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The Altantic: Beyond the tech

The Altantic: Beyond the tech bubble
"When the Internet boom went bust, suddenly all sorts of people knew all along that every commercial venture associated with the Internet was an act of folly. People who lacked the nerve to question the boom while it was happening were newly emboldened. It was as if the whole crowd was shouting in unison that the emperor had no clothes" -- Michael Lewis responds to James Fallows in the first round of their e-mail exchange about Lewis's new book, *Next: The Future Just Happened*.

Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001

eWeek: IM for business takes

eWeek: IM for business takes off
Answering customer instant messages, experts say, can be less expensive than taking their phone calls—either over the traditional voice network or via the Web—because agents can handle more than one session at once. And because it's immediate, it can be more effective than e-mail, particularly in situations where customers may be frustrated or impatient.

Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001

Wired: Dot’s in a Name

Wired: Dot's in a Name No More
Publicly traded Internet companies are actively dropping the "dot-com" and "net" suffixes and prefixes they inserted in their corporate monikers at the height of the Net stock boom. Instead, they're following a trend that began in the private sector last year by picking new names less closely associated with the financially troubled new economy.

Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001

Wired: Wireless PCs: Not Just

Wired: Wireless PCs: Not Just for Cheats Schools are beginning to scrap hard-wired computer labs in favor of wireless laptops and handheld PCs. Public school administrators are admitting the failure of schools' ubiquitous computer labs, which some experts say have had a negligible impact on education, despite two decades of being in schools. Now schools are experimenting with wireless computing technology. Instead of taking kids to the computers, the computers are coming to the kids.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

Yahoo!: Reed Elsevier to Buy

Yahoo!: Reed Elsevier to Buy Online Education Co
Publishing giant Reed Elsevier added another arm to its education business on Monday with an agreement to buy U.S. online teacher training firm Classroom Connect Inc for an undisclosed sum.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

KM World: Netting knowledge via

KM World: Netting knowledge via the corporate intranet
Building a usable knowledge database of the human assets of an organization--details about the skills and training of each person in the company and the projects to which they have contributed--is one way that forward-thinking companies are using Web technology.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

KM World: The importance of

KM World: The importance of writing badly
David Weinberger: Feeling constrained to write well can impede a Net conversation as well as propel it. Slowing it down may make it more deliberative but it is more likely to make it moribund. More important, a carefully written, flawless posting can imply a fixity of meaning that shunts the conversation from potentially useful courses. Writing hastily, accepting the inevitability of flaws, results in messages that implicitly say that the writer is thinking on her feet, is open to contradiction, is excited about taking the ideas to new places.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

The Chronicle: U. of Maryland

The Chronicle: U. of Maryland Will Help Uzbekistan Create a Virtual University
The online university would make existing University of Maryland courses available through distance learning but would also create new courses specifically for Uzbek students.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

Wired: All the Trash That’s

Wired: All the Trash That's Fit to Post
According to scattered news reports from all over the United States, kids are using the Internet to tease, bully or just generally harass each other -- and, in some cases, their teachers as well. And although parents and some fellow students are outraged by such sites, legal experts say that students who engage in online torment are doing nothing wrong -- that such nuisances are simply to be expected in a free society.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

MIT Technology Review: Virtual Worlds

MIT Technology Review: Virtual Worlds Get Real
Some 35,000 movie makers, gamers, graphics artists, hardware developers and researchers gathered earlier this month at SIGGRAPH 2001 in Los Angeles to demonstrate just how good they're getting at modeling the physical world—and then at going it one better.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

NY Times: Exploration of World

NY Times: Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to Mundane
While plenty of people do publish their personal musings and pictures of their babies, new data shows that for many people, the Web has become a routine electronic device. Often, Internet users stick to a half- dozen sites for news, sports scores, airline tickets and other things they need regularly. Many set up "personalized portals" that display only the categories of news, entertainment and financial information they are interested in when they log on.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

Fast Company: Click U Virtual

Fast Company: Click U
Virtual networking truly clicks at Indiana University, where students of the online MBA program collaborate and communicate across time zones and oceans, using breakneck technology and scheduling savvy.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Intelligent KM: In the Mail

Intelligent KM: In the Mail
No matter how you define KM - what processes, technologies and applications you include - most of us fail to give good old email much play as a major KM tool. But as a cumulative data repository, email probably exploits as much of an enterprise's storage as any application (KM or not) and is most workers' primary collaboration tool.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

