first off is the coolest new thing on the eBay platform: RSS Feeds. With eBay Stores that enable RSS, you can now subscribe to a feed of the newest items listed in that store. PetriFinds is one of the stores that has turned on the feature already, and you can see the RSS link at the bottom of the store page.
Explain this to me?
Library Stuff has a great list of Q and A sites. You have a question, ask it there and maybe you’ll get an answer. Most seem to suffer from the lack of quality control you’d expect. John has thought about doing something like this using legal ed as a background. “Would someone explain estoppel to me?”, that sort of thing. Could work since focus would help with quality.
CLasscaster Gets ALE’d
The feature topic for the November ALE central meetingwill be an overview of Classcaster, a blog system supportingtelephony messaging and podcasting
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts » Blog Archive » ALE Central for November 10, 7:30pm
That’s right, Classcaster gets its first non-legal ed airing on Thursday evening as I trot it out for the Linux users group.
The Other Fedora: Open Source Document Repository
Tom Bruce recommends this for building repositories of things like course syllabi and presentations.
Fedora
Fedora open source software gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content.
eCasebriefs.com
What are Casebiefs Digital Editions?
Digital Editions are electronic versions of books that can be viewed on a computer screen. Gray Publishing & Media, Inc. now publishes and distributes digital editions to anyone on any computer running Microsoft® Windows® or Mac OS software. We use the Adobe Reader software as our viewing engine. Because Adobe® Reader software is based on the widely distributed Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) technology, we deliver digital editions with high visual fidelity in a way that fits your existing workflow.
AJAX DbAdmin Solution
TurboDbAdmin is a single-page AJAX solution for exploring and editing databases from a browser. Edit data just like you would in a desktop application, without submit buttons or page refreshes.
Second Mention of Classcaster on corante.com
I added a comment to the page reminding the author that Classcaster is actually the system that CALI Radio runs on. It is important for people to know that this is not a one blog pony:)
The terrific Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Education has been featuring lectures and other educational materials at CALI Radio, otherwise known as the ClassCaster, for several months now.
A natural extension for podcasting. Between Lawyers: technology + culture + law
Plog Is Now Lifetype
pLog, which provides the blogging power for Classcaster, has changed its name to LifeType.
LifeType Development Journal
The formerly known as pLog project has decided to get a facelift including a new name, new image and new logo. This facelift is related to the project’s cooperation with Amazon, current owners of the “plog” trademark in the United States. On behalf of the project, we would like to thank Amazon for their collaboration and help. Other companies would have chosen to sue but instead Amazon decided to cooperate and had a lot of patience with us.
Layoffs, Restructuring COme to Novell
Update: Novell details layoffs, restructuring plans – Computerworld
Novell Inc. said today that it plans to lay off 600 employees, or 10% of its global workforce, part of an effort to save more than $110 million annually as the struggling software maker restructures to focus on products such as SUSE Linux.The announcement came a day after the enterprise software maker promoted Ron Hovsepian to be its president and chief operating officer. Hovsepian had been serving as executive vice president and head of global field operations,
BBC Works on Annotatable Audio
This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D team – for this project consisting of myself, Tristan Ferne, Chris Bowley, Helen Crowe, Paul Clifford and Bronwyn Van Der Merwe. Although the project is a BBC project, all the speculation and theorising around the edges is my own and does not necessarily represent the opinion of my department or the BBC in general.