UN End Poverty Campaign Uses Drupal
Check out the United Nations' End Poverty Campaign website.
Record label defections by major acts a troubling sign for recording industry
This is definitely a sign that the recording industry is in upheaval. Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are two major bands which have elected to go without signing with a record label.
For Teachers New to Weblogs: An Introduction to Blogging (ver 2.0)
Wednesday, I'll be part of a workshop here at GVSU for teachers interested in using weblogs. For a handout, I decided to revise the "For Teachers New to Weblogs: An Introduction to Blogging" created by the CCCC Blogging SIG during September 2005.
Here is For Teachers New to Weblogs: An Introduction to Blogging (ver 2.0). There are some significant changes from the original version.
The TEACH Act: For Distance Education or for All?
I'm not surprised. Cornell University along with the American Association of Publishers has developed a set of copyright guideline which states that the same fair use principles apply for electronic copies of documents placed in course management systems as do for print copies. In other words, it's not fair use to merely put electronic copies of texts in a password protected website. The copyright clearance center has a brochure outlining this new policy.
As I said, I'm not surprised. I predicted this in my dissertation, "The Future Is Open" for Composition Studies: A New Intellectual Property Model in the Digital Age. I've included the relevant text below for those that are interested:
In defining five basic changes to copyright law that the TEACH Act permits, Laura Gasaway suggests that
it removes the concept of the physical classroom and recognizes that a student should be able to access the digital content of the course wherever he or she has access to a computer. (82).
Unusual Site Problems
Strange things. My blog has been down because of some problems with my account on my commercial host, Site5. Naturally right before I had to head out of town, the files in my hosting account managed to get wiped. Well, that is except for the Drupal misc/ directory.
ComicJuice for Drupal
Steven Wittens deserves the Award for the Most Creative Use of Drupal with his new ComicJuice, a website which allows the user to create comics online. Go Steven! This is proof of concept toward building a Drupal desktop (or should that be desktop, web-based) publishing application :-)
