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Corporate blogs and podcasts from BMC, which may be of interest to some coworkers
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Sean Murphy - far off pal and fellow ILIJ wrangler - weighs in on the Dischord v Nike issue (happily, the area of legal study is in his bailliwick, and his writing is as clear as ever)
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VNC + T650 + Einstein fun. Oh, if only this were real.
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da covers the kwiki session by Ingy and cdent at YAPC. Some minor nuggets. And tags, but we need purpling.
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Site (weblog) focusing on various ajaxian examples and techniques
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Best Conference Session Description... Ever?
Tim O'Reilly on differentiating knowledge types:
Planck knowledge and chauffeur knowledge:
After winning the Nobel prize, Max Planck went around Germany giving talks. His chauffeur heard the talk so many times that he had it by heart, and so one time, he asked Max Planck if he could give the address. Planck agreed, they changed places, and the lecture came off famously. But then came the Q&A, with the very first question being one that the chauffeur had no hope of answering. The chauffeur replied: "I'm surprised to hear such an elementary question on high energy physics here in Munich. It's so simple, I'll let my chauffeur answer it."
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Oy Vey. Hopefully Dischord is getting money, or lawyers, or both.
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It may come to this - Apple recycling....
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Overview of some corporate moves to ITIL framework. Irony Alert: Choicepoint is on their -second- attempt.
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GTD Mechanism described, offline, paper...
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Tips on personal financial organization. Where do stacks fit in?
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SocialText Eventspace for the Collaboration Technologies 2005 conference (which was announced too late to attend, sigh)
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Ted Nelson memoirs in proto form from 1993
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Ted Nelson presentation transcript from 1999
Nitesh Danjani on his O'ReillyNet blog points out the ludicrous installation procedure to be followed for Mac users on the Treo 650 (Unlocked GSM) ROM Update. I'm one of those users.
Not only does one have to manually delete some 44 files from the backups folder before install, one technically would have to downgrade from 10.4.x to 10.3.x...
Technorati Tags: PalmOne, Treo
Over the last couple days I've been watching videos from the WWW@10 conference held last year at Rose-Hulman. I've been focused on the two pertaining to Ted Nelson - his appearance on a panel of Pioneers, and his talk about his history and the hypertextualisation of literature as DeepLit.
It's very interesting to see the interplay of Nelson and his fellow panelists on the former session. His work with hypertext started long before theirs - they come from the CERN era of web based hypertext, a form of hypertext of which Nelson is often dismissive. But their work has gotten the lion's share of attention and traction; a bit of being in the right place at the right time, and what Nelson would probably classify as a faustian bargain of simplification (or as he puts it, one of the three great Dumb-Downs of computing). There are moments in the session where agreement seems to take place, but as telling are the moments where Nelson will start explaining his position and one or the other panelists will appear to bristle slightly in that "we've been down this path before, here it is again" way that happens.
The second video - of Nelson discussing the history of his development, the philosophy behind his work and his view of literature and hypertext- is a fascinating soliloquy. One man on a stage with a malfunctioning computer, railing against the now accepted best practices of hypertext and document structuring. He comes across as irascible in the best way, politely but firmly convinced of his point of view. The tools he presents - sadly, windows focused when one goes to the Xanadu website look fascinating. Difficult to corral, perhaps, but potentially powerful.
Looking briefly at the various presences Nelson has had on the web, he's been an itinerant thinker in the best tradition, a bit like a a renaissance or restoration philosopher traveling from court to court - that court being Autodesk, Xerox, a Japanese institute or a college at Oxford. The still stable core is Nelson's thinking and stream of refinements of ideas he first started presenting 30 or more years ago,
It all rushed back to me last night the first time I had encountered Nelson in the flesh. Nelson was living in or around in Austin or Houston, I believe, and I was in College Station, Texas while I was attending Texas A&M. The University had brought in Timothy Leary as a speaker, and Leary had picked up Nelson along the way. After Leary gave a talk about consciousness (as I recall, though I don't think I took notes) he announced that he had brought Nelson along as a special guest. Nelson then went on for a decent while about his work to that point in time. I had been a bit familiar with Nelson previously, as someone in my circle of pre-teen and teenage geeks had a copy of Computer Lib/Dream Machines in their home, which I had flipped through several times, but never fully digested. I don't recall if I got to speak with either part after the lectures - surely I would have tried to. I do recall getting some Xanadu flyer at the time, or maybe that was the second time I saw Nelson present, at OSCon for ZigZag's release...
