Ed Bilodeau has posted a couple of entries related to University policy and open learning environments: A student’s right to anonymity and open learning environments; Auditing classes and open learning systems. The gut reaction of many technologists to such issues in the past has been to suggest that the older policy/norm is hopelessly out-of-date, but I disagree – I’m with Ed, these things have to be studied carefully and a balance point must be found between existing policies and present and future practice.
Archives for 2004
Malcolm Gladwell
continues to impress with a very personal story that looks into copyright, plagiarism, and art: Something Borrowed in the New Yorker.
The Wired News interview
with Jeff Tweedy is great: Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread.
WN: You don’t agree with the argument that file sharing hurts musicians’ ability to earn a living?
Tweedy: I don’t believe every download is a lost sale.
WN: What if the efforts to stop unauthorized music file sharing are successful? How would that change culture?
Tweedy: If they succeed, it will damage the culture and industry they say they’re trying to save.
If you find the intersection
between politics and geography interesting you’ll want to take a look at Robert David Sullivan’s Beyond Red and Blue, a geographic analysis that posits 10 regions of the US, distinct demographically and in terms of their voting history. You’ll also be interested in his analysis of the 2004 election results.
MSN Search Update
I re-checked the search I put the Beta MSN through yesterday and interestingly – expectedly – it included more returns than before – though the total was still just 10% of Google’s number and no more relevent. But I think it’s important to guage how MSN and a couple of the others change over time. I think people have an instinctive feel for Google by now, but a new entrant like MSN Search should be given the opportunity to improve over time, to get up to speed, so to speak. Anyhow – over the weekend I’m going to write up 3 or 4 queries and develop a schedule to see how each responds and compare the results. I’ll include Google, MSN Search Beta, and Yahoo! Search. Any suggestions anyone can offer will be more than welcome.
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