning?. Quote: “Who or what exactly is distant? The learning isn't distant. Oh, it's the content that's delivered over a distance, is it? By analogy, then, since I don't grow my own food and it's delivered to my store from worldwide locations, we should call my dinner preparations distance […]

LibraryLookup Gets A Little Library-Related Press – We Need More!. “Jon Udell is getting record flow on his weblog. The librarians are figuring out what he's doing. Nice.” [Scripting News] Of course, what I want to know is how do we keep evolving this. What can librarians do? Is there a way for us to implement […]

SanDisk introduces Compact Flash Wi-Fi “Alan Reiter writes up SanDisk's announcement at CES of their Cmopact Flash-based Wi-Fi cards that are available in configurations with 128 Mb and 256 Mb or no memory. The memory plus Wi-Fi combination is particularly useful because in cameras that could be upgraded to handle Wi-Fi networking support, for instance, […]

“Franklin Covey has announced it will start selling Bluetooth-equipped pens. 'Franklin Covey Co. plans to sell pens and paper-based planners using Anoto Group AB's technology that let customers transfer handwritten text to mobile phones, hand-held organizers or computers. The pens, made by Logitech International SA, will be sold starting next week for about $199, said […]

 From Boing Boing Blog: “Dan Gillmor defines “We Media”. Dan Gillmor's latest piece in the Columbia Journalism Review extends his Journalism 3.0 thesis (“my readers know more than I do”) and talks about “We Media:” <<Interactive technology — and the mostly young readers and viewers who use and understand it — are the catalysts. We […]

Newport Corporation Hologram Making System [Bidboy] you could use this to make a hologram of the beatles tapes…

Norwegians launch beauty contest for cows [Ananova: Quirkies] oh those wacky norwegians and their cows

Von Hagens wants to exhibit corpses having sex [Ananova: Quirkies] ok, so it isn't cool, but it is interesting art

500 unreleased Beatles tapes found by police [Ananova: News] everybody likes the beatles

Microsoft seeks antitrust dismissals. The software giant on Friday hopes to reverse a series of legal setbacks before a Baltimore judge, whom it will ask to dismiss lawsuits by Sun and others. [CNET News.com] i hope this doesn't go the way it always seems to go…