Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
May 2004






  • The Web As An Alternative Source Of News Judgement

      Web has evolved into an alternative source for news judgment. "It's as if people let the news sink in, paused to register what beheading of an American, video-taped and broadcast... really means, and then said: Okay, now I want to see for myself. Show me, television...
    read more | cat.: | Link Jay Rosen - Press think -- May 31




    RSS To PowerPoint

      RSS is becoming a highly pervasive information distribution channel in our rapidly expanding universe. Here is a new tool that allows PowerPoint presentations to easily integrate RSS feeds and news headlines. The Take-off RSS news reader from DataPoint gathers RSS news and sends them directly into...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 31




    The Learner Of The Future Is A Critical Thinker

      "“...it is possible to rely too heavily on experts and this approach to learning and knowledge tends to encourage passivity and receptiveness rather than inventiveness and imagination… [one objective of this essay is]… to impress on the reader what a long way one can get in...
    read more | cat.: | Link Stutt and Motta - Knowledge Media Institute - The Open University -- May 31




    Dead Internet Marketing Techniques


      Nonetheless it should appear evident to anyone with a grain of salt in her head, there a tons of Web sites, articles and books that still promote old fashioned and outdated online marketing tactics. Many of these bring more damage than good to those of employ them,...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 30










  • Drop-Them-Now: Ineffective, Overhyped And Plain Cheap Internet Marketing Techniques

      For novice emarketers only. Nonetheless it should appear evident to anyone with a grain of salt in her head, there a tons of Web sites, articles and books that still promote old fashioned and outdated online marketing tactics. Many of these bring more damage than good...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 30




    What Is RSS? Dave Winer Explains

      "The revolution of RSS is what people are doing with it, what it enables, the way it works for people who use technology, the freedom it offers, and the way it makes timely information, that used to be expensive and for the select-few so inexpensive and...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - ReallySimpleSyndication -- May 30




    How To Put Out Of Business Your Local Telephone Company

      The cat is out of the bag. More great news on how VoIP, wireless, and open source software like Linux can create an effective cost-effective replacement to traditional telco services. Disruptive technology at its best. "A disruptive technology is any new gizmo that puts an end...
    read more | cat.: | Link I, Cringely - PBS -- May 30




    Sparklines: Intense Simple Word-Sized Graphics

      Edward Tuftes takes his original essay on word-sized graphics much further in this new extended and revised version for his future book Beautiful Evidence. The concept of Sparklines is a timely and fascinating one, and though Galileo was already using them in 1613, its understanding and...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 29




    Media Literacy And Awareness Resource List

      Here is an excellent annotated list of online resources devoted to cover the issues of corporate social responsibility, use of media for propaganda, media literacy, influence of corporate interestes in the media and inside education, globalization. These sites can be used to investigate or research some...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 29




    Online Conference About Blended Collaborative Learning: e/merge 2004

      While I am looking forward to learn something about what went on at the ASTD Conference in Washington last week (no transcripts or recordings are available on the official site) let me point your attention to another interesting event, for which you don't need to travel...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - e/merge 2004 -- May 29




    Taking Viral Marketing Mainstream

      "The increased distrust of corporate messages and the new recipe for 'doing' viral marketing, are taking viral marketing mainstream -- it's no longer just a technique for those that can't afford advertising, but a technique to replace advertising. Use stealth and subtlety to convey your message,...
    read more | cat.: | Link Dave Pollard -- May 28




    Digital Lifestyle Aggregation

      "We're all used to the notion of integrated productivity software (like Microsoft Office) but we're still waiting for media editors, like music or sound sampling, graphics or photo editing and simple presentation tools - to be integrated with IM, email, personal publishing (like blogs) and social...
    read more | cat.: | Link Marc Canter - Always On - [via PaidContent] -- May 28




    Usability-Grounded How-To Web Design Guide: 'Web Design from Scratch'

      Ben Hunt has just released a new interesting online resource devoted to Web design. Called 'Web Design from Scratch', the site gives a refreshing look at designing Web sites with the end user in mind and it provides a great set of simple-to-use resources as basic...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 28




    Guerilla Technologies

      "Many collaboration tools, especially coachingplatform, qualify as what APQC defines as guerilla technology. They refer to those technologies that are available directly to end users with minimal hardware and software investments. These technologies are typically not part of an organization's “formal” tools or application set but...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 27




