Category: Contemplation

I am currently too busy to blog. One of the projects I amtrying to get going is the “Intrazopista” project. We’re fed up with the campus Intranet systems available. Most of them are not easily extensible or customizable. We are working with Zope and other Python-based approaches to implement this. There is a lot to…

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

Today a new toy has arrived for me (with some add-ons). I plan to use iSight and iChat AV to join students in the lab when I am away.

Looking at the list of attendees of BloggerCon that supposedly international conference appears to be a pretty national.

If anyone wondered why there wasn’t any update the last three weeks: I was taking a timeout in Greece. Regular updates ahead…

Von Alan Levine, Brian Lab und D’Arcy Norman: »Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations via…

Available at the Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington U.S.A.

»Here’s a site that lets the world vote in the next US presidential election.Since the world’s vote counts about as much as that of a confused elderly Jewish lady in Dade County, Florida, it’s too bad the site is only publishing the results afterthe US polls close when it can have absolutely no effect.« [Joho…

After complaining today about developers that reinvent the wheel and not caring enough about cooperation on standards Davw Winer pulled his long running weblog »ScriptingNews« offline. Winer: »I’m not willing to go on without more support« I was reading scripting.com daily – sometimes several times a day. 90% of it was not so interesting to me…

»Another entry in the fusion of the BBS and Blog patterns, JournURL, an attempt to create a CCMS (that’d be Community Content Management System to you and me.) The focus here is improving on the model of simple comments for supporting real discussions in weblogs: “Robust threaded and linear discussion that encourages extended conversations and…

Lufthansa seems to be the first Airline worldwide offering a broadband access to the Internet (incl. wireless LAN) on all long range flights.

»Tom Coates’ delightfully thoughtful piece Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere differentiates weblogs and discussion boards. He illustrates how weblogs generate better discussion by helping hide bad content and making it easier to find the good content.« [Corante: Social Software]

Ulrich van Stipriaan took this photo at the beginning of my presentation. I was the last presenter of the day and I thought people would appreciate a small body movement. Ulrich has more photos here. Sebastian Fiedler has photos here.

This is a collection of personal notes about some people I met at the BlogTalk conference. This is NOT a report on the weblog conference as such. That will follow later on.

It is interesting to see how people can grasp the material that is now generated as a reflection to the BlogTalk event: Haiko Hebig collected some great quotes. There is an aggregation of all the BlogTalk weblogs from JJ Merelo.

This server had outages the last days always around midnight. I apologize about that – if you’re here by trying again: I really appreciate that!

Ethan is talking about the UC Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog. He is ginving some thoughts to topic weblogs. Authors of topic weblogs explore the topic more deeply and attract other people interested in the same topic. Somehow the course weblogs we do at the Aachen University of Applied Science are all topic weblogs. The “problem”…

Andrius is talking about »The Algebra of Copyright«. He is proposing a four-level model (PPT file) for determining the level of copyrights by the amount of parsing done with a work. I think you need to read his paper – I can’t summarize his thoughts here. It suppose it is a way to determine if…

Azeem Azhar is the host of the current panel and he is taking notes here. He has some other news for me on his blog: Matrix Reloaded is crap!

David made some good points about blogging as a kind of self-empowerment, multiple-sbujectivity and journalism actually blending into bloggery (or vice versa). David is blogging live here. And his presentation is here (as well as the others).