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- Web Applications 1.0 - Working Draft — 16 Feb 2007 [Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group] introduces features to HTML/DOM to ease authoring of Web applications, eg context menus, graphics canvas, inline popup windows, server-sent events [document changing rapidly] WHATWG is a growing community of browser vendors (Apple, Mozilla, Opera), web developers.. interested in dev of next generation of HTML - specifically to allow authors to write and deploy applications over the Web
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- Bruce Lawson’s personal site : DTI complaint - blog posts tracking his complaint about an expensively inaccessible DTI website (see also his petition at petitions.pm.gov.uk/govaccessibility) .. DTI blames CMS & contractor sad tale beginning '..brand-new oh-so-1997 website of the Department of Trade and Industry, built by Fresh 01 and Fujitsu for a cost of £200,000, yet fails to meet a reasonable level of accessibility, even though it is clearly required in the specificati
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- OSI e-Infrastructure Working Group: Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation: sets out the requirements for a national e-infrastructure to help ensure the UK maintains/enhances its global standing in science and innovation links to 2.7MB PDF doc + 6 sept docs for sections: Data and information creation| Preservation and curation| Search and navigation| Virtual research communities| Networks, compute and data storage| AAA (authent'n/authoris'n/account'g), middleware & DRM
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- 50° 0'38.20"N 110° 6'48.32"W - Google Maps - funny/amazing landscape feature east of Medicine Hat really has to be seen to be believed
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- The extraordinary life of Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother | Guardian Unlimited Books: Red Princess - A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff is published on March 15 by Granta Books at £16.99 ahh... our mate Fiona's grandmother Sofka in a new book by cousin Sofka.. Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother, a Russian princess turned card-carrying communist, led an extraordinary life - the consequences of which are still being felt down the generations
- Embedded Media HTML Generator: UCSF developed to ease the burden of inserting video and animations into web pages. Asks a series of clear & sensible questions, then displays required html to embed Flash, QuickTime, Real Media or Windows Media nice resource for brave non-techie web authors.. 'The Embedded HTML Media Generator is provided AS-IS. No warranty is implied or extended with respect to its accuracy or utility. Feedback is welcome, but we will only be able to respond to questions from U
- Talking with Microsoft about IE.next - The Web Standards Project: WSP took a carefully prep'd list of requests for JavaScript improvements to the MSIE dev team.. 'keenly aware of the issues we brought up and are eager to address them' THE LIST: fast, arbitrary node-matching API | better error reporting | mutable DOM prototypes | bring IE event system in line with the W3C event model | CSS: implement generated content | fixing CSS bugs | various form control fixes | ...
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- Microsoft to release ODF document converter | CNET News.com: A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Feb 2 to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. 'Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word processor documents in two different formats.
- John Seely Brown MIT World Video: Relearning Learning-Applying the Long Tail to Learning | 1:42:04 real video of much-quoted talk given Dec 1, 2006.. we must transcend models of learning that prescribe "pouring knowledge into somebody’s head" 'We learn through our interactions with others and the world, he says, and there’s no more perfect medium for enabling this than an increasingly open and organized World Wide Web.
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- Modelling Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice | Virtual Canuck: The key to supporting, instigating and maintaining a critical mass of participation in online communities has been illusive [so] pleased to run onto Michael Zarbs Masters thesis 'This 99 page document overviews a Delphi study in which Zarb engaged 12 virtual communities ‘experts’ to get a collaborative sense of their sense of the factors that promote and constrain participation in virtual communities of practice (VCOP).
- CatchingTumbleweeds | Virtual Canuck: ..only 1% post or create new content on Web 2.0 stes, 10% comment and the other 89% are consumers. This is especially hard for formal online education teachers who are used to wielding the “% for participation” ma 'Teresa Burgess studied a longlasting listserv community of nurses and found 8 critical components; shared purpose, trust, guidelines, humor, flexibility, accessibility, expert facilitation, and storytelling. All of these seem important but there is littl
- Tagging 'takes off for web users' | BBC NEWS: Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the trend in tagging is growing among US web users. over a quarter of online Americans - 28% - had tagged content such as a photo, news story or blog.. for users of social networking sites it is just an obvious tool to navigate around the sites they visit.
I'm Mike Malloch, a software developer with strong opinions about what is wrong with elearning1.0 and vivid hopes for elearning2.0. Mike Malloch photo Through my work with KnowNet, I'm trying to do something practical to enable elearning2.0. Through my elearning2.0 blog I'll be sharing some ideas about what we all can do to speed that development. See KNotations for my technical documentation and writing. I do a lot of bookmarking and tagging, covering issues in elearning, standards, web2.0 and web technologies. I recommend checking my del.icio.us bookmarks and tags directly, since I often post more bookmarks in a day than del.icio.us will deliver via RSS.
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