    Email Campaigns: Getting The Message Across

      Here is a good article detailing simple, yet effective, guidelines to follow when planning an email campaign or action alert. "Raoul Bhavnani at Westhill Partners shares his insights on how to effectively reach out to supporters online and motivate them to become more involved. The Internet...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Meet the Expert: Raoul Bhavnani, Westhill Partners -- May 27




    Record Each And Every Web Page You See: Seruku

      Have you ever tried to find the exact same web page you saw a couple of weeks ago? And failed? Have you ever had a conversation remind you of something you saw on the web? But then, when you tried to find the web page, you...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Resource Shelf -- May 27




    A Strategic Framework For Creating Digital Collections

      In today's digital environment, the context of content is a vast international network of digital materials and services. Objects, metadata and collections should be viewed not only within the context of the projects that created them but as building blocks that others can reuse, repackage, and...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - NISO - National Information Standards Organization -- May 26




    Create Free Acrobat PDFs With PDF/TextBox

      Acrobat PDF is a popular digital distribution format for documents, presentations and other multimedia content requiring faithful display across platforms, security and a more manageable file size. PDF/TextBox is an easy to use free PDF editor. It allows you to write documents quickly and easily and...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 26




    Media Influencers

      Disinfopedia is a collaborative project that maintains a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Disnfopedia is an encyclopedia of people, issues and groups...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Disinfopedia -- May 26




    Skype Beyond The Hype

      "Free phone calls, high-flying startups, soaring demand for telecom capacity—the promises might sound a bit familiar. But Skype may be the company that finally delivers on the hype." Though my experience with Skype remains somewhat unsatisfactory, even under very good Internet connections, I must bow to...
    read more | cat.: | Link Roxanne Khamsi - MIT Technology Review -- May 25




    How To Use Learning Objects For Instructional Designers

      Learning objects. What are they? We hear the term often, but is the meaning clear? Perhaps you've been using them in your courses, and now you want to create some. But where to start? What issues should you consider? What promising practices should you be aware...
    read more | cat.: | Link Rachel Smith - nmc - [via Stephen Downes] -- May 25




    Best Blog Technologies Compared

      A detailed breakdown of twelve of the most interesting blogging technologies. It lists and compares in tabular format the attributes of different user-installed blog tools. It covers Movable Type, pMachine Pro, WordPress, b2evolution, TextPattern, Pivot and more. An Excel spreadsheet containing all the data is also...
    read more | cat.: | Link Asymptomatic - [via Slashdot] -- May 25




    How To Separate Content From Design

      With all the discussion about separating presentation from content (and structure), it's easy to lose track of the goal. So let's step back, define our terms, and take a look at why it matters. The major reason to separate presentation from the rest of the page...
    read more | cat.: | Link Michael Cohen - A List Apart -- May 24




    The Future Of Online Collaboration Technologies

      Stuart Henshall and Eugene Eric Kim are the two special guests joining Robin Good in the second issue of the Competitive Edge (this Thursday May27th at 12 noon EDT), a live audio and video event in which key trends, new tools and features and best practices...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- May 24




    Weblog eMarketing Myths Debunked

      Roland Tanglao reviews and summarizes with simplicity the essential issues for being successful with news sites and weblogs. Many of the recipes suggested by search engine marketing and optimization firms are nothing short of useless while the items that really count in making a site exposure...
    read more | cat.: | Link Roland Tanglao -- May 24




    Biological Visualization: Motion Synthesizer

      BML Walker is an interactive animated visualization of walking humans. The interactive visualization data sets have been produced by digitizing the actual movement of over 40 different testers to which special light sensors were attached to their bodies. It is fascinating to see how complex...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Bio Motion Lab -- May 23




    How To Find The Best Content Management System?

