Monthly Archives: July 2003

The Hyperspace Classroom

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 31, 2003
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]
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Blog Experiment

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 31, 2003
Here is someone from Scotland looking for english speaking webloggers to take part in an experiment.
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iSight white balance

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 25, 2003
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.
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The World Votes

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 25, 2003
»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.« [Joho [...]
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Weblogs and political discourse

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 24, 2003
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…
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Chris Lydon interviews David Sifry

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 24, 2003
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 [...]
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