Category — General

Various Deities Still Sorting Through Victims Of Tragic Queens Bus Accident | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source:
The deities were all unanimous in agreeing that the sole Catholic fatality should be condemned to forever roam the Earth as an anguished, wretched ghost, as Catholicism is the only truly false religion and has no god to accept its faithful when they die.

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the onion considers religious triage post mortem.

Knowledge acquisition is changing radically, UNESCO Declaration states:
Knowledge acquisition and sharing will increasingly be technology mediated, and traditional educational processes will be revolutionized, said experts at a UNESCO organized event in Kronberg, Germany, recently.

Adopting the “Kronberg Declaration on the Future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing” the high-level experts also said that leaders in the public and private sectors must embrace change in organizations and people by providing opportunities and incentives to facilitate and motivate, as well as to overcome typical barriers in knowledge acquisition and sharing.

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this seems like a solid set of of things for people to think about in the next few ears.

My Liberal Identity:

found via Library Tavern

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Serendipity 2.0: Missing Third Place of Learning

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this reminds me of my archives paper.. drifting and learning in archives. well at least the title does. it takes some time to pick up speed, but then the presentation gets pretty interesting.

Business Infographics – Diagrams – Illustrations – Portfolio.com:
What Excessive Pay Package?

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is it worth it?

BookChaser.net – search engine for book information including books, authors and publishers:
Search book information from book databases and social networks

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it isn’t particularly inclusive, but it is a new book search engine.

Bergman shot some amazing films including one of the canonical portrayals of a professor, the wonderfully existentialist, “Wild Strawberries”.

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Welcome to ccLearn —
ccLearn:
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.

With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification, remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers, learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues pertaining to education.
With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build on each other’s contributions.

ccLearn is launching over the summer of 2007 with generous support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, working closely with members of the Foundation’s Open Educational Resources Program. This is an international project, and we will be working with open educational sites and resources from around the world.

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They hired a gentleman from Duke to be the executive director. I interviewed for that position.

Focuss.eu:
“Focuss.eu provides a high quality search engine for practitioners, researchers and students in the area of global development studies.

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looks like a good tool.