Monthly Archives: May 2005

Are weblogs different to forums?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: May 25, 2005
Peter Baumgartner and Leiff Pullich (after giving a presentation about weblogs in education) had a discussion with others at the Fernuniverstität Hagen about the differences between classical forums and weblogs for discussion: In several occasions we had no convincing argument why discussion via weblogs are different from news groups. The productive atmosphere today (oops: yesterday) [...]
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Location based services (update)

By Oliver Wrede | Published: May 24, 2005
A follow-up to yesterdays post: Tim Bruysten adds some context and links to an interesting project: Loopcity by Dietmar Offenhuber. Markus Neckar pointed me to the MacOS X menubar extra for Plazes by Martin Pittenauer. This makes it very easy to have the system announcing itself to the Plazes service (btw this is one of [...]
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Seminars in winter term 2005

By Oliver Wrede | Published: May 24, 2005
This semester I am feeling like thinking about the next seminars quite early. If plans do not change one of the next seminars will be called »Continuity«. The seminar will research flow theories, the nature of immersion and pre-concious decision making. Sounds strange though, but it’s going to be fun. I am still keeping the [...]
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Location based services

By Oliver Wrede | Published: May 22, 2005
Until now the topic of »location based services« has been more a theoretical discussion about geological references to online data. Now there are obvioulsy a number of developments (and some rumors) that try to create datasets with longitude/latitude metadata. First of all hardware: The problem if tagging information with geological locations could be solved by [...]
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DGTF documentaries

By Oliver Wrede | Published: May 13, 2005
There have been three convents of the German Association of Design Theory and Research (DGTF). These are available online now. There are audio recordings of the latest convent available.
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Tinderbox Syndicate

By Oliver Wrede | Published: May 13, 2005
Here is someone re-syndicating a number of weblogs created with Tinderbox. He seems to simply aggregate the news item and republish these.
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