January 2006 Archive

January 31, 2006 » TWiki 4.0 Released

Congratulations to Peter Thoeny and the entire TWiki community for the 4.0 (Dakar) release of TWiki. They’re doing a release party tomorrow (Wednesday) night at WikiWednesday in Palo Alto. I’m gonna do my darnedest to make it, but if not, I hope to see many of you Wiki folks this weekend in Portland for RecentChangesCamp. [...]

January 29, 2006 » Morning in San Francisco

   (K4J) I love living in San Francisco.    (K4K)

January 25, 2006 » World Economic Forum Gossip

Blue Oxen Associates has been working with Tomorrow Makers to help with the design process at this year’s World Economic Forum. Sadly, I couldn’t be in Davos this year, so I’ve had to resort to good ol’ fashioned remote collaboration tools to keep up with what’s happening. I had this funny exchange with the most [...]

January 22, 2006 » How Hackers Collaborate

The January SDForum Collaboration SIG meeting is tomorrow (Monday), 6:30-9pm, January 23 at the Pillsbury Winthrop law firm in Palo Alto. The topic: “How Hackers Collaborate.” We’ve got an outstanding set of “panelists”: Lee Felsenstein, Jim Warren, and David Weekly. Lee is a legendary hacker from the Homebrew Computer Club days, the founder of the [...]

January 19, 2006 » Working With Others: Loose vs Tight Collaboration

Last November, I explained that I was going to embark on a series of open conversations with Katrin Verclas. Katrin initiated the conversation with a list of life and career desires. I wanted to quote my favorite items here, but I couldn’t pick just one. So instead, here’s a question for Katrin. Katrin, you say: [...]

January 19, 2006 » The New Year Rageth

Happy New Year everybody! So much for easing into 2006. Somehow, I deluded myself into thinking that the year would start off slowly, especially after the craziness towards the end of last year. Fortunately, it’s been a great craziness. I’m working on several great projects with great people, and I think the results will be [...]