Posts from — June 2003

What Is Your Animal Personality?
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i think these things are pretty much random for me because i could choose nearly any option and it would make sense for some part of my life.

You are Gambit!

You are a fierce fighter and a good friend to have.
Your preference for solitude and your
attractiveness make you very intriguing to
those you meet. Unfortunately, close
relationships are few and far between for you
because you often have trouble opening up to
others.

Which X-Men character are you most like?
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luckily gambit was always my favorite of the x-men, since i played the mavel superheroes game(its a role playing game like dnd) in high school

“RFC 1, “Host Software”, issued thirty years ago on April 7, 1969 outlined some thoughts and initial experiments. It was a modest and entirely forgettable memo, but it has significance because it was part of a broad initiative whose impact is still with us today.” (RFC stands for request for comments. I was wondering about that.)

[Poorbuthappy Guide to Ease]

next you should explore the internet drafts, and the drafts of the drafts.

The Complete Guide To Irony. Irony in a Nutshell. Not an O'Reilly publication, but you can use it to teach yourself Irony in 24 hours. For dummies. And a reference for the rest of us. [MetaFilter]

dissimulation…. interesting little concept for irony.

Reboot video is online [bOing bOing]

you might find these interesting.

What is Actor-Network Theory: various ANT definitions. The possibility of applying the actor-network theory and its methodology to different disciplines and fields of study is evident by the many senses in which it has been used. The What is Actor-Network Theory? site provides various definitions. These and many other colors and flavors of ANT represent a very… [infoSophy: Socio-technological Rendering of Information]

however, the fixation on the actor is still present. get rid of it, stop thinking about it, think about networks, only networks, and then think about how it constructs the actor, then i think you have a theoretically interesting actor-network theory.

Government Addresses Librarian Shortage. Laura Bush Addresses Nation's Critical Shortage of Librarians: $10 Million to Recruit New LibrariansLast night Laura Bush announced a proposed $10 million initiative for 2003 to recruit a new generation of librarians. The initiative will be managed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.Of course, this is proposed initiative. I wish the article gave some sense of how likely it is that the proposed initiative will become an actual initiative, or what has to… [Infomusings Blog]

Honestly, I don't think this will help. Librarians are suffering the same fate, except at the highest levels, as k-16 educators, bad pay. so people sign up to be librarians or educators, stay in a few years pay of their loans, and many leave to pursue other careers.

Googlesluts. Jan Haugland nominates David Harris for Googleslut of the century for temporarily renaming his blog Harry Potter 5 Summaries and News. Over 3000 hits this morning and counting…. [Radio Free Blogistan] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

I think this is great fun, hilarious almost.

Writing RSS 1-2-3.

Faster than a speeding bullet, Alan turned out a proper trial RSS feed for the 'low threshold application' page from the TLTR group by the next morning. And in his inimitable style, offers another lesson in how to solve problems *and* educate at the same time. – SWL

- from [cogdogblog]

[EdTechPost]

interesting stuff, this is what can be done with a few minutes and a good idea

Expanding Access to Learning: The Role of Virtual Universities.

Hot off the presses, a new monograph from the PEW Symposia in Learning and Technology. The monograph “assesses the current state of statewide virtual university initiatives, discusses five critical success factors derived from that assessment, and offers an alternative strategy to the predominant collaborative model that can improve current practice.”

For those of us involved in virtual university/consortia projects, this is essential reading. While I think there are real differences in the US and Canadian contexts that effect these issues, there are enough similarities that we need to pay real attention to the lessons being learned south of the border. – SWL

[EdTechPost]

well, i've been pushing for disciplinary collaboration through online education, instead of remaking the bricks and mortar online, why not remake the society online…? a nice distributed university.