Hartmut Dietz präsentiert den 'Neuen Physiologus'. In dieser labyrintischen 'Verknüpfung der Wissenschaften' schafft er seine alphabetische und logische Ordnung in die Welt. 'Die Enzyklopädie der Erfahrungen' erklärt 'die Menschen und die Welt in seinen Beziehungen'. Über Menschen, Tiere und Sensationen gibt es literarische Auszüge vom Höhlenweib bis Minotaurus.

Untauglich für 'fast-food'-scans der blogger Welt. Zeit machen und geniessen.

The European study 'Effects of ski piste preparation on alpine vegetation' found that 'enlargement of ski pistes, machine-grading of ski piste areas and increasing use of artificial snow' degraded the alpine ecosystem.

One would think, that the same holds true for the Australian Alps

"Snow compaction and the removal of boulders and vegetation cover, the development of noisy ski fields, villages, car parks and roads have altered, reduced and broken up (the) Pygmy-possum habitat."

In an ancient oak forest in the mountains of West-Central Romania in Rosia Montana it was planned to place Europe's largest open gold mine. The Canadian-based company needed the 2,000 people relocated and 900 homes eliminated.

"The company plans to use hazardous cyanide compounds to separate the gold and silver from the rock. The mine's waste rock then would form a 185 metre-high dam across the Aries River valley, immersing a nearby village. A hazardous cyanide storage pond, together with tons of waste laden with heavy metals, would cover as many as 600 hectares or nearly 1,500 acres. As a result, the Aries River, the most important water resource in the region, is at serious risk of pollution, threatening the health and lives of 100,000 people."

Most of gold mining involves the release of cyanide into our environment. The environmental activist Stephanie Roth was just recently awarded the San Francisco-based Goldman Environmental Prize for halting this project und thereby preventing serious pollution and social dislocation.

Many Australians, like Bob Brown, Eileen Kampakuta Brown, Eileen Wani Wingfield, Jacqui Katona and Yvonne Margarula were previously also awarded the Goldmanprize for their grassroot environmental work.

A very useful resource on blogging can be found at Sheila Ann Manuel Coggins' site. There are many how-to tutorials, articles and a host of resources on blogging. Tipps on copyright for bloggers are useful and it also features some Australian law perspectives

Online Network für den Jetset von Banker gegründet. Hier finden die Bedürfnisse der Priviligierten ein Forum unter sich: "Ich möchte diesen Sommer zu Freunden nach St. Tropez reisen, aber meine Hunde nicht im Flieger mitnehmen. Gibt es einen privaten Fluganbieter, der für meine Hunde und mich stressfrei wäre?" schrieb Cheray Unman in das Internetforum. Der hilfreiche Tipp kam nur wenige Minuten später: "Pet Jet!". Die Wirtschaftswoche berichtet weiter auch von deutschen Netzwerken mit Zugangssperre.

Wenn nur ein Teil dieser Ressourcen in die Förderung von Kindern gesteckt werden würde und nicht in die Beförderung dieser keifenden Schosshunde. Warum schaut so ein Ding aus (fast) jeder Handtasche?

Michael Krzyzanowski, World Health Organization European Centre for Environment and Health is interviewed by Christian Gapp, Telepolis about the effects of air pollution in Europe. Particulate matter (PM), mostly of road traffic is contributing to ill health and premature deaths.

"PM has a wide range of documented health effects. It starts with mild effects like aggravating symptoms of respiratory diseases. PM negatively affects the development of lungs in children and increases the severity of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. This results in increased use of medication, more frequent consultation of physicians and more hospital admissions. In some cases effects are manifested in an increased number of deaths due to pulmonary and respiratory diseases...There is no level under which exposure to PM is not harmful"

M.Krzyzanowsk concludes that "any long-term solution must consider different modes of transport"
What is Sydney doing?

Friedrich Kittler, Professor für Ästhetik und Geschichte der Medien an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin wurde von Antje Wegwerth, Telepolis am 17.4.2005 interviewed.  Das Interview betrifft hauptsächlich die Rechtschreibreform und den Gebrauch des  alphanumerischen Codes.

Als sideline meinte F.K. dann:

"Wir werden im Moment von Leuten aus dem zweiten Bildungsweg regiert und die möchten unsere Bildung aus dem ersten Bildungsweg abschaffen"

Er schien die "bundesdeutsch verfetteten Gesäße in den Ministerien" gemeint zu haben, aber das statement macht eine klare generalisierende Aussage über Bildung, erster und zweiter Klasse.

Der Paradigmawechsel des Lebensbegleitenden Lernens ist wohl noch nicht im Turm seines Seins angekommen.

