Monday, April 14, 2003

a few more helpful bloggy links Some links on weblogs taking over: Weblogs At Harvard Law Hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ News Aggregator: This page lists the most recent stories from news feeds that the Managing Editor of the site has subscribed to. Each hour the news aggregator scans subscribed feeds for new stories, which are displayed on this page from newest to oldest. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/aggregator/ The Feed Room has a list of a variety of RSS feeds on a number of topics http://www.feedroom.com/rssmain.jsp The Penn State Portal Project http://www.psu.edu/portalproject/new_users.html http://www.psu.edu/portalproject/index.html http://www.psu.edu/portalproject/tools/index.html https://portal.psu.edu/ Dave's immediate to-do list (development, over time, in public, for the blogs.law.harvard.edu project) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/stories/storyReader$132 Some sites are moving to weblogs as the backbone of the whole Web site: Kern County Superintendent of Schools main website is a Manila weblog. http://www.kern.org/ http://scriptingnews.userland.com/2003/03/26#When:2:43:58PM http://www.bryanbell.com/2003/03/26 This completes the transition to Manila[dot accent] we started 2 years ago. The homepage was last on the list, because we decided to do it back to front. We converted every department in the organizations and nearly all of our client schools. I must have trained 300 people on how to manage their Manila[dot accent] site. Web Logs as Web Site http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2003/03/19#a533 Ms. Leake's Classroom News Buckman Arts Magnet Elementary School - Portland, Oregon http://buckman.pps.k12.or.us/classrooms/leake/ Butlerville Elementary A Nice Place to Be http://manila.cet.middlebury.edu/butlerville/ School Blog or Not Should Bryant Elementary implement its new web presence using Web log tools? http://schoolblogdebate.blogspot.com/ Regular usergroup sessions http://scriptingnews.userland.com/2003/03/23#When:1:15:07PM What are weblogs? http://www.weblogs.com/about Understanding weblogs (The Tweney Report) http://www.tweney.com/writing.php?display22 A vision for the Web at Webster (me): "let a thousand weblogs bloom." http://xraynet.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$435 [A blog doesn't need a clever name] 11:22:58 PM     blogging as an act of defiance: "I'm tired of being resigned to accepting a country that is governed by warmongers, religious extremists, and corporate lapdogs." 'I don't know all of the answers but I refuse to be quiet anymore'. I think Rebecca at Suddenly Routine has one of the best explainations yet for having started a blog - and I have a feeling that, at it's root, its not that different than the reasons many bloggers took the plunge. [different strings] 11:11:53 PM     copy-protected CDs designed to have a lower sound quality when played on a computer Copy-control CD complaint:Qld businessman complains to ACCC about EMI's copy-control discs, by SamVarghese, Sydney Morning Herald. The complaint by Tom Dullemond, who runs a small company in Gladstone that sells software for writers, is based on the fact that these discs, when played on Windows and Apple PCs, do not produce the high quality CD sound one might expect from what looks like a music CD. Dullemond, who has like many others had his email bounced when writing to EMI, said the discs stated (in tiny print) that they would only play on audio CD players and the Windows/Apple operating systems. Due to this, complaints from people who were unable to play these discs in PC CD-Roms or any CD-drive that strictly adheres to the redbook specs for CDs (audio-CD players can play copy-control discs because they are more error-prone; DVD drives or other high-precision CD drives will most likely not play the new discs) could not be followed up, Dullemond said. My complaint, however, stemmed from the fact (confirmed by EMI) that CC (copy-control) discs when played in Windows and Apple PCs do not play the high quality CD sound one might expect from what looks like a music CD. They play back a low bitrate compressed .WMV file in a proprietary software audio player, he said. Dullemond, who lodged his complaint in early March, said he received a call from the ACCC soon after. The ACCC lady who spoke to me conceded that not disclosing this information to consumers (I had to do some serious internet digging and EMI tooth-pulling to find this out) could be pursued by the ACCC. After all, a consumer is told the CD they buy can't be copied - they're not told that the CD plays back low quality sound on computer systems. The ACCC refused to confirm that any complaint had been lodged. [A blog doesn't need a clever name] 11:03:15 PM     Liking Law.com in blue A New Look for Law.com. It seems Law.com got tired of all the blacks and browns, and has settled on a soothing blue as its new theme. Check it out. [Inter Alia] Best of all, it doesn't have the same clip art graphic used by Lexis and Liberty Check Printers - to name two - in ads run in 2001. 10:53:44 PM

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