Prof. Dipl.-Des. Oliver Wrede

Author: Oliver Wrede

  • Living without Microsoft

    A resource I hoped to find one day — and here it is.

  • Aggregated comments

    Paolo Valdemarin on better weblog comments: “What I would like to see is a comment window which looks exactly like current ones (i.e. you can read the whole thread without having to click on any link), but where the content is actually syndicated from the weblogs of each comment’s author.”

  • Shared vision

    Bill Clinton: “When good people, with great energy, have shared vision, all the rest works out.”

  • PyObjC

    “I tried out PyObj-C last night. PyObjC is a language binding/module that lets you use Python with Cocoa – somewhat like how AppleScript Studio lets you use AppleScript to write your Cocoa program.Except PyObjC makes AppleScript Studio look like Apple took the worst bits of VisualBasic, layed a verbose language on top of it, and…

  • Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data Emergence

    “Any Web site should become nothing more than a set of raw data feeds while knowledge workers would be provided with a personal software tool that would allow to: 1) maintain a database of personal information. 2) selectively share that data with anybody I choose. 3) autodiscover new sources of content. 4) completely control how…

  • Network Beacon

    Maybe useful to some: Network Beacon is a Mac OS X application that enables you to publish services on a computer or to serve as a proxy for services on other computers or devices. Network Beacon is distributed as freeware.

  • Windows UI critics

    Paul Thurrott runs a site that discusses Windows UI (esp. XP and Longhorn): “Now, because I present this information, I’m somehow labeled a Microsoft lover and/or an Apple basher. That’s silly. But Apple has done very little to make its UI better per se, beyond simple enhancements to what is, again, a classic desktop OS.…

  • Technorati growth statistics

    “Allow me to give you some growth statistics: One year ago, when I started Technorati on a single server in my basement, we were adding between 2,000-3,000 new weblogs each day, not counting the people who were updating sites we were already tracking. In March of this year, when we switched over to a 5…

  • Manila updates

    Jake Savin is implementing FTP rendering for Manila: “Parts of the code for this feature have been done for a little while now, but a few pieces had been missing, most notably the writing of your site’s RSS feed to the static server.” Rendering a site via FTP has been working with Alan Germans FTP…

  • Personal use of corporate computers is good

    Found via Lilia Efimova: “Personal web usage in workplace offers benefits for employees, employers, new book concludes [via Judith Meskill]: websurfing for personal reasons during work hours results in “better time management, reduction in stress, adding to skill sets, and helping to achieve a balance between work and personal life”.Games at work may be good…

  • Structuring elements in knowledge creation processes for classes

    Spike Hall describes some structuring elements in knowledge creation efforts in classes: Formal Debate Each participant committed to active participation with a reward for doing so. Moral Dimension of Student Product: Students were assigned to an advisory committee advising a business on the negative impact of business activity on public health. Student activity within advisory…

  • Designers at Microsoft

    Robert Scoble: Are you really ready to know how Microsoft develops software for Longhorn? It’s simple: the graphic designers are now in charge.[…]Now, we don’t call them that. On the team I’m a part of we call them “Program Designers.” The title really hides what they do and how important they are.The program designer I…

  • Why presidential candidate weblogs aren’t working

    Dave Winer figured out that weblogs of presidential candidates don’t work. Dave Winer: Yesterday I was interviewed about presidential weblogs.Got me thinking. I keep reading the candidate weblogs, waiting to be inspired, or even interested. So far the only one worth pointing to, imho, is the DNC weblog. It’s the only one that’s engaged, in…

  • Citation and influence: science versus the blogosphere

    Jon Udell: “The citation accounting that tracks the flow of influence in scientific disciplines looks a lot like the citation accounting that goes on in the blogosphere. But in truth, for many if not most scientific disciplines, that resemblance is superficial.” [Der Schockwellenreiter]

  • Andrew Grumets connects Radio to Movable Type

    This is what I love about the Userland stuff: it interoperates. Andrew Grumet is connecting Radio Userland with MovableType. Sleek.

  • Weblogs = enhanced community building?

    Andrew Grumet: “Weblogs, among other things, facilitate highly robust, amorphous, constantly changing, overlapping, individually filterable communities that are like nothing that has come before.”