details of a global brain
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Link rott
The realvideos of the Wizard of OS conference are offline or buried in docuverse somehow. This is just an example why links should be designed wisely (and -by the way- it is totally unacceptable that Typo3 does not yet allow to define precise URLs). I can only quote Brent’s Law of CMS URLs: “The more…
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Dive into Accessibility
Mark Pilgrim has compiled extensive manuals about how to make you HTML pages more accessible. Grouped by publishing tools, disabilities, editors and browsers.
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WikiLogs
»WikiLog: an attempt to synthesize the best aspects of WikiWikis and WebLogs.Yes, weblogs can be done by hand on any wiki. The difference is that automating it makes it more powerful, and conceptually easier for people to work with.«
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2,2 trillion dollars
According to this german article the theoretical maximal penalty for Microsofts latest security hole in Passport would be 2.2 trillion dollars ($11,000 for each of the 200 million accounts).
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Embedding PHP in MySQL
myphp is an extension that allows MySQL to execute PHP code that is stored in the database tables.
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Microsoft Passport was vulnerable since beginning
This is ridiculous. So who can explain me that the biggest Software company in the world while implementing a worldwide authentification system leaves a public accessible script can be used to hack any Passport account in seconds? Unbelievable.
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Knowledge Management in Education
»This monograph describes the opportunities and challenges faced by those working to improve the use and sharing of information in education through practices that have come to be known as knowledge management.« [elearningpost]
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How to Report Bugs Effectively
This is a long document explaining how to report a bug. The beef is in a bullet list at the end, but it’s worth reading anyway.
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The Other 80%
Jay Cross on informal learning: »At work we learn more in the breakroom than in the classroom. We discover how to do our jobs through informal learning — observing others, asking the person in the next cubicle, calling the help desk, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know. Formal learning – classes and…
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AOL weblogs?
»From a trusted correspondent, talking with a contact who works at the Netscape part of AOL/Time Warner. “He said they had decided that weblogs are the next killer app, and that most of the work at the Mountain View office was going into building a weblog component for AOL. He also mentioned that about 400…
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Decoding visual language elements in news content
A great visual analisys and reflection on how to use images in order to shape people´s minds: News delivery in this country (USA) is increasingly comprised of carefully crafted displays of visual information. As consumers of information, however, most of us have never been taught to critically read or decode images and other graphic displays…
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Design weblogs
Peter J. Bogaards maintains a list of design weblogs.
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Reminder: Weblogs and teaching survey
Almost two year ago I created a 12-question survey for people that use weblogs in education. I got positive feedback and visitors liked to read the answers. If you are a weblogger in educational context I ask you to answer the survey. You just have to register yourself once. And comment to this thread.
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Upcoming Manila news items enhancements
Jake Savin posted a mockup of a possible editing form to post news items in a Manila site. Lot’s of new things there: trackback, optional comments, multiple departments, item summary for homepage and/or rss feed. If only this could be made look much simpler.
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Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age
John Seely Brown talks about social learning. Long text with slides.
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Geeking out with pictures and Manila
Dave Winer wrote a little script for Radio Userland that uploads a folder with JPEG images to a Manila site.
Got any book recommendations?