tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36308722011-12-13T20:58:09.509-07:00Authoring and annotating documents over the web, and maintaining version control ... what a concept! Yaa!Ben Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comBlogger2131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630872.post-36726994472753869132009-05-20T02:25:00.002-06:002009-05-20T02:32:51.237-06:00

With the fixation on success as means to an end I have to wonder, why have studied Phillipe of Macedon, the greatest of great orators? (Want proof of rhetoric? Study his son. *beat* Oh, sorry, I forgot you were ill-lit-rut: Alexander. Yaa, that Alexander. The power of his father's principled nature drove him mad. *shrug* Bummer ... I cudda advised him. You think you're benighted? How'bout that

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*X-posted from my blog on http://GlobalSenseMaking.net*Micah Sifry quoted this in his post about the IntenseDebate deployment on Change.Gov:"I just wanted to say thank you for giving us a place to make our thoughts and comment heard. It's about time the government provide a centralized place for citizens to express their opinions where they feel they will be heard." [Emphasis added by him there.]

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With Obama's massively successful campaign I've watched Web2.0 do what it does best: drive money. Now ... now what? Since the mid-70s I've been surveying the field as I tried to enable civil society with the best IT. And, as some of you know, the mid-70s was a pretty harsh time .. East Timor, apartheid coming to a head in South Africa ... harsh. This hard on the heels of the war in Vietnam ...

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* cut/paste draft * A conversation with Ed Vielmetti and John Blyberg about patrons and superlibrarians - Jon Udell/blog.jonudell.net:"February 2, 2007: "Last fall, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I gave a talk entitled Superpatrons and Superlibrarians. Joining me for this week’s podcast are the two guys who inspired that talk. The superpatron is Ed Vielmetti, an old Internet hand who likes to mash up

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*I've been in "stealth mode" for years ... cat definitely in the bag.* A while back I did a little online work for a guy on the other side of the Atlantic ... just helping him re-design the frontpage of his commercial site. Not rocket science, but not thumb-twiddling either. Thing is, he had no means of paying me. I don't have credit card, so paypal is out. So I decided to start the

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Predendum: (Ohhhhh I know that's not a word ... give it a break ... this is being added later, but at the head ... so it's not appended and as addendum ... get it? prepended addendum? *sigh* fohget it.) Rereading the body of this after reading Ed Yourdon's thoughtful composition got me remembering when things made sense because we had at least one foot on the ground at all times and both feet

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Technorati: Discussion about “ Design and the Elastic Mind”: "Design and the Elastic Mind" Today at 6:21pm Bernard clicked Share", posting a link caught at technorati.com ... "Kotke.org brings the shiet: ''Design and the Elastic Mind'' from MoMa. Which likewise brings the shiet. And technorati /is/ the shiet for bringin' this shiet!"   And on another hand, an early site by a friend from my

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A couple of days ago someone I know from Twitter blogged that he skims through 2,500 blog posts each morning. *cough* ... yaaa, ok, sure. *cough* Just now I came across "tell me how you manage your attention. What tools and techniques do you use to stay on top of your river of information? in Sam Lawrence's "GoBigAlways", and that got me thinking about what I'd done recently for feeds. My "

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... see "100th Monkey" A right spooky coincidence: within an hour of commiting a comment on RWW's "Web3.0" post I came across an astonishing resonance in another blog: thanks to Richard McManus's (quite unrelated) tweet I found myself in "one company, ten brands: lessons from retail for tech companies" at Danah Boyd's "apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed". ("Making

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Part of my reply to Alex's "Think opposite, or keep on dreaming?" (Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior)   Your "and my thoughts were uncontrollably unleashed" about the wash of web platforms ties in directly with something I started working on yesterday: so many of the people I talk to seem submerged in a tsunami of information day in

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I just created / started work on "HomelessnessCohousing" on my wiki and, given my situation and the absolute lack of collaboration I've experienced over the past dozen years I've been on the web, I had to ask myself what you're doing.Striving for gain, or getting done what need be done? I've been facilitating communications for more than 3 decades. It's not about me being able to trouble-shoot

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"It’s not easy to make something easy." I just Dugg Paul Glazowski's "Web 2.0: How Hard Could It Be?" over at Mashable.com:"It ’s not easy to make something easy. ... The focus of the story ... is to uncover the true tale of start-to-finish process. That taking something from an idea conjured during time spent in gridlock traffic ... to something you can hold in your hand ... is a process that

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*X-posted from Gnodal.LiveJournal* My comment to "The Web is Dynamic at InternetEvolution.com: Something from the review of "The Exploit" really resonated with me; I've been saying that most folk (ADHD, "constant partial attention", etc etc etc) don't grok what I'm trying to say. Not that it's too complicated, far from it, but rather because it's too simple. (An example of "simple": chaos is

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My point is this: SF kidz have great intuition. It works like a white-list. So anything that doesn't finger their joy-buttons gets pushed away. It's SocialPsych 101. If you got a /really/ good financial offer, I bet you'd put up with *cough* behaviour you considered *fidget* unconventional, right? And that's hot it is with A-list; if you're one of the "elect" then you're in. And if you aren't

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*Draft - it's late in a long day; I'm tired* In good time; a quantum of information to bring folk aboard and to enable those who self-host. Updated: Social WhiteList with OpenID Also: "OpenID Delegate WordPress plugin will add OpenID delegation abilities to your blog, thus allowing you to sign in to various OpenID supported sites using your blog’s URL." and "WordPress YADIS/XRDS is a Wordpress

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AlphaDawg's ITGeek Twitter Group   *Preliminary Draft - I'm still working on the thuds; not sure this will fly at all!* BenTrem 21:24Z 2JAN08 Please, join in to create the group feed; follow ITGeek! The "group feed" should appear at twitter.com/ITGeek/with_friends With the arrival of David Sifry's "Announcing Hoosgot" service on twitter (see also Doc Searles' "Y Hoosgot?") folk have started

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* this in response to NewMediaJim's " our producer here in Crawford is looking for recommendations for great podasts, any topic. DM me suggestions!! about 1 hour ago from web"   And no tabula rasa; APML arises in the context of such as these two: * Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Google Hijacked -- Major ISP to Intercept and Modify Web Pages - "Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and modification system (

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*DRAFT* By way of context (as good as any; better than most): Where Is AJAX Headed? Discussing the Future of the Rich Web" at AJAXWorld asks, "What are the most burning AJAX, rich web applications, and Web 2.0 questions need to be answered in 2008?". (Parenthetically, at BusinessWeek.com magazine, "The Two Flavors of Google" ... Hadoop search and OpenSource.) Thinking about "silos" ... grappling

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Give 1000 people 100 communications channels and everybody may have a whole lotta fun but, really, you aren't goint to get anything done. That ain't rocket science. Blogspot (multiple blogs), WordPress (multiple blogs), LiveJournal (2 accounts), FaceBook, MySpace (also 2 accounts), LinkedIn, ITtoolbox, and of course Twitter ... I'm registered at more but those are the systems I used most often.

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*email blurted while I was waiting for spag and meatloaf to heat* Looking at the Dec2002 prototype stuff I just posted for you ... that always brings me back. Do folk realize the social engineering that went into creating the Global Indymedia Network? That came about in 1999 ... but it's "radical" or "pinko" or "leftie" or something, so it doesn't count. *shrug* Anyhow, that's not what I'm

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"In defence of complexity - part 1", a very nice post by Andrew Clifford over on ITtoolbox (It deserves a good read.) caused me to write a couple of comments there. "we aspire to build simple IT solutions"With respect, I don't think that's right. Or, better, it's right but not correct. So it's mis-leading.I think the situation is more along the lines of "we aspire to have the complexity of our

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I came across Joseph Scott's "EditInPlace, New Version, New Home" and checked out the new site ... which left me totally in the dark, it's new and spartan to the point of being cryptic. But have no fear! A set of back-links to earlier blog posts (18APR07 and 7JUNE07) and a well implemented tag system makes everything clear. Also, Drew McLellan at 24Ways covers the topic nicely with his "Edit in

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NB: HTML here-under copied/pasted from docs.google's edit page This is being created in docs.google (here is the publically-viewable original ) and, perhaps, if I'm lucky, published to my main blospot.com blog. (Since this is going to be in my blog, shouldn't there be a way of indicating a title? [the first few words of text are adopted as the post title]) Take 3 ... the "publish to blog" test

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Have a look at this: click for full-size Check out the live demo. This came up in forum thread on Dashboards and GUI builders ... it has its own thread. For my money? break-through stuff.

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*X-posted from ''Gnodal'' at LiveJournal*Thinking about OpenSource and crowd-sourcing and all of that I found myself coming back again and again to the idea of "going Bedouin". (Now I happen to really admire Bedouin culture and traditions, but that's another essay.) I'm talking about foundational co-working. Just now I realized with some shock that the concepts that are central to Bedouin-style

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Do yourself a favor: subscribe to NetVibes This is a totally mature system for integrating different functions. I have ?what? 5 different tabs, with 4 of them carrying different collections of blogs, and one for general stuff ... it even monitors my POP3 mail server! This morning I went into their dev blog and WOWWW ... added a FaceBook widget, so I can keep an eye on that account without going

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... well, they're productive and sane. Chatting with a fellow about innovation and providing solutions, he pointed me to ''Implementing Scrum'', an "agile development" blog that included a comic strip, and right away I found an illustration of what I was getting at. I had written My old .sig read "When you look to see how the system works | Likely you'll find that it doesn't." Folk sometimes

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Earlier today I visited Twitter and tweeted this:"80/20 rule? Wicked. Evil. Corrupt. I won't fly on a plane designed by techs who wanted 80% pay for doing 20% of the heavy lifting." In contrast to lame / slack / suck-ups, the CogBlog talks about some seriously legit heavy-lifing:"You've probably noticed we've been pretty quiet with respect to product announcements over the last several months,

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"Can 'crowdsourcing' be slave labor?" (Nawwwwwww ... and the pope doesn't poop in the woods.) "These initiatives typically tout the importance of companies creating new interactive relationships with their consumers in the digital age. But as Paul Boutin wrote in a recent BusinessWeek column, this concept of "crowdsourcing" is not necessarily utopian in all forms. The main reason is compensation-

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I just now posted this to that venue. (I "wrote on the wall". *gick*) "Government2.0 ... it must be a "dis-intermediation", yes? But let's not get pie.in.the.sky ... we remain whatever/whoever we are. That, for me, means it still necessarily comes down to discourse theory. Paulo Friere ("Pedagogy of the Oppressed"? I favour "Education for Critical Consciousness".) and Jurgen Habermas and RDLaing

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My theme is "the community of principled practitioner" as myth. (Now, now ... have you already decided that my bad attitude justifies the cold shoulder? I assure you that this isn't the case: my attitude merely serves as pretext; the ostracism is very likely a pre-existing predisposition within you, dear reader.) "Dialogue in Progress!" - scratchpad ... circa 1995, more than a decade ago, more

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Something I saw reminded me that I had a customized Google Search Engine on the go, and I checked it out. *plop-plop fizz-fizz* (Gotta luv TextPad macros!) I created a blogroll with something over 100 of my fave blogs in it. Neat? First thing I peeked brought me to an item by Cory Doctorow, over at Information Week: "How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community"[enter prosaic

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... or maybe that should be "still". Is there no way to get around it? Seems like no amount of CSS trickery is sufficient. I gotta say, I'm fed up. My latest homepage tweak breaks the page catastrophically with IE5. Gooood grief! The nice paragraph format I use forces the entire main contents window to the bottom of the page. Bahh humbug! I just wasted spent a buncha time viewing popular pages

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Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design This morning I woke up with my site design clearly in mind. All at once. After months of nudging and twiddling and tweaking ... it all came together. "More soon!" *wirrrrrrking*

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Evan Williams at "International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media" (ICWSM 2007): Videos for Keynote Presentations; ICWSM Blog

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A video by Michael Wesch - Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology - Kansas State University: I call my project "Participatory Deliberation" and it's like I was talking about the mating rituals of some alien species. (Actually, that would get more response.) I describe what other folk are working on (like "By writing down information, we want to express facts about ideas and concepts in

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"feedmap.net: Where Blogs Meet Maps (beta)" is a pretty good example of what works. Another system came to my attention through twittering and tweets: I had been using TwitterVision for a while before discovering "Atlas". It turns out that if you register there you can then access a variety of map functions, one of them being blogs by geographic location!

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In his "Breakups are hard to do" (see his What Do I Know"), Todd Dominey gives us a nice peek behind the scenes:"the road to launch started a year and a half ago. Myself and a handful of other talented people spent months creating presentations and financial projections, developing wireframes, pitching the concept to focus groups, designing mockups, acquiring staff, and of course developing the

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When I point to how we're still wrastlin' with email clients' functionality though it's 2007 (as evidence that yuppies and their kidz know how to cash out 80% of the profit for providing 20% of the functionality ... nasty aulde dawg that I am) my interlocutor looks at me like I've sprouted a second head. Which, in these times, passes for compelling counter-argument. Today I came across this: "due

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Thanks to a item by Doc Searls:Temporally Relevant - The Meaning Economy: "All relationships between these networks are always fully transparent and openly published. Networks exchange knowledge between them, each adding new meaning to the information, each of them responsible for the reputations of their participants and peers. This is the very foundation of a Meaning Economy." New writing by

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Software: Laszlo Webtop | LaszloSystems: IA Desktop in a Browser - "Designed to support the delivery of integrated suites of OpenLaszlo RIAs, Laszlo Webtop offers a consistent user experience that is accessible from any web-enabled computer. The wide-ranging appeal of Laszlo Webtop makes it ideal for internal or consumer-facing corporate deployments, varying from financial dashboards to consumer

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the blogger code Don't know about "geek code"? Then "blogger code" won't mean a whole lot to you. Know about "geek code"? heh ... I'll show you mine; you show me yours? *le smurque*Geek code from ?what? 9 years ago:G_C v2.1: GTW/P/>CS$ !n !e e e+ e* !n -d+$ H+ !n Y++ a+ po->-+ h>* !n s-:- g+ p3+ !au>--- w->+++ v->--- C++ P+>++++ E---->--- W UB>++++ M- N++ K- t++ R G'>? tv++>-- B-- u* f- y++++

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Conversation Base: Introduction Of Bloggers and Blacksmiths :"'It began with conversations. Then we got into broadcast media. Now we are going back to conversations. It's a full circle.'    --Terry Catchpole, The Catchpole Corporation" VibeWise | Taking Simple Things Seriously ... Beginning with foundationsWhat does it come down to? You know … “it“. As individuals we are story tellers. (If what

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CommentTracking - Benz Wiki coComment | Co.comments | Commentful Brian Benzinger in Solution Watch writes: "Unlike coComment and co.mments, Commentful will only notify you of new comments rather then scraping the comment itself from the site and displaying it. What I like about this is that I find that even though coComment displays comments on its site and other details, I still visit the

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Why Can't Programmers.. Program? (from Coding Horror) quotes Reginald Braithwaite:Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can’t write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever. "Codding Horror" lives up to its name:After a fair bit of trial and error I've discovered that people who struggle to code don't just

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Bug 223476 – large history makes Firefox painfully slow in several ways The way things go leaves me disheartened ... gagging. I just revisited Bug 223476 – "large history makes Firefox painfully slow in several ways" in MozBugzilla, with ref to history.dat ... working through a text version (The "Dork" conversion utility is now hard to find; a copy of it is on Bug 242438.) I found that barely 1/

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Journal: "Nuts & Bolts": Anyone recall KlipFolio? This is a sweet little destop net app ... and I've always thought the design was just wrong-headed. [NB: I just exchanged mail will Allan at Serence.com about how I have really really really changed my mind about that. "NetVibes on your desktop" is how I think of it without caveat, now.] I'm a big NetVibes fan. Not only is it Best of Breed for

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How ironic is this: at the moment I was reading a friend's blog about how legal aid is "always under fire" CPAC carried Bill Gates announcing how he was coming into the scene, riding to the rescue with funding for AIDS/HIV research. Ain't that just ducky. And moments before? I banged my head against a beam, realizing that I have to have a bigger machine and better than Win98SE for the Java

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"Mallian Peanut Sheller"? Sounds good. How about an Albertan fishin' shelter for making spear decoys in Michigan? Or "the Children's Machine (CM1). One of the key features is that it "creates its own mesh network out of the box", with each machine fitted as a full-time wireless router. laptop mesh straight outta the box? The Children's Mesh! "Mesha laptop?" (singular) ... or messa' laptops?

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the Malian Peanut Sheller ... ... has the potential to help feed 1/2 a billion people." How 'bout "Albertan Fish Chucker"? Makin' spear decoys with (insert tribe name here) in Michigan. On One Laptop per Child (laptop.org/) is closer to reality with the Children's Machine (CM1). One of the key features is that it "creates its own mesh network out of the box." [emph. added bdt] ^5 ben

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Full Belly Blog: Full Belly at Popular Mechanics with (insert tribe name here) the Malian Peanut Sheller ... ... has the potential to help feed 1/2 a billion people." How 'bout "Albertan Fish Chucker"? Makin' spear decoys with (insert tribe name here) in Michigan. ^5 ben

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*testing* CSLI Center for the Study of Language and Information -- Stanford University: *Gawd this bookmarklet sucks! The window it opens isn't even big enough to show the "Publish" button! And just now, when I clicked "View blog in new window" it opened my blog in the same window. google? you suck* The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy implements the new digital library concept of a "dynamic

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What's a steam-engine good for. All it does is turn a shaft. Shaft goes 'round and 'round. No biggie. Biggie? Biggie is turning a mill-stone, or a carriage wheel, or a saw blade, or a water pump. Joel Spolsky's "Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You" makes the point about abstraction; philosophically astute as they might be, conceptual constructs detach us from the actualities ...

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*I am distracted by this thought: the dominant dynamic in the OpenSource community reflects a line from the New Testament, "To those who have will be given more; from those who have not will be taken even that which they think they have." Because I am poor and without credentials, whatever good I might contribute through discussion in mail-lists and forums is taken up while the meat of my work is

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Google has the worst help I've ever seen ... and I've been on the web since Sep1995. This afternoon I tried to use my "BlogThis!" bookmarklet, and yet again I had to login to blogger ... and then login to google. And I got my dashboard instead of the post window. So I tried again. And I had to login to blogger yet again, this time making double-sure to click "Remember me" ... and then login to

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Dig: I cannot comment on "non-beta" blogs. I'm not allowed to do that. Google stops me. Google will not allow me to comment in blogspot blogs that haven't converted to their new beta. Because I adopted the "beta-blog" program I cannot comment on blogs that have not. Heavy handed? Yes. Incompetent? Yes. Contemptuous? Yes. Against the basic idea of World Wide Web? Yes. Successful? Yes. Just goes

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Talk Digger Conversation for: Semantic Radar for FireFox and the Semantic Web Services environment - Frederick Giasson's Weblog - A vision of the socially-wired world RDF Semantic web research isn't working | Zacker.org: "It has been eight years since Tim Berners-Lee threw up his hands and said 'it's all crap, lets do it over' and set off to create the semantic web. We've got very little to show

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After spending quite a quile pillaging Altova's set of tools I was tickled to come across Kerika.com ... not just a neat project (JXTA is 5; TurboGeek celebrates) but a really pleasant homepage. In email about it I wrote "so much what I'm moving towards: soft, friendly, warm, practical ... in contradistinction to the rather more hard-edged design used by commercial concerns. Effective, and

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ISTweb | Home Page: "IST is a single, integrated research programme building on the convergence of information processing, communications and media technologies. IST has an indicative budget of 3.6 billion euro and is managed by the Information Society DG of the European Commission."3.6 billion Euro ... for research in IT integration ... *swoon* A couple of the initiatives headlined in IST

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NEPOMUK - The Social Semantic Desktop Proven: yuppies are insane. Full Stop. post-hoc: I regret the tone of this post. I also regret that it puts NEPOMUK and those who work on it in a bad light. As exemplars of this teams good works I suggest MyMorey and Gnowsis. But since this post actually captures the heart essence of my reaction, I must per force let it stand. --BenTrem 0015 18OCT06

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Felipe Gaucho's Blog: HTML is dying:" The last decade of the XXth century was marked by the HTML advent, from a simple language rendered by the Web Browsers to the standard de facto of Internet contents: web-pages, mail and business applications. Several interesting innovations were applyied to the first draft of the HyperText Implementation in order to support the e-commerce demand, including

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"Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users"Ayup, it's true. I just watched a Wink walkthrough of SDN's "Introducing Design Patterns in XML Schemas"

