IU Technology Architecture Lodge
Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management
Nov 19
|
I agree with Wes Felter's analysis that weblogs have contributed to the public side of info/knowledge sharing/management but have not solved the problem that PIMs address: that of personal, private information management. He points to the papers that launched Lifestreams; John Robb points to an article about LifeStreams in the MIT TechReview (I use Ecco to organize a lot of my thoughts and don't want to move over completely to Radio, partly because I don't want to publish everything I'm organizing into a blog -- and also because Ecco is a hightly usable, refined product that has served me well.) New site for Manila plugins. There is also a new version of Filer. The ManilaFixer plugin looks very useful. Actually, there are a lot of other new plugins that are worth exploring at this point. XML Protocol Usage Scenarios. [link from scripting.com] An analysis of the ties between Blackboard and Microsoft (Chronicle of Higher Ed.) Culture of Collaboration (Darwin). "Allow controversial debates to brew in collaborative areas—otherwise people will avoid having any substantial conversations there. 'The stuff that gets people most engaged is the controversial stuff,' says Yonkee at Siemens." Getting permalinks in my blog If you are a regular reading of scripting.com, you will notice that there have been "permalinks" attached to items in the blog. Items with subheads have blue left arrows; top-level paragraphs have hash marks. These anchors allow for precise referencing to scripting.com. I've been playing with putting my own "permalinks" into my blog but have no automated way of doing so. The code for automatic permalink generation is available on the userland servers (I started playing with it on my old editthispage site) but hasn't been publicly released yet. I'm hoping for public release soon. Lingua Franca stops publishing I was saddened to learn from the NY Times that Lingua Franca stopped publishing because of the lack of financial backing and viability. (An earlier story is available too.) I read an article ("Why the West?") from the last edition that made me think about re-subscribing. Now, that's a moot issue.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last update: Tuesday, December 4, 2001 at 5:33:34 PM.
This site is using the Vanilla Manila 1999 theme.
The opinions or statements expressed herein should not be taken as a position
of or endorsement by the University of California, Berkeley. Nor should the
opinions or statements expressed herein be taken as a position of or
endorsement of the University of California, Berkeley. Links on these pages to
commercial sites do not represent endorsement by the University of California
or its affiliates.