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I met Tim Bonneman at the Collaborative Technologies Conference in New York last June. He had just moved to the Bay Area, and had experienced only a taste of the energy and passion of the area. Almost half a year later, that taste is now total immersion. (JZI) In the spirit of WikiWednesday, Bar [...]
I’ll be in D.C. next week for the Compendium Institute Workshop. I also plan on dropping by the D.C. Planetwork Forum next Friday, November 11. If you’re in the area and would like to get together, drop me a line. (JZH)
I have a lot of different passions, which is lucky in a lot of ways, and unlucky in others. It’s lucky because it makes life incredibly fun. It’s unlucky, because life is finite, and I don’t have time to delve as deeply into things as I would like. It’s why I knew I would never [...]
For a while, it was looking like I was going to break another personal blogging record last month, then things got so busy I had zero time to blog whatsoever. That means I’m in catch up mode again, so as usual, I’ll post in reverse chronological order (which in the blogosphere is really reverse reverse [...]
Dirk Riehle told me a funny story at WikiSym about Google’s swimming pools. There are two, they’re about 10 feet long, and they’re “endless pools” — the equivalent of a swimming treadmill. What’s really funny is that Mountain View required the company to have an on-duty lifeguard for these little pools. Apparently, it’s quite a [...]
At WikiSym 2005, we had a BoF on Wiki Standards, organized by Stephan Schmidt, coauthor of SnipSnap. Discussion was spirited, as you might expect, but I think we accomplished a great deal. (JY4) We began by reviewing a list of things that could be standardized, which was old hat for a lot of folks [...]
WikiSym 2005 was awesome. Massive props to Dirk Riehle and the program committee for throwing an outstanding event and drawing tons of great, great people. With Wikimania last August and WikiSym this past week, the Wiki community is really starting to gel. And it’s about time. Can you believe Wikis are 10 years old? [...]
With WikiSym about to start, I want to close the loop on an obscure Wikimania item I posted last August. I mentioned something about Fleischbutter. Several folks emailed me asking what it was. (JX8) It’s exactly what it sounds like, folks. The literal translation is “meat butter.” More information is available here (thanks to [...]
Identity Commons has a nifty new logo: (JX4) (JX5) More info on Identity Commons is available at: (JX6) http://www.idcommons.net/ (JX7)
At BAR Camp, I ran into Kragen Sitaker who had an idea for a variant on Purple Numbers called Queer Numbers. Kragen recently blogged the idea (spotted by Matthew O’Connor). (JWJ) In brief, Purple Numbers are wonderful, assuming the author has generated them. If the author hasn’t, you can use a proxy, such as [...]
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