details of a global brain
Interactive Fiction for the 21st Century
… and what text adventures from the past have in common with todays games. [via Hinterding] Found a link to “Interactive Fiction Archive” in that article as well.
EdMedia Proposal accepted
As Sebastian Fiedler has announced, our joined proposal has been accepted for EdMedia 2004.
Constructivism, Education, Science, and Technology
Moses A. Boudourides: “The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of the various streams of constructivism in studies of education, society, science and technology. It is intended to present a number of answers to the question (what really is constructivism?) in the context of various disciplines from the humanities and the…
Simplicity
One of the seminars I had in mind for quite some time is starting this semester: »Simplicity«. Conceptually it is a sequel to the “Density” seminar that went very well and was insightful for students and me as well. Like “Density” the new seminar is dealing with a particular but general design strategy that seems…
Firefox!
Firefox 0.8 (alias Firebird) is the best Mozilla browser I’ve used so far. The new MacOS X skin is very Safari like and lean. The application loads and renders the pages very quick. It also uses a little bit less RAM than Safari something that pulled me away from Mozilla before.
Ecto 1.0 released
ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX (we also have a Windows version in the works), supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned…
Personal something management
“I tried to connect together bits and pieces from my reading and thinking about knowledge work for the paper I’m writing. Comments are welcome.See also: earlier thinking about this model in Knowledge worker spaces and other posts on knowledge networker.” [Lilia Efimova (mathemagenic)]
Why Bush must go to war
Almost a year ago I posted a link to an interview with Eugen Drewermann about the psychology of Bush. Somebody pointed me to an inofficial english translation of some passages. Still worth a read.
Blogging lag…
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…
WikiAndBlog
M C Morgan about weblogs and wikis: “Blogs and wikis, because they are different spaces, manifest/take advantage of/engage different epistemic and rhetorical possibilities and serve different rhetorical and epistemic ends. They engage different rhetorics: one topical, carved from the inside out; the other chronological, staying on top of things.[…]However, posting on a blog is easier…
Blogging the Market
“The most complete exploration of blogs in corporate environments I’ve seen: Blogging the Market: “How Weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations…But it’s not simply that organisations have forgotten how to speak and listen to their customers. They are afraid of doing so. They are petrified of letting go.” Works in every browser except…
Information Design reading list
Prof. David K. Farkas has setup an interesting and valuable reading list for his Information Design class at the University of Washington.
One more thing…
One thing that wasn’t shown at the MacWorld Keynote is the Apple XGrid Technology Preview from the Advanced Computation Group with some sample code. Probably some of the applications are used in the G5 cluster in Virginia Tech.
The Howard Dean Reading List
Wired.com has published a list of books about social networking theory and how the Dean campaign translates the concepts. It is part of the article “How the Internet Invented Howard Dean” from Gary Wolf.
Wikis and Weblogs
Someone did a collection of tools that combine Wikis with Weblogs. I am very interested in this approach. But I have not yet seen a site that really shows how this can be superior to a seperate Wiki plus Weblog. A weblog often contains a lot of commentary (or quotes) while WiKis are more about…
Blogging for Business
Jason Fried from 37signals: “All the buzz about weblogs is really about one thing: Making publishing to the web as easy as writing an email. A blog is a web page, or a portion of a web page, usually made up of short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically (usually reverse chronologically). The posts…
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…
Got any book recommendations?