Academe Links July 18, 2007

Edubloggers as “Prisoners of the nation state.”

http://artichoke.typepad.com/artichoke/2007/07/edubloggers-as-.html

HP and MIT Create Non-profit Organization to Support Growing Community of DSpace Users http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070717005251&newsLang=en

Tech-Transfer Ties Between Universities and Industry Are Strained, Congress Is Told http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/07/2007071802n.htm?rss

Provocative Theory on Merit

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/18/sat

Iowa Faculty Reconsider What’s in a Name http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/18/wellmark

Tool: CoReap

http://coreap.com/

Tool: Miro

http://www.getmiro.com/

Tool: Sloodle

http://www.sloodle.com/

Intel and the $100 Laptop: What Does it Mean for U.S. Schools?

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/07/intel_and_the_100_laptop_what.html

Students' trial by Facebook

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2128264,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6902333.stm

Feel Good: Top 10 Mood Apps and Visualizers http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feel_good_top_10_mood_apps_and_visualizers.php

The Quest for Sustainability in Open Courseware

http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=40923

A Plea to Re-Think The Desire to Meet

http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2007/07/for-the-love-of.html

Web Literacy: How Good Are You at Recognizing Fake Web Sites and Email Scams?

http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2007/07/web-literacy-ho.html

Office Open XML hits a snag on the way to standardization http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-office-xml-hits-a-snag-on-the-way-to-iso-standardization.html

Resource: Open Library (Demo site)

http://demo.openlibrary.org/

Europeans embrace Firefox in record numbers http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-europeans-embrace-firefox-in-record-numbers.html

H.R. 1201

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR01201:@@@L&summ2=m&

Social Software Timeline

http://www.socialtext.net/m2m/index.cgi?social_software_timeline

Resource/tool: Knuru

http://www.knuru.com/

Top 10 Risks Impeding the Adequate Protection of Government Information http://csrc.nist.gov/pcig/document/Common-Risks-Impeding-Adequate-Protection-Govt-Info.pdf

R. C. Rybnikar

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