Gbenga Ajilore, one of my oldest friends in the world and an economics professor at the University of Toledo, was quoted on the Wal-Mart versus Meijer battles. For you non-Midwesterners, if you’ve never been to Meijer, it’s a sight to behold — acres of everything you might possibly need, open 24 hours a day. Just [...]
Allen Gunn forwarded this call for help from Lee Thorn, chair of the Jhai Foundation, which is doing great work in developing countries and rural communities and which instigated the Jhai PC and Communication System. (Lee Felsenstein, someone I’ve admired for a long time, is actively involved.) They’re currently seeking: (INU) Software development volunteers [...]
Andy Dale and his team at ooTao have written the first implementation of the XDI data sharing protocol, which Identity Commons will use for profile sharing. As important a step that this is, Andy’s best contribution to date, in my opinion, has been his excellent “Introduction to XDI” PowerPoint slides, which he recently updated. [...]
Three MIT graduate students — Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo, and Maxwell Krohn — wrote a computer program to autogenerate a “research paper” entitled, “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy.” They submitted it to the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI). It was accepted. (IML) The CNN [...]
When I worked at Dr. Dobb’s Journal, I did the software development and IT conference circuit regularly. Most of those conferences were incredibly boring, but they were rarely a waste of time. What made them compelling were the attendees. (IM0) I’ve been spoiled in the six years since. Not only have the conferences I’ve [...]
I’ll be giving a talk on Tuesday — “Collaboration: What the Heck Does It Mean?” — at the Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Yes, the title is wrong in the program.) It’s a more refined version of the talk I gave late last year for the [...]
I’ve been following Nancy White‘s excellent blog for many moons now. She writes great things about Online Communities and collaboration, and her blog is my most heavily bookmarked on Bloglines. So it seems a bit strange that the first item of hers I’m going to mention here is this very funny reference to Purple Peeper-Eaters. [...]
