Educause has an interesting piece on copyright expiration in Europe. Campus technology has a piece on portals .
The edublogs have been hopping over break but I haven’t seen much that is worth mentioning. The portals piece explains nicely the differences between a horizontal and a vertical portal. As we’ve been discussing what the next AugNet portal should be, we’ve been tackling just these issues — personalization vs customization. The final paragraph sums it up nicely:
"Verticalness and horizontalness work together to complete the successful portal. A significant number of services (horizontalness)-e-mail, online registration, online courses, online communities, and employee services-should be accessible via a single sign-on (verticalness). Online communities and content should be presented to an individual based on affiliation (verticalness), but he/she should be able to remove content, subscribe/unsubscribe from communities, and arrange content based on preference (horizontalness). Only by offering a blended, complementary, and complete view of the enterprise can the ultimate goal be achieved-an individual-centric gateway to Web-accessible content and services."
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