More With Less Using RSS

Today, many receive information via RSS, an efficient delivery and aggregation technology that feeds user-specific web content to our computers. For an individual, RSS is like having an assistant available to gather the information you want to see from a variety of sources.  For businesses, RSS can be an effective mechanism to reach customers and provide them with the information they have asked for. While there is tremendous growth in the usage of RSS, surprisingly, many of us know little about what it is. 

Elearning Technologies

When blogging tools first arrived in 1998, people asked “What’s a blog?” The word “blog” is a contraction of “Web log” and is used both as a noun as well as a verb. To blog is to write content to a blog. By design, blogs are best suited for the spontaneous thoughts and observations of an individual or team. They are not designed to facilitate rapid-fire back-and-forth discussion on a particular issue. Blogging tools are available as free or moderately priced services and as products you purchase and install on your own server. You may have noticed recently that many of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. When you click on the button, all you see is some jumbled text and computer code [ed: unless you have a newer web browser or an aggregator]. What's this all about? It's an RSS feed, and it's changing the way people access the Internet.Weblog, RSS, e-learning, RSS, blogging tools

Comparing Weblogs to Threaded Discussion Tools in Online Educational Contexts.

Weblogs or blogs are being heralded as the “next big thing” in education. In this article we examine the advantages and disadvantages of this form of Internet-based interaction using the Community of Inquiry model with its focus on social, cognitive and teaching presences. We conclude that blogging has distinct advantages over more common threaded discussion in its support of style, ownership and identity, and its public nature may enhance resolution phases of cognitive presence. However, its lack of safety and the current inefficiencies of linking and threading messages present greater challenges than the more familiar threaded discussion or email list. Perhaps the blog’s greatest relative advantage is for non formal and open education that takes learning beyond the traditional course

The Case for CAPSL: Architectural Solutions to Licensing and Distribution in Emerging Music Markets

Compulsory licensing in music has paved the way for a limited class of new noninteractive services. However, innovation and competition are stifled in the field of interactive or otherwise novel services due to high transaction costs inherent in direct licensing. While the creation of a new compulsory license available to a wider array of services may facilitate growth and diversity in new markets, it is unlikely that the legislative process can deliver a new compulsory regime in time to serve relevant interests. Furthermore, the risk exists that legislation written in response to contemporary technology will likely fail to recognize the diversity within the music industry, and therefore will underserve both artists and potential licensees. As such, this brief argues for the creation and adoption of a new standardized protocol for artists and labels to announce the availability of new content with attached standardized licensing terms for automated integration into the catalogs of new or existing digital music services. Such a protocol would allow for automated systems of pricing, distribution, and tracking to reduce transaction costs, increase market transparency, and commodify user participation

Keeping Up To Date with IP News Services and Blogs: Drowning in a Sea Of Sameness?

It seems like so many IP related Websites you visit invite you to join their free email list to keep you up to date. Sources span a wide spectrum including governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, consulting services, law firms, commercial publishers and more. These sources span the spectrum from free, to low fee to premium pricing. With all of this information overload and choices, how do you differentiate and choose news sources? The goals of this article are twofold. Goal one is to present a survey of types and categories of IP news tools available to IP researchers. Since these tools change with time, goal two is to present strategies and approaches to consider when assembling your portfolio of news sources. I use the term researcher to include anyone looking for news, including lawyers, paraprofessionals, academics, students, corporate searchers and more. Some of this material may be yesterday\u27s news for some and breaking news for others. My hope is that you will find value added in some tools and strategies. Before I present the survey of tools, I want to propose some initial general strategies that might be helpful to apply as the detail of the tools unfold

Web Syndication in a Multilevel Security Environment

In this thesis, we demonstrate the feasibility of a novel multilevel web application that merges the ability to share sensitive information with cutting-edge Web 2.0 communication paradigms: we develop a multilevel web aggregation service, allowing web content at various classifications to be gathered together and browsed. The architecture supports read-down across subscriptions, supports receiving near-real-time delivery of new low web content to high subjects and demonstrates several thoughtful, ergonomic user interfaces relevant in a multilevel security context. The architecture was prototyped and evaluated using the current Monterey Security Architecture (MYSEA) research system.http://archive.org/details/websyndicationin1094538482Civilian, Naval Postgraduate SchoolApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Streaming contents and RSS feed in a pedagogical environment

A group of university teachers have been developing several contents using streaming technology, since it promotes the support of pedagogical activity as a dynamic resource and due to the fact that is oriented to a model of shared learning contents. Now, a new challenge can be stated: the share and the reutilization of these learning contents. Apart from being an enhanced experience only concerning the sharing of knowledge, it promotes a desired partnership inter/intra-department. In this context the RSS technology introduces a new dimension in the access to streaming media contents. The RSS is a format to syndicate contents enabling users to be aware of new contents that are periodically published. The RSS technology, through the use of RSS Aggregators or RSS Readers, help the user to keep up to date all their favourite information sources that provide their contents as RSS feeds. In the scope of the streaming media contents the definition of RSS feeds enable the students to be up to date of new educational resources that are provided by the teacher. Therefore the students instead of checking the updates that are published in several educational information resources can locally see the new resources that are described and provided in the RSS feed. Some preliminaries results are presented and discussed

Blogs, wikis and creative innovation

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