via SiT - Stanford U. Will Test a Computerized Transcription System

Students testing the Liberated Learning Project (LLP) at colleges and universities in Canada, Britain, and Australia find they no longer need note takers at lectures where LLP is used.

Although LLP adds some extra work for the lecturer, students, including those without disabilities, give the innovation positive reviews.

Using voice-activated software, the system immediately converts a teacher's words into print that is flashed onto a large screen.

BTW, there's a wee bit of discussion going on over at SiT about this.

Where to start? - the announcement of fantastic news for the Roepcke family:

"I'm proud and relieved to announce that Cheryl delivered, by swift and tidy C-Section, a 10 pound, 22 inch boy!..."

Warmest congratulations to Cheryl, Jim, and Cyan (the proud big sis!)

Oh yes!! Radio UserLand : New Feature: Home Page category checkbox:

Today, we added a new feature for people using categories in Radio UserLand: A category checkbox for the Home Page. Using this feature, you can make posts which appear in categories you check, but don't appear on your weblog home page. This feature is especially useful for people who want to use Radio to manage multiple weblogs, or who want to route posts to an RSS feed upstreamed to a password-protected location.

Excellent! Just what I needed for my Radio-controlled Weblog router. And just in time for the start of the next teaching semester. I'll be replacing my old - labour intensive - way of creating my news pages with this great new feature.

The next thing I will do after posting this is to pay for Radio - it's that good an upgrade!!

The Rules of Open-Source Programming

IJim' Roepcke's news has been in my thoughts a lot today. He must be experiencing extremes of emotion right now. Very best wishes Jim.

Duncan's Radio-controlled Weblogs

I've just been trying out the Radio UserLand : Profiling in Radio -- A deep developer feature:

[ANN] New Logon/Logoff/Signup Features for Conversant:

We've introduced three new macros which allow you to build template based logon, logoff and signup forms that may reside anywhere in your conversation.

Mea Culpa: I've been neglecting DJ whilst playing around with Radio but it'll not be long before I get round to a revamp of this site to take advantage of all the new Conversant features recently released by Seth, et al.

this is aaronland

Radio Crankypants 18-19 : Not Invented Here 18) That's unfair, really. The Frontier tcp verbs were around long before Apple released their URL Access Manager/Scripting widget. But the Apple widget has done HTTPS for almost three years now; somewhere in the Windows API there is support for HTTPS; still the Frontier kernel still does everything with plain old HTTP. Frontier/Radio, however, does talk AppleScript, which is a mixed blessing if I've ever heard one. Now that Perl ships with OS X I'm even less sure why I would want to :

[snip]

But hey, if you can deal with it, it does mean you should be able to do secure XML over HTTP on a Mac.

At the risk of being labelled boring ;-) [1], I'm linking to Aaron's radio userland - what has aaron thought about it, recently? Radio Crankypants stream of consciousness. An interesting voyage of discovery with Radio.

That seems impressive, but 3.1GHz! is that all?

Water Cooling - blarg!

Liquid Nitrogen is the way to go

Overclocking with LN2 > World record 3675MHz!!

http://www.muropaketti.com/artikkelit/cpu/northwood2200/ln2/index.phtml

techno weenie | RFC > Common XML-RPC API for Weblogs:

"This is an RFC for a common XML-RPC interface for other weblogging applications. The Blogger and Manila interfaces are fine, but are written specifically for those two applications.

Interesting. Looks like Conversant's XML-RPC API could easily support the Common Weblogs API - which includes a 'subject' capability!

Like Jim says the lack of a Subject: field in the current implementation of the Blogger API is a major drawback for those of used to these things (in Conversant ;-))

Must follow all the good links that David has posted to SiT recently. I'm very glad that David hasn't stopped blogging as he hinted he might about three weeks ago

Excellent! RadioConversant v1.0d2 has just been released.

I'm just about to express my thanks over in the RadioConversant 1.0d2 support thread.

Macworld: Java is alive and well on the Mac

Java developers will be hearted by news from the Macworld Conference and Expo: Apple's commitment to bundling Java 1.3 in Mac OS X will help ensure Java's success on the Mac platform, as will the company's upgrade to the G4 processor in the new iMac. The product demonstrations in JavaWorld's "State of Java on the Mac" conference session also showed how powerfully the Macintosh platform can run great-looking Java apps.