Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Here, Take My Card (Ha Ha, That's Not My Address). Spam filters, spam blockers, spam blasters: there's no shortage of tools intended to thwart the biggest irritant in an increasingly e-mail-dependent world. But Paul Tyma, co-founder of Mailinator, a free online service, has a simpler solution to offer. By Adam Baer. [New York Times: Technology] 10:03:59 PM    comment []

Some refs that came my way recently concerning student evaluations of teaching: Student Teaching Evaluations: Inaccurate, Demeaning, Misused By Mary Gray and Barbara R. Bergmann, in Academe. Do Good Looks Equal Good Evaluations? By Gabriela Montell, in the Chronicle of Higher Education. 11:25:07 AM    comment []

Open Source Moves Beyond Software. Open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. The era when collaboration replaces the corporation is coming. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 7:41:38 AM    comment []

Doc is [s]till, looking forward to DigitalID World, and he notes that Cringeley writes about How Having Friends Might Be the Key to Both Privacy and Identity. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 7:41:15 AM    comment []

Smart Mobs: Education and Technology. Earlier in 2003 Lisa Neil of eLearn Magazine asked some visionaries to look ahead and make predictions about e-learning Among others Neil surveyed Howard Rheingold : â��Mobile devices capable of sending and receiving text and graphics, browsing and writing to the Web, and even reading barcodes and radio-frequency identity tags, will make â��mobile e-learning activitiesâ�� and even â��augmented realityâ�� applications for e-learning a real possibility. The affordances of mobile communications and online media will have to be tailored to the opportunities for e-learning in the field, whether it is scientific research in natural settings or social science experiments on the fly.â��--Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs more on mobile learning technology (m-learning) on ASTDs Online magazine at Leveraging Mobile and Wireless Internet by Harvey Singh (CEO of NavoWave) [Smart Mobs] 7:38:50 AM    comment []

Content software scramble ahead?. EMC's planned acquisition of software maker Documentum puts new pressure on Oracle, among others, while Microsoft may attack from below. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 7:37:33 AM    comment []

Iraqi Shiite split widens. Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stirs tension in Iraq. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 7:34:28 AM    comment []