      "There are a dizzying number of systems on the market that are or can be referred to as Content Management Systems. Determining which content management system is right for you starts with an understanding of the different types of systems and the range of functionalities available....
    read more | cat.: | Link Steve Manning - The Rockley Report -- May 23




    Who Rules The World: Interactive Map

      "A few companies control much of the economy and oligopolies exert control in nearly every sector of the economy. The people who head up these companies swap on and off the boards from one company to another, and in and out of government committees and positions....
    read more | cat.: | Link They Rule - [via BoingBoing] -- May 23




    eMail Inbox To RSS

      MailFeed is a new easy-to-install PHP script that checks POP3, IMAP, or NNTP mailboxes on demand and returns RSS feeds containing the messages in such mailboxes. MailFeed requires you to have access to your Web mail server and to install this script on it. MailFeed can...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 22




    Five Steps To Create Streaming Video

      A basic introductory-level resource on how to create and publish streaming videos on the Internet. Digital video clips can be published online and be made to "stream" instead of requiring the end user to fully download a large file before being able to view it fully....
    read more | cat.: | Link Bill Edwards - [via Stephen Downes] -- May 22




    MacOS To Run On Windows

      A team of open-source developers has released software which enables Windows users to run Mac OS and some more Unix operating systems on standard PCs. The project, known as PearPC, is not yet mature and stable enough to warrant a commercial release of this solution, and...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - PC World -- May 22




    Custom RSS Feeds And Greater Exposure For Your Content

      CompleteRSS, who is operated in conjunction with Pluck (an IE integrated RSS newsreader and NewsTrove (NewsTrove scours nearly 200,000 sites) now offers an easy way to create custom RSS feeds that are the result of a specific search. The service is free and immediately accessible. It...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 21




    Collaborative Filtering Comes To Independent Music Makers: Find What You Like Through Other People Tastes With inDiscover

      "inDiscover is a service designed to help bring independent music to new listeners. We appeal to both musicians and people interested in hearing fresh new music, by recommending songs based on our user's tastes. Songs are provided by independent artists from around the world in mp3...
    read more | cat.: | Link inDiscover - [via Stephen Downes] -- May 21




    Interface And Interaction Design Drive Future Publishing Models

      "Digital communicators let fallacies about convergence and traditional media dominate their thinking. The relatively new field of human-computer interaction (HCI) can offer alternatives. Two fallacies dominate the world of digital mass communication: 1. That media are converging into a single device. (Stated explicitly) 2. That pre-digital...
    read more | cat.: | Link Nico Macdonald - USC Online Journalism Review -- May 21




    Independent Publishers Challenge The News Establishment

      "In the mid-1960s, when the Free Speech Movement drew national attention by disrupting the Berkeley campus, the idea of a group of people using inexpensive tools to compete directly against traditional print or broadcast media was ridiculous. With the exception of magazine publishers, publishers or broadcasters...
    read more | cat.: | Link Vin Crosbie - Clickz -- May 20




    Search And Share Bibliographic Data With Bibster

      Bibster introduces a system which assists researchers in managing, searching, and sharing bibliographic data in a peer-to-peer network. The advantage of the system is it provides the possibility to search on a distributed peer-to-peer network. It provides an easy way to share data with other researchers....
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Bibster -- May 20




    Television News? Wake Up And Smell The RSS

      "People in television news are keenly aware of the principles of technological disruption. The possibility that news organizations (as we know them) are about to be (or already have been) marginalized, is a very real prospect. ...Absorbing a big blob of information is not an efficient...
    read more | cat.: | Link Bill French - Myst Technology Partners - Think Outside The Feed -- May 20




    How Wikis Can Support IT Departments Manage Projects
      "A modest proposal for using blogs (or better yet wikis) to keep IT teams and management up-to-date on implementation." An interesting article from a technical developer having gone through the creation of many custom news publishing, content and project management applications. In essence: "IT organizations that...
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    Michael Schrage - CIO -- May 19




    IBM Offers Web-based Alternative To Microsoft Office
      "IBM unveiled a server-based bundle of desktop applications that offer companies an alternative to Microsoft's market-dominating Office suite. Part of IBM's Lotus Workplace strategy, the software includes email, instant messaging, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software. Unlike Microsoft's products, however, the applications are not tied to...
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    Robin Good - Linux Pipeline -- May 19




    Free Publishing Platform For Mailing And Discussion Lists: Google Groups 2

      If you are looking for a quick, clean, reliable and easy-to-use solution to send out your newsletter or to maintain an email/Web-based discussion list, you may want to consider giving a try to the free Google Groups 2 service, now in Beta, but ready to be...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 19