It occurs to me as I write this that this would have been in 1986 or 1988, around the time which Nelson had just republished (by an imprint of Microsoft Press no less) that same book. The edition I would have read - a first edition or early printing - now goes for upwards of $200 or $300 on abebooks. Amazing.
The confluence of Leary and Nelson in my memory, so soon after reading the (to be reviewed) recent John Markoff book What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer is striking. It was there in front of me, the connections which Markoff has nicely teased out. And then it was there behind me, unrecovered until the lattice realigned. It is these pieces of knowledge and thought that a proper augmentation system, I would think, would help us to retain and connect as humans.
Technorati Tags: johnMarkoff, xanadu, tedNelson, www@10
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ACM sponsored symposium on Wikis
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Comparisons of Textile and MarkDown in expressing markup and wiki text
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Audio from the Reboot7 conference, including Ben Hammersley, Doc Searls, and all your favorite conference frequent flyers with chinscratchin' enabled.
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Using mindmapping tools to represent bibliographic data. Could this be extended into a citation mapping tool?
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More tools for managing bibliographic data in freemind mindmaps
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Reagle cites an early sharing arrangement among IBM customers
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Mike did this interview a while ago, and now it's hit the press. Congrats to Mike, and to the unmet (but oft-heard!) Tim
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Journal out of Ohio concerned with Community Technology and outreach
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Overview of Intranet team membership, placement and skills.
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John Markoff interview and discussion of What the Dormouse Said
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video of UnRev conference as cited in a thesis
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Mirror of a 2000 article on Robert Taylor entitled "What Took So Long" (context mirrors Kay's apropos remarks at ETech)
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Bay Area alternative communities (excerpt from a future book)
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Java profiling tool, OSS
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Java profiling tool, commercial
"Just as 'cleanliness is next to godliness', complexity is next to stupidity" - Sal Polletta
Technorati Tags: qotd
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Not unusual 'dating a geek' humor - nicely done.
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Cat photo. This is the common pose of Kitty, though her favorite people chair is purple
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Chris DiBona on how to work conferences (and promises to do better presentation work to boot!)
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WYSIWYG wiki, including editor in browser. kinda keen
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Realities of enterprise software and hardware acceptance may bite APPL
Oooh! Oooh! Animated Tintin box set available - noted on Oz Yigit (a Sun Blogger)'s weblog, but yes, it's available at Amazon: Les Aventures de Tintin: Vol.1-5 - HERGE
Certain Seattle Based Readers should already have this on order, I suspect....
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Reading Ole Eichorn's ruminations on the Apple + Intel rumors raised some crazed thoughts and recollections. What if what the Steve is announcing some sort of a breakout box of sorts to improve Virtual PC like performance? Would that count as a big deal for Intel? Would it make sense? Everyone I've spoken to who uses the VPC solutions complains of the speed, but if you could firewall your Windows experience into a cheap coprocessor (with some well designed security).... It's crazy insane!
All this brings to mind the old Orange Micro coprocessor cards - run DOS on your Apple! Or the old Z80 cards for the Apple ][ so you could tap the power of CP/M and Wordstar? Man, my father was deeply committed to one for his writing and research, in combo with the old 80 column card, and it was a wrenching conversion for him when he got his Leading Edge PC....
Truly, I'm in the 'not likely, unless its only some kinda device' school. But what device?
Update: This seems to be getting more confirmation. Nervousmaking.....
Technorati Tags: intel, osx, wwdc
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A proposed book for the ChiPy bookclub, on what the title says...
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Open Source Course Management software - online collaboration in the educational context
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Film on Great Lakes surfing, mentions the upstairs neighbor, to boot.
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Home of Surfing the Great Lakes book, among other products. Yes, the upstairs neighbor
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Joe Perneice makes an IndieCribs. Quicktime, and worth it.