• Spontaneous Collaboration

    Posted on July 10, 2004

    I’ve been thinking a bunch about what makes people contribute to shared online systems. I mean both public systems like wikis or shared blogs, and private systems like a corporate mailing list or intranet site. CommunityWiki has lots of great information about this topic in general. There are a bunch... [Read More]

  • Thunderbird and Enigmail

    Posted on July 8, 2004

    I just installed Gentoo on my girlfriends old laptop, and I’ve started using Thunderbird as my mail client. I do miss some of the features of Nautilus, like correct as you go spellcheck (not sure what the name for the feature is, where there’s a colored underline under misspelled words... [Read More]

  • Darwin.com

    Posted on July 6, 2004

    There’s been a lot of talk lately about trying to get Sun to open source Java (my personal favorite article is at theRegister). The arguments are good on both sides, and the debates have brought to light some areas that aren’t very well explored. I don’t care all that much... [Read More]

  • del.icio.us

    Posted on July 3, 2004

    I signed up on del.icio.us a while ago, and just started adding some bookmarks to it today. I read through the docs page and was going to post about it, but I found an excellent post on edtech.teacherhosting.com describing the principles quite well. I hadn’t noticed the inbox feature before.... [Read More]

  • Blog Research

    Posted on July 2, 2004

    There’s a set of posts all linked together at Many2Many about research on blogging. It’s an interesting thread, even if I do think that academic research about blogging is a bit of an odd topic. One point I will bring up is that traditional methods are not set in stone.... [Read More]

  • The "Triple Play"

    Posted on July 1, 2004

    There is what appears to be a very insightful article over at TheFeature about what is traditionally called the “triple play” of services: voice, data, and video. I heard a decent amount about that coupling of services when I was working with companies trying to structure deals with telcos and... [Read More]

  • BlogOn 2004 - The Business of Social Media

    Posted on June 30, 2004

    I’m going over to BlogOn 2004 at UC Berkeley on July 22nd and 23rd. I wasn’t able to go to SuperNova, so I’m really happy that there’s another conf I can go to so soon. No info about wireless access, public metablog for trackbacks, or a wiki however. I’ll get... [Read More]

  • Mobile News

    Posted on June 28, 2004

    There’s a post over at TheFeature about trying to get the traditional news business to adapt to mobile information delivery. I know my own experiences are probably way out of line with the norm, but I’ve built up a little list of feeds that I can scan when I’ve got... [Read More]

  • Licklider on the Backchannel

    Posted on June 27, 2004

    I was just re-reading a couple of articles by J.C.R. Licklider. They’re only available as PDF as far as I’ve seen, sorry about that. In particular the second article, “Computer as Communication Device”, really struck me as a discussion about “the backchannel” that appears commonly at technical conferences these days.... [Read More]