I am currently too busy to blog. One of the projects I amtrying to get going is the “Intrazopista” project. We’re fed up with the campus Intranet systems available. Most of them are not easily extensible or customizable. We are working with Zope and other Python-based approaches to implement this. There is a lot to learn about the architecture to end up with a securre and scalable structure. Lots of information about all this on the IntraZopista weblog.
Monthly Archive for January, 2004
M C Morgan about weblogs and wikis:
“Blogs and wikis, because they are different spaces, manifest/take advantage of/engage different epistemic and rhetorical possibilities and serve different rhetorical and epistemic ends. They engage different rhetorics: one topical, carved from the inside out; the other chronological, staying on top of things.
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However, posting on a blog is easier than on a wiki in great part because you do not need to decide where to post: you post to the top, or in an already-defined category. On a wiki, one has to find a place to put the post, which costs cognative overhead.”
[via Schockwellenreiter]
“The most complete exploration of blogs in corporate environments I’ve seen: Blogging the Market: “How Weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations…But it’s not simply that organisations have forgotten how to speak and listen to their customers. They are afraid of doing so. They are petrified of letting go.” Works in every browser except IE (well, it works, but the formatting is messy). Don’t see that often!” [George Siemens (elearnspace)]
Prof. David K. Farkas has setup an interesting and valuable reading list for his Information Design class at the University of Washington.
One thing that wasn’t shown at the MacWorld Keynote is the Apple XGrid Technology Preview from the Advanced Computation Group with some sample code. Probably some of the applications are used in the G5 cluster in Virginia Tech.