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David Wheeler describes in detail why open standards are important to OpenDocument’s adoption in Massachusetts and how this affects MS. I had not realized that the EU had already informed MS that they wanted an open standard, too. Looks like MS may be pushed to implement OD. As an OpenOffice user, I’m extremely happy that MS may have to adopt the document format standard that my word processor uses

We’ve had production problems this week and I’ve not been able to think about the blog during that time, so I stopped posting. While there seem to still be some hiccups, I’m hopeful that we’ve turned the corner on the production issues and th…

So it’s Friday, and in the thousands of posts I’ve written here, I don’t think I’ve ever done this before. But I am moved.

It’s been out for about three days, but I must have listened to Sheryl Crow’s “Wildflower” at least 20 times already. (Have I mentioned how totally awesome Rhapsody is lately?) All I can say is…”mercy.”

Now I’ve been a fan for a long time, but this is without question her best, I think. Be warned, it’s not uptempo. Instead, it’s really intricate harmonies and soft balladry that has soulful Beatles written all over it (the title track especially.) And her voice… Oh. My. Goodness.

Now, does Sheryl have a blog?

Louisiana has been awarded a $20.9 million No Child Left Behind grant through the Charter Schools Program to help reopen charter schools damaged by the hurricanes, help create 10 new charter schools, and expand existing charter schools to accommodate students displaced by hurricane damage.

For economists and entertainers alike, it’s a tantalizing chicken-or-egg question: Is digital piracy killing the music industry, or is it a symptom of an industry that has been slowly killing itself? Like its American counterpart, the Canadian Recording Industry Association…

Faculty members tend to loathe online evaluation services like Rate My Professors and Pick A Prof because the sites don’t give them a chance to respond to hypercritical students. But students might not like the sites so much if professors…

Real easy. Yes or no. In terms of education as we know it, the Web (of the Read/Write flavor) changes everything.

Defend your answers.

Responding to the digital media industry’s appetite for skilled workers and the tastes of a new generation of students raised on Game Boy and Xbox, a growing number of schools and universities–including at least one Ivy…

Computing officials at the University of Maryland at College Park can’t be thrilled with the start of their academic year: They’re already fighting the worst virus outbreak they’ve seen in several years. The virus, known as SDbot, is transmitted through…

Reversing a preliminary ruling, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has affirmed a lucrative patent on Web-browser technology held by the University of California. The university and Microsoft have been battling for more than two years over who owns the…

I spent my last day in New Hampshire yesterday working in the most beautiful New England town of Exeter. I worked with Rick Chretien in the basement of a former hotel, converted to office building, at least 100 years old, of not older. I so loved being in New Hampshire.
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1,000 Indiana public school superintendents and board members wind up their two-day fall conference at the Convention Center in Indy today, it’s what’s not on their official agenda that’s a concern. Sure, they’re all ears about how to recruit the best edu