BBC News producer Stuart Hughes will be
BBC News producer Stuart Hughes will be calling into the warblogging panel today.
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Entries for April 2003
The finest in geek humor
Scene: The Open Source Cafe.
Man: Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup.
Waiter: Sir, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Conferences are great for dorky jokes that no one should ever utter and under no circumstances should post to their weblog.
Cory’s notes on wireless routing and multi-hop architectures
Cory’s notes on wireless routing and multi-hop architectures.
My Trip to Liberty City
My Trip to Liberty City. awesome narrated video of someone navigating the virtual world of Grand Theft Auto as a tourist
Matt Webb’s notes on the Gonzo Collaborative
Matt Webb’s notes on the Gonzo Collaborative Mapping the Semantic Web.
Prelinger Archives is a collection of movies
Prelinger Archives is a collection of movies that you can download and use for free.
Internet Bookmobile at Etech
Brewster Kahle is currently speaking about the Internet Bookmobile. It’ll be downstairs after the session and you can get your own book printed. Donations for the continued operation of the Bookmobile are appreciated.
Update: My photos of the Bookmobile. (Journalists and others: feel free to use the photos with attribution. Thanks!)
Starving the ants
During his talk on Biological Computing, Eric Bonabeau mentioned that to run experiments with ants, they need to starve them to get them to do anything. There’s a push to starve the ants, as it were, with the DMCA, the Broadcast Flag, Patriot II, plugging the analog hole and the like. At some point, this is going to result in some pretty hungry ants. What happens then?
Amazon + news headlines = a book list based on current events
Amazon + news headlines = a book list based on current events.
Maceij’s semantic blog search engine
Maceij’s semantic blog search engine. uses 1-year old data but it works
Bottom up conference
You can tell this conference is bottom up rather than top down when digerati Esther Dyson and Howard Rheingold are sitting on the floor in the packed O’Reilly presentation. Could you imagine Alan Greenspan sitting on the floor of some financial conference?
Collective note-taking with Hydra
Hydra lets people work on documents together via Rendezvous. Right now, 5-7 people are taking collaborative notes in the same document on Eric Bonabeau’s talk on Biological Computing. With the permission of the other participants, I’ll either post or link to the resulting document here. (Ok, here are the notes we (there were 7-10 of us) took during the session. Oh, and here it is with Hydra’s color coding intact.)
Update: there’s now a chat as well…using Hydra as a ad hoc chat system. Hydra just connects with a place for people to plop in text. Very little imposed heirarchy which makes it very flexible (what Howard was talking about this morning in urging developers to “create tools that amplify collective action”).
Some screenshots of New Blogger
Some screenshots of New Blogger. is it ok to be underwhelmed by this?
Digitalconsumer.org is protecting fair-use rights in the digital world
Digitalconsumer.org is protecting fair-use rights in the digital world.
Howard Rheingold on software and action
Some key points from Howard Rheingold’s keynote on Technology Innovation and Collective Action:
- Developers: create tools that amplify collective action
- Are we going to be consumers (passive) or users (active)?
- We need to fight to remain users.
- Reputation systems are crucial.
- In building software, learn from the past and buildin room for future innovators
- The design of defaults is important. (The idea that simple is very usable, but make it hackable for power users and developers.)
Extensive notes on the 1st amendment of the US Constitution
Extensive notes on the 1st amendment of the US Constitution.
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