Monthly Archives: April 2004

Blog styles and antagonisms

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 5, 2004
Jay Cross compares two blogging styles: journal and reference book. He suggests to further develop the weblog practice (and suggests his own blog as an practice example): The structure of most blogs accommodates their writers more than their readers. It’s time for bloggers to share their goals with their readers. Those goals should inform the [...]
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Between life and death: There are just three design principles

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 5, 2004
Students love to ask this question: “Is there any common strategy to design?”. Then I usually reply: “Yes, clearly there are three simple common strategies!”. They are: Creating order from chaos Creating chaos from order Copy from the best examples Information designers usually have to create order from chaos. Information overload does not mean “too [...]
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Follow up on Social Computing meeting

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 3, 2004
Kevin Shofield posts a follow-up of the social computing conference at Microsoft Research: There were many good parts, but my favorite was a breakout group on the second afternoon specifically focused on discussing priorities for the research agenda. The top six areas we came up with: The video recordings of the conference are said to [...]
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Progress on site

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 3, 2004
I have been playing around with Tinderbox to manage this site for quite some time now. I am bumping into a homemade problem from time to time: I am publishing to a ZOPE server — the pages are stored as Zope Page Templates. While this gives me a lot of options (that I do not [...]
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Tinderbox to database publishing?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 3, 2004
Right now I set up this weblog to be rendered on my laptop and upstreamed to the server with normal HTML pages. This somehow put the burden of organizing the site on Tinderbox. But somehow I get interested in the idea to let the server care for the public face of my content and rather [...]
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e-Learning centre

By Oliver Wrede | Published: April 1, 2004
George Siemens (who doesn’t state his name anywhere on his blog) discovered a new e-Learning resource that is editerd by Jane Knight: e-Learning Centre is the most complete elearning resource I’ve encountered. The site goes on and on and on…There news page with an RSS feed. [via elearnspace]
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