Ethical rudders. It seems I am more ethically aligned with Kant than with Nietzsche. News to me! This according to the Ethical… [Blog de Halavais]
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Dogma tagging.

Mitch Ratcliffe: Invisible Dogmas. A long, very thoughtful piece. The penultimate paragraph:

Simply put, the source of dogmas is our own laziness about addressing systemic issues in our organizations and in recording the reasons we do things within a company. We opt, for instance, for ÒcollaborationÓ software to make people collaborate instead of teaching them to work together respectfully and constructively. We fail to appreciate how these tools change the requirements when hiring new employees, and often blame the employees when they fail to thrive in the stunted learning environments weÕve created. If management wants to take credit for success, the institutionalization of critical thinking about our choices of information tools is absolutely essential to the role of a manager in the information age.

Lot of stuff to respond to there. But no time. Maybe later. Tomorrow, probably.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

ummmmm, this is what we have always done though…. if you think about it. you structure learning environments to meet certain needs. currently as the number of teachers fall and the number of students rise in a variety of fields, environments become more about managing populations than about anything else. nothing new there though….

The Cornell University Library has scanned 441 his …. The Cornell University Library has scanned 441 historical monographs (about 160,000 pages) and put them online free of charge. While all the monographs are in the public domain, Cornell claims a copyright “in the images, underlying encoded text, selection, indexing, and display of materials” and authorizes personal and research use only. Commercial use and reproduction require permission. The scanned text images are not searchable, but are presented in a very readable high resolution. See for example page 1, volume 1, of Harriet Martineau's translation of The Philosophy of Auguste Comte, London, 1896. (Thanks to the Scout Report.) [FOS News]

umm, no, they should not claim this copyright….

Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probe …. Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets, Self-Archiving: The 'Right' Thing? An Introduction to the RoMEO Project, SCONUL Newsletter, Winter 2002. From the introduction:

[FOS News]

Interesting project…. but I'm not sure if their methods really will generate the posiiton that would allow movement for or against…. we'll see

Mother of invention. How the Mosaic browser triggered a digital revolution. [CNET News.com] How many remember Mosaic? The first time I saw it running was on a Mac in the Graduate Student Union's office at Trinity College, and I was just blown away. Thanks to 1) being a student with academic access to computers, and 2) having an academic father also with internet access back when long distance calls from Ireland were *really* expensive; and 3) having gone out with various computer programmers [grin -- I've always liked computer programmers...!], I'd been using the internet for several years, belonged to some mailing lists, knew how to ftp and had mangled emails with just about every email package going at the time (ooooh, remember PINE?). FTP had really amazed me — that you could go look in the computer files of another computer halfway around the world, and download them to your computer!! (I know, I know; but I wasn't an embryonic hacker, really).

Then along came Mosaic. “You have to check this out,” said one of the computer science postgrads on the GSU committee, turning on the Mac. Whoa! Hyperlinks! Gussied-up text, and colours, and little images! Bye-bye, command line interface. I used to go up to the office at night and look at ALL the new “What's Cool” sites, which might be about 10, and which were probably ALL the new websites that had come into being that day in the whole world. It was a gas. Not too long after that I tried repeatedly to get the technoculture.com, .net or .org url, but those were already gone. The idea that there would ever be a browser war, or web-related IPOs, or even [gasp!] weblogs would have seemed pretty impossible. What a long, strange trip it's been…

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there are all manner of historical claims, but are any of them really history in the end?

Rocket Roadmap Project.

Rocket Roadmap Project (large EC funded project): full title doesn't say it well, description too, but I see focus on KM/e-learning connections :)

[Objectives] Rocket will prepare a strategic roadmap for future developments in organisational learning relevant to the education of engineers and knowledge workers.

[...]How to link knowledge management (KM) at the level of an organisation, with KM and E-Learning at the level of people working within an organisation or moving between organisations, so that knowledge that is new to someone can be captured and shared more readily and so that people can cope better with changes in their working life and their environment (including new colleagues, ever-changing tasks and processes, certification requirements, etc.)

I guess this site it something to mine if you don't know where to start looking for general overviews of KM/e-learning issues (state-of-the-arts, user requirements – see deliverables).

[Mathemagenic]

this looks like it could grow into something interesting. there was a group in florida working on this red….something…. still making much monies on certification and updates of engineers

Learning webs.

Sebastian Fiedler writes about Learning Webs and comments on technologies that would support them:

• RSS: I want more control by Dale Pike, Will is thinking on using RSS effectively, Syndicated Publishing by David Wiley
• Outlining: Finding Your Own Truths: Ideas for Weblog Processing by Spike Hall

Given recent announcement of Easy News Topics for RSS2.0 I feel that something very tasty is cooking… Topic-based RSS chuncking and repackaging – yammy…

[Mathemagenic]

this is interesting, i can think of several more applications of this….