Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Delaware Supreme Court Declines to Unmask a Blogger. The court ruled that if an elected official claims he has been defamed by an anonymous blogger, he cannot use a lawsuit to unmask the writer. By RITA K. FARRELL. [NYT > Technology] 10:54:05 PM      Google It!.

An online education - Jonathan Knutson, The Forum. Cory Mattson and Brittany Berg are studying for a psychology test. Their textbooks are open, their personal computers turned on. But their teacher is 30 miles away. Mattson and Berg are among six Hawley High School seniors taking an online college psychol [Online Learning Update] 6:31:17 PM      Google It!.

Yahoo Works With 2 Academic Libraries and Other Archives on Project to Digitize Collections - SCOTT CARLSON & JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Chronicle. Another search engine company has joined with academic libraries to digitize large collections of books to make them easily searchable online. Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with the University of California, the University of Toronto, and several archives and [Online Learning Update] 6:29:55 PM      Google It!.

New Battery Technology Powers For 12 Years. [Slashdot] 6:28:28 PM      Google It!.

NY Times: "Companies are embracing the potential of networked computing to let workers share their knowledge more efficiently as they nurture new ideas, new products and new ways to digitally automate all sorts of tasks." An oft-repeated theme here on Scripting News, and one you'll hear in the NerdTV interview that's coming next Tuesday. First we'll get all the information you could ever want, available to you instantly, and then it'll turn out that's the less important thing, because in order to get there, we had to learn how to really work together. The Times even uses "working together" in the headline of this piece. My chin dropped to the floor as I read this piece. [Scripting News] 6:27:34 PM      Google It!.

ACPA Course on ePortfolios and Student Affairs. I'm teaching a brief online course on eportfolios and student affairs for ACPA February 6-24. There's now a basic course description on the ACPA site. I'd welcome suggestions of activities, readings, and guest speakers. New Century College has begun working with University Life (Mason's student affairs operation) to create portfolio experiences that bridge between student and academic affairs. This course will be an opportunity to share and further develop some of the ideas that are emerging from that collaboration. It's also likely the third cohort of the National Coalition will be supported by NASPA and will focus on examining this sort of bridging on a national scale. [National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research blogs] 6:25:23 PM      Google It!.

Marc Andreessen's Social Platform: Ning. [Slashdot] 6:24:32 PM      Google It!.

Dell Offering "Open" PC. [Slashdot] 6:23:30 PM      Google It!.

Safer test for unborn babies hope. A breakthrough may lead to a non-invasive way of testing unborn babies for genetic diseases. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 5:59:21 PM      Google It!.