The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
The Neef Law Library blog at Wayne State University is using Shockwave audio files to record blog content. A slightly different form of podcasting, but it works very nicely without the ‘pod’ or iTunes. It uses ClassCaster as the underlying technology.
RSS4Lib:: Shockwave Audio and Weblogs
Another meniton of Classcaster. Word is getting out.
Of interest. A quick scan of the site reveals ties to jSTOR and other archiving projects , but not many details about the Portico archive will operate.
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Pushing Portico
This month the Library of Congress awarded a $3-million grant to help finance the development of Portico, a nonprofit service that will archive online scholarly materials.
BetaNews | VMware Ships Free Virtual Machine App
VMware on Wednesday introduced VMware Player, a free tool that enables users to run virtual machines on a Linux or Windows PC. The company says that the program would be ideal for those beta testing software, or evaluating pre-built application environments. The release of the Player comes during VMworld, a yearly convention held by the company focusing on virtualized computing.
This is going to be interesting. Flock is a new sort of browser that is blogger friendly, among other things. This post is created with Flock. You can find Flock here. And I just added this, so you can edit too. Categories would be nice.
Well, in case you were wondering how the heck to have even more fun with RSS feeds, Micro Persuasion has this list of things to rev up your need 2 feed.
Great article, and the design short comings are pretty easy to overcome. Via RSS4Lib
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.
This is an oft discussed topic on teknoids, so it is interesting to see that are larger issues here than whether or not a CivPro lecture is interesting enough to keep students from bidding on eBay during class.
Laptops in classrooms not working out as hoped
Some professors have responded to the prevalence of networked computers in class by changing their teaching styles. The University of Houston’s Prof. Adams, for instance, now peppers his lectures with enough questions to reduce students’ Web surfing. When he is discussing a particularly complex subject, he says, he tells students to close their laptops.
XSPF Web Music Player (Flash) – Plays MP3 on your website
XSPF Web Music Player is a flash-based web application that uses xspf playlist format to play mp3 songs. XSPF is the XML Shareable Playlist Format. The software is written in Actionscript 2.
Slashdot | Open Source AJAX Webmail
“It seems AJAX webmail is all the craze. Right on the heels of both Microsoft and Yahoo launching beta versions of their new AJAX webmail clients, an Open Source startup RoundCube has released an alpha of a GPLed AJAX webmail client. While there are still many features missing (like search!), the demo they have is completely cross-browser compliant and overall very impressive.”
The Chronicle’s Wired Campus Blog posted these stories of interest yesterday and today: