Stewart + Caterina.

More visualizing Usenet groups.

Visualization of activity in Usenet.

IndyJunior Flash Mapping Module.

Tim Bray outlines some problems with RSS (

Tim Bray outlines some problems with RSS (RSS readers antisocial software?).

Treemaps of Usenet.

Cory’s notes on Dan’s Journalism 3.1b2 session.

London bloggers tube map.

A map of NYC bloggers.

City: Rediscovering the Center.

Tom Coates’ PowerPoint presentation on UpMyStreet.

The emperor has new clothes

The current buzz around social software reminds me of the excitement around web services last year. Another similarity: both are new names for old practices. Web services have been around for almost as long as the web, and social software has been around for awhile as well. The new monikers allow people to talk about old concepts as if they were new, a useful practice in breaking old bad habits…as long as we don’t forget the past too much. (A la Alan Kay’s presentation this morning, particularly Douglas Englebart’s demonstration of the mouse and video-collaboration.)

Shirky groupie.

Etech photos from Thursday morning.

Cory on Shirky’s keynote.

GeoURL.

More Like This From Others Movable Type plug-in.

Ontology and semantic indexing breakfast chat.

Our fearless leader

Rael Dornfest, cult leader and cloner, is not a man to be crossed. I saw him just now, pounding on some hapless nerd near the coffee pots after the guy suggested that Clay is our new leader. You’d think an ambassador to aliens from the other side of the galaxy would be a little more relaxed.

Map of embedded journalists in Iraq.

An Afghan-American speaks, Tamim Ansary.

Metadata is metacrap.

Joe Nacchio smacked down at PC Forum.

UpMyStreet.

Notes on Clay Shirky’s talk on the wiki.

Animated Necker Cube.

LambdaMOO Takes a New Direction.

Phil Gyford’s Pepys’ Diary.

Guardian’s blog on the cult of Etech.

Good Etech coverage on Weblogsky.

The Communitree BBS.

About the work of Wilfred Bion.

Webb’s notes on Alan Kay.

NetNewsWire.

Spring, an innovative desktop for people, places, and products.

More about TypePad in the Guardian.

Cory’s notes on Alan Kay’s talk.

Alan Kay on scalable group collaboration (Open Croquet)

Alan Kay showed us a pre-alpha demo of some software (called Open Croquet, I think) written in Smalltalk and Squeak. The collective collaboration of Hydra + Star Trek’s Holodeck + The Matrix. It looks like what he’s done is create an OS based not on applications but on objects, which makes a bit of emergence possible (which, if you’re drinking the Kool-Aid here at Etech, is a good thing). Quite impressive.

RealVideo of Alan Kay’s The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet presentation at a conf in 1998.

Get your smart on: Matt Webb’s Etech notes.

We write weblogging tools because we believe in the medium.

David Reed is the / in TCP/IP. - Alan Kay

Sutherland’s thesis about Sketchpad.

Sketchpad by Ivan Sutherland.

Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo of the mouse and about 50 different other things.

Seymour Papert, inventor of the Logo programming language for kids.

Squeak is Alan Kay’s programming/operating system.

Thursday happenings @ Etech

Looking ahead to what’s on tap for today at Etech, there’s Alan Kay — inventor of the Smalltalk programming language — talking about why the computer revolution hasn’t happened yet, Macromedia’s Kevin Lynch on personal interfaces, the all-powerful Clay Shirky (all hail Clay, for he is our God!) talks about the group getting in its own way in social software, Coates on UpMyStreet, Gillmor on Journalism 3.0, warblogging, Meg on weblogs and a little RSS controversy, Kapor on Chandler, Data Mining Social Cyberspaces, Mr. Stewart Butterfield on how games and social software are the same ass thing (well, maybe not exactly), nanotech, and social software in school reform. Whew!

Not to mention the BOFs: user experience and etech, a LazyWeb free-for-all, and web geoblogging. If your brain is not full by the end of the day, you’re not trying hard enough.

Stuart Hughes’ weblog.

BBC News producer Stuart Hughes will be calling into the warblogging panel today.