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Trudging through the surge of commentary in the blogosphere following the elections, Kellan Elliott-McCrea‘s post jumped out at me. He wrote: (4Q2) There is a political theory that says that people who disagree with you aren’t fundamentally bad people, but misguided, or perhaps coming from different backgrounds. Having just spent a couple of hours [...]
Gerry Gleason, who has done a ton of work for PurpleWiki recently, and I have had an ongoing discussion about when to use base classes in Perl. The reason the question comes up at all is that Perl base classes do not behave the way base classes do in “real” object-oriented languages. Because Perl does [...]
I spent some time today with Gerry Gleason, who was in town for the weekend. I was telling him about a Coding Sprint Blue Oxen was planning, and he asked what those were. When I explained them to him, he said, “Oh, we used to do those for NFS. We called them Connectivity Parties.” Back [...]
Jamie Dinkelacker and I had a very stimulating conversation about all things collaboration and Doug Engelbart last night. Something he said about the IETF reminded me of something. If you check out IETF RFC 2 (circa 1969), you’ll notice alphanumeric references in front of each paragraph. Those are equivalent to what we call hierarchical identifiers [...]
Lisa Piazza pointed me to the WikiPrayer, which she discovered in an article on Wikis in Educause Review: (2S6) Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, The courage to edit the pages I can, And the wisdom to know the difference (2S7)
Fen Labalme has a diagram that he often shows people and that he recently put on the Web. It shows three different answers to the question, “What is the software lifecycle?” — one from a new CS grad, one from a senior programmer, and one from an experienced software architect. (2S5)
Gerry Gleason taught me a new word today: TARDIS, which stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. It was used in Doctor Who for time and space travel. It looks like a phone booth on the outside, but it’s got infinite space on the inside. It sounded to me like infinite closet space, a [...]
Emy Tseng invited me and about 10 others to join her at the Community Technology Foundation in San Francisco for a brown bag discussion of e-advocacy, especially relating to underserved communities. The folks I meet through Emy are always interesting, and I especially appreciated the ethnic diversity of those attending this meeting. I don’t get [...]
Notable talks and comments at last Friday’s sessions at the Online Community Summit: (2F4) Soren Kaplan described iCohere’s work with World Vision, a billion dollar nonprofit with 20,000 employees worldwide. There was an online collaborative process leading up to a conference, using iCohere‘s software. (2F5) Dave DeForest discussed the online communities at the [...]
Zack Rosen, Zephyr Teachout, Nicco Mele, key contributors to Howard Dean‘s presidential campaign, spoke about their online efforts last Thursday at the Online Community Summit. Some key points: (2EP) As Dean volunteers started using MeetUp regularly, the campaign started hosting regular conference calls with MeetUp leaders as a way of disseminating information through its [...]
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