    The Advantages Of Content Management Systems Versus The Custom Development Route

      "If you've not seen Drupal, DotNetNuke, MovableType (requires licensing), Wiki, PHP-Nuke or SnipSnap, Rainbow Portal, you've probably at least heard of them. They're web applications loosely based around blog concepts (kinda like E2 day logs) which you install on your own server and configure as you...
    read more | cat.: | Link revolution - Everything2 -- May 18




    Multi-Party Videoconferencing Solutions Selected And Compared

      The number of cost-effective videoconferencing solutions available to Internet users keeps increasing while demonstrating that quality solutions do not require the type of large investments required until two years ago. In his latest live Buyer's Review Robin Good reviews nine best of breed solutions and assigns...
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    Robin Good - Kolabora -- May 18




    EU Software Patents Legislation Threatens Small Software Companies, Linux And Open Source Initiatives

      Mandrakesoft, a major Linux software distributor has issued an alert through its newsletter in which it informs all its users and the software community at large about a recent clandestine attack by proprietary interests through covert adoption of EU Software Patent Legislation. In direct contravention of...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Mandrakesoft -- May 18




    Better Than Glance: Easy Screen Sharing And Remote Control With GoToMeeting

      It looks beautifully easy! better than glance.net, Try it out!. This is what my friend and colleague Gillian Kerr wrote me about GoToMeeting the other day. Nonetheless I am a long time GoToMyPC customer and proud supporter, I had not received any internal news announcing this...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 17




    Media Ownership Chart: Who Owns Your News?

      Who controls what we watch, read and listen to? Though four years old, here is a great map that visualizes the world largest six media moguls and their specific properties in television, book publishing, entertainment, movies and music. The map is complemented by a great referenced...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - MediaChannel.org -- May 17




    Make Long URLs Short With BittyURL

      BittyURL.com is a new service that lets you take long URLs and turn them into very short ones. How many times have you received an email with a huge link to a URL or had to send one to someone causing the recipient to have...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 17




    Movable Type Too Expensive? Check Out The Alternatives

      As Movable Type, one of the most popular personal publishing tools, has just announced a new pricing scheme making its technology cost as much as $600 for those having several authors or multiple active blogs, it's time to check the horizon for possible qualified alternatives in...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 16




    Share Search Results And RSS News Items: Pluck

      Pluck is a new free desktop tool that integrates facilities to easily search the Web, access RSS newsfeeds and the collection of Web links that can be rapidly shared with friends and colleagues. Pluck makes each task as easy and intuitive as possible and adds other...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 16




    Open Source Makes It Into 3D Animation

      Open Source software continues to make inroads across many vertical markets including 3D animation where Blender3D, an open source solution that works across all kinds of different platforms, is set to complement and/or replace some long established names such as Alias Maya. Blender3D version 2.33, released...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Internet News -- May 16




    A RSS Newsreader For Everyone: RSSOwl

      The owl is a traditional symbol of wisdom, and of a quiet, efficient hunter. RSS ("Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary") is a document specification that gives users the power to collect and organize Web-based news and information in a more efficient manner. Applications that...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 15




    New File Sharing Networks Declare: Resistance Is Futile, Only The Anonymous Will Survive

      Software developers are designing some new file sharing networks that will make it harder for the music and file industry to prove cases of piracy. According to Reuters, three file sharing networks are being planned which its users think will make it a lot harder for...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - The Inquirer -- May 15




    No Place To Hide

      "Global outrage over digital photographs published in newspapers of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners is the latest example of how technology, in the hands of ordinary folk, creates a kind of information tsunami that shakes up the powerful and the mighty. The sheer convenience and speed...
    read more | cat.: | Link Francis Chin - Today Online -- May 15




    Sustainability Starts From You

      "The most effective way to successfully achieve the ambitious goal of building a socially just and environmentally sustainable global society from the ground up is to first focus on our immediate health and well being. One of the greatest absurdities of modern life is when we...
    read more | cat.: | Link Jeff Buderer - Ryze Page -- May 14




    Aristotle And The Knowledge Web

      "With the knowledge web, humanity's accumulated store of information will become more accessible, more manageable, and more useful. Anyone who wants to learn will be able to find the best and the most meaningful explanations of what they want to know. Anyone with something to...
    read more | cat.: | Link W. Daniel Hillis - Edge The Third Culture - [via InfoDesign] -- May 14




