Fagan interview. Microdoc News carries an interview with Michael Fagan, who is constantly hunting down, sorting out, and integrating all things search-related into his incredible Fagan Finder site. Of particular note are his blog search subpage, and his über-comprehensive Page Info Viewer, a side frame that lets you effortlessly learn all kinds of interesting stuff about whatever site you happen to be visiting. (Michael is also building topic hierarchies for the TopicExchange, by the way.) [Seb's Open Research]

No hype here. Extensive search capabiltites on one page

The New Yorker.  Seymor Hersh.  Read it and be worried.  This line shot me to the core:

[base "]The only hope is that they can hold out until reinforcements come.[per thou]

I do think we can hold out.  Americans are much tougher than many think.  It won't be pretty (given the destruction of a car full of women and children today).  But there won't be a total collapse.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

This is a damning article on Rummy and his arrogance. Rummy should be put to pasture and may God have mercy on his soul.

To be held in Cambridge, Mass, May 28th - Friday, May 30th 2003. Ohh how I wish I could be there!Hopefully there will be a number of ways to participate electronically - SWL [EdTechPost]

I wish I could be there too. If you are interested in open source cms, do check out this site.

The proposals are online! Each proposal has its own page on a blog. You can add comments to the proposal. So if you have questions regarding the proposal you may have the presenter answer it. Cool use of a blog for a convention! EBN there is a lesson to learn here.

This morning I downloaded and installed Hydra. It's a very nice MacOS X application. Basically a programming-oriented text editor where more authors can work on the same document at the same time, and I mean really at the same time: you see text changing in real time when other people edit it. Since it is rendezvous enabled, it's a zero configuration application: you see a list of documents opened (and shared) by other users and you can request permission to edit them.

I'm not a programmer, but I'm not sure that this kind of approach could actually help development. What I saw is a very interesting collaboration tool. It's better than IM (anyone can edit text in any part of the documenet) and it's a very fresh and interesting new approach to collaboration. Build an outliner in the application (programmers should love writing code in an outliners, and if they don't they should try), and I'm sold. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Oh Yeah... language arts teachers.... Writing Project teachers....... are you clicking

This Slashdot thread seemed relevant for a few reasons - some of the material coming from David Wiley (Online self-organizing social systems: The Decentralized Future of Education); a review I'm working on for Edutools of an open source course management system that like so many of them is stretched so thin supporting the code base that there is virtually no documentation...

- via [Online Community Report]

[EdTechPost]

This post hit the nail on the head!!! Even some commercial software companies lack necessary documentation. One reason O'Reilly's Missin Manual series is such a success, is that manuals in general do not seem to be a priority. Documentation for open source will be DYI effort (meaning one to more folks around a piece of software). We have weblogs and some wikis so, there is no excuse. To be honest, at this point in my life, I am happy with damn decent installation instructions with and without root access necessary. I am in heaven if a simple installer does all the work ... ala plone.

This via the extensive article I posted on yesterday by david Mattison on all things wiki, a wiki page listing every piece of software they know about that combines both wikis and blogs. Now if we could patch these together with some other personal information management tools and other general office tools...scratch that - I actually like getting up from my computer and I fear the combination of these would simply be too addictive ;-) - SWL [EdTechPost

Most excellent wiki/weblog integrated solutions. I am going to have to add another category at my DT site.