The first Collaborative Technologies Conference (CTC 2005) will be held next month, June 19-24, at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York. The lineup looks great, and I’m not just saying that because I’m on the advisory board. (ISE) I’ll be giving a talk entitled, “Patterns of High-Performance Collaboration (or How to Collaborate [...]
I’m about to wax poetic about Korean barbecue, but first, I need to clear up a misconception. There is much, much more to Korean food than barbecue. The reason there are so many Korean barbecue restaurants in this country is that Americans, not Koreans, are obsessed with meat. (IS0) Those of you who have [...]
When not saving the world, Allen Gunn is working to save that beautiful ballpark by the Bay from the naming whims of flaky telephone companies. He and several others have begun an initiative to rename the park, “May’s Field,” after the Say-Hey kid himself. As far as I can tell, the movement involves drinking beer [...]
Ulises Ali Mejias wrote about various projects that support his vision of “distributed textual discourse.” One of the projects he mentioned was Purple Numbers. One of Ulises comments caught my eye: (IRF) While the approach is relatively simple, I guess it was not widely adopted. (IRG) It was an interesting comment to make, [...]
Chris Dent has been having some good exchanges about Purple Numbers with Adina Levin and Phil Jones. I don’t have much to add, as I think Chris is spot on. Two comments struck me, though. (IQV) First, Phil claims that Purple Numbers are optimized for reading at the expense of writing. His point is [...]
Spotted on the blosxom mailing list: yadis stands for “yet another distributed identity system” and is the brainchild of Brad Fitzpatrick, lead developer of Live Journal. It’s simple and clever, and at minimum, it’s going to force others to state clearly why their more complicated systems are better. Here’s my first take. (IPO) Not [...]
Bruce Schneier wrote a scathing assessment of REAL ID in the latest issue of his Crypto-Gram newsletter. Regarding European countries with national IDs, Schneier wrote: (IPI) (Those who point to European countries with national IDs need to pay attention to this point. European countries have a strong legal framework for data privacy and protection. [...]
To satiate those who have demanded visual evidence that my nephew, Elliott Marcellus Watras, truly exists and to appease those who prefer juicy personal tidbits rather than boring diatribes on collaboration, here’s a picture of my nephew and his mom, Sujean Kim: (IP9) (IPA) My other sister, Jessica Kim, trekked to Cincinnati a [...]
I love baseball, but I wasn’t so excited about going to the A’s/Yankees game yesterday afternoon. Both teams are doing poorly this year, and I was exhausted from the cumulative effects of late night fun and sun exposure. So when I saw my friend, Justin Lin, at the gate of the Coliseum, all he got [...]
(IOV) Spotted by Jessica Kim, my little sister, who like Foxtrot creator, Bill Amend, went to Amherst and who has heard me talk about Wikis way more than any sibling should. (IOW)