    The CMS Myth And Why Content Management Systems Fail

      "The idea is enticing. Empowered departments of a big enterprise, all publishing content directly to their customers through standard templates. The site continues to grow, but in a controlled way. And these business units have complete control of what is and isn't online. Sounds good, but...
    read more | cat.: | Link Jeffrey Veen - Adaptive Path -- May 14




    RSS Search And Custom Feed Creation: NewsXS

      NewsXS is a new RSS-based news search engine operating across four different languages: English, French, German and Dutch. Over 4,000 quality news sources are already included. Newsfeeds submissions are all reviewed and filtered manually. NewsXS generates an immediately accessible RSS feed for any search term you...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends - [via Chris Pirillo] -- May 13




    New RSS feeds from Robin Good

      Two new RSS newsfeeds from Robin Good have just become available filling a raising demand for more specialized updates on key topics followed on my sites. One is the RSSTop55 newsfeed, which allows marketers of news sites or blogs to stay on top of the new...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 13




    What A Personal Publishing/Communication System Should Provide

      Dave Pollard has a new, very interesting article (cum smartly colored scorecard) focusing on all of the features and facilities he would like to see in his ideal personal publishing system (blog for most). Though, in my personal view, integrating all of these tools and facilities...
    read more | cat.: | Link Dave Pollard -- May 13




    Voice Publishing Is Here To Stay: Audioblog

      A new online service allows anyone equipped with a headset and microphone to start recording audio news, interviews, articles or commentaries and to post them with extreme ease on any weblog-based site. The new service is available since yesterday and for $ 4.95 you can immediately...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 12




    Not For Happy Windows Users

      How to Make Your First Linux Installation Like a Day at the Beach is a good article providing all of the basic information you need to set up your first Linux box. The article is for non technical people and it is full of useful information...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Small Business Computing -- May 12




    Discovering, UndeRSStanding, Learning

      Eva Kaplan-Leiserson, Associate Editor of Learning Circuits, brings together in an excellent article the key trends underlying RSS potential in learning and education. "[RSS]...it's not the acronym that's important, it's the result: a means of driving content directly from its producer to its recipient automatically, almost...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Learning Circuits -- May 12




    Virtual Teamworking Guide

      "Virtual teamworking is already commonplace and is rapidly becoming essential as organisations work in an increasingly collaborative way. With high-speed internet access now widely affordable, virtual teamworking can be appealing both to the individual and effective for business. Many of the technologies that support virtual teamworking...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Business Link -- May 11




    Usability Guidelines From MIT

      The MIT Information Services and Technologies office provides an excellent starting point for anyone needing to test, evaluate, analyze or assess the effective usability/accessibility of a Web site. In one well organized page, all critical areas of usability and accessibility are covered through a simple guidelines...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - MIT Information Services -- May 11




    An Economy For Giving Everything Away

      "How might an independent thinker work on personal projects they share with others for free, while building relationships towards work for pay?" An Economy For Giving Everything Away is a 2002 proposal that describes how we can build relationships through work that we do for ourselves,...
    read more | cat.: | Link Andrius Kulikauskas - Minciu Sodas -- May 11




    Great RSS Tools

      A great online resource bringing together in an open fashion all of the best tools and resources to manage, publish and gather RSS newsfeeds. The page is maintained by the actual users and it shows how well wikis can be put to good use for PR,...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - RSS Winterfest - SocialText -- May 10




    The World Is A Stage: Capture It! Wi-Fi.Bedouin

      "Every entrepreneur or technophile prides herself or himself on thinking outside the box. Very few however, actually succeed in escaping all the confines which shape our ideas about what technology is and how we can apply it. Julian Bleeker -- inventor, grad student and software developer...
    read more | cat.: | Link Naomi Graychase - Wi-Fi Planet -- May 10




    Master Your Powerpoint Presentations To CD-ROM With All Links Working

      PowerLink Plus 2.0 is a PowerPoint related utility that solves an annoying problem many presenters have when needing to master their presentations on a CD-ROM/DVD: keeping all of the associated files and links working on the CD-ROM! PowerLink Plus 2.0 verifies and repairs all of the...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 10




