January 30, 2004 » Happy Birthday, Doug!
Doug Engelbart turns a young 79 today. (W5)
January 2004 Archive
January 27, 2004 » Sheldon Chang’s SocialWave Blog
Sheldon Chang, a member of our Collaboration Collaboratory, recently announced a new blog: SocialWeaver: Building Real Communities Online. Sheldon has a startup called SocialWave that builds online communities as a way to strengthen communities within neighborhoods. He’s thought quite a bit about community-building in general and has a lot of interesting things to say, which [...]
January 26, 2004 » ChiliPLoP 2004 Hot Topic
My proposal for a Hot Topic on patterns of collaboration and High-Performance Communities at ChiliPLoP 2004 has been accepted. We’ll be identifying and discussing these patterns and creating and refining the language, building on previous work by Blue Oxen Associates and others. (VD) PLoP (“Pattern Languages of Programming”) is a workshop devoted to reviewing [...]
January 23, 2004 » Tools As Place
When we first launched the Blue Oxen Collaboration Collaboratory, a few people expressed some confusion about the tools. Specifically, one person said, “I’m not sure whether I should post ideas to the mailing list or the Wiki.” (UG) Someone I’m working with recently asked a similar question. Our project has a group blog and [...]
January 23, 2004 » Huberman on Communities of Practices and Forecasting
Bernardo Huberman, the director of the Information Dynamics Lab at Hewlett-Packard, gave a talk at Stanford on January 8 entitled, “Information Dynamics in the Networked World.” Huberman covered two somewhat disparate topics: Automatically discovering Communities Of Practice by analyzing email Social Networks, and a general forecasting technique based on markets. (TX) The first part [...]
January 6, 2004 » “Low-Focus Thought” in Knowledge Management Systems
David Gelertner wrote an essay called “The Logic of Dreams” (a chapter in Denning and Metcalfe’s Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing), where he discussed the creative process. Gelertner suggested that there are two kinds of thought: high-focus (analytical, logical) and low-focus (free association). The former we understand well (according to the Gelertner); [...]
January 6, 2004 » Blog Backlinks Enabled on PurpleWiki
If you view the Backlinks on any of my Wiki pages, it will now display Backlinks from both the Wiki and also this blog. For example, if you view the backlinks to “DougEngelbart”, you will see a list of all of my Wiki pages and blog entries that mention Doug. (SG) The beautiful thing [...]
January 2, 2004 » Battling Group Think
Geoff Cohen asked: (PM) As we build different kinds of groupware/social software, what’s the role of consensus, and how powerful is it? Does software make reaching consensus easier or harder? For purely message-driven systems like email lists or USENET, consensus is much harder to reach than it would be in a real-life meeting. But [...]
