I think this is the kind of thing that Ulises was talking about in his paper Distributed Textual Discourse. It’s pretty exciting. Basically, wikalong is a firefox extension that sits in your sidebar and allows you to effectively annotate each page you visit AND see everyone else’s annotations.. pretty cool huh. So, if you install …
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Gadgets, networks, procrastination
I’m pretty happy with myself! Having finally managed to set up a wireless network at home (I made it as difficult as possible, honest) I’ve now got portable thunderbird and portable firefox on my USB stick… so now I can take my browser and email anywhere with xp (with all my finicky settings) and I …
The WordPress Plugin I want – Page Wiki
As the WordPress Plugin Competition is underway I thought I’d submit what I think would be the best possible WP plugin for me. What I want is the capacity to, when I’m creating a page (not a post), ‘wiki-ise’ it by clicking a box. I’m not worried about WikiSyntax, I’m not even particularly worried about …
Alogorithms & blogging communities
Anjo: “the task of finding an appropriate algorithm for detecting weblog communities based on linking has turned me into a deep depression” Am not surprised at all, communication / communities between blogs is a bit like quantum physics ‘aint it… literally (I think). He also invites readers “to submit a seed blog and a list …
DVNT Fragments
Here’s a new blog starting out full of stuff I like, DVNT Fragments. With opening posts on what’s wrong with folksonomies, presentation dependencies (and dare I say anxiety!) & my hard communities thingy ’tis just my cup of tea :o) Here’s the feed.
And the first two Blogtalk Downunder presenters are…
The quality of submissions and the people who are going to be taking part in Blogtalk Downunder blows me away! Seriously! Here are the first two presenters, Senator Andrew Bartlett and Dr Chris Chesher (you’ll love the paper too, which is, of course, published in full on the blog!) Senator Andrew Bartlett – Blogs and …
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Podcasting & Vodcasting White Paper
Via Robin comes a very pretty podcasting / vodcasting (vod?) white paper, includes within some suggestions for use including the fairly daft: “Students can record and upload their foreign language lessons to their instructor’s Web site. The instructor can then listen to the lessons on their MP3 player at their convenience.” Maybe I was just …
Radio@UPEI
I’d like to be working at UPEI, they’re doing some interesting things there! “Radio@UPEI is firstly a space to learn about, to post, to promote, and to celebrate rich media online and a multi-faceted service to facilitate its exchange. Our vision is to create a new type of media exchange where anyone can learn about …
Hard communities & blogging
Lindon, who, if anyone, should know a lot about having & not having blogs (is this one the 4th?) gets to a serious nub about blogging and communities [emphasis mine]: “I spent some time on the week end pondering”Blogging”, ‘cause here I am again with the initial wave of posts diminishing to a trickle. Do …
Temporary weblogs
This isn’t a dig at you-know-who but don’t temporary blogs (like conference blogs) get on your nerves? Subscribe, unsubscribe and then it just sits there forever… Am trying to do something a bit different with Blogtalk by a. doing it over a much longer time (i.e. it becomes the conference website) & b. putting all …