I just did. And it does even support XML-RPC.
Monthly Archive for October, 2003
Some of the presentations of the HITS 2003 conference are online (HITS means “Humans | Interaction | Technology | Strategy”).
I’m really glad someone put these notes from the speakers of the “Power of Design” conference online. Many ideas. Lots of things to talk about…
I had a very brief look at CoreBLOG – a weblog system for Zope. It looks quite promising. But it is still not what we need. The management through ZMI (zope management interface) is considered a feature. But ZMI is not the right interface for newbies. It also does not support any API, so tools like NetNewsWire can’t post to it. CoreBLOGs skins seem far easier than the ones Plone offers – but still these skins are not editable for beginners.
What I do like is a rather zope-ish implementation – much different from Plones Product-overload where no one really can understand which Product has to be used where.
Alison J. Head describes the use of personas in design processes.
“Brenda Laurel is editing a book called Design Research that’s coming out in December. Looks like an interesting mix of contributors – you don’t often see Darrel Rhea (weblog) and Eric Zimmerman both writing under the same cover.”
Lilia Efimova did a marvelous job on collecting thoughts on “Communities versus Courses”: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
She also points to Sebastien Paquets weblog research directory.
There is a lot of arguments that need consideration here. Some turn on light bulbs in my head – and I disagree with others. I need to think about these before I can make comments beyond initial reactions.
“Nico Macdonald puts Weblogging in the context of the history of online publishing, explaining its novelty and value, and indicating where it needs to innovate. He concludes with a proposal encouraging publishers to properly embrace the Weblogging model. “
I just learned about w.bloggar – a tool that allows posting to weblogs. Does this work with Manila sites + categories too?
Today a new toy has arrived for me (with some add-ons). I plan to use iSight and iChat AV to join students in the lab when I am away.
The two seminars that started last week are picking up steam: One is about “Social software” and one about “Design with algorithms“.
There are not as many students as I expected. So (as actually always): anyone should feel free to join the seminar online.
Buzz is a Python+wxPythom based OPML editor that seems to support the Manila XML-RPC API. Unfortunatly it is still under development and probably impossible to install fo the average user (well, the average user might not know what to do with this tool anyway).
What is interoperability good for if only a fraction of users can participate?
“With the latest version of VoodooPad, you can open up a web-based wiki for reading, editing, and saving! Download vpwiki and collaborate online with coworkers, friends, and even family members. Edit your site from within VoodooPad, or straight on the web.”
The vpwiki is a little webserver that renders the Wiki over HTTP/HTML and enables editing its content with VoodooPad. Very slick. It also has an API documented as Python code, so in principle it is possible to connect other applications to that – or – use VoodooPad to edit other content as long as the server implements that API.
This naturally has to be the next step for Wikis: define a common API. I found these bits on Google – I have no idea if these have much in common:
I waited for this one:
“ZopeEditManager is a native Cocoa application that provides ExternalEditor functionality for Mac OS X users. Written using the PyObjC bindings, it extends the original work done by Casey Duncan, and makes it possible for Mac users to get the most out of this incredibly useful package.”
This another slide of my presentation, but this one is probably the most important for me as this is the frame I use to think about weblogs in my PhD research trying to summarise (possible) uses/benefits of blogging for knowledge workers.
What’s in it for me?
- Publishing
- Personal information management
- Watching trends, staying updated (~’search’ strategy)
- Documenting experiences and ideas
- Organising links, ideas and references
- Dialogue and networking
- Getting feedback and evaluation of ideas, engaging in conversations
- Establish contacts based on common interests
- Emergent community
- Learning
- As a result of:
- staying updated
- articulation
- organising ideas
- conversations
- being part of a community
- As a side effect: writing, communication, search and technology skills
Found this article from Jay Cross through Lilia Efimova’s weblog and her very iformative post on “Learning: communities vs. courses”
I wish I had more time right now to do a deep dive into this stuff, because it really touches many issues I am interested in. Lilia is making a difference between novice learners and advanced learning. I would also differ what is to be learned individually or in groups. In other words: How well is the problem defined that is supposed to facilitate learning. With ill-defined problems there is much need for the social side of learning, because everyone can (and needs to) reassure assumptions by communicating with other members of the learing group.
“Scott puts together an ace matrix of some uses of blogs in education…” [James Farmer's Radio Weblog]
