Archives for April, 2003
Brooklyn BloggEd: Oregon Budget Woes I find it somewhat ironic and somewhat wonderful that I get the New York Times delivered to my door in Portland, Oregon. I find it so for two reasons. First, I love The Times. Have since I first went to college at Indiana and would wait at the student union [...]
Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – iTunes Music Store, a Tryout The best feature, of course, is breaking the industry’s album mentality into what customers have wanted for years: individual tunes. (I’m of two minds on this, having recorded two albums when I was playing music for a living (a long time ago, sigh). [...]
Jon Udell: Blogs and InfoWorld Jon Udell explains to another writer why blogs are important to InfoWorld, and in doing so gives a great introduction on why organizations are finding weblogging to be of value.
View image Just downloaded my first album from Apple’s new music service. So far I’m impressed.
mamamusings: blogs 101 Elizabeth Lane Lawley has posted some basic weblog links for a talk she will be giving. Others comment on similar resources they have produced. A good link for those looking to introduce others to weblogs.
matt jones | work & thoughts Matt Jones comments on the use of Hydra at ETech and how it differs from some of the other collaborative tools being used there. I’m looking forward to showing the students in my Pacific University class Hydra and letting them play with it a bit next week.
Trevor Smith has posted session notes from the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. These were taken by several folks collaboratively using a Rendezvous aware application called Hydra. Hydra is a Rendezvous based collaborative writing application. If you are a Mac OS X user, you should check out this program. I plan to use at a meeting [...]
O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003 Catalyzed by the convergence of microsystems, radio frequency indentification tags, wireless networks, and nanotechnology, the dream of ubiquitous computing is becoming a reality. Microscopic machines chattering across ad-hoc networks are beginning to provide us with information and insights about the world around us while enabling us to interact with computers, [...]
Google, Innovation, and the Web Craig Silverstein, Google, Inc. Craig Silverstein of Google is currently giving his keynote. It is mostly about the work environment and culture of the place. A very interesting aside is that many in the audience are using a coolaborative note taking software called Hydra. Click for larger image… About Hydra:A [...]
Tom Hoffman Presentation at ETech: Successfully implementing progressive school reforms is an infamously difficult task. Traditional American high schools are atomically organized to minimize interdependence between different classes and exchange flexibility for predictability. Tom Hoffman is giving a great presentation…(download a copy in PDF) Performance based assessment …curriculum standards in xml… easy data entry for [...]
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Bloggers tool up Another story by Ben with more information about TypePad…
Looking ahead to what’s on tap for today at Etech, there’s Alan Kay — inventor of the Smalltalk programming language — talking about why the computer revolution hasn’t happened yet, Macromedia’s Kevin Lynch on personal interfaces, the all-powerful Clay Shirky (all hail Clay, for he is our God!) talks about the group getting in its [...]
Brewster Kahle is currently speaking about the Internet Bookmobile. It’ll be downstairs after the session and you can get your own book printed. Donations for the continued operation of the Bookmobile are appreciated.Update: My photos of the Bookmobile. (Journalists and others: feel free to use the photos with attribution. Thanks!)… [kottke.org] Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted [...]
I got into town early this evening and am now sitting in a Birds of a Feather session about Journalism. Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics Chris DiBona, Open Source Development Network Glenn Fleishman, Unsolicited Pundit Doc Searls, Linux Journal
Here is a picture of Fernando….
This is where you type…
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Battle of the blog builders The standout feature is the template maker. Users can design their blog without knowing, or seeing, any HTML code whatsoever and with a very great range of control. Other features include real-time statistics, posting by email, and automatic creation of Friend of a Friend data [...]
Movable Type announced a new product ten minutes ago. Here’s my Guardian story. [Ben Hammersley.com] I’m heading down later today to the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies conference in Santa Clara. It has already started and there are lots of folks already blogging it. As noted above, Ben and Mena Trott have announced a hosted MovableType hosting [...]
RSS resources A nice directory of RSS resources from Michael Fagan. It has a changlog in RSS so you can subscribe to the page and keep up with additions… [by way of...McGee's Musings]
Dave Winer is taking a lot of heat for his comments on CSS: see here, here, here and here (for Dave’s response, be sure to read the comments in that last link). In the title attribute of Anil’s link, he makes the case that it is in Dave’s business interest to use CSS: “if you [...]
MLX Item #278 There has been a lot of discussion of the use of RSS and Trackback in relation to the sharing of “learning objects.” A very interesting concept… The sharing of resources becomes a lot easier with the use of this kind of technology. Speaking of Trackback, The O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference is also [...]
What is .LRN? A fully open source eLearning platform. A portal framework and integrated application suite to support course management and online communities. A scalable, secure, and enterprise-ready eLearning platform that can be deployed readily by small and large organizations. A modular architecture to permit flexibility and to drive innovation. A set of best practices [...]
Tonight I am making a presentation to a group about weblogs…
TheFeature :: It’s Education Week The feature has six articles dealing with mobile technology and education. Two are highlighted below… Learning with the Simputer details the development and use of a small handheld computer that is being developed in India. The Simputer is XML based and running Linux. Will sell for about $190. The Simputer [...]
