Category: Contemplation

I am at BlogTalk. There is a special page with two webloggers blogging live. Jörg Kantel is blogging as well. That’s what »getting connected« means to me: Yesterday eveninig I had some very interesting chats with Andrius Kulikauskas. He was talking about his open laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers. It’s called »Minciu Sodas«.…

Paolo Valdemarin seems to create an interesting new art that could compete with the mirror-shot idea: How much recursion can you catch in a photo (displayed on a screen). (Simone Bettini joins) There are some more cool photos here.

I have put some first photos here.

The realvideos of the Wizard of OS conference are offline or buried in docuverse somehow. This is just an example why links should be designed wisely (and -by the way- it is totally unacceptable that Typo3 does not yet allow to define precise URLs). I can only quote Brent’s Law of CMS URLs: “The more…

Mark Pilgrim has compiled extensive manuals about how to make you HTML pages more accessible. Grouped by publishing tools, disabilities, editors and browsers.

»WikiLog: an attempt to synthesize the best aspects of WikiWikis and WebLogs.Yes, weblogs can be done by hand on any wiki. The difference is that automating it makes it more powerful, and conceptually easier for people to work with.«

According to this german article the theoretical maximal penalty for Microsofts latest security hole in Passport would be 2.2 trillion dollars ($11,000 for each of the 200 million accounts).

Jay Cross on informal learning: »At work we learn more in the breakroom than in the classroom. We discover how to do our jobs through informal learning — observing others, asking the person in the next cubicle, calling the help desk, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know. Formal learning – classes and…

»From a trusted correspondent, talking with a contact who works at the Netscape part of AOL/Time Warner. “He said they had decided that weblogs are the next killer app, and that most of the work at the Mountain View office was going into building a weblog component for AOL. He also mentioned that about 400…

Jake Savin posted a mockup of a possible editing form to post news items in a Manila site. Lot’s of new things there: trackback, optional comments, multiple departments, item summary for homepage and/or rss feed. If only this could be made look much simpler.

John Seely Brown talks about social learning. Long text with slides.

Dave Winer wrote a little script for Radio Userland that uploads a folder with JPEG images to a Manila site.

Tiernan Ray: Why Blogs Haven’t Stormed the Business World. [Scripting News]

Is it really ten years? Yes it is. So much happened and I almost forgot the times when there was no Internet at all. Most of the time I was wired and I have seen all the browsers come and go, learned HTML from 1.0 (and stopped caring about new formats when the cost/profit ratio…

I just checked the software update control panel and found the 10.2.5 update to MacOS X is out from Apple.

This article is suggesting Apple could probably introduce a G5 processor on the next Worldwide Developer Conference. The G5 chip is a 64 Bit processor and it will offer “performance that will be in the upper reaches of any CPU”. An because AMD does not control the OS their CPUs are running Apple might be…

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…

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…

Yesterday I had the first chance to examine the 12″ inch PowerBook. It is really very well designed. There are little glitches in the production of it (small gaps that are wider on one side than on the other), but generally it feels much more solid than my 1st generation 15″ inch PowerBook. I wonder…

»What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else« (by Doc Searls and David Weinberger) I don’t know for how long this document is online, but I just found out about it. Weinberger is the author of »Small pieces losely joined« and he will be a keynote speaker on the Blogtalk…