IU Technology Architecture Lodge
Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management
copyright stuff
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Comparing Zope to Windows 3.0 -- not totally flattering but points out the promises of Zope. [link from DDJ Python-URL!] Today's Chronicle of Higher Education article on learning management systems seems like a useful introduction to the topic. Thinking about Favorite Blogs  Dave Winer has nominated blogs for his awards. I'm glad that he pointed to Dan Lyke's alternative categories. It's certainly started me thinking about which blogs I like -- and more generally what web sources I enjoy reading and/or consult often. About a year ago, when I was ambitious about my blog, I thought about doing a series on "some of my favorite things". Every week, I'd write a column on something or someone I really admired and appreciated. I might just start with a blog entry or two on that very topic, beginning with some blogs I read. Stay tuned... Amazon and its sometimes helpful recommendations In looking for Lawrence Lessig's Future of Ideas on amazon, I learned about Siva Vaidhyanathan's Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity because this book was offered as a get-a-great-deal-if-buy-both-books-bargain. I snagged the book from the library this afternoon. I should spend more time in the temple of learning at the heart of the campus. Walking among the miles of stacks is positively humbling and awe-inspiring in a way that surfing the web can never be (at least for me). I tend to forget about how important libraries have been for me. I spend so much more time in front of my computers these days than in the stacks. Some stuff, I certainly don't miss -- like photocopying journal articles. (The web has eliminated a lot of that dreary work.) However, the physical immersion in our history is amazing. I started to ponder how much effort it would take to digitize the entire UC Berkeley library system -- not that I'm advocating such an effort, mind you. If I could snap my fingers and all the books would be digitized at no effort and at no cost, I'd think -- yes, that would be wonderful. But would digitizing our entire collection be worthwhile? More interesting links from David Todd-Carter Today's posting is very useful as usual: Metacrap -- Why Metadata isn't all it's cracked up to be. Although I think that there is a major role for metadata in educational technology, it's important that people not get carried away and think that metadata will be a panacea. (It also needs to be said that metadata are not totally useless -- as some people are wont to say.) Obviously the challenge is to find out how much metadata is enough and not too much. A useful link to a critique of the notion of knowledge management. You go, Lloyd I look forward to Lloyd's blog-entry-to-come that will touch on the "whole history of books in [his] life." Books are an endless source of fascination and delight for me. I'm worried, however, that I'm spending more time reading about books than reading books these days. I reported a while back that I just got access to the archives to the New York Review of Books. I also just got myself a two-year subscription to the Times Literary Supplement. Can't wait to get my first issue -- it's the perfect magazine for generalist-dilettantes-amateurs like me.
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