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Dig this: Reap What You SOA" (in Sun's September "Inner Circle" newsletter) - "The Gartner Group estimates that the cost of maintaining the integration points between systems absorbs 75 to 80 percent of all IT budgets" ... 75 - 80 percent! "SOA leverages Web services. Web services are playing out to be the technology of choice for SOA because Web services are open. But the rationale for SOA comes

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In a comment to Eric Meyer's "Angry Indeed" I replied, in part,"[T]there’s something else operating here too: my gawd, maybe you don’t realize the awe you inspire … “Box Model Hack” and such. You and tantek? Guys like you are what inspired me (past tense, note) to keep sloggin’. (So on the day I set up and read through a 250 page technical document and produce with a long list of quibbles large

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Leaving W3C QA Dev. from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2006-07-16 (public-qa-dev@w3.org from July 2006):"Many parts of the HTML and XHTML specifications are incorrect and/or very unclear. Over the years you just get used to the fact that the HTML Working Group simply disregards any issues people raise about their Recommendations, so instead we tried something more clever, raise issues on draft

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Intuit Press Release- Intuit and Google Forge Alliance: "For the first time, small businesses can use QuickBooks to market themselves online by listing their businesses on Google Maps™, creating and managing advertising campaigns with Google AdWords™ and posting their products for sale on Google through Google Base™ – a free product listing service." David Card - Google-Intuit Integration

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Eric's Archived Thoughts: W3C Change: Introduction"When I posted about the W3C, a few people responded with, “All right, fine, you’re angry with the W3C. So what’s your alternative, smart guy?” A fair enough question. While I applaud the efforts of the WHAT WG and the microformats community, I’m not advocating a complete dismissal of the W3C. [...] If the W3C can get back on track, I wouldn’t

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[testing ITToolBox's auto-blog function from the km-select group Near miss: the function wrongly assumes that I have only one blog and so the item went to the one that I used most recently. *bzzzzzt*]"we are developing an internal twiki for our corporate kbase/portalwe are having discussion as to what kind of knowledge that should be capture...Read More..."Here's the reply I posted on that site.

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Qantas Homepage Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane but only a high school diploma to fix one. Reassurance for those of us who fly routinely in our jobs. After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet," which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the

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In his EEK Speaks blog, Eugene Kim (of BlueOxen / ''Purple'' fame) posted this pair of items that resonated with a peculiar harmony for me:"Wright on Professions" - I often talk about the craft of collaboration, and how we need to treat collaboration as a discipline. There needs to be enough cognitive structure there so that we can get better at collaborating on collaboration. You have to be

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Systems management software may include RSS soon 2RSS.com :: RSS feed directories, software abd scripts, articles and news, & more ? NuJournalism | Rational rants | ZDNet.com Google exec challenges Berners-Lee: ZDNet Australia: News: Software Information Research Weblog Rojo - Story: CNN Exchange Enters Messy Clusterfuck of Citizen Journalism Propylon presents Legislative Workbench Bill

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Joel on Software; "Ruby Performance Revisited" Throughout the "Has Joel gone soft in the head?!" reaction to this topic ("Seek and yee shall find") I've had the feeling that uncertainty (the real stuff, not the FUD kind) was playing a role in this. Joel's post here makes it clear that this is the case:"Even classic, simple CRUD applications -- the kind of application that basically just shows you

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*as usual, posting a new item makes the title of the previous item disappear. blogger.com is going to lose my blog ASAP; I'm sick of this crap*"Assume that the cow is a sphere" sez the theoretical physicist; the punchline to a joke about how to optimize a dairy farm. But really, sometimes experts are like that. So, really, let's start at the beginning, yes? "The value of following an agreed-upon

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*this accidentally ended up in another blog. for the record I think it's really shoddy (and typically blogger.com) that the "Change Date" function does not display in FireFox. Lame, lamer, lamest ... month after month, year after year ... friggin' tedious. I built navaids. I sure as shit dread that these kidz ever do.* The Long Tail and CreativeClass.org ... aesthetically these two are worlds

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Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise Paper Airplane and The Two Way Web; at java.net Fusion - A Unifited Application for Communication and Knowledge Sharing Saving Session Across Page Loads Without Cookies, On The Client Side; see Moxie - dojo.storage: Offline Access and Permanent, Client-Side Storage at Ajaxian and TinyWiki at Julien Couvreur's ''Curiosity is bliss''. SourceForge.net: Sarissa

