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Another excellent resource courtesy of Stephen Downes on technologies in learning. Emerging Technologies: A Framework For Thinking , Education.au. This sweeping and forward-looking report commissioned by the Australian Capital Territory Department of Education (ACT DET) to look at the impact and potential of emerging technologies in learning is a must-read for decision-makers in the field; […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersWho knew I was so avant garde? As I understand Kottke’s proposal, thenext step on the way to the WebOS is to run a web server on yourdesktop so that you can get access to data on your local machine by wayof your browser and effectively erase the distinction between data outon the web and […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersRSS bigots of the world unite! This is another of those ‘you need to experience it to understand it’ kinds of phenomena. rss, where are thou? “Syndicationis key. I have become such a snob that I won’t read a blog if I can’tdump it into my BlogLines account. Okay, snob is a bit harsh. It […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersI feel much better knowing I’m not the only one who finds Open Source CMS systems so frustrating. I’ve been poking around with several on the theory that a decent, affordable, CMS should be a key component in a personal knowledge management environment. Veen helps articulate why I’ve been struggling and it’s not because I’m […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersAren’t you just a little bit curious about what is hiding on the back of those credit cards in your wallet? I see some soldering iron time in my future. Stripe Snoop Homepage. Stripe Snoop is a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares data from magstripe cards. The data […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersI’ve only just begun to read through this, but it certainly appears to live up to its billing. A Taste Of Computer Security. andrew_ps writes “Amit Singh has published on his KernelThread.com a paper (mini book really) on computer security. A Taste of Computer Security is a VERY comprehensive paper in what it covers, but […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersLooks like another potential tool for the bag of tricks. Onion Routing. Ever wanted, or needed, to surf the Web anonymously? Intelligence officers have this need, but so do others. Anonymizing proxies can make it so that the site you visit doesn’t know who you are, but they don’t protect you from instream eavesdroppers or […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersThe corollary here is that the harder something is to get at or repair, the more likely that it will fail at an inopportune moment. Adams on Murphy. Adams on Murphy — “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersNick is absolutely right. Thank you “Dave” for all you’ve done to make weblogs and syndication part of my information world. Syndication and Aggregation Five years ago today, Dave Winer wrote about syndication and aggregation. Dave, thanks for all you efforts to promote weblogs and syndication – you’ve helped open a lot of possibilities for […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersDo it. Do it now. It took me about 2 minutes on a sloow dial-up connection. Security Fix for Internet Explorer. An official Microsoft security fix for IE has been posted. Channel 9 has a link to it, details about it (and a place to have a conversation about it). [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
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