Posted 8:26 PM by George Siemens
Rolling a New Blog
Quote: "Blogs succeed, I believe, because they are extremely native to the Web as Tim Berners-Lee conceived it in the first place..."
Comment: Blogs seem to be the topic of the month...this article by Doc Searls makes the same critical point I made in the article I posted yesterday: blogs use the Internet for what the Internet was made for: connecting and communicating.

Posted 8:19 AM by George Siemens
Innovation Now! via elearningpost
Quote: "Conventional wisdom says to get back to basics. Conventional wisdom says to cut costs. Conventional wisdom is doomed. The winners are the innovators who are making bold thinking an everyday part of doing business...Yesterday's success has never mattered less. Today's success has never been more fragile. Tomorrow has never been more uncertain."
Comment: This article is very relevant to traditional education. Innovation is desperately needed...yet higher education in particular does not have a reputation for innovation...if anything, it is known for holding on to existing ways of doing things. This process of transformation will not be easy...in fact: "Most people who succeed at radical innovation inside large companies will tell you that they did it despite the system."

Posted 8:07 AM by George Siemens
The Semantic Web lifts off
Quote: "The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, enabling computers and people to work in better cooperation... The Web will reach its full potential when it becomes an environment where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people."
Comment: Presents an introductory overview of the Semantic Web...and advanced development initiatives.

Posted 7:54 AM by George Siemens
Extended Faceted Taxonomies for Web Catalogs
Quote: "Which would be easier to remember: one thousand individual terms or three facets of ten terms each?...A faceted taxonomy is actually a set of taxonomies, called facets, each of which is a set of terms structured by a specialisation/generalisation relation. Using a faceted taxonomy, the indexing of objects is done by associating each object with a compound term, ie with a combination of terms coming from different facets."