Category — General

New President Named at Penn. The University of Pennsylvania named Amy Gutmann, the provost of Princeton, to be its next president. By The New York Times. [New York Times: Education]

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this is an interesting move.

Watch out Friendster, here comes Google's Orkut. News.com says: Google tip-toed into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com on Thursday, CNET News.com has learned. The search company, which is expected to go public this year, is flexing its power with its Internet fans by constantly offering new services, including comparison shopping and news search. Orkut could be the clearest signal that Google's aspirations don't end with search. “Orkut is an online trusted community Web site designed for friends. The main… [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

Open Source Courseware. Andrea L. Foster, in 4 Colleges Collaborate on Open-Source Courseware
, Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Report, January 22, 2004 (Access restricted to subscribers), describes the Sakai project, a partnership between Indiana University, MIT, Stanford and Michigan to produce open source course management systems and related software for academic institutions. Funding came from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation and the universities themselves. Sakai offers academic users an alternative to commercial course management applications, said to be used by some 80% of these institutions. [Open Access News]

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sounds like the stonesoup initiative….. which is good.

On the Future of Academic Publishing. Dorothea Salo and Timothy Burke have both turned their sights on the state of academic journal publishing, arguing, in slightly different veins, that the move to electronic delivery of such journals is the most affordable, equitable, and just plain sensible model for publication into the future. I wholeheartedly agree. What… [Planned Obsolescence]

george bush action figure….

My soul is worth £14698. For your peace of mind, 62% of people have a purer soul than me.

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this is somewhat disappointing, but you know how it is, misspent youth gets you everytime:)

Wikis: Hypertext on Steroids. Well. It's been a long time, been a long time, been a lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time. I've just completed a rough draft of my latest article for UBC's e-Strategy Newsletter. This month, I try to communicate the concept… [Object Learning]

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just one more reason that wiki's are evil, you see as the president said…. steroids are bad……

Feminist Theory Website. Interesting links to feminist theory resources: Feminist Theory Website… [GENDER & COMPUTING]

WASHINGTON — Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.

and i bet they thought they could get away with it too, i hope this gets the snoopy senators indicted, but it won't happen.

Military Lawyer Blasts Tribunal Rules. The military lawyer appointed to represent Australian David Hicks at Guantanamo slams the tribunal rules and says they don't allow… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]