Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Technologies of Cooperation. Howard Jaqrche points to this useful paper by Andrea Saveri, Howard Rheingold, and Kathi Vian. The bulk of the paper is a survey of emerging technologies of cooperation, for example, self-organizing mesh networks, peer-to-peer networks, or knowledge collectives. This well-written (and well designed) paper illustrates each in detail, offering examples and 'strategic principles' to guide their development. Jarche also links to a large version of a chart of the eight technologies, highlighting structure, rules, resources and more for each. Impress your peers; print this and post it on your wall. By Howard Jarche, Jarche Consulting, July 6, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:54:11 PM      Google It!.

Spoken Alexandria Project. Launched yesterday: "The Spoken Alexandria Project is creating a free library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission). AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 audiobooks available for free download and redistribution." Via Rick's Café Canadien. By Various Authors, July 5, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:52:32 PM      Google It!.

paper on OSPI 2 use of Sakai infrastructure [Edubloggers Links Feed] 11:28:24 AM      Google It!.

Comparisons of Sakai 1.5, 2 with others, draft edutools feature list [Edubloggers Links Feed] 11:05:22 AM      Google It!.

demo Sakai 'project' site on the sakai servers [Edubloggers Links Feed] 11:04:17 AM      Google It!.

Life in a TEXTAREA. I stole the title of this entry from Adam Rifkin's eponymous post back in January. Here's part of his rant: Web forms have not evolved in fifteen years -- there's still so few text editing features that I find myself manually searching and replacing sometimes. There aren't many activities more useless than eyeballing a looking for text sequences when I know this is what computers were friggin' invented to do. Worse, I find that sometimes I hit the wrong key and move off the browser page and all the typing I've done gets completely wiped out. [<a href="http://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2005/01/life_in_a_texta.html">Adam Rifkin: Life in a TEXTAREA</a>] </blockquote> Indeed. For the longest time, I've envisioned a new HTML rich-edit tag backed by a standard control. It would work like Microsoft's DHTML Edit Control, but would be implemented natively in the browser. It was already ridiculous not to have such a thing years ago. Now, with oceanic quantities of text pouring through the TEXTAREAs of blogging tools and webmail applications, the situation is just insane. <b>...</b> [<a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/">Jon's Radio</a>] 11:03:05 AM      Google It!.

Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails [Slashdot:] 10:49:51 AM      Google It!.

Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client [Slashdot:] 10:47:11 AM      Google It!.