CSM: Beating Web cheaters at

CSM: Beating Web cheaters at their own game Cheating on schoolwork has simmered on as long as there have been students averse to studying. But the age of the Internet has woven a host of new twists on the perennial problem of plagiarism... Last year, St. Andrew's went on the offensive. The school purchased Turnitin.com, an online service that compares student papers to a vast database of Internet documents. A suspect paper is scanned for similarities and returned with matching passages highlighted - accompanied by websites where the sources can be found.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Darwin: The Mind’s Scaffolding David

Darwin: The Mind's Scaffolding David Weinberger: External scaffolding includes the simple ways we organize the world (e.g., alphabetizing our CDs), the chalkboard the physics professor uses, libraries, the Web, language itself and social institutions. Without these, we are naught but damn dirty apes. The characteristics of our mind that we identify as most peculiarly human depend on our ability to alter our world to help us think. Our human mind is inextricably entwined with the world and its manipulation.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Electronic School: Online Learning Grows

Electronic School: Online Learning Grows Up
Students turn to online classes and schools for varied reasons, but they have one thing in common: They all want or need something that's not easily available in the traditional brick-and-mortar school building. Students in rural communities can take classes such as Latin or AP calculus that their schools are too small or too poor to offer. Sick or hospitalized students can finish their class work without falling behind. Gifted students, students who have problems in the regular classroom, students traveling with their parents -- increasingly these youngsters are turning to online learning as an alternative to regular education -- No longer an experiment, virtual schooling is here to stay.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Learning Circuits: LCMS Roundup More

Learning Circuits: LCMS Roundup
More important, as LCMSs develop, so may their influence on e-learning instructional design. Because an LCMS's strength is its ability to modularize and manipulate content, developers can begin exploring new learning techniques. For instance, LCMSs are poised to address adaptive learning. "An inherent capability of LCMSs is adapting content to fit a learner's personal profile, not just by delivery mode but learning styles."

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Guardian Unlimited: Football as a

Guardian Unlimited: Football as a language tool?
The British Council hopes a new football website, footballculture.net, will get people from all over the world learning English. With fans in over 150 countries, the Football Association and the bizarre phrases used by commentators could be the key to encouraging people to learn English, said the council, which is funded by the government to promote British education and culture overseas.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

BBC: Delhi children make play

BBC: Delhi children make play of the net
Children in the slum were intrigued by the icons on the computer, and completely without any help, gradually figured out how to use the computers and access the internet... within days the children were able to browse the internet, cut and paste copy, drag and drop items and create folders... By the second month they had discovered MP3 music files and they were downloading songs.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Wired: The Ever-Evolving Science Class

Wired: The Ever-Evolving Science Class Educators promote a Web-based curriculum designed to engage students and make them want to learn. "We want teachers to move from being the 'sage on the stage' to a 'guide on the side,'" says the director of the program.

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

KM World: What happens to

KM World: What happens to knowledge workers when the economy heads south?
In economically troubled times, managers must take a second look at the KM policies they are promoting. KM projects will fail if managers ask workers to act contrary to their own long-term best interests. KM is a highly political endeavor because workers lose ownership of the knowledge they share. When workers transfer their expertise to a broader community of practice, they could find their personal standing within an organization diminished. In some businesses, hoarding knowledge is a reliable means of gaining status...

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

OS Opinion: Knowledge Management Isn’t

OS Opinion: Knowledge Management Isn't Enough
To derive the greatest value from knowledge channeling, organizations must understand the nature of their knowledge-based assets and how they link to other mission-critical assets and goals. Increased realization of knowledge as the core competence, coupled with recent advances in information technology such as intranets, World Wide Web, and portals, has given organizations the ability to channel knowledge to the right people at the right time.

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

Information Week: Web Sites That

Information Week: Web Sites That Work
Certain sites have what it takes to succeed, even in this dot-bomb environment. What helps explain their winning ways? Take a look at our sampling of E-businesses that know how to meet or even beat their business goals, and see for yourself.

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

Fast Company: Designed for Life

Fast Company: Designed for Life
Industrial designers gathered at an elite conference last week to meld their veneration of the new and fashionable with an appreciation for the old and lasting -- namely, the necessities for designing a meaningful life.

Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001

UIWeb: Interactionary - Sports for

UIWeb: Interactionary - Sports for design training and team building (via webword)
This is an experiment in design education. The idea is to explode the process of design by forcing insane time constraints, and asking teams of designers to work together in front of a live audience. From what we've seen, it forces the discussion of design process, teamwork, and organization, and asks important questions about how designers do what they do. Below are summaries of previous events, and information about how to organize your own Interactionary.

Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001

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