Wired.com has published a list of books about social networking theory and how the Dean campaign translates the concepts. It is part of the article “How the Internet Invented Howard Dean” from Gary Wolf.
Monthly Archive for December, 2003
Someone did a collection of tools that combine Wikis with Weblogs. I am very interested in this approach. But I have not yet seen a site that really shows how this can be superior to a seperate Wiki plus Weblog. A weblog often contains a lot of commentary (or quotes) while WiKis are more about timeless encyclopedic collections.
Socialtext seems to work this way. Unfortunatly I couldn’t figure out if this software works better with particular writing strategies applied. I suppose I need to set up an experiment to figure that out.
A guy called Karl Anderson wrote a Zope software called BlogFace and integrated this with ZWiki.
Here is a guy thinking about using COREBlog in a school setting.
“All the buzz about weblogs is really about one thing: Making publishing to the web as easy as writing an email. A blog is a web page, or a portion of a web page, usually made up of short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically (usually reverse chronologically). The posts can be text, graphics, audio, or any combination of the three.””
Paolo Valdemarin on better weblog comments: “What I would like to see is a comment window which looks exactly like current ones (i.e. you can read the whole thread without having to click on any link), but where the content is actually syndicated from the weblogs of each comment’s author.”
Bill Clinton: “When good people, with great energy, have shared vision, all the rest works out.”
“I tried out PyObj-C last night. PyObjC is a language binding/module that lets you use Python with Cocoa – somewhat like how AppleScript Studio lets you use AppleScript to write your Cocoa program.
Except PyObjC makes AppleScript Studio look like Apple took the worst bits of VisualBasic, layed a verbose language on top of it, and called it good.
I’m so very impressed by PyObjC. I used InterfaceBuilder just like I would if I was writing a Cocoa application in Objective-C – defining subclasses, instantiating them, linking them up to actions – and your Python classes are called just as if they had been Objective-C classes.”
[via Der Schockwellenreiter]
“Any Web site should become nothing more than a set of raw data feeds while knowledge workers would be provided with a personal software tool that would allow to: 1) maintain a database of personal information. 2) selectively share that data with anybody I choose. 3) autodiscover new sources of content. 4) completely control how I view and interact with the content sources I’ve chosen. This is the right approach.” In other words, “Content providers should not be trying to guess how I want to interact with their information. They should just be providing the information. I will customize my experience as I see fit.”
Maybe useful to some: Network Beacon is a Mac OS X application that enables you to publish services on a computer or to serve as a proxy for services on other computers or devices. Network Beacon is distributed as freeware.