Category — General

The Croquet Project:
Croquet is…
…a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative
multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture that
supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous
computation among multiple users. Using Croquet, software developers can create
powerful and highly collaborative multi-user 2D and 3D applications and simulations.
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interesting project… didn’t work out of the box for me yet.

EduTools Homepage:
WCET’s EduTools provides independent reviews, side-by-side comparisons, and consulting services to assist decision-making in the e-learning community

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a handy comparison.

I fear that I’m becoming a Luddite:
I still find that my best, most creative writing is done with pen and paper. The longer process forces me to think about each paragraph, each sentence, each word. When writing with a word processor I really have to force myself to slow down. It’s too easy too ramble. Obviously, my blogs are always written not by pen otherwise my postings would be much more concise. Also, with word processors it’s too distracting knowing that Firefox is so nearby.
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i think that there are explanations for this that have more to do with humans than the technology….

Article: U.S. Orphan Works Bill Introduced:
Gigi Sohn wrote very early today:
Late yesterday afternoon [May 22, 2006], Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Court, Internet and Intellectual Property introduced HR 5439, the Orphan Works Act of 2006. The bill, which seeks to limit liability for artists, educators and others who make a “reasonably diligent search” to find a copyright holder but cannot, is a significant improvement over the draft bill proposed by the Copyright Office in February.
Go here to read the entire post. I hope others like Larry Lessig and K.M. Dames will provide their opinions of this.
Related: Article: U.S. Orphan Works Bill Introduced
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I hope they do too. Orphan works are a significant problem for us today, but moreso for the next generation of scientists who will lose access to a ton of closed research because things will go out of print but stay in copyright. my favorite solution is that the copyright should expire 10 years after the last major print edition(1000 copy) is published. this does two things, it encourages publishers to keep publishing things or it forces them to relinquish the rights.

Hooooo-boy….:

How to Truly Honor Our Dead:
Start sending the children of the well-to-do to Baghdad, and start raising taxes to pay off the many hundreds of billions that the war is costing, and watch how quickly this tragic fiasco is brought to an end.
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this is about as true as it gets. this would end it.

let me know if you have problems.

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may people viewed it….. it is from milan.