Slashdot thread on H2O project at Berkman. Juliette Kayyem started an H2O rotisserie on the war in Iraq. [Scripting News]

Some more news on H20.
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PHP iCalendar. This morning I installed on our intranet server PHP iCalendar. It's a quite powerful PHP application that renders calendars published with iCal. Installing the application is quite easy even if you, like me, have no clue about PHP. One of the most interesting features is that all calendars are also rendered as RSS feeds. This means that my co-workers calendars are now aggregated with my news every hour. Cool. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Hmmmmm I got to try this...
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Web based Metadata tool Taxomita. Beta version of Taxomita is now available. Taxomita is "a web-based authoring application that lets you create distributed, hierarchical, faceted... [elearnspace blog]

About Taxomita

Taxomita is a web-based authoring application that lets you create distributed, hierarchical, faceted metadata, and use it to index any page on the web.

(from site below) The distributed bit is what makes Taxomita different. It means you won't have to do all metadata work yourself, you will be able to create a cloud of metadata sources you trust. I think I need to call a librarian on this one. "Hey Pat D. " Check out the screenshots. Says that you can ask the developer for an online account. If your adventerous load it on a LAMP server.
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H2O at Harvard Harvard - H2O. I've posted this before: Harvard - H2O...and I'm still trying to wrap my head around potential uses. The concept focuses... [elearnspace blog]

Seems to be a more structered way (protocols) of communicating and exchanging ideas. Ken Tompkins, EBN member and professor at Stockton College, NJ, has the first set up of H20 outside of Harvard. Hey, its free to be used on the Harvard site. H20 also is free as a downloadable package.
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