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Serious Instructional Technology (SiT): A Daily Log of Instructional Technology News and Ideas

As a sometime server administrator (it's actually something I enjoy sometimes), I have less trouble with centralized servers and see great value in them. While I want to give my faculty, staff and students the benefits of template-driven, easy content managemenwith system-wide integration, I don't want the headaches that go with client-side support I want people to be able to edit anywhere (from home or office), but I still want control over look and feel.

I agree with David here. I think that a combination of a good client-side tool for flexibility and a good server-side CMS gives the best of both worlds.

via Scripting News - JOHO the Blog | a Parody of The Real Blogger's Manifesto B-):

Because parody is the sincerest form of flattery...

David - yes another David! - Weinberger parodies Chris Pirillo's Blogger's Manifesto.

One of these days' I'll need to do a Jotter's Manifesto. In the meantime, back to supervising my lab ;-)...

via a Radio UserLand : RadioExpress announcement - Jeremy Bower's Custom Weblog Post

The Custom Weblog Post tool allows the user to create (sub-)templates that have more structure then RU's default flat text box. It ships with a template that matches the behavior of Manila's News Items, using the RU 'blogs categories as the choosable categories. Thus, for people who are used to posting with Manila's News Items, this provides a nice migration path to the RU 'blog, especially if you used the Manila Site Converter tool which will preserve your categories.

It also provides scriptlets which can be used in a similar fashion to Manila Express, allowing the user to highlight some text, and hit a bookmark/link on the link bar, and have RU fill out the page title, link, and selected text in a textarea, ready for editting. These scriptlets work in Mozilla and IE, and may or may not work in other browsers.

CSS, cascading style sheets, HTML, Website Tips at Websitetips.com - web page and web site tips, articles, helpful information and resources

The CSS Section below is filled with links to some of the best articles, tips, tutorials, editors, and templates on cascading style sheets (CSS).

Google Directory - Computers > Open Source > Licenses

Very thought-provoking - Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education by David F. Noble

...The major change to befall the universities over the last two decades has been the identification of the campus as a significant site of capital accumulation, a change in social perception which has resulted in the systematic conversion of intellectual activity into intellectual capital and, hence, intellectual property. There have been two general phases of this transformation. The first, which began twenty years ago and is still underway, entailed the commoditization of the research function of the university, transforming scientific and engineering knowledge into commercially viable proprietary products that could be owned and bought and sold in the market. The second, which we are now witnessing, entails the commoditization of the educational function of the university, transforming courses into courseware, the activity of instruction itself into commercially viable proprietary products that can be owned and bought and sold in the market. In the first phase the universities became the site of production and sale of patents and exclusive licenses. In the second, they are becoming the site of production of - as well as the chief market for - copyrighted videos, courseware, CD-ROMs, and Web sites...

diveintomark/February, 2002

We've already covered technical, aesthetic, and business arguments for CSS. It promotes separation of content and design. It eases maintenance. It can even save you money if you use it wisely. Now for the moral argument. The moral argument for CSS is accessibility.

Guess what I'm building up to?

People are asking who the hell is Peter Wright* and why in Salon.com Technology | All hail .Net! he spouts such claptrap:

Microsoft's new software development tools are more than just nifty -- they are a great boon to humanity.

* answer at the end of the article:

About the writer - Peter Wright is a software consultant and the author of numerous books on Visual Basic programming. He is currently working on two .Net titles for Apress slated for release later this year.

Talk about conflict of interest!?

Just watching the 200th episode of Frasier where he's celebrating his 2000th radio show with special guest star Bill Gates!

Yay! Seth and Jim have been busy - Welcome to the Script Meridian the reincarnation of the Script Meridian Community Mailing list and archive. This is now hosted on a Conversant site.