We set a new record for the amount of rain in November — and we might break the record for the most rain in any month (set in like 1890). Then Sunday, it started snowing. Right now, it’s 10.8 degrees and there’s still snow on the ground here. This is a "must" write about.
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Copyright Office Acts For Consumers
It was a throw-away paragraph at the bottom of a page in the business section of last Thursday’s Seattle Times, a little blurb from AP about actions of the US Copyright office. The significance of the decision was evidenced by the headline: "Cellphones’ reuse one of 6 new rights."
I sat it aside to research and forgot it — until I started shopping for cellphones online (again) this weekend. Then I remembered something about cellphone owners being allowed to break software locks on their cellphones. Hmmm. This means any phone can be an unlocked phone, right?
Nokia Tests Augmented Reality
Technology Review reports:
A Nokia research project could one day make it easier to navigate the
real world by superimposing virtual information on an image of your
surroundings… on the screen of a camera phone…. The field of augmented reality, in which supplementary information from
a computer or the Internet is overlaid onto the real world, has been
the topic of science fiction and serious academic and military study
for years… However, at this time, Nokia has no plans to transform MARA into a
commercial product. "Creating a prototype and creating a product are
very different things," says Murphy.
From one of my MCDM students.
NCA: Podcasting In The Classroom
Podcasting As Active Learning: My 8 minute presentation at NCA, San Antonio, on experimenting with podcasting as a learning tool in COM300, Spring 2006, at the University of Washington.
From the program, session 40742:
The panelists are early adopters of podcasting for instructional development. Podcasting is an internet-based audio/video distribution technology allowing subscribers to automatically receive updated content for listening/viewing via computer or portable media
Listen …
mp4 @ dotMac,
mp3 @ UW
Sharing Conference Info
There is a new (beta) website serving the “conference community.” Anyone can add a conference to the database – it currently has 16K+ conferences.
Using Web2.0 technologies, the site has a built-in reputation management system (to try to thwart spam as well as provide information on the crediblity of a conference). Like ePinions, it allows registrants to review/critique conferences that they have attended. Watch an interview (QT) with founder Salim Ismail.
I’m intrigued. Two years ago, I tried something like this — a repository of interesting conferences and local Seattle events — using TypePad as a database. My students didn’t seem interested enough to add content, and it was too much work for a solo effort. Community is a Good Thing for a project like this. Hmm. How to add a custom RSS feed about Seattle events to a web page … (tip)
