BuddySpace. Now that the notion of presence is beginning to infuse our electronic communication, an inevitable next question is: presence where? Marc Eisenstadt, chief scientist at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University in the UK, wrote to show me a Jabber-based system called BuddySpace that locates presence indicators on maps. In the map […]

Fascist Websites For Children!. Fascist Websites for Children! Concerned that your children might not be getting the guidance that they need in their quest to grow up to be healthy and productive citizens of the Homeland? Worry no more! Hint, it's funny! (via sixdifferentways). [MetaFilter] See this is the sort of thing NoIndoctrination.org should be […]

Robot aide for elderly unveiled by Mitsubishi [bOing bOing] not sure if this is cool, but it has been in development for a while.

CHEST – VLE Comparison Grid. Quote: “Blackboard Learning System** (Blackboard) learning environment (FD Learning Ltd) LearnWise** (Granada Learning) Virtual Campus* (Teknical Ltd) WebCT Campus Edition Pilot** (WebCT, Inc)” [Serious Instructional Technology] very helpful, i wish more people were doing analyses like this, only including free and open source software

Ah, the Memories. Passing along a forward from an old high school friend. Yes, I'm a small town girl. Actually, we never even… [Inside Gretchen's Head] oh yeah, i've been there….

Abstract Deadline, Feb. 14, 2003 http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~dc2001/DC2003.htm Digital Communities 2003 Organizing in a Networked World Workshop: Goteborg, Sweden June 12-14 Conference: Stockholm, June 15-18 Digital Communities 2003 will be held in Stockholm and will be hosted by KTH – Royal Institute of Technology. The program has been designed to facilitate the presentation of research in an […]

Please ignore the painting behind the curtain.. Please ignore the painting behind the curtain. In a move that mirrors the covering of the bare-breasted Spirit of Justice statue at the Justice Department last January, the U.N. installed a curtain to hide Picasso's anti-war masterpiece Guernica last week. [MetaFilter] bad u.n., bad. ever wonder who makes […]

Mapping thoughts. Joe has a string of very interesting posts on cognitive maps and topic maps. [Seb's Open Research] This is so similar to one of my many projects, which is to create conceptual maps of papers, and information relationships within them.

Everything is old… but we forget. Mitch Ratcliffe: David Weinberger cites one of my favorite philiosophers, Richard Rorty, who nicely deconstructs the argument that everything is new at the forefront of history. In fact, everything is old and only newly considered. This is an important point of humility that “visionaries” and “revolutionaries” conveniently forget, leaving […]

Blackboard alternatives. Cribbed from messages to BBAdmin-L (see link).Ê All open-source I believe. – Bodington ( http://bodington.org/index.html ) – Claroline ( http://www.claroline.net/ ) – ClassWeb ( http://classweb.ucla.edu/ ) – Eledge ( http://eledge.sourceforge.net/ ) – Fle3 ( http://fle3.uiah.fi/ ) – Jones e-education ( http://www.jonesadvisorygroup.com/standard.php ) (not open source but “free”) – Manhattan Virtual Classroom ( http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/ […]