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	Fraser, on Academic Shovelware
		Now used more broadly, shovelware can refer to any content shoveled from one communication medium to another with little regard for the appearance, ease of use, or capabilities of the second medium.
		Certainly, there is value in the broad distribution of information; and certainly, there is value in the on-line administrative structures for courses that have been set up, which ease the exchange of everything from assignments to conversation.
		Unfortunately, most universities share that limited vision and are devoting their efforts to the delivery of shovelware.
	www.fraser.cc /Talks/Chronicle.html (1414 words)

	hello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A few years ago, I discovered the term "shovelware." The media used it to describe content on the Internet that was originally created for another form of media.
		Shovelware generally had a negative connotation because the underlying belief was that content created for the Internet is more appropriate than content created for print, TV or radio.
		Facsimile is a parody of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
	elan.org /showoldentry.cfm?EntryID=49& (208 words)

	Living Photoshop: Shovelware
		And we all know that this is nasty stuff, and that we should avoid having it on our systems - they tend to slow things down, eat resources, get in the way, destabilize things, what have you.
		Shovelware takes up resources, but usually isn’t as malevolent as spyware - it’s not trying to record keystrokes or the web pages you visit.
		The first resource offense most shovelware commits is the task tray icon on Windows.
	blogs.adobe.com /scottbyer/2006/01/shovelware.html (1788 words)

	Fraser, on Academic Shovelware
		Now used more broadly, shovelware can refer to any content shoveled from one communication medium to another with little regard for the appearance, ease of use, or capabilities of the second medium.
		Certainly, there is value in the broad distribution of information; and certainly, there is value in the on-line administrative structures for courses that have been set up, which ease the exchange of everything from assignments to conversation.
		Unfortunately, most universities share that limited vision and are devoting their efforts to the delivery of shovelware.
	fraser.cc /Talks/Chronicle.html (1414 words)

	Encyclopedia: Shovelware
		All active users are invited to vote in the Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Now used more broadly, the word, shovelware can be taken to refer to any content shoveled from one communications medium to another with little regard for the appearance, usability or capabilities of the second medium.
		One face of this headlong rush is the amazingly large number of community colleges and research universities with grand plans to distribute their courses across the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shovelware (1062 words)

	Shovelware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		The derogatory computer jargon term shovelware refers to software noted more for the quantity of what is included than for the quality or usefulness.
		This is commonly used to describe software on CD-ROMs, whose large capacity inspires producers to fill them with useless clutter without regard to integration issues or usability so they can advertise the comprehensiveness of the product.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shovelware (283 words)

	Pointless Database - Shovelware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shovelware is a bundle of various software applications that no longer have enough demand to be sold individually.
		Often times this bundle of software has been "shoveled together" hastily without trying to give the buyer all the information that came with the originals, or even a descent means of running the software that came from obsolete operating systems.
		Shovelware can often be a good way to pick up a copy of a program that you like for a reasonable price, but you will rarely see hot selling programs in shovelware.
	www.thealmightyguru.com /Database/DB-Shovelware.html (241 words)

	From the réchauffé to the recherché
		What characterized these, and many other media when introduced, was that their value was seen only as one of access: the new medium offered a more ready way of distributing existing material.
		Alas, this is an essay in an older medium which is as incapable of delivering a convincing example as would be a discussion of the colors of flowers in an old fl and white movie.
		So, we are left with nothing but assertions (albeit ones born of extensive experience): almost all instructional material professors have put on the web to date is shovelware; and, the Web is a medium whose power for pedagogical communication goes well beyond anything which universities are employing today.
	fraser.cc /Talks/Bulletin2.html (884 words)

	ASCII by Jason Scott: A Bright Day of Shovelware
		The Shovelware CD era came and went pretty quickly; about seven years from about 1991 to 1998, with a few before and after.
		Basically, these are CDs containing programs, graphics, songs, and whatever other files the company could pull from dozens of BBSes, repackaged onto the then-cool CD-ROM medium, and then offered to BBS Sysops and users as a way to quickly get their hands on a bunch of files to offer for download.
		Because little regard was held for quality and a lot was held for quantity, these became known as "Shovelware" instead of "Shareware", since they were basically trying to fill the nearly-700mb capacity of a CD-ROM to point to as a selling point.
	ascii.textfiles.com /archives/000088.html (820 words)

	Online Journalism@UTexas \| 2002 Panel 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There's an awful lot of shovelware out there as any of you who are dealing with anything resembling an online operation know too well.
		He said, if it weren't for this technology, it weren't for the Internet, we would not be able to cover this story the same way - so here's someone who has been an old-line traditional journalist and said point blank - this is what enabled us to cover this story.
		I think the combination of the - and I don't like the work "shovelware" either, in fact, I like to think that I'm here to be a beachhead against shovelware.
	www.utexas.edu /coc/journalism/onlinejou/OnlineJournalism@UTexas/02panel1.htm (12623 words)

	» Dell blog discusses shovelware \| Office Evolution \| ZDNet.com
		Many of us spend the first few hours with a new PC removing a ton of trial software, ISP offers, and unwanted applications that are pre-installed by OEMs.
		In the interest of not running afoul of the FCC, I refer to this as shovelware.
		Others are less polite (or afraid that blogs will become the next revenue stream for the FCC).
	blogs.zdnet.com /Orchant/?p=165 (664 words)

	Working Designs Message Board - View Single Post - Sony PSP Specs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I'm talking about the fact that developers seem to see portables as a dumping ground for their latest shovelware creation.
		The larger the number of crap shovelware available relative to the total, the greater the chance he will buy a crap game.
		If this gamer buys several crap games in a row, he's going to say "Do they only make crap for the PSP?", and tell his friends that the PSP is garbage.
	www.workingdesigns.com /forum/showpost.php?p=110472&postcount=3 (267 words)

	shovelware : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		2 definitions found shovelware - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) : shovelware /shuh'v*l-weir"/ Extra software dumped onto a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended to carry, but not integrated with the distribution.
		shovelware - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) : shovelware /shuh'v@l.weir`/, n.
		Extra software dumped onto a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended to carry, but not integrated with the distribution.
	onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/shovelware (116 words)

	X-Files Horror on PS2 - MegaGames console
		Yea, I agree I'm tired of this shovelware, the ps2 is on ebay right now, I can spend my money on better things.
		A game that receives game of the year in every magazine and website when it's released does not fall into the catagory of Shovelware.
		So the PS2 get's another EXCLUSIVE title that is crap and shovelware material.
	www.megagames.com /news/show.cgi?&idtype=console&database=442§ion=comments& (438 words)

	Shovelware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The derogatory computer jargon term shovelware refers to softwarenoted more for the quantity of what is included than for thequality or usefulness.
		This is commonly used to describe software on compact discs, whose large capacity inspires producers to fill them with useless clutter without regard to integration issues or usability so they can advertise the comprehensiveness of the product.
		They also brought tidings of the King of Canoaboa, of whom.
	www.termsdefined.net /sh/shovelware.html (251 words)

	In Defence of Shovelware: Newspapers on the Net
		This lack of innovation manifests itself in what some critics call "shovelware".
		Rather than rethinking the layout of their Web pages to exploit the unique capabilities of hypertext, established newspapers "shovel" existing content from their printed editions onto the Web with little thought for how the new medium demands a reconceptualization of the product.
		Instead of being made obsolete by the Internet, for which the standard of excellence is often little more than the ability to hook up a modem, online newspapers provide the standard of good journalism the multivocal Internet needs.
	www.logomancer.com /shovel/shovel.html (1309 words)

	ONA HOLLYWOOD: Managers discuss moving beyond shovelware
		Panelists at the 2004 ONA Conference's breakout session "Survivor-Getting shovelware off your news island" on Friday laid out several strategies for newspaper Web sites to move beyond the daily feed of stories from their print product.
		The three panelists stressed that shovelware doesn't serve the needs of the large online audience that news sites now attract.
		By providing original content, "we are providing journalism that a time-stressed reader wants," fresh news that reaches that new audience, Hinojosa said.
	journalist.org /2004conference/archives/000091.php (693 words)

	AtariAge Forums -> Pick SNOT!
		I mean, Wil Wheaton has to live with his Wesley Crusher past (which he is mostly coming to terms with now that he's found his inner geek), but HT was on the cover of millions of units of one of the first shovelware games in history.
		I mean, it's an icon of the whole concept of shovelware.
		I thought shovelware was along the lines of this definition:
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=60040 (397 words)

	ERCB: Windows 2000 Registry
		If you are startled to discover that these`values are stored in the Registry in binary, change careers.
		All doubt about the book's shovelware tendency disappears on page 243.
		The second half of the book consists of three appendices which are 100 percent shovelware:
	www.ercb.com /brief/brief.0189.html (373 words)

	Talk:Shovelware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All can do pretty much the same thing.
		They only become shovelware if somebody puts all of them onto one CD or one FTP archive.
		This page was last modified 22:19, 15 July 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Shovelware (101 words)

	shovelware - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 9 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word shovelware:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "shovelware" is defined.
		shovelware : Hutchinson Dictionary of Computers, Multimedia, and the Internet [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=shovelware (110 words)

	r a d a r
		The exhibition marks the launch of the Schachter-designed label entitled Shovelware.
		Concurrent with the show, Shovelware debuts on the net at www.artshopit.com.
		The silverware is in the form of shovels, pitchforks, switchblades, swords, and rakes - very much akin to their functional equivalents.
	www.thing.net /radar/gering.html (354 words)

	Shovelware from LiveJournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Music: Most of the stuff I listen to is not mainstream because I hate the shovelware of record industry.
		It's about imperialism and powerlessness; it's about mankind being put in his place in the scheme of things, not a chance to wave the red, white and...
		An extra negative: the install disc has some optional shovelware that you need to turn off (the downloadable package is driver-only.) The forward/back buttons are configured by default to be "Foward" and "Back" actions.
	www.ljseek.com /search/Shovelware (651 words)

	WebMaster's Guild: Optimize for Speed
		In addition, quickly posting 'shovelware' to a site often results in much of the site being "Under Construction," or worse, a morass of dreaded "404 - File not Found" errors.
		As the failures of shovelware have shown, not all of your available content is appropriate for the Web.
		Based on the Guild's definition of Webmaster, the Webmaster is not necessarily a single person, but is more often a team of people recruited for their varied domain expertise.
	www.webdeveloper.com /html/html_wg_optimize4speed.html (1999 words)

	OJR article: Old Media Firms Dig a Grave With Shovelware
		The following is adapted from a speech that OJR Executive Editor Larry Pryor gave as the keynote address for a conference on new media held in Boston, March 23, 1999, sponsored by Emerson College and the Boston Globe.
		Editors must have the nerve to allow readers to modify the form and content of news so that they can understand it in a personal context.
		For example, most newspapers rely on shovelware, a computer programmed to convert print to Internet content.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/technology/1017969861.php (2484 words)

	The state of the future: The present state of online news media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Shovelware" is a term that is frequently used to describe the first stage of online journalism in which newspaper and magazines simply shoveled their origninal print content onto a website.
		The second stage, in which most larger news sites currently reside, involves a combination of shovelware stories, some original content and token multimedia.
		More hyperlinks are involved to provide further depth and background information to stories.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Spring02/Jones/present.html (966 words)

	treasure huntnews.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I analyzed these eight sites based on 14 standards and ranked them on a scale of one to five (one would be the lowest, five the highest).
		Shovelware is when a news provider will just "shovel" their print versions onto the Web.
		Its shovelware comes from other news sites, like The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.
	www.unc.edu /courses/pre2000fall/jomc101/cook/newsanal.html (1272 words)

	‘Shovelware’ as Staff Development: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There has been a huge growth in the number of tertiary courses offered online over the last two years, but questions are often raised about the quality of some of them.
		The term shovelware has crept into the educational vernacular.
		This derogatory label is commonly used to describe courses, which simply place previously existing print materials, developed for distance education programs, into an online mode.
	wwwdev.scu.edu.au /schools/sawd/moconf/mocabstracts/moc29ab.html (264 words)

	J7.6b Web-based distance learning at Penn State University: Beyond shovelware (2005 - 14EDUCATION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lee Grenci, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA When book publishers first began to use the CD-ROM as a platform to distribute existing books and encyclopedias, reviewers ascribed the pejorative term, shovelware, to insinuate how content was merely “shoveled" from one communication medium to another.
		In 1999, Dr. Alistair Fraser, now a professor emeritus in the Department of Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University, cautioned educators about the pitfalls of applying the model of shovelware to distance learning via the World-Wide Web (Chronicle of Higher Education, Section: Opinion and Arts, Vol.
		The E-education Group in the Department of Meteorology at Penn State University sprang from the seeds of this ethos.
	ams.confex.com /ams/Annual2005/techprogram/paper_82826.htm (342 words)

	MediaSavvy: Shovels are actually pretty useful tools
		The SF Chronicle reports that newspapers are moving beyond "shovelware".
		The truth is that newspapers have never liked shovelware and every online editor I've ever met was obsessed with creating fancy packages and special content to commemorate this or that.
		At this moment in the online publishing business, it probably makes more sense to focus on keeping overhead down and also on work that provides some kind of annuity in the form of a lasting business or creative benefit.
	mediasavvy.com /archives/000073.shtml (215 words)

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