Posted 9:38 PM by George Siemens
Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running (free registration required (NYTimes)
Quote: "In the Pentagon research effort to detect terrorism by electronically monitoring the civilian population, the most remarkable detail may be this: Most of the pieces of the system are already in place.
Comment: Aside from the (frightening) concept of the government knowing who's doing what and when the Total Information Awareness act is notable for the technologies being used: Groove and XML. I've used Groove with students (and colleagues) over the last several years with excellent results in communicating and collaborating.. It is what I think LMS' need to become.

Posted 9:27 PM by George Siemens
EDU RSS
Comment: Stephen Downes has created an "RSS aggregator and seeded it with a dozen or so feed URLs from educational news sources. I've had such a tool on and off for the last few years, but this version is the fastest and most stable by far. I'll probably keep it around for a while and add to the features, so if you have other RSS feeds you'd like me to add to my list, please drop me a line."

Posted 9:19 PM by George Siemens
Protect Fair Use via New Media Musings
Comment: Site committed to "protecting consumers' fair use rights in the digital age"

Posted 9:12 PM by George Siemens
WHAT DO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS WANT? via bIPlog
Quote: "Civil libertarians and analysts in the computer field have long expected legal tensions about computer and Internet use to come to a head, but they expected it to happen over something overtly political: transmission of censored content, or software that could compromise computer security, or something related to cryptography...Why copyright? Why did this obscure branch of "intellectual property," this private concern of entertainment and software firms, become the most pressing public policy area of the computer field?"
Comment: Copyright/IP/DRM have been hot topics over the last several years (and will grow in 2003)...and the discussion has generally been antagonistic (content owners vs. content users). Content owners have to achieve their objectives by meeting the needs of the content users. The hard-line Disney approach can only be taken so far. Eventually the users get tired of the abuse.

Posted 9:00 PM by George Siemens
Moblogging
Quote: "I think that "Moblogging" like "Blogging" isn't really something that technically new. It is the popularization and the impact of many people doing it that is exciting to me."
Comment: Nice collection of moblog (mobile blogging) resources...the term moblogging has come up frequently over the last several months, fueled by a rapidly developing wireless culture.