Nov

30

WiscNet’s December Regional Meetings

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WiscNet’s annual series of statewide Town Hall meetings begin this Friday and run statewide until December 13th!

Superintendents, CIOs, Technology Directors, individuals associated with content, learning and professional development, technical professionals and others have all attended in the past and we all enjoyed a great exchange of ideas on educational technology topics.

wiscnet.gif WiscNet will be updating everyone on our community events. But most important is your opportunity to engage WiscNet. A listening session is set for us to understand your network needs….tell us what’s on your mind! WiscNet Regional Meeting Schedule

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Nov

30

Next Week: Internet2 conference Chicago

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Sunday begins the fall Internet2 Member Meeting in Chicago at the Hyatt McCormick.internet2 k20 This is my first Internet2 conference and I’m looking forward to many events and sessions.

I will also be addressing the K20 Advisory Committee on establishing an Internet2 identity for schools connected and working with Interent2. We have identified a need to promote those Wisconsin networks already connected to Internet2.

Within Wisconsin over 190 school districts alone are already connected to Internet2. My WiscNet Co-Chair Dan Gross and I hope to not just blog this event either….

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Nov

10

Microsoft payola

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Microsoft has announced it will pay Universal Music for sales of their upcoming Zune mp3 player. Clearly Microsoft wants to get a foot in the door of the digital music business but as they have proven before (anti trust) once they start, Steve Ballmer and company will use every trick in their huge arsenal to kill the iPod and iTunes. Lets not kid ourselves Ballmer would love to kill Apple.

So how can Microsoft do this? Today many learned that even through Microsoft is losing money on each sale of their Zune unit they will pay Universal a set dollar amount from the sale of every Zune to get access to Universal’s music collection.

All in the name of going to battle Apple over the iPod and iTunes music store. They see music as the first step in moving content to portable devices. And video is next. Like everything else…they want to simply dominate the market. This includes changing the business of on-line music to favor them against all rivals. Nice to have billions of dollars coming in from selling Office and OS upgrades to cover the losses with Zune.
–But Zune isn’t even cool.

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Nov

5

NHL and Google Video

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It was a very pleasant surprise to see Google providing free access to all 2006 National Hockey League games. As you may know by now hockey is a very exciting game with fans worldwide.

NHL LogoMany technology blogs commented about Google’s failure with their pay-for-view try with the NBA. It was so limited to the true (honesty true) die-hard fans. Only those would pay for each baskeball game…or it was just a test run to see how it would fare?

With the globalization of the NBA it was a bit of a surprise to see it fail. They may have missed their opportunity to post playoff games, milestone event games and even the opportunity to purchase select game packages….like Michael Jordan’s Top 10 scoring games. The Chicago market and the international following the Bulls have would have proven that an easy success. I’m positive if the NBA can figure a way to make money with this … they will be back. Maybe at iTunes.

However for now hockey fans, just like the spirit of the open source community, you can’t beat free.
– BTW: Can you find the link to the NBA on that page?

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Nov

1

My latest read - Nixon in Winter

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Was looking forward to Monica Crowley’s Nixon in Winter : His Final Revelations about Diplomacy, Watergate, and Life out of the Arena for any Watergate insight but failed to learn anything new outside of Nixon’s predictable thought and opinions on the issue that killed his presidency . I was somewhat more interested in his insights relating to Vietnam.

So what I learned was the impact of Vietnam and ultimately how it was just another part of the downfall of Nixon. I believe Nixon’s secret invasion of Cambodia which lead to campus protests, really ignited the anti-war movement and as a result began the actions of CREEP. He promised if elected he would bring peace to America, yet most Americans did not realize the resources North Vietnam utilized in Cambodia.

The most revealing was Crowley’s view of the Nixons and how he was so attached to Pat, especially at the time of her physical failures resulting from cancer. The insight of his devotion to her was true. In recalling video of Nixon weeping openly at her funeral showed he was just as human as the rest of us in the moment of tragedy.

Overall ‘His final relevations about Watergate’ proved of little value. If memory serves me correctly this is now my 14th book relating to Watergate. Not sure I will pickup Crowley’s other book “Nixon off the record.”

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