details of a global brain
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Redesign started
I just finished the first steps of redesigning this site in Tinderbox. There is a huge amount of things to look for. Many things need to be done in a particular way in Tinderbox. This does not necessarily mean it is harder than other tools – most of the time it is just different. Another…
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Technorati renewed
Technorati has a new interface – is it really new or did I miss the change? Unfortunatly it seems the database was recreated. All the references to my weblogs are lost.
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And the winner is … Tinderbox!
I decided to do my new weblog with Tinderbox. But I miss a scriptability of Tinderbox, but for now it is the best tool I found to manage notes. It still has a lot of bugs — especially when it comes to HTML export — and it is not very intuitive to design a weblog…
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Sitepoint Tinderbox review
Nathan Matias has reviewed Tinderbox and gives it an almost perfect score.
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Pentagon: climate change will destroy us
Guardian Unlimited: “You’ve got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you’ve got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars.” And: Key findings of the Pentagon. Reading the key findings I feel the Pentagon has hired some freaks that want to draw a scenario that would keep the defence…
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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.
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EdMedia Proposal accepted
As Sebastian Fiedler has announced, our joined proposal has been accepted for EdMedia 2004.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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)]
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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