    How To Alternate The Display Of Multiple Images On A Web Page

      "One of the challenges facing the modern web designer is to create sites that appear fresh and new every time a visitor shows up. It's one thing if the site you're designing is a news site, for example, where stories or headlines will be updated on...
    read more | cat.: | Link Dan Benjamin - A List Apart -- May 9




    Video To Flash
      Video to Flash? Kibisis is a simple-to-use and very cost-effective video (and audio) to Flash converter. The benefits of converting video clips to Flash is the one of having a distribution file format that is more efficient in terms of size and which can be easily streamed...
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    Robin Good Recommends -- May 9




    What Is RSS And Why Should You Care?

      If you have just stumbled upon RSS and are trying to get a quick culture on it, this 12-part tutorial is a freshly updated major revision of an article published in October of 2003 under the title "What Is RSS and Why Should You Care?" It...
    read more | cat.: | Link Amy Gahran - Contentious -- May 9




    Adapt Or Die: The Strategic Role of Learning In The On-Demand Enterprise

      "The message of the article is essentially that "the current market economy places a premium on innovation, new business models and new ways of organizing work." It's not the first time we've seen the phrase "adapt or die" in an article - such as this item...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 8




    Reduce Spam: Encrypt Your Email Addresses Published Online

      Posting your email address on a website is a sure-fire way to get an Inbox full of unsolicited email advertisements. The Enkoder protects email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people. This tool is...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends - [via Marc Freedman - FutureVision] -- May 8




    Bridge The Language Divide: Translate Full Spoken Sentences Into Foreign Language Counterparts Without A Human Translator

      The VoxTec Phraselator is a small handheld unit which is capable of taking a spoken input phrase from a human being and to select automatically the correspondent sentence in a target language while playing it back with the appropriate accent and tone. Designed with the US...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 8




    Is Google The Fastest Way To Find Information?

      Is the internet really the quickest way to access facts - and get them right? Ros Taylor, Oliver Burkeman and Stephen Moss at the Guardian Unlimited take Google to a serious and very relevant challenge. They put Google to the test against more old-fashioned methods. They set...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Guardian Unlimited -- May 7




    How to Use Learning Objectives to Improve Learning

      "If information architecture is a fairly new field, then the practice of teaching information architecture is even newer. Often instructors are experienced information architects who have little to no teacher training, and they must teach students with a wide range of experience and learning goals. Learning...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Boxes and Arrows -- May 7




    How To Surf Anonimously With The Best Proxy Servers: GhostSurf

      If you are looking for ways to navigate the Web in absolute anonimity GhostSurf is an effective shareware tool that allows you to utilize anonymous proxy servers. By itself, GhostSurf can check for the fastest and more available proxy servers available on the Internet and log...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 7




    How To Topic Maps

      "There is a great deal of philosophy involved in working with Topic Maps. Not in the sense of arguing for extentionalism or purport a theory of when cats die in boxes, but in the sense of epistemology, the philosophy of learning. It is about how we...
    read more | cat.: | Link Alexander Johannesen -- May 6




    Social Capital?

      A short but handy compilation offered by Bala Pillai on the possible definitions of Social Capital. The list is an open-ended starting point that facilitates and stimulates better understanding of where and how the social capital component can be made to become an acknowledged and nurtured...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 6




    What Is Social Capital


      What is Social Capital? Here is a valuable compilation offered by Bala Pillai on the possible definitions of Social Capital. The list is an open-ended starting point that facilitates and stimulates better understanding of where and how the social capital component can be made to become an...
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    Robin Good -- May 6




    How To Stop Being Manipulated!

      "Supposedly the job of the facilitator is to be a neutral, non-directing helper to see that the meeting flows smoothly. Actually, he or she is there for exactly the opposite reason: to see that the conclusions reached during the meeting are in accord with a plan...
    read more | cat.: | Link Chris Gupta - Share The Wealth -- May 6




    Wikis For The Rest Of Us

      Wikis. What they are, where they come from, why they exist, how they function and how can they be useful for normal human beings like you and me. If you are into building online communities where stakeholders care and nurture a common goal, consider this required...
    read more | cat.: | Link Lee Lefever - commoncraft -- May 5