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tecznotes 25JULY06 from stamen.com's Michal Migurski."Digg kicked Labs live 20 minutes ago. It's slow and intermittent, because it's being pounded right now."Geeez, I lose connectivity for a few days and look what I miss! labs.digg.com is the point ... pretty spiffy. But more importantly: this demonstrates my point, that IT and cognitive ergonomics is being pressed into service to produce the

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Edging (creeping?) towards implementation, I've allowed my mind to *yikes!!* ponder choices of Javascript / AJAX library / toolkit / frameworks ... dojo? Yahoo/YIU? Rico? One of my concerns was nicely treated in dean edward's "Das Bloat":"I just had a quick look at Yahoo’s UI library. In particular, the TreeView control. I’m on a broadband connection and the demo page took 12 seconds to load the

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Document Engineering Spring 2006 /academics/courses/is243/s06/ wouldn't look like much to most folk ... just an index, is all. To me? A treasure trove, vertitably ... notes and readings and lectures from a really gifted professor at a really good school. But that's just me. I guessMy first encounter with a university library was terribly traumatic. I had read most of the philosophy section of

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Last week I let a friend know that I had received two copies of what she sent to her mail list. She replied that she and the friend who was helping her had fumbled the ball; she hadn't passed on where she'd gotten to on the list ... "on the list", get it? She and her friend were sending the message to a whole lot of folks individually ... serially ... 1 by 1. After 11 years on the web she hadn't

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TagFetch Check out the "View More" links on this page ... sweet, nae? The heart essence of Web2.0 IMNSHO: non-intrusive cognitive ergonomics, i.e productive and effective while pleasant ... subjective ... aesthetics.

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myEarthLink Reader - Add a Source ... and, apparently, those who design websites don't know IA. It's pathetic, really. On technorati's "Import Favorite" page there's a whole list of other aggregators and how to get them to spit out OPML. For technorati itself? You'd better know that there's a teeny little OPML link in the top-right corner of one of the two blog-favorite pages cuz you sure won't

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AlphaDawg AT DreamHost In my previous post " Birthing the Ultimate Feed Reader" I mentioned the “river” versus “folder” RSS discussion in the Scobleizer blog and wrote, "what something is worth depends on how much of it there is and how fast it's moving". In what I do I'm challenged to manage whole families of technical documents (herding cats, yes?) while attending to minute details, even while

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I'm obviously going to have to add to this item ... I just stopped by ''Gopher still going strong'' on Kottke.org to post this comment:"Gopher still hot? Dang right! I'm still getting hits in my blog from this post. Can we say that it (gopher) is paradigmatic of "long tail"? K ... what's going on here? I know a) I get fed up with just how bloated FF is and b) it's sometimes a perk to use telnet

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Web Services Knowledge Portal is a sister site of the XML and related technologies portall. MathDL | The Linear Algebra Behind Search Engines ... yessiree there are some fine documents to be had!"The Information Age has flooded readers with information. However, these gains in the amount of information available are useless without parallel gains in techniques for effectively storing and

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WWW-Talk Jan-Mar 1993: NCSA Mosaic for X 0.10 released, found in The Web, Day Zero: How To Get Started; thanks to blogs.earthlink.net

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*touched 15JULY06 1245MDT: "You should allow imagination to be opportunistic and not shackle it to earning wealth or producing profit on the short term because that independence is at the base of scientific creativity." --John C. Polanyi on CBC Radio's "Quirks and Quarks"* I finally got around to looking through Information Week magazine of 26JUNE06. Thomas Claburn's "Is Centralized IT Killing

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Birthing the Ultimate Feed Reader  posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 1:04 AM MST Joining a merry band congregated around the "The “river” versus “folder” RSS approach" discussion in the Scobleizer blog (John Robb; Aaron B. Hockley; Brian Sullivan; Dave Coustan; John Stanforth; Craig Barnes; with Dave Winer as eminence grise / rabble-rouser; [checkout one response]) , Jay Gilmore rang my bell

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Breaking News Newsletter Topic Page - Newsletters - MSNBC.com: "Sign up for email alerts of breaking news headlines from MSNBC.com and be the first to learn when a major story develops. Signing up is easy and FREE,"Whoooooaaahoooohooo! Not only is the email subscription easy, but it's FREEEEE to boot! By gawd, no wonder those media-convergence types are so rich: they're just about as stuhned as

