Gregory Aharonian reported in the February 27 issue of his PATNEWS newsletter an interesting article in the Feedback section of the February 28 issue of New Scientist. It describes how JVC’s engineers decided to soak birch wood in sake “to make it pliant enough to use as a loudspeaker cone.” According to its inventor, Satoshi [...]
First, a confession. I don’t always read my email carefully. A few weeks ago, I received an announcement for last week’s PARC Forum, a periodic lecture series that I often attend. I skimmed the announcement, and two words immediately jumped out at me: “Lakoff” and “identity.” That was enough for me to put it in [...]
I’ve been following Alex Gault‘s blog for several months now. It is an outstanding source of articles and information on collaboration and Knowledge Management. Earlier this past week, I learned that Alex had organized the program for last Tuesday’s Emergent Learning Forum meeting, “Social Networking, Relationship Capital and Expertise Management.” Both the speaker list (Spoke [...]
XML/XSL guru, Ken Holman, will be teaching his XSLT and XSL-FO courses in Burlingame, California at the San Francisco Airport Embassy Suites the week of March 22, 2004. Ken is not only a well-established guru, he is an excellent teacher and a great guy. Purple would still be on my To Do list had it [...]
A good friend of mine recently launched Canine Cliques, an e-store for luxury dog items. If you love dogs or know someone who does, please take a look and spread the word! (12L)
John Stafford, an old college buddy, responded to my entry on lurkers. (Welcome to the blogosphere, John!) Jack Vinson also responded, and he included links to some other recent posts on the subject. (12C)
Sam Ruby posted his slides for his Emerging Technologies talk. He relates his experience with the Atom (originally “Pie,” then “Echo”) Wiki and describes several patterns for collaborating effectively using Wikis and mailing lists. Unfortunately, I didn’t attend the talk myself, but the slides are very good. Thanks to Eric Sinclair for spotting this. [...]
The Purple Numbers meme continues to spread, this time thanks to Cory Doctorow, Trevor Smith, and our own Matt Schneider. Trevor created a version of Cory’s new book, Eastern Standard Tribe, with Purple Numbers using Matt’s PurpleSlurple. (As announced on Cory’s blog. Spotted by John Sechrest.) (123)
The PurpleWiki community has been rumbling recently, thanks largely to the contributions of two members of the Canonical Hackers, Jason Cook and Matthew O’Connor. Jason wrote perplog, an IRC logger that supports Purple Numbers and Transclusions. Matthew hacked a PurpleWiki node manager, then started adding and fixing other stuff, including an XML-RPC interface. Additionally, John [...]
The Compendium Dialogue Mapping tool came up in conversation on the Collaboration Collaboratory. In the course of the discussion, I explained that I use Compendium for three purposes: (XW) Personal note-taking. (XX) Taking shared notes during meetings. (XY) Facilitating face-to-face group meetings. (XZ) John Sechrest asked in response: (Y0) I [...]
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