Monthly Archives: April 2003

Haystack

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 5, 2003
»Our research seeks to bring modern information management and retrieval technologies to the average computer user in order to make computers a more compelling place for users to interact with their information.« According to Katharina, Haystack is a kind of »Google for the Desktop« with an own user interface to access the database. [feedme News]
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Feed me

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 5, 2003
Katharina Birkenbach started a seperate weblog documenting the process of their diploma work.
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RSS Clients

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 4, 2003
Tobias was asking about an RSS feed reader like NetNewsWire for Windows. I haven’t tested one myself, but there is a good list of available software for different platforms. I have heard someone using FeedReader. I think I also saw some positive comments about Syndirella. By the way: All our seminar sites offer their news [...]
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Sebastian explicates

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 4, 2003
Sebastian Fiedler is commenting my recent post about my problem convincing students to run personal weblogs. He comes up with a quote from the British psychologists Thomas & Harri-Augstein: In constructing and validating their views, people develop their own ‘personal myths’. We introduce this term to designate the ‘personal knowing’ that results from enduring long-term [...]
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Dale Pike on Weblogs in education

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 3, 2003
Dale Pike: »I’m giving a presentation entitled “Using Weblogs to Facilitate Collaboration” and the UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference today. See link for presentation materials.«
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Sebasitian to Augsburg

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 3, 2003
Sebastian Fiedler ist very active in the area of weblogs in education. He will be giving a course at the University of Augsburg: »The cool thing is that I can base the course on my PhD project. So, weblogs and personal Webpublishing will be an important ingredient…«
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Changed approach

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 3, 2003
I changed my strategy for advocating weblogs in my local educational setting: Each member of the group is supposed to run his own weblog and the group weblogs aggregate and form intersections. The immediate response from one student: »I don’t see a need for that.«. Why is it that some people see the immediate appeal [...]
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Woon-Chul Jung

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 3, 2003
The first weblog from a student of our product design department went online. I instantly subscribed his RSS-Feed with NetNewsWire. Looking forward to what is coming from there…
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