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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Nov 17, 2016
The Coming Revolution in Email Design
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Could we be about to see technological innovations in
email? According to this article, email vendors are
beginning to awaken to the possibility. "The email industry
itself is in a state of reinvention," writes Jason
Rodriguez. "The web is leaking into the inbox." We're
looking at responsive layouts, animation and
interactivity, semantic elements, and tooling and
frameworks. Significantly, Microsoft (which has never
supported HTML email properly) is taking more of an
interest.
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Stereotyping, Behavior, and Belonging in the Open Education
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David Wiley comments on the role of commercial actors in
the open space in light of yesterday’s
revelation that Microsoft has joined the Linux
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He writes, "The open source software side of the open house
has absolutely no issue with commercial entities using or
contributing to open source software." That's not exactly
true, but the dissenting voices have long since been
drowned out. Anyhow, it's not the same in the content
world, but the fear of educators, he writes, is
unjustified. "There’s no excuse for judging an
organization based on whether it was incorporated as a
for-profit or non-profit entity." Maybe, but that's not how
commercial use is defined. It's when you slap a pricetag on
a learning resource and prevent them from accessing it
otherwise that people begin to question the practice. And
remember, in most countries, education, unlike software
development, is a public good. Which is why we resist the
commercialization of learning resources.
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HTML 5.1 is the gold standard
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As reported by the W3C: "A couple weeks ago the W3C Web
Platform Working Group published HTML 5.1
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Standard. It was merely days after the second anniversary
of the advent of the 5th major version of the core language
of the World Wide Web (you may read the press release
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when HTML 5 became a W3C recommendation)." Best line
of the day is from Ben Werdmuller
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"According to software precedent, the next version should
be HTML 7."
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Is Audio Really the Future of the Book?
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I don't think anyone has seriously suggested that all books
will be replaced by audio. It's far more plausible to
suggests that all paper versions of books will be
transferred to a digital format. Audio as a medium has its
limitations. But it is a terrific medium to help occupy the
mind while doing other things, like cooking, driving or
trying to sleep. Hence the continuing popularity of radio
and the recent rediscovery of podcasts. This article looks
at the history of audio books - aka 'talking books' - from
its origin in the 1930s. Audio books have always had their
criticisms, as though they were some form of cheating. But
there's also a sense in which audio is more.
“Listening to authors read their own memoirs
introduces an intimacy that cannot be achieved
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without the audio,” writes Amy Harmon.
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