Spike Hall notes some of his experiences over the years using online teaching. Overestimation of technical skills of students and failure to detect problems early are his main two reasons for failure of online education. [Spike Hall's Weblog]
Monthly Archive for July, 2003
Here is someone from Scotland looking for english speaking webloggers to take part in an experiment.
Horst Prillinger demonstrates that Apple iSight camera is adapting the color balance according to the objects it photographes. This is causing an annoying effect. DV cameras have this »auto white balance« as well, but I think they do a much better job than iSight.
»Here’s a site that lets the world vote in the next US presidential election.
Since the world’s vote counts about as much as that of a confused elderly Jewish lady in Dade County, Florida, it’s too bad the site is only publishing the results afterthe US polls close when it can have absolutely no effect.«
Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. [via Der Schockwellenreiter]
Interesting to see how opinion leaders in the weblog community push towards political relevance of the weblog discourse. Well… seems the whole weblog community wants to be opinion leading somehow…
Chris Lydon interviews David Sifry, father of Technorati. I like Technorati a lot – it is a very useful tool to track connections between weblogs (or the reading trails of the weblog authors).
David talks about this at the end of the interview: a hyperlink is a piece of metadata that created Google. Technorati now is adding another metadata element: time (when a hyperlink was created). With timed hyperlinks you can see how »attention votes« propagate through the web and who is influencing or inspiring to whom.