Morten Blaabjerg, a Danish filmmaker, interviewed me at WikiSym last month and released the raw video under a Creative Commons license. I uploaded a compressed version of the interview (54MB) to Internet Archive. The interview runs about 12 minutes and covers a range of topics: Blue Oxen Associates, Wicked Problems, Wikis, and HyperScope. It’s a pretty good snapshot of what’s in my head these days. (L6M)
HyperScope Talk at Planetwork
I’ll be giving a brief presentation on HyperScope this Thursday at the Planetwork Forum, 6-9pm at Stanford University (450 Serra Mall, Building 460, Room 126). The event is free, and the other talks look great as well: (L6D)
- Kaliya Hamlin on user-centric identity. (L6E)
- Johannes Ernst on OSIS. (L6F)
- Lauren Gelman on Net Neutrality. (L6G)
Please stop by if you’re nearby! (L6H)
Also, for those of you attending EuroOSCON, Brad Neuberg will also be presenting this Thursday. His talk is entitled, “Douglas Engelbart’s HyperScope: Taking Web Collaboration to the Next Level Using Ajax and Dojo.” (L6I)
HyperScope T-Shirts
I wanted to thank the HyperScope dev team for all their hard work these past six months, so I presented them all with T-shirts at the party. On the front is an Alan Kay quote: (L5M)
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” (L5N)
Here’s the back: (L5O)
(Full-size image is available on Flickr.) (L5Q)
As you can see, we are a serious bunch. (L5R)
HyperScope Release Party Thanks!
Thanks to all of you who came to the HyperScope Release Party on Tuesday night, and many thanks to Jack Park and Adam Cheyer of SRI for hosting, and to Jeff Rulifson for picking up the first round of drinks at Oasis. Some photos are up, with more to come and hopefully some video as well. My presentation is also up, HyperScope-enabled of course. (L5I)
The past few days have been wild, with the blogosphere chattering about the release. I’ve said all along that we wanted to initiate a conversation about bigger and better things. Well, that conversation has started and then some, so now the onus is on me and my team to respond. Give me a few days to catch my breath, and I promise, I’ll have plenty to say. (L5J)
My friend, Min Jung Kim, wrote a really nice post about the party, about the Bay Area, and about faith. I’ve been saying for a very long time that I’m a closet-optimist. A few years ago, I dropped the usual line, and someone responded, “You don’t seem to be too far in the closet.” Working on things that you care about and working with people who also care about their work, these things have a way of outing you. (L5K)
The most gratifying thing about working on the HyperScope and all of Blue Oxen Associates‘ other projects is that the folks we work with care about the bigger picture. It’s not about creating a nifty piece of software. It’s not about throwing great events. It’s not about writing cute essays. It’s not about helping any single organization. It’s about bettering the world we live in. When you’re around people who truly believe that, it’s intoxicating and it’s motivating. (L5L)
Announcing HyperScope v1.0!
Last March, I announced the HyperScope project. Six months later, I’m proud to announce the release of HyperScope v1.0. More information is available from the HyperScope web site. (L5E)
We’re throwing a little release party at SRI in Menlo Park tomorrow night to celebrate, and it looks like we’re going to have a great crowd. We’re also announcing a contest to write HyperScope file transformers. The prize? No less than lunch with the man himself, Doug Engelbart. (Or, if you’re not in the Bay Area, then you’ll win an autographed poster.) (L5F)
It has been an intense and gratifying experience. I’ve known Doug for almost seven years now, and I’ve studied his work intensely for longer, and I still learned a tremendous amount. Much of that learning was the result of collaborating with an unbelievable team, including Doug, his daughter Christina Engelbart, Jonathan Cheyer, and the man who wrote the HyperScope code, Brad Neuberg. (L5G)
I’m looking forward to sharing much of that knowledge over the next few months. For now, play with the software and participate in our community. The best document (for now) to play with is Doug’s classic 1962 paper, “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework.” (L5H)