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A few people who's stuff I like a lot:
- Ed Vielmetti (Vacuum web log)
I worked with Ed when I was back at CICNet; he was into Gopher, the Web, and if my recollection is right, conference software long before it was fashionable. I get Ed's periodic Vacuum emails that keep me up with what he's doing. I relate to Ed more these days, because Ed was out of a job for quite some time after he was laid off from Cisco. But he's starting this next week at Arbor Networks, so perhaps there's hope for me as well.
- Jon Udell (Jon's Radio)
Jon has been on the collaborative technology trail for ages, and he writes lots of good stuff.
- Lou Rosenfeld (Bloug)
I probably met Lou when I worked at CICNet. He's the co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, which next to Jakob Nielson's book design web simplicity is one of the best books on web design. Plus, as you would expect, his site is just plain beautiful.
- Jakob Nielson (useit.com)
You won't find much personal about Jakob on his site, but he has more practical information about building usable web sites than almost anyone else I've read.
- Bob Frankston and friends (SATN)
A very nicely done weblog updated by Bob Frankston (co-inventor of VisiCalc) and friends. Very well written.
6:47:07 PM 
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I was motivated to try Radio UserLand by Jon Udell's article on "Instant Outlining" on the O'Reilly network site.
I've been interested in Jon's vision of collaborative technologies for some time. I bought two copies of Jon's book Practical Internet Groupware; one of them went missing at work, and I liked the ideas so much that I bought it again. But as with many of these things, Jon's approach required too much buy in to specific technologies. Jon has acknowledged this himself in his article.
5:58:45 PM
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I've tried plenty of collaborative software packages. I belonged to The Well for a time; I think even paid for it. I helped them get their Gopher server running. I worked for one of the original regional ISPs called CICNet, and I had them buy the Caucus text-based conferencing system, which was based in turn on the Confer conferencing system built at the University of Michigan. (Or was it PicoSpan? PicoSpan was used by The Well, but I'll have to look up it's origins.) Over the last year I've been somewhat into Wiki software, and starting using at CNN while I worked there.
So I'm a bit of a skeptic when it comes to this general area. We'll see how this works.
5:20:55 PM
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