Weblogs and instruction – Brown Daily Herald. Quote: “Blogs — the much−talked about Internet trend — can serve as invaluable tools for their inventors, said Brian Weatherson, a Brown professor of philosophy and creator of a philosophy blog. ”

Comment: George Siemens is right .Ê A very brief piece.Ê The prediction at the end is way off however.Ê Who knows what we'll be doing in 5 years, let alone 20? [Serious Instructional Technology]

the more that i think about it, the more that I think i'm going to try using weblogs in my summer class this year…

Funny Latin Phrases. Quanto putas mihi stare hoc conclave ? That's “How many prostitutes does it take to change a lightbulb?” in Latin. No, actually it's “How much do you think I paid for this apartment?”. Here's hoping, in the wake of the BBC's superb The Roman Way series, written and presented by David Aaranovich, that good old Latin is on its way back, albeit in an Internet, soundbitey way. Those intending to smuggle some into MetaFilter should definitely start here. The owner, for instance, might find Ne ponatur in mea vicinitate useful – “Not in my backyard”. And Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione – “I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult” should prove popular in the God threads. Vale! [MetaFilter]

latin will always make a comeback, it is an eternal return….

sxsw web awards. ladies gents and babies, the 2003 sxsw web awards finalists have been announced [MetaFilter]

looks like a good mix…

Compare and contrast.

These are essays from a famous think tank.

These are link farmers who think publicly in a new kind of tank.

Bonus link: Blogs become key tools for developers, by David Becker

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

The power of the public media is growing, and it is important, but does it really have any real voice in the world, or will the majority of it be covered in the global moan that it has become as a whole.

No more referrer hunting.

It's hard not to check the stats every 10 minutes to see if anybody linked to me. To help my weak will not to do this, I created an RSS file that shows all referrers of the current day. It even tries to show the title of the referring page and an excerpt. The excerpt is simply the whole line that contains “w3future.com”, with the html tags stripped. It works surprisingly well for such a simple hack.

The information that is gathered for the referrer RSS is stored in my RDF database. You can now query this information. An example: RDF data for http://w3future.com/weblog/.

[Sjoerd Visscher's weblog]

this could be cool….

Direct action. It seems that there is some disconnection between the foreign policies of the American administration and the beliefs of a significant part of the population. In many countries, direct action is seen as a normal response. Will that happen here? Or here? [MetaFilter]

to take direct action against the government's policies is quite impossible, you can do it against the government, but let us realize here that someone elected the majority of these people in most cases…. As such, maybe people should investigate what their representative is doing and approving at the same time.

RLUIPA Law Challenge Succeeds. Plastic::Politics::Law: … And is likely headed for the supreme court [Plastic: Most Recent]

this is good