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This looks pretty cool…Developers Jay and Steve McDonald have come up with a solution to this problem, and it’s called Fjax. Fjax works a whole lot like Ajax — it uses an XML file to pass data to a browser — except that it uses a tiny bit of Flash, instead of the browser, to parse the XML. All of that browser-specific code is eliminated, leaving the application more lightweight and putting less of a strain on the browser.
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University of Wisconsin Law School professors Stewart Macaulay and Beth Mertz join Robert Nelson, the Director of the American Bar Foundation, as guest bloggers on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog for the week of June 19, 2006. The blog can be found at www.elsblog.org.
University of Wisconsin Law School – News
This is interesting because U of Wisc considers a guest blogging gig as press release worthy. The tone of the release implies that this is serious scholarship type stuff going on and that is a significant change in attitude.
CALI really needs to do more to encourage these sorts of releases when we add faculty authors and podcasters to our programmers. I think the success of upcoming eLangdell projects will hinge on this sort ofbuy-in from schools.
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This is a step in the right direction.Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft® Office applications. The copyright licensing tool will be available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online, http://office.microsoft.com, and CreativeCommons.org. The tool will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel® and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® to select one of several Creative Commons licenses from within the specific application.
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New Communications Review » Blog Archive » Society for New Communications Research Announces Awards Program; Seeks Submissions – Note to self: nominate Classcaster:)
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Sip Phone Added – Oh, yeah! SIP softphone embedded in a web browser. I’m linking this to Classcaster, then creating free SIP accounts for CALI members. That’s right folks: podcasting from your web browser.
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O’Reilly Radar > Spam Filtering Statistics from oreilly.com – So, O’Reilly domains see a good mail to spam ratio of 1:34. Out of every 35 messages coming into O’Reilly domains only 1 is a legit email. At CALI well over 90% of our incoming email is bogus. Between my various accounts I’m getting over 1,000 messages a day, but only about 50-60 of those are not spam of one sort or another. I’ve quit looking at the spam folders on my accounts, I just delete them. Am I missing email? I don’t think so. It has been a few years since I got one of those I tried to email you but never heard back messages and didn’t find the note neglected in my inbox. The reality is that email as we know and love it is dead as an effective communication channel. And there is nothing to replace it. So we soldier on.
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There are two categories of plugins. Conversation Plugins interact with the chat environment itself. For example, with the event finder plugin, two people chatting can bring up a Yahoo map and find pegged restaurantes, venues, etc. to discuss them. Another plugin that I saw demo’d was the “avatars space” where users can interact in a virtual environment using avatars, pull in flickr photos and othe props, etc. The other type of plugins, Personal Plugins, pull content directly into the IM client itself. Users can add news, Yahoo 360, calendar plugins, etc. The idea is to pull core web services into the IM client, avoiding the need to open a browser.
TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo Opens IM to Developers
So, can we run CALI Lessons inside of Messenger? The idea would be intriguing since it would allow a certain level of collaboration between students. Or imagine a prof walking a student thorugh a Lesson while chatting (text or voice, remember Y!M has VOIP built-in). Or we pull content through the WebAPI of eLangdell. Something to look into.
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