Author: Oliver Wrede

  • Haystack

    »Our research seeks to bring modern information management and retrieval technologies to the average computer user in order to make computers a more compelling place for users to interact with their information.« According to Katharina, Haystack is a kind of »Google for the Desktop« with an own user interface to access the database. [feedme News]

  • Feed me

    Katharina Birkenbach started a seperate weblog documenting the process of their diploma work.

  • RSS Clients

    Tobias was asking about an RSS feed reader like NetNewsWire for Windows. I haven’t tested one myself, but there is a good list of available software for different platforms. I have heard someone using FeedReader. I think I also saw some positive comments about Syndirella. By the way: All our seminar sites offer their news…

  • Sebastian explicates

    Sebastian Fiedler is commenting my recent post about my problem convincing students to run personal weblogs. He comes up with a quote from the British psychologists Thomas & Harri-Augstein: In constructing and validating their views, people develop their own ‘personal myths’. We introduce this term to designate the ‘personal knowing’ that results from enduring long-term…

  • Dale Pike on Weblogs in education

    Dale Pike: »I’m giving a presentation entitled “Using Weblogs to Facilitate Collaboration” and the UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference today. See link for presentation materials.«

  • Sebasitian to Augsburg

    Sebastian Fiedler ist very active in the area of weblogs in education. He will be giving a course at the University of Augsburg: »The cool thing is that I can base the course on my PhD project. So, weblogs and personal Webpublishing will be an important ingredient…«

  • Changed approach

    I changed my strategy for advocating weblogs in my local educational setting: Each member of the group is supposed to run his own weblog and the group weblogs aggregate and form intersections. The immediate response from one student: »I don’t see a need for that.«. Why is it that some people see the immediate appeal…

  • Woon-Chul Jung

    The first weblog from a student of our product design department went online. I instantly subscribed his RSS-Feed with NetNewsWire. Looking forward to what is coming from there…

  • Publishing a project weblog

    John Udell: »A couple of years ago I predicted that Weblogs would emerge within the enterprise as a great way to manage project communication. I’m even more bullish on the concept today. If you’re managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect,…

  • IRAQWAR.RU

    The IRAQWAR.RU analytical center was created recently by a group of journalists and military experts from Russia to provide accurate and up-to-date news and analysis of the war against Iraq. The following is the English translation of the IRAQWAR.RU report based on the Russian military intelligence reports. This site posting reports that draws a different…

  • Practice to Decieve

    Joshua Micah Marshall: »Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks’ nightmare scenario – it’s their plan.«

  • Blogtalk

    It seems my proposal for the Blogtalk conference in Vienna has been accepted. Very good. Hopefully there will be WLAN available so that people in the audience can blog while attending the conference. Looking forward to it.

  • Step 3? – There is no step three…

    Skimming the news about ground battle of the »coalition of the unwilling« I more and more come to the conclusion that there is no real plan for Baghdad.

  • America’s Image Further Erodes

    People-Press.org: »Anti-war sentiment and disapproval of President Bush’s international policies continue to erode America’s image among the publics of its allies. U.S. favorability ratings have plummeted in the past six months in countries actively opposing war – France, Germany and Russia – as well as in countries that are part of the “coalition of the…

  • Misconceptions

    Lots of chatter going on about if the military strategy of the “house of cards” turns out to be right or wrong. What was wrong are the armchair so called “security advisors” that still don’t get why the »Ministery of Defense« is not called »Ministery of Offense«. Here is what Richard Perle said not too…

  • Reality & Real time

    I can receive MSNCB Europe and CNN Europe on my TV. Sometimes at nighttime there is FoxNews (which I don’t want to see at all). There has been talk about if the »embedded journalists« make sense. I recognized it when I was in New York on 9/11: the majority of the US public does take…