Category Archives: technical issues

Learning Objects Portal – Repositories Page

Learning Objects Portal – Repositories Page

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Cantor sets [dive into mark]

Cantor sets [dive into mark]

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Student Assessment in Higher Education Home Page

Student Assessment in Higher Education Home Page

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Creating a Custom RSS Feed Aggregator

Creating a Custom RSS Feed Aggregator

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Boxes and Arrows: Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet

Boxes and Arrows: Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet This fascinating bit of history gives an account of Paul Otlet a ‘Forgotten Forefather’ of the internet and ‘semantic web’

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Open Source Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API

Open Source Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API

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Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System %u2014 plone.org

Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System %u2014 plone.org

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Google Web APIs – Home

Google Web APIs – Home

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How Trackback Works

How Trackback Works

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Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL – Part 2: Getting Started with MySQL [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]

Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL – Part 2: Getting Started with MySQL [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]

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Wireless Access: The Next Great Municipal Crisis

eWeek’s Larry Seltzer dumps on Philadelphia’s plan for wireless internet infrastructure. He claims to be making a technical argument about security, but it’s really just a disguised attack on public ownership.

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Alertbox: Ten Years (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

Alertbox: Ten Years (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) Perhaps the most important criterion for usability of the web as a whole is our common adherence to accepted standards, and perhaps the most fundamental standard of all is the language of communication (in … Continue reading

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Is the “Learning Object” King naked?

This item by Scott Leslie and its referent sound the death knell for a term that would have been useful if it hadn’t been taken so seriously. I have long argued in particular that the idea of collecting “Learning Objects” … Continue reading

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� Jamie Lewis on the future of identity management | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

� Jamie Lewis on the future of identity management | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Jamie Lewis on the future of identity management by ZDNet‘s Chris Jablonski

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CETIS-The Case for Creative Commons Textbooks

According to a recent survey, University of California students now spend 40 percent more on textbooks than they did six years ago. This paper argues that colleges and universities may be able to significantly reduce these costs by creating a … Continue reading

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Babies and Bathwater

When I tried to post part of the previous postings as a comment on Stephen’s Web, I was told: “Because it has submitted spam, this client has been banned from all interactive features of this website. Email the administrator if … Continue reading

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mIDm – Self-Identification

mIDm – Self-Identification the World Wide Web is Stephen Downes’ follow-up to his previous article on Authentication and Identification. I had some issues with the previous part but have not yet read this one.

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