Clay Shirky reflects on the start of Many-to-Many, providing pointers to some of the initial posts that kicked it off a year ago. Go back and read them, they’re very interesting.
After seeing the interview with Ward Cunningham linked to from a post in Many2Many I started wandering through the archives of the luvly mailing list. There’s some great stuff in there. For instance an interview with Lion Kimbro, who has released a book titled How to Make a Complete Map...
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Here’s an interesting article about researchers using touch to convey text messages. An interesting concept. They call it “tactile melody”. I would have called it braille. Even though they apparently want to use different movements of pins than the letter combinations used by braille. They probably figure they can convey...
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Scott Young from Userland Software is speaking at Borders in Sunnyvale on Monday April 26th. The topic is going to be the use of weblogs and RSS for corporate communication. Event details:
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I ran across a great blog today called Asynchronous Dialogue. In particular I want to comment on a post there titled What is dialogue? I really liked this:
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SmartMobs reports on a free (and soon to be open source) urban social landscapes tool. The tool is a release from Intel, available as J2ME using MIDP but soon to be open source. Based on the info page the sensing pattern seems to be based on Bluetooth. Very interesting. Here’s...
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to include a blogroll version of the site without always putting a big long list my blog all the time. Having a list of users whose blogs you normally read is nice to do because the people who are receiving your readership can...
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Still very much rough around the edges, but there’s a 1.0 release of the download plugin at the Open Palm Environment SourceForge site. The project is a plugin for Pilot-db, an open source package for Palm handhelds which allows users to create and exchange databases from their PDA. With the...
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Jaron Lanier is speaking in Palo Alto on Friday April 23rd. The talk is supposed to be an update to One Half Of A Manifesto, an article written during 2000 in which he examines the beliefs of what he calls “cybernetic totalism”. He argues that the belief that Moore’s law...
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Chris Pirillo has posted a blogroll of Gnomedex 4 attendees. The list is still pretty short (the conf is still a LONG way off :-) but there are already some interesting blogs on there. I even dropped the RSS feed version into my Bloglines subscriptions so I can check out...
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