Online learning for post-secondary adults is provided via a single point of access by British Columbia Campus.The one-stop web-based gateway gives learners access to a large variety of resources. The “Education Planner lets students find information about all of B.C.’s 27 colleges, universities, institutes and university colleges.”  Although it it primarily aimed at the local market, it also invites non-Canadians

The learner enroles with their 'home' institution and then has access to the B.C.Campuses' resource web. Its primary CMS is WebCT. The online learner community landscape is using collaborative hybrid media to simultate that 'campus' experience.

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Stephen Down's Web

The large budget deficit of the United States runs up to three trillion dollars now.They are anxious to stabilise their currency, but can't stop their 'way of life'.

China and Japan bailed out the U.S. by almost four hundred billion dollars. They are acutely aware of their dependent position. Asian countries in turn hoard these falling dollars and assets. As long as they are motivated by self-interest, they won't drop the dollar...more detail in The New Yorker, by James Surowiecki 

 via http://kottke.org/

 

Medialanguage (Mediensprache) is calling for an international networking project on the "Textual and linguistic aspects of blogging" The site is concerned with language and communication on the web, in mobile communication and as a tool for advertising.

"Target of the planned networking project is to draw up a comparative linguistic and cultural study on textual and linguistic aspects of the very young form of online-communication 'weblogging' or 'blogging'...Not only the parameters "individuality" and "archival function" have crucial and constitutive importance but also the "networking" element. By linking one blog with others, exchanging links in form of a web-ring and by means of special blog-features such as TrackBack or PingBack, a complex network is created, known as blogosphere"

The due date for the project will be Sept. 2005 and it will be published at the end of 2005. The site is in English and German.

The Sociable Media Group concerns itself with techno identity and sociable spaces in a networked world.

 "We address such questions as: How do we perceive other people on-line? What does a virtual crowd look like? How do social conventions develop in the networked world?

Our emphasis is on design: we build experimental interfaces and installations that explore new forms of social interaction in the mediated world."

The SMG issues online papers on these topics ranging from 1999 till 2004. Many of the papers are very relevant to e-learning.

More on consuming the Earth quickly can be viewed via  O. Wrede's site

An international study on the state of the planet finds that the human species does not only ruin the conditions for life for many species and life-sustaining systems, but undermines the continuation of their own species. Some of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment findings are that:

"Over the past 50 years, humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel"

"Humans have increased the species extinction rate by as much as 1,000 times over background rates typical over the planet's history (medium certainty)"

"10-30% of mammal, bird, and amphibian species are currently threatened with extinction (medium to high certainty)"

"Approximately 60% (15 out of 24) of the ecosystem services evaluated in this assessment are being degraded or used unsustainably"

"The degradation of ecosystem services often causes significant harm to human well-being and represents a loss of a natural asset or wealth of a country"

The full report results can be viewed Additionally there are many resources on the site visualising the actions of our species.

Kommentar von vivian:

Stimmt ... Ist das jetzt so weil Du was geändert hast oder ist das standardmäßig so?...

Nein, ich habe nichts geändert, es scheint an diesem Template 'dotty' oder so zu liegen..Benutze fast nur Firefox, ich wurde vom Internet Explorer user erst jetzt darauf aufmerksam gemacht.

The layout of this blog only works if you do not use Internet Explorer. It looks ok with Firefox, etc.

All problems are now solved, thanks to BlogHof 10.04.2005 sc

Athabasca University, Canada's Open University publishes The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL). The journal features scholarly articles on the theory and research of open and distance learning worldwide. The current issue, Volume 6, Number 1 has as its theme: "Strategic Enterprises Down Under: Engaging Drivers of Change in Australian Universites' Open and Distance Learning Provision". The multi-lingual contributions cover a wide field. One interesting paper is by Michael Singh and Jinghe Han on 'Globalizing Flexible Work in Universities: Socio-technical Dilemmas in Internationalizing Education'

CHECKpoint eLearning features an interview in English with the weblog expert Martin Röll. He explains how inexpensive weblogs can be utilised in business as transparent communication tools, instead of employing costly CMS he advises to integrate social software into the knowledge management processes of companies or organisations.

His blog is very popular in Europe and also contains various materials in English.

Checkpoint e Learning also features news, trends and interviews in English.

Usability Information vom Frauenhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT wird kostenlos angeboten. Es gibt News, Tipps, ein 1x1 und einen Kummerkasten auf dem neuen Gebrauchstauglichkeits-Portal .Hin zur 'multimodalen Interaktion' und alles strikt nach Richtlinien und Empfehlungen...

The open source image manipulation programme GIMP aims for Photoshop like standards. This image editing application exists also as a hack for apples

 The House Husband Diaries

are a funny read, from ulcerating spiders, to cheap vasectomies, railway games and Redfern riots.Watch this fighter of evil and maker of lunches...