Author: Oliver Wrede
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Weblog names
I sometimes stumble across a weblog that has a wonderful name. Do you know a weblog with a cool or funny name? Help me to collect these here.
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Weblogs and propaganda
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
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
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
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
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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Project Looking Glass fallacy
Sun released a public version of their 3D desktop Project Looking Glass. There is a demo video with Jonathan Schwartz (weblog), Executive Vice President of Software at Sun Microsystems, who claims: The dominant company that provides the desktop doesn’t want to show you that [innovation on the desktop] because they do not want to do…
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OS X Tiger preview
I just had a look at the WWDC 2004 keynote (did I see Francis Ford Coppola in the audience a couple of times?). The upcoming release vo Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger comes with a collection of features that in general appear to be focussing on productivity and efficiency. Spotlight – the instant searching –…
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EdMedia blog panel
Adrian Miles jotted down his experience of the blog panel at EdMedia 2004 in Lugano. He concludes: Key outcomes: a high level of interest in the possible use of blogs, confusion about how or why you would use them, questions and problems about how to encourage, foster and nurture their use with disinterested or resistant…
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Tinderbox improvements
Eastgate does inofficially keep development versions of Tinderbox on their public ftp server. The latest release is 2.2.1 d7. Tinderbox users that dare to run on a development release may find some very useful enhancements (like better map printing). Finally images won’t be rewritten at each HTML export. These images were uploaded anytime I synchronized…
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How thinking goes wrong
Michael Shermer about twenty-five fallacies that lead us to believe weird things. What a great document about scientific thinking.
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Platform vs. Strategy in E-Learning
I just heard an e-learning expert demonizing the platform discussion (e.g. “Which Learning Management System is best?”) while at the same time suggesting to evaluate Microsoft e-learning products. Then I found this other quote someone called Björn from a discussion thread on Peter Baumgartners weblog: … every system claimed to the-one. I find that boring…
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Wiki added!
So I managed to add a wiki space to this site. It will take some time to grow. You’re invited to add yourself to a list of guests or suggest topics.
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Ruby on rails
It is actually the first time that I blog about Ruby. I had a look at Ruby on Rails – a web application framework based on the Ruby scripting language. Ruby appears to be a very well designed scripting language (see here) for anyone who loves “quick but not dirty” programming. Ruby is very successful…
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Realtime Wiki
I am playing around with Wiki tools. Because Zope is the platform on my current development agenda I looked into ZWiki. It offers full Plone integration and support for the ExternalEditor Extension (which means that I can click on small pens to edit pages inside my favorite text editor instead of a textarea inside the…
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Design + Knowledge Destruction
Rosan Chow reflects on work by Alain Findeli. She wants to help characterize design activity by projecting a fringe view on the relation between design activity and knowledge, scientific or non-scientific. To me, the essence of design activity lies in the ontological realm and how it affects the way we are that is different than…