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Notes from a few minutes idle time between long bursts of work:

The cover story of the CIO magazine that arrived here by snail-mail today is Inside Outsourcing in India. The short version: It will save you money, but you’d better have some quality control. I’d think the same holds true for outsourcing to Alabama.

Click2learn has posted a nice reference on eLearning Standards.

If you’re clueless about Metadata, check this glossary for a quicky lesson.

Now that Microsoft is going to bury IE inside Windows and has paid AOL to bury Netscape out of sight, you might want to consider other browsers. Mozilla’s new Firebird browser is fast, uncluttered, and concise. I’m using Opera more than anything else; it has great features and I love being able to zoom the page size.

My friend Bill Daul reminded me that plaNetwork is taking place this weekend in the Presidio of San Francisco. With topics like social networking, collaborative networking, global systems, and using the Internet as a tool for mobilization, I couldn’t really pass this one up. A few of the presenters I want to hear are Brewster Kahle, Marc Canter, Bonnie DeVarco, Mena Trott, Leif Utne, Kevin Kelley, Mitch Kapor, Paul Hawken, and Rebecca Blood. My wife Uta’s comment when I mentioned that I’d be spending three days from early in the morning til late at night with friends at the Presidio: “Sounds like Woodstock.”

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