    Where To Try Out And Test The Best Conferencing And Collaboration Tools

      Kolabora has just launched a new Web section fully devoted to provide free direct access to all of the best online collaboration, Web conferencing and live presentation tools. The new section will showcase all of the commercial and open-source solutions that have chosen to provide a...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- May 5




    The Corporation Ethics And The Dangers They Represent

      A wonderful streaming interview with Joel Bakan, one of the authors of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power serves as the basis for an award-winning educational film. Both in the book and in the multi-part movie three key different themes are addressed. In...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - TV Ontario -- May 5




    Snoop On The Snoopers

      "Cameraphones could create an opportunity for the public to snoop on the snoops and watch the watchers. Now that millions of us walk the streets with cameras in our telephones while authorities and theorists freak out about the privacy implications, has anybody stopped to think that...
    read more | cat.: | Link Howard Reinghold - The Feature - [via Sepp Hasslberger] -- May 4




    How To Create And Publish Your Own Online Polls: ViewletPoll

      ViewletPoll is a new service that makes it as easy and fun as it can get the creation, publishing and management of online polls. ViewletPoll makes the process extremely simple and straightforward, while providing an elegant and well thought-out interface for the poll manager. Results are...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- May 4




    Tools For Creativity And Business Innovation

      Want to conduct more effective brainstorming sessions? Seeking to extract the best ideas from your team? Looking for easy to use tools that can jump-start your creative process? Innovation Tools provides entrepreneurs and innovators with a focused, growing collection of the best resources on business innovation,...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Robin Good Recommends -- May 4




    Flexible tools, Interoperability, Universal Access: The Competitive Edge Reports

      In the first session of the Competitive Edge, which went live this last Friday, Robin Good brought together a very qualified audience of industry experts, companies CEOs, marketing VPs and managers as well as industry analysts and technology specialists. Special guests were elearning guru Jay Cross...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- May 3




    Instant Messaging Launchpad For Full Conferencing And Collaboration: YM Goes 6

      A new version of Yahoo Messenger is available since more than a week on the Messenger web site, showcasing, like for other recent upgrades from the other major IM players, an increased interest in making these tools the common basic launching pad for collaboration and conferencing...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Reports -- May 3




    Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture Walks Its Talk

      In its newest book, "Free Culture", Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig shows us that "while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas." Penguin...
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    Quizzing Can Be A Great Learning Tool

      Jane Knight of the e-Learning Centre has put together a useful and exhaustive collection of tools and services that allow educators and trainers to design, structure and deploy effective quizzes and tests. I myself find the use of game quizzing during live workshops and seminars to...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 2




    Information Functionality: How Breadcrumbs, Site Maps And Site Navigation Are The Critical Conversion-Rate Drivers

      "A fascinating thing about watching visitors navigate is recognizing that repeat visitors typically use sites differently than first-time visitors. You might consider changing your navigation based on this, as Amazon.com changes the tabs displayed based on purchase and browsing patterns. As Don Norman of the Nielsen...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - ClickZ -- May 2




    Print-On-Demand Self-Publishing Ready For Prime-Time

      "The rise of print-on-demand technology and websites devoted to self publishing is making it ever easier for writers to bypass conventional publishers. Many authors have become frustrated with conventional publishers, entrenched by market projections, annual styles and the unmentionable word ''returns.'' The alternative is self-publishing. Unfortunately,...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - The Globe and Mail -- May 2




    What Role Are YOU Going To Play In The Evolution Of New Media?

      "A future of smart mobs and self-organized media is plausible as long as the owners of tomorrow's communications devices remain free to use the emerging media in any way they choose. However, a war over control of innovation might change all that, and the attack is...
    read more | cat.: | Link CIO - Howard Reinghold - [via Sepp] -- May 1




    Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?

      As RSS grows in popularity and adoption, with speed and dimensions much beyond what the mainstream news report, skeptics and novices start to ask the same questions that they posed ten years ago, as the Internet was just bursting on the public scene. "News aggregators may...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Wired News -- May 1




    You Can Never Listen Too Close Or Too Much To Your Users: Six Degrees Is Back

      Six Degrees is a technology that automatically creates and updates a database of links to the messages you send and receive, the files you create, and the people you work with. Creo has now a new version of Six Degrees, the unique contact/email/workflow management and search...
    read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Creo -- May 1






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