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NYTimes has cobbled together a subscription RSS site ... not sure, but if this Techcruch article is right then their effort isn't aimed at producing anything like a mashup / aggregator. "NYTimes launches MyTimes, a weak RSS play" (links to screenshots).It's a by-invitation beta right now. I subscribe to their online services ... word is I might be getting mine in a couple of days.The NYTimes'

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What's in a word? ''Peer Production'' and ''CrowdSourcing'' and ... posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 1:29 PM MST"A rose, by any other name ..." Yaa, right, heh ... Firefox 1.5 or 1.8, or Bon Echo, or Bon Echo 2.01b1 ... or 2.01b2 ...Anyhow, I just started using ''crowdsourcing'' as a del.icio.ur tag, alongside opensource and collaboration. (There are less than 100 items at del.icio.us with that

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Geek-talk took yet another well-deserved drubbing last month when Jon Udell took issue in his "User-generated content vs. reader-created context"."Everything about this buzzphrase [user-generated content] annoys me. First, calling people "users" is pernicious. It distances and dehumanizes, and should be stricken from the IT vocabulary ("Those clueless users") as well as from the publishing

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... ohhhhh yes it is! Marc Eisenstadt's Blog at KMI (EisenBlog) popped up in my technorati faves and, well, PeopleAggregator looked so good I gave it a spin. Two spins, actually: I searched for "structured blogging" and found a recent post, then searched for "synth" and huh huh found another recent post, this one mentionning Moog circa 1971 ... I bought my first Korg synth in 1974. Count me in!

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from "Eyetracking and Images of People": "Visitors tend not to look at big, block images, so don't put interactive elements, such as navigation in these images. People don't look intensely at images, but seem to use images as 'anchors,' which act as starting points for a scanning pattern. Images of people draw attention more than images. The more personal the image, the more powerful. Photos of

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In his "Say what?" Jon Udell responds to a comment about his writing style. (He self-deprecatingly called it a "dope slap" ... Jon's the sorta fellow who knows the benefits arise from proper user of a clue stick or clue by 4.) BTW "Say what?" is an allusion to Ami Hendrickson's blog, ''Muse Ink''. Later in the piece Jon describes a system users Eureka momet ... "we bought the wrong kind of

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From arstecnica: Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality: "This is serious.":"The inventor of the WWW has a short, to-the-point post that explains exactly why supporting real, bona fide net neutrality is the Right Thing to Do. I absolutely encourage you to read the entire post, but really he sums up the whole argument for net neutrality in his opening sentence:"When I invented the Web, I didn't have to

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I was enthralled earlier today by a general meeting run using FlashMeeting, produced by The Center for New Media, part of Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. Looking through their list of projects and other documents eventually lead me to a fabulous proposal. The Open University; Open Content Initiative - The OCI Proposal ... "The University has an extensive reservoir of

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"Incorporated Subversion" is the blog I just found ... cool. James Farmer is down-under and (apparently) involved with EduBlogs (this site is down just now; it was fine 5 minutes ago!) and WikiSpaces. That last link came to my attention because of this: "You can link Blogger and TypePad blog entries with Wikispaces pages and import those blog entries into Wikispaces pages. The imported text can

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I just posted a long item in ''Beyond Greed''. Here's part of it: In the first post to the blog for the new "Democratic Strategist", Scott Winship (the Managing Editor) included this invitation: "you (dear reader) can help make this a better blog by passing along links to articles or studies that I can deconstruct. I know that sounds like I'm pushing my work off on you, but hey"My reply was

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Yesterday I was dealing with a peculiarity that seems typical of today's programming: I had been chatting with the lead developer for the new Netscape news project and he said something about the 80% attitude ... I won't go into the philosophical here and now except to share my concerns; rolling out a major website but not offering any way for users outside the USA to register their location?

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Three new blogs: *Rob Fay *Brian Alvey *Alex Rudloff An interesting ''Web2.0'' app: LinkedIn; "Relationships Matter" Selected reading: "Transforming Your Intranet" (PDF of Chapter 5) - "Our chapter is entitled, "Preparing for Intranet 2.0: how to integrate new communication technology into your intranet." The intranet is changing. New communication technology is making it less a one-way

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