Monthly Archives: July 2004

Weblogs and propaganda

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 5, 2004
Mark Bernstein quotes a question by Karin Tzschenktke from the BlogTalk press conference: How do we keep weblogs from becoming merely a channel of propaganda? Mark thinks this is an interesting question but answers by speculating about intrinsic motivations of weblog authors, that fundamentally are against propaganda and that the attention economy will filter most [...]
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Facetop video conferencing

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 4, 2004
Now that’s a nifty idea for video conferencing: The video conferencing partner blended semi-transparent over the shared desktop like a reflection on the screen.
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Temporal comments

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 2, 2004
Dave Winer suggests to solve the comment fraud problem by adding expiration dates to comments: Here’s a free idea I had the other day while cleaning up a spewage of comment spam. What if comments, by default, were deleted after 24 hours? What if the owner of the site had to check a box in [...]
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Bootstrapping with Tinderbox and Zope

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 1, 2004
I am bootstrapping: The start page of my weblog now renders through a homemade skinning system based on Zope and Page Templates. This means I do not design this pages with the template files Tinderbox uses for the HTML export. For example here is the template of the current start page: There is still a [...]
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WorldKit

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 1, 2004
I haven’t seen this application before: WorldKit WorldKit is an easy to use and highly flexible mapping application for the Web. It’s a Flash based app, configured entirely by XML, data fed by RSS, and requires no programming or extra software. It’s in the style of World as a Blog, with many more features